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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 30, 2009

Today is the last day of Movem­ber and how appro­pri­ate and awful that I suf­fered one of my dark­est days in a long while. This is the thing with depres­sion, you can be going along nicely then all of a sud­den you have a night with lit­tle sleep for no rea­son and the fol­low­ing day you can’t, and I mean can’t, even get out of bed. You just want to hide from the world and wish every­one would leave you alone. You can from my lack of posts today that I just wasn’t there. I love blog­ging but I just couldn’t bring myself to even write one word. I’m not going to post a photo of the last day of my mo, I look and feel terrible.

And so on the last day of Movem­ber I pretty much did noth­ing at all, just lay on my bed and stared. I hardly slept at all last night and I hardly slept today. Just a kind of cata­tonic, do noth­ing sta­sis which saps the energy from you like a black hole. The tight­ness in the chest, the tense mus­cles, the aching arm from the tense-ness, they must all be a fig­ment of my imag­i­na­tion accord­ing to the insur­ance com­pany. The short­ness of breathe from a very fit per­son, the hyper-vigilance in large crowds, all imag­in­ery. The utter exhaus­tion from a sim­ple trip to a shop­ping mall is imag­ined too. That is just some of the things that I feel.

This ain’t fun and the c*nts from the left who keep post­ing com­ments about it really fuck me off. I’m telling you that no-one chooses this ife and it isn’t just a case of tak­ing your harden the fuck up pills either. If it was I’d be fine.

There aren’t that many peo­ple out there tougher than me, either in their beliefs, stand­ing up for what they believe in or even phys­i­cally. I don’t give in and never shy from a fight but this fight of mine for the past 5 years has been the tough­est fight of my life. That is why it irks me that I have to sue an insur­ance com­pany, that I have to prove what my clos­est of friends already know, what my doc­tors and sup­port peo­ple know.

But they have to know that I don’t give in and that I have barely started to fight back, but fight back I will. Peo­ple tell me I am mad to share things like this but the one thing I have never done is hide any­thing, I have never shirked from shar­ing so that oth­ers may know. There are no skeletons.

Thank you to those few who sup­port me through this, you know who you are, and thanks to those who have donated to Movember.

To spon­sor my Mo, you can either:

•    Click this link http://nz.movember.com/mospace/17568/ and donate online using your credit card
•    Write a cheque payable to ‘Movem­ber’, ref­er­enc­ing my Reg­is­tra­tion Num­ber 17568 and mail­ing it to: Movem­ber, PO Box 12 708, Welling­ton 6144

Remem­ber, all dona­tions over $5 are tax deductible.

Thanks

Wha­le­oil

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 30, 2009

Com­plete idiocy from the Depart­ment of Labour. Haven’t they heard that ALL the major web browsers, Inter­net Explorer, Mozilla Fire­fox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera and have been since 1995. As for the report­ing solu­tion there are many Open Source solu­tions tht are also free.

Clearly the plonkers in the DoL IT depart­ment are bereft of any nouce and the the whole palce should be out­sourced immediately.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 30, 2009

Appear­ing on The Alex Jones Show yes­ter­day, Lord Christo­pher Mon­ck­ton went fur­ther than ever before in his vehe­ment oppo­si­tion to the elit­ists run­ning the cli­mate change scam, call­ing for the UN to be shut down and for fraud­u­lent ped­dlers of global warm­ing pro­pa­ganda like Al Gore to be arrested and crim­i­nally prosecuted.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 29, 2009

Labour has copped another shel­lack­ing in the lat­est One­News Col­mar Brun­ton poll.

But National remains unscathed still on 53%, Labour slips back to 31%, the Greens bounce back to 7%, the Maori Party’s on 3% and ACT on 2%.

Goff is hardly rel­e­vant, scor­ing just 5 % in the pre­ferred PM stakes while John key sits high above him at 54%.

