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Vittorio Agnoletto

Vittorio Agnoletto (born 06 March 1958, Milano) was an MEP from the Italian Communist Refoundation Party, which is part of Party of the European Left, between 20.07.2004 - 13.07.2009.European Parliament, MEP Directory: Vittorio AGNOLETTO, accessed 07 September 2010.
==Affiliations==
*Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs
*Member, Subcommittee on Human Rights
*Member, Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
*Substitute, Committee on International Trade
*Substitute, Delegation for relations with the United States
*Substitute, Delegation for relations with Afghanistan
==Record and Controversies==
===Declaration of Financial Interests===
*Nothing to declare.European Parliament, Dichiarazione degli Interessi di carattere finanziario dei deputati: Vittorio Agnoletto, 15 December 2008, accessed 18 April 2009.
===Record of Parliamentary Votes===
==Personal Information==
===Curriculum Vitae===
*Graduate in medicine and surgery (University of Milan, 1985). 
*Specialisation in occupational medicine (1988). 
*Co-founder (1987) and national chairman (1992-2001) of LILA - Italian League against AIDS. 
*Lecturer and director of studies for training courses on AIDS at the Higher Institute of Health in Rome (since 1992). 
*Member of the National Committee on AIDS of the Ministry of Health (1993-2001). 
*Member of the National Coordinating Committee for action to combat drugs established under the Italian Prime Minister's office (1993-2001). 
*Member of the IAS - International AIDS Society (since 1994). 
*Member of the EATG - European AIDS Treatment Group (1994-2000). 
*Works with the IOM - International Organization for Migration - on preventive health projects in the Balkans.
*Member of the National Secretariat of Democrazia Proletaria in the 1980s.
*Member of Milan Provincial Council (1990-1995).
*Spokesman for 'Genoa Social Forum' during the 'G 8' summit in Genoa (July 2001). 
*Member of the International Council of the World Social Forum.
*Awarded the title 'Doctor of the Year' in 1994 by the journal 'Stampa medica'. 
===Publications===
*'La società dell'AIDS: la verità su politici, medici, volontari e multinazionali durante l'emergenza' - published by Baldini & Castoldi (2000)
*'Prima persone:le nostre ragioni contro questa globalizzazione' - published by Laterza (2003)
===Contact===	
:Address:
:Parlement européen
:Bât. Altiero Spinelli
:06F255
:60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
:B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel
:Phone:
:+32 (0)2 28 45444
:Fax
:+32 (0)2 28 49444
:Email:
:vittorio.agnoletto@europarl.europa.eu
:Website: 
:http://www.vittorioagnoletto.it
==Resources==
*European Parliament, Dichiarazione degli Interessi di carattere finanziario dei deputati: Vittorio Agnoletto, 15 December 2008, accessed 18 April 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Vittorio Agnoletto, accessed 18 April 2009.
European Parliament, MEP Directory: Vittorio AGNOLETTO, accessed 07 September 2010.
==Notes==
Agnoletto, Vittorio
Vittorio Colao

Vittorio Colao is the chief executive of phone company Vodafone Group Plc.
==Career==
Colao started his career in the Milan office of McKinsey & Company. In 1996 he joined Omnitel Pronto Italia, which subsequently became Vodafone Italy and was appointed chief executive in 1999. In 2001 he was appointed regional CEO for Southern Europe; became a board member in 2002; and regional CEO for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa in 2003.
In 2004 he left Vodafone to joined RCS Media Group, the leading Italian publishing company, as CEO.
He rejoined Vodafone in 2006 as a board director and was appointed chief executive in July 2008. Vodafone Vittorio Colao, accessed 14 April 2015.
==Affiliations==
*Bocconi University, international advisory board
*European Round Table of Industrialists, member of the steering committee
*Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council
==Notes==
Colao, Vittorio
Viv Regan

