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February 26, 2011

Le Mur/Ober welcomes Jana & Js...


Le M.U.R. #91 - Jana & Js - Feb. 26/2011








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February 24, 2011

February 17, 2011

Bahrain yesterday, from an expat friend...




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Bahrain protesters reclaim Pearl roundabout
in central Manama
.
Feb. 19th: The standoff in central Manama ends with troops moving out
and the return of jubilant demonstrators demanding change.



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2011–2012 Bahraini uprising - WIKI

February 16, 2011

ParisPointGriset is 4-years-old!

Happy 4th Anniversary PPG!

ParisPointGriset & G@ttoGiallo in images on Google.

The best present comes from the 'Cartoon Movement' with this image
[by Sherif Arafa] which is worth a long speech on this year's unexpected
change in the course of history
.

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#GattoGialloNews

February 11, 2011

From the deplorable Mubarak's speech to #Feb11

For those who can read between the lines, it sounded something like this:
"Friends, Egyptians, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I shall stay to deceive the Egyptians, not to let them free.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good, if any, is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with us. The international Press
Hath told you I was to leave:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath I answered it.
Here, come I to speak in Egypt funeral.
"


[AlJazeeraEnglish]
Jan 10/2011
- Hosni Mubarak gave a speech in which he was anticipated to announce
his resignation...
instead, the 82-year-old Egyptian president repeated his intention to
remain in power
until the presidential elections in September.
... Then Egyptians hold 'Farewell Friday' tomorrow, on 18th protests' day !
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Finally, on late Febrary 11/2011 afternoon, Al Jazeera live announces...

6:03pm: Omar Suleiman says: President Hosni Mubarak has waived the office of president.

He's gone. He's resigned - 30 years of Mubarak rule is over.
Jubilation breaks out across Egypt. Flags waving. Joyous scenes in Tahrir Square, Alexandria,
Suez... and even Paris/Griset !


Enjoy with Egyptian people on AJ live blog
Today is #feb11 on Twitter.
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I've never appreciated 'dominoes' until now,
Isn't it curious?

And, besides...
people say
there's no 2 without 3.

Who's next?

February 10, 2011

In Graffito Veritas, says Le Mur


Le Mur - #89 - KefliOne - February 10/2011

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February 07, 2011

Are you desperately seeking G@tto ?

Well, he's virtually moved in Middle East.
However
, you can keep his trail...
on
!


All the rest is silence, almost.

° ° °

February 03, 2011

Starring on February 3, the Rabbit !


新年好

1927, 1939, 1951, 1963,
1975, 1987, 1999, 2011
.


Chinese community's traditional parades in Paris on February 6/2011
Places and departure time:
-
1:30 pm, Paris 20, Belleville/M° Couronnes
- 1:30 pm, Paris 13, 44 avenue d'Ivry
- 3:00 pm, Paris 4, City Hall

Despite his departure from China almost a year ago, Google proudly
displays
its special logo for the Chinese New Year's Eve under the
Rabbit
sign.
It also features the Chinese character (fu), [Happiness]
upside down,
whicht is auspicious, according to Chinese tradition.

This logo visible on the Google homepage search engine google.com.hk represents a rabbit
in the t
raditional Chinese paper cut style.

A rabbit statue in porcelain, 8.20 meter high and 9.6 wide, has been built
in the
city of Jingdezhen, China's Jiangxi Province, to celebrate the Chinese
Year
of the Rabbit.
The giant statue, - mounted on People's Square - has a metal frame
covered with
plates of 30 000 blue and white porcelain.
Since the Song Dynasty, 1700 years ago, Jingdezhen is known as the
"
porcelain city".



[mickydroog]
This year, a New Year-themed cartoon posted on a popular Chinese website seems to have
rankled officials.
Censors have deleted the video, in an apparent reaction to its biting political
satire.
The message for many is clear: pushed too hard, the Chinese people may one day rise
up and overthrow their Communist leaders.

