americablog.com - 10/27/2009
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They expect the new lamps to both save money and also to help address the problem of too much night light. There is a movement in many European towns to reduce energy costs by stopping night lights at a certain hour and this would help by turning the lights on briefly for humans, but then ...
Visit the McLouvre in Paris!
feedproxy.google.com 10/6/2009 — No big bonjour here!
This story really cracks me up. I lived in Paris, France for two years and saw some pretty interesting stuff while I was there. The French seem to love to consume America products but their elected officials always seem to condemn them. The French ...
Is French Capitalism Causing Mass Suicide?
reason.com 10/7/2009 —
The New York Times
reports that French workers—beneficiaries of some of Europe's
most generous workplace rules—are suffering under the boot heel
of their corporate masters. Observe, says the Times , the
"spate of suicides at France ...
Healthcare in France
harrisonprice.com 9/5/2009 — An interesting article from Investor’s Business Daily about socialized healthcare in France and why all the good things you’ve been hearing about it are not necessarily true:
Health Systems: Health care in France is often held up as a model the U.S. might follow. Yet the French ...
The Associated Press: France rushes to Polanski's defense
google.com 9/28/2009 — 1 day ago PARIS Was Roman Polanski "thrown to the lions because of ancient history?" That's what France's culture minister says, and many French people agree. France has rushed to the filmmaker's defense since he was arrested this weekend in ...
"Incidents" in France after a "youth" dies evading police
jihadwatch.org 10/27/2009 — "After his death, at least 50 youths took to the streets and started to break windows at the entrance of Gabelle, an outskirt of the city. The youths also burned garbage, tires, a motorcycle and five vehicles in a shipyard, said the police. When the ...
Suicides in France Put Focus on Workplace
nytimes.com 10/6/2009 — The day after a France Télécom employee committed suicide this week, five hundred people gathered outside the company's office in Lyon, France.
Nuclear Socialism
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 23 days ago —
Brad Plumer has an interesting piece about the American right’s strangely passionate love affair with nuclear power and the impact it’s having on the climate debate in congress. What I find especially odd about it is that it’s so ...
Tom Friedman's Idiocy Atomique
commondreams.org 9/26/2009 — by Harvey Wasserman France's atomic power industry is a failed radioactive flame. Its 58
reactors are unpopular, unsafe, uneconomical, dirty, direct agents of
global warming, weapons proliferators and major generators of atomic
waste for which there ...
“Why France’s Health Care Is So Good”
faustasblog.com 9/25/2009 — Cluelessness at the WaPo:
Why France’s Health Care Is So Good
Reality in Paris:
Why Can’t Those Greedy Capitalist Pigs in America Take the Compassionate European Health Systems as an Example and — Wait a Minute!
Two months prior to Plantu’s anti-American cartoon, Le ...
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