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		<title>Gov. Chris Christie nominates Islamist to superior court in favor of hiding stated Islamic motivation in terror case of Ft. Dix 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 85%"><span style="font-size: 130%">&#8220;<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">Don&#8217;t equate actions</a> with religion,&#8221; he (the nominee) said.&#8221;</span>.</span>..</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">1/14/11, </span>&#8220;<a href="http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/gov-christie-nominates-911-attorney-sohail-mohammed-for-superior-court-judgeship">Gov. Christie nominates 9-11 attorney Sohail Mohammed for Superior Court judgeship</a>,&#8221; NewJerseyNewsroom.com</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/gov-christie-nominates-911-attorney-sohail-mohammed-for-superior-court-judgeship">Gov. Chris Christie&#8217;s office</a> Thursday announced the governor has  filed nominations for judgeships  and other state and county positions  the he originally nominated in  2010 but were not confirmed by the Senate  during the year-long session.</p>
<p>The governor also filed notices of intent to nominate <a href="http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/gov-christie-nominates-911-attorney-sohail-mohammed-for-superior-court-judgeship">two Superior  Court judges</a>, which would be</p>
<ul>
<li>subject to the consent of the state Senate.</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 100%">Noteworthy is the <a href="http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/gov-christie-nominates-911-attorney-sohail-mohammed-for-superior-court-judgeship">nomination of Sohail Mohammed</a> of Clifton to a  Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County. Mohammed  was counsel to many  detainees picked up by federal authorities in the  aftermath of 9/11  terrorist attacks.</span><span style="font-size: 100%"> <a href="http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/gov-christie-nominates-911-attorney-sohail-mohammed-for-superior-court-judgeship">Mohammed gained</a> the respect of authorities for trying  to improve communications  between them and the Muslim community after  Sept. 11, 2001.&#8221;&#8230;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold">5/8/07, &#8220;<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">6 held on terror conspiracy charges in NJ</a>,</span>&#8221; MSNBC.com</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">In addition to plotting the attack</a> on Fort Dix, the defendants spoke  of attacking a Navy installation in Philadelphia</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 130%">during the annual  Army-Navy football game, </span></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">and conducted surveillance</a> at other military  installations in the region, prosecutors said&#8230;.</p>
<p>Several of the men said they were ready to kill and die</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #cc0000">&#8220;</span><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">in the name of Allah</a><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #cc0000">,&#8221; </span>according to court records&#8230;.</li>
</ul>
<p>One  defendant, Eljvir Duka, was recorded as saying: &#8220;In the end, when  it  comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying attacks<span style="color: #cc0000"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/"><span style="color: #cc0000">your religion,</span> your</a> way of life, then<br />
</span></p>
<ul style="color: #cc0000">
<li><span style="font-weight: bold">you go jihad.&#8221; </span></li>
</ul>
<p>The six were arrested Monday night <span style="font-weight: bold">trying to buy AK-47 assault  weapons, M-16s </span>and other weapons from an FBI informant, authorities  said.</p>
<p><strong></strong><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">They appeared in federal court</a> Tuesday in Camden and were  ordered held without bail for a hearing  Friday. Five were charged with  conspiracy to kill U.S. military  personnel; the sixth was charged with  <span style="font-weight: bold"><br />
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold">aiding and abetting illegal immigrants in obtaining weapons. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">Four of the men were born in </a>the  former Yugoslavia, one was born in  Jordan and one came from Turkey,  authorities said. All had lived in the  United States for years. <span style="font-weight: bold">Three were in the United States illegally</span>; two  had green cards allowing them to stay in this country permanently; and  the sixth is a U.S. citizen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">One defendant, Mohamad Ibrahim</a> Shnewer, <span style="font-weight: bold">spoke of using  rocket-propelled grenades </span>and other weapons <span style="font-weight: bold">to kill at least 100  soldiers</span>, according to court documents.</p>
<ul>
<li>&#8220;My  intent is to hit a heavy concentration of soldiers,&#8221; he was  quoted as  saying. &#8220;You hit four, five or six Humvees and light the whole  place  (up) and retreat completely without any losses.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">It doesn&#8217;t matter to me whether</a> I get locked up, arrested or gettaken away,&#8221; another defendant, Serdar Tatar, was alleged to have said.  &#8220;Or I die, it doesn&#8217;t matter.</p>
