JULY GLOOM IN LOS ANGLES-SUDDENLY IT GOT WORSE THAN NYC...

ALLEGED RUSSIAN SPY METSOS SKIPS BAIL. MAJOR GAFFE FROM CYPRIOT JUSTICE...

Christopher Metsos, the "money man" behind the Russian espionage ring- infiltrating the US,  uncovered a few days ago, by the Feds- skipped bail in Cyprus and probably has escaped to "no-man's-land", the ocuppied by Turks Northern Cyprus, where he can't be extradited, some reports indicate.

CONCERTS FOR THE GULF:THE OIL SPILL SAGA

COME SEE THE PARADISE....

BP would like to cordially invite you for a long weekend of oil surfing and contaminated beaches.

HOLLYWOOD NEEDS A REVOLUTION...(AND PEOPLE WHO CAN READ)!

JULIE GRAY IN HUFFINGTON POST:

Hollywood has become a corporate wasteland and the results are so plainly obvious that it's painful. It is time for a new generation of visionary writers and directors in Hollywood. Those driven by raw creativity. (...)

(...) Don't even try to go there and deny that a terrible fog of mediocrity is hanging over Hollywood. And it's choking the art form of cinema to death. The worst part is that the mediocrity is self-generated because I tell you right now that I see some great scripts and really fresh ideas come from aspiring writers from all over the world. But these scripts don't make it into the right hands. There is an industry around keeping them out and unfortunately that industry is in part fueled by the millions of scripts that pour into Hollywood each day that were written hastily by dabblers and pretenders who haven't bothered to learn a goddamn thing about the industry they flippantly think will pay them loads of money (...)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-gray/hollywood-needs-a-revolut_b_616934.html

ALEXANDRA COUSTEAU: BP IS INVESTIGATING ITSELF! WE HAVE TO INVESTIGATE THEM...

(....) Right now the corporate liability cap is $75 million. You have proposed raising it substantially.


Yes, to $10 billion. But we also need to take a closer look at how we regulate the oil industry. The low cap is representative of how involved the industry has been in determining its own regulations. I think there should be an independent commission with industry leaders hired to clean this up. Gather together the best minds, the best talent, and the most experienced people to fix this and send B.P. the tab. As part of the environmental crimes that they are being investigated for, B.P. is being asked to gather a lot of the evidence. I don’t get it. Shouldn’t we be investigating them? Shouldn’t the communities that they have harmed be allowed to investigate them as well?
It’s like letting the fox into the hen house only to wake up and find that half your chickens are dead, and then asking the fox to fix it. That’s sort of what’s happening right now. The government didn’t fail on the day of this disaster. It failed by putting regulations in place that allowed the fox inside the hen house.

Read More
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/with-the-gulf-oil-spill.html#ixzz0r7DCuA2j

STRAIGHT TALK FROM HENRY ROLLINS IN VF: SCRUDE!

(...)When the president said that we need to pursue alternative sources of energy, it sounded nice but the words fell gently to the ground like feathers unsullied by crude. I think president Obama is finding out that it’s a corporate world and he’s only getting his lunch taken in it...


Read More http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/scrude.html#ixzz0r5H86hbY

FROM BP WITH LOVE!

The biggest ecological disaster of the last 200 years...

BP SPILL:AMERICAN TAXPAYERS WILL FOOT THE BILL...

CLIPS OF AN INTERVIEW WITH GREEK HOLLYWOOD REPORTER...

Photo by Spyros Tsakiris ....

How did you get the idea to turn the riots into a movie?

I was trapped in "ASTY" (which means in ancient hellenic language The City) movie theater, in Athens downtown, on December 8, 2008, along with well-known in the international circut arthouse distributors and theater owners George Stergiakis and Antonis Stergiakis. And the filmgoers that were trying to return to their homes. I was supposed to go to the premiere of BANK BANG in the north suburbs, produced by my friend Yiannis Iakovides, and never made it. We were a group representing our nation...a public employee, a housewife, young couples on a date, demonstrators entering to find shelter etc.
(...)My offices were next to the Polytechnic school, on Mavromataion Street... I inhaled a lot of teargas and my vision of the world has been altered since then (laughs). I still remember the pain in the eyes. The agony to breath. We were walking in the area and it was like a city hit by a force majeure, natural disaster. I wanted to make a movie back then but nobody wanted to finance it. They prefered to do bottom line farce comedies, an alltime low. Or state subsidized trash that nobody wanted to see. I never wanted to be part of this system. One month later I left Greece.

