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The floods of offensive and threatening emails aimed at intimidating climate scientists have all the signs of an orchestrated campaign by sceptics groups.

The investigative blogger Deep Climate has been working to set the record straight on how an orchestrated campaign by members of Congress, industry - funded global warming denialist groups and PR operatives, and professional «skeptics» has spread misleading information about the paleoclimate... Continue reading →

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In the book's opening chapter, Holiday describes a typical campaign — an orchestrated protest in 2009 against an upcoming movie by Tucker Max.

As I've chronicled extensively, Exondys is an extremely controversial treatment, and the FDA's decision to approve the therapy over the objections of the agency's own scientific staff stunned many observers last year, raising questions about whether or not the FDA had succumbed to a well - orchestrated and heart - wrenching PR campaign by patients and advocates.

Herbalife, which has been to this rodeo many times, issued a statement to address the reports of a criminal investigation into the campaign orchestrated by Ackman.

(Some even speculated that this was an undercover operation orchestrated by the Clinton campaign.)

Former employees said the company's security team for many years was more focused on abuse by real users, including racist and sexist content and orchestrated harassment campaigns.

Carefully scripted public relations campaigns orchestrated by the White House will not undo the damage done by wealth's undue influence over the nation's political processes.

This change was brought about by a massive propaganda campaign orchestrated by the Soviet Union with the object of weakening the West.

Again, the popular lie, ably assisted by a well - orchestrated misinformation campaign, is that Adam Smith is the founder of the «leave it to the market» doctrine.

The ACCC alleges Coles ran an «orchestrated and organised» campaign to boost its earnings by demanding payments from tier 3 suppliers as a rebate for the supermarket group improving its supply chain.

This is usually orchestrated by the very phantom news of arsenal «going for any star player wherever such can be found and the tale end is usually that Wenger was unable to complete the deal or that the player turned down arsenal because of Mr. Wenger» it is an orchestrated pull him down campaign on going against Mr. Wenger.

I have a close relationship with some journalists because I have known them for many years, but I can distinguish the relationship of friend with that of journalist,» explained Casillas, who said he «did not want to think» it was a smear campaign orchestrated by the Coach or the President.

Having won the competition in 2013 (and in 1998, with Real Madrid) his legacy is already safe, and unlike his successors Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti, he won't have to face up to unflattering comparisons with Bayern's treble - winning campaign of five years ago that had been orchestrated by... Heynckes himself.

«This morning's New York Times story regarding allegations that Walmart orchestrated a $ 24 million bribery campaign to gain favorable treatment by the Mexican government should be a wake up call for New Yorkers who have witnessed Walmart's aggressive lobbying effort and recent streak of opportunistic «philanthropy» in our city.»

Labour's election campaign, orchestrated by Miliband but with no single person in control, was an unmitigated disaster.

A difficult winter in Britain's hospitals had raised the potency of Labour's most potent issue and Andrew Lansley's controversial NHS reforms reforms were blamed by a sophisticated social media blitz, orchestrated by the 38 Degrees online campaigning group.

Kinderhook, NY... October 13, 2016 — Zephyr Teachout, the liberal New York City professor who moved Upstate this year to run for Congress, muted her support for fellow Vermonter and socialist Bernie Sanders ahead of New York's presidential primary in a quid pro quo orchestrated by the Clinton campaign team, leaked emails show.

This seemingly concocted report is the latest in a series of orchestrated campaign of calumny against the Commission by shadowy forces that are obviously envious of the success of the EFCC, especially at a time, when the anti-graft agency enjoys the status of the shining light of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led administration's war against corruption.

The New York State Independence Party is taking steps to return hundreds of thousands of dollars that a grand jury charged were stolen from Mayor Michael Bloomberg as part of an Election Day scheme orchestrated by a volunteer in the mayor's campaign, the party chairman said Wednesday.

McDonnell and Fletcher are understood to disagreed over the direction of travel for the Labour party, with the shadow chancellor accused by some of orchestrating an anti-Fletcher whispering campaign.

In the wake of a report accusing Russia of orchestrating a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, President Barack Obama acknowledged that his administration hadn't adequately recognized the threat posed to democratic societies by hacking and misinformation.

So instead they go to this big conspiracy theory that somehow you have got the country's biggest unions — so Len McCluskey, the head of Unite, and Dave Prentis, the head of Unison — in cahoots with those well - known socialists at the CBI, the big business organisation, and the IMF's Christine Lagarde, [and] all of this being orchestrated by Len McCluskey's new best friend, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, aided and abetted by President Obama, all campaigning against Brexit.»

This whole campaign is sanctioned and orchestrated by the very top of the Conservative party.

Actress Cynthia Nixon's campaign is dismissing as sexist talk that her run for governor was orchestrated by Mayor de Blasio.