This poll though was taken before the ETS deba­cle so it will be inter­est­ing to see other polls com­ing out sub­se­quent to this.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 29, 2009

Lisa for Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year AwardWhile the Her­ald on Sun­day was fol­low­ing a fraud for their big story of the week­end the Sun­day News and Sun­day Star Times show that they are more social media savvy than their coun­ter­parts and have both writ­ten about the nom­i­na­tion of Lisa Lewis for the Veuve Clic­quot Busi­ness Woman of the Year Award.

I think both arti­cles are well writ­ten and the SST arti­cle even both­ered to look at the rea­sons behind the nom­i­na­tion which were con­tained on the nom­i­na­tion form. That is admirable report­ing from their perspective.

Jonathan Mar­shall resisted the urge to go tacky and has also writ­ten a nice piece with some very good quotes from Lisa Lewis as well.

I was sur­prised that I had been nom­i­nated, but then upon say­ing that, with the way I con­duct busi­ness I am also left feel­ing finally appre­ci­ated. I am incred­i­bly hum­bled, priv­i­leged and excited to have been nominated.

I feel that it is a val­i­da­tion to me and the pro­fes­sion that I am in,” Lewis said.

I am an hon­est per­son – in fact one of the very few that uses my own name which con­firms how hon­est I really am in my business.”

Fan­tas­tic quote. In Lisa’s line of busi­ness there is no cheat­ing and lying and false adver­tis­ing, it is what it is and hon­esty and integrity are the best policy.

That is the point really. Annah Stret­ton who is a pre­vi­ous win­ner makes and sells clothes. Almost any­one can do that. Another win­ner Julie Christie makes real­ity TV shows about peo­ple like Lisa Lewis, how hard can that be? Her next show for good­ness sake is said to be “New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker” Might I sug­gest that Lisa Lewis takes up bak­ing. The whole arti­cle looks like Julie Christie is mak­ing another bid for the award with her PR schmoozed arti­cle in the Sun­day Star Times. It all reads a bit like a press release and is a bit sad really. The SST only spiced it up with some com­ments from Char­lotte Daw­son and a men­tion of Julie’s alleged new rent-boy.

Lisa in stark con­trast is sell­ing a prod­uct most of soci­ety shuns or doesn’t under­stand in a very com­pet­i­tive mar­ket where many, many women even give it away for free. The fact that she gets top dol­lar and isn’t short of clients shows how savvy a busi­ness woman she really is.

Mean­while Lisa’s online sup­port­ers con­tinue to join the Face­book group sup­port­ing her. Now at 458 mem­bers. Let’s make this com­pe­ti­tion about real busi­ness women not one for multi-million dol­lar estab­lish­ment tossers.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 29, 2009

As per­haps the only per­son who has ever stood up to Pearl Going I think I am jus­ti­fied is say­ing I told you so to all those wankers who defended her and her fraud­u­lent way. That includes the lefty wanker Rus­sell Brown and the putz lawyer Steven Price who unsuc­cess­fully tried to sue me. Fuck you both, today I have been vindicated.

Pearl Going is a faker, a liar and a fraud and today the Her­ald on Sun­day finally grew some balls and ran a story con­trary to Pork Chop’s glow­ing endorse­ment of the liar.

Remem­ber the lying bitch even went to the police over my claims about her.

Any­way today the HoS cov­ers the mag­i­cal Wai­heke Island Mys­tery Tour arranged by the liar and faker Pearl Going. The lies just con­tinue to grow.

