The World Bank had deployed a team to Uganda after the law was enacted in May and determined that additional measures were necessary to ensure projects align with the bank’s environmental and social standards.

“No new public financing to Uganda will be presented to our Board of Executive Directors until the efficacy of the additional measures has been tested,” the World Bank Group said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Source: https://apnews.com/article/uganda-world-bank-lgbtq-rights-funding-halted-d672264895775d44aee1bb63e7f072d0

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If you didn’t see Jane Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, you should.  She’s still beautiful, but crazier than a bedbug.  She says the executives of oil and energy companies should be put in jail.  For what?  Apparently, they’re destroying the planet.  That’s according to the new religion that’s taken over many of the brand names we knew and used to like.  Suddenly these companies think it’s more important to go along with global nonsense than it is to make money.  You thought these companies need to make a profit?  They’ve lost big money. Not only that, they can’t give their beer away.

Target?  What were they thinking?  Transgender bathing suits for children?  It’s like they thought long and hard about what would infuriate Americans, and did that. So John Kerry and Al Gore travel the world preaching their religion, and look like imbeciles doing it.  You choke on the arrogance they project as they travel to one place after another to carry on about the scam that’s making them rich.  What do we know?  I know the weather in Texas is like it always was.  These guys think they’re smarter than everybody else, and they’re going to leverage fear to herd us around.  It worked with Covid.

Remember when the fleet was going to run on used cooking oil, or algae or something?  They had commercials telling us how wonderful the future would be, what with them farming fuel.  It didn’t work.  After years of bio-fuel indoctrination, it didn’t make any sense.  We’re all wondering how long it will take before EVERYBODY has to admit this battery stuff isn’t going to take over the world.  It has its place, but it won’t power cities, or industry.  At some point reality takes precedence over kindergarten talk.  But it hasn’t happened yet, and the big companies and corporations want to please their government sponsors.  Looks like it’s going to be up to us to clue them in.  

The news has been trying to convince us that half the country is completely crazy.  They say it with a straight face.  Americans have turned out to be a long-suffering people.  But now they’ve done it!  They’ve gotten away with their nonsense for so long they thought they could pull anything.  But they’re finding out it’s not going to work.  They can kiss their profits goodbye.  These executives could piss off the pope.  Well, maybe not this one.  But they’ve certainly gotten to the rest of us.  

Now they’ve hit us with a pie in the face, convinced we’re a bunch of sheep.  Another miscalculation.  We hope they go bust, and we’re here to help.  

We’ll have to resist sooner or later.  We know about the Mark of the Beast, everybody has heard of it.  No man might buy or sell unless he has the Mark.  So what is it?  We’re going to have to decide to disobey onerous government regulations.  It would have been nice if we’d put up a fight sooner.  We’ve had all manner of nonsense visited upon us and being polite, haven’t shown them the door.  But that seems to be changing.  These big outfits that think they’re too big to fail are starting to find out otherwise.

Sports Illustrated has besmirched their swimsuit issue with some dude on the cover that thinks it’s a woman.  Or wants us to think it is.  That’s not going to go over either.  That’s how these trans people keep getting killed.  They fool somebody, temporarily.  When the truth is known, it’s not pretty.  There used to be a commercial on television a long time ago.  It said, “It’s not nice to fool mother nature!”  But they think if they can fool us once, that ends the discussion.  They win.  Wrong.  The rest of the trannies will give you nightmares.  They all will.

Lately we’ve been treated to discussion of the debt limit and funding of the government.  For years we’ve said they’d spend us into oblivion.  It looks like they’re bent on finishing us off.  All while calling us bigots, racists… it looks they’ve got the market cornered when it comes to epithets that apply to anybody who dares say they’re full of it.  They may have avoided an immediate bankruptcy, but we’ve already been spent into oblivion.

You don’t suppose it’s all about money?  It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity!  That should be reason enough to buy in to all the rhetoric, according to the prevailing logic.  The big financial outfits that own percentages of the companies are going to make a killing on us following mandates.  So what?  Will a man mortgage his soul to pocket serious coin?  That’s exactly what is happening.

