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Release from Tagami Communications
A new Canadian novel, The
Avro Arrow Manipulation, weaves an only too plausible tale about how two of
this country's most outstanding developments, the Avro Arrow Fighter-Interceptor
program (that was killed in 1959) and the publicly funded, Canadian Medicare
system, have been deliberately undermined by the same covert 'bizwar' company,
on behalf of its corporate clients.
The novel's author is
Will Cupchik, is a psychologist and former electrical engineer who, in the early 1960s, designed
guidance systems for American and other countries' military aircraft, and who,
for the last forty years, has worked in various capacities in Canadian
educational systems. For the past twenty-four years he has worked as a
Registered Psychologist, first at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and then
from within his own private practice. His non-fiction book, Why Honest People
Shoplift Or Commit Other Acts Of Theft, has been a consistent best-seller in
its category (shoplifting) at BarnesandNoble.com.
Synopsis
Set in the
near future of 2009, this novel deals the covert activities of a fictional American
company, The American Management Profit Retention and Recovery company (TAMPRR,
Inc.) that, for
over a half-century, has achieved remarkable success in carrying on an international
'bizwar’ on behalf of its select U.S. corporate clients . Among its major assignments, TAMPRR has
worked to sabotage
two of Canada’s greatest accomplishments - the famed Avro Arrow
fighter-interceptor aircraft program and the Canadian universal Medicare
system. Fifty years ago TAMPRR
achieved the former goal.
For the seventeen years up to and including
2009, this privately
held company has been working hard to complete the destruction of
Canada’s universal Medicare system. It is now on the verge of final victory.
However, a
prize-winning American investigative reporter, Ken Simpson of the New York Era,
learns that he has personal as well as professional reasons to
investigate the real events leading to the shutting down of the Avro Arrow
program and, as well, the efforts of TAMPRR to sabotage and then take over
control the Canadian healthcare system. In
fact, Simpson may be the only major media person willing - and in a
position to - stop TAMPRR’s owner, retired USAF Colonel and ex-CIA operative,
Jake Marks, from achieving his crowning – and most lucrative – business
triumph.
In
the process of uncovering and then disclosing through his newspaper columns some
of the most disturbing elements of American business practices, Ken Simpson's
writing stirs into action some highly placed American and Canadian business and
political leaders to come together with the common goal of developing and
utilizing the potential of 21st century technological capabilities in
order to make their countries more genuinely participatory democracies.
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As an American
businessman whose company is deeply involved in military projects, the
fictional
premise of your novel as to how, why and by whom the Avro Arrow program
may have been forced to close down by a company such as TAMPRR,
certainly makes a lot of sense to me. In fact, I would actually be happy to learn that
some Americans were involved in stopping the Avro Arrow program from
going forward. Such covert action would have helped prevent Canada from gaining
military supremacy in an area that might have cost American corporations billions
and billions of dollars,
and perhaps, as well, our pre-eminent military air superiority in
fighter-interceptor aircraft.
Anyway, there is simply no way that Americans
would want to 'buy Canadian' (or any other country's military aircraft,
for that matter) in order to be able to protect ourselves and our national
interests.
As for the fictional idea that some HMOs and other healthcare related
companies might be working to sabotage your Canadian universal Medicare
system;
well, if that is happening, it's nothing personal; its just like the Arrow thing; it is simply
a matter of some of our companies working to protect and grow their
own
businesses. After all, all's fair in love, war, and business.
Summary of comments of the co-Founder,
Chairman and CEO of an American, California-headquartered company
involved in U.S. military aircraft and aerospace development
"I think the issues in the book are
very real and worrisome. Even now the way some of these politicians and others in
high places are acting I sometimes wonder if a real
life, covert 'bizwar' company like the one in the book named TAMPRR is, in
actual fact, in place and
working to destroy the Canadian universal medicare system. ... In
spite of some apparent erosion due to cutbacks which seem to be
aimed at destroying the Canadian system, in my opinion it is still better
than the one in the USA.
"What amazes me is the number of people who think they would be
better off being bankrupted by switching to the American system."
A
Physician in Alberta,
Canada
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Will Cupchik, author