Πέμπτη 8 Νοεμβρίου 2018

What are the people of the West celebrating?

There are people who wish that the world will go back at the time of the Middle Ages, where 3% of the people had everything and 97% nothing.
People working in the media are idiots or have severe psychological problems, but the owners of that media can't be that stupid.
The Marxists wish that this will happen so the 97% percent will revolt and establish a World State of Communism as it was Trotsky's wish.
Rich people do not need common people as consumers anymore. The mouldy bread, the murky water and 2 sqm rat-, bug-, louse- cockroach - infested shelter will be provided by self-pronounced philathrophists, who will be speculating with the shares of other philanthropic establishments as well.
Muslim countries (with a few exceptions) deny women the right of equal inheritance, leading positions, or even to travel without the permission of her husband, but all of them celebrate that two Muslim women became repräsentatives in US-Congress. What does that tell us? 
It is telling us that the empowerment of women is rejected as a danger to the identity and society in Muslim majority countries, but is celebrated as a mean to infiltrate Western societies and as one little victory in the Islamist supremacist colonial project. 
Jews had to leave Muslim countries because of persecution, Christians are now leaving Muslim countries because of persecution. The same thing happens to atheists, gays and lesbians. Those who persecuted them come also to the West, build mosques and build the infrastructure of radical Islam in the name of tolerance. They get support from Muslim countries and from Western Politicians, left wing activists and parts of the cilvil society. A help that seculars, gays, lesbians and even oriental Christians seldom get. Where is that leading to?
Muslim countries are becoming more and more intolerant, closed monocultural societies. Western Societies are becoming more and more open and diverse. But this diversity has no defence mechanism against the enemies of open society. It has no clear rules and has no boarders. 
The more diverse we become, the more diverse should opinions be in media, but exactly the opposite is happening. We are allowed to celebrate differences, promote hijab and ramadan, but we label every criticism of Islam as islamophobic, bigot and racist. We criticize white right wing rhetorics but tolerate islamist right wing rhetorics. 
Why can't we just be against all kind of intolerant supremacies, no matter where they come from? Why can we celebrate a Muslim woman becoming a congress woman (which is a great thing by the way) but accept that women, Christians, atheists and gays in Muslim countries have no rights? Why do we call Muslim criticism of enlightenment "freedom of speech", but call the criticism of Islam by enlightened people "racist"? Is that not the bigotry of lowered expectations?

Δευτέρα 29 Οκτωβρίου 2018

"Time is Money" is backfiring

Following assumption is a wrong one and although it worked well for a while, now it is backfiring and it will lead to the destruction of the world economy, unless the production of goods, services and knowledge is valued more and the pseudoelites will perceive that money is just an instrument for the flow of goods and people and information and never the goal.


Wikipedia:
"Religious devotion, Weber argues, is usually accompanied by a rejection of worldly affairs, including the pursuit of wealth and possessions. To illustrate his theory, Weber quotes the ethical writings of Benjamin Franklin:
Remember, that time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labor, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expense; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides. [...] Remember, that money is the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding feline taint, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. 
Weber notes that this is not a philosophy of mere greed, but a statement laden with moral language. Indeed, Franklin claims that God revealed the usefulness of virtue to him. The Reformation profoundly affected the view of work, dignifying even the most mundane professions as adding to the common good and thus blessed by God, as much as any "sacred" calling (German: Ruf). A common illustration is that of a cobbler, hunched over his work, who devotes his entire effort to the praise of God."

The problem now is that Finance Markets actually play games instead of doing something usefull. The money gained at such markets have the same value as those below.


However goverments let them flow these worthless money into the real economy. It is like there is a net of monopoly players that can accumulate this paper and than buy a house or a car. For what reason? Did they produce anything worthwhile? What is that that these investors are exchanging? Money exist because if one sells his house he doesn't want to receive a million of eggs or tanks of milk. 
It is impossible that there is money 50 or 100 times more than the volume needed for the needs of the goods and services markets. Actually if the money of the financial markets would flow in the normal one, that would lead to hyperinflation.



