Help Yourself to Deportation
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Following a raid on a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa that's been condemned as "inhumane" and "a Kafkaesque travesty of justice," U.S.
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Edelman Likes It Hot
Over the next week, campaigners from around the United Kingdom will converge on the site of a proposed expansion of the coal-fired Kingsnorth Power Station and participate in civil disobedience protests. The company behind the proposal, E.ON UK, a subsidiary of the German energy company E.ON, is so worried by the prospect of the planned civil disobedience campaign that it has hired the PR firm Edelman, to see if it can help ensure that the company's proposal retains government support.
Private Spooks Court Journalists
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Melissa Sweet, a freelance Australian health journalist, reports that she recently received an email from a staffer with the private intelligence company Hakluyt.
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Olympics Ideals Prove as Fragile as China
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
When China submitted its bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, it promised that journalists would have "complete freedom to report" from the country. However, "sites such as Amnesty International or any search for a site with Tibet in the address could not be opened at the Main Press Center [in Beijing], which will house about 5,000 print journalists when the games open Aug.
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Taking out the Trash
Submitted by Bob Burton on
On parliament's last day before its summer break, the British government publicly released thirty ministerial statements, including one listing the salaries of "special advisers," one detailing the siting criteria for new nuclear power stations and another detailing the guests entertained
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Another Round of the Best of the Worst
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Nominations are now open for the Worst Lobbying Awards for 2008 in Europe.
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Nuclear "Renaissance" Dismissed as a "Carefully Fabricated Illusion"
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Asked why people like Patrick Moore and Stewart Brand, who made their name as environmentalists are now nuclear power advocates, the highly regarded energy efficiency analyst Amory Lovins was blunt: "I think they haven't done their homework.
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Peak Drug Industry Body Sin Bins Roche
Submitted by Bob Burton on
The Swiss drug company Roche has been suspended from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) after adverse findings over its promotion of the weight-loss drug Xenical.
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The Answer to Smokers' Prayers?
Submitted by Anne Landman on
Smoking was officially banned July 1 in Dutch bars and cafes. Since then, smokers have started flocking to a new religious movement in the Netherlands known as the "The Only and Universal Smokers Church of God," or the "Smokers Church." Michiel Eijsbouts, who founded the church in 2001, insists that the new smoking law does not apply to members of the Smokers Church.
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Edelman Gets Called out for Greenwashing
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
Members of the Oxford Climate Action group protested at the London offices of PR firm Edelman to draw attention to the greenwashing done on behalf of its energy client
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