Viv Regan is an organiser associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. In particular, she is managing editor of Spiked,'Viv Regan Spiked website, accessed 6 october 2013, a organiser of the Young Journalists Academy, 'Viv Regan Young Journalists Academy website, accessed 6 October 2013 a director of WORLDwrite, "Who We Are", WORLDwrite website, accessed 2 May 2010 was co-director of educational consultancy ME-WE, and has spoken at the Manifesto Club.
==Notes==
Regan, Viv
Vlaams Belang

|250px|thumb|right|Logo of Vlaams Belang political party, December 2015
Vlaams Belang (VB) or 'Flemish Interest' is a far-right Flemish nationalist party formed in 2004, when its predecessor Vlaams Blok was declared to be racist by a Belgian court.Vlaams Belang in the USA, by Leonard Zeskind, Searchlight magazine, April 2007.
==Counterjihad movement==
In October 2007, Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Belang spoke at the CounterJihad Brussels 2007 conference, and Vlaams Belang became an affiliate of the CounterJihad Europa network which emerged from the event.Counterjihad Brussels 2007 Conference, CounterJihad Europa, accessed 6 December 2008.
Vlaams Belang's participation was defended by Robert Spencer:
::The counterjihad conference that touched all this controversy off -- since VB and SD reps attended it -- was openly pro-Israel, featuring an address by Andrew Bostom on antisemitism and another by the decidedly non-dhimmi Israeli politician Aryeh Eldad. There was nothing white supremacist or neo-Nazi about it, and in fact it seemed to herald a new phase of cooperation between European and American anti-jihadists, although its genuine work has been completely overwhelmed by the ensuing controversy.Vlaams Belang, Charles Johnson, and all that, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, 15 November 2007.
In January 2008, Vlaams Belang joined with other European far-right parties to launch a new organisation opposing the 'islamisation of Europe'.
::The group dubbed "Cities against Islamisation" was presented to the media in the northern Belgian city of Antwerp by Filip Dewinter, head of the far-right Belgian party Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) along with Austrian FPOE leader Heinz-Christian Strace and Robert Spieler of the regionalist Alsace First group.
::Parties from Britain (the British National Party), Denmark, Germany and Italy were also represented at the launch of the group which has a road-sign-style crossed-out mosque as its logo.Right-wingers gather against 'Islamisation', Agence France Presse, The Australian,18 January 2008.
Robert Spencer initially accepted this as a vindication of the critics of Vlaams Belang, but reverted his position somewhat, after being told that the BNP had not joined the new organisation.Vlaams Belang allies with British National Party, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, 20 January 2008.
In December 2008, Senior VB figure Roeland Raes was convicted of holocaust denial.Daniel Luban and Eli Clifton, POLITICS: Dutch Foe of Islam Ignores US Allies' Far Right Ties, Inter Press Service, 28 February 2009.
==Pollings==
In September 2016, Vlaams Belang polled at 15-20% of the votes. JAN DE TROYER, Le Vlaams Belang a le vent en poupe,La Libre, 08 september 2016. Accessed 08 October 2016. 
==Affiliations==
*CounterJihad Europa
* Vlaams Belang MP Alexandra Colen is married to International Free Press Society vice president Paul Belien
==References==
category:BelgiumCategory:Political Party in BelgiumCategory:Vlaams BelangCategory:Far RightCategory:CounterjihadCategory:Islam Critics
Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Bukovsky, (born 1942), is a former Soviet dissident.Vladimir Bukovsky: An Interview, The New York Review of Books, 17 February 1977.
==Affiliations==
*Freedom Association - Vice President
*Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America - National Council 1987
*Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation - International Advisory Council
===Conferences===
*Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
==External Resources==
*Paul Belien, Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship, Brussels Journal, 27 February 2006.
*Litvinenko Affair, BBC Sunday AM, 10 December 2006.
==Notes==
Bukovsky, Vladimir
Vladimir Milov

Vladimir Milov is president of the independent, non-profit, Institute of Energy Policy in Moscow. He was Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia from May to October 2002, responsible for development of the national Energy Strategy, privatisation and structural reforms within the Russian energy sector.EU-Russia Centre, Advisory Board, accessed 20 January 2009.
==Background==
According to Carnegie Endowment for International Peace websiteCarnegie Endowment for International Peace, Vladimir Milov, accessed 20 January 2009.:
:Milov is a renowned energy, infrastructure development, and regulatory policy strategist in Russia. He has played leading roles in the development of Russian gas, electricity and railway sector reforms, Russian energy and transport strategies, and subsoil regulation legislation. Milov is the author of numerous concept and analysis papers related to Russian energy and infrastructure problems.
 
