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How the world sees Greece
Friday, October 4, 2013
Lecture to look at the ancient Olympics, Greek nudity
Lecture to look at the ancient Olympics, Greek nudityPenn State NewsUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The ancient Olympics and Greek nudity will be the subject of a lecture by Andrew Stewart, professor of ancient Mediterranean art and the Nicolas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Twilight of Golden Dawn
Developments in the judicial inquiry into Golden Dawn were evolving rapidly when, early Saturday morning, in a crackdown that dominated worldwide news, the Greek police arrested the general-secretary of the country's neo-facist party along with many key accomplices. Nikos Michaloliakos was hauled before the courts in tandem with his parliamentary spokesman and second in command, Christos Pappas, facing charges of murder and assault in the recent death of left-wing hip-hop musician and activist, Pavlos Fyssas.
Resulting investigations into the respective homes of its leaders along with clandestine recorded conversations among its members by Greece's Secret Service, EYP, have exposed Golden Dawn as an organization with a strict military structure that persecutes immigrants and glorifies Hitler, all under the guise of helping the weak and elderly.
Depicting its members as common thugs, Greek Deputy Public Prosecutor, Charalambos Vourliotis, denounced Golden Dawn as a criminal organization that is a threat to Greece's public institutions and the country's constitution. Aside from charges of murder, extortion, arson and blackmail, Mr. Vourliotis stunned the Greek public by revealing details of the group's "Centaur Program" that aimed to recruit minors as young as 14 years old into youth hit squads.
In a shocking nine-page report, Vourliotis outlines how Golden Dawn adhered to a hierarchial "Fuhrerprinzip" structure with "Fuhrer" Michaloliakos' political authority above and beyond any written law. A rigid chain of command was in place whereby Michaloliakos would transfer orders through Pappas and his other officials, Elias Kassidaris, John Hare, Elias Panayiotaros and Christos Michas.
How, one would ask, was this extremist fringe group able to become such a force on the Greek political scene, rising from 0.3 percent of the popular vote in the country's 2009 elections, to over 400,000 or 7 percent of the total and capture 18 parliamentary seats a mere three years later?
Golden Dawn was created sometime around 1980 by its leader and disciple of former Greek military dictator Georgios Papadopoulos, Nikos Michaloliakos. The group's early endeavors centered around the publication of a radical magazine, Chrysi Avgi, that praised the ancient Gods of Olympus and proclaimed the superiority of the Greek race.
In the early 1990s, Golden Dawn would seize upon the turmoil surrounding the use of the name Macedonia, a region of Northern Greece, by a Former Yugoslav Republic (FYROM) to plan xenophobic protests and violent attacks against foreigners and become a true political movement. The massive wave of immigrants, many of them illegal, that would soon follow and the impossibility of the Greek State to integrate such numbers and to police crime-riddled immigrant neighborhoods would serve to strengthen the hand of the organization.
It would come to be known that Greek police officers often co-operated with Golden Dawn, sending Greek citizens in need of protection their way. The party would assist the elderly when withdrawing money from bank machines, investigate break-ins and thefts from locals' homes and help Greeks collect delinquent rents from immigrants.
A deepening financial crisis that would drag on for years, bringing unemployment to dizzying levels and wiping out a quarter of the Greek economy, along with the portrayal of Greece as a land of lazy, tax-evading criminals in the international media would play right into Golden Dawn's racist hands, enabling it to become the third most popular party in the country.
The brutal assassination of Pavlos Fyssas, however, appears to have spurred a dormant Greek State into action. Responding to the outcry of a horrified electorate, the government has taken bold, unprecedented action against a political party, all under the threat of being accused of persecuting political opponents.
Notwithstanding the seriousness of the charges, some of the accused lawmakers were released until they face their day in court. Regardless, there can be no denying that this is the beginning of the end for Golden Dawn, the overt bullying and illegal activity of its executives testament to the fact that it could not handle its constitutional presence and was doomed, as all fascist organizations, to implode.
