And the Rest of It

Why does Israel insist on STILL being a part of this dreadful organisation?:

 A United Nations committee approved a draft resolution Friday calling on the International Court of Justice in the Hague to urgently issue its opinion on the legal consequences of allegedly denying the Palestinian people the right to self-determination, a move Israel’s envoy to the global body maintains will “endanger” the country’s future as well as any chance of peace with the Palestinians.

The vote in the General Assembly’s Special Political and Decolonization Committee was 98-17, with 52 abstentions.

Among those who voted in favor of the anti-Israel resolution was Ukraine, which has repeatedly demanded that Jerusalem assist Kyiv in its war with Russia, and the Jewish state’s Arab allies, including Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates.

The resolution will now go to the 193-member assembly for a final vote before the end of the year, when it is virtually certain of approval.

The draft alleges Israel’s violation of Palestinian rights to self-determination “from its prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the holy city of Jerusalem, and from its adoption of related discriminatory legislation and measures.”

Also:

Israel has detected cholera in a reservoir in the north of the country, likely the result of an outbreak in neighbouring Syria spreading, the health ministry said on Friday.

Oh, Hollywood, it's like you can't help yourself:

“For three years, we hired nothing but women and people of color,” said a senior film executive, who like many leaders in the industry is a white male. He added that he did not think some of them were able to do the jobs they got.

In hushed conversations over lunch at Toscana Brentwood and cocktails at the San Vicente Bungalows, some powerful producers and agents have started to question the commercial viability of inclusion-minded films and shows.

They point to terrible ticket sales for films like “Bros,” the first gay rom-com from a major studio, and “Easter Sunday,” a comedy positioned as a watershed moment for Filipino representation. “Ms. Marvel,” a critically adored Disney+ series about a teenage Muslim superhero, was lightly viewed, according to Nielsen’s measurements.

There is a reason for those terrible ticket sales and non-existent view on streaming channels: they were total dreck. Unwatchable.

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One company that is so far pot-committed to the the Get WokeGo Broke algorithm is Disney.

Disney is determined to push the Gay Agenda into all of its children's films, as leaked video revealed earlier this year. They pushed out a marketing "story" that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever would feature an "LGBTQ storyline."

A friend asked me what this would be. I guessed it would be a new, barely-there spear-woman character, one of the "Dore Milaja" guards, that they could edit out for foreign markets.

Of course that's exactly what it is. …

Mihaela Coel knows how important it is to have queer representation on-screen.

In an Oct. 6 interview with Vogue, Coel talked about her character Aneka, a captain and combat instructor in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," and revealed she decided to play the fearless warrior after learning her character was queer.

"That sold me on the role, the fact that my character's queer," Coel said. "I thought: I like that, I want to show that to Ghana."

Yes, about that:

Incumbent president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in an interview with Gulf news channel, Al Jazeera, said the issue of same-sex relationships was not on the agenda of the country although he believes that its snowball effect will soon reach Africa.

“At the moment, I don't feel and I don't see that in Ghana there is that strong current of opinion that is saying that this is something that we need even deal with. It is not so far a matter which is on the agenda.

“I don’t believe that in Ghana so far, a sufficiently strong coalition has emerged which is having that impact of public opinion that will say, change it; let’s then have a new paradigm in Ghana,” he said.

Apparently, the film is suck-tastic trash.

Or so some say.