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Disney scraps $1B Florida development as war with Florida Gov DeSantis rages on

Breck Dumas
Fox News
Thu, 18 May 2023 16:31 UTC
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© Lake NonaDisney has reversed course on its plans for a new campus built in Lake Nona, a community in Orlando, Florida.
Disney reverses course on new Lake Nona, Florida, campus, citing 'changing business conditions'

The tit-for-tat between The Walt Disney Company and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis escalated further on Thursday, when the entertainment giant abandoned its plans for a new Florida campus in Orlando that would have brought some 2,000 jobs to the state.

Josh D'Amaro, chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, told employees in a letter provided to FOX Business that the company is no longer moving forward with its office development in Lake Nona, citing "new leadership and changing business conditions."

According to The New York Times, which first reported the news, the project would have been a nearly $1 billion investment.

Disney first revealed its plans for the Lake Nona campus in July 2021, when D'Amaro informed workers the company would move a few thousand employees from its California headquarters to the new location, praising "Florida's business-friendly climate."

Comment: It appears that Disney is betting that Florida will decide it won't be able to take the financial hit from the cancellation. However, De Santis' sane business and social policies may attract enough new residents to the state to render the threat moot. One the other hand there is more than a little evidence that the border crisis could be partly in answer to that conservative swing:

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Huge Trump lead in US Republican primaries - polls


RT
Fri, 19 May 2023 16:33 UTC
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© Win McNamee/Getty ImagesFile photo: Former US president Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, November 5, 2022.
Former US president Donald Trump is far ahead of all declared competitors in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who still hasn't formally announced his candidacy.

A Morning Consult poll published on Wednesday showed Trump at 61% and DeSantis at just 18% of the primary vote, for a 43-point spread. This tracked with the latest Big Data Poll results, which showed Trump at 60% and DeSantis at 17%.

Trump's former VP Mike Pence is in distant third place with 6% of the votes, followed by Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy at 4% each, according to Morning Consult.

The RealClearPolitics' average of all major polls showed Trump at 56% and DeSantis at 19.9%, a 36-point gap. RCP also cited two surveys by Economist/YouGov, which showed DeSantis tied with President Joe Biden in a hypothetical match-up, but Trump two points ahead of the incumbent.

Big Data also showed Biden losing to Trump if the 2024 election were held this month, with the Republican getting 45% of the electorate and the Democrat netting 38.1%. In this poll, however, Biden is almost four points ahead of DeSantis.
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Non-binary former Biden energy official arrested again


RT
Fri, 19 May 2023 16:13 UTC
Sam Brinton
© Getty Images / Tasia WellsJoe Biden's former nuclear energy official Sam Brinton
Police have once again arrested former Biden administration nuclear energy official Sam Brinton for stealing women's clothes at a US airport. The incident is the third time the non-binary drag-queen scientist has been caught swiping other people's luggage.

According to media reports, the 35-year-old was taken into custody at his home in Maryland on Thursday and transported to the Montgomery County Detention Center. Police say Brinton stands accused of Grand Larceny for stealing property at Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C.

The charges against Brinton were filed back in February by Houston-based Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin, who believes that the former Biden official stole her clothes in 2018 and proceeded to wear them in public on several occasions.

Khamsin has shared photos of Brinton wearing clothes she had made and juxtaposed them to the same articles being worn by models or by the designer herself. The sticky-fingered MIT graduate even wore her jewelry, Khamsin tweeted. One of the photos that surfaced online was even used in a Vanity Fair feature about the flamboyant individual's "style."

Brinton, who was lauded as one of Joe Biden's first non-binary LGBTQ officials, was previously in charge of overseeing and advising on nuclear waste at the US Energy Department, but was fired last year.

Comment: See also:

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Russia remains reliable global food supplier despite sanctions


RT
Thu, 18 May 2023 15:00 UTC
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© Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFPA sunflower field is pictured outside the village of Kopanki in the Voronezh region on July 20, 2022.
Russia's exports of agricultural produce increased last year despite Western trade barriers, President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday.

During a meeting with the country's agriculture minister, Putin stated that Russia had enjoyed its largest-ever grain harvest in the previous crop year, of almost 158 million tons.

In the current agricultural year, which ends on June 30, the country is expecting to export up to 60 million tons of grain, the president added.

According to estimates by the Agriculture Ministry, Russia had already exported 40 million tons of grain as of March. In the last farming year, overall grain exports stood at just over 38 million tons.

"As before, our country is one of the key suppliers of agricultural products in the world, and we have established ourselves as a reliable, predictable partner," Putin noted.

Comment: Meanwhile, in the West:

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Slovakia on brink of blocking legal recognition for trans people

Daniel Boffey
The Guardian
Wed, 17 May 2023 16:43 UTC
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International human rights champions and LGBTQ+ campaigners appeal to MPs to vote against bill proposed by rightwingers
Slovakian MPs are under mounting international pressure to reject a bill that would see the country follow Hungary in effectively putting a stop to decades of legal gender recognition for transgender people.

