<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6dadc8f4-8b72-4dc5-bc7d-e737bf274a22/725BEF97-483B-4422-9504-B2FD2A5AAAE6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,660674-2,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,660674-2,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,660674-2,00.html"><P>According to Stenebo, since the mid-1990s, Ikea has "muzzled" a number of several non-governmental organizations by paying them money. The author gives the example of Greenpeace. He claims that Ikea representatives visited Europe's only remaining virgin forest in the Russian region of Karelia "hand in hand" with people from Greenpeace. Greenpeace then got "a lot of money" for a media project that made other multinationals -- like the giant Finnish paper manufacturer Stora Enso -- look bad. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,660674-2,00.html"><P>When shortly afterwards Ikea was apparently responsible for the felling of huge segments of rainforest in the Malaysian part of the island of Borneo, Greenpeace kept their side of the perfidious deal and publicly defended the Swedes, Stenebo says. Other well-known NGOs have also benefited from generous donations from Ikea, he claims: "Ikea is making these organizations into financial hostages."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/725BEF97-483B-4422-9504-B2FD2A5AAAE6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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