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Disney plans to eliminate thousands of jobs next week ... Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek, who Iger handpicked to serve as his successor in February 2020, was dismissed by the board of directors after lackluster financial performance under his leadership and replaced with Iger in November 2022. The company’s stock price has declined 17% over the past year, and several other prominent entertainment and technology companies have been forced to dismiss large shares of their employees. Disney has also lost trust among some consumers after Chapek and other executives involved the firm in contentious culture war battles last year. Disney...

New Jerseyans have the opportunity to choose their hometown heroes over the next month as the New Jersey Hall of Fame has announced its 2023 nominees. Members of the public can vote for up to 10 of the 50 nominees in entertainment, arts, business, public service and sports through Friday, May 19 using this online form. The final inductees will be announced in July, and the annual induction ceremony will be held at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The ceremony will be streamed on the Hall of Fame's YouTube channel. This year's performing arts nominees include Paul...

[Catholic Caucus] No Father, We Should NOT Stand to Receive Holy CommunionA recent article in Northeast Ohio Catholic magazine by Fr. Gerald Bednar, “Why Should We Stand to Receive Communion?” states that kneeling for communion is permitted but “not as the norm.” The article continues, “This quirky regulation calls for some explanation.” Indeed it does.From the outset, I want to state that I do not write this out of any personal animus against the Fr. Bednar. As the saying goes, I don’t know him from Adam. Nor do I think the arguments presented in his article are particularly unusual or...

Thirty years ago this spring, legendary actor Charlton Heston called into the Rush Limbaugh radio program. He told Rush there was something he wanted to share with the audience. Here it is: Charlton Heston reading from the Michael Crichton novel Jurassic Park.

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW.... I LEARNED FROM NOAH'S ARK 1. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. 2. Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone might ask you to do something REALLY big. 3. Don't listen to critics -- do what has to be done. 4. Build on high ground. 5. For safety's sake, travel in pairs. 6. Two heads are better than one. 7. Speed isn't always an advantage. The cheetahs were on board, but so were the snails. 8. If you can't fight or flee -- float! 9. Take care of...

NATO is looking for a way out of Ukraine according to recent reports. These claims come on the heals of mysteriously timed document leaks showing the war in Ukraine is unwinnable for NATO unless it wants to launch WW3. The news also follows recent independent reports showing that Russia just destroyed a heavily fortified underground bunker that housed over 300 top NATO and Ukrainian leaders. Why is the media silent on this story? Video at link.

Just for the record, this is not a good idea… Black bears are known as the friendliest breed of bears and do a pretty decent job cohabitating with humans. Of course, “friendly” is a pretty relative term when we’re talking about bears… Sometimes you get one that’ll break in and play your piano, but overall, you’re less worried about being killed when black bears are around, compared to all other species in North America. One of the reasons black bears tend to stay in places where humans are is an ample supply of garbage, excuse me, I mean food. Which...

MICHELLE OBAMA APPEARED on The Tonight Show to continue promoting her most recent book The Light We Carry. On the show, she took the opportunity to reflect on what it was like to return to the White House last fall after spending eight years there as the First Lady. She and former president Barack Obama went back to hang their portraits after not being invited to do so while Donald Trump was in office. “It was really a beautiful experience,” she recalled. “It’s a tradition – you do your official portraits, the next president is supposed to invite you back...

A Chicago woman was arrested and faces several charges after a gas station confrontation caught on camera Sunday. Kendra Y. Nance, 31, was identified as the woman driving a Ford SUV and began shouting racial and homophobic slurs at two other women who were nearby, igniting a dramatic confrontation around 3 p.m. in suburban Forest Park, according to FOX 32. Nance was charged with criminal damage to property, aggravated assault using a deadly weapon, reckless conduct — driving while never issued a license, and reckless driving — leaving the scene. Jae Mills recorded the incident with her cellphone, and said...

Gail Macrae is a California nurse turned whistleblower who was fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 shot. She joined Liz Collin this week to discuss what she witnessed while working in health care during the pandemic. Macrae has worked in hospitals, ICU care, and as a midwife. She worked for Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center in California from 2015 until 2021, when she was fired for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. As COVID ramped up in the spring of 2020, the media insisted hospitals were overflowing with patients, but that’s not what Macrae saw firsthand. “They were...

