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=<div>Covert operationsThe Lobby Watch[monbiot] profiles contain many startling examples of the lengths to which the 'third party' game can be taken, such as:  <ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>covert PR campaigns portraying industry critics as extremists or even terrorists 
see <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=171&page=C" style="text-decoration: none;">Center For Food and Agricultural Research</a> ,<a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=153" style="text-decoration: none;">Andura Smetacek</a> , <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=152" style="text-decoration: none;">Mary Murphy</a> , <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=166" style="text-decoration: none;">Bivings</a> , <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=27" style="text-decoration: none;">Jay Byrne</a> and the article <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/p2temp2.asp?aid=58&page=1&op=1" style="text-decoration: none;">Corporate Phantoms</a> 
 </li><li>manufactured support for industry via fake public protest, fake citizens, and even fake organisations
see <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=166" style="text-decoration: none;">Bivings</a> and the article <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?ArcId=288" style="text-decoration: none;">The Fake Parade</a> .</li></ul>'Fake persuaders'The fake <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=171&page=C" style="text-decoration: none;">Center For Food and Agricultural Research (CFFAR)</a> shows covert PR at its most insidious. CFFAR sought to portray mainstream environmental organisations as engaging in, or as linked to, violence and 'terrorism'. This message was further disseminated and reinforced through multiple internet postings by what George Monbiot has termed the 'fake persuaders': <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=153" style="text-decoration: none;">Andura Smetacek</a> and <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=152" style="text-decoration: none;">Mary Murphy</a> . Our research showed Smetacek, Murphy and CFFAR could all be traced back to Monsanto and its Internet PR company <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=166" style="text-decoration: none;">Bivings</a> . 'We want to destroy' <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=171&page=C" style="text-decoration: none;">CFFAR</a> and <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=153" style="text-decoration: none;">Smetacek</a> also used the concerns generated by their smears against organisations like the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy and Greenpeace, to encourage scientists and others to lobby these organisations' funders to stop their financial backing. It is the same tactic as employed by <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=20&page=B" style="text-decoration: none;">Berman & Co.</a> via <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=181&page=A" style="text-decoration: none;">ActivistCash.com</a> , and it comes straight out of the <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=248&page=C" style="text-decoration: none;">CDFE</a> 'handbook'. To quote CDFE's Vice President, Ron Arnold, 'We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members.' (New York Times, Dec 19, 1991)Tactics and semanticsMany of those at the forefront of attacking corporate critics make use not only of Arnold's tactics but his rhetoric. <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=89&page=M" style="text-decoration: none;">Patrick Moore</a> , a founding member of Greenpeace who went on to become a director of a Wise Use-type pro-logging front group set up by PR firm Burson Marsteller for the Canadian timber industry, talks of environmentalists as 'ultraleftists and extremists' who 'use Gestapo tactics'. He claims issues like logging and the GM debate are influenced by 'pagan beliefs and junk science'. Moore's rhetoric directly echoes <a href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=248&page=C" style="text-decoration: none;">Arnold</a> 's earlier attacks on environmentalists as 'eco-fascists' and communists, as well as Arnold's call for a 'holy war against the new pagans who worship trees and sacrifice people'.</div><div>
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</div><div><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Bivings_Group">http://powerbase.info/index.php/Bivings_Group</a></div><div>
</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2px;">Founded in 1993, and originally known as as <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Bivings-Woodell_Inc." title="Bivings-Woodell Inc." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bivings-Woodell Inc.</a>, the Bivings Group has been described as the '20th Largest Public Relations Firm in the Washington Metro Area' (Largest Public Relations Firms in the Washington Metro Area, Washington Business Journal April 2000). In addition to Washington DC, it has satellite offices in Brussels and Tokyo, and it previously had offices in Chicago and New York.The Bivings Group's specialty is online PR - the intersection between IT and lobbying. Its slogan is 'Wired engagement. Global reach. Lasting Impact.' It has, it tells us, developed 'Internet advocacy' campaigns for corporate America since 1996 and serves 'a number of Fortune 100 clients in the biotechnology, chemical, financial, food, consumer products and telecommunications industries.' The plastics industry and 'biotechnology giant Monsanto' are amongst the notable clients 'who have discovered how to make the Internet work for them.' (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bivwood.com/what_others_say/what_others_say.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Corporations Turn to Internet to Champion Political Causes</a>, Chicago Tribune April 3, 2000) Other Bivings' clients have included Dow Chemicals, <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Kraft_Foods" title="Kraft Foods" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Kraft Foods</a>, <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Phillip_Morris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phillip Morris (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Phillip Morris</a>, <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/BP_Amoco" title="BP Amoco" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">BP Amoco</a>, <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Chlorine_Chemistry_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chlorine Chemistry Council (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Chlorine Chemistry Council</a>, and <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Crop_Life_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crop Life International (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Crop Life International</a>.'The Bivings group has done outstanding work for Monsanto', according to a Monsanto Senior executive <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bivings.com/what_others_say/what_others_say.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">quoted by Bivings on its website</a>. Its PR work for the company includes Monsanto's websites (eg <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monsantoindia.com/monsanto/layout/default.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Monsanto India</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monsanto.co.uk/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Monsanto UK</a>,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monsanto.fr/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Monsanto France</a>) as well as other biotech-related websites such as the biotech knowledge centre - 'a non-commercial website' promoting biotechnology.According to the PR industry's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.holmesreport.com/holmestemp/story.cfm?edit_id=357&typeid=4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Holmes Report</a>:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">'Bivings has worked with the life sciences company to establish websites in the U.S. and Europe to address the growing controversy over genetically modified foods. The sites provide a wealth of information on GM foods and engage the company's critics in a non-confrontational discussion of the issues. ...It received the Advocacy Award from the New Statesman, which described [its work] as being "Interesting. Openness in the face of controversy." '</dd></dl>Elsewhere Bivings' work for Monsanto is described as 'addressing consumer concerns about genetically modified foods in a calm and rational way, even providing access to opposing viewpoints so that-consumers can be better informed.' (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bivings.com/news/insidepr.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Inside PR - 1999 Agency Report Card</a>)This image of rational open-minded engagement even with the company's critics chimes in well with Monsanto's own commitment, encapsulated in its 'New Monsanto Pledge', to principles such as transparency, dialogue and respect.However, as The Bivings Group acknowledges on its <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bivings.com/clients_and_projects/clients_and_projects.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">website</a>, 'Sometimes we win awards. Sometimes only the client knows the precise role we played.' In addition to its publicly acknowledged role, The Bivings Group has helped Monsanto engage in covert online attacks on the company's critics - attacks that have generated considerable controversy and adverse publicity both for Bivings and Monsanto.The work of Bivings is premised on the power of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.issueswatch.com/index.