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IMPORTANT NOTE: This web page only provides a limited selection of the independent news and features appearing in the latest issue. To receive the full, free publication in PDF format every month, simply email Contentious conference billing unchangedThe organisers and sponsors of a conference on responsible investment have not met a request from anti-corporate responsibility campaigner Steven Milloy to withdraw funding because he felt threatened by a speaker. Milloy issued a press release (http://www.clear-profit.com/fw/feaf.htm) calling on Calvert Investments and KLD Research & Analytics to withdraw support for this week's Triple Bottom Line Investing conference in Frankfurt (http://www.tbli.org) because of 'hate speech' in an internet broadcast by a speaker, Max Keiser, the founder of hedge-fund-backed anarchy site KarmaBanque (http://www.karmabanque.com). In the offending item (http://www.clear-profit.com/fw/karmaitem.htm) Keiser described Milloy's anti-corporate responsibility fund, the Free Enterpise Action Fund (FEAF), as an “appeaser to global warming and climate change terrorists” and suggested that “the kids, the children of these people [the managers of the FEAF fund], should knife them.” “We contacted the FBI, who said they took the threat seriously and urged us to contact our local police departments,” Milloy told Clear Profit. “Even if Mr Keiser might have no intention of carrying out the threat, someone listening to his podcast might not be so constrained.” “We determined the comments made do not constitute a threat to person or property and are not related to the conference or the content that will be presented there,” said Robert Rubenstein founder of conference organiser Brooklyn Bridge, whose subsequent invitation to speak was declined. “We declined the invitation because we have prior commitments. In any event, it's rather odd that they invited us to present our point of view about a threat made against us,” Milloy said. “Participating in TBLI with Keiser may come to reflect poorly on conference sponsors and participants,” said Milloy. “What does conference sponsor Deutsche Bank think of him calling us 'brownshirts'?,” he asked, saying that the word “would seem to apply more to him [Keiser], given the hateful nature of his podcast and the fact we have been targeted merely because we hold different views”. Clear Profit asked Milloy if his use of the term "appeasers" to describe companies and individuals who accept the concept of corporate responsibility might also be an inappropriate comparison, but he did not respond. Max Keiser did not comment, although he posted a response on the KarmaBanque site, including a 'Google fight' between his and Milloy's enterprises (http://www.clear-profit.com/fw/karma.htm). Commercial notice
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