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Meiron Gestman, a computer engineer from Ramat Gan, discovered to his surprise on Monday that he could not purchase a scarf online from the London-based Pashmina company. The reason for this was that the company which he wished to order from had joined a boycott against Israel due to the military operation in Gaza. "I checked why they didn't charge my credit card, and they told me they were participating in a voluntary boycott on Israel due to "the horrors committed by the Israeli army," he said. Behind the boycott is a British organization of Muslim consumers, who have imposed...

Coming to Sony Ericsson mobile phones: JihadTV. The Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson, where RSS feeds of its news content will be pre-installed on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa. This means that owners of these phones will soon be able to enjoy quality programming like this: a birthday party for a child killer, Samir Kuntar, who forced a little girl to watch as he shot her father, then bashed her brains out with a rifle butt. Sony Ericsson should be ashamed of themselves for promoting this...

Well I just called and purchased a $100 gift certificate for a friend who lives local. I also told the manager the reason why I was doing what I did. I hope some others will find it in there heart to do the same. Cuisine Mexican Hours Mon-Thurs and Sun 11am-10pm; Fri-Sat 11am-11pm Address 7312 Beverly Blvd Location At N. Poinsettia Pl, Hollywood Phone 323/939-2255 Web site www.elcoyotecafe.com

The celebrated openness of the Internet -- network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic -- is quietly losing powerful defenders. Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google has traditionally been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content providers. At risk is a principle known as network neutrality: Cable and phone companies that operate the data pipelines are supposed to treat all traffic...

Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance. Not so very long ago, Google disclaimed responsibility for its search results by explaining that these were chosen by a computer algorithm. The disclaimer lives on at Google News, where we are assured that: The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program. A few years ago, Google's apparently unimpeachable objectivity got some people very excited, and technology utopians began to herald Google as...

translation: I am sorry, but I am not boycotting French goods Written by DJ on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 at 8:29 am Filed under:General | Tags:boycott, France, Opinion, translation Add comments Note: This is a translation of an essay published in the Chinese Youth On-Line (中�在线). This translation is meant to bring to readers’ attention some of the diverse opinions publicly expressed in today’s China. I came across it because it was highlighted as the number one piece in Sina’s (新浪) opinion section. [UPDATE]: ESWN also has a translation of this article and some more. Interestingly, the version translated at...

We protested CHE in 2004. It's time to do it again. I still have my signs from 2004. We need YOU. http://www.freestarmedia.com/burlingtonchefactory.html This week, Benicio Del Toro was in Havana celebrating the opening of "Che," a film that glorifies the Butcher of La Cabaña. We must not remain silent. Just as there is no film glorifying Hitler or Stalin, this film is an abomination that should not have been made. In the name of the victims, please join us in publicly denouncing "Che." Where: The Landmark Theatre, 10850 West Pico Blvd , Los Angeles , CA 90064 When: Friday, December...

Last night Bill Ayers appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews. One can hardly wait for Matthews to leave MSNBC and run for the Senate. Or, he should at least change the name of his program to “Softball with Chris Matthews.” Because, as the video of his program shows, Matthews allowed Ayers to get away with everything, and to use Ayers’ 10 minutes of air time to repeat his standard litany of lies over and over. Matthews obviously has not done his homework...

Chris Matthews invited Bill Ayers on Wednesday night's "Hardball," and actually confronted him about his bombing of Capitol Hill during his days as a member of the '60s terrorist group Weather Underground, as the former Capitol Hill police officer emotionally observed: "I was a Capitol policeman at the time, so I was one of the guys that could have been killed obviously at the time you put that, your guys put that bomb in there. So I have a little personal interest. It wasn't just vandalism. To me it was life-threatening to the guys I worked with. And there...

HUNTINGTON WOODS, Mich. (WXYZ) - A retired General Motors engineer is taking aim at one of the auto aid package's biggest critics with his new website. SEE THE ACTION NEWS REPORT IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ON THE RIGHT Joe Babiasz says he's launched BoycottAlabamaNow.com to show Republican Senator Richard Shelby what's it's like "to turn your back on hardworking Americans." Shelby has been one of the biggest critics of both the aid package and Detroit's automakers. The website includes contact information for Shelby, and a page that takes on some of the things Shelby has said about the Big 3....

