Tony Blair’s climate change project paid for by Oleg Deripaska, oligarch who entertained Lord Mandelson and George Osborne

Daily Telegraph – Tony Blair is lobbying world leaders on the environment on behalf of an organisation funded by the Russian oligarch with close links to Lord Mandelson. The former Prime Minister has given speeches and presented reports on climate change, including at the Copenhagen summit, which focus on the need for governments to fund new technology while allowing industries to keep polluting. His initiative, called Breaking The Climate Deadlock, is partly paid for by Oleg Deripaska, the billionaire tycoon who entertained both Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, and George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, on his yacht. Read Article

Ed – Another example of the pyramid of control exercised by the global elite and how they are able to influence the agenda – usually not for enlightened reasons. For those not familiar with the UK political elite, Lord Mandelson is the UK’s answer to Henry Kissinger, and the real power behind the throne of Blair and more recently Brown. Osborne is the opposition finance spokesman and will probably will be Chancellor of The Exchequer (Finance Minister) after the election in May. The fact alone that he holiday’s with Mandelson should have raised far more concern in a supposedly healthy democracy than it has done.

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