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Disney's woke virus threatens US movie industry


RT
Sat, 23 Dec 2023 05:18 UTC
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© Walt Disney Pictures'Snow White' (2025) Directed by Marc Webb
In a surprising disclosure, the Walt Disney Company acknowledges in its latest filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that its recent embrace of a 'woke' agenda has adversely affected its financial performance.

Despite claiming a 7% revenue increase in fiscal 2023, a figure that seems less impressive given the post-coronavirus shutdown context, the company grapples with challenges such as a reduction in content production spending, significant layoffs, and the abandonment of a planned corporate campus in Florida.

The filing underscores the risks associated with misalignment with public and consumer tastes, emphasizing the imperative to create content that resonates with evolving consumer preferences.

Disney's stocks on the New York Stock Exchange have experienced a considerable decline. From their valuation of $197 in 2021, their current value stands at approximately $92, marking a substantial 53% decrease from the 2021 figure. In contrast, the broader stock market has experienced a positive trend of about 10% over this timeframe. The notable reduction in Disney's stock value prompts the question: Could there be a connection between the adoption of woke ideologies and financial decline, reflecting the sentiment encapsulated by the saying "go woke, go broke"?
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Israel is losing the war against Hamas - but Netanyahu and his government will never admit it

Paul Rogers
The Guardian
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:25 UTC
funeral of Alon Shamriz
© Oren Ziv/AFP/Getty ImagesThe funeral of Alon Shamriz, mistakenly killed by Israeli forces in Gaza after being held by Hamas since the 7 October attack, 17 December 2023.
Until recently the war narrative on Gaza has been very largely controlled by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the country's ministry of defence. Israel's international reputation may have plummeted with the killing of more than 20,000 Palestinians, the wounding of more than 50,000 and the destruction of much of Gaza, but the IDF could still sell a plausible narrative of a severely weakened Hamas, even claiming that the war in northern Gaza was largely complete, and success in southern Gaza would follow before too long.

The narrative was helped by severe difficulties for the few journalists still operating in Gaza, including the risk to their personal safety, while the international press corps was stuck in Jerusalem and dependent on IDF sources for much of their information.

That changed as a different picture began to emerge. First there was a lack of evidence to support the IDF's claim of a Hamas headquarters under al-Shifa hospital, then the IDF could not identify the location of the Israeli hostages, despite having some of the world's most advanced intelligence.

Very recently there have been two further incidents. On 12 December, there was a skilful triple ambush staged by Hamas paramilitaries in a part of Gaza supposedly controlled by Israeli forces. An IDF unit was ambushed and took casualties. Further troops were sent to aid that unit, and they were then ambushed, as were reinforcements.
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WEF warns 2024 likely to bring 'catastrophic' cyber event

Leo Hohmann
LeoHohmann.com
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00 UTC
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Could this be the latest predictive programming, similar to 'Event 201' was for the Covid pandemic?

As we approach December 31, you will inevitably hear people across the world celebrating the end of another dreadful year and cheering on the arrival of brighter times in 2024.

It can only get better, right?

I beseech you, dear readers, not to participate in this fantasy. We should expect and prepare for things to get worse before they get better. The globalists who run the world have told us in the wide open what they have planned and it's not pretty.

The year 2023 was no cakewalk, for sure, but it could very well be the last year in which we enjoyed a semblance of normalcy. There was no pandemic. War broke out but it didn't come to our shores. Our paper money still buys food for our Christmas table and energy to heat our homes, even if it's more expensive than in previous years. The fact that this worthless fiat paper is still capable of being traded for food, shelter and other hard assets is a blessing that might not be available to us one year from now. You might want to take full advantage of this while you can.

Comment: Listen to Whitney Webb further describe the WEF cyber attack plan:



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Israeli firm 'cashing in on genocide' by pitching beachfront real estate in leveled Gaza

Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:40 UTC
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Israeli developers hope to descend like vultures on the carcass of Gaza.
"A house on the beach is not a dream," reads an advertisement from a company notorious for building in the occupied West Bank.

Palestine defenders this week condemned a proposal by an Israeli real estate developer specializing in the construction of illegal settlements to build beachfront homes for Jewish colonists over the bombed-out ruins of Gaza.

"A house on the beach is not a dream," reads an advertisement published by Harey Zahav - an Israeli company notorious for building settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank - that drew international attention following last week's Practical Preparation for Gaza Settlement Conference in Tel Aviv.

Comment: From RT:



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96% of Saudis now want to cut ties with Israel


Middle East Monitor
Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:49 UTC
Israel Saudi Arabia
A recent opinion poll revealed that 96 per cent of Saudis believe that Arab countries should cut all ties with Israel in protest against the Israeli forces' aggression against the Gaza Strip, according to The New York Times on Friday.

The newspaper noted that this poses a significant challenge to US President Joe Biden's administration's efforts for Saudi Arabia to normalise diplomatic relations with Israel.

According to the poll conducted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an American research organisation that is generally pro-Israel, 40 per cent of Saudi participants expressed positive attitudes towards the Palestinian movement Hamas, compared to only 10 per cent in a poll conducted several months before the war.

Comment: Even some Israeli citizens can see that their country will never be the same again: Israeli exodus: 500,000 flee country since October 7, many seek to relocate to Europe

See also: Iran warns it could cut off Mediterranean Sea; France, Spain, Italy pull out of Red Sea Op; Israeli vessel hit off India's coast



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Best of the Web: The Year of The Mindfuck

CJ Hopkins
Consent Factory, Inc.
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:16 UTC
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Well, that's pretty much it for 2023 ... which I'm officially dubbing The Year of The Mindfuck.

I am doing that against the advice of my attorney, who is (a) trying to keep me out of German prison for as long as possible, and (b) trying to stop me from gratuitously alienating whatever remains of my former readership and going totally broke.

I'm not making that particularly easy for him.

The thing is, no one wants to hear that they have been mindfucked. People want to hear that other people have been mindfucked. Which ... they have. Other people have been thoroughly mindfucked. But that doesn't mean that other people — i.e., the people who want to hear that other people have been mindfucked, but not that they, themselves, have been mindfucked — haven't also been mindfucked, which is what I've been mostly writing about in 2023, which, as Matt Taibbi put it in a blurb for one of my books, "probably this is not a profitable life choice."

So it goes in the political satire racket. Sometimes you are hailed as a "prophet," other times you're scorned as a "dissension-sowing asshole," censored into Internet oblivion by beloved billionaire free-speech defenders, and prosecuted for trumped-up "hate crimes." It depends which way the wind is blowing.

It hasn't been blowing my way this year.
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Russia rules the waves now: While the West is suffering losses from maritime trade, Moscow's volume is increasing


RT
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:35 UTC
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Russian cargo ship Kapitan Yakovlev
Attacks on ships navigating the vital Red Sea route could reshape the balance of power in global commerce

In the midst of an already turbulent global landscape, a seismic geopolitical crisis is unfolding, with Houthi militants targeting ships on crucial maritime routes. Recent provocations aimed primarily at Western vessels signal a profound shift, with the potential to reshape the dynamics of global trade.

Amid the fallout from the Ukraine conflict and sanctions, there are clear indications that Russia is consolidating influence not only in the Red Sea but also along other vital maritime arteries, notably the Northern Sea Route. This consolidation is sparking a transformative shift in the traditional balance of power across the broader spectrum of maritime commerce.

Comment: The West is becoming more irrelevant to the multi-polar world by the day.

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Ramaswamy pledges to 'withdraw' from Colorado ballot amid Trump removal

Tara Suter
The Hill
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:39 UTC
Vivek Ramaswamy
© Screengrab/XRepublican Presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy called the Colorado Supreme Court ruling 'unconstitutional'.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy pledged to withdraw from the GOP primary ballot in Colorado following a ruling Tuesday from the state's Supreme Court to remove former President Trump from the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Colorado's highest court kicked Trump off the state's Republican primary ballot under the 14th Amendment's "insurrection clause" in a 4-3 ruling. The court affirmed Trump engaged in insurrection by inflaming his supporters with false claims of election fraud and directing them to the Capitol. Colorado became the first state to block Trump from seeking the presidency because of his role in the Capitol attack.

The insurrection clause prohibits the holding of "any office ... under the United States" if a person engaged in insurrection after swearing to "support" the Constitution as "an officer of the United States." The Colorado Supreme Court determined the clause covers the office of the president.

"I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state's ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis,Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately — or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country," Ramaswamy said in a statement, calling out his fellow candidates in the GOP presidential primary.

Comment: Talk is cheap and election trail promises are always promises of convenience that are cast aside when the time comes. We'll see if Ramaswamy is a man with conviction or if he's just blowing smoke like the rest of them.

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Florida man claims to be 'Captain America' with top secret info to get onto Air Force base, DOJ says

Louis Casiano
Fox News
Wed, 20 Dec 2023 19:29 UTC
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© Pinellas County Sheriff's Office / Getty ImagesBaruch Roche, 33, allegedly told officials at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida that he was "Captain America" to get onto the base to meet a general to provide top secret information, the Justice Department said.
A Florida man billed himself as a beloved superhero in an attempt to get onto an Air Force base but couldn't even get past security, federal prosecutors said.

Baruch Roche II, 33, tried to enter the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa last month, saying he was "Captain America" and that he had a meeting with a U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) general to provide top secret information.

He is charged with one count of attempted possession of a firearm in a federal facility.
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Russian church leader speaks out against immigration


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:14 UTC
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© Grigory Sysoev/SputnikPatriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
Lack of assimilation threatens the country's multi-ethnic society, Patriarch Kirill has warned...

Russia's identity will be lost if current immigration trends continue, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, warned on Wednesday. The patriarch has been calling for a national conversation about immigration since last month, pointing to examples of communities that refuse to integrate or respect Russian cultural norms and even laws.

"The situation has worsened compared to last year," the patriarch said in a report to the Moscow Archdiocese, urging both the government and the business community to understand that "if the described trend continues, we will lose ourselves, we will lose Russia as a multi-national state, the core of which is the Russian Orthodox people."

According to Patriarch Kirill:
"Large numbers of migrants from 'foreign cultures' are showing no signs of wanting to assimilate into Russian society, or at the very least respect its religious and cultural norms. Some of the migrants are even forming 'criminal communities' and extremist organizations, whose activities threaten interreligious and interethnic peace and harmony.

"The desire to obtain cheap labor for the sake of mainly short-term economic benefits should not attract to our motherland a huge number of people belonging to a different culture, who often do not speak Russian and have no respect for Russia and the peoples who live here."
Patriarch Kirill made a similar argument at last month's World Russian People's Council.
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