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OK, This Law In Europe Might Wreck Our Lives ... Not Kidding · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  I'm gonna do my best Mark Levin impersonation welcoming Justin Haskins to the show.
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  Hi Justin, Hi President, Sorry, sorry about all that. Oh okay.
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  The headline europe is held bent on forcing US companies to go woke,
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  and it has a new law to do just that, channeling my Mark Levin
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  gout. Okay. So this is truly one of the most remarkable stories of
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  the decade in the European Union. They have been working on a law for
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  three years now, and that law would fundamentally give the European Union the ability
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  to establish social credit scores ESG scores for companies that exist both within the European
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  Union, in large companies in the European Union, as well as companies outside
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  of the European Union, like American companies that do business in the European Union
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  a certain amount of business. So we're tucking large companies. But it goes
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  much much further than that. In addition to creating these woke social justice anti
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  climate change, you know, pro environmentalist ESG scores for large businesses inside the
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  European Union and outside, it also requires these businesses to enforce those social credit
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  scoring metrics. Those woke policies on all of the businesses, or not all
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  of the businesses, but many of the businesses in their supply chains, regardless
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  of where they exist. So, for example, Ford is a big business,
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  really big business, does a lot of business in the European Union.
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  They're going to be required under this law to submit to an ESG social credits
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  scoring system in the European Union. But they're also going to be required to
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  impose those social credit scores on a bunch of their businesses, many of the
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  businesses in their supply chain in America and elsewhere. So if you're a transportation
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  company that does business in America with Ford, or a rubber manufacturer that does
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  business in America with Ford, you're in Ohio or Pennsylvania or something, you're
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  also going to have to comply with this because Ford is going to force you
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  to comply with it, because Ford is being required by the European Union to
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  comply with it. And if they don't force it on you, the rubber
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  manufacturer or the transportation company, or the radio systems creator or the mechanic or
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  whatever, then they get penalized massive, massive fines in the European Union,
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  and they may lose access to doing business in Europe altogether, and so they're
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  forcing this crazy system essentially on the entire world. I don't know how they're
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  going to be able to pull this off. I think it's going to lead
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  to selective enforcement, with the goal being to transform the economies and societies that
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  the European Union wants to transform. And when you start playing the game of
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  how this all works, almost every large company, many of the medium sized
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  companies, and many many, many small companies would all be drawn into this
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  in one form or another. So we're talking about the transformation of our economy
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  and society with this law, which by the way, doesn't it's in effect
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  now, but it's not going to Actually it's going to be written in national
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  laws throughout the European Union over the next two years. So we have a
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  two year period here to stop it from affecting America. But once we hit
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  twenty twenty seven, it's all over. How does one stop it? That's
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  the multi trillion dollar question. I mean, I mean here domestically, you
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  and I have talked about this at nauseum. Individual states are stepping up like
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  Florida, but this just causes that to become meaningless. Yeah. Essentially,
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  what we need is we need a couple things. The biggest thing that we
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  need is a president and a Congress that's willing to go to the European Union
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  and say you're not going to do this to us, You're going to change
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  the rule, We're not doing this with you. And America actually has a
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  lot of leverage in the relationship because Europe needs us far more than we need
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  Europe. It's not even remotely close. They need us for energy, they
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  need us for all sorts of different things, they need our money to fight
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  wars. They need us way more than we need them, and so that's
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  a huge component in this. If they don't do that, then there may
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  not be any way to stop the full force of it. But states probably
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  can step up to the plate and make things difficult for the corporations that are
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  trying to impose this in their state. But that's going to be a really
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  hard task for states to do that on their own without help from the federal
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  government. Ooh, you weren't kidding when you said this is the story of
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  the decade. This is the back doorway of the Great Reset, This is
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  the culmination of the Great Rate. This is the height of when they talked
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  about during the Great Reset period in twenty twenty and they first launched it,
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  and they talked about fundamentally transforming societies, rewriting social contracts, pushing the reset
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  button on capitalism. This is what they had in mind. They cooked this
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  up years ago, and it's taken them years to get through the legislative process.
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  It almost died in the European Union. And at the very last minute
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  in this session, most recent session, they got it through the door.
