August 27, 2024 • 11 mins
RFK Jr, Starbucks, And the Hypocrisy of the Green Movement. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Green Conservatives, Yeah, it happened to be one. I'm really
a man. I'm a tree hugger man, big time tree hugger. Always,
always have been this idea that they put out that
(00:36):
somehow conservatives want to pollute and they want to destroy
the environment. Know that they wouldn't be conservatives, Okay, they
would be sociopaths. They would be evil quite frankly, I
want to start off today talking about this in terms
of a editorial. It was in the Wall Street Journal
where they were going after the the new CEO of Starbucks,
(01:02):
Brian Nickel. Bryan Nickel lives in Newport Beach, California, and
he is He's gonna commute to work in Seattle on
his plane. I'm gonna work for Starbucks. Now Starbucks for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's our commitment to net zero and carbon neutrality and
flashy brochures and all of the bs that they put
out with this, and I'm calling it BS because it
is BS.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But you just said you're green. Yeah. I'm also been
fully aware that the whole carbon thing is a bunch
of bs. Oh, we gotta sell carbon credits and we
got to capture carbon. And I'm like, wow, you're talking
CO two there part of the whole photosynthesis process. And again,
(02:04):
do true believers in carbon and carbon capture do a
little homework. I did address this here on the show.
The world is a much much greener today than it
has been for a long time, for a long time greener,
that's right, more plants, more plants. Anyway. I also recommend
(02:30):
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Who's longtime environmentalist and he was
He just recently did an interview with Tucker Carlson and
he talked about the green movement and some of the
things he's been involved with over the years. And one
of those things basically hits home to where I grew
(02:52):
up in Albury, New York, and the Hudson River was
a disaster. Disaster. I mean it's it's still it's better,
heading in the right direction, but it's you know, not
where it should be. They started this group Riverkeepers way
(03:12):
back when and forcing general electrics hand and cleaning up
all of the PCBs that were dumped in the Hudson River.
And again it's it's crazy big corporations, corporation e some
are sometimes corporations of all the people Running's not the
(03:35):
corporation itself, it's the people working at the corporation. Those
are the people that, quite frankly, are responsible and they
need to be held responsible for their actions. Why I said,
you all, we're going to sue a corporation. That corporation
pleaded guilty. How could a corporation plead guilty? It's a
tax id number and a logo. There are people behind
(04:00):
all of the doings of General Electric when they decided, hey,
we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and dump PCBs in
the Hudson River and ruin, ruin a habitat, ruin ruin
a fishery, ruin the birds that live in and around
that area. He mentioned something, he mentioned something that I
(04:23):
happen to believe in and in his interview as well,
and he said God, God talks to us in many ways,
and to speak to us through prophets, but he also
speaks to us through nature. And I'm always been a
big believer in that. I think that quite frankly, most
(04:45):
of what we've been doing as a nation, this whole
you know, global warming carbon nonsense, there's been a joke.
It's been a joke. We ranted and raved about the
stupid windmills and what it's doing to the and what
it's doing to birds. Not not to mention, not to
mention all these stupid using all this land for these
(05:07):
solar farms. It was great to see I mentioned this
the Italian government said, now, uh huh, no way, We've
got great soil here in Italy. We're not going to
ruin pristine farmland by putting up solar panels. Good for them,
(05:29):
Good for them. In this interview he talked about restoring
the soil here in the United States and putting us
on a better track as far as our food quality
is concerned. I mean, people who do you think makes
money off all of these windmills and solar sell these
(05:50):
massive things. This is a big companies. These are massive companies.
The story this past week talking about how how much
more New Yorkers are going to pay in the next
couple of years for the stupid windmills that they put
out of long island way down there at the end
per kill a wat hour, It's like right now, anything
(06:12):
produced on lands like thirty something, since this is a
buck thirty per kill awat hour. And again, the state
of New York guaranteed these corporations profits, and hey, you
guarantee profits, You're most certainly going to get Wall Street
involved in major corporations involved because again, why not can't lose?
(06:35):
Does it help anything? No, No, it's just stupid. We
need to focus on as a country. And I've been,
I guess a big believer at this R believe this
is habitat protection. Habitat protection, that's what needs to happen.
(06:59):
And you do that, great things happen. Can I someone
who likes to fish. The type of rules that they
put into the place in Gulf of Mexico where I
like to fish and how they control it has worked.
(07:20):
It's I mean it's worked. I go out. I've been
some time. But you know, you do quite well if
you know what you're doing, if you follow the rules
and they enforce those rules. Take a look at where
money would be better spent, maybe better around put up
windmills and subsidizing windmills and electric cars, and solar panels.
