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Check out this Article from AmericanThinker https://www.americanthinker.
THIS IS WHY TERM LIMITS ARE MANDATORY. IF THIS WHERE A PRIVATE ENTERPRIZE, THE CEO WOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR THEFT AND JAILED.
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Leftie Democrats and radical progressives will stop at nothing to retain power, to gain power, to be in control at any cost. This is why they are dangerous. This is why they are despicable. This is why the current Democrat Party must be smashed.
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Why the left can’t stop trying to link Trump to anti-Semitism
The ongoing attempt by the ADL and other liberal groups to tie the former president to hatred of Jews is a partisan narrative aimed at distracting voters from the Democrats’ problems.
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(October 19, 2022 / JNS) You would think they would have figured out by now that they’re playing his game. It’s been more than seven years since Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower to begin living full-time in the minds of his many detractors.
Yet, in all that time, his political opponents and their allies in the mainstream media and organized Jewish world still leap to take the bait every time he says or posts anything on social media.
But the reason that his recent comment on U.S. Jews and Israel was seized upon by Democrats and liberals had little to do with its intrinsic importance or with the dubious notion that they were taking a stand against anti-Semitism. Their motivation was purely political.
The left in general, and the Jewish left in particular, is addicted to trying to link Trump to anti-Semitism because they think it is a useful issue for them. This is truer now more than ever.
Democrats are flailing in the weeks before the midterm elections, with polls—even from liberal publications like The New York Times—showing they’re in deep trouble. While in the past, the media feeding frenzy about a Trump quote was done in the genuine hope that publicizing his hot takes or gaffes would do him in, now it’s merely a device to try to distract the voting public from the disastrous record of his successor, Joe Biden.
The pattern is predictable. Every controversial comment from Trump is hyped by the liberal media as new proof that he is as horrible as they have always believed him to have been.
It has long been obvious that Trump deliberately goads them. He hopes to provoke exactly the kind of over-the-top reactions that, far from undermining him, actually delight his followers. They regard the rage he arouses among the chattering classes as evidence that he is on their side against an establishment that is indifferent or hostile to their concerns.
This doesn’t seem to enter into the calculations of those rushing to jump on his comments. Journalist Salena Zito’s Atlantic article provided the best insight on Trump to date: “The press takes him literally, not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” Her observation is still spot on.
The latest illustration of this tedious piece of political theater came from a Trump post on his Truth Social site, a pale imitation of the ubiquitous Twitter, one of the platforms from which the former president was banned after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In it, he boasted of his historic support for Israel and noted that Evangelicals are more ardent backers of the Jewish state than American Jews.
He then spoke of his popularity in Israel and, clearly joking, said he could be elected prime minister there. He concluded with the line: “U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel—[b]efore it is too late!”
The post was blasted as anti-Semitic by the White House, leftist pundits and open anti-Semites like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and then denounced by the Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee as an example of the dual loyalty trope and threats against Jews.
As Ruthie Blum aptly noted, all this hysteria was absurd. What he said about his own record, evangelical support for Israel exceeding that of most Jews and his popularity in Israel was all true. And the concluding warning phrase was no different from many exhortations to Jews from Jewish leaders and others urging them to get behind the Jewish state lest it be overwhelmed by its many foes.
The notion, put forward by the AJC and the ADL, that a non-Jewish supporter of Israel has no right to chide Jews for their lack of interest in Zionism—and that one’s doing so is somehow offensive—is, at best, curious.
Of course, American Jews are free to do as they like and support whatever causes interest them. Like many non-Jews in public life, Trump was slow to pick up on the fact that for the vast majority of U.S. Jews, support for Israel isn’t a priority or a litmus test for voting. Almost all of the Jews Trump knows are dedicated supporters of the Jewish state. That’s also true for many Republicans and Democrats in Congress, who often take a while to figure out that while backing Israel is good politics, it’s something that only a minority of Jews care deeply about.
That the AJC was actually disputing the truth of what he wrote about the majority of U.S. Jews and Israel (“baseless judgements”) demonstrated the organization’s bad faith, since it knows very well that the statement was accurate. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt was even more disingenuous.
Greenblatt, who has helped transform the group from a non-partisan, if liberal-leaning, organization under his predecessor, Abe Foxman, into an auxiliary of the Democratic Party, continues to insist, without any evidence, that Trump “curries favor” with “anti-Semites.” He’s been doing this since Trump took office in 2017. The ADL falsely blamed him for bomb threats on Jewish Community Centers, which turned out to be the work of a disturbed American-Israeli teenager.
It continued with the group’s joining those seeking to falsely claim that Trump supported the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, and even to blame him for the actions of deranged extremists who attacked synagogues in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Poway, California, even though those involved were against Trump because of his support for Israel.
Many on the left really do believe that Trump is akin to Hitler, despite the absurdity of the claim. Groups like the ADL, which support the Democrats’ talking points about a fake war on democracy, are committed to an approach that seeks to make the midterms a referendum on attitudes about the former president rather than on the incumbent Biden administration.
As we’ve seen in recent weeks, a willingness to mainstream Jew-hatred exists on both the left and the right. But the liberal Jewish obsession with Trump, and the attempt to brand him as an anti-Semite, has nothing to do with that fight. Rather, it is part of the same strategy the Biden administration has been pursuing in the last year: trying to make the Jan. 6 Capitol riot the centerpiece of political discourse.
Virtually everyone agrees that it was a disgrace, but most don’t believe the conspiracy theories the Democrats and their never-Trump allies have tried to float about its having been an attempted coup d’état. The latter more aptly describes the Russia-collusion hoax that Democrats and liberal media promoted to derail Trump’s presidency. Furthermore, most voters want Washington to be focused on the crumbling economy and raging inflation.
