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HCR:It is Not Just MSM that has Ignored and Silenced the Concerns of the Medical Community , it is also the Blogger Community-BIG Blogs too.

HCR:It is Not Just MSM that has Ignored and Silenced the Concerns of the Medical Community , it is also the Blogger Community-BIG Blogs too.

As a Nurse of over 20+ years I have been very disheartened as the Health Care Battle has dragged on all these Months. I have diligently blogged the Battle, researching and covering Statistics,Data, Interviewing Americans with Nightmare Health Stories, and (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Enigma4ever

A French town’s €4 million gift from "Mother Christmas"

A French town's €4 million gift from "Mother Christmas"

Christmas is a time of giving - something that’s drummed into many of us from an early age, although if we’re honest receiving might be much more pleasurable. Well, the town of Chalon-sur-Saône in the south of the Burgundy region of France (...)

21 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

France Telecom’s new monthly mobile phone bill record: €159,000

France Telecom's new monthly mobile phone bill record: €159,000

If you’ve been following the story of astronomical mobile ’phone bills here in France, you’ll know that in the past week two cases have made the headlines: One for over €45,000 and another for €39,500. Well, if you thought (...)

19 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

A new case of mobile phone bill madness in France

A new case of mobile phone bill madness in France

Just another news-making day in France for Orange, the mobile ’phone network operator and Internet service provider of this country’s main telecommunications company, France Telecom. And that of course can only mean an astronomical bill for (...)

18 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

One Frenchman’s monster €45,000 Internet bill

One Frenchman's monster €45,000 Internet bill

Those of a certain generation and background will doubtlessly have been raised with the idiom ringing in their ears, "If you look after the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves." Ah yes the lesson of thrift and sensible budgeting, (...)

16 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

French woman marries her dead fiancé

Yes you read the headline correctly. Out of France this past weekend comes the touching if somewhat unusual story of Magali Jaskiewicz and Jonathan Goerge. The couple were married on Saturday afternoon in the village of Dommary-Baroncourt in the (...)

16 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

French support gay parents’ adoption rights

French support gay parents' adoption rights

According to a survey carried out by BVA for the television channel Canal +, 57 per cent of those questioned think gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to adopt while 41 per cent are against. In a similar poll carried out three years ago only 48 (...)

13 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

French national identity - the grand debate

French national identity - the grand debate

Politicians and the media in France have been literally falling over themselves in response to an interview given by the immigration minister, Eric Besson, last weekend in which he said he wanted to launch a major discussion over "national values and (...)

30 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

Save the boobs!

Save the boobs!

This is a great campaign produced by Boobyball for the Breast Cancer awareness month, featuring MTV Canada presenter Aliya-Jasmine Sovani. * * * * * Want to donate now? Click here...

26 Oct. 2009 | | J.N. PAQUET

Row over homophobia in local French soccer league

Homophobia in sport is for many a taboo subject and is still alive and sadly kicking in French football as far as those who work to promote tolerance in the "Beautiful Game" are concerned. Last weekend, the club Paris Foot Gay (PFG) received (...)

7 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Reducing truancy rates in French high schools

A trial begins on Monday in France to try to cut the truancy rate among students at vocational high schools. Playing hookey, skiving off, cutting class or whatever you want to call it, is apparently an increasing problem in France, with figures from a (...)

5 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Morocco: The Fight Against the Spread of Hashish is Not Yet Over

Morocco: The Fight Against the Spread of Hashish is Not Yet Over

Mamadou, L’Bob, Larbi, Z’roki, Sh’homat, Rasta, Drori, Selham, L’hadj, Mi Zina, Nouass, Marquize ... All these are names, or let us say nicknames of some drug dealers in the city of Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco (...)

5 Aug. 2009 | | Morocco Times

He had no game

He had no game

Relationships and how we form them are an integral part of the human condition. In particular relationships between men and women and for the theologians among us may have been as such since the times of Adam and Eve. I was at the shop this past week as (...)

29 Jul. 2009 | | Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

World Crisis and Man’s Hierarchy of Needs

Abraham Maslow’s theory on the hierarchy of human needs can tell us much about where our world is now. Its explanation of how human motivation evolves can shed light on the many global crises we face. It can point us in the right direction and put (...)

20 Jul. 2009 | | Pete Latona

You Know That Society Is Doomed

You Know That Society Is Doomed

When the Republican leading the Sonya Sotomayor "is soft on racial bias" charge is himself a flaming racist. When a man checks his bank balance and finds he’s $23 quadrillion in debt. Plus a $15 overdraft fee. When getting a blow job in (...)

16 Jul. 2009 | 3 comments | Shaun Mullen

Stifling free speech breeds real racism

It’s all been said before : keep people on too short a leash and don’t allow them to vent, and you’ll cause some of them to do unspeakable things. In our day and age when so many people are called racist for merely voicing legitimate (...)

10 jui. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Shameful : Republican Senator John Ensign Admits To Cheating On His Wife

A sincere apology, but there is no excuse for this. Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, a leading conservative mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, admitted Tuesday he had an extramarital affair with a woman who was a member of his (...)

17 jui. 2009 | | Rob Port

Democracy and the Muslim world : the “post-Islamist” turn

Democracy and the Muslim world : the “post-Islamist” turn

An old argument over the compatibility of Islam and democracy is being transformed under the influence of new social and intellectual currents. The external advocates of democracy in the Muslim world should take note. By Asef Bayat. The debate about the (...)

13 mar. 2009 | | openDemocracy

Nothing brings about pessimism like a recession

Nothing brings about pessimism like a recession

This recession thing is pretty confusing. The government has officially declared that we’re in a recession (I called it in August). The market tanks one day and skyrockets the next. The so-called “Black Friday” was supposed to be bad, (...)

3 déc. 2008 | | Terry Heaton

Graffiti Begets More Graffiti, But What Do Clean Hands Get You ?

Graffiti Begets More Graffiti, But What Do Clean Hands Get You ?

Last week, the Economist reported on two contradictory stories : the first reaffirmed the decades old "broken windows" theory which suggests that neighborhoods with broken windows or graffiti in this case results in more crime, unrest, and (...)

28 nov. 2008 | | Bioethics.net

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