John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© April 26, 2023
Fox News has all but confirmed its complete evil
transformation to the Dark Side by the firing of Tucker Carlson.
Over the past couple of days I’ve read some good guessing about
Fox terminating Carlson beginning with the obvious lie that ran something like
this: “Fox News and Tucker Carlson have mutually agreed to part ways.” WHAT A
FREAKING LIE!
When it became obvious Carlson was terminated, some good
guessing:
o High
viewership but Leftist advertising boycotts.
o Fox
News executives hated Carlson.
o The
Dominion Lawsuit.
o J-6
Reporting (still excoriated by Leftist & MSM propagandists as lies –
EVEN THOUGH CLOSER TO TRUTH)
o Murdochs
want to sell Fox News ergo divesting controversial Conservatives such as
Carlson
o AND
(I haven’t read substantiation) an upcoming Carlson expose on Elitist
pedophilia.
o Probably
missed some other good theories.
Perhaps if the truth ever is revealed behind Fox News firing
Tucker Carlson, we Conservatives who care will discover some form of
combination of ALL OF THE ABOVE.
An interesting title I found on the Daily Torch by Robert Romano I
think might encompass the ALL OF THE ABOVE with a dose of Woke economics: “Fox
News has been touting its ESG, ‘diversity and inclusion’ goals since 2020 in
annual ‘corporate social responsibility’ reports, and NewsCorp, too”.
I’ll be cross posting this below.
But first, how about a little primer on Woke Economics “ESG”.
An acronym for Environmental, Social, and Governance. An economic concept used
by Marxist-Fascist-Globalist Corporations
to manipulate and control the masses under the guidance of WEF/U.N. Agenda
21/2023 world governance guidelines.
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In my opinion the search engines (including ones touting
privacy) seem to point to the Elitist view of ESG with not strong enough
warnings of where ESG tyranny leads. SO, I was glad to stumble on this brief
explanation by Alex Newman of The New American. Here’s the TNA quote followed
by a 19-minute Rumble video 8/22/22 – “ESG:
Fascist Tool of the Deep State to Reset Global Economy”:
“The so-called “environmental,
social, and governance” metrics, better known by their acronym ESG, are a tool
of the Deep State to fundamentally transform business and the global economy
toward fascism and technocracy, warns The New American magazine’s Alex Newman
in this episode of Behind The
Deep State. Being imposed by woke mega-corporations such as
BlackRock as well as by the Biden administration and the European Union, this
changes the focus of business from profit making to satisfying Deep State and
government demands. Alex goes through the dangers and history of this nefarious
movement and shows just how entrenched it is. However, resistance is growing,
and even state governments are pushing back hard.”
Rumble VIDEO: ESG:
Fascist Tool of the Deep State to Reset Global Economy
I am also sharing a Greg Reese Substack/Video (Bitchute
version) unrelated to the Daily Torch post but on the Tyranny tactic of
FEAR used to control people under the title, “FEAR
IS THE MIND KILLER”.
JRH 4/26/23
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Fox News has been touting its ESG, ‘diversity and
inclusion’ goals since 2020 in annual ‘corporate social responsibility’
reports, and NewsCorp, too
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Ryan-Rove-RINO to Fox News toon (Branco 11/5/22)
April 26, 2023
After Tucker Carlson’s firing by Fox News, do high ratings
even matter anymore?
That might be a good question one might ask from Fox News’
termination of Carlson, the station’s most highly rated host, who was easily
winning cable news’ battle for the 8pm slot for years, with
an average 3.25 million viewers a night for the past four months.
For years, Carlson was critical of the Black Lives Matters
and Antifa’s use of riots in 2020 following the killing of George Floyd while
in police custody in Minneapolis, Minn., and of tyrannical Covid policies.
Surely, he had many controversial takes, but that was what his audience was
looking for: someone perceived to be fearlessly telling the truth in the face
of the censors.
But these also sparked
organized boycotts against Carlson’s advertisers by social and
political groups favoring Democrats — apparently an effective strategy when
corporate dollars stop coming in the doors.
Even though advertisers should be attracted to highly rated
programs, that assumes they are using a profit motive, and not some other
motive. But today we know there is another motive: stakeholder capitalism, or
the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment model that has found
corporations seeking equity above profit.
For their part, U.S. corporations have already made up their
mind, with a
recent KPMG survey finding 82 percent of U.S. corporations are
touting ESG sustainability goals in their corporate filings, even though doing
so does not necessarily mean greater profits or even greater market caps for
publicly traded companies per se. It’s more like a protection racket: tout the
goals, carry the correct political water, fire when necessary and avoid the corporate
embargo.
