By Jo Nova
What an amplifier? The Chinese communist party quietly helped New York create a $75b climate SuperFund Law
That’s a lot of bang for their buck.
Imagine The Blob buddied up with China to lobby for a law that forced energy companies (and thus the shareholders and customers) to cough up $75 billion to fund green initiatives? The Blob gets more money to buy power and influence and buy favors from their friends. The Chinese Communists make their competitors energy more expensive, and thus all their products more costly, less competitive, their economy weaker. Suits every kind of grifter, eh?
But perhaps China just wants to save American whales right? Why else would the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) be so worried about US Emissions, but not their own? The CPC has been publicly lobbying for New York to legislate the “Climate Change Superfund Act — a bizarre retrospective law which would force energy companies to pay billions for past emissions back to the year 2000AD. Supposedly, companies like Exxonmobil, Shell, and others are going to pay $3 billion a year to help New York prepare for climate change. Though obviously, it will raise the price of energy by $3 billion dollars a year (for 25 years) and it will be the mums and dads who pay the bills, not the corporate CEOs. Not surprisingly, it’s been called a “Shakedown” law.
The new law also targets companies that are outside New York State. It’s a kind of super-communism, where truly Big-Government get to punitively tax people in other jurisdictions as well as their own. Where will it end? Well, 22 other states are challenging it in court.
The CPC gets funding from the Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) which are Chinese State owned entities. They also (wouldn’t you know it) get funding from the US government for “Community Resilience Support Services”. China might be hand-feeding our self-defeating sabotage, but the West is pretty good at it already.
The CPC, after all, is supposed to be there to help the “social and economic empowerment of Chinese American, immigrant, and low-income communities in New York City.” How exactly is this gargoyle of a law going to help poor Chinese immigrants?
Nonprofit Funded By Chinese Gov’t-Linked Entities Backs Blue State’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Climate Law
A New York nonprofit bankrolled by Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entities is at the center of a controversial state climate law that could force fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion over 25 years for climate mitigation projects. The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), which received millions from Chinese state-owned banks and Washington taxpayer funds, has aggressively backed the “Climate Change Superfund Act,” sparking a federal investigation and constitutional concerns. Critics argue the law, signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in December 2024, threatens U.S. energy security, inflates consumer costs and represents undercover influence by Beijing to undermine American sovereignty.
The CPC’s financial ties to Beijing are well-documented. It has secured $1.4 million in U.S. taxpayer funds since 2022 and over $445,000 from Chinese government-linked institutions, including state-owned banks like the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and the Bank of China.
Legal experts and industry analysts have raised concerns about the law’s constitutionality and economic impact. The Trump administration’s May 1 lawsuit against New York and Vermont argues it unlawfully imposes retroactive liability on energy companies for climate damages and violates the Commerce Clause by targeting out-of-state operations.
“The law doesn’t just strain budgets — it’s a constitutional time bomb,” said Republican Party energy lawyer
Tom Jensen. “Forcing companies to pay for past emissions they couldn’t foresee is trial by legislature, not due process.”
Read it all at NewsTarget and The Daily Caller.
Naturally, it’s hard to know how much different a half a million here or there in lobbying makes, but if they are openly cheering on climate taxes like this, and providing testimony supporting the law, what’s going on behind closed doors, with Quid Pro Quo deals and honeypot extortion, and who is trying to find out? House Republicans have begun probing the CPC funding, but behind closed doors there may be no paper trail unless a patriotic whistleblower speaks up.
As a tool of warcraft, it’s a bargain for China to throw money at green charities in the West
We already know they are sending money through the Energy Foundation China which ends up in environmental groups in the USA, like the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), that files legal challenges to stop oil pipelines, drilling, coal plants and other mining activities.
China would be crazy if they weren’t…
China controls the rare metals market, builds the wind turbines and solar panels, and now also the EV’s. Obviously, on a pure self-serving business level, the CCP would be crazy if they weren’t amplifying Green fantasia in the West in order to sabotage the competition.
Hypothetically, if China was feeding millions of dollars through NGO’s and philanthropic organizations, and our traitorous universities, what would stop it happening — investigative reporting from The ABC, the BBC or the CBC? How about CNN?
