Some say California’s Governor Gavin Newsom is attempting to appear more moderate ahead of election season. Newsom actually used common sense and defied party lines by vetoing a bill that would have taken children away from parents who refuse to provide them with gender-affirming care.
Democratic Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo and Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener introduced AB-957 Family law: gender identity, and it actually passed state legislature in September. The bill would have likened refusing gender-affirming care to child abuse. So if you refuse to give your child puberty blockers or put a tutu on your son who claims he is your daughter, you are unfit to be a parent in Biden’s America. Forget the statistics or the growing number of adults who are forever scarred from the medical procedures their parents allowed them to undergo before their brains had fully developed.
Newsom stated that provisions are already in place that “protect” children from parents not adhering to the woke agenda. This is commonplace in California family court as parents will attempt to discredit the other for not accepting their child’s chosen gender or sexuality. Children have already been removed from their homes for this very reason, but the proposed bill would have made it easier for the government to confiscate confused kids.
Now, Newsom is still a strong advocate of children undertaking genital mutilation. However, he is attempting to seem a bit more moderate as Democrats in the middle are not in favor of these measures. “I share a deep commitment to advancing the rights of transgender Californians, an effort that has guided my decisions through many decades in public office,” Newsom wrote in the announcement. “That said, I urge caution when the Executive and Legislative branches of state government attempt to dictate – in prescriptive terms that single out one characteristic – legal standards for the Judicial branch to apply.”
California lawmakers are introducing new legislation at rapid speed, and it is all intended to transfer parental rights to the state. There are proposals to allow children to seek psychiatric care in relation to their gender without notifying parents. There is another proposal that would provide shelter to children as young as 12 if they reported facing “LGBTQ+ negativity” at home. These are intended to be broad terms to give the state the power to confiscate kids. When my kids were young, you’d have to sign a letter just to let them go on a school trip a few miles away. Now, parents are fighting with the school boards to have a say in how their child is raised.
Posted originally on the CTH on July 28, 2023 | Sundance
It’s too late.
After losing 12% of stock value, $16 billion in company worth, more than 25% of sales and dropping out of the #1 position for beer in the USA, Anheuser Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth finally announced, “Today we took the very difficult but necessary decision to eliminate a number of positions across our corporate organization.”
The effort is described by Oxygen Financial CEO Ted Jenkin as corporate speak, where “simplify and reduce layers” can be translated to “clean up the corporate mess,” make the shareholders happy and increase the stock price. However, Anheuser Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth, a former CIA operative and woke corporate leader, waited too long and still doesn’t recognize the issue.
Stick a fork in Anheuser Busch and Bud Light, they’re done.
None of this was accidental or unforeseeable. Factually, former Budweiser Light Vice President of Marketing, Alissa Heinerscheid, told Anheuser Bush executives exactly what they were getting when they hired the Wharton business school graduate. Her intent was to bring a new cultural wokeism into the company, and the cultural wokeism is exactly what the company wanted.
Anheuser Busch got exactly what they structurally set themselves up to require. VP of Marketing, Alissa Heinerscheid, did not fail in her job – she delivered exactly what she was hired to generate. The infection will not be removed or cured by firing approximately 400 corporate white-collars who executed the Heinerscheid vision for the company, because it was not her vision alone.
The Anheuser Busch CEO and Board of Directors created the space for Heinerscheid to operate, approved of every move, gleefully celebrated the intent and purpose, and yet now stand back jaw-agape at the outcome? The time for pearl clutching, and reactionary perspectives is in the rear-view mirror. Do you really think the same CEO who approved the Heinerscheid agenda is really capable of removing the Heinerscheid culture?
Stop pretending. A generational collapse of a once heralded brand is complete. No one is going to touch Budweiser and the brand is permanently destroyed. How can I be so certain? Check out the video after the article.
[Side Note – The collapse is so complete and consequential, even General Mills is in damage control mode, scrubbing all connections after supporting and enlisting Alissa Heinerscheid in their college internship program.]
(Fox News) – […] According to a letter sent to employees, laid-off staff will receive severance pay, six months of continued company-paid health insurance benefits and resources to help find a new job.
The controversy embroiling Anheuser-Busch over Bud Light’s short-lived partnership with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney has sent shockwaves through the company and the beer-making industry.