The pretender has taken another pratfall.  It might be funny if it weren’t so sad.  The idea that this elderly man is directing the affairs of the United States of America is almost too much to bear.  He’s clearly not, though those directing him are making him think he does.  It’s pathetic.  We’re on a path to national destruction.  They’ve got a line, something to say.  We know better, they know we know better, but they trot off into the sunset like they’ve got everything under control.  It’s only a question of when it all comes crashing down.   

Mark

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It’s highly unusual but believe it or not, we have good news.  What a difference a day makes, because none of this saw daylight until after the monthly letter went to the printer.  Have you seen the former IRS agent that wants to spill the beans on what exactly transpired on official vice-presidential trips to foreign countries?  His lawyer was on last night, saying that attempts to report the situation internally had been ignored.  He says he has the goods, and is ready to go under oath.  So far it’s apparent that he’ll only be afforded an audience at Congressional committees.  The mainstream media, so far as I can tell, is ignoring the story.  

Several things seem to have hit the fan all at once.  Remember when the pretender shut Trump down at the debates?  “Fifty one intelligence agents say that’s a bunch of garbage,” or words to that effect.  It has come to light that the current Secretary of State wrote that letter and got everybody to sign on, along with their official job position. They all said the laptop from you know where was “Russian disinformation.”  If that doesn’t show that the entrenched bureaucracy fears Trump, there’s another recent example.  

We were left shaking our heads when we learned that Fox News decided to settle the lawsuit brought by Dominion election systems.  Apparently Fox did have a case that would have embarrassed Dominion at the very least, and might have won.  But we’ll never know, the case was settled on the first day of trial.  Bill O’Reilly says the settlement had nothing to do with the anchors or guests on the popular news channel.  He says that Rupert Murdoch (age 92) was going to have to testify, and told his lawyers to settle the case.  But they’re giddy on the mainstream, like this proves something.  

That’s OK, there are other court cases to be played out.  This is not the end of the story

It’s enough to break your heart.  But not mine.  All the brand-name organizations are in the middle of mass layoffs.  If they hired any minorities, the law-suits can’t be far behind.  Discrimination, you know.  Why is everybody having such a hard time, especially after going to great lengths to “do the right thing,” hire all the right people and publicly buy into all the ESG nonsense.  What a shame!

Florida has apparently passed a law that bans ESG considerations.  The loons will have a breakdown.  That sounds like good news.

We almost wish we hadn’t seen it.  A lady activists breaks into tears while worrying about global warming.  It’s such a crisis, it made her cry on the BBC.  What her emotions have to do with it is anybody’s guess.  Stupid people believe stupid stuff.  I’m about to cry too.  For joy!

Americans in Sudan are on their own. Rival generals are engaged in slugging it out to control the military, and things have become a lot more dangerous.  Not only that, Americans have been informed that they’re on their own.  There will be no evacuation.  It’s too late.

Good news is in the eye of the beholder, but several things broke last night that I’m glad I didn’t know in time to put them in the letter.  It looks like the wheels are about to come off the pretender’s administration.  We’d like some palatable news from time to time.  The end is not yet, but it will take a miracle if we survive the next two years.  It starting to look like we might survive.  The Biden regime may not be so lucky. 

Mark

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So they caught the guy responsible for publicizing highly classified documents. Everyone’s concerned that this young (21 yr. old) guy would have access to such ruinous documents But they got him. The news media is all over it. They want to know what they can do to help see that government secrets remain secret! Never mind that the release reveals we’ve been, uh, misled by the spokespeople of various departments and agencies. We are apparently deeper into the Ukraine war than we were given to understand. They’re talking about the agencies and spokesmen being “embarrassed.” We’re worried that government officials may be embarrassed?

It seems we may have more to worry about than the embarrassment of government officials. The news is so gruesome as it is, and we knew these buffoons weren’t to be trusted. We’ve been lied to so routinely that we no longer trust official statements anyway. But the news agencies aren’t worried about what the documents revealed, they’re wondering instead how they can help make sure this doesn’t happen again.

The Catholics are all torn up about crying statues again. This isn’t the first time, by a long shot, that statues have been caught crying blood. But now the Vatican is going to send out scientists to verify what’s going on. Like we care. They ought to be sending out plumbers.