Gay rights activists in San Diego and elsewhere, hoping to sustain a grass-roots protest movement launched after the Nov. 4 passage of Proposition 8, have planned a nationwide boycott tomorrow. The event, called Day Without a Gay, encourages gays, lesbians and their supporters to take off work, refrain from shopping and spend the day volunteering somewhere. “We're hoping to provide a visual representation of who we are,” said Sara Beth Brooks, an El Cajon bookkeeper who recently formed a group called the San Diego Equality Campaign. “We're your neighbors, your family, your friends. We're everybody. We hope this kind of...

"We the People" never forget. This is one company I will not give a dime to unless they admit to misjudgment and fire the idiot who authorized payment to this murderer. What did they do give him a high five for a head shot to unarmed Vicki Weaver? My money will go to Remington, Smith & Wesson, etc. He also states: I’d like to thank TD and Ry Jones for bringing this to my attention. Update: David Codrea confirms that this is definitely not a hoax. This entry posted at the Gun Nuts Blog under “Boycott HS Precision“. Personally, I...

Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of the New York Times, moonlights as a standup comic. Rosenthal recently told the annual conference of the Association of National Advertisers that his paper "aims to ensure opinion and news are kept separate, even as the Internet increasingly blurs the lines," the Oct. 17 edition of Advertising Age reported. Stop, you're killing me. The New York Times is to objectivity what Jack the Ripper was to women's rights. If the Times strives to keep reporting and commentary separate, you and I aren't the only ones who've missed it. Earlier this year, a Rasmussen Reports...

Here's one example from before the election via the Daily Kos: But when the church and its members invest millions of dollars in an attempt to write discrimination into my state's constitution and divorce my friend Brian against his will, there will be hell to pay.So what am I asking you to do? Some distributed research.There is a list of a bunch of Mormon donors to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign (in case that one goes down, here's a mirror with slightly worse formatting. Here's what I'm asking for:This list contains information about those who are big donors to...

Internet dating service eHarmony has officially agreed to begin matching homosexual couples, beginning next year. The popular California-based service has been known for focusing on long-term relationships, especially marriage, which has been said to align with founder Clark Warren's early work with Focus on the Family's evangelical Christian base and perspective. Warren, a psychologist with a divinity degree, has had three of his 10 books on love and dating published by Focus on the Family. It was an appearance on James Dobson's radio program, in 2001, that triggered a response of 90,000 new referrals to the website, starting a climb...

News is spreading of a boycott of El Coyote after discovering that their manager, Marjorie Chrisofferson donated to the Yes on 8 campaign. The donation was discovered after reading through the L.A. Times' Prop 8. contributions database. Please help to support equal rights for all by not supporting businesses that support hate and inequality. For more information on El Coyote, read here.

Stung by passage of a ban against gay marriage, some California gays and lesbians marshaled online resources to promote boycotts aimed at businesses where key executives financially backed Proposition 8. Leaders in Sacramento's gay community, however, are urging their supporters not to go in that direction – exhortations that may get drowned out by the online groundswell. Lester Neblett, executive director of the Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center, advocates spending with businesses that support gay rights, as opposed to the kind of protests that targeted the Music Circus and Leatherby's ice cream. "The gay community has a lot of discretionary...

Hundreds of supporters of same-sex marriage gathered at Fresno City Hall on Saturday, vowing not to back down in their fight against Proposition 8 and urging a boycott of businesses that helped fund the initiative. They weren't alone. Coast-to-coast, crowds gathered near public buildings in small communities and major cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago to vent their frustrations, celebrate gay relationships and renew calls for change. In Fresno, protesters turned their attention to what comes next. Matthew Payne of Fresno compared the same-sex marriage ban to former laws against biracial marriages and women's right to...

