(Via Swearing at the Telly-Thanks Jemmy)
"Another of the many reasons to bring this monster down -
Yara explained that the chairman of Starbucks, Howard Shultz, is an active Zionist. She added that Shultz made a provocative speech blaming the Palestinians of "terrorism" and suggesting the Intifada as a manifestation of anti-Semitism.
She said: "I still can't understand how the Arabs can buy from a Murderer". Yara noted that Shultz announced after the recent "Israeli" attack on Lebanon, that Starbucks will increase the percentage of money donated to "Israel" by 12% to reach ... 1.5$ Billion annually."
I'm beginning to wonder about that figure of 1.5 billion p.a. That amounts to an awful lot of inferior* coffee.
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<span>The murder of a brave, good man:
ReplyDeleteOn Twitter, Glimpses of a Slain Pakistani Governor’s War on Religious ‘Fanatics’
<span>Updated | 1:32 p.m. </span>As my colleagues Salman Masood and Carlotta Gall report, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was shot and killed by one of his guards on Tuesday.
Mr. Taseer had recently waged a very public campaign to save the life of a Christian woman sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy law and his assassin was reportedly angered by the governor’s outspoken support for changing that law, despite the objections of Islamist leaders.</span>
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/on-twitter-glimpses-of-a-slain-pakistani-governors-war-on-religious-fanatics/
Jemmy, I have suspicions about that figure too. This has attracted a huge discussion on Facebook and it was agreed that the company unlike its CEO is not involved in supporting Israel. Schultz on the other hand is strongly so and never denied it. Yes the figure of 1.5B itself is way overstretched.
ReplyDeleteYara who is mentioned in the article was involved in the discussion and she made it clear that the figure was not something she came up with and that she was trying to investigate the fact of the matter.
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