The Ardagh Group, a global glass producer who contracts with the Anheuser-Busch company, recently announced that it will be closing its plants in North Carolina and Louisiana in July, putting roughly 645 employees out of a job.
The bottling company did not reveal the reason for the move, but an investigation by WRAL reportedly found that the plants are shuttering because of tanking Bud Light sales.
Data from Evercore ISI shows that in the 12-week period leading up to July 2, Bud Light’s sales volume fell by 27.1% over that timeframe — which includes much of the aftermath following Mulvaney’s partnership with the beer brand.
Will Hild, the executive director of Consumers’ Research, noted that customers are now seeing firsthand how much power they have to control the market and “make their voices heard.” (more)
Pretending has consequences….
This is a video of Anheuser Busch CEO Brenden Whitworth on June 28th, explaining the issue as he sees it. Stop for a minute, just pull back to the 30,000-foot level, and look at the basics.
Does this guy with a scruffy beard, sneakers and a business suit with no tie, look like a corporate executive who understands stewardship? Not even close.
CEO Brenden Whitworth represents the culture of popular style in corporate management. Marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid is what you get with this specific type of CEO.
Effective corporate leadership is boring, bland, steady, stable, consequential to the core mission and yet brutally focused on consumer value and long-term steady outcomes.
Yes, in a modern era some stuffiness needs to be removed from the cultural climate, Tim Cook is a great example of that. However, Brenden Whitworth is what you get when you take “popular image” or progressive creep too far.
Who Brenden Whitworth is, meaning the stuff inside this guy, reflects exactly why Donald Trump did not put Don Trump Jr. in charge of Trump Corporation. Donald Trump chose Eric Trump to run the company for this exact reason. [Oh snap, was that my outside voice?!]
Posted originally on the CTH on June 27, 2023 | Sundance
As Anheuser Busch continues supporting alphabet “pride” and transgender grooming rallies around the nation, the sales of their products continue declining. However, that did not stop the marketing and advertising sector from awarding “creative marketer of the year” to Anheuser Busch at Cannes Lions, which is dubbed the “Oscars for the advertising industry.”
[New York Post] – Sales of Bud Light suffered their steepest weekly drop yet since the beer brand launched its disastrous tie-up with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney, according to the latest data.
In the week ending June 17, sales of the Anheuser-Busch brand fell by an eye-popping 28.5% versus a year ago, according to the most recent sales figures issued by Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ.
That eclipses last week’s 26.8% decline, which beat the previous week’s fall of 24.4%.
Bud Light’s sister brands under the Anheuser-Busch umbrella also experienced lagging sales in the seven-day period which ended June 17, according to the data.
Sales of Budweiser dropped 12.3% while another Anheuser-Busch brand, Michelob Ultra, fell by 4%. (read more)
This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given the negative brand image now created for the product. Factually, the only thing that can reverse the trend for the product is time and diminished memory. As consumers associate the brand with a lifestyle, the use of the product will continue to drop. Holding a Bud Light beverage right now is akin to identifying yourself as a transfemme, or wearing pink pants.
Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Michel Doukeris reportedly addressed the ongoing boycott’s impact on delivery drivers, salespeople, and wholesalers on a recent earnings call. It is a little bit odd to see A/B positioning themselves as victims of their customers.
“This situation has impacted our people and especially our frontline workers: The delivery drivers, sales representatives, our wholesalers, Bud owners and servers,” Doukeris said, according to ABC News. “These people are the fabric of our business. They are our neighbors, family members, and friends. They are in every community in America. We’ve been doing everything we can to support our teams.”
It would appear that Anheuser-Busch the corporation, are refusing to accept or acknowledge their responsibility in creating this crisis for their brand. The brand image issue was not forced upon them. These were decisions made by the marketing division of the company, and now they place blame for the consequences on their customers.
Every time, in every story, in every print and broadcast update, as the ongoing events are told or written – every visual aide that accompanies the news includes that weird guy with the Bud Light beer in his hand.
This is now a bizarre marketing self-fulfilling prophecy. The articles and news telling updates to the story are now optically affirming the Bud Light brand as a beverage exclusively for transgenders. This level of ongoing public relations failure is something for the record books.
