[IsraelTimes] Michael Ashner, who fought ice cream maker’s parent company over attempted settlement ban, says it threatened Israel; calls head of Israeli branch a ‘hero’ for opposing corporation
“I think they’re going to have to modify their business model,” Ashner said of Unilever. “Shareholders want profitable companies that are non-controversial. They’re not here to buy into investing controversy like this.”
The fallout from an attempt by ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s to boycott the West Bank will have a chilling effect on other corporations that may consider supporting efforts to economically isolate Israel, an activist muppet investor predicted this week.
Michael Ashner, a longtime corporate activist muppet who bought a stake in parent company Unilever after the boycott announcement and led a group opposed to move, said other conglomerates should take heed of the repercussions suffered by the UK conglomerate since Ben & Jerry’s announced a boycott of the "occupied Paleostinian territories" last year.
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Businesses need to stick to business and stop playing the Social-Justice Advocate role.
Playing in Social/WOKE/Religious issues tends to tick off 30 to 60 percent of any customer base.
Take Aunt Jemima product now sold as Pearl Milling company / PepsiCo playing WOKE. I can show you pictures taken at Wally World. Of End Cap after End Cap, and shelves full of these products that people just are not buying in the same amounts. In fact Pearl Milling has even resorted to "Specials" hoping to sell product.
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That has been my argument as well, NN2N1. The counterargument has been that only those on the Left play such games — conservatives being more interested in getting a good price regardless of the company’s politics, so there is no downside for companies going Left — but it sure looks like that has changed.
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That argument is biased. The left and the right are now philosophically opposed. Both, as Americans, are consumers and seek a good price. The left wants to impose their will upon others and seeks to have their ideals reflected as self verification they are justified. The right seeks to impose no ideals (yet) in defference to free thought and free expression, freedom. In that they see allowing freedom of the lefts philosophical ideology as self verification of right ideals. Freedom is exploited beyond reasonable boundaries. Radicals represent the lefts current expressionism, a byproduct is self identity as group identity. Very Un-American at it's core.
The so-called right in America wants only to get up to the trough and sup deeply. They are willing to pretend to ideals to get there. This leads to co-option. For America in particular and the world in general, this has led to their disastrous co-option by the neo-cons, who are not conservative at all but pathologically obsessed with Russia.
We need to leave conservatism behind, as it is a hollow shell. What we need to be is anti-totalitarian. Because have no doubt, the deep state is completely bought into the totalitarian model.
At the end of the day, you either believe you should run your own life, or you are hoping to the marrow to be part of the cabal running everyone else's lives.
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[ToloNews] The participants of the holy mans' gathering held at the Kabul Loya Jirga Hall released a resolution comprised of 11 principles, in which they called on the world to lift sanctions on Afghanistan and to recognize the Islamic Emirate.
The resolution did not directly mention the reopening of girls’ schools, but a part of it called for the Islamic Emirate to attend to modern and religious education for men and women.
Resolutions from holy mans' gathering at Loya Jirga Hall:
Participants pledged allegiance to the Islamic Emirate leader.
The international community is called on to release Afghan assets.
The participants called the current government 'legitimate" and called for its recognition.
Support announced for decree of Islamic Emirate on drugs.
Support given for the Islamic Emirate policy to not interfere with other countries and to expect the same from other countries.
Any type of cooperation with ISIS is forbidden.
Armed opposition against the current government is rebellion.
Islamic Emirate called on to attend to religious and modern education, health, agriculture, rights of ethnic minorities and women and kiddies and economic development, within the structure of Sharia.
Islamic holy mans who cause provocations via media must stop.
Islamic Emirate called on to incentivize national unity.
Clerics support the Islamic Emirate’s efforts to facilitate the return of Afghan figures from abroad.
Talking to participants of the holy mans' gathering, the Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund said that the people of Afghanistan want Hijab and an Islamic government and there are less people who oppose it.
[ToloNews] Following reactions over women's absence in the "Gathering of Islamic Clerics", Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, questioned the reasons for the exclusion of women from the meeting, stating the Islamic Emirate should provide a clear response to the people and the world.
According to Hekmatyar, women's rights are clearly recognized in Islam.
Nearly 3,000 Afghan religious scholars, at the conclusion of a three-day meeting on Saturday in the capital Kabul, declared the militant Islamic State group and others' armed resistance against the Taliban government as "rebellion" and said the country was duty-bound to repel such elements.
A joint declaration issued after the conclusion of the grand moot said: “We call on the nation that the so-called Isis (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is a 'Kharijite'
...an insult that dates back to the Third Caliph, and one the Talibs are particularly fond of...
group of this age that spreads corruption in our Islamic country. Any help or association with them is illegal."
The IS and the National Resistance Front
...NRF for short. They’re the reincarnation of the primarily Tajik Northern Alliance that drove back the Taliban a generation ago...
of Afghanistan are fighting the Afghan Taliban. Another little-known group was involved in a failed attempt on Thursday that targeted the participants of the scholars' meeting but all three suspects were killed by the Taliban special forces.
The participants, as per the declaration, also declared allegiance to Taliban supreme leader Sheikh Hibatullah Akhundzada.
“We renew our allegiance to the Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Sheikh Al-Hadith Hibatullah Akhundzada and strongly support him. We have accepted him as the Sharia ruler of Afghanistan and the emir of the Islamic emirate. And from Allah in all religious and worldly matters we wish you success,” the declaration said.
