Prosecutors said that excluding Pfizer would most likely lead to Pfizer's collapse, with collateral consequences: disrupting the flow of Pfizer products to Medicare and Medicaid recipients, causing the loss of jobs including those of Pfizer employees who were not involved in the fraud, and causing significant losses for Pfizer shareholders.
(Emphasis mine)
I can understand trying to shield innocent employees and patients. But is the government so deep into corporate America's pocket that they openly admit that protecting shareholder profits trumps upholding the law?
This controversy is already going to have a great benefit by making everyone (in Israel at least) think about organ donation and, hopefully, make a decision on whether to become a donor or not.
As I understand, one of the major problems with organ supply is that even people who would be inclined to donate never actually register or discuss the topic with their families. By the time the question is relevant, they are no longer able to state their opinion, so the family has to agonize over the decision and tends to choose the "safe" option of not donating.
Other than the music, there's nothing on the game to make it "Super Mario Bros.". The player character runs and jumps over generic obstacles without making any use of SMB physics or any other distinctive elements. If anything it's closer to Pitfall.
Then again, "8x8 platformer created with Arduino" wouldn't attract as much publicity.
Those irrational, anti-Chavez militants make it a point to accuse him of being a dictator although he is holding a democratically appointed position to which he was elected timeandagain
All the elections held after 2004 were so biased and marred by irregularities that any first-world country would laugh at the idea of such frauds being considered valid in their own territory.
Even the staunchest Chavez supporters will admit that:
- Chavez's allies control the Electoral Board and have continuously changed the rules to whatever suits them.
- Chavez constantly abuses the state's resources (mostly the state's TV channel and enforced national broadcasts) to deliver blatant propaganda.
- Chavez openly engages in vote-buying operations before each election. The origin of the funds for such has never been clear.
This is without including many more claims brought forth by the opposition, which fall in deaf ears because Chavez openly controls all powers of the state.
and although he has been the target of multiplecoup attempts, all of which were reverted by none other than Venezuela's people. Is that what being a dictator is about?
As another post said, the 1992 coup attempt was BY Chavez, not against Chavez. In the view of the government, supporters of the 1992 attempt are heroes and supporters of the 2002 attempt are criminals.
There is no possible way to label this fact as anything other than hypocrisy. And a government that uses its own hypocritical viewpoint to impose penalties on its citizens cannot be labeled anything other than a tyranny.
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Prosecutors said that excluding Pfizer would most likely lead to Pfizer's collapse, with collateral consequences: disrupting the flow of Pfizer products to Medicare and Medicaid recipients, causing the loss of jobs including those of Pfizer employees who were not involved in the fraud, and causing significant losses for Pfizer shareholders.
(Emphasis mine)
I can understand trying to shield innocent employees and patients. But is the government so deep into corporate America's pocket that they openly admit that protecting shareholder profits trumps upholding the law?
This controversy is already going to have a great benefit by making everyone (in Israel at least) think about organ donation and, hopefully, make a decision on whether to become a donor or not.
As I understand, one of the major problems with organ supply is that even people who would be inclined to donate never actually register or discuss the topic with their families. By the time the question is relevant, they are no longer able to state their opinion, so the family has to agonize over the decision and tends to choose the "safe" option of not donating.
Other than the music, there's nothing on the game to make it "Super Mario Bros.". The player character runs and jumps over generic obstacles without making any use of SMB physics or any other distinctive elements. If anything it's closer to Pitfall.
Then again, "8x8 platformer created with Arduino" wouldn't attract as much publicity.
Those irrational, anti-Chavez militants make it a point to accuse him of being a dictator although he is holding a democratically appointed position to which he was elected time and again
All the elections held after 2004 were so biased and marred by irregularities that any first-world country would laugh at the idea of such frauds being considered valid in their own territory.
Even the staunchest Chavez supporters will admit that:
- Chavez's allies control the Electoral Board and have continuously changed the rules to whatever suits them.
- Chavez constantly abuses the state's resources (mostly the state's TV channel and enforced national broadcasts) to deliver blatant propaganda.
- Chavez openly engages in vote-buying operations before each election. The origin of the funds for such has never been clear.
This is without including many more claims brought forth by the opposition, which fall in deaf ears because Chavez openly controls all powers of the state.
and although he has been the target of multiple coup attempts, all of which were reverted by none other than Venezuela's people. Is that what being a dictator is about?
As another post said, the 1992 coup attempt was BY Chavez, not against Chavez. In the view of the government, supporters of the 1992 attempt are heroes and supporters of the 2002 attempt are criminals.
There is no possible way to label this fact as anything other than hypocrisy. And a government that uses its own hypocritical viewpoint to impose penalties on its citizens cannot be labeled anything other than a tyranny.