<ul>
<li> <span style="font-weight: bold">I&#8217;m doing it <span style="color: #cc0000">in the name of Allah.&#8221;</span> </span></li>
</ul>
<p>The men trained by playing paintball in the woods in New Jersey and  taking <span style="font-weight: bold">target practice at a firing range </span>in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Pocono  Mountains, where they had rented a house, authorities said.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 130%"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">They often watched terrorism</a> training videos, clips featuring Osama  bin Laden, a tape containing  the last will and testament of some of the  Sept. 11 hijackers, and  tapes of armed attacks on U.S. military  personnel,<br />
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 130%">erupting in laughter<br />
</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 130%">when one plotter noted that a <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">Marine&#8217;s  arm was blown off</a> in an ambush, authorities said.<br />
</span></p>
<p>In court documents, prosecutors said the suspects came to the  attention of authorities in <span style="font-weight: bold">January 2006 when a Mount Laurel, N.J.,  shopkeeper </span>alerted the FBI about a &#8220;disturbing&#8221; video he had been asked  to copy onto a DVD.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">The video showed 10 young</a> men in their early 20s <span style="font-weight: bold">&#8220;shooting assault  weapons at a firing range &#8230; while <span style="color: #cc0000">calling for jihad</span> and<br />
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #cc0000">shouting in  Arabic &#8216;Allah Akbar&#8217;</span> (God is great),&#8221;</span> the complaint said. The 10  included six of those arrested, authorities said.</li>
</ul>
<p>By March 2006, the group had been infiltrated by an informant who  developed a relationship with Shnewer, and the informant secretly  recorded meetings last August, according to court documents.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">One of the suspects, Tatar</a>, worked at his father&#8217;s pizzeria and</p>
<ul>
<li>made  deliveries to the base, using that opportunity to scout out Fort Dix for  an attack, authorities said.</li>
</ul>
<p>&#8220;Clearly, one of the guys had an intimate knowledge of the base from having been there delivering pizzas,&#8221; <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #cc0000">(prosecuting US Attorney Chris) Christie said. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">The men also allegedly conducted</a> surveillance at other area military  installations, including Fort  Monmouth in New Jersey, Dover Air Force  Base in Delaware, and a  Philadelphia Coast Guard station.</p>
<ul>
<li>Besides Shnewer, Tatar  and Duka, the other three men were identified  in court papers as Dritan  Duka, Shain Duka and Agron Abdullahu.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">Fort Dix is used to train soldiers</a>, particularly reservists. It also housed refugees from Kosovo in 1999&#8230;.</p>
<ul>
<li>Fort  Dix typically has 15,000 people, including 3,000  soldiers; McGuire,  which is adjacent to Fort Dix, has about 11,500  people&#8230;.</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 130%"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">The description of the suspects</a> as &#8220;Islamic militants&#8221; was causing  renewed worry among New Jersey&#8217;s Muslim community&#8230;. </span></p>
<p>&#8220;If these people did something, then they deserve to be punished to  the fullest extent of the law,&#8221; <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #cc0000">said </span><span style="font-size: 130%"><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #cc0000">Sohail Mohammed,</span> a lawyer who  represented scores of detainees after the 2001 attacks. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">&#8220;But when the  government</a> says<br />
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 130%">&#8216;Islamic militants,&#8217; it sends a message to the public<br />
</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 130%"> that <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">Islam and militancy</a> are synonymous. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 130%">&#8220;<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">Don&#8217;t equate actions</a> with religion,&#8221; he said.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 130%">(Despite multiple examples of the perpetrators saying they were <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18549005/ns/us_news-security/">doing it for Allah</a> and/or jihad. ed.)<br />
</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p>4/28/09: &#8220;<a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/judge_sentences_fort_dix_defen.html">Three convicted in Fort Dix terror plot sentenced to life in prison,</a>&#8221; The Star-Ledger, NJ.com, Joe Ryan</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/judge_sentences_fort_dix_defen.html">The Fort Dix 6 were not</a> being investigated until a retail clerk at a Circuit City store in New  Jersey noticed a video one of the group brought in for conversion to  DVD. <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/judge_sentences_fort_dix_defen.html">The clerk passed</a> the video on to authorities.</p>
