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Nearly every proposal from the climate activists was struck down:
This year only about 10% of the same investors voted for these measures. And apparently there’s a similar trend on the other side of the Atlantic with BP and Shell investors rejecting activism too. This is a very encouraging sign that the dominance of BlackRock et al is waning — they are bullying the world with other people’s money, and word is spreading as the US states fight back. ESG Blowback: Investors Reject Climate Measures at Exxon, ChevronBy Collin Eaton and Jenny Strasburg, The Wall Street Journal The votes were abysmal for climate activists. All but two of the 20 shareholder proposals for the two companies garnered less than 25% of investors’ vote, according to preliminary results, with some performing much worse than similar proposals put forward last year. In recent weeks, similar climate proposals failed to win over most shareholders at annual meetings of British oil and gas giants BP and Shell in London. It’s still bonkers that 10% of oil investors would vote for a plan to get their customers not to use their own product, but if those 10% were BlackRock and Vanguard, the giant financial asset managers themselves, then they have other ways to profit from these votes. The ESG spell is broken:But Wednesday’s votes demonstrated how some shareholders have backed off pushing major oil companies to embrace certain climate goals. Investors said many voices pushing ESG measures have been drowned out following Russia’s war in Ukraine, which caused oil and gas prices to skyrocket as global supplies were crimped. Investments in fossil fuels pushed many oil companies to record profits last year, which lured back some investors who had fled after years of meager returns from the industry. Exxon Chief Executive Darren Woods said Wednesday the company had benefited from investing in fossil fuels when others pulled back. But Woods and other industry executives have argued some climate-related proposals would backfire or leave the economy worse off. Woods said several proposals rejected Wednesday would have required the company to assume the world will cut carbon emissions at a much faster pace than observers have projected. “Some [would] go so far as to force us to decrease oil and gas development,” he said. “This would do nothing to reduce global demand.” This is a good sign that the free market is not dead yet. ______________________ ESG Means: environmental, social and corporate-governance issues. Photo by Farragutful
It is in effect: If there is a train and it’s less than a 2.5 hour trip, in France you can’t fly — unless of course, you own your own private jet, the most “polluting” kind of plane (according to the EcoWorriers). How does that make “carbon sense”? Are we saving the planet, or just stopping the riff-raff from traveling? It’s one rule for you, another for the Feudal overlords. Private planes make 5 to 14 times as much CO2, but they are “good to go”?… numerous studies demonstrate that private jets are much more impactful to the environment than other modes of transportations. They are about “5 to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes (per passenger),” a report published by the Transport and Environment group in 2021 states. According to a recent study, “only 1% of the population causes 50% of global aviation emissions.” Right now there are only three routes in France that will be banned, Paris-Orly to Bordeaux, Nantes and Lyon affecting only 2.5% of all domestic flights. The original plan was to ban five more routes, but the timetables weren’t so friendly for early morning or late in the day flights. No one says this better than Marc Morano: Climate Lockdowns Begin: France bans short-haul flights ‘to cut carbon emissions’Marc Morano –– Climate Depot: “You were warned! This is what a climate lockdown looks like. This is what the Great Reset looks like. The climate agenda demands you give up airline travel, car travel, cheap reliable energy, and plentiful food. Net Zero goals are now dictating vehicle shortages to force more people into mass transit. They’re going after your freedom of movement; they’re going after private car ownership, they’re going after everything it means to be a free person and turning it over to the administrative state.” The Citizens illusion of Debate and DemocracyThe BBC and others are mentioning that banning flights was first suggested at France’s Citizens Convention on Climate, as if Macron is just doing what the people wanted — but never forget that the people have been free all along to not-fly and take the train but they didn’t want to. The people of France were voting with their money and time, but now they can’t. To create the illusion, Macron tasked a group of people to assume the world was going to end because of CO2 and come up with ideas. With enough monkeys on typewriters, how could they miss? Afterwards Macron can just pluck out the suggestions he was going to do anyway, and say “Voila — this is what the citizens suggested”. France’s Citizens’ Convention on Climate, which was created by President Emmanuel Macron in 2019 and included 150 members of the public, had proposed scrapping plane journeys