:Prior to becoming the Deputy Energy Minister, he previously served as an advisor to the Minister of Energy and in 2001 led the energy expert team within the Center for Strategic Research, a government-linked think tank. Milov headed the economic analysis department of the natural monopoly regulator, the Federal Energy Commission of Russia, from 1997-2001. 
:A frequent contributor to Russian and international media, Milov is a regular columnist for the daily Russian business newspaper Vedomosti and his opinion pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.
==Affiliations==
*President, Institute of Energy Policy (http://www.energypolicy.ru) - an independent think tank based in Moscow
*Leader, Center for Strategic Research - a government based think-tank (2001)
==Resources==
*Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Vladimir Milov, accessed 20 January 2009.
*EU-Russia Centre, accessed 20 January 2009.
==Notes==
Milov, Vladimir
Vladimir Tismaneanu

Vladimir Tismaneanu "is professor of government and director of the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies at the University of Maryland–College Park. Since 1998, he has been the editor of East European Politics and Societies. He is the author of numerous books on East European history and politics, including, most recently, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (2003). His articles and interviews have appeared in major American and European publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement." 
==Affiliations==
*Civic Education Project
*democracy at large – Editorial Advisory Board
*NED Past FellowPast Fellows, NED, accessed 23 October 2007.
*Journal of Democracy – Editorial BoardEditorial Board & Staff, Journal of Democracy (accessed 24 September 2007)
*Euston Manifesto United States - Original signatory
==Resources and articles==
===References===
==External links==
*"Biography", democracy at large (Accessed 8 October 2007)
Vladislav Jandjuk

Vladislav Jandjuk is a Belarusian dissident and the leader of the Belarusian Popular Front People in Peril, Belarus, Accessed 26-February-2009
==Affiliations==
Democracy and Security International Conference, Attendee Democracy and Security International Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009| People in Peril
==Notes==
Jandjuk, Vladislav|Jandjuk, Vladislav
Vlakplaas

Vlakplaas is a farm near Pretoria, South Africa that was the headquarters of the South African Police counterinsurgency unit C10 (later called C1) working for the apartheid government.M.D. Ras, Testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 20 April 1999, accessed 10 Sept 2009
Vlakplaas functioned as a paramilitary hit squad which captured political opponents of the apartheid government and either "turned" (converted) or executed them.Dr Ran Greenstein, ed., The Role of Political Violence in South Africa's Democratisation, Community Agency for Social Enquiry, 2003, accessed 10 Sept 2009 Vlakplaas was the site of multiple executions of political opponents of the apartheid government.Greg Barrow, The voice of 'Prime Evil', BBC News, Oct 28 1998, accessed 10 Sept 2009
::Section C1: Vlakplaas
::16 The unit which came to be known by the name of the farm was started in the late 1970s by Col JJ Viktor, then head of the C section, and Col Jan du Preez.
::17 The purpose of Vlakplaas at this stage was ostensibly as a place to rehabilitate 'turned terrorists' or, as they were called, askaris. The askaris were eventually divided into units and supervised by white security police, and it was this change that transformed Vlakplaas into a counter-insurgency unit. The units responded to requests that were channelled to them via the head of Section C or via branch commanders.
::18 In the mid to late 1980s similar units to Vlakplaas were established in Camperdown in Kwazulu Natal and in the Eastern Cape.
::19 Heads of C section under which C1/Vlakplaas resided were Col JJ Viktor (later a Maj-Genl); Brig Willem Schoon; Maj-Genl Nick Janse Van Rensberg and Maj-Genl IJ Engelbrecht Commanders of Vlakplaas were: Col JJ Viktor (founder of the unit); Capt Dirk Coetzee (1980-81); Capt Jan Carel Coetzee (1982); Lt Col Jack Cronje (1983-1985) - later a brigadier); Col Eugene de Kock (1985-1993)Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report - Volume Two, Chapter Three, p317.
==People==
===Commanders===
*JJ Viktor
*Dirk Coetzee
*Jan Carel Coetzee
*Jack Cronje
*Eugene De Kock
===Personnel===
*Leon Flores
*Willem Nortje
*Deon Gouws, subsequently injured in Iraq working for a subcontractor of Erinys International.
==References==
Category:South AfricaCategory:counterinsurgency
Vodaphone

