I had to buy an Epipen in Paris last year and I was able to buy it over-the-counter for ~$70 (65 euro).

Gimme that socialized medicine any day of the week.

After taking the Eurostar from London to Paris, using American public transport is like riding on something out of the Third World.

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Me, too. There are technologies available and the will is present in the Architecture community to have active systems passively fueled. Just look at the Arab Institute in Paris, where the opening & closing window screen diaphragms are completely powered by the gas/air-tank heated by the Sun:



horrible vid, I know...I'll look for a better one...and perhaps many other examples as well.

My last time in Paris my hotel had an elevator not much bigger than this one. It was big enough for myself, my brother and one bag each. The hard part wasn't riding the elevator it was the getting in and out with bags.

Not even that. She just has to say two words: "Paris? France?"

Boom shakalaka.

No wai! THAT'S how the Eiffel Tower was made?! And it looked so much bigger when I saw it in Paris!

Ummm this isn't "often overlooked"? That's the whole point of a theatre, the size of the screen and impact of the sound.

And no one travels to Paris to see the Mona Lisa, we're already travelling to Paris because it's fucking Paris. Then we see the Mona Lisa while we're there, as something to do, in Paris.

Sorry, this is really contrived.

Some bits it glosses over :

Puppet dictatorship is basically a description of every US and Soviet backed b-list nation on earth back then. The fact that it's a puppet state shouldn't be used to imply anything.
For example, the U.S.S.R. had modernization programs for its satellite states, building power plants, roads, hospitals, universities, etc, in an attempt to fast forward development and catch up with the west asap. They also did this while spouting secular rhetoric.
In a general attempt to undermine soviet efforts (*both sides tried to contain each other's influence world wide), the U.S. looked for any groups within the U.S.S.R. satellite nations that would be an 'in' for U.S. power/influence. For Afghanistan, this was the people most offended by the U.S.S.R.'s [secular] agenda, and most likely to make good on foreign anti-soviet backing - the religious Jihadists. Everyone knew very well what it would mean for the local people if Jihadists took over Afghanistan - but at the time, the soviets were considered a bigger problem than Jihadists (possibility of nuclear annihilation), so better to have Jihadists in power than soviets.

Also, Assad's release of prisoners was officially part of an amnesty for political prisoners - something the people and foreign groups were asking for.
Saying that Assad tolerated AQ or Isis is misleading. These groups gained power during the Arab spring, when a large portion of the civilian population wanted a new government, but lacked the military power to force change. Militants stepped into the situation by /graciously/ offering their military strength, in exchange for economic/resource/political support to help make it happen. After a short while, these groups coopted the entire effort against Assad. Once they were established, they simply put the people under their boot, effectively replacing Assad with something even worse within the regions they held. Assad lacked/lacks the military power and support to expel the militant groups, so they fight to a stalemate. But a stalemate is by no means tolerance.
One similarity that Syria has to Afghanistan, is that the anti-government kernel within the population that birthed the revolt, did so for anti-secular reasons. In Syria's case, it was in large part people from the region that had earlier attempted an Islamist uprising during Assad's father's reign (which was put down by the government, culminating in the 'hama massacre', leaving some intense anti-government sentiment in the region).
In any case, the available choices for power in Syria are 'political dictatorship' or 'religious dictatorship'. Whoever wins, regular people lose. It's not as if regular people have the arms necessary to force anyone to listen to them. Anyone with any brains or initiative knows that their best option is neither, so they leave (hence all the refugees).

The video also omits the ambiguous alliances in the region. Early on, you had the UAE, Saudis, and Turks supporting ISIS - because an enemy of your enemy is your friend. It wasn't until ISIS started to encroach on them that they tempered their support. Turkey remains ambiguous, by some accounts being the gateway/laundromat for ISIS oil sales... because ISIS is a solution to the 'Kurdish problem' for Turkey.
If you watch some of the VICE documentaries, you can see interviews where locals on the Turkish border say that militants and arms cross form Turkey into Syria to join ISIS every night.
Then you have countries like Iran and Syria fighting ISIS, but by official accounts these countries are the west's enemy. Recently, French leadership (after the Paris bombings) has stated that they are done playing politics, and just want to get rid of ISIS in the most practical manner possible, and are willing to work with Russia and Assad to do it.

It's worth noting that ISIS' main enemy/target is 'non Sunni Islam'. U.S./Europe tend to only mention ISIS attacks on their persons/places, and it leaves western people thinking that ISIS is against the west - but in fact the west is merely an afterthought for ISIS. For every one attack on a western asset/person, there are countless attacks on Shia, etc.

-scheherazade

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I love Paris so much!

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James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud'
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/12/james-hansen-climate-change-paris-talks-fraud

Is there still a debate here? It sounds like several hundred governments have agreed to do something about climate change because it's a real, measurable global threat. The agreement reached in Paris doesn't even go far enough to mitigate the damage already caused and will continue for decades to come. Sorry that the deniers couldn't interpret the meaning of this early data. I wish you were right.

*livemusic

Celine Dion has an amazing voice, but for some reason I've never really been a fan of hers.

Not sure if a rolling slideshow about the Paris attacks is enough to really fit the 'War on Terror' channel...