Report From First-Ever Audit Shows How Much Power Disney Had in Central Florida

I’ve been a Disney fan my whole life. The company’s movies, TV shows, music, and especially theme parks have been a key part of my family’s life. That’s why it pains me to see the direction Disney has taken in recent years. Commitment to far-left cultural content and draining the fun out of the vacation experience for guests have tarnished Disney’s formerly immaculate reputation.

But the most astounding thing is how Disney took advantage of the state of Florida in order to wield astonishing quasi-governmental power over its Walt Disney World property for 55 years. We’ve seen bits and pieces of Disney’s power within the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID), and I’ve written multiple articles detailing what we knew.

As a small-government conservative, it's been a strange phenomenon to side with a state government over a private company. However, the way Disney has taken advantage of its status via RCID meant that the state of Florida did the right thing stepping in and remedying the situation.

A newly released report (which I've embedded at the end of this column) of the first comprehensive audit of Disney and RCID shows the scope of Disney’s power and influence and how the company used RCID to benefit itself with little to no concern for the region as a whole.

The report clocks in at a whopping 72 pages, along with a table of contents. I’ve read it all, and the following is my summary of Disney’s shocking power and how it used that level of control to line its pockets and avoid accountability. Buckle in for a heck of a ride.

The history

Books like Chad Denver Emerson's "Project Future" and my own "Neon Crosses" detail the history of Disney's fascinating maneuvers to secure the land that would become Walt Disney World. Walt Disney and his team used a network of companies that were untraceable to Disney to scoop up the land without paying a premium price.

Once the land belonged to Disney, the company had to figure out a way to achieve its goals — including Walt's dream of a city of the future — without tangling in red tape. So Disney decided to take advantage of a Florida law that allowed for the creation of special improvement districts for certain projects. The legislature passed the measure, and the Reedy Creek Improvement District was born.

Walt Disney died before RCID became a reality, and his futuristic city dream died with him. However, the company maintained that the city idea was still on the table, so it essentially operated RCID for over five decades based on false pretenses.

https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2023/12/04/bombshell-new-report-shows-how-much-quasi-governmental-power-disney-had-n4924386

Anon's had all this over a year ago

Iceland no longer offers anti-Covid vaccines to the general population after peak sudden deaths

The Icelandic government has announced the immediate withdrawal of all vaccines against Covid-19, as the public health system of the island nation is struggling with a huge peak of sudden deaths and injuries related to vaccines.

The government announced the news in an announcement in the Icelandic newspaper Morgunbladid last week.

According to the government’s announcement, the Covid-19 virus is now “just like any other flu” and as a result of the wave of sudden deaths and injuries, citizens will no longer be able to receive vaccinations.

https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/12/iceland-no-longer-offers-anti-covid-vaccines-to-the-general-population-after-peak-sudden-deaths/

We Feel Poorer Because We Are Poorer: Here's Proof

Let's not over-complicate what's straightforward: we're becoming more prosperous when our wages / labor buy more goods and services, most especially the essentials of life: shelter, food, energy, utilities, transportation, higher education, healthcare and childcare. If the money we have left after paying for essentials buys more discretionary goods and services, we're getting a lagniappe of prosperity.

If the non-discretionary essentials are consuming a greater percentage of our earned income, we're becoming less prosperous, i.e. we're poorer. Those tasked with persuading us that gradual impoverishment is actually soaring prosperity have near-infinite statistical means to obscure this straightforward measure of prosperity: the purchasing power of labor / earnings.

If our hours of work buy less non-discretionary goods and services, we're getting poorer.

That software, TVs and airline fares are cheaper is meaningless because they are occasional discretionary purchases that make up a tiny slice of total cost-of-living expenditures. The status quo cheerleaders in the Ministry of Truth ignore the $5,000 annual cost increases in essentials while trumpeting the $100 decline in occasional discretionary purchases.

Your vacation cost you 100 more hours of work, but you save $50 on airfare, so it all evens out. Um, no. The only metric that is an accurate measure of prosperity and impoverishment is the purchasing power of your labor / earnings. Everything else is noise designed to obscure inconvenient reality.