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Internet</a> : 'Some of the most powerful message delivery tools used today are web-based and grassroots: online message boards, listservs, and web sites.' An article posted on its site states, 'Cyberspace is no longer just for citizen activists. With its savvy Internet lobbying campaigns, Corporate America has gotten off the digital sidelines. Its seasoned Washington lobbyists are turning on its head the assumption that the Internet would aid primarily resource-poor citizens groups allied against corporate interests... business groups are employing the Web to influence public opinion and mount grass-roots-style lobbying campaigns. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bivings.com/news/chicagotribune.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Corporations Turn To Internet To Champion Political Causes</a> , Chicago Tribune, April 3, 2000)Another article talks about 'spinning on-line discussions to favor the positions of companies and interest groups' and 'steering experts to on-line forums on behalf of clients'. The article goes on, 'Without question, these practices have made people taking part in on-line discussions suspicions. Questions about participants' identities and affiliations are becoming more common.' (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bivings.com/news/circuits.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Incognito Spinmeisters Battle On-Line Critics: When a Company's Product Is Under Fire, One Option is to Plant a Defender in the Chat Room</a>, New York Times, Thursday, October 14, 1999).The article also notes that Bivings can provide companies with a service involving the long-term monitoring of lists and forums. 'At best, the consultants can strangle misinformation in the electronic cradle. "If participated in properly," said Matt Benson, at Bivings Woodell, "these can be vehicles for shaping emerging issues." 'In an essay on Viral Marketing that appeared in April 2002 on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bivingsreport.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Thebivingsreport.com</a>, <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Andrew_Dimock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrew Dimock (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Andrew Dimock</a>, head of Bivings' online marketing and promotions division, spelt out how to make covert interventions on a client's behalf, 'There are some campaigns where it would be undesirable or even disastrous to let the audience know that your organization is directly involved. ... Message boards, chat rooms, and listservs are a great way to anonymously monitor what is being said. Once you are plugged into this world, it is possible to make postings to these outlets that present your position as an uninvolved third party.' (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmwatch.org/p2temp2.asp?aid=17&page=1&op=2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Kernels of Truth</a>)Bivings' covert campaign on behalf of Monsanto has been waged through the use of postings to message boards and listservs under aliases, as well as the creation of a website for a fake agriculural institute. These have been used as means to post attacks on Monsanto's critics without disclosing the company's involvement.The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cffar.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">website</a> of <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=The_Center_for_Food%26_Agricultural_Research&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Center for Food & Agricultural Research (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Center for Food & Agricultural Research</a> (CFFAR) is not currently available, following adverse publicity, but can still be viewed in its <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web//http://www.cffar.org" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">archived form</a>. CFFAR presents itself as "a public policy and research coalition" concerned with food and agriculture but, although links to the site were to be found from the websites of US public libraries and university departments, there appears to be no evidence that this organisation ever existed.The real purpose of the site appears to have been to associate biotech industry critics with "violence" and "terror" via fabricated claims of violence and intimidation. It claims in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020111190419/www.cffar.org/vandalwatch/names/part2.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">one article</a>, for example, that Greenpeace engaged in multiple attacks on farms in the UK during which it 'commandeered the farmers' tractors' and 'crashed through fences' in pursuit of farmers' families! One of the goals of the site appears to be to promote an internet-based campaign targeting those with links (particularly <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20011006072154/www.cffar.org/vandalwatch/campaign/index.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">funding links</a> ) to groups opposing the biotech industry, lobbying them to break their ties with these groups because of the "violence".Here's the CFFAR.org domain registration details:
<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Registrant: THEODOROV, MANUEL (CFFAR-DOM)</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8391 Beverly Blvd #107</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LOS ANGELES, CA 90048 US</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Domain Name: CFFAR.ORG</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">THEODOROV, MANUEL (MTW94) etheodorou@EARTHLINK.NET</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">THEODOROV, MANUEL</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">8391 Beverly Blvd #107</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LOS ANGELES, CA 90048</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3239604489</dd></dl>The 'etheodorou' in the e-mail address is clearly different to the contact name. On the following <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.consumeralert.org/signatories.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">webpage</a>, the name "<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Emmanuel_Theodorou&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Emmanuel Theodorou (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Emmanuel Theodorou</a>" is listed with other early signatories to a petition supporting agricultural biotechnology launched by Prof <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/CS_Prakash" title="CS Prakash" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CS Prakash</a>. Interestingly, Theodorou's name appears to have been omitted from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.agbioworld.org/PHP/index_search.phtml?alpha=T" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">current version of the petition</a>.The following <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.agbioworld.org/PHP/index_search.phtml?alpha=T" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">information is provided</a> by Theodorou on the petition page:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">NAME: emmanuel theodorou</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">POSITION: director of associations</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">ORGANIZATION: bivings woodell, Inc.</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">DEPARTMENT: advocacy and outreach</dd></dl>Theodorou is known to have been part of the <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Monsanto" title="Monsanto" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Monsanto</a> team at Bivings.Bivings have also been linked to multiple attacks on biotech industry critics posted by a '<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Mary_Murphy" title="Mary Murphy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mary Murphy</a>' 'mmrph@hotmail.com' on lists and message boards. Many of these attacks were posted on the <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/AgBioView" title="AgBioView" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">AgBioView</a> list, often in coordination with attacks posted by 'Andura Smetacek'. Murphy also appears to have lobbied organisations critical of GM crops to change their stance, to judge by a mail sent to the American Chiropractic Association, which concluded, 'If you want to be taken seriously, you should not make ridiculous claims and you should show respect for the scientists who are developing this important technology.'The Murphy/Smetacek attacks were to culminate with the publication of an article in the journal Nature by researchers at UC Berkeley showing native maize strains in Mexico had been contaminated by GM maize. Within hours of publication an attack on the researchers was posted on AgBioView by 'Mary Murphy'. She wrote: 'It should be noted that the author of the Nature article, Ignacio H Chapela, is on the board of directors of the Pesticide Action Network North America, an activist group.' Murphy accused Chapela of being 'not exactly what you'd call an unbiased writer'. This was followed up by postings from 'Andura Smetacek' who claimed the research was a product of a conspiracy with 'fear-mongering activists'. Chapela's aim, apparently, was to attack 'biotechnology, free-trade, intellectual property rights and other politically motivated agenda items.' These inflammatory claims were used to launch a campaign of vilification of the researchers and their study on AgBioView and a campaign of pressure on the journal Nature which met with some success.Smetacek's postings have subsequently been traced back to Monsanto but in her earliest postings Smetacek frequently refers people to the website of the Center for Food and Agricultural Research (CFFAR), ie the site registered to Bivings' Theodorou. This suggests Smetacek, Murphy and CFFAR were all part of a coordinated offensive.On a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxbghsuit.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">website</a> run by two journalists involved in a protracted legal action against Fox TV over its suppression of a report on Monsanto's genetically engineered cattle drug rBGH, 'Murphy' posted a fake Associated Press article. Although Murphy uses 'her' usual hotmail address, other identifying details are shown in brackets <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxbghsuit.com/wwwboard/messages/1168.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">on the site</a> :
