Justin Haskins is the author of many books with Glenn Beck, and he has educated us on the emerging global order that mostly progressives in charge have been pushing through companies like BlackRock, through international institutions, and through national governments. And he is here to break it all down for us today with a little bit of hope because we can make a difference.
00:00:00.000We talk a lot about what's at stake in this election, abortion, immigration, the economy, but what if I told you one of the most important issues is a law, a little-known law that has just passed in the European Union?
00:00:17.760And what if I told you that Donald Trump is the only person that can mitigate the great harm this law would cause to people like you, to American business owners?
00:00:31.020Here to explain this incredible, disturbing story is Justin Haskins.
00:00:39.080He is the author of many books with Glenn Beck, and he has educated us on the emerging global order that mostly progressives in charge have been pushing through companies like BlackRock, through international institutions, through national governments.
00:01:02.520And he is here to break it all down for us today with a little bit of hope, because we can make a difference.
00:01:08.740We can push back on this, but we have to have the courage to do it.
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00:01:52.260I always have to end our episodes with some encouragement for people, but obviously the things that you have to say are important because they're real.
00:02:01.660We wouldn't be talking about it if it was just like, these are your crazy projections based on your theories.
00:02:08.180You're telling us things that are actually going on so that people cannot be paranoid but can be as prepared and knowledgeable as possible.
00:02:33.180I think the most important story that has gotten completely drowned out by all the crazy stuff that's been happening in presidential elections and assassination attempts and debate performances and all of that is that there's this new law that was passed in the European Union, which at first most people, when they start to hear Europe, who cares?
00:02:54.220It's like the first thing, but it's going to impact every single American.
00:02:59.760It's called the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the most sexy title you could ever come up with, right?
00:03:07.020Essentially, what it does is create ESG social credit scores for companies, okay?
00:03:15.820So we've talked about this before and we've talked about the Great Reset and BlackRock and a lot of those kinds of things.
00:03:21.100These ESG scores are designed to transform the way companies operate, the kinds of products and services that they can sell, and then by extension, transform societies around it.
00:03:31.960So lots of climate change initiatives are in there, biodiversity rules, land and water use, all kinds of social justice.
00:04:04.800So like, just sorry, just to clarify, to give people an idea, Target, for example, like one of their majority owners, I think, is BlackRock.
00:04:14.680These are these huge global entities that champion progressive values for reasons we could probably talk about.
00:04:24.800They're probably manifold, but a lot of people ask, okay, like, why doesn't Target care more when the customers stand up for something?
00:04:32.880Well, it's because they care more about what BlackRock tells them to do than what the suburban mom tells them to do.
00:04:39.540But a question I have for you, and I don't want to derail us, but just because I know this will kind of help people understand what's going on,
00:04:47.560is that sometimes it does seem like companies respond to customers and it surprises me.
00:04:52.580For example, last year when it came to Pride Month, a lot of customers raised a big ruckus about what was being sold in these stores.
00:05:04.540Surprisingly, in response, I guess, to the backlash, this year it was extremely subdued.
00:05:11.020And even people said, look, I went in in June, I didn't see any Pride stuff, and I only saw Patriotic stuff for 4th of July.
00:05:18.300So my question to you, with all this ESG, why do corporations ever respond to what the customers say,
00:05:26.460especially when they're conservative customers, when, as you've explained, they don't really have a profit incentive to do so?
00:06:08.720So what BlackRock and those kinds of entities are pushing on companies is they want to move as far to the left as they can without losing money.
00:06:20.180So the more people find out about these things, the more BlackRock backs off a little bit of their pressure on a company like Target because they don't want to lose money either.
00:06:31.060A lot of these policies have actually been in place to varying degrees for a long, long time, but it was only recently that people started understanding what was going on.
00:06:40.380And so for a long time, they were moving the ball forward very, very slowly, and most people didn't notice it.
00:06:45.780I think they just thought, oh, you know, Target is moving to the left because the leadership at Target kind of leans left, and society kind of leans left, and it's all just moving in that direction very slowly.
