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WWF and Oxfam pushing for a shipping tax at Durban
Watts Up With That ^ | 12-6-2011 | Anthony Watts

Posted on 12/6/2011, 11:10:14 PM by steveab

I am writing from the COP17 negotiations in Durban, anonymously because I can’t be identified due to working for a government here. Your readers might like to know that Oxfam is writing the negotiating strategy for Bolivia on financing. They are proposing a massive tax on shipping (bizarre for a land-locked country!). Oxfam have even got their consultant actually speaking on behalf of Bolivia in the negotiating sessions.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; History; Science
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; tax; un
Call to ARMS ALL HANDS ON DECK The UN is pushing hard for an international CO2 Tax

This must be Stoped.

1 posted on 12/6/2011, 11:10:26 PM by steveab
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To: steveab

looks like we’ll have to stop buying that crap from China LOL


2 posted on 12/6/2011, 11:13:19 PM by molson209
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To: molson209

More U.N. Insanity Paid For By U.S. Taxpayers

“One year after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged at least $100 billion annually by 2020 to help Third World countries address climate problems attributed to America and capitalism at the U.N.-sponsored World Climate-Change Summit in Copenhagen, the Cancun meeting that followed focused primarily upon formulating a plan of action to implement that commitment.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2011/12/06/more-u-n-insanity-paid-for-by-u-s-taxpayers/


3 posted on 12/6/2011, 11:29:05 PM by steveab (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
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