Matthew Nimetz, the United Nations “special” envoy on the tedious issue of what to call the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has a better job than even Joe DiMaggio did, although it was pretty special to play center field for the New York Yankees in the 1930′s and 40′s, live in a luxury hotel [...]
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How To Pass The Golden Dawn Crazy Test
Buoyed by surveys that show the number of insane people in Greece is rising, the Nazi Golden Dawn party is set to start recruiting new members and will be scouring mental hospitals, soccer fan clubs, brothels, porn theaters, gun clubs, alleys, and looking under rocks, so if you look like a snake and are stranger [...]
The Slow Death Of Greece’s KKE Communists
If she weren’t so obtuse, you could say that Aleka “Irrelevant” Papariga, who has dragged Greece’s Communist party down so low you’d need a microscope to find it – appropriate when you’re looking for amoeba anyway – saw the handwriting on the wall (Commie Go Home!) when she decided to step down as its non-leader. [...]
Greece and Cyprus Leave Eurozone, Adopt Dralira
Saying they would no longer put up with being told what to do and to keep imposing pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and seizing bank accounts so that foreign bankers putting up bailout loans could be paid back, Greece and Cyprus have decided to quit the Eurozone and adopt a new currency, the Dralira. [...]
Cyprus Runs Up The White Flag To Bankers
On Feb. 25, conservative lawyer Nicos Anastasiades, promising Cypriots he would never allow foreign entities to steal money out of their bank accounts to pay for mistakes the banks made, was easily elected the island’s new President. On March 25 – Independence Day in Greece and now Surrender Day in Cyprus – someone dressed like [...]
Cypriots Give Samaras Ammo Against Troika
The resounding 36-0 rejection (not counting 19 cowards who sat on their hands and wouldn’t take a stand) by the Cypriot Parliament of a tax that would have confiscated up to 9.9 percent of bank account deposits could provide Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras with bargaining chips as he readies to continue negotiations with the [...]
What Greek Anarchists Really Want: Nothing
It should come as no surprise that the four young punks who robbed two banks in northern Greece and reportedly are involved in yet another terrorist offshoot in Greece were anarchists, the type who believe there shouldn’t be a government, except for when it comes to getting benefits like roads, hospitals, schools, post offices and [...]
Anarchy at Home Blows Up Tsipras’ U.S. Tour
That noise you heard when a bomb exploded at the Athens Mall was any chance that Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras ever had of becoming Greece’s leader, not that he had one anyway. With his party fomenting political violence, it also blew up in his face in Washington, D.C., where he [...]
Greek Politics: The Worst Show on Earth
As political freak shows go, you just can’t beat Greece, especially when the Three-Ring Circus known as the Parliament in session, if only to see workers paid thousands of euros a month walking around handing out glasses of water and threatening to strike and shut down debate if they’re not exempted from big pay cuts, [...]
Greek Certainties: Death, Taxes and Tax Evaders
Raising taxes is supposed to be antithetical to Republicans and Greece’s New Democracy Capitalists who usually pin that on Democrats and the Left. But it wasn’t surprising when, instead of going after tax evaders who owe their beloved country $70 billion but hide their money in secret bank accounts in Switzerland, Singapore, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, the [...]
Greece’s Apocalypse Now, The World’s Later
The world might indeed end on Dec. 21, although it’s more likely Greece’s soccer team will win the World Cup in Brazil in 2014 if the earth is still around. If the end is nigh, it might even be Greece’s crushing economic crisis which causes it, bringing down world markets and setting people off on [...]
Samaras Sucker Punches Greek Bond Holders
There’s a sucker born every minute, as P.T. Barnum may have said. And there’s a sucker puncher waiting for them, knowing that a fool and his money are soon parted. Such is the case in Greece, where Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has reneged on yet another campaign promise, a series of lies just to get [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Contemporary Theatrical Adaptation of Homer’s Iliad May 22, 2013
- A Greek Portfolio at The Benaki Museum May 22, 2013
- Greek-By-Choice Pedro Olalla Honored May 20, 2013
- AHEPA Day Celebration Hosted In Athens May 20, 2013
