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World Bank: ‘We Will Never End Poverty If We Don’t Tackle Climate Change’

Nov. 18, 2012 11:28pm Erica Ritz

World Bank Report Says Poverty Cant Be Eliminated Without Drastic Global Warming Action

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After a brief respite from global warming-related news, climate change seems to be reappearing more frequently now that President Obama has won re-election.

The new president of the World Bank, it seems, is deeply troubled by the “unequivocal” science behind man-made global warming, and hopes that a recently-released World Bank report will “shock the world into action.”

Reuters summarizes:

All nations will suffer the effects of a warmer world, but it is the world’s poorest countries that will be hit hardest by food shortages, rising sea levels, cyclones and drought, the World Bank said in a report on climate change.

Under new World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, the global development lender has launched a more aggressive stance to integrate climate change into development.

“We will never end poverty if we don’t tackle climate change. It is one of the single biggest challenges to social justice today,” Kim told reporters on a conference call on Friday.

The report, called “Turn Down the Heat,” highlights the devastating impact of a world hotter by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, a likely scenario under current policies, according to the report. [Emphasis added]

Highlighting the possibility of melting ice caps, rising sea levels, drought, etc. the report says the World Bank will try to strike a balance between limiting emissions and accommodating the energy needs of the poor.

Reuters continues:

Last year, the Bank doubled its funding for countries seeking to adapt to climate change, and now operates $7.2 billion in climate investment funds in 48 countries.

The World Bank study comes as almost 200 nations will meet in Doha, Qatar, from Nov. 26 to Dec. 7 to try to extend the Kyoto Protocol, the existing plan for curbing greenhouse gas emissions by developed nations that runs to the end of the year.

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“There really is no alternative to urgent action given the devastating consequences of climate change,” global development group Oxfam said in a statement. “Now the question for the World Bank is how it will ensure that all of its investments respond to the imperatives of the report.” [Emphasis added]

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williaml
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:39am
If they stop venting hot air, the earth will cool.
As far as Poverty, that will never end.
Jesus said: (John 12:8 KJV) For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Poverty is incurable

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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:11am
  It almost as if they want to make ‘climate change’
  A ‘One World Religion’…
  
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- CatB
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:31am
  Agenda 21
  
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- INTHEBROTHERHOOD
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 3:47am
  poor in spirit…..not poor in money….
  
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- azcowboy1
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:14am
  I’m slow. Where the hell does the world bank get its money. Do they make anything to sell??
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:10am
  Here are some of my own, equally profound, observations:
  
  “We Will Never End AIDS if We Don’t Tackle Food Poisoning”
  “We Will Never End the NHL Lockout if We Don’t Cure Cancer”
  “We Will Never End the Conflict in Israel if We Don’t Fight Tooth-Decay”
  “We Will Never End Athlete’s Foot if We Don’t Wear Seatbelts”
  
  You can send my Nobel Prize money to the Blaze c/o EASTINFECTION
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:25am
  CatB, yes it seems to be part of the whole agenda21 thing, but all of their global warming crap can be debunked easily. There are thousands of core samples that have been taken from all over the globe that show throughout history the earth before man, and with man here went through normal warming and cooling trends. It is all part of a natural planetary cycle.
  
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- SamIamTwo
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:21am
  Interesting, rather than our deficit going lower under Obama who is taking on the so called global warming, our deficit is on the rise.
  
  The world bank is bankrupt with corruption and immoral people. JIMHO
  
  All they are interested in is population control. Soylent Green moment forthcoming, no doubt!
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:49pm
  Translated: “We’ll never fully control the populace if they don’t embrace this idea that the world will end if we don’t fix “climate change”.”
  
  Climate was changing before we were here, it’s been here our entire existence, it will happen after we’re gone. We didn’t start it, we’re not contributing to it, and you can’t stop it. Get over it. It’s a false narrative.
  
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VoteRightDammit
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:34am
“WORLD BANK: ‘WE WILL NEVER END POVERTY IF WE DON’T TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE’”

That really is true, since it’s the farce of ‘climate change’ {sic} that is the means to siphon off vast sums from those who have succeeded, to give to the villagers in Kenya.

Without “tackling ‘climate change’ {sic} the funds to buy LCD flat screens for huts in Africa will not be there.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:45am
  I remember watching Beck back when he first started hammering away on the fact Barry was elected and they were setting up a framework to snap into place. Well, they’re getting busy now that they’ve been given 4 more years.
  
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- donkeykong
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:16am
  Omg! Plug the volcanoes !!!
  
