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Athens Burning: January 2011
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Receipts, Tax Cards, and Resistance: Greek Cultural Survival in the face of the IMF/EU Rescue Plan. About a year ago the Greek government introduced a measure to decrease tax evasion. By businesses and individuals. The measure introduced made the untaxable portion of one’s income dependent on the gathering of receipts for the purchase of goods and services. For some months this was a fun game to play. Arguably, however, societies are held together not by a constant antagonism ...
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Athens Burning: December 2008
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Thursday, December 18, 2008. After the Fire: Change. In which I attempt to describe the ground level feeling of the riots as of Monday, December 8th, their root causes and the posssible responses to the situation.]. And the greatest mass of the body of its citizens. 8220;Is there anybody inside? Is there anybody inside? This quaint and feigning dissemblage is intriguing once, even twice. But it becomes ugly over time as it turns from a reasonable excuse to an abdication of responsibility. Greece ...We ar...
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Athens Burning: August 2011
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Saturday, August 6, 2011. Thoughts on the Aganaktismenoi and Direct Democracy. I have sat down a number of times to try to write out a position on the Aganaktisemoi, or the indignants of Syntagma square. This is the movement that since May has challenged the present government – both in power and opposition - not to implement the troika reforms and indeed to resign en masse. They argue that as the present politicians of the country are the creators of the problem ipso facto. It is this very old, very wel...
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Athens Burning: February 2011
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011. Shame of the ‘Hellenes’ - Decision of High Court Rules Foreign Residents Vote Unconstitutional. In a recent decision of the Delta section of the constitutional court of Greece (StE), no. 350/2011, the law allowing foreigners who have legally obtained Greek nationality to vote in local elections was ruled unconstitutional. ( http:/ www.tanea.gr/default.asp? Greece is a great country, but like every great country it has its dark sides. The things that are said about Asians, gypsi...
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Athens Burning: Mr. Assange, the Great Leak, the Great Transparency: Freedom?
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Monday, December 20, 2010. Mr Assange, the Great Leak, the Great Transparency: Freedom? Things are going to slide, slide in all directions. Won’t be nothing, nothing you can’t measure anymore. Leonard Cohen, The Future. Everything’s turning crazily,. Wheels that drive into nothing.). Now the music divides us into tribes,. You choose your side, I’ll choose my side. Arcade Fire, Half-Light II (No celebration). A flood of questions and positions immediately rises up. Tempers flare, lines are drawn. It is te...
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Athens Burning: Red, White and Black and Green
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Sunday, December 12, 2010. Red, White and Black and Green. We’ll broach the red in short order, but to the white first off. There was something more than a little unusual in the blizzard that passed through the Athens core this weekend. It’s true it doesn’t, as a rule, snow in Athens in December and, if it does, it snows to the North, providing an icy frosting to the merry Christmas of the elite and nouveau riche of Athenian society. A true snow fall in Athens is a rare moment indeed. A Christmas shoppin...
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Athens Burning: After the Fire: Change
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Thursday, December 18, 2008. After the Fire: Change. In which I attempt to describe the ground level feeling of the riots as of Monday, December 8th, their root causes and the posssible responses to the situation.]. And the greatest mass of the body of its citizens. 8220;Is there anybody inside? Is there anybody inside? This quaint and feigning dissemblage is intriguing once, even twice. But it becomes ugly over time as it turns from a reasonable excuse to an abdication of responsibility. Greece ...We ar...
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Athens Burning: Thoughts on the Aganaktismenoi and Direct Democracy
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Saturday, August 6, 2011. Thoughts on the Aganaktismenoi and Direct Democracy. I have sat down a number of times to try to write out a position on the Aganaktisemoi, or the indignants of Syntagma square. This is the movement that since May has challenged the present government – both in power and opposition - not to implement the troika reforms and indeed to resign en masse. They argue that as the present politicians of the country are the creators of the problem ipso facto. It is this very old, very wel...
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Athens Burning: Shame of the ‘Hellenes’ - Decision of High Court Rules Foreign Residents Vote Unconstitutional
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011. Shame of the ‘Hellenes’ - Decision of High Court Rules Foreign Residents Vote Unconstitutional. In a recent decision of the Delta section of the constitutional court of Greece (StE), no. 350/2011, the law allowing foreigners who have legally obtained Greek nationality to vote in local elections was ruled unconstitutional. ( http:/ www.tanea.gr/default.asp? Greece is a great country, but like every great country it has its dark sides. The things that are said about Asians, gypsi...
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