<ul>
<li>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/judge_sentences_fort_dix_defen.html">During the investigation</a>, authorities recorded hundreds of conversations with the defendants with help from two informants.</li>
</ul>
<p>On one of the tapes, Eljvir Duka, who is married to Shnewer&#8217;s sister,  said he wanted to &#8220;train sniper&#8221; and <span style="font-size: 130%"><br />
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 130%">wondered how close he would have  to stand from the White House</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 130%"><a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/judge_sentences_fort_dix_defen.html">to shoot President Bush</a><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #cc0000">&#8230;</span>.</span></li>
</ul>
<p>The Dukas, <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/judge_sentences_fort_dix_defen.html">ethnic Albanians</a> who were born in Macedonia,<span style="font-size: 130%"> have lived <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/judge_sentences_fort_dix_defen.html"> illegally in the U.S</a>. since<br />
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 130%">slipping across the border <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/judge_sentences_fort_dix_defen.html">through Mexico</a> in  1984.&#8221;&#8230;</span></li>
</ul>
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		<title>Even NY Times says Haitian Lake Azuei rising is failure of government not global warming as Dominican VP made his pitch for US money in Cancun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">Cancun global warming</a> convention heard the Dominican  vice president say rising water level in Haiti&#8217;s <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">Lake Azuei was a sign of</a> global  warming which requires billions to remedy and for which nations (Americans) must pay.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">Not so, according</a> to the NY Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">12/14/09</a>, Lake Azuei is rising due to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">corrupt Haitian governments</a> that do nothing to stop deforestation which causes erosion, flow of silt into <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">the Lake </a> and water level to rise.</li>
</ul>
<p>Below is <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100114-haiti-earthquake-landslides/">satellite view of Dominican Republic/Haiti</a> border. The Haitian part on the left shows complete <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100114-haiti-earthquake-landslides/">deforestation while</a> the Dominican side is lush and green (Jan. 2010).<br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TQMlJAN5a1I/AAAAAAAAGnU/4hEWjfZ0og4/s1600/haitidominicanborderdeforestation92502nasasatellite.jpg"><img style="width: 400px;height: 300px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TQMlJAN5a1I/AAAAAAAAGnU/4hEWjfZ0og4/s400/haitidominicanborderdeforestation92502nasasatellite.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Rising water level in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">Lake Azuei is due to </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">Haitians routinely</a> removing trees from the area and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">their government&#8217;s failure</a> to stop such actions. Even if man made global warming existed, it would  not be the problem with Lake Azuei, nor of the thousands who suffer in  Haiti. Americans have given a lot of money to Haiti over the years, it&#8217;s  too bad it wasn&#8217;t put to good use. From the NY Times:</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">12/14/09: </span>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">Meanwhile, as the illegal charcoal trade</a> exacerbates tensions between  the two countries (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">ecological damage </a>done to Haiti&#8217;s landscape  threatens to pull the neighbors further apart in another unexpected way.</p>
<p>Rapid  erosion <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">caused by deforestation</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">is spilling large quantities of silt <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2"> into Lac Azuei</a>,<br />
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">raising <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">lake levels</a> and flooding the road </span>connecting   Port-au-Prince to Malpasse.</li>
</ul>
<p>The  original road already lies 2 feet  below  the water line, but the  government has been piling sand on top of  it to  keep the critical  passage open. <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">The lake is rising still.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">The  government is considering</a> reforesting the hillsides to halt the erosion  and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">dredging the lake</a> and a drainage canal, but thus far, its best hope  for a permanent   solution is a plan to build a new road on the north side  of the lake.   That project would cost <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">at least $40 million</a>, and there is  no source of funding yet.&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold">On the </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">Dominican Vice President&#8217;s remarks</a><span style="font-weight: bold">,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">12/10: </span>&#8220;<span>Vice President Rafael Alburquerque,  predicted <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">yesterday Cancun</a> Mexico, <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">a bleak and uncertain future</a> for the  island of Hispaniola, home to the Dominican Republic and Haiti,<br />