00:06:57.560But in reality, there was this ESG stuff going on behind the scenes, and it was all just happening very slowly.
00:07:03.580Then around 2020, with COVID, everything ramped up huge.
00:07:08.560There was a real concerted effort to transform society quickly.
00:07:12.880A lot of that was in the wake of Trump.
00:07:15.880Trump scared a lot of people in these elite circles who they now, you know, you had eight years of Barack Obama, and they thought for sure that Hillary Clinton was going to win in 2016.
00:07:26.440And they thought, okay, this transformation of society can happen kind of slowly, and we're moving in the right direction.
00:07:53.040And so this movement towards ESG has actually slowed a little bit in recent years, at least the front-facing version of it, what they are telling us and what they're doing.
00:08:03.600The in-your-face kind of stuff, because the backlash was significant when people learned what was going on, and it cost them some money.
00:08:11.780And once it started costing them some money, BlackRock said and other similar entities, okay, we need to slow this down a little bit, at least for now, and do more of this stuff behind the scenes.
00:08:23.100And so actually, a lot of corporate policies haven't changed, but the in-your-face stuff, they've backed off a little bit because of how offensive it was to so many people.
00:08:33.100And so that's what they're trying to do.
00:08:34.600They're trying to move to the left without making it so offensive that people stop buying the products.
00:08:40.520They understand that people can only tolerate so much cultural change, and they're probably afraid if they push too far, then they could start losing people that would otherwise be progressive.
00:08:53.460I think even Barack Obama realized, I can only push so far so fast before everyone starts to recoil.
00:09:00.460I also think, and I'm not trying to derail us onto the election, but just an example of that, you'll notice that Kamala Harris and the Democrats have not talked about transgenderism at all.
00:09:20.760They'll use the old school rainbow flag, but they won't use the trans flag.
00:09:26.140They know, even though they are gearing to push it, they have pushed it, this administration, they will continue to weaponize the government to shove this down people's throats.
00:09:36.160They don't publicly talk about that in an election year because it's too much, too fast, even for moderates.
00:09:42.860Yeah, that was the biggest mistake that Donald Trump made in the debate, was not bringing it up.
00:09:47.600Why didn't he ask her flat out, Kamala Harris,
00:09:50.960what do you think about biological men participating in girls' sports?
00:10:09.420So this law that happened in the European Union, they finally passed it.
00:10:13.160It took them years to put it together.
00:10:14.900They passed it in May of this year, 2024.
00:10:17.340And unlike the ESG policies that we've been talking about so far, which are driven by the private sector, this is being driven by the government.
00:10:26.260So the European Union codified the social credit scores for companies.
00:10:32.160So they came up with their own left-wing ideas and values, and they passed this law in 2024, and they said it applies to large companies that are based in the European Union or non-EU companies, large EU companies, non-EU companies, that do above a certain amount of revenue in the European Union.
00:10:56.960So, for example, Apple or McDonald's or companies like that, if they surpass this threshold of revenue, which is $489 million, then they have to adhere to these ESG rules as well.
00:11:16.100What's really important about this is they don't have to adhere to the ESG rules only in the European Union.
00:11:25.060So it's not enough for McDonald's or for Apple or for Meta or for Microsoft or for Google or for, and I could name a million other companies that this will apply to.
00:11:35.360It's not enough for them to change their policies in the EU.
00:12:01.260So it embeds all kinds of crazy left-wing things about climate change, social justice, all the stuff you would imagine would be in there is in there.
00:12:09.460But what makes it even crazier than that is that one of the requirements for these large companies that are covered under this law is that they have to impose it on all of the, not all, but almost all of the businesses that they work with in their supply chains upstream and downstream, no matter where they're located or how much business those companies do in the EU.
00:12:34.540So, for example, Ford would be covered under this law.
00:12:37.900Ford is a car company that sells cars in the EU above the threshold, so they have to adhere
00:13:01.140Ford, you also have to adhere to the EU rule, and Ford is going to be the one that imposes it on you through contractual insurances and other stuff.
00:13:10.440So if Ford doesn't do that, then Ford gets fined 5% of their total worldwide revenue.
