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'Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.' Elie Wiesel - Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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We in the West have a duty to bear witness to the slaughter in #Gaza being carried out in our name. That means posting about it on social media, talking to friends and family about what's happening and taking part in protests where possible.
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Apparently, you can now do a Masters in Mansplaining.
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Woman on the left: "Excuse me, you're sitting in my seat". ;
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#Greece is starting to look like a dystopian failed state - massive use of resources to evict families from homes but fire fighters spread so thin they can't protect military bases, full of ammunition from wildfires. There is an organisational black hole at the heart of this govt
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It's amazing how often the Greek police seem like an army of occupation in their own nation.
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A black and white version of a photo I took on Friday is blowing up in Greek social media circles. The Greek PM was visiting the city of Thessaloniki and his entourage got stuck in traffic as they were trying to leave a speaking engagement. #Photojournalism #Greece
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Trump says he met with the president of the Virgin Islands
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#DressLikeAWomen Joan Higginbottom - engineer and astronaut
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@washingtonpost I wonder what this young man's parents are thinking, knowing that he has become the poster boy for intolerance?
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In any large public protest,there is always small, violent minority who wish to hijack it for their own twisted ends
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A reminder that #Greece 's ruling conservatives refused to hire 4,000 extra seasonal firefighters but did agree to put 2.300 more priests on the public payroll and hire 400 campus cops. Water canons yes, fire engines no. #Πυρκαγια #Ντραφι
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@washingtonpost Anyone else see resemblance between this incident and those recorded in History when members of the Hitler Youth in Germany humiliated elderly Jews in the 1930's?
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#Greece has more cops per capita than almost every other EU nation. Υet the ruling conservatives decided that they couldn't afford to hire 4,000 seasonal firefighters - results Athens suburbs in flames for second year running. #Πεντελη #Πυρκαγια
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The Greek port city of Thessaloniki. In the background you can see Mount Olympus covered in snow even though spring is here. #Greece #Thessaloniki #landscapephotography #MountOlympus
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@washingtonpost Isn't this what the kind of thing the US fought the Cold War over? The right for citizens not to be abducted by an authoritarian state without recourse to even basic civic right?
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On the left. @PrimeministerGR 's exemplary handling of the summer wildfires in Greece. On the right. the Greek PM's exemplary handling of winter snow storms in Greece. #μητσοτακη_παραιτησου #χιονιας #ΑττικηΟδος #κακοκαιρια_ #Greece
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#Greece 's Watergate just went from bad to worse as @documentonews investigative magazine reveals list of 30 people targeted by secret service using #predator spyware. Seems Greek PM even tapping phones belonging to members of his own cabinet. #υποκλοπες
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Greek anarchist groups are organising their own fire fighting units in the face of the State's abject failure to deal with #wildfires
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Γιώργος Καλαϊτζίδης Η ομάδα εθελοντών πυροσβεστών του Ρουβίκωνα έχει ξεκινήσει τις διαδικασίες για να αποκτήσει 2ο πυροσβεστικό όχημα. Την απόκτηση δηλαδή του αγροτικού οχήματος 4×4 μαζί με τον απαραίτητο εξοπλισμό που θα τοποθετηθεί πάνω του.
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Why is Greek government sending firefighters to Rhodes by ferry (12-16 hour journey) but 130 members of the notorious DIAS police unit by plane (1 hour journey)?
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Πυροσβέστες και αστυνομικοί φτάνουν με το πλοίο της γραμμής στη #Ρόδος. #φωτιές
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@_SJPeace_ "There is no racism, there is no oppression"
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@RadioTodayLive This is a parody, right?
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@kelly_welles @indentleft Greek woman facing off against riot police in the city of Thessaloniki.
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Greek riot cop gets in touch with his inner Jackson Pollock. #Greece #photography
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Looks like another of my photos has gone viral on Greek social media.
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#Greece 's economic miracle in pictures.
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Το Μετρό Θεσσαλονίκης χθες.
