Disneyland might not be “The Happiest Place on Earth” for these employees. On Tuesday afternoon, several Disneyland employees were rushed to the hospital following a hazmat incident at the park. According to police who responded to the scene, several employees were taken to a local hospital after experiencing dizziness and nausea from inhaling an unknown odor. KTLA 5 News reported more on the hazmat incident and what caused the employees to get sick: Authorities responded to a reported hazmat situation at Disneyland on Tuesday after a strong unknown odor was detected near the backstage area of Tomorrowland’s Star Tours attraction. Sgt. Mark Sutter of the Anaheim Police Department told KTLA that officers responded to an “unknown odor near Star Tours backstage” around 12:30 p.m. According to Disneyland officials, building materials being used by a contractor caused a reaction in a backstage area. Several cast members were treated on site by paramedics and released. Seven cast members who experienced dizziness and shortness of breath were taken to local hospitals. Disneyland officials said, out of an abundance of caution, adjacent onstage areas were cleared of guests but are expected to reopen soon. Here’s a video from the scene: Authorities are responding to a reported hazmat incident at Disneyland on Tuesday after an unknown odor was detected near the backstage area of the Star Tours attraction in Tomorrowland. pic.twitter.com/U2aXheCZAW — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 10, 2026 People reported there were no concerns to guests: To remain cautious, the nearby onstage areas were temporarily closed and cleared of guests, with plans to reopen soon, Disneyland officials said as of Tuesday afternoon. There were no concerns for park guests at this time, police said. The “Star Tours” attraction is based on the Star Wars franchise and opened at the park in 1987. The motion simulator ride was reworked in 2011 to include the more recent Star Wars films and has been updated multiple times since to include references to additional movies and television shows.

This is uncomfortable to hear. The FBI sent out warnings to several police departments in California, warning that Iran may attempt to attack the West Coast with drones. In the warning, the FBI warned dozens of police departments in California to be vigilant of a potential retaliation attack from Iran in the form of military drones. ABC News broke the story and provided the following details on the potential attack: The FBI warned police departments in California in recent days that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by ABC News. “We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran,” according to the alert distributed at the end of February. “We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack.” The warning came just as the Trump administration launched its ongoing assault against the Islamic Republic. Iran has been retaliating with drone strikes against targets throughout the Mideast. U.S. intelligence officials have also grown concerned in recent months about the expanding use of drones by Mexican drug cartels and the chance the technology could be used to attack American forces and personnel near the Mexican border. “An uncorroborated report suggested that unidentified Mexican cartel leaders had authorized attacks using UAS (drones) carrying explosives against US law enforcement and US military personnel along the US-Mexico border,” according to a September 2025 bulletin reviewed by ABC News. “This type of attack against US personnel or interests inside the United States would be unprecedented but exemplifies a plausible scenario, although (cartels) typically avoid actions that would result in unwanted attention or responses from US authorities.” Here’s a look at an Iranian drone: BREAKING: FBI warns California police departments that Iran may retaliate against the U.S. by launching offensive drones toward the West Coast of the U.S. Source: ABC News https://t.co/0MBl8tFKut pic.twitter.com/P1dLUNM7zQ — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 11, 2026 CBS News reported Iran has also threatened to hit U.S. Banks in the Middle East: Following a warning from the Iranian military on Wednesday that it would begin targeting banks linked with the U.S. and Israel, several Western financial institutions confirmed to CBS News that they were taking measures to protect staff in the region. Contacted by CBS News about a report that Standard Chartered had evacuated employees from Dubai, a representative of the U.K.-based international bank said staff had been urged to work from home on Wednesday, in line with other institutions, but that there was otherwise no change in staffing. The U.S. banking giant Citigroup told CBS News the few staff who had gone to its office in the Dubai International Financial Center on Wednesday were later told to go home by authorities, but most employees were already working remotely. “The safety of our employees is our number one priority, and we are continuing to take measures to help keep our employees and their families safe. The vast majority of our people are already working from home and we are continuing to serve our clients without interruption, and we have robust contingency and resilience plans in place to ensure business continuity,” Citi said in a statement. The French news agency AFP reported, meanwhile, that the British company PricewaterhouseCoopers, or PwC, had closed its offices in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait, at least for the rest of the week, as a “precaution,” citing a source with knowledge of the matter.

