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A front group is a group that attempts to appear
benevolent and fair when in fact it is funded
by wealthy interests who want to further some
nefarious agenda. Front groups are necessary
in order to conceal conflicts of interest,
undefensible lines of argument, or
disturbing ideologies.
-
United Seniors
Association
= sham organization run by Republicans and big drug companies
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National Taxpayers Union/Foundation
= NeoCon front group
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National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
= front group intended
to appear to be a grass root movement while actually it is
run by pharmaceutical companies.
Link
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TeenScreen
= front group to promote psycho-pharmaceuticals
link
- Center for Global Food Safety = shill group funded in part by Monsanto
- U.S. Coalition for Nutritional Ingredients = food industry group
- Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy
- Alliance to Keep Americans Working
- American
Council on Science and Health
They also deny that foods can be addictive.
- Global Climate Coalition =
oil industry front group that
"gives financial and moral support to a small handful of scientists who vocally dispute the reality of global warming
and the necessity of taking action to combat it"
(see Stanford page under Links below).
- Association of Oregon Industries
- Family Security Matters =
a front group for the Center for Security Policy thinktank,
which espouses and end to democracy in America, fascist dictatorship,
and depopulating Iraq of Arabs.
Link.
- Citizens for a Sound Economy
- National Wetlands Council
- Coalition for Vehicle Choice
- Compete America = group created to import more cheaper foreign skilled workers to make Americans unemployed.
- Council for Energy Awareness
- Citizens for Sensible Control of Acid Rain
- Safe Buildings Alliance
- Workplace Health and Safety Council
- Council for Solid Waste Solutions
- National Center for Policy Analysis = 100% Republican, not a scientist among them, but beloved by the US media.
- Oregon Lands Coalition
- Society of the Plastic Industry
- USA Engage
- Renewable Fuels Association
= trade assocation for the
ethanol industry
- FreedomWorks: formed out of the merger of
Citizens for a Sound Economy and Empower America.
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Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) = "civil rights" group
founded with Saudi Wahhabi money. Wahhabis are
medieval-mindset types, and Saudis are rather inventive enemies
of civil rights.
- World Vision = CIA front, fake Christian organization
Front websites
- www.junkscience.com: run by a Cato Institute flunkie, i.e.
someone who represents the interests of business, which usually
means being against the interests of
citizens, consumers, and voters, and against rational thought.
Think tanks: professional propagandists, front groups for
corporate interests
- Competitive Enterprise Institute: whores paid $200k-$400k
per annum by ExxonMobil to perform acts of misinformation.
- Cato: "bad" libertarian: i.e. representing only big business thus
they are Classic Liberal.
- Started by the Koch brothers.
- Center for Security Policy = neofascist, anti-democracy.
- American Enterprise Institute: the "headquarters" of the Neo-Cons
- Dick Cheney & wife have been involved with AEI.
- Richard Perle is a hawk from AEI.
- Many of AEI's board members come from Hoover.
- Eugenics theories from AEI?
- PNAC: another major Neo-Con thinktank
- Heritage: rightwing and often featured on NPR (National Public Radio)
- Elaine Chao (labor secretary) is from Heritage.
- Manhattan Institute: rightwing
- Hoover Institution (for the insane?): rightwing, California
- Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice are from Hoover.
- Brookings: rightwing(?) and often featured on NPR
Rich supporters of rightwing thinktanks:
Coors
Richard Mellon Scaife
The Koch brothers
Rich supporters of attempted 20th century
fascist coup in America:
DuPont family
Remington family
J.P. Morgan
Who else?
Related links
Click here for my corporate malfeasance
information repository
Click here for the $$$ analysis of Exxon's shameful propaganda
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