(07:44):
How about cleaning up the Ohio River, which is the
most polluted river in the entire country. How about we
get rid of all of the nonsensical ethanol here in
this country. Get those farmers to grow something else which
would be better for the soil. We don't have to
pull up so much phosphates out of the ground and
use that to fertilize the corn, which then goes into
(08:06):
the Mississippi River, funnels out into the Gulf of Mexico
and can lead to red tide. How do we put
some control on over development. Hey, I'm a guy who
likes to see economic growth. I don't have any problem
with development. But when I see when I see developers
(08:27):
pay off, pay off various different boards within communities, and
all of a sudden they're you know, it's the old
song there, Yeah, pay paradise and Joni Mitchell pay paradise
and put up a parking lot. It comes a point
(08:47):
in time we run into issues where you get more flooding,
you need those wetlands. All of those things are important.
And again, you know, many times she's certain developers and
you know, might be a bit of a cliche, but
I've seen it. Yeah, I've seen it where you know,
(09:10):
again I'm hooking front at the Republican Party. I see
it down in Florida. See down in Florida, Sarasota developers,
they own a lot of the people on the city
councils in certain places, and all of a sudden, you know,
changing the city plan, all of a sudden, can can
pave over a wetland. We can do this, we can
(09:32):
do that. No, people, I mean, that's that's that's not
green and not quite frankly, that's not conservatism as all
conserve aative conserve. Yeah, I don't know, I said, you know,
maybe maybe it was when I was a kid. Maybe
those commercials with the with the Indian with the tier
(09:54):
coming down his eye, you know, when I was a
kid seeing those commercials. I don't know, nobody, I don't think. So.
It just should be in your natural conscience that you
know what nature should speak to you. And if you're
not hearing, you're not listening carefully enough. Habitat protection, restoring habitats,
(10:17):
cleaning up messes that we're in the past, avoiding them
in the future. That's quite frankly, that's the direction. That's
a direction we need to head in that's that should
be the true green movement. And you know, quite frankly,
(10:38):
it was nice to see Robert F. Kennedy Junior talking
about it. It's been something he's been involved with throughout
his career's actually you know, worked on these things and
again pulling away from this whole carbon crap. The sooner,
the better, watchdog on Wall Street dot Com
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Green Conservatives, Yeah, it happened to be one. I'm really
a man. I'm a tree hugger man, big time tree hugger. Always,
always have been this idea that they put out that
(00:36):
somehow conservatives want to pollute and they want to destroy
the environment. Know that they wouldn't be conservatives, Okay, they
would be sociopaths. They would be evil quite frankly, I
want to start off today talking about this in terms
of a editorial. It was in the Wall Street Journal
where they were going after the the new CEO of Starbucks,
(01:02):
Brian Nickel. Bryan Nickel lives in Newport Beach, California, and
he is He's gonna commute to work in Seattle on
his plane. I'm gonna work for Starbucks. Now Starbucks for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's our commitment to net zero and carbon neutrality and
flashy brochures and all of the bs that they put
out with this, and I'm calling it BS because it
is BS.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But you just said you're green. Yeah. I'm also been
fully aware that the whole carbon thing is a bunch
of bs. Oh, we gotta sell carbon credits and we
got to capture carbon. And I'm like, wow, you're talking
CO two there part of the whole photosynthesis process. And again,
(02:04):
do true believers in carbon and carbon capture do a
little homework. I did address this here on the show.
The world is a much much greener today than it
has been for a long time, for a long time greener,
that's right, more plants, more plants. Anyway. I also recommend
(02:30):
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Who's longtime environmentalist and he was
He just recently did an interview with Tucker Carlson and
he talked about the green movement and some of the
things he's been involved with over the years. And one
of those things basically hits home to where I grew
(02:52):
up in Albury, New York, and the Hudson River was
a disaster. Disaster. I mean it's it's still it's better,
heading in the right direction, but it's you know, not
where it should be. They started this group Riverkeepers way
(03:12):
back when and forcing general electrics hand and cleaning up
all of the PCBs that were dumped in the Hudson River.
