BOYCOTT AIRBUS--it now wears UN logo for global carbon scheme~under the guise of compassion for the planet

Update, 3/25/10: Harbinger Capital Hedge Fund (part owner of the NY Times) was listed on the CCX website as a "Liquidity Provider" as recently as March 18, 2010 when I linked to CCX's site on this post. Checking today, Harbinger has disappeared from the list. I've found no news stories about this. I have found

• Harbinger's name today as an "institutional shareholder" of another carbon trading company, (Climate Exchange plc) so they're still obviously in the business. ed.

It's fine for government subsidized companies like Airbus to spew all the carbon they want (even though they say carbon is killing millions). The point of the UN is to line the pockets of carbon traders, among whom are Goldman Sachs, Soros, the Chicago Climate Exchange, Harbinger Capital Partners (part owners of the NY Times), unelected,

• unaccountable grifters at the United Nations, brutal equatorial dictators, and other hedge fund thugs.

"Who do you think might just have been granted the right to display the official logo of the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity? A conservation body, perhaps. Or a new brand of organic food?

• Well, no. It's an aircraft manufacturer, actually. The world's largest aircraft manufacturer: Airbus Industries. The European company that is doing more than anyone else, Boeing included, to increase the number of flights we take, and thus the airline industry's contribution to climate change.

During 2010, the logo will appear on the side of Airbus's latest airliner, the A380, on scheduled services with the world's airlines. The largest passenger aircraft is specially designed for those long-haul flights across oceans and from Europe to the far east, where a single flight

• can more than double your annual CO2 emissions.

• Airbus has won this green accolade by dint of hard cash. Airbus is helping fund a cherished project of the secretariat of the UN Convention on Biodiversity to educate young people across the world about the virtues of biodiversity, called the Green Wave Initiative. Airbus did not respond to questions from the Guardian about how much money is involved in the partnership, but the UN Environment Programme has described it as a "huge gesture of support"."....

from Guardian UK, "Airbus gets a crafty upgrade by flying the flag for biodiversity," 3/18/10 by Fred Pearce, photo ap from Guardian

• via Tom Nelson

~~I suggest boycotting any company that aligns with the United Nations. Since the United States has no one to protect its citizens, citizens must do it themselves. ed. ******

• "So who will win in this battle to monetize the carbon?
  
• While science was killed as an innocent bystander, the
  
• UN with its desire for funding
  
• via international taxation vies with exchange corporations who want a piece of the
  
• new $300 billion market. (See also: www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/CarbonMonetization.htm)"