The Woke Street Journal
August 9, 2024
November 16, 2023

The Woke Street Journal

All The News That Isn't Fit To Print

‘Woke alert’: Companies blasted for backing Black Lives Matter despite group’s anti-Israel activism-Washington Times

Companies that continue to embrace Black Lives Matter are feeling the heat as corporate America’s once-favorite cause faces a backlash over pro-Hamas and anti-Israel statements.

Consumers’ Research issued a “woke alert” Wednesday against three brands: Dove, DoorDash and Airbnb. The conservative corporate watchdog accused the brands of hypocrisy for their ongoing support of Black Lives Matter.

How 'ESG' came to mean everything and nothing-BBC

However, in the years since firms announced these splashy ESG commitments, often boosting share prices and bolstering corporate reputations, the term has created more confusion – even trouble – than positive change. In fact, some of those ESG commitments have created myriad problems for executives, says Alison Taylor, a clinical associate professor at NYU Stern School of Business, US. Increasingly, the ESG movement has been labelled as "woke" capitalism, and accused of enabling greenwashing.

Oil Majors’ Carbon Capture Plans Dubbed a ‘Dangerous Delusion’ The technology is considered among the most-controversial climate solutions by green groups. -Bloomberg

Oil executives betting they’ll be able to meet net zero emissions goals by relying on carbon-capture technology are deluding themselves, according to an influential group of corporate bosses, bankers and academics.

Spent some time yesterday for a couple of congressional staffers for Dan Sullivan from Alaska. One of the biggest issues they are working on is removing the stigma of lending to oil and gas companies. JPMorgan Has a New Way to Gauge Its Green Progress The biggest US bank says it’s including zero-carbon power generation in how it measures emissions tied to its lending to oil and gas companies.-Bloomberg

BloombergNEF has warned that by 2030, banks must be lending four times as much to clean-energy concerns as they do to fossil fuel companies if the planet is to avoid the worst of the climate crisis. With six years to go, the average ratio is currently closer to 1-to-1. JPMorgan came in at 0.7 as of 2021.

‘National Embarrassment’: Key Stat Used In Biden Admin’s Landmark Climate Report Is Misleading-Daily Caller

“There is no peer reviewed science that attributes any part of increasing disaster losses to changes in climate,” Roger Pielke, Jr., a professor at the University of Colorado who has extensively studied and written about the politicization of science, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “To see evidence of changes in climate, look at climate data, not economic data.”

They did pop on earnings yesterday, but perhaps forming a double top. Target Promotes ‘GayCruella’ To ‘LGBTQIA+ Segmentation Strategist’ Amid Abysmal Sales From Pride Backlash-Daily Wire

AB-InBev Executive To Resign After Anti-American Beer Giant Continues To Spiral Down A Never-Ending Black Hole: REPORT-Daily Caller

Disney Offers Pronoun Pins For Epcot Janitors-Daily Caller

Female Boxer Refuses to Fight Trans Opponent in Canadian Championship Match-Breitbart

Teachers Conference Plots How To ‘Inspire Activism,’ Teach Critical Race Theory-Daily Caller

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is hosting a teachers conference from Nov. 16 to 19, and several of the sessions feature instruction on how to bring woke ideologies into the classroom.

Joe Biden Faces a Deep State Revolt On Israel, hundreds of federal workers try to undermine his policy.-WSJ

News reports say that no fewer than 500 appointees and staff from 40 agencies, including the National Security Council and the Justice Department, have sent Mr. Biden a letter demanding that he call for a cease-fire and “de-escalation” between Israel and Hamas: “Americans do not want the U.S. military to be drawn into another costly and senseless war in the Middle East.” The signatories are bravely anonymous.

And maybe he faces this. Manchin Says He Would ‘Absolutely’ Consider Presidential Run-Daily Wire

Not sure why you would fly any flag other than the US? Massachusetts Town Hoists Palestinian Flag Over Public Park "It basically represents Hamas."-Daily Wire

Of course not, these guys don’t want to die when they can have their proxies do the fighting for them. Iran Tells Hamas It Won’t Be Joining War Against Israel: REPORT-Daily Caller


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