Παρασκευή 31 Αυγούστου 2018

The dastard idiot and the french girl in Paris

A dastard idiot wants to prove his virility to himself, thinks everybody gives a damn about him and acts like many animals in one when he sees a female with shorts on the streets. Of course she is annoyed, she sends him to hell, the dastard proves his idiocy by throwing an ashtray to her and after missing his target, he follows her and slaps her.
Every newspaper and magazine wrote about it and a week latter everything was forgotten.
Everybody blamed men as a whole, because they cannot take no for an answer. A female journalist wrote the following in 'The Guardian': “But ultimately it comes down to men treating women with respect and regarding them as equals with agency over their bodies. Unfortunately this sort of sea change can take generations, especially when it is undermined by the surrounding visual culture.”
The Guardian, the Spiegel and other supposed progressive magazines and newspapers wish for a general reintroduction of the Victorian fashion. It will take generations, according to them, for men to have agency over their minds and desires and not act like idiots when they come across a good-looking woman.
The elites of Europe don't like the freedom of choice, so they do what they can to undermine it. Christianity doesn't like love at first sight and neither does Marxism, those two being the two promoted ideologies. Christianity has lost its spirituality, however the Christian way of thinking is the dominant one and it is not very different from the Marxist one.
Lifestyle magazines are also guilty. Politicians and industrialists due to their incompetence to understand that they need well – payed work force, try to boost the economy by promoting mass consumption. Even if many do not read such magazines, there are enough who do and they form a common opinion about these matter, wheareas non-readers have many different and are not sure of them. So as readers are more convinced, they are convincing others especially if they pretend this knowledge comes from their own experiences.
These lifestyle magazines promote a lifestyle of tycoons. The idea is that if everybody tries to become a tycoon, that is good for the economy. They will try their best to become rich and by that many will become rich. However many will try the criminal way and that either doesn't bother them or they think it is not so bad.
So especially by conservative families one gives up trying to find a partner and the young people wait for their mums, not dads, to find a 'nice bride' for each for her sons. Men make less fuss marrying a woman they don't like, because they think they can cheat easier than the women. They aren't supposed to be romantic, while women are. Men have the money so, when they come to it later they can use it to buy some extramarital sex.
So actually what such kind of idiots do is trying to vindicate women as though they are responsible for their bad manners and lack of education. They accuse women for not being princesses that will kiss them and turn them from frogs to princes. Of course they have to show how virile they are, the lack of which is a constant accussation, and this is made so they will marry the proposed bride without objections.
I read somewhere about the groups of idiots hanging around, shouting nonsence and feeling safe, because of their numbers. They are shouting to women or couples passing by, about multiple partners. It is sure that if ever some people would come to the idea to test them and send bait women, as long as there is adequate protection, and the bait women would agree to a 'party', these tough guys would get the shivers. They would become aggressive and moral all of a sudden, in order to distract from their self-defined lack of virility.
In conservative communities women are not to discuss bed secrets with people outside their circle. So if the man needs homosexual 'help' from his best man and the latters best man and his best man as well in order to impregnate his wife, no one outside will hear about it.



Τετάρτη 18 Ιουλίου 2018

Shame on Sweden, shame on Europe, shame on the West!

Europe has an acute problem with its elites. Their messianic way of thinking makes them think they are the Messiah the world needs to become a garden of Eden. So every little man or woman up there thinks himself cleverer than Nature and does what he can for the coming of the Reign of what he believes in.
Of course there are the corrupt ones, who don't want the Third World to improve and become like Europe, because than there will be no prostitution and criminality in the Third World and so they will not have the advantage of sex tourism.
Immigration is a ventil in favour of the oppressive regimes. By driving the young males out of the country, they have less fear of revolutions.
Parties of the left spectrum want to have legalised immigrants as constant voters, as their policies concerning all other issues have no difference than those of the parties of the non-left spectrum. Of course it is of no interest to the left parties that the immigrants have a fair chance of progress, otherwise they will become themselves voters of the liberals or conservatives.
Rich elites already live secluded in their super luxurious ghettos and students form their own ghettos where they loose their contact to reality.
Judges prooved themselves petty-minded and formalists, once again!

PS Europe must protect the values of Rennaissance and Enlightment and Classical Greece, because there are always forces who want to drive us back to the Middle Ages.
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Δευτέρα 11 Ιουνίου 2018

UEFA and FIFA impotent or unwilling?


