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Controversial bill to loosen Iowa child labor laws advances

Lauren Sforza
The Hill
Wed, 19 Apr 2023 11:22 UTC
Iowa Cap
© Charlie Neibergall/APIowa State Capitol
A bill that would loosen Iowa's child labor laws advanced this week as advocacy groups decried proposed labor guidelines.

Iowa's GOP-controlled state Senate early Tuesday morning passed the bill 32-17 to approve extended work hours for teenagers and allowing them to serve alcohol under certain conditions. The Des Moines Register reported that proposal has sparked labor union protests and criticism from the U.S. Labor Department's top lawyer, Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda, who said it would contribute to the number of children who are working illegally at some workplace.

The vote was largely split down party lines, but two Republicans joined all Democrats who voted against the bill.

The legislation, which would still need to be passed by the House and signed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) before it is enacted, would allow children under the age of 16 to work up to six hours a day, which is two more hours than the current threshold. It also extends how late children can work to 9 p.m. during the school year and 11 p.m. during the summer.
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Strikes bring Germany to standstill, with railways and four airports paralysed


Breitbart
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:00 UTC
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© APPublic transport strike in Frankfurt, Germany
An eight-hour strike brought Germany's railways to a standstill on Friday morning, while walkouts also were underway at four major German airports in a parallel pay dispute.

The EVG rail workers' union called for members to walk out between 3 a.m. and 11 a.m. Germany's main train operator, state-owned Deutsche Bahn, announced shortly after that call on Wednesday that it was canceling long-distance services between 3 a.m. and 1 p.m. and that most regional trains also would be canceled.

EVG says it needs to step up pressure on employers as it seeks an inflation-busting pay raise. Deutsche Bahn, which is one of dozens of companies hit by the strike, has called the walkout "pointless and unnecessary" and accused EVG of trying to score points in a bitter long-term rivalry with another rail union.

The walkout follows a full-day strike on March 27 that paralyzed the railway network. That strike was coordinated with another union, ver.di, which brought most of Germany´s airports and some regional transit networks to a standstill.
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School shooter Audrey Hale's manifesto a 'blueprint on total destruction' say pols, who claim FBI is stalling its release

Stephanie Pagones
New York Post
Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:20 UTC
audrey hale transgender school shooter
© Linkedin/Audrey HaleCBS asked employees to avoid identifying shooter Audrey Hale as transgender in its reporting, even though the police provided the information as part of the investigation.
Nashville shooter Audrey Hale's manifesto is a "blueprint on total destruction" which the FBI are stalling releasing, according to local politicians, who describe its contents as "astronomically dangerous".

Almost a month after Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender, killed six at the city's Covenant elementary school before being shot by police authorities have yet to release a motive or any of the writings seized from her home, despite growing pressure.

Rep. Tim Burchett, (R-Tenn.) told The Post he knew the FBI was behind the delay, saying the news was "disappointing" and calling for documents to be released to grieving loved ones as well as members of Congress.

The manifesto "could maybe tell us a little bit about what's going on inside of her head," he added. "I think that would answer a lot of questions."

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Good. Florida LGBTQ group cancels Pride parade when told it must be adults only

C.G. Jones
The Post Millennial
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:08 UTC
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© The Post MillennialFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis
Officials in Florida shut down gay pride parade amid bill banning children attending adult performances.

Officials in a southeastern Florida town have shut down a gay pride parade and restricted other pride events, disallowing anyone under the age of 21 from attending. This comes after Florida Governor Ron Desantis is set to pass into law that would keep children out of drag shows.

The Pride Alliance of the Treasure Coast posted to Facebook that the event was going to be limited to people 21 years and older after several talks with the Port St. Lucie officials, per WFLA.

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'Drag mom' who mentored 11-year-old child drag queen at Satan-themed Oregon pub is sentenced to less than one year in prison for 11 felony child sex crimes

Emma James
Daily Mail
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:39 UTC
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Kelsey Meta Boren, 31, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree. She previously said she was Vanellope's 'drag mom'
A 'drag mom' and former elementary school teacher has been sentenced to less than a year in prison after being convicted of felony child abuse crimes.

Kelsey Meta Boren, 31, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree last month.

She previously worked as a teacher for the Fern Ridge School District, in Oregon, but was suspended following the allegations coming to light last year.

Comment: From a previous Daily Mail article:
Boren has already reportedly told cops that she had spent several years prior to her arrest swapping child porn with pedophiles online.

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One charge relates to creating a pornographic image which police believe was of a neighbor. Court documents state the picture was taken several years ago and that she shared the image often.

[...]

Boren, who performed drag under the name Alwaiz Craving, is accused of sharing child porn images and told detectives that she has an 'uncontrollable itch' to communicate with pedophiles.


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YouTube moves to further squelch criticism of transgender agenda, demonetizes Sara Gonzales, Matt Walsh, and Tim Pool

Joseph MacKinnon
Blaze
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 05:35 UTC
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YouTube has demonetized prominent conservatives and other dissenters in an apparent campaign to squelch criticism of the transgender agenda.

Sara Gonzales, the host of BlazeTV's "The News & Why It Matters," podcaster Tim Pool, and Matt Walsh, the recently hacked conservative commentator behind the film "What Is a Woman?", have each reportedly seen their revenue streams dammed in part or in full on the platform in recent days.

Gonzales noted on Thursday, "My YouTube channel had 3 videos removed today and received a strike for telling the truth about transgenderism. @Timcast just had 2 videos removed on his channel. They demonetized @MattWalshBlog's entire channel."


"They want to censor us out of existence," said Gonzales, adding in a subsequent tweet, "We will never surrender."
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The Discord leaks: Justification to quash encrypted messaging?

Marie Hawthorne
The Organic Prepper
Thu, 20 Apr 2023 05:05 UTC
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On April 13, the FBI took 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jake Teixiera into custody for posting top secret military documents on a private Discord chat group. A large amount of classified information has been exposed, and people want answers. Why is this young man getting arrested when other people leak to the press all the time? Who gives a 21-year-old top-secret clearance? Are there some other, less-obvious motives at work here?

First, let's look at the leaks.

Let's look first at the leaks themselves. In early March, classified documents started popping up on a public Discord channel. They had originally been posted in a private, invitation-only chat group on Discord with a few dozen members in December 2022 or January 2023. At some point, one of the private group members started posting the classified documents to a public group. And once on the public group, the classified documents rapidly made their way around the internet. (source)
  • This series of leaks provided evidence that American intelligence had been spying on allies in Israel and South Korea. (source)
  • We had also been collecting intelligence on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (source)
  • There was a discussion of Egypt producing weapons for Russia, despite receiving over $1 billion per year from the Americans. (source) Egyptian and American officials both denied this vehemently.
  • Some of the leaked documents included information about a spring offensive in Ukraine. They also indicated that American leaders are not confident in Ukraine's ability to successfully launch an offensive this spring, due to a lack of trained personnel. (source)
  • Nonetheless, despite a grim outlook for a Ukrainian spring offensive, no one is anticipating peace talks between Kyiv and the Kremlin in 2023. (source) The powers that be are prepared for 2023 to consist of a long, slow grind for Ukrainian and Russian troops.
  • Leaked information also includes the fact that American Special Forces groups have been in Ukraine for some time. (source) contrary to repeated statements about how no American boots were ever going to be on the ground. (source)
  • Information about a spring offensive could, in theory, jeopardize troops on the ground, though the Russians don't seem to be taking the leaked information particularly seriously. Speculation within the pro-Russian channels seems to be that this is some kind of decoy. (source)
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What this week's deadly fire at a Beijing hospital says about Chinese media

Initium Media
China Media Project
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 22:13 UTC
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"At all media, there is an unwritten rule that you don't do negative news in Beijing, and that all [media] leaders must be politically conscious," says Wu Li (吴黎), a journalist who has worked in the profession for more than five years, focusing mainly on society news.

At around 9 PM on Tuesday this week, an official news bulletin about a fire at Beijing's Changfeng Hospital (长峰医院) began circulating on social media from the Beijing Daily, the official organ of the city's leadership, accompanied by the sharing on social media of a video of the fire taken by a local resident. But aside from these posts, it was difficult to track down further information about the fire online.

Seeing the news bulletin, local journalists hurried to the scene and to other hospitals where patients had been transferred. As they set to work, they were also asking a question that puzzled and shocked many city residents: How was it that the fire had broken out at 1 PM that afternoon, eight hours earlier, but there had been a complete news vacuum for that entire time?

In an era when anyone can witness and communicate information, how was it that there had been not a drop of news prior to the official bulletin?

In those first hours of catch-up, the priority was getting the story out, so this question had to wait. Before long, the first images started coming out from Caixin and other mainstream media organizations on the scene.
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Uganda delays new anti-LGBTQ law


RT
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 21:16 UTC
Uganda anti-gay bill protesters
© Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni declined on Thursday to sign the country's anti-homosexuality bill into law, instead returning it to parliament for revision to ensure it does not "frighten" people who need "rehabilitation."

Following a meeting with lawmakers, Museveni proposed that a provision of the legislation that imposes punishment for people who voluntarily come out as having practiced homosexuality be decriminalized.

"This country has issued amnesty for people who have carried out criminal activities of treasonous nature against this country. A similar provision would be provided in this law to ensure that a person who comes out on his own is not criminalized," he said.

Uganda's parliament approved the anti-LGBTQ bill on March 21. The legislation makes certain homosexual acts a capital crime, with the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" and life imprisonment for "recruitment, promotion and funding" of homosexual "activities."

Museveni has vowed to approve the bill despite strong opposition from numerous foreign LGBTQ advocacy groups, which have condemned the measure as "hate legislation" and "discriminatory."

The East African country's leader, who previously referred to homosexuals as "deviations from the normal," explained his delay in signing the bill, stating that although he agrees with it "totally," his concern is for the "psychologically disoriented person."
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US Republicans support culture war - poll


RT
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 21:06 UTC
Luna Tic, PrideFest, pride, drag, Scranton
© Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesFile photo: Drag Queen Luna Tic takes to the stage at a PrideFest event in President Joe Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, June 2022.
Likely voters in the Republican presidential primaries believe that fighting the culture war is more important than preserving social entitlements by a two-to-one margin, according to a new survey by the Wall Street Journal. The question arose amid speculation that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis might challenge former president Donald Trump for the 2024 nomination.

The survey, conducted last week and published on Friday, showed that 55% of Republican respondents think opposing the "woke ideology in our schools and businesses" is more important than protecting Social Security and Medicare from cuts. Only 27% prioritized preserving the entitlement programs.

Asked if they would support a candidate who pledged to preserve the entitlements as they are, 49% of all voters - Republicans and Democrats alike - said yes.

Pollsters asked the question because Trump criticized DeSantis for supporting cuts to entitlement programs when he was in Congress. The 45th president is seeking the Republican nomination for the 2024 election, while the Florida governor has not officially declared his candidacy. Even so, their supporters have engaged in an online war of words over the past several weeks, which has often taken nasty turns.

Comment: The onslaught of the Woke deals with issues more fundamental than social entitlements. Thus, the benefits take a back seat in order of importance.

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