Newly minted Disney CEO Bob Iger is taking over the scandal-plagued company just as Universal Studios appears to be having a resurgence over the once unbeatable brand Disney. Universal Studios has floundered in nearly all corners of the entertainment business, from films to theme parks.
Shut up and count the money, that’s all it took to run Disney but no they had to go woke.
Belgium’s situation is dramatic. While our neighbors have taken and are taking measures to cushion the energy crisis, maintain their budgetary health and guarantee their energy supply, Belgium is in a situation of clear and obvious failure on all three counts. I will only deal here with the energy misery, which is entirely avoidable and caused by the anti-nuclear tendencies of two environmentalist political parties, Ecolo and The Greens.
Security of energy supply seems, for some officials, to be an abstract concept. It is anything but. In practice, when energy security is not guaranteed, it means load-shedding, blackouts and an explosion in energy costs, as well as, for many, having to choose between “heat or eat”.
Transactions related to the financing of international terrorist groups consisted mainly of funds transfers to countries of concern for such activity including Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
… Within the analyzed disclosures, the most frequently identified international terrorist group was Daesh, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, followed by Hezbollah, the alert says.
“A large portion of the funds suspected of supporting Daesh were sent to Turkey, often to regions or towns close to the Turkey-Syria border, a particular high-risk region for terrorist activity financing.”
Funds suspected of bankrolling Hezbollah were frequently sent or received by people or organizations referring to the sale of cars or listed in the automotive industry.
In typical lets not offend the offensive style the agency does not breakdown its disclosures by terrorist type: “Using the information gleaned from Canadian businesses, the centre made 355 disclosures in 2021-22 to Canada’s law enforcement and national security agencies in support of investigations related to terrorist activity financing.”
When alleged crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried finished testifying at a congressional hearing last December, Democrat Maxine Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, blew him a kiss as he walked by.
And why not, since the shambolic 30-year-old former multibillionaire is acknowledged to be the second-biggest donor to the Democrats, after George Soros.
He helped bankroll Joe Biden into the White House and had promised to donate $1 billion to help the party win the 2024 presidential election.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went hard after his Conservative rival in a speech to Liberals on Wednesday night, taking aim directly at Pierre Poilievre’s declaration that Canada “is broken.”
“Canada is not broken,” Trudeau said to a crowd of more than 2,000 Liberal Party members at their first in-person national Christmas party since pre-pandemic times.
“Mr. Poilievre might choose to undermine our democracy by amplifying conspiracy theories. He might decide to run away from journalists when they ask him tough questions. That’s how he brands himself. That’s his choice. But, when he says that Canada is broken, that’s where we draw the line,” Trudeau said to applause.
The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is asking Missouri’s governor for mercy for the rape and murder of her ex-girlfriend, citing mental health issues.
Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin, now 49, on Monday asked Republican Gov. Mike Parson to spare her. McLaughlin was convicted of killing 45-year-old Beverly Guenther on November 20, 2003.
Then known by the name Scott McLaughlin, she had been terrorizing and stalking her ex-girlfriend Guenther before she raped her and then stabbed and strangled her to death.
Canada’s largest Muslim community organization has been rocked by meticulous forgeries of RCMP and Canada Revenue Agency records, which weave an elaborate fiction about federal investigators using paid informants to build a terrorist-funding case against the charity.
For more than a year, the Muslim Association of Canada has been receiving documents from an anonymous sender that suggest authorities are attempting to entrap the organization, sowing turmoil within the grassroots group. It operates 22 mosques and community centres and 30 schools in 13 cities.
Canadian university says economics professor position only open to applicants who ‘self-identify as Black’
A Canadian university is only accepting applicants who “self-identify as Black” for a tenure track teaching position in economics.
Toronto Metropolitan University posted the job listing for a tenure track position in applied microeconomics or economics on Nov. 21 and states on its website that the school is “committed to addressing the underrepresentation of Black faculty.”
The university formerly known as Ryerson is a bad joke.
h/t formerlynorthofnowhere
While a trans teacher’s decision to wear large prosthetic breasts and blonde wig in front of high school students does not violate any rules, the same cannot be said for taking a photograph of this educator, according to the Halton District School Board.
OTTAWA—Nineteen thousand.
That’s how many makes and models of guns the Liberals insisted Wednesday will still be available for hunters and sports shooters to buy and use as the government presses ahead with efforts to enshrine a massive ban on firearms.
Rural Economic Development Minister Gudie Hutchings offered the number as the Liberals tried to reframe the debate around controversial amendments to Bill C-21, sending a posse of parliamentarians before a microphone outside the House of Commons chamber to try and clarify their proposals, and show a bit of contrition.
WASHINGTON – Soldiers who wore bondage gear and dog masks in sexually explicit photos while in uniform are under investigation, the Army confirmed Monday.
The photos, which have appeared on social media, show male soldiers in uniform, or parts of uniforms, wearing dog masks, leather and chains. Some of the photos depict poses of submission and sexual acts. Another photo shows a soldier in combat fatigues wearing the dog mask on an airfield.
If they get the boot I’m sure Justin’s army will reach out.
Two large figures in the New Democratic Party — the current leader and the former one — have raised the spectre of a looming health-care election in 2023.
It’s Christmas, not Halloween. Does either NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh or ex-leader Thomas Mulcair really want to scare Canadians as they head toward the holidays and a new year?
Here is a spoiler alert: No, Canada is not likely to plunge into an election over health care next year. It may well be that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s governing deal with the New
Democrats will become more fragile in 2023 — and maybe even fall apart — but health care is probably not the breaking point.
I see no reason for the Staritza to be so panicked. Jaggy knows he’s reached his Peak.
Iran was ousted from the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women on Wednesday after the world body’s 54-member Economic and Social Council adopted a U.S.-initiated resolution to take that step.
The move comes in response to Tehran’s crackdown on nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the regime’s morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab “correctly.” Since her death on Sept. 16, the Islamic Republic has been rocked by widespread unrest.
Well I’ll be damned.
Kevin O’Leary was in Miami having lunch with the business team of Circle Internet Financial LLC, a Boston-based technology company that had come up with USDC, the so-called stablecoin cryptocurrency pegged to the value of the U.S. dollar. It was the Bitcoin 2021 Conference held in early June that year, a sold-out event charging US$1,499 for a standard pass and about US$21,000 for an exclusive “Whale Pass,” which provided attendees with access to extra speakers, parties, private areas and bars.
Twitter on Wednesday suspended more than 25 accounts that track the planes of government agencies, billionaires and high-profile individuals — including one that followed the movements of the social media company’s owner, Elon Musk, who has said he was committed to “free speech.”