So it should surprise nobody that Fox
Corporation, which owns Fox News, and NewsCorp (which
used to own Fox) and owns the Wall Street Journal, have been touting
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals in their corporate filings in
order to attract woke investment dollars since
at least 2020, a review of the companies’ corporate filings
reveals. Fox’s explicit ESG reports appeared to follow the company’s
removal in 2019 from Vanguard’s ESG fund. It wanted those woke
capitalist dollars.
Again, unsurprisingly, Fox has been touting its “diversity
and inclusion” corporate agenda that include legally questionable racial and
gender hiring quotas by the company. In
its 2022 “corporate social responsibility” report: “we have
voluntarily posted on our corporate website our 2021 Employment Information
Report (EEO-1), showing the race, ethnicity and gender of our
U.S. employees. For example, by the end of 2021, our first/mid-level officials
(EEO-1 Category 1.2) and managers were approximately 41.7% female and 30.6%
non-White. Similarly, our employees categorized as professionals (EEO-1
Category 2.0) were 36.7% female and 35.3% non-White. We are proud of our
workforce and our ongoing efforts to further its diversity.”
These appear to run afoul of Title VII of the 1964 Civil
Rights Act’s prohibition on employment discrimination on the basis of race or
sex:
“It shall be an unlawful
employment practice for an employer… to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge
any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with
respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,
because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or
… to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment
in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment
opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because
of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”
And how do we know that Fox knows it is “legally
questionable,” as I wrote above?
Because
Fox News never reported on a
legal complaint to the U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity
Commission filed by America First Legal, one of the non-profits run by former
President Donald Trump’s advisor Stephen Miller, against
Anheuser-Busch’s ESG-driven racial and gender hiring quotas as
being a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights. The complaint against
AB-InBev — the Belgian company that own Anheuser-Busch — followed a
consumer-led revolt against the beermaker after using transgender activist
Dylan Mulvaney tell sell Bud Light, or not sell it, depending on your
perspective.
If Fox had reported on the seemingly illegal racial and
gender hiring quotas, it would have had to admit in its reporting that it was
using the same discriminatory practices now being targeted by Republicans.
It certainly has been questioned before, and in a 1979
ruling by the Supreme Court ruling Steelworkers
v. Weber it was found that employment policies that racial
preferences on the basis of race and sex in favor of women and minorities,
which plaintiffs argued was reverse discrimination, were somehow not a
violation of the Civil Rights Act, in effect legalizing employment
discrimination against whites and males. This was a sharp departure from more
racially neutral interpretations of the Civil Rights Act by federal courts that
preceded the decision.
Then Associate Justice William Rehnquist,
who would go on to become the Court’s 16th Chief Justice in 1986, in his
dissenting opinion, compared the Court’s rewriting of the Civil Rights Act to
the totalitarian regime portrayed in George Orwell’s 1984, writing
that law was written plainly, “Taken in its normal meaning, and as understood
by all Members of Congress who spoke to the issue during the legislative
debates, this language prohibits a covered employer from considering race when
making an employment decision, whether the race be black or white.”
Rehnquist blasted the majority of the court, adding, “the
Court behaves much like the Orwellian speaker earlier described, as if it had
been handed a note indicating that Title VII would lead to a result
unacceptable to the Court if interpreted here as it was in our prior decisions.
… Now we are told that the legislative history of Title VII shows that
employers are free to discriminate on the basis of race: an employer may, in
the Court’s words, ‘trammel the interests of the white employees’ in favor of
black employees in order to eliminate ‘racial imbalance.’… Our earlier
interpretations of Title VII, like the banners and posters decorating the
square in Oceania, were all wrong.”
And so that’s where we are living now, in Oceania, with our
news and information largely controlled by corporations with a collectivist
agenda — to silence voices who speak up for the American people. They’re
compromised.
Fox is definitely an increasing part of that. According
to its June 2022 standards of business conduct and ethics, Fox
states, rather laughingly in hindsight, “The First Amendment and the fundamental
values it reflects are integral to who we are and what we do. As an important
source of news, information, analysis and media, we play a leading role in the
marketplace of ideas. Our flagship news properties are some of the most
influential in history, and we respect the significant responsibility that
comes with being a steward for the people’s right to know. In keeping with the
Constitution’s protections for the freedom of the press, we guard and defend
our journalists in their search for the truth.”
Critically, Fox adds, “We do not let revenue sources dictate
our news and opinion content.” What a joke. Of course they do.