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Επιβάτης στη σημερινή πρώτη δοκιμαστική λειτουργία του Μετρό Θεσσαλονίκης ήταν ο πρωθυπουργός - Από τα πιο σύγχρονα της Ευρώπης - StatusFM μέσω @statusfm2019
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Unable to put blame on Athens for #Grexit , Berlin now looking for other "useful idiots" among its EU allies who can be used as scapegoats
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How it started and how it ended #Ροδος
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Greek riot police attacking women outside the Iranian embassy in #Athens protesting against police violence against women in #Iran #Mahsa_Amini #antireport #Greece
@idiotypos
idiotypos 🍉
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Έξω από την πρεσβεία του Ιράν στην Αθήνα, έγινε συγκέντρωση διαμαρτυρίας, με σύνθημα: «Zhin, Zhian, Ελευθερία!» (Γυναίκες, Ζωή, Ελευθερία). Ώσπου τα ΜΑΤ άρχισαν να σπρώχνουν τους διαδηλωτές, σκίστηκε το πανό τους και στο τέλος έριξαν κάτω και μια γυναίκα. #Mahsa_Amini #antireport
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Νέα καμπάνια από το Υπουργείο Τουρισμού #πορτοσαλτε
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@BretStephensNYT @nytopinion Why should we believe you this time? New York Times - June 2003.
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@mattjlfs Why choose when you can have both?
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#DressLikeAWomen Spain, July 1936
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The leadership of Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party are now saying their prison sentences should not be harsh as that would....wait for it...... violate their humans rights #GDtrial
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@michaelxdolan You fight fascism, not debate it.
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According to the @TheEconomist , #Greece is Europe's economic success story, which is true as long as you don't ask ordinary Greeks what they think.
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@RobbieSincIair @johnnypaige Austerity economics - The rich work harder when paid more, the poor work harder when frightened more.
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Νέα καμπάνια από το Υπουργείο Τουρισμού #πορτοσαλτε #SkaitvGR
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Boston bombers apparently from Chechnya. Judging from modern US foreign policy, a ground invasion of Nepal is therefore on the cards.
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#Thessaloniki today. Taken from the Byzantine towers that overlook the city and in the background, over the sea, you can just make out Mt Olympus. #Greece
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Winter is coming...
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In Greek city of Thessaloniki the far right is organising a Family Pride event, less than 1000, in contrast to the 15,000+who turned up for Pride last weekend.
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We are burning our planet to the ground, so a bunch of tech bros can make money using AI to create dodgy right-wing memes and porn bots.
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The growth in clean electricity in Ireland last year was entirely “eaten up” by new data centre demand over the same period, cancelling out any emissions reduction impact, the Business Post can reveal.
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@alexanderswift Troll elsewhere. And for chrissakes, learn to tell better jokes.
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As the suburbs of Athens burn once more, a reminder that #Greece 's ruling conservatives refused to hire 4,000 extra seasonal firefighters but did agree to put 2.300 more priests on the permanent public payroll and hire 400 campus cops. #Πυρκαγια #Ντραφι
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The Greek economic miracle in pictures. #Greece #photography
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What's "greenwashing" in Dutch? The Dutch Royal Couple came to the Greek city of Thessaloniki and burnished their green credential by cycling along the seafront.... followed by a fleet of at least 15 limos, support vehicles etc, #Greece #photojournalism #Netherlands
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@brokenbottleboy Just fixed his badge.
