Disappointing and heartbreaking how Alaska Airlines got away with this ... ... but unfortunately, not at all surprising!!

Time after time, in industry after industry, corporate giants in US of A have made mockery of compliance efforts! Not to mention with ardent support from one party claiming 'gommnment should stay out of…

Disgusting but not at all surprising! When there is national or international spot light on some embarrassing incident -- make a huge SHOW of "punishment". Then slowly but surely chip away at that punishment to reduce it to almost laughable levels. From Life Sentence to 4 years <smh>

Do you really believe libertarians have any grasp on reality? Just talk with them about *anything* and it will be a litany of 'should' in past, present and future tense -- while conveniently ignoring "reality" and / or real life situations and conditions.

Also, talking and investigating about this disaster would have meant giving credit to <gasp> Russia !!

Its doubtful whether either of the other two imperialist allies would be interested in doing that.

SEC is supposedly independent, but its five commissioners are appointed and approved by congress.

And by now disconnect between people in congress and society is / should be an open secret.

IMO Madoff was prosecuted ONLY because he stole from rich & powerful. If he had chosen to target average /…

I hear (and have heard) your argument about having empathy for right and trying to bring them in fold.

Empathy helps when there is a misunderstanding about a shared reality, but that is NOT the case here. What we have now is equivalent of Titanic heading straight towards iceberg and half the passengers denying that there is…

I remember seeing this Cartoon describing hard hitting reality in US of A

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Person 1: "Scientist at xyz university have identified a gene that can predict a newborn's personal, educational and social success in America"

"Free market capitalism" has disastrously failed in the US of A in most (if not all) areas related to basic protections and security of its citizens.

And we have "Reich Party" to thank for that!

Thanks for sharing details about 'Corporate democracy' in Norway. With this much representation in management of a company, no wonder Norwegians have far higher job satisfaction than Americans!

Unfortunately such concepts, even in highly diluted form, will be strongly opposed by members of the Republicans. To quote George…

I read sometime ago that US bankers and corporations have been trying hard to bring "free market capitalism to improve efficiency" in healthcare system over there !!

Now that they have squeezed average Americans dry almost to the bone, looks like Briton is next.

God (or Queen?) help you !!