CARBON TAX TRADING SCAM

EARTH WORSHIP

DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

ISAIAH 13:9-11
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

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Green Illusions and the Carbon Tax Scam
April 30, 2011
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=4299

A serious program will reject the talk of market mechanisms and pursue measures that directly address both carbon emissions and technological change by Tim Anderson
Dr. Tim Anderson is a senior lecturer in political economy at Sydney University in Sydney, Australia

The proposal for a carbon tax raises the issues of tax equity and political strategy. Yet despite their inter-relatedness, we need to disentangle these issues to focus on the original question. As a mean of addressing climate change, the carbon tax proposal comes in the context of difficult global negotiations, where almost any proposal has been seen as a breakthrough, and where (after the last financial derivatives bubble) there is justified suspicion of emissions trading schemes.In Australia the political context includes a narrow, two-party debate which has reverted to tax incidence, with both major parties basically captured by the major investor groups and Labor having recently been humiliated over a failed proposal for a new mining tax. Into this mix we have the Greens, presenting as an alternative, yet signing an accord with the Labor government over its carbon tax.I would like to briefly touch on the tax equity issue, before moving to the carbon tax and then to the question of political strategies.

Tax equity

Back in the 1970s Labor MP Jim Cairns commented that the question was not how much tax big companies paid, but whether they paid any tax at all. The situation is hardly better today. Underlying this is a failure of political will on the part of successive governments. Neither major party wants a confrontation with the big investment groups.Yet there is natural, popular resentment at the incidence of new taxes on wage earners and consumers, and it is similarly natural that themes like make the polluters/companies pay are raised.However it is hard to imagine that this chronic problem might be addressed simply as a side issue to the primary aim of the carbon tax — to create some sort of vehicle for the reduction of carbon emissions. If the Labor government was unable to directly impose a very reasonable super-profits tax on the mining companies, it seems less likely to be able to make big companies wear (and not pass on) a new tax simply as the by-product of an environmental protection policy.

Carbon tax and climate change policy

In the euphoria of overcoming the blockade on the Kyoto Protocol by Washington (and therefore also by Canberra) we may have lost sight of what that agreement represented. Yes, it meant accepting and addressing the fact of human-aggravated climate change by carbon emissions — but it also represented a market mechanism to deal with the problem. It particular it proposed emissions trading.Even the Australian Greens, in the midst of their other quite reasonable policies on climate change (public investment in renewables, removing subsidies for coal companies, new standards and regulation in favour of sustainable industries), include reference to market-based mechanisms.What is meant by market mechanism? It is a neoliberal concept, in the sense that it pre-supposes that pathways to ecological integrity can be found through private commercial transactions, making use of price signals. It assumes, and therefore demands, that there can be no real conflict of interest between private commerce and public policy. If only the right price signals are built into transactions, incorporating more closely the full costs of production, private markets will correct their previous distortions. Carrying on with business as usual (i.e. commodification and profit making) after a simple price adjustment is thus said to be the best way for the planet to go green.Based on this logic, a designated price for carbon is central, and underlies a carbon tax as well as an emissions trading scheme. Both pretend to set up market mechanisms which create higher prices for dirty industries, supposedly driving investment into better alternatives. The carbon tax proposal differs a little, in that it pretends to build public revenue to assist the process and stops short of a market price for carbon; but there is no great conceptual difference between the two. Indeed, the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee agreement between Labor, the Greens and some independent MPs, asserts that the carbon price mechanism will roll out for some years before converting to a cap and trade emissions trading scheme.

The problems with this line of logic should be obvious. The demand for carbon-dirty industries is mostly price inelastic and so the higher costs will be accepted, and passed on to consumers without technological change. Australia has had very high taxes on petrol since the late 1970s, with no real impact on fuel consumption. Second, there is no guarantee that revenue from a carbon tax will be used to invest in renewable energies; indeed the more recent debate has degenerated into one where most revenue is said to be used in compensation for affected industries and consumers. While potentially worthy in the sense of tax equity, compensation negates the supposed behavioural impact of higher carbon prices.Finally, the emissions trading scheme towards which this is all heading is certain to be a sorry collection of unfulfilled promises, evasions and scams. Companies will be encouraged to buy their way out of their liabilities, instead of being required to change their technologies. They will finance shonky and unaccountable nature conservation projects in other countries. These projects in turn will be purchased by the next wave of loggers and miners. Liabilities will be onsold into a new derivatives bubble market, and we very recently saw the consequences of such bubbles.

