According to this report from top newspaper The Age (Melbourne): "The Government will permanently exclude agricultural emissions and give farmers access to credits for good farming practices such as tree planting."

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With the tabling of the highly controversial Emissions Trading Scheme, the public debate on climate change is heating up. Some may call this a test of character for our current government. It is certainly polarising many people in their opinions.

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The taxpayer-funded research organization CSIRO has reportedly stopped publication of a peer-reviewed research article by a top ecological economist critical of Obama-style carbon trading-based ETS approach

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Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) finalized a months-long process with their endorsement of direct carbon pricing, with revenue recycling as the preferred method for reducing carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.

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Top environmentalist, physicist Dr Vandana Shiva on the injustice of carbon offsetting: "The science of climate change is now clear, but the politics is very muddy...regulating by carbon trading is like fiddling as Rome burns."

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"Most experts agree that a Carbon Tax, based on a global price for carbon, would be the simplest and most logical way to use market forces to bring down greenhouse gas emissions". Others won't - but France may do it!

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Su Ming, deputy director of the Institute of Financial Science in the Ministry of Finance, said the government is working on plans to impose an environment tax, an energy tax and a carbon tax to decrease pollution.

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Dr James Hansen (Head, NASA's GISS): "For all its "green" aura, Waxman-Markey locks in fossil fuel business-as-usual and garlands it with a Ponzi-like "cap-and-trade" scheme... bill's egregious flaws"

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"True" environmentalists oppose ACF, the World Wildlife Fund & Climate Institute backing of pro-coal Australian Government's Carbon Trading ETS (which increases GHG pollution) & both sides seek Al Gore support.

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Top US analyst and writer Stephen Lendman slams the Cap-and -Trade Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) of the Obama Waxman-Markey Energy Bill as "A Stealth Scheme to License Pollution and Fraud"

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Dr Hansen argues for Carbon Tax & slams ETS: "It takes about 10 years to negotiate it [cap-and-trade ETS] and get all the countries on board, and then you make all sort of compromises, so it turns to be very ineffectual,"

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Professor Nordhaus (Yale): "To bet the world's climate system and global environment on an untested approach with such clear structural flaws would appear a reckless gamble ... [need] a tax on greenhouse-gas emissions"

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Britain's faith in carbon trading as a way of reducing greenhouse gases could be dangerously misplaced - in short it is based on a carbon price but the recent global market failure says that this price may also collapse.

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"Although there are many doubters of man-made climate change, I am not yet one of them. But I remain unconvinced that carbon dioxide is the sole bête noire..."

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Rejecting flawed pro-coal ETS scheme, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Wilderness Society & others (over 400,000 members) say policies of pro-coal Australian Government (supported by Green "traitors") a failure.

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"In these 2009 progressions of crop patterns so far, it seems like the circlemakers are describing a combined 'solar flare and coronal mass ejection' on the apogee full Moon of July 7, 2009." - Australian scientist

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The stargates According to Dan, there are 3 types of, what we would call, stargates. These are portals that allow the user to either see the future or travel through space time.

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Army set to reduce enlistment, re-enlistment bonuses on March 1st

If you are a soldier who is within one year of your ETS date, you might want to re-enlist now! After March 1, 2009, re-enlistment bonuses will be reduced from $15,000 to $10,000. The same reduction applies to soldiers who are deploying.

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"Everyone knows that second-hand smoke is bad, but they don't know about this," said Dr. Jonathan P. Winickoff, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

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bcb-Carbon credits have no value other than that imputed by politicians, who created carbon-concerns as a political tool.

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THE truth about UFOs is out there – but it is being hushed up by the Government. That's the view of almost half the people surveyed in an exclusive Sun poll, with many more claiming to have seen a UFO or believing in them.

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Australia's top research organization CSIRO in a report entitled "Fuel for Thought" predicts a 5-fold increase in petrol prices in the coming decade due to "peak oil" and supply/demand constraints.

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Professor Ross Garnaut warned of dire consequences: "Without early and strong action, some time before 2020 we will realise we have indelibly surrendered to forces that have moved beyond our control."

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Anti-Smoking Laws: Their Past, Present, and Future - Part 3 of 3 - [Poll]

Arguments regarding anti-smoking laws addressed in Part I included, "Tobacco Use Is a Serious Problem Worldwide" (Tobacco and Smoking, 143)* and "The Problems Associated with Tobacco Use Worldwide Are Exaggerated" (148).

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Anti-Smoking Laws: Their Past, Present, and Future - Part 2 of 3 - [Poll]

Even in the 50s with newspaper headlines and respected magazine articles saying things like, "Cigarettes: On Trial Again" or "Coffin Nails Take Another Beating" (Burns, 209)*, the tobacco industry advertised (209). It was a crisis, but their tactic still worked.

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