Posted on 04/15/2023 10:34:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Opposition to “woke” ESG corporatism is snowballing, as Joe Biden and Larry Fink have found out recently. Fink is the billionaire CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, with $8 trillion under management. He is also one of Biden’s biggest boosters and the most prominent corporate promoter of ESG, the controversial rating system that is pushing companies to adopt “progressive” Soros-style policies rather than carry out their legal and fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders. ESG, which stands for environmental, social, and corporate governance, is a scheme aimed at pressuring businesses into joining the politically correct stampede on climate change, decarbonization, sustainable development, and so-called social-justice and racial-justice issues such as gun control, abortion rights, LGBTQ equity, and critical race theory.
Although ESG has only hit the general public’s radar screens in the past year or so, the ESG program, like most globalist intrigues, has been quietly in the works for decades. (We will return to that important history in a moment.) However, with the dangers of ESG now far more readily apparent, opposition is belatedly forming. Congress is stepping into the breach. State legislatures, governors, and attorneys general are also taking action.
On Tuesday, February 28, the U.S. House of Representatives fired the first salvo aimed at nixing the administration’s ESG program for 401(k) retirement investing, as put forward by the Biden Labor Department’s new rule known as the “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights.” The Labor rule, crafted pursuant to President Biden’s “Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk” (EO 14030) of May 20, 2021, was promulgated to undo President Trump’s executive order banning the placing of ESG impositions on pension funds.
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Why do they keep saying Biden when Biden has no clue who Biden is
Fink use to have a great financial product that predicted toxic investments. Now he is using all that capital to advance Leftist causes instead . What else would you expect from a Communist Fink?
Pushing the LGBTQ+whatever is Corporate Equality Index (CEI) a part of Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
We are being attacked on many different fronts by many enemies.
PS....HRC org is NOT new, it has been around for a couple of decades.
The ten trillion dollar man: how Larry Fink became king of Wall St ...
https://www.ft.com/content/7dfd1e3d-e256-4656-a96d-1204538d75cd
Web Oct 7, 2021· Many of his team were Jewish, leading some at the firm to dub Fink’s desk “Little Israel”.
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