Not surprisingly, it's difficult to get accurate data on past real-world costs of essentials. What we hope to find is the actual prices paid in previous years and the median wages paid at the same time.

This data gives us an accurate measure of purchasing power: how many hours of work did it take to pay rent, pay healthcare insurance, buy a used car, etc. This is the kind of table we hope to find: rents paid in Hawaii by decade.

Since I lived in Honolulu, the home of the majority of the state's population, and actively sought rental housing in the 1970s, I have knowledge of actual rents, and can attest these numbers are in the ballpark for one-bedroom apartments.

https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/12/we-feel-poorer-because-we-are-poorer.html

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More Than 10,000 Illegal Aliens Flood Into U.S. Over Last 24 Hours on Joe Biden’s Open Border Invitation

Over 10,000 illegal aliens from all over the world flooded over the southern border in the last 24 hours. Of those, there were 8,400 that were caught by the border patrol after illegally crossing the border.

There were also over 1,700 illegals encountered at Border Patrol ports of entry. There was also a shocking 20,000 illegals in custody with the Border Patrol as of Monday morning.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/new-more-than-10000-illegal-aliens-flood-u/

"Did the president accept payment [from Hunter] and why would there be such an arrangement if they were never in business together?"

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "I have not seen that"

walks away

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1731767865240342656

Massive Group of Military-Age Men From China Invade US Border in California

A massive group of military-age men from China invaded the southern border in California on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants from all over the world are traveling through the Darien Gap en route to the United States every month.

Illegals from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and South and Central America are making the trek to the United States.

The latest group of illegals to invade California were mainly from China.

Jacumba, which is about 75 miles east of San Diego, has been a hangout for thousands of illegals after crossing the border. The high desert has been a drop-off location for smugglers for illegals to live in makeshift camps.

The group Border Kindness, which is a non-governmental organization that helps provide resources for illegals, has provided food and water in areas where terrain is difficult to traverse in the San Diego mountains.

A large group of illegals, mostly from China, crossed through the open gaps on the border wall in Jacumba Hot Springs, California.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/biden-border-crisis-massive-group-military-age-men/

cp reported

Swiss Private Bank, Banque Pictet, Admits To Conspiring With U.S. Taxpayers To Hide Assets And Income In Offshore Accounts

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/swiss-private-bank-banque-pictet-admits-conspiring-us-taxpayers-hide-assets-and-income

Grand jury indicts former state public utilities chairman for federal bribery, embezzlement crimes

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/grand-jury-indicts-former-state-public-utilities-chairman-federal-bribery-embezzlement

Former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council Official Charged with Secretly Acting as an Agent of the Cuban Government

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/former-us-ambassador-and-national-security-council-official-charged-secretly-acting

Migrants must learn Russian and respect the law – Putin

Moscow wants immigration but must safeguard the interests of Russia first, the president has said

Immigrants who come to work and live in Russia must comply with its laws and respect its customs and traditions, including learning the language, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

Putin addressed the issue at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, traditionally held in early December.

“We need to attract such labor resources that meet the interests of the Russian economy,” the president said. “This means that [these] people must be prepared from a linguistic, ethnocultural point of view. They must know our traditions and so on.”

The interest of Russia and its citizens “must be put first,” the president insisted. All immigrants and visitors also “must comply with Russian laws,” Putin clarified. “And, of course, we, as a civilized country, must also ensure their rights.”

Russia is opening schools in several countries of the former Soviet Union – part of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to assist with Russian language instruction and cultural events, the president informed the council.

Moscow has withdrawn from several international human rights organizations because they have become “virtually controlled” by the West, demonstrating “political bias, hypocrisy, and open selectivity,” Putin said in his opening remarks.

For eight years, these organizations have looked away and have done nothing when confronted with “flagrant violations” by Ukraine against the residents of Donbass, he noted. Not only did they “not notice” the violations happening, but they also encouraged Russophobia and even supported countries “racing to take first place in the shameful competition” of hating Russia the most.

Moscow is fully committed to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is “ready to cooperate with all interested countries and partners to find solutions to form an effective, fair, equal system for ensuring human rights for all,” Putin concluded.

https://www.rt.com/russia/588503-putin-speaks-migrants/