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6:35 William Flaig – CEO and Co-founder of The American Conservative Values ETF (Electronic Traded Funds) www.InvestConservative.com
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE VALUES ETF TAKES DECISIVE ACTION AGAINST CORPORATE WOKENESS: Divests from Costco and Allstate, Welcomes Walmart’s Return to American Values
The American Conservative Values ETF (NYSE: ACVF) announced it has taken decisive action to protect conservative investors’ dollars from corporate wokeness by divesting from Costco (COST) and Allstate (ALL) while lifting its boycott on Walmart (WMT).
KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
- ACVF has removed Costco (COST) from its portfolio due to the company’s expanded commitment to controversial DEI practices
- Allstate (ALL) was dropped following concerning statements from leadership embracing politically charged HR policies
- Walmart (WMT) welcomed back after demonstrating leadership in scaling back DEI programs
- ACVF now boycotts 38 companies representing 30% of the S&P 500
The DEI Pushback
- Costco’s decision to double down on DEI as other major companies scale back shows poor judgment
- Walmart, America’s largest employer with 1.6 million U.S. workers, demonstrates leadership in returning to merit-based practices
- Growing evidence that DEI programs harm shareholder value and company performance
Conservative Investment Alternative
- ACVF offers conservatives a way to invest without supporting hostile corporate agendas
- Currently boycotts major woke corporations including Disney, BlackRock, Google, and Amazon
- Demonstrates the growing market power of conservative investors
Financial Impact
- ACVF’s boycotted companies represent 30% of the S&P 500
- Conservative investors can now effectively “vote with their dollars”
- Market pressure proving effective in challenging corporate woke policies
“It’s a moral imperative to stop and roll back the left’s takeover of corporate America. Giving conservative investors the power to fight back is why we built ACVF.” — William Flaig, CEO and Co-founder
ABOUT ACVF: The American Conservative Values ETF (ACVF) is based on the conviction that politically active companies negatively impact their shareholder returns while supporting issues and causes that conflict with conservative political ideals, beliefs, and values.
7:10 Kevin Starrett from Oregon Firearms Federation – www.OregonFirearms.org
Legislature in session, ooh, it’ll be ugly. (from recent update)
01.12.2025
The opening days of the 2025 legislative session start on Monday. We cannot sugarcoat it. This is going to be ugly.
If we have learned anything from the LA fires it’s that if you are relying on the state to protect you, you will wind up disappointed at best… but you could wind up dead. The fires in LA are not just a perfect storm of wind and fire, they are a perfect storm of greed and corruption.
Not only do LA residents have to deal with the loss of their homes, but having been disarmed by the state, they also have to deal with looters while defenseless. Make no mistake, that is exactly what the Legislature has in mind for you.
Like a psychotic but oversized 8 year old, the Democrats in the legislature are obsessed with stealing or breaking anything they can get their hands on. Their policies are designed to destroy what’s left of the state while forcing you to pay for the destruction even as they spew incoherent nonsense about making Oregon more affordable. And rest assured, what’s left of your gun rights are top of the list for them to eliminate.
We are not exaggerating. The first of what will be many more gun restrictions have already been introduced. Gun bans for 18-20 year olds. Bans on specialty triggers. Bans on concealed carry in all public buildings and property around them. Waiting periods, new red tape for background checks, and of course legislative implementation of Mz 114 which is still in court.
But believe it or not, they made it worse. More than doubling the fees and doubling the time to issue “permits”. But don’t think we can just take this one to court. The bill also requires that any legal action take place in the courts least likely to side with gun owners. The deck is stacked and the dice are loaded. The Democrats have the majority and, infuriated by the election of Trump, are determined to crush gun rights in Oregon.
You can see the long list of anti-rights bills already on the agenda on the legislative website.
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1
7:35 Former Josephine County Commissioner Herman Baertschiger for the weekly talk on politics, his applying for the open county commission spot and a big topic of concern – Governor Kotek in the last election cycle raised 30 million dollars, most of it from out of state. How does this distort “Our Oregon”?
8:40 Open for Business with Lisa McClease Kelly ‘s Network in Action, a business and marketing solutions provider with innovative networking methods. She leads a local group that meets monthly, the share referrals to grow their business.
To contact Lisa if you’re interested In joining, go to networkinaction.com and then “Try a group”. They will see where we meet and who are in the groups. They will also be able to contact me.
