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Editor’s Note: David G. Allan is the Editorial Director for Features at CNN and has nurtured a lifelong devotion of Star Wars that he has carefully indoctrinated in his children, one of whom he brought to opening day of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
Resistance base, Batuu, Outer Rim (aka Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Hollywood Studios, Orlando, Florida) (CNN) – Whatever your sympathies to the rebellion or your level of Star Wars acumen, you’re rebel scum now.

That’s your fate once you enter the most ambitious interactive attraction in Disney theme park history — Rise of the Resistance — which opens in Walt Disney World Resort’s Hollywood Studios today.
For Star Wars fans these days, as Yoda might say, runneth over our cup does.
Earlier this year, both Disney parks in the United States opened a twin pair of ambitiously immersive lands (Galaxy’s Edge, aka the planet of Batuu). In November…

(CNN Business) – An eight-year-old boy who reviews toys on YouTube has been named by Forbes as the platform’s highest earner in 2019.
Ryan Kaji, whose channel Ryan’s World has 22.9 million subscribers, earned $26 million in 2019 — up $4 million from his earnings in 2018, when he also gained the highest-earning YouTuber spot.

Forbes estimates that the ten highest earners on YouTube, which is owned by Google (GOOGL), brought in a total of $162 million between June 1, 2018 and June 1, 2019.
Ryan first garnered an internet following in the “unboxing” genre, which involves opening presents on camera and commenting on each one.
Forbes’ list is based on pre-tax income derived from things such as sponsored content, advertisements, merchandise sales and tours.

Another child, Anastasia Radzinskaya, five, came in third place with earnings of $18 million.
Radzinskaya, who was born in southern Russia and has cerebral palsy…

(CNN) – Doctors shared details Thursday about what happened to the brain of one diplomat who may be a victim of the so-called sonic attacks that have impacted dozens of people in Cuba and China.
Researchers revealed the results of an independent brain analysis of Mark Lenzi, a US diplomat who was stationed in Guangzhou, China, in 2017 when he started experiencing unexplained symptoms including headache, difficulty reading, irritability, as well as memory and sleep problems.

Among the MRI findings: 20 brain regions with “abnormally low” volumes, including regions involved in memory, emotional regulation and motor skills that may correlate with Lenzi’s symptoms, doctors said. Of the 107 regions they looked at, they also found three that had bigger volumes. They said the parts of the brain with low volume may reflect brain injury, and those with high volumes could be evidence that other parts of his brain have compensated.

“Labour’s worst performance since 1983 carries an important lesson for the grassroots left-wing campaign in the United States to elect Bernie Sanders as president: You must defeat false anti-Semitism smears at all costs.”

Source: Don’t Let the Smears That Sank Corbyn Tank Bernie Sanders | Common Dreams Views

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Pearl_Harbor_Revisited/-aMDAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=David+Ray+Griffin&printsec=frontcover

We have criticized the left for its sterile adherence to the official account of 9/11. The link is to a google/books selection from David Ray Griffin’s already classic book examining the whole issue of the Twin Towers calamity and the evidence for an inside job. The left routinely upholds the official account, to its discredit, but the time has come, or long since passed, for students on the left to show some sense, disentangle from the reign of propaganda enforced by the bigwigs and print mags purporting to be leftist scrutinizers of government deceptions.

Griffin’s many books are essential reading here even if his books are already slightly dated. They remain nonetheless the best starting point for expose of a monstrous version of the Big Lie.