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EXCLUSIVE: Crowdfunding site used by Wootton has ties to shadowy think tanks.

Democracy 3.0 hosts campaigns by politicians, but lacks transparency about donations.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/democracy30-crowdfunding-legatum-institute-think-tanks-dan-wootton/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=democracy_3

#darkmoney #transparency #thinktanks #crowdfunding #danwooton #UK #UKNews

#ExxonKnew about #ClimateChange almost 40 years ago

A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote #misinformation

By Shannon Hall on October 26, 2015

"One thing is certain: in June 1988, when NASA scientist #JamesHansen told a congressional hearing that the planet was already warming, Exxon remained publicly convinced that the science was still controversial. Furthermore, experts agree that Exxon became a leader in campaigns of confusion. By 1989 the company had helped create the #GlobalClimateCoalition (disbanded in 2002) to question the scientific basis for concern about climate change. It also helped to prevent the #USA from signing the international treaty on climate known as the #KyotoProtocol in 1998 to control #GreenhouseGases . Exxon’s tactic not only worked on the U.S. but also stopped other countries, such as #China and #India, from signing the treaty. At that point, 'a lot of things unraveled,' Oreskes says.

"But experts are still piecing together Exxon’s misconception puzzle. Last summer the Union of Concerned Scientists released a complementary investigation to the one by InsideClimate News, known as the Climate Deception Dossiers (pdf). 'We included a memo of a coalition of fossil-fuel companies where they pledge basically to launch a big communications effort to sow doubt,' says union president Kenneth Kimmel. 'There’s even a quote in it that says something like ‘Victory will be achieved when the average person is uncertain about climate science.’ So it’s pretty stark.'

"Since then, Exxon has spent more than $30 million on #ThinkTanks that promote ClimateDenial, according to #Greenpeace. Although experts will never be able to quantify the damage Exxon’s misinformation has caused, 'one thing for certain is we’ve lost a lot of ground,' Kimmell says. Half of the greenhouse gas emissions in our atmosphere were released after 1988. 'I have to think if the fossil-fuel companies had been upfront about this and had been part of the solution instead of the problem, we would have made a lot of progress [today] instead of doubling our greenhouse gas emissions.'"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ExtremeWeather

Layoffs, pay cuts: Inside CPR’s ‘financial crisis’ after FCRA funds, tax exemption axed

Seen as a centrist think tank, the centre has been accused of irregularities in funding.

#CPR #FCRA #BMGF #adani #hasdeo #mining #activism #GatesFoundation #NGOs #thinktanks #research #UnionGovt #india

https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/07/17/layoffs-pay-cuts-inside-cprs-financial-crisis-after-fcra-funds-tax-exemption-axed

Watch: Expenses watchdog launches probe into group of northern Tory MPs after Sky News investigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRxpao_vwok #ukpolitics #tories #thinktanks #uk

Rishi Sunak admits oil-funded think tank helped write anti-protest laws.

The PM confirmed Policy Exchange helped draft laws targeting climate activists, as first revealed by openDemocracy.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/rishi-sunak-right-wing-think-tank-anti-protest-laws-policy-exchange/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social

#RishiSunak #Tories #UK #Ukpol #UKpolitics #UKnews #climatechange #protest #thinktanks #whofundsyou

Who knew that the pirate station Radio Caroline laid the groundwork for the Thatcherite revolution? Also connected - Institute for Economic Affairs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/fdb484c8-99a1-32a3-83be-20108374b985

"THE CURSE OF TINA"

#pirate #radio #caroline #RadioCaroline #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #thatcherism #ThinkTank #ThinkTanks #UK #FreeMarket

#Verschwörungsmärchen #Spinner #dieBasis #gehirnwäsche
#ErnstWolff hat sich mal wieder ein Buch aus den Fingern gesogen. Ein #Narrativ darin ist der #Graichenclan, worin Staatssekretär Patrick #Graichen der deutsche Handlanger für den US-Milliardär Hal #Harvey sei. Harvey ist ein von UNO und verschiedenen Umweltorganisationen ausgezeichneter Klimaaktivist, der seinerseits mehrere #Thinktanks für die Energiewende gründete. Wolff sieht #Habeck als dessen Marionette. 😂
https://twitter.com/wolff_ernst/status/1654197519461634053

Short version of an incredibly important article about defense industry funding of security think tanks by Kjølv Egeland & Benoît Pelopidas of Sciences Po.

