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Macy Gray backtracks her claim that men aren't women after woke backlash

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Macy Gray appeared on the Today Show Thursday morning to change her answer to the question "what is a woman?" and mentioned she's learned a new definition.

While talking to Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb, Gray said "I've learned so much and I think, you know, being a woman is a vibe." The Blaze posted the clip and wrote, "After tons of backlash, Macy Gray changes her tune."


Comment: Bad move walking back the comments. The left won't accept an apology and the right will lose what respect they had for her standing up to the wokies in the first place. Now nobody likes her.

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Cell Phone

4chan users claim to have hacked Hunter Biden's iCloud account

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Hunter Biden
The contents of Hunter Biden's iCloud account have allegedly been hacked by users of the 4chan community, where screenshots purporting to be from his phone and computer were being posted on their main political forum late Saturday night.

Administrators on the imageboard site moved quickly in the hours after the content was posted to pull down threads that included materials from the alleged leak, leaving many on the site, which is known for featuring some of the most salacious subject matter on the internet, furious.

The content from the leak could not immediately be verified by the Washington Examiner, and a White House representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Comment: More from DailyVeracity (Warning: Language):
Researchers on 4Chan have begun examining an offline backup of Hunter Biden's phone. They found the password and are going through all the files.
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There is reportedly approximately 450GB of data still remaining hidden on the President's son's iPhone backup log.
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The individual who initially released the data claimed to have been threatened by unnamed individuals close to the administration.
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"I was told Hunter had sexual relationships with a lot of people in the so-called 'elite' and families are ashamed," said the anonymous individual, adding that 'the elite' want to "prevent the humiliation because he f-cked half the kids, sisters and wives in the small 'elite' circles."

The data is alleged to have come from an iPhone backup drive that contained everything from deleted phone calls and text messages, to web-search history including pornography habits.

The data released on 4Chan alleges Hunter Biden searched for porn videos of himself on popular pornography websites, with search terms including "Hunter Biden Fucking a Hooker."
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The alleged documents also show text messages claiming there are "more weapons in your son's room than in an armory."
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The 4Chan info dump is currently ongoing and can be followed here. We will continue to provide any updates if important information is to be revealed.
In other words, nothing much revealed so far that we didn't already know. There' more info coming out and it looks like this has the makings of another scandal. But the question is, how trustworthy is the information?




Fire

Another gas plant explosion rocks the US, this time in Oklahoma

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© Mary BiggerstafAuthorities say an explosion erupted at the ONEOK Gas Plant near Medford, Oklahoma, on Saturday, July 9, 2022.
An explosion erupted at the ONEOK Gas Plant near Medford, Oklahoma.

"There is an active incident at the plant south of town, and we are asking all residents south of Main Street to evacuate your homes and go to the Medford public school building," the Grant County Sheriff's Office noted on Facebook.

Videos and photos that were taken at the scene show flames and a large plume of smoke.

Police said all residents south of Main Street in Medford are being evacuated.

Comment: Back in June, an explosion at a US LNG plant was serious enough to significantly disrupt production, and amid a Western instigated energy crisis: Fire at Key US Gas Export Terminal Hurts Fuel-Starved Europe

On April 12th: Explosion and huge fire at gas plant in Wichita, US


Bizarro Earth

Four wounded in stabbing attack at Shanghai hospital

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© Brenda Goh/ReutersAgence France-PressePolice officers outside Ruijin hospital in Shanghai following the incident on Saturday morning.
Four people have been wounded in a stabbing at a Shanghai hospital, local police said, before the knife-wielding attacker was shot and subdued by officers.

Huangpu district police said on social media that they received emergency reports at 11.30am local time (0430 BST) on Saturday of a stabbing at Ruijin hospital.

"The police quickly arrived on the scene and discovered a man holding a group of people hostage with a knife on the hospital's seventh floor," the statement said. "When the suspect intended to injure the hostages and punish the police, the police decisively fired a shot to injure and subdue him."

Comment: It seems there's been a spike in incidents of people 'going off' as well as a number of suspicious 'terrorist' style incidents of late:


Arrow Up

Flashback China and Russia's economy

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"We" used to think that Russia's economy was the equivalent of a small European country. Never before has an economy's importance been so grossly misjudged. French economist Jacques Sapir explains what happened (44:13)


To him "the war made us realize that the Russian economy is considerably more important than we thought". He says that a big reason for this misjudgment is exchange rates. If you compare Russia's GDP by converting from rubles to $, you indeed get an economy the size of Spain's.

However this is the worst possible way of comparing the size of economies. A slightly more accurate way is to adjust for PPP (purchasing power parity.)

When you do so, you already realize that Russia's economy is actually more like the size of Germany's.

BUT you also need to take something else into account: "What is the share of the service sector versus the share of the commodities & industrial sector?" To Sapir the service sector is today vastly overvalued in the world compared with the industrial sector and commodities.

He says that when you adjust for this Russia's economy is vastly bigger than Germany's.

His estimate is that Russia represents in fact maybe "5% or 6% of the world's economy", almost double the size it's normally estimated at on a PPP basis.

This crisis and the pandemic is making us realize that we used to take manufacturing, the industry and commodities for granted, i.e. an antiquated side of the economy compared to shiny new "services".

