Weapons of Mass Deception

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Managing the Media Follow the Money
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Managing the MediaShaping the Supply of Experts

• Government and Business Credibility
• Creating Experts
• US Supreme Court Justice Powell once wrote a memo
  to the US Chamber of Commerce urging American
  business
• to buy the top academic reputations in the
  country to add credibility to corporate studies
  and give business a stronger voice

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Think Tank Watch
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Centrist Think Tanks Rand Corporation
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Liberal Think Tanks Urban Institute
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Conservative Thinktank American Enterprise
Institute
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Conservative Think Tanks Project for the New
American Century
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Project for the New American Century and the Bush
Administration
Vice-President Dick Cheney
Vice-President Chief of Staff Scooter Libby
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
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Conservative Think Tanks Project for the New
American Centurys China Policy
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Think Tank Targets China for regime change
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The Hong Kong Connection
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Ellen Bork
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