Akhundzada arrived in Kabul this week for the first time since the Taliban took over control of the country in August last year. He also made his first public appearance since then and delivered a speech on Friday in which he rejected foreign pressure on his government.
[KhaamaPress] The proliferation of new counterfeit dollars on the market is causing concern among many business owners and money exchange dealers in the provinces of Kandahar and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , in the south of Afghanistan.
According to these money exchange dealers, several people have attempted to trade newly manufactured counterfeit money in the market over the past two months.
Counterfeit money, according to the money exchange dealers, decrease in the value of real money and an increase in prices (inflation) when more money circulates in the economy, which consequently disrupts the Afghan economy if not controlled.
In addition to that, they say the spread of fake US Dollar banknotes has harmed the market’s trust and interest in foreign currency exchange.
The new counterfeit dollars, according to some money exchange dealers in the market, are printed with a subtle difference from the original banknotes, which is not easy to distinguish. Most of the Founding Fathers didn't wear turbans, for instance
Previously, some said that the fake banknotes are very identical to the original banknotes, but there were still some differences that could help in differentiating them.
Currency counterfeiting and fraud are crimes that consistently threatens a nation’s economy and causes financial damage to its citizens.
The Afghanistan Central Bank has not made any public comments despite the alarming trend.
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Iran has had some history of printing dump bogus USD in the Middle East.
But I have also came across some pretty realistic $20's printed in China and Vietnam, sold as gags/stage $$$. Where the face side is dead on, just the back has an obvious giveaway.
Was saying no an option for the post-Imran Khan civilian government?
[Dawn] A parliamentary committee has authorised the military leadership to hold talks with the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP), Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Saturday. Speaking at a presser, he said the military leadership would inform the committee about any progress in the talks and the matter would then be debated in parliament. The minister said that talks would be held only under the Constitution of Pakistain, adding that neither anything over and above the Constitution would be negotiated nor would any such agreement be reached.
Read: TTP refuses to budge from demand for Fata merger reversal
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[IsraelTimes] Ramallah has previously refused to make the move after veteran Al Jazeera news hound’s death under disputed circumstances; forensic analysis could shed definitive light on killing
The Paleostinian Authority announced on Saturday night that Ramallah had handed the bullet that killed Al Jazeera news hound Shireen Abu Akleh to American officials so that they could conduct a potentially definitive ballistic analysis of the shell.
"Approval has been given for the American side to conduct a forensic examination of the bullet that killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The bullet will not be turned over to Israel," said PA Public Prosecutor Akram al-Khatib, in statements widely circulated in Paleostinian media.
Khatib later told the WAFA news agency that the bullet had been transferred over to "American experts who had arrived for this purpose."
The US Office of Paleostinian Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Israeli military officials have said that they have identified a soldier’s gun that could have fired the shot that killed the veteran Al Jazeera journalist, while not ruling out Paleostinian gunfire as responsible, but said that confirmation would require ballistic analysis to match the gun to the bullet.
But for weeks since Abu Akleh’s death in Jenin in May, the PA insisted that it would only share the results of its investigation with Washington, not the bullet itself.
"We refused a joint investigation, because those who fabricated the history of a people, stealing land and homeland, can fabricate a narrative. We do not trust them," PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said at a memorial marking 40 days since Abu Akleh’s death.
The US has urged Ramallah to share the results of its investigation with Israel so as to shed potentially definitive light on the incident.
In a public letter in early June, a bipartisan group of 25 US politicians urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to pressure the PA to release the bullet.
"We urge you to ask the Paleostinian Authority to provide access to the forensic evidence in Abu Akleh’s death for an independent investigation so that all parties can reach a definitive conclusion about the events leading to her death, and hold all parties accountable," the politicians wrote.
Abu Akleh, 51, was rubbed out while covering an Israeli military raid in Jenin in mid-May alongside a team of other journalists. During the raid, a firefight broke out between Israeli troops and Paleostinian button men. At some point, Abu Akleh was shot in the head.
Video from the scene did not show any Paleostinian button men near the Paleostinian journalists. A few moments before, the Paleostinian journalists could be seen joking and chatting easily before the bullets ring out, killing Abu Akleh.
Israel says it cannot definitively say who killed her until it examines the bullet. Until Saturday night, Ramallah had refused to share the bullet with any other side, including the US.
The veteran Al Jazeera journalist was a familiar face to millions of viewers across the Arab world. An American citizen who held an Israeli-issued East Jerusalem identity card, Abu Akleh was widely regarded as a trailblazing correspondent, both for women and for Paleostinians. Her death shocked Paleostinians and sparked an international outcry.
The PA, which conducted its own investigation, immediately blamed Israeli soldiers for the killing. According to PA chief prosecutor Khatib, forensic evidence and eyewitness testimony proved that Abu Akleh was fleeing when she was deliberately targeted and killed by Israeli troops.
Israeli authorities rejected the PA’s findings as false and have continued with their own probe into the incident.
"Any claim that the IDF intentionally targets journalists or those uninvolved [in terror] is a crude and blatant lie," Defence Minister Benny Gantz said in a statement at the time.
Israel initially blamed Paleostinian button men for the shooting, but later acknowledged that Abu Akleh could also have been killed by Israeli soldiers. The army has yet to open a criminal investigation into the shooting.
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They had to wait until they dug up an acceptable substitute from an Israeli weapon.
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I don't think "chain of custody," or other criminal procedure standards matter much to our federal coppers these days when they have an agenda to serve first of all.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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