Day by day, it becomes harder to deny that mass migration aims to erode and ultimately annihilate the unique cultures of local and national communities. Italian Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, warned that Italy’s low birth rate and an increase in irregular immigration could lead to “ethnic replacement,” sparking anger from the country’s left-wing opposition. The brother-in-law and close political ally of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s remarks come in response to a recent report which found Italy has one of the world’s lowest birthrates with fewer than 400,000 births in 2022. Lollobrigida’s comments were made at the national congress...

Your Government is pushing ahead with plans to bring 15-minute cities to a location near you. They are a brainchild of the UNs Agenda 2030, and are in effect Climate Change lockdowns. And once combined with a digital ID, a carbon credit score and a programmable central bank digital currency (CBDC) token, you’ve got the perfect recipe for creating a digital open-air prison. Canterbury’s council bosses have drawn up a radical plan to tackle congestion that will split the city into five zones and ban residents from driving directly between them. During the Middle Ages, Canterbury, a cathedral city in...

Ukrainian state-owned gas company Naftogaz has held talks with Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), Halliburton (HAL.N) and Chevron (CVX.N) about projects in Ukraine as the country looks to lure back foreign investment to its energy sector, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Oleksiy Chernyshov, chief executive of Naftogaz, told the FT that he held meetings in Washington with Halliburton and ExxonMobil in recent days.

I feel like Paul Revere for patriots. Except I’m shouting, “The elections are being stolen…the elections are being stolen.” I grew up on the mean streets of New York. I am very familiar with bait and switch. Walking the streets of New York City, I saw three-card-monte conmen setting up shop on sidewalks every day. Their goal was to distract you from picking the right card…and to separate you from your money. We all just witnessed a bait and switch in the news headlines earlier this week. This is three-card-monte on STEROIDS. Fox News settled with Dominion over claims of...

Experts in infectious diseases and public health officials are on high alert following the announcement of a new COVID-19 variant XBB.1.16, also known as Arcturus, by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO is keeping an eye on the new omicron subvariant, which has been found in over 20 countries (including the United States) and is believed to be responsible for the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases in India. Health officials have now confirmed the first death linked to the new COVID subvariant. According to Dr. Supakit Sirilak, director-general of Thailand’s Medical Sciences Department, an old man who was not...

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced the first full water supply allocation since 2006, benefiting 27 million residents across California after a record winter. With reservoirs nearing capacity and snowmelt runoff starting to occur, DWR now expects to deliver 100 percent of requested water supplies, up from just 5 percent announced before the record-breaking winter. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced this week that it would deliver 100% of the requested water supplies to cities and agricultural operations across California. This marks the first time since 2006 that the state’s canals, pumps, and reservoirs have been able to...

Kawhi Leonard’s sister has been given a life sentence in prison without the possibility of parole for the killing of an elderly woman. Kimesha Williams — the Clippers superstar’s sister — was convicted for first-degree murder, robbery and elder abuse in February, and received her sentence on Friday. Along with the 39-year-old Williams, Candace Townsell, 42, received the same conviction and sentence for the 2019 murder. The pair followed 84-year-old Afaf Assad to a bathroom at the Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, Calif., according to the Mercury News. SEE ALSO Kimesha Monae Williams and Kawhi Leonard NBA star Kawhi Leonard’s...

American Express Global Business Travel and Welcome US have reportedly teamed up with former Presidents Obama, Clinton and George W. Bush's nongovernmental organization (NGO) called Miles4Migrants to fly migrants to communities across the U.S. Welcome.US is an NGO that was initially launched to work with President Joe Biden's administration to facilitate some of the 85,000 Afghans who came into the U.S. in 2021 and 2022 after the debacle created when the U.S. evacuated from Afghanistan, according to Breitbart. Welcome.US is also linked to billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundation through some of his board members sitting on their "National Welcome...

Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno proposed at a campaign event this week that white descendants of Northern Civil War soldiers be eligible for reparations. "We stand at the shoulders of giants, don't we? We stand on shoulders of people like John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington. That this group of people took on the largest empire in history. They said no, we will not stand for this. And won," Moreno said earlier this week, according to the New York Post. "That same group of people later, white people, died to free black people," he continued. "It's never...

North Carolina GOP Lieutenant Gov. Mark Robinson officially announced his plans to run for governor in 2024 at an Ace Speedway rally. "Today we make it official, I am running for Governor of North Carolina," Robinson said to the crowd, according to Fox 8. Robinson discussed his faith and thanked his supporters before making his campaign announcement. Robinson was elected lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 2020.