As always, ACAB.

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.

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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.

Israel’s spy agency Mossad, which has a long history of sophisticated operations on foreign soil, planted explosives inside pagers imported by Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters. Source

Experts generally believe a small mount of stable explosive was carefully implanted into each sabotaged device. Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, said: “There wouldn’t need to be much explosive, as proximity to a human body means it would cause injury even if it was a few grams.”

The first wave of explosions – which occurred from about 3.30pm local time on Tuesday – appear to have been triggered by a special message from Hezbollah leadership, implying, Woodward argued, a specific modification of the pagers’ embedded software. This meant it would trigger an explosion when the appropriate message was sent.

It may have been a default setting on the pagers, but the trigger message came with a cynical twist. Eyewitnesses say the pager bleeped, then paused, then detonated – giving enough time for them to be brought closer to the owner’s face – which is why Lebanese doctors reported treating multiple hand and eye injuries after the blast. Source

Israel’s spy agency Mossad, which has a long history of sophisticated operations on foreign soil, planted explosives inside pagers imported by Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters. Source

Experts generally believe a small mount of stable explosive was carefully implanted into each sabotaged device. Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, said: “There wouldn’t need to be much explosive, as proximity to a human body means it would cause injury even if it was a few grams.”

The first wave of explosions – which occurred from about 3.30pm local time on Tuesday – appear to have been triggered by a special message from Hezbollah leadership, implying, Woodward argued, a specific modification of the pagers’ embedded software. This meant it would trigger an explosion when the appropriate message was sent.

It may have been a default setting on the pagers, but the trigger message came with a cynical twist. Eyewitnesses say the pager bleeped, then paused, then detonated – giving enough time for them to be brought closer to the owner’s face – which is why Lebanese doctors reported treating multiple hand and eye injuries after the blast. Source

My family and I moved from the US to Canada in the summer of 2023 and last week was the first time I had to make use my Services Card. I went to the ER in excruciating pain, had blood and urine labs done, a shot of pain killers then waited around (a long time) for a CT scan. The doctor said it might be a new record, but I had been bumped a few times by suspected stroke patients that came in, so totally understandable. Several hours later with a prescription slip in hand I exited the hospital. Easy as pie.

For anyone who has never had the displeasure of experiencing an American hospital you can not understand how much simpler and less stressful and cheap the Canadian system is. I dont know what it would have cost me in the USA, probably whatever my insurance deductible was, but it certainly was not $0. That state of not knowing what all this is going to cost you, and how you will afford it, makes an already awful experience even worse. Not being harassed for money on the way out, never once discussing the cost of something with the DR was truly eye opening. Source

The Bloc has always stood apart, on its own, for its people. And I have always admired that about them.

Too bad the rest of our parties couldn’t take a page from the Bloc’s operating manual and do that once in a while … even just for kicks.

I worked there over 35 years ago so what I saw then is no longer valid now. I just don’t shop there now because they’re even worse assholes than back then.

But this probably has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with employee surveillance with a pinch of voyeurism.

Yup. I worked for them many years ago. The shit I saw made me forego ever shopping there again.

Experts generally believe a small mount of stable explosive was carefully implanted into each sabotaged device. Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, said: “There wouldn’t need to be much explosive, as proximity to a human body means it would cause injury even if it was a few grams.”

The first wave of explosions – which occurred from about 3.30pm local time on Tuesday – appear to have been triggered by a special message from Hezbollah leadership, implying, Woodward argued, a specific modification of the pagers’ embedded software. This meant it would trigger an explosion when the appropriate message was sent.

It may have been a default setting on the pagers, but the trigger message came with a cynical twist. Eyewitnesses say the pager bleeped, then paused, then detonated – giving enough time for them to be brought closer to the owner’s face – which is why Lebanese doctors reported treating multiple hand and eye injuries after the blast. Source

This is how LGBT should be accepted. Proud of Canada for this one.

Congrats to the couple!

Maybe getting a job and affordable housing anywhere would be helpful.

To help a company that’s been banned by the gov’t.

I guarantee you if it had been the American gov’t that banned a site and Cloudflare did this, they’d be called into Congress to answer questions immediately.

Israel’s pretty clearly targeting Hezbollah here, not random Lebanese.

Do you have proof for that statement?