Sky News Australia published October , 2022: Left-wing 'Trojan Horse': Biden team pushes 'coercive' ESG policy.
The Biden administration's environmental, social, and governance policy is a "coercive" approach to get Americans to buy into a green agenda promoting ideas "we don't agree with", West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore says.
Mr Moore said ESG started off as a form of "socially responsible investing" but soon became something else as it did not generate profit.
"So ESG is a coercive approach to that, to get all of us to buy into ESG," he said.
"So essentially what you have is a left-wing agenda that is being pushed through rating agencies, through banks, through asset managers.
"It's really coercive capitalism that is happening to be able to push their agenda through because they can't get it done at the ballot box – most times.
"ESG is the Trojan Horse that they're able to use unfortunately, other people's capital, many times pension plans, to be able to promote those ideas that right here in West Virginia we don't agree with."
Sky News Australia published October 8, 2022: Sky News host Rowan Dean says ESG is “nonsense woke rubbish” which is destroying our corporations.
Breitbart News
written by Sean Moran
Thursday October 6, 2022
Louisiana State Treasurer John Schroder announced on Wednesday that the Pelican State will withdraw $794 million in treasury funds from BlackRock over its ESG green energy activism.
Schroder announced that $560 million had already been removed from BlackRock and $794 million will be removed from the world’s largest asset manager by the end of 2022.
“This divestment is necessary to protect Louisiana from mandates BlackRock has called for that would cripple our critical energy sector,” Schroder said in a statement. “I refuse to spend a penny of Treasury funds with a company that will take food off tables, money out of pockets and jobs away from hardworking Louisianans.”
Schroder serves as the incoming chair of the national State Financial Officers Foundation. He explained that his action was in response to BlackRock’s embrace of “net zero” Energy, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment strategies that would harm the oil and natural gas industry. Louisiana is a large producer of oil.
Further, he said his decision arose after a meeting with BlackRock representatives, whose statements contradicted BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s public statements.
Schroder said in his letter to Fink that BlackRock fails to meet the company’s fiduciary duty to investors.
“A focus on political or social goals or placing those goals above the duty to enhance investors’ returns is unacceptable under Louisiana law,” Schroder said.
“They are pushing their agendas contrary to the best interests of the people whose money they are using!” he added. “This is a complete disregard for personal liberty.”
Consumers’ Research Executive Director Will Hild said in a statement that Schroder’s move helps to put an end to BlackRock’s “economic vandalism”:
Consumers’ Research applauds Treasurer Schroder’s commendable decision to withdraw the state’s assets from BlackRock’s misuse. As noted in his letter, BlackRock is using the people of Louisiana’s money to advance a destructive agenda that raises costs for consumers in the state and across the country. The seeds of today’s energy crisis were planted by BlackRock and others in their reckless abandonment of their fiduciary duty to cozy up to radical, woke politicians. We are glad to see the Treasurer working to put an end to their economic vandalism.
Derek Kreifels, the CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation, said in a statement:
Louisiana State Treasurer Schroder is taking decisive action to protect the citizens of Louisiana by divesting their state’s treasury funds from investment behemoth BlackRock. BlackRock and other investment giants have weaponized ESG, pushing climate and social policy with no regard for the harm they are causing to everyday Americans and calling it an investment strategy. Their reckless agenda is robbing Americans of their retirement dollars and driving up the costs of everyday goods like groceries, gas, and energy.
Kreifeils added, “Louisiana’s divestment, the largest to date, follows similar actions by several states including Utah, West Virginia, and Arkansas with more actions likely coming soon.”
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Graham Norton thinks that cancel culture isn’t real and that it should be called “accountability”.
— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) October 13, 2022
I addressed this common misconception in my show last year... pic.twitter.com/OfG65MtJhp
Very much enjoying the recent spate of bearded men stepping confidently onto their soapboxes to define what a woman is and throw their support behind rape and death threats to those who dare disagree. You may mock, but takes real bravery to come out as an Old Testament prophet. https://t.co/V3WFS31gAQ
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 13, 2022
Hard to think of anything that better illustrates misogyny than men complaining that a woman has a view on woman’s rights. https://t.co/4owDwrSXaf
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 13, 2022
You’ve compared feminists to Nazi eugenicists, Billy. You agreed with @grahnort that cancel culture is merely ‘accountability’. Do you believe threats of rape and murder are acceptable ‘accountability’? https://t.co/l7VT1xEnOJ
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 13, 2022
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