In years to come people may come to see the whole sorry escapade of the “Climate Wars” as a tactic where the Blob used China and China used the Blob to screw over The West.
Both photos by Serg Balak on Unsplash and Unsplash
An extraordinary, but not unexpected, summation of what is really behind the issue of Climate Change.
The last paragraph defines it in two words: “Climate Wars”.
The West has been subsumed by this war as The Gullibles are bought with trinkets and “visits” to China ,
We seem to be at the Point of No Return as Sun Tzu’s disciples revel in their victory.
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Some particularly relevant Sun Tzu quotes applicable to the climate change scam:
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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
And it is working… extremely well, soon we will not produce any aluminium or steel, which are competitors to Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Food, that’s ok, China needs that as it can’t feed its people.
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Recall how Australia was rewarded when Howard gave away much of our gas supply to the Chicomms at world’s cheapest prices with no provision for inflation or market prices on a 30 year contract, still running.
Australia got in return two pandas.
Two f%*$ing pandas!
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
AI overview because the link is paywalled, there are other copies as someone posted the other day but I can’t find them now:
From elsewhere:
Except the pandas weren’t even a gift, they were a loan. According to Goolag AI:
And from an SMH Goolag preview, China now wants them back:
Is there no one in power in Australia that has any clue about anything whatsoever?
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“Australia got in return two pandas.
Two f%*$ing pandas!”
I don’t know if it is still the case, but you didn’t just get a gift of Giant Pandas, you ‘rented’ them, that’s right, you pay to have the honour of feeding and caring for their pandas.
How idiotic are our dear leaders.
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“How idiotic are our dear leaders.”
Well, Little Johnny got rid of all LEGAL guns
and left the ILLEGAL guns on the street.
And Australians fell for it.
People need weapons to protect themselves from their
greatest enemy, THEIR Government.
No wonder the USA has the 2nd Amendment.
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Our naivety at that time was enormous. It was thought that economic ties would “soften” the Dragon. It simply engorged the Dragon. We are now dependant on its good humour. And if we cut off its supplies ?
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Why don’t any of our Lamestream Media or Leftoids ever ask why the country with the world’s largest CO2 emissions by far, bigger than all the other developed nations and twice as large as the second biggest emitter, the United States, is exempt from CO2 emissions laws and anti-energy polices in general?
Why are they so keen to limit the CO2 emissions and thus energy consumption of their competitors?
(Not that CO2 is harmful, we don’t have enough of it, but the false claim that it is harmful is being used to
de-energise the West.)
China is a major nuclear weapons power, nuclear reactor power, AI power, robotics power, manufacturing power, space power with moon landings (manned planned before 2030) and a permanently manned space station and has a 2.5 million+ man military and has some cities more modern than any in the West and is NOT a developing country as its supporters claim. It should be subject to the same anti-energy restraints as Western countries (assuming CO2 was a problem which of course it isn’t).
Clearly, the real reason the Left allow China to use energy without restriction, and the West isn’t, is to achieve the total world domination of China and the economic and other destruction of the West. And China has the world’s largest slave army of useful idiots of the Left in the West with which to achieve it.
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We give them free postage too…….
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Not actually free, but less than Australian domestic rates
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this is happening in Vanuatu, it appears to me.
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Like the blue (Democrat) state of New York, Australia also has a fanatical, unreasoned, commitment to the Net Zero gods, possibly the world’s most fanatical under the Second Albanese regime, especially now Australia is an effective One Party State with no meaningful opposition political party.
What do you think PM Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong discussed at the following meeting with CCP-linked officials?
And where do Albanese’s loyalties lie?
From Amazon book description:
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“Handsome boy” was certainly a hit during his previous visit to China. Would love to know the private content of his conversations with Xi.
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No you wouldn’t. If that news ever got out someone would shoot the traitor. I have said repeatedly that Albo is not working for Australia but is working for Chinese interests. The rest of his crew are also complicit in undermining this once wonderful country. The Liberals have alowed it to happen and have been supportive of it. Howard with the gas deal and mandated renewables, Turnbull with his policies that benefited his own son and business interests, Morrison with his policy of Net Zero adherence. Tony Abbott was the only Liberal to fight back and the party stabbed him in the back. We are truly led by idiots who are advised by fools or maybe it’s the other way around. Either way we are screwed.