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cosmic dogma
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:33am
Actually, there has been a direct relationship between global warming and a DECREASE IN POVERTY. When the world was cooler, there were infinitely greater percentages of poor on the planet Earth. THEREFORE: TO DECREASE GLOBAL POVERTY, THERE MUST BE AN INCREASE IN GLOBAL TEMPERATURE. IT IS ONLY LOGIC… (By the way, I may be incorporating a bit of irony, but…how about some facts from those who feel so inclined to debunk this bovine excrement.)

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- starman70
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:17am
  The lowering pf poverty is directly related to the emissions of “Greenhouse Gasses”. As “Impovrished” countries build factories with which to compete on the world market, they must also build electric generating plants to power their nations. That allegedly adds to “Global Warming”.
  
  Obviously, the plan is to destroy American and European manufacturing abilities by putting limits on our emissions while all the time, countries like China are completing some 40 coal fired plants per year. It is all about killing American entrepeneurship and transferring wealth by taxing us and giving the money to third world nations where dictatorial governments can usurp the funds any way they wish.
  
  This whole “Climate Change” story is the bigest fantasy story since “Star Wars”. Yes the climate is changing, just as it has ever since the world has been in existance. These are no more than natural temperature fluctuations.
  
  As far as the World Bank is concerned, they can kiss my AZZ.
  
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For my Liberty!
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:32am
Whoa…Wait…Ovomit told everyone that the day he got elected..the Earth would heal and the ocean levels would fall…

You mean he LIED?
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This is the BIGGEST BUNK there is. Big NWO Bankers have decided they need to BILK us out of even MORE money…and this is how they want to do it….
His BS of ….”“We will never end poverty if we don’t tackle climate change. It is one of the single biggest challenges to social justice today,” Kim told reporters on a conference call on Friday” is just code for REDISTRIBUTE the wealth…Only problem….it does NOT get to the ones that need it…it goes in THE ELITES HOT LITTLE HANDS.

I am TOTALLY SICK OF THESE PEOPLE! They DEPEND on the idea that Americans have been SO DUMBED down that they do not know that the “C02″ they are saying is bad….is what EVERY PLANT ON EARTH needs to live.–It is ALSO what HUMANS EXHALE. It is TRULY a TAX ON BREATHING! This crap has GOT TO STOP!

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wordweaver
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:30am
The ignorance of man to think he can alter the progression of a climate cycle that has repeated itself over and over. The alternative to ignorance is that this fits this organization’s agenda of global redistribution of wealth. I’m going with option 2.

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- DEFCON4
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:52am
  @Wordweaver, Well thought-out post ! .”Here’s to Tackling Climate-change”http://youtu.be/GsSXMT0NrB4…over and over, repeat ‘peanuts’…..
  
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lel2007
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:14am
Ah, the War On Poverty ended? We lost.
The World Bank has had near 70 years to end poverty, for at least 60 years of that time nobody heard of global warming. What the World Bank is really saying is that without a world-wide TAX and world wide redistribution of wealth they won’t be able to bring all to the same level of poverty.

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- Diane TX
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 1:40am
  That’s the point. Bring DOWN everyone (except the Global Leaders, of course) to the same level of poverty. They are well aware that the taking of another’s wealth, doesn’t make “the poor” richer. Wealth redistribution only makes it harder for innovators to “innovate”. The USA used to be famous for the fact, that no matter what circ_umstances a person was born in, that person could become successful.
  
  With the re-election of Øbama, that’s no longer true. The illegal aliens might as well stay in their Countries of birth. “Exceptionalism” is now dead all over the Globe. All the lights have been turned off in the “shinning City on the hill”.
  
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1TrueOne55
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:06am
I also heard in the 1970′s that the Earth was going to freeze and will have glaciers covering the Great Lakes by the year 2000. How did that work out for Al Gore.

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- VoteRightDammit
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:36am
  You actually heard that from the lips of James Hensen, NASA head and chief climate change scamster. That silliness was his first foray into public idiocy.
  
  He also claimed that by the year 2000 we each would have no more than 1 square meter of land to stand on. I can’t wait for the year 2000 to come to know if he was correct on that one also.
  
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- Lee_in_PA
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:13am
  I’m old enough to remember that, I thought it was BS then and i still think that today.
  
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grayling646
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:06am
Drenfroe
Are you familiar with the Petition Project?

The petition reads as follows:
We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.

