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Showing posts with label greek outlook. Show all posts
May 12, 2012

"Germany Pays to Save Greeks" and Other Bedtime Stories

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Former Greek prime minister George Papandreou says that when he asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for gentler conditions in 2010, she re...
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May 11, 2012

Lessons from the Greek Crisis 3: We Shall Dance...the Day we Get a Chance

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"We shall dance, we shall dance The day we get a chance To pay off all the violins of the ball We shall dance, we shall dance The ...
Mar 28, 2012

Lessons from the Greek Crisis 2

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Lilika Nakou/Nakos, novelist, writes in Land of Boeotia (1967): "Our people has greatly suffered. You can even see it in the vocabular...
Mar 21, 2012

Lessons from the Greek Crisis 1

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via playle.com Sounds superficial and Coelho-like in its simplistic, humanist message, but spring will always come in the end. The sun ...
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Mar 5, 2012

Liberation: "Greece, the Cradle of a New World"

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From an article in the French paper Liberation (appearing on this link in the original French). Translation from the French my own, links b...
Feb 25, 2012

Iceland Compared with Greece against the Crisis: Why & How Greece was Led to Give Away Sovereign Rights

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This just might be the most important post I will write on the Greek Outlook for some time, so pay attention. Greek prime minister G.A.P...
Feb 11, 2012

Rebranding Greece: What Greece Needs to Do

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Peter Economides (responsible in part for probably the best EOT campaign ever) gives a marketing talk to end all marketing talks about rebra...
Feb 7, 2012

The Chain-Saw Moussaka (Das Kettensägen-Moussaka)

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Why Greece serves as an experiment into how far economic oppression from international money consortia and bankers will go..... From Pro...
Oct 27, 2011

Greek Crisis T-shirt

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Someone responds with a vengeance: "Your culture". (Click on the photo to see it written with pen on the right hand bottom corner...
Sep 26, 2011

Greece: Against the Stereotypes

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Presented to you by the British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce people: Busting the myths surrounding Greek crisis, Greek debt, Greek way of li...
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Jul 6, 2011

Craziness Street

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The signpost reads: "Craziness Street: You can walk this street fearlessly. We own it." Indeed we do. As seen on Apollonia, Sif...
Jun 29, 2011

Two Statues: "It was for them we fought"

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George Seferis, the Nobel prize poet (and Greece's ambassador to London in the 1960s) wrote of a beloved leader of the revolution , Gene...
May 22, 2011

The (Greek) World is Based on Chaos and Cheap Smokes

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"Every morning will see me give myself 10 secs to realise where I am and why. There goes another 5 secs to accept my total incapability...
Mar 28, 2011

Rembetika, the Greek Blues

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The 1983 film "Rembetiko" by Costas Ferris recounts the life of old "rembetes" (musicians and songwriters of the urban ...
Mar 25, 2011

If only '21 would come back...

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1821 that is... "One by one the glorious years come back to me, if only '21 would come back for a moment. To cross the wide plain, ...
Mar 14, 2011

Democracy is self-desctructing

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"Our Democrazy is self-destructing because it abused the right of freedom and equality, because it taught citizens to consider insolenc...
Feb 16, 2011

The Hellenic Race

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"...there is the bond of Hellenic race, by which we are of one blood and of one speech, the common temples of the gods and the common...
Feb 11, 2011

Greek Goddesses: 1.Melina Merkouri

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Personality personified. Everything she did, she did with passion, a distinctly Greek trait. Even when misguided, petty things slided off he...
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Feb 10, 2011

There is no Ship for You, There is no Road...

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The City You said, "I will go to another land, I will go to another sea. Another city will be found, better than this. Every effort of ...
Feb 8, 2011

To Death I say

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Today is the 31st anniversary of the death of Nikos Xylouris. In his memory... To Death I said, to Hades I say, To Death I said, to Hade...