Armstrong Economics Blog/WEF Re-Posted Jun 25, 2023 by Martin Armstrong
The World Economic Forum (WEF) quietly partnered with Fingerprint Cards AB, the world’s leading biometrics company. The WEF has been discussing combining biometric data with financial services since at least 2016. Fingerprint Cards AB, based in Sweden, specializes in digital security and aims to make humans “the key to everything.” The company has installed programs on nearly every device, from smartphones to smart homes, and relies on personal data to access accounts. This new partnership with the World Economic Forum is intended to push forward the digital ID system in the quest for total control.
The United Nations (UN) also partnered with the WEF to implement digital IDs. As their video explains, they will track you “from the day you join to the day you part.” The UN wants humanity to store all their data on their digital IDs and, as with all invasive technology, markets the program as a solution for simplicity. The World Economic Forum has long said that the push for the Great Reset would require the people to surrender their privacy. The technology from Fingerprint Card AB was the missing link.
This company will use biometric data such as fingerprints, iris scans, DNA, and even inserted chip devices to link all of humanity to one centralized banking system. Going a step further, the goal of a one-world government would provide one centralized group with the power to access this data. Socrates indicates this plot will fail, but the road to failure will be long and destructive. Everyone will be linked to this global database, and it will be impossible to participate in society without joining. The WEF wants digital IDs to link to personal bank accounts for ultimate control. Gone are the days when the superior army ruled. Whoever controls the data will control everything and everyone.
Klaus Schwab is a control freak in how he runs the World Economic Forum. Make a single mistake and you are in trouble. Schwab seeks perfection and he is taking those ideas and seeking to indoctrinate the entire world. He has his young global leaders infiltrating governments around the world as we saw in New Zealand and Trudeau who has been a one-man invasion to utterly destroy Canada once and for all and seeks to terminate its energy production.
But behind all these efforts and slogans that you will own nothing and be happy which has sent Blackrock off into buying private homes with the objective to own everything and fulfill Schwab’s agenda ensuring the average person will own nothing, Schwab’s agenda is far more sinister than most realize. He is perhaps the worst Marxist in history for he is strategically assaulting our way of life knowing that pushing the WOKE equality agenda has a specific goal of dividing society into groups to fight among ourselves while he and his authoritarian lords are scheming against everything that makes worth living and to terminate our independence and even our human rights.
Schwab’s plan is now being fully adopted by the United Nations. They have embraced the system developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is outlined in three new policy briefs from the UN titled, “A Global Digital Compact, Reforms to the International Financial Architecture, and The Future of Outer Space Governance.”
The sinister goal is to advance the United Nations as the new world government. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s “vision for the future” is ultimate control and the daring scheme to monitor everyone just as Schwab does inside his WEF. This is Officially titled “Our Common Agenda,” where Guterres’ “vision” is to be given the green light in September 2024 during an event dubbed, “The Summit for the Future.” The UN describes this goal to control the entire world as “an open, free, secure and human-centered digital future.”
From the very beginning, the United Nations has seen itself as eventually becoming the one-world government power. They rejected the idea of freedom and viewed that they needed to control society for “unrestricted individualism is equally erroneous” so we are to be treated worse than a student in high school who must ask permission to go the bathroom.
The United Nations/WEF wants now to not just create a Digital ID for every person on the planet, but eliminating all paper currency means that every person on the planet must also have a bank account. Schwab and the United Nations now want all Digital IDs linked with the bank or mobile money accounts. They argue that this will improve the delivery of social protection coverage and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. At the same time, it will track every individual on the planet. Do we donate to their opposition and have our accounts frozen like Trudeau did to anyone who donated to the Truckers?
They claim that Digital technologies will eliminate crime. How do you pay a prostitute or buy illegal drugs? But how do you pay the 16-year-old girl who just babysat your kids when you and your wife went to a show? So the homeless who are mentally ill will probably be imprisoned if they do not have a bank account – for their own safety of course. In the town I grew up in, we had what you called a bag lady. She pushed her shopping cart around and slept in doorways. When people found out she had a son who was a doctor in the next town, they were outraged. When she died, there was over $200,000 in cash in that shopping cart. Still, she preferred the homeless life.
Both Schwab and now UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres both speak in lock-step about basically regulating the global digital future and they see themselves as those on top who do the regulating of the scum people beneath them. We are no longer human beings, but we are seen as a plague of rodents, and the herd needs to be thinned out.