Here is the link to the “Connecting The Kingdom” networking event for Christians that Lisa mentioned coming up on the 28th from 7-8:30am. zoombizsuccess.com
Today’s Network in Action businesspeople:
Hailey Bischof – Manager of Best Home Storage in White City
Emma Nelson – Financial Planner at Oregon Pacific Financial Advisors
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6:35 Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., “America’s Psychiatrist” www.TerroristTherapist.com
She’s a Malibu Resident, evacuated from the California fires and shares her experience with the fires.
About Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H
Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H. (‘America’s Psychiatrist’) is a board-certified psychiatrist and an award-winning and bestselling author. She was trained at NYU-Bellevue and at Anna Freud’s London Clinic. She has served on the Clinical Faculty of UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute for years. She’s the author of 4 books, including the 5x award-winner Lions and Tigers and Terrorists, Oh My! How to Protect Your Child in a Time of Terror. When Dr. Carole isn’t seeing patients or testifying at trials as a forensic psychiatrist/expert witness, she’s working as a three-time, Emmy-honored TV personality who has appeared on Oprah, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News, Newsmax, HLN, ET, ABC, CBS, NBC and many more.
7:10 Mike O’Neill from Landmark Legal Foundation www.LandmarkLegal.org
Last Friday the Court held arguments in a case involving the propriety of a law banning the popular social media app TikTok. Mike and I discuss that in addition to the Trump sentencing…what does this really mean moving forward?
7:35 Oregon Farm Bureau’s Jenny Drexler (following from last week’s release)
– Yesterday, OR-OSHA adopted updates to its Division 4 – Ag Labor Housing (ALH) rules. While this marks an end to regulatory uncertainty after a tedious and emotionally draining, six-year process – it signals the beginning of a new chapter of unsustainable state policies for farmworkers and farm families alike.
“Small and mid-sized farms are being pushed to the brink—faced with an impossible choice: spend $400,000 to $1.5 million per operation on new housing to meet these requirements, or risk losing their workforce,” said Angela Bailey, President of the Oregon Farm Bureau. “After years of devastating crop losses and brutal market conditions, taking on massive loans isn’t just unrealistic—it’s operationally fatal. Meanwhile, off-farm workforce housing is virtually non-existent in many rural areas. So, where exactly does OR-OSHA expect workers to live during the critical harvest season? This is a disaster in the making for family agriculture in Oregon.”
Oregon Farm Bureau’s Executive Director Greg Addington said that his group and other agriculture organizations participated in good faith for years during this rulemaking. “We are not just disappointed—we’re outraged by OR-OSHA’s shortsighted and heavy-handed approach to these rules. This isn’t just bad policy; it’s outright hypocrisy. While the Governor claims affordable housing is a priority, OR-OSHA’s reckless decisions will, without question, eliminate access to safe, low or no-cost, housing for farm workers near their workplaces. The rules will also create workforce shortages during peak harvest periods. The outcome of this process confirms a blatant disregard for stakeholder concerns,” he said.
OR-OSHA eventually decided against prohibiting farmworker housing within 500 feet of livestock facilities, so long as certain conditions are met, which prevents upheaval of local dairy farms and ranches. That may be the only positive outcome of this rulemaking, which all but ensures the end of many family-based farms that grow famous Oregon crops such as pears, apples, peaches, and cherries.
Oregon agriculture is facing a severe crisis. USDA data shows net farm income is projected to drop another 4.4% in 2024, following a massive 19.5% decline in 2023 compared to 2022. Over just two years, U.S. farms have lost $40 billion in revenue—the largest two-year drop ever recorded. On average, farmers are losing between $97 and $373 per acre across all crops. For example, Oregon’s 720,000 acres of wheat are seeing losses of about $125 per acre, amounting to $90 million in 2024 alone—and that doesn’t even include the steeper losses from 2023. Multiply this impact across Oregon’s 200+ commodities, and it is clear: local farms simply don’t have the resources to rebuild worker housing that OR-OSHA has previously deemed safe – but now doesn’t – and already meets federal housing standards.
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Oregon Farm Bureau is the state’s largest agricultural organization representing all of Oregon’s more than 200 commodity types and farm and ranch families in all 36 counties
8:10 Dr Dennis Powers, “Where Past Meets Present”, more about Dennis at www.DennisPowersBooks.com Dennis and I also have a LOT of talk about the new fire map from the ODF and state. Question is how and what can be done to properly appear this rabid state property grab of the people?