where train journeys of under four hours existed. But this was reduced to two-and-a-half hours after objections from some regions, as well as the airline Air France-KLM. There was no Citizens Convention on whether we can stop the storms with solar panels. No Convention on Holding Back the Sea. No one asks the citizens if it’s worth spending a trillion Euro to cool the world by one hundredth of a degree. It’s not democracy, and it’s not debate. The Bureaucrats only ask the citizens questions that make Big Government bigger. As I said It’s the Reality TV version of “Democracy” where 150 people pretend they speak for a nation while 65 million people get sidelined. Expect to see them take off everywhere. They are the perfect tool for Big-Government. Won’t change the weather, will kill peopleNow that short flights are banned, how many people won’t take the train and will get in their cars instead? France’s Ban on Short-Haul Flights Will Kill PeopleYou’re 2,200 times more likely to die when traveling by car as opposed to by airplane. A recent study out of Harvard University found that, for people traveling within the United States, Europe, and Australia, the chances of being killed while flying are 1 in 11 million, while the chances of being killed while driving are 1 in 5,000. Put differently, you’re 2,200 times more likely to be killed when traveling by car as opposed to by airplane. By diverting some travelers from the air to the roadways, the French government will almost certainly cause more travelers to die. Political theater, it turns out, can be deadly. Don’t mention the private jetsThe BBC doesn’t want anyone to notice that the Billionaires and corporate heads can keep churning out the CO2 of ten men… Putting private jets on the graph would blow the scale and shrink the rest to tiny lines. Worse, it would expose that this law is not about reducing CO2 at all.
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Thirty years ago a study reported a lower risk of fatal heart attacks in people who ate nuts four times a week. Since then scores of studies have shown the same general conclusion, popped out in the news, then got forgotten til the next one. Last week a mega review whittled them down to just 42 “cohort” studies on 1.9 million people and concluded that yes, nuts really do reduce heart disease deaths by around 25%, it’s “probably causal” say the researchers. And it most likely works through reducing blood lipids, though it might be displacing something bad. They did also look at 18 randomized controlled studies of just 2,266 people to check for causality. My thought for the day is if, in the extreme case, 1 in 4 heart attacks are caused by a nut deficiency and solveable with a daily dose of 50 cents worth of nuts, we could save quite a few people, not to mention hospital budgets. Coronary Heart Disease remains the biggest killer in the West. In the USA 700,000 people die of it nearly every year, which means something like 150,000 people might theoretically still be alive had they eaten more nuts. And that’s just in the US. It might be cost effective (not to mention humane) if our Ministry of Health tried to get the message out. This would seem extra sensible given that excess deaths are up 12 – 15% across the West for other unmentionable reasons. But then sensible things don’t seem to happen in government health departments.
No one seems to be training doctors to ask patients if they eat any nuts at all. But patented drugs with similarish ball park figures (and many side effects) get the red carpet rolled out. Our brightest of the bright are trained for six years to write special licences for people to get these patented profitable answers. There is a pattern here and all roads lead to a pile of money. In terms of deaths from heart disease the big benefits come in the first ten grams a day — just getting those people who don’t normally eat any nuts to eat a few will probably save the most lives.
![]() Figure 6b: Linear (red, dashed line) and non-linear dose-response (black lines with confidence intervals) association between total nuts and seeds consumption and coronary heart disease mortality (panel B; 9 studies) in cohort studies, with 0 g/day as reference. Circles show the effect estimates for each level of intake in the individual studies, weighted by the inverse of the standard errors. Vertical axes are log scaled. In terms of total risk of heart disease — which still has a big effect on quality of life — the benefits appear to accrue up to 20g a day or even more. ![]() Figure 6a: Linear (red, dashed line) and non-linear dose-response (black lines with confidence intervals) association between total nuts and seeds consumption and risk of total coronary heart disease (panel A; 14 studies), with 0 g/day as reference. Circles show the effect estimates for each level of intake in the individual studies, weighted by the inverse of the standard errors. Vertical axes are log scaled.
Studies of associations with diet and death are notoriously confounded, but with 1.9 million participants and follow up times of up to 23 years long, there is an awful lot of data suggesting that people who eat more nuts have healthier hearts. The paper itself has 167 references. It is a tome.