Of course, Schwab and his WEF along with the United Nations are all UNELECTED organizations seeking to rule the world using phrases such as “international cooperation” and Schwab’s favorite “stakeholders” who will come to surrender all our rights to them all so they can advance principles, objectives, and actions that they see as their globalist agenda to rule the world.
This digital future as envisaged by Schwab and the United Nations is going to be quite the opposite of open, free, or human-centric, however. You cannot have “unrestricted individualism is equally erroneous” and it must be one policy fits all. Is this not what Kiev is trying to impose on the Dondas outlawing their language and freedom of religion? This authoritarian UN “vision” for a future global financial system, is supposed to be harmonized the entire world with Schwab’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The problem is that communism collapsed because all advancement of society comes from the ground up – not from centralized authoritarian control.
This became self-evident in the 1959 famous kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev. The entire advancement of everything came from human innovation and curiosity. Those are qualities that are not possible by the government. Nevertheless, all the lessons that Marxism failed are overlooked because these people seek absolute control over our lives. The world is to be ruled by something they call “the apex body” they intend to establish. Both Rome revolted in 509BC and overthrew such a body as did Athens in 508BC.
After Athens revolted and established Democracy in 508BC overthrowing what the UN and Schwab want to recreate – the Thirty Tyrants. Athens eventually collapsed in 404BC – two 51.6-year ECM cycles later. Nothing lasts forever. The Thirty Tyrants were the dream of Sparta. Athens was conquered by the ancient Communist State – Sparta, which never issued coins keeping with their rejection of private property just as Schwab is proposing and Blackrock is carrying out – you will own nothing and be happy.
Sparta rejected individualism just as the UN and Schwab’s WEF and they never issued coinage using these spit iron rods. This is the same agenda that Schwab and his WEF, the United Nations, and all Schwab’s young global leaders are pushing for – the elimination of all paper money and moving to digital where they can control every aspect of our entire lives.
The key actors here would be the UN chief, as well as the Group of 20 (Tyrants), the Economic and Social Council, and “heads of international financial institutions” which will establish complete and ultimate control over everything. This is the bottom line “vision” of the United Nations and their “Global Digital Compact.”
What they are conspiring behind our backs and mainstream media will NOT explain, is their sinister and evil objective to have people, devices, and entities, all tied up in a connected network that could apparently be centrally administered by them and subordinated to this unelected group of self-anointed bureaucrats.
Where is Joe McCarthy when we really need him? Schwab and the United States are actively seeking to subordinate the United States and are actually planning this future scheme and do not give a second thought to any negative impact, for they care nothing about individual rights, only their desire to control civil society on a global scale.
These ideas that always support their authoritarian world rest on the fallacy that a one-world government will end the war. That is nonsense. Just look at Rome and you will see many civil wars and revolutions within a one-world government. Here is the form President of France stating openly that the entire idea of creating the European Union was to create a one-European government to end future wars.
As I have explained, Schwab is strategic. He is forming key alliances always to further his personal view of a new world order under the theories of Karl Marx. Schwab’s WEF has just partnered with a leading biometrics company to advance its own agenda to digitize humanity. Swedish biometrics company Fingerprint Cards has taken a big step into the WEF’s New Champions Community, an assembly of mid-sized enterprises.
Schwab wants to track absolutely every person on the planet and this is behind his promotion of biometric forms of digital ID and claims the technology would serve as a new great steward of humanity to eliminate inequality. We are to allow someone so sinister to be able to hack our minds to create “social inclusion?” Schwab’s Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, who when the history books are written on this endeavor, will perhaps go down alongside Hitler’s Dr. Josef Mengele (1911-1979) where Hitler sought to also create the perfect race.
This Dr. Yuval Noah Harari admits that the tyrants of history lacked the technology to hack humans but it now exists. Charles Burgeat, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Fingerprint Cards, actually said:
“As a proud member of the WEF New Champions Community program, we want to be recognized as a purpose-driven company that contributes positively to the changes needed to operate in the new digitalized world. By joining this Community, we look forward to brainstorming and exchanging ideas with peers, and bring our expertise of the biometrics industry.”
Fingerprint Cards have been losing money and it hopes by adopting the WEF agenda to hack individuals, it will become profitable. The idea is you cannot use a phone or access any bank account without your fingerprint.
Schwab does not believe in Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand. He does not understand why Marxism collapsed because it rejected not just religion, but also humanity. The individual was to be eradicated and children were taught that the biological parents were not real – the state was their true parent.