Ioannis Melissanidis was honoured by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2014 with the title "Curopalate", although his way of making business was known to everybody. AEK fans and journalists nicknamed him "The Tiger", so they are proud of his behaviour, like threating journalists, referees and everybody who seems to get in his way.
Maybe it would help if a non Greek citizen was elected as UEFA General Secretary. Greece has many laws, one contradicting the other, and it is up to the court to decide which of the laws are applicable to each case. The Greek government of leftist Syriza and conservative ANEL, have favored openly Melissanidis and Savvidis to resolve the problems of football, as if football was no part of the modern Greek-byzantine society. A society that is controlled in every way by the Eastern Christian Church Dogma and Church. The Chruch controls the politicians, the politicians the rich, the rich the press, the press the rest. Of course, they are all incompetent so they will be dependant.

UEFA and FIFA impotent as AEK’s Melissanidis heaps further shame on Greek football

June 11 – UEFA and FIFA’s failure to get any kind of control or governance over Greek football is reaching unprecedented levels even by their own woeful standards. Floundering in a situation they seem incapable of (or unwilling to) resolve, the integrity of the game in Greece was hammered with news that champion club AEK’s owner Melissanidis is under investigation for accounting fraud.
Greek football, long plagued by betting related match-fixing was shaken to its core at the end of the season when PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis stormed on to the field of play bearing a sidearm to remonstrate with and threaten the referee over decisions he felt were not going his team’s way against AEK.

Savvidis was eventually banned for just three years and PAOK was docked three (meaningless)s points. Most believe the ban is meaningless and he is still running the club.

Melissanidis’ issues have far greater repercussions for him personally as they involve international investigations with the US Department of Justice having been informed of the fraud allegations and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and FBI reportedly both investigating.

The fraud concerns the sale of Melissanidis stake in the Aegean Petroleum company in August 2016 for $100 million. Prior to the sale it was stated there were $200 million of receivables recorded in Aegean’s balance sheet from four companies.

The current board of Aegean says there was approximately $172 million as of December 31, 2016 and $85 million as of December 31, 2015 due from these four counterparties but there was no business that could account for these sums and that they had been manufactured to inflate the value of the company and hence boost the value of Melissanidis’ shares.

The current board has applied to have the $200 million written off resulting in losses of up to 50% for shareholders.

If found guilty of defrauding investors in the US Melissanidis faces significant jail time.

In a football context, in 2016 Melissanidis took the moral high ground in Greece with accusations of manipulation of matches and acts of violence against officials – all dismissed by Greece’s courts. It now appears this could have been a smokescreen to build his own reputation as an honest actor and an individual of high integrity, while covering up a series of dubious deals while he sold his stake in Aegean. Greek football appears to have been a useful vehicle in this regard and the Greek justice system an easily manipulable tool.

That UEFA and FIFA have repeatedly failed to act in Greece – they can only clean up football but their attempts have been perfunctory – shames them as much as it does the Greek authorities.

A look at Melissanidis history shows he has never been far from controversy and in a season of rampant match-fixing, and threatening behaviour by armed club owners, he looks to be of the profile that fits right in – not least within UEFA and FIFA circles.

Melissanidis received his first bribery conviction for paying off two players in an amateur football league in the 1980s, according to his profile on Wikipedia.

Incredibly he became an owner in betting company OPAP, one of Europe’s largest gaming companies, in 2013, with seemingly no questions asked about any potential conflict. OPAP became €2.1 million sponsors of AEK as well as a number of other clubs who subsequently pulled out of their contracts complaining of unfair competition due to Melissanidis’ managerial involvement in both the club and the betting firm.

But perhaps the darkest side of Melissanidis and the way he is prepared to operate is in his interaction with Lefteris Charalambopoulos, the Greek journalist (who has written for Insideworldfootball) who wrote about his Aegean Oil dealmaking.

Calling from an Aegean Oil number and identifying himself as Dimitris Melissanidis he threatened Charalambopoulos’ life repeatedly, saying: “I could have you killed without having warned you. But I am a man and I’m gonna have you blown up in your sleep. I’ll have you killed, you, your wife, your children, everything you’ve got.”

When Charalambopoulos told him he would alert the authorities, he replied: “Screw you and the authorities. I don’t understand anything, I am Melissanidis. You will not be able to sleep. You will not be able to go out, I’ll be your nightmare. Fear of me will haunt you. They will come to your house and blow you up in your sleep. I am used to talking to big journalists. I looked you up and I will tear you down.”

Clearly the ball is in UEFA and FIFA’s court to deal with the Greek situation. You could probably get good odds on whether they really have the inclination to do that at OPAP.

