[Breitbart] Walt Disney World in Orlando will reportedly host a conference on gay and transgender rights in the workplace, with thousands of people expected to attend the three-day summit in September.
Disney will play host to the annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit scheduled to take place September 12 to 14, according to a Miami Herald report. The conference will draw a large range of corporate executives, including HR professionals and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) administrators from companies across the country.
The conference boasts several corporate sponsors, including Apple, Amazon, Uber, Walmart, and even Cracker Barrel. Disney has reportedly committed to hosting next year’s conference as well. Last year’s summit took place in Las Vegas.
Out & Equal is an advocacy group whose stated mission is to promote workplace equality for LGBTQ+ individuals. The organization has publicly condemned President Donald Trump, saying in 2019 that he is “unfit to serve” and “should be removed from office.”
The group ignored the fact that Trump appointed the country’s first openly gay cabinet member — Richard Grenell, who served as acting Director of National Intelligence.
Disney continues to pursue a radical LGBTQ+ agenda despite negative business repercussions.
Last year, Disney vowed to prioritize radical gay and transgender activism after a small group of employees demanded the company take a stand against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation, which prohibits the teaching of transgenderism and sexuality to kids in kindergarten through third grade.
Disney’s failed political attacks on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) resulted in the company losing its highly coveted self-governing status in the Orlando area — a valuable perk Disney had enjoyed for five decades.
For the year, Disney saw $123 billion of its market value evaporate as its stock dropped 44 percent amid profitability concerns, marking the once-invincible company’s worst year in more than four decades. Former CEO Bob Chapek was fired and replaced by a returning Bob Iger.
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Do we need special rights (in this case LGBTQ...XYZ) in the workplace for yet another group in our society? Such things divide rather than unite our country.
[Hot Air] If a doctor told you that it was possible to reduce your risk of cancer by 30% with a pill would you consider that negligible?
What if a doctor told you that taking a pill would increase your cancer risk by 30%? Would you be bothered by that?
My guess? You would probably want to take the former pill and avoid the latter because getting cancer would suck.
So I was struck by a news report about a study that showed that taking birth control pills increased the risk of breast cancer by 20-30%—and how the scientists and reporters characterized that increased risk as "small."
It didn’t seem small to me. It seemed strikingly large. It’s not like breast cancer is terribly rare. 13% of women develop breast cancer in the United States. That’s a pretty big number. My wife got breast cancer. It was not a happy time for us.
BLUF:
If we were talking about any other behavior save sexual liberation, the medical establishment would be pushing hard to reduce the use of these drugs due to the dangers posed.
But in the modern world anything having to do with sexual or gender freedom is exempted because, no matter the dangers involved, we should be encouraged to embrace our appetites.
We should rethink that. Sometimes a bit of restraint is a good and healthy thing.
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Leading birth control manufacturers Pfizer, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson might disagree. Appears to big money in birth control and cancer, as well as other laboratory manufactured pandemics.
Man's disruption of the course of nature appears to come with it's own tragic cost. Replacement people arrive on our Southern border daily to offset the birthing and pandemic voids.
No need to 'follow the money' unless you want the truth.
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Sort of like BLM protests were OK during COVID, church and walking on the beach, not so much.
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Another product of feminists and their blinded drive for power and disruption. The feminists would tout it as unproven lies if they know and slander anyone that said it was unsafe. The sad part is trusting women are being hurt.
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The pill is prescribed for everything possible besides birth control among young women- period regulation and acne. It is relatively cheap so the payback is later on.
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High mortality rate for vaccinated mothers of babies during pregnancy. No father considered. In today's world $1000 is peanuts when they can get $1500/month from assistance programs. Young people of today chose not to marry, do college, buy a car, rent, purchase a home just do drugs and lay about. Look at the homeless situation. Too many safety nets. Prison is great, three hots and a cot and free medical care. No safety nets in China and the youth are doing the same there.
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Going to guess this will be about "knocked up" status, not "married" status.
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So, can the expectant 'birthing person' collect the stipend for 8 months and then have a late term abortion - funded by the Gov't? Asking for a friend.
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Muslims it seems are having no trouble having children. Those I have seen having 2-3. One family from Nepal had six children I saw recently. The more educated in this country the less interest in having a family or children. So for a woman the best years for bearing children are passed to promote slavery to a profession whatever that may be.
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So, can the expectant 'birthing person' collect the stipend for 8 months and then have a late term abortion - funded by the Gov't? Asking for a friend.
