What UKIP stands for. It's been more than 100 years since a national election in UK was won by other than Conservatives and Labour-BBC

5/26/14, "What UKIP victory means," BBC, Nick Robinson

"It is over 100 years since a national election has been won by a party other than the Conservatives and Labour. 

What's more the UK Independence Party did it by winning seats not just in every region of England but in Wales and Scotland too.

The impact of the result will be immediate."...

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UKIP Issues: "What We Stand For"

"These are anxious and troubled times. As crisis follows crisis, our politicians do nothing in the face of dangers rearing up all around us.

Taxes and Government debt rise. Energy and transport costs soar. Unemployment is too high. The NHS and state education strain under a population increase of 4 million since 2001.

Another wave of uncontrolled immigration comes from the EU (this time Bulgaria and Romania). Yet the political class tells us the EU is good for the UK.

A gulf has opened between the ruling elite and the public. Because they must all follow Brussels diktats, each of the establishment main parties is now so similar voters have no real choice.

The EU controls Immigration, Business and Employment, Financial Services, Fishing, Farming, Energy and Trade. It seeks now to control Law and Order, Foreign Affairs and Tax. Only outside the EU can we start to solve the problems our country faces....

Protect Our Borders

• Regain control of our borders and of immigration - only possible by leaving the EU.
• Immigrants must financially support themselves and their dependents for 5 years. This means private health insurance (except emergency medical care), private education and private housing - they should pay into the pot before they take out of it.
• A points-based visa system and time-limited work permits.
• Proof of private health insurance must be a precondition for immigrants and tourists to enter the UK. 

Rebuild Prosperity 

• Save £55m a day in membership fees by leaving the EU and give British workers first crack at the 800,000 jobs we currently advertise to EU workers. • No tax on the minimum wage.

• Enroll unemployed welfare claimants onto community schemes or retraining workfare programmes.
• Scrap HS2, all green taxes and wind turbine subsidies.
• Develop shale gas to reduce energy bills and free us from dependence on foreign oil and gas - place the tax revenues into a British Sovereign Wealth Fund.
• UKIP will abolish inheritance tax. Inheritance tax brings in under £4bn - less than a third of what we spend on foreign aid. The super-rich avoid it, while modest property owners get caught by it. It hits people during a time of grief and UKIP will budget in its 2015 spending plans to completely abolish this unfair death tax. 
• Make cuts to foreign aid that are real and rigorous.... 
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Free Speech and Democracy
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*No to Political Correctness - it stifles free speech.
• The law of the land must apply to us all. We oppose any other system of law.
• Teach children positive messages and pride in their country. We want to unite through better integration.
UKIP is a patriotic party that believes in putting Britain first. Only UKIP will return self-government to the British people." 

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5/22/14, "UKIP leader Nigel Farage condemns David Cameron for "breaking a solemn promise to the British people to get net annual immigration down to the tens of thousands"

"Mr Farage spoke out as new official statistics showed that with less than a year to the end of the parliamentary term, net immigration is running at well above 200,000.

And it is immigration from other EU countries that is most out of control because Britain is powerless to stem the flow while we remain a member of the Brussels club."...

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Comment: Translation: Parasites who've profited from the global warming industry for a generation should prepare for work in a field that isn't imaginary. Stealing from the taxpayer was only going to last a few decades, let's face it. Organized crime has made billions off this scam and no doubt plans to continue doing so. Horse heads may appear in beds. Bad timing for Prince Charles, he'll have to think of another way to keep the monarchy afloat than ordering commoners in the UK, the US, and elsewhere to embrace poverty.

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Argentina in talks with partners to share in its shale boom-Bloomberg

5/24/14, "Argentina Turns to Next Shale Partners as Chevron Triples Output," Bloomberg via Washington Post, Adam Williams and Pablo Gonzalez

"Petroliam Nasional Bhd. is among a group of producers looking to enter Argentina’s nascent shale boom, according to state-owned oil company YPF SA.

