Disney Lives in a Small World, After All

Topple that statue!

Wokeness is a symptom of the company’s disease.

The people running Disney appear crazier than that guy who stripped naked on “It’s a Small World” Sunday and started dancing with the animatronics and climbing on the iconic ride’s structure.

“Generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods to make our offerings and products available to consumers, do not achieve sufficient consumer acceptance,” the company’s stock report explains with regard to recent bombs. “Further, consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands.”

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The BBC and other Western media outlets are far more than mere useful idiots

The devastating Hamas weapon of war is the Western media.

Hamas, the genocidal jihadi force responsible for the barbaric Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, has a devastating weapon of war. That weapon is the Western media.

With some honorable exceptions, these media outlets have been doing Hamas’s filthy work for it. Despite the terror group’s record of lying through its teeth, the media accepts what it says at face value while casting doubt on everything said by the habitually truthful Israelis.

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Foiled robbery attempt sees demand for ancient samurai weapon soar in Japan

An employee at a jewellery shop in Tokyo has been hailed a hero after thwarting an attempted robbery and giving chase after the three suspects fled. But the hero of the hour wasn’t armed with a Taser or pepper spray, but with a weapon invented hundreds of years ago by samurai warriors: the sasumata, a pole with two prongs attached to the end.

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Ottawa taking legal action to recoup anti-racism funds from Laith Marouf: bureaucrat

The Department of Canadian Heritage has taken legal action to recoup funds it paid to a consultant accused of posting antisemitic material online, Deputy Minister Isabelle Mondou said Thursday.

The federal government terminated a contract last year with the Community Media Advocacy Centre after it granted the group more than $122,000 for projects to help combat racism.

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Massachusetts is 2nd state with child pneumonia outbreak —as questions remain about virus sweeping China

Massachusetts has become the second US state to report a large uptick in the number of child pneumonia cases amid a mysterious viral outbreak in China.

Doctors in the Bay State noticed the rise in cases as Ohio reported enough cases to meet that state’s definition of an outbreak.

But physicians in western Massachusetts believe it is mostly RSV, a respiratory virus that kills more than 10,000 Americans each year — mostly young children and the elderly.

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Actress Julianna Margulies set the internet on fire when she said that the black community has been “brainwashed” to hate Jews.

Actress Julianna Margulies (ER, The Good Wife) set the internet on fire this week when she said that the black community has been “brainwashed” to hate Jews.

Margulies issued her comment an on episode of The Back Room with Andy Ostroy podcast while talking about Israel-Hamas war in the wake of the horrific October 7 terrorist attack on the Jewish nation.

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Trudeau government picks your pocket for $16M donation to new global climate damage fund

After nations agreed to a landmark deal to create a global climate damage fund on the first day of climate talks at COP28, Canada pledged its own support on Friday and joined the list of developed countries to back the new deal.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced an initial commitment of $16 million toward the loss and damage fund.

“We think this is a significant step forward,” Guilbeault said to reporters shortly after the opening of the Canadian pavilion at COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Board of UK charity all face being sacked for being ‘white and privileged’ amid an anti-racism diversity drive

One of Britain’s wealthiest charities is changing its entire Board of Trustees as part of an anti-racism diversity drive after branding itself ‘white and privileged’.

The Tudor Trust is undergoing a woke makeover that has meant stopping all grants for 20 months while it ‘re-thinks’ its future and staff learn about ‘racial justice’ and ‘white supremacy culture’.

The organisation, which has assets of around £288million and gives about £20 million a year to good causes, was founded in 1955 by a bequest from Sir Godfrey Mitchell, founder of building giant George Wimpey, and several of his descendants are trustees.

h/t Mauser

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Montreal-area ‘Chinese police stations’ threaten to sue RCMP for $2.5 million

Two Chinese community centres in the Montreal area are threatening to launch a $2.5 million lawsuit against the RCMP after being accused by the police force of hosting “alleged Chinese police stations.”

The RCMP confirmed in March(opens in a new tab) it had opened an investigation into the Service à la Famille Chinoise du Grand Montréal, in Montreal’s Chinatown, and the Centre Sino-Québec de la Rive-Sud, in Brossard, on the South Shore of Montreal.

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Zelensky: Counteroffensive did not achieve ‘desired results’

President Zelensky has admitted that Ukraine’s counteroffensive against invading Russian forces did not achieve the success he had hoped for.

“We wanted faster results,” the Ukrainian leader said during a visit to the Kharkiv region in the north east of the country. “From that perspective, unfortunately, we did not achieve the desired results. And this is a fact.”

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