The Almeda Fire: Least We Not Forget
By Dennis Powers
Although fire-scorched trees, landscape, and bare concrete or land where structures used to be (or being rebuilt) are still visible, the impact of the Almeda Fire seemingly is slowly ebbing from our memories—that is, until we watch the Palisades and other LA wildfires. On a windy, early morning on September 8, 2020, people were going about their business here, only to be struck by a fire that started south of Ashland’s city heart and raced with wind gusts along I-5 towards Talent, Phoenix, Medford, and Central Point. It didn’t stop.
Some say it was the windiest day ever witnessed here and the air felt dry. As a meteorologist concluded: High winds, hot temperatures, the ongoing drought, and dry conditions formed a “perfect storm” of fire conditions. The gusts of winds for hours were estimated at 40 mph or higher.
To the southeast of Ashland’s center, the grass field where the fire probably started (near Almeda Drive) was next to a 5-acre plot without trees or shrubs; the high wind gusts and dry grass alone pushed the fire out of reach. By the time, Ashland firemen arrived some seven minutes later, the field was blackened and reports of structure fires were being heard over the radio.
But after the fire tore through the field, it hit the wide-open Bear Creek Greenway and wind-whipped over a heavy fuel load of bushes, downed trees and timber, all extremely dry, raced along I-5. Phoenix/Talent and Ashland Fire Department engines went to work immediately, spraying the homes that were hit and succeeded in saving a few.
Within a 360-degree orange glow, surrounded by fire during the day and night, and breathing soot and smoke, the firefighters tried to fight back. (Self-contained breathing apparatus (“SCBA”) and its 30-minute tanks aren’t much help when fighting house fires spreading like wildfires.) Helicopters with water or retardant began dropping their loads. But the fires were faster.
When fire engines were sent out to a subdivision on Willow Springs Drive, one house was already burning; firemen worked to prevent it from spreading to the other houses tightly packed around. However, scattered flaming embers sprang new fires near instantaneously.
It wasn’t long before responders knew how dire the situation was: No help from outside Southern Oregon was likely coming. On that day, resources from Grants Pass to Ashland were all that were available. Fewer than 200 firefighters battled the Almeda fire during the first two days. A task force from Portland showed up at around 11 p.m. that night to help for the next 12 hours. But that was it.
As one fire chief observed: “It was pretty amazing, the next 30 hours to watch,” he said. “All of us are working 30, 40 hours in a row. And it’s not sitting at a desk. It’s physically demanding work of dragging hose, fighting fires, pulling people and helping people into vehicles, carrying stuff, moving stuff on limited sleep, limited food and water and no real breaks. Some of these guys were working 30-plus hours and their break was a five-minute drive to the next house on fire.”
On the first day of the fire around 9:00 p.m., a firefighter in Talent cracked open a hydrant. He discovered that the hydrants were dry–depressurized by the fire rupturing thousands of gushing pipes. They had to fill up the trucks from Ashland hydrants and race back–a 10-minute turnaround that yielded only about three to four minutes of spray. They only had two wildfire grass engines (Ford F250s), two engines, one water tender and eight firefighters for a roughly 6-mile stretch of road, but somehow managed to keep the fire from largely crossing over Talent Avenue.
Meanwhile, police were trying to evacuate areas ahead of the firefighters. Officers drove through city streets in near-zero visibility, knocked on doors, and evacuated those who either weren’t aware of the fires or unable to find a way out. Some were confined to electric wheelchairs. When unable to get out fast enough, police would stop in trucks, put the frightened folks into the back, and lifted the chairs with them.
With Talent, Phoenix, even to Medford and Central Point being burned extensively, the following morning, the conflagration was basically under control—but with spot fires continuing on. The fire took three lives, consumed some 2,600 residences, and destroyed or damaged 200 businesses.
The reconstruction of the burned-out areas will take years. Elementary and high school students needed to be able to get their education with Talent and Phoenix being inoperable. The homeless needed shelter, food, clothing, medical assistance, and support. Housing and buildings needed to be replaced.
Those of us who didn’t lose homes, pets, or friends can be thankful. All of Southern Oregon can be–for this could have been much worse. The next one will be.
Source: Trish Glose, “Remembering Almeda,” KTVL TV, at Almeda Fire; Joe Zavala, “We gave everything we had,” Mail Tribune, Sept. 7, 2021.