The Corporate Equality Index and the ESG Racket

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The Corporate Equality Index and the ESG Racket
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 119 (05 June 2023)

ESG scoring is a financial racket, and we’re starting to learn how it works. The unfolding saga with huge American corporations like Anheuser-Busch (Bud Light) and Target are showing us a glimpse of what’s going on behind the curtain with this cartel scam that’s trapping our corporations. One tool of this cartel is the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index,” which is concerned with “LGBTQ+” issues and is used as a scoring mechanism for the S, Social (Justice), part of ESG scoring. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay walks through how the ESG racket works, including using CEI scoring, and makes the suggestion that we need a perspective shift so we can end this problem once and for all. Join him to hear how it works!

https://odysee.com/@newdiscourses:9/...-and-the-esg:d



Stakeholder Capitalism and the End of History
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 109 (13 February 2023)

In 1844, Karl Marx explained that Communism, “as the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement” is “the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. In 2016, 172 years later, Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum put forth a bold future-casting video proclaiming that by the year 2030 “you will own nothing, and you will be happy.” These, of course, are the same assertion. Flashing back, in 1964, in the book One-dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse explained that to move forward with the Marxist project, socialism had to figure out how to become productive without abandoning its core values and capitalism had to be reined in to curb its inherent unsustainability. That is, Marcuse reframed the riddle of history and pointed in the direction of a way to solve it. This year, in 2023, just weeks ago in an interview resulting from the Davos meeting, Klaus Schwab articulated his vision for this solution: state capitalism on the one hand and shareholder capitalism on the other have to be reconsidered into a new model he calls “stakeholder capitalism” that incorporates certain aspects of “social responsibility.” Yet again, these are the same assertion. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explains these ideas in unprecedented depth, reading through and building off an essay he wrote for New Discourses on this very subject last October: “The Riddle of History, Solved.” Join him to understand what “stakeholder capitalism” really is in terms of “productive socialism” and capitalism reframed in terms of the “sustainability” agenda.

https://odysee.com/@newdiscourses:9/...d-the-end-of:c

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How Tobacco Companies Are Crushing ESG Ratings

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[CaptUSA]

How Tobacco Companies Are Crushing ESG Ratings

Why compete in the market for money when you can just steal it from the taxpayers???

Here's how it goes:
Governments use central banking authorities to print money > they give the money to institutional investors > they, in turn, give it to "companies" that do their bidding > those companies give a portion of it back to favored politicians > politicians vote for more money and more special favors > rinse and repeat.

It's straight up economic fascism. And ESG is just a measurement of which entities should benefit from the fascism. This is all being done with YOUR wealth. It only makes sense that tobacco companies, with declining sales growth would pursue this more profitable strategy more aggressively.

[acptulsa]

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https://babylonbee.com/news/dollar-s...-lgbtq-acronym

U.S. — In honor of the hundreds of billions of dollars being funneled to support the LGBTQ cause, the dollar sign has officially been added as the newest member of the acronym.

"Money is a critical, critical part of this community," said trans activist Chesly Chester. "We hope this change reflects just how much we truly value money."

[Occam's Banana]

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Stakeholder Capitalism and the End of History
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 109 (13 February 2023)

In 1844, Karl Marx explained that Communism, “as the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement” is “the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. In 2016, 172 years later, Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum put forth a bold future-casting video proclaiming that by the year 2030 “you will own nothing, and you will be happy.” These, of course, are the same assertion. Flashing back, in 1964, in the book One-dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse explained that to move forward with the Marxist project, socialism had to figure out how to become productive without abandoning its core values and capitalism had to be reined in to curb its inherent unsustainability. That is, Marcuse reframed the riddle of history and pointed in the direction of a way to solve it. This year, in 2023, just weeks ago in an interview resulting from the Davos meeting, Klaus Schwab articulated his vision for this solution: state capitalism on the one hand and shareholder capitalism on the other have to be reconsidered into a new model he calls “stakeholder capitalism” that incorporates certain aspects of “social responsibility.” Yet again, these are the same assertion. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explains these ideas in unprecedented depth, reading through and building off an essay he wrote for New Discourses on this very subject last October: “The Riddle of History, Solved.” Join him to understand what “stakeholder capitalism” really is in terms of “productive socialism” and capitalism reframed in terms of the “sustainability” agenda.

