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Narcissistic meltdown: Dylan Mulvaney slams Bud Light's response to boycott

Matthew Impelli
Newsweek
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:17 UTC
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Dylan Mulvany
Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender activist and influencer, criticized Bud Light on Thursday for its response to the ongoing boycott of the beer brand.

In a video posted to Instagram, Mulvaney spoke about her recent partnership with Bud Light that prompted widespread boycotts, mainly from conservatives. Bud Light sent Mulvaney a personalized can with her face on it to promote her transition to womanhood.

"I took a brand deal with a company I loved and I posted a sponsored video to my page and it must have been a slow news week because the way that this ad got blown up, you would have thought I was on a billboard or on a TV commercial, or something major. But no, it was just an Instagram video," Mulvaney said in the video.

Mulvaney went on to discuss how she has faced criticism and threats following her partnership and said, "I was waiting for the brand to reach out to me but they never did and for months now I've been scared to leave my house...for a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse in my opinion than not hiring a trans person at all."

Comment: Mulvany has had the misfortune of becoming the lightning rod of regular Americans' collective ire, having had it with transgender ideology being shoved down their throats. If 'she' was even a tiny bit able to read the room, 'she' would keep 'her' head down and 'her' mouth shut.

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Bad Guys

UK: Colonel 'forced out of Army' after stating 'men cannot be women'

Ewan Somerville
The Telegraph
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:07 UTC
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Kelvin Wright served two tours in Afghanistan during his 14-year career in the Reserves
Kelvin Wright says he had to resign following warning from junior officer that his views could be at odds with MoD transgender policy

A colonel has claimed he was forced to quit the Army after he was criticised for stating that "men cannot be women".

Dr Kelvin Wright, 54, had been a Reservist commanding officer with 14 years' unblemished service, including two tours in Afghanistan, before his "honour was attacked" with a transphobia complaint and an investigation he described as "hellish".

In May, he shared a post on his private Facebook account from Fair Play for Women, a campaign group that works with governing bodies to preserve women's sport for those born female, which consisted of a quote from Helen Joyce, a feminist campaigner backed by the author JK Rowling.

The quote, shared without any additional comment, said: "If women cannot stand in a public place and say 'men cannot be women', then we do not have women's rights at all."

This prompted a junior officer to warn him that his gender-critical views could be at odds with Ministry of Defence transgender policies, before what Dr Wright calls the Army's "LGBT champions" allegedly drew up a seven-page dossier about his "substandard behaviour" - which he was not allowed to see.
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Russia blocks Wagner-linked news outlets


RT
Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:24 UTC
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© Sergey Pivovarov / SputnikA member of the Wagner private military company in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023.
Russia has blocked access to several news websites linked to businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, whose private military company, Wagner Group, was involved in a short-lived mutiny last week.

Public access to riafan.ru and four other websites operating under the umbrella of the Patriot Media Group has been restricted, according to the database run by the regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN). The group's website has also been blacklisted.

The websites mostly focus on covering Russia's standoff with the West and Moscow's military operation in Ukraine.
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Bad Guys

France is facing a new generation of riots

Dr. Karin Kneissl
RT
Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:33 UTC
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© Associated PressAt least 994 people were arrested across France Friday night and into Saturday morning as riots continue following the police killing of a 17-year-old.
The cause of unrest lies deeper than police crackdowns and social media censorship can reach

The 'banlieue', as the French suburbs are called, has been set ablaze regularly during riots since the 1970s. Things became particularly violent during the anti-police unrest in the fall of 2005. Almost 20 years later, everyone involved, police and protesters alike, are more than willing to resort to violence.

The events are almost taken from the same script: In autumn 2005, two youngsters of Arab origin, were electrocuted while trying to escape arrest by the French police; today we have two police officers who shot a juvenile of Algerian origin as he tried to escape in a stolen car. The event was captured on video and went viral on social media, similar to the case of George Floyd in the US three years ago, leading to Black Lives Matter uprisings around the world.

In the hours that followed, tens of thousands of mostly young males, many of them minors, went on to launch violent riots in the suburbs of French cities, from Nantes in the north to Marseille in the south. Numerous cars were torched, public buildings including schools were attacked, shops were ransacked and hundreds of people were arrested. In some places, the perpetrators, most of whom are third and fourth generation descendants of migrants, are even said to have used firearms to harass the locals living mostly in social housing.

Comment: From Fox News, July 1, 2023:

Macron himself, other than issuing some boilerplate rhetoric against the violence, seems disengaged from his role as leader of France. A bor and bred elite, he has no empathy for the common people. He's probably looking for a comfortable, lucrative position in Nato or with the EU commission as soon as he is able to step down.
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While his country burned, Macron and his wife attended an Elton John concert.


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No Entry

OPEC shuts out Western journalists for second time in weeks - media


RT
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 02:49 UTC
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© Ronald Zak/APOPEC logo • Vienna, Austria
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has canceled invitations to Reuters, Bloomberg, and the Wall Street Journal to cover its upcoming meeting in Austria, the news organizations reported.

Bloomberg News and Reuters said on Wednesday that their journalists received accreditation for OPEC's July conference, but were later told that the credentials had been withdrawn.

