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Today, Paris is the capital of the world. French president Francois Hollande reportedly told members of his cabinet before the unity march in Paris.
kateoplis: Today in Paris: The largest demonstration in French history (Source: https://vine.co/)
Happy Sunday Everybody! How are you all doing after the first working week of 2015? After the tragic events of this week, I should say I prefer the “eventlessness” (I know, I just made this word up) of the past few weeks, when there are not much to read and post about. I do hope the rest of this year will be filled with much more positive news. France’s Open Wound / La Plaie Béante de la France Great, great post about the two sides of this sad story. I myself shared the #jesuischarlie hashtag a few times since the tragic…
UN Secretary General: 2015 to be challenging, but also promising Secretary General Ban Ki-moon briefed the UN General Assembly about this year’s priorities for the UN on Thursday. Click the picture to read the whole speech and more.
un-dpa: The Security Council met 263 times, an increase of 36 per cent over the previous year. This is just one of the findings in the 2014 Highlights of Security Council Practice report produced by the Security Council Practices and Charter Research Branch in the Security Council Affairs Division of DPA. Full report at http://www.un.org/en/sc/inc/pages/pdf/highlights/2014.pdf
newyorker: The cover of next week’s issue, by Ana Juan. No words. Well done, The New Yorker.
It’s absolutely vital, they can’t win. We are all suffering, with grief, with fear, but we will do it anyway because stupidity will not win. ‘Charlie Hebdo’ columnist Patrick Pelloux. The paper will put out one million copies next week (via micdotcom)
‘Je suis Charlie’ vigils start across the world “Thousands of people have flooded Paris’ Place de la Republique in a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Journalists held up their press cards as members of the public silently raised pens in the air in a poignant symbol against what is being seen as an attack on freedom of speech. The phrase “je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) has become a rallying call for people expressing solidarity with the victims around the world, with many Paris protesters wearing the slogan on stickers…
I have watched The Interview yesterday and I am now totally sorry for that almost two hours of my life. I do admit I have had one or two laughs along, but that is all, most of the time, I was just waiting for it to be over. Since I know people who actually enjoyed it, I will just add that it is absolutely the kind of move that I never watch. Never. Ever. I don’t enjoy obscenity, neither in graphic nor in oral form in movies at all. Again, tastes are different, if you enjoy these kinds of things,…
Happy New Year Everybody! Welcome to the first Sunday Smack of 2015, and the 90th altogether! There is a celebration due in ten weeks! 🙂 If I said last week was down time in blogosphere, this one was even “downer”. And I can’t say I am longing to go back to working weekdays either. I guess I’ll feel different about it once I’m back in the saddle already. I have some important career goals for 2015 too! I am thinking of ways to share them here with you all and create a career feature on this page. How would you…