"Nuclear weapons stakeholders threaten independent analysis.

All 45 institutions in our sample acknowledged funding from contractors and governments espousing nuclear deterrence."

Key finding:

"All 45 institutions in our sample — the world’s top-ranked think tanks in the fields of foreign affairs and national security — acknowledged funding from nuclear arms contractors, governments that explicitly base their #security strategies on nuclear #deterrence, or both. Funding from actors eager to disrupt the status quo & advance #nuclear abolition is minuscule by comparison. This striking feature is frequently glossed over or ignored in surveys of the field."

#NuclearWeapons #ThinkTanks #IR #defense

https://inkstickmedia.com/nuclear-weapons-stakeholders-threaten-independent-analysis/

RT @epc_eu
Last week Commission President @vonderleyen delivered a keynote speech on EU-China relations at an @epc_eu and @merics_eu event in Brussels.

She also discussed the importance of “informed policymaking" and noted that “#thinktanks are an essential part of our #democracy.”

#Empire-Funded #ThinkTanks Are Not Valid Sources
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/empire-funded-think-tanks-are-not-valid-sources-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix-7808eb427106

Six #WarMongering #ThinkTanks and the #Military Contractors That Fund Them
https://orinocotribune.com/six-war-mongering-think-tanks-and-the-military-contractors-that-fund-them/

Rethinking #River #Water temperature in a changing, human-dominated world : Nature

World risks descending into a #Climate ‘#Doom loop’, warn #Thinktanks : Guardian

The #Animals and #Plants that only exist in #Captivity — and why time is running out to restore them to the wild : Misc

Check our most popular #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

#Kremlin’s use of #bots & #trolls 2 #manipulate recommendation #algorithms of #SocialMedia platforms is well-documented by many journalists & researchers. However pro-Kremlin manipulation of #SearchEngine #algorithms has rarely been explored. We examine pro-Kremlin attempts 2 #manipulate search engine results by comparing #backlink & #keyphrase networks of US, European, & Russian #ThinkTanks, as well as Kremlin-linked #pseudo think tanks that target #Western #audiences. https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/search-engine-manipulation-to-spread-pro-kremlin-propaganda/

My love for #ThinkTanks has massively increased 😠 remember its name: #PolicyExchange

#Refugees #UK #UKPolitics

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/11/children-fleeing-danger-in-small-boats-should-be-deported-says-tory-thinktank

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRpnYu57/

#BigBusiness #Corporatocracy #CorporateAmerica #MassMedia #ThinkTanks #Lobbyists #Labor #Environment #ChamberOfCommerce #judiciary #Influence #SCOTUS #ChristianNationalism #WomensRights #UniversityResearch #AdvertisingPower #USChamberOfCommerce #ClimateScienceDenial #CorporateDomination #Ownership #LegalFoundations

Revealed: Truss-allied think tank met dozens of MPs prior to leadership win.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/institute-of-economic-affairs-liz-truss-2022-accounts/

#LizTruss #UKPolitics #IEA #Thinktanks #WhoFundsYou #UK #UKPolitics

Profound new article by @kjolv and Benoît Pelopidas

"No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis"

International Relations: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00471178221140000#fn10-00471178221140000

Numerous scholars have in recent years concluded that the field of #nuclear weapons policy analysis is plagued by widespread self-censorship, conformism, and enduring disconnects between accepted knowledge and available evidence. It has been hypothesized that this tendency is fostered in part by many analysts’ reliance on funding from donors with interests in the perpetuation of the existing nuclear order. In this article, we probe this hypothesis by investigating the financial links between foreign policy think tanks, on the one hand, and nuclear defence contractors and governments that espouse nuclear #deterrence strategies, on the other."

@nuclearhumanities @sts @histodons #foreignpolicy #nuclearweapons #ThinkTanks #internationalrelations

RT @SmartThinktanks: MOST SEARCHED FOR THINK TANK IN 2022? @csjthinktank stormed into the top 3 this year, taking the top spot as most searched for think tank, closely followed by @ASI @britishfuture To read the reports and insights again head to our archive here: https://t.co/XZE29FHqxD #thinktanks

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/math_patten/status/1611381527312572418

OPINION: What’s dangerous about the idea of ‘beauty’ in architecture?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/robert-bevan-traditionalist-modernist-beauty-architecture-tufton-street/

#thinktanks #architecture #uk