Boom! The last of the four Iranian Soleimani-class warships has been destroyed, according to U.S. Central Command Commander Admiral Brad Cooper. In a video update on the conflict in Iran, Adm. Cooper announced, “We also took out the last of four Soleimani-class warships. That’s an entire class of Iranian ships now out of the fight!” Watch here: JUST IN: CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper reveals the US military has officially obliterated the LAST of the four Soleimani class warships — "That's an entire class of Iranian ships now out of the fight!" "We had strike waves nearly EVERY HOUR from different locations… pic.twitter.com/IqLXTtJWvb — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 11, 2026 JUST IN: CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper reveals the US military has officially obliterated the LAST of the four Soleimani class warships — “That’s an entire class of Iranian ships now out of the fight!” “We had strike waves nearly EVERY HOUR from different locations and directions going into Iran!” “I’d characterize our strikes as being unpredictable, dynamic, and decisive.” “Since the first 24 hours of this campaign, Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks have dropped drastically, but it’s worth pointing out that Iranian forces continue to deliberately target innocent civilians in Gulf countries while hiding behind their own people as they launch attacks from highly populated cities in Iran.” “Our space superiority has been a critical enabler to this fight. Unseen by the world, the Space Force is doing two things. First, they’re degrading Iranian capability, and second, they’re helping to protect American forces.” Since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. and Israel have taken out over 60 Iranian ships and struck over 5.5K targets. The White House provided an update: MISSION UPDATE: Iranian ballistic missile attacks down 90% 5,500+ targets eliminated Air superiority secured 60+ Iranian vessels sunk/destroyed All 4 Soleimani-class warships taken out When America acts, the world gets safer. pic.twitter.com/jHQqVQmpd3 — The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 11, 2026 More from Military Times: The first of the guided missile Iranian catamarans were delivered to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy in 2022, and were the first Iranian warships to possess vertical launch systems capable of medium-range surface-to-air missiles, according to the U.S. Naval Institute. To date, the U.S. has struck more than 5,500 targets inside Iran, said Cooper. The offensive assault is not letting up either. According to Cooper, on March 10 the U.S. military launched “strike waves nearly every hour from different locations and directions going into Iran,” with the U.S. bomber force taking out a large ballistic missile manufacturing facility. This is huge progress. There’s still work to do, but we are on the path towards a swift and decisive victory! What a HUGE WIN ! God bless the American troops !

This is a HUGE update to a story I first brought you a few days ago… Most people (me included) have had no idea how much of a stranglehold and monopoly London has held over the world and over Iran. Really nasty stuff! But now it’s all coming out, and what might seem random at first glance to the uninformed, is now starting to make perfect sense now that we see what President Trump is actually doing. And like usual, he saw it all ahead of time when most thought he was crazy. He wasn’t crazy, he was just five steps ahead. And now he’s shining a giant spotlight on it and people are finally starting to see it. This lady explains it the best of anyone I have seen, so check this out for the latest update…. President Trump just cut them off on three separate fronts and it’s pure genius. See here: pic.twitter.com/NCJ8p2tUrgThis truly is BIG PICTURE stuff.. President Trump Shatters Lloyd’s of London Insurance Blockade – Direct Money Trail from Iran’s Khamenei Regime to London Exposed — Settling the “Trump is controlled by Israel Koolaid” President Trump has launched… — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) March 11, 2026 This truly is BIG PICTURE stuff..

More than 300 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel have reportedly quit since the Department of Homeland Security's partial shutdown, which began in February.

