The Way to World Government: Enslavement through IMF World Currency and CO2 Tax to the UN

We are experiencing an economical crisis which — like the one in and after 1929 — was created by the biggest sharks of the Wall Streets. It seems that no one can or will stop the crisis — as though it is to be allowed to crash the world economy completely — in order to give a larger proportion of our money, as well as more political control of the world, to those behind the crisis. - Anders, The Way to World Government: Enslavement through IMF World Currency and CO2 Tax to the UN, Euro-med, March 31, 2009

The Climate Change Control Bill strongly supported by Obama calls for an international governing regime to monitor and regulate carbon dioxide and ‘carbon footprints’ from discovery, to production, to consumption at a cost of $50 trillion globally and at a cost of $8 trillion for US taxpayers, all to be paid for by a global tax, whose monies will be used to establish a world government body. - Patrick Briley, Brezinski: Obama's Globalist ‘Rasputin’, NewsWithViews.com, September 16, 2008

South Australian Industry Union Chief Martin O'Malley Wants Big Carbon Polluters Jailed

April 20, 2011

Herald Sun - The head of a South Australian union representing workers in carbon intensive industries, says major polluters, should be taxed and jailed.

Martin O'Malley, state secretary of of the SA branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, made the statement addressing a pro-carbon tax rally in Adelaide last month, reported AdelaideNow.

Mr O'Malley told protesters "carbon polluters shouldn't just be taxed they should be jailed". Yesterday he stood by the comment.

"People who pollute should be jailed," he said. "The biggest polluters are the biggest multi-nationals in Australia."

In South Australia, the CFMEU represents workers at OneSteel in Whyalla and Nyrstar in Port Pirie, two of the biggest carbon-emitting industries in the state.

The CFMEU national branch has previously indicated it would not support a carbon tax if it led to loss of jobs.

Meanwhile Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday rejected claims by Australian Workers' Union state secretary Wayne Hanson that a carbon tax would wipe out jobs in industry-reliant Whyalla and Port Pirie.

"Strong words don't make it right, and that's completely untrue. We will be protecting Australian jobs as we price carbon," she said.

"We're consulting now on the details. Business and unions are part of that consultation, and then we will announce the full design of the scheme."

The Multi-Party Climate Change Committee, including Labor, the Greens and rural independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, met yesterday to consider details of the proposed tax, including the pricing mechanisms and a household assistance package.

But Mr Windsor indicated he would wait for a Productivity Commission report on how other nations are tackling climate change expected next month before deciding on his position.

"If the rest of the world is doing nothing I'll probably do nothing," he said.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet fronted mining and steel-producing companies, including BHP Billiton and OneSteel, for industry talks on the tax.

He said the Government "has on the table a very significant assistance package for the steel works".

Carbon Trade Exchange Moving to Sydney from London Gain from Climate Plans

We're absolutely mindful of what we must do to support employment in the Australian economy that's why we've said that first of all every single cent raised from the carbon price will go to help households and also to support industry, particularly the energy intensive trade exposed industries. They're very important and we're engaged in consultations with those industries. - Wayne Swan, Treasurer, G20 Finance Ministers Meeting; IMF/World Bank Meetings; Trade policy; Carbon price; Electricity prices; Cost of living, April 15, 2011

April 20, 2011

Bloomberg - Carbon Trade Exchange, an online platform for businesses to trade emission-reduction credits, is moving its headquarters from London to Sydney as the Australian government seeks to introduce a price on carbon.

Efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions are likely to turn Sydney into a regional hub for carbon trading, the exchange said in an e-mailed statement today. The plan will lead to at least 106 jobs in the city over five years, it said.

Australia, the world’s biggest coal exporter, has set a target of generating 20 percent of its power from renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2020. To encourage businesses to shift from fossil fuels, Prime Minister Julia Gillard wants to start making polluters pay a fixed price for their emissions in July 2012 in preparation for a trading system that may begin as early as 2015.

Carbon markets allow companies and nations to buy and sell credits representing reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide. Some buy to comply with binding emission limits set by governments, while others purchase the credits voluntarily to reduce their carbon footprint.

Carbon Trade Exchange allows buyers and sellers to trade voluntary credits, as well as those issued by a United Nations program established under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

The fragmentation of that UN carbon market into domestic alternative trading programs “may be unavoidable” because nations haven’t been able to agree on an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, UN chief climate negotiator Christiana Figueres said in September.

London has traditionally been the hub of global carbon trading because of its proximity to the European Union, home to the world’s biggest emissions-trading market and the biggest buyer of UN credits.

Coal Industry Demands Carbon Tax Rethink

April 20, 2011

Weekly Times Now - The coal industry wants the Gillard government to go back to the drawing board on the proposed carbon tax.

It wants the Gillard government to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new plan to ensure mines aren't closed as a result of the proposed carbon tax.

Australian Coal Association chief executive Ralph Hillman and other industry leaders met with Climate Change Minister Greg Combet yesterday. He said the coal industry didn't ask the minister for more compensation.

"It really asked him to go back to the drawing board," Mr Hillman told ABC Radio.

"This (carbon price) is going to impose an $18 billion cost on the coal industry over the next 10 years.

"This is a cost our competitors in other countries like South Africa, Indonesia, Colombia and Mongolia won't have to wear."

Mr Hillman said coal mining should be classified as an emissions intensive, trade-exposed industry, meaning it would be eligible to receive up to 95 per cent of its pollution permits for free.

If that isn't possible he wants fugitive emissions released during the mining process excluded from the carbon price regime for 10 years while new clean technologies are developed.

"If you're objective here in taxing coal mines is to cut fugitive emissions in order to meet your minus five per cent target the only way you're going to do that is by closing mines," he said.

Mr Hillman insists if the coal industry isn't given special treatment there will be a decline in investment and job losses. But there'd be no reduction in global emissions "because the coal will be mined in those other countries and the emissions will go up just the same".

The coal association chief said he understood the $1.5 billion compensation package offered to the industry under Kevin Rudd's carbon pollution reduction scheme was "the starting point in the government's position" for the carbon tax.

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