Glenn Beck is an American conservative commentator, author, and radio host. He is the author of The Ten Commandments and has been a regular on Fox News and CNN. Glenn has been married to his long-term partner, Pam, for over 30 years and they have been through hell and high water. He is a Christian, a father, a husband, a friend, and a husband.
00:19:02.100I've got this nice million dollars here I would very much like to spend on somebody that could understand justice is letting killers go, letting robberies go, not pressing charges over people who set fires.
00:19:25.320But if Donald Trump does one thing, he shall be executed.
00:24:11.480And, by the way, the same people who passed on Donald Trump, the man going only as Aaron, who joined the Kansas City chapter of the far-right Proud Boys organization in 2019,
00:24:30.840had another relationship that went back a decade, and that relationship was with his employer, the FBI.
00:24:42.140As the crazy Donald Trump supporters swarmed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, Aaron sent a quick series of messages to an FBI agent.
00:24:54.760Barriers are down at the Capitol building, a crowd surged forward, about to reach the building now, he told his FBI handler.
00:25:03.020Proud Boys did not do it, nor inspire.
00:25:06.600Okay, so this testimony was now given.
00:25:09.720An FBI agent gave the testimony, but not as the FBI, you know, not for the prosecution, but for the defense.
00:25:19.680Four FBI sources were approached by the defense, two others are on trial, and it was the federal prosecutors who undermined the credibility of the FBI informant,
00:25:34.760suggesting, yes, this guy works for FBI, but he's not credible.
00:26:30.620Do your neighbors and friends who are like, yay, Donald Trump's sure getting his,
00:26:38.940do they have any idea that their head eventually will be in the guillotine as well?
00:26:45.860Oh, yeah, sure, my head will be in the basket, but you'll be staring at my head as your head's in the guillotine, you dope.
00:26:53.840This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:26:57.000We have more on Donald Trump's coming indictment in just a second, but Stu, you know, you can talk all you want about Donald Trump and his horrible criminal activity.
00:27:16.460You can talk about that all you want, but the climate crisis continues, okay?
00:27:22.460No matter what you try to distract people with, the climate crisis continues, and thank goodness, CAMPACS, which is like TAMPACS, but it's not,
00:27:35.460it's a, it's a, it's a, you know, it's just a little community action group that makes change happen, along with the Coal Action Network, the Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance,
00:27:51.880Recommon, Reset, the Sierra Club, Stand Earth, the Sunrise Project, Water Keeper Alliance, Public Citizen, Market Forces, Oil Change, Greenpeace.
00:29:09.420World leaders have committed to limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
00:29:15.440Even half a degree beyond this would be significantly worse.
00:29:21.320Drought, floods, extreme heat, poverty for hundreds of millions of people.
00:29:25.280Client scientists at the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change have warned this.
00:29:31.420Fossil fuel emissions are primary cause of climate change.
00:29:34.400Governments, businesses, and other actors all need to urgently scale up their efforts to avert unimaginable climate breakdown.
00:29:43.680Insurers, you are society's risk managers, and you have a special responsibility to act, and you have the power to drive change.
00:29:53.920Without insurance, new fossil fuel projects cannot go ahead, and existing ones cannot operate.
00:30:01.600Okay, so it goes on, you know, insurance companies are like, hey, you know, I'm trying to work with the companies, and they're saying, don't.
00:30:11.740Okay, it's the hottest time on record right now.
00:30:15.680In recent years, the insurance agencies and industry has taken a series of steps to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, albeit with notable exceptions.
00:30:27.680Since 2017, at least 41 insurers have adopted restrictions on underwriting coal, 22 on tar sands, and 13 on conventional gas and oil.
00:30:40.540But numerous loopholes in policies and standards allow insurers to continue underwriting the expansion of fossil fuel production.
00:30:49.320Several oil and gas policies restrict cover for exploration, but not the development of expanded production.
00:30:56.100Others restrict cover for upstream projects, but not midstream or downstream infrastructure, which, if built, will lock in expanded oil and gas production for decades to come.
00:31:08.500Many insurers will argue they're actively engaging, but it is not enough.
00:31:14.780In line with the scientific consensus and appeals from the UN secretary general, not just the general, but the secretary general at the UN, the undersigned organizations, all those crap heaps that I read to you a minute, of the Ensure Our Future campaign call on you to take the following steps.
00:32:09.920The expansion of coal, the expansion of coal, the expansion of coal, oil, gas production at existing customers within two years, phase out all insurance services for existing fossil fuel company customers who are not aligned immediately divest.
00:32:23.020This is demand number three, immediately divest all assets, including assets managed for third parties from coal from coal oil gas companies.
00:32:31.460So, you got to get rid of everything you have unless you're part of ESG, which, by the way, I want you to know, I just point out, is a conspiracy theory.
00:32:44.680By July 2023, that's this coming July, define and adopt binding targets for reducing your insured emissions.
00:32:54.020Immediately establish and adopt as policy robust due diligence and verification mechanisms to ensure clients fully respect and observe all human rights,
00:33:05.600including the requirements, including the requirements, except for China, including the requirement that they obtain and document the free, prior, and informed consent of impacted indigenous peoples,
00:33:17.100as articulated in the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
00:33:21.500Immediately bring stewardship activities, membership of trade associations, and public positions as shareholder and corporate citizens in line with a credible 1.5 degrees Celsius pathway in a transparent way.
00:33:35.520These policies should be applied by both insurance and reinsurance companies at the group level.
00:33:41.620Reinsurance companies should apply the policies to direct, facilitate, and treat businesses.
00:33:46.620As always, your response to this letter will serve as the basis of our annual scorecard report on insurance, fossil fuels, and the climate emergency.
00:34:00.600Our scoring partner, Reclaim Finance, will send a questionnaire with specific questions to your sustainability staff in the coming months.
00:34:09.980We ask you to respond to our letter using the questionnaire by July 15-23.
00:34:16.620Companies should be rewarded for showing climate leadership, and those delaying the transition from fossil fuels must be exposed.
00:34:28.080Based on your response, we will share the findings of our report with the media, insurance employees, prospective employees, shareholders,
00:34:40.620regulators, ESG raters, index providers, regulators, and other interested actors.
00:36:01.500The ESG, where you can't do business with people and you'll be held responsible by the government and other companies if you don't play ball with these terrorists.
00:37:14.240It's also, I mean, as you pointed out, every single aspect of what you think of the far-left AOC progressive agenda is being targeted through the same attack plan.
00:37:28.020And it's working on a lot of these companies.
00:37:33.540The bill that we've been working for and hoping for on ESG, a bill that actually takes on the banks, protects individuals while dealing with pensions and government contracts, has passed the Florida House.
00:37:47.680The sponsor of the bill was in Dallas last year at our ESG conference that we had here at the American Journey Experience.
00:37:55.940It has already passed through multiple committees in the Senate.
00:37:59.700It is being heard by its last committee, according to the schedule online, should have started just about half an hour ago.
00:38:06.080If it passes, it will be the first time a truly effective E, S, and G becomes law anywhere in America.
00:38:17.240The bills have been killed by lobbyists and establishment Republicans and our friends at other think tanks, Heritage Foundation.
00:38:27.740We're going to have a conversation, Heritage Foundation, on the air next week because, well, we'll have it next week.
00:38:36.460This is the first one, and it should be spread everywhere in America.