Chief says winning a regulatory green light in Brussels, China and South Africa will be time consuming but no more than a ‘legal formality’

As I reported previously, President Obama has his people working hard on a scheme to soak America with a huge 'climate tax' and transfer billions to the UN while bypassing Congress. This is taking place at a UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa, where what's on the table is a new tax levied by the UN on every foreign currency transaction in the world and a UN tax on imports...

Some sort of binding deal on climate change looked set to emerge from the Durban climate conference amid signs in the early hours of this morning that a new agreement could be reached by the 194 countries meeting in South Africa.

Confusion surrounded the United Nations climate talks in South Africa as some delegates began drifting away from the Durban conference venue without apparently having reached agreement on new measures to combat global warming. As the only movement at the 194-nation conference yesterday afternoon was that of coffee machines being carried away and ministers leaving, the option loomed of the conferen...

An agreement on new measures to combat global warming appears within reach at the UN climate talks in South Africa, but time is running short.

President Obama has a wonderful new scheme to raise taxes - oh,sorry, 'new revenues' - on America's collective back in the making. And this time, it's not even for America but for the UN! President Obama's negotiators at the at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa are apparently prepared to approve an agreement calling for a tax on foreign c...

A Polish EU Presidency logo that has appeared on posters for a coal lobbyist’s conference has sparked furious reaction in Brussels, just a day after the UN Climate Change Summit opened in Durban, South Africa. More »

In London right now, it is an hour or more past 9 am. But in Cape Town, South Africa, just over an hour ago, it was 11:11 am, on the 11/11/11 (November 11th 2011), and South Africa needed 111 runs to win the international cricket match that they were playing against Australia. South Africa, sadly, were not 111-1, chasing 222. They were 126-1, chasing 236. So, time and date oddities aside, a cricke...

Remember when Samizdata used to have lots of beautiful bird photos? Well, here is another: Beautiful bird or beautiful photo? Both, I would say. It's a Cape Weaver Bird, which lives in South Africa. It's the way that I at first thought that it had legs on its back that made me do a double take. And this particular snap appeals even after you've sorted out exactly what it's doin...

It's Friday, it's Fall, there's a Wall Street occupation going on and the global events are what they are! What would provide a better short-term diversion heading into the weekend than a look at some of the fashion being offered in the South African Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue! Nothing I can think of! And remember that man and woman does not live by politics and financial mar...