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Thomas Balistrieri, Ed.D.'s avatar

Studying the holocaust of the 1930’s and 1940’s I learned that numerous familiar companies, brands, and institutions worked with the Nazi’s throughout the war. Coke/Fanta, Bayer Aspirin, Ford and many others were complicit in the murder of millions of people.

Once I discovered this disturbing piece of history I decided not to purchase Bayer products, Ford products, Coke products and institutions like the Catholic Church and Chase Bank.

Imagine, then, if we can all participate in showing our fellow citizens what companies are complicit in these current massacres and what we can all do to curtail the violence.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Follow the links in the post (I just added one) and you can find the top offenders.

After WW II there were supposed to be Congressional hearings on the US corporations that ACTIVELY did business with the Nazi regime during the war, then suddenly - POOF! -- the hearings were cancelled and the corporations kept their blood money.

Then as a measure of hubris, some of those same corporations sued the US government for compensation for bombing damage done to some of their manufacturing facilities in Germany during the war. And got reimbursed.

Corporate America knows no shame and is an enemy of the people.

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Dx's avatar

And if you’re in Scotland and run a business or organisation - cafes, retailers, community centres and cultural institutions - or are just a humane human being, then sign up to be an Apartheid Free Zone!

https://apartheidfree.scot

Elsewhere in the world, get more info here https://bdsmovement.net/apartheid-free-zones

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Thanks for additional BDS info.

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Dx's avatar

My pleasure Mark. Dx

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Influence through Confluence's avatar

BDS works! If it didn’t, there wouldn’t be so many states making it illegal to boycott. Boycott the hell out of this genocidal entity. Israeli products are not welcome in my home.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Hey, thanks for the mention, Mark, and thanks also for promoting the BDS movement! It's having a huge impact, and I hope it grows.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Me too. One of the -- too few -- positive things happening.

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Sol Sön's avatar

Though stopping blinken would be a great start, the problem is bigger than that, it goes all the way back to the heads of the UN.

https://mywisdom.substack.com/p/a-rude-awakening-for-a-world-sinking

Also Would be great if you could put out a list of companies to boycott.

Anyhow good points and thank you for sharing.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Here is a good 13-minute video on basic boycott actions and strategies: "Strategic boycotting for Palestine" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6m4KAOyv8

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Sol Sön's avatar

No yo tu be.

Thx

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Mark Taylor's avatar

If you follow the BDS links I included in the post you will find lists.

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Sol Sön's avatar

When I try to reach BDS site, here in Finland I am prompt with a “human verification” page, which I usually never click on.

Unfortunately, Many sites here in Europe are shadowbanned and we know that the scripts behind those so called “human verification” pages, are actually spying programs which bug the devices which clicks them! Hence, since I don’t click on the so called “verification” I am not able to see their page.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

I just saw a comment from 'Dx' in the thread with some links that might be helpful for you.

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Sol Sön's avatar

Same thing, when I click the second link I prompted with “human verification” page.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Is it possible to get a postal address and get information the old fashioned way. Maybe in a library?

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Sol Sön's avatar

I guess so, though going to a library and using internet from there requires “ID”, so, not so much difference.

Searching for BDS here brings me only to the same page and hundreds of others which “are demonizing it”.

Internet used to be a pool for ideas, now is a swamp and quicksands ready to swallow you.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Boy, the censorship there sounds like it's worse than ours. I didn't know that about the "human verification" risk. Perhaps there are some European-based BDS sites?

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Sol Sön's avatar

Yes, it is, some countries like Italy for example, are even worst.

No Russian medias, and if you like to use any regular browser you are prompt to accept “human verification” or cookies, which are in effect sweet name for saying, accept to be spied on and we will lett you read “what we like”

France and Germany are also full on censorship and showdown banning, but those are the only ones which I can tell you about.

I am sure that the same is happening pretty much everywhere else in Europe also.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

As WW III kicks into gear the censorship will get worse. I'll have a post on examples of recent censorship/silencing in the US in a couple hours.

I just added a post to the thread on an Electronic Intafada interview on the crumbling Israeli economy. Begins at the 16-minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA

The interview is from June, so things have gotta be worse.

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Sol Sön's avatar

Dear Mark, I stop clicking on you to be since more than 15 years. I only watch their videos when they are imbedded into other pages. If you can give me the title of the interview or a site or page on which I can find it without going to you to be, I would like to watch It

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

It's so good to hear that BDS is working so well. Keep it up everyone!

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Check this from the Electronic Intafada, beginning at the 16-minute mark: "How the Gaza genocide will lead to Israel's collapse, with Shir Hever" .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA

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F....'s avatar

For a boycott to be effective we'll have to be willing to tighten our belts more then the financial elite are willing to see their profits fall - however we should not weaken ourselves either.

Who and what to boycott?

Isn't everything that needs to be boycotted already owned an controlled by Blackrock and Vanguard who appear to serve as a front for the Rothschild cabal.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Check the links I provided. BDS has proven effective at causing some economic crippling of Israel The BDS website is a good resource.

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F....'s avatar

All good - I've bookmarked that 9 years ago.

War profiteering isn't illegal in the US - It is in the UK - Perhaps worth a mention to the right people.

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gypsy33's avatar

You’re correct, Mark. I for one feel utter hopelessness that the monstrous entities of IsraHell and Amerikkka can be stopped, especially since Iran declared its intentions not to widen the “war” ( re: “slaughter”.) If not Iran, then who?

My hope was always that China would step in in exchange for a port on the Mediterranean.

This empire has become so intolerable that yesterday my closest friend and I were discussing alternative countries in which to reside.

I’ve been BDSing for years. I don’t think it’s gonna be enough. I feel helpless and ready to tumble into the abyss.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Understood and agreed.

If I were younger I would definitely be looking to move overseas.

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gypsy33's avatar

I’m not anywhere near young Mark, lol.

PS Mark: one of my last remaining first cousins is a professor at the American University in Beirut. His name is George. Please keep in your thoughts; I’m worried sick about him.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Will do. What has happened there is just disgusting ... and all AMERICAN MADE.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Here is a good 13-minute video on basic boycott actions and strategies: "Strategic boycotting for Palestine" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6m4KAOyv8

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Mark Taylor's avatar

The Electronic Intafada had some encouraging news about the impact of the BDS movement on the Israeli economy: "How the Gaza genocide will lead to Israel's collapse, with Shir Hever" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA

The discussion turns to the economy at the 16-minute mark.

From "Start-up Nation To Shutdown Nation"

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A C's avatar

Yeh mark start with your phone . Oh wait - you don’t actually care that much. The more you read the more you’ll realize how crucial Israeli developments are to a number of industries and products . Don’t let your Jew hate fuel your ignorance

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Oh, poor AC, your ignorance and bias are showing.

Israel is a Zionist state based upon the ethno-racist principles and goals of Zionism. As the lower and working class European Jews who were betrayed and sent to the camps by Zionists collaborators with Nazi Germany learned, Zionism is profoundly anti-Jewish. While millions of poor Jews were tricked into being shipped off to the labor and death camps by the Zionists, the Zionists were working with the SS and Gestapo to protect their wealth and get safe passage for themselves and wealthy friends to Palestine. They literally traded away poor Jews in order to protect their wealth.

As Jewish scholars like Norman Finkelstein, Terry Greenstein and Gabor Mate (a Holocaust survivor) have shown and stress, Zionism is NOT Judaism. It is a betrayal of Judaism. Numerous Jewish journalists like Max Blumenthal, Katy Halper, Aaron Mate and others bring to light the anti-Jewish reality of Zionism and Natanyahu and his advisers who cheer on anal rape of detainees.

Israel is a lost, sick and collapsing betrayal of Judasim ... and humanity.

To

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A C's avatar

Typical half brained reply . You didn’t even dispute the Israeli and Jewish advancements because you can’t . Or you don’t know. Just launched into your auto idiocy. Your ignorance is showing

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Heh, ABC, I read "Pegasus" and a number of related articles. I'm quite familiar with the Israel hi-tech wonder kit, but what you don't seem to grasp is that whatever good they have done with some of their programming it is outweighed, smothered and buried by the evil they have done with Pegasus. Though I am sure you are dazzled by those kids and innocents getting killed and maimed with the pager attacks, such evil adds dung to the pile under which the Israeli techies live.

I mean, really, how cowardly the Israelis are, ABC, the evil far outweighs the good.

How about you addressing the Zionist/Nazi meld of ZioNazism in WW II? Your Zionists MURDERED fellow Jews ... by the countless numbers,. Address that issue or expose yourself as being as cowardly as the average IDF "soldier" salaciously licking away at a camera lens.

Now occasionally I get folks like you, ABC, turning up and it's kinda' fun bantering back and forth because inevitably your kind cannot respond to facts and questions, argument and reason and instead collapse into smears and name calling -- "half brained" (check your punctuation), "auto idiocy" is an opening salvo.

But what I most enjoy about these exchanges is the education they offer. There are several other people who quietly watch the back-and-forth to better understand how to deal with ZioNazi propaganda. They watch, I play. Then off to the side we pick apart the usual pattern and how best to respond NOT to change your mind (that won't happen in this reality), but to improve understanding of how to respond to the racism and viciousness of ZioNazi philosophy and lies and incorporate what we've learned from you into our work.

One positive thing that has happened during this past year of US/Israel war crimes and genocide is the mask is off, ABC. Both Israel and the United States stand bare ass before the world, tiny dangle exposed and belittled for what they have been all along as way too many of us slept.

But we're awake now.

Thanks for helping us learn how to respond to the propaganda.

As in: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/good-westerners-dont-start-off-hating?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=149589827&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2iji4s&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Oh, yeah, want to respond to the WW II ZioNazi merger? Go ahead, give it try!

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A C's avatar

You’re so deep up your own ass you don’t know what you’re talking about . You’re only playbook is to yell “but genocide!!” As often as possible not matter how divorced from reality it is . I won’t bore you with facts and efforts Israel takes to limit civilian causalities including evacuations and calls and leaflets . Or that the civilian combatant ratio is better than almost every war this century despite being urban warfare where Hamas hides among its people . Facts don’t matter to you . War is horror and civilians die in war . Your whole “dead child “ playbook makes you look like a simpleton who doesn’t understand war . You only want to demonize the one democracy with civil rights for its people and 2 million! Arabs living in its borders , while overlooking the scourge of Islamic radicalism everywhere in the region . You’re a fool and a liar and a bigot . If you want to boycott Israel so bad stfu and boycott your phone and every single piece of technology Israel has contributed to . Keep virtue signaling from your keyboard . It’s clear you just hate Jews and masquerade as someone who cares about Palestinians . Real care would be pushing for Hamas to surrender

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Mark Taylor's avatar

You embody the vileness of Israel and Zionism. Thanks for putting it all up on display.

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A C's avatar

Be sure to boycott your iPhones and all the chip technology developed in Israel . No half measures please

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Having just finished the book "Pegasus", on the murderous Israeli spy technology used by dictatorial despots around the world to track, jail and murder human right activists, environmental advocates, people opposed to child trafficking and democracy advocates (you know, the kind of people Israeli fascists hate), I'm looking into a Chinese phone. Everyone else should be as well, especially after the Israeli pager terror attack that wounded and killed even more innocents -- including more children (what is it with the Israeli appetite for killing children? Is it an Epstein obsession, AC?).

Yeah, Israeli technology -- quite the gift to mankind. Time to look for ways to abandon Israel tech.

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