Green political strategies

Meanwhile, some in the Greens seem to think that the carbon tax agreement represents a new era in responsibility and maturity. Some even accuse the Liberal Party — through its opposition to the tax — of scaring the business community.One activist on a Greens blog says, We need to find a way to align ourselves with our potential friends. Let’s start talking to BHP and Westpac.Great point,the blog host replies. In my view, this sort of naivety spells great danger for the Greens.The market mechanism minority part of the Greens’ climate change policy has rapidly come to dominate the party’s other policies. The Greens are now deeply implicated in a neoliberal agenda and (along with Labor) will be blamed for its failure. When the carbon bubble collapses they could share the fate of the Irish Greens, or the Australian Democrats.The simple alternative would be to reject the talk of “market mechanisms” and pursue measures that directly address both carbon emissions and technological change towards sustainable industries: public investment in renewables, removing subsidies for coal companies, and new standards and regulation in favour of sustainable industries.Better to promote an honest alternative than help administer this latest scam.

Carbon Tax Scam Shifts from Climate to Poverty
Paul Joseph Watson
http://real-agenda.com/2010/09/21/carbon-tax-scam-shifts-from-climate-to-poverty/

As the science behind global warming becomes increasingly discredited and its proponents are exposed as eugenics-obsessed control freaks who care only about destroying freedom, the effort to make Americans pay a global tax has shifted from the justification of climate change to that of poverty.As we documented on Sunday, leaders from 60 nations will be meeting at the UN this week to push a tax on world financial transactions, formally launching a massive program to bankrupt the middle class and enrich the coffers of global government.Separately, the leaders of Spain and France are also now calling for new financing sources with which to build the infrastructure of a one world government. Remember, this has nothing to do with poverty. As the leaked Danish text revealed, global institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank have no intention of handing the money looted from American taxpayers to poorer countries, they will merely continue to keep the third world in bondage with crippling loans while withholding the real wealth for themselves.We need to make more effort to look for alternative financing sources … that aren’t as vulnerable as the budgets of developed countries when faced with crises like the one we’re seeing today,” said Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.Both he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for some form of financial tax to raise money to combat poverty, an idea already rejected by the International Monetary Fund and many Group of 20 major developed and developing nations,reports Reuters.

Although climate change still gets a token mention in the call for a global tax, the justification of poverty has firmly overtaken it as the primary ruse via which globalists plan to conduct a massive transfer of wealth – not to poor nations – but to their own back pockets.As the science behind global warming becomes increasingly discredited and its proponents are exposed as eugenics-obsessed control freaks who care only about destroying freedom, the effort to make Americans pay a global tax has shifted from the justification of climate change to that of poverty.As we documented on Sunday, leaders from 60 nations will be meeting at the UN this week to push a tax on world financial transactions, formally launching a massive program to bankrupt the middle class and enrich the coffers of global government.Separately, the leaders of Spain and France are also now calling for new financing sources with which to build the infrastructure of a one world government. Remember, this has nothing to do with poverty. As the leaked Danish text revealed, global institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank have no intention of handing the money looted from American taxpayers to poorer countries, they will merely continue to keep the third world in bondage with crippling loans while withholding the real wealth for themselves.We need to make more effort to look for alternative financing sources … that aren’t as vulnerable as the budgets of developed countries when faced with crises like the one we’re seeing today, said Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.Both he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for some form of financial tax to raise money to combat poverty, an idea already rejected by the International Monetary Fund and many Group of 20 major developed and developing nations, reports Reuters.Although climate change still gets a token mention in the call for a global tax, the justification of poverty has firmly overtaken it as the primary ruse via which globalists plan to conduct a massive transfer of wealth – not to poor nations – but to their own back pockets.As the recently leaked UN blueprint revealed, the elite are determined to use a global tax as just one of the weapons in their arsenal to dismantle the middle class of richer nations.In their own words, the globalists talk of their aim to limit and redirect the aspirations for a better life of rising middle classes around the world, in other words to reduce the standard of living for the middle classes in Western Europe and America.

As the opening session paper puts it: The real challenge comes from the exponential growth of the global consumerist society driven by ever higher aspirations of the upper and middle layers in rich countries as well as the expanding demand of emerging middle-class in developing countries. Our true ambition should be therefore creating incentives for the profound transformation of attitudes and consumption styles.This is globalist talk for dismantling the middle classes by looting them with global taxes and consumption levies in the name of alleviating poverty in poorer areas of the world and stopping climate change. However, as we have already explained, this is merely a ruse. The money will not be redistributed to the poor, it will be swallowed up by the same globalist institutions running the scam.To achieve their goal, the UN will have to oversee nothing less than a fundamental transformation of the global economy, states the report. In other words, economic growth will wither and be replaced by a green economy and a post-industrial revolution.Since Spain’s fundamental transformation of its economy over to a green economy” has devastated the country, with unemployment hitting a crippling 20 per cent, it’s unsurprising that Zapatero is now calling for a new global levy on financial transactions in an effort to force already destitute Americans to pick up the tab for the failed and economically crippling green measures that he inflicted on his own country while doing the bidding of his globalist masters.

