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BDS pressure: McDonald's will buy all 225 restaurants from Israel franchise following fallout from pro-Palestinian boycott

Jeff Greenberg
CNBC
Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:45 UTC
boycott mcdonalds
© NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMcDonald’s said sales have suffered in the Middle East and Muslim countries due to calls to boycott the company.
McDonald's signed a deal to purchase all 225 of the restaurants that comprise its Israel franchise, the American fast-food chain announced, following months of dramatically lower sales due to pro-Palestinian boycott action amid the Israel-Hamas war.

The restaurant outlets in Israel have been owned by local licensee Alonyal Ltd., which is owned by Israeli businessman Omri Padan, for more than 30 years.

"An agreement to sell Alonyal to McDonald's Corporation has been signed," the McDonald's statement said Thursday. "Upon completion of the transaction, McDonald's Corporation will own Alonyal Limited's restaurants and operations, and employees will be retained on equivalent terms." The company did not disclose the purchase amount.
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Biohazard

Russian city declares state of emergency over 'nuclear contamination' fears

Will Stewart
Daily Mail
Sat, 06 Apr 2024 15:38 UTC
Khabarovsk
A state of emergency is to remain for at least three more days in the Industrial district of the city of Khabarovsk
A state of emergency has been declared in a Russian city due to nuclear contamination.

The Russian authorities have not explained what is causing the alarming radiation in the Khabarovsk specialised plant 'Radon', southeast Russia.

A mystery radiation source was today 'removed and placed in a protective container' and 'transported to a radioactive waste storage facility'.

Yet a state of emergency is to remain for at least three more days in the Industrial district of the city, as law enforcement agencies examine the origin of the leak.

Comment: It remains to be seen whether this is corruption, negligence, or even sabotage:

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Apple Green

Tennessee Lawmakers pass bill targeting mRNA vaccines in food


Zerohedge
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:40 UTC
lettuce
Following concerns over research to embed vaccines in produce, the Tennessee Senate has passed a bill which would require any food containing vaccines or vaccine materials to be labeled as pharmaceutical drugs.

The bill, HB 1894, was passed by the Senate in a 23-6 vote on March 28 after the state House passed it 73-22 on March 4. It awaits the governor's signature.

The bill comes in response to a University of California-Riverside research project looking into whether mRNA which targets pathogens could be implanted into edible plants, which would then be consumed. The research was funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

"You would have to get a prescription for that to make sure that we know how much of the lettuce you have to eat based off of your body type so we don't under-vaccinate you, which leads to the possibility of the efficacy of the drug being compromised, or we overdose you based off how much lettuce is [eaten]," said Republican state Rep. Scott Cepicky during a House committee meeting in February, WKRN-TV reports.
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Megaphone

The fury of Europe's farmers

Fraser Meyers
Spiked
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
farmers revolt
The continent-wide revolt against the green agenda has shaken the EU elites to their core.

Europe's farmers are rising up - and the elites are terrified. In France, farmers recently staged a four-day 'siege of Paris', blocking major roads around the French capital. In January, thousands of tractors descended on Berlin in Germany, lining the streets leading up to the Brandenburg Gate. In Brussels, farmers have gathered from all over Europe to demonstrate against the EU and pelt the European Parliament with eggs.

In the Netherlands, tractors have caused the longest traffic jam in the nation's history, as part of a years-long battle between farmers and the government. This farmers' revolt is now truly Europe-wide. From Portugal to Poland, from Ireland to Italy, almost every EU country has been rocked by protests. So what is driving this populist uprising? What do the farmers want?

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'Genocide enablers': Gaza and the corporate media


Media Lens
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
Residents inspect a damaged vehicle carrying Western employees
© Ali Jadallah – Anadolu AgencyResidents inspect a damaged vehicle carrying Western employees after an Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on April 02, 2024
A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up the crimes of elite power.

However, the appalling violence and destruction being inflicted in Gaza by Israel are simply too great to conceal. We may well be living through an unprecedented era where the vast crimes of the West, and the complicity of major news organisations, have never been more exposed to the public.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the US economist and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, said in a recent interview:
'We are seeing a massacre in front of our eyes — it is absolutely inhumane; it is absolutely war crimes; it is arguably, I personally think, likely genocidal according to the legal standards of the 1948 Genocide Convention.'
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Stormtrooper

German Intelligence Chief defends his efforts to police the "thought and speech patterns" of citizens

Eugyppius
eugyppius: a plague chronicle
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
Thomas Haldenwang
The German Interior Ministry continues to defend its controversial and widely criticised plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), our domestic intelligence service and political police, have sacrificed substantial popular regard in the face of this campaign. According to a poll published last month, a plurality of Germans believe that the BfV is being misused for political purposes. The sentiment is prominent across all parties, except of course for the Greens, who believe that all is well with the Federal Republic.

The creepy, dissolute and rodent-looking BfV chief, Thomas Haldenwang, has taken to the pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine to defend the conduct of his office and his plans to shape the "thought and speech patterns" of ordinary people through official repression.

The thing about "freedom of expression," Haldenwang explains, is that it "is not carte blanche for enemies of the constitution".

Comment: No one has documented Germany's slide into authoritarianism through censorship and legal proceedings better than writer CJ Hopkins - who has been persecuted by the German government for his outspoken (and accurate) political and social commentary:

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Pyramid

Is inflation harmless?

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Brownstone Institute
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
currency broken watch
The New York Times has published a strange article by Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. The headline is that his economist brain makes him say with regard to inflation: "Don't worry, be happy." The article gives the reader as much reason to trust economists as you do epidemiologists, which is to say not at all.

The idea is that if both prices and income go up together, it all pans out in the wash. Yes, the article goes on for 1,000 words to say that but that's its essence. The thought is that the 25 percent inflation we've experienced over the last 4 years really hasn't done any damage. Money is neutral to economic exchange and so is inflation.

So just chill!
Inflation is a lot scarier when you fear that today's price rises will permanently undermine your ability to make ends meet. Perhaps this explains why the recent moderate burst of inflation has created seemingly more anxiety than previous inflationary episodes...we're in the midst of a macroeconomic anxiety attack.
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Caduceus

This is not an April Fool's gag

James Howard Kunstler
Klusterfuck Nation
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
Geert Vanden Bossche
Geert Vanden Bossche
Did you have a fabulous Transgender Visibility Day, uncluttered with any loose talk about one Jesus Christ and his travails in the Roman Levant some 2000 years ago? The Easter Bunny desisted from twerking on the White House lawn this time around, but the Party of Chaos still nailed down the vote of the .000429 percent of the population that identifies as opposite the clerical error made upon their sexual assignment at birth. All in all, this may be the last grotesque frivolity the political class indulges in for a long time to come, and I'll tell you why.

I had the honor of interviewing the Belgian virologist Geert Vanden Bossche on Friday for my podcast, and he had quite a sobering message. "What I am predicting," he said, "is a massive, massive tsunami" of illness and death among highly-vaccinated populations with dysregulated immune systems.
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Dollars

LA thieves steal $30M in cash on Easter Sunday: One of largest heists in city's history

Stephen Sorace
Fox News
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:05 UTC
30 million dollars stolen los angeles
© FOX11 Los Angeles KTTVThieves broke into a money storage facility on in Sylmar California on Sunday, March 31, 2024 and stole $30 million in cash from its vault.
Massive theft not detected until Monday morning

A crew of burglars broke into a money storage facility in Los Angeles on Easter Sunday and got away with as much as $30 million in cash in what may be one of the largest heists the city has ever seen.

The heist is believed to have taken place at a GardaWorld facility in Sylmar, a suburban neighborhood located in the San Fernando Valley, FOX11 Los Angeles reported.

The burglars are believed to have broken into the facility either through the side of the building or the roof before cracking the vault without setting off any alarms.
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Bug

What Orwell and Huxley got wrong and Kafka got right

Charles Hugh Smith
oftwominds.com
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
the castle
What Kafka got right is how societies can become busily dysfunctional.

For self-evident reasons, the fictional visions of Orwell and Huxley resonate as maps to the present distemper. Orwell's account of full-spectrum technological totalitarianism maps Big Tech's mastery of Surveillance Capitalism and governments' full-spectrum surveillance powering the fine-grained coercion of social credit scores and related tools.

Huxley's vision of a doped-up, med-dependent populace that loves its servitude also maps the present. Indeed, not only do we love our servitude, which manifests in our endless addictions and dependencies on everything from debt to junk food to painkillers, our servitude has been so normalized that we don't even recognize the servitude that underpins "normal life."
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