Contact the writer of this story at moc.llabtoofdlrowedisni@noslohcin.luap


Dimitris Melissanidis Becomes an Official of the Ecumenical Patriarchate


The Holy Church of Christ, through the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos, honored Dimitris Melissanidis with the title of Curopalates, one of the Church’s highest honorary offices.
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos granted Mr. Melissanidis the title of Curopalates immediately after the Divine Liturgy of Theophania and the Great Blessing of the Patriarchal Holy Church of Saint George in Phanari.
In his remarks, the Ecumenical Patriarch said that the new Official of the Church was honored for his sincere devotion to the Mother Church, for his humility and his willingness to offer to the pious and noble descendants of Pontos, as well as his other charitable initiatives.
This is the first time since 1453 that the title of Curopalates has been awarded. In the Eastern Roman Empire the Curopalates were charged with significant responsibilities of the imperial Palace and important aspects of public life.
Metropolitan Pavlos of Drama and Varnavas, Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, among others, attended the ceremony.

Τετάρτη 30 Μαΐου 2018

Not an expert, a bigot is needed!

Once upon a time there was another Greek, being successful and patriotic, who wanted to help his native country in his field of expertise.
However he didn't know that Greece's ruling elites have an other worldview.
Obligations as head emeritus of the Space Department Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in the United States and at NASA usually keep Krimigis away from his native Greece, but the next two years will see him spending a lot more time in Athens after he was appointed at the head of the newly established Hellenic Space Agency. The task at hand is to “build an agency from the bottom up” by uniting disparate state agencies under one new body, he explains.
The next two years? He managed to stay for two days, because on the third he had to resign. The article was printed on 13/04/2018 and he wrote a letter of resignation on 16/04/2018. The letter was made public two weeks later.
“Excellence, meritocracy, performance and ethos are our guiding principles,” says Krimigis, noting that it took him some time to agree to the invitation from the Greek government.
In the Greek letter he spoke about assessment. Assessment, meritocracy and excellence... The ruling mentality is that all people are equal before God, no-one should judge other or he will be judged too, so unless God Yahweh makes the assessment himself, meritocracy and excellence are not applicable.
“I wanted certain assurances that the principles I have described will be respected and applied. Another reason I agreed was that many of my colleagues here asked me to help in this new endeavor and I felt it was something I had to do. This is not an opportunity that comes around again.”
The prime minister is voted by the people and this is interpreted as an appointment by God Yahweh. It doesn't matter if they are atheists, because actually they do not believe in the Bible, but have a more abstract notion of God, still that God being the monotheistic one. So the prime minister by divine right appoints ministers and general secretaries and a mere head of an institution, instead of being just thankful, demands assurances...
Since the 1980s, when he served as a business consultant, and as a member of at least five different committees, Krimigis has been championing Greece’s entry into the burgeoning space science market – one in which several Greek companies are involved.
Well Greek politicians aren't interested in profits, they need institutions and bureaus for their voters. They need people who depend on them, who know or think they do not stand a chance in a free market; and that not just by socialists, social democrats or communists.
“It is everyone’s duty to the nation, the duty of all political parties, to support this effort,” he says, stressing that Greece is a member of the European Space Agency (ESA) and needs to make advances in the field. “We’re not trying to build a spaceship,” he says, adding that the focus is on scientific instruments. “It is technology that is also important to the country’s security and this is the only way that we can acquire it. Our eastern neighbors figured this out 20 years ago.”
That is a problem for the politicians and the ruling greek elites. An independant and regulated economy dictates policy to them. A state dependant economy is fully controlled by its corrupt elites.

In his recent book “Taxidi sto iliako systima” (“Traveling in the solar system,” published by Papadopoulos), Krimigis describes his experience as the only scientist in the world who has “traveled” to every planet in the Earth’s solar system thanks to instruments he has designed.
His first successful mission was the launch to Mars of the Mariner 4 spaceship for flyby exploration in 1964, but his 50-year career hasn’t always been full of high notes. He remembers, for example, “24 hours of anxiety and terror” when the New Horizons space probe, launched in 2006, “went missing” on its long way to Pluto, or how the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission came close to failing back in the 1990s because of a technical glitch.
Today, every spaceship has thousands of microchips conducting a constant digital dialogue. Does all this technology help? “There is always a huge possibility not of error but of unforeseen circumstances, so we always use the first few months of a space mission to see how the spaceship is going,” he says. Voyagers which have been transmitting data to Earth for the past 40 years, he adds, operate with simple commands and just 70KB of memory.
Krimigis remembers the start of the space age and the West’s shock at the USSR’s launch of the Sputnik in 1957. He firmly believes that the space race saved the world from a certain war and believes that all future space missions will be the product of international partnerships, mainly because of their enormous cost. A planned 500 billion dollar manned mission to Mars is no exception.
“We will be stepping foot on Mars as explorers, not as colonizers,” the expert stresses, explaining that the possibility of inhabiting a planet that has almost no atmosphere and radiation levels that are lethal to man are zero. “Who wants to live below ground in order to be shielded from the radiation and to have to learn to grow crops on that surface in order to survive?” he asks.
The solar system is a frontier that has not been sufficiently explored, says Krimigis, adding that the space community’s focus is now on the quest for planets that are friendly to man and on closer exploration of worlds that have water, such as Europa, Titan and Enceladus.
A man of great experience who has been around for fifty years on the forefront of spatial technology since it beginnings for fifty years. However he wasn't the right man for the job.