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[acptulsa]

[Madison320]

The Corporate Equality Index and the ESG Racket

I think this is more evidence that the government is behind most of the crappy stuff that corporations are doing.

I think it's a huge mistake (that many here make!) to try to counter crappy corporate behavior caused by government regulation ... with more government regulation. Like the social media censoring and the problems with big pharma.

My guess is that without all the government coercion big corporations wouldn't be doing all that crap. We don't need more regulation we need less. I just read that a judge ruled that the feds can't meet with big tech, that's a good start. There's no reason at all for the Feds to be communicating with private corporations.

[Occam's Banana]

The Real Threat of ESG
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 59 (13 July 2023)
Thankfully, the world is rapidly waking up to the threat of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) scoring for corporations and beyond. The nature of that threat and its contours are coming into view, and people are taking action. In truth, as menacing and dangerous as ESG is in what it’s doing right now, the real threat of ESG lies elsewhere. The real threat of ESG is that it can be arbitrarily defined at the whim of a small number of unaccountable executives calling themselves “stakeholders.” That’s fearsome tyrannical power. Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets where he breaks it down.
https://odysee.com/@newdiscourses:9/...hreat-of-esg:2

[acptulsa]

I think this is more evidence that the government is behind most of the crappy stuff that corporations are doing.

I think it's a huge mistake (that many here make!) to try to counter crappy corporate behavior caused by government regulation ... with more government regulation. Like the social media censoring and the problems with big pharma.

My guess is that without all the government coercion big corporations wouldn't be doing all that crap. We don't need more regulation we need less. I just read that a judge ruled that the feds can't meet with big tech, that's a good start. There's no reason at all for the Feds to be communicating with private corporations.

I agree with your conclusion. But I can't believe you're blaming it unilaterally on government when, one, government does what it's bribed to do, and two, the advantages of giving businesses hurdles to leap all go to big corporations, not small businesses.

I'm not sure how to apportion the blame, and won't be until we stick a crowbar in between international corporations and this government, so we can finally determine where one ends and the other begins.

[Occam's Banana]

h/t @PAF: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...porate-America

ESG EXPOSED - A $66 Trillion Dollar Weapon Used To Control Corporate America
In this video, Patrick explains why companies fear ESG ratings, the history behind the ESG system, and the institutions pushing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUpcfBOsos

He's right about everything in this video, but he leaves out another important detail... Much of the money these institutional investors have to work with was placed onto their balance sheets by central banks around the world, including our own Federal Reserve. The money in your mutual fund portfolios is nice, but that Fed money is really, really nice.

So as bad as he lays it out here, it's even worse. Financial institutions can't do this without the aid of world governments. But what these financial institutions can do is make sure the right people are in positions of power in those world governments.

[Madison320]

I agree with your conclusion. But I can't believe you're blaming it unilaterally on government when, one, government does what it's bribed to do, and two, the advantages of giving businesses hurdles to leap all go to big corporations, not small businesses.

I'm not sure how to apportion the blame, and won't be until we stick a crowbar in between international corporations and this government, so we can finally determine where one ends and the other begins.

The problem is if you're a corporation and you don't try to bribe the government for favors, you're at a competitive disadvantage and you can go out of business.

Anyway I think assigning blame is kinda pointless. The important thing is how to fix it. I think the fix is smaller government and less regulation.

[Swordsmyth]

Investor Group Sues Missouri Over Anti-ESG Law

https://www.thefinancialtrends.com/2...-anti-esg-law/

[Brian4Liberty]

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 12

Two of the most infamous figures of the 20th century are two of its most notorious Marxist dictators: Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong. Each had his own methods. Speaking broadly, Lenin’s Bolshevik approach could be considered top-down, imposed by government and its seized industries, and Mao’s “Marxism-Leninism with Chinese Characteristics” might be considered bottom-up, a youth rebellion, and inside-out, a cultural revolution ushered in by his radicalized youth. The most infamous Neo-Communist figure of the early 21st century will be Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, who has figured out how to combine these approaches into a top-down, bottom-up, inside-out push. His primary tools: ESG and SEL. Join James Lindsay in this episode of New Discourses Bullets, where he succinctly explains how Schwab’s “stakeholder capitalism” Is a Leninist-Maoist project to mold a new economy and society in his image using a two-pronged vanguard model and a cultural revolution.
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https://newdiscourses.com/2022/06/le...er-capitalism/