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Ben & Jerry's suppliers using child labor despite 'progressive' values

Kelsey Koberg
New York Post
Tue, 28 Feb 2023 07:03 UTC
B&J icecream
© Reuters
Ben & Jerry's is among the companies whose supply chains utilize migrant child labor, often in violation of child labor laws, despite the company's self-proclaimed progressive values and vowing to "honor and stand with" immigrants.

A New York Times exposé, released earlier this week, interviewed more than 100 migrant children in more than 20 states "who described jobs that were grinding them into exhaustion, and fears that they had become trapped in circumstances they never could have imagined." The report detailed children as young as 13 working 12-hour days, often overnight shifts before going to school during the day, in order to survive.

The report said migrant children are employed in the supply chain for major companies like Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Ford, General Motors and Ben & Jerry's, among others.

Ben & Jerry's, a self-described progressive company, told Fox News Digital that it is "opposed to child labor" and has worked to ensure fair compensation and safety of farmworkers. A spokesman said:
"Ben & Jerry's is opposed to child labor of any kind whatsoever. The company has an established track record standing for justice and equity for all including five plus years with Milk with Dignity supporting migrant workers. The Milk with Dignity Standards Council ensures that farmworkers are fairly compensated for their labor, work in healthy conditions, and builds in additional safeguards for those who are 16 and 17."
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Flashback The Stryker Corporation and the Arcus Foundation: Billionaires behind the new 'LGBT' movement

Jennifer Bilek
First Things
Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:47 UTC
lgbt millionaire support social engineeering
Sally Jewell (L), National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis and millionaire Tim Gill (R)
Billionaire 'philanthropists' have been driving the change from LGB to LBGT. The Stryker Corporation and their Arcus Foundation is just one example.

Not long ago, the gay rights movement was a small group of people struggling to follow their dispositions within a larger heterosexual culture. Gays and lesbians were underdogs, vastly outnumbered and loosely organized, sometimes subject to discrimination and abuse. Their story was tragic, their suffering dramatized by AIDS and Rock Hudson, Brokeback Mountain and Matthew Shepard.

Today's movement, however, looks nothing like that band of persecuted outcasts. The LGBT rights agenda — note the addition of "T" — has become a powerful, aggressive force in American society. Its advocates stand at the top of media, academia, the professions, and, most important, Big Business and Big Philanthropy. Consider the following case.

Comment: More on the various groups mentioned:

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'Havana syndrome' was NOT caused by energy weapon of foreign enemies, intelligence report claims

Keith Griffith
Daily Mail
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:20 UTC
US embassy havana
The mysterious aliment is named for the US embassy in Havana (above) where the first cases were reported in 2016, and hundreds of people have since reported symptoms.
A new US intelligence assessment claims it is unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible for the mysterious cluster of symptoms known as 'Havana syndrome', according to a new report.

The assessment casts doubt on the popular theory that directed energy weapons were involved in the phenomenon, two intelligence officials who are familiar with the findings told the Washington Post on Wednesday.

Named for the Cuban city where US embassy personnel first reported cases in 2016, Havana syndrome has since afflicted hundreds of officials at US facilities around the world, with symptoms including headaches and cognitive issues.

Comment: Note they're playing with words here. This new report is saying it's unlikely a foreign power is responsible for an energy weapon attack causing Havana syndrome (likely true). Previous reports weren't speculating on the origin, they were simply saying a plausible cause is pulsed electromagnetic energy. Despite what's written above, it would appear the two reports aren't mutually exclusive. In other words, maybe it's an inside job.

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Is investigating a school sexting incident the same as possessing child porn? A judge says no

Billy Binion
Reason
Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:04 UTC
school sexting incident
© Jesse Kunerth | Dreamstime.com
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.

A Colorado school administrator will no longer face child pornography charges for investigating a student sexting incident, a local judge ruled late last month, ending a legal odyssey that raised broader questions about prosecutorial discretion, overcriminalization, law enforcement accountability, and coercive plea bargaining.

Bradley Bass of Brush, Colorado, was facing up to 12 years in prison, a spot on the sex offender registry, and an end to his career. But that potential punishment never fit the alleged crime, particularly when considering that no one involved in the case, including the prosecution, posited Bass meant any harm when he conducted a probe in accordance with school board policy.
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Kayla Lemieux, Canadian teacher with size-Z prosthetic breasts, placed on paid leave

Patrick Reilly
New York Post
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:56 UTC
Kayla Lemieux prosthetic breasts teacher
Transgender teacher, Kayla Lemieux, inside the Toronto school shop classroom.
The Canadian high school teacher who wears massive Z-cup prosthetic breasts in class has been placed on leave after The Post revealed that she rarely wears them outside of school.

The Halton School District confirmed that Oakville Trafalgar High School shop teacher Kayla Lemieux was put on paid leave Tuesday.

"While not currently on an active assignment, the teacher remains employed with the (Halton District School Board)," spokesperson Heather Francey told the Toronto Sun.