A more sensible approach from the Democrats would be to ignore Trump. Their ongoing attempts to prosecute him on charges relating to Jan. 6 or for his having held on to classified documents are only helping him.
Indeed, the worse he is treated, the easier it is for him to stay in the spotlight. It also makes it more, rather than less, likely that the Republicans will nominate him again for president in 2024. Perhaps some on the left think that is to their advantage, but right now, polls show him winning a rematch with Biden.
The problem here is not figuring out what to think about Trump, a question on which Americans will always remain deeply divided. Groups that claim to be fighting anti-Semitism are too tied into partisan narratives and the effort to defeat the GOP to understand that the only way to win the battle against hate is to stop linking it to liberal talking points about Trump, and focus on those who are actually spreading Jew-hatred on both ends of the spectrum.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
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No true Capitalist wants ESG to succeed. More costly, crippling nonsense from the DAVOS/Greta/Soros/Perry crowd.
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Why ESG Funds Fail, and How They Could Succeed
A strategy of divesting from ‘dirty’ companies generates poor returns and little positive change.
By Terrence Keeley
Investments have consequences. Capital can be used to pursue technological breakthroughs, targeted rates of returns, or nonfinancial goals such as lower carbon emissions. Environmental, social and governance strategies have captured the imagination of many who want to do well and good—that is, to generate above-market rates of return and improve social and environmental outcomes. But to date ESG equity strategies have been broadly disappointing, underperforming common indexes while failing to generate meaningful progress against climate change. Many ESG strategies have been lose-lose.
“Temperature-aligned” funds illustrate how and why disappointment has been so common. These funds restrict investments to companies that have credibly committed to the Paris Agreement goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Depending on the verification process used, 175 to 225 companies in the S&P 500 fail to meet this requirement.
In practice, this means these funds overweight sectors such as tech and finance while underweighting sectors such as oil and gas. But holding less-diversified collections of shares has neither improved risk-adjusted returns nor helped decarbonize industries. Temperature-aligned funds have financially underperformed and failed to promote a more temperature-aligned globe.
Yet there is incontestable value in having more sustainable business practices. George Serafeim of Harvard Business School estimates that sustainable companies carry a 300-basis-point equity-valuation premium over nonsustainable companies. His research has two important implications. The first is that less-sustainable companies generally carry higher dividends. All else being equal, higher equity dividends will generate higher financial returns over time.
The second is that value can be created by turning “brown” companies “green.” Investors who want to do well and good should target dirtier industries and companies that have the greatest transformation potential, the opposite of temperature-aligned strategies. Capital providers must invest to achieve net-zero emissions, not divest.
Lower carbon emissions aren’t the only nonfinancial goals that ESG investors seek. Diversity, equity and inclusion practices are also common, as are economic-mobility and social-justice objectives such as better primary education and healthcare for underserved communities.
As with climate, however, the most effective way to get corporations to improve on these objectives is through active investment and stewardship. Impact investing also differs from common ESG investing because impact investors receive transparent reports with evidence that social or environmental progress has been made. Yet less than 1% of all investments in equity and debt markets are explicitly made for measurable impact. This is odd because successful double-bottom-line investing isn’t that hard. There are multiple investment opportunities that do well and good in a verifiable way.
Consider real assets. According to Cushman & Wakefield, midmarket offices with LEED certifications carry a 77.5% premium over noncertified offices. Upgrading buildings from “brown” to “green” would generate significant financial value. Similarly, building renewable energy plants or government-backed low-income housing units can generate high-quality income, which would make investment portfolios more diversified and resilient. The same can be said of green, social and sustainability-related bonds, emerging fixed-income asset classes that are growing quickly.
Venture-capital and private-equity investments dedicated to measurable impact have been shown to generate excess returns and verified social and environmental benefits, usually in terms directly linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Bain Capital, the Sorenson Impact Foundation, TPG, Apollo Global Management and others have been able to generate double-digit returns on mission-related investments while providing underserved populations with better housing, healthcare and financial services.
Sound investment strategies consider time horizons, liquidity, risk tolerance and impact goals. All assumed risks should be intentional, sized to desired outcomes, and thoughtfully diversified. A decision to seek verifiable impact may or may not involve explicit financial trade-offs.
If an investor wants to do well and good, ESG strategies premised on divestment are likely to disappoint. There are many opportunities in the impact investment field that can generate outsize market returns and verifiable social and environmental benefits. Helping companies move from “brown” to “green” can reward your pocketbook, people and the planet. Providing transformational housing, education, healthcare, digital services and financial access to underserved communities can generate significant financial returns.
Mr. Keeley is chief investment officer of 1PointSix LLC and author of “Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact Investing.” He was a senior executive at BlackRock, 2011-22.
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Democrats Are Revealing Exactly Who They Are
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New Documents Reveal Joe Biden 'Was Aware' of Son's Shady Business Dealings
By Sarah Arnold
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Ask 2 Jews a question and you get 3 opinions.
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Trump Is Right: American Jews Must 'Get Their Act Together' https://pjmedia.com/columns/
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Netanyahu’s Strategy for achieving 61 seats
The last thing Benjamin Netanyahu wants is for voters to start focusing on his political partners in Religious Zionism and the Haredi parties,
By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ
Benjamin Netanyahu’s political allies are acting as if they have already won the election.
First it was Shas leader Arye Dery, who, in a radio interview two weeks ago, was asked how under the terms of his plea bargain (for tax evasion) he could be a minister in the next government. Dery angrily responded that if the High Court of Justice dared to intervene, the Netanyahu government would pass an “overriding clause” and bypass the courts.
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