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		<title>Beware - only one official HST petition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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There are several online petitions against the HST circulating in BC.
BC voters should know that only one of them is the official Citizens Initiative Petition that will lead to a referendum and stop the HST.
The one all BC voters must sign if they want to stop the HST is Bill Vander Zalm&#8217;s &#8220;INITIATIVE TO END [...]]]></description>
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<p>There are several online petitions against the HST circulating in BC.</p>
<p>BC voters should know that <strong>only one of them</strong> is the official Citizens Initiative Petition that will lead to a referendum and stop the HST.</p>
<p>The one all BC voters must sign if they want to stop the HST is Bill Vander Zalm&#8217;s &#8220;INITIATIVE TO END THE HARMONIZED SALES TAX&#8221;.</p>
<p>Signing any other petition will not count towards the 10% of voters in each electoral district needed to force a referendum.</p>
<p>Make sure your voice is heard by signing the official petition.  Better still, become a canvasser and collect signatures.  Click on <a href="http://fighthst.com/volunteer/">www.fighthst.com/volunteer</a></p>
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		<title>BC Refederatiion Party - authorised HST advertiser</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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This website is authorized by Dennis Shaw, Financial Agent, 250 758 2089
The BC Refederation Party has registered with BC Elections as an Initiative Advertising Sponsor.
BC Refed supports Bill Vander Zalm&#8217;s non-partisan Citizens Initiative to veto the BC HST.
Under a BC Refederation government in Victoria citizens would not have to scramble to collect 10% signatures in every [...]]]></description>
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<p>This website is authorized by Dennis Shaw, Financial Agent, 250 758 2089</p>
<p>The BC Refederation Party has registered with BC Elections as an Initiative Advertising Sponsor.</p>
<p>BC Refed supports Bill Vander Zalm&#8217;s non-partisan Citizens Initiative to veto the BC HST.</p>
<p>Under a BC Refederation government in Victoria citizens would not have to scramble to collect 10% signatures in every electoral district in order to force a referendum or an initiative.  Under BC Refed&#8217;s Direct Democracy Act 3% signatures in BC would enable a referendum - the same as in Switzerland.</p>
<p>More important, the result of the referendum will be binding on government.</p>
<p>Under the present farcical NDP requirements the citizens have no RIGHTS.  The government can ignore any referendum result.</p>
<p>Read <a href="http://refedbc.com/siteA/sitemap/page25/page10/page10.html">about Refed&#8217;s Direct Democracy Act </a>- written for the people, not for the politicans</p>
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		<title>HST Canvassers needed - sign up here</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Take action to stop the HST, or sit and grumble ?
We can stop this tax.
Go now to www.fighthst.com/volunteer and add your name to the list of citizen fighters.
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<p>Take action to stop the HST, or sit and grumble ?</p>
<p>We can stop this tax.</p>
<p><strong>Go now to <a href="http://www.fighthst.com/volunteer">www.fighthst.com/volunteer</a> and add your name to the list of citizen fighters.</strong></p>
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		<title>HST Fight - Latest details for voters</title>
		<link>http://refedbc.com/wp2/?p=1825</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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This post gives the latest details on the progress of the Citizens&#8217; Initiative to veto the HST.  This post is updated regularly as more details are available from Bill Vanderzalm&#8217;s fighthst team.  It is in your own best interest to help in this fight.

