The Trump revolution is blowing across the Western world, sweeping the suffocating cobwebs of wokeism aside. While Australians are yet to get their chance to pass electoral judgement on the uber-woke Albanese government, already the fault lines are shaking out down under.
Australia’s big banks will not immediately follow North American lenders in quitting the UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance but believe climate targets must be made more realistic, amid a trans-Tasman push by Coalition MPs and New Zealand ministers to abandon the pact.
They still can’t bring themselves to admit that the Climate Con is busted. That would be just too humiliating an admission. So they’re going to pay lip service to ‘climate targets’ for just a bit longer.
In the end, though, Climate Cultism had to collide with hard commonsense.
Mr Trump’s election victory and subsequent orders to pull out of the Paris Agreement and UN Green Climate Fund have triggered a mass departure of banks, which threatens the future of the alliance […]
Under pressure over concerns climate-linked lending rules will undermine the economy and cost jobs across the mining, farming and manufacturing sectors, senior Australian banking sources confirmed they have adopted a “wait-and-see” approach following the mass exodus of 11 of the biggest US and Canadian banks from the NZBA in the wake of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
The sources confirmed the NZBA, which is strongly backed by European banks, is expected to adjust its guidelines in order to stop more global banks leaving.
On the other hand, the Australian opposition is clearly sniffing the winds of change. Of course, the feral mainstream media are making damn sure the Overton Window is too narrow for all but the bravest politicians to dive through, so the Dutton opposition is acting with due timidity.
After Opposition Leader Peter Dutton this month launched an attack on “woke” bankers rejecting loans on environmental grounds, a group of eight Liberal and Nationals MPs warned banking chief executives that membership of the NZBA “risks hurting the competitiveness and access to finance for Australian mining, manufacturing and farming businesses”.
In a letter to ANZ, CBA, Westpac and NAB chief executives on Tuesday night, Coalition MPs Matt Canavan, Garth Hamilton, Alex Antic, David Gillespie, Terry Young, Henry Pike, Colin Boyce and Llew O’Brien called on them to follow the lead of North American banks.
Some New Zealand politicians are finding the backbone to speak out as well. NZ First’s Shane Jones has also backed calls from local farming and mining groups for the banks to immediately “part company with the Net Zero Banking Alliance”.
“Too many banking staff have been captured by the climate ideology. They hide behind sustainability rhetoric, whilst undermining economic regional development,” Mr Jones said.
Not content with exposing the undress of the Climate Emperors, Trump is also pointing and laughing at their consorts, the Quota Queens.
That Trump wants an end to the “diversity, equity and inclusion” fad was no surprise. What’s most agitating to DEI devotees is the language he used when announcing its demise.
Trump said DEI policies “not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding federal civil rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence and individual achievement in favour of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system. Hardworking Americans who deserve a shot at the American Dream should not be stigmatised, demeaned or shut out of opportunities because of their race or sex.”
In that terrific denunciation of DEI is one short phrase – identity-based spoils system – that exposes the racket.
Expect a cacophony of fishwife screeching from the troughers of the DEI class.
Having secured the spoils from DEI, don’t count on DEI benefactors giving them up. Many are already circling the wagons in a highly public effort to hold on to the identity-based spoils system that secures them money and prestige.
Like the Climate Cult, they’re clearly terrified that everyone will twig to the con and realise that the whole thing was spun out of nothing.
So, let’s get to work. First, there is no evidentiary foundation to DEI. From the get-go, it was built on sand, piled especially high in a 2015 report by McKinsey that claimed a connection between corporate profits and diversity in executive ranks. When its results were exposed as untrue by a number of academic observers, McKinsey tweaked its modelling and said: “We have also been clear and consistent that our research identifies correlation, not causation, and that those two things are not the same.”
Alas, zealots paid no attention to this. The McKinsey report was their corporate bible and its untrue claims about the benefits of diversity became religious dogma.
The next paper dragon Trump is slaying is the mainstream media. His ‘You are Fake News’ retort sent the media into a screeching meltdown. Mostly because it exposed their lying betrayal. Rigorous truth-telling had long ago been thrown out the window in favour of narrative-peddling for the Establishment left. When the outraged media doubled down with a farrago of blatantly fake news, more and more people woke up – and walked away.
The mainstream media’s loss has been independent media’s gain. Indie media has boomed, with broadcasters from Rebel News to Tim ‘Timcast’ Poole not just nipping at the MSM’s heels, but regularly drawing bigger audiences than the likes of CNN.
Now, Trump is making it official: the MSM are dying and irrelevant.
President Trump is opening up the White House briefing room to bloggers, podcasters and social-media influencers, as he seeks to challenge the dominant role that mainstream news outlets play in coverage of the nation’s capital.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaking at her first briefing since Trump took office, said the president would restore more than 400 press passes that were revoked during the Biden administration. The White House is also opening up new seats at the front of the briefing room for new media outlets.
“The Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities, not just the legacy media seated in this room,” Leavitt said, encouraging all independent journalists who create news-related content to apply for credentials through a new government website.
Expect even more screeching meltdowns from the MSM. It’s going to be glorious.