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January 30, 2011

Dies Iræ now settled in Egypt...

"Mors stupebit, et natura, Cum resurget creatura, Iudicanti responsura".
[Death is struck, and the nature, all creation is awaking, to its Judge an answer making"].

Al Jazeera English Live Stream watch now...

11:40 this morning: "The Al Jazeera Network strongly denounces and condemns the
closure of its bureau in Cairo by the Egyptian government. The Network received
notification from the Egyptian authorities this morning.
"Al Jazeera sees this as an act designed to stifle and repress the freedom of reporting
by the network and its journalists. In this time of deep turmoil and unrest in Egyptian
society it is imperative that voices from all sides be heard; the closing of our bureau
by the Egyptian government is aimed at censoring and silencing the voices of the
Egyptian people.
"Al Jazeera assures its audiences in Egypt and across the world that it will continue its
in-depth and comprehensive reporting on the events unfolding in Egypt.
Al Jazeera journalists have brought unparalleled reporting from the ground from across
Egypt in the face of great danger and extraordinary circumstances. Al Jazeera Network
is appalled at this latest attack by the Egyptian regime to strike at its freedom to report
independently on the unprecedented events in Egypt."

Al Jazeera has received widespread global acclaim for their coverage
on the ground across the length and breadth of Egypt.
-
Special 'Anger in Egypt' coverage page.
- Al Jazeera tweets about the protests from the field.
-
Map of the 'day of wrath' throughout Egypt.


*** Jan 29/2011 The Egyptian Internet blackout continues into its second full day,
with
no substantive change overnight. The government seems to have put itself
in a tough
position, as the Egyptian working week begins tomorrow
...

*** Jan 28/2011 The Internet routing situation for Egypt continues to be bleak, with an
estimated 93% of Egyptian networks currently unreachable. Renesys
saw no significant
improvements or changes in Egyptian international Internet
routing overnight...
*** Jan 27/2011 Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action
unprecedented in
Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered
service providers to shut down all international connections to the
Internet...

20 ways to circumvent the internet block
[by Anonymous]


ACCESS campaign for digital freedom in Egypt:
https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/help-egypt

President Hosni Mubarak's son, has fled the country, according to US-based Arabic
website
Akhbar al-Arab. Earlier, unconfirmed reports said Mubarak's wife also fled
to London on Tuesday as nationwide protests swelled.


Will Dominoes Fall in North Africa? [allAfrica]

I strongly hope that the anti-dictatorship's red tidal wave, emerged in Tunisia,
will
soon submerge all Middle East countries.

Yours Faithful,
Yellow Bastet
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Stand up for Egypt and sign the Avaaz petition.

January 23, 2011

White bodies spread out on Le Mur

Jérôme Mesnager's white silhouettes, now 28 years old, wish you a happy 2011.

Le M.U.R. #88 - Jérôme Mesnager - January 22/2011


Happy Hour on la place verte around the new collage.
[GillesGallois pics]
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January 22, 2011

2011 in Tunisia - the Great Expectations

While freedom is a right, it still requires endless human sacrifices.

On December 17, 2010, an unemployed Tunisian man, Mohamed
Bouazizi, aged 26, from
Sidi Bouzid, in southern Tunisia, set himself
on fire to protest against joblessness, sparking a popular uprising
against the government. Two more suicides followed, spurring protests
across several other Tunisian cities. The social movement - initiated
by lawyers, journalists, and labor unions - demanded more work opportunities and reform
of the government of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. [Global Voices on Line...]
15 Jan - Saudi Arabia: Fleeing, Tunisian Ex-President Ben Ali Lands in KSA
16 Jan - Arab World: After Tunisia, Who's Next?
16 Jan - Tunisia: Fears of Insecurity Overshadow Joys of Freedom
19 Jan - Middle East: A Closer Look at Tunisia's Uprising
21 Jan - Algeria: Algerians salute the courage of the Tunisian people
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Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia - Mohamed Bouazizi spent his whole life on a
dusty, narrow street here, in a tiny, three-room house with a concrete
patio where his mother hung the laundry and the red chilis to dry.
By the time Mr. Bouazizi was 26, his work as a fruit vendor had earned
him just enough money to feed his mother, uncle and five brothers and
sisters at home. He dreamed about owning a van. [The NY Times...]
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What drives an ordinary man to burn himself to death?
Yousef al-Qaradawi, a prominent and influential Egyptian cleric who lives in Qatar and
has a TV show on
Al Jazeera, spoke sympathetically about Mr. Bouazizi and others
who attempted suicide, saying that they were driven to it by social injustice and that
the responsibility for their deaths lay with the rulers of their countries.
[The NY Times...]