So far we know this about Pearl Going;

  • Speaks Ara­bic, French and Span­ish but can barely type in English
  • Has a BSc from Otago. (They have no record)
  • she also says she has no degree
  • Says she went to Senior Col­lege (They have no record)
  • Says she went to Oxford Uni­ver­sity in 2006 where she stud­ied Human Sci­ences, Pol­i­tics and Inter­na­tional Rela­tions at New Col­lege. She says she stud­ied med­i­cine for two and a half years at Oxford. (I have a let­ter from Oxford say­ing she never, ever enrolled)
  • also AUT in 2002 where she stud­ied Human Sciences
  • also Can­ter­bury in 2005 where she stud­ied inter­na­tional studies
  • she says she has a pilot’s licence but won’t say where from.
  • Says she last flew up north but will give no details.
  • Says her “Clean” jeans are made in NZ She wont say where. She says they are sold at a store in LA She wont say where. She also says they are sold a “best seller” in Barneys
  • She says she sourced the red silk for Natalie Portman’s dress for Zac Posen,
  • She says she was engaged to  Leon Roth­schild and that he slashed his wrists at the end of last year when she broke off with him.
  • She says she is a friend of NY socialite Tins­ley Mortimer.
  • Says she is mates with Marc Jacobs and was his fab­ric buyer and that she was Zac Posen’s muse.
  • When asked if the Tins­ley Mor­timer quote on her Face­book was about her and she went all coy and smiled.
  • She says she was in Brazil doing char­ity work and saved lives in a plane crash which she was in.
  • She has sib­lings by dif­fer­ent fathers. The sib­lings are part maori
  • She says 2 weeks before her 16th birth­day she was drugged and raped by [removed by request of per­son con­cern] who abused her for six hours and then left her body in a dump­ster. [per­son’ name deleted as per request] is a pilot now liv­ing in the UK. I am told he is a very very decent and good young guy.
  • She says she has breast cancer
  • She says her mother has can­cer of the colon and is going into hospital.
  • She says her father is an alco­holic because of what hap­pened to “his lit­tle girl”.
  • She says she sup­ports orphan­ages in Burma, Fiji and Sierra Leone but will give no details. She pic­tures of her­self with Thai kids.
  • She says she worked for Fair­Trade and Amnesty.
  • She says she has spent 71 days in NZ in 2008 and maybe 6 months in NY in 2007 but she is in and out a lot so no specifics.
  • The Clean Green Air com­pany doesn’t google.
  • She did used to work for Pow­er­call as a telemarketer
  • Her mum’s name is Max­ine 021 18X XXXX. She is a mas­sage ther­a­pist and cleaner
  • She applied for a job at Fair­Trade with a steth­escope hang­ing out of her bag and wear­ing scrubs. and she got job with forged refs from Oxford that said she was the bright­est stu­dent they had seen.
  • Says she is  23 and 28
  • Says she lives off Trust Fund
  • Says she dated Peter Hujlich but threw a glass of wine on him when he called Peter Stew­art a pae­dophile. He denies even know­ing Peter Stewart
  • Has a hand­bag label using pleather – which is sup­pos­edly eco-friendly leather but which is actu­ally plastic
  • Was a pilot in Brazil, saved every­one in a crash with her med­ical degree
  • Grew up on a farm in South­land next to the Stew­arts, Pieter is her mum’s best friend also that she grew up in Tutakaka in a hippy family
  • Worked for the UN for years
  • Has been offered a job by Kate Sylvester after know­ing her ten minutes
  • Been on a yacht with Richard Bran­son, who is her “friend” watch­ing the moon rise

Now we can add doesn’t own and nor does her fam­ily a multi-million dol­lar man­sion on Wai­heke Island. In fact her and her mad mother prob­a­bly have just lost their clean­ing con­tract for the man­sion they “borrowed”.

This woman is a men­ace to soci­ety and noth­ing more than a con-woman and a fraud. Isaac Likes is onto it and he was there. His story in two parts so far is riv­et­ing. I’ll just bet that the old lady on the bus who was the Fed-Ex rep was her mad mother.

I can also reveal yet another pseu­do­nym for the Pearler. Recently a per­son I have never met asked to be my friend on Face­book. I gen­er­ally don’t “friend” peo­ple I have never met or haven’t been rec­om­mended by peo­ple I do know and even then I check, but my sus­pi­cions were aroused. That per­son is Lara McNa­mara.Five dif­fer­ent peo­ple have warned me that this per­son is one of the alter ego’s of Pearl Going.

