Subversion: Antifa-BLM, SJW warriors, gender warriors , Hamasholes, satanism

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I notice there seems to always be at least one Hamashole with a megaphone bossing everyone around like the one who ordered pro Israelis to go across the street farther away from their location.

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So corporations are starting to reverse course. Perhaps one of the major reasons to vote Biden out of office are his efforts to impose ESG/DIE goals and standards by executive fiat:

A Luxury Nobody Can Afford

Joan Sammon • 22 Jun, 2024 • 4 Min Read
 
Corporate America finally wises up to the scam.

From Boeing to Starbucks and BP to Budweiser, the landscape of Wall Street is increasingly strewn with failed executive boards that adopted ideological policies that have been bad for business. In recent years, C-Suites have been populated with executives who accepted being told what to think by activists and a few powerful asset managers, while forgetting how to think. Filled with acolytes from some of America’s most prestigious business schools, executive boards have been persuaded by promises of increased executive compensation -- lots more money -- to not question, not challenge and not fight the adoption of transient faddish standards into boardroom decisions, even in direct violation of their fiduciary obligations to shareholders.

Now, four years after the most socially charged period since the anti-war protests of the Vietnam era, shareholders are finally demanding that the ideologically strident environmental, social and governance nonsense known as "ESG," economic foolishness underpinned by narratives of "climate catastrophe" and the make-work, economically suicidal foolishness of "diversity equity and inclusion" (DEI), be scrapped. Here's the Wall Street Journal on the subject:

White-collar companies that once championed programs to recruit diverse employees are now tiptoeing away from them... Companies have made the changes quietly, often by playing down terminology such as “DEI” and opening up programs once reserved for diverse applicants to everyone. Many stopped referencing their DEI programs in annual reports altogether, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Minority students are concerned about what the cutback means for their future in an already tight job market.

All have won, and all must have prizes.

By the close of Starbuck’s annual shareholder meeting back in March this year, investors had voted on a slew of initiatives, including an executive pay packages that omitted diversity and sustainability goals from bonus considerations for top leadership at the company. Though non-binding, it sent a clear message to company leadership that shareholders separate their political ideology from their beverage-selling, and that they expect corporate executives to do the same. The initiative passed with a 90 percent approval. Shareholders made it clear that the days of focusing on the immutable traits of employees or the recyclability of the tables and chairs is simply not important to those who actually fund the company.

The idea of bonuses for promoting products is not new. For decades pharmaceutical companies have incentivized prescribing habits of physicians. Even as recently as 2021 pharmacies were paid to inject as many people as possible with the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines for COVID-19, even in the face of limited efficacy data and, later, provable harm, so as to maximize their incomes via pay incentives. For at least five decades now, the corporate media has rewarded editors who aggressively hired and promoted "underrepresented" minorities and rabid ideologues in a business that once required speed, accuracy, and commitment to the First Amendment.

Corporate leaders are no different. In recent years they have become evangelizers for ideological policies masquerading as corporate initiatives. The idea of politicizing corporate America was first introduced by the malevolent activist organization, World Economic Forum (WEF) beginning in 2000. A proponent of a single global government, the WEF recognized that corporate leaders would do almost anything for the right price. They began methodically engaging executives of asset management firms to begin the process of reorienting the capital markets toward industries, technologies and companies in which they had personal financial interest and those that helped shape the New World Order they envisioned even if broader market acceptance was fleeting.

By 2020 non-profit organizations were part of the WEF program to integrate ideological initiatives into corporate decision making, even in defiance of the sole interest rule. Organizations like Human Rights Campaign and Black Lives Matter were shaking down large swaths of corporate America for billions in the wake of destructive protests. Starbucks was an early follower of these extortion efforts and introduced a company-wide program that same year.

By 2023, 7.5 percent of Starbucks' executive bonus variables were tied to "diversity," while another 7.5 percent was based on “sustainability” goals. But by March 2024, with emotion waning and shareholders irritated by activism, the proposed outline included 75 percent of executive bonus variables being tied to overall financial performance and 25 percent be based on individual performance. In addition, the company was to replace the word "representation” with “talent" in its performance-related restricted stock unit grant (PRSU). But needing shareholders to convince a board that the word “talent” should be reintegrated into company vernacular testifies to the fact that fads that are still influencing corporate executives in 2024.

Well, that didn't pan out.