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Then there’s the former premier of Victoria who signed his state on to Belt and Road; likely the deluded clown fancied himself being appointed to the CCP Politburo.
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NZ’s selected prime minister, Luxon (think: slippery as soap) is off to Beijing next week for a photo op with Premier for Life (Xi) before winging his way to Europe for a chin-wag with the NATO crowd.
His National Party (Team Blue, faux Conservative) predecessors somehow ended up on boards of various Ch!nese banks, ie. John Key, Jenny Shipley (both knighted by the Queen for ‘services rendered’), alongside some of Australia’s ex-PMs, eg. Keating.
As Simon (below) at #5 notes, the Opium War (Part IV?) is alive and well – unlike its victims – as the Crown and China and Carbon Corona (CCCC) make war upon the masses under the guise of ‘saving’ them. It’s an old Family business after all.
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The Communists use the ALP to pass their marxist policies. The Left of the ALP have their own youth movement, the Young Labor Left. Climate Change is a very large part of their agenda
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The ALP is a democratic socialist party and they talk to representatives from our biggest trading partner, the CCP. Even the Coalition governments had to do deals with them.
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EG, The CCP talks to the Communist Union members who then tell the Labor Party what they are to do 🙂
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We know about the PM’s communistic life but what about Penny Wong? Exactly what are her alliances?
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Trevor Loudon mentions Penny Wong in his book. Although Richard Marles is the official Deputy Prime Minister, Trevor says that Penny Wong is the actual Deputy PM. She is a partisan of ALP Left and a long time Albanese supporter. She has 18 references in the index
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No sentient Australian would be remotely surprised.
See Marcus Tullius Cicero for a comment:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear”
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China’s revenge for the Opium trade (and war they lost) I guess.
Oh No! Fentanyl as well as the Carbon tributes.
Notice how war coincides with world opium production (Vietnam-Golden triangle; Afghanastan- Golden Crescent) and when the poppy was superceded the wars kinda stopped?
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Famous old graffiti:
G O D = Guns Oil Drugs.
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China lost the 19th century opium wars and Britain was despicable in thinking they could subjugate another country without a shot being fired.
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I wonder if the plebs in China and The Glorious Peoples Republic Of North Korea have access to USB readers, our pathetic overlords should try to foment an overthrow from within by ‘airmailing’ usb sticks loaded with information and photos of life in the ‘decadent’ west, because who doesn’t love a bit of decadence.
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Pro-freedom activists from South Korea send balloons to North Korea carrying leaflets and USB sticks although I doubt many people in NK are able to read the USB sticks.
From Goolag AI:
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The plebs in China are quite well informed. This is why so many try to emigrate.
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Same with the riots
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Who ‘d thunk thet movements created by the soviet spook services, examples: Committee for Nuclear Disarmament, Greenpiece, (sp), etc.) would be “amenable’ to perpetual funding (and “management” from Beijing?
And, as the enti-human death cults form even more ‘interesting” alliances, it would be prudent to expect and prepare for, really “Interesting’ times.
And the general Lamestream Media are on the inside running,until they cease to be “useful”.
Good luck!
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US Constitution Articles 1&10 prohibit the states from passing any laws which apply ex post facto.
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Excellent point. Enshrined in the US Constitution. And understood in most democracies based on British tradition.
So no Climate Reparations. Or reparations of any type.
A lot of Australian Climate laws are illegal and should be challenged in the Supreme Court. And Paul Keating’s law which made aborigines into settlers, ultimately granting ownership of 53% of Australia.
Western governments are trashing Democracy to please swing voters and maintain power. The appalling and irrational arrogance of Starmer, Macron Biden,Turnbull, Morrison, Albanese is unprecedented. You would think they were hereditary rulers not elected leaders. And the ONLY guaranteed result of their carbon hatred policies is soaring electricity prices, energy prices, costs and crippled manufacturing. Just what their Chinese communist friends want.
