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MARTENS: IRS Sleuths Were on the Right Track: Big Tobacco Created Tea Party in 1994

Big Tobacco not only created the Tea Party, it has promoted it over decades, pumped millions into marketing it, and pulled it out of its magic hat every time it needed to produce an overnight, spontaneous “grassroots” movement.
DeSmogBlog.com (ca)
added May 23, 2013 03:50
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[Kansas] Advocacy group questions AG's grip on revised tobacco settlement information

The state's leading child advocacy group expressed renewed frustration Wednesday with Attorney General Derek Schmidt's shroud of secrecy over financial details of Kansas' latest haul from the national tobacco company settlement.
Topeka (KS) Capital-Journal
added May 22, 2013 18:32
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[Europe, Malta] EC president sticks to decision on Dalli

European Commission president José Manuel Barroso has stood by his decision to ask former Commissioner John Dalli to step down, despite the "media speculation" over the EU anti-fraud probe that led to his resignation.
Times of Malta (mt)
added May 28, 2013 05:56
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An Investigation into the Petroleum, Alcohol, and Tobacco Bureau of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (PDF)

The Inspector General found that from 2002 until mid-2010, PATB former Director Thomas Stanton ran a multi-million dollar cigarette interdiction operation absent basic investigative protocols and controls. These deficiencies included inadequate policies
New York State Office of the Inspector General
added May 21, 2013 06:53
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[New York] NY cigarette tax probes called weak, sloppy

Sting operations aimed at black market cigarettes in New York had such weak investigative protocols and financial controls that money went missing and prosecutions were dismissed, the state inspector general reported Monday.
AP - Associated Press
added May 21, 2013 06:38
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[Taiwan] Tobacco surcharge draws critics

A pro-smoker group and labor union representatives yesterday said the government may have been misappropriating and squandering money raised through the tobacco health and welfare surcharge on cigarette sales. Led by Taiwan Nicotianaspp Association for
Taipei Times (tw)
added May 17, 2013 10:58
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[Hungary] Quotable: Zoltán Cegledi on Fidesz and the tobacco-concession scandal

"There doesn't seem to be any chance that Fidesz will succeed in making people believe that the tobacco scandal was a sin committed by the left wing or the multinationals."
All Hungary Media Group (AHMG) (hu)
added May 17, 2013 10:47
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[Europe, Malta] Surprising allies: from the Dreyfus affair to Dalligate

French MEP José Bové is convinced Dalligate was a “set-up by the tobacco lobby to bring down the commissioner”.
Malta Today (mt)
added May 15, 2013 09:46
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[North Carolina] The 2013 Reynolds American, Inc. Annual Shareholders Meeting: orders, points of order, “out of order” and ordered out!

Dr. Sharon Brown, a grandmother and a shareholder from Pennsylvania, who was seated second from the aisle where the company’s sole microphone ... saw Dr. Brown fall to the floor after she attempted to get by the RAI employee. By the time Dr. Brown was ab
Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI)
added May 19, 2013 13:37
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[UK] MONBIOT: Oxford University won't take funding from tobacco companies. But Shell's OK

I have asked the Shell professor of earth sciences at Oxford, the university itself and the umbrella body Universities UK to explain the ethical difference between taking tobacco money for cancer research and taking fossil fuel money for energy research.
Comment is Free (The Guardian, UK)
added May 14, 2013 19:07
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