Krimigis was born on the eastern Aegean island of Chios in 1938, growing up into an A-plus student thanks to his mother’s insistence for high grades. He started studying at the University of Minnesota in the US in 1956, where a chance encounter with Professor James Van Allen changed his life. The world-renowned academic saw something in the young student and invited him to his postgraduate program at the University of Iowa, where Krimigis also went on to do his PhD. Among other tasks, Van Allen asked him to build a special piece of equipment that would be used on the Mariner 4 spaceship to Mars. “I finished it just a month before the launch,” he remembers.
“Back then we always built two spaceships because one usually ended up in the Gulf of Mexico,” says Krimigis, explaining the fate of Mariner 3. “I was terribly disappointed, but the engineering team spotted the mistake and built a new spaceship within three weeks that went off to the Red Planet.”
Success in this field, stresses Krimigis, is not just about skill but also the result of cooperation, an esprit de corps. “Space is collaborative,” he says, explaining that it is important for the public to understand that these teams working day and night for years on end are not doing so just because this is the job, but because “they are making history and generating future knowledge.”
As long as he stays abroad everything is fine, one can be proud of him, one can pretend one doesn't know why the talented Greeks cannot evolve in Greece, but have to go abroad. However if they come in Greece and they think they know everything better, this means war.

So it came as it had to come!
Distinguished Greek-American scientist Stamatios Krimigis has resigned as director of Greece’s newly established Hellenic Space Agency (HSA) just weeks into his tenure, it emerged on Wednesday.

In a lengthy letter dated April 16 and outlining the reasons for his decision, the head emeritus of the Space Department Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in the United States accused Telecommunications Minister Nikos Pappas of making decisions that “effectively annulled the HSA’s entire purpose and rendered it an unreliable bureaucratic structure that could become subservient to any political chief.”

Krimigis went on to criticize the general secretary for telecommunications, Vassilis Manglaras, as a “space tzar” who sought to undermine the agency chief’s authority from the onset, “with the minister’s tolerance,” and even though he has “no knowledge or experience in this field.”

“It is my belief that there is a concerted effort to manipulate HSA toward specific goals,” Krimigis added.
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Who is the right man for that job? A person that claims to believe monks can dilate time and posts stupid commentaries about Europeans who want to eliminate Greece and Romiosini, the latter being Christian Romanitas or Eastern Christianity. What he describes as "Europeans" is  Homo habilis and what "they" achieved was the achievements of  Hellenic Heathen Pagan Idolatric Greece and not the Byzantine Empire. Apart from being a member of different commitees his only true experience is introducing internet in Cyprus illegally and being in charge of the Cypriot Church's radio station.


