Closed: All Taco John’s Michigan locations shutter

Franchise owner Meritage Hospitality Group has closed all of its locations, including the Taco John’s in Wyoming, Hudsonville and Caledonia. Those three locations all opened in February of last year.

“We did make the difficult decision to close our Taco John’s restaurants. We appreciate our employees’ commitment and hard work as well as the community’s patronage as we have endeavored to make this concept a success,” a Meritage spokesperson said in a statement to News 8.

closes all Southwest Ohio locations

Less than a year after it opened a Kettering restaurant has closed

Economy is doing fine

House Passes Bill to Label Products From West Bank Settlements “Made in Israel”

The House passed a bill on Wednesday to label products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as originating from “Israel,” essentially recognizing Israel’s annexation and ethnic cleansing of the region in what opponents of the bill say is a “hateful” attempt to erase the very existence of Palestinians in Palestine.

The bill would make permanent an extremist Donald Trump-era policy to mislabel products from Palestine. Under the proposal, products from areas encompassing the majority of the West Bank would be labeled as a “Product of Israel” or “Made in Israel.”

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The bill passed 231 to 189, with 16 Democrats joining Republicans in voting “yes.” The Democrats who voted in favor represent some of the most extremist pro-Israel Democrats in the House, as well as some of the most conservative in the caucus, including Representatives Ritchie Torres (New York) and Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey).

Morocco, a retreat for Israeli soldiers leaving Gaza: As “Israeli” war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon draw international censure, will Morocco continue offering a luxurious retreat for occupation soldiers, or will mounting public outrage and legal action force the kingdom to confront its controversial alliance with “Tel Aviv”? | The Cradle

Now, outside of Gaza, the cries of children and the echoes of shattered lives linger in “Israeli” soldier Moshe Avichzer’s mind. Blood splatters, refusing to fade, stain his occupational army uniform, and the dust of leveled neighborhoods clings to his skin.

The mission is complete: Gaza is left in ruins, its people without water, electricity, or hope. Now, the need to decompress calls for a new task.

But where does an “Israeli” soldier like Avichzer unwind after committing such atrocities? The answer is Morocco – Marrakesh, to be exact.

theres now a video going around of Israeli soldier throwing a Palestinan from a Rooftop in Jenin , Westbank.

Won’t someone please think of the brands?!?!?!?

The New York Times finally identifies the real victims of the anti-immigrant pogroms:

Many advertisers have tried for years to avoid sharing space with content about polarizing politics, pandemics, hate speech or misinformation, for fear of damaging customer perception and risking public censure. That ads appeared anyway on YouTube ahead of falsehoods about Haitian migrants underscores the difficulty advertisers face in maintaining brand safety in an especially volatile election year.

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Having an advertisement land next to misinformation can be financially damaging — the share of people who click on such ads is 46 percent lower than for ads that avoid being twinned with toxic content, according to Integral Ad Science, a company focusing on brand safety.

Western mainstream media seems to have this take on the illegal zionist entity’s terror attacks on Lebanon:

• The attacks wounded or killed large parts of Hezbollah’s leadership, thereby significantly sealing the organisation
• The illegal zionist entity has penetrated the entire command structure of Hezbollah
• The illegal zionist entity “has been one step ahead of” Hezbollah all the time
• Hezbollah will probably retaliate in some form but they do not have the capability to do a large counterattack
• Nasrallah’s speech is just Nasrallah doing his job and saying what he’s expected to say. It is mostly empty threats.

I can link you the article I got this from but I’m sure there are hundreds of similar articles out there for you to find.

All of this sounds very one-sided but it seems plausible that many leading Hezbollah members were among the victims of the terrorist attacks. It also seems plausible that the attacks might cause paranoia and fear internally on Lebanon and in Hezbollah. I don’t know what effect it has on their operational capabilities though, I would reckon that they have planned for situations like these and protected their organisation against decapitation attacks.