Bloomberg said in a statement:
"We are very concerned by the prospect of OPEC excluding certain journalists, including from Bloomberg, from next week's seminar. For the sake of market transparency, we strongly advocate for OPEC to allow journalists from relevant global news outlets to attend."
The Wall Street Journal was similarly disinvited, according to sources cited by Bloomberg and Reuters. OPEC did not explain the reversal and declined requests for comment, the news agencies said.
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Attention

Nigel Farage claims his bank accounts have been shut down

Tom Pyman
Daily Mail
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:59 UTC
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Nigel Farage sensationally claimed today that his bank accounts were shut down due to his position on Brexit and accusations that he has taken money from Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia.

In an extraordinary six-minute video published on Twitter, the former Brexit Party and Ukip leader, said he was a victim of 'political persecution' and suggested he was trying to be forced out of the UK.

Mr Farage claimed the banking group told him earlier this year his personal and business accounts would be closed over the summer. He did not name the group, but told his 1.7million followers this morning that he had been banking with them since 1980.

Comment: See also:

Daily Mail also stated that another popular bank closed down the account of a customer who questioned why the branches were festooned with Pride flags:
Yorkshire Building Society has been accused of closing an account of a client after he asked why their branches were festooned with Pride flags.

Journalist Toby Young told Nigel Farage on GB News that the unnamed man who contacted him about the case was told in response that his account would be closed down. It came as lenders were accused of axing customers who say things they don't like on gender and LGBT issues or Brexit, including Mr Farage himself.

Yorkshire Building Society today declined to comment on the case but a spokesman said: 'We do not close savings accounts based on different opinions regarding beliefs. We would only make the difficult decision to close a savings account if a customer is rude, abusive, violent or discriminates in any way, based on the specific facts and behaviour in each case.'


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Almost 80% of Ukrainians have close relatives or friends injured or killed since Russian invasion - poll


Yahoo!News
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:06 UTC
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An absolute majority of Ukrainians - 78% - have close relatives or friends who have been injured or killed due to the Russian invasion of the country, according to a Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) survey released on June 29.

Among those who have such close relatives or friends, the average number (the median value was used) was seven, i.e. on average, such respondents have seven close relatives or friends who were injured or killed, KIIS said.

At the same time, 64% of Ukrainians have at least one close relative or friend who was injured (on average, each person knew five close connections) and 63% have at least one close relative or friend who died (on average they knew three deceased close connections).

In all regions of Ukraine, the vast majority of the population have close relatives or friends who have been injured or killed by the Russian invasion. The indicator ranges from 70% in the east to 80% in the west.

Comment: This lays at the hands of Western powers continuously delivering weapons to a broken nation led by crazed leaders who care little about the people in their charge. It is the Ukrainian military who is attacking civilians. It is their leaders putting weapons into the hands of men with little to no training, many who are forced to fight. And it is all driven by the US, who only wishes to contain Russia in a purposeless war, and who know well the end result will only be a massive loss for Ukraine.

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Attention

Huge explosion at chemical plant in China

Chris Lau
CNN
Sat, 01 Jul 2023 05:04 UTC
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© From Pi_shushu/Weibo Hong KongFootage posted on Weibo by Chinese state media showed a huge plume of black smoke billowing into the air.
An explosion at a chemical plant in Southeast China on Saturday sent huge billows of thick black smoke into the air.

The blast took place at a plant owned by the silicon oil production company Jiangxi QianTai New Materials at around noon in the city of Guixi, Jiangxi province, according to Chinese state media outlet CCTV.

Video capturing the dramatic scenes circulated on the social media platform Weibo, China's version of Twitter, featuring what sounded like the voices of firefighters urging people to keep their distance.

Comment: Just a few days ago in Russia, also at a chemical plant:

One killed after fire at chemical plant in Russia

A lorry driver was killed after a fire ripped through several garages at a chemical production facility in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's emergency services ministry said on Thursday, as firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze.

The ministry said the fire had been contained to an area of 800 square meters and there was no threat to residential areas. Video footage on social media showed dozens of firefighters at the scene and black smoke billowing high into the air.

The TASS news agency quoted the regional branch of Russia's state labor inspectorate as saying that a man had died after suffering burns on 90% of his body as a result of a tanker fire on the territory of the Balzam chemical plant.

Balzam could not immediately be reached for comment. The plant in Nizhny Novgorod is around 440 kilometers (273 miles) east of Moscow.


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NPC

RAF 'illegally discriminated' against white male recruits in diversity drive

Jack Walters
GBN
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:51 UTC
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© PAMembers of the Royal Air Force marching during the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in central London.
RAF chief Sir Richard Knighton 'apologised unreservedly' following an official inquiry.

The Royal Air Force illegally discriminated against white male recruits to boost its diversity drive, an official inquiry has concluded.

A 72-page report ordered by former RAF head Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston revealed ex-recruitment chief Lizzy Nicholl, who quit over the furore, was right to raise concerns about the so-called positive action plan.
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Marriage rate in US hits record low - poll


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:37 UTC
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A quarter of US 40-year-olds have never married, up 5% from the previous census, Pew Research has found.

Married Americans make up a smaller portion of the population than ever, according to a Pew Research Center paper published on Wednesday analyzing Census Bureau data from 2021.

Fully a quarter (25%) of Americans aged 40 have never been married, the researchers found - a 5% jump since the previous census in 2010. Just 22% of the unmarried 40- to 44-year-olds were living with a partner outside of marriage. Individuals were more likely to have remained single if they were male, black, or had not graduated high school.

Comment: See also:

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