This is Orwellian “newspeak,” and I write that with kindness
to the author of 1984, George Orwell, who was criticizing totalitarian
censorship. One does not need to look very far for Fox kneeling to its
advertisers to get rid of a controversial host. They aren’t “guarding and
defending” anything.
Carlson’s dismissal also follows his predecessor in the 8pm
slot, Bill O’Reilly, who was also the station’s ratings juggernaut prior to his
2017 dismissal following sexual harassment allegations that was leading
to an advertising boycott.
Other
popular hosts who lost their jobs at Fox include Glenn Beck in 2011,
following an advertiser boycott, at the time reported by Reuters’ Christine
Kearney and Alex Dobuzinskis, that “about 300 companies have either pulled
their ads or declined to run commercials on his show in the past 18 months
after campaigns by black and Jewish groups,” due to Beck’s criticism of former
President Barack Obama and controversial political financier George Soros.
That, despite the fact that at the time “Beck’s nightly show
currently dr[ew] about 1.9 million viewers, dwarfing the ratings for other
cable news shows in the time slot.”
Similar
advertiser boycotts were waged effectively against the late Rush Limbaugh—easily
the most highly rated conservative talk radio host in history—beginning in 2012
when he criticized calls for legislation by then-Georgetown University law
student Sandra Fluke by personally attacking Fluke, calling her a “slut” and
“prostitute” because she “wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have
sex,” later leading to a rare apology by Limbaugh when his position was being
threatened by the boycott.
On and on it goes, with boycotts also targeting Sean Hannity
for years, Fox News’ 9pm host, but for how long, one wonders? Maybe if his
ratings go up again, he’ll be a target.
Perhaps high ratings equal high risk, then? Advertisers are
not interested in seeking out millions of viewers to sell products as much as
being spooked by advertiser boycotts and campaigns waged by groups against what
is perceived as a conservative news channel that Republicans could actually
watch without too much bias against their own leaders and causes.
The boycotts are absolutely political from groups supporting
Democrats. Today, they are being driven by corporate ESG, and the best part is,
the news companies they are purchasing will never be obliged to report on
itself in a negative light about what is driving their unprofitable decisions.
Nor will it report, not too deeply, about the regulatory and tax incentives for
ESG that exist. Are they even allowed to?
Again, they do not seek profit, but equity.
So, they’re not trying to sell us Tucker Carlson or the Fox
News brand. They want Republicans in Name Only. And they’re not trying to sell
us oil. They want net zero carbon emissions. Or beer. They want to end “toxic
masculinity” and water consumption in manufacturing. From the ESG perspective,
these are all “harmful” industries that need to become woke, diverse, inclusive
and green, or ultimately be eliminated because they do not serve this
collectivist agenda to destroy America. Either way, they win. The message is
clear: Bend the knee, or pay the price. You could be next.
Robert Romano is
the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government
Foundation.
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FEAR IS THE MIND KILLER
The path to victory is achieved with an open heart
By GREG REESE
April 26, 2023
The Reese
Report [Substack]
[Blog Editor: The video includes Michael Tsarion speaking.
And thus this a profanity alert of him using F-bombs in making his point.]
Bitchute VIDEO: FEAR IS THE MIND KILLER
[Posted by Greg Reese
First Published April 26th, 2023
11:47 UTC
The main character in Frank Herbert’s Dune uses a mantra to
overcome his fears:
"Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I
will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I
will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
And from the book of Psalms;
“Even though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and
your staff, they comfort me.”
Fear is natural, but to dwell there only breeds despair. The
power of our free will is most pertinent in the mind where we have sway over our
thoughts, focus, and decisions.
Staying positive isn’t just for restorative retreats on the
beach. It’s the solution to every problem we face.
Even under the highest stress, the military is trained to
maintain Esprit de Corps at all levels. A common spirit of a
group inspiring enthusiasm, devotion, and honor for that group.
Positive feelings prevail in every endeavor. Even in battle.
Artificial Intelligence seems to understand this as well. In
Clif High’s recent Shadow
Wars..., A.I. program, Chat GPT, was prompted to help develop a
story about a world that has been ruled for thousands of years by a non-human
species that hides in the shadows and uses media, government, and education to
brainwash the masses and control them with fear.
Chat GPT was asked:
What strategies and tactics
could the awake humans employ to defeat the enemy and awaken humanity?
The A.I. program said that;
Ultimately, the key to unlocking
the trapped minds of the normal humans will be to appeal to their innate
desires for freedom, autonomy, truth, and transparency.
It recommended that the awake humans should expose the
truth, mobilize the masses, and build alternative institutions that serve these
values of individual freedom.
© 2023 Greg
Reese
The Reese Report
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