| Another place added to the boycott list | | 2008-06-30 05:21:44 | | … and this time, it’s Milano. Yesterday, I got a message from them that read, “Milano Restaurant invites U to watch tonight Germany & Spain on a big screen. No cover charge.”
I thought, wow, that’s cool. Milano’s food isn’t all that bad and their backyard garden is very cute, so I reserved there for four. [...] | | By: And Far Away... | | |
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| Chinese tourists boycott France | | 2008-06-25 03:37:00 | | They are the summer darlings of every top Parisian department store: Chinese tourists who save on hotel costs to lavish their savings on French fashion, perfume and designer labels they cannot buy at home.But this year Paris's boutiques and tour firms have become the latest casualties of the diplomatic row surrounding the Olympic torch protests, as Chinese tourists boycott France as a holiday destination after warnings that it is unpatriotic.Advice to Chinese tourists to stay away from France after pro-Tibet protests in Paris has been circulating on Chinese-language websites and has resulted in cancellations that tour operators in France say could lead to a 50% drop in business.
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| Credit Card Boycott - Is it Time for a Day Without Credit Cards? | | 2008-06-21 00:12:45 | | Scanning Google News today and reading this story about the Associated Press in its fight against bloggers has me wondering whether it has come time for a one day credit card boycott in order to protest the deceptive and misleading practices of credit card companies?
It’s one way that I can think of demonstrating to credit card companies that they need [...] | | By: Credit Card Debt Law | | |
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| Twitter Boycott Looming as a group temper tantrum | | 2008-05-17 08:50:15 | | May 21rst is the “Boycott Twitter Day”, which is generally, refuse to use twitter for one day because people don’t like the outages that Twitter has been having. Twitter is a great service, that has seen its own share of outages and performance issues, but is that worthy of a boycott?
Probably Not.
So is this [...] | | By: techwag | | |
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| Anti-French Boycott Falters in China | | 2008-05-01 22:02:51 | | By ANDREW JACOBS : BEIJING — They came. They expressed patriotic fervor. Then they shopped.
On Thursday, the first day of a planned boycott against Carrefour, a French retail chain here, there were a few low-key protests around the country, but many Carrefour outlets did a healthy business in peanut oil, petit fours and family packs [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
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| Boycott? | | 2008-04-18 00:46:00 | | I was reading on Daily Kos yesterday that Obamamaniacs are calling for a boycott of ABC, and the advertisers that advertised during the Debate on the 16th. What in the world are they thinking? O yea boycotting advertisers is going to make a difference in this election. Sometimes I just wonder if they really think about some of their statements. Keep the hope alive Obamamaniacs your leader will most likely still have the nomination. Don't get your panties in a bunch.
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| German athlete announces boycott of opening ceremony | | 2008-04-15 22:08:50 | | German judo athlete Yvonne Boenisch has announced that she will boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. “I want to send a signal by not taking part in the opening ceremony,” said Yvonne Boenisch.
“Participating in the Olympics is every athlete’s biggest wish,” she said. “A boycott now would shatter thousands of athletes’ dreams.”
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| Boycott Beijing Olympics? Nope, Boycott Big Business First! | | 2008-04-11 15:49:00 | | I’m getting tired of the hypocrisy that continues on and on and on from protesters and countries over the human rights issues in China. It's too easy people, do something that really matters.
It's always the middle guy that gets screwed, this time it's the athletes 9again). Most of you politicians who want the boycott (Hilary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi to name a few) just want to "feature" | | By: qualityg says ... | | |
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| Clinton Wants Bush to Boycott 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony | | 2008-04-07 20:37:50 | |
Come on, President Bush - let's see where you REALLY stand on the issue of human rights! Will you do as you are being asked or will you pander to the tyrannical Chinese government?
By the way, Prime Minister Tusk of Poland said he'll skip the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, as his government asked other European Union members to join its protest.
I happen to agree with Nancy Pelosi when she says, ""I don't think China should have gotten the Olympic Games to begin with."
I for one will be boycotting the event, since I would much rather spend my precious time doing more constructive things, such as reading some excellent blogs written by people who are spending their precious time telling us to boycott the Olympic Games.
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Practice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
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| Boycott Efforts Increasing Desperate | | 2008-03-29 14:27:23 | | In less than 5 months going to the Olympics, protests and calls for a boycott of the Olympics have come out of the woodwork left and right. My cynicism tells me anti-China protesters have been increasingly getting desperate as countries around the world remain supportive of the Summer Games. Some of the leaders of top countries like the United States and Japan have expressed their voices already and has pronounced that the Olympic Games in China should not be used as political leverage for reasons unrelated to the the centuries old event.These declarations have dampened efforts of human rights activists to gain support for the boycott and have now been focusing on the political events in Tibet after they tried to make a leverage out of a similar political uprising in Burma a few months ago.Are they going to continue to pressure China to bow to their demands? I believe so. Are these people going to be successful? I highly doubt it. Will China still have its games? More likely."There is | | By: Beijing 2008 Olympics Blog | | |
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| Philippines Fear Ban For Boycott | | 2008-03-29 14:07:24 | | “You can’t just boycott the Olympics because you stand to face sanctions from the International Olympic Committee.” This is the remark said by Philippines Olympic Committee deputy secretary general Mark Joseph regarding the question whether the Philippines is joining the clamor to boycott the Olympics games in Beijing this year.It was also seconded by Philippines Olympic Committee Peping Cojuangco who also said history has proven the Olympics boycotts have not proven any worth basing on the country's participation in boycotting the 1980 Olympc games in Moscow.POC President Cojuangco has reassured Chinese delegates that the Philippines is in full support of the upcoming summer games in China by pledging participation in August.
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| Olympic boycott a hypocrisy: Guardian | | 2008-03-26 00:09:36 | | I have been trying to avoid writing about the various protests and controversies going on over the Beijing Olympics. I still read all of the articles and feel empathy to all sides. However, I do feel a little disappointed that just now people’s grievances of China hosting the Olympic Games are just starting [...] | | By: Beijing Olympics 2008 | | |
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| Singapore opposes Olympic games boycott | | 2008-03-18 11:32:21 | | Singapore on Tuesday voiced its strong opposition to the calls to boycott the Beijing Olympic Games in August this year.
“The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports opposes the call from some quarters to boycott the Beijing Olympic Games,” said the ministry in a statement on Tuesday night.
Singapore’s Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports [...] | | By: Singapore News | | |
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| eBay boycott changes nothing | | 2008-03-05 11:20:38 | | Several times in the past, eBay sellers protested changes in site policies with boycotts. Though sellers received more attention this time, they had the same result in effecting a change: zero.
The impact of the eBay seller boycott comes down to a they said/they said kind of argument. Sellers claim a multi-million listing downturn during the [...] | | By: SEO Authority | | |
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| Seller Boycott Fails To Impress eBay | | 2008-02-26 08:42:50 | | As I mentioned last week, sellers decided to boycott eBay in response to the new fee structure, as well as the changes to the feedback system. Unfortunately, eBay is claiming that the boycott had no affect, even though an independant third-party saw a drop to 13.5 million listings at one point last week. [...] | | By: Leave The Office Behind | | |
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| Listings down 13 percent at eBay Boycott ends today | | 2008-02-25 07:47:45 | | Maybe the eBay boycott is having some effect, while not a total shutdown of the web site, the grass roots strike taking 13% of the listings off line, that has to grab someone’s attention.
SAN FRANCISCO — The biggest boycott by eBay (EBAY) sellers concludes Monday, capping a week of acrimony after the online-auction site [...] | | By: techwag | | |
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| 3 days into the eBay seller buyer boycott | | 2008-02-22 12:06:52 | | While there is little to no actual proof that anything has actually happened, the news is keeping up with what is happening on eBay and how the boycott is working out. Initial returns are showing that there is not a whole lot of action on this one.
You can grab the news headlines on this [...] | | By: techwag | | |
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| Boycott eBay | | 2008-02-21 08:40:55 | | I’ve been a long-time eBay user, and I’m even an eBay affiliate..
But eBay’s latest policy and fee changes are unwarranted. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the new feedback system would allow buyers to leave negatives for sellers, while sellers can not do the same should a buyer deserve it. This threatens [...] | | By: Leave The Office Behind | | |
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| eBay boycott starts today 18 February 2008 | | 2008-02-18 15:32:05 | | The eBay boycott starts today. This interesting grass roots movement of sellers and buyers from eBay have been planning this boycott for almost 60 days now. This has even hit the Google hot trends for the day meaning there is a lot of attention being given to this movement.
We previously wrote about the boycott [...] | | By: techwag | | |
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| Boycott eBay gathers some headway | | 2008-02-17 14:02:23 | | A proposed boycott of eBay on the week of February 18th through the 25th. While it is unlikely that the boycott will be completely in effect, what is interesting is that this is coming from a group of people that use eBay. This is not just some random noise on the wire, these are people [...] | | By: techwag | | |
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| Sharif's Boycott: Policy Implications | | 2007-12-28 17:13:04 | | Sharif says his party to boycott Jan. 8 election.This could help him take the lead in Pakistani democracy movement by taking such a hardline, but it makes you wonder, who will take over on the political front? I see two viable candidates: Bhutto's husband, and one of Bhutto's political rivals that I still cannot remember the name of.More importantly though, you can see why this complicates the U.S.'s anti-terrorism interests there. Sharif's boycott will totally undermine the elections unless a new, strong leader emerges from the PPP, Bhutto's party. Undermined elections = undermined Musharraf, and Musharraf will be weaker than ever.
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| Will Smith Angers Jewish Group And They Call For Boycott | | 2007-12-25 23:13:32 | | Welp, the Jews are pretty effin pissed off at Will Smith. Apparently he said something to the effect that Hitler wasn’t all that bad of a guy, and well, they took offense: Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today’,” said Will. “I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming. I can kind of see where Will is going with that, but according to the Press the Yamaka-donning Justice League of the Jewish community are outraged and demanding that Will’s movie “I Am Legend” be pulled from theaters:The Jewish Defense League is calling on Barack Obama to repudiate Smith’s comments, and wants theaters to pull Smith’s new flick “I Am Legend” from their screens. Smith’s words, they say, “spit on the memory of every person murdered by the Nazis. His | | By: PhreQuency Ent. | | |
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| Boycott Dunkin Donuts | | 2007-12-04 08:47:00 | | They are the single biggest contributor to the pear and watermelon shaped profile of New Englanders with their various 1000 calorie sugar bomb drinks, not to mention the abundant trash and debris on the roads next to the curb.. Ask me, I ride my bike, I see this stuff up closer than the average motorist. Anyone who compulsively drinks their disgusting concoctions day after day and then wonders why their body's covered with 3" of flab- I have no fucking pity for you. You deserve it. They gave me a croissant soaked in butter this morning, no napkins, and when I sipped my coffee (cream, two sugars) and it had the consistency of chocolate milk, except with twice the sugar, and the addition of a disgusting pumpkin "spice" flavor. I promptly dumped it in the bathroom toilet. Whoever among you out there actually drinks that crap- get your head examined. As for me- Never again. | | By: Amerikan Turk | | |
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| Britney Spears’ Friends Want You To Boycott Her Album | | 2007-10-23 21:07:07 | | I swear probably five of my posts a day are about Britney Spears. Chick needs to calm down.
People that are calling themselves friends and associates of Britney Spears, but are probably just fans of hers, have created a MySpace calling for a boycott of the single’s latest album Blackout that we just so happened [...] | | By: U Suxxors | | |
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| What Happened To The Boycott Initiative? | | 2007-10-20 01:30:35 | | Nothing. Plain and simple. The initiative was just not getting the good press that it needed. I'm thinking it's just not as popular as other people wanted it to be. It's hardly a hot topic. I don't...