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I read that former Justice John Dyson Heydon made a comment when the High Court supported the Mabo Decision. Eddy Mabo was a member of the CPA according to Trevor Loudon. Mabo had rightly established that he had ancestral rights to his land in the Torres Straight. However, it was a nonsequitur that it also applied to the mainland. Heydon made the comment “See what the Communists have done!”
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Yes, but the ONLY thing Torres Strait Islanders had in common with aborigines was colour. His home island was under 1km x 1km and today still only has 400 people and far closer to PNG than Australia. The principle of zero land holding for nomadic groups is still relevant and was not overturned at all. But the extremists see everything literally in black and white. You may as well include the 11+million of PNG as aboriginals. Eddie Mabo and family were generational farmers and Melanesians. His argument was that he was NOT an aboriginal. Paul Keating decided he was.
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And I still cannot believe that the 4,124 people of the Torres Strait have their own Nationality within Australia as islands in Queensland. They have their own flag flying in and on so many corporate offices and hospitals and public buildings in Australia and we have to thank them publicly for all they have done for us in welcoming us to their country and their leaders, past, present and future. Clearly we look to these 4,124 for leadership and governance into the future.
What was Keating thinking? How did this make sense then? How does it make sense now? Or is it just part of a $42Billion ripoff?
Who needs China to make a mess of Australia’s autonomy?
Keating was able to legislate it in 1992 and now is clearly the Chinese government appointed spokesman for Australia, outranking even our Prime Minister.
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Meanwhile our current Prime Minister welcomes Chinese warships into our waters just to test fire their weapons and map our coastline and inspect our offshore gas income facilities. I think they still own the port of Darwin, thanks to our generosity. And an airport nearby for their air force jets.
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And why do we have to thank the 4,200 people of of farming Melanasian Torres Strait Island farmers off the Queensland coast when they never lived in Australia? Because Eddie Mabo won his case and without joining Torres Strait islanders to aborigines, there is NO case for giving 53% of Australia and $42Billion a year to a small number of tribes of warring aboriginal nomads spread over a vast continent with nothing except ancient ancestry. Not even clothing.
The destruction of Australia by race started with Paul Keating and continues. And continues with direction from China. The outback aborigines though are no better off and no one knows where the money goes. As in all Socialist governments.
In this land of droughts and flooding rains, climate and race are the least of our problems. We cannot defend ourselves, as Donald Trump will surely note. And as even Paul Keating noted in WWII, we could not rely on Britain. Now we are alienating America while we spend fortunes on leftist causes and sell our infrastructure to China. Who thought renting Darwin to China was a smart idea?
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US Constitution Articles 1&10 prohibit the states from passing any laws which apply ex post facto.
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I curse that decision every time I drive across the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne and it’s flying the TSI flag- then think, “what the hell has that got to do with Victoria?
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I don’t recall seeing the TSI flag on the bridge. Isn’t it the Aus Flag and Aboriginal flag? One on each pylon.
Have they added a pole?
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Chinese influence is even affecting our elections. In Victoria in past years we had reports of unmarked Chinese police cars driving around certain suburbs. Daniel Andrews ( previous state premier) lit up public buildings in those same suburbs in Chinese colors. More recently during the election campaign Labor ran meetings in town halls for Chinese people only. Penny Wong was in attendance at one. Daniel Andrews did numerous trips to China and we still don’t know why.
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The Box Hill police station even flew the Chinese Communist flag.
That shows who they’re working for.
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Why can’t the USA donkeys look up the data/ evidence for themselves?
The so called rich OECD countries haven’t increased annual co2 emissions since Hansen’s BS speech in Washington DC in 1988 and NON OECD co2 emissions have soared by 15 billion tonnes per annum over the same period.
I’ve also included the World, China and the horizontal biro line at the bottom is Australia.
Again why can’t they just look up the data and THINK? It only takes a few minutes and not wasted decades and endless wasted TRILLIONs of $, so what’s their problem?
Again, today China emits more co2 emissions per year than the entire 38 wealthy OECD countries.
This only takes a few minutes, so again what’s their problem?
