It does look spectacular.
There is a lot of nature I’d like to see in the US.
Oh, well.
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“And when he was last in office Mr Trump repeatedly blamed foreign countries for the high price of medicines in the United States, saying they were taking advantage of US investment in medical research without paying a fair price for the drugs they developed.”
Well, he’s solving that problem himself by taking away US investment in medical research.
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Utah is strongly republican isn’t it?
I’d love to go there and explore the national parks.
It’s bucket list stuff. I’m hoping there’s a time in the future it’s all a bit more affordable for me
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I’m sure i am missing something in the sequence of u.s. pharma sooking to trump.
They, (u.s.pharma) a seller ,negotiate directly with a purchaser (aus gov.) AND THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WITH WHAT THEY NEGOTIATE ?
I am not aware of any law that states that they must accept what we are offering.
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Correct. It’s insane. Throw in Zion NP, Monument Valley and some other places nearby, it’s just a great place to see this stuff.
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So some RESULTS from a NBC poll.
For context (someone from the comments and not fact checked) Approval rating for presidents during their first 100 days- Clinton 55%, Bush average 62%, Obama average 65%, Trump 1st term 41%, Biden 57%. The only President to be under 50% and he has done it twice.
So the Americans are liking DOGE (apparently government spending went up 50% during Covid), the reduction in International Aid and Trumps leadership (although low it’s his own personal high).
They aren’t liking his economic management to this point.
‘No one has been played as hard as Trump’: Reaction to Trump and Putin’s phone call
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PBS operates a monopsony. As the principal (bulk) buyer and supplier in the market, it can bring down the consumption price in the market.
An example:
The old prescriptions used to allow the pharmacist a choice between offering the generic or higher priced trade marked product . Currently, any prescription on the PBS subsidy (max $30) mandates generic . It can be confusing when regular prescribed medications change their brand names (after the PBS has negotiated a better bulk price with another supplier)
A different example
As a harm reduction measure, the Fed government in cooperation with State Governments has reached agreement with participating pharmacies for the free supply of nyxoid ( naloxone nasal spray) produced by Mundipharma, owned by the Sakkler family. It’s an off prescription product available to anyone on regular opioid prescription and to the addicted into illegal opioids, with no questions asked. The same product can be purchased without prescription from non participating pharmacies like Chemist Warehouse, but at a price of around $100.
In the USA, a NFP pharmaceutical company is selling its own label naloxone spray at cost, in competition with the likes of the Sakkler mundipharma.
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theyre not results at all.
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results of a poll.
LOL
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But they may do something? Yikes. I’m booked to go there in October.
I need to get my passport renewed and my new ESTA. Guessing that’s something I should do sooner rather than later?
Delete all your social media posts critical of Trump or being nice to China, displaying DEI leanings, giving to certain charities.
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I don’t think it will affect Australians directly but they are looking at adding other countries to the banned list and a heap of other countries to other categories that will make it harder for those to enter the country. Those in the travel industry are concerned that it could lead to issues if tourists such as Australians have visited these countries recently and could lead to extra security screening, tourists getting detained etc. For instance several of the Caribbean nations may be added to the list and as we are visiting them there is a chance that we could face extra security attention or at worst even be denied entry. All a lot to play out yet but some very nervous people in the tourism industry currently waiting to see how this will unfold
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Dunno whether that’s a joke, but it’s good advice regardless.
I believe immigration agents are entitled to ask for your social media tags (and possibly even ask you to open your phone so they can look) on entrance to the US. They can’t force you to do it, but they can deny you admittance if you don’t. I suspect they’ve mostly had better things to do, but that was then. The USA of next October will be a lot different to the USA of last October, or even of now.
I have a cousin living in the USA on a green card, married to an American and with a young family. He has a history of (fairly mild) support for Democrats on social media. I’d be lying if I said I was completely unconcerned with how things’ll go for him over the next couple of years.
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That can happen VERY easily. Customs and immigration over there have enormous discretion to make your life miserable if they want.
I travelled in the USA in 2003 and took a side trip down to Mexico for a couple of days, travelling light. When the flight back landed in Dallas I was pulled up at immigration and locked up for being an illegal Mexican immigrant, because my return ticket to Aust was sitting at a friend’s place in Seattle along with the rest of my luggage so i couldn’t prove i was planning to leave. I eventually got out by getting the nice man with the big mustache and the .357 magnum on his hip to go talk to Qantas and confirm the dates of my return flight, but mostly I think he eventually got bored with me and decided to persecute a Mexican journo who’d been taking photos too close to a military base instead.
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Thats your story and you’re sticking with it right?
What happens in customs…
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Sí señor…
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So no one on BomberBlitz can ever go to the US? Besides Lawry?
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