Two foreign tankers carrying Iraqi fuel oil were subjected to unidentified attacks inside territorial waters, causing them to catch fire, Iraq’s director general of the General Company for Ports, Farhan al-Fartousi, told Reuters on Wednesday. If this proves nothing else, it proves Iranian terrorists must be stopped. They will blow up the world if not stopped. […] The post Tankers in Iraqi Waters Were Blown Up appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The following is an edited transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * Self-help guru Tim Ferriss, one of the biggest names in the modern “optimize your life” universe, has apparently just arrived at a conclusion I’ve been yelling about for years: self-help is very, very bad for you. Self-help is self-harm. Now, I have to admit something up front: I don’t know much about Tim Ferriss. I’ve heard the name before. But I avoid all self-help. It should be clear to you by now that I don’t like self-help literature. It smells like a scam from 100 miles away. I want to improve myself, yes. I want to improve. But the self-help stuff? No. When I was a teenager, I read a little bit of it like “The 48 Laws of Power” by Robert Greene. Or the really famous one by Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” That’s the classic of the self-help category. And, as I remember it, all it boils down to this: be nice to people and remember their names.  That’s it. I just saved you ten bucks on Amazon. And I guess that’s good advice. But a lot of the self-help stuff is pretty noxious. I’ve thought this for years. And apparently Tim Ferriss agrees — at least partially. Ferriss’ “Road To Damascus” Moment Ferriss seems to have had a Road to Damascus moment — not necessarily with a religious conversion, but with a recognition that what he’s been doing might be wrong. According to an article in The Telegraph titled, “The self-help guru who decided he might be doing more harm than good,” Ferriss is confronting his most profound insight yet in his latest blog post, “The Self-Help Trap.” The piece is about 3,000 words. It’s got all the usual “optimization” language — optimizing is one of the words they all use. Ferriss, now 48, asks whether his own industry might, with some important caveats, be making desperate people worse rather than better. And then he says, quote: “The older I get, the more I think that self-help can be a trap. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. I say this after around 20 years of writing self-help, and a lifetime of consuming it … What if self-help itself is actually creating or amplifying unhappiness?” Ferriss says modern self-help contains a “built-in flaw: to continually improve yourself, you must continually locate the ways you are broken.” He gets so close. I love so much of what he’s saying — and then he totally misses the point. The point just goes right over his head. But he gets very close, and so I give him credit for the introspection. Some people are reading this cynically: is he just doing a new kind of self-help? Has Self-help ruined your life? Read my new book: “Ten Easy Steps to Get Over Self-Help,” by Tim Ferriss! No. That’s not what he’s doing here. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. I think maybe he’s being sincere. He’s in the middle of his life’s journey, and he’s had this realization. Self-Help Is A Trap And You Can See It In The People Who Buy It Ferriss says, “I think self-help can be a trap.” That’s true. The people who are most obsessed with self-help, in my experience, are the most messed up, depressed people. And you might say, well, yeah — they’re messed up. They’re trying to get help. Well, it ain’t working. It’s like your friend or relative who’s been going to the therapist — usually just means drug dealer, but, you know, the psychiatrist — for 30 years. They never get any better. And maybe they get more dope, but they don’t ever get any better.  And you say, hey, have you thought about trying something different? And they say, oh, I couldn’t, I’m so messed up—could you imagine if I lost my psychiatrist? Hold on. Maybe you’re going that backwards. Maybe your psychiatrist is actually not helping but even compounding the problem. I think that’s what happens with self-help, but not for the reason Tim Ferriss gives. The Problem Isn’t “Finding What’s Broken.” It’s Denying What’s Broken. Ferriss says self-help has this in-built flaw: to continually improve yourself, you must continually look at the ways you are broken. That’s not the problem. You know what else impels you to continually reflect on the ways in which you’re broken? Christianity does that, when you examine your conscience, and especially when you go and confess your sins to a priest. You have to sit down and think of the number and kind of all the ways that you are broken. The problem with self-help is that it doesn’t do that. The whole premise of self-help, actually, is a denial of the fundamental ways in which we are broken, because self-help, at its root, I think, denies original sin. The whole point is that you really can help yourself. And not just help yourself a little bit. You can save yourself. You can optimize your life. And ultimately you can’t. You can exercise. You can work-out. You can practice certain habits of virtue. But ultimately, you can’t save yourself. This is what the Church formally declared when it condemned the heresy of Pelagius. The problem with self-help is it misses out on the best way you can help yourself, which is looking to Someone beyond yourself. Not looking to Tim Ferriss. Not looking to Dale Carnegie. Not looking to whatever other guru is trending on the internet this week. But looking to Someone who is greater than you — who is so far beyond humanity and yet mysteriously takes on humanity, and so understands us intimately. Not only who created us, but who has lived as one of us — who is like us in all respects, except sin. That’s what it’s about. A Christian Offshoot With All The Fun Parts And None Of The Obligations Just as liberalism is a perversion — it’s kind of a spin-off of Christianity that tries to keep all the fun parts of Christianity without any of the obligations and the duties and the limits — this is the same thing with self-help. The self-help literature I’ve read, some of it, it spins out of Christianity, and it takes away all the limits and all the essential stuff. It takes away the parts that acknowledge that not only are you broken, but you’re so broken that there is essentially nothing you can do without grace. So, if you want to read some self-help literature, a good writer on this would be Saint Thomas Aquinas, who points out that without grace, every human being will fall into mortal sin. And even if you’re in a state of grace, you’ll still fall into venial sin. That’s how broken we are. The Ferriss Moment We Should All Root For Ferriss is close. He’s very close. We’ve got to help Tim Ferriss be great. Wouldn’t it be great if one of the big proponents of self-help actually turned people on to real help? Because the trap isn’t noticing your flaws. The trap is believing you can fix the deepest ones alone — believing that the answer is always inside you, always one more habit, one more hack, one more optimization away. And that’s not liberation. That’s just a nicer-looking cage.