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The revised law for the protection of companion animals and strays has been uploaded on March 31 on internet for public consultation. You can write your comments until April 13, 2011. Unfortunately I can’t translate the whole law… However from the comments I’ve read so far, there are constructive proposals  …

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The latest from austerity is Greece: “A youngster  was arrested today in possession of small amount of salary! He claimed it was intended for personal use… ”  This genious news was found in FB, posted by user Di.Di.

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Gone are the times where high ranking officials would sit relaxed at the back seat of a limouzine and let the driver slender them though the avenues so they could meet their  official appointments. With strict austerity measures,  state spending cuts and gasoline prices nearing 2 euros per liter these …

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Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said Friday he “absolutely” rules out the prospect his country΄s sovereign debt might be restructured, economic portal Capital.gr reported. “I am not the only one” who rejects the idea, Papaconstantinou said on the sidelines of a conference in the northern Italian town. The minister spoke …

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Executives from International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank will be visiting Athens for an extraordinary medical test! They will check heart beat, liver and kidney values and take the market fever. This will certainly show hypothermia. Furthermore they will  suck our blood for several tests but …

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I just read in our FB page the worries of a Portuguese woman about the inevitable country’s bailout  by the International Monetary Fund hawks. She was wondering how doe sit look like to be in the arms of speculators… creating a post-modern lumpenproletariat in the 21st century! The old, nice, …

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An Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred in the sea off Crete on Friday afternoon. The tremor was strongly felt in Heraklion and other areas of Crete, in the island of Casos and  Milos in the south of the Aegean Sea, in Pelononnese, but also in some areas …

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An Italian organisation took responsibility for the letter bomb sent to Director of Korydallos prison in Athens. “Informal Anrachist Federation (FAI) had attached a  two pages proclammation inside the letter bomb that was safely detonated by police experts on Thursday. The proclamation was writen in Italian and was detected at forensic …

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The presence of many internet sites showing pictures and videos with animal torture is a cause of concern for the Greek police, numerous animal lovers and welfare societies. According to daily TO VIMA, more than 2,500 complaining electronic messages (e-mails) reach  the officers at the Department of Electronic Crime of the Greek …

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That’s a nice article to boost our spirit. And thus on April Fool’s Day, on the first day of the month. Stoned-aged old grannies used to say “How the month begins, so the month ends”. They meant that if the first day of the month is good/bad, the whole month would be good/bad. Old grannies …

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Muammar Gaddafi together with family members, close friends, first degree relatives and clan leaders has asked asylum in Greece. Several Gaddafi’s envoys have already make the necessary arrangements so the Arabs on exile will find comfort and leisure on the beautiful island of Crete. A huge summer resort is apparently …

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Just as I was thinking to consult a psychotherapist to cure me from the deep economic depression, our Prime minister George Papandreou offered me this service free of charge. Well, not exactly ‘free of charge’, if you consider how much money we pay to maintain the state apparatus and pay back …

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