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Wall Street’s Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class

A project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting “sustainability.”

BY

WHITNEY WEBB

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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Last month, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced it had developed a new asset class and accompanying listing vehicle meant “to preserve and restore the natural assets that ultimately underpin the ability for there to be life on Earth.” Called a natural asset company, or NAC, the vehicle will allow for the formation of specialized corporations “that hold the rights to the ecosystem services produced on a given chunk of land, services like carbon sequestration or clean water.” These NACs will then maintain, manage and grow the natural assets they commodify, with the end of goal of maximizing the aspects of that natural asset that are deemed by the company to be profitable.

Though described as acting like “any other entity” on the NYSE, it is alleged that NACs “will use the funds to help preserve a rain forest or undertake other conservation efforts, like changing a farm’s conventional agricultural production practices.” Yet, as explained towards the end of this article, even the creators of NACs admit that the ultimate goal is to extract near-infinite profits from the natural processes they seek to quantify and then monetize.

NYSE COO Michael Blaugrund alluded to this when he said the following regarding the launch of NACs: “Our hope is that owning a natural asset company is going to be a way that an increasingly broad range of investors have the ability to invest in something that’s intrinsically valuable, but, up to this point, was really excluded from the financial markets.”

Framed with the lofty talk of “sustainability” and “conservation”, media reports on the move in outlets like Fortune couldn’t avoid noting that NACs open the doors to “a new form of sustainable investment” which “has enthralled the likes of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink over the past several years even though there remain big, unanswered questions about it.” Fink, one of the world’s most powerful financial oligarchs, is and has long been a corporate raider, not an environmentalist, and his excitement about NACs should give even its most enthusiastic proponents pause if this endeavor was really about advancing conservation, as is being claimed.

How to Create a NAC

The creation and launch of NACs has been two years in the making and saw the NYSE team up with the Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG), in which the NYSE itself holds a minority stake. IEG’s three investors are the Inter-American Development Bank, the Latin America-focused branch of the multilateral development banking system that imposes neoliberal and neo-colonalist agendas through debt entrapment; the Rockefeller Foundation, the foundation of the American oligarch dynasty whose activities have long been tightly enmeshed with Wall Street; and Aberdare Ventures, a venture capital firm chiefly focused on the digital healthcare space. Notably, the IADB and the Rockefeller Foundation are closely tied to the related pushes for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and biometric Digital IDs.

As Morningstar notes:

“The public launch of NACs strategically preceded the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the biggest biodiversity conference in a decade. Under the pretext of turning 30% of the globe into “protected areas”, the largest global land grab in history is underway. Built on a foundation of white supremacy, this proposal will displace hundreds of millions, furthering the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples. The tragic irony is this: while Indigenous peoples represent less than 5% of the global population, they support approximately 80% of all biodiversity.“

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/10/investigative-reports/wall-streets-takeover-of-nature-advances-with-launch-of-new-asset-class/

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Second Facebook whistleblower is willing to testify before Congress

By Emily Crane

October 12, 2021 9:29am Updated

Another Facebook whistleblower says she is willing to testify before Congress about her former employer — and claims she’s submitted documents showing “potential criminal violations” to an unspecified US law enforcement agency.

Sophie Zhang, who worked as a data scientist at the social media giant for nearly three years before she was fired last fall, tweeted Tuesday that she was prepared to testify about Facebook to fulfill her “civic duty.”

“If Congress wishes for me to testify, I will fulfill my civic duty, as I’ve publicly stated for the past half year. Last year, I testified privately before a European Parliamentary committee though I was avoiding press. My duty to democracy comes first,” Zhang wrote.

Zhang added she had already provided law enforcement with “detailed documentation regarding potential criminal violations” and understood that an investigation into Facebook was still ongoing.

In an interview with CNN, Zhang refused to say what information she handed over and to which agency.

The FBI would not comment on whether Zhang had given it anything regarding Facebook.

Sophie Zhang tweet.

Sophie Zhang says she has provided law enforcement with “detailed documentation regarding potential criminal violations” and understood that an investigation into Facebook was still ongoing.

Twitter

Zhang’s vow to testify comes after fellow whistleblower Frances Haugen, who leaked internal Facebook studies to lawmakers and the Wall Street Journal, urged lawmakers to regulate the tech giant during US Senate testimony last week.

Haugen alleged the company downplayed Instagram’s negative effects on teens’ mental health, exempted popular users from content rules, and failed to crack down on drug cartels and human traffickers.

Zhang told CNN she was encouraged by the bipartisan support to protect children online following Haugen’s testimony.

Sophie Zhang.

Sophie Zhang claims she was inspired to come forward after seeing bipartisan support to protect children online following Frances Haugen’s testimony.

CNN

On the day she was fired, Zhang posted a 7,800-word memo to Facebook’s internal forum accusing the social media giant of not doing enough to tackle hate and misinformation.

Zhang outlined what she said was evidence showing how foreign governments were using fake social media accounts to influence the public or manipulate public opinion.

She claimed Facebook didn’t take her findings seriously.

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Sophie Zhang alleges foreign governments were using fake social media accounts to influence the public and manipulate public opinion.

“I have blood on my hands,” Zhang wrote in the memo.

Facebook sought to diminish her findings, issuing a statement saying “we fundamentally disagree with Ms Zhang’s characterization of our priorities and efforts to root out abuse on our platform.”

“As part of our crackdown against this kind of abuse, we have specialized teams focused on this work and have already taken down more than 150 networks of coordinated inauthentic behavior. Around half of them were domestic networks that operated in Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and in the Asia Pacific region,” the Facebook statement said.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/12/second-facebook-whistleblower-willing-to-testify/

Australian council is SLAMMED for slaughtering 15 dogs including a mum and her newborn puppies in an over-the-top Covid-safe debacle - sparking worldwide condemnation

Parliament has condemned slaughter of 15 dogs at regional NSW animal shelter

Bourke Shire Council shot 15 dogs including mother and puppies dead in August

Killings sparked international outrage with Ricky Gervais tweeting about story

Animal Justice Party successfully moved a motion Wednesday against actions

They are looking to make 'convenience killing' illegal with new legislation

By SAM MCPHEE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

PUBLISHED: 04:24 EDT, 13 October 2021 | UPDATED: 17:19 EDT, 13 October 2021

The slaughter of 15 dogs at a regional New South Wales animal shelter in a cruel interpretation of Covid rules has been slammed by state Parliament, which is now introducing legislation to prevent future atrocities.

The Bourke Shire Council killed 15 dogs in August to prevent volunteers 'risking infection' by travelling from a shelter in Cobar, in central western NSW, to pick them up.

At the time there were next to no Covid cases in the area, and the innocent animals including a mother and her puppies.

The slaughter sparked international outrage, with comedian turned animal rights campaigner Ricky Gervais tweeting about the shootings.

The Animal Justice Party successfully moved a motion on Wednesday banning pounds from 'convenience killing', where shelters exterminate animals despite there being willing local rescue groups.

MP Emma Hurst told Daily Mail Australia there were two rescue shelters willing to take the dogs, and that members of her party had been rushing to save them.

'We were then told they had already been killed,' she said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10086853/Australian-council-slaughters-15-dogs-including-newborn-puppies-Covid-blunder.html