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span>due to  the effects of climate change.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span>Albuquerque <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">predicted that if not </a>put in place concrete actions to  reduce global warming, in a relatively short time the rise in sea level.<br />
</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ewould%20cover%2013%20percent%20%3C/a%3Eof%20the%20coastal%20zone%20of%20the%20island,%20due%20to%20the%20%20effects%20of%20climate%20change.%3C/span%3E%20%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%20%3Cspan%3E%3Cspan%20class=">Cited  the unstoppable rise, so far <span style="color: #cc0000">unexplained by  scientists,</span> the water  levels of<br />
</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ewould%20cover%2013%20percent%20%3C/a%3Eof%20the%20coastal%20zone%20of%20the%20island,%20due%20to%20the%20%20effects%20of%20climate%20change.%3C/span%3E%20%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%20%3Cspan%3E%3Cspan%20class=">lakes and <span style="color: #cc0000">Azuei </span>Enriquillo (in Haiti),<br />
</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ewould%20cover%2013%20percent%20%3C/a%3Eof%20the%20coastal%20zone%20of%20the%20island,%20due%20to%20the%20%20effects%20of%20climate%20change.%3C/span%3E%20%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%20%3Cspan%3E%3Cspan%20class="> located in the</a><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola"> southwestern portion </a><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">of the island, </span>growth that has taken  tens of thousands of jobs agricultural land and has displaced hundreds  of families in the region&#8230;.</p>
<p><span><span style="font-weight: bold">We strongly urge  the <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">developed countries</a> to assume<br />
</span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #cc0000">historical responsibility <span style="color: #333333">and</span> intergenerational obligations </span></span><span><span style="color: #cc0000"><span style="color: #333333">(that is, pay billions, ed.)</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold"><br />
</span></span></li>
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<p><span><span style="font-weight: bold">that allow us, in 2011, acting under a new  and effective global climate regime, &#8220;</span> said Albuquerque.&#8221;&#8230;</span><span><br />
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<li><span>Reference, 12/10/10, &#8220;<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">Climate change will affect Hispaniola</a>,&#8221; Hoy, Dominican Republic</span><span style="text-decoration: underline"><br />
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<p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TQH-sS8b4tI/AAAAAAAAGms/FzvLVyJ6JsE/s1600/globalwarminghispaniolaHoy120910.jpeg"><img style="width: 215px;height: 136px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TQH-sS8b4tI/AAAAAAAAGms/FzvLVyJ6JsE/s400/globalwarminghispaniolaHoy120910.jpeg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
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<li>photo above pictures <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">delegates in water, ran</a> with article <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">in Hoy </a>pitching the idea of global warming (getting American money) in Hispaniola</li>
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<p>and the need <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&#38;prev=_t&#38;hl=en&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;layout=2&#38;eotf=1&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoy.com.do%2Fel-pais%2F2010%2F12%2F10%2F353517%2FCambio-Climatico-afectara-Hispaniola">for billions</a> (from broke Americans) to fix it. Others have used the idea, as below,</p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold">12/7/09, </span>&#8220;<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/07/eveningnews/main5924789.shtml">Climate change threatens Maldives</a><span>,&#8221; CBS &#8220;News&#8221;.</span></li>
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<p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TAiLHPyZ82I/AAAAAAAAE6g/cBY9lsos7LM/s1600/cbsreportermarkphillipsmaldives120709.jpg"><img style="width: 225px;height: 168px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TAiLHPyZ82I/AAAAAAAAE6g/cBY9lsos7LM/s400/cbsreportermarkphillipsmaldives120709.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Below, Sports Illustrated propaganda cover, March 2007</p>
<p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TQL9Z2gnw-I/AAAAAAAAGm8/e2JEK7P-H14/s1600/SportsIllustrCovGlobalWm307.jpg"><img style="width: 200px;height: 285px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TQL9Z2gnw-I/AAAAAAAAGm8/e2JEK7P-H14/s320/SportsIllustrCovGlobalWm307.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Reference, 12/14/09, NY Times, &#8220;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/14/14greenwire-environmental-destruction-chaos-bleeding-acros-35779.html?pagewanted=2">Environmental destruction, chaos bleeding across Haitian border,</a>&#8221; Nathanial Gronewold</p>
