Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics
[ColonelCassad] Pixar's chief creative officer, Pete Docter, gave a major interview to The Wall Street Journal. In it, Docter discussed the transformation the studio has been undergoing in recent years. Under his leadership, Pixar released a series of projects inspired by the personal stories of its directors: "Luca," "Soul," "I Blushing," and "Buzz Lightyear." However, almost all of them failed at the box office.
In 2023, he addressed the team, acknowledging the error of the autobiographical approach: " We should be making movies, not spending hundreds of millions of dollars on psychotherapy." Following this, Pixar began urgently correcting the situation: a project based on the director's teenage experience of experiencing a platonic breakup was canceled. Furthermore, Pixar removed all hints of characters' sexual orientation from "Elio" and "Inside Out 2."
As Docter explains, research has shown that many parents aren't prepared to have the difficult conversations with their children that some topics in entertainment films force them to have. Now, the creative director hopes that the changes will help the studio return to its core business—simply making great films.
At least temporarily, they were forced to admit that promoting tolerance through popular culture is failing. They also admitted that for a long time, Pixar wasn't making films, but rather promoting propaganda, including homosexuality for children.
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Now, the creative director hopes that the changes will help the studio return to its core business—simply making great films.
Likely they will fail at making great films too. They are propagandists at heart. They are not artists. A true artist would never compromise his or her work the way the folks at Pixar and Disney have.
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Africa did not have nukes — the Republic of South Africa had nukes back when the whites were running things. Thank goodness the ANC government doesn’t have them anymore.
[Breitbart] Despite the apparent attack, the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) is not expected to raise the terror threat level, according to Justice Minister Astri Aas Hansen
“In Norway, there is no reason for us to be afraid. The police and PST say that the threat situation in Norway has not increased, and that Norway is a safe country,” she said.
“Only America- and Israel-linked places, and probably places Jews comgregate, need to worry, not the rest of us. Besides, it was a single attack on a single site, the attacker(s) is on the run — it’s not like he/they is going to cause any more problems, right?”
However, it comes amid increasing concern throughout Europe of potential revenge attacks over the strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel.
Indeed, Marc Henrichmann, the head of the Bundestag committee which oversees German intelligence, has warned that there is a risk of Iranian “sleeper cells in Europe” which could be activated and launch “retaliatory measures”.
“The NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited and deployed at a protest yesterday and has determined that it is not a hoax device or a smoke bomb,” Tisch said. “It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death.”
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It would be a good idea to improve security barriers, walls, fencing and security personnel to a level consistent with embassies in the ME. Embassies in Poland and Hungary can be left as is.
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Breitbart News reported in September that the Belgian government was set to deploy its military to Brusells to combat drug gangs in response to the increasingly violent situation in the nation’s multicultural capital. The Guardian noted that, a month later, the Antwerp court published an open letter from an anonymous judge in October.
In its text, written in Dutch, the judge warned that extensive mafia structures had taken hold in Belgium, “becoming a parallel force that challenges not only the police, but the judiciary,” potentially placing the country at risk of evolving into a narco-state.
“We are becoming a state with a lot of corruption, with a lot of threats,” Guido Vermeiren, prosecutor general for the Antwerp and Limburg regions, told The Guardian, and added that he agreed with the anonymous judge’s letter.
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Remember that Belgium has now had several periods with holdover governments — heaven only knows what took root when people who didn’t want to be there did the bare minimum to keep things running until their opponents got their act together to take over the reins.
[ConservativeTreehouse] One of the most curious aspects to the predictable USMCA review, ie. dissolution, has been the incapacity of the Canadian government or trade delegation to accept the United States is going to create two distinctly different bilateral trade agreements and eliminate the trilateral USMCA.
For 16 months the Canadians have refused to fathom the reality of what is going to happen this year.
The Canadians just cannot believe it is possible they will be forced to negotiate a free trade agreement without the cover of a multilateral construct. It has been remarkable to watch their dissonance.
Last week President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum held a phone call. At the conclusion of the call, Sheinbaum publicly asserted the reality the Canadians just refuse to accept.