==Background==
Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London, with its registered office in Newbury, Berkshire.
==People==
===Board Committees===
==== Audit and Risk Committee====
*Nick Land (Chairman and financial expert)
*Alan Jebson
*Anne Lauvergeon
*Anthony Watson
====Nominations and Governance Committee====
*Gerard Kleisterlee (Chairman)
*Luc Vandevelde
*Anthony Watson
*Philip Yea
====Remuneration Committee====
*Luc Vandevelde (Chairman)
*Samuel Jonah
*Renee James
*Philip Yea
==UK lobbying firms== 
*Blue RubiconBlue Rubicon profile, 2016, Registrar of consultant lobbyists, accessed 29 April 2016
==Contact==
Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN. 
http://www.vodafone.co.uk/
==Affiliations==
Vodaphone Group was a donor to the Science Media Centre from April 2006 to May 2009 according to the SMC.Data from Internet Archive holdings of the Science Media Centre website, 2002-2013. 
*Apr 2006 http://web.archive.org/web/20060910221525/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm
*Feb 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070829210611/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm
*Jul 2008 http://web.archive.org/web/20081202143334/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
*May 2009 http://web.archive.org/web/20090830202526/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
==References==
Category:Communications IndustryCategory:Science Media Centre
Voice and Vision

Voice and Vision was a public relations firm. It began as a subsidiary of advertising firm Colman, Prentis and Varley and at one stage it was the 'biggest PR organization in Britain'. Jeremy Tunstall The Advertsing Man, London: The Shenval Press, 1964, p. 187
==Central African Federation==
In 1961 it was involved in 'one of the best known political operation in Britain' for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland - commonly known as the Central African Federation:
:The campaign used straight advertising in the serious press. It also included taking forty members of Parliament to the Federation for a fortnight's tour; half of the MPs were Labour, and the man responsible for the job of choosing them was a former Lobby Correspondent of the Daily Herald. Only two of the forty MPs were critical of the Federation upon return, but the campaign, though successful in this respect, backfired from the point of view of the large amount of bad publicity which the MPs free trips received in the press.Jeremy Tunstall The Advertsing Man, London: The Shenval Press, 1964, p. 165
According to the Sunday Telegraph at the time 'The cost of each tour is £4,000, which will renew the widespread misgivings among MPs about the activities at Westminster of public relations firms representing commercial or political pressure groups. Many MPs believe that action will have to be taken by the authorities to deal with the problem before it becomes a serious abuse.'Cited in Paul Clements 'FROM THE ARCHIVE; In the latest in a year-long series, we present snapshots of five tumultu-ous decades from the pages of The Sunday Telegraph' The Sunday Telegraph (London) May 22, 2011, Pg. 31
One of those who undertook the trip was Sir Anthony Fell (Conservative MP for Great Yarmouth from 1951-1983). According to a report in the Guardian:
:As an imperialist, [Fell's] greatest enthusiasm was for people like his Rhodesian friend Sir Roy Welensky, whom he visited in 1960 as the guest of Sir Roy's public relations firm, Voice and Vision, which had been commissioned to help save Sir Roy's Central African Federation. When I lunched him on his return, he acclaimed Sir Roy as one of the world's three greatest men - the others being de Gaulle and Krushchev.Andrew Roth 'Obituary: Sir Anthony Fell; For King, Country and Great Yarmouth' The Guardian (London) March 25, 1998, Pg. 16
According to press reports Voice and Vision later also represented Rhodesia.Anthony Howard 'Creatures of the dark', The Times, July 14, 1998, Tuesday
==Joint Palestine Appeal - 'Stop Nasser Now!'==
In 1967 the firm was retained by the Joint Palestine Appeal. It produced 10,000 'STOP NASSER NOW' car stickers, and a 320 page book entitled 'Six Days in June' to commemorate the war (largely made up of advertisements, each page costing £500 – this raised another £200,000).Aris, Stephan. The Jews in Business. London: Cape, 1970, p. 215
==People==
Moss Murray
==Resources==
*Andrew Cohen '“Voice and Vision” – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland’s Public Relations Campaign in Britain: 1960-1963', Historia 54,2, November 2009, pp 113-132
==Notes==
Category:Public relations firms
Voice of Young Science