Eating nuts and seeds may reduce risk of heart diseaseBy Cara Murez, HealthDay News One way to reduce the risk of heart disease: Eat more nuts and seeds, according to a new review of 60 studies. Scandinavian researchers found that eating nuts could reduce the risk of a heart attack. “If you eat a handful of nuts every day, that is around 30 grams, you will have a 20% to 25% lower risk of suffering from cardiovascular disease. In comparison, adults in the Nordic countries only eat on average around 4 grams of nuts a day. Many do not eat nuts or seeds at all,” said study co-author Erik Arnesen, research fellow at the University of Oslo. Keep reading → “The Greatest Medical Deception We will Witness in our Lifetime” A Blockbuster Speaker: Dr Asseem Malhotra, a Consultant Cardiologist in the UK was one of the first to speak up about vaccine heart risks. Book for Melbourne (June 1 and 2) , Brisbane (June 5th scroll down!), and Perth (June 10th). It is already sold out or taken place in NSW, the Gold Coast, South Australia and the ACT. (Sorry!) Hopefully video will be posted. Hosted By Topher Field There are different extra speakers at every event. Check the links above. In Perth don’t miss Ed Dowd — the former BlackRock executive who wrote a whole book on excess deaths (remember him talking to Tucker Carlson?). Plus Naomi Wolf — the famous feminist who has been red-pilled and now campaigns against vaccine mandates (via satellite). And John Shipton — Julian Assange’s father. 2023 NATIONAL TOUR CURING THE CORRUPTION OF MEDICINE
I’ll be there at the Perth event.
Climate experts wrong on Australian frosts, and media say nothingThe IPCC experts were sure would be less frosts in Australia, but buried in a government funded ABC weather report was the virtually unknown admission that the frost season is actually growing across southern Australia, not shrinking. And in some places by an astonishing 40 extra days a year. What’s more, the researchers have known about this long term trend for years but didn’t think to mention it, and the ABC didn’t have a problem with that either. (It’s not like farmers need to know these things?) When asked for an explanation for the increase in frosts, the ANU climate expert said “I think this is one of those climate surprises,” as if the IPCC unexpectedly won a game of Bingo, instead of getting a core weather trend 100% wrong. We note the ABC feigned journalism to cover up for the Bureau of Meteorology and IPCC failures. Where were the headlines: “Climate Change causes more frosts, not less”, or “IPCC models dangerously misleading on frosts?” Did any Australian farmers and investors buy up properties and plant the wrong crops based on the global warming misinformation repeated or tacitly endorsed by the ABC, BoM and CSIRO? Frost damage costs Australian farmers around $400 million each year. (Perhaps if we sold the ABC we could cover that). Frost expected across nearly every state and territory in Australia this weekendBy Tyne Logan, ABC Australia Buried under 450 words of weather, trite caveats, and preamble the ABC journalist finally gets to a new virtually unknown climate trend that affects farmers, investors, researchers, and rural Australia: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected, with high confidence, that frost events would decrease, in general, across southern Australia in the future with climate change. ANU climate applications scientist Steven Crimp said some parts of New South Wales were now experiencing five more frost events on average each year, compared to 1960. And he has known for years: He said this was based on local weather station data between 1960 and 2018, but the trend was unlikely to have changed much in the past five years. “I think this is one of those climate surprises,” he said. Scientifically they are not caught unaware because climate models are useless politicized fantasies, it’s because there is more “climate-nuance” around now: “Despite the sort of overall warming trend in our temperatures, the extremes of our temperatures, be they hot or cold, are acting in a slightly more nuanced and complex way, which can be quite surprising at times,” he said. ![]() BOM forecast overnight minimum temperatures to fall well below zero across large swathes of the country [last] Sunday. But jokes aside, this actually seems like a trend that matters:Dr Crimp said they had also found the frost season was lengthening across southern Australia. “So if we think about the east coast first, we see an earlier start and a later finish to that frost window,” he said. “In some cases, the extension of that frost window is greater than 40 days. “But in Western Australia in particular, we see that it’s less to do with the later frost occurrence, but more earlier frost occurrence.” The frosts are due to the dry conditions, says Dr Crimp, putting in an admirable effort at scientific-word-salad to cover up for what he’s not allowed to say — that they have no idea. Why aren’t frost days decreasing? Dr Crimp said, ironically, the observations could be explained by the types of weather system that brought warmer, drier weather. That was high pressure systems which often produced the clear, still nights needed for frost to settle. “As anyone knows who’s outside at night in winter, you have to have those clear night skies and the atmosphere needs to be very dry,” he said. “That way the surface of the Earth loses heat very rapidly and any moisture in the air then condenses as a frost. “So because we are getting those dry conditions that are starting to emerge, that is more conducive for frosts to occur.” But the truth is that, on average, and a priori — global warming would increase humidity and global cooling would dry the air out. And carbon dioxide is supposed to work at night time too — increasing minimum temperatures. All these factors make frosts less likely. And yet the frosts happen. Global warming ‘science’ has lost, –Ruairi h/t to A happy little debunker who points out we’ve had three wet La Nina years as well.