PepsiCo gives $500,000 to promote the gay agenda in workplace Company ignores two requests from AFA to discuss Pepsi's support of gay groups. Sign the petition at AFA please. Time to hold these sponsers accountable. https://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/TakeAction.asp?id=333

While acknowledging that he is a Mormon, Bill Marriott said this week that neither he nor his company, Marriott International, contributed to the campaign to pass Proposition 8, a California ballot measure that would define marriage as solely between a man and a woman. Gay-rights activists urged their supporters to boycott Marriott hotels around the world because of Marriott's membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which raised about $22 million for the initiative that passed Nov. 4. For the past 20 years, Marriott International has had domestic-partner benefits and has earned a perfect score on the...

Scott Eckern, artistic director of the California Musical Theatre, is resigning his post and leaving the organization. A boycott of the theater was called Tuesday by some in the national arts community when news broke that Eckern contributed $1,000 to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign, which supported the ban on gay marriage. The measure passed last week. Scott Eckern said in a prepared release that he chose to express his view through the democratic process, and he was deeply sorry for any harm or injury he caused by doing so. “I am leaving California Musical Theatre after prayerful consideration...

I know we have had several calls for boycotts of papers and of MSM stations, and those calls have extended to boycotting of advertisers. I am wondering if we had a place to post those advertisers we are targeting in an organized way, as well as a place to post an alternative to the product/company being advertised, it might have more impact on the advertisers and be easier for us remain in an active boycott of a product. I don't post many vanities, this may be my second on in 3 years. Sorry if it's annoying.

The call for a BOYCOTT of the FOX channel continues into the third day. This is a protest against the scurrilous attacks on Sarah Palin by Carl Cameron and others. FOX also has taken up sides with the drive-by media and no longer is 'fair and balanced.' Spread the news of the BOYCOTT. We are looking for pressure from FOX's sponsors to straighten out their acts.

The backlash against the church — and by extension Utah — has been immediate. Protests erupted outside Mormon temples, Facebook groups formed telling people to boycott Utah, and Web sites such as mormonsstoleourrights.com began popping up, calling for an end to the church's tax-exempt status. Church spokeswoman Kim Farah said in a statement about the temple protests Friday that it is "disturbing" that the church is being singled out for exercising its right to speak up in a free election. "While those who disagree with our position on Proposition 8 have the right to make their feelings known, it is...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's growing tourism industry and the star-studded Sundance Film Festival are being targeted for a boycott by bloggers, gay rights activists and others seeking to punish the Mormon church for its aggressive promotion of California's ban on gay marriage. It could be a heavy price to pay. Tourism brings in $6 billion a year to Utah, with world-class skiing, a spectacular red rock country and the film festival founded by Robert Redford, among other popular tourist draws. "At a fundamental level, the Utah Mormons crossed the line on this one," said gay rights activist John...

This thread is in response to a suggested boycott of CNN sponsors. List attached.

There has been an overwhelming response to the call to BOYCOTT FOX because of their trashing of Sarah Palin on their news programs, especially by Carl Cameron and Shep Smith. The one-week BOYCOTT began yesterday - Thursday, at 3:00 PM EST. While some of you remarked that you had already tuned them out, many of you agreed to begin doing so. To broaden the BOYCOTT, post this on as many other conservative blogs that you're on. FOX's sponsors will not be happy and even though you might like some FOX personalities like Cavuto, after the ratings tumble they'll be putting...

I get several "specials" via email from Barnes and Noble each week, and today I got one with the subject "Our 44th President - In His Own Words", then the email of course contained an advertisement for his books. I pressed reply, wrote "You've got to be kidding -- remove me from your list immediately." And then went and unsubscribed myself. Hopefully the liberal Barnes and Noble will begin to get the message. Anyone knowing a good source for books and audio books that will not be supporting this kind of thing, I'll appreciate the info. Hope I posted all...

Yesterday I made a decision that will affect my personal buying habits and choices. I have realized that American unions do so much political harm these days and I have decided to do whatever I can to avoid purchasing any union made product or service. Since they have done so much to push socialism in this country, I figure it's high time that entrepreneurial rugged individuals like myself stop supporting them. Many of us avoid Chinese made items while ignoring our own domestic Marxists. It's time for a change they weren't expecting.

Quit giving Socialist's your hard earned money. BLUEST liberal COMPANIES Aloha Air Group, Inc. 100% American Apparel, LLC 100% Barnes & Noble, Inc. 100% Diamond Resorts International 100% Foot Locker, Inc 100% Frederick's of Hollywood, Inc. 100% Google Inc. 100% Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. 100% IAC/InterActiveCorp 100% Loews Hotels Holding Corporation 100% Myriad Restaurant Group, Inc. 100% Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation 100% Powell's Books, Inc. 100% Progressive Corporation 100% Recreational Equipment, Inc. 100% Sonic Corp. 100% SPS Studios, Inc. 100% Starbucks Corporation 100% Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. 100% Working Assets Funding Service, Inc. 100% Apple Computer, Inc. 99% Costco...

Cooper Arms owner Dan Cooper backs Obama. Can't post the article due to copy write infringement, But I thought you might want to know that a gun manufacturer is supporting a gun grabber. He said he was he was dazzled by Obama's speech at that year's Democratic National Convention.

Representatives of 14 Arab states held a three-day conference at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus last week aimed at reinvigorating the decades-old economic and trade boycott of Israel. The annual event, which concluded on Thursday, brought together regional Arab League boycott liaison officers from participating Arab countries, including Libya, Syria and Kuwait, as well as representatives of the Palestinians and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Although the Arab League has its headquarters in Cairo, the organization's Office for the Boycott of Israel has been based in the Syrian capital since its establishment in 1951. In recent years, enforcement has...

It is the American Media – no doubt about it, that has a liberal slant when reporting on issues. The question that conservatives fail to ask is – “How do we deal with the media?”. We can try to boycott ALL outlets for one…but history shows that any type of boycott will not work, or at least seldom does. Read more...

OAK BROOK, Illinois, October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The American Family Association (AFA) announced the end of a successful boycott yesterday against McDonald's Corporation. McDonald's has severed its ties to a homosexual business group and declared neutrality in the culture wars as per AFA's request.

A Pennsylvania pro-family group has joined a nationwide boycott of a major greeting card company as a result of its promotion of the homosexual lifestyle. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania has joined forces with several other pro-family groups around the country to boycott Hallmark over the company's new line of "same-sex couple" cards. AFA-Pennsylvania's President Diane Gramley said, "More Hallmark customers believe homosexuality is wrong and believe in one man one woman marriage than believe in same-sex marriage. To claim ‘public demand’ was the reason behind the same-sex commitment cards is a cop-out . . . Hallmark has chosen...

WASHINGTON, October 8, 2008—Accuracy in Media announced today the launch of its new website, Boycott The New York Times (http://BoycottNYT.com). AIM, which has monitored The New York Times for nearly 40 years, is encouraging news consumers to boycott the most powerful media voice in America to protest its persistent leftist bias. “The Times has, over the course of decades, blatantly distorted the news to advance an ideological agenda,” notes Don Feder, the editor of the Boycott The New York Times website. “The Times’ persistent bias is reflected in its double standard in coverage of liberals and conservatives, its misreporting of...

WASHINGTON, October 8, 2008—Accuracy in Media announced today the launch of its new website, Boycott The New York Times (http://BoycottNYT.com). AIM, which has monitored The New York Times for nearly 40 years, is encouraging news consumers to boycott the most powerful media voice in America to protest its persistent leftist bias. “The Times has, over the course of decades, blatantly distorted the news to advance an ideological agenda,” notes Don Feder, the editor of the Boycott The New York Times website. “The Times’ persistent bias is reflected in its double standard in coverage of liberals and conservatives, its misreporting of...

A Michigan pro-family group has joined a nationwide boycott of a major greeting card company as a result of its promotion of the homosexual lifestyle. The American Family Association of Michigan has joined forces with several other pro-family groups around the country to boycott Hallmark over the company's new line of "same-sex couple" cards. AFA-Michigan's President Gay Glenn said, “Hallmark’s corporate position helps culturally legitimize and promote so-called homosexual ‘marriage,’ using its customers’ money to do so.” He added, “Each of us should ensure as a matter of conscience that Hallmark isn’t able to use any of our families’ money.”...