Bill Vanderzalm&#8217;s application for a petition to force a referendum [or Initiative] has [...]]]></description>
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<p>This post gives the latest details on <strong>the progress of the Citizens&#8217; Initiative</strong> to veto the HST.  This post is updated regularly as more details are available from Bill Vanderzalm&#8217;s fighthst team.  It is in your own best interest to help in this fight.<span id="more-1825"></span></p>
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<p>Bill Vanderzalm&#8217;s application for a petition to force a referendum [or Initiative] has been approved by BC Elections [4 Feb 2010]</p>
<p>The collection of signatures can now begin on 6 Apr 2010.  All signatures must be collected by 5 Jul 2010 - a 90 day period.  If 10% of voters in each of BC&#8217;s 85 electoral districts sign the petition, then a provincial referendum must be held, so British Columbians have a way they can kill this HST.</p>
<p>The fighthst team needs one organizer in each of the 85 electoral districts who will guide the signature collectors, and so far 1500 people have volunteered to collect signatures in the province. Please seriously consider offering to be an organizer, or at the least a collector. It is easy to go to <a href="http://fighthst.com/volunteer/">www.fighthst.com</a> and offer to collect a few signatures in your neighborhood. Those with extra time could be an organiser.</p>
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<p>More information about the approval of the petition is on the <a href="http://www.fighthst.com">fighthst website.</a> More information on the Initiative process is on <a href="http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/referenda-recall-initiative/initiative/hst/">BC Elections website.</a></p>
<p>A caution.  Petitions have been started around BC gathering the names of voters opposed to this tax. Remember that those petitions will be a help on 6 Apr 2010 in locating people who want to kill this tax, BUT THEY ARE NOT OFFICIAL PETITIONS.  VOTERS MUST SIGN THE OFFICIAL PETITION SHEETS CARRIED BY REGISTERED SIGNATURE COLLECTORS STARTING ON 6 APR 2010. Announcements will be made soon in your electoral district telling where and how voters can sign the official petition.</p>
<p>The BC Refederation Party has supported this Citizens&#8217; Initiative from the start because one of the party&#8217;s main policies is that voters should have the right to veto government actions when necessary, such as in the case of this HST.  The party has posted <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2lwKHH_t8I">a 5 minute HST video</a> on Youtube that is useful for sending to friends.</p>
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		<title>Global Warming update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Supporters of the man-made global warming scare [AGW] must be embarrassed.
Altering of data, hiding of data, destruction of data, and computer models with GIGO [Garbage in, Garbage out].
At least one top scientist making money from his predictions.
Politicians imposing AGW taxes based on the discredited IPCC reports.  Taxes that should now be removed.
Financial predators ready with [...]]]></description>
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<p>Supporters of the man-made global warming scare [AGW] must be embarrassed.</p>
<p>Altering of data, hiding of data, destruction of data, and computer models with GIGO [Garbage in, Garbage out].</p>
<p>At least one top scientist making money from his predictions.</p>
<p>Politicians imposing AGW taxes based on the discredited IPCC reports.  Taxes that should now be removed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Financial predators ready with massive schemes to make money based on the scandal struck IPCC forecasts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://refedbc.com/wp2/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cap-and-trade.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1871" title="cap-and-trade" src="http://refedbc.com/wp2/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cap-and-trade.jpg" alt="" width="148" height="56" /></a></p>
<p>But now there is an AGW bail-out starting.  People of common sense are bailing out of the IPCC hoax.</p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">The great global warming collapse</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">By Margaret Wente</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">From Saturday&#8217;s Globe and Mail</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement.</span></li>
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<div><span style="font-weight: normal;">Not only people, but whole countries have seen the light</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">India says it will establish its own body to monitor the effects of global  warming</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">because it &#8220;cannot rely&#8221; on the IPCC.</span></li>
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<div><span style="font-weight: normal;">It&#8217;s time to worry about pollution and global cooling, not man-made CO2.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-weight: normal;">In British Columbia,  the carbon tax should be removed and redesigned.  Campbell&#8217;s scientific advisor has egg on his face and has some explaining to do.  So much for &#8220;experts&#8221;.</span></div>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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The BC Refederation Party has made a short 5 minute hst video .  It&#8217;s about the key first step we have to take if British Columbians hope to veto Campbell&#8217;s latest tax.