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US and EC Pressed for Golden Dawn MPs’ Arrests
Former Minister of Justice Antonis Roupakiotis sees political considerations behind the arrests of the Golden Dawn leadership. Talking to the TV network SKAI, the former Justice Minister supported that the persecution of Golden Dawn MP’s was dictated by the USA and the European Commission. According to Roupakiotis, the arrests linked both with Antonis Samaras’ visit […]
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Golden Dawn’s “Offer of Violence”
The “price list of violence” from the Golden Dawn as revealed in an article by the BBC, includes set amounts for beating people or putting them in the hospital, according to a former party member who detailed the rage she saw. The article entitled: Greece’s Golden Dawn; “Don’t say a word or I’ll burn you […]
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Hundreds of dead fish surface in northern Greece reservoir
Hundreds of dead fish in the early stages of their development have surfaced in the Lake Karla reservoir in northern Greece over the past few days, prompting authorities on Friday to conduct studies into the condition of the lake.
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Second case of rabies prompts authorities to take action
Following the second confirmed case of rabies in a fox in northern Greece, authorities in the Central Macedonia Region on Friday said that they will be air-dropping bait containing vaccines for the lethal disease from October 11-13 in parts of the region ... ...
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Business consultant and former Columbia University professor gets NERIT top job
Former Columbia University professor Giorgos Prokopakis has been named the first president of the executive board at Greece’s new public broadcaster, NERIT.
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Samaras heading to Israel amid joint military exercise
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is to meet with several ministers on Saturday ahead of a trip to Israel on Monday.
Samaras will travel to Jerusalem to take part in a high-level Greek-Israeli ministerial council. During his visit, Samaras will also hold tal... ...
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Cold snap raises concerns of smog from heating fuels
A sudden cold snap that has seen temperatures drop across Greece in the past few days has sent Environment Ministry officials scrambling to adopt measures that will encourage households to use more environmentally friendly forms of fuel.
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Golden Dawn has links with Germany
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Greece's neo-nazi Golden Dawn party has links to right-wing groups in Germany according to Berlin's interior ministry. One of them is the National Party, NPD, which appears to have similar ties with groups in a number of European countries.
"There are individual contacts between the Golden Dawn and NPD», the German Interior Ministry said in reply to a parliamentary question from the Left Party (Die Linke) filed last March. According to the document, the NPD's most important contacts are with like-minded groups and figures in the Netherlands, Spain ,Czech Republic, Ukraine and Hungary.
The Interior Ministry also stated that it has no confirmed evidence that the Greek party has set foot in Germany. However, it has information on individual Golden Dawn contacts, not only with the NPD but with other right-wing collectives including the neo-Nazi network «Freie Netzwerk Sud». According to the federal government , "the strengthening of right-wing parties is not a phenomenon confined to Greece ."
Golden Dawn's leader, deputy leader and an MP were imprisoned this week. They are accused of running a criminal gang. Another three of the parties MP's have been released pending trial, one of them on bail. The other two have been barred from leaving the country.
The arrests took place after a self-confessed Golden Dawn supporter killed Palvos Fyssas, an anti-Nazi activist and rapper in mid-September. Tens of Golden Dawn members have been questioned on a number of criminal cases and some are still wanted by the police.
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23 Ierissos’ Case Suspects Testify
According to Greek media reports, the remaining 23 of 27 suspects accused for being involved in the violent events that took place in Chalkidiki over the mining operations near Ierissos, have been called to testify on Friday, October 4, in Thessaloniki. Four of the 27 suspects who testified in writing the previous day, denied any […]
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Greece Supports Arrested Greenpeace Activists
The environmental organization is mounting a global campaign to support the 30 Greenpeace activists, held in Russian prisons, this Saturday, October 5 in Athens. Greenpeace calls everyone to be at 18:00 at Dionysiou Areopagitou and Parthenonos Street, close to the Acropolis Museum, to demonstrate and demand these people’s freedom. More than 780,000 people from all […]
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Greece mulls treatment of Golden Dawn leaders
Despite being held in pre-trial custody, a parliamentarian and member of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party wants to take part in official debates and votes. Most Greeks call the party a criminal organization.