<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Posted by Mary Murphy (bw6.bivwood.com )</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">ACTIVISTS CHANGE STANCE ON GMOs AFTER SCIENTISTS GENETICALLY ALTER MARIJUANA (AP)</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">June 9, 2000</dd></dl>'bivwood.com' is a domain of The Bivings Group. The bracketed information on the bulletin board, generated from the poster's headers, thus connects Mary Murphy directly to Monsanto's internet PR company. We have also seen an e-mail from Mary Murphy posted via her usual address mmrph@hotmail.com which the headers show was also generated from bw6.bivwood.com .Between April and June 2002, the British publications <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit3.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Big Issue</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit2.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Ecologist</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit4.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Guardian</a> published a series of articles alleging that <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/AgBioView" title="AgBioView" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">AgBioView</a> was used as part of a corporate smear campaign against the researchers by Bivings.In a letter published in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,735781,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Guardian</a> on Wednesday 12 June 2002, Gary Bivings, the President of The Bivings Group, states that, 'The allegations made against the Bivings Group in two recent columns (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit4.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The fake persuaders</a>, May 14, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit7.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Corporate phantoms</a> , May 29) are completely untrue.' <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Gary_Bivings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gary Bivings (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Gary Bivings</a> goes on to claim that, 'the Bivings Group has no knowledge of either <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Mary_Murphy" title="Mary Murphy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mary Murphy</a> or <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Andura_Smetacek" title="Andura Smetacek" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Andura Smetacek</a>'.However, before Gary Bivings' letter of denial had even been published, Bivings' head of online PR, <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Todd_Zeigler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Todd Zeigler (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Todd Zeigler</a>, had confided to the BBC that one of the e-mails in question was sent by someone 'working for Bivings' or 'clients using our services'. The admission, made to BBC TV's news and current affairs programme, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ngin.tripod.com/080602d.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Newsnight</a>, was included in their report on the Mexican maize scandal broadcast on 7th June 2002 (see the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ngin.tripod.com/080602d.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">programme transcript</a>). By including the phrase 'clients using our services' in the admission, Zeigler might appear to be directly implicating the client most directly relevant to the e-mails in question - Monsanto. Subsequent analysis of the headers of early Smetacek mails have borne out the company's direct involvement.While searching the <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/AgBioView" title="AgBioView" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">AgBioView</a> list archive, in early 2002 we got an error message showing that the archive was at the time held on a database on Bivings main apollo server:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">AgBioView E-mail Newsletter Archives Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'apollo.bivings.com' (113) in functions.php on line 5</dd></dl>This suggests that Monsanto-Bivings were not just contributing significantly to the tone and direction of the AgBioView list in an undisclosed way through the use of aliases, but were making some of AgBioWorld's content available in a way that masked their involvement. A web design analysis that we commisioned showed that the agbioworld.org website shared striking technical similarities with a site known to have been designed by Bivings, suggesting the same designer had worked on both.Shortly before the publication of the first article on the Bivings-Monsanto campaign, the AgBioView archive became unavailable and a new archive, hosted by Sparklist, was started. No explanation has ever been given for the closing of the original archive. All Murphy and Smetacek posts stopped around the same time.Following the appearance of a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmwatch.org/p2temp2.asp?aid=2&page=1&op=1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Guardian article</a> linking Monsanto directly to <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Andura_Smetacek" title="Andura Smetacek" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Andura Smetacek</a>, the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cffar.org/index_lander.php?Domain=cffar.org" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">CFFAR.org</a> website became unavailable. The article also made reference to <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Jay_Byrne" title="Jay Byrne" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jay Byrne</a>, Monsanto's former Chief Internet Strategist. Interestingly, in a presentation to fellow PR professionals on Monsanto's internet work, Byrne gave CFFAR as an example of the type of site that Monsanto worked to direct people to. Although Byrne no longer works for Monsanto, his PR company <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=V-fluence&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="V-fluence (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">V-fluence</a> is based like Monsanto in St Louis and undertakes work for the company. It's Washington office is headed by <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Richard_Levine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Levine (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Richard Levine</a> who was previously part of the Monsanto team at Bivings where he worked side by side with<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Emmanuel_Theodorou&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Emmanuel Theodorou (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Emmanuel Theodorou</a>.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Contact</h3>Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.bivings.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">http://www.bivings.com/</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Notes</h2></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Categories</a>: <ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Category:Foodspin" title="Category:Foodspin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Foodspin</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Category:Food_lobbyists_and_PR_consultants" title="Category:Food lobbyists and PR consultants" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Food lobbyists and PR consultants</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Category:GM" title="Category:GM" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">GM</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Category:Fake_Persuaders(GM)" title="Category:Fake Persuaders (GM)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fake Persuaders (GM)</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Category:PR_Operators(GM)" title="Category:PR Operators (GM)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">PR Operators (GM)</a></li></ul></div></div><div>
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</div><div></div><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="673" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr valign="TOP"><td rowspan="2" /><td rowspan="2"><div class="style1" style="margin-top: 0px;">Monsanto's World Wide Web of deceit</div><div class="style1" style="margin-top: 0px;"><div class="style1" style="margin-top: 0px;"> <div class="style1" style="margin-top: 0px;">George Monbiot, <div class="style1" style="margin-top: 0px;">The Guardian, Wednesday May 29, 2002 </div>
 CORPORATE GHOSTS 
 The web of deceit over GM food has now drawn in the PM's speechwriters
 Tony Blair's speech to the Royal Society last Thursday was a wonderful jumble of misconceptions and logical elisions. He managed to confuse science with its technological products. GM crops are no more "science" than cars, computers or washing machines, and those opposing them are no more "anti-science" than people who don't like the Millennium Dome are "anti-architecture". 
