The Corporate Equality Index and the ESG Racket (James Lindsay)

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New Discourses

June 5 2023

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 119 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!

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May 11, 2023 #BudLight #StarWars #Disney

#BudLight #Disney #StarWars In the four years, Kathleen Kennedy drove away half the Star Wars audience. Marvel Studios drove away half their audience from the MCU in three years. Anheuser-Busch however, did the same for Bud Light overnight! All it took was the idealism of VP Alissa Heinerscheid and the services of influencer Dylan Mulvaney. There is however a common theme through all of these, and Bud Light presents an excellent case study in what that is, namely ESG - Environmental, Social, & Governance. In this video, we will begin by briefly breaking down the boycott against Bud Light, why ESG is the root cause for both Disney and Anheuser-Busch driving away their audience, and why THIS could be an infliction point!

 

But Wait it Gets Better Worse

 

May 20, 2023 #BudLight #starwars #Disney

#BudLight #Disney #starwars In the past month, Anheiser-Busch beverages have lost as many customers it Star Wars and Marvel years to accomplish, but for AB Inbev, the problems are just getting started … because their ESG-rating was just downgraded, putting them at risk of insolvency! Miller Light and Dove are seemingly doing their best to take some of the heat off Bud Light, but in this, they are alone. In this editorial, @AndreEinherjar will explain why the whole reason why they sponsored a certain influncer in the first place was in order to preserve their ESG rating, even if that put them at odds with their customers; and why it was all for naught, as their ESG rating just cratered anyways … and finally, what that means!

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 How A Left-Wing Activist Group Teamed Up With Big Pharma To Push Radical Gender Ideology on American Hospitals
The Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index, bankrolled by Pfizer, is changing our medical care
Aaron Sibarium    
May 15, 2023

It was 2019 when Beth Rempe, then a nurse at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., first noticed the change.

Doctors were wearing pins sporting the transgender flag. Nurses were asking children, most with no history of gender dysphoria, for their preferred pronouns, which were entered into an electronic record system and documented on white boards outside their rooms. More patients were on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, especially young girls. And the top-ranked hospital was telling staff that people could change gender based on their "mood," according to slides from a mandatory training reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

The training, which was offered as recently as January, included a primer on "zi/hir" pronouns and used a "gender unicorn" to illustrate the "spectrum" of "other gender(s)."

 

 

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Now some Republican legislatures are seeking to strike back against the gender juggernaut. Missouri, Florida, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia are just some of the red states that have banned puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries for minors—measures that could force hospitals in those states to choose between violating the law or accepting a lower Healthcare Equality score.

Hospitals hoping to avoid that choice have a strong incentive to get involved in the legislative fight over gender-affirming care, Morrison said.

Especially since political activism is one of the practices the index rewards.

Hospitals receive points for "community engagement," the scoring criteria state, if they have "publicly supported LGBTQ+ equality under the law through taking action on local, state, or federal legislation or regulations."

Published under: Big Pharma , Feature , Medical Ethics , Pfizer , Transgender

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Jul 13, 2023 New Discourses Bullets

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 59 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 it breaks it down.