26/10/2014
As always, one can only smile indulgently at the self-regarding pomposity of
The Mail on Sunday which today "exposes" how a "Green Blob" financed by a shadowy group of hugely wealthy foreign donors is driving Britain towards economically ruinous eco targets.
In particular, writer David Rose preens himself on his investigations that "reveal the Blob is not just an abstract concept", then outing the European Climate Foundation (ECF), "at the heart of the Blob", with offices in London, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin and Warsaw.
Of course, if Mr Rose had climbed off his high horse and actually read this blog, he would have already known that the "Green Blob" was not an abstract concept, and would also have seen the ECF outed
in January 2010.
It was then that we bumped into it, when it was bankrolling Pachauri's TERI. But we saw it again in
the same month, when it was making equally dubious donations. It popped up again in more detail
once again in the same month, and then again in
March 2010 in
February 2012, in
August 2013 and then again in
July of this year.
We did the global governance bit in
June 2014, but we've been at this since
June 2007, when we drew attention to the payments received by Friends of the Earth Europe.
But, in common with the rest of the
legacy media, nothing exists until they have "exposed" it in that self-important style that they have. As always, though, they only get a fraction of the story, before moving on to their next exposure, reliant of course on their
claque top tell them how wonderful they are.
Meanwhile, the data that led to the
ordinal blob article emerged
from here, without any assistance from the legacy media. Thus, nothing really changes. If you want to be entertained, I suppose you can read the legacy media, but if you want to be informed â and sometimes years ahead â read the blogs.
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