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How the world sees Greece
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Valiant Lowitz: Kenya 2013 Election Analysis: Raging Parties and Mass Violence
When Kenya rages, it's a little different. The last time Kenyans went to the polls in 2007, the results were disputed and ethnically aligned gangs took the lives of more than 1,100 people during weeks of violent unrest.
Greek farmers bring black-flag protest to Athens
 Greek Reporter | Greek farmers bring black-flag protest to Athens Huffington Post ATHENS, Greece — Farmers from across Greece travelled to central Athens on Tuesday, waving black flags to protest austerity cuts that the country's rescue lenders say must be completed quickly. About 3,000 farmers gathered outside the Agriculture ... Protesting Greek farmers seek lower taxes Greek Farmers Hold Anti-austerity Protest Rally in Athens Greek Farmers Protest Austerity Cuts |
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Greece backs Istanbul 2020 bid
 Voice of America | Greece backs Istanbul 2020 bid ESPN ISTANBUL -- Greece has offered its support to regional rival Turkey's bid to host the 2020 Olympics. The prime ministers of both countries signed an agreement pledging to cooperate on Istanbul's latest bid for the games. The accord was signed by ... Greece Boosts Cooperation with Turkey Regional rivals talk Turkey and Greece as relations improve Turkey, Greece seek to bury hatchet |
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car expands into Greece
Enterprise Rent-A-Car expands into Greece St. Louis Business Journal The company's leasing and rental arm, Executive Lease, with whom the franchise agreement will be operated, operates 52 locations across mainland Greece and its islands, including major airports. Sfakianakis has 500,000 customers and more than 800 ... Enterprise Rent-A-Car expands to Greece Enterprise Rent-A-Car Partners With Sfakianakis Group in Greece to Unlock Car ... |
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First Screens From 'Space Hulk' Show Genestealers in Action
Back in December, Games Workshop and Full Control sent the internet collective into a tizzy when they confirmed a PC, Mac and iOS version of "Space Hulk" was in the making. The game will be based upon the 3rd edition campaign, "Sin of Damnation," from the board game version of "Space Hulk," which sees the Blood Angels facing off against the genestealers. On Tuesday, Full Control revealed the following first screenshots: The image on the left shows the tactical view of squad management, whereas the right shows a Blood Angels terminator ready to eviscerate the xenos scum. If this is all Greek to you, well, lemme give you a brief explanation: Space Hulks are, essentially, planet-sized space crafts, comprised of multiple ships which were, most often, lost in the Warp or captured by aliens or Chaos forces. In this particular hulk, Tyranid genestealers have set up residence.
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Greek pharmacies face shortage
 Press TV | Greek pharmacies face shortage Press TV Chemists in the Greek capital Athens say customers are desperately searching for prescription drugs no longer available at hospitals. "Companies are ceasing these supplies because Greece is not profitable for them and they are worried that their ... Athens, Greece |
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Emir of Qatar buys six Greek islands for £7m
The emir of Qatar has bought six Greek islands in a deal worth at least £7.22million.
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Grotesque mummy head reveals advanced medieval science
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Greek government offers support to rival Turkey's bid to host 2020 Olympics
 www.worldbulletin.net | Greek government offers support to rival Turkey's bid to host 2020 Olympics Washington Post The bid committee says the accord was signed by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras following meetings in Istanbul on Sunday and Monday. A joint declaration says both countries are committed to “engage in ... Greek PM visits Fener Greek Patriarchate in Istanbul Athens, Ankara seek further warming of ties to boost trade Greek newsmen to strike over cuts, layoffs |
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Greek Yogurt Food Invasion Continues As Product Is Added To Cream Cheese ...
Greek Yogurt Food Invasion Continues As Product Is Added To Cream Cheese ... Huffington Post It's been a whirlwind past few years for the Greek yogurt industry. Greek yogurt has gone from one percent of the yogurt market in 2007 to 36 percent currently, with the potential to reach around 50 percent of the market share. Within the Greek yogurt ... |
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Cine-files: The Filmhouse, Copenhagen
Each week we ask readers to tell us about where they go to watch films. Today, the home of Denmark's national agency for film and cinema culture, in the heart of its capital city
This week's Clip joint is from Luke Richardson, contributor for culture blog The Frame Loop. Follow him on Twitter @luke_richardson
Location
Filmhuset (The Filmhouse), part of the Danish Film Institute, is located in the very heart of Copenhagen: a stone's throw from the Rosenborg Castle Gardens, Round Tower observatory and the colourful Nyhavn harbour.