 
Petronas, as Malaysia’s state oil and gas company is known, is negotiating a binding deal with YPF to develop an area in southwestern Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale formation after signing a preliminary accord Feb. 18, Doris Capurro, YPF’s director of communications, said.

“We are continuing conversations” with Petronas, Doris Capurro, YPF’s communications director, said in an interview in La Jolla, California yesterday. “They are very interested in what we are doing in Vaca Muerta, like many other companies we are holding talks with.”

Argentina is seeking partners to develop Vaca Muerta, an area the size of Belgium that holds at least 23 billion barrels of oil, according to a survey by Ryder Scott, in a bid to become energy independent. YPF’s output from the Loma Campana area in Vaca Muerta rose to 12,800 barrels a day from 4,200 after investing $1.2 billion in a pilot year with Chevron Corp.

The company, which President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner expropriated from Spain’s Repsol SA in 2012, is also in conversations with Petroleos Mexicanos, Capurro said, without disclosing the subject of the talks. Mexico is pushing through legislation to open up its oil and gas fields, including shale, to foreign investment.

New Find

Petronas’s preliminary deal is to develop a 187-square kilometer (72 square-mile) area called La Amarga Chica in Neuquen province, northwest of Loma Campana, where the Chevron pilot may become a $16 billion project.

YPF announced this week its first unconventional discovery outside of Vaca Muerta at El Trebol in the D-129 formation.

Capurro called for changes to Argentina’s 1967 hydrocarbons law to cater to offshore and unconventional operations and greater environmental protection demands.

“The company thinks some rules of the game should be revised to include shale,” she said."

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Rain in Queens, Diamondbacks at Mets postponed, doubleheader Sunday

5/23/14, "The New York Mets grounds crew rolls out the tarp to cover the field as rain begins to fall during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks," at Citi Field in New York," AP





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Due to lack of global warming in Denver, Colorado Rockies game v San Francisco Giants suspended for second and last time, no makeup date yet

5/22/14, "Head grounds keeper Mark Razum (C) helps his crew put the tarp on the field in the sixth inning as the game between the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies was delayed for second time at Coors Field on May 22, 2014 in Denver, Colorado." getty. Score tied 2-2.


5/22/14, "Giants, Rockies Suspended Due To Rain, No Makeup Date Yet," AP via denver.cbslocal.com


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Rain delay in the sixth in Washington DC vs Cincinnati Reds, lack of global warming drought lasted one hour and one minute

5/21/14, "A few fans brave the rain during a rain delay in the sixth inning of a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the Cincinnati Reds at Nationals Park, in Washington, DC, ap, Final score, 2-1, Reds over Nationals. Rain delay lasted one hour and one minute
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Russia's Putin signs 30 year natural gas deal with China-BBC

5/21/14, "Russia's Putin signs 30 year gas deal with China," BBC

"Russia's President Vladimir Putin has signed multi-billion dollar, 30-year gas deal with China.

The deal between Russia's Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has been 10 years in the making. No official price has been given but it estimated to be worth over $400bn.

Russia has been keen to find an alternative energy market for its gas as it faces the possibility of European sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine.

Gazprom shares rose 2% on the news.

The agreement, signed at a summit in Shanghai, is expected to deliver some 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year eastward to China's burgeoning economy, starting around 2018.

The main argument has been over price and China is thought to have been driving a hard bargain.

Over the last ten years it has found other gas suppliers. 

Turkmenistan is now China's largest foreign gas supplier, and last year it started importing piped natural gas from Myanmar.

Rain Newton-Smith, head of emerging markets at Oxford Economics, said: "The whole tenet of the deal has a symbolic value - it says that the two countries are prepared to work with one another. For instance there were other elements such as Chinese participation in Russian transport infrastructure and power generation. 

"It is similar in many ways to China's investments in Africa where they drive a hard bargain over the price of raw materials but then provide infrastructure for the economies they are doing business with."

