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.
#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
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
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
@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?
#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
@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?
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
#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
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.
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)?
Επιβάτης στη σημερινή πρώτη δοκιμαστική λειτουργία του Μετρό Θεσσαλονίκης ήταν ο πρωθυπουργός - Από τα πιο σύγχρονα της Ευρώπης - StatusFM μέσω
@statusfm2019
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
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
#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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Greek anarchists march in protest against the police seizure of the Mundo Nuevo occupied space in the city of Thessaloniki
#Greece
#mundonuevo
#antireport
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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 ✊
#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.
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
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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.
#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
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
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
@dwnews
@Capoglou
After his speech in Warsaw in which he explained Polish history to Poles in Poland, Trump mansplains modern German history to Merkel.
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
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
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.
#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
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
@RubyLGregory
@facundoarriz
In 1978 the photographer, Don McCullin captured the same conditions in Bradford. Even then he was disgusted by the fact that such things were still happening in the 'modern age'.
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
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)