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The ESG hype is showing signs of fatigue

Irina Slav
Oilprice.com
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:00 UTC
wall street
Earlier this month, Vanguard, the world's largest asset manager, quit a net-zero banking alliance saying it wanted more independence and more clarity about its ESG commitments to investors.

Then, a week later, HSBC, the UK-based, developing world-focused lender, announced it would suspend direct financing and advisory services to new oil and gas projects, bowing under the pressure of shareholders and environmental activists.

The two events seem completely unrelated, but they are signs of things to come: fractures in the ESG investment movement are appearing--and they are likely to grow bigger at a time when consumption of fossil fuels is set to hit a new high.

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Life Preserver

Celebs waking up? Oscar winner Tim Robbins tells Russell Brand how he saw the light on media bias, 'Orwellian' COVID rules based on politics, not science

Christian Toto
Hollywood in Toto
Wed, 21 Dec 2022 03:14 UTC
tim robbins
Tim Robbins fell for the media's COVID-19 narratives hook, line and sinker. But not for long.

The actor/director came out earlier this year against vaccine mandates for his fellow thespians, understanding it made little sense given what we've learned about the medication.

The jab doesn't stop the spread, nor does it prevent the recipient from getting the virus.

Comment: Love them or hate them, it's only a benefit to have high-profile celebs speaking out on the totalitarian creep we are currently witnessing. Those who 'see the light' and say nothing are helping no one.

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Quenelle - Golden

Major sanctioned Russian bank launches money transfer service for sanctioned Iran


RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 06:09 UTC
VTB bank Russia
Russia's second largest bank, VTB, has launched a new service allowing both individuals and businesses to transfer money to and from Iran, the lender announced on Monday.

State-owned VTB, which has been subject to sweeping Western sanctions since late February, has thus become the first lender to provide banking services to Iran, a country that has been under international restrictions for decades.

Comment: This comes on the heels of numerous high profiles deals between countries targeted by the West, whereby they're ditching the dollar in favor of commodities as well as regional currencies. Further, it's likely that Iran will be just the first country to take advantage of this new sanction-busting service: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: 2022 Year in Review: From Canada Freedom Convoy to US-Russia Proxy War



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Bad Guys

RFK Jr. interviews Dr Robert Malone: Americans are subjected to 'military-grade information warfare':

Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
Children's Health Defense
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:11 UTC
Robert malone RFK
Dr. Robert Malone, who helped develop the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines and now has become an outspoken critic of the vaccines, discussed his new book "Lies My Government Told Me" with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in a recent episode of "RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast."

According to Malone, U.S. Americans for the last three years have been subjected to "military-grade information warfare — capability and technology that was designed for our opponents for military warfare outside of the U.S. — that has been turned on American citizens."

Malone told Kennedy, I know "that's a lot of words, some strong words, but I think that's really what we have here."

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Attention

The commercialization of death: All is not beautiful

Trevor Tucker
Westernstandard.news
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
Jennyfer Hatch
The late Jennyfer Hatch.

Simons advertisement
The 'All is Beauty' ad for the Canadian clothing retailer Simons portrays Jennyfer Hatch, a BC woman who chose assisted suicide. She is walking on a beautiful beach. She is, it seems at least, surrounded by family and friends. They spend day and night talking, singing around bonfires, playing with glowing Chinese-lantern-type glowing animals in the deep night. This, it seems, is how Hatch has chosen to spend her remaining days.

We're left jealous. We wonder why we don't have a community like that, that really appreciates beauty and the good things in life, like hanging out for days on the beach without a care in the world. It looks like paradise.

Then we remember it's an ad. (Who is stuck with feeding these people? Who pays? Do any of them have to work?) It's pretend. It's framed. It's selling a dream that doesn't exist.

But the cold pretence, the doublethink, the twisting of reality behind the ad is alive and well — for how we now face suffering and death in Canada does indeed require a rejection of reality.

And its coined in the diabolical phrase "there are options."

Comment: In Canada it is called MAiD. There are advertisements to help sell death, like the one the clothing retailer made. It is being normalized.

Canadian doctors encouraged to tell patients about medically assisted death

There are even coloring books for kids being produced by Health Canada for the next generation.





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Info

Musk searching for new Twitter boss - CNBC


RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 01:54 UTC
Twitter, Elon Musk
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Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk is looking for a new chief executive to lead the company after the platform's users voted for him to resign, CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing its sources.

People familiar with the matter told the media outlet that Musk's search for a new CEO has been ongoing and began before the Twitter poll.

On Sunday, the billionaire posted an informal poll asking Twitter users if he should step down as head of the company. Warning the audience to "be careful what you wish, as you might get it," Musk said he would abide by the results of the poll. The businessman also noted that nobody to replace him had been found yet.

