🚨 @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, @Unilever CEO Alan Jope and one of the UN's ESG Czars Damilola Ogunbiyi just spoke on an ESG panel, led by Bill Clinton, at the Clinton Global Initiative's September meeting.
You can't make this stuff up. Clips incoming.
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Bill Clinton praises @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink for being one of the main drivers of the ESG agenda:
Former President Bill Clinton and @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink label anyone that opposes ESG as "climate change deniers."
Clinton: "Talk to audience about equitable access to clean energy..."
UN ESG Czar: "When we think about a just and equitable energy transition, we can't think of one half of the world and leave out the developing countries..."
Bill Clinton and @Unilever CEO Alan Jope discuss how Unilever is putting the ESG agenda ahead of their fiduciary duty to shareholders:
"It's not a great place to be selling food or personal care products when you're under water or on fire..."
.@BlackRock CEO Larry Fink reiterates his new ESG talking point, claiming "climate risk is investment risk."
.@BlackRock CEO Larry Fink claims that ESG driving energy prices higher is actually a positive because it shrinks the "green premium."
.@BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calls to "change the charters" of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, along with bringing together "all governments" to facilitate his global ESG transition:
.@Unilever CEO Alan Jope cites George Orwell in discussing the "climate emergency" and "anti-woke backlash."
.@Unilever CEO Alan Jope ADMITS @BlackRock was one of the main drivers helping them pushing their ESG agenda:
.@Unilever CEO Alan Jope calls to make ESG ratings mandatory:
When asked by Bill Clinton about where the money is going to come from to facilitate a global ESG transition, one of the UN's ESG Czars said:
"Just like how we found $17 trillion for COVID, the money must be there somewhere..."
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JUST IN: 11 State Attorneys General, led by Texas AG @KenPaxtonTX, have just filed an antitrust lawsuit against @BlackRock, @Vanguard_Group and @StateStreet, alleging the big 3 asset managers are using their combined market power to drive energy prices higher nationwide.
The lawsuit argues that the big 3 asset managers have used their substantial holdings in American energy companies to artificially suppress the supply of coal, which in turn has driven up the price of coal, resulting in higher end costs for consumers nationwide.
According to the lawsuit, there is verifiable proof that the big 3 asset managers have worked in tandem to leverage their combined ownership power to pressure coal companies into submitting to their Net-Zero goals (like reducing carbon emissions from coal by more than 50%).
🚨 JUST IN: @BlackRock's entire core business may be in jeopardy...
CEO Larry Fink is panicking at the prospect of re-engineering large portions of his indexing business — which is both the company's largest source of revenue each year and his largest source of power in advancing his far-left political agenda.
I'll explain 🧵
Roughly every 3 years, @BlackRock is required by law to apply for "blanket authorization" from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to acquire and hold over $10 million (and/or 10% ownership) in voting shares of multiple public utilities. These authorizations are required to ensure that one rogue financial entity cannot exert undue influence over energy markets.
Without this authorization, @BlackRock cannot run massive portions of their indexing business because these public utilities are critical components of various indexes (like the S&P 500, Russell 3000, etc).
In short, if they can't buy shares of utility companies, they cannot truly offer the index.
.@BlackRock is currently in the process of re-applying for "blanket authorization" from FERC.
Last week, both @ConsumersFirst and 19 state Attorneys General filed motions with FERC, seeking to bar @BlackRock from receiving this authorization, unless the commission can investigate and ensure BlackRock will not use their large (and growing) ownership in public utilities to advance Larry Fink's far-left political agenda.
🚨 A little-known group out of Washington, D.C. — that boasts many Fortune 500 CEOs as members — is quietly working behind-the-scenes to help force ESG and DEI onto corporate America.
Meet Business Roundtable 🧵
More than 200 CEOs are members of @BizRoundtable — with the industries represented spanning from major banks, like @BankofAmerica, to farm supply companies, like @TractorSupply.
In boasting about their reach the organization claims that their members support “one in four American jobs and almost a quarter of U.S. GDP” and that “through CEO-led policy committees, [they] develop and advocate directly for policies…”
The members of this group, when acting in coordination, hold significant market power — the companies represented account for *half of the value of all publicly traded companies* in the U.S., with a total value estimated at over $20 trillion.
And they’ve recently shifted their focus from upholding fiduciary duty to @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s “stakeholder capitalism.”
🚨 REPORT: In a newly amended class-action lawsuit, infamous "stablecoin" company @Tether_to and crypto exchange @Bitfinex are being accused of engaging in a "sophisticated scheme" to artificially inflate the price of cryptocommodities.
The lawsuit alleges that the $USDT issued in this scheme did not have the 1-to-1 US dollar backing, as @Tether_to claims, and instead was backed by IOU's.
This created a *massive* redeemability risk.
@Tether_to The plaintiffs claim that this risk was compounded further because @Bitfinex, allegedly, also did not have sufficient reserves to cover these "receivables" — so they allegedly commingled customer funds, operating funds, etc to mask this fact.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) held a "Special Meeting" this week to discuss, among other things, how to continue advancing ESG globally, in the face of increased backlash & rising geo-political tensions.
@BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and his "friends" had quite a lot to say...
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The discussion we'll focus on kicked off with Salman Rahman, a Bangladeshi businessman and government official, saying a "restructuring" of "the global order" is required to achieve the WEF's goals:
William Ford, Executive Chair of the Ford Motor Company and great grandson of Henry Ford, then explained what the cost of achieving the WEF's ESG goals would be:
JUST IN: We've found proof that @BlackRock lied in their letter to the Texas Permanent School Fund, following the fund's divestment of $8.5 billion...
You'll want to see this 🧵
I thought it was *highly unlikely* that @BlackRock wasn’t given any notice that they were at risk of being fired, as they've claimed.
So, I watched 6 hours of footage of the fund's last two public board meetings. And, I know this won't shock anyone, but BlackRock lied...
@BlackRock To recap: in their terse letter responding to the $8.5 billion divestment by the TX PSF, @BlackRock claimed that “the process by which this decision was reached remains unclear to the public.”