[LI] SEC is trying to address "greenwashing" and "climate washing" manipulations as investors strive to make profits. Meanwhile, billionaire Bill Gates is slamming the brakes on climate panic.
The last time I reported on environmental, social, and corporate governance, BlackRock Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink, whose firm has attempted to foist these standards on the global business community, had stopped using the term, whining it has become too politicized.
Now, the Securities and Exchange Commission has announced a rule that may pull the curtain back on the content of these funds, which may drive a stake through the heart of ESG inanity.
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Over the last year or so, I've had a lot of emails and whatnot from people demanding to know why I'm not on Parler ...er, I mean Rumble. As it happens, I believe I am on Rumble, but right now I can't tell you for certain. Because, for various tedious medical reasons, I'm in France - and in France if I click on a Rumble link all I get is this:
NOTICE TO USERS IN FRANCE
Because of French government demands to remove creators from our platform, Rumble is currently unavailable in France. We are challenging these government demands and hope to restore access soon.
That's "soon" in the Mann vs Steyn sense. It's been blocked now for almost a year. Headline from Le Monde, November 2nd 2022:
Rumble, une plate-forme de vidéos non modérée, est bloquée en France
« Refuge » de l'ultradroite, notamment américaine, la plate-forme héberge aussi des comptes de médias russes interdits en Europe, comme RT
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Which means:
Rumble, a platform of unmoderated videos, is blocked in France
'Refuge' of the ultra-right, especially American, the platform also hosts accounts of Russian media banned in Europe, such as RT.
RT is "Russia Today", which has been officially designated in the west as "state-controlled media". Which is to say the Russian state - and presumably they only let you hear what they want you to hear. And that's a bad thing. So in France they deal with the scourge of "state-controlled media" by having the French state shut down not only Russia Today, but also all the bazillions of "unmoderated videos" by the American "ultra-right" ...like, er, former Chair of the US House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes.
Gee, it's almost like in France all media are de facto "state-controlled". Remember the bad old days when the Soviets "jammed" the BBC and Radio Free Europe? Well, everything old is new again - except the jammers and jammees are now reversed.
[FoxNews] Washington Post detailed how Texans 'take guns fishing, to church, the park, the pool, the gym, the movies — even to protests at the state Capitol'
A new report from The Washington Post seemed to marvel at the sheer number of guns that Texans have.
In an article published Tuesday, reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske provided an in-depth look at how much Texans value their firearms, opening it with the claim, "To live in Texas is to live surrounded by guns."
The piece, titled, "In Texas, guns are everywhere, whether concealed or in the open," provided a litany of settings in which guns are present for citizens.
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They didn't go to Texas Courthouses and read old 1800's property deeds, during the years of Comanches, marauding bands of outlaws and Mexican army raids, if you refused to agree to the wording to "protect and defend" your deeded Texas land during the frontier days then Texas didn't want you.
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Under the bra makes sense, especially if one has sufficient ... body parts to shade it.
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Outside of Houston or Austin, the usual blue islands of the states, wonder if the WaPo propagandist ever grasp that it was safer walking Texas streets rather than streets in the Swamp.
[BenarNews] A decade ago, amid much fanfare, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road program, a grand plan to build a global infrastructure and supply chains that would connect China to the rest of the world in a modern and many-pronged Silk Road — and hypothetically benefit everyone involved.
Next month, Beijing will host the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, with confirmed attendance from a number of world leaders and representatives from 90 countries, state news agency Xinhua reported. What started out as a way to boost trade ties, secure energy supplies and invest in global infrastructure has now branched out to include digital, health, cultural, security, and sustainable development projects, some of which have been dogged by labor issues and cost overruns.
Playing off the motif of the ancient trade route that linked China to the Mideast and Europe, Its components are many, and include the Digital Silk Road, the Silk Road on Ice, the Healthy Silk Road, the Space Silk Road and the Green Silk Road.
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[RT] The stomach-churning scene of the Canadian parliament giving a standing ovation three days ago to a former Waffen SS Nazi has by now made the rounds on the internet.
...Two days later, Rota issued an apology for lauding the man, saying he had "recognized an individual in the gallery" and had subsequently become aware of "more information which causes me to regret my decision to do so."
Just to be clear — since Rota was not — the individual he meekly referred to was Yaroslav Hunka, and the information which made Rota remorseful was that Hunka had been a voluntary member of 1st Galician Division of the Waffen SS — you know, the one accused of mass murdering Poles, Jews and Ukrainians in Ukraine and Poland, as well as committing other atrocities.