MEXICO – Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters during her morning news briefing on Wednesday that her U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, is open to doing away with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA) and replace it with individual trade deals with each country.
[…] “There might be revisions that create bilateral deals instead of involving the three countries because some things are more important between Mexico and the United Sates or between Canada and the United States,” said Sheinbaum. “Not everything has to be trilateral.”
Mexico’s president said the subject was brought up by Trump during a Tuesday phone conversation. […] According to Sheinbaum, her country is ready to consider possible changes. (read more)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
…self-righteous totalitarian, Liberal Party…
finally started to realize President Trump was likely to ignore Canada and begin direct discussions with Sheinbaum. So, Carney went to Mexico to try and get assurances from Sheinbaum that Mexico would not proceed without Canadian interests in mind.
Essentially, Carney wanted Sheinbaum to be on his team. However, as diplomatically noted in the phone call with President Trump, President Sheinbaum politely rejected the Canadian partnership. [Insert Trump’s position toward Mexican cartels as an overriding thought]
The Canadians have been talking to U.S. media looking for sympathetic ‘Orange man bad’ coverage. However, within the contacts between Canadian government officials and U.S. corporate allies, the sentiment from team Trump is very clear:
“The key thing that has struck me, and I think it has struck all Canadians, is so many of these guys in the Trump administration, frankly, they just hate Canada,” said Brian Clow, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s deputy chief of staff who led Canada-U.S. affairs. {source}
It’s not hatred, it’s annoyance.
Years of compounding parasitic annoyances and sanctimonious, ‘holier-than-thou’ pontifications from the arrogant and uppity Canadian government.
The only time Canada has been honest with themselves and with President Trump was when Justin Trudeau was exiting office and admitted Canada cannot function without all of the one-way benefits it receives from the USA {GO DEEP}.
That’s it. That’s the only time Canada has ever been honest about the nature of the economic relationship. A time when Trudeau had already quit and would not be around to deal with the consequences. However, the level of Canadian arrogance is not only visible to President Trump, even the Japanese can see it.
Remember that very close relationship between Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and President Trump. That professional, personal and respectful relationship is going to become strategically important this year.
Japan’s economic and trade representatives have told the Canadians that if the USMCA is dissolved, and if Canada no longer has the same trade access current available in the trilateral format, then Japan would rethink its entire investment portfolio in Canada, specifically the auto sector.
In essence, specifically as it pertains to the auto industry, Japan is saying if the USMCA is gone, Japan may pull all their cross-border manufacturing out of Canada and transfer it to the United States.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was recently questioned about the statements from Japan and he waxed nonsensically [SEE HERE] about how Canada would use Chinese BYD electric autos to replace lost Toyota manufacturing.
It’s a hot mess for Canada and getting worse.
Last Friday, Canada’s worst nightmare began unfolding:
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Mexican Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard announced the first round of bilateral discussions in preparation for the Joint Review of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA).
The ministers instructed negotiators to begin a scoping discussion on the necessary measures to ensure the benefits of the Agreement accrue primarily to the parties, including by reducing dependence on imports from outside the region, strengthening rules of origin, and enhancing the security of North American supply chains.
Ministers expect negotiators to hold the first meeting the week of March 16 and meet regularly thereafter as part of the Joint Review. [LINK]
Right there, you can see the exact same thing that took place in early 2017, when President Trump began organizing a bilateral trade discussion with Mexico only, in advance of his preferred approach to dissolve NAFTA and use two distinctly different bilateral trade agreements to replace it. USTR Robert Lighthizer was working with Mexico only.
USTR Jamieson Greer, the studious protege’ of Lighthizer, now has the task of organizing the USA and Mexico while delaying any substantive contact/discussions with Canada until President Trump is ready to drop the hammer.
I can assuredly say President Trump wants everything outlined and in place for a U.S-Mexico deal before he announces the dissolution (joint review withdrawal) to end the USMCA.
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They still don't get it.
We don't hate all Canadians, just their politicians
We want reasonably fair trade
We want Canada to spend more money on their own defense and stop relying on us.
