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The Great Global Warming Swindle FOI REQUEST

Joseph Wade | 13.03.2007 12:07

A template to contact the company who made this classic piece of disinformation, with all the relevant contact details.

The Great Global Warming Swindle was a classic piece of disinformation which has convinced quite a number of people that global warming is a 'theory' and not fact. In order to debunk this programme it is important to discover the motivations behind making it and why it was screened. I have made a Freedom of Information Request to Wag TV who made the programme to discover who funded it and who's idea it was to make it. Please make your own request in order to pressure them into releasing the details. Their details are below as is a copy of the FOI request.

WAG TV phone number: 02076881711

To: Managing Director

Wag TV

Unit 2d Leroy House 436 Essex Road, London, N1 3QP


REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

Please provide the following information in relation to the television programme The Great Global Warming Swindle

1. Was any funding received to produce this programme from any special interest groups, pressure groups or scientific organisations

2. Was any funding received to produce this programme from any commercial companies, corporations or any businesses

3. Who conceived the idea for this programme, that is who is the 'author' of this programme.

Please supply answers to these questions forthwith.

Yours Faithfully


Joseph Wade
- e-mail: josephpwade@googlemail.com

Additions

FOI does not apply

13.03.2007 15:40

Great idea but The Freedom Of Information Act only applies to public bodies and not, sadly, to private organisations or companies. If only it did!

Gulliver


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no need to ask

13.03.2007 14:49

no need to make a FOI request - ex-RCP individuals behind it with strange twisted agenda. Follow links at climatedenial.org or do your own search about their previous programme or their names (all at that website)

answer...


timely

14.03.2007 11:21

FOI act - handy with PFI and PPP eh? A large portion of FOI requests are turned down or partially granted so with privatisation the picture looks rather different. ( commercial confidentiallity )

Interesting coming at a similar time to the corporate attack on Charles ( CH4 ) coming from a similar viewpoint i.e. the bourgois corporates ( "free marketeers") vs establishment ( "old money" ). Offshore accounts vs not paying tax. money to the state as opposed to the king ) . Myself I am not on the side of the roundheads or cavaliers ( cromwell as yuppie scumbag? ). Anyway the intersting thing is on the complimentary medicine as the dispatched was biased and looked like it could be coming from a pharaceutical angle. GPs as drug pushers? You won't get a chiropracter but you could get some anti-inflamattories with nasty side effects. also N labour talk about waiting lists coming own but you can't get on the fucking list in the first place! GPs with targets and as gatekeepers making up statistsics ( like schools and teaching hierarchy ) .

So there you have it - the only good yuppie is a dead yuppie. the state is only there to police us so that the corporates can get on with making lots of dosh and the fat bougouis pen pushers are in the way.

Do we need to go to germany? More effective would be to destroy the square mile once and for all....

levelling the land


Watch the denial machine

15.03.2007 10:05

The rampART is showing a two evening series of films which includes 'the denial machine', a documentary about the climate denial industry funded by big oil.

Films are thursday 15th and friday 16th from 8pm

see  http://www.rampart.co.nr for details

at rampART


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