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* Power is crazy.

• Criminals rule the world.
• Health care is parlous at best.
• Politicians look at the world through rise coloured glasses.
• Denocracy is almost dead.
• Tyrants and autocrats rule the roost.
• Despair is smothering hope.
• ‘Thank you’ is a rare expression.
• The sun of hope is about as prominent as sunshine at Longyearbyen at this time of the year.