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© NATI SHOHAT/FLASH90Illustration photo of the new 200 New Israeli Shekel (NIS) bill. February 7, 2016
Comment: The people making the most money off of that kind of criminality are often in cahoots with the establishment and the banks themselves, and the small fry criminals will find an alternative currency for transactions, so that justification doesn't hold water.
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Under the new law, any payment to a business above 6,000 NIS ($1,700) must be made using alternative methods, such as a digital transfer or a debit card. Trading between private citizens who are not listed as business owners will be limited to 15,000 NIS ($4,360) in cash. This is another step in Israel's fight against the use of cash. Previously, cash up to the amount of 11,000 NIS ($3,200) could be used in business deals.
When they arrived in Sydney, Asra and Amaal made contact with a refugee agency. Pictured: Their Canterbury apartment block, where they were found dead in June
Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, were found dead inside their apartment in Canterbury, in Sydney's city's south-west on June 7, five years after they fled their homeland with $5,000 in savings.
Police believe the women, who were found in separate beds and bedrooms, may have been dead for a month before officers discovered their decomposing bodies while conducting a welfare check.
There was no sign of forced entry, no clear signs of injury, and the cause of death remains undetermined although is being treated as suspicious.
© John Lamparski/ZUMAPRESSBen & Jerry's and Unilever accused of anti-Semitism and 'Jew hatred'
"The talks did not work out because Ben & Jerry's does not want to 'cave' on its social mission and stance on Palestinian human rights," Reuters reported Friday, citing an unnamed "source with direct knowledge."
That means the case will be heading back to federal court in New York after a two-week hiatus to give mediation a chance.
Earlier this month Ben & Jerry's sued Unilever for selling the ice cream maker's brand and rights in Israel to its local licensee Avi Zinger and his company AQP.
Unilever has admitted in court filings that the move was an effort to relieve pressure from pro-Israel forces. Under the deal, the Israeli licensee - now the would-be owner of the brand in Israel - would continue to sell Ben & Jerry's products in settlements despite the objections of the Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's company.
The agreement was hailed by Israel lobby groups and Yair Lapid, Israel's prime minister, as a victory over the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. But Ben & Jerry's asserts that Unilever had no right to make the deal.
© AFP / Olivier MorinA man shops in a supermarket in Vaasa, Finland, March 28, 2020
According to the grid operator, Finland's roughly 2,800 food stores will need to come to arrangements with each other over who will close and who will stay open if power is rationed in a particular area. This kind of agreement is especially important in rural areas to ensure that all the outlets in one town or village don't end up shutting at the same time, YLE noted.
Finland has not escaped the Europe-wide rise in fuel and energy costs that followed the EU's sanctioning of Russia after Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine in February. In May it applied along with Sweden to join the NATO alliance and has already had its gas supply from Russia cut off after refusing to pay for the commodity in rubles, as Russia had asked all "unfriendly" countries to do.
Finland only uses gas to generate around 3.6% of its electricity, with most power generated in the Nordic nation coming from hydro and nuclear, per figures from 2020. Until recently, however, Finland imported just under a fifth of its power from Russia and Estonia. Finland voluntarily dropped the amount of Russian power it was importing in April, and was cut off entirely by its Russian supplier, RAO Nordic, which said it had stopped receiving payment from Finland.
Comment: THIS will get him, surely. But if it doesn't, just remember: you did your part. One of these days, we will finally defeat bad man Putin. No matter what it takes, we will try it. Even if that means cold, hunger, and ultimate self-destruction. Because beating Putin is the only thing that matters. It matters more than we do. Remember.
© AFP/Paul J. RichardsAnn Coulter
Speaking to Morgan on Thursday, Coulter declared "on the NATO thing, I'm with Noam Chomsky, Pat Buchannan, George Kennan, once the Soviet Union fell there's no point to NATO, and we keep encroaching, encroaching, encroaching," referring to the alliance's expansion into Eastern Europe since the fall of the USSR, something its leaders assured Russia it would not do.
© Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via ZUMA PressProtesters gather inside the Starbucks location in Center City Philadelphia, PA on April 15, 2018 where days earlier two black men were arrested.
The company has carefully built this image. It has regularly funded explicitly and implicitly anti-white policies including ruthless affirmative action, deliberately hiring non-whites, and showily boycotting Christmas by using "holiday" cups.
In 2015, when the "Great Awokening" began, Starbucks challenged Americans to talk more about race. They did not mean for Americans to talk about it the way American Renaissance does. "Of the hundreds of large companies that truckle to racial orthodoxy, Starbucks might be the worst," said Martin Rojas in 2020. CEO Howard Schultz even considered running for president in 2012, 2016, and 2020. Starbucks is Woke Capital at its worst.
However, Starbucks could never overcome a fatal contradiction. The company represented upscale urban living, a refuge from the seedier realities of the city. Starbucks coffee is expensive, perhaps a deliberate choice to weed out undesirable customers; a survey in 2013 found customers cared more about good service than good coffee.
Omar Danoun, MD, a neurologist at Henry Ford Health, believes that it is induced by watching TikTok influencers with Tourette's Syndrome. He explains that because they're watching these videos so often, their brains start to mimic the tics.
"What these teen girls have are called functional tics — it's a functional neurological disorder," said Dr. Danoun. "We've seen this before in children who have parents or siblings with seizures. They'll develop functional seizures. The brain imitates what it sees. It's used as an escape mechanism."
Comment: Is it entirely a social contagion or could there be something else that is causing a neurological disorder in these young girls. Maybe a certain experimental gene therapy they underwent? It's hard to know for sure, but you can bet that this particular possibility won't be given any airtime.
See also: The Truth Perspective: The Strange Contagion: How Viral Thoughts and Emotions Secretly Control Us
© REUTERS/Matthew Childs/File PhotoSmoke rises above a factory at sunset in Rugby, Britain February 10, 2021.
Trillions of dollars have flowed into stocks and bonds of companies which tout their environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials, leaving regulators worried about "greenwashing" or companies flattering their green profile to attract investments.
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange's premium market have been required since 2021 to make climate-related disclosures to investors in line with the global Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) - or to explain why they have not.
Comment: See also:
- 'The mask is off ESG,' says leading professor of finance calling, it's a 'scam'
- Climate TRACE: A framework for ESG initiatives and social & climate credit system
- SEC's proposed ESG rule will leave small farms in the lurch, lawmakers from both parties say
- Elon Musk slams corporatist moralism of ESG pushed by World Economic Forum
Police in Italy have arrested a 32-year-old man following the murder of a Nigerian street vendor whose brutal murder was filmed by onlookers who made no attempt to physically intervene
Nigerian street vendor Alika Ogorchukwu, 39, was beaten to death by an Italian, identified as Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, in Civitanova Marche's busy town centre, a beach town on the Adriatic Sea, on Friday.
Ferlazzo became infuriated when Mr Ogorchukwu told the man's girlfriend she was beautiful, claimed Daniel Amanza, who runs the ACSIM association for immigrants in the Marche region's Macerata province.
Comment: Footage of what appears to be the fight can be found on Twitter
Comment: The above story appears to share a number of parallels with the three princesses of Dubai who, following their attempts to flee their father, they were summarily kidnapped and imprisoned back in the country:
- Dubai's Princess Latifa, who failed to escape her 'evil' father, is set to hit the US courts
- UK court: Dubai ruler abducted and tortured two of his daughters
Similar scandals dog Saudi Arabia: Saudi Princess Basmah & daughter freed after three years in jail without charge or trial