Another success for BDS!
"...Basing its decision on Veolia’s complicity in Israeli projects that violate international law, the municipality also decided to exclude Veolia from “all future projects.”
According to reliable sources in Kuwait, following this humiliating defeat, Veolia was compelled to withdraw from a tender for a project to expand the “Um Al-Haiman” waste water treatment station after
qualifying for it. The project is valued at about $1.5 billion.
Even before this total loss of contracts worth $2.25Billion, Veolia had already lost or had to pull out of tenders worth approximately
$24 billion, mainly in the UK, Sweden, Ireland and the U.S."
Kuwait authorities exclude Veolia from 750m contract BDSmovement.net
Long way to go but that's a big brick chipped away from the Zionist edifice. How are Sodastream's shares doing Hoss? Still dropping, I see
SodaStream International Ltd. Share Price SODA- Yahoo UK Ireland Finance
Stocks go up, stocks go down. BDS isn't affecting SodaStream.
The world's middle class -- the driver of consumer goods sales -- is growing larger. By most estimates, the world's population will grow around 1 billion during the next 20 years, and most of this growth will be in the middle class. This is a clear opportunity for a company like
SodaStream (NASDAQ:
SODA ) to introduce millions of potential consumers to in-home soda. Today, global soda sales are in the hundreds of billions of dollars -- and that's a number that's likely to keep growing.
However, the carbonated beverage business is actually shrinking in North America. The downward trend appears to be driven by a few factors, including changing consumer tastes and perceptions -- both true and overstated -- that soda is unhealthy. This is happening right as SodaStream's major push to expand in the U.S. has stalled. Heck, it's more than stalled: Sodastream's sales in the Americas declined 14% last quarter, and this was an improvement from the whopping 28% decline from the first quarter.
SodaStream Stock Has Been Crushed Almost 60 Buy or Sell SODA
Well that's one opinion although George Soros and Bill Gates might disagree,
“...After pressure from Soros partners in the region and the world, they dropped SodaStream and promised, in private letters so far, to issue guidelines similar to those adopted by the EU to prevent any investment into companies that sustain the Israeli occupation and settlements in particular,” said Omar Barghouti, the Palestinian activist and co-founder of the BDS movement.
Several western investors said earlier this year that they had sold off holdings in companies that make money from business in occupied territories. Norway’s $810bn sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, a Dutch pension fund, and the Presbyterian Church in the US are among those that have excluded some Israeli and US companies from their portfolios this year. The companies operate in the occupied territories, where settlements built by Israel have been deemed illegal by the UN Security Council and the International Court of Justice among others.
Financial and economic boycotts have been tried before, most notably when Saudi Arabia and other Opec members stopped selling oil to the West in 1973 in reaction to the support given by the US and other nations to Israel during its war with Egypt.
But with the 1979 peace agreement that heralded a political and economic rapprochement with Egypt and eventually other Arab nations, the momentum fizzled away.
It is only in the past decade that there has been a revival of the boycott movement looking to end the Israeli occupation of land captured during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, allow Palestinians refugees to return home and end discrimination against Palestinians.
Analysts say that as the two-state solution – the framework in which peace negotiations have been undertaken for the past two decades – flounders, a growing anti-apartheid movement is filling its shoes.
This year has been a strong one for BDS. The Gates Foundation Asset Trust, which manages investments for the $40bn Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said in June that it sold its stake in the UK security services firm G4S, one of the companies targetted by BDS. The movement has also been in focus during the Israeli assault on Gaza and the widespread anti-war protests against the killing of hundreds there.
Earlier this year, Israel’s finance minister acknowledged the impact that a European-wide boycott could have on the country, depriving the economy of $5.7bn and putting almost 10,000 people out of work immediately. The prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also acknowledged the threat posed by BDS...
Soros fund drops shares in Israel s SodaStream BDSmovement.net
They offer training courses on how to follow a scrpt for those who can't think for themselves.