#2
A percentage of the parents consider school to be vital childcare. The curriculum and learning are secondary to them. Problems progress and perpetuate due to that attitude.
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[MAIL] Walmart announced they're shuttering 12 stores across nine states and Washington DC this year due to failing profits - on the same day they announced hundreds of layoffs at fulfilment centers.
The big box chain has been closing a handful of stores annually in recent years, always citing the location 'underperforming.'
The retail behemoth is also closing two stores in Illinois and Arkansas that were 'pick-up only.'
The main locations ending their run are in Washington DC, Florida, Illinois, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington State and Wisconsin.
It comes the same day the company announced hundreds of workers at five facilities that fulfill e-commerce orders are being asked to find jobs within 90 days at other company locations.
#2
Sam is rolling in his grave. One resent year Bentonville meeting exclaimed happily the destruction of small business. Dollar general next target with price reductions on similar products to snuff them out next. Locals refer to Dollar generals as their DG Walmart. Every 30 miles a DG is to be located. Problem now is getting help to work their stores. Demands on venders to do more. More frequent service and keep the shelves filled. I always said they were free labor. They are having the same problems now as well. So state inspectors harass them and threaten closure because of stock in the isles or dripping sinks and a myriad of other citations or threats of fines or closure. Inspectors are only limited by their imaginations. The public be damned. As an example for police stopping you they have over 20,000 reasons to stop you if needed should you request an explanation for being stopped.
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Major cutbacks in food assistance. Example; 300 a month approval. Nothing changed but food stamps reduced to 89 dollars/month. Happening now in Maryland. Till now no concern for costs. So no problem raising prices. Customer got two full karts of groceries Tuesday and again on Thursday. Seen in lot collecting cash for foods. Police aware. They do nothing about it. Kicker here is she left her receipt behind. Balance of $52,000 remained for her to spend. Yes; I know, you don't believe it.
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The shoplifting usual foci don’t seem to be on the list. I would like to see Winco expand towards Ohio. I miss that place.
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Major cutbacks in food assistance.
Food assistance was dialed up during the Covid shutdown. That’s acknowledged to be over, so states have been dialing back all kinds of assistance, Dale.
closing 12 stores is not that big a deal from a company standpoint
it is a big deal if a community depends on that store but if the community in question has a lot of people that shoplift, well, the store isn't in business to lose money
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TW this was unrelated to extra covid assistance. However those who received funds are seeing delays in refunds and taxes for extra income.
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'The letter means that following a careful and rigorous evaluation, the FDA has accepted the company’s conclusion that its first poultry product, cultivated chicken, is safe to eat.
This clears a crucial step in bringing GOOD Meat to restaurants and retail in the U.S. more than two years after its historic approval and launch in Singapore. The company is now working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on necessary approvals before world-renowned chef, and humanitarian José Andrés becomes the first in the country to offer GOOD Meat’s chicken to customers at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. Andrés is chef/owner of José Andrés Group, which operates more than 30 restaurants across the country.'
[NYPOST] Walmart is laying off hundreds of workers based at e-commerce fulfillment centers in a development that could signal more trouble for the struggling US economy.
Roughly 200 workers based at a facility in New Jersey will receive pink slips, a Walmart spokesperson told Rooters on Thursday.
Hundreds of additional employees were laid off at four other sites based in Fort Worth, Texas; Davenport, Florida; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Chino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
"We recently adjusted staffing levels at our [fulfillment centers] in select markets to better prepare for the future needs of customers," Walmart said in a statement.
"This decision was not made lightly, and we’re working closely with affected associates to help them understand what career options may be available at other Walmart locations," the statement added.
The Walmart spokesperson said the cuts were necessary as the company reduced or eliminated evening and weekend shifts at the impacted facilities. The employees will be paid for 90 days as Walmart attempts to place them in jobs at other locations.
The culling occurred following years of major investment in automation technology as Walmart looks to streamline its e-commerce order fulfillment operations — though the company spokesperson declined the layoffs were related to that push.
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They're closing one store up in the big city from here. The one thing they keep avoiding is talking about retail theft levels related to the neighborhood involved.
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Pork and other meats processed and wrapped in China. Who knows what they do in China. Several locals sick as the pork tasted funny. Don't forget your fast food chains are supplied the same way. Bypass health inspectors. Lamenting shortage of staff. Support your local farms that the EPA is trying to shut down.
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Eggs?, don't you dare try to raise poultry, Local communities try but they are blocked from doing so by local elected officials. Feed now a supply problem.