A vote is expected in parliament within days on a law proposed by conservative and far-right parties that would require someone to have the "correct" set of chromosomes to match their legal gender.

Human rights NGO Amnesty International has joined the Council of Europe in appealing to Slovakian MPs not to back the bill, which they say is in conflict with the country's obligations under the European convention on human rights.

Comment: The Western establishment might find themselves struggling to enforce their warped gender ideology on the more conservative Eastern European nations, whom they also, however, need to keep on side for their attacks on Russia.

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The rules of the gamete: Securing the means of reproduction

Raw Egg Nationalist
The American Mind
Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00 UTC
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A few years ago, a group of scientists at the University of Arizona put forward the idea of building a seed bank on the moon. Only a facility sited off-world, the scientists said, could provide a true hedge against the extinction of life on Earth, since a terrestrial unit would also probably be destroyed in any global cataclysm that might take place — say, a massive ecological collapse, an asteroid strike, or nuclear war. Among the sperm and seeds protected in deep pits on the moon's surface would be human gametes, too.

The idea of storing human gametes, and especially sperm, in this manner shows foresight, though it's hard not to wonder what good gallons of sperm on the moon would do if there were no humans left on earth to use them. The possibility that there could be people but no supply of human sperm is looking increasingly likely. According to Professor Shanna Swan, a reproductive health expert at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, if current trends in sperm counts continue, by 2045 the median man will have a sperm count of zero. What this means, basically, is that half of men will produce no sperm at all, and the other will produce so few that they might as well just produce none.

Comment: There is a point to this article: Our impotent governments have determined a use for the global migrant population.

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Israeli forces demolish residential building in East Jerusalem


teleSUR
Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00 UTC
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© Twitter/Ahmedwsh95Palestinian families view the demolition of their residence • May 17, 2023
On Wednesday, the WAFA news agency reported that Israeli occupation forces demolished a residential building housing 50 Palestinians in East Jerusalem.

"The building that was demolished on the pretext that it was built without a permit," WAFA reported, specifying that the building is located in the Silwan neighborhood, in East Jerusalem, on the outskirts of the Old City. One of the people who lived in the building assured WAFA that the building was built 40 years ago and that the Al Huseini family bought it 17 years ago.

In 2018, however, the Israeli authorities gave the Al Husseini family an eviction order for the demolition of their house, an action that had been repeatedly postponed thanks to appeals before the Justice.
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Dutch farmers 'preparing for battle' with WEF agenda


The Counter Signal
Wed, 17 May 2023 17:05 UTC
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© The Counter SignalDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
The Dutch farmers aren't giving up

Dutch farmers are preparing for another showdown with Prime Minister Mark Rutte over his World Economic Forum (WEF)-inspired plan to liquidate over 3,000 farms to drastically cut emissions from farming activity and nitrogen fertilizers.

In a video posted online, Mark van den Oever of the Voorzitter Farmers Defence Force blasted the agreement being drafted by the Rutte government and called on farmers to "get ready" for another confrontation.

"We are reading the latest news reports, and we are reading that the agricultural agreement will be sour for everyone. I think it will be particularly sour for the agricultural industry. It is not without a reason that so many parties have already walked away from the negotiating table," said van den Oever.

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UK unemployed should be forced to pick fruit - ex-MP


RT
Thu, 18 May 2023 16:29 UTC
Ann Widdecombe
FILE PHOTO: Ann Widdecombe, former member of the European Parliament, at the Civic Centre in Southend, eastern England, March 1, 2022
Britons don't have an automatic right to low prices, former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe has claimed, adding that people should simply go without certain foods if they are struggling financially.

Discussing the UK's cost-of-living crisis on the BBC's Politics Live show, the former Tory member suggested that anyone claiming unemployment benefits should be made to fill labor shortages by picking fruit.

Widdecombe also advised people who cannot afford to pay for some food items to simply stop buying them.

"Well then you don't do the cheese sandwich. None of it's new. We've been through this before," she said. "The problem is we've been decades now without inflation, we've come to regard it as some kind of given right."

The cost of living has risen sharply in the UK over the past two years, with annual inflation standing at 10.1% in March, driven largely by soaring food prices. Although the inflation rate dipped from 10.4% in February, it fell less than expected and is still well above the Bank of England's target of 2%.
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Russia fields new artillery system


RT
Thu, 18 May 2023 16:14 UTC
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© WikimediaRussia’s 2С43 Malva self-propelled howitzer.
Russia's first-ever wheeled self-propelled howitzer, the 2S43 Malva, has successfully completed trials and will enter service, Director of Uralvagonzavod Aleksandr Potapov said on Wednesday.

The weapon has been described by the media as Moscow's answer to French-made Caesar howitzers, some of which were delivered to Ukraine last year.

"Yes, the Malva should soon join [the troops]. Everything is fine with it," Potapov told TASS news agency on the sidelines of the MILEX-2023 arms expo in Minsk, Belarus.

Equipped with a 152-mm gun, the Malva (Mallow) is designed to fire at a wide range of targets, including enemy artillery batteries and armored convoys. It is more mobile and less expensive to produce than tracked systems.
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