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Switzerland’s trump cards are those it doesn’t have.
19 December 2013
Switzerland's global competitiveness is the highest in the World according to WEF.
It can be seen as a paradoxon that this position could be achieved thank to its innate deficiencies:
- Absence of natural resources,
- Small size and weak strategic position of the country,
- Lack of a clear national identity Read more
Liberal opinion on the Swiss referendum “against mass immigration”
30 November 2013
This initiative must be repelled because it does not solve anything, it supposes that everything continues to work as well as before when something is cut from a functional organism, and it supposes that treaties can be renegotiated according to the unilateral terms of the party asking for it. Read more
Immigration en Suisse : la barque est-elle pleine, y vit-on mal ?
22 November 2013
L'immigration est un de ces sujets qu'il est difficile de traiter avec un peu d'ordre car chacun a ses idées préconçues et ses priorités. Il faut rester différencié et analyser les aspects démographiques, économiques, sociaux et civilisationnels de la question. C'est pour me forger une opinion que j'ai écrit ce billet. Read more
Forcing and Warming: Explanations
15 November 2013
While the IPCC has confirmed that climate will change the debate remains open about its extent, its potential improvement or degradation of living condition on Earth, and the anthopogenic contribution to it.
I've tried to summartize the underlying physical phenomena in a short introduction that can be downloaded. Read more
Du racisme
8 November 2013
Il y a de bonnes raisons de ne pas être raciste.
Mais cela ne fait pas de l'antiracisme une attitude vertueuse à chaque coup. Associer x phobies au racisme est inexact et dangereux.
Chérir sa civilisation et sa culture est légitme tant qu'on ne dégrade pas les autres pour cela. Read more
Is liberalism still going on?
17 October 2013
While liberalism barely exists in France it is slowly eroding in Switzerland, although it has been and still is a formula of great succes when coupled with a strong social cohesion and the opening to the World. Read more
Political Orientation Maps
17 October 2013
A modern constraint, especially in the media and political propaganda, is to align people's opinions and political parties in a linear and simplistic scale from right to left.
It is too simple and it leads to confusion
In a space of freedom and individual responsibility we must distinguish between Liberal and Collectivist, Global and Local, Central and Regional.
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Is Progress Good by Itself?
12 September 2013
It has become fashionable to question progress, to relativize or even deny its benefits, and to impute to it collateral damages that are greater than its main beneficial effects. Nevertheless progresss improves the well-being of people (which has nothing to do with happiness) by better economic conditions, greater personal freedom, and expansion of knowledge. Read more