Tag: elections
Happy weekend dear readers! Especially for everybody in Hungary who are just in the middle of a four-day-long weekend due to a public holiday on Tuesday. Hope you are all having a great time! I have some serious thinking to do during this weekend, still in the middle of serious profession-wise decision making. Although I still have no idea where it is going to take me (even geographically), I enjoy this process a lot. I know something good is going to come after either way. I am looking forward to being able to reveal everything, but until then, I’ll keep…
Goodbye, Ahmadinejad: Rouhani takes over as Iran’s president Iran’s new President Hassan Rouhani took the oath of office Sunday, replacing controversial President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Well, the new president doesn’t seem to be any less controversial as of yet.
Hello everyone, how are you all doing this Sunday? I just read recently on two separate professional blogs how interviewing for a job can be character-building and how they recommend to not only keep your profile updated even if you’re not looking for a job, but to go out and interview every once in a while. Just to see how you’re doing. Well, although currently I am indeed seriously looking, I can tell you, there is something to this. If the interviewers are good, and the whole process is professional and everything, you can learn a lot in interview situations….
The topic of yesterday’s broadcast of The Kofi Annan Dialogues was Democracy and Elections. While discussing these with special emphasis on young people’s participation, Mr. Annan also reflected on recent issues such as Egypt. The former UN Secretary General once again stressed the importance of citizens, especially young people who can be critics of their leaders, as he likes to put it, “where leaders fail to lead, the people can make them follow”. He said he considers young people’s participation so crucial that he wouldn’t oppose “situations where you have to vote on a compulsory basis”. I have to say…
eretzyisrael: According to a tally of 99.5% of the votes, the results are as follows: Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu: 31 Yesh Atid: 19 Labor: 15 Shas: 11 Habayit Hayehudi: 11 United Torah Judaism: 7 Hatnua: 6 Meretz: 6 United Arab List-Taal: 5 Hadash: 4 Balad: 3 Kadima: 2
Obama Wins New Term as Electoral Advantage Holds Voters returned President Obama to the White House, but he will face a Congress with the same divisions that marked his first term.
That’s what’s happening now (á la The West Wing). 🙂 donna-moss: election day ww spam ‘12 | the west wing ; 7×17 ”election day part ii”
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed_edition&videoId=international/2012/11/05/exp-madeleine-albright-elections-amanpour.cnn Madeleine Albright on US foreign policy after the elections. (Source: http://i.cdn.turner.com/)
