• John Key Wants an emissions trading scheme (ETS)

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This is from the NZ Herald:

Prime Minister John Key said today the Government was “now effectively in negotiation”.

“There’s an ETS on the books, it’s a very expensive one under Labour, it would mean that quite a number of business in our view would close down. There would be a high price for consumers to pay.

“We want to amend that. Our preferred option is an ETS,”

So, according to Key, an ETS is a good thing if he thinks that it is affordable.

I find the notion of an emissions trading scheme quite bizarre: the government wants to create a tradable commodity out of thin air, based on the false premise of anthropogenic (man-created) climate change. Who wins out of this? The state of course, because there will be GST on every trade. Also, the International Monetary Fund has admitted that carbon trading is a tax and will take money away from wealthy countries, giving it to poor ones.

I say that there should be no Emissions Taxation Scam.

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• Big Brother using planes to spy on UK citizens

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The Daily Mail is reporting that the Broadland District Council hired a plane for five days to find out which houses were “wasting” energy.

The plane had thermal imaging equipment, and those houses which showed up as leaking a lot of heat received a visit from council officers. How long before the visits switch from so-called education to enforcement?

Then there’s this quote from a council officer:

‘We were also able to look at very cold properties and think we might have picked up people on low incomes who are not heating their homes because they cannot afford to.’

So they’re already going beyond environmental issues and into social issues. Will they send a social worker to knock on the door of these cold houses and prosecute people for not keeping their children warm? Such actions by the nanny state are probably legally feasible right now.

There’s no mention of how much CO2 the plane generated.

Much evil is done under the banner of environmentalism.

Related posts:

• Turn *on* all your lights during Earth Hour

• The Emissions Trading Scheme: global Socialism

• Pure evil: social workers give children to gay couple for adoption despite wishes of grandparents

What do you think about the Broadland District Council measuring heat loss from houses?

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• Turn *on* all your lights during Earth Hour

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Earth Hour is at 8:30pm Saturday March 28 2009. This is more propaganda intended to perpetuate the lie of anthropogenic (human-created) climate change* and justify the carbon trading schemes that are global socialism in drag.

This comes from the Earth Hour website:

Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at 8:30pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take action.

I advise you to turn on every light in the house and open the curtains. If you’ve got any searchlights turn those on as well. This is how you can send a powerful global message saying that anthropogenic climate change is a load of bunkum.

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* Click here and here for more information.

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