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ten years after the terrorist attack on charlie hebdo....

Ten years later, Charlie Hebdo is still there. The causes of the tragedy too. As well as the determination of the members of the newspaper. The geopolitical situation has evolved, even worsened. Authoritarian regimes like Russia or China no longer hide their ambitions to fight democratic values ​​with the same fanaticism as Islamist terrorist organizations like Daesh or al-Qaeda. Democracy is an idea that seems increasingly contested by increasingly active hostile forces.

What could a weekly newspaper hope to do, at its modest level, to fight these hostile forces? First, survive. The day after the attack, we found ourselves with our backs to the wall: from the status of a commentator on current events, Charlie Hebdo abruptly went from being a political actor to a political actor. If Charlie collapsed and disappeared, the terrorists won. If Charlie managed to get back up, the terrorists failed. Continuing the newspaper meant proving that the ideas we had been fighting for for years, through texts and drawings, had not been just chatter, but the expression of our deep convictions. The attack was a moment of truth that would test the solidity of our ideas, despite the suffering and the difficulty of having to rebuild an editorial team that was always targeted by threats and denigrated by critics. Because an idea is real, lived experience, not just fine words that we declaim or scribble in an editorial.

What comforted us during these ten years were the people we met, in France or abroad, who told us: "Thank goodness you're here." We would answer them: "Thank goodness you're here, too." In ten years, Charlie Hebdo has become much more than a newspaper. Just read what this Iraqi said, interviewed by Inna in this issue: “The courage displayed by Charlie Hebdo reminds us all here of the essential role of secularism, as embodied by the French example.” Or this Turk: “The resilience of Charlie Hebdo fuels our struggle, in Turkey, where Internet censorship and media repression persist.” The fight that Charlie has been waging since 1970, since 1992 and since 2015, is that of those who, in order to be free, fight against all forms of enslavement, political, religious or economic.

Universal and timeless

A vast program, some will say ironically. But what is the point of creating a newspaper for any other purpose than that? That is what those who founded it and kept it alive for years had always wanted, many of whom paid with their lives. Today, Charlie Hebdo’s values, such as humor, satire, freedom of expression, ecology, secularism, feminism, to name but a few, have never been so called into question. Perhaps because it is democracy itself that is threatened by renewed obscurantist forces. Satire has a virtue that has helped us get through these tragic years: optimism. If we want to laugh, it is because we want to live. Laughter, irony, caricature are manifestations of optimism. Whatever happens, dramatic or happy, the desire to laugh will never disappear.

At the end of the year that has just ended, Charlie Hebdo produced, in collaboration with the Grand-Est Region, an issue entirely written and drawn by high school students. To the question “what is the Charlie spirit?”, we could answer this: it starts in middle school or high school, when we want to caricature our teachers and express things that revolt us. The Charlie spirit begins at the age when we realize that we are part of the world and we want to make it known, through provocative drawings or fiery texts. This desire is of all ages, all eras, all continents, all cultures. It is present everywhere on this planet, in Iran, Turkey, Nigeria, the United States, Mexico, as well as in your high school or middle school. The God caricature competition in which cartoonists of 28 different nationalities participated is a good example. Universal and timeless, like the pleasure of laughing and thinking, that's Charlie, and nothing more.

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.

 

10 years after....

Exactly 10 years after the jihadist gun-attack that killed most of its editorial staff, France's Charlie Hebdo has put out a special issue to show its cause is still kicking.

Things changed for France on 7 January 2015, marking in bloodshed the end of all wilful naivety about the threat of militant Islamism.

Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi burst into a meeting at the Paris office of the satirical weekly, murdering its star cartoonists Cabu, Wolinski, Charb and Tignous.

Overall, 12 people were killed by the brothers, including a Muslim policeman on duty outside. Two days later they were cornered and shot dead by police at a sign-making business near Charles-de-Gaulle airport.

 

That same day saw Amedy Coulibaly – a one-time prison associate of Cherif – kill four Jews in a synchronised hostage-taking at a supermarket in eastern Paris. Coulibaly – who was then shot dead by police – had killed a policewoman the day before.

A decade on, Charlie Hebdo continues to bring out a weekly edition and has a circulation (print and online combined) of around 50,000.

It does so from an office whose whereabouts are kept secret, and with staff who are protected by bodyguards.

But in an editorial in Tuesday's memorial edition, the paper's main shareholder said its spirit of ribald anti-religious irreverence was still very much alive.

"The desire to laugh will never disappear," said Laurent Saurisseau – also known as Riss – a cartoonist who survived the 7 January attack with a bullet in the shoulder.

"Satire has one virtue that has got us through these tragic years – optimism. If people want to laugh, it is because they want to live.

"Laughter, irony and caricature are all manifestations of optimism," he wrote.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ew0lzggr7o

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME ENGLAND.

 

 

crappie hebdo....

FOLLOWING THE first paragraph of the Charlie Hebdo special editorial (SEE AT TOP) Vincent MORET WRITES:

 

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On this day of commemoration [THE ATTACK ON CHARLIE HEBDO], compassion for the victims is the rule. Riss, the boss of Charlie Hebdo, should have remembered this when he made several “funny” drawings about the drowning of Aylan, 3 years old, child of immigrants.

No one on this site is going to snicker once, twice, three times, at innocent victims. On principle, out of humanity and because the administrators knew some of the victims of the god-crazed killers. All the more reason not to laugh at graves, as Charlie Hebdo likes to do, as long as the victims are not from its brotherhood.

But everyone, here or elsewhere, has the right to say, to repeat and whenever they want: "I am not Charlie".

Le Grand Soir has long warned about Charlie Hebdo's shift. It has seen that this weekly has supported all NATO wars, since the dismantling of Yugoslavia.