 He suggested that in the poor world people welcome genetic engineering. It was unfortunate that the example he chose was the biotech industry in Bangalore in south-west India. Bangalore happens to be the centre of the world's most effective protests against GM crops, the capital of a state in which anti-GM campaigners outnumber those in the UK by 1,000 to one. Like most biotech enthusiasts, he ignored the key concern of the activists: the corporate takeover of the food chain, and its devastating consequences for food security.  
 But it would be wrong to blame Blair alone for these misconstructions. The prime minister was simply repeating a suite of arguments formulated elsewhere. Over the past month, activists have slowly been discovering where that "elsewhere" may be.  
 Two weeks ago, this column showed how the Bivings Group, a PR company contracted to Monsanto, had invented <a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit4.html">fake citizens</a> to post messages on internet listservers. These phantoms had launched a campaign to force Nature magazine to retract a paper it had published, alleging that native corn in Mexico had been contaminated with GM pollen. But this, it now seems, is just one of hundreds of critical interventions with which PR companies hired by big business have secretly guided the biotech debate over the past few years.  
 While I was writing the last piece, Bivings sent me an email fiercely denying that it had anything to do with the fake correspondents "Mary Murphy" and "Andura Smetacek", who started the smear campaign against the Nature paper. Last week I checked the email's technical properties. They contained the identity tag "bw6.bivwood.com". The message came from the same computer terminal that "Mary Murphy" has used. New research coordinated by the campaigner Jonathan Matthews appears to have unmasked the fake persuaders: "Mary Murphy" is being posted by a Bivings web designer, writing from both the office and his home computer in Hyattsville, Maryland; while "Andura Smetacek" appears to be the company's chief internet marketer.  
 Not long ago, the website slashdot.com organised a competition for hackers: if they could successfully break into a particular server, they got to keep it. Several experienced hackers tested their skills. One of them was one using a computer identified as bw6.bivwood.com.  
 Though someone in the Bivings office appears to possess hacking skills, there is no evidence that Bivings has ever made use of them. But other biotech lobbyists do appear to have launched hacker attacks. Just before the paper in Nature was publicly challenged, the server hosting the accounts used by its authors was disabled by a particularly effective attack which crippled their capacity to fight back. The culprit has yet to be identified.  
 Bivings is the secret author of several of the websites and bogus citizens' movements which have been coordinating campaigns against environmentalists. One is a fake scientific institute called the "Centre for Food and Agricultural Research". Bivings has also set up the "Alliance for Environmental Technology", a chlorine industry lobby group. Most importantly, Bivings appears to be connected with AgBioWorld, the genuine website run by CS Prakash, a plant geneticist at Tuskegee University, Alabama.  
 AgBioWorld is perhaps the most influential biotech site on the web. Every day it carries new postings about how GM crops will feed the world, new denunciations of the science which casts doubt on them and new attacks on environmentalists. It was here that the fake persuaders invented by Bivings launched their assault on the Nature paper. AgBioWorld then drew up a petition to have the paper retracted.  
 Prakash claims to have no links with Bivings but, as the previous article showed, an error message on his site suggests that it is or was using the main server of the Bivings Group. Jonathan Matthews, who found the message, commissioned a full technical audit of AgBioWorld. His web expert has now found 11 distinctive technical fingerprints shared by AgBioWorld and Bivings' Alliance for Environmental Technology site. The sites appear, he concludes, to have been created by the same programmer.  
 Though he lives and works in the United States, CS Prakash claims to represent the people of the third world. He set up AgBioWorld with Greg Conko of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the far-right libertarian lobby group funded by such companies as Philip Morris, Pfizer and Dow Chemical. Conko has collaborated with Matthew Metz, one of the authors of the scientific letters to Nature seeking to demolish the maize paper, to produce a highly partisan guide to biotechnology on the AgBioWorld site.  
 The Competitive Enterprise Institute boasts that it "played a key role in the creation" of a petition of scientists supporting biotech (ostensibly to feed the third world) launched by Prakash. Unaware that it had been devised by a corporate lobby group, 3,000 scientists, three Nobel laureates among them, signed up.  [CONKO? borlaug?]
 Bivings is just one of several public relations agencies secretly building a parallel world on the web. Another US company, Berman & Co, runs a fake public interest site called ActivistCash.com, which seeks to persuade the foundations giving money to campaigners to desist. Berman also runs the "Centre for Consumer Freedom", which looks like a citizens' group but lobbies against smoking bans, alcohol restrictions and health warnings on behalf of tobacco, drinks and fast food companies. The marketing firm Nichols Dezenhall set up a site called StopEcoViolence, another "citizens' initiative", demonising activists. In March, Nichols Dezenhall linked up with Prakash's collaborator, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to sponsor a conference for journalists and corporate executives on "eco-extremism".  
 What is fascinating about these websites, fake groups and phantom citizens is that they have either smelted or honed all the key weapons currently used by the world's biotech enthusiasts: the conflation of activists with terrorists, the attempts to undermine hostile research, the ever more nuanced claims that those who resist GM crops are anti-science and opposed to the interests of the poor. The hatred directed at activists over the past few years is, in other words, nothing of the kind. In truth, we have been confronted by the crafted response of an industry without emotional attachment.  