By Jo Nova Those who own and control the “public town square” control the conversationYou may have seen the spooky opening video compilation before (where all the newsreading clones read the same script) but this is a neat compilation of speeches and even snippets from “Network” a movie from 1976. The clones warn that fake news on social media is a threat to democracy. The truth, of course, is that real news on social media threatens the mind control of the corporate media cartels. h/t Raven. Sharyl Attkisson talks about Astroturfing and the creation of the illusion of a grassroots movement that barely exists. Her Ted talk: Astroturf, Propaganda, and Media Manipulation. Udo Ulfkotte wrote a book ‘Bought Journalists’ about the way journalists are being controlled by government agencies. The big questions: What if the media was just the lobbying agency for bigger profit making ventures? The media’s true goal is not subscription or advertising income, it’s the power to control governments and the narrative to make money for all their other parasitic operations, like unreliable energy generators, useless pharmaceuticals and carbon markets that won’t solve problems that don’t exist. What looks, acts and smells like a Global News Cartel and just got hit by an Antitrust lawsuit… Imagine if the media and tech giants of the world banded together behind-the-scenes to rule certain stories were “misinformation” and all their agencies thus reported the same “news”? The real free press are the bloggers nowThe big threat to the legacy media and corruptocrats everywhere was the rise of the independent bloggers and influencers who could easily outscore the boring media bloc that repeated the same tedious lies. Ten years ago an army of blogs like this were growing every year and getting front page in many searches.. Can anyone still pretend the Media are not a wing of the Democrats?Polls show as many as two out of three Democrats voters still trust the media, while barely 1 in 6 Republicans do. If the media were not so nakedly biased, those statistics wouldn’t be so skewed. Teach the children.
Make no mistake, the UN “finance” cartel is the supermassive black hole at the centre of the climate-mafia galaxy. The UN Environment Programme brags that across insurance, banking and investing, it has over 450 members representing more than $100 trillion dollars worth of carrots and sticks to beat up politicians and businesses with. These are the cogs and levers of the halls of global power. It’s a UN programme, but the first “target setting” rules were launched at Davos at the latest World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting — the skiing holiday for corporate rulers and their celebrity minions. The Big unelected political powers holidaying with the richest people in the world. Democracy on a barbecue. In 2021 many Insurance giants had rushed to join the global climate activist cartel designed for their industry — the Net Zero Insurers Alliance (NZIA) — which would have turned the insurance industry into another form of climate police answerable to the UN or the WEF. But it’s all coming undone now, thanks to the 23 US States who are pressing the Antitrust button. I mean, imagine if all the competitors in an industry got together to force political changes that the voters hadn’t voted for… What if those companies colluded to make it hard for one type of energy business to get insurance? What if companies that profit from fear itself colluded to amplify fears? The NZIA behemoth is a part of the UN Glasgow cabal set up by former head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney. If they got away with this, the world would be just that much closer to One World Government — where unelected bureaucrats effectively “make the rules” and boss around the national governments. Six of the eight founding signatories have already left. Departees include Munich Re, Zurich Insurance, Hannover Re, Swiss Re, Allianz , AXA and SCOR. Insurers flee climate alliance after ESG backlash in the U.S.LONDON/FRANKFURT, May 25 (Reuters) – A United Nations-convened climate alliance for insurers suffered at least three more departures on Thursday including the group’s chair, as insurance companies take fright in the face of opposition from U.S. Republican politicians. At least seven members of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), which launched in 2021, have now left including five of the eight founding signatories. Departures on Thursday included AXA , whose Group Chief Risk Officer Renaud Guidée had chaired the alliance. The French insurer said in a statement it was leaving to “continue its individual sustainability journey.” The media may try to downplay things but the critical factor here is that 23 US state attorney generals sent NZIA members a letter on May 15th. Insurers which have left