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At this stage, it's very hard to find anyone who has any kind of political or personal connection with @PrimeministerGR who did not have their phone targeted by the PM's minions in the secret service. #predator #Greece #υποκλοπες #Documento
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I managed to see Greek PM during his visit to the Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Friday. This means I've more face time with him than MPs. as he's been avoiding Parliament like the plague following latest spyware revelations by @documentonews . #Υποκλοπλες #Greece
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What can you say about a government that sends 100+ cops, firefighters and other officials to evict a one-parent family from their home over an 800E debt but cannot even protect its most vital military installations from wildfires? #Greece
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Θυμάστε πως αντιμετωπίζει η Ελληνική Αστυνομία παιδιά που δεν είναι Κροάτες νεο-Ναζι ;
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Greek anarchists march in protest against the police seizure of the Mundo Nuevo occupied space in the city of Thessaloniki #Greece #mundonuevo #antireport
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British troops fighting Greek resistance fighters who'd just spent four years battling against fascist invaders and their local collaborators in the streets of Athens - December 1944. #Greece
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@realDonaldTrump 200.000 dead
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Recently, an official car registered to the Greek police was involved in a serious accident leaving Greek parliament. Video shows officers (many not wearing masks) intimidating eye witness #τροχαιοβουλη
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A handy guide to foreign journalists covering #Greece Whenever there is a serious event the government follows this routine; 1-Ignore problem 2-Tell local media allies to ignore problem 3-When story blows up,downplay extent of problem 1/ THREAD
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@socialistdogmom Real men don't wear masks
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VIDEO: Reporter with Greece's @skaigr TV station explaining why man who strangled his wife in her sleep, and then concocted story about burglary is a good guy as he didn't chop up and hide her body. No, I am not kidding. #skai_xeftiles #Γλυκα_Νερα
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Η κ. Μάνδρου, αποκαλεί έναν "καθ' ομολογία" δράστη, ως "φερόμενο" δράστη. Το πλυντήριο δουλεύει καλά εκεί στον #skai και κανείς δεν μιλάει. #skai_xeftiles #Γλυκα_Νερα #γλυκανερα
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@NHSMillion Just fixed that badge...
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"The day I realised that being a loyal Tory toad meant I would never be out of work" #TobyYoung
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@4danlopez Well, that means England belongs to her now. No "Ifs", no "buts". Wish her the best of luck in the Brexit negotiations, Finally, a step up!
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Here Greek minister for Agricultural Development caught on video boasting about how he won elections back in 2007 "by handing out bags full of cash' to voters. New Democracy is less a political party and more a crime syndicate. #Greece #Λιβανος
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"The streets of #Athens tonight filled with a river of people standing with the 19 y/o who found the courage to report her rape (by police officers) inside the Omonia precinct in central Athens". #Greece #antireport
@documentonews
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Απόψε οι δρόμοι της Αθήνας γέμισαν με ένα ποτάμι κόσμου για τη 19χρονη που βρήκε το θάρρος και το κουράγιο να καταγγείλει το βιασμό της στο Αστυνομικό Τμήμα Ομονοίας. Καμία Μόνη ✊
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#Greece 's economic miracle in pictures.
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For all those fathers travelling dangerous routes to make their families' lives better. #refugees #FathersDay
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#Greece 's ruling New Democracy is facing a new scandal over terms of contract signed by govt with IT giant #Cisco over its #Webex tele-education platform. Ciso has access to metadata of 1.5 mil students & eductors. Political storm brewing, expect mass lawsuits by angry parents.
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New scandal brewing for #Greece 's ruling conservatives as doctors accuse the government of reserving ICU beds for politically-connected 'VIP' patients. In the meanwhile more than 100 treated in non-ICU wards with greater mortality rates. #vip ΜΕΘ
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This journalist is the partner of @reformparty_uk leader Richard Tice. That kinda of changes how we should see her output
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Telegraph Politics
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✍️ 'Unfortunately, when it comes to your mission to get Britain housebuilding, I fear you have no idea what is coming your way,' | writes Isabel Oakeshott Read the full comment ⬇️
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@PriyamvadaGopal 6 vs 600. The UK media's coverage of those two stories reveals clearly just how they rank the value of human life globally.
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Η φωτογραφία για την οποία απαγορεύεται να ρωτήσεις ως δημοσιογράφος τον υπουργό προστασίας του Πολίτη.. Ποια αστυνομική βία; Noumero 2
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@JakeTurx If your child needed a transplant, you'd be OK harvesting organs from enough dead kids till you had a match? 68 children died in that IDF bloodbath.