It is clear that Pearl Going has some sort of per­son­al­ity dis­or­der that makes her cre­ate mul­ti­ple per­son­al­i­ties and live a life of com­plete fan­tasy. The sad thing is that she has friends that enable her to do this. Hope­fully after this dis­as­ter she will have been stopped or at the very least learned her lesson.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 28, 2009

Who would have thought that New Zealand had cor­rupt swin­dling lawyers. Espe­cially after the usual clap­trap from trans­parency inter­na­tional, the to pol­icy wonks who sit in cor­po­rate lux­ury in Welling­ton and declare New Zealand to be cor­rup­tion free.

Yet here we have the major New Zealand daily in their biggest paper of the week, the Sat­ur­day edi­tion with the front page head­lines telling us we have per­haps 200 cor­rupt lawyers swin­dling the legal aid system.

Dame Mar­garet Baz­ley must be com­mended because in say­ing that she is tak­ing on the estab­lish­ment. As Cor­po­ral Jones says “they won’t like it up them sir”. But the Her­ald arti­cle is but the tip of the iceberg.

Cac­tus Kate alerts us to NBR sub­scriber con­tent of a Judge who was in debt to a QC who unsur­pris­ingly kept on win­ning cases brought before him. The Judge owed the QC nearly a quar­ter of a mil­lion dol­lars. Essen­tially that Judge was bought and paid for. I hope he enjoys his retire­ment for he should be sacked immediately.

This of course will now play out again in the courts no doubt and in the var­i­ous law soci­eties round the coun­try and I’ll tell you some­thing right now for free, name sup­pres­sion will be exten­sively used because these folk are estab­lish­ment and the sys­tem will pro­tect their own.

Dame Mar­garet Baz­ley though will have only touched the tip of the ice­berg. If she thinks there are cor­rupt lawyers rort­ing the legal aid sys­tem there is a much larger prob­lem loom­ing where the large amounts of cash in the drug trade could lit­er­ally buy some­one a Judge, all the QC’s and even the jury. If there is cor­rup­tion in the Manukau Dis­trict court and cor­rup­tion in the QC’s cham­bers you may be sure that there is cor­rup­tion all the way in between.

This is the tip­ping point. We have had an MP jailed for cor­rup­tion, now we have a Judge, A QC and hun­dreds of lawyers being called cor­rupt. I think that Trans­parency Inter­na­tional can safely be ignored and we must face that New Zealand has become cor­rupt and it has slowly crept up on us like a thief in the night.

We MUST have an Inde­pen­dent Com­mis­sion against Cor­rup­tion and really rather urgently. no need to rein­vent the wheel either, sim­ply copy the Aus­tralian version.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 28, 2009

Wattsup­with­that shows exactly why NIWA has a prob­lem with their explanations.

NIWA’s expla­na­tion for the wild data manip­u­la­tion was because the Welling­ton sta­tion was moved in 1927. There is a slight prob­lem with that. The Weather Sta­tion at Kel­burn is on top of their build­ing that was built in the 1970’s mean­ing it was moved at least twice. Berend has pointed out that the weather sta­tion in the photo is in Auck­land. Nev­er­the­less their sta­tion in Khy­ber Pass, Auck­land isn’t com­pli­ant with NOAA rules for valid weather stations;

Class 1 (CRN1)- Flat and hor­i­zon­tal ground sur­rounded by a clear sur­face with a slope below 1/3 (<19deg). Grass/low veg­e­ta­tion ground cover <10 cen­time­ters high. Sen­sors located at least 100 meters from arti­fi­cial heat­ing or reflect­ing sur­faces, such as build­ings, con­crete sur­faces, and park­ing lots. Far from large bod­ies of water, except if it is rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the area, and then located at least 100 meters away. No shad­ing when the sun ele­va­tion >3 degrees.

and is sit­ting on a roof of a build­ing on top of a hill right next to air con­di­tion­ing units. You couldn’t get more “Urban Heat Sink” than that.