<p><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100114-haiti-earthquake-landslides/">Haiti deforestation </a>photo from <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100114-haiti-earthquake-landslides/">National Geographic</a>, NASA satellite, 1/14/10, National Geographic, &#8220;<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100114-haiti-earthquake-landslides/">Haiti earthquake, deforestation, heighten landslide risk</a>&#8221; by Ker Than</p>
<p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/S29ROM-zJSI/AAAAAAAAD-g/bxABdM5Ubq0/s1600-h/maldivesunderwaterpres101709afp.jpg"><img style="width: 301px;height: 183px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/S29ROM-zJSI/AAAAAAAAD-g/bxABdM5Ubq0/s320/maldivesunderwaterpres101709afp.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336666">11/2/2009, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336666">from the NY Times</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336666">: </span>&#8220;<span style="color: #333333"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/africa/03melt.html?_r=1">Last month, the cabinet</a> of Maldives donned scuba gear and held an  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/africa/03melt.html?_r=1">underwater meeting</a> to highlight the threat of global warming to that  nation, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/africa/03melt.html?_r=1">world’s </a></span><span style="color: #333333"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/africa/03melt.html?_r=1">lowest</a>.&#8221; </span><span style="color: #333333">(last item in article)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333"> </span><span style="color: #333333">Again, the idea is Americans must send billions now and in perpetuity.</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 85%"><span style="font-size: 130%"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/12/11/eu-carbon-credit-trading-fraud.html">Billions have already been</a> stolen by <a href="http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/resources/carbon-trading-used-as-money-laundering-front/386241">organized crime</a> in carbon trading and <a href="http://journal.probeinternational.org/2010/10/12/a-carbon-trading-system-draws-environmental-skeptics/">billions more lost</a> in <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012682418_apununcarboncuttingscheme.html">corrupt UN &#8216;climate&#8217; programs</a><span style="font-weight: bold">.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 85%"><span style="font-size: 130%"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html">Phil Jones, Nobel winning</a> lead scientist of the UN Climate report and East Anglia, publicly stated in <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html">February 2010 </a>there has been no global warming <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html">since 1995</a>.</span></span></p>
<p>P.S. Lord Monckton says don&#8217;t believe reports that nothing is happening in Cancun via his &#60;a href=&#8221;http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com/2010/12/lord-monckton-says-to-ignore-reports.html&#8221;&#62;Mexican Missive #3 dated Dec. 9.&#60;/a&#62; Our future is all planned out for us by the UN Secretariat to whom we will be subservient. With all the elected representatives we have, none have spoken up to say we will be slaves to the UN over all of our dead bodies. Representative &#60;a href=&#8221;http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com/2010/12/lord-monckton-says-to-ignore-reports.html&#8221;&#62;must see the detail&#60;/a&#62; that is planned for us (quite apart from &#8216;climate&#8217;). It is imperative that the US be removed from the UN completely. (ed.)</p>
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		<title>Ground Zero Imam likes Mercedes 550, Armani suits, but lets his tenants live in squalor, NJ court grants receivership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">10/28/2009</span>, Forbes: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/28/cordoba-muslim-relations-opinions-high-five-imam-feisal-abdul-rauf_4.html">Ground Zero mosque Imam</a> likes Mercedes E550: &#8220;<a>Is there anything</a> more alluring than a nicely engineered automobile? I  currently drive a Lexus GS400 <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/28/cordoba-muslim-relations-opinions-high-five-imam-feisal-abdul-rauf_4.html">but am </a></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/28/cordoba-muslim-relations-opinions-high-five-imam-feisal-abdul-rauf_4.html">looking</a> into the 2010 Mercedes  E550.&#8221;&#8230;</li>
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<p><img style="width: 229px;height: 155px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TN3BwVfCXDI/AAAAAAAAGbU/EHjEiXulQ_w/s400/imamapprovesmercedesroadsterAwadAFPGettyForbes.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<li>&#8220;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/28/cordoba-muslim-relations-opinions-high-five-imam-feisal-abdul-rauf_3.html">I am a man</a> who takes in wearing fine fabrics. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/28/cordoba-muslim-relations-opinions-high-five-imam-feisal-abdul-rauf_3.html">I love Armani suits</a> because Armani always uses the best fabrics.&#8221;&#8230;</li>