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#Greece may have more more cops per capita than virtually anywhere else in the EU, buy when it comes to other areas of civil protection it's woefully lacking. That's Conservatives for you, demanding more locks on the doors even as the house is burning to the ground
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Greek riot cop dropped his device pistol during clashes in city of Thessaloniki today.#τεμπη
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Greek anarchists in the city of Thessaloniki briefly retook the El Mundo Nuevo occupied space that had been sealed off by police. Later riot squads used tear gas and flash grenades to disperse supporters. #Greece #ElMundoNuevo #Θεσσαλονικη
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@C_Bryce79 Did they turn that moment into a billboard?
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@brokenbottleboy Fixed that.
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Greek myths and a modern political economy of Europe - a handy infographic
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Kostas Fragoulis, the unarmed 16 year-old who was shot in the head by Greek police last week has passed away. He was killed for failing to pay 20e for gas. #Greece #policeviolence #16 χρονος #Ρομα #Roma #racism
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@dwnews @Capoglou After his speech in Warsaw in which he explained Polish history to Poles in Poland, Trump mansplains modern German history to Merkel.
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@AvaSantina @NickFerrariLBC Dominic Cummings' eye test results are here "Can you please read the chart from the top line down, Mr Cummings"
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A reminder that #Greece 's ruling conservatives refused to hire 4,000 extra seasonal firefighters but did agree to put 2.300 more priests on the public payroll and hire 400 campus cops. #φωτιες #Ρεθυμνο
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@NPR You know that the USA has been holding prisoners in Guantanamo Bay longer than the Soviet Union held German prisoners of war?
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This is a journalist for the Greek newspaper @Kathimerini_gr mocking a dead 5 year-old Syrian refugee girl who died needlessly on the Greek-Turkish border. This is what passes for journalism in Greek MSM. #Greece #εβρος
@sakismoumtzis
ΜΟΥΜΤΖΗΣ ΣΑΚΗΣ
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Χρόνια πολλά στη μικρή Μαρία του Έβρου που νεκραναστήθηκε, χρόνια πολλά στον σκορπιό που τη δάγκωσε, καθώς οι ψυχούλες τον βάφτισαν Παναγιώτη και χρόνια πολλά στον πραγματικό σκορπιό, την αγαπημένη μας τη Μαρία τη Ζαχάροβα.
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@mattkatz00 Dep. Commissioner Daughtry also uncovered other subversive literature at Columbia.
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Οι φοιτητές του #ΑΠΘ γράφουν εξετάσεις αύριο στην Αίθουσα #Τσερνομπιλ. #ΑΕΙ #Θεσσαλονικη
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@mental_floss From the horse's mouth....
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@hughesy_1985 Just remember to keep yourself and the little one hydrated. This heat is brutal, especially if you have to that kind of hiking
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The Greek state may lack teachers, nurses, doctors, fire fighters, ambulance crews, etc but it NEVER has a shortage of riot cops. #Greece
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#Greece 's ruling conservatives recently refused to hire 4,000 extra seasonal firefighters and now Greek forests burning again. Yet they just added 2,311 additional priests to the public pay roll. #φωτια
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Anti-SYRIZA party trolls and bot accounts out in force on Twitter, trying to hide the massive hit #Greece 's ruling conservatives took following the arrest of govt appointee, Dimitris Lignadis, former head of Greek National Theatre #ΣΥΡΙΖΑ_Βουρκος
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@brokenbottleboy Fixed that.
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A reminder that #Greece 's ruling conservatives refused to hire 4,000 extra seasonal firefighters but did agree to put 2.300 more priests on the public payroll and hire 400 campus cops. Water canons yes, fire engines no. #Πυρκαγια
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THREAD - This is example of the kind of 'educational' material senior Greek government official @AdonisGeorgiadi is selling to his own govt. Translation of the etymology lesson below will be given in the thread. #Greece #ελληνικη_αγωγη (1)
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