Whistle

Deutsche Welle illegally fired Palestinian journalist, German court rules

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© FacebookGerman government broadcaster Deutsche Welle markets itself as a champion of free speech
A court in Germany has declared that Deutsche Welle unlawfully fired a Palestinian journalist based on false accusations of anti-Semitism.

Maram Salem was among a group of Arab journalists fired by the government broadcaster following an official smear campaign accusing them of anti-Jewish bigotry because of comments or criticisms about Israel.

On Wednesday, the labor court in Bonn ruled Salem's dismissal to be invalid.

According to a statement provided by her lawyer Ahmed Abed:
"The Facebook posts she was accused of were not anti-Semitic and the termination was unlawful, the court stated during the hearing. Salem explained that she has long been an advocate for women's rights, human rights, animal rights and LGBTQ and the accusations hit her hard. She called on DW to take responsibility, publicly apologize and retract the allegations."
The court threw out the anti-Semitism allegations of investigators Ahmad Mansour, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Beatrice Mansour, the statement says.

Stop

China scraps vax mandate after two days

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Beijing has ditched a proposed vaccination mandate that would have limited access to public places to vaccinated residents only, the city announced on Thursday, citing public pushback. The Chinese capital had only announced the rule on Wednesday.

Instead of requiring vaccination, Beijing residents can now enter all public venues with a negative Covid test result taken less than 72 hours prior and a temperature check, a city official told state media, adding that the government would continue to promote vaccination on a voluntary informed-consent basis.

Set to take effect on July 11, the policy would have barred the unvaxxed from theaters, museums, cinemas, gyms, training and tutoring locations, while medical staff, community service employees, home furnishing operators, express delivery providers, and conference attendees would not only have to get the shot but also receive a booster to continue in their jobs.

Family

EU will be held responsible for starving millions around the world - tycoon

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© TANG KE/Future Publishing/Getty Images1 Workers load potassium fertilizer imported from Belarus
Sanctions imposed on Russian and Belarusian fertilizer producers are akin to weapons of mass destruction in the scale of the damage they will likely cause over the next few years, the founder of chemical giant EuroChem has claimed.

Andrey Melnichenko said in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Die Weltwoche on Thursday:
"The EU sanctions mean suffering, famine and migration flows for many hundreds of millions of people. Sanctions targeting food and energy are economic weapons of mass destruction. They hit innocent people the worst. I have no doubt that billions of people will feel its effects."
Suffering people will want to hold those responsible accountable, and the EU won't be able to shift its culpability, the businessman added. It was not Russia nor the US, but EU members like Lithuania and Estonia, and also European leaders Germany, France and Italy, which chose to disrupt the operation of his chemical empire with sanctions, he explained.

Red Flag

Dutch farmers are fed up with totalitarianism rebranded as 'climate change'

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The "climate change" agenda is a global, existential threat to prosperity and freedom from tyranny. Nowhere else is that more apparent right now than in the small European country of the Netherlands. Under the tutelage of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte became a "golden pin-up boy" for the Agenda 2030 cause.

Rowan Dean, a reporter for Australian outlet Sky News, said:
"Currently the Dutch government is embarked upon insane efforts to slash greenhouse gases [sic] and reduce the amount of nitrogen ammonia in the soil by 30 to 70 percent by 2030[.] ...

"The Netherlands House of Representatives has released a state which said: 'The honest message is that not all farmers will continue in business. Those who do will have to farm differently.'"
In practice, the government's plans could mandate farmers to use less fertilizer and cull their livestock herds. In response, farmers are resisting en masse — blocking supermarkets, distribution centers, and key infrastructure.

Attention

Protesters storm president's residence

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© AFPPolice disperse crowd of demonstrators demanding the resignation of the president
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has reportedly had to flee his residence in the capital, Colombo, as thousands of protesters encircled the compound, demanding his resignation.

A local source told AFP on Saturday that the head of state was "escorted to safety," with troops firing warning shots to keep protesters at bay.

According to Reuters, which cited Defense Ministry sources, Rajapaksa had already been whisked off to another location on Friday ahead of the planned rally over the weekend. Attempts by security forces to prevent demonstrators from entering the presidential residence have apparently failed, an eyewitness told the media outlet.

Footage published by local TV channel NewsFirst showed protesters, some with Sri Lankan flags in their hands, forcing their way into the compound. A Facebook livestream from inside the residence also depicted demonstrators overrunning the building.

Comment: Sri Lanka may be one of many nations to fold due to external threats, internal combustion and exacerbation by the West.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told party leaders on Saturday that he is willing to step down and allow a new government to be formed. His decision came after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his residence before a mob of protesters stormed the building.

Wickremesinghe's office announced the news in a statement, around two hours after the PM sat down with political leaders to seek a resolution to the political crisis gripping the South Asian nation. With Wickremesinghe out of power, the speaker of parliament will likely become acting prime minister until elections are held.

Wickremesinghe's term in office was a short one, beginning in mid-May when he replaced Mahinda Rajapaksa, brother of current President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The president has not yet resigned, despite a horde of protesters storming his residence in Colombo earlier on Saturday.

Several lawmakers have demanded the resignation of Rajapaska, whose whereabouts are currently unknown.