4:10 am
Phil
norina, I believe its on Netflix. Very scary stuff if you're American. Seems like alternative treatments are available in other parts of the world. The original drug company sold the lifesaving tablet for around $1. An unscrupulous pharma bias up small company and times the price, within a few years up to $200 a tablet. Apparently thats not illegal in the US. And it seems morality plays no part in justice there either.
4:19 am
Phil
You seem to have little governance in the US. Another example is Boeing. It appears the FAA relied on Boeing to do its own airworthiness checks on the new 737 max. And nobody thought it reasonable to question why a it was thought a good idea to put an automated system to put the plane in a nose dive following faulty signals from a sensor without a warning light for the pilot (you can have one if you pay Boeing extra!) What was wrong with a simple warning alarm that the pilots can react to and put the nose forward if appropriate. It was surely utter stupidity that has cost hundreds of innocent lives. It had played up many many times before the Lion Air crash and yet nothing was done. The FAA didn't even take the action of others around the World. How many more crashes did they think should happen before they realise there's a problem.
4:20 am
Phil
Sorry for the rant, but really, these are peoples lives. Why is the government powerless to act?
4:22 am
Phil
Read a great piece about that very thing today from a US journo.I'll dig it out and give the journo the credit when I find it.
7:02 am
Penguin
Phil, the US gov't is not powerless. It is, much to my distaste, acting in the interest of those who fund elections and future jobs for politicians. This gets a little complicated, several Supreme Court decisions (most recently one known as Citizens United, that being based on an earlier case known as Buckley v Valeo) and a revolving door (politicians becoming extremely well paid lobbyists before re-entering gov't service via appointments). There are groups today who are endeavoring to amend the US Constitution to get money out of politics and restrict corporate personhood. But for now, while not powerless the US government chooses to be impotent.
9:13 am
Phil
Penguin, I found this article by Mattew Dessaem march 21 2019 5.29pm writing for SLATE. Very interesting. Includes a full speech by PM Ardern. She's made a lot recently, powerful, to the point, empathetic and above all right. That's why she's a true leader who is respected on both sides of politics in NZ
9:24 am
spellacked
ooh a medium, I can't remember the last one of these we had
9:33 am
spellacked
meh, startlingly easy for a medium
9:42 am
Phil
ding, I agree, easy for a medium
5:22 pm
TallMike
I hadn't realized that mediums have a talent for Sudoku. My own psychic powers don't seem to help at all.
