August 19, 2011
Economy, Very Mix
The trial of 13 German journalists working for the weekly magazine Focus began on Friday morning in Athens and was interrupted when the judge asked an explanation as to why five of the defendants were not summoned to court. However no defendant at all appeared in court but they were …
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July 1, 2011
Politics, Society
A lawsuit was filed on Friday morning against the Greek Police EL.AS by Alexis Tsipras, leader of the of the left-wing political party SYRIZA with 9 seats in the Greek Parliament. Tsipras submitted to the prosecutor of the Supreme Court photographs and 38 video footage and eye witnesses testimonies documenting the excessive …
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June 30, 2011
Politics, Society, Uncategorized
President of the Policemen Union (POASY) G. Fotopoulos publicly apologized for the extensive use of violence by police on Wednesday. Fotopoulos apologized in radio programmes in the morning, he repeated his regrets in the on television in the afternoon. “I apologize from the public. That’s a shame!” he said and accused the political …
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June 30, 2011
Politics, Society
Can you imagine you sit in a tourists district of Athens, 1,5 km away from rioting and clashing Syntagma Square, and a police squad on motorbikes drives on a pedestrians street on high speed? And while you looked at them stunned and with open mouth, they even drop a flash grenade? …
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June 29, 2011
Politics, Society
Somebody is really mad about what happened in Athens on Wednesday and the unprecedented use of tears gas even expired one (see picture below). Interesting is the fact that he is not even Greek. He is Max Keiser, the famous American broadcaster, film-maker, and former equities broker and host of “Keiser …
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June 29, 2011
Politics, Society
I have to start a new post as the situation is really out of control and the Blogging I started this morning became too long-You can read the what happened from morning until 7 o’ clock pm click HERE Live Streaming from Athens if you see no picture, and wait …
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June 29, 2011
Economy, Politics, Society
The day started bad and with a lot of tension. People are angry and feel ignored by politicians, the police has clear orders. The day started bad already at 9 o clock ini the morning with some incidents erupting between protesters and riot police, whens a group of 200 people …
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June 28, 2011
Economy, Politics
Ok, boys, Greeks are horrified! The deputies, not the citizens…. They are horrified that if the Mid-Term Austerity Programme is not adopted by the Parliament we all land in the bankruptcy package. A non-stop government propaganda by high ranking officials from morning til the evening, the clumsy dilemma ‘Mid-Term or …
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