I looked up the EU “terror list” just for fun. I knew it was a list of scary Muslims but I would have imagined that they would have put a few token white guys in there.

But no, out of 21 designated “terrorist” organisatios, 17 are from the Muslim world. All 21 are from the global south. Was it really that hard to find some small group of politically insignificant Nazis and add them to keep up appearances?

The “Uncommitted Movement” issued a statement today that they:

• Will not endorse Kamala Harris over not meeting any of their demands
• Urge their supporters to vote in the Presidential election
• Urge their supporters not to vote for Trump or any third-party/independent candidates for president.

With “friends” like these…

@Kalibrated_Maps on twitter suggests that something like 25% of the Kursk salient has been liberated by Russia. Note that other maps show a larger salient and less Russian gains (bias, fog of war, etc.)

RE: Federal interest rate cut.

Okay so the graph shows that a cut in interest rates precipitates a recession. While that’s true, I think we’re still in uncertain waters because the US economy is unlike it’s ever been. The 8 years of near zero interest rates was unprecedented and shifted so much of the capital into assets rather than real production. So I don’t know if the typical rules about borrowing and reinvestment will apply.

Do the high priests of the economy think a recession is coming? They’re saying they don’t think so, but they also could be lying. The rate hikes were intended to slow down inflation, which they largely did. But prices are still high compared to wages. What will people do with lower interest rates? Is it enough to boost general consumption? Or just enough for financial types to move money away from production and into financial instruments. I don’t know.

Israel straight up bombing Lebanon now.

https://t.me/QudsNen/123446

where do i get the Nasrallah Speec subtiteld ?

On the 22th there’s going to be another regional state election in Germany, Brandenburg this time, and again the AfD is leading in the polls (25-28%) followed by the SPD(20-25%), then the CDU (15-19%), and BSW (13-27%) and the rest all below or around 5%

Since the 90s the SPD has placed first in every state election in Brandenburg and all state president’s have been from the SPD

Come on Osint twitter, stop with the bs.

Just read some account claiming Iran is going to stop Indian weapons shipments to Israel. No mention of it anywhere else.

Iran may occasionally dunk on India but that’s it, they very much would prefer to have decent relations.

Norwegian citizen linked to the pagers that exploded in Lebanon (Norwegian state media NRK, machine translated)

According to several media, the company is registered in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia and is owned by a person with Norwegian citizenship.

The webpage of the company the Norwegian is linked to contained a presentation of various technical and advisory services as late as around 11 o’clock on Thursday. It has since been emptied of content and now only displays a message about missing content.

PST [Norwegian Police Security Service] is aware of the claims from various international media that a Norwegian-owned company is said to have been involved in the sale of pagers. PST cannot confirm this information, nor can we provide further comments on the matter, communications director Trond Hugubakken writes to NRK.

Several Norwegian media outlets have tried to get in contact with him. He’s registered on an address in Oslo, and was apparently (and still is I think?) on an oversea business trip when the terror attacks in Lebanon happened. One newspaper (VG) went to his address and knocked on his door. They got no response. When they asked his neighbors, they were told that they haven’t seen the man since the summer vacation in July.

It was the man’s own employer (in Norway) who reported him to PST:

The man’s employer informs VG that he was called by an American journalist sent on Wednesday evening and made allegations about the employee’s connection to the company in Bulgaria.

“I checked some links and was able to see the same as he had put. When I receive information that apparently looks serious in such an inflamed case, it was natural for me to notify PST immediately,” says the man’s employer

edit: from CBS, revealing the name of both the company and the Norwegian owner (Rinson Jose):

Separate records reviewed by CBS News show that Norta Global Ltd. was registered as a company in Bulgaria in April 2022, with its sole owner listed as a Norwegian citizen named Rinson Jose. Global Norta is described on its website — which has since been taken offline — as offering a range of services "from outsourcing, consulting, tech and payment integration, analysis, promotion of techno products and services, as well as the estimation and processing of relevant commercial transactions.