These guys have really been caught hang­ing out of the back of a goat sans trousers.

NIWA Kelburn Weather Station

NIWA Khy­ber Pass Weather Station

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 28, 2009

Paul Henry is fab­u­lous tele­vi­sion, it is refresh­ing to have some­one who essen­tially has a form of Tourettes Syn­drome as a Tele­vi­sion presenter.

He says what­ever pops into his head with not a care in the world. Fab­u­lous. He should have his own show where he gets to mock every­one all the time.

This time it is the ugly plain Susan Boyle he has offended and about 40 callers who had noth­ing bet­ter to do.

Susan BoyleRead­ing from a mag­a­zine arti­cle, he laughed as he described how she was “starved of oxy­gen” at birth and suf­fered an intel­lec­tual disability.

Here’s the really inter­est­ing rev­e­la­tion: she is in fact retarded …

And if you look at her care­fully, you can make it out,” he told view­ers. He also made fun of the fact she was “rit­u­al­is­ti­cally beaten” at school.

Lucky he didn’t sug­gest she was also a “lady with a mous­tache”, well she is, have you looked closely, there is def­i­nitely one there.

I can see the T-shirts now.

Actu­ally I think  Paul Henry has an intel­lec­tual dis­abil­ity too, apart from his obvi­ous Tourette’s, he is smarter, way smarter than the aver­age TV viewer.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 28, 2009

Finally the Lame Stream Media catches up with a weeks worth of blog con­tent and writes a story about the fraud that Cli­mate Sci­en­tists have per­pe­trated upon the cit­i­zens of the planet.

They have even pub­lished some of the more damn­ing emails. Why it took a week is beyond me, blogs and other world wide media have been report­ing this for a week now.

The genie is out of the bot­tle. Any­thing that the authors involved in those emails says is sus­pect, but espe­cially Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Jim Salinger.

The Her­ald does out­line both sides but that is good because you get to see how fee­ble the excuses are from the liars who have now become the deniers.

What amazes me is that New Zealand’s num­ber one blog­ger has yet to even post once on the issue despite a week of con­tro­versy. I know he is hob­bling around the mid­dle east too afraid to get on a camel’s back but really this is a pretty slack effort from a blog­ging pro­fes­sional. For once the LSM beat Far­rar to a story….incredible isn’t it?

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 27, 2009

Rod­ney Hide has done what Nick Smith has failed to do and ask for ALL the details of the data at NIWA so we can see if they are cheat­ing us or not. Why is it up to the only hon­est politi­cian to get the sci­en­tists to come clean on why data needs to be manip­u­lated at all, which data was manip­u­lated and the exact rea­sons why it was?

These are all valid rea­sons, espe­cially no that we have an ETS sys­tem that will crip­ple our econ­omy if main­tained. If the sci­ence is bogus then the ETS and asso­ci­ated bull­shit that goes with it be tossed out and then the pros­e­cu­tions can begin for the great­est fraud attempted to com­mit­ted on the global pop­u­la­tion in the his­tory of mankind.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 27, 2009

Glenda Fryer needs to be called out for this BS:

Coun­cil­lor Glenda Fryer said, “Sam Lotu-Iiga broke his social con­tract with the peo­ple of Tamaki-Maungakiekie when he nom­i­nated for Par­lia­ment in Feb­ru­ary 2008.  Vot­ers who elected him in Octo­ber 2007 voted for him on the basis that he would rep­re­sent them on the Auck­land City Coun­cil for the whole three years.”

Mean­while, Glenda Fryer her­self sought the Labour nom­i­na­tion for Mt Albert – appar­ently she her­self is quite will­ing to break this so called “social contract”.

