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Disney has announced that its latest round of layoffs are geared to create a “more technologically-enabled workforce,” as Hollywood continues to contract and dwindle. Newly-installed CEO Josh D’Amaro (pictured) told workers this week that the 1,000-employee workforce reduction is both a cost-saving and efficiency measure, according to The Wrap. “Over the past several months, we have looked at ways in which we can streamline our operations in various parts of the company to ensure we deliver the world-class creativity and innovation our fans value and expect from Disney,” D’Amaro said in a companywide memo. “Given the fast-moving pace of our industries, this…

The Chinese Communist Party offered hearty congratulations to Hungary’s expected next prime minister, Péter Magyar, on Monday following his party’s sound defeat of current Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, signaling interest in maintaining the outsized influence Beijing developed during Orbán’s 16 years in power. Orbán lost to Magyar, a former member of Orbán’s party, and his Tisza Party on Sunday in a landslide, relegating his political party, Fidesz, to the opposition. Orbán last spent eight years in leadership of the opposition after losing the 2002 election and, barring some proposed term limits, under current law can have the opportunity to run again for…

WASHINGTON — The European Union’s top economic adviser is warning the world that stagflation, a slowing of economic growth combined with rising inflation, may be on the horizon due to the ongoing hostilities between the United States and Iran. “We had done some scenario analysis on the economic implications of war in Iran,” Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission’s Commissioner for Economy and Productivity and former Prime Minister of Latvia, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday morning blocks away from the White House. Dombrovskis had presented in late March to a Eurogroup press conference in Brussels warning about…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has fired several prosecutors who weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to go after pro-life activists during the Biden administration. CBS News reported Monday evening — before the agency released a bombshell report about the Biden-era DOJ’s abuse of power — that at least four prosecutors had been fired for their role in targeting pro-life Americans with the FACE Act. The DOJ confirmed the firings in a post to X. “DOJ has terminated the employment of personnel responsible for weaponizing the FACE Act who still remained at the department,” the agency said…

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday afternoon introduced an amendment to a reauthorization of a key spy authority that would require FBI agents to seek approval from a special court any time they want to use Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to obtain Americans’ communications data. The proposal from Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut was unveiled just moments before the House Rules Committee gaveled in to a hearing to tee up floor consideration of an 18-month extension of Section 702, which is due to expire April 20 without congressional action. Speaker Mike Johnson…

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis acknowledged Tuesday that next week’s special session on mid-decade redistricting may not kick off on its scheduled April 20 start date — but he contended the Legislature will pass a new map on congressional redistricting in the next “couple of weeks.” “It’s possible you could do a little tweak, but you can’t really push it very far,” said the Republican governor on the session’s timing during a bill signing ceremony held near the Tallahassee airport. DeSantis sidestepped questions, however, on whether he would give lawmakers a proposed map to work with once the session…

For the Australian right, Ben Roberts-Smith is a beacon of virtue. For the left, he is a murderer. Both will use him as a culture-war grunt Last week Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most highly decorated war hero, was arrested by federal police and charged with having committed war crimes in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012.Roberts-Smith has been charged with being complicit in the murder of five unarmed Afghan civilians – allegedly killing two himself and ordering soldiers under his command to kill the other three (a practice apparently known in the military as “blooding the rookie”).The charges have been brought under…

Globally we have entered into an age of unprecedented social engineering and psychological warfare. In this blog we will explore some of the modern history and methodology behind how we got to this point in the human story and what we can do to mentally defend ourselves and intelligently fight back. Understanding Learned Helplessness In 1967 a team of psychologists from the University of Pennsylvania conducted research on dogs to gauge their responses to unpredictable and unavoidable electric shocks. They created three groups: Group A could stop shocks by pressing a panel. Group B Received shocks but had no control or escape.…

American multinational energy corporation Chevron on Monday signed asset swap agreements with Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA to expand oil production in the country’s Orinoco Belt, where the world’s largest accumulation of heavy and extra-heavy crude oil is located. The agreements were signed on Monday evening during a ceremony hosted by “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. U.S. Ambassador Laura Dogu, who was present at the event, detailed on social media that Kyle Haustveit, Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office (HGEO), was also present at the signing ceremony.…

Tuesday was the first full day of the U.S. blockade of Iran and the first day after the United States declared the Strait of Hormuz was open to international shipping. According to ship tracking data, at least eight ships passed through the strait, which remains far below its pre-war level of about 130 ships per day. Two sanctioned tankers linked to China appear to have changed their minds about challenging the United States Navy and reversed course. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said over 10,000 American sailors, airmen, and Marines are involved in the blockade, working from over a dozen warships.…