Your carbon footprint

Your carbon footprint is the greenhouse gas emissions caused by an individual or an organization. It is generally expressed as the amount of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent of other greenhouse gases, that are emitted. An individual, nation or organization’s carbon footprint can be measured by undertaking a greenhouse gas emissions assessment. Once the size of a carbon footprint is known, a strategy can be developed to reduce it. The mitigation of carbon footprints through the support of alternative projects, such as reforestation (tree planting), grasslands restoration, or the use of solar or wind energy is one way of reducing one’s carbon footprint, and is known as carbon offsetting.

FSA warning over carbon credit trading schemes-Financial Services Authority warns against unregulated schemes which risk landing you with an overpriced and unsellable white elephant Tony Levene guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 August 2011 22.58 BST

Carbon credit trading schemes are set to take over from landbanking as a major scam hitting unwary investors. This week the Financial Services Authority issued its first consumer alert on the schemes following an unprecedented 10-fold surge in complaints and queries in July. The watchdog warns that the schemes are unregulated, so anyone can sell them, and UK authorities have no way of controlling their quality or validity.Investors risk ending up with an overpriced credit which is virtually unsellable – just like the almost worthless agricultural acreage that landbankers push with the promise of planning permission in the near future.At least one company that was selling land has moved its business model from persuading investors that land will soar in value to concentrating on carbon schemes.Jonathan Phelan, head of the unauthorised business department at the FSA, says: Since June, we've seen a significant rise in consumers reporting carbon credit trading schemes to the FSA. While carbon credit trading schemes don't automatically amount to investment schemes that require FSA authorisation, we are concerned that the majority of the firms being reported to us are using high pressure sales tactics and targeting vulnerable consumers with little or no knowledge of commodities and derivatives trading.We suspect that many of these firms are essentially overseas boiler rooms or landbanking firms simply selling a highly dubious new investment product and jumping upon the green/eco-friendly bandwagon. We strongly recommend that consumers seek advice from an FSA-authorised independent financial adviser before getting involved in the carbon credit trading market.The first contact that investors receive from a carbon credit company is usually a cold call, although some use email or post, or take stands at investor exhibitions. And the initial appeal is to the investor's environmental concerns.Like landbankers, most carbon credit companies use much the same sales scripts. This is a typical example: Carbon credits are an obligation under the Kyoto agreement and have gone from zero to $550bn in just five years. No other market has been driven up so fast. This is a worldwide move to clean up the carbon footprint, there is massive legislation and firms have to adhere.However, growth in a market is no guarantee of investment gains. While there may be extra demand, carbon credits are not limited in supply like commodities such as gold or cocoa. Potential victims are told industries have to offset emissions and that governments are focusing on green developments – so investors can reap rich rewards.

One route to parting you from your money is the rainforest land deal. A salesperson claims Amazonian forest land will turn into profitable and easy-to-trade carbon credits once it is certified as rescued from loggers.Earlier this year, one London firm was selling land in the Amazon at £1,000 an acre – though similar tracts feature on websites for less than £20 an acre. It claimed every £7,500 investment will soon turn into £15,000 or £20,000"and said the high markup was due to the cost of accreditation.More frequently, carbon credit trading firms sell the voluntary emission reduction (VER) credit which they claim is a tradeable commodity, certified by the United Nations framework convention on climate change. Each credit represents one tonne of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Sellers often say their credits are cheaper than JP Morgan, the investment bank with a substantial interest in carbon trading schemes. But unlike standardised commodities such as gold, where each kilobar of gold is the same as the next, there is no uniformity in the VER market.

The FSA says: VERs are often labelled as certified but this is voluntary, involving a wide range of bodies and different quality standards. In reality, VERs can be bought for as little as 30p, and can diminish in value as they age. Firms offsetting emissions tend to go for the latest VERs. The FSA also warns against statements that the VER is government backed.Some of the firms touting carbon credits say the Australian government will force big companies operating in Australia to buy credits at A$24 (about £15) a time next year. This will be a carbon tax, however, rather than a VER.Potential investors are told their credits will be listed on the APX online registry. The FSA adds: It is not often made clear to investors that this involves trading on over-the-counter markets which require experience and skill. You may lose money or not be able to sell at all.