Siberian power
 
Another sticking point has been the construction of pipelines into China.

Currently there is one complete pipeline that runs across Russia's Far East to the Chinese border, called "The Power of Siberia". It was started in 2007, three years after Gazprom and CNPC signed their initial agreement in 2004.

But financing the $22-30bn cost of sending it into China has been central to the latest discussions.

China is Russia's largest single trading partner, with bilateral trade flows of $90bn (£53bn) in 2013.

The two neighbours aim to double the volume to $200bn in ten years." image from BBC




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German taxpayer subsidies for renewable electricity are useless says April 2014 UN IPCC climate report. Unfortunately, this scientific finding didn't appear in German gov. official translation of the UN report to its taxpayers-Die Welt

5/18/14, "The brazen report falsification of climate trickster," Die Welt, by Daniel Wetzel, Microsoft translation from German
 
"The UN climate protection report debunks the German promotion of green electricity as useless. It has noted no one. Because the Government has distorted the statements in the official summary gross." 

"Brave new world of green electricity? The clear verdict of the UN about the climate policy futility of eco-electricity subsidies for simultaneous trading does not appear in the German summary." photo caption

"German consumers have subsidized renewable energy while with triple-digit billions. But that has brought nothing to climate protection. It says so in the recent climate protection the UN report, which was presented in April of the public accordingly, but quite clearly. Noted that no one has so far, however.

One of the reasons for this is quite simple: the Federal Government has simply embezzled the findings of UN scientists in the official German summary ("core messages"). More embarrassing passages from the UN document were wrong in the summary almost into its opposite.

Action on climate change

But in turn: on April 14, the World Climate Council of the United Nations had presented recent and up to date major report to the global climate protection of the public his. While in the previous reports of the "Intergovernmental Panel on climate change" (IPCC) went to causes and effects of climate change, the "third part report on the IPCC's fifth assessment report" dealt with the possible countermeasures.

The advice of the UN IPCC panel of utmost importance are for policy makers. Should you tackle climate change with the introduction of CO2 taxes? Advisable are subsidies for renewables or nuclear power? Or it takes in the fight against the greenhouse effect, if one builds a trading, forcing the industry and power plant operators to purchase so-called emission rights, for every tonne of carbon dioxide, that want to blow them into the air?

On these and similar issues 235 leading scientists from 58 countries had thought four years intensively. Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) listen as carefully as IPCC Chief Rajendra Pachauri and the co-Chairman of the relevant IPCC Working Group III, Ottmar Edenhofer, the results presented on April 14 in the Auditorium maximum of the Technical University of Berlin.

Clear sides

Only: For a deeper analysis of the several thousand pages of strong UN report wasn't enough at the presentation of course. The "technical summary" alone includes 99 pages of complicated science poetry in English. And also the English-language "summary supplied by the IPCC for decision makers" with a circumference of 33 pages for politicians with a closely synchronised schedule remained a challenge.

Even greater journalists, lecturers, and environmental groups took it there, that that provided a pretty clear with four pages summary of "Key messages" of the IPCC report German Federal ministries and authorities for climate protection.

Responsible for the German summary four highly influential institutions: leading the Ministry of the environment, the Federal Environmental Agency in Dessau and the Federal Ministry for research and education are involved also the German IPCC Coordination Office in Bonn. The paper, you should think is a reputable source for the interpretation of the findings of the IPCC. That the Ministerial summary does not match the original text in important ways, no one knew.

Eco-electricity pointless - if there are Finance

So the IPCC highlights the futility of political climate of eco-electricity subsidies within an emissions trading system in his report: "The add-add a CO2 reduction policy to a second do not necessarily lead to a greater CO2 emissions", it means in literal translation in the "technical summary" of the United Nations: "In an emissions trading scheme with a sufficiently strict caps, other measures such as subsidizing renewable energy have no further influence on the entire CO2 emissions."

