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Profile of a Greek MAT riot police officer

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Kat Made a great post today on livingingreece.grRead this summary:
Rioters were fewer in number and less aggressive Tuesday night, which many attribute to fatigue from rioting during the day and closure provided by Alexi Grigoropoulos’ funeral. I also think the Panathinaikos game and shop keepers fighting back last night had something to […]

Tags: Economy · Politics

Ode to Obama

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Kat Blogged about a good topic today on livingingreece.grHere’s a summary….
All I had were hopes last night as I went off to dreamland.
I woke up this morning to find the world had changed.
History had been made.
A dream came true.
And for the first time in my life I wept tears of joy after a […]

Tags: Politics

Presidential race or just race?

November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Kat Made an interesting post today on livingingreece.grCheck it out:
In the race between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, positive qualities have been disregarded or minimized, and negative qualities overlooked. Would the U.S. presidential elections be a contest at all if Obama was Caucasian? 
Consider, What if?
Let’s hypothetically reverse the backgrounds of Democratic and Republican […]

Tags: Politics

Cyprus patrols

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

grhomeboy Wrote an interesting post today on grhomeboy.wordpress.comRead this summary….
Turkish army chief says troops will stay on island despite peace deal
Turkey’s armed forces chief said yesterday that some 40,000 Turkish troops will remain on Cyprus despite a new peace deal between Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot leaders.
“There is no such thing as pulling troops […]

Tags: Cyprus · news · Cyprus News · Cyprus Occupied · Politics · Cyprus Problem