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Russian Politician Demands Banning McDonalds After Fast Food Chain Halts Crimea Operations
A few weeks ago, when the US announced the first set of sanctions against Russia, we jokingly commented that among the possible retaliations would be a Russian explusion of that global US permastaple, McDonalds. As it turns out, yet another "joke" may be on its way to becoming the truth.
The reason: overnight, newly Russian citizens in the Crimea discovered that they will have to live without Big Macs for a while after McDonald’s suspended operations on the Crimean Peninsula after it was annexed by Russia. In response, infamous Russian nationalist member of parliament, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has demanded that every McDonald’s restaurant in Russia should be closed and the business evicted from the country.
Japan Times has more on the first part of the story:
The omnipresent U.S. fast-food chain said in a statement, posted on its Ukrainian website and taped to the front doors of its shuttered restaurants, that the decision was taken “for manufacturing reasons beyond the company’s control.”
The news hit 21-year-old Lilia especially hard because she had been happily employed at McDonald’s until Thursday and had no suspicion that she was about to be out of work.
“They told us that we would be closing because Kiev was no longer sending us any ingredients,” she said as a blond girl next to her pulled at the restaurant’s locked door in vain.
Yet the move out of Crimea by the world’s biggest hamburger maker reflects a much broader uncertainty among Western firms about their positions in Russia following the Kremlin’s military intervention in Ukraine.
McDonald’s insisted that it wants to reopen the stores “as soon as there is an opportunity.”
So, the official version is that Kiev was no longer in the pink slime processed meat delivery business when it comes to newly annexed territories? Perhaps JPM was also not in the money transfer business for all companies east of the Volga river, because Kiev wouldn't supply the cables?
Joking aside, Russia was not only quick to see through the real reason for the shutdown, but did what it has done all along in the relentless Tit-for-Tat when it comes to the future of Ukraine: it re-escalate. From Telegraph:
The fast food chain became embroiled in the fall out of the worst diplomatic crisis in years when it closed its three Crimean chains.
McDonald’s announced the temporary closure of its outlets in Simferopol, Yalta and Sevastopol, due to what the company called “operation reasons beyond McDonald’s control.”
The company offered its Crimean staff jobs at any other outlet in mainland Ukraine and has promised to reopen the restaurants as soon as possible. But as far as some of the more hawkish elements in Moscow are concerned, the damage has been done.
“McDonalds closed their outlets in Crimea. Very well. We’ll close the rest. I’ve given instructions to all city divisions of the Liberal Democratic Party to hold pickets at every McDonalds,” Mr Zhirinovsky said on Friday.
“It’s muck, why poison our citizens,” Mr Zhirinovsky added in the outburst.
Well... he is right, as "court jesters" usually are.
While Mr Zhirinovsky is widely viewed as the court jester of Russian politics, his trademark outbursts are occasionally used as trial balloons for schemes that do eventually become policy.
If this is one of those cases, other iconic American food brands may also have to watch out.
Mr Zhirinovsky suggested that after closing every McDonald’s restaurant in the country, he would move on down a hit list of brands.
And after the Bolshoi Mak is gone? "Then we’ll deal with Pepsi" Zhirinovsky said.
Russia aside, considering America's own problem with runaway, pardon the pun, obesity and spiraling healthcare costs, isn't it time Kiev also halted sending ingredients to US-based McDonalds restaurants?
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Priceless!
Trader Joe's now sells frozen ajitaters.
And a word of caution... never call a Persian an Arab. Even the most mild-mannered of them will rip your head off and shit down your neck. Or give you a six-hour lesson in Mideast geopolitical history. Or both. Then they will feed you kabobs with basmati rice.
it a joke pilgrim i just play dumb cos it mean i donte have to remember sintex and spellin
... And they don't make meat the center of the meal. It's more like a small side.
Had Persian neighbors for 20 years. Damn they know how to cook.
In the PR world, I noticed a national 30 second ad spot being run this morning by Taco Bell... featuring people named Ronald McDonald around the US. It started about two days ago...
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/money/business/2014/04/03/7255725/
Was that another Obama sanction? Hardball.
If McD's closed here, I probably wouldn't even notice if nobody mentioned it.
Fast food - America's most dangerous weapon, LOL.
America's fast food = weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Keep your children away from their Frankenfood shit especially McDonalds, Berber King, Taco Bell and those crap ghetto chicken places.
And just when Mickey D's was ramping up its new McStinkburger and McMeanwich menu offerings.
This is economic suicide. The worst thing Russia can do is appear to be hostile toward businesses.
This is economic suicide. The worst thing America can do is appear to be hostile toward countries that will gladly lead the rest of the world in a Dollar dump.
Big Smack.