The building
The DFI may not look much from the cycle lane but inside the drab, five-storey office building is a space brimming with film enthusiasm. Designed with industrial structures that could have been borrowed from The Crystal Maze set, Filmhuset (The Filmhouse) has three cinema screens, each named after a leading figure in the Danish film industry: Asta (after silent film star Asta Nielsen), Benjamin (director, screenwriter and actor Benjamin Christensen) and Carl (filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer). All are kitted out with fantastic surround sound and project films in both digital and film formats. The projectionists and archivists work tirelessly to make sure that the audiences always have a perfect cinematic experience.
The clientele
Filmhuset attracts a diverse crowd of cinephiles, from pensioners looking for their weekly fix of Greek cinema to fresh-faced students who want to revel in the avant-garde. Denmark has a very relaxed celebrity culture, so you're quite likely to spot a famous face every now and then too.
If you pay the yearly membership fee (the equivalent of £30 for adults, and £16 for students and seniors) you get 40% discount on all regular ticket prices for you and a friend.
The programme
What sets Filmhuset apart from the other 10 inner-city cinemas is the calibre of its programme. It showcases forgotten archive favourites on archived stock reels, right up to new indie releases that are yet to be snapped up by European distributors. It also loves a good thematic schedule, ranging from career retrospectives of Russian visionary Alexander Sukorov to American oddball Tim Burton; from midday children's classics to late-night presentations of notorious Danish porn movies from the seventies. Fun for all the family.
Aside from the regular programme, Filmhuset is often used as a central space for several Danish film events, including the documentary fest CPH:DOX, LGBT festival Mix Copenhagen, and the city's own Jewish film festival.
Further comments
There are many hidden treats inside this building. One can visit the DFI library, containing thousands of film theory books, an extensive DVD library and private screening rooms. Access is available to all, for free.
The aforementioned membership brings lots of perks, including discounts at the cinema bookshop, and 10% off your bill at the adjoining restaurant, Sult (Danish for "hunger"), which abounds with fusion European cuisine, pastries and good coffee.
The best element of the entire DFI is that, while audiences gather to watch brilliant films downstairs, the offices above are filled with financiers, producers and film savants all helping to shape the quality Scandinavian cinema of the future. The building and all the staff are so welcoming that you'll never want to leave.
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Slow-Cooker Greek Beans With Peppers and Yogurt
Slow-Cooker Greek Beans With Peppers and Yogurt Washington Post Inspired by gigantes, a traditional Greek dish, this vegetarian starter or entree stars giant lima beans. Make sure to soak the beans overnight, then begin the dish in the morning. Add the salt after the beans have cooked to avoid making them tough ... |
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Protesting Greek farmers demand lower taxes
Protesting Greek farmers demand lower taxes GlobalPost "The government has not given us anything, no cheap oil, no electricity or VAT, so that we can have competitive products, lower the production cost and not have imported [products]," said Pantelis Moschos, head of the Greek open-air markets producers ... |
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car expands to Greece
Enterprise Rent-A-Car expands to Greece STLtoday.com Continuing its push to expand in Europe, Enterprise Rent-A-Car appointed a new franchisee in Greece. Enterprise's franchise agreement with the Sfakiankis Group marks the Clayton-based rental car giant's third European franchise appointment in recent ... Enterprise Rent-A-Car Partners With Sfakianakis Group in Greece to Unlock Car ... |
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Soccer-Bosnia's Pjanic out of World Cup qualifier against Greece
Soccer-Bosnia's Pjanic out of World Cup qualifier against Greece Yahoo! Sports SARAJEVO, March 5 (Reuters) - Bosnia midfielder Miralem Pjanic will miss the World Cup Group G qualifier at home to Greece on March 22 and several AS Roma games after being ruled out with an ankle injury. "I had the first therapy today and I've been ... |
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The Emir of Qatar: why has he bought six Greek islands?