- Analysts say several self-immolation cases or attempted acts in Egypt, now numbering
more than a dozen, seem to be driven by broadly similar complaints to those that drove
Tunisians to the streets and toppled their president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
[Reuters...]
- A man has died after setting himself on fire in Saudi Arabia's south-western region of
Jizan, officials have said.

- In Mauritania, a man who set himself on fire also died in hospital on Saturday. [BBC...]
- In Algeria, s
everal towns including the capital experienced days of rioting, provoked by
a jump in food prices. Two people died and hundreds were injured during clashes between
rioters and police, officials said. At least four men set themselves on fire in provincial towns
in the past week.
[Reuters...]
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Mr. Bouazizi may yet provoke more fiery deaths across the Middle East
if the revolution he helped spark is seen as successful.


January 15, 2011

A new Street Art gallery in Oberkampf

Closed and forgotten for ten years, an old grocery store in rue Oberkampf
reopens today as a gallery dedicated to street art...




[photo: Galerie 154]
The honour of the first exhibition goes to Swen Simon.
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January 14, 2011

January 01, 2011

Cærostris darwini, special guest on 1st of January 2011

The Darwin bark* spider, Araneidæ: Cærostris darwini, was recently discovered
in Madagascar by two enthomologists of the Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History - Washington.

Females can cast
giant and very strong webs across
streams, creeks and lakes, suspending the orb directly
above the water on anchor threads that can span up
to 25 m.


[Photo by
Matjaz Kuntner
]

With such a huge hunting ground, these spiders are never lacking for food.

[Photo by Ingi Agnarsson]

Like other orbweaver spiders, Caerostris displays extreme sexual size dimorphism
with large females and small males, which is manifested
in enigmatic sexual behaviors
such as mate guarding,
male-male aggressiveness, genital mutilation, mate
plugging,
and self castration.
The two enthomologists also pointed out the biology and
web architecture of the new riverine Cærostris species
due to it combining extraordinary web architecture with
exceptional
silk mechanical properties [TechNews].

*[their name stems from the habits of at least some species to mimic dead bark, twigs or thorns].
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Click on >
Journal of Arachnology to read more.

From Blogger to Bloggers... and more

Happy 2011 !

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December 27, 2010

When the Seine River Overflows...

According to the government agency Vigicrues, the Seine River overflows since the
2nd week of December
and exceeds of 3.78 m today, flooding the banks of the capital.

[Slideshow on Libération]

Once again, happily, we are far from the great flood of 1910, when
the
Zouave du Pont de l'Alma was submerged up to its shoulders.

One hundred years have passed since then and the chances for a
similar flood happening again are taken very seriously
.






The virtual exhibition "1910-Paris flooded"
brings together exceptional documents
[
photos, postcards, posters, newspapers,
advertisements,
etc.] from the History Library
of the City of Paris as well as from the agency
Roger
-Viollet.
[clich on images to see all docs].

At the origin of
the flooding, heavy rainfalls since summer 1909 and later snow, triggering
the floods of the Seine and its tributaries. These floods affected the Paris region, then the
capital
from 21 to 28 January 1910.
The Seine River finally reached 8.50 m above the level 0 of La Tournelle Bridge.



[notremaxnational]
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