The Holiday That Was, Then Wasn’t And Now Is

This is the rather muddled tale of the public holiday that disappeared from the French calendar four years ago when it became a quasi-working day But lo and behold, and hallelujah, everything’s back to normal at last and lundi Pentecôte, or Whit Monday, is once again a day off...

Sarkozy Sees Sense On Blair Presidency

It has not been made official yet but it’s already doing the rounds of the media both here in France and across the channel in Britain The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is apparently not going to back former British prime minister, Tony Blair, as a candidate to become the first president of the European Union...

The Real Causes Of Global Warming - Find Out How Our Daily Habits Have Disastrous Effects For The Planet

The two major greenhouse gases are the carbon dioxide that contributes to the greenhouse effect to a height of 60% and methane While methane has only a weak life span in the atmosphere, the carbon dioxide there remains for more than a century...

Global Warming - 5 Simple Ways To Go Green And Save The Environment

In today’s world global warming is an area of great concern If everyone makes small changes to become economically friendly, things would get better...

New York Times Fooled by Mexican Populist Demagogue

Maybe it would be helpful and a good idea for the New York Times to take a real look at Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and not just report what they would like to believe....

UK Asbestos Regulations

Asbestos has been one of the most discussed health topics of the last few decades This is due to the fact that asbestos emits invisible fibres that can have harmful effects on anyone who comes into contact with them for prolonged periods...

Diamond Minds, Metro Europe - Libya Wants In!

When we see and hear leaders of Europe on a British television speak to a delegate from Russia, and from Serbia, we hear of their amazing brilliant thinking. Their minds are beyond beyond those of the man from Russia and the man from Serbia....

Greek Antiques, Democracies, China Today - More on Web than America - But Watch What You Say

This is a rather limited victory, the fact just reported, that more Chinese will be on the web this year than Americans. But try to type in words such as Tibet.Will there be a knock at your door by a man with a club?...

Free Tibet by Boycotting Chinese Goods, Olympic Advertisers and the Olympics

Go ahead, it won't hurt. Just remember that in China not only would you not be allowed to read this article but it would be banned on the search engines as well. Or rather it would be banned to the extent the search engines could filter it out. The government would also ban you from forwarding it....

Healthy Lifestyles, Unhealthy Evolutions - Idealist Chairman Mao to Now

There was a brief period when the Communist take over of China seemed to grant them, certainly in their minds, a pure, wholesome sense, of all sacrifice for the better of all. They looked down on the heathens in Moscow....