And again it's it's crazy big corporations, corporation e some
are sometimes corporations of all the people Running's not the
(03:35):
corporation itself, it's the people working at the corporation. Those
are the people that, quite frankly, are responsible and they
need to be held responsible for their actions. Why I said,
you all, we're going to sue a corporation. That corporation
pleaded guilty. How could a corporation plead guilty? It's a
tax id number and a logo. There are people behind
(04:00):
all of the doings of General Electric when they decided, hey,
we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and dump PCBs in
the Hudson River and ruin, ruin a habitat, ruin ruin
a fishery, ruin the birds that live in and around
that area. He mentioned something, he mentioned something that I
(04:23):
happen to believe in and in his interview as well,
and he said God, God talks to us in many ways,
and to speak to us through prophets, but he also
speaks to us through nature. And I'm always been a
big believer in that. I think that quite frankly, most
(04:45):
of what we've been doing as a nation, this whole
you know, global warming carbon nonsense, there's been a joke.
It's been a joke. We ranted and raved about the
stupid windmills and what it's doing to the and what
it's doing to birds. Not not to mention, not to
mention all these stupid using all this land for these
(05:07):
solar farms. It was great to see I mentioned this
the Italian government said, now, uh huh, no way, We've
got great soil here in Italy. We're not going to
ruin pristine farmland by putting up solar panels. Good for them,
(05:29):
Good for them. In this interview he talked about restoring
the soil here in the United States and putting us
on a better track as far as our food quality
is concerned. I mean, people who do you think makes
money off all of these windmills and solar sell these
(05:50):
massive things. This is a big companies. These are massive companies.
The story this past week talking about how how much
more New Yorkers are going to pay in the next
couple of years for the stupid windmills that they put
out of long island way down there at the end
per kill a wat hour, It's like right now, anything
(06:12):
produced on lands like thirty something, since this is a
buck thirty per kill awat hour. And again, the state
of New York guaranteed these corporations profits, and hey, you
guarantee profits, You're most certainly going to get Wall Street
involved in major corporations involved because again, why not can't lose?
(06:35):
Does it help anything? No, No, it's just stupid. We
need to focus on as a country. And I've been,
I guess a big believer at this R believe this
is habitat protection. Habitat protection, that's what needs to happen.
(06:59):
And you do that, great things happen. Can I someone
who likes to fish. The type of rules that they
put into the place in Gulf of Mexico where I
like to fish and how they control it has worked.
(07:20):
It's I mean it's worked. I go out. I've been
some time. But you know, you do quite well if
you know what you're doing, if you follow the rules
and they enforce those rules. Take a look at where
money would be better spent, maybe better around put up
windmills and subsidizing windmills and electric cars, and solar panels.
(07:44):
How about cleaning up the Ohio River, which is the
most polluted river in the entire country. How about we
get rid of all of the nonsensical ethanol here in
this country. Get those farmers to grow something else which
would be better for the soil. We don't have to
pull up so much phosphates out of the ground and
use that to fertilize the corn, which then goes into
(08:06):
the Mississippi River, funnels out into the Gulf of Mexico
and can lead to red tide. How do we put
some control on over development. Hey, I'm a guy who
likes to see economic growth. I don't have any problem
with development. But when I see when I see developers
(08:27):
pay off, pay off various different boards within communities, and
all of a sudden they're you know, it's the old
song there, Yeah, pay paradise and Joni Mitchell pay paradise
and put up a parking lot. It comes a point
(08:47):
in time we run into issues where you get more flooding,
you need those wetlands. All of those things are important.
And again, you know, many times she's certain developers and
you know, might be a bit of a cliche, but
I've seen it. Yeah, I've seen it where you know,
(09:10):
again I'm hooking front at the Republican Party. I see
it down in Florida. See down in Florida, Sarasota developers,
they own a lot of the people on the city
councils in certain places, and all of a sudden, you know,
changing the city plan, all of a sudden, can can
pave over a wetland. We can do this, we can
(09:32):
do that. No, people, I mean, that's that's that's not
green and not quite frankly, that's not conservatism as all
conserve aative conserve. Yeah, I don't know, I said, you know,
maybe maybe it was when I was a kid. Maybe
those commercials with the with the Indian with the tier
(09:54):
coming down his eye, you know, when I was a
kid seeing those commercials. I don't know, nobody, I don't think. So.
It just should be in your natural conscience that you
know what nature should speak to you. And if you're
not hearing, you're not listening carefully enough. Habitat protection, restoring habitats,
(10:17):
cleaning up messes that we're in the past, avoiding them
in the future. That's quite frankly, that's the direction. That's
a direction we need to head in that's that should
be the true green movement. And you know, quite frankly,
(10:38):
it was nice to see Robert F. Kennedy Junior talking
about it. It's been something he's been involved with throughout
his career's actually you know, worked on these things and
again pulling away from this whole carbon crap. The sooner,
the better, watchdog on Wall Street dot Com
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