Tony Levene: How I was cold-called

I was cold-called last week by a carbon credit trading company based in London, and faced the high pressure sales tactics the FSA is warning about.The caller, who described himself as a portfolio manager told me the firm was an expert in carbon credits which, he claimed, was the world's fastest growing market. He sent me a glossy brochure, but when I received it, there was no mention of carbon credits. Instead it was focused entirely on landbanking, a previous speciality of the firm.I was also contacted by a senior spot trader at the firm. He told me he could sell me carbon credits cheaper than JP Morgan because we are not so greedy. He wanted me to invest £10,000 to £15,000.He said: Indigenous people would benefit from credits as a lot of energy would be sold back to the national grid, a claim dismissed by one expert as nonsense in every sense of the word.When asked about the sudden switch from landbanking, he told me the firm was staffed with experienced people with backgrounds in stock markets and investment banking.He promised to send carbon credit literature. But the next post brought yet another copy of the landbanking brochure. I think I'll duck this one!

Carbon credit trading schemes
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We are receiving an increasing number of reports from people who have been approached by firms promoting carbon credit trading schemes. Are these schemes a genuine investment opportunity or a new scam? We take a look.A carbon credit is a certificate or permit which represents the right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) and they can be traded for money.Firms may try to sell you carbon credit certificates or get you to invest directly in a green scheme or project that generates carbon credits as a return on your investment.There are two categories of carbon credits: voluntary emission reductions (VERs) and certified emission reductions (CERs).VERs involve the offset or reduction of carbon in any way, such as through a forestry scheme or solar panel project. This type of carbon credit is increasingly being promoted to UK investors.Governments and large corporate entities typically trade in CERs certificates and these are highly unlikely to be offered in small volumes to consumers.

How it works

The contact usually comes out of the blue, with most schemes cold-calling investors. But it can also come by email, post, word of mouth or at a seminar or exhibition.
You might be told that carbon credits are the new big thing in commodity trading and that you could make significant profits.The caller may claim industries now have to off-set their emissions, the government is focusing on green developments and that carbon credit trading is an ever growing market.You may also be told that in the current economic climate you will earn larger profits from carbon credits than traditional investment products.While not all carbon credit trading schemes are a scam, it is often not made clear to investors that trading on Over-The-Counter (OTC) markets requires experience and skill. You may lose money on your investment by not getting a competitive rate when trading a small volume of carbon credits or not being able to sell your credits at all.

How to protect yourself

Beware that VERs certificates are often labelled as certified, but this certification is voluntary involving a wide range of bodies and different quality standards that are not recognised by any UK financial compensation scheme.Just because the salesperson mentions the Kyoto Protocol or government-backed plans does not tell you anything about the type of carbon credit you are investing in.Also keep in mind that the projects generating VERs are usually based overseas and the UK authorities have no way of controlling the quality or validity of the scheme.
Remember if the company promoting or operating the scheme is not authorised by us, you will not have access to the Financial Ombudsman Service or Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) if things go wrong.This also means you will not be able to take your case to the Ombudsman Service or FSCS if you cannot sell or trade your carbon credits.There are more steps you can take to keep your savings safe – find out how to protect yourself from investment scams.

What to do if you have been scammed

If you are concerned about a carbon credit trading scheme you should stop sending money to the firm and individuals involved. If you have given them your bank account details, tell your bank immediately.You should then contact our Consumer Helpline. Please provide as much information as you can about your investment and the company involved, including their contact details and ‘firm reference number’ (FRN) if they claim to be authorised by us.The more information we have, the better our chances of assessing whether the company is operating a scheme for which they need to be authorised by us, as explained below.

Carbon credits as a CIS

We do not regulate the sale or trading of carbon credits. But we do regulate collective investment schemes (CIS) and certain types of exchange contracts (often called futures), and a firm must be authorised by us to promote or operate them in the UK.We can only take action over a carbon credit trading scheme when it is being promoted or operated as a CIS or futures contract, without our authorisation.

The scheme may be a CIS where:investors do not have day-to-day control over managing the property that is generating the credits (such as a plot of forest or solar panels);the scheme involves pooling investor funds; and the operator is responsible for managing the scheme as a whole.It is possible to sell carbon credits without the scheme being a CIS. So, many schemes are set up to avoid the characteristics of a CIS – at least on paper.However, sales people may tell a different story and it helps us prove that a carbon credits trading scheme is a CIS if we know what you are told when it is being promoted.

You may be entering a futures contract where:delivery of the carbon credits is done at a future date; and the contract is made for investment purposes.If there is not enough evidence that a scheme is being run as a CIS or futures contract but there are wider concerns, we can refer it to Trading Standards, the Corporate Complaints Team at the the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS).