Posts tagged Greece
Periodical Political Post *21
May 8th
- The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support torture
- Australian government rejects civil union for Gays and Lesbians
- Greek court ruled that two gay marriages performed in Greece so far are invalid
- US state Maine passes bill to allow Same Sex Marriage
- US army tried to spread Christianity in Afghanistan. Crusade anyone?
- London cops catch and search “terrorist” every three (!) minutes
- Police in Texas accused of at least 150 highway robberies
- EU kills "3-strikes" Internet rule, affirms Internet is a fundamental right
- 911 police officer refuses to help girl who calls about dying father because she said “Fuck”
- Zugriff der USA auf Fingerabdrücke und DNA von Deutschen geplant
- Petition gegen Internetzensur hat bereits über 60.000 Unterstützer!
- Von der Leyen findet Gegner von Zensur “unzivilisiert”, Guttenberg ist sowieso ein heuchlerischer Arsch
- SPD will Internetzensur auf Jugendpornos und Filesharing ausweiten
- Österreich will auch das Netz zensieren, mit den gleichen Lügen wie in Deutschland
- Politik, Populismus und Kinderporno – schöner Artikel zur Internetzensur
- Schwulen- & Lesbenverband warnt vor Wahl von CDU und FDP
- Bundespolizisten wollen auch Spaß, einer hat am 1. Mai fröhlich mitrandaliert
- Kinderpornos sind für Anfänger, Live Search zensiert den Suchbegriff “Strumpfhose”
The Picture
Jan 2nd
While mass media mostly lost interest the riots in Greece are still not over.
That’s how media works: No one cares about the end of the story.
The photo above is from a great media photo project by the way:
It’s called “The Big Picture – News Stories in Photographs”
and can be found at the website of the Boston Globe.
Photos from the riots | The Big Picture
Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος
Dec 14th
The 2008 Greek "Alexandros riots" started on 6 December 2008, when 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos died from a gunshot wound inflicted by Epaminondas Korkoneas, a special guard of the Greek Police, following an altercation between police and a group of youths in the Exarcheia district of Athens.
The killing resulted in large demonstrations, which in many cases escalated to widespread rioting, with hundreds of youths damaging property and engaging riot police with Molotov cocktails. Demonstrations and rioting later spread to several other cities, including Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city. Outside Greece, solidarity demonstrations, riots and, in some cases, clashes with local police also took place in a number of European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Frankfurt, Madrid, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Bordeaux as well as Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, and the western Cypriot city of Paphos.
While the unrest was triggered by the shooting incident, many commentators described the reactions as expressing deeper causes as well, especially a wide-spread feeling of frustration in the younger generation about specific economic problems of the country, a rising unemployment rate among the young generation and a perception of general inefficiency and corruption in Greek state institutions.
[exclusive photos from a friend in Greece, thanks!]
Periodical Political Post *9
Dec 9th
- British ISPs censor Wikipedia over ‘child porn’ album cover… who’s next?
- European Court of Human Rights says UK mustn’t save DNA data of innocents!
- Australia hires web spies to monitor anti-war campaigners, animal rights & environmental campaigners etc.
- Capitalism: Sick babies denied treatment because of a company’s patent on a key gene.
- “Sex” pictures of the Simpsons are child pornography in Australia.
- UK sperrt “Kinderpornoseiten”. Erstes Opfer: Wikipedia. Demnächst auch in Deutschland!
- BND nutzt Bundes-Trojaner gegen eigene Leute und Politiker, soviel zu “nur gegen Terroristen!!1”
- BND überwacht Welthungerhilfe in Afghanistan und der Clou: Die wird von SSchäubles Frau geleitet! LOL
- SPD und CDU wollten klammheimlich Deutsche Söldnertruppen legalisieren.
- In Griechenland schmeißt die Polizei mit Steinen nach dir, nicht umgekehrt…