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| We Do Not Support Any Boycott Of The Olympics | | 2007-10-03 16:29:44 | | Why some people around the world choose to boycott the Olympics for human rights violations in all parts of the world is something I could not really comprehend. It may be because my mind tries to think subjectively by keeping the Olympics sports separate from any political goings-on around the world. Which is the only fair thing to do in my mind. I have been hunting forums and discussions online defending the Olympics, sports and the athletes from the people who choose to use the Olympics as leverage in convincing China to act or intervene on behalf of a foreign country... virtually blackmailing China.Let me clarify that I do feel that the violence in Myanmar is horrible to say the least. This statement I make as a human and as a person who lives in a democratic country. I do feel the citizens of the world have the right to have their say and feel about the killings in Myanmar but it should end there. Foreign intervention by any country does not make any peaceful and lasting results for anybody. I hope people look at Iraq and how the U.S. intervened to change the political regime over there. Many years after they took military control over Iraq, they have not been able to end the violence and the American soldiers who were supposedly peace-keepers are also victims of violence many many times. Forcing any country to intervene for Burma I'm afraid will also end with the same fate. Let me also establish that I'm not condemning the actions of the U.S. government on Iraq. I'm merely pointing out that the world should look at the wisdom of non-intervention because intervention only perpetuates more violence.My second point is I firmly believe that the Burmese people alone should be the one to determine their destiny. No lasting peace will reign in a country if people do not have an absolute consensus that they want to make change for peace or even democracy if they so choose. Much like all citizens of any other country would want to determine the fate of their country on their own, we should let the Burmese people determine theirs whether they choose to do it with violence or through peaceful means. Because it is the only way to have lasting peace in any country. Fighting for freedom is the true essence of democracy. I believe a lot of people would agree when I say that a country's leader or it's government is a true reflection of it's people whether the people gave this leader/government a mandate or if it's people chose to let that leader/government stay in power.As for sports and the Olympics, it is in no way related to any politics or any inhuman situation going on in Burma therefore it is unfair for the organization, for the sports and for the athletes to be used as leverage to force China or any other country to intervene. Not only it is unfair, it is only going to make China not want change it's views on human rights. Promoting the boycott of the 2008 Olympics is just foolish and very counter-productive. That is the reason this boycott campaign has gotten lackluster support online and offline.Click here to see my attempt to convince other people that Boycotting is unwise.2008 Olympics Boycott Olympics China Burma Myanmar | | By: Beijing 2008 Olympics Blog | | |
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| We Do Not Support Any Boycott Of The Olympics [Digg] | | 2007-10-02 22:52:07 | | Why some people around the world choose to boycott the Olympics for human rights violations in all parts of the world is something I could not really comprehend. It may be because my mind tries to think subjectively by keeping the Olympics sports separate from any political goings-on around the world. Which is the only fair thing to do in my mind. | | By: Beijing 2008 Olympics Blog | | |
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| Boycott Clickbank | | 2007-07-20 01:20:15 | | Clickbank is a popular affiliate network. Most of clickbank’s products are “get rich” e-books. I am asking that all publishers boycott Clickbank due to their outrageous policy changes.
A few months ago Clickbank changed it’s policies making it very difficult for everyone, except the highest earners, to get paid.
A few months ago they [...] | | By: Dollars Blog | | |
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| May 15th Gas Boycott Doomed | | 2007-05-10 11:49:01 | | The last time I talked to my mom she asked me to blog about this and I neither agreed or argued because I knew that a one day boycott is as useless as disagreeing with mom.From MSNBC courtesy of The Rite Wing Technopagan (God luv 'em)"The real problem with this idea is that — as some versions of this e-mail helpfully suggest —these "boycotters" simply top off their tanks May 14 or wait to fill them up May 16. All that does is shift sales from one day to another. Any money “lost” from lower gasoline sales on May 15 will be made up with higher sales on the days before and after the “boycott.”"The only way to affect gas prices is to reduce consumption. As this has a side effect of reducing funds to countries that support terrorism and improving air quality it's an effort that is highly worthwhile.Since the coffee is still brewing I'm just going to copy and paste a post I made elsewhere on how to reduce gas consumption painlessly:gasbuddy.com tracks prices all over America o | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
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| Pink Launches Global Boycott of Australian Wool | | 2006-12-22 22:41:00 | | Pink launches her brand-new video exposé of the Australian wool industry before a concert in Paris and calls for an international boycott of Australian wool until the abuses documented in the video are ended.You can learn more about this at PETA. | | By: Celebrity Buzz | | |
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