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  And the reason they pushed it through it the last second was because they knew
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  they were going to have a really bad the far left, a really bad
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  election season in the European Union, and they did. They did just a
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  couple just a few weeks after this happened. The far Left lost a ton
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  of seats in their European Parliament votes, and so they got it through just
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  in time. And yes, it's to me, this is the great this
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  is the culmination, the peak of the Great Reset, and if we don't
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  stop it, American sovereignty is effectively dead. He's Justin Haskins with the Heartland
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  Institute, and we're talking about the corporate sustainability due diligence directive man justin if
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  ever there was wording in a law that is intentionally ambiguous, ambiguous, rather,
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  this is it. But that's intentional, right, Yeah, they made
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  this thing incredibly, incredibly complicated. If you want to look up the text
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  of it, it's cs D D D very rolls right off the tongue,
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  that acronym. And then even when you look it up, if you try
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  to read it, it is very complicated. It's over one hundred pages long,
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  which doesn't sound that long by American standards. But then when you start
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  piecing in all of the different references to other laws, there are dozens and
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  dozens and dozens of times in the bill while they'll say or in the law
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  will they'll say things like, you know, see this international covenant on X,
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  Y and Z, and see this other international covenant, and then see
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  this other regulation and this EU rule that we passed, and this guidance document,
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  and we use the definitions in this other document. And so really it's
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  referring to dozens of other laws that also apply to corporations. Is incredibly complicated,
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  but they do it on purpose so that regular people couldn't figure it out
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  unless somebody some nerd you know, spent years to figure out what's in this
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  laws so that they can convey it to other people. And thankfully for you
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  that learns me there you go. Yeah, yeah. So now we're uncovering
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  this piece by piece. It's a process. We're finding new things every single
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  day buried in this thing. But the one thing that we know for certain
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  already is that if it is allowed to continue on and American companies submit to
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  this, it will completely transform our society. We will all be beholden to
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  the overlords in the European Union, and American sovereignty will be completely dead.
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  Whether you're on the left or the right, that should scare you in essence,
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  no matter what they call it or word it, it is the imposition
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  of ESG scoring and monitoring, etc. That we've talked about a lot.
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  That's what this really is, right. It imposes social credit scoring on companies
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  who then impose it on other companies, which then transforms society. And it's
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  everything from land and water use and protecting and reversing biodiversity. That's one of
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  the requirements. I don't even know how you do that. If you're a
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  company reversing biodiversity, I guess planting trees or something like that. Climate change,
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  numerous climate change initiatives, the end of the use of fossil fuels,
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  and the vast majority of the economy. All of that stuff is in at
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  plus mandatory living wages, protecting labor unions, all sorts of vague statements about
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  social justice and intersectionality, and all kinds of other things. The list goes
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  on and on and on. It is essentially, though, a license for
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  Europe to decide how our economy works, not just our economy, but basically
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  every economy that operates even slightly in the European Union. All right, let's
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  do a lightning round here. You mentioned the elections in Europe, how the
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  extremists lost a bunch of ground. However, does that mean that there's any
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  chance of a new European Union Congress or whatever they call it Parliament reversing this.
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  No, there's no chance that they'll reverse it, because although they did
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  lose many seats the far left, the Green Party and others in the European
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  Union, the more moderate types, the conservative leaning people, did not gain
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  enough seats to actually take control of the body, so they could have stopped
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  it. They had enough votes. Probably, they would have enough votes to
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  stop a future version of this, probably, but they don't have the votes
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  to reverse it. Are there any countries that are resistant to this that are
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  members of the EU? There were factions within some of the larger countries,
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  namely Germany, that were pretty resistant to this, But for the most part,
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  the largest, most powerful entries, including many of the leaders in Germany
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  that was a weird situation there are supportive of this, So I don't see
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  them reversing it. The United Kingdom, I'll remind you, which would probably
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  be one of the most skeptical of this thing, isn't in the European Union
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  anymore, right, they don't actually have a say in any of this.
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  Okay. Lastly, best as you can tell is this development on the radar
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  of perhaps Donald Trump and at least equally importantly members of Congress. So I
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  know for a fact that there are certain very high level members of Congress,
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  US senators, etc. That have that have seen this within the past week
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  or two, because we've made sure that they've seen it, and I don't
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  mean just blindly sending them an email or something like. We know that they've
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  seen it, but to our knowledge almost no one knows anything about this,
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  so there's very few people talking about it right now. There's almost no one
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  on our side covering this. There is no think tanks other than the one
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  that I work for, the Heartland Institute, that's done any work on this
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  at all. But we have a policy paper that's in development specifically for lawmakers
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  so that they know what's going on. That'll be done very very soon this
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  week or next. We're going to spend that out to every state lawmaker in
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  the country and hopefully a lot of the federal ones. And we're working on
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  getting meetings with high level members of Congress to discuss this, so they're going
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  to find out about it soon. But do I think them or Donald Trump
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  know about this now, No, I don't. God bless you for what
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  you're doing, Justin, and thank you so much for being our friend here
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  on the program and keep having us at least as best as we can be
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  informed. Thank you, Prestin, appreciate it. Justin Haskins with us this
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  morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty eight minutes after the hour,
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