00:13:18.360So obviously, they're going to do this.
00:13:20.380So when you start playing out the ramifications of this, they're enormous.
00:13:25.820We're talking about if you're a potato farmer who sells potatoes to McDonald's in Idaho, you now have to adhere to these left-wing ESG rules, even though you don't do any business in the EU at all.
00:13:37.740If you're a truck driver that just transports products for any of these companies, if you're a farmer that sells food, you know, that sells cabbage to any of these companies, if you just do one little tiny piece of the component, or you do marketing for one of these companies, or you do software services for one of these companies, you will have to adhere to these ESG rules too.
00:14:01.480And through this, you can transform the entire country, because you can transform hiring practices, business practices, the kinds of products that people sell and buy, the commitment to social justice goals generally.
00:14:16.860And none of this comes from an American law.
00:16:51.620They're essentially saying, if you want to do any business at all in the EU, then you've got to make sure that you are adhering to our rules and that everyone you do business with is adhering to our rules.
00:17:02.160And what that effectively does is make the world comply with all these costly EU regulations.
00:17:08.780So they're imposing this crazy amount of costs on all these companies all over the world to make it easier for the EU-based companies to compete with them.
00:17:20.560So it's kind of like a trade war almost.
00:17:23.280It's a really backwards way of doing it, I guess, and a secret way of doing it.
00:17:39.220I remember Vice President Kamala Harris, she put out a video when she was running for president last time saying equity means we all end up in the same place, which is actually not truthfully, fundamentally what equity is supposed to mean.
00:17:51.720It's supposed to mean treating everyone the same way.
00:17:53.700But she said equity means everyone ending up in the same place, which, of course, was the vision of Marx and has always been the vision of communists.
00:18:00.940But these policies never lift everyone up to the highest place that you can be, but rather pulls everyone down to the lowest and poorest place you can be.
00:18:14.280And that's what it seems like is happening.
00:18:16.580It's not like they're allowing these EU companies to level up and compete with the American companies.
00:18:21.600It's saying, no, you're going to be just as poor and just as hamstrung as we are.
00:18:27.520And on that note, one of the craziest parts of the law, which we just found out about really, is that buried in this massive law, there's like one long paragraph that essentially mandates that these companies participate in one of the largest transfers of wealth ever in history.
00:18:51.360And the way they do it is through this.
00:18:53.720One of the big questions that we had for a long time when we were researching this law, and I've been looking at it for three years, basically, they've been working on it for three years, is, well, how are you going to make China go woke?
00:19:05.640How are you going to make China make sure they have the right number of trans people or blacks or whatever on their board of directors?
00:19:12.740Obviously, they're not going to do that.
00:19:14.260What about some poor farmer in Mexico who sells a particular product for some food distributor?
00:19:19.960I mean, are you really expecting them to adopt like electric powered, you know, farm equipment and stuff?
00:19:50.500There is a long paragraph buried in this law that says if you're one of these major companies and you go to someone in the supply chain and you say, hey, you need to adopt electric powered cars because the EU tells us we can only do business with people who have electric powered cars.
00:20:10.000So you have to start moving in that direction and XYZ company in China says, no, we're not going to do that because if we do that, we're going to lose a bunch of money.
00:20:25.540Then what the law says is the large company that's forced to impose this on these smaller companies in China or Mexico or wherever has to pay for the transition to happen.
00:20:38.680So in other words, Ford buys some sort of component from some manufacturer in China.
00:20:44.880They go to them in China and they say, you got to go to electric, all solar power for your factory.
00:20:51.240And they say, no, otherwise we'll go, we'll go under if we do that, then Ford has to pay for them to go for solar.
00:20:59.840So Ford has to be the one that does it.
00:21:01.800So then Ford is like disincentivized to go to those companies and say, hey, we want you to make these for us.
00:21:09.020But I guess you're saying that Ford basically under this law, they have no option but to go to a company.
00:21:15.480And either they find a company that can afford to comply with the law themselves or they will just have to pay.
00:21:24.320And so everyone's forced to pay up in some way.