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<p><img style="width: 232px;height: 142px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TN3C9Db4_FI/AAAAAAAAGbc/995EeNwft4U/s320/armanishopgetty102810forbes.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">11/11, </span>Union City: &#8220;<a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10266310/article--Receivership-granted-for-neglected-buildings-in-UC-?instance=up_to_the_minute_lead_story_left_column#ixzz151nKNN4A">After  months of</a><a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10266310/article--Receivership-granted-for-neglected-buildings-in-UC-?instance=up_to_the_minute_lead_story_left_column#ixzz151nKNN4A"> Union City (NJ) vying</a> for custodial receivership of Imam</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10266310/article--Receivership-granted-for-neglected-buildings-in-UC-?instance=up_to_the_minute_lead_story_left_column#ixzz151nKNN4A">Feisal  Rauf’s property</a> on Central  Avenue, Superior Court Judge Olivieri, in a  teleconference Nov. 9 with  Union City’s attorney and Rauf’s attorney,</p>
<ul>
<li>has granted receivership  with “restrictions” to custodial  receiver  Raymond Bulin, according to Union City spokesman  Mark Albiez.</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10266310/article--Receivership-granted-for-neglected-buildings-in-UC-?instance=up_to_the_minute_lead_story_left_column#ixzz151nKNN4A">Rauf  is the Muslim</a> cleric at the center of the controversy over the proposal  to build an   Islamic cultural center and mosque near the former World  Trade Center   site.  The teleconference was the next step after  Olivieri received  the city’s  final inspection report Oct. 22</p>
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<li>based upon a  final inspection by the  city Oct. 21 that revealed</li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10266310/article--Receivership-granted-for-neglected-buildings-in-UC-?instance=up_to_the_minute_lead_story_left_column#ixzz151nKNN4A">fire, building, and</a></span> health code violations  remained at 2206 Central Ave.</p>
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<li>In the report, the  city again called for  receivership on the basis of</li>
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<li>continued failure to  remedy violations by  the specified deadlines.</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10266310/article--Receivership-granted-for-neglected-buildings-in-UC-?instance=up_to_the_minute_lead_story_left_column#ixzz151nKNN4A">Bulin has no</a>t  been  granted full management of the building, but has been tasked with   abating the remaining violations,</p>
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<li>such as <a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10266310/article--Receivership-granted-for-neglected-buildings-in-UC-?instance=up_to_the_minute_lead_story_left_column#ixzz151nKNN4A">uncapped sewer lines</a> and   bedbug infestation.</li>
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<p>A $7,000 check, money from October rent payments   held in escrow from Rauf’s attorney, will pay for the repairs.&#8221;</p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">11/11,</span> &#8220;<a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10266310/article--Receivership-granted-for-neglected-buildings-in-UC-?instance=up_to_the_minute_lead_story_left_column#ixzz151nKNN4A">Receivership granted for neglected buildings in Union City</a>,&#8221; Hudson County Reporter</li>
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<p>Reference: <span style="font-weight: bold">10/31/10</span>, &#8220;<a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10092184/article-City-says-violations-persist-City-and-Imam-Feisal-Rauf-await-verdict-on-16-unit-residential-building-?instance=union%20city_story_left_column"><span style="font-weight: bold">City says violations persist</span>,</a>&#8221; Hudson County Reporter, by Deanna  Cullen</p>
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<li>&#8220;The  final <a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10092184/article-City-says-violations-persist-City-and-Imam-Feisal-Rauf-await-verdict-on-16-unit-residential-building-?instance=union%20city_story_left_column">inspection on Oct. 21</a> revealed that all violations <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">had not been</span> abated,</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10092184/article-City-says-violations-persist-City-and-Imam-Feisal-Rauf-await-verdict-on-16-unit-residential-building-?instance=union%20city_story_left_column">despite reports to the contrary</a> by Rauf’s attorney Tomas  Espinosa at an Oct. 19 hearing before Judge Thomas Olivieri&#8230;.  Union  City is again <a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10092184/article-City-says-violations-persist-City-and-Imam-Feisal-Rauf-await-verdict-on-16-unit-residential-building-?instance=union%20city_story_left_column">calling for custodial</a> receivership of the residential  building owned by Imam Feisal Rauf   after a final inspection by the city  on Oct. 21 revealed that</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/10092184/article-City-says-violations-persist-City-and-Imam-Feisal-Rauf-await-verdict-on-16-unit-residential-building-?instance=union%20city_story_left_column">fire, building, and health</a> code violations  still remain at 2206 Central Ave.&#8221;&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TN3AzZh-YPI/AAAAAAAAGbM/m7WhzPqBdIM/s400/imambuilding2201centralaveUCNJ103110hudsonRep.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="135" /></p>