A majority of the 17 million respondents voted for Musk to leave his post. However, on Monday following the results, Musk stated that henceforth only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to voice their opinions in polls about policy changes on the platform.

Comment: Whoever Musk finds to replace him as CEO, they're not likely to be nearly as entertaining. But one can hope!

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Hardhat

West Point to remove monuments to Confederate alumni

Ari Blaff
National Review
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 23:24 UTC
Robert E. Lee
© Library of CongressGeneral Robert E. Lee, March 1864.
Lieutenant General Steven Gilland, the current superintendent of West Point, announced yesterday afternoon that the historic military academy would begin removing Confederate monuments and artwork across its properties over the upcoming holiday break.

During this time "we will begin a multi-phased process, in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) directives, to remove, rename or modify assets and real property at the United States Military Academy (USMA) and West Point installation that commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy or those who voluntarily served with the Confederacy," Gilland wrote in a letter addressed to West Point community members obtained by National Review.

Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's leading general and a graduate of West Point, features prominently in Gilland's letter. The reconstruction efforts West Point will begin undertaking over the holiday break include replacing Lee's uniform from the USMA Library, a bust of Lee at Reconciliation Plaza, and a quote of Lee's at Honor Plaza.

The school will also be renaming several Confederate-related buildings and streets in the surrounding area including Lee Barracks, Lee Housing Area, Beauregard Place, and Hardee Place.

Comment: Regardless of whether or not his name resides on the buildings or streets, the fact will always remain that Lee was an exceptional general and that West Point was his alma mater. Perhaps one day even those facts will prove too much to bear and must therefor be expunged from the annals of history.

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Attention

Explosion at major Russian gas pipeline after leak detected, prices in Europe spike


RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:50 UTC
gas explosion
Three people have died in the incident in Central Russia, with at least one injured, local authorities say
An explosion has rocked a pipeline in Russia's Chuvash Republic several hundred kilometers east of Moscow, causing a major fire, local officials said. The incident along the route, which is used to transport energy to Europe, killed at least three people and injured another one, while prompting gas prices in Europe to soar.

The local administration's press service said the blast occurred along the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline. It added that the operating company had been conducting maintenance work on the conduit before the fire broke out.

Of the three dead and one injured, "all of them were working on the gas pipeline," local emergency services confirmed.

Comment: All things considered, it's looking like this is another possible sabotage incident to add to the rapidly growing list:

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Heart - Black

British hospital allegedly denied rape claim because perpetrator was transgender

Zachary Evans
National Review
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 23:14 UTC
hospital, nurse, medical staff
© Rafael Marchante/ReutersA medical staff member rests leaning against a wall in an intensive care unit, where patients suffering from the coronavirus are treated, at the Santa Maria hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. April 9, 2020.
In a speech to the House of Lords on Thursday, a British politician alleged that a hospital denied a female patient's claim that she had been raped because the alleged attacker was transgender.

Emma Nicholson, the Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, did not name the hospital where the alleged incident took place, or give the identity of the victim. No further information on the alleged incident has been publicly reported.

The woman who said she was raped "naturally reported it to police," Nicholson told fellow members of the House of Lords. "The police spoke to the hospital, and the hospital informed police that there was no male in the hospital, therefore the rape could not have happened."

Nicholson told parliament's upper chamber that "it has taken nearly a year for the hospital to agree that actually there was a male on the ward and yes this rape happened," and this only because of evidence captured on CCTV footage.

Comment: A terrible situation, if true.

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NPC

Stanford language guide warns against saying 'American'

Jennifer Kabbany
The College Fix
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:45 UTC
stanford
A 13-page language guide at Stanford University warns against, among many things, using the word "Americans" because the term "often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the America."

"Americans" is one of dozens of words and phrases listed in the "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative," which came under scrutiny this week after it was brought to light by The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

The university hid the guide behind a password after it started getting media attention, but the Journal saved a copy.

Its editorial scorched the university for the guide, which editors argued is so "stupid" — one of the words on the naughty list — it's hard to believe it's not satire:
You can't "master" your subject at Stanford any longer; in case you hadn't heard, the school instructs that "historically, masters enslaved people." And don't dare design a "blind study," which "unintentionally perpetuates that disability is somehow abnormal or negative, furthering an ableist culture." Blind studies are good and useful, but never mind; "masked study" is to be preferred. Follow the science.

"Gangbusters" is banned because the index says it "invokes the notion of police action against 'gangs' in a positive light, which may have racial undertones." Not to beat a dead horse (a phrase that the index says "normalizes violence against animals"), but you used to have to get a graduate degree in the humanities to write something that stupid.

Comment: Bad words: California colleges push students to purge 'harmful' phrases like 'brown bag lunch'

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