Comment: This story keeps on getting more and more bizarre! It's still difficult to determine if this person is trolling (which, at this point, would have to involve an inhuman level of commitment) or mentally ill.

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COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship

Jonathan Turley
New York Post
Sun, 26 Feb 2023 11:53 UTC
wuhan lab bat
© ECOHEALTH ALLIANCEA team of researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the EcoHealth Alliance have trapped bats in caves all over China to sample them for coronaviruses.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Energy Department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak.

The conclusion is reportedly based on a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress. Many will be exploring why the scientific evidence of a lab leak was so slow to emerge from intelligence agencies.

However, for my part, the most alarming aspect was the censorship, not the science.

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'The Last of Us' - Global Warming Zombies

Eric Worrall
Watts Up with That
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:41 UTC
The Last of Us
© HBO
You know it had to happen - but the one scene explaining the problem was caused by global warming is entertaining nonsense.
The fungus zombies in The Last of Us are fictional, but real fungi can infect people, and they're becoming more resistant

Published: February 24, 2023 8.32am AEDT

Gerry Wright
Professor of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University

Many of the people watching The Last of Us are likely there for the zombies.

I love the zombies too, but I'm really there for the fungus.

I've been studying fungi since my PhD work in the 1980s, and I grow more fascinated by these amazing organisms with every passing year.

In the HBO series and the video game that inspired it, a parasitic fungus — a fictitious mutation of the very real cordyceps — jumps from insects to humans and quickly spreads around the world, rendering its victims helpless to control their thoughts and actions. Far-fetched fungal fear-mongering? It's definitely fictional, but maybe not as preposterous as it might seem.

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Read more: https://theconversation.com/the-fungus-zombies-in-the-last-of-us-are-fictional-but-real-fungi-can-infect-people-and-theyre-becoming-more-resistant-200224
There is a grain of truth in their yarn. Cordyceps infects mostly insects, taking control of their actions and causing them to help the fungus complete its reproductive cycle - finally sprouting through the body of the insect. Don't click the link unless you have a strong stomach.
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Iran: Who is poisoning hundreds of schoolgirls?


Middle East Eye
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:55 UTC
Iran protest
Anger and fear mount in Iran as fingers are pointed at ultra-conservative and opposition groups over poisoning incidents Parents protest outside the governor's building in Qom over school poisonings (IRNA)
Hundreds of schoolgirls in Iran have been hospitalised in recent weeks after being poisoned by what officials have described as an "intentional" gas attack.

Although incidents have been reported across the country, the majority of cases have centred around the holy city of Qom.

BBC Persian reported that as many as 800 students in Qom had been poisoned so far, and that a number of cases had also been detected in the capital, Tehran. Younes Panahi, a deputy health minister, told media that the poisonings were likely intentional - though he later claimed he was misquoted - while Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, the attorney general, has also described them as "probably intentional".

Comment: The connection with the recent mass demonstrations is notable, because Western involvement in those have been exposed as yet another failed attempt at a colour revolution.

Whilst the poisonings do indeed appear authentic, one wonders whether at least some of them are instead part of social contagion, of which young females seem to be particularly prone, and to a psychological condition which seems to be even more prominent in recent times.

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FBI investigating genderfluid former nuclear official - media


RT
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:36 UTC
Sam Brinton
© AFP / Slaven VlasicSam Brinton attends a movie premiere in New York, November 17, 2022
The FBI is investigating allegations that Sam Brinton, a nuclear engineer recently fired from the Biden administration, stole clothes from a Tanzanian fashion designer at a Texas airport, Fox News has reported.

The designer, Asya Khamsin, lost a suitcase full of custom-designed clothing while traveling from Houston, Texas, to Washington DC in 2018. The theft went unsolved at the time, but Khamsin reported it again to Houston Police Department in December when she spotted photographs of Brinton wearing her designs.

Khamsin posted pictures of herself and Brinton wearing the same clothes to Twitter last month.

Officers in Houston have since handed the case over to the FBI, Fox News reported on Tuesday.

Comment: The dude really is a deviant delinquent. Good thing he's looking at jail time instead of a cushy job in the Biden administration:

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Gunman nonchalantly shooting homeless man execution-style in broad daylight in St. Louis

Ben Kesslen and Lee Brown
New York Post
Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:09 UTC
Deshawn Thomas, man shoots homeless man
© TwitterA bystander taking video caught the murder happening in broad daylight.
A St. Louis man was arrested Tuesday after a video appeared to catch him nonchalantly shooting a homeless man execution-style in broad daylight.

Deshawn Thomas, 23, was arrested in connection with the Monday murder but has yet to be charged, police said.

Thomas can be seen struggling to load his gun as he stands right behind the homeless man, who is sitting on the curb just a few feet away, a bystander video posted online shows.

He then appears to fire at the yet-to-be-identified victim, who raised his arms at one point, but made no attempt to run away and seemed almost resigned to his fate, the video shows.

"Oh my God. He just f-king killed him," the witness can be heard saying.

The shooting happened in the heart of downtown St. Louis around 10 a.m. Monday, police said.
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