Article in English

The new head of Greek Space Agency, Christodoulos Protopapas, was appointed just hours after the former head, astrophysicist Stamatis Krimizis resigned on Thursday. Within hours, the new space chief made it first to social media and then to websites not only because of his striking anti-Europeanism but also due to rather weird belief that Saints “can stop the time.”
In his blog, Protopapas wrote of a miracle Saint Porfyrios the Kapsokalivitis (1906-1991), the Saint who protects Technology, as he stresses.
The miracle was that St Porfyrios “achieved relativistic time dilation through prayers,” when a group of nuns on a taxi stuck in traffic jam were late to reach the Monastery before it would close the door for the evening. He did not write when exactly the miracle happened but the nuns had previously visited the Saint.
The Saint managed to hold time “for over an hour,” the Greek nasa chief notes adding “the last time such a miracle had happened was when Joshua raised his hands in the sign of cross and ordered the sun to stop, so that the day is prolonged and the Israelites win the battle.”
Of course, Joshua from the Old Testament was supposed to have lived long before Jesus Christ and his Crucifixion. But who cares? It’s the faith that leads Greece’s scientific agency.
“The difference between the two miracles is that St Porfyrios time dilation was implemented for only a group of people and not for the whole world” – as in Joshua’s case.
Convinced about the miracle he further notes “the miracle puzzled me for many years because for me it is one of the very few miraculous interventions in time space that have been recorded in our Greek Orthodox tradition and cannot be explained with the conventional scientific knowledge.”
He underlined that “scientists are overawed,” about the miracle.
St Porfyrios, an Athonite monk known for his gifts of spiritual discernment, a type of clairvoyance which he sometimes called “spiritual television.”
Many Greeks shook heads and rolled eyes as they considered it as “not appropriate” or even hilarious that the head of Greece’s top scientific agency is challenging metaphysics over real science. Relationship between religion and science is very delicate and the one does not exclude the other.
Then one more of his posts on social media dated April 2016 added the icing on the cake of ignorance and ultra-nationalism.
Here with English translation
New head of Greek space agency is avowed admirer of St Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite (1906–1991), "known for his gifts of spiritual discernment, a type of clairvoyance which he sometimes called 'spiritual television'" (Wikipedia) https://twitter.com/LubenMag/status/989483593981485056 
"Greece and Greekness never dies, you fucking Europeans. When we were building temples & writing tragedies, you were living in the mud, were eating raw meat, were dirty and had no spoken language. Sunset at Sounion" -- Christodoulos Protopappas, the new head of Greek space agency pic.twitter.com/6QmPFNgqk8

Σάββατο 14 Απριλίου 2018

Phylax the demonic statue

Kostis Georgiou, a Greek artist, has flat out denied that his statue – the Phylax –  was created to honour the Devil.
But some Christians don’t believe him, and are demanding that the artwork – installed near the Palaio Faliro marina in Trokadero, south of Athens last December – should be removed.
According to this report, more than 100 Christian residents, led by a priest, converged on the statue earlier this month to wave Greek flags, brandish icons and sing hymns during a protest.
The priest sprinkled holy water on the statue to “exorcise its demons”.
The statue has suffered two vandalism attacks since its installation on December 5. What may have caused concerns among the Christians is that the Palaio Faliro Municipality named the statue “guardian-angel” of the South Athens suburb.
Mayor Dionysis Hatzidakis said the Phylax does not represent any Christian guardian angel.
Local parish priest Patapios Argyros wrote in an open letter to the Mayor:
The sculpture is a demon and a soldier of Satan that, instead of being honoured, must be despised as blasphemous to the holy trinity. It is an affront to Orthodoxy and the Christian faith.
The artist disagrees.
Who says that the colour of Satan is red? There are angels with red wings and red hair.
He told Greek Channel Skai TV the criticism was being led by “a hate preacher”.
It is supposed that the opponents are Christians but their soul is anti-Christian. The work is independent of any approach to religious symbols and emblems. If they want to demolish, let them do it. If they want to burn it, let them burn it as they were burning books in the past.
In this report of the brouhaha it’s pointed out that phylax is an ancient Greek word meaning watcher, guard, guardian or protector. It  was gifted to Palaio Faliro by the the Martinos shipping family.
The residents of the suburb have started collecting signatures to pressure the municipality to remove the sculpture.



After that the sculpture was attacked with white paint.





But that wasn't enough, they had to destroy it.



“They came with a huge truck and two jeeps and they were wearing hoods. They threw ropes over the sculpture and pulled it down. As you can understand, the wings are broken,” he said.
“They told the man in the [nearby] canteen: ‘If you warn the police or the mayor, we will burn your canteen down.’”
Source 

Πέμπτη 29 Μαρτίου 2018

Young woman, abused since her 4th birthday, dies at the age of 29

Source

The death of 29-year-old Elena Frantzi has distressed Cyprus society, with authorities and the media scrambling to respond to public outrage over her stepfather priest who went to prison for sexually molesting her. (1)

Elena, who had a very troubled past as a young girl, died this week. She was found dead at her home in Tseri, Nicosia, while other reports said she had collapsed and taken to the hospital but died on the way. The precise cause of death is still unknown while sources said it was sudden death.
The young woman came from a broken family and was adopted at age 4 by a priest and his wife in Ergates, Nicosia, who also had two other children. The priest spent 18 months behind bars after he was convicted on sexual abuse charges, levelled against him by his adopted daughter Elena. (2)
The girl reportedly had confided in several people that the priest abused her sexually from a very young age, as early as when she was welcomed into their home. When she was 10 years old she told Social Welfare Services, according to media reports, but nobody believed her. (3) Then, 10 years later and with emotional support from others, Elena found herself on the witness stand telling a court how her stepfather sexually abused her.

