The Woke Street Journal
Investing should be about maximizing returns, not changing the world. The real impact of the ESG backlash As opinions shift, asset managers like BlackRock are talking more about maximising returns than about saving the world-FT
Trump’s Second-Term Plans: Anti-‘Woke’ University, ‘Freedom Cities’-WSJ
The former president is laying plans to wield his executive authority to influence school curricula, prevent doctors from providing medical interventions for young transgender people and pressure police departments to adopt more severe anticrime policies. All are areas where state or local officials have traditionally taken the lead.
How does that work? Trump’s war on woke ‘puts America on path to dictatorship’-The Times
Mary Barra makes a point of emphasizing how much GM’s profits depend on gas-powered pickup trucks, not the electric cars that Washington wants her to build.
MassPRIM committee drops 'ESG' in favor of stewardship, sustainability-P&I
Board members noted that the change would make the work of the committee, and the broader fund, easier for the public to understand at a time when ESG, or environmental, social and governance, has become a four-letter word in parts of the country.
This is where I draw the line. First They Came for the Cars, Then the Cows The climate lobby is now aiming to use taxes and regulation to restrict your meat consumption.-WSJ
Banishing fossil fuels and gasoline-powered cars isn’t enough to achieve the climate lobby’s net-zero promised land. Now people must give up their rib-eye steaks and pepperoni pizza.
Is this why I am not supposed to eat meat? Bill Gates Says Chances of Meeting 2C Warming Goal Fading Fast-Bloomberg
The science only matters when it can be shaped to support your preferred narrative. President Of UN Climate Confab Says There’s ‘No Science’ Behind Push To Phase Out Fossil Fuels-Daily Caller
As a result, deciding what to call “sustainable” in bank reports is “kind of up for grabs,” Brown said.
If you had “net zero causing Germany’s government to collapse” on your 2023 bingo card, congratulations—you may end up a winner. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s administration is falling apart because it turns out someone will have to pay for decarbonizing the eurozone’s largest economy.
Six Democrats Join House GOP to Block Biden from Turning Federal Lands into Migrant Camps-Breitbart
Ireland Attempts to Quell Riot with Hate-Speech Laws-National Review
Some estimates have it that 18 percent of the population of Ireland is now foreign-born — a rate higher than even the great waves of migration brought to the United States in the late 19th century, and an absolutely shocking number for a state that struggled with emigration problems as recently as a decade ago and whose nurses still emigrate to Australia.
Irish Journo: Media Should Suppress Debate About Migrant Crimes-Breitbart
Irish journalists should censor news and debate about immigrants’ crimes against Irish people because anti-migration opinions and statements “incite hatred,” an Irish journalist told the BBC television service on November 30.
Europe is in shock. Geert Wilders—variously called “far-right,” an “anti-Islamist populist,” and the Dutch Donald Trump—won last Wednesday’s election in the Netherlands. His party is now the biggest in the Dutch parliament. For years, Wilders has been an outcast, considered too toxic by mainstream politics and too extreme by the overwhelmingly liberal media. And yet he has won—and not by a small margin.
Europe is in shock. We are not.
Why else would you bring them here? New York congresswoman sounds alarm over potential voter registration of non-citizens-Washington Examiner
Nolte: Activist Investor Seeks Disney Board Seat – Not Buying Bob Iger’s BS-Breitbart
Can you imagine how cornered Iger must feel if he’s willing to publicly validate the slogan, “Get woke, go broke”? Suppose you wish to retain your standing in Hollywood. In that case, you are never allowed to acknowledge that left-wing propaganda (child grooming, token casting, heavy-handed messaging, the destruction of icons at the hands of sexless and smug girl bosses) damages profits. This is why the suckups in the entertainment media always look for another excuse, like weather or sexist Trump voters.
‘Woke’ Disney, broke Disney Left-wing activism is hurting Mickey Mouse's bottom line-Washington Times
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