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|description=Government agencies tasked with trying to make markets work in the public interest by e.g. protecting the environment, preventing fraud etc. Often (especially in US) these are subjects of "regulatory capture" whereby they are effectively controlled by the exact same commercial groups they are nominally in charge of regulating.}} | |description=Government agencies tasked with trying to make markets work in the public interest by e.g. protecting the environment, preventing fraud etc. Often (especially in US) these are subjects of "regulatory capture" whereby they are effectively controlled by the exact same commercial groups they are nominally in charge of regulating.}} | ||
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| Government agencies tasked with trying to make markets work in the public interest by e.g. protecting the environment, preventing fraud etc. Often (especially in US) these are subjects of "regulatory capture" whereby they are effectively controlled by the exact same commercial groups they are nominally in charge of regulating. |
Regulatory Agencies on Wikispooks
| Wikispooks page | Logo | WWW | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPA |  | http://www.epa.gov | Created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. However, it appears to be more or less captured by special interests. |
| Food and Drug Administration |  | http://www.fda.gov | |
| Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament | http://isc.independent.gov.uk | Nominal overseer the UK's main intelligence intelligence agencies such as MI5, MI6, GCHQ, JIC, DIS. Probably completely captured. | |
| Solicitors Regulatory Authority | http://www.sra.org.uk | ||
| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |  | http://www.sec.gov | The US government's agency to regulate the financial sector, generally thought to be completely captured by the larger financial interests. |
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| "Independent Police Complaints Commission" | A group interested in complaints about the UK police |
| AHPRA | Australian health regulation agency. |
| William K. Black | |
| European Medicines Agency | Issued guidance that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine were only to be used in clinical trials or emergency use programs. |
| Financial Ombudsman Service | |
| Thorolfur Gudnason | Chief Epidemiologist of the Icelandic Directorate of Health since 2015. |
| Independent Office for Police Conduct | |
| Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament | Nominal overseer the UK's main intelligence intelligence agencies such as MI5, MI6, GCHQ, JIC, DIS. Probably completely captured. |
| International Maritime Organization | |
| Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency | British government regulator of pharmaceuticals. |
| National Nuclear Security Administration | Responsible for refurbishing US nuclear warheads |
| New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority | New Zealand government supervision body for corporate media. |
| Nuclear Regulatory Commission | |
| Ofcom | UK broadcasting regulator |
| Office for Judicial Complaints | |
| Ofqual | |
| Ofsted | |
| Press Complaints Commission | |
| June Raine | Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency who changed its purpose "from watchdog, to enabler." |
| Solicitors Regulatory Authority | |
| Swissmedic | Swiss surveillance authority for medicines and medical devices. Most of the members have huge conflict of interest with Big Pharma |
| Therapeutic Goods Administration | The medicine regulatory agency most captured by Big Pharma in the world. |
| UK/Atomic Energy Authority |
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