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Will the arrest of Golden Dawn's leaders rebound on Greek democracy?
Will the arrest of Golden Dawn's leaders rebound on Greek democracy?The EconomistTHE arrest of both leaders of an elected party is unprecedented for a member of the European Union. On September 28th the Greek government began a crackdown on Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party, which has 18 MPs in Greece's 300-strong parliament.
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Golden Dawn case opens up Pandora's box in Greek politics
Golden Dawn case opens up Pandora's box in Greek politicsEurActivThe handling of the case against Greek far-right party the Golden Dawn has divided the coalition government and triggered a war of words between the centre-right New Democracy and the left-wing opposition party Syriza. EurActiv Greece reports. The ...
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Nafplio: Steeped in history
The Peloponnesian town of Nafplio, Greece’s first capital, had always been a stopover or a one-day destination for me. This time round, though, I chose the town for a relaxing three-day escape. Most visitors had left town by mid-September, swimming was st... ...
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Another week ends with a strong finish at the local bourse
Fridays are becoming the new Mondays at the Greek bourse, it would seem, as instead of the end-of-week lull one would have expected, the last session of each week over the last month or so has seen significant gains and notable turnover peaks, a pattern t... ...
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Japonica expects Greek debt yields to fall to 5 pct
Japonica Partners & Co, the US investment firm that offered to buy as much as 4 billion euros of Greek government bonds, expects yields on the securities to drop to 5 percent early next year, a level last seen in 2009.
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Struggling Greece Asks Greek-Americans Help
WASHINGTON, D.C. - On a typically humid summer day, Greek Ambassador Christos Panagopoulos welcomed his guests for a salon performance of Opera Camerata of Washington at the Fairfax Embassy Row hotel. ?I would have loved to host you at my residence across the street,? he said, ?but, like the economy of my country, it is under reconstruction.?
The American-educated ambassador was putting on a brave face. Renovations on the 1906 Beaux-Arts building, the most impressive of the four that Greece owns around Sheridan Park, have been a low priority for his government given the country?s strained finances. The building has been closed for three years.
The only hope for its revival anytime soon may be the Greek American community. As the country?s reputation suffered in the crisis, many were initially reluctant to support the land of their ancestors, but they are rallying now.
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Greece will not be lectured over neo-Nazis
Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads. Greece has taken strong action against the threat of neo-Nazism and will not be lectured by its European partners, deputy minister of foreign affairs Dimitris Kourkoulas told AFP Friday.
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Polisdigitocracy
Rio de Janeiro is improving. The city is as beautiful as ever, but now it is also safer and has become a magnet for investments. Rio will host the World Cup next year and the Olympic Games in 2016, and the infrastructure that we are building is improving mobility, housing and the entire urban landscape. Despite some faltering, Brazil is doing well economically and Rio is also benefitting from that, so on the surface there are reasons to be optimistic.
Despite this positive outlook, we are also experiencing a crisis of trust. Thousands of people have taken the streets to demand answers from the political establishment, who have been scratching their heads as to why this negative sentiment has suddenly erupted. After all, there is no shortage of jobs and our economy is doing just fine.
But the voices on the streets are justified. What we currently experience in Brazil is undeniable political turmoil, and there is small consolation in the knowledge that protests are inherently democratic. Democracy is loud by definition, and yet those rallies indicate a wider phenomenon -- they are happening in squares around the world -- discontent is the common, if varied theme. Because these protests are aimed at politicians and the political landscape, they can only be explained through a political lens -- as such, they indicate a crisis of representative democracy.
If we are to understand this crisis, we must head back some 2,800 years and step into the Greek city-states, the Polis. In the Polis, citizens engaged personally in heated debate over political issues. Those debates took place at the Agora, a square located at the center of the Polis. That was the birth of direct democracy, the form of government by which citizens' opinions forged rules and legislature.