The super-wealthy Qatari head of state has snapped up some desirable properties for a bargain-basement price
Age: A well-preserved 61.
Appearance: Magnificent.
Don't you mean fat? How dare you! The emir (real name, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani) is a fine figure of a man and we won't hear a word against him.
What's happened to Pass Notes' fearless satirical edge? We are talking about one of the world's richest men here, and times are hard. Who knows when Pass Notes might need a sponsor?
Does he back many media outlets? Qatari money was instrumental in setting up al-Jazeera, though the station denies the emir runs the show.
What else does he own? Harrods, a large chunk of the Sardinian coast, and now six Greek islands, snapped up for £7m in a distress sale.
Does he like Greece? He parked his luxury yacht there once and fell in love with it. The only drawback is the rule that no home on his new islands can be bigger than 250 sq m. He points out his palace toilets are bigger than that.
How do the Greeks feel about their new owner? Ecstatic. Wherever his eminence goes, his wallet – sorry, warm personality – is met with unalloyed delight. No fewer than 30 countries have given him honours. The UK made him an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, and France gave him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Twice.
Does he deserve these gongs? Of course. He's a remarkable soldier. After he graduated from Sandhurst in 1971, he was immediately made a lieutenant-colonel in the Qatari army.
Any skeletons in the cupboard? He deposed his father in a palace coup while the latter was in Switzerland – but these things happen. His dad had come to power in the same way and they're all fine about it now.
A kind of occasional government sheikh-up? Exactly.
Does the emir have anything to fear on that front? Not at all. His tight lyknit family of three wives, 11 sons and 13 daughters adore him.
Not to be confused with: The Sultan of Brunei.
Do say: "That'll do nicely."
Don't say: "What about buying a chalet in Switzerland?"
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Greece Corruption: Ex-Defence Minister Jailed
 Yahoo! News UK | Greece Corruption: Ex-Defence Minister Jailed Yahoo! News UK A former defence minister has been jailed for eight years by a Greek court for lying on his income statements and concealing a lavish lifestyle. The conviction of Akis Tzohatzopoulos marks the second ruling against a Greek politician in as many weeks ... |
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Lagging UK health? We should blame ourselves, not the NHS | Michael White
Unhealthy headlines and Mid Staff failings bring calls for heads to roll, but much in the NHS is better and we must do the same
Any doubts I might have had about leaving the formidable Sir David Nicholson in charge of the NHS despite his spotty record in response to the unfolding scandal at Mid Staffs NHS Trust (MPs are quizzing him that) were dispelled by Tuesday morning's headlines. "Failings in the NHS cost 30,000 lives a year," thunders the Times.
The Mail and Telegraph, both campaigning to get Nicholson as if he had personally strangled the 1,200 suspected victims of NHS failings in Mid Staffs, are just as bad. "Billions in extra cash fail to stop the rot in NHS," roars the Telegraph. This is untrue – I put it no stronger – as readers will find if they get to the end of the offending articles. These newspapers and their foreign-based owners are enemies of the NHS and what it stands for.
The Guardian's headlines – hurrah - get it right. "Britons have less chance of healthy life, major study finds" is the strap above Sarah Boseley's page one summary. Not likely to be headline of the week, but it has the merit of accuracy. Inside the headline on Boseley's piece hits the right nail. "Smoking, diet, alcohol and drugs: where it all went wrong."
In other words, the chief culprit for Britain's modest fall down the international league table of advanced industrial states – from 10th in 1990 to 14th in 2010 – in terms of health outcomes and disease is not the NHS, but you and me. Unlike Spain, Italy and Australia, the three sunny countries which came top, we smoke and drink too much, eat bad food and take insufficient exercise. Some of us abuse drugs.
That's hardly a secret, is it? We've all known that for years and so have the Spaniards, Italians and Greeks (they do well despite their acute economic gloom) who host us during the summer holiday season. The NHS has its problems – Mid Staffs embodies some of them and Denis Campbell again highlights productivity and financial issues here – but key indicators like deaths from heart disease (down 41%), stroke (down 28%) etc are much better.