Uh oh...Japan to intercept any North Korea missile deemed a threat
http://news.yahoo.com/japan-orders-military-strike-north-korea-missile-l...
Maybe NK will shut the one sushi bar there...
where do all the missing folks go?
in the uk recently horse meat was found in many food products.
thousands of tons of it.
where do all the horses live before they are burchered?
in tonnage terms human meat outweighs horse many times over.
what is the best way to get rid of human meat and make serious money.
burgerise it.
if this sounds wacky amd slightly mental get someone to test fast food meat i would guess at least 30% of cheap meat has human dna in it.
i suppose the eugenics folks that run things think this is cool.
on spiritual level pretty monstrous
burgers are people you dumb fucks.
keep chewin
and the buns why do they not decay like normal bread even after 6 months?
a rubber agent that is used for yoga matts is mixed into the flour.
what a concept folks paying a corporation to slow kill them
if i told you in the uk dead babies have been used for years to help power hospitals via a furnace wacky.
or that baby dna is used in many us products fizzy drinks soups pepsi and campbells soup being two big users aborted babies for flavor weird or just satanic normalcy.
genius.
Breaking News
International Enquirer
McBurgers Test Positive for Human DNA
As long as there isn't any Tony Wilson DNA in there you should be ok.
Tony Wilson DNA causes Mad Cow disease.
you just hate me cos i donte like transgenderors been allowed to marry in church and been allowed to adopt refugee kids from syria and the ukraine.
you degenerard faggot
McDonalds food, if you can call it food, kills about the same as a small tactical nuke detonated over a medium size US city every year. My cat would not care to eat the filth and slime they put in a meat patty, pure filth. How does it taste so good then? Chemical flavorings and colorings to make it resemble meat. Haven't touched their shit since I learned what's in it about 20 years back.
That shit does not taste good. Those who are addicted to it forget what real food actually tastes like and are addicted to sugar added to damn near everything in the 'burger'.
What kind of sick bastard would put bits of dead animals in their mouths? I wish they'd all close, worldwide.
People with healthy testosterone levels and have no wish to become mewling metrosexual vegans.
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
I'm seriously thinking about becoming a vaginatarian.
We could only wish something as healthy as dead animals was used to make McDonald's 'fuud'.
Dead animals are the most delicious healthy food on Earth.
There's 1 class of creatures that do not: those things which become my food. Vegetarians are very delicious.
In the Netherlands someone died by eating a wrap from McDonalds.
So they can stop here also.
Its the worst food on earth.
bye bye McDonalds ... we won't miss you
Why didn't they just hang a sign in the window "freedom fries sold here". USA! USA! USA!
Next step: Melt down the Golden Arches for their precious metal content.
Monkey-hammer Economics they call it.
well I have been eating cows rumps for years and it hasn't done mooooooooo any harm
Some quick tinypic's that open in new windows:
Barecrack McDonald
Clowns & Ass Clowns
I remember a time when me and my girlfriend bought a KFC and there was what we deduced to be a chickens beak wrapped in the batter lovingly mixed amongst other bits and fries. we never ate KFC again, and always referred to it as Kentucky Fried Beak thereafter.
" 'It’s muck, why poison our citizens,' Mr Zhirinovsky added in the outburst"
I love how these Rooskies get right to the salient point.
Can't argue with that. He's right.
Zhirinovsky on McDungheap's: 'It’s muck'
Still, the helpless American kids seem to be addicted to it ...
I used to go to MCD for two reasons only: for their milkshakes and to go to the toilet. Then they changed the taste and texture of their milk shakes so now I only go there to take a piss.
If memory serves me correctly, a McShit is entering MCDs just for the purposes of using their facilities. Whereas a McShit with Lies is telling the person at the counter that you'll place your order after using the restroom.
If you really wanted to hurt them, you'd keep McDonalds open.
I bet the fucking Polish McDonald's is still open. I think the Polish have very short memories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_...
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Polish: rze? wo?y?ska, literally: Volhynian slaughter; Ukrainian: ????????? ????????, Volyn tragedy) were part of an ethnic cleansing operation carried out in Nazi German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)'s North Command in the regions of Volhynia (Reichskommissariat Ukraine) and their South Command in Eastern Galicia (General Government) beginning in March 1943 and lasting until the end of 1944.[4][5][6] The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943 when a senior UPA commander, Dmytro Klyachkivsky, ordered the liquidation of the entire male Polish population between 16 and 60 years of age.[7][8][9] Despite this, most of the victims were women and children.[4] According to Grzegorz Motyka, the actions of the UPA resulted in 40,000-60,000 Polish civilian deaths in Volhynia,[3] and from 30,000 to 40,000 in Eastern Galicia.[3][10]Other estimates place the upper bound at much higher levels (see table).