As cities grew, direct democracy became less and less feasible. The Roman Empire transformed the Greek Agoras into forums, where assemblies of elected officials would gather and vote on policy initiatives. Later, the English Parliament added the concept of social contract, which further legitimized representative democracy by concluding that individuals willingly submit to the decision of the majority in exchange for the protection of their rights. Subsequently, the principles of equality, the universal vote, and popular sovereignty matured in line with representative democracy. Yet, throughout the centuries, the political model has remained the same as in ancient times.
It was this form of democracy that defined, with minor variations, the present-day political structure of the majority of the world's nations. Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation, that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance. On the international stage, representative democracies and their heads of state came to wield immense power. That international governance system crystallized after World War II, when heads of states assumed significant influence over policies relating to economics, war, energy, aid and human rights. That was the pinnacle of nation states.
Two recent phenomena are prompting a significant change to what people perceive as democracy. First, the rising power of the cities. The world has become mostly urbanized and according to UN Habitat, 70 percent of us will be living in cities by 2050. Most of the world's most pressing issues belong to cities: health, education, mobility and even matters that apparently pertained to nations, such as climate change and employment.
The political analyst Benjamin Barber points out that globalization has diluted country boundaries and that the old institutional order of nation states has become "dysfunctional". Designed in the past, it is failing to address 21st century challenges. As a response, we observe the rise of new forms of international governance, such as the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a network of the Mayors of the world's largest cities that promotes effective policies on urban sustainable development and reduction of carbon emissions. In 2012 at the Rio+20 UN Summit, C40 Mayors committed to cutting carbon emissions by 1.3 gigatons in 2030, the equivalent to the emissions of Canada and Mexico combined, while national governments remain entangled in complex multilateral negotiations.
The second phenomenon is the ubiquity of the digital revolution. Technology has shrunk the world and squeezed distances. It has made it possible for people to connect and communicate on an unprecedented scale. Debates among citizens are now more agile and much more varied than they were in the Greek agora. The difference is that those heated urban debates now take place online across multimedia platforms with data, words, pictures and video streaming.
The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government. They demand to be closer to institutions and authorities. The Polis is back and the Internet is the new Agora.
How do we deal with this revolution and merge the two phenomena? There are no easy answers. First, we must listen. In essence, people yearn to connect with institutions, more than merely participating in the electoral process. Legitimacy has to be renewed everyday in real-time and not once every four years. Formal consultation must develop into constant collaboration.
There are some attempts in many parts of the world. Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration, Chicago has adopted the "City Hall in Your Community" initiative that aims to increase transparency and ask its citizens to propose agendas and priorities. Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has promoted Hackathons to engage the tech community and leading design thinkers to solve urban problems. I myself have used the Google Hangout platform to debate with prominent critics of my administration online. There are many other innovative and participative solutions employing technology to amplify democracy. And there is much more do be done.
What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call Polisdigitocracy. This is a form of government that counts participation and transparency as its cornerstones and uses technology as its guide. The digital revolution is allowing democracy to recall its foundations and evolution is modernizing and reinforcing our fundamental values. And we are only at the beginning of that journey.
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Greece could re-ignite investors' interest in emerging Europe
In terms of companies, he likes discount supermarket BIM ... Poland's well-capitalised pension schemes are largely restricted by law to investing in domestic equities, and this puts a floor under share prices. Future reform should ease this situation ...
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Hiking in Greece
Greece’s Thracian panhandle extended on to another map that was in the boot of the car, and the tower of a cement ... are probably the most beautiful I’ve ever seen, though the staff at a small welcome centre seemed far more interested in highlighting ...
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Journalists’ Federations Support Greek Journalists Covering Golden Dawn Case
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have condemned the intimidation of journalists in Greece covering the Golden Dawn revelations and give their full support to Greek colleagues who are continuing to cover the case despite the threat of violence. According to IFJ/EFJ affiliate, the Journalists Union of the […]
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Cash-strapped Greece looks to Greek Americans for support
Washington PostCash-strapped Greece looks to Greek Americans for supportWashington PostOn a typically humid summer day, Greek ambassador Christos Panagopoulos welcomed his guests for a salon performance of Opera Camerata of Washington at the Fairfax Embassy Row hotel. “I would have loved to host you at my residence across the ...