Everybody who’s visited the Middle East is familiar with the call the Muslim prayer, blared over outdoor loud speakers to your hurting ears. Now it’s big news that you only need to go to Minneapolis to hear the phenomenon. Assuming you want to. Obama called it the sweetest sound he ever heard, or words to that effect.

The pretender has been visiting Ireland, exploring his roots, or whatever. It’s almost more that we can stand, seeing that vacant look in his eyes while being directed which way to go. Hunter is now much in evidence, to the point that we suspect that there must be some motivating factor.

When has the United States projected such weakness? We see our former allies seemingly betting on China. Even Macron went to kiss the ring. Nations that weren’t particularly friendly are making deals with the presumptive leading superpower, and it’s not the U. S. anymore. It’s hard to remember a time when everything internationally went against us. Jimmy Carter comes to mind, but he wasn’t even in the same league.

Bud Light has a tranny on the can, and they can’t figure out why their beer isn’t selling. Must be us bigots. We just don’t understand! Hopefully the board of directors realizes that they’re running a business. You don’t just insult your core audience and expect to thrive. But that’s not the only corporation that’s decided we need a push. Cruise lines, rental properties, prescription drugs… The television has become an instrument of indoctrination and you can hardly escape it. Big corporations have decided that they’re going with the clap trap, and we’ll either be drug along or they’ll call us the names they’ve made up. We’re getting used to it.

You wonder what HWA would say, thirty seven years later. He wouldn’t believe how far society has fallen. We’ve got every aberrant intellectual explaining, in kindergarten terms, why all this is good. My Dad would be denouncing our society in the most glaring terms. That’s just exactly what we intend to do. Somebody has to stand up and say, “NO!”. Nobody else dares for fear of being canceled. We will continue to slaughter their sacred cows.

Mark

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HSBC’s slow crawl away from oil and gas is still too much for Texas.

Texas comptroller Glenn Hegar yesterday (Mar. 20) added Europe’s largest bank to his office’s list of companies that boycott the oil and gas industry in light of the bank’s new fossil fuel funding policy.

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Focusing on environmental, social or governance-related issues, ESG in industry parlance, could hit returns to investors, critics said.

A rise in oil prices this year bolstered their case by hurting the performance of many ESG funds that had moved away from energy stocks, responsible for producing a large share of climate-damaging carbon emissions.

Despite that, the list of financial firms signing up to industry coalitions aiming to help companies make the shift to a low-carbon economy lengthened as scientists warned time was running out to limit global warming.

Activist shareholders also won significant victories at corporate annual meetings this year such as a call for a human rights report at gun maker Sturm Ruger & Co (RGR.N).

In the eye of the storm for much of the year was BlackRock (BLK.N), the world’s biggest money manager, whose chief executive kicked off the year with a defence of ESG investing in a letter to peers.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/us-finance-faces-esg-backlash-more-come-2023-2022-12-27/

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The state treasury will freeze about $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and remove BlackRock as the manager of about $600 million worth of short-term overnight investments with the goal of giving that business to other money managers by the beginning of 2023, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said in a statement  Thursday.

Republicans, who say liberals are using environmental, social and corporate governance investing strategies to advance an ideological agenda that would be voted down at the ballot box, have lashed out at “woke” corporations and money managers, pledging to roll back the $40 trillion ESG investing business.

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Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/12/01/florida-desantis-blackrock-esg-woke/10812382002/

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Glenn Hegar, the state comptroller, on Wednesday published a list of the financial companies that will be prohibited from entering into most contracts with state and local governments.

“The environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) movement has produced an opaque and perverse system in which some financial companies no longer make decisions in the best interest of their shareholders or their clients, but instead use their financial clout to push a social and political agenda shrouded in secrecy,” Hegar said in a statement.

Texas law put in place by Republicans last year requires the comptroller to prepare and maintain a list of financial companies that boycott energy companies.

The list comes after a months-long investigation by the comptroller’s office that looked into more than 150 companies to determine if they were refusing to deal with or penalizing the oil and gas industry.

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Source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/24/texas-bans-blackrock-and-other-financial-firms-over-esg-energy-crisis/

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