I'll note that with Greenland, I'm not sure we need Canada's help anymore with defending the attacks over the Arctic Ocean
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Don't know if she hates her husband and don't care, but she's been pretty clear that she hates the political aspect of her marriage and the expected duties of a former First Lady. I can't blame her for that.
[AmericansForTaxReform] Their (the Dem's) latest proposal would increase the top capital gains tax rate to 35.8% from the current 23.8%. This would impose the highest capital gains tax since 1978, the stagnant Jimmy Carter era.
QUESTION:
Given Taxpayers already have a 6,900+/- page tax code now.
Shouldn't the Federal Government be required to provide a FREE simplified Electronic process (APP) to submit our taxes. A free process or App that meets their demands, and doesn't require a Degree in tax preparation?
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Given the blatant fraud and abuse of the existing tax base, there is no justification for any further taxes till its cleaned up. Expenditures need to be capped and any federal function that is not constitutionally based cut 5% every subsequent year.
* Simply because the DC swamp has become a tax and spend wastefully group. All Tax increases must be voted on by the citizens.
* No citizen should have to pay more that 25% of their TOTAL (Local-State-Fed) annual income in taxes. Given we have come to the point "We The People" are nearing the 60%+ TAX mark in all open and hidden taxes we encounter each day. Are we just 3rd party government employees w/o benefits.?
* BOTH Sides of the DC Swamp, MUST learn to live within the previous years collected revenues.
* Institute a plain simple FLAT TAX or Simplified tax code of less tan 2 pages for individuals.
* Given we are in the AI computer spy age, and Big Brother AI knows everything (except Epstein DC Swamp overnight guests). Citizens with no other source of income, other than their W-2 tracked job pay. Shall only need to sign and submit a 1-page form that states no other sources of income and file it.
ALSO
Using the Liberals, Socialists, and Democrats (LSD's) ID Card burden for voting example.
Doesn't, preparing our taxes, to comply with constantly changing tax code, far exceed their stated skill levels needed to obtain an ID?
Problem is the data to fill the software. For people with only a few income sources, e.g., Social security, pension and using standard deduction this will be simple. For people with more complex situations, e.g., rental property, lots of medical bills the data is the problem.
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Problem is the data to fill the software.
Only one problem with Intuit Turbo Tax.
Refunds are no bigger than what they take.
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^Not sure that is Turbo Tax's fault. I notice a few years ago that if I did not take a little bit extra for my Federal withholding, I ended up owing money. State tax withholding had been like that as long as I can remember.
We are marching toward a massive uprising in Iran with a fatal blind spot. When the regime's central command falls, the remaining radical forces will resort to plainclothes guerrilla warfare against unarmed citizens. The common answer is to arm the Iranian people. That leads to a… pic.twitter.com/LCCwvihjUQ
… That leads to a scenario where no one can tell friend from foe. Time is running out to strategize. We need to brainstorm a clear, actionable plan to protect civilians before the call to action happens.
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It leads to a scenario where the Basenji next door finally gets what coming to him.
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I’m pretty sure that half the population is not incentivized to hide the regime clowns.
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The other day we learn that Israel has hacked into every traffic camera in Teheran, just the most recent adventure in Iranian cyberspace. It is , IMO, 100% certain that they have all personnel records of the Iranian government. Placed in motivated hands, the IRGC, Basij, the lot of them can simply be destroyed in detail. To fail to do so would be a guarantee of an Islamist recrudescence in short order.
The mills of G-d grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine.
in to its colleges and universities,
in to its tv/radio/newspapers/podcasters,
in to its ranks of schoolteachers,
in to its govt -local, state, federal,
in to its healthcare systems,
in to its legal system -cops, DAs, judges.
Remarkably, things changed.
Now, we are surrounded by plainclothesed people who hate us and who want us dead.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ConservativeTreehouse] One of the most curious aspects to the predictable 
[AT] It’s crystal clear that in addition to the United States, white people, Republicans, and straight hair, Michelle O. hates her husband.
Their (the Dem's) latest proposal would increase the top capital gains tax rate to 35.8% from the current 23.8%. This would impose the highest capital gains tax since 1978, the stagnant Jimmy Carter era.