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Beyond The Horizon Of The Universe
It was known as Aulona in Greek and Roman times, and was a special place to visit even during 1980s communist Albania.
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Ireland will need EU support when bailout ends this year, says IMF
International Monetary Fund report warns that poor state of Irish banks is holding back recovery
A slowing economy, sky-high debts and a weak banking sector mean Ireland will need support from the European Union when its current bailout ends later this year, the International Monetary Fund said in a report on Friday.
In a clear call for Brussels to accede to Irish demands for a credit line next year, the IMF warned that Dublin's recovery would be hampered without cheaper funding for its ailing banks.
The report will deal a blow to the Irish government, which is under pressure domestically to maintain business and consumer confidence in the face of significant economic headwinds. In particular, export growth, which has underpinned the economy's recovery, has fallen in 2013.
The IMF said that while exports had picked up moderately in recent months, the recovery would not stop Ireland's debts hitting 123% of GDP by the end of the year. Making matters worse, the poor state of the country's banks is holding back the domestic economy.
"Irish banks face weak profitability that hinders their capacity to revive lending. European support to lower banks' market funding costs could help sustain domestic demand recovery in the medium term, protecting debt sustainability and financial market confidence," it said.
The IMF has conducted 11 reports on Ireland's economic recovery since it joined a three-way bailout of the country with the EU and the European Central Bank in 2010.
Ireland would be the first bailed-out eurozone country to wean itself off emergency aid if it exits the €85bn scheme on schedule at the end of this year.
The IMF said Dublin was on track to meet its obligations under the deal, but "near-term prospects are weaker and significant fiscal, financial sector and unemployment challenges remain".
Ireland was forced to seek help after a property crash left its banks massively under-capitalised and the state's finances collapsed.
Since then it has stuck rigorously to the recipe of austerity laid out in the programme by its "troika" of lenders.
The EU is desperate for Ireland to exit the rescue smoothly to show the tough-love approach can succeed, given the struggles of fellow bailout recipients Greece and Portugal and deep-rooted public dissatisfaction across the region.
Ireland has met nearly all its funding needs through next year by issuing debt periodically over the last 12 months, having issued a 10-year bond in March for the first time since being locked out of markets in late 2010.
Yet banks continue to shun calls from households and businesses for easier credit conditions while struggling with low profits and a ratio of bad loans that has reached 26%.
Unemployment also remains a huge problem. A fall in the jobless rate from 15% to 13.7% since early 2012 has eased the social security burden but 58% of those without work are considered long-term unemployed, "posing a risk to Ireland's growth potential", said the IMF.
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Crisis Control Stability Fund Chief Expects Third Greek Bailout
Greece might need a third aid package as soon as next year, Klaus Regling told a German paper Friday. But the head of the ESM permanent bailout fund is much more optimistic about the situation in Portugal and elsewhere in the euro ...
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Cyprus largest bank fined over Greek bond buys
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Cyprus' largest bank and six former officials have been fined over the purchase in 2010 of 2.4 billion euros ($3.26 billion) worth of junk-rated Greek government bonds. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday slapped Bank of Cyprus with a 160,000-euro fine for failing to promptly inform investors of the risky bond purchases in January and April of 2010. The bank's ...
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Niarchos Foundation Gives 100M Euros For Greek Youth At Hellenic Initiative
NEW YORK ? The Inaugural Banquet of The Hellenic Initiative that was held at the elegant domed structure with Grecian architectural touches at 583 Park Avenue in Manhattan on October 3 was unlike any other Greek-American event of recent memory.
Andreas Dracopoulos, Director and Co-President of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, turned the immortal words of John F. Kennedy?s inaugural address into a call to action for all who love Greece: ?Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.?
