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Update on the World Economic Forum: Klaus Schwab stepped down; the Nestle guy who believed that water wasn't a human right stepped in as co-chair, and now he's gone. We have somebody else moving in there. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, runs almost $12 trillion in assets in 2024. Larry Fink points those assets toward new technologies and informs investors where the next opportunities are going to be; "The faster that we could find ways to mitigating the rising temperatures... we don't have much time... we need to be learning about these new, the new technologies and how to move forward. And as Bill Bill in his book wrote about, we we need to employ $50,000,000,000,000 to get to a to a green world." A critic counters: "$50,000,000,000,000 of taxpayer money towards an absolute disastrous hoax that only makes us richer." "Anybody who hatches a scheme that has Bill Gates laughing like a Scooby Doo villain should really alarm people at that point." "Behaviors are gonna have to change... At BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors." Missouri AG Andrew Bailey filed suit against BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard for illegally manipulating the energy markets, stating: "Over several years, the three asset managers acquired substantial stock holdings in every significant publicly held coal producer in The United States, thereby gaining the power to control the policies of the coal companies. Using their combined influence of the coal market, the investment cartel collectively announced in 2021 their commitment to weaponize their shares to pressure the coal companies to accommodate green energy goals." The piece notes that while some pause exists, "This is going full speed ahead."