BACKGROUND: Oprah Winfrey has publicly stated that she will not have GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin on her TV show until after the elections (in spite of having Democratic candidate Barrack Obama - the candidate Oprah is supporting - on her show several times). Consequently, several Republican Women's groups have recommended boycotting Oprah's show. However, a much greater impact is obtained by boycotting Oprah's advertisers. Suppliers of consumer goods and services tend to live on razor-thin margins - The loss of just a few percent of their customer base can be disastrous for them. Furthermore, if one of their advertising...

Check out this short video by Rev James David Manning, pastor of a church in Harlem, with a plan to stop Obama. And a clear explanation for why Barack Hussein Obama must be stopped. He makes a lot of sense. http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr07-28-08.html

Join the boycott of the Oprah show, magazine and her advertisers--in the pocket. Also boycott hollywood pimps for example Anjolie--while in France--Disney World is not diverse enough?--hello? Most recently, Matt Damon while in Canada--selecting Sarah Palin was like a bad disney movie!!!! And the list of hollywood while in a foreign country badmouthing the USA!!!!! Stop them by boycotting, let me them pimp off the europeans instead of running back to the USA to make their millions off of Americans

This video is testimony enough for me to show the dangerous threat to our way of life here in America.

GOP Women’s Group Boycotts ‘Oprah’ For Refusing to Book Palin by FOXNews.com Wednesday, September 10, 2008 The Florida Federation of Republican Women has launched a boycott against Oprah Winfrey’s TV show and magazine because the talk queen has said she will not have Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on her show until after the election. Democrat Barack Obama — whom Winfrey is supporting for president — was on “Oprah” twice before he announced his run for president, in January 2005 and in October 2006. Winfrey has said she will have neither party’s candidates on her show while they are...

A report that Oprah Winfrey vetoed the suggestion of some of her talk show staffers to invite Alaska Governor--and Republican Vice Presidential nominee--Sarah Palin onto her show has one Republican women's group calling for a boycott of all things Oprah.

New website which helps organize action against Us Magazine for its outrageous lies against Gov. Sarah Palin in the latest issue. It provides a centralized list of all major advertisers from the past 6 issues for those angered to "express" themselves. Great response so far to this FReeper-made site. Spread the word.

New website which provides background info on Us Weekly's filthy lies about Sarah Palin, and a complete list of Us Weekly advertisers with phone/email.

When William Bolthouse, a California philanthropist, donated $100,000 in March to support a proposition to ban gay marriage in California, calls and emails poured in -- not to Mr. Bolthouse, but to the corporate offices of a company that bears his name -- even though he sold it three years earlier. "It wasn't us, it's not our fault," says Jeffrey Dunn, now the chief executive of Bolthouse Farms, whose juice bottles are sold at upscale markets such as Whole Foods. Bolthouse Farms is the latest target in what has become an increasingly bitter political fight in California. As gay-rights activists...

San Diego, CA ... Gay rights and labor unions called the boycott in July to protest Manchester's donation of $125,000 to Proposition 8, which would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Manchester's money, along with contributions by several other prominent San Diego residents, helped provide the funding to put the initiative on the November ballot. The measure would overturn a California Supreme Court decision in May that paved the way for California to follow Massachusetts as the second state in the nation to allow same-sex marriages. ... A prominent developer, Manchester has been a generous political contributor. State...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Most states don't recognize gay marriage — but now Hallmark does. ADVERTISEMENT The nation's largest greeting card company is rolling out same-sex wedding cards — featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes inside. "Two hearts. One promise," one says. Hallmark added the cards after California joined Massachusetts as the only U.S. states with legal gay marriage.

McDonald's, home of kids' Happy Meals and the Big Mac, has been cited by a boycott campaign for sponsoring conferences at which homosexuals are trained to be activists in advancing their own sexual preferences, according to the American Family Association. The AFA has launched a boycott campaign of the company for an anti-family agenda and public condemnation of traditional family supporters as being motivated by "hate." The AFA's petition and other outreaches have been assembled at the website BoycottMcDonalds.com. Now there's more reason for members and supporters of traditional families to be upset with the fast-food chain. "McDonald's does it...