Dracopoulos set an example for the individual members of the Hellenic Diaspora and its institutions alike with the stunning announcement that in addition to the SNF?s ?three-year initiative of 100 million euros ($135.9 million) to help provide relief to society under the current socioeconomic crisis,? the Foundation will fund ?a new 100 million euro Initiative for Greece's young, a multi-year project, to be named, Recharging the Youth.
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Golden Dawn Arrests: Breakthrough or Backlash?
The arrest of both leaders of an elected party is unprecedented for a member of the European Union. On September 28th the Greek government began a crackdown on Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party, which has 18 MPs in Greece?s 300-strong Parliament.
Among those put in handcuffs by counter-terrorism officers in bulletproof vests and balaclavas were Nikos Michaloliakos, leader of Golden Dawn, four other MPs and 14 party supporters. Michaloliakos?s deputy, Christos Pappas, gave himself up to police a day later.
Police and intelligence services have been gathering information on Golden Dawn?s supposed criminal activities for months. But it was the alleged murder of Pavlos Fyssas, an anti-fascist rapper, by a Golden Dawn supporter on September 18th that prompted the crackdown.
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Pass the salt
The largest saltworks in Greece is located at a protected wetland complex of estuaries and lagoons
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Eurovision 2014: Greek participation in focus
Eurovision 2014: Greek participation in focusesctoday.comERT, the former Greek national broadcaster, was shut down by the Greek government last June. A total of 3500 employees (among them journalists, technicians, presenters, producers, directors etc) lost their jobs in the name of consolidation of the ...
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Bomb Explodes at Panathinaikos Fan Club
A bomb blast occurred shortly after 03:00 in the morning outside the Athens offices of a fan club for Greek Premier League football club Panathinaikos in Petralona, at the intersection of Alkifronos and Kiriadon streets. According to information, the local residents heard a deafening noise, while the explosion caused heavy damage to at least 15 […]
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Golden Dawn Suspect in Commie Attack in Court
As the Greek government tries to dismantle the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party through legal means, arresting its hierarchy on an array of criminal charges, one of its members was due in court on Oct. 4 after being arrested on charges of leading a violent assault by party members on a group of nine Communists in […]
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Greek Cops Grilled Over Golden Dawn
Known to have strong ties and sympathies for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that the government is trying to take apart in court, the Greek police force is under the spotlight too with reports that hundreds of officers have testified as part of an internal affairs investigation being carried out by the Greek Police trying […]
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S&P Affirms B-/B Rating and Stable Outlook for Greece
S&P affirmed Greece’s sovereign rating at B-/B with a stable outlook. The investment house believes the Greek economy is rebalancing, as reflected in its reduced current account deficit, notable budgetary consolidation, and improved competitiveness, among other positives. However, it adds that the general government debt and the economy΄s external debt are still large. S&P in […]
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Health Issues Put off Skordeli’s Trial
Former Golden Dawn candidate Themis Evangelia K. Skordeli will stand trial for a series of violations including forgery, intellectual property violations and racist attacks. However, her trial has been postponed eight times, since she submits medical notes claiming to suffer from medical health problems. Skordeli was known from the Greek indignant movement. She was a […]
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ESM Chief Regling: Greece Will Need Third Bailout Package
"Given these circumstances, Greece will probably need another aid package," Regling said, which would require the approval of the finance ministers of the 17 euro-zone countries. Regling is not the first to publicly voice expectations that there will be a ...
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Greece cooperatives wage war on recession and unemployment
In the latest edition Business Planet we visit Syros in the Cyclades Island group in Greece. The country is now six years into a recession with a record unemployment rate of 27.6 percent. To survive the crisis a group of women have come together and formed an anti-crisis cooperative. Everyday 20 women, most of whom have no particular qualification, prepare traditional Greek dishes for sale in a ...