The unsuccessful hunt for red-browns

On August 8, 2012, under the signature of Éric Simon, one of its regular journalists covering international affairs, Charlie Hebdo, reported on the front page under the title in capital letters: "THIS FAR RIGHT THAT SUPPORTS DAMASCUS. THE BROWN SUPPORTERS OF DAMASCUS" that Le Grand Soir and two of its administrators (Viktor Dedaj and Maxime Vivas) are "brown" and "red brown". For those who know the history of Hitler’s sinister SA (the “Brown Shirts”), this is an accusation of Nazism and anti-Semitism that is thus calmly uttered.
Fifteen days later, Charb provided a discreet denial on the inside page. A murmur in the face of the thunderous accusatory “front page”.

In an email, Éric Simon admitted that he no longer saw Le Grand Soir as a “red-brown” site: “For the moment, I stick to confusionism” (?) he wrote, contradicting (in private) his (public) writings. On the phone, the defamer confided: “The anti-imperialists make me puke, I think the worst of Castro” and “On you [Vivas], we haven’t found anything yet”. He meant “against you”. Twelve years later, the long hunt for Charlie Hebdo has yielded nothing.

Charlie Hebdo macronist
Charlie Hebdo journalist Zineb El Rhazoui, an “active supporter” of Emmanuel Macron, saw her candidacy for deputy on an LREM list in May 2022 rejected because of her proximity to Papacito, a figure of the extreme right. On November 5, 2019, on CNews, she had proposed that the police could shoot “live ammunition” at the crowd, which she repeated the next day on LCI, invoking self-defense.

Her colleague, Marika Bret, the HR director of Charlie Hebdo, was a candidate for deputy under the colors of LREM in May 2022. She was eliminated in the first round with less than 15% of the votes cast. No problem, Macron has identified friends and will remember them.

Comment on a book without having read it

Maxime Vivas' book was reviewed on Charlie Hebdo on April 7, 2021 by Laure Daussy in an article of crass ignorance and impeccable meanness. Not only had she not read the book (1), but she insulted the author (this "crazy guy") and tried with grotesque determination to implicate Mélenchon, who was not at all concerned, not cited and knew nothing about it. The author specifies that he was not even given a copy in SP).
No matter, the article is entitled: "Mélenchon and the conspiracy theorist". On several occasions, she will try to implicate Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Her conclusion ""Mélenchon supports in any case a conspiracy theorist who supports the Chinese regime. Not very compatible with the fight against Islamophobia, that..."". Reread the sentence to fully absorb her level of stupidity.

We saw this Laure Daussy, enthroned on December 27, 2023 on the cover of the weekly Franc-Tireur, financed by the billionaire Daniel Křetínský (co-owner of Le Monde and other media), directed by Christophe Barbier (the red scarf), a weekly welcoming Caroline Fourest, Raphaël Enthoven(2) and other media figures of uninhibited brainwashing.

No wonder sites like Le Grand Soir and its administrators are permanently in the sights of Charlie Hebdo, which must be put "on guard against the porosity that too often exists" between it, the Macronist right and the extreme right.

Charlie Hebdo's filth on Julian Assange
Julian Assange is the greatest of Western journalists, the most persecuted, the most hated by the United States, the most respected with more than 20 awards rewarding his work and his courage. For Gérard Biard, editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, "... Julian Assange [is] one of those obsessives of absolute Evil for whom everything that opposes America must be placed in principle in the camp of Truth and Good" (Facebook, June 26, 2017). With the tone thus set by the boss, Robert McLiam Wilson, a regular contributor to Charlie Hebdo, lets loose in the July 11, 2018 issue under the delicate title: "Assange or asshole?" He inflicts on the martyred journalist a beating that no court would allow to be pronounced. Excerpts: "Despite a face that evokes something forgotten for too long at the bottom of the fridge, Assange is undeniably a sex symbol for a certain type of chick... An incredible asshole... The hurricane of his stupidity drills into the ears..." Etc.

Some of the awards won by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
Sam Adams Prize, Sydney Peace Prize, Gold medal for Peace with Justice, Old Metal Prize for Human Rights, Courage for the Arts Prize, Stuttgart Peace Prize, Günter Walraff Prize, Ossietzky Prize, Serena Shim Prize, Sakharov Prize, Konrad Wolf Prize, Truth Prize, Anticor Ethics Prize, Gary Webb Prize, New Media Prize, Sam Adams Associates Prize, Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, Walkley Prize, Voltaire Prize, International Journalism Prize, José Couso Prize, Galizia Prize, European United Left Prize (GUE/NGL), Kazakhstan Union of Journalists Prize, British Media Prize, etc.
Julian Assange has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for six consecutive years.

Understood, Gérard Biard and Robert McLiam Wilson, whose thoughts give off the smell (since Charlie Hebdo takes the debate to this level) of their rectal areas from where they come?

Kitchen nightmare
Imagine a 5-star restaurant. The cooks die, sauce-makers replace them. The name of the establishment is unchanged. The guests continue to flock (fewer in number). They think they are at Cavanna, Reiser, Cabu, Wolinski, Maris, Tignous. They swallow the disgusting food of Riss, Biard, Simon, Daussy, Wilson, Zineb El Rhazoui, Marika Bret, a rotten rat recommended by Daniel Křetínský, Christophe Barbier, Caroline Fourest, Raphaël Enthoven, under the eye of the ex-boss of Charlie, Philippe Val, friend of Macron, friend of Sarkozy, promoted to France Inter (where he fired Stéphane Guillon and Didier Porte).

Vincent MORET

https://www.legrandsoir.info/dix-ans-apres-le-virage-otanien-de-charlie-hebdo-s-accentue.html

 

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.