Whereas Rota claims he was unaware of Hunka's service as a Nazi, given that he had also praised Hunka for fighting "for Ukrainian independence against the Russians," one can assume this is the service he referred to.
...There is much to be said about Canada's history with Ukrainian Nazis. Not only did it take them in after WW2, but the government-backed Ukrainian Canadian Congress, which, until recently, listed Nazi-collaborator veterans organizations as members, as well as government-funded Ukrainian ’youth centers’ that celebrate Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich. There are even monuments honoring Nazi collaborators and Ukrainian Insurgent Army criminals still standing in Canadian cities.
Canada has also supported modern-day Nazis in Ukraine itself, by training members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion on Canadian soil, although Canadian corporate media has in recent years attempted to downplay this.
Radio Canada reported in April 2022 that the Canadian Armed Forces, "did contribute to the training of soldiers of the Azov regiment in 2020, to the point where this unit is now boasting of being able to train its own soldiers according to Western standards." The Ottawa Citizen, writing about this report, cited a 2017 briefing by Canada’s Joint Task Force Ukraine as saying, "Multiple members of Azov have described themselves as Nazis."
Well "Ukraine" was invented by bolsheviks. So Canada just continues its old "Liberal" traditions.
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Outspoken conservative media personality Bill O'Reilly joined Tucker Carlson (the man who replaced him in his primetime Fox News slot) for a wide-ranging discussion of the dismal state of the world, and why progressive politicians are to blame.
"America has entered the age of disorder, and it's because of the progressive movement," O'Reilly lamented.
The former Fox News anchor lays out how this has occurred:
"President Biden, in my opinion, is diminished mentally, doesn’t know what he’s really doing from day-to-day. You can see that in his public statements," O'Reilly remarked, adding that "the progressives like that, because the people who control him inside the White House can tell him anything, and he’ll do it."
O’Reilly said that Ron Klain and Susan Rice were the original string-pullers, but since their departure from The White House, their assistants took their place "basically telling Joe what to do and say."
He argued that Biden has harkened in an "age of disorder" which has resulted in the emergence of Black Lives Matter, higher taxes, lax crime laws, and progressive indoctrination of children at young ages.
[American Greatness] In George Orwell’s dystopian novel "1984," he portrays English society — renamed Oceania — as a futuristic version of the 1940s Soviet Union. In this invented society that Orwell calls IngSoc — English Socialism — the populace has even less freedom than the Soviets permitted its citizens and life consists only of drudgery, loneliness and hideousness. The novel grips the reader with fear and loathing of a totalitarian future enabled by technological advances and prompts one with the question: "Can it, will it happen here?"
It goes without saying that the United States in 2023 bears little resemblance to 1984 Oceania. In Oceania, the state had total control over the language, economy, science, history, personal possessions, personal thoughts, music, art and literature. In the U.S. today, however, it is not difficult to see how government intrusion and control reduces freedom, creates fear and confusion, reduces economic opportunity and prosperity, distorts history and science and creates unnecessary interpersonal conflict.
One of the ways Big Brother, Oceania’s leader, exerted total control was by subverting language. This reduced the capacity to think thoughts not approved by the state. "Newspeak," as Orwell coined it, consisted only of words that expressed permitted thoughts.
"Thoughtcrime," another Orwellism, punished illicit thoughts. Illicit action therefore became literally unthinkable. Truth is what Big Brother declared it to be at any given moment: 2+2=5 yesterday and 2+2=4 today. History was constantly and literally rewritten in order to satisfy the "truths" that Big Brother was currently promulgating.
The most nefarious aspect of Big Brother’s rule was of course his brutally enforced elimination of freedom, which he accomplished by suppressing the truth and promulgating lies.
In all eras, in all states, in all political parties, leaders tell lies. The danger arises when the state and state co-opted institutions suppress, eliminate and punish unapproved ideas. Big Brother had the power to ensure that his lies were the only "facts" that were knowable. As one would expect, dissent was rare and not tolerated. Disagreement and belief in objective reality and a persistent past was punishable by torture, work camps and usually, death.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZERO] "We're in the age of disorder."
[American Greatness] In George Orwell’s dystopian novel "1984," he portrays English society — renamed Oceania — as a futuristic version of the 1940s Soviet Union. In this invented society that Orwell calls IngSoc — English Socialism — the populace has even less freedom than the Soviets permitted its citizens and life consists only of drudgery, loneliness and hideousness. The novel grips the reader with fear and loathing of a totalitarian future enabled by technological advances and prompts one with the question: "Can it, will it happen here?"