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Poll finds Greeks critical of Golden Dawn
Most Greeks view the far-right Golden Dawn party as a criminal organisation, according to a poll published today. The poll found the party had shed almost half of its support since its leader and several politicians were arrested. Party leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos, five senior politicians and dozens of party members were arrested last Saturday on charges of belonging to a criminal group. The ...
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Regulator fines Bank of Cyprus for non-disclosure on Greek debt
Regulator fines Bank of Cyprus for non-disclosure on Greek debtReutersLarge depositors were forced to recapitalize the bank this year after it reported massive losses on its Greek bonds. The process, known as a "bail-in" was conditional to the east Mediterranean island reaching agreement with international lenders in ...
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Niarchos Foundation announces new grant of $100 euros at Hellenic Initiative Event in New York
NEW YORK ? The Inaugural Banquet of The Hellenic Initiative that was held at the elegant domed structure with Grecian architectural touches at 583 Park Avenue in Manhattan on October 3 was unlike any other Greek-American event of recent memory.
To begin with, the keynote speech of former President Bill Clinton gave it unparalleled cachet.
Andreas Dracopoulos, Director and Co-President of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, who turned the immortal words of John F. Kennedy?s inaugural address into a call to action for all who love Greece: ?Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.?
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A Legacy of Greco-Roman Mapmaking
Long before people could look upon Earth from afar, completing a full orbit every 90 minutes, the Greeks and the Romans of antiquity had to struggle to understand their world?s size and shape. Their approaches differed: the philosophical Greeks, it has been said, measured the world by the stars; the practical, road-building Romans by milestones.
As the Greek geographer Strabo wrote at the time: ?We may learn from both the evidence of our senses and from experiences, that the inhabited world is an island, for wherever it has been possible for men to reach the limits of the earth, sea has been found, and this sea we call ?Oceanus.? And whenever we have not been able to learn by the evidence of sense, there reason points the way.?
Strabo?s words will greet visitors to a new exhibition, Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity, which opens Oct. 4 at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, at 15 East 84th Street in Manhattan. The show runs through Jan. 5.
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Weimar Greece is gambling with democracy
Weimar Greece is gambling with democracyThe Times (subscription)It takes a certain bleak courage to compare the state of your country to Germany in the chaotic period that led to the rise of Hitler. But Antonis Samaris, the beleaguered conservative Prime Minister of Greece, has done just that. “Greek democracy ...and more »
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6 myths about Greek yogurt
Myth: Greek yogurt is regulated First, a little yogurt making 101: Traditionally, Greek yogurt is made by straining the yogurt to remove the whey (the liquid remaining after the milk is curdled ... opt for pieces of fresh fruit or a drizzle ...
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EU Commissioner Hahn upbeat on outlook for four Greek highway projects
KathimeriniEU Commissioner Hahn upbeat on outlook for four Greek highway projectsKathimeriniEuropean Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn said on Friday that he had received virtually all the information needed to approve works on four major Greek highways and insisted that his cooperation with Greek authorities was "excellent" ...
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Greek Bonds Will Yield 5 Percent In 2014, Says Japonica
Japonica bough a bunch of Greek debt and think it will pay off. Lending money to Greece may not be the soundest financial decision that could be made in today’s world. The country is not exactly known for its financial stability, and it’s already ...
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Hundreds of officers testify in police investigation into GD
Hundreds of officers have testified as part of an internal affairs investigation being carried out by the Greek Police in a bid to trace links between ultra-right Golden Dawn and the force, Skai understands.
More than 300 police officers have testified wh... ...
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AGORA ? Does America Need More Philologers?
There is something really, really wrong with American college education, and our AGORA regulars feel the same way.
This week, noted historian-anarchist-poet Dan Georgakas, swinging lefty, takes on The National Herald's Executive Editor Constantinos Scaros, a right-handed power hitter, in a battle of the minds over: Debasing College Education, Utterly Shunning Philology.
While the agree college education has root problems, they have different takes on how to fix it.
From time to time, an issue emerges and inspires various minds to converge, often at odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, collective enlightenment will result from such conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire to continue that tradition.
WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?
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