Her stepmother, who admitted on live television that she struck Elena once, is dismissing allegations that she too physically abused her stepdaughter. (4) The TV anchor in the studio was communicating with the couple, who was giving a live interview from home, telling them that the Legal Services Department had reopened a case against the wife based on the allegations.

She told viewers that she had struck Elena on the hip using a wooden spoon because she got angry, after learning that the teen -at the time- had stolen jewelry that belonged to a church.

Priest stepfather says he is innocent

The church has also been criticised for not taking action against the priest, who still enjoys some support in his community and in some circles. (5) There are also differences of opinion within the church, with the media trying to dig deeper as to how the leadership of the church handled the case. (6)

“I am innocent,” he said on live television, dismissing any and all allegations against him.

Elena's half-sister also spoke to the media in defence of her stepfather.(7)

"We shared a bedroom together with Elena, and this thing never actually happened," she said according to online daily Kathimerini.

People on social media have been posting emotional messages after learning of Elena's death, pointing out that she never had proper support as she was growing up.
1. They know how conservative the authorities are.
2. The judges didn't believe Elena, they had to believe all the experts who believed Elena.
3. Elena's record was 'lost'.
4. A Greek conservative woman had hit her daughter only once. Who believes that?
5. His community and some circles are illiterate, retrogressive and bigots. They don't care if the priest did these things or not, he is her father and she should obey and not judge him. The same is for priests, only God JHWH can judge them, not human beings.
6. No differences. The Archbishop of Cyprus tries to save the image of the Church and the Archbishop of the area tries to save himelf.
7. And no one forced her to say this?

Πέμπτη 1 Φεβρουαρίου 2018

Is Western Civilisation age-restricted?

After finding out that BBC posted nudity photos and video, or that was the opinion of Facebook, now youtube says that following video is age-restricted.
Why?


Age-restricted content
Some videos don't violate our policies, but may not be appropriate for all audiences. In these cases, minors or logged out users may not be able to view the content.

When evaluating whether content is appropriate for all ages, here are some of the things we consider:
Vulgar language
Violence and disturbing imagery
Nudity and sexually suggestive content
Portrayal of harmful or dangerous activities

So Western Civilisation is age-restricted? The Manchester Art Gallery incident points to that direction.