Which parts of the movie are based on real facts and which are fiction?
It's based on a real incident. There's pure reality, the riots, and reality extended to fiction.
Like everybody else I was outraged. I was angry. The media couldn't explain the phenomenon. How kids from the ritzy suburbs united with working class people and immigrants...And how secret agents and provocateurs entered the mix to distract the public opinion.
We had the most corrupted government in the world, ala Banana Republic. They destroyed Greece.
I'm already getting warnings, through Facebook and emails, "you can't do that...it's too early", "this is a dangerous script", "you're going to be in trouble". I don't give a euro!
I want to make a statement about the current situation and the shape of things to come. This is a metaphor: If people don't learn to work together, to live together, they are going to be terminated. It's a safe road to extinction. But this is also a movie with a beggining, a middle and an unexpected finale. So you see in the movie Americans and Europeans, putting culture clashes aside, trying to survive. It's an intense claustrophobic, fast-paced thriller/drama but there's also a subplot. It's an oxymoron though:Hellas had to go through the bottom of the cup in order for certain people to understand basic things. Everybody was laughing. Now they are sorry... Sometimes it's too late for excuses.


Do you think we are rebels as a nation? Is this Democracy or does it cross the border according to your opinion?
I'm quoting Iphicrates on the film poster:"The story of my generation begins with me. Yours ends with you"... Maybe I should quote the Sex Pistols also:"There's no future in Greece's dreams".
Hellenic population became controllable and pathetic because of television. Now they discovered what happened and they are very angry.
Going against the flow is part of our DNA. We invented democracy but also hubris and vindication. Hellenic culture shaped cosmos in a unique way. But that was then. This is now: "The horror, the horror"...In the heart of darkness. And no Joseph Conrad to be the captain.
We have to rescue ourselves. Nobody is going to rescue us.
When the water is boiling the byproduct is steam. So in December of 2008 we had peaceful demonstrations, sit-downs with candles that the super-smart and extremely reasonable SWAT teams cracked down, and extreme violence-mostly caused by provocateurs mixing with the demonstrators. We had an indifferent prime minister who loved playing Playstation and a gang of crooked rats used to run the country. There's no democracy when you murder in cold-blood a 16 year-old sitting at a cafe. That's hubris. And there's no democracy when four people die in a bank branch. That's a murderous act and hubris too.
The so-called generation of Polytechneion destroyed everything for the next generations (moral values, dignity, judicial system, financial system). They looted Greece. Effectively they killed slowly their own children and grandchildren. You see 16-24 year-olds they don't know where to go, where to hide, what to believe, or not to believe.They are running around hopeless, desperate, confused, pathetic. Well I'm not! And there's also a 5% of the population who are fighters too.
I'm talking also about the Hellenism of diaspora. We are going to come back with a vengeance and reclaim our country...Sooner than later.

Vandals desecrate Jewish cemetery in Greece...New episode of antisemitism in Thessaloniki.

Three youths arrested for attack in northern city of Thessaloniki. Greece's Jewish Council says perpetrators are Neo-Nazis who spray painted anti-Semitic slogans, swastikas on cemetery walls, destroyed graves
Vandals desecrated a Jewish cemetery in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki late on Thursday and three youths were arrested for the attack, authorities said on Friday.
The assailants smeared graffiti in the cemetery, police said. Greece's Jewish Council said the perpetrators were Neo-Nazis who spray painted anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas on the cemetery walls and destroyed graves.

Jewish cemeteries and synagogues have been the target of recent attacks in Greece. In January, arsonists attacked a synagogue on the Aegean island of Crete, alarming Greece's 8,000-strong Jewish community.

AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: DIMITRI EIPIDES NAMED HEAD OF THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

http://www.screendaily.com/5013597.article

“Land of the Angels” Finds Support from Prominent Organizations

Los Angeles, CA — A number of prominent, international organizations have made statements supporting the production “Land of the Angels,” a film depicting the termination of Salonica, Greece’s Sephardic Jewish population and the Sonderkommando uprising at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Production on the film, produced by Metaphor Entertainment LLC, is set to begin filming in Spring 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Among the organizations that sent letters of support are the American Jewish Committee and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. “The story of this onetime center of Sephardic Jewish life as well as the heroic episode of Greek Jewish concentration camp inmates to lead a genuine revolt at Auschwitz deserves to be told to a wide, international audience. We commend the plans of Dimitri Vorris to direct the film, ‘Land of the Angels,’ which will do just this,” said Rabbi Andrew Baker, Director of International Jewish Affairs at the American Jewish Committee.

Said Ari C. Zev, Director of Administration at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, “the USC Shoah Foundation Institute strongly supports the concept and goals of the film project ‘Land of the Angels,’ which will tell the story of the Salonican Jewish community, as well as the general Greek Jewish community, and the tragedy of the devastating loss of the community during the Holocaust.”

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has an archive of nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, from 56 countries and in 32 languages.

The “Land of the Angels” filmmakers are planning to utilize the Institute’s vast archive of video testimony while conducting research for the film.

“The existence of Shoah Foundation Institute’s video archives is assisting us tremendously to make a better film,” said producer-director Dimitri Vorris.

Other organizations supporting the film include Central Board of Jewish Communities of Greece, Jewish Greek Heritage Society of Southern California, American Hellenic Council of California and others.

VIDEO WITH THE MARFIN ARSONISTS THAT CAUSED THE DEATH OF 4 PEOPLE...

ATHENS NOW: PHOTOS BY SPYROS TSAKIRIS....