Over 31,000 U.S. scientists have signed this petition.

http://www.oism.org/pproject/

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- purecolorartist
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:41am
  Also there is this from climate depot:
  http://www.climatedepot.com/a/9035/SPECIAL-REPORT-More-Than-1000-International-Scientists-Dissent-Over-ManMade-Global-Warming-Claims–Challenge-UN-IPCC–Gore
  They need to update as a lot has happened since 2010.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:05am
Hey Al is this your bank??

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- Zipit
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:20pm
  Yeah, and this idiot was sitting next to MANBEARPIG when he got a “D” in science class!
  
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HKS
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:02am
What a load of crap, wake up idiots, were not that stupid. Shove the crap back where the sun don’t shine.

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SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:01am
They will never end poverty until they tackle climate change huh?Wouldnt that imply that there was no poverty until made started destroying the planet with fossil fules about a couple hundred hears ago years ago?This is the biggest scam in the history of the world…..If you want to control America you must control their economy…if you want to control their economy you must control energy…..Those trying to control the world figured that out and their propaganda message has brainwashed a lot of useful idiots….enough i fear,to get their master plan enacted.

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bekhiet
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:58pm
Poverty is related to climate change now? I never would have guessed that. I wouldn’t trust the world bank on anything. It just sounds like Agenda 21.

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SUNTZU
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:57pm
New World Order-One World Government.
The comming of a MAN ,but not a MAN,
and he will fool most,but not all,The end of This Age…

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- ZAP
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 5:37am
  Anti-christ
  
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vic138
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:57pm
Global warming and Peak Oil are a myth to keep the price of oil going up, as oil is priced in dollars. Oil is not 100% a fossil fuel.

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blackyb
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:56pm
People cannot effect the balance needed to control climate. They will use the weather and climate, to hold power. God is not going to put up with these lying thieves much longer. The climate balance is not the job of people. Greedy people do not intend to use anything they come up with for anything except to gain power over one another.

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christhefanatic
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:56pm
Social justice keeps me up all night.

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blackyb
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:54pm
These thieves want you to think that they can control weather by taxin you to death. These people do not want you to know that God created this universe, the people and everything, so He controls the weather and climate. God does not charge people for this.

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drenfroe
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:53pm
We need to distribute and get make the push for the real scientists who study this for a living. They say it is bullcr@p. Push facts and counter this attack. It is easy to see why so many have followed this train of thought. If no one makes a real effort to counter global warmig propaganda with the real facts and back these scientists then we lose for laziness. I remember when they started this propaganda in the late 60′s and early 70′s. They actually had some of their communities living in bubbles, we used to laugh at them but now they are a real problem. I can’t say there hasn’t been some good come out of it but it has gotten way out of hand. Educate people on climate and who knows what may come.

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- drenfroe
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:01am
  Another example of using the poor for an agenda.
  
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Advection
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:46pm
Part of this initiative is, global governance, which the UN promised would never happen. And a global tax, also never supposed to happen. They’re breaking their most important covenants, and they’re aware that what they’re doing is evil because they chose to use a false flag (Global Warming) to justify their illegal actions.

A One World dictatorship is being prepared.

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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:44pm
Fun fact; poverty has been around for a lot longer than all these fools believe the world has been heating up. Is he slipping up and admitting that the efforts to combat global warming really aren’t anything more than an excuse to send billions of dollars (none of which of course has even the slightest possibility of ending up in the hands of the resident dictators who will use it to buy lobster dinner, a personal harem, better weapons for their loyal soldiers, or all of the above) to the developing world? Or is this just another bit of tripe trying to link a huge problem that has confounded literally every effort of humanity to solve, to that wonderful refuge of doomsday scientists since the end of the cold war? Who cares anymore, these people are idiots who can’t figure out spending more money than the world actually makes is a bad idea. How do they keep ending up in charge of stuff? Don’t ask me, no one listens to the “angry,” white, christian, male anymore.

