Plaça de Catalunya is the main square in Barcelona. It would be similar to Puerta del Sol in Madrid. This is where people tend to come and relax. And lots of pigeons come here to be fed. It's also across from the large department store, El Corte Inglés. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNYtUUL1ZfE
"Indonesia is on track to outlaw sex and cohabitation outside of marriage with penalties of up to a year in prison, according to government officials.
The new criminal code, which would apply to both citizens and foreigners, is expected to pass on Dec. 15 or as early as this week, the officials told Reuters.
Under the law, those who have sex before marriage may be punished with up to a year in prison, while those who live together out of wedlock face up to six months behind bars."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/indonesia-set-criminalize-sex-cohabitation-201649680.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjKtEyr2roc
This video is part of my day tour trip to Cuervanca and Taxco located 170 kilometres southwest of Mexico City. After lunch at the Atrio restaurant we had an hour to explore the area. The lovely poinsettia plants ordain the square in front the locked church. There is some freedom here to walk around and breathe fresh air without wearing a mask.It's high up in the mountains so the air is clean. In this video I walked around in the small square. Took several pictures then walked back down to the Mariner statue. We met up at 4:00 PM to take the van back to Mexico City.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjCxWqwPBMw
"The world over, mass shootings are frequently met with a common response: Officials impose new restrictions on gun ownership. Mass shootings become rarer. Homicides and suicides tend to decrease, too.
After a British gunman killed 16 people in 1987, the country banned semiautomatic weapons like those he had used. It did the same with most handguns after a 1996 school shooting. It now has one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world.
In Australia, a 1996 massacre prompted mandatory gun buybacks that saw, according to some estimates, as many as one million firearms melted into slag. The rate of mass shootings plummeted from once every 18 months to, so far, only one in the 26 years since.
Canada also tightened gun laws after a 1989 mass shooting. So did Germany in 2002, New Zealand in 2019 and Norway last year.
Only the United States, whose rate and severity of mass shootings is without parallel outside of conflict zones, has so consistently refused to answer those events with tightened gun laws.
Though such restrictions have always brought some controversy, most were broadly embraced by voters in other countries."
https://worldnewsera.com/news/europe/after-mass-gun-killings-other-nations-changed-course-to-notable-effect/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX5UfupU_Cc
"After a driver tried forcing a family off the road, in what prosecutors say was a racially-motivated hate crime attack in Florida, the father fought back in self defense.
The roadway attack escalated at a red light where the man got out of his car, charged and tried punching the father, court documents show. But the incident ended when the dad, who is Black, got the man in a chokehold, according to officials.
What Jordan Patrick Leahy, 29, didn’t know was that the father is a martial artist who swiftly dodged his closed fist and kept Leahy restrained until Pinellas County deputies arrived, according to court documents.
A federal jury in Tampa found Leahy guilty of a hate crime on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida. He faces up to 10 years in prison."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dad-chokes-driver-tried-run-194337046.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLhdbwWaR8o
Atlantic Antic is back after taking a hiatus during the pandemic. Unfortunately the storm from Hurricane Ian affected the turn out. I wore a raincoat so I had my hands freed up not having to hold an umbrella while I held my camera to film what's out there. Most of the action that takes place west of Smith Street never materialized. All the trucks for the kids games never showed up. No pony rides. Just a dull wet and dreary day. Last week would have been great. It's usually held in September. Not sure whose idea was this to hold it in the first Sunday in October. It was also cold out there. Good thing I brought a pair of mittens.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srh-fcEeWO0
"A 48-year-old reformed inmate who served 25 years in prison was deported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Cambodia on Tuesday.
Phoeun You, a former child refugee from Cambodia, was sent back to a country he is barely familiar with after failing to get a pardon from California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Such a pardon would have allowed him to stay in the U.S., where his family has stayed for decades since fleeing the Khmer Rouge when he was a 1-year-old child."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cambodian-refugee-came-us-1-001451032.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaqd39fWKkI
"An airline passenger has been fined nearly $2,000 after two undeclared egg and beef sausage McMuffins and a ham croissant were found in their luggage by an airport security dog upon arriving in Australia.
The unnamed person traveling from Indonesia to Australia was fined $2,664 Australian dollars ($1,874 in American dollars) after the trio of McDonald's breakfast sandwiches were found in their luggage on arriving at Darwin Airport, Australia's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry reported."
https://www.bing.com/search?q=%242000+australian+to+us%24&qs=UT&pq=%242000+aus&sc=10-9&cvid=5917021D69E446D3A3E2606219EB599E&FORM=CHRDEF&sp=1
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb1BqKW12E0
"The Biden administration is proposing a new labor rule that could classify millions of gig workers as employees — a move that would challenge the low-cost labor models behind Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Uber, Lyft and DoorDash.
The proposed rule announced by the Labor Department on Tuesday aims to broaden the test that determines whether workers are entitled to protections such as minimum wage and overtime pay under federal law.
“While independent contractors have an important role in our economy, we have seen in many cases that employers misclassify their employees as independent contractors, particularly among our nation’s most vulnerable workers,” said Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh in a statement Tuesday."
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/11/business/gig-worker-employee-labor-proposal/index.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izObJym6OTg
"Stressed and sickened by thoughts of their rights and democracy slipping away, young Americans across gender, racial, geographic and education lines banded together last week to help save the Democrats from what many foresaw as a sizable midterm defeat. If the elections had been decided by voters 45 and older, Republicans would have won the House by an even greater margin and likely taken the Senate. But thanks to young voters (especially the 18-to-29 age group, which had the second-highest turnout in midterm elections in almost 30 years, according to early estimates from Tufts University), Democrats retained the Senate, showing that an alliance of Gen Z and millennial voters answered history’s call to defend democracy. The majority of them rejected the big lie."
https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/19/republicans-fear-the-young/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDWblleirM8