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- Like That Ham And Bacon? Time For Kosher, Dudes. Chinese Get Ok To Buy American Pork Producer - Smithfield
AP: China is bringing home some serious American bacon.Shareholders of Smithfield Foods approved a plan to sell the world's largest pork producer and processor to a Chinese company. The Smithfield, Va.-based company said more than 96 percent...
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"When Hell freezes over" - Time-Warner: The hell you'll put al-Jazeera on our cable network From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: "When Hell freezes over" - Time-Warner: The hell you'll put al-Jazeera on our cable network.HT:IsraelMatzav. On Wednesday,...
- Don't Worry Everything Will Be All Right?
Bullet makers can't keep up with demand Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can't keep up with the nation's demand for ammunition. Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have...
- But Weren't They Informed The President Deemed Paying Taxes Is Patriotic?
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- Question For Urban Outfitters - If You Keep Apologizing For The Same Thing, Are You Really Sorry?
Fuck you, Urban Outfitters: Popular U.S. clothing store Urban Outfitters has halted sales of a T-shirt apparently supporting Palestinian violence that has sparked outrage in the American Jewish community. The T-shirt, created by Los Angeles-based designer...
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America’s Largest Gun Shop Dropped By Visa Subsidiary For Selling Guns
From Gateway:
A subsidiary of Visa, a key Obama campaign donor, that specializes in credit card transactions has abruptly stopped servicing the nation’s largest gun store after four years because the store sells guns, a fact the owners never hid.
Hyatt Gun Shop of Charlotte, N.C., told Secrets that the subsidiary, Authorize.net/CyberSource, simply sent an email to owner Larry Hyatt to announce that it was suddenly breaking off the business relationship. The reason: “The sale of firearms or any similar product.”
The company email said that gun sales violated a section of the service agreement the two signed over four years ago and after Hyatt went into detail about its sales and products — and name.
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Justin Anderson, Hyatt’s marketing director. He said it took a week and thousands of dollars to line up a “gun friendly” credit card processor for online sales.
The brushoff of Hyatt’s business has sparked a national boycott effort against Authorize.net and parent company CyberSource organized by the website Grass Roots North Carolina. “It looks like the small but noisy anti-gun crowd has gotten to what must be a jelly-spined PR department at CyberSource and Authorize.Net. Either that, or leadership at these companies have simply become anti-gun all on their own,” said the website in announcing the boycott.
Anderson suspects that the company, purchased by Visa in 2010, got cold feet dealing with a leading gun seller and he said that he’s heard of other gun stores being dropped. The company had no immediate comment.
- Like That Ham And Bacon? Time For Kosher, Dudes. Chinese Get Ok To Buy American Pork Producer - Smithfield
AP: China is bringing home some serious American bacon.Shareholders of Smithfield Foods approved a plan to sell the world's largest pork producer and processor to a Chinese company. The Smithfield, Va.-based company said more than 96 percent...
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"When Hell freezes over" - Time-Warner: The hell you'll put al-Jazeera on our cable network From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: "When Hell freezes over" - Time-Warner: The hell you'll put al-Jazeera on our cable network.HT:IsraelMatzav. On Wednesday,...
- Don't Worry Everything Will Be All Right?
Bullet makers can't keep up with demand Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can't keep up with the nation's demand for ammunition. Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have...
- But Weren't They Informed The President Deemed Paying Taxes Is Patriotic?
Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore (Update3) June 3 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world's largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts...
- Question For Urban Outfitters - If You Keep Apologizing For The Same Thing, Are You Really Sorry?
Fuck you, Urban Outfitters: Popular U.S. clothing store Urban Outfitters has halted sales of a T-shirt apparently supporting Palestinian violence that has sparked outrage in the American Jewish community. The T-shirt, created by Los Angeles-based designer...