Δευτέρα 29 Ιανουαρίου 2018

ABOUT MACEDONIA: HISTORY, PRESENT AND FUTURE

The Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (YSEE) has written a very good presentation of the problem the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) causes to Greece. FYROM is called Skopje by the Greeks after its capital. Their language, which they call "Macedonian" is a Bulgarian dialect, which the Yugoslavians tried to make look Serbian as much as possible.
ABOUT MACEDONIA: HISTORY, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Press Release 345/15-1-2018
It is by now well known that the Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (YSEE) is the organization representing the Hellenic Ethnic Religion and not a political organization or party. For this reason it doesn't get involved in political arguments nor does it partake in public debates stemming from pseudo-ideological polarities such as left - right wing politics, communism - fascism, nationalism - internationalism.
In matters of major national importance, though, like the one about the name of our neighboring country of Skopje, we are obligated to present the historical aspects of the issue, calmly and prudently, contributing in a solution that will not harm our national interests nor will it undermine our territorial integrity and the welfare of our future generations.
There can be no debate about the Hellenic identity of the Macedonians simply because the widespread Hellenization of the known world for at least two centuries after the death of Alexander the Great had the Macedonians at the forefront. This fact is well documented by numerous historical sources as well as innumerable archaeological finds. Thus any attempt to discuss the national character of the Macedonians under any pretenses and by anyone is by default at least suspicious.
The geographic area, that the whole debate is about, was named by the Romans as Macedonia Secunda, after their conquest; in the same way they named the entire Peloponnese as Achaea despite the fact that this was especially insulting to the Spartans. This was done as a purely administrative choice of a name for the wider area of modern day Skopje, in a time when the Slavs were nowhere near the Balkan Peninsula.
In the 19th century CE, while the Ottoman Empire was collapsing the Orthodox Russians after the treaty of San Stefano in 1878, provocatively pushed the creation of a Greater Bulgaria aiming to control the entire Balkan Peninsula and the temperate waters of the Mediterranean. In this Greater Bulgaria they incorporated areas of Macedonia that belong today to Greece as well as areas that belong to Skopje and Bulgaria. In all of these newly annexed areas preexisted strong and vibrant Greek communities. With the consent of the Turks they created the Bulgarian Exarchate in opposition to the Patriarchate and caused strife in the population of the area, because those that followed the Exarchate were considered automatically Bulgarian while those that remained with the Patriarchate were thought to be Greeks. The Patriarchate of New Rome and more so the Church of Greece which had its own shortsighted interests, equated Hellenic identity to Orthodoxy, in an effort to retain its influence on the populations of the area, managed to intensify the conflicts by considering as Greeks only those that followed the Patriarchate.
It was during this time that the ideological construct of "Macedonianism" which posits that the Macedonians are not Greeks, first appeared and the dialect of the bilingual Macedonians was dubbed "Macedonian" language.
Even after the Macedonian guerrilla clashes (1904-1908), the Balkan Wars and the final border agreement with the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913, the issue is continuously brought up at various times.
Before the Second World War, when the powerless Communist Party of Greece decided to become a member of the Communist International their Bulgarian and Yugoslavian counterparts demanded as requirement for its inclusion, to declare its agreement for the creation of an independent communist state with the name Macedonia which it would had incorporated the entire Northern Greece.
At the end of the Second World War the communist Yugoslavia was formed and Tito gave the name Macedonia to the southern part of his country that until then it was known as Vardaska. Tito was hoping that in the future a chance will present itself for the borders of his country to reach all the way to the Aegean Sea.
Unfortunately at the same time, Greece was embroiled in a bloody civil war, during which all governments were besieging the western powers for their support in the conflict. These western powers were unwilling to displease Tito and Yugoslavia in expectation that he will break his relations with Moscow that were not as cordial as other communist states. For this reason the Greek governments never officially complained while the international community was well aware that Tito by using the name Macedonia was aiming at the creation of a "Macedonia of the Aegean".
It was during this period that the myth of the ancestry of the people of Skopje from Alexander the Great was first created together with irredentist ideas that have unfortunately become the prevailing ideology with which several generations have been brought up. During the 1990's when Yugoslavia was being partitioned the rhetoric from Skopje, with support from the United States, developed a very aggressive character. The United States saw Skopje and the geopolitical space as a chance for further strategic control of the Balkans.
On the Greek side, the all-powerful Orthodox Church, still trapped in the mentality that Greeks are only those that identify as Orthodox, became part of the problem and further blurred the issue by organizing massive protests. Having wide coverage and unlimited access to the Greek media it supplanted the Greek state in the eyes of the Greek people. This is the same church for which the Roman Catholic Greeks of southern Italy, the Muslim Pontians of the Black sea and the Kalash of Pakistan are not part of the Greek Nation. Its rhetoric on the subject has nothing to do with any sensibility for the promotion and protection of Hellenism (which was always hostile to) but rather it is wasted in shows aimed for internal consumption and the creation of a wider political sphere of influence.
As for the Greek State, its government and most of its political parties, the sediment is that even a solution with a geographical qualifier that includes the name Macedonia will suffice as long as the matter is settled in a timely manner. This dismisses people of Hellenic ancestry that still inhabit Skopje and more blatantly ignores the anti-Hellenic propaganda and irredentist attitudes that certain circles coordinate that ceaselessly claim that the capital of Skopje is Thessalonica.
If the people of Skopje feel Macedonians they are automatically Hellenes and the only realistic solution to the issue will be the bilateral and peaceful unification of Skopje to Greece. If on the other hand they do not want to be Greeks and do not wish to be part of a unified state then let them chose a name that does not insult History, logic, and the aesthetic sensibilities of educated people around the world.
Considering the present circumstances the acceptance of any name with the geographical, temporal, or any other prefix that uses the name Macedonia (Northern, Upper, New , Slavo- etc) does not solve the problem but rather complicates it and postpones for the future any real solution with many negative consequences.
SUPREME COUNCIL OF ETHNIKOI HELLENES