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Athens: Crime Reaches Alarming Levels

It came as it has been expected. An alarming level of crime in the streets and households of Athenians. Daily are the news of burglars and robbers who don’t even step back from using Kalashnikov automatic rifles and knives to scare to death seniors, rape mothers and steal from a …

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Athens: Police Beats School Students (videos)

Tension prevailed during the protest of secondary school students in downtown Athens on Monday morning and riot police could not resist from beating the teenager school children with clubs.  The tension started when the police got the order to ‘clean’ the main streets in front of the Greek Parliament. The …

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Trends: KTG Considers A Language “Haircut”… Is this Possible?

I’ve been thinking to follow the Austerity Trend in Greece, not only in term of my income and expenses – something that happens anyway in the usual monthly tact: income decreases, expenses rise. I have been wondering whether I would invent a kind of ‘austerity language’ with a 30-40% of “Haircut” …

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Greeks in the Tropic of Austerity

Wherever you sit and stand you will get confronted with private stories and destinies in the Tropic of Greek Austerity.  A huge scissors made of steel cuts salaries, pensions and jobs. Within a single month people see their income vanished and they have to cope with just 550 euro to feed their …

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Athens: Bus, Tram Work-Stoppage, Oct 3

The week starts with nice little things like work-stoppages in public transport. On Monday, October 3rd 2011, do not look to move around with  Buses between  11 am and  5 pm and with Tram from 12 noon to 4 pm. Under these conditions, if I want to use the Metro today I …

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UPD: Antoine, the Abducted & Abused Dog is Doing Better

UPDATE: Antoine, the stray dog who was abducted and thrown over a bridge last October in Athens, is doing better. After three surgeries, the sling was removed from his smashed leg. As he got a metal blade inside his leg, he still needs to rest. He is been taking care …

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Greek Fin Min Gives Wrong SMS Number for Property Tax Exemptions

That’s a true …Greek planning! Glorification of Sloppiness. The SMS number <54160> given public by the Finance Ministry for those who are entitled to be exempted from the Emergency Property Tax …belongs also to one or even two other subscribers! The ministry tries to correct the issue and there will …

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Greece’s Exemptions Criteria to Emergency Property Tax

Parents with more than three children, long time jobless and people with heavy disabilities are exempted form the emergency Property Tax or they will pat reduced prices per square meter. More specifically: Reduced prices of 0,5 euro per sq meter will pay a) Parents with more than 3 children, when …

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Thinking of Buying a Greek 100-Year Bond?…

What an exciting proposal! What a perfect investment! Especially for those Greeks hit by unemployment so that they will never manage to get a pension in their old days. A 100-year Bond is an extraordinary attractive call  for newborns in debt-ridden households. Reuters reported: “Greece may be looking into kicking the can into the …

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Horror! “Parents” Hide Child in a Suitcase

That’s unbelievable! A pair of foreigners hid an eight-year-old boy in a suitcase and loaded it into the storage space of a coach bus! Operators of the bus and passengers were more than stunned when Igoumenitsa Port Authorities asked the bus personnel to open the suitcase: A child was curled inside the …

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