00:21:28.780I mean, what it actually says is that companies are expected to help them make the transition rather than go find another company.
00:21:39.360So the explicit purpose of this is to make all of these companies all over the world transform in line with the EU objective.
00:21:53.580Whoever, some big, massive corporation in America will pay you poor avocado farmer to make the transition.
00:22:00.100But in reality, they're not going to pay for it.
00:22:02.520They're just going to pass all those costs along to consumers.
00:22:06.760That's who's going to end up paying for it.
00:22:07.680So is there anything that, say, President Trump wins in November, is there anything he could do to mitigate the harm caused to American companies?
00:22:19.980Well, if he does nothing, we'll start with that.
00:22:23.700If he or Kamala Harris just do nothing, they don't help it, they don't hurt it, they just do nothing, then it will happen.
00:22:30.120Because this is all being driven by the EU and big corporations that want to do business in the EU.
00:22:36.500And for them, financially, it will always make sense to stay in that market rather than leave the market because they're making enough money that it makes sense for them.
00:23:20.500I mean, they seem to have lost all ability to, there was a huge fight for three years.
00:23:29.800Lobbyists were trying very hard to stop this.
00:23:32.560Because most industries lost and the EU, sort of the far left wing of the EU, was successful in pushing this thing through.
00:23:42.340What's really interesting is there is a giant carve out for one industry.
00:23:46.220That one industry is the financial industry.
00:23:49.400They did manage to get a carve out for them.
00:23:51.400So the rules only apply to them in their own specific business operations.
00:23:56.900So if you're a big bank, for example, and you buy paper for sending out letters to people, then you got to make sure your paper supplier is, you know, following these rules.
00:24:08.300But you don't have to worry about where your money goes.
00:24:11.540You don't have to worry about where you get your money or where you send your money or what kind of loan agreements that you have with people or things like that.
00:24:19.240Because you would think that's, how is that any different than someone who sells radios to Ford or something?
00:24:24.500They're part of the, because there was a carve out made for them and there was a crony deal that was cut out for them and that was negotiated and there was lots of fighting and all of that.
00:24:34.480So the big corporations did try to stop this because they don't want to do it and they lost.
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00:24:46.400All right, we are talking about all of these global initiatives to fundamentally change how business owners do business.
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00:28:31.920It's mostly high-end products and luxury items and luxury cars and fashion and stuff like that that we're getting from them, wine, things like that.
00:28:41.180We can live without that stuff, but they can't live without us.
00:29:01.740And so Donald Trump is one of these people who is one of the few politicians, very prominent politicians, Republican or Democrat, who would be completely opposed to something like this.
00:29:14.880Many, even Republicans, might be okay with looking the other way while this happens, but not him.
00:29:20.920And I don't think it's a mistake that they pushed it through right at this moment.
00:29:40.420I want everyone to understand the global mechanism that is invested in Donald Trump not being president.
00:29:46.800And you don't even have to suggest direct meddling to understand what is at play in all of the huge international powers that are so incredibly financially, ideologically invested in making sure that Kamala Harris or any not-Trump candidate is in power.
00:30:16.440Because someone who flexes America's muscles, which traditionally over the past, you know, at least a couple decades has been the Republican.
00:30:27.220And like you said, there are definitely people on both sides that are complicit.
00:30:32.380But when it comes to Republican versus Democrat, it's been the Republican side that has been more willing to say, I'll flex our muscles.
00:31:11.100I think that Democrats, generally speaking, prioritize the sort of Western global order over America itself.
00:31:20.880And they've made that very clear in their handling of Ukraine.
00:31:24.040They've made that very clear in the way that they've dealt with this particular issue that we're talking about today and all sorts of other issues related to the United Nations.
00:31:31.760They have no problem with paying money out to the entire world without getting anything in return.
00:31:37.780They have no problem with giving away more and more of America's power to Europe because they see that as that's the way of having a properly functioning Western world.
00:31:49.320We all have to be working together, part of the global order and all of that stuff.
00:31:54.000And so Donald Trump does not fit into that, obviously.