Plenty in the NHS is better, we know that too, the money did help and most hospitals are better for it. We're all living 4.2 years longer after all. Just so, we also know – or should – that 2012's other big care scandal/expose was in the private sector, at Winterbourne View where staff also behaved callously and worse.
Yes, we can blame the owners of the care home for staff conditions and low pay (some patients were paying up to £3,000 per week) just as we can blame those in charge of the NHS – Nicholson or ministers, Labour and Tory – for Mid Staffs. But it wasn't David Nicholson who left patients thirsty or hungry in their own piss or Jeremy Hunt/Andy Burnham who connived to cover up deaths caused by careless treatment.
As with the banking system, the phone-hacking scandal, burglary or anything else there's a limit to the extent to which we can blame the failings of regulators – a fall-back position which Tory politicians (more than Labour, I think) are often too keen to embrace when it suits an ideological position. In the end the people who actually did these dreadful things are the people who did them and hold prime responsibility.
That's true of the drive to emphasise prevention of ill-health too, it's chiefly down to us, to you and me. Most of us have some bad habits and know we do. We live in a society which encourages many of them – via advertising, the excessive use of sugars and fats in food (sweeties by the supermarket checkout for the kids), via substance abuse (including that bottle of wine you finished last night) and sedentary lifestyles.
Whereas 100 years ago public health was about decent drinking water and proper drains and hospitals struggled to cope with basic infections, nowadays it's much more about lifestyle choices – as the British contributors to today's World Health Organisation (WHO) report told Sarah Boseley and anyone else prepared to listen.
It's what Labour policy sought to improve when it offered to pay for fat customers gym tickets or bribe hopeless young mums to get their babies jabs. Ministers were mocked by the usual Fleet Street suspects for doing so. It's what Andrew Lansley wanted to achieve when he devolved public health to local level, integrating health and social care via health and wellbeing boards – part of the terrifying top-down (copyright D Cameron) changes which Nicholson is there to keep off the rocks. GPs must do better too – and in my experience are better than 10 years ago.
Later on Tuesday Jeremy Hunt, still finding his feet in Lansley's job, is making a speech on how we must try better, NHS and individuals, if we are to save those 30,000 avoidable deaths a year of which the headlines spoke, I hope he has the courage to stress the responsibility of the individual rather than dump on the NHS as the tabloids will want him to do.
He might also ponder whether his party's instinct for the voluntarist approach to those tricky issues of pricing, advertising and health warnings for damaging food, drink and tobacco is inadequate to the challenge society faces. Lansley struck me as too trusting of powerful industry lobbies with promises they don't keep.
It's not easy how to balance liberty and paternalistic intervention in a free society. The Mail shows that every day by denouncing the nanny state on one page and condemning the government for exposing its readers to risk – risk of a psychopath ("Freed to Kill By Police Blunders") on Tuesday's front page.
The consequences are there in A&E most nights of the week, wrecked or damaged lives which cost the NHS millions to repair each year (and I haven't even mentioned the knife fights yet). We're not doing enough and we can no longer afford the bill for failure. Unless, that is, ministers have decided that unhealthy Britons will save more on the pension bill.
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Greek farmers drive to Athens to protest
Greek farmers drive to Athens to protest MiamiHerald.com ATHENS, Greece -- Farmers from across Greece have gathered in central Athens to protest austerity cuts by the government. About 2,000 farmers have travelled from as far as the island of Crete to attend the protest against new tax reforms introduced by ... |
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Greek farmers drive to Athens to protest government's latest austerity cuts
Greek farmers drive to Athens to protest government's latest austerity cuts Washington Post ATHENS, Greece — Farmers from across Greece have gathered in central Athens to protest austerity cuts by the government. About 2,000 farmers have travelled from as far as the island of Crete to attend the protest against new tax reforms introduced by ... Greek farmers drive to Athens to protest |
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Italian, Greek shippers behind flow of gasoil to Syria
 The Daily Star | Italian, Greek shippers behind flow of gasoil to Syria The Daily Star LONDON: Italian and Greek shippers have delivered around 112,000 tonnes of badly needed gasoil to the port of Banias in Syria in February, according to data provided by a shipper and confirmed using satellite tracking data. Syria has been cut off from ... |
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