Wendell Potter spent decades scaring Americans. About Canada. He worked for the health insurance industry, and he knew that if Americans understood Canadian-style health care, they might ... like it. So he helped deploy an industry playbook for protecting the health insurance agency.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925354134/frame-canada
Here's an archived piece Wendell wrote for WaPo about what he did and how he did it.
The health care scare: I sold Americans a lie about Canadian medicine. Now we’re paying the price.
Canada loves him too, maybe because he reminds us of the father of Canada's universal healthcare, Tommy Douglas.
No, but some/many Israelis have been calling for the killing of Arabs (and Christians) for years.
Nothing about the attack or what happened since surprised Miran Krikorian. The Armenian owner of Taboon and Wine Bar in the Old City of Jerusalem was not surprised to receive a call the night of January 26 that a mob of Israeli settlers was attacking his bar in the Christian Quarter and shouting “Death to Arabs … Death to Christians.” Source
Death to Arabs" or "Death to the Arabs" is an anti-Arab slogan commonly used by Jewish extremists across Israel, the West Bank, and to a lesser extent, the Gaza Strip. Depending on the person's temperament, it may specifically be an expression of anti-Palestinianism or otherwise a broader expression anti-Arab sentiment, which includes non-Palestinian Arabs. It is widely condemned, with some observers asserting that it manifests genocidal intent. Source
At the Flag March hours earlier, different groups of participants clashed and beat Palestinian locals and harassed journalists. They also sang racist chants such as “Death to Arabs,” “May your village burn” and “An Arab is a son of a b**ch,” as they danced near the Damascus Gate both before and during the rally on Thursday afternoon. Source
Thousands of mostly ultranationalist Israelis took part in an annual march through a dense Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, with some stoking wartime tensions and chanting “Death to Arabs.” Source
Thousands of Israeli nationalists, some of them chanting “Death to Arabs,” paraded through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, in a show of force that risked setting off a new wave of violence in the tense city. Source
Hundreds of far-right and anti-Palestinian activists took to the streets in Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday chanting "Death to Arabs" as they protested through the city centre. Source
The images of hundreds of religious Zionist activists in occupied East Jerusalem chanting "Death to Arabs" come as no surprise to Palestinians. In fact, they are commonplace, daily occurrences, the result of decades of racist policies, laws and hateful anti-Palestinian incitement. Source
(from 1995) Hundreds of Israeli settlers chanting “Death to Arabs!” clashed with police outside Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s Jerusalem residence after two victims of a Palestinian attack were buried, witnesses said. In the West Bank town of Hebron, the Israeli army confined 100,000 Arabs to their homes to protect them from any revenge attacks for Sunday’s killing of the two Jewish settlers and wounding of five others by Palestinian gunmen, a senior officer said. In Washington, President Clinton extended U.S. sympathies to the families of the victims and to the injured. Source
(from 1990) What manner of madness is it that drove mobs, some shouting ”Death to Arabs,” to mourn Rabbi Meir Kahane by running through the streets of Jerusalem hunting down Arabs and smashing shop windows? Source
(from 1986) An estimated 1,000 Jews chanting “Death to the Arabs!” and “We want revenge!” turned a memorial march for a murdered Jewish student Sunday into what Israel radio described as “an ugly demonstration that nearly ended in a riot.” Source
There's a lot ..
The owners promised tens of thousands of dollars to the official, Eric Goldstein, along with control of a second food provider called Range Meats Supply Company, prosecutors said.
(Goldstein's) 20 percent share in Range Meats was kept hidden, prosecutors said.
In the fall of 2015, for instance, prosecutors said, the Somma owners were frustrated that their yogurt parfait and drumsticks were not scheduled to be served until the spring of 2016. Mr. Iler arranged to send $20,000 from a Somma bank account to a Range Meats account, then directed that $7,000 be transferred from the Range Meats account to a lawyer who had handled a divorce for Mr. Goldstein, prosecutors said. Soon after, prosecutors said, the Somma yogurt parfait was “fast-tracked.” Students started consuming it in December 2015.
Somma’s chicken tenders were also fast-tracked, prosecutors said, after Mr. Iler sent $3,000 from Range Meats to a bank account belonging to Mr. Goldstein’s father.
Later, after the reports of foreign objects and choking, Somma asked to substitute drumsticks while SchoolFood weighed the fate of its chicken tenders. Investigators said that Mr. Goldstein used his influence to delay SchoolFood’s response while he negotiated with the company’s owners over Range Meats. After weeks of back and forth, Mr. Iler, Mr. Turley and Mr. Twomey agreed to transfer Somma’s 60 percent interest in Range Meats to Mr. Goldstein and wire nearly $67,000 to a bank account he controlled.
I hope Musk listens to this. But on the off chance he doesn't I also hope the fines start doubling each and every day.
Nice. Just in time for winter.
I guess Vermont expect these people to go build their own cabins in the woods to survive.
If needed, /s
I didn't start watching SNL until 1978 so missed the first couple of years. But it was, and always will be imo, one of the best ever.
Still remember a buddy who had John Belushi's signed photo, framed by a toilet seat, hanging front and centre in his living room.
Good times.
All true. The Mossad have been considered one of the most effective and efficient agencies in the world ... and terrifying in their single-mindedness to eradicate every Muslim on the planet.
Yes, but the Honduran law that allowed it was repealed 2 years ago.
Years later, Luisa Connor and Vanessa Cárdenas would look back ruefully on the day foreigners visited their beachfront village with plans for a development next door. They had no idea the effort was backed by Silicon Valley billionaires who wanted to build a “startup city,” or that a relatively new Honduran law would allow them to establish this semi-autonomous enclave. They could not foresee they would lead a fight against it that would launch their village into national politics and prompt an international legal dispute, threatening to bankrupt the country. They thought it was just another hotel.
Crawfish Rock is a fishing village of a few hundred people on the island of Roatán. It is the kind of place where children roam free, scouring the forest for iguanas or catching crabs under the Caribbean’s glassy waters.
It is also the site of Próspera ZEDE, a libertarian experiment in market-driven governance whose backers are suing Honduras for up to $10.775 billion. Prospera’s Delaware-based creator, Honduras Próspera Inc., argues its project has a right to continue operating even though the law that enabled it was repealed two years ago, and that it should retain that right for 50 years. To make this claim, Honduras Próspera cited a trade agreement Honduras signed with the United States, where the investors are based, and an unrelated treaty with Kuwait.
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