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Climate change concerns are also being used in other ways to manipulate the financial system. Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, the author of the book, “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam,” explained how BlackRock founder and CEO Larry Fink is the “King of the Woke Industrial Complex” and acts as “the puppet master behind the scenes of Corporate America.”
“He is CEO of the world’s largest asset manager and what they do is they cause companies to bend the knee to woke orthodoxy, because BlackRock says that we won’t invest in your company, unless you abide by these progressive standards, or we will dock the pay of a CEO or fire a CEO who refuses to bend the knee,” Ramaswamy explained.
BlackRock uses other people’s money to force this ideology on companies, according to Ramaswamy. “It is not their money. That $10 trillion doesn’t belong to BlackRock. Say what you will about George Soros, at least it’s his money. In this case, It is money that belongs to you, to everyday Americans in this country whose blood would boil if they actually knew the way their own money was being used to force a progressive social orthodoxy back onto them,” Ramaswamy said.
“That is the defining scam of our time,” he concluded.
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Blackrock CEO Larry Fink has publicly admitted that he believes coercion is necessary to achieve his agenda. “Behaviors are going to have to change and this is one thing we are asking companies. You have to force behaviors and at Blackrock, we are forcing behaviors,” Fink explained in 2017 at a New York Times forum. “You have to force behaviors and if you don’t force behaviors whether it’s gender or race or just anyway you want to say the composition of your team, you’re gonna be impacted,” Fink said. He added, “We’re gonna have to force change.”
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cCs9Kh2Q08
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Nov 9, 2017
DealBook 2017: The Economy, Consumers and Redefining the Long Term
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Beck: “I want to invest in this company, it’s a gun company oh they’ve got an ESG score of two. Well I don’t care because I believe that’s going to go up. But it doesn’t matter. You’re not doing it for that anymore you’re not doing it to make money, you’re doing it for the overall good of society this is the end of capitalism.” … “It doesn’t matter that these companies might be worth more we think the investment should go to these companies because they’re socially woke. When that happens, the stock market means nothing, nothing because it is basically at the barrel of a gun the government and the big businesses have decided who’s going to get the money.”
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Alex Epstein: “ESG was a movement cooked up at the UN–not exactly a leading expert in profitable investment–to impose moral and political agendas, largely left-wing ones, on institutions that would not adopt them if left to their own devices.” – “The number one practical meaning of ESG today is: divest from fossil fuels in every way possible, and associate yourself with “renewable” solar and wind in every way possible.”
The preposterous financial pretense of “ESG investing” is that the promoters of it have so accurately identified universal norms of long-term value creation–Environmental norms, Social norms, and Governance norms–that imposing those norms on every company is justified.Divesting from fossil fuels is immoral because:
1. The world needs much more energy.
2. Fossil fuels are the only way to provide most of that energy for the foreseeable future.
3. Any problems associated with CO2 pale in comparison to problems of energy deprivation.ESG defunding fossil fuel projects in the poorest parts of the world will mean: more babies die for lack of incubators and other medical equipment, more deaths from lack of water treatment plants and modern sanitation, more deaths from lack of heating and air-conditioning.
Every leading ESG institution should be called out for their genocidal policies toward the poorest parts of the world. They should be shamed for placing their own virtue-signaling above billions of actual human lives.
Many in Congress, want President Biden to declare a “climate emergency.” Why? So he can impose all matter of climate policies including but hardly limited to, forcing higher prices on oil and gas, mandating hugely expensive “renewable” energy sources, restricting driving, increasing meat prices, and so on. The sky is the limit because there is an emergency. No vote of Congress; no matter. We’ve seen this act with health “emergencies” that forced schools, many businesses, and houses of worship to shut down, absent genuine science and data. While the worst of the lockdowns have passed, the coronavirus variants rage, workforce participation is down, and consumer price inflation is at its highest in 40 years.
Climate activists in and out of the Biden administration are unleashing their biggest weapon yet to force-feed impractical, unnecessary, and colossally expensive climate policies on the country by using the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. Why the Fed? For the same reason the infamous Willie Sutton robbed banks: “that’s where the money is.” The Fed also has enormous regulatory power of the U.S. financial system and, to a lesser degree, the global financial system.
Laurence D. Fink, the founder and chief executive of the investment giant BlackRock, has become one of the most influential voices in business over the past decade in pushing corporate leaders to think beyond profits, to their social purpose…Within weeks of his telling leaders in 2020 that climate change would become a “defining factor” in how BlackRock assessed their companies, many blue-chip businesses announced plans to become carbon-neutral or carbon-negative. …
He suggested that E.S.G. was not a fad but a permanent feature of the corporate world. Business leaders who do not adapt to the new reality, he suggested, risk being overtaken by younger and more innovative rivals in step with the times. “Capital markets have allowed companies and countries to flourish. But access to capital is not a right,” he wrote. “It is a privilege. And the duty to attract that capital in a responsible and sustainable way lies with you.”
U.S. News & World Report: “Large U.S. banks would have to integrate climate financial risk assessments into every aspect of their work under sweeping new draft supervisory guidance proposed by a top U.S. banking regulator on Thursday.” The magazine elaborated, “The principles touch on everything from how climate change affects board room governance, liquidity, credit and operational risk, to the way banks project hypothetical future losses on their books and their ability to service poorer communities.”
Update April 2022: Disney’s largest investors are behind the company’s woke stance: ‘Woke Inc.’ author – Vivek Ramaswamy, highlighting how Disney’s three largest shareholders, who own a combined 15.3% of the company, are BlackRock, Vanguard Group and State Street. Ramaswamy pointed out that Disney’s three largest shareholders are unlike an individual investor (for example, Elon Musk, who just bought a massive stake in Twitter), but are composed of everyday people who entrust institutions, such as BlackRock, Vanguard Group, and State Street, to manage their money. He went on to say that the money managers are “betraying their true clients” by pushing Disney and other companies to wade into the realm of politics and stakeholder prioritization. Stakeholder capitalism discards the understanding that the singular purpose of a corporation is to serve its shareholders and instead emphasizes providing value to customers, employees, suppliers, and communities. Recent years have seen a shift on Wall Street toward embracing stakeholder capitalism in addition to a focus on environmental, social, and governance standards.
The Great Reset: It Begins – Klaus Schwab and the WEF tout their work in saving the world using environmental metrics called ESGs. But if companies that have good scores are actually the worst environmental violators, could it be that what the WEF are really working towards is a social credit scoring system?
Elon Musk: ‘ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors’