This first key step is to gather 10% signatures of voters in all 85 electoral districts in BC. We will achieve that if we organize properly. [...]]]></description>
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<p>The BC Refederation Party has made a short 5 minute <a href=" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2lwKHH_t8I">hst video</a> .  It&#8217;s about the key first step we have to take if British Columbians hope to veto Campbell&#8217;s latest tax.</p>
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<p><strong>This first key step</strong> is to gather 10% signatures of voters in all 85 electoral districts in BC. We will achieve that if we organize properly.  The fighthst team has organized the province into areas, each with several electoral districts.  Each electoral district will have a captain and about 50 signature collectors.  In this way each collector only has to gather about 100 signatures to reach the target.</p>
<p>To be one of the 50 signature collectors in your electoral district fill out the <a href="http://fighthst.com/volunteer/">form on the fighthst website</a> .  They will contact you.  They have about 1500 volunteers already but some electoral districts need more.</p>
<p>Do your small bit - collect five signatures.</p>
<p><a href=" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2lwKHH_t8I">BC Refederation Party HST video</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Dissatisfaction of Americans with their national government seems to be spreading, especially about how taxes are collected and spent.
Here is an ambitious attempt to unite the people in an effort to regain control of their politicians.
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<p>Dissatisfaction of Americans with their national government seems to be spreading, especially about how taxes are collected and spent.</p>
<p>Here is an ambitious <a href="http://www.taxfree15.com/">attempt to unite the people</a> in an effort to regain control of their politicians.</p>
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		<title>How to veto the BC HST</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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A Citizens&#8217; Initiative can stop the HST.
A petition in April 2010 will force a Citizens&#8217; Initiative.
Do your bit to stop the HST - sign the petition in April.
Even better, offer to collect some signatures.

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<p>A Citizens&#8217; Initiative can stop the HST.</p>
<p>A petition in April 2010 will force a Citizens&#8217; Initiative.</p>
<p>Do your bit to stop the HST - sign the petition in April.</p>
<p>Even better, offer to collect some signatures.</p>
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		<title>Confession of a Global Warming Scientist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders. [From - Mail Online, a leading British newspaper]

Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 [...]]]></description>
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<p><span><span>The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders. [From - Mail Online, a leading British newspaper]</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://refedbc.com/wp2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/himalayas.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1797" title="himalayas" src="http://refedbc.com/wp2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/himalayas-300x183.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="183" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span><span>Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The BC Refederation Party again points out that the real problem may be <a href="http://refedbc.com/wp2/?p=425">global cooling</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Ten Global Warming myths corrected <a href="http://refedbc.com/wp2/?p=1521">here.</a></p>
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		<title>BC HST Dangerous to British Columbians - example</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dennis</dc:creator>
		
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Here is what the British national government can do, and will do [see below].
The Canadian national government can do the same under the BC HST.


20% VAT &#8216;looming&#8217; as UK ministers face mounting debt crisis
A hike in VAT is ‘inevitable’ after the election as the government grapples with a mounting debt crisis, experts warned yesterday.
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<p>Here is what the British national government can do, and will do [see below].</p>
<p>The Canadian national government can do the same under the BC HST.</p>
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<li>20% VAT &#8216;looming&#8217; as UK ministers face mounting debt crisis</li>
<li>A hike in VAT is ‘inevitable’ after the election as the government grapples with a mounting debt crisis, experts warned yesterday.</li>
<li>The Treasury will have to lift the tax from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent to raise an extra £12 billion of revenue a year, according to analysts at consultancy Oxford Economics.</li>
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<div>To start with, BC HST will tax many new items.  Even worse than that, BC HST will hand Ottawa the power to decide on tax increases down the road.  Three national governments in Europe have raised the tax to 23%.  Could Ottawa go that far ?  What is to stop them ?</div>
<div><strong>This BC HST can be be killed before it starts with a</strong><a href="http://www.fighthst.com"><strong> Citizens&#8217; Initiative.</strong></a></div>
<div>Enough signatures on the Initiative petition will force a referendum.</div>
<div>Remember the Charlottetown Accord referendum.  Over 80% of British Columbians defeated that.</div>
<div>First.  Sign the Initiative petition in March 2010.</div>
<div>Second.  Get your neighbor to sign, too.</div>
<div>Third. Be an official collector of signatures - collect 100 signatures.</div>
<div>Every small business in town should have a petition at their front desk.  Small business will suffer when customers have less money to spend.</div>
<div><strong>Don&#8217;t whine - take action. Stop Campbell.</strong></div>
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