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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 1:15am
  It is tripe. I listen and hear you. Have posted in the past about Kraft Foods, Hellman’s Mayo, Coca Cola, Jimmy Dean brand, etc. Who owns the companies, their agendas, and others. Posted about the Coca Cola president after reading a story on the Blaze, and a newspaper article on a meeting between Coke (CEO Mutarch Kent, has dual citizenship Turkey-US),World Bank,(Bill Clinton) and WalMart (Lee Walton) and their agenda. Dated May 12, 2010 and headed World Environment Center remarks. Theirs is a partnership with (and customer of WalMart). The article is too long to post here but not too hard to find. Also US president appoints president of the World Bank, confirmed by Senate and monies dispensed by the State Dept. US has an annual commitment 50 Billion dollars. The USIRF(InternationalReligousFreedom)IRFA(Abroad) funding suggested by Senate and determined by State. Guess who was president in 1998 and guess who is head of State Dept. today. Bill and Hill. In a 2010 Report 28 countries were on the list to receive monies. (Notice date 2010 again.) There is more on initiatives (probably one of the reasons Hillary was tasting tea and to hide from Benghazi and lying. This on a personal note. I am a new listener to RLimbaugh (no, never listened to him before), What will kill the GOP is not listening to we who put them in office. We voted Cruz in Texas and proud of it. But guaranteed next election for president I will not vote for GOP if they cave to the liberals.
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 2:31am
  Well mam, glad to hear somebody listens. I hate that constant feeling of being the one guy saying, “people, there is a serious problem here!” That absolutely nobody gives a second thought to. I just hope somebody finally figures out the current batch of GOP strategists is utterly useless and disposes of that crowd of closet Dems, I’m not voting for another milquetoast candidate.
  
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TJexcite
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:42pm
Already ordered my copy of Agenda 21

Every day the start of “the republic” will get closer and closer.

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mcmeador
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:39pm
Climate change agenda = worldwide wealth redistribution

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- AnOregonian
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:14am
  two words… Carbon Tax
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 1:24am
  Three words…..
  
  Chicago Climate Exchange
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:58am
  its clear who the enemies of liberty are and at some point we gotta take action against them. The Intl bankers.
  
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SilentReader
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:39pm
The Globalists are at it again. They never quit their work on Satan’s behalf. Agenda 21 is a good example of what the globalist criminals have in store for we the people. Here’s the gist of it:

Agenda 21 includes:

.An end to National Sovereignty
.The abolition of private property
.The restructure of the family unit
.An increasing limitations and restrictions of mobility and individual opportunity

.An abandoning on the U.S. Constitution’s unalienable rights

Irrigation is not sustainable.
Bill Clinton by EO, no congressional review, established the President’s Council for sustainable development.
Sustainable developers will build stack and pack communities with taxpayers dollars.
Map with red and yellow areas which will be restricted areas. Black areas are where humans will be stack and packed.
UNESCO came out and declared 2005 to 2015 the decade of education of sustainable development to transfer loyalty from the the family to the government and teach them about sustainable economic consumption. The truth is being suppressed!
Students learn that mathematics in arbitary.
Our children are mathematically illiterate on purpose. More education increases the threat to sustainability.
With modernizing technology the ordinary person will live without independence, privacy or substantive rights.

Congrats takers. I commend you for your absolute mediocrity. And stupidity. Be careful for what you wish for. You might just get it!

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- justangry
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:51pm
  Think the GOP will put up another Bilderberger or CFR candidate in 2016 or are you one of the conservatives that are denial that the GOP has no interest in a wold government?
  
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- Diane TX
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 1:19am
  @ Just Angry
  
  What makes you think that there will be another USA election? With Øbama’s election, we’re well on our way to Global governance. No more borders; no more immigration policies; no more personal wealth; no more freedom OF religion; no more Constitution; – just the 99% serfs and the 1% Global Governors, which of course, Øbama will be the first global Leader.
  
  It’ll be fine. Us serfs, will all live in our tiny compartments, and will be thrilled to be able to afford red meat once in awhile, (until it’s banned by PETA). Our main form of transportation will be the bicycle, since who will be able to afford $80.00 a gallon gas.
  
  While we live that way, the 1% Governing Class, will live in Mansions and dine on Kobe Beef (despite PETA) just because they’re the Global Leaders.
  
  Øbama won our very last election, so that is what American voters want. Throw out all religious beliefs (including Islam), and make everyone in the 99% Class the same. Social Justice at it’s best.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 1:38am
  I think they’ll be another rigged election with globalist puppets to make the majority of people feel that they’re still free. Just like the past election. Do you think that the establishment Republicans aren’t in on it?
  
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christhefanatic
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:38pm
What do they know about climate management? What do they know about banking?

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bmfh58
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:36pm
What a bunch of bull…what are they going to do when the sun starts to expand warming the earth??

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- christhefanatic
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:46pm
  Free air conditioners…paid for by Donald Trump.
  
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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:03am
  well when the sun gets hot enough it may explode like other stars have and create a black hole with a plasma stream aimed at the earth or close that could take out the planet so that God can rebuild it to what was planned for….
  
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