00:31:57.040He would bristle at, I have no evidence to believe he actually knows about any of this, but he would hate just the concept in general, regardless of what the social credit scores are calling for.
00:32:08.060They could be right-wing things, but just the idea of having Europe tell us what we should do and how we should live and what our products and services should look like.
00:32:18.680There's just no way he would be in favor of that.
00:32:21.140So I think the only way this stops before it goes fully into effect, so it's already been passed into law, it's going to be phased in over several years, more and more companies, they have different thresholds and levels where they get phased in.
00:32:37.720The only way this stops is if Donald Trump is president of the United States.
00:32:51.020Go to the EU and say, if you want to get our oil and gas, if you want to get our weapons for your wars, if you want to be protected in NATO and all of this other stuff, you're not going to do this to us.
00:33:06.480You're going to make an exception, you're going to put it into law, and then we can talk.
00:33:10.800And they will have no choice but to comply.
00:33:14.400And that would be good not just for America, but it would be good for all of the people that you described, the poor Mexican farmer, because a strong America is good for the world, whereas the progressive mentality is that a strong America is bad and oppressive for the world.
00:33:26.820And that's really where the difference in policy comes from.
00:33:34.800Scary stuff that we are talking about.
00:33:37.000I think it is an understatement to say that we do not know what the future holds.
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00:44:04.820So, the Global Digital Compact is something that was also part of the – our common agenda.
00:44:10.900It's focused mainly on regulating technology, especially on the internet.
00:44:18.200Artificial intelligence is a big part of it.
00:44:20.020We want to make sure that there's a global governance of artificial intelligence.
00:44:24.920We want to make sure that AI is being designed fairly and equitably and with social justice in mind and all of that stuff.
00:44:33.320And obviously, AI can be really bad and dangerous, and there are a lot of problems with it.
00:44:37.860I just don't trust the United Nations to be the ones that's regulating it.
00:44:41.220In addition to that, there's a bunch of policies in there about dealing with misinformation and disinformation on social media, on the internet generally.
00:44:55.140We need to create standards that everyone has to adhere to across countries with the idea in mind that, you know, you can't have Elon Musk running around allowing people to say whatever they want.
00:45:09.580In fact, the European Union just recently threatened Elon Musk and told him that if he didn't start regulating speech on his platform in a more expansive way, that there were going to be penalties issued to him.
00:45:25.720They might ban it in the European Union.
00:45:28.140There were some columnists that were calling for him to be jailed as a result of this.
00:45:37.360And some of the stuff that they talk about relating misinformation is just so incredible.
00:45:42.740For example, one of the things they want to do is they want to strengthen independent and public media and supporting journalists and media workers through the United Nations.
00:45:53.440So UN-funded journalists, media outlets, media workers at other outlets.
00:45:59.940Obviously, this is just propaganda is what they're talking about here.
00:46:03.080Another quote from it is, provide, promote, and facilitate access to and dissemination of independent, fact-based, timely, targeted, clear, accessible, multilingual, and science-based information to counter mis- and disinformation.
00:46:17.660So now we're talking about creating a fact-checking organization at the United Nations.
00:46:21.780Again, these are the same people who, during COVID, WHO, completely mishandled it, trafficked misinformation, helped China or allowed China to cover up what was going on with COVID.
00:46:34.760Then another one, calling on digital technology companies and developers to continue to develop solutions and publicly communicate actions to counter potential harms, including hate speech and discrimination from AI-enabled content that's designed.
00:46:49.680So, again, let's make sure that AI is being designed so that it's not being used for hate speech and misinformation and disinformation.
00:46:58.900And all of that, of course, is code words for whatever they want it to be, right?
00:47:03.780I mean, their concept of hate speech is like the show.
00:47:12.680So let's make sure there's a global governance body to regulate speech, misinformation, disinformation, what you say on social media companies, what AI can be used for, et cetera.
00:47:38.980Well, if AI is designed with these woke ideas built into it and then a bank uses AI, then what does that mean for people's access to loans and that kind of thing?
00:47:49.780So this is all very, very bad and we should be fighting against it.
00:47:54.500And instead, most people aren't even talking about it.