The previous perspective on tobacco has caused so many reactions, that I have found a few reasons to come back to this topic. First, nobody has called into question the frightening statistics that I have pointed out.
Lately, many things are happening in the world. In North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, North America, South America, Russia, China, India. In fact, it would be quicker to talk about places where nothing happens: Europe, and they are only talking about small scandals and large debts there; in Brussels it is even worse: they are not talking about anything, there is not even a small scandal or some large debt.
The scandal of Mediator, at the heart of a knot of conflicting interests, is exemplary of a disturbing drift of our health care system. It has already had two positive effects by leading to better monitor a long list of medications with uncertain side effects and better control of relations between experts responsible for placing medicinal products on the market, and pharmaceutical companies that produce them.
When comparing the discussions on public debt in France with those taking place everywhere else in Europe, the United States or Japan, we can only be dismayed: here, on the left-wing like on the right-wing, the watchword is « Please do not talk about anything that is disturbing. And for that, let’s launch some nice little and unimportant debate. »
Looking at the way, 2011 begins, in Europe, we could easily be depressed: unemployment is rising everywhere, even in Germany, where it is hidden by subsidies and misleading statistics; an unprecedented crisis of confidence in institutions; a presidency of the Union entrusted, without any protest, to a government that openly violates freedom of the press and artists.
2010 will remain, in the West, as the year of the ostrich.
L’impatience est le privilège des forts. Cela doit devenir l’inverse.Les plus pauvres, par nature, sont contraints d’être patients, c’est a dire, au sens propre, de souffrir ; et au sens figuré, de ne pas attendre de résultats rapides de leurs efforts…
If there is but one rare subject on which the president of the Republic
seems to make unanimity today, it is the one on the importance of urgently
settling the issue of dependency of the elderly…
It is fascinating to see the important place the French media have devoted to the cabinet reshuffle announced Sunday