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Ref #3: I went to Depot Yesterday to buy a 50 ft roll of 14-3 Romex. Had to get an employee to come unlock the new Romex cage and issue me a roll. He said the locked cage was due to recent massive theft. He went on to say they are not permitted to stop the theft or say anything to the thieves.
Shrinkage costs are of course passed along to the consumer. The 50 foot roll was about $80.
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Purchased large eggs at Lidles friday $2.35 / 18 ct. Limit 6 cartons BBD 4-10-23. Many other items at lower prices ... white bread large loaf $.97 at Aldis.
So it seems prices can be lower, still offer a good P&L margin.. So shop around.
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I got laid off last Friday. Is Wally World laying off the self checkout machines?
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I recently bought 18 eggs at Wally World for $2.86. This was about 1/2 the price of other 18 packs sold nearby. The cheap eggs were nearly sold out.
[GEO.TV] A court in western India found opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation on Thursday for a speech he made in 2019 in which he referred to thieves as having the surname Modi, and sentenced him to two years in prison.
Gandhi was present at the court in Surat, a city in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... , which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state. He was given bail and the sentence was suspended for thirty days.
Gandhi would appeal against the verdict in a higher court, the president of his Congress party said on Twitter, calling Modi's government "cowardly and dictatorial".
"The Modi government is a victim of political bankruptcy", Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said.
[IsraelTimes] GrayMatters Health says world’s first non-invasive apparatus for stress disorder will teach patients how to regulate activity in the part of the brain that controls emotion.
There are a variety of treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, but none have previously allowed patients to use non-invasive technology to self-regulate their brain activity.
That changed on March 21, when Israeli company GrayMatters Health (GMH), developer of digital self-neuromodulation therapies for mental disorders, announced that it has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration to market its flagship product, Prism, for post-traumatic stress disorder, better known as PTSD.
Prism is a two-part device. It consists of a cap fitted with special electrodes worn by the patient. At the same time, the person engages with a unique interactive audio-visual interface that is meant to help them modulate their brain activity through a positive feedback loop.
The system focuses on helping patients control the activity of their amygdala, the small region of the brain primarily associated with the limbic system, which mediates emotion and memory. The amygdala is a paired structure, with one part on each side of the brain.
"When a patient is successful in lowering the activity of the amygdala, or the amygdala-related signal, then they get positive feedback from the device," Prof. Talma Hendler, developer of the technology, told The Times of Israel.
Hendler, professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Tel Aviv University and director of the Sagol Brain Institute at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, added that when a patient does this repeatedly, they learn the mental strategy that moves their emotional system to a calmer state.
Hendler said she expects Prism to be commercially available for doctors to prescribe starting next year. It will be sold only to outpatient and private clinics, where staff will be trained in its use and patients will be able to undergo 15 half-hour sessions with the device.
While wearing the cap, the patient watches a busy hospital or clinic waiting room on the screen. Animated figures are standing, walking around, and yelling. Babies are crying. Someone tries to get the attention of the clinic administrator behind the counter, growing increasingly agitated.
"When the patient is successful in regulating their limbic system, then the room relaxes, as well. Figures start to sit down and the noises are lowered. So it is kind of resonant with the patient’s brain. This is the positive feedback. It’s continuous, and the more you go below your baseline, the quieter the waiting room gets," Hendler explained.
Prism was developed using research done with IDF soldiers who underwent functional MRI (fMRI) scans before and after combat situations in 2009.
"We found that the soldiers who had more amygdala activity prior to going into action developed more PTSD symptoms. This was the initial hint that amygdala hyper-activation is a marker for possibility developing psychopathology following trauma," Hendler said.
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Seems like low brain activity would inhibit PTSD. I should have been a soldier afterall.
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Seems like low brain activity would inhibit PTSD.
The brain has many subunits. Increased activity in one part of the brain can directly suppress activity in other parts of the brain.
The old generic term for what this device is doing is "biofeedback" Here is a link about one of the clinical studies about Prism.
[YouTube] I had the opportunity to learn all about the HIMARS in the last few weeks and even got to go see them shoot. I can definitely understand why people all over the world want to get their hands on one.
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
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[Hot Air] If a doctor told you that it was possible to reduce your risk of cancer by 30% with a pill would you consider that negligible?
[NYPOST] 
[YouTube] I had the opportunity to learn all about the HIMARS in the last few weeks and even got to go see them shoot. I can definitely understand why people all over the world want to get their hands on one.