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<li>photo 2206 Central Ave, Union City, NJ, Hudson Reporter, 10/31/10</li>
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<p>In the 1990&#8242;s the Imam was given <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/union_city_sues_landlord_of_ap.html">$2 million in taxpayer money</a> to renovate his squalid and dangerous properties. No proof was <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/union_city_sues_landlord_of_ap.html">ever given</a> that repairs were made. Concurrent with his inhumane treatment of  others, the &#8216;Imam&#8217; has found time to acquire habits and tastes <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/28/cordoba-muslim-relations-opinions-high-five-imam-feisal-abdul-rauf.html">of <span style="font-weight: bold">the very rich</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold">. </span></p>
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<li>Reference, Forbes.com, 10/28/09, &#8220;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/28/cordoba-muslim-relations-opinions-high-five-imam-feisal-abdul-rauf_4.html">High Five with Imam Feisal Rauf</a> ,&#8221; edited by C.B. Myers,</li>
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<p>Mercedes photo Awad/AFP/Getty; Armani shop photo, Getty</p>
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<li>via Atlas Shrugs</li>
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		<title>California cap and trade FAQ&#8217;s show why hedge fund billionaires care so much about &#8216;climate&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>California&#8217;s cap and trade business (if it passes Tuesday) will be <a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold">overseen by</span></a> the &#8220;<span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.co2offsetresearch.org/policy/CAR.html">Climate Action Reserve,</a></span>&#8221; on whose board sits a long time <span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/about-us/board-of-directors/">aide to Al Gore</a>,</span> a science fiction movie promoter. <span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/about-us/board-of-directors/">Nancy McFadden was</a></span> Gore&#8217;s deputy chief of staff. Climate Action Reserve &#8220;<a href="http://www.co2offsetresearch.org/policy/CAR.html">is a national (carbon) offsets</a> program focused on the US carbon market.&#8221; They &#8220;<span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-29/california-regulators-double-carbon-offset-usage-in-cap-and-trade-program.html">may later accept</a></span> carbon offsets from developing countries, such as Brazil and Indonesia.&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">From their FAQ&#8217;s</a></span> it&#8217;s obvious why <span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.incr.com/">hedge fund</a></span> billionaireshave become <span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/10/interpol-carbon-trading-fraud">earnest &#8220;climate&#8221;</a></span> advocates:</li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #cc0000;font-size: 130%">1.</span> (<a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/"><span style="font-weight: bold">FAQ 47</span></a> on their site states they&#8217;re in talks with &#8216;a major commodities exchange&#8217; to begin trading their credits): <strong>&#8220;Q: <a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">How do I sell CRTs</a> (Climate Reserve Tonnes or &#8216;carbon credits&#8217;) once they are in my account? Is there a specific contract template that we should use?</strong></p>
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<li>A: <a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">All sales happen</a> over-the-counter between buyers and sellers. At the moment there is no template contract for the sale or transfer of CRTs. However, we may develop one in the future. <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333"><a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">We are also in </a>discussions with a <span style="color: #cc0000">major commodities exchange</span> about allowing CRTs to be traded <a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">on their system</a>.</span>&#8220;</li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #cc0000;font-size: 130%">2.</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333"><a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">FAQ 39</a></span> deals with regulation and compliance. They mainly take a developer&#8217;s word for it, which as bad as it sounds is the only answer. Transactions take place via a computer click. Those that occur on the ground cover territory too vast for human supervision. These are facts that have attracted organized crime to similar programs.): &#8220;<strong>Q: <a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">How is regulatory compliance verified?