Reading Time: 3 minutes Film Title: Son of Saul (2015) Director: László Nemes May 4th is a national remembrance day in the Netherlands. The entire country pays its respect to those who died in WWII and more recent conflicts, all in the name of freedom. Supermarkets close at 7.00 pm and, an hour later, a two-minute silence is observed. […]
Huawei – Réseau 5G Ou Réseau Cinglé?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Je ne savais pas que je portais une bombe à retardement dans la poche de mon pantalon. Il s’agit d’un Huawei P9, un petit téléphone intelligent dont les fabricants ont le potentiel de causer beaucoup de problèmes pour beaucoup d’entre nous. Révolu, le temps où nous devions téléphoner à Nice au boucher du coin […]
Make Someone Happy – Take Buzby Huawei!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Little did I know that I was carrying a time bomb in my back pocket. It’s a Huawei P9, a smart little phone (forgive the pun!) whose makers have the potential to cause a lot of us a lot of trouble. Gone are the days when we had to phone the local butcher to make […]
Auschwitz – Des Gens Ordinaires, Des Vies Extraordinaires
Reading Time: 5 minutes Un sentiment étrange, ma première visite en Pologne. C’est le pays de mon père, mais une terre où il a perdu sa famille et ses racines. Mon père a quitté la Pologne au début des années 30, sentant le danger provenant de l’Allemagne et, voulant faire des études de médecine, a décidé que la France […]
Auschwitz – Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
Reading Time: 6 minutes No one wanted to know. No one wanted to listen to what I had to say. But I made a commitment that people don’t want to hear but I’m going to make sure that they will. Not in the history of mankind has there been industrial killing on this scale. If something happened once, there […]
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Mon Trésor Inca
Reading Time: < 1 minute Je t’ai vu traverser la neige fragile, Je t’ai aidé à franchir le lac de cristal. Et lorsque tu t’es approchée de moi d’un sommet andin, Pour me balayer de l’océan sans fin, Comme un message dans une bouteille, Comme un trésor sur un bateau, Une pépite d’or provenant des Incas, Tu me laisses saisir […]
PATRIMOINE: Notre-Dame de Paris – Quand Religion Recontre Laïcité
Reading Time: 3 minutes Le soir de l’incendie de Notre-Dame, Emmanuel Macron avait du mal à cacher ses larmes lors de sa brève intervention à la télévision. Une partie de Paris était en train de brûler et c’est un brasier qui devrait toucher chacun d’entre-nous. L’incendie de la cathédrale souligne la fragilité de l’histoire, nous rappelle de manière intemporelle […]
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Femicide In Europe – A Question Of Manhood
Reading Time: 3 minutes The victims all had a Christian name – Suzanne, Ingrid, Florence, Catherine… Most had a job – schoolteacher, bank employee, secretary… They all had parents, friends, neighbours, and many had children. Their Christian names are our names and their jobs are our jobs. We too, have parents, friends, and for many of us, children. For […]
Film Review: “The Mule” – The Good, The Bad, And The Slow
Reading Time: 2 minutes I admit it, my thoughts on “The Mule” are going to be biased because I just love the guy. Ever since I saw Clint Eastwood in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” as a teenager, I finally realised what “coolness” was all about. And, take it from me, this guy is cool. For those […]
Notre-Dame De Paris – This Old Lady Is Not For Burning
Reading Time: 4 minutes On the night of the fire, the emotion shown by president Macron during his short television statement in front of Notre-Dame spoke louder than the cathedral’s bells, as his tears were not so far away. A part of Paris was burning, and it’s a blaze that should affect us all. It underscores the fragility of history, […]