 Tony Blair was correct when he observed on Thursday that "there is only a small band of people... who genuinely want to stifle informed debate". But he was wrong to identify this small group as those opposed to GM crops. Though he didn't know it, the people seeking to stifle the debate are the ones who wrote his speech; not in the days before he delivered it, but in the years in which the arguments he used were incubated. </div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div></div><div><div>The fake persuaders</div><div>
</div><div>George Monbiot</div><div>
</div><div>Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet</div><div>
</div><div>@GeorgeMonbiot</div><div>Tuesday 14 May 2002 08.07 EDT</div><div>
</div><div>Persuasion works best when it's invisible. The most effective marketing worms its way into our consciousness, leaving intact the perception that we have reached our opinions and made our choices independently. As old as humankind itself, over the past few years this approach has been refined, with the help of the internet, into a technique called "viral marketing". Last month, the viruses appear to have murdered their host. One of the world's foremost scientific journals was persuaded to do something it had never done before, and retract a paper it had published.</div><div>
</div><div>While, in the past, companies have created fake citizens' groups to campaign in favour of trashing forests or polluting rivers, now they create fake citizens. Messages purporting to come from disinterested punters are planted on listservers at critical moments, disseminating misleading information in the hope of recruiting real people to the cause. Detective work by the campaigner Jonathan Matthews and the freelance journalist Andy Rowell shows how a PR firm contracted to the biotech company Monsanto appears to have played a crucial but invisible role in shaping scientific discourse.</div><div>
</div><div>Monsanto knows better than any other corporation the costs of visibility. Its clumsy attempts, in 1997, to persuade people that they wanted to eat GM food all but destroyed the market for its crops. Determined never to make that mistake again, it has engaged the services of a firm which knows how to persuade without being seen to persuade.</div><div>
</div><div> The Bivings Group specialises in internet lobbying.</div><div>
</div><div>An article on its website, entitled Viral Marketing: How to Infect the World, warns that "there are some campaigns where it would be undesirable or even disastrous to let the audience know that your organisation is directly involved... it simply is not an intelligent PR move. In cases such as this, it is important to first 'listen' to what is being said online... Once you are plugged into this world, it is possible to make postings to these outlets that present your position as an uninvolved third party... Perhaps the greatest advantage of viral marketing is that your message is placed into a context where it is more likely to be considered seriously." A senior executive from Monsanto is quoted on the Bivings site thanking the PR firm for its "outstanding work".</div><div>
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</div><div>On November 29 last year, two researchers at the University of California, Berkeley published a paper in Nature magazine, which claimed that native maize in Mexico had been contaminated, across vast distances, by GM pollen. The paper was a disaster for the biotech companies seeking to persuade Mexico, Brazil and the European Union to lift their embargos on GM crops.</div><div>
</div><div>Even before publication, the researchers knew their work was hazardous. One of them, Ignacio Chapela, was approached by the director of a Mexican corporation, who first offered him a glittering research post if he withheld his paper, then told him that he knew where to find his children. In the US, Chapela's opponents have chosen a different form of assassination.</div><div>
</div><div>On the day the paper was published, messages started to appear on a biotechnology listserver used by more than 3,000 scientists, called AgBioWorld. The first came from a correspondent named "Mary Murphy". Chapela is on the board of directors of the Pesticide Action Network, and therefore, she claimed, "not exactly what you'd call an unbiased writer". Her posting was followed by a message from an "Andura Smetacek", claiming, falsely, that Chapela's paper had not been peer-reviewed, that he was "first and foremost an activist" and that the research had been published in collusion with environmentalists. The next day, another email from "Smetacek" asked "how much money does Chapela take in speaking fees, travel reimbursements and other donations... for his help in misleading fear-based marketing campaigns?"</div><div>
</div><div>The messages from Murphy and Smetacek stimulated hundreds of others, some of which repeated or embellished the accusations they had made. Senior biotechnologists called for Chapela to be sacked from Berkeley. AgBioWorld launched a petition pointing to the paper's "fundamental flaws".</div><div>
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</div><div>There do appear to be methodological problems with the research Chapela and his colleague David Quist had published, but this is hardly unprecedented in a scientific journal. All science is, and should be, subject to challenge and disproof. But in this case the pressure on Nature was so severe that its editor did something unparalleled in its 133-year history: last month he published, alongside two papers challenging Quist and Chapela's, a retraction in which he wrote that their research should never have been published.</div><div>
</div><div>So the campaign against the researchers was extraordinarily successful; but who precisely started it? Who are "Mary Murphy" and "Andura Smetacek"?</div><div>
</div><div>Both claim to be ordinary citizens, without any corporate links. The Bivings Group says it has "no knowledge of them". "Mary Murphy" uses a hotmail account for posting messages to AgBioWorld. But a message satirising the opponents of biotech, sent by "Mary Murphy" from the same hotmail account to another server two years ago, contains the identification bw6.bivwood.com. Bivwood.com is the property of Bivings Woodell, which is part of the Bivings Group.</div><div>
</div><div>When I wrote to her to ask whether she was employed by Bivings and whether Mary Murphy was her real name, she replied that she had "no ties to industry". But she refused to answer my questions on the grounds that "I can see by your articles that you made your mind up long ago about biotech". The interesting thing about this response is that my message to her did not mention biotechnology. I told her only that I was researching an article about internet lobbying.</div><div>
</div><div>Smetacek has, on different occasions, given her address as "London" and "New York". But the electoral rolls, telephone directories and credit card records in both London and the entire US reveal no "Andura Smetacek". Her name appears only on AgBioWorld and a few other listservers, on which she has posted scores of messages falsely accusing groups such as Greenpeace of terrorism. My letters to her have elicited no response. But a clue to her possible identity is suggested by her constant promotion of "the Centre For Food and Agricultural Research". The centre appears not to exist, except as a website, which repeatedly accuses greens of plotting violence. Cffar.org is registered to someone called Manuel Theodorov. Manuel Theodorov is the "director of associations" at Bivings Woodell.</div><div>
</div><div>Even the website on which the campaign against the paper in Nature was launched has attracted suspicion. Its moderator, the biotech enthusiast Professor CS Prakash, claims to have no connection to the Bivings Group. But when Jonathan Matthews was searching the site's archives he received the following error message: "can't connect to MySQL server on apollo.bivings.com". Apollo.bivings.com is the main server of the Bivings Group.</div><div>