</a></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A: <span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">All project protocols</a> </span>contain provisions for verifying that projects registered with the Reserve comply with all local, state, and national regulations. Project developers are required to 1) sign a Regulatory Attestation that states the project is in compliance with all applicable regulations and 2) disclose specific regulations to which the project is subject. <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">While verification bodies are <a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">not required to conduct</a> a full regulatory audit as part of verification, they do use the information <a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">provided by the project developer</a> and their professional expertise to assess the project’s regulatory compliance.&#8221;</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333"><span style="color: #cc0000;font-size: 130%">3.</span> (<a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">FAQ 40 states most</a> projects are verified <span style="color: #cc0000">only once a year</span>): &#8220;</span><strong>Q: <a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">How soon after</a> a project begins operation can it be verified? </strong></p>
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<li>A: <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333"><a href="http://www.climateactionreserve.org/resources/faqs/">Most projects require</a> at least <span style="color: #cc0000">annual verification</span>;</span> the project developer may choose to verify more frequently. A project may be verified as soon as there are reduction tonnes to be verified. Some developers may choose to have their project verified when operations begin, just to make sure everything is being done correctly, <span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">but this is not required. </span>The exception to this is for forest projects, which may not be verified sub-annually.&#8221;</li>
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<p>Hedge fund owner <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=42674" target="_blank">George Soros</a> says he <a href="http://www.incr.com/">likes cap and trade</a> because <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&#38;sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M">it can be &#8220;gamed</a></p>
<p>:&#8221;"<a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=George+Soros&#38;site=wnews&#38;client=wnews&#38;proxystylesheet=wnews&#38;output=xml_no_dtd&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;oe=UTF-8&#38;filter=p&#38;getfields=wnnis&#38;sort=date:D:S:d1">George Soros</a><span style="font-weight: bold">, the billionaire <span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&#38;sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M">hedge fund operator,</a></span> says money managers would find </span>ways to manipulate cap-and-trade markets. <span style="font-weight: bold">“The system </span></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&#38;sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M"><span style="text-decoration: underline">can be gamed,</span></a></span><span style="color: #cc0000">” Soros</span>, 79, remarked&#8230;. “That’s why financial types <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&#38;sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">like me like it</span></span></a> &#8212; because there are</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ceres.org/Page.aspx?pid=667">financial opportunities</a>.”&#8221; from Bloomberg News, 12/4/09, &#8220;<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&#38;sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M">Carbon Capitalists Warming to climate market using derivatives</a>&#8221; by Lisa Kassenaar</li>
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<p>The <a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/30/lawrence-solomon-enron-s-other-secret.aspx">&#8216;climate industry&#8217; can make more</a> money if people believe a preoccupation with CO2 is part of everyday care of the environment.</p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #333333">Carbon markets are already the</span> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/6686057/European-Climate-Exchange-chief-Patrick-Birley-defends-the-carbon-trading-system.html">biggest profit centers at</a> investment banks in Europe.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/6912667/Carousel-frauds-plague-European-carbon-trading-markets.html">Organized crime has</a> found them easy markets to take over. The need to care for the environment should not be confused or hijacked by <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7000063.ece">carbon trading profiteers</a><span style="font-weight: bold">.</span></li>
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<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2009/04/16/live-ceres-conference-robert-redford-charms-audience">Wall Street realized there was money</a> to be made in &#8216;going green.&#8217;&#8221; Robert Redford, April 2009</p>
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<li>&#8220;<span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://www.heliogenic.net/2010/10/30/cry-for-california/">Cry for California</a></span>&#8220;</li>
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		<link>http://www.redstate.com/katesmith/2010/10/31/california-cap-and-trade-faqs-show-why-hedge-fund-billionaires-care-so-much-about-climate/</link>
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