Flanagan went on to point to the ongoing state and federal investigations of campaign donations orchestrated — potentially illegally — by supporters of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in key state Senate races in 2014 and an April special election on Long Island.

Copies of political flyers were allegedly recovered from a copier located in one of the Highway Department offices which related to the recent campaign orchestrated by Sparaco to take control of the Rockland County Republican Committee with Ballard's assistance.

Gordon Brown, whose 11th - hour intervention in the referendum campaign was said to be a game changer and who orchestrated the famous eve - of - poll «vow» of increased devolution signed by the three main UK party leaders, remains a vehement opponent of devolving tax powers.

By enrolling as a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation today, you will be helping to orchestrate a worldwide campaign to teach the principles of sound nutrition and facilitate the return of nutrient - dense foods to American tables.

No person has been more closely associated with the Academy Awards in recent decades than Weinstein, who won a best picture Oscar in 1999 for «Shakespeare in Love» and who orchestrated campaigns that resulted in more than 80 statuettes for films released by the studios he ran, including five best picture Oscars for «Shakespeare in Love,» «The English Patient,» «Chicago,» «The King's Speech» and «The Artist.»

This century has brought barbaric episodes of large - scale violence and trauma: the Holocaust, the Cambodian killing fields, the unprecedented state - terror generated by the Latin American counterinsurgency campaigns, the organized ethnic cleansings and sexual assaults in the former Yugoslavia, and the carefully orchestrated interethnic bloodbaths in Rwanda and Burundi.

Bork's nomination was never confirmed by the Senate because opponents orchestrated a blazing, misleading campaign that introduced the country to negative campaigning on a massive scale.

In communities like Dallas and San Francisco, Edison Schools has been the victim of political campaigns orchestrated in large part by the teacher unions, and the firm» s moves to manage district schools have been hobbled by stifling provisions in collective bargaining agreements.

At the moment most of the information comes via slick marketing campaigns orchestrated by schools themselves.

The campaign has been orchestrated by James Frayne, communications chief at the Department for Education under Michael Gove, and Rachel Wolf, a former adviser to David Cameron.

Research from One Wisconsin Now revealed a $ 31 million propaganda campaign to attack public schools and promote private school vouchers was orchestrated by Gov. Scott Walker's campaign co-chair Michael Grebe and his Milwaukee - based Bradley Foundation.

Parents also lobbied state legislators in their Springfield offices as part of a campaign orchestrated by network leaders to persuade the lawmakers to provide the organization with facilities funding.

By definition, you can't orchestrate a viral marketing campaign.

But the stain of the campaign against Microsoft orchestrated by doomed non-competitors lasts.

Have stellar book publicity campaigns orchestrated by brilliant book publicists recently caused book sales to soar, transforming flagging sales into huge profit centers?

The tangible positivity around the game can only be the result of a masterful campaign orchestrated from the shadows by those marketing geniuses as they earn their share of the $ 500million.

Administrator Pruitt is the target of a well - orchestrated smear campaign by leftwing groups and individuals unhappy with his effectiveness at eliminating economy and job killing regulations that do nothing -LSB-...]

«Climate Cover - up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a remarkable deconstruction of what he argues is a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign whose goal is to set the agenda in climate policy by discrediting legitimate science and manipulating public perceptions of the scientific evidence... I have no doubt that Climate Cover - up is going to stir up controversy, particularly in the United States where many of these strategies were deployed and fine - tuned.»

It also says the companies «orchestrated a campaign of deception and denial regarding climate change» by funding efforts to discredit the science on climate change even though their scientists had warned them of the risks and the role of fossil fuels in causing it.

«It is clear that a number of well - funded and well - orchestrated media campaigns were carried out by groups that are opposed to the Kyoto protocol and measures to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.

There is a tremendous disconnect between what most people (especially here in the US) think that the state of the scientific knowledge is, and what it really is — partly, I think, because it's hard to grasp just how big the field of climate science is, partly because of organized disinformation campaigns orchestrated by the likes of Senator Inhofe, Exxon and Massey Energy, and informed by the tactics (and sometimes funding sources) of the tobacco denial movement, and partly because who really * wants * to believe in a big, tough - to - deal - with danger to the well - being of our kids and our society?

Strudwick involved a woman («Ms. Strudwick» or the «Plaintiff») who suddenly fell deaf and endured a particularly egregious campaign of abuse orchestrated by her supervisor and her employer's general manager.

Over the past twenty years, this purpose has been obscured by disingenuous and well - orchestrated campaigns to boost insurer profits at the expense of worker benefits.

However, the use of social media adds a new lawyer of complexity and raises a series of new questions on the international criminal responsibility of the individuals involved in marketing campaigns such as the ones orchestrated by Cambridge Analytica.

Investigations by BuzzFeed and a number of Russian newspapers found that the Kremlin had directly orchestrated the Agency's covert influence campaigns.