</div><div>"Sometimes," Bivings boasts, "we win awards. Sometimes only the client knows the precise role we played." Sometimes, in other words, real people have no idea that they are being managed by fake ones.</div></div></div><div></div><div>Anonymous Strikes and 'Ends' Monsanto PR Firm Bivings Group 2.Reclaim the Cyber-Commons  3.AMAIZING DISGRACE – MONSANTO UP TO ITS DIRTY OLD TRICKS AGAIN NOTE: Bivings were the Monsanto internet PR firm identified in an investigation by GMWatch founder Jonathan Matthews and the investigative journalist Andy Rowell, as key operatives in a major dirty tricks campaign targeting scientists and others critical of GM. The GMWatch investigation of Bivings helped prompt articles in The Guardian, New Scientist, The Ecologist as well as programmes on BBC radio and TV. <a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit_index.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 21.28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit_index.html</a> It's also worth noting that the man most often credited as the chief architect of the Monsanto dirty tricks campaign that Bivings helped undertake is still heading up his own internet PR agency with Monsanto as one of his clients. Jay Byrne was Monsanto's Director of Public Affairs and former Internet Outreach Programs Director before becoming president of V-Fluence. His former vice-president, Richard Levine, was part of the Monsanto team at Bivings. V-Fluence is based, like Monsanto, in St. Louis. <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Jay_Byrne" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 21.28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://powerbase.info/index.php/Jay_Byrne</a> –- –- 1.Anonymous Strikes and 'Ends' Monsanto PR Firm Bivings Group DJ Pangburn  dt, December 6 2011 [shortened] <a href="http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/166429/anonymous-strikes-and-ends-monsanto-pr-firm-bivings-group/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 21.28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/166429/anonymous-strikes-and-ends-monsanto-pr-firm-bivings-group/</a> The Bivings Group used to handle PR for businesses such as the multi-national biotech corporation Monstanto. Now, a group of Anonymous hackers are claiming they hit the PR firm until it shut down operations. "Operation End Monsanto is still very much up and running. Pwnage will continue indefinitely," reads the opening statement of a paste at Pastebin from Anonymous. <a href="http://pastebin.com/UZTcLMGT" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 21.28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://pastebin.com/UZTcLMGT</a> The hackers are referring to efforts to strike at the "cyberstructure" of The Bivings Group, a now defunct PR firm which was known to have worked with Monsanto, according to Lobby Watch. Information on Bivings Group is scarce on the internet, but the links supplied by Lobby Watch to Bivings Group's website no longer exist or now link to a new PR firm The Brick Factory. One can still find The Bivings Group's LinkedIn page, where its most recent post "Moved In" routes users to the new Brick Factory office space in Washington, D. C. (close to the action, as it were). Yesterday, the Anonymous hackers claimed they had finally succeeded in taking down Bivings Group, quoting the following (supposed) Bivings Group communication, "Our Cyber Infrastructure has recently been put under attack. We are evaluating the extent of the intrusion, and apologise for any downtime and issues this may cause you. It is not yet determined what the motives behind the attack are, or what, if any data has been compromised. We will continue to keep you up to date, and sincerely apologise for any inconvenience." It would seem that Bivings Group was in the business of trying to convince internet users that Monsanto is environmentally and socially conscious. Whether or not the Bivings Group hack actually precipitated the shut down is unknown, though it could have indeed been one of the factors. Nevertheless, perhaps this fresh start as The Brick Factory, and the attention they got from hackers, will convince the former Bivings Group employees to work with ethical businesses instead of those of the Monsanto variety. –- –- 2.Extract from Reclaim the Cyber-Commons George Monbiot published in the Guardian, 14th December 2010 <a href="http://www.monbiot.com/2010/12/13/reclaim-the-cyber-commons/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 21.28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.monbiot.com/2010/12/13/reclaim-the-cyber-commons/</a> The internet is being captured by organised trolls. It's time we fought back. I first came across online astroturfing in 2002, when the investigators Andy Rowell and Jonathan Matthews looked into a series of comments made by two people calling themselves Mary Murphy and Andura Smetacek(4,5). They had launched ferocious attacks, across several internet forums, against a scientist whose research suggested that Mexican corn had been widely contaminated by GM pollen. Rowell and Matthews found that one of the messages Mary Murphy had sent came from a domain owned by the Bivings Group, a PR company specialising in internet lobbying. An article on the Bivings website explained that "there are some campaigns where it would be undesirable or even disastrous to let the audience know that your organization is directly involved ”¦ Message boards, chat rooms, and listservs are a great way to anonymously monitor what is being said. Once you are plugged into this world, it is possible to make postings to these outlets that present your position as an uninvolved third party."(6) The Bivings site also quoted a senior executive from the biotech corporation Monsanto, thanking the PR firm for its "outstanding work"(7). When a Bivings executive was challenged by Newsnight, he admitted that the "Mary Murphy" email was sent by someone "working for Bivings" or "clients using our services"(8). Rowell and Matthews then discovered that the IP address on Andura Smetacek’s messages was assigned to Monsanto's headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri(9). There's a nice twist to this story. AstroTurf TM real fake grass was developed and patented by Monsanto. –- –- 3.AMAIZING DISGRACE MONSANTO – UP TO ITS DIRTY OLD TRICKS AGAIN  Jonathan Matthews The Ecologist, Vol 32 No 4, May 2002  <a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit2.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 21.28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit2.html</a> *A dirty tricks campaign leads straight to the door of a Monsanto PR company, says Jonathan Matthews in the launch of his new column  The journal Science reporting recently on how the Mexican "maize scandal" was driving the battle over GM crops "to new heights of acrimony and confusion", noted the part played by, "widely circulating anonymous e-mails" accusing researchers, Ignacio Chapela and David Quist, of "conflicts of interest and other misdeeds".  These accusations surfaced first in late November on the day of Nature's publication of Chapela and Quist's findings of GM contamination of maize varieties in Mexico – the global heartland of maize diversity. Samples of native criollo corn were found to contain a genetic 'switch' commonly used in GM crops and one sample was even found to contain a commonly inserted gene that prompts the plant to produce a poison. The results were particularly surprising as Mexico banned the growing of GM maize in 1998, and the last known GM crops were grown almost 60 miles from where the contaminated maize was found.  For the biotech industry this could not have come at a worse time. Its efforts to lift the European, Brazilian, and Mexican moratoria on GM seeds or foods were all coming to a head.  Chapela and Quist came under immediate attack in a furious volley of e-mails published on the AgBioView listserv. AgBioView correspondents calling themselves 'Mary Murphy' and 'Andura Smetacek' claimed Chapela and Quist's research was a product of a conspiracy with "fear-mongering activists". The conspirators' aim, apparently, was to attack "biotechnology, free-trade, intellectual property rights and other politically motivated agenda items."  These claims prompted a series of further attacks from others. Prof Anthony Trewavas, for example, denounced scientists like Chapela who had "political axes to grind". Trewavas demanded Chapela be fired unless he handed over his maize samples for checking.  This was not Trewavas's first controversial intervention in the GM debate in response to material put into circulation on AgBioView. Last October, for instance, Trewavas was named in the High Court as the source of an anti-Greenpeace letter at the centre of a libel case. Trewavas subsequently claimed that the letter originated on AgBioView.  