The rolling back of these ESG and DEI policies are largely occurring as a result of threatened legal action. As recently as six months ago, six large U.S. corporations, including JPMorgan Chase, began rolling back their DEI and ESG policies not because corporate leadership had a change of heart but because of threatened lawsuits. According to reports, 25 large U.S. corporations have received letters since 2021. JPMorgan Chase changed modified programs that were exclusively open to Hispanic and black applicants, now to include all students, “regardless of background.” Even the most strident evangelizer of ESG and DEI programming, BlackRock, has rolled back a DEI program.

Common sense has made a return but never underestimate the power of government intervention to achieve social  outcomes the markets and the law reject. The Biden administration, infamous for its use of regulatory edicts, seems poised to force ESG and DEI onto businesses through regulation. But with the Chevron Doctrine likely to be overturned soon by the Supreme Court in two pending decisions – Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce -- perhaps only then will reason return to corporate America and focus shift from ESG activism to boardroom merit once again.

Joan Sammon is the founder of a boutique oil and gas advisory firm that develops strategies for an array of business & market challenges. As an ESG expert she explains the threat of ESG to her corporate clients.

https://the-pipeline.org/a-luxury-nobody-could-afford/?sfnsn=mo

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https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/06/23/lesbians-kicked-out-of-ca-restaurant-stalked-for-confronting-man-in-womens-bathroom-n2397567

[Crafty_Dog]

https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/25/pronouns-over-public-safety-why-did-police-and-media-bend-reality/

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another letter salad

what is BOLO ?

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Be On the LookOut.

[Crafty_Dog]

Police lingo, as in "They put out a BOLO for a blue car with DC tags."

[DougMacG]

 “be on the look out.”

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8PZCMci0k

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BS McKinsey report showing diversity increase profits over 30% was bogus

Was this the reason corporations all jumped on board with the DEI thing overnight?
Or was it social pressure?

Or both?

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Sorry I meant to post the MSN report of the WSJ McKinsey "study"

but not WSJ will not let me post.

This is the bottom line:

"Academics have tried to repeat McKinsey’s findings and failed, concluding that there is in fact no link between profitability and executive diversity. And the methodology of McKinsey’s early studies, which helped create the widespread belief that diversity is good for profits, is being questioned."

[Crafty_Dog]

https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/06/30/pro-palestine-protestors-interrupt-pride-parade-n2397826

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I very much hope the plaintiffs surmount here:

Judge Rejects Biden Admin Bid To Dismiss Lawsuit Over 'Illegal and Dangerous' $1.5 Billion Palestinian Payment Plan

L: UNRWA Building , R: Hamas militants (Getty Images)

Adam Kredo

July 1, 2024

A U.S. district court rejected the Biden administration’s bid to dismiss a landmark lawsuit alleging it engaged in an "illegal and dangerous $1.5 billion terrorism subsidy program for the Palestinians."

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled on Friday that the lawsuit brought by victims of Palestinian terrorism can proceed, marking the second time the Biden administration’s motion to dismiss the case has been rejected. The court, in its latest decision, said there is evidence the Biden administration continued awarding taxpayer cash to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)—the leading aid organization in Gaza—even after Congress blocked funding to that group due to its support for Hamas’s military infrastructure.

The lawsuit, originally filed in December 2022 by American victims of Palestinian terror attacks and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), alleges the Biden administration violated federal law when it restarted aid to the Palestinians, including for programs in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. This money, they argue, subsidized terrorism and contributed to the Palestinian government’s "pay to slay" program, which provides imprisoned terrorists and their families with monthly stipends.

The latest decision paves the way for the case to "move forward, tearing away the veil from the Biden Administration’s illegal and dangerous $1.5 billion terrorism subsidy program for the Palestinians," America First Legal, a watchdog group handling the lawsuit on behalf of terror victims, said in a summary of the case provided to the Washington Free Beacon.

"This administration has been illegally funding terrorism by providing taxpayer dollars to Palestinian terrorists who want to bring harm to American and Israeli interests,"  said Rep. Jackson. "This critical decision will help to hold the Biden administration accountable and ensure that the national security of the United States and Israel is prioritized over the illegal funding of terrorism with American taxpayer dollars."
The court agreed that America First Legal provided sufficient evidence that the Biden administration’s financial support for UNRWA "is undiminished," even after Congress outlawed funding to the group following revelations its employees participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel. UNRWA facilities have also been used as Hamas command centers, and weapons stockpiles have repeatedly been discovered in the agency’s buildings.

