Detroit News columnist calls on Northerners to boycott Alabama over bailout Filed under: Opinion/Editorial Despite the distinct thumb in the eye given by southern Republican senators like Alabama's Richard Shelby, General Motors and Chrysler have received the cash infusion the companies need to continue operations. Judging by Detroit News columnist John McCormick's inbox, many readers are call
The concept of boycotting academics in other nations because one disagrees with the actions of their government is controversial and raises issues concerning academic integrity. Of all the nations in the world, the UK lecturer’s union has single out Israel as the only one which abuses human rights due to its policies toward Palestinians. The [...]
Chinese Internet users are once again calling for a boycott of French products, following French President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to meet the Dalai Lama.An anonymous post on the website China.com on Monday, which urged consumers to say no to French goods for the second time this year, attracted massive interest. Within an hour, more than 3,000 people from across the country had expressed suppo
Most of you won’t do anything this article says. You’ll remember Part 1. Part 1, as you recall, was about why Christians should quit boycotting. The title bluntly calls for a boycott of boycotts. You’re on board for that.
This second part, however, is about supporting. Most of you don’t like supporting...
Californians Against Hate has launched a new website urging for a call to boycott A-1 Self Storage. Previously we blogged in July about Mr. Terry Caster a California businessman who owns A-1 Self Storage contributing nearly 300,000 dollars to support eliminating marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples in California via proposition 8. His reason for donating:"Without solid marriage, you are g
Sluggish starts have been England's bane in the ongoing ODI series against India and Andrew Flintoff should be asked to open the innings if they are to avoid a whitewash, according to cricketer-turned-commentator Geoffrey Boycott.Criticising the ploy to open with Ian Bell and Ravi Bopara in Sunday night's rain-truncated tie, Boycott said England needed a flying start in the shortened match but the
There has been a bunch of chatter on taxgirl.com about whether it’s appropriate to use tax as a means of bringing about change, not by the government as is usually done, but by the taxpayers.
In the UK, the citizens of Haringey Borough are actually calling for such a thing: a tax boycott. Some [...]
The Issue: The passage of California’s Proposition 8, a ban on gay marriage in the state, has led to many significant responses from the pro-gay community. The newest national event, called “Day Without A Gay” is a boycott scheduled for Wednesday December 10.
The event is being organized by the website, daywithoutagay.org. The event is [...]
Via QueersUnited: "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 nuc
Election day last Tuesday, November 4th was such a WONDERFUL day. History was made and now with Obama as president, MAYBE the US can get its act together. Maybe the US can focus on things that are important, like making healthcare available to everyone, fixing the crumbling infrastructure, take care of the homeless, STOP invading and bombing countries for oil, stop destroying the environment, etc.
While much ado is being made about the overwhelming support of prop 8 by black voters in California, there is little ado being made about getting even with the Mormons (aka: that huge group of white people who donated $20 million to passing Prop 8 ) for seeing to it that gay Californians lost their [...]
Nearly a half century has gone by with the United States refusing to allow normal economic, social and political contacts to occur between the government of Cuba and America. The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution asking the United States to repeal its embargo against trade with the Cuban communist government. It was the [...]
Is it enough to BoyCott tomorrow’s episode of the Buzz to fire Cristy Fermin? After Cristy Fermin’s text message as a response to Nadia Montenegro’s statement shown at Entertainment Live, This Pinoy blogger caught a few several emails from TFC subscribers and local kapamilya viewers regarding Christy Fermin’s “unacceptable” behavior. (BTW to those who sent me the email, Guys I’m no
Halloween's coming up and we are all in the mood now more than ever to watch horror films. In fact, this is the time of the year where even non horror fans embrace the genre. Posers. Suddenly it becomes alright to be a fan of all things macabre and gory and us diehards are, for at least one month out of the year, no longer looked down upon. Granted, I prefer being looked down upon for my taste
Politico - NEW YORK – Journalists, displeased with Sarah Palin’s efforts to restrict their access to her, are threatening not to cover her events surrounding the United Nations conference here unless they're allowed more access. » Full Story on Yahoo! News
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After reading the newspaper for over 30 years I know that the Washington Post loves to pick a person or issue and go on the attack with frequent negative stories. So it looks like Sarah Palin is the latest target. Today there are two such pieces, one on the front page of all places questioning reimbursement she received for travel expenses and another on the front of the Metro Section saying that
Despite the International Cricket Council (ICC) giving Champions Trophy security the all clear on Tuesday, players from the defending champions, Australia, are set to boycott the upcoming One-day tournament, Australian newspapers were reporting early Wednesday. The Champions Trophy is scheduled for September 12-28 in troubled Pakistan and ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat claimed on Tuesd
Seriously. I even told people that I was going to boycott the Olympics. I honestly believe that China should never have been selected to host the games because of their "issues". You know, its the little things like Tibet, censorship of information and ideas, and human rights violations. But the real reason I was going to "boycott" the Olympics was because I really lacked an interest. It is v
The Olympic Games in China are about to begin, but I cannot watch any of them. China is still persecuting and imprisoning Christians, even in the city of Beijing itself.Podcast version here1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.It’s almost time for the Olympic Games to begin and it will soon seem a
An expanding waistline has prompted Paris Hilton to give up marijuana, according to a new claim from the National Enquirer. The hotel heiress now regrets her long-spanning fascination with chronic because her battles with “the munchies” have left her infamous petite frame a bit pudgy. “Paris gets stoned all the time,” says one Enquirer says. “I’ve seen Paris smoke pot many times. It’
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
Gay rights and union advocates have begun boycotting the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego after its owner, Doug Manchester, donated $125,000 to a ballot measure that would end same-sex marriage in California, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
The hotelier's contribution to the proposed constitutional amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot struck a nerve among supporters of marriage equality.
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 [...]
As most of you know already AP is trying to change the laws of "fair use" and go after bloggers that use their stories. Well, I am not going to link or ujse any of their stories because I am...
In reaction to the recent events surrounding the heavy handed move by the Associated Press to impose guidelines (and ridiculous fees) on the exerpted copy in the blogosphere, a new website billing itself as the Unassociated Press is urging bloggers to create a multipartisan buzz and let AP hear all political bloggers loud [...]
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.
Of all the bloody cheek!
No longer content with just ramming airplanes into skyscrapers, devotees of the "Religion of Peace" have raised the terror bar another couple of notches.
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
