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‘Woke capitalism’: Conservative group blasts CEOs by name

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A national Conservative group launched a campaign Tuesday that is railing against the CEOs of American Airlines, Coke and Nike for “appealing to woke politicians” instead of “serving their customers.” The group Consumers Research is behind the over $1 million ad campaign.

The ads call out American Airlines CEO Doug Parker, Coca Cola CEO James Quincey and Nike CEO John Donahoe for meddling in politics to their benefit. Executive Director Will Hild spoke to CNBC about the motivations behind the campaign against. “Increasingly, they’ve taken position on legislation that has nothing to do with their business and this is at the same time that the quality of their products and services is going down.”

In the videos, American Airlines is accused of shrinking legroom and losing the most bags. Coca-Cola gets called out for their alleged forced labor, downward sales and targeting teens despite an obesity epidemic. Similarly, Nike is blasted for forced labor of Uyghurs at its warehouses.

“Our focus is always on the consumer,” Hild said in the interview. “And that’s what it should be for these companies as well, but increasingly we’re seeing them work to curry favor with woke politicians, rather than focusing on serving their consumers.”

These ads are running on Fox Business, CNBC, and local stations in the headquarter cities of these companies.

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Report: Intelligence Agencies to terminate sensitive words like ‘Jihadist’, ‘radical Islamist’ because ‘hurtful to Muslim-Americans’

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A newsletter distributed by the Biden Administration’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence, suggested that because “words matter,” national security employees must stop using offensive “terminology related to counterterrorism.” Diversity officials distributed the internal magazine to the nation’s intelligence agencies instructing personnel not to use “problematic phrases.”

Foreign Desk News reports “The Dive” newsletter document was first revealed by The Daily Wire, in which the author, whose name was redacted, wrote that to accomplish these new objectives, the federal government must remove “Islam from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism and extremist violence,” because they are allegedly “hurtful to Muslim-Americans.”

The periodical is published by the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Office of the United States intelligence services. Its materials are distributed to the workforces of the CIA, NSA, FBI, DHS, DOJ, and U.S. military, according to Foreign Desk News. Some descriptions that were singled out for censure are ‘jihadist,’ ‘Salafi jihadist,’ ‘Islamic extremist,’ and ‘radical Islamist’ the newsletter wrote.

Foreign Desk News notes that the new regulations only protect the sentiments of the organization’s Muslim associates, as President Biden has in the past used the term ‘Jewish extremist’ to refer to certain Israeli citizens, and ‘Christian extremists’ to describe many of former President Donald Trump’s supporters.

Among other subjects included in the issue were reported to be the thoughts of a male covert operative who enjoys dressing as a woman because he feels that being transgender helps him do his job better.

House Intelligence Committee member, Republican Mike Waltz, described the new policy as “totally insane,” and stated that it “is a return to the same Obama Administration head-in-the-sand approach to Islamic extremism that led to Obama calling ISIS the JV team.”

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