The piece in question was posted by one Andura Smetacek, who regularly posts vitriolic attacks on critics of the biotech industry. In Smetacek's early posts, interestingly, repeated reference is made to one particular website, CFFAR.org. Ostensibly, CFFAR – or the Center for Food and Agricultural Research, to give it its full title – is "a public policy and research coalition" concerned with "food and fiber production." But despite links to CFFAR.org from the websites of US public libraries and university departments, there appears to be no evidence this organisation really exists.  To judge by the frequent usage of words like "violence", "terrorism", and "acts of terror", the real purpose of the site is to associate biotech industry opponents with terrorism. This mission is faciliated by fabricated claims. In its "vandalwatch.org" section, for instance, CFFAR.org accuses Greenpeace of engaging in multiple attacks on British farms. Greenpeace is accused of commandeering farmers' tractors and crashing through fences in pursuit of farmers' families.  The domain registration details for CFFAR.org show the registrant to be one 'THEODOROV, MANUEL'. Among early signatories to a pro-agbiotech petition launched by AgBioView list editor, Prof CS Prakash, the following details can be found: NAME: emmanuel theodorou. POSITION: director of associations. ORGANIZATION: bivings woodell, Inc. DEPARTMENT: advocacy and outreach.  What kind of "advocacy and outreach" do Bivings Woodell, Inc., aka the Bivings Group, do? According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, "The Bivings Group has developed 'Internet advocacy' campaigns for corporate America since 1996... Biotechnology giant Monsanto [is] among the Bivings clients who have discovered how to make the Internet work for them."  As part of its brief, Bivings designs and runs Monsanto's websites and Theodorou is believed to have been part of Bivings' Monsanto team. Mary Murphy would also seem to connect to Bivings. Or so it would seem from the evidence of a fake Associated Press article on the bulletin board of the foxbghsuit.com website. It was posted by "Mary Murphy (bw6.bivwood.com)".  Between them Smetacek and Murphy have had 60 or more attacks published, often very prominently, by Prakash on the AgBioWorld listserv. Prakash presents AgBioWorld as a mainstream science group reliant on the support of individuals and philanthropic foundations. However, a website design specialist who took a detailed look at the AgBioWorld site reported that there appeared to be evidence that part of its content was held on a Bivings' server. Furthermore, agbioworld.org, vandalwatch.org and the Bivings'-designed thebivingsreport.com, all seemed to be the work of the same designer.  Perhaps it's time for Prakash to clarify where AgBioWorld finishes and biotech industry PR begins. Come to that, the Royal Society might like to tell us why Trewavas, one of its media advisors, seems so keen to promulgate PR industry smears. 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Manuel Theodorov is the "director of associations" at Bivings Woodell.</div></div></div></div><div>==</div></div><div>Todd Zeigler serves as the Brick Factory’s chief strategist and oversees the operations of the firm. In his sixteen year career in digital, he has planned and implemented campaigns for clients including the Pickens Plan, International Youth Foundation, Panthera, Edison Electric Institute, and the American Chemistry Council. For these clients and others, Todd develops ambitious online advocacy programs, helps manage crises, creates and implements online marketing strategies, and manages the development of custom applications and software.http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Youth_FoundationTodd holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a native of San Antonio, Texas and loves Spurs basketball, Longhorn football and Arsenal soccer. In his spare time, he enjoys golfing and cycling, and going to see obscure bands at the 9:30 Club.</div><div>
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</div><div>Call us at 202-499-4200 if the matter is urgent.1726 M Street, NW Suite 201, Washington, DC 20036</div><div></div><div>bs</div><div>Gary Bivings is a senior consultant at PCA & Company. He is an experienced professional in the digital world.  His nearly 20 years in the field ranges from technology design and web-platform development for new ventures to the strategic development of a nation-wide, online public campaigns to shift the the nation’s agenda over energy policy.  He is adept at the technical side of the web and very well-versed in complex, multi-dimensional online marketing and outreach campaigns.Gary also built a successful consulting practice, beginning as a sole-practitioner and growing it into to a 30+ person digital strategy and development firm in Washington, DC, called The Bivings Group, which was sold at the end of 2011. This firm pioneered many approaches to the web and social media in numerous online initiatives for clients in the political world, private sector, and philanthropic arena.   These initiatives encompassed novel approaches to website design and development, and new technologies to track and manage online conversations in all the various forms of social and conventional media. The company also designed and developed custom software applications, for instance: multi-language intranets, near real-time voice-to-text translation, political contribution tracking, and online employee education.The Bivings Group’s work garnered many awards. They were a recipient of the Webby Award on various occasions.  The firm’s clients included candidates for state and national office, one of them for president,  the Nasdaq Stock Market, T. Boone Pickens, Pew Charitable Trusts, Edison Electric Institute, Thomson Digital and Monsanto, to name but a few.http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Youth_FoundationPrior to entering the consulting world, Gary worked for the US government and the United Nations in refugee camps and famine relief programs in Africa and Asia; and he started his professional life as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia. Gary has a B.Sc. in Physics and Math from the University of Arizona and an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.</div><div></div><div>LI</div><div><dd class="past-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; word-break: break-word; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Food Aid Coordinator at UNDP, Program Coordinator at USAID, Program Lead at UNHCR, Program Consultant at UNHCR, Peace Corps Volunteer at Peace Co...</dd><dt class="education" style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; float: left; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Education</dt><dd class="education-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; word-break: break-word; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, University of Arizona</dd></div><div></div><div>Philip S. Angell is currently the Editor-in-Chief of World Resources Report published by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Resources_Institute" title="World Resources Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">World Resources Institute</a> (WRI), a Washington D.C. based think tank.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> Prior to joining WRI Angell had worked as a PR adviser for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto" title="Monsanto" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Monsanto</a> and before that <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Browning-Ferris" title="Browning-Ferris" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Browning-Ferris</a> Industries. In conjunction with the Washington D.C. PR firm, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bivings_Group" title="Bivings Group" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bivings Group</a>, he founded <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HearingRoom.com" title="HearingRoom.com" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">HearingRoom.com</a>, a short-lived Congressional monitoring website for clients. He has also worked with the Republican political consultancy, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bailey,Deardourff_and_Associates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bailey, Deardourff and Associates (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bailey, Deardourff and Associates</a>, and as a senior advisor to two Administrators of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</a>.