Voice of Young Science (VoYS) is a programme of the part-corporate-funded lobby group Sense About Science.
The Sense About Science website states:
:The VoYS programme helps research scientists in the early stages of their career to get actively involved in public debates about science.Voice of Young Science, Sense About Science website, accessed 11 Oct 2009
==Funders and supporters==
VoYS's partners, as listed on the SAS website of October 2009, include:Voice of Young Science, Sense About Science website, accessed 11 Oct 2009
*The Biochemical Society
*Elsevier
*Health and Science Communication Trust
*Institute of Biology
*Medical Research Council
*Research Councils UK
*Royal Pharmaceutical Society
*Royal Society of Edinburgh
*University of Dundee
*University of Edinburgh
*University of Glasgow
*University of Stirling
*University of the West of Scotland
==Publications==
VoYS has produced publications which focus on attacking alternative health systems and ridiculing public concern about risky chemicals (as if there were not an abundance of scientific evidence in support of the latter). Here are examples from the SAS website:Publications, Sense About Science website, accessed 11 Oct 2009
:*Detox Dossier: 'Detox' has no meaning outside of the clinical treatment for drug addiction or poisoning. VoYS published a dossier on their hunt for the evidence behind detox claims made for products and diets, and began a campaign to alert the public.
:*There Goes the Science Bit...: From food that doesn't contain chemicals to a spray that shields against EMF, young scientists have been contacting organisations - manufacturers, distributors, retailers - to ask for more evidence for such claims. This is their dossier of extracts from their experiences.
In fact, the phrase "food that doesn't contain chemicals" is seldom seen outside the mythmaking of Sense About Science and bodies like it. It is a 'straw man' argument that is often used by the chemical industry and its friends. Of course, all food consists of chemicals. But what groups like VoYS and SAS don't want to admit is that some chemicals are more compatible than others with living organisms. 
VoYS has a highly selective focus. They do not, for example, choose to turn the spotlight on false claims of safety made for chemicals, pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines.
==People==
*Alice Tuff – YoYS coordinator. Biologist.
*Frank Swain – Biologist and author of the sciencepunk.com website. According to Swain's bio on his sciencepunk.com website, "he worked at Sense About Science, co-editing "There Goes the Science Bit", a report by the Voice of Young Science group investigating dodgy science claims in advertising, and working with Newsnight to uncover the pseudoscience behind the Brain Gym programme."About Me, sciencepunk.com website, accessed 11 October 2009
===Notes===
Voice of the Caliphate

Voice of the Caliphate is allegedly a special broacast issued weekly by "The Global Islamic Media Front, an al-Qaeda mouthpiece" (SITE Institute). Voice of the Caliphate is yet to make its debut on the world scene yet it made its first appearance not via a broadcast on Al-Jazeera or the slew of other websites on which messages from Islamist groups are usually carried, but through the website of an organization called Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE).SITE Institute “The Voice of the Caliphate” Special Broadcast about Taysir Alluni, an al-Jazeera Journalist Convicted of Helping to Finance al-Qaeda September 28, 2005
The appearance of this report coincided with the breaking of the US soldiers trading photographs of Iraqi dead for porn scandal.Andrew Gumbel, The Independent, 29 September 2005 Reporting on the Al-Jazeera correspondent Taysir Alony's conviction in a Spanish court, the website quotes some laudatory comments from "VOC" to imply guilt and takes for granted Alony's alleged role in "helping to finance al-Qaeda by acting as a courier for the group during reporting work in Afghanistan".
==Links==
* The Railroading of Taysir Alony Lamis Andoni, Counterpunch, September 26, 2005
* Al Jazeera Spain Correspondent Sentenced to Prison on Charges of Collaborating with al Qaeda, Democracy Now, September 27, 2005
* US troops upload photos of dead Iraqis for porn Andrew Gumbel, The Independent, 29 September 2005
==Notes==
Category:Middle East Watch