The Biden administration attempted to argue that the plaintiff’s use of "Trump policies" in its initial suit was "amorpheous [sic] or indeterminate," but the court also rejected this claim, saying the suit clearly demonstrates that aid to both the Palestinians and UNRWA was frozen during the previous administration and subsequently restarted when President Joe Biden took office.

The lawsuit "makes that distinction clear," the court determined, adding that the Biden administration’s "decision to resume those two sources of funding each constitute discrete and final agency actions."

Reed Rubinstein, America First Legal’s senior vice president, said the latest ruling indicates the Biden administration knew it was violating the law by sending aid to the Palestinians but moved forward with this policy anyway.

The evidence, obtained through internal State Department emails and records, indicates the administration also violated the Taylor Force Act, a 2018 law named after an American killed by Palestinain terrorists that barred American funds to the Palestinian government until it ceased payments to imprisoned terrorists, Rubinstein said.

"The Biden administration’s $1.5 billion in illegal payments to Gaza, the West Bank, and the UNRWA have led to mass death, destruction, and disaster," according to Rubinstein. "Biden officials knew that by unlawfully overturning the existing Trump administration’s ‘no funds’ policy and violating the Taylor Force Act, U.S. taxpayers would end up subsidizing Hamas’s tunnels and missiles and the corrupt Palestinian Authority’s obscene pay-to-slay bounty program. Now, accountability is on the horizon."

Stuart and Robbi Force, Taylor's parents, who are parties in the suit against Biden, said they were "very appreciative of Judge Kacsmaryck’s denial of the government’s motions to dismiss our complaint."

"For the defendants to violate the [Taylor Force Act] and resume sending taxpayer dollars to terrorist entities is personally heartbreaking to our family and Taylor’s many friends, and is an affront to the strong bipartisan support the Act received in Congress," they added.
In its initial filing, America First Legal provided the court with internal State Department emails, first reported by the Free Beacon, showing that U.S. officials raised concerns in 2021 that a resumption in funding to the Palestinians would embolden Hamas.
"We assess there is a high risk Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from U.S. assistance to Gaza. There is less but still some risk U.S. assistance would benefit other designated groups," the State Department assessed at the time.

Separate funding streams to UNRWA, the lawsuit alleges, also bolstered Hamas and enabled it to carry out the Oct. 7 attack.
UNRWA "facilities have served as terrorist command and control center, weapon storage depots, and rocket launching platforms," according to the lawsuit. "It uses international money to indoctrinate Palestinian children into antisemitic terrorist cadres."

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/judge-rejects-biden-admin-bid-to-dismiss-lawsuit-over-illegal-and-dangerous-1-5-billion-palestinian-payment-plan/

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… and worked the Biden admin for Gaza funds. But hey, all those tunnels didn’t dig themselves:

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/dem-senator-turned-lobbyist-tom-daschle-pressed-biden-admin-to-support-infrastructure-projects-in-hamas-controlled-gaza-emails-show/

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Gazan horribly tortured! Wait, what’s that you say? The perpetrators were Hamas Security members?

Nothing to see here, move along:

https://x.com/henmazzig/status/1811289213981094179?s=61

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There are several UN threads, though none where this seems to fit. Strikes me we should have a place to catalog all the UN asshattery, sorta like the FBI Stasi-like schemes thread.

With that said, Israel releases the names of 108 UNWRA employees that moonlight for Hamas:

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-exclusive-israeli-letter-to-unrwa-head-reveals-employees-doubling-as-terrorists

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Let's continue using this thread-- the Hamasholes in the subject line should lead to posts about Hamas.

[Crafty_Dog]

(5) ANTIFA BLOG DOXXES HERITAGE FOUNDATION OFFICERS: Earlier this month, a D.C.-area Antifa blog published personal information about a number of Heritage Foundation officials and authors of its Presidential Transition Project’s “Mandate for Leadership” document, also referred to as Project 2025.

The post provides alleged home or office addresses for a number of prominent conservatives like former Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, former DHS senior official Ken Cuccinelli, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, Deputy Assistant to President Trump Peter Navarro, and dozens of others.

Why It Matters: Publishing personal information, referred to as doxxing, or publishing documents on a person, is often a first step towards fomenting protests, intimidation, and in some cases, physical violence against a political target. While former President Donald Trump has publicly deflected links to Project 2025, his potential administration will almost certainly include prominent Heritage Foundation members and Project 2025 authors. – M.S.

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It appears this gent is purchasing phone tracking geolocated metadata and associating it with its users. Interesting discrete doxxing ensues:

https://x.com/tonyseruga/status/1816213481722621967?s=61