the NZIA, … say their exits will not change their individual commitments to addressing climate change. Munich Re made it clear it was leaving because of the antitrust issue: While other insurers didn’t provide specific reasons for their withdrawal, Munich Re made it clear. “The opportunities to pursue decarbonization goals in a collective approach among insurers worldwide without exposing [them] to material antitrust risks are so limited that it is more effective to pursue our climate ambition to reduce global warming individually,” said CEO Joachim Wenning in the firm’s announcement of the exit. There’s nothing to stop these insurance companies chatting after canapes and champers at the next WEF meeting, but they can’t be openly colluding and that’s a step in the right direction. If some foolish insurers refuse to insure oil and gas development it won’t matter much as long as there are enough competitors to step in and take up their contracts. The danger of an industry-wide cartel is that insurers could de facto enforce policies that suit their billionaire backers against the wishes of the people. And that is exactly what NZIA appears set up to do. The Lloyds boss is saying the rules are too harsh and the whole thing will fall apart if they don’t back off. Lloyd’s of London boss calls for UN climate alliance rules rethinkBy Tommy Wilkes and Greg Roumeliotis, Reuters In response, Lloyd’s Chief Executive John Neal told Reuters the exits should lead to a rethink about what it means to be a member of the group. “There are five objectives, and you have 12 months to meet one of them and 36 months to meet three of them. NZIA need to have another look at what their objectives are or the alliance will fall apart.” General Reyes (Utah AG) explains why they sent the May 15 letter from 23 US States: GOP warns insurance companies on ESG policies: ‘Americans are paying the price’Brianna Herlihy, Fox News. “The ESG movement has spread to every corner of the world’s financial and energy sectors, and unsuspecting Americans are paying the price,” Reyes said… “Insurers have an obligation to protect the interests of their clients, not advance a radical environmental agenda. Utah is taking a stand against these efforts to stop the increased prices and other harms these horizontal agreements will cause,” he said. Under antitrust laws, agreements not to do business with disfavored sectors – such as those that do not meet certain carbon emissions standards – could be an illegal boycott. Likewise, collective agreements to fix prices or restrict production are also illegal. NZIA members wield enormous market power, and their actions threaten to dramatically raise prices for consumers, according to the AGs. The AGs said they have “serious concerns about whether these numerous requirements square with federal law, as well as the laws of our states, as they apply to private actors.” “Under our nation’s antitrust laws and their state equivalents, it is well-established that certain arrangements among business competitors are strictly forbidden because they are unfair or unreasonably harmful to competition,” they wrote. “For example, ‘an agreement among competitors not to do business with targeted individuals or businesses may be an illegal boycott, especially if the group of competitors working together has market power,'” they said, adding that collective agreements to fix prices or “restrict production, sales, or output” are illegal. Ponder that the UN-WEF-banker cabal was roping the insurance companies into forcing “science based” carbon targets on every industry that needed insurance. Then remind yourself that the UN communications chief bragged last year that “we own the science” and she’s teamed up with Google. “…(the Protocol) will enable NZIA members to begin to independently set science-based, intermediate targets for their respective insurance and reinsurance underwriting portfolios in line with a net-zero transition pathway consistent with a maximum temperature rise of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100. With the launch of the Protocol, existing NZIA members are required to set and disclose their initial target(s) by 31 July 2023. “ Version 1.0 of the NZIA Target-Setting Protocol So the UN WEF Banker cabal could effectively make anyone do anything if they call it “science” and sack all the skeptics. Thank the Lord for the US Republican state power, and ask, where are the rest of our elected politicians? Post Note: If you don’t know much about the WEF, start reading here. It’s worse than you think. The richest people in the world are here to help us, they are the “select few” touched as our saviours. Climate lockdowns are coming and you will need to ask permission to leave your 15-minute-suburb. They said that. Keep reading → |
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