Sam has actu­ally com­mit­ted to main­tain rep­re­sent­ing Maun­gakiekie res­i­dents on any coun­cil issues that arise, free of charge:

Deputy Mayor David Hay pointed out that there would be con­sid­er­able sav­ings to ratepay­ers by leav­ing the seat vacant.
Mr Lotu-Iiga who is also the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Maun­gakiekie has made a com­mit­ment to keep the coun­cil informed of issues his con­stituents liv­ing in the ward bring to his attention.

If Labour folk want to keep play­ing this card then they can expect the light of pub­lic scrutiny of their own actions to shine upon them.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 27, 2009

First up we had Creepy Cos­grove eat­ing a cake with Judith Collins’ face on it and now we have Creepy Charles trawl­ing the inter­net look­ing at young Act and National supporters/workers Face­book pages.

This is clas­sic stan­dard ped­erast behav­iour creep­ing along in the ether look­ing for likely subjects.

Why is it that Labour and left­ists in gen­eral such humour­less pricks. FFS these guys are meant to be MPs.

As Cac­tus Kate points out in her post about the work­ing poor, our only solu­tion for eco­nomic sal­va­tion in the wake of the ETS is to Dig, baby, Dig.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 27, 2009

Lock­wood Smith has launched into repeaters in the Press Gallery and laid down a challenge.

If the news­pa­pers do want to have a view and want to lobby on it, I’m very happy to issue them with a lob­by­ist card and relieve them of their [Press Gallery] offices here, and if they want to be lob­by­ists – fine.

You’ve seen how prin­ci­pled I’ve been in the cham­ber, I’ll take the same approach to other things as well.”

He has a very good point. Just the other day I wrote to the Speak­ers Office and asked what the square meter­age of the facil­i­ties offered to the Press Gallery was. The Speak­ers Office was not obliged to answer because Par­lia­men­tary Ser­vices which oper­ates par­lia­ment is not sub­ject to the OIA.

For­tu­nately for me the Speak­ers Office did reply and told me that;

the Press Gallery occupy approx­i­mately 880 square metres. The Gallery, which com­prises most of the major media out­lets, does not pay rent for this space. As the Exec­u­tive Wing is owned by the Crown, we do not have a bench­mark for the rental value for that space.”

I had asked for what the Press Gallery was pay­ing for the use of this space and the asso­ci­ated util­i­ties. The answer is of course noth­ing. A quick check of a Com­mer­cial Real Estate agent shows that in such a prime loca­tion, exem­plary fit-out, plus full util­i­ties shows that Par­lia­men­tary Ser­vices could rent out that 880 square meters for approx­i­mately $350 sqm. Mean­ing that Prlia­men­tary Ser­vices as the land­lord is for­go­ing around $308,000 in rental income. Now I under­stand that Press Gallery repeaters also get a carpark so add on $150 per week for a cov­ered carpark and for each repeater in the Gallery that comes to $7,800. There are 47 Full mem­bers of The Press Gallery so their carpark­ing would be worth another $366,600 bring­ing the total tax­payer sub­sidy to news organ­i­sa­tions to around $674,600.

Now look who is trough­ing. Those news organ­i­sa­tions don’t have to pay a cent towards the cost of hous­ing those repeaters. For the 47 Full mem­bers that equates to $14,353 of tax­payer sub­sidy to their respec­tive pub­li­ca­tions. I think it is time the tax­payer sent a bill to those news organisations.

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Whaleoil Submitted by : Whaleoil on Nov 27, 2009

Now that the gov­ern­ment has passed the ETS there exists the pos­si­bil­ity that there is another way for them to enrich them­selves with­out proper pub­lic scrutiny.

There­fore I pro­pose a change.

I believe that the MPs’ Reg­is­ter of Pecu­niary Inter­ests to now have a spe­cial sec­tion declar­ing MPs’ inter­est in car­bon trad­ing funds/exchanges or related investments.

This is espe­cially impor­tant given the sus­pect sci­ence so we can see who is push­ing to retain or increase the power under the ETS for their own finan­cial benefit.

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