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#Background" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Background</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#Quotable_Quotes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Quotable Quotes</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Affiliations</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#Resources_and_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Resources and articles</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#Related_Sourcewatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1 Related Sourcewatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2 References</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Background</h2>Angell was director of corporate communications for the biotechnology and pesticide company Monsanto between October 1997 and June 1999.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>He had also worked with Browning-Ferris Industries (1994).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a>After leaving Monsanto, Angell became Chairman of HearingRoom.com<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a>, a website that offered clients an online monitoring service of Congress. On its website at the time the company boasted that it offered "real time text transcripts with linked audio, searchable text and LiveWireAlerts™, all the written testimony and more." The website was a partnership with the Washington DC based PR firm, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bivings_Group" title="Bivings Group" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bivings Group</a>. The website acknowledged that "technology provided by the bivings group", <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Bivings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gary Bivings (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Gary Bivings</a> was listed as "Chief Technology Officer" and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jake_Levine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jake Levine (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jake Levine</a> was listed as "Project Manager" of the website as well as being the "Director of New Venture Management at The Bivings Group."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> (The Bivings Group represented Monsanto.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>)In December 2002 the Hearingroom.com website optimistically stated that it had "temporarily suspended its service as of January, 2002. It is not expected to resume until April, 2002."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> It never re-started.A biographical note from 2000 on the hearingroom.com site stated that, in addition to his role with Browning-Ferris and Monsanto, Angell had worked as "a political consultant and as chief of staff to the Administrator of the U.S. EPA"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[10]</a>.Angell was described as "a long-time confidant of Monsanto director William D. Ruckelshaus, who is chairman of waste hauler Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. (BFI). Angell was chief of staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency when Mr. Ruckelshaus served as administrator in the mid-1980s." A Washington Post report from January 1985 described Angell as having "served at the right hand - some say as the right hand - of William D. Ruckelshaus until Ruckelshaus left the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month." It also described him as having had "an on-again, off-again job" over a "14-year association" with "the Washington political consulting firm of Bailey, Deardourff."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-Peterson-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a>Angell also worked for EPA Administrator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_O.Leavitt" title="Michael O. Leavitt" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Michael O. Leavitt</a> in 2003.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Quotable Quotes</h2>Quote: "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the F.D.A.'s job" - Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications, October 1998.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S.Angell#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a>Asked about a Monsanto advertising campaign in the UK that increased opposition to genetically engineered food, Angell stated "Maybe we weren't aggressive enough. . . . When you fight a forest fire, sometimes you have to light another fire." - Phil Angell, Communications Director, Monsanto.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_S._Angell#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Affiliations</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Political consultant with Bailey, Deardourff and Associates</li></ul></div><div></div><div>12/15 capt 2x?</div><div>http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit_index.html</div><div>
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World Wide Web of Deceit</div>
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 "Think of the internet as a weapon on the table. Either you pick it up or your competitor does, but somebody is going to get killed"  The following articles detail a Monsanto dirty tricks campaign waged against the company's scientific and environmental critics. In one instance, Monsanto and its PR proxies ran a covert campaign of character assassination against two University of California, Berkeley scientists after they published research in the science journal Nature demonstrating GM contamination of Mexican maize. The campaign culminated in the journal retracting the research even though a majority of the journal's own peer reviewers did not support such a retraction.In another instance, Monsanto's poison pen campaign triggered a libel case that reached the High Court in London. The campaign of smears, involving cyberattacks posted on messageboards, listservs and front websites, it emerges, involved the direct participation not only of Monsanto's Washington based PR firm - The Bivings Group - but of Monsanto itself.<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit07.html">THE COVERT BIOTECH WAR</a> 
The battle to put a corporate GM padlock on our foodchain is being fought on the net - The Guardian, 19 November 2002<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit10.html">MONSANTO PR FIRM'S ADMISSION</a> 
The Bivings Group says e-mail was sent by someone "working for Bivings" or "clients using our services"<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit11.html">NEWSNIGHT</a> 
Newsnight on the Bivings campaign - BBC TV's Newsnight, 7 June 2002<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit7.html">CORPORATE PHANTOMS</a> 
There's a web of deceit over GM food, says George Monbiot - The Guardian, 29 May 2002<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/newscispecial.html">NEW SCIENTIST'S SPECIAL INVESTIGATION</a> 
New Scientist on the Bivings campaign - 15 June 2002<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit4.html">THE FAKE PERSUADERS</a> 
Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet, says George Monbiot - The Guardian, 14 May 2002<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit5.html">SCIENTISTS IN A SPIN</a> 
How scientists have become embroiled in a PR dirty tricks campaign - letter to The Guardian, 16 May 2002<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit8.html">KERNELS OF TRUTH</a> 
Virulent criticisms were anything but academic - The East Bay Express, 29 May 2002<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit2.html">AMAIZING DISGRACE</a> 
A dirty tricks campaign leads straight to the door of  Monsanto's PR company - The Ecologist, May 2002<a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit3.html">SEEDS OF DISSENT</a> 
Anti-GM scientists are facing widespread assualts on their credibility. Andy Rowell investigates who is behind the attacks - Big Issue, 15-21 April 2002 <a href="http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit6.html">ALTERING NATURE</a> 
Exchange of letters with the editor of the science journal Nature - The Guardian, 15, 20 & 24 May 2002 
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