PREZA TV BLOGSPOT:SWAT TEAM ATTACKING PEACEFUL PROTESTERS OUTSIDE THE PARLIAMENT (TONIGHT)...

ALEX JONES PART 2 (GREEK SUBS): THEN THE REST OF THE WORLD...

ALEX JONES PART 1 (GREEK SUBS): FIRST THEY'LL TAKE GREECE (THEN THE REST OF EU)...

4 DEAD (NOT THREE): A NEW LOW FOR GREECE!

THE GREEDINESS OF THE GREEK BANKERS REACHED AN ALL TIME HIGH TODAY IN ATHENS RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THREE PERSONS BY ASPHYXIATION (ONE OF THEM A PREGNANT WOMAN IN THE 4th MONTH). AFTER A MOLOTOV WAS THROWN THE THREE EMPLOYEES HAVING NO FIRE ESCAPE, NO RESCUE PLAN DIED A HORRIBLE DEATH.


MARFIN/EGNATIA BANK IS MANAGED BY FORMER LAWYER AND HEDGE FUND “ADMINISTRATOR” FILTHY RICH ANDREAS VGENOPOULOS.


THE EMPLOYEES WERE THREATENED FOR DAYS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE FIRED IF THEY DON’T REPORT TO THEIR POSITIONS ON MAY 5th.


THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS 15 MINUTES LATE.


THERE WAS NO PLANS APPROVED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE BANK STORE WAS OPERATING ILLEGALLY (WITH BRIBES UNDER THE TABLE OBVIOUSLY).

THE GREEDINESS OF GREEK “BANKERS” MAKES EVEN LOAN SHARKS AND MAFIOSOS LOOK LIKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS COMPARED TO THEM.

"DECEMBER RIOTS" COMING SOON...

A new movie about the 2008 December Riots in Greece promptly called “DECEMBER RIOTS”, is going under filming in the end of June.


Quoting Iphicrates: “The story of my generation begins with me. Yours ends with you”, the movie’s subplot focuses on corruption a la Banana Republic in Greece, and the execution in cold-blood of 16 year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos sitting with his friends at a café by two policemen.

The film is described as a sort of “LA HAINE” meets “DAS BOOT”…

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE AND SHOAH FOUNDATION SUPPORT "LAND..."

Los Angeles, CA — Independent production company Metaphor Entertainment, LLC is proceeding to the announced plans to produce “Land of The Angels,” a film depicting the termination of Salonica, Greece’s Sephardic Jewish population and the Sonderkommando uprising at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Production is now aiming to begin filming in Spring 2011 from Thessaloniki, Greece. The screenplay was co-written by Vorris and longtime collaborator Michael Kokkinaris after eighteen months of research.


Rabbi Andrew Baker, Director of International Jewish Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, said : “The story of this onetime center of Sephardic Jewish life as well as the heroic episode of Greek Jewish concentration camp inmates to lead a genuine revolt at Auschwitz deserves to be told to a wide, international audience.

We commend the plans of Dimitri Vorris to direct the film, “Land of the Angels,” which will do just this.

“This is one of the most heroic pages of humankind history. The world forgets not only that Sephardic Greek Jewry suffered during the Holocaust too, but that Greek Jews were brave enough to revolt and fight under the most hopeless circumstances. These historical events have striking similarities with Leonidas and the 300 Spartans fighting the Battle at Thermopylae. The major difference is that, in this film, you don’t have an elite army fighting an Empire, but imprisoned, entrapped, everyday people in a death camp. They are hungry, tortured, abused, sick, ailing, armed only with an ingenious plot and self-made guns, against the Empire of the Third Reich. They are performing the ultimate sacrifice for their fellow man and woman,” said Vorris. Adding “The film is going to have a great ensemble cast. Its main protagonists at the Sonderkommando riots were 16-24 year olds. This is a different Holocaust movie. It can definitely bring in to the theaters younger demographics”.

To ensure historical accuracy the filmmakers are collaborating closely with Shoah Foundation at USC. The production is planning to utilize testimonies recorded over the course of many years from Shoah Foundation from survivors on Jewish life in Salonica and Sonderkommando, marking the first time ever that the public can see such footage.

“The existence of Shoah Foundation’s visual archives is assisting us tremendously to make a better film”, said producer-director Dimitri Vorris.

The Shoah Foundation Institute was founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, after he completed Oscar-winning film “Schindler’s List”, to document the experiences of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust before it was too late. Nearly 52,000 video testimonies, or 105,000 hours of unique life stories in 32 languages from 56 countries have been recorded.

Other organizations supporting the film are Central Board of Jewish Communities of Greece, Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Greek Heritage Society of Southern California, The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati and others.

FORMER PM XENOPHON ZOLOTAS SEPTEMBER 1957 SPEECH TO THE WHITE HOUSE...

Kyrie,



It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch and the heresy of our economic method and policies that we should agonize the Skylla of nomismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.It is not my idiosyncracy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize nomismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between economic strategic and philanthropic scopes.In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological, