The newest public boycott campaign in Egypt is the campaign to boycott the telephone landline on the next 21st of July 2008. Telecom Egypt decided to raise the landline fees with no consideration to people's current economic situation which is going from bad to worse. If you live in Egypt and If you own a telephone landline Then please boycott it for one day. Make your phone calls
Here is a video regarding the practices of Monsanto, the chemical manufacturer turned agricultural giant, that I felt was significant enough to post. Please share as you see fit.
And from Mercola.com website:
"It may sound outrageous that a corporation could prevent farmers from reusing seeds produced after each harvest, as has been done since the beginning of agriculture, but this is alr
Source: Bangkok Post
Contractors losing money on state jobs
Local contractors are threatening to boycott government projects unless the authorities act within 30 days to help them deal with skyrocketing construction material prices. “We are in a very hard situation, if the government still ignores us, we will stage a strike and we won’t join bids for [...]
They are the summer darlings of every top Parisian department store: Chinese tourists who save on hotel costs to lavish their savings on French fashion, perfume and designer labels they cannot buy at home.But this year Paris's boutiques and tour firms have become the latest casualties of the diplomatic row surrounding the Olympic torch protests, as Chinese tourists boycott France as a holiday dest
The proposed academic boycott of Israel continues to test friendshipsA close friend and respected academic has asked me to post the whole of the controversial Motion 25 from the University and College Union Congress in May. This is the one that proposes a "boycott" of Israel, which I oppose. As he points out, the word "boycott" is never used.
Well here it is. Decide for yourself:
25 - Composite:
Scanning Google News today and reading this story about the Associated Press in its fight against bloggers has me wondering whether it has come time for a one day credit card boycott in order to protest the deceptive and misleading practices of credit card companies?
It’s one way that I can think of demonstrating to credit card companies that they need [...]
AP is threatening bloggers with lawsuits just for quoting them and even for linking to them. Seriously. Even links in comments.In one of the daftest 'monetisation' strategies I've ever heard of, they've targeted The Drudge Retort and made clear they will go after others.The quotes range from 33 to 79 words long.Says Jeff Jarvis:This complaint comes from an organization that leaches off original re
"Bakersfield carrot farmer William Bolthouse donated $100,000 to an initiative aiming to fight gay marriage — a measure that will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot along with the presidential race. The initiative qualified for the ballot Monday, less than a month after the state Supreme Court overturned a ban on gay marriage. June 17 marks the date when California counties will be permitted to issue m
LAHORE: Former chief minister Punjab and central leader of PML (Q) Chaudhry Pervez Elahi has announced at a press conference in Lahore that his party would boycott the election of the chief minister Punjab and they would sit in a tent outside the assembly house.Chaudhry Pervez Elahi said that the present government creating problems for [...]
LONDON - PalestineNews : Former British Work and Pensions Secretary, Peter Hain called on the European states especially his country to open talks with the Hamas Movement, warning that the objection to this trend is crippling to the peace process in the Middle East. The British Guardian newspaper said that Hain's remarks, which were made in New York, broke ranks with the British government and the
Dunkin Donuts ,the American Donuts famous chain has pulled an ad featuring Rachel Ray in the TV because she was wearing an Arab scarf or Keffiyeh after the criticism of some Conservatives in the main stream media. They thought that Ray was wearing a "traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad" Now believe it or not Non Arabs in the United
So this morning, I'm checking out the daily forums on The Urban Blogger and a post by my girl Necole Bitchie catches my eye. She poses the question "Are you guys on any "white sites" blog rolls." to our fellow bloggers. She goes on to recount an experience that she had with Faded Youth Blog and posts an email that she received from them.
By the excerpt below, F.Y.B. is making it crystal clear
So many homeschoolers are up in arms about a contest that Subway has been running. You can read about it here. Apparently it is a contest that specifically states that it is NOT open to homeschoolers. The question then is this... is this discrimination against homeschoolers? Many folks think so. So much in fact, that they are calling for a boycott of Subway and letters to be written to management.
FCUK Singapore saysIt's about time Malaysians start boycott Singapore products.In its blog post titled "Singapore robs Pulau Batu Puteh from Malaysia"Today is a sad day for all Malaysians. Singapore has robbed Malaysia of an island that does not belong to Singapore. Just look at the map and see for yourself, it does no logic how Pulau Batu Puteh (Singapore calls it Pedra Branca) belongs to Singapo
Union Latvia has called upon its members to boycott Chinese goods for two weeks in protest against policies in Tibet. The union has initiated a “Don’t Buy Chinese” good campaign and uted stores, cafes and other business establishments to display a sign saying “We Don’t Buy Chinese Goods.” The campaign supposedly is an endeavor to [...]
May 21rst is the “Boycott Twitter Day”, which is generally, refuse to use twitter for one day because people don’t like the outages that Twitter has been having. Twitter is a great service, that has seen its own share of outages and performance issues, but is that worthy of a boycott?
Probably Not.
So is this [...]
Reprinted from AutographAlert.comMany of our readers are coming forward with serious complaints they are having or have had with third party authenticators. Every possible mistake imaginable has been made by these companies who claim that they can authenticate autographs. One high profile “authenticator totally got it wrong on a complete limited signed edition and was running around the USA trying to get back their Certificates. Authenticating forgeries, secretarial, rubber stamped signatures, machine signed signatures as genuine is commonplace. Worse are the monumental amount of genuine autographs that are deemed not genuine. This is not hearsay, these are facts. Television news stations of a high profile “authenticator” passing forged signatures as genuine is starting to seem commo
If one were to replace "Republic of South Africa" with the "State of Israel," the rest should apply just as strongly. Israel today -- 60 years after its establishment through a deliberate and systemic process of ethnic cleansing of a large majority of the indigenous Palestinian population (for an authoritative historical account of the "birth" of Israel, refer to Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine) -- still practices racial discrimination against its own "non-Jewish" citizens; it still maintains the longest military occupation in modern history; it still denies Palestinian refugees -- uprooted, dispossessed and expelled by Zionists over the last six decades -- their internationally-recognized right to return to their homes and properties; and it still commits wa
In Monday’s LA Times, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote a must-read piece about the history of Olympic boycotting comparing the 1968 Olympics to today’s boycott talks of the 2008 Beijing Olympics some 40 years later.Kareem says best what PreraceJitters.com has been trying to express for months now on this website. The games are in Beijing at this point, and it is best to engage China rather than isolate them. The United States should use this opportunity to build a bridge to improve life for Chinese citizens and the lives of those whom Chinese policies affect.The Basketball Hall of Fame member best writes about the struggle of African Americans at the time of 1968 Olympics in Mexico City—which coincided with the height of the Vietnam War. Instead of a total boycott of the Mexico City Games,
As I reported two days ago, Al Sharpton is leading a City Wide Boycott of the Sean Bell verdict. He is calling on citizens of New York City to come together for a day of active protests throughout the city. Sharpton and the National Action Network have organized a citywide “pray in” in six locations across Manhattan and Brooklyn. The locations are as follows: 125Th Street and 3rd Ave, Park Avenue and 34Th Street, 60Th Street and 3rd Avenue, One Police Plaza, Varick and Houston Street, and in Brooklyn, House of the Lord Pentecostal Church located at 415 Atlantic Avenue. At each location, protesters are asked to get down on their knees in prayer, leading to a citywide slowdown. The entrances to the Midtown Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, and the Triborough Bridge are to be affected. Nicole P
'There are those who say we should not open our windows, because open windows let in flies and other insects. They want the windows to stay closed, so we all expire from lack of air. But we say, `Open the windows, breathe the fresh air and at the same time fight the flies and insects.'
Deng Xiaoping, October 1986
In my life I have never faced starvation. I have never gone hungry, no matter
NANG magkita kami ni Robin Padilla sa presscon ng Ikaw Pa Rin, Bongga Ka Boy, tinanong namin siya kung matutuloy ang pagpunta niya sa Beijing para sa 2008 Olympics.
Malapit nang mag-umpisa (August 8, 2008) ang Olympic Games kaya naalala namin ang aming kuwentuhan nang magkaroon ng taping sa Beijing noong nakaraang taon ang Asian Treasures.
Nabanggit noon ni Robin na gusto niya na mapanood ng
Earlier today I came across the following comments on a blog post about “saving” the U.S. dollar:
Boycott chineese goods, all of our good paying jobs are being shipped over sea’s mostly to china and how do the expect us to buy anything when we have no good paying jobs beside we have nothing to sell [...]
Starbucks Baristas - Give them freedom or give them death!I was over at iww.org site reading up the the latest Starbucks response to the anti-union intimidation charges in Grand Rapids, Michigan (see story). And I thought to myself, how can this be helping Starbucks recover? How can this be helping them in the eyes of the American people as they try and convince us to come back into the stores in the era of $4 dollar a gallon gas? Then I thought...the blue collar customer has never been the target market for Starbucks. In fact, the union busting, send everything off to India or China capitalists have been their ideal customer for a long time. Now drill down one more level and you then realize that the soccer moms married to the capitalists who close down factories here and send manufactur
I think I need a scorecard to keep track of all the boycotts and pissing matches. First, Chinese netizens decided to boycott Louis Vuitton, Carrefour, and anything else French because of the Olympic torch relay debacle. Then the French decided they had nothing to lose, so they gave honorary citizenship to Dalai Lama and Hu Jia.Then there was the case of the American volunteer who was allegedly harassed for going to Carrefour and accused of being French (Shanghaiist story). After the initial report, it seems that it wasn't too bad and the man wasn't hurt. If incidents like this are repeated or involve violence, there is sure to be more backlash to follow. Of course, Shenzhen has yet to see such a protest--Carrefour is only slightly less crowded than usual.Speaking of other boycotts, apparen
Bahrain has begun a new campaign targetting gay/lesbian citizens in a bid to cleanse them from the country. The government is working to ban all foreign homosexuals from being able to obtain residence. The government is also conducting a study to see how widespread homosexuality is in the country and what can be done to counter it. The government also advises teachers to look out for signs of homosexuality amongst students and to take appropriate disciplinary action.
This is outrageous and our voices must be heard!
Click here to email the Economic Development Board
(The EDB is responsible for business and tourism within the country)
Testemunho Gao Zhisheng, retirado da ONG Boycott Beijing OlympicsPetições e projectosFor the People of TibetTell President Bush to take a stand for the Tibetan people (da International Campaign for Tibet)
The Great American Gas Boycott: Part Two
Declaring Our Independence From Foreign & Domestic Oil
One of the reasons the original gas boycott was ineffective was it lasted only a single day. Gas pri...
I was reading on Daily Kos yesterday that Obamamaniacs are calling for a boycott of ABC, and the advertisers that advertised during the Debate on the 16th. What in the world are they thinking? O yea boycotting advertisers is going to make a difference in this election. Sometimes I just wonder if they really think about some of their statements. Keep the hope alive Obamamaniacs your leader will most likely still have the nomination. Don't get your panties in a bunch.
Sound and Fury: 'Goons,' the Carrefour Boycott, Nepal etc etcSo the Dalai Lama is in the U.S. and is going to meet US President George W. Bush's special envoy, Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky. The timing is, to put it mildly, unfortunate. There's already so much sound and fury out there that it's hard to think constructively. Beijing is already steaming mad and no doubt the internet will add the the furore. At this point it would be great if everyone could just back off, take a deep breath and maybe start over. But of course, that's the whole point of the lead up to the Olympics, it's irresistible to protesters as the pressure on China will only get stronger as 8-8-08 (the opening ceremony date) approaches. It's still puzzling what exactly they hope to accomplish. The Darfur campa
Well, i never considered myself an anarchist, but here you have it. I’m boycotting something. I’m boycotting CNN. Their tag line is “the most trusted name in news”. Seriously? How can we trust you, if you refuse to acknowledge that there are other countries out there. Dear CNN, did you know that the world does [...]
According to Queer Activism:
"Russell Weiner, CEO of Rock Star, is the son of Michael Weiner, known better as extreme right-wing radio talkshow host MICHAEL FUCKING SAVAGE. Savage expresses extreme viewpoints filled with anti-immigrant, gaybashing, intolerant, hate-filled sentiments. He has applauded the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, opposed aid for tsunami victims, and called for the dropping of nuclear weapons on an an Arab country, any Arab country. He was fired from a brief stint at MSNBC after telling a gay caller to "get AIDS and die". He runs a group called The Paul Revere Society, which among other things, calls for the imprisonment of anti-war activists for sedition.
Rock Star is a family business. Michael helped formulate the drink, drawing on his long-time background as
By Peter Heinlein VOA News, Addis Ababa (April 14, 2008) - The biggest opposition party that participated in Ethiopia's nationwide elections Sunday is planning to boycott the second part of the voting, charging the first half was rigged. Another, larger opposition group had pulled out even before the first vote. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports the withdrawal of the two largest opposition factions would clear the way for Ethiopia's ruling party to take control of local councils nationwide, and to increase its majority in parliament.The leadership of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement voted Monday to join a boycott when Ethiopia votes in critical municipal elections next Sunday.The OFDM had been the largest opposition party participating last Sunday, as Ethiopians voted fo
The International Olympic Committee harvest today what he has sown this day of July 2001 when, choosing the host city for the 2008 Games, he preferred Beijing to Toronto.
At the same time, we could easily predict the increased calls for a boycott of the Games and other forms of protest to the Chinese regime.
At the global level, any sporting event, except maybe the World Cup in soccer, does
The U.S. war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay are running into a new obstacle: boycotts by the defendants. Three men accused of being al-Qaida operatives have now chosen to boycott their upcoming trials. More defendants are expected to do the same as the military attempts to prosecute dozens of prisoners at the isolated, high-security U.S. base overlooking the Caribbean. At pretrial hearings this week, two men, a Saudi and a Yemeni, denounced the tribunals as a sham and said they would not appear for future hearings. Defense attorneys say they could face sanctions from the bar associations in their home states if they don't uphold the wishes of their clients. ~ read on... ~
No matter which major presidential candidate you prefer, your candidate is moving toward supporting a boycott of the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics.
Hillary Clinton:
In a statement released by her campaign Monday, the New York senator pointed to recent protests in Tibet; and to the Chinese government's failure to pressure the government of Sudan to end the violence in Darfur.
"These events underscore why I believe the Bush administration has been wrong to downplay human rights in its policy towards China," said Clinton.
"At this time, and in light of recent events, I believe President Bush should not plan on attending the opening ceremonies in Beijing, absent major changes by the Chinese government."
John McCain:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday he
The Nixon Center-published “National Interest’s” Nick Gvosdev gets a plug from Andrew Sullivan for pointing out that China’s not the only country doing business with Sudan. Nick writes:
Democratic Japan–a country identified by Senator McCain as a leading power to be included in any concert or league of democracies–is Sudan’s largest export destination (48 percent)–because Sudan’s [...]
The inaugural Indian Premier League was facing a media boycott on Thursday after the influential Indian Newspaper Society joined calls for "offending" accreditation conditions to be lifted.The Indian media has protested loudly over the IPL's decision to ban websites from covering matches and to prohibit international and local news agencies from supplying photographs to online clients."The accreditation terms failed to address the issues of intellectual property rights belonging to media as well as issues of press freedom," INS president Bahubali Shah said in a statement."The Indian Newspaper Society hopes a serious attempt will be made by the Indian Premier League to remove offending terms and conditions for media accreditation."In the absence of remedial action by the Indian Premier Leag
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said here Wednesday he opposed a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games and suggested building “continuing, profound and sincere friendship” with China. In his speech delivered in fluent Chinese at the Peking University, Rudd said he disagreed with those who had called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics, saying the event was “important for China’s continuing engagement with the world”. Rudd said Australia wanted to be a true friend with China, “a partner who sees beyond immediate benefit to the broader and firm basis for continuing, profound and sincere friendship”.It was a friendship that offered “unflinching advice and counsels restraint” to engage in principled dialogue about matters of contention, he said. Rudd also praised China
I plan on boycotting the Olympics, but, then again, I've boycotted every Olympics since 1976 (I don't count the attention I paid to the 1984 games because they were in Los Angeles and, thus, unavoidable). I didn't boycott the Seoul Olypics because of the rust on my Kia or Atlanta because of that modern Nostradamus, Ted Turner. In fact, my Olympic aversion has nothing to do with politics: The Olympics are just deadly boring. All of those "profiles" stuck in between a tiny bit of action; the announcers and their "let's go tos." There's the explosion of events that nobody cares about. I get that people in Bulgaria like handball because they could conduct illicit tournaments in abandoned wherehouses, but synchronized swimming? Somebody tells their little girl to keep practicing their aquatic
Baltimore — (TFN): 19 years after Tiananmen Square and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, don’t expect a boycott of the Beijing Olympics due to the events in Tibet. Only a few politicians remember the blessings of Communism and the reality of the Cold War.
Click here to watch the video and find [...]
Iranian Majis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel, called on the Muslim world to boycott goods from Europe because a European made a film and a European drew some cartoons. “The Islamic world’s best reaction(to the insults) is to boycott the countries that have allowed insults to Islamic sanctities.” He accused the West of being a “slave [...]
From the daily mail:
“French President Nicholas Sarkozy will boycott the opening of the Beijing Olympics unless China opens dialogue with the Dalai Lama and frees political prisoners, a French minister told Le Monde today.
Secretary of State for Human Rights Rama Yade said these conditions were “indispensable” for Sarkozy to attend the opening of the Games.
His [...]
Japan's royal family have said they may not attend the Beijing Olympics after several different issues have popped up between Japan and China, as well as the unrest in Tibet. The issues include disputed gas fields and Chinese-made "gyoza" dumplings.A government official was quoted as saying: "We were planning not to ask royals to go even before the gyoza incident (surfaced in January). It is all the more true now that the Tibetan unrest occurred."There has been no formal decision made on whether or not the Royal family will attend the Olympics. Source: Yahoo
The Norwegin government has been shocked by actions of China both in Tibet and its persecution of dissident critics. There is growing consensus among many Norwegians that their government should assume leadership in fighting for human rights in the world. Amnesty International has just released a scathing report which charges the Chinese government with increasing [...]
After Perez Hilton posted streams of songs that may or may not have been the work of Britney Spears (it turned out they were), Sony/BMG and its subsidiary Zomba filed a lawsuit against the gossip site. Hilton claims the suit is unfair because the songs were not downloadable, plenty of other sites were hosting them too, and because it "complied immediately" with each takedown notice received from RIAA lawyers. Now, PerezHilton.com has announced a short list of artists that are "dead to [them]," including Tori Amos, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, The Gossip, Adele, Lil' Mama, Pink, Usher, Justin Timberlake, and Whitney Houston. These artists -- and any others signed to Sony/BMG -- can expect to be invisible to Perez Hilton bloggers for the foreseeable future.These are s
Kudos to Mydin Mohamed Holdings Bhd for doing the right thing! Now, what about our GLC companies such as Petronas, when are they going to do something about this?Do you know that Petronas has a lot of business dealings with Dutch offshore companies?By the way, I wonder why Malaysian Chinamen companies didn’t want to boycott Dutch products like Mydin did. I thought Malaysia is multi-racial country and we are all supposed to share pain and tears together. :-) (Devilish smile there)Tags: fitna geert, geert wilders film
SarcasticGamer has not released a parody song for about a year but with EA’s recent announcement that Battlefileld:Bad Company is using microtransactions (around $2.00 US each) for a variety of different items that should be included in the retail cost ($59.99 US) to gamers. This video accompanies a full-on boycott of EA’s new title [...]
German Chancelor Angela Merkel became the first prominent world leader who has decided to boycott opening ceremonies at the Olympic Games to protest China’s brutal suppression of Tibetan protestors. She joins Poland’s prime Minister Donald Trusk and President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic who earlier announced their decisions to avoid being at [...]
Mentre vi scrivo queste poche parole sono ancora shoccato per quanto ho appena visto. Per questo ora voglio rendervi partecipi. Sarò sintetico, non c'è bisogno di alcun commento. McDonald's ha pensato bene di fare un videogame... e che videogame!Ci scusi Ronald McDonald se è il principale responsabile di una generazione di bomboloni con la crema. Ci scusi Ronald McDonald se la deforestazione della foresta pluviale e il maltrattamento degli animali allevati sono solo problemi fantascientifici inventati da qualche pazzoide.Ci scusi Ronald McDonald se i lavoratori McDonald's sono innegabilmente precari sottopagati.Ecco una delle schermate che compare in questo fantastico giocoVi consiglio di visitare il sito, giocare e leggere ogni dettaglio con attenzione... è tutta una simpatica parodia
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said in Canberra Wednesday a boycott of the Beijing Olympics was not a sensible thing to do. So even those who just say they might consider boycotting it if the situation is not handle properly. Well what is proper depend on differing perception of the people.
"I don't believe a boycott of the Olympics is a sensible or the right thing to do," Smith
Obviously I’m not a fan of Perez Hilton (he is my competition for a start) but I found I am not the only one to take a dislike to the current queen of internet gossip.
My main objections to Perez, real name Mario Lavandeira, is his stance on gay celebrities, I say let them be and [...]
France did not rule out boycotting the Olympics opening over the situation in Tibet, China. Thats what French President Sarkozy conveyed.
When asked about a possible boycott on a visit to the south-western Pyrenees region, Mr Sarkozy said: "All options are open and I appeal to the Chinese leaders' sense of responsibility."Yes, I agreed that the Chinese leader has a responsibility to maintain
CNN reported,
China's threats to crush the Tibetan uprisings were followed by protests in Britain and India on Saturday, while European politicians again raised the prospect of boycotting the Beijing Olympics if violence continues.Let a question be posed to those politicians, "Who started the violence in the first place?"
It is evident that Olympics has been used to achieve political aims and
From Pete Caldera:FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Boston Red Sox have threatened to boycott their season-opening games in Japan unless their coaches and other staff are paid for making the trip. Mike Lowell has told The Boston Globe the team voted unanimously not to play their final spring training game or to board the plane to Japan later Wednesday. Manager Terry Francona and his players were upset after learning coaches and other staff are not going to get a $40,000 stipend that the players are receiving. Francona had told his coaches they would be paid.The Red Sox must've forgotten about all those fans who paid to see them today. Classy.And I seem to remember Theo Epstein saying something about the the Yankees' players
The world's tiger population is declining precipitously, with the World Wildlife Fund estimating only 3,500 tigers left in the world - down from 1982 estimates of over 5,000. Habitat deforestation and traditional Chinese medicine are two contributing factors. So is China doing anything to encourage research into alternative remedies? No, in fact quite the opposite - China has a legal market for farmed tiger parts, and is considering legislation to legalize trade of all tiger parts.
hmmm.
Reporters Without Borders today urged heads of state, heads of government and members of royal families to boycott the 8 August opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games because of the Chinese government's mounting human rights violations and the glaring lack of freedom in China. “China has not kept any of the promises it made in 2001 when it was chosen to host these Olympics,” the press
International Olympic President Dr Jacques Rogge has urged countries not to boycott the Beijing Olympics this summer after protests in Tibet turned violent. The riots are the most violent in the small region in nearly 20 years.Rogge said: "We believe that the boycott doesn't solve anything. On the contrary, it is penalizing innocent athletes and it is stopping the organization from something that definitely is worthwhile organizing."An official IOC statement read: "The IOC shares the world's desire for a peaceful resolution to the tensions of past days in the Tibetan region of China. We hope that calm can return to the region as quickly as possible." Source: Yahoo
Steve, and many, many other bloggers are renewing my interest in either an Olympic boycott, or a large blog oriented protest action against the IOC.
Anonymous: “I’m not downsizing what is happening in China. I would never agree with such acts of violence.
However, the only people your affecting when boycotting the games are the athletes.”
It isn’t [...]
Kudos go out to Tibet Will Be Free for bringing this story to my attention. Around noon today (their time) in the British Museum, a pro-Tibet protester hung signs from around the necks of ancient Chinese Terracotta statues reading, “China, Stop Killing Tibetans” and “Boycott the Chinese Olympics.” The exhibit, which was reportedly [...]
Hollywood star and Tibet activist Richard Gere is slamming China for its recent bloody Himalayan protest, and is urging the world to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics.The outspoken Pretty Woman star was horrified at the treatment of demonstrators protesting against Chinese rule in Tibet on Friday, where at least 10 people were reported to [...]
Chinese military police were temporarily forced to
play defense when Tibetan protesters began throwing
rocks and bricks at the government hit-squad.
If you were to believe what the Chinese Government is telling the international community, you would think that the Dalai Lama and his followers in Tibet were terrorists no different than al-Qaida or the barbaric Chechens. [...]
Brenda Martin (left side) has been in a crowded, filthy Mexican prison for the last two years. Even though her former employer, Richard Waage, exonerated her in his internet pyramid scheme. The Mexican judicial system insisted on keeping Brenda in abominable conditions while under arrest. These conditions have made her suicidal.Former Canadian prime minister, Paul Martin went to Mexico to see what he could do about it, but more effort is needed by present PM, Stephen Harper.I think it's time to play hardball with our so called "NAFTA Buddies" down south. Checkout the "We don't need no stinkin' badges." video from the movie "Treasure of Sierra Madre". Boycott Mexican vacations and products until this situation is h
The Ford Boycott is Over!
You can read about it at worldnetdaily.com:
In the face of plummeting car sales, Ford Motor Company has taken steps to reduce its aggressive, pro-homosexual policies, prompting a family-rights group to call off its boycott of the carmaker.
The American Family Association says it’s suspending its two-year boycott of Ford, noting the auto [...]
Yemeni market refuses to stock Danish products. Street demonstrations are illegal in Saudi Arabia, so the next best thing – well, actually a better thing – is to organize a boycott to demonstrate displeasure of the actions of another country. Supermarkets throughout Saudi Arabia have stopped stocking the shelves with Danish products to protest the re-publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons. The boycott was effective in late 2005 and early 2006 when markets stopped stocking dairy products imported from Denmark. The Danes acknowledged the boycott did affect Danish manufacturers and suppliers. Now the Saudis are getting more specific in which products they are boycotting by texting each other bar code numbers and images of the products to be boycotted.Danish Products Boycott Increas
What if homosexuals staged a huge promotion of that sexual lifestyle choice, and no one came to see it? That’s exactly what a coalition of organizations is proposing for April 25, this year’s “Day of Silence,” which is sponsored in public schools across the nation to promote homosexuality.
“It’s outrageous that our neighborhood schools would allow [...]
There’s been a lot of talk going on about eBay. If you’re a regular seller you already know about the fee increase that went into effect Feb. 20. Because of this a boycott has happened.If you don’t really know what’s happing this is for you.If you haven’t been on your eBay account for a while you need to check your inbox. You will read that they have made some changes, Reduced Listing Fees, Free Gallery, etc. but if you get to figuring you’ll find that it’s the opposite!And here’s why…Yes they did eliminate the .35 fee for the Gallery but they raised your Final Sale Fee severely. Here’s what you will find if you figure selling an item for $25.00. If you sell an item for $25 then subtract the 8.75% (2.19) you get $22.81 now subtract .20 for listing fee and your total is
There’s been a lot of talk going on about eBay. If you’re a regular seller you already know about the fee increase that went into effect Feb. 20. Because of this a boycott has happened.If you don’t really know what’s happing this is for you.If you haven’t been on your eBay account for a while you need to check your inbox. You will read that they have made some changes, Reduced Listing Fees, Free Gallery, etc. but if you get to figuring you’ll find that it’s the opposite!And here’s why…Yes they did eliminate the .35 fee for the Gallery but they raised your Final Sale Fee severely. Here’s what you will find if you figure selling an item for $25.00. If you sell an item for $25 then subtract the 8.75% (2.19) you get $22.81 now subtract .20 for listing fee and your total is
From USA Today:Auction listings on eBay.com dropped some 13% since the strike started Feb. 18to about 13 million items, according to third-party tracking sites such asdealscart.com and medved.net. This quote misrepresents the actual effectivness of the eBay boycott. Ebay, did in fact drop 13% since Feb. 18. But if you look at the beggining of February there were about 13 million auction listings to start with. Thus, this small time frame only captures a small spike and valley in the graph. It does not actually represent how eBay is doing as a whole throught the month of February.This is another case of the Media skewing the numbers for a story.eBay reports that it has seen no difference in the ammount of auctions listed since the boycott began.
As I mentioned last week, sellers decided to boycott eBay in response to the new fee structure, as well as the changes to the feedback system. Unfortunately, eBay is claiming that the boycott had no affect, even though an independant third-party saw a drop to 13.5 million listings at one point last week. [...]
In the past few weeks I have suddenly found myself having an odd, yet interesting and blossoming relationship with the website PowersellersUnite.com. This is a site that is geared towards those of use who sell on ebay (even if you’re not a “powerseller”). A few weeks ago someone posted a link to my ebay article in the forum section. The article got a lot of critique – some good, some bad and some
Cnet News is reporting that ebay sellers are set for a week long boycott over higher fees,
and other policy changes.
EBay recently announced plans to raise the commission sellers have to pay for items they sell, which goes into effect on Wednesday. The company also is banning sellers from offering any feedback on buyers, good or bad.
Welp, the Jews are pretty effin pissed off at Will Smith. Apparently he said something to the effect that Hitler wasn’t all that bad of a guy, and well, they took offense: Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today’,” said Will. “I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming. I can kind of see where Will is going with that, but according to the Press the Yamaka-donning Justice League of the Jewish community are outraged and demanding that Will’s movie “I Am Legend” be pulled from theaters:The Jewish Defense League is calling on Barack Obama to repudiate Smith’s comments, and wants theaters to pull Smith’s new flick “I Am Legend” from their screens. Smith’s words, they say, “spit on the memory of every person murdered by the Nazis. His
The emergence of China as a dominant economic power is an epochal event, as significant as the United States' ascendancy after World War II. It is in many ways an astonishment, starting with the ideological about-face that enabled it, the throwing over of Maoist values for plainly capitalist ones starting in the late 1970s. So thorough is the change that the 19-foot-tall portrait of a stolid, potato-faced Mao Zedong that still looms over traffic-choked, commerce-suffused Tiananmen Square looks paradoxical, even startling, in seeming need of an update in which Mao winks—or sobs—in blinking neon. Meanwhile, inside Beijing's Forbidden City, the heart of old China, buildings with such intoxicating names as Hall of Preserved Harmony and Palace of Heavenly Purity bear signs reading, "Made Possible by the American Express Company."The grander astonishment is the most massive and rapid redistribution of the earth's resources in human history. In a mere two and a half decades, China has
The RIAA says it’s going to offer a special deal to certain college students, letting them off easy instead of suing them for hundreds of thousands of dollars for illegally downloading music. The recording industry Gestapo said letters were going out offering “discounted settlements” to 400 students at 13 universities across the United States.
“discounted settlements” are illegal. it’s blackmail. Google the RICO act, which, if i ever have to go to court, i will try to use to consider the RIAA involved in organized crime
Developer to Users: Boycott iLok and PACE - The debate over copy protection in music software and anti-piracy tactics continues to heat up. Now Adam Schabtach of Audio Damage, the popular plug-in developer, has fired off a call for a boycott of products that use PACE and the iLok hardware dongle. And that means that Waves is again a target, in this case [...] More: continued here Other Review: Gifts (Audio CD)
It’s almost as if I’m living in a nightmare and someone needs to shake me awake. Greed will destroy us all yet if we let it; anything to garner more revenue, even if it means shaking hands with the ghost of Muhammad in order to please his followers and their ideological insanity. Nobody should still believe that Islam is “just a religion” after reading this news; not even the most diehard moonbats among you.
From CNN Money:
TOKYO, Dec. 3, 2007 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) – The Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday launched a new sharia index of shares in companies that comply with Islamic law to meet growing demand from investors, particularly in the oil-rich Middle East.
The index of 79 stocks traded in Japan, jointly developed by the TSE and the US rating agency Standard & Poor’s (NYSE:MHP) , dipped 0.39 points or 0.04 percent to 1,006.51 on its first day, outperforming the benchmark Nikkei-225 which lost 0.33 percent.
The index