So now the IPCC confirmed that say the Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of Economics, the monopolies Commission, or the President of the Ifo Institute, Hans-Werner Sinn for years: under a solid cover of the European emissions trading scheme with its precisely counted number of pollution rights, eco-electricity subsidies lead only to a shift of CO2 emissions,  

but not to their reduction.

Wind farms displace as a coal power station, the total CO2 emissions of the plant in the form of emission rights is the market again available. The range is larger, other European power plant operators can operate accordingly cheaper from this free coupon quota. The CO2 emissions avoided in Germany are blown then beyond the confines of someone different in the air. Key to climate protection is only that the total amount of pollution rights distributed in Europe in any case cannot be exceeded.

Lacking clear verdict in summary

But this clear verdict of the IPCC about the climate policy futility of eco-electricity subsidies for simultaneous trading does not appear in the German summary. The only comment to this complex reads completely differently here: "emissions trading will reduce the effectiveness of other measures, unless the number of acceptable certificates will be flexibly adapted."

The difference is clear: the United Nations explain emissions trading to a suitable instrument, which eliminates the need for subsidies for renewable energy. The German translation turns the tables and makes the emissions trading scheme to the culprit who supposedly "will reduce the effectiveness of other measures".

Is questionable, what the United Nations - supposedly - to the design of emissions trading even say: "For the success of emissions trading rights it is necessary to achieve high enough prices for emission allowances to provide incentives for a low-carbon energy sources," it says in the summary of the Federal Government. Why must the number of tradable emission rights also "flexible"be adapted.

Ministry: "first explained in an understandable form"

With this representation, the German authorities turn the statements of the IPCC report into its opposite.

As emissions trading is by definition a system that provided a number of freely tradeable emission coupons allowing free market prices may arise for these pollution rights. From this system of fixed amounts and flexible prices, the German translation makes a system of flexible volumes, 

to enforce as high prices of emission rights.

Straight run contrary to the principle of emissions trading: because the demand is "flexible" adaptation of the tradable amounts of emission certificates in direct contradiction to the statement of the IPCC report, according to which the maximum number of emission certificates should be "binding".

The statement that high CO2 prices for the success of emissions trading would be "necessary", as the German translation will have us believe, is nowhere found in the original. In principle, and that is precisely the great advantage of emissions trading, the CO2 targets are achieved even if resulting low prices for emission allowances on the market. Climate protection can be also cheap, market mechanisms prevail. That the EU has set itself from the outset only relatively modest CO2 reduction targets, is not to be blamed on emissions trading: the instrument itself therefore does not work equally well.

The Environment Ministry referred a request on the German IPCC Coordination Office. There is incitement to off. The "key messages" are not actually "to a literal or even official translation of the IPCC report", says a spokeswoman about the paper on which the logos of Ministry of environment, Ministry of research, and federal environmental agency can be seen. It was "a first discussion of the report in an intelligible form". The statements made are various passages of the UN report "derived from" been. "Also should be taken into account, that the core messages ', which were developed in collaboration with authors of the IPCC report, statements made in the report can reflect much condensed."

IPCC: "we have not written so that"

The scientists of the IPCC but respond very perplexed, as they were confronted with the German translation of its core messages of the "Welt am Sonntag". "We have not written, so that in the report of the IPCC" Ottmar Edenhofer determines which leading participated in the formulation of the original reports of the UN as co-Chair of working group III. "It is basically not the task of an emissions trading scheme, to generate high prices." "The English original text is authoritative," says Edenhofer, who also Deputy Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam's Institute for climate impact research (PIK). Then what "the ministries or other institutions that do, is not in my hands".

The Federal Association of emissions trading and climate protection (BVEK) the interpretation of the IPCC report considers a "scandal". "Major statements of the UN Panel were wrong straight into its opposite", criticized Association Chief Jürgen Hacker: "The demand for highest possible CO2 prices have nothing to do with the statements in the UN report at all, correspond to the interest of the Federal Ministry of the environment but very good."

Actually, the recent decline of CO2 prices brings the Environment Ministry in trouble. Because through the auctioning of emission certificates a billionaire was supposed "Energy and climate fund" be fed from several environmental programs of the Ministry of Barbara Hendricks should be funded. Because the proceeds from the auctions are down less than expected, the Ministry is forced to rely on taxpayers for the fulfilment of its commitments.

The Ministry of environment should be of opinion that subsidies for renewable energy despite functioning emissions trading are meaningful or that emissions trading works only with artificially increased CO2 prices. "One can't do Ministry", finds Hacker: "It may the public not pretend that this is also the opinion of the IPCC, the United Nations."" image, dpa. via Free Rep.

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5/19/14, "German Govt Falsifies Climate Report Translation To Hide Green Policy Failure," Breitbart London, M.E. Synon

"The German Ministry of Environment has falsified the conclusions of a UN climate change report in the German-language version released last week, in an attempt to hide the fact that the country's 'green policies' are useless.

The ministry’s four-page summary of the report contains outright contradictions and falsifications of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommendations, apparently made to hide UN criticism of the way the German government has turned emissions-trading into a cash cow for futile renewable energy projects.

Die Welt said on Sunday that parts of the thousands of pages-long English-language report which the ministry found embarrassing were mistranslated in the government’s “core messages” version released to the German news media and public.

“The UN declares emissions trading an effective instrument that makes subsidies for renewable energy unnecessary. But the German government reverses the conclusion and makes emissions trading the culprit that supposedly ‘constricts the impact of other measures’,” Die Welt reported.

According to Pierre Gosselin, writing on the independent climate news website notrickszone.com, this “brings us yet another spectacular scandal, one that shows how the Environment Ministry of the German government is not really interested in climate science after all, but in using the climate issue as an instrument to generate hundreds of millions of euros for funding pet environmental programmes.”

Die Welt said the UN report debunks German green energy as useless.

The newspaper called the Ministry of Environment version “the brazen falsification of a climate trickster,” explaining that: “Emissions trading is by definition a system in which a number of freely tradable emission certificates is prescribed so that free market prices can result for the emissions certificates. From this system of a fixed certificate number and flexible prices, the German translation turns it into a system of flexible certificate numbers to force the highest possible price for emission rights.”

According to Gosselin’s interpretation of the Die Welt article, the Ministry of Environment was banking on high CO2 certificate prices. The auctioning of emission certificates was supposed “to feed a billion-euro energy and climate fund which in turn would finance a number of environment programs of Ministry, led by Barbara Hendricks. Now that certificate prices are so low, the German Ministry has to go begging for money.”

Meanwhile the German Association for Emissions Trading and Climate Protection (BVEK) views the misinterpretations of the IPCC report as “a scandal". 

Die Welt reports: “‘Essential statements of the UN IPCC were simply reversed to say the opposite,’ criticised association director Jürgen Hacker: ‘The demand for the highest possible CO2 prices have nothing to do with that statements of the UN report, but they do correspond very well to the interests of the German Federal Ministry of Environment.’”

The original UN report included a 99-page Technical Summary in English, and a 33-page Summary for Policymakers, also in English. The government agencies responsible for helping the Ministry of Environment with the dishonest translation were the German IPCC Coordination Office in Bonn, the Federal Environmental Agency in Dessau and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Die Welt points out that with such ministries behind the translation no one suspected that the summary did not match the original in important ways."
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May 18, 2014,  "Explosive scandal..."Climate tricksters" of German government "Brazenly falsify" UN IPCC recommendations," Pierre Gosselin, No Tricks Zone

Explosive Scandal…”Climate Tricksters” Of German Government “Brazenly Falsify” UN IPCC Recommendations

By P Gosselin on 18. Mai 2014

- See more at: http://notrickszone.com/2014/05/18/explosive-scandal-climate-tricksters-of-german-government-brazenly-falsify-un-ipcc-recommendations/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#sthash.79eTP0YG.dpuf

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