Individualism is evil. We are to be zombies that are nothing more than biological robots. Even the movie ‘The Matrix’ created a fictional world in which people still made choices. Schwab does not believe that we can be trusted to make our own decisions. To those who have been conditioned to just hate Donald Trump, look at this next clip from the London Financial Times. This explains that it was in 2016 when Trump was elected that they all came to the conclusion that we could no longer be trusted to vote. Democracy suddenly became Populism and it had to be eradicated. You now see this agenda of Schwab’s WEF and the United Nations and what they are really seeking to eliminate – your independence.
Posted originally on the CTH on June 15, 2023 | Sundance
It was bound to happen anytime a significant brand leader loses 25% of its total market share. According to data provided to Fox News, Budweiser Light beer lost its #1 ranking in the U.S. in the month of May as the critical days of summer sales begin.
This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given the negative brand image now created for the product. Factually, the only thing that can reverse the trend for the product is time and diminished memory. As consumers associate the brand with a lifestyle, the use of the product will continue to drop. Holding a Bud Light beverage right now is akin to identifying yourself as a transfemme, or wearing pink pants.
(Fox News) – Bud Light lost its top spot in the U.S. beer market last month, as the brand’s sales sagged following a conservative uproar over its partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Constellation Brands’ Modelo led the market as it nabbed 8.4% of beer sales from retail stores in the four weeks that ended June 3, according to NielsenIQ data from consulting firm Bump Williams. Bud Light trailed with a 7.3% share.
Bud Light sales fell 24.6% in the period year over year, while Modelo sales jumped 10.2%, the data shows.
Still, the Anheuser-Busch InBev brand Bud Light leads U.S. beer sales so far this year, according to Bump Williams.
The hit to AB InBev’s business marks one of the few times in recent years that online backlash has led to a notable and sustained slump for a major brand. The company’s shares have dropped nearly 15% since the start of April, when Mulvaney posted a video of a personalized Bud Light can, which sparked anti-LGBTQ+ outrage.
In response to the uproar, the company appeared to neither defend the promotion with Mulvaney — a hesitance that angered some supporters of trans rights — nor appease the conservatives who opposed the marketing.
“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer,” Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth said in a statement in April. (read more)
That last statement is particularly laughable from Anheuser-Busch, as if they were victims of something external that was forced upon them.
Anheuser-Busch made a marketing decision with multiple layers of corporate approval. Apparently, no one was in the room to say it might not be a good idea to position their #1 product with a gender fluid promotional effort. Alas, they went full-throated into the foray and are now paying the price.
The people have spoken with their dollars, and companies are now less likely to go woke. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) pushes the CEI (Corporate Equality Index), a company’s social woke credit score. The Open Society Foundation, operated by the Soros family, funds the HRC. The ESG promotes a company’s green social credit score, promoted by BlackRock and the World Economic Forum. Companies were 31% less likely to mention these absurd social scores during earnings calls this quarter, marking the steepest annual drop and the fifth consecutive quarter of declines.
Financial research platform AlphaSense polled companies from April 1 to June 5 to see where they stood. “The easiest thing to do is just to stay out of the conversation and emphasize other facets of business that are going to be perceived as less controversial and more core to the traditional metrics of the business,” said Jason Jay, senior lecturer of sustainability at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the approach Berkshire Hathaway has taken under the lead of Warren Buffett, who refuses to answer these asinine surveys.
The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative thinktank, states that companies are discarding their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders by taking up social issues. They also claim that these companies are discriminating against those who do not share these far-left beliefs.
I reported that the criteria in the 2023 Corporate Equality Index toolkit required companies to promote really went to the extreme, such as providing employees’ children with gender-affirming care like castration. The CEI makes it impossible for religious or conservative organizations to adhere to their standards.
While companies are less likely to mention these social credit scores, the ESG will be harder to dismiss as there has not been such a dramatic backlash. In comparison, woke companies such as Target experienced their longest losing streak in half a decade and lost $10 billion in a matter of 10 days. Anheuser-Busch was valued at $134.55 billion before its trans scandal. At the time of this writing, the company is now worth $107.44 million, and BudLight is no longer America’s leading beer. The “go woke, go broke” slogan holds weight. If you bring politics or religion into the boardroom, you’re bound to offend at least half of the people and lose half of your customers.
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