The graphs are active and this makes it easy to follow the co2 emissions data since Hansen’s BS speech in W DC in 1988.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=OWID_WRL~OECD+%28GCP%29~Non-OECD+%28GCP%29~CHN~AUS
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Don’t attempt to apply logic or truth to any argument of the Left, or think they want to ask questions or discover the facts, it only leads to frustration.
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“Why can’t the USA donkeys . . .”
Your question implies that you think there is a discussion going on. There is not. The twin ideas of CO2 being the cause of climate catastrophe are fueling a mass psychosis. This is not unlike killing witches. Search for “Witch trials in the early modern period” on Wikipedia {it is a long post} and note similarities to the modern anti-“carbon” {aka Carbon Dioxide} activities. I can’t do the comparison justice in a short comment. The reasoning and justification in killing Carbon Dioxide and “witches” is not something I can figure out.
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Visiting a castle in Wales a while back, the guide mentioned a ‘witch dunking chair’, apparently, said witch was tied to the chair on a pole and then lowered into the moat, if she survived she must be a witch and if she didn’t…. oh well.
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I love the witch logic in this scene from Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail
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Willis Eschenbach has another look at why clouds and thunderstorms probably control the global climate during the interglacials like our Holocene.
It sure saves us from wasting endless HUNDREDs of TRILLIONs of $ plus decades of WASTED time to reach their fabled nutty zero BS and fra-d.
But I’m sure our sheeples truly believe that we should waste another 37 years and hundreds of TRILLIONs of $ on their barking mad adventure.
BTW if Aussies must WASTE up to 9 TRIILION $ the full global cost or WASTE must be many hundreds of TRILLIONs of $ by 2050. Think about it and of course no verifiable change to weather or climate.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/13/my-hypothesis-re-emerges/
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Again ,why would we choose to WASTE HUNDREDs of TRILLIONs of $ now after the greatest Human FLOURISHING in our 300 K history?
Again, why does this amazing Human flourishing occur in the tiny 0.1% window after Britian started the Industrial Revolution?
Alex Epstein is correct that fossil fuels have changed a very dangerous global environment and made it safe.
Again, just look up the data that proves that deaths from extreme weather events have fallen by 98% since 1920. See OWI Data.
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This is quite a long story in today’s SMH (Sydney Morning Herald), paywalled:
‘China has Apple by the balls’: How the rising superpower captured the tech giant https://www.smh.com.au/national/china-has-apple-by-the-balls-how-the-rising-superpower-captured-the-tech-giant-20250609-p5m5z1.html
Apple has been caught, and hence become complicit.
Just one paragraph below.
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Cheers,
Dave B
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I worked out a long time ago climate is just a way to destroy the western economies. I did so when I discovered Russia was funding the green blob, and worked out there was only one reason for it.
These days the “intelligence” agencies are so taken over by the green blob, that they effectively work for Russia and China … and the rest seem to work for Israel. There isn’t anyone working for the people of the west any longer.
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Since 1994 when the UNFCCC agreement came into effect, the emissions from western countries have fallen by 10%, coming at a great cost, but the emissions from the rest of the world have risen by 330%, with most of that coming from China. The net result has been a 65% in global GHG emissions and still rising. This is the mother of all scams and yet it’s cheered on by at least a third of our population.
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>Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism
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I have posted about this here in past years, look back to the formation of the United Nations soon after World War Two, created with very good intentions for rebuilding Europe and resettling refugees with future objectives to create a better and safer world. The far left of global politics grabbed the opportunity to infiltrate the UN with their own people and implement the Fabian Marxist socialism 1800s objectives known as a new world order including one world government and no international borders.
The one world government concept was acknowledged by Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown during his last address as leader at the National Press Club, he described as his dream a world parliament and no borders.
During the left infiltration late 1940s to 1950s Australian Labor Party Attorney General Evatt (Communist Party of Australia associate) created his plan for the UN to sign as many treaties and agreement as possible with member nations, the member nations would legislate into law and here in Australia the states would also legislate and create regulations and compliance costs managed by government departments, councils and organisations funded by governments.
Consider Human Rights Australia and research UN relationship.
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