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"Italy becomes first country to make climate change lessons compulsory for all children"
That's PR not news, cos every country will already do CC in geography
and teachers will stuff it into every other class in an attempt to be cool.
"Jean Paul et Marie marchent a Climate demo" etc.
stewgreen
Local library has few papers these days
but the new edition of The XR newspaper The Hourglass is out on the table
see pics on Twitter
stewgreen
That €257m "+ €250m was in the 2018 accounts as an annual payment
It's not the total 4 year payment
@M Courtney Nov 6, 2019 at 10:35 AM
This isn't a scandal.// No it isn't
Bloggers try to say it's a Gotcha, just the same as they shout "funded by big oil"
It's just guilt by association.// don't agree that that is the right word
Look if her husbands income came from say 50 % EU money it would be a Conflict of Interest story
But at this magnitude it is just mudslinging
.. It's not like the EU provides 50% of the orgs money
It can't be more than 20% and could be 6%
stewgreen
@Mark @TomoRe Nov 6, 2019 at 8:31 AM
Wow actually at first glance that BBC Tr(uth B)ending story does seem to be way above their normal standard
... which normally consists of finding some white person and shouting "far right" at them
And BBC Trending usually only take the lefty line, yet this article is unusually balanced like it debunks a conspiracy video about JRM and Boris.
It is very long and does does actually seem to shine a light for once
But when I read it I find major errors
Bottomline the actual context is that EU does annually pass money to the world HQ of an org closely connected to the Swinson family. But the org is not mostly funded by the EU (I can't spot the exact magnitude, but for one office it's a third)
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Let's look at the BBC's takeaways
'#1 Mad righty bloggers got carried away and exaggerated
.. Yes they did minor grants don't mean the NGO is a EU puppet
.. Yes I had spotted that some people were exaggerating saying by calling TI "Jo Swinson's husband's company"
.. and they said €4m/year which doesn't seem true
#2 It was all about a one off €4m ONE OFF was an EU grant to the BERLIN office in 2018.
...'oh it's only a German regional branch '
AND this is BBC Trending's main error.... actually Berlin is is TI's world MAIN HQ with 2 depts
a)TI Secretariat ...b) Transparency International EU
Their about us says "Since 2008, Transparency International EU has functioned as a regional liaison office for the global movement"
Secondly ..it was NOT a one off
The EU is committed to long term annual funding of Transparency International EU
€257m "for our work on Anti-Corruption Advocacy for Sustainable Development in 2016-2020"
+ €250m "for the Clean Contracts project in 2016-2019)"
"2018 budget is around 1.4 mln euros."
So the EU provides 36% of the Transparency International EU annual budget
What about TI Secretariat ? their budget is €24m of which two thirds come from governments
Another €4.5m come from "Multilateral" whatever that means. Maybe some comes from the EU
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Notes from the BBC story
The blogger said "as he says on his LinkedIn page - receives €4 million from the EU each year. Oh dear...."
(That could mean that Berlin press release appeared on his Linkedin page)
"the UK branch - again, the one that Mr Hames works for - is separate. It did receive smaller EU grants: £21,000 in 2016/17 and £2,000 in 2017/18."
I don't think that is worth adding to Jo Swinson's interests cos half of businesses probably got some of OUR money via the EU grants sometime.
stewgreen
Isn't the BBC sailing a bit close to the wind over promoting the Greens now Parliament is prorogued for the election? They are into their period of supposed impartiality. OTOH the more the left vote is split the less likely Corbyn is to win even a share of power.
It doesn't add up...
TinyCO2
a time search should simply reflect when the results were spidered by the search engine - no more no less. I'm not always clear what terms have precedence and what the order of application is these days - although I daresay that there's plenty of SEO stuff that's related....
- all I know is that I haven't modified my tactics much but the results are different.....
tomo
tomo, I find that time searches on news stories are screwed up by papers having a section on every page with the latest news. So a search in 1980 about a fire will bring up something totally different but with a story about Grenfell in the latest news section. Pinterest is messing up picture searches because a collection of pictures might be under a certain heading but the owner of that pinterest page might slip in pictures of something else.
TinyCO2
"Rhoda,
The only real question is...how does one get on the bandwagon of all that lovely EU cash???
Nov 6, 2019 at 9:06 AM Mailman"
It isn't what you know, or need to know, but who you know.
The ex Public School/ Oxbridge old school tie brigade, so frequently criticised by the Progressive Centre Liberal/Left, has been replaced by the Progressive Centre Liberal/Left. Not all of the consequences have been beneficial
golf charlie
TinyCO2
yeah, well..... due to the individual scoring that's purportedly in use - everybody's experience is going to be a bit different.
I had a fondness for time ranges on searches - that doesn't seem to work like it used to. I don' t know if it's inept feature creep or something more unpleasant.
Content management is in there - and screwups are more acceptable than overt manipulation so it makes sense if you are smart to make it look a bit broken.....
I noticed that tech searches with fairly unique queries still work well but that things that are politically touchy are occasionally quite wonky .....
tomo
The Times of London columnist Adam McKibbon actually wrote this sentence which was published by his employer.
"Fossil fuels don’t reduce poverty – they make it worse."