Posted on 08/07/2014 5:46:35 AM PDT by SJackson
When young California-based developer Ivan Pardo launched smartphone app Buycott last year, users at first seized upon its technology to avoid putting coins in the coffers of the conservative billionaire Koch brothers.
Everyday shoppers using iPhones or Android devices could scan the barcode of, say, Brawny paper towel or Dixie cups and trace the corporate ownership of both kitchen cupboard staples to Koch Industries , the conglomerate run by the politically active (and thereby controversial) industrialists Charles and David Koch.
Other popular user-generated Buycott campaigns at the time of its launch included Demand GMO Labeling, allowing shoppers to scan a box of cereal and instantly see if it was made by one of 36 corporations that donated more than $150,000 to oppose the mandatory labeling of genetically modified food.
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I was thinking the same thing.
Think I'll do a little hummus shopping today!
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Great!
Thanks for that “Israeli-made” link! Can’t wait to share it with some liberals that I know.
There are a lot of varieties, but I like the Classic and Garlic the BEST.
It’s REAL Garlic. You can see the bits of it in a little pile in the center of the package. :-)
Very few customers for suicide vests.
Hey! Are those tunnels identifiable in Google maps? Sure would hate to get misrouted while looking for a corner store.
Let’s just make it simpler. Anyone who hates Israel should not use technology developed after the 7th century.
Allahu FUBAR
Even with a “half-off” sale!?
Not an app but: http://www.buyisraelgoods.org/
“If I had that app, I would use it to ID Israeli goods, and then buy them.”
Yep, exactly what I was thinking, but I don’t want to give $$ to the ahole that created the app.
“Very few customers for suicide vests.”
Or goat grease.
As would I.
Bingo. I have a 24” level that is made in Israel. It’s a great tool. Most fresh flowers are grown in Israel
My two year old loves his hummus. Guess it’s time to go buy a bunch for him. Thanks for the reminder!
NAOT Shoes——Israeli-—I have 2 pairs.
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Forgetting the politics of this for the moment, because I totally concur with your point of view, I must say from a writing point of view this was an exceptionally well written tongue in cheek but to the point commentary It is one of the best I have read of late. Some of our Freepers really ought to be professinal writers and editorialists. Probably some are. Kudo’s to you for your excellent writing style.
I’m hoping the boycotters include all the live saving drugs and medical advances developed in Israel when they need them.
Thanks! I’ll check it out! :-)
Those Muslims who call themselves “Palestinians,” produce only hate-mongering mullahs and hate-mongering politicians. Their “national product” is in every sense of the word a “gross national product.
Never forget that the area known as “Palestine” was until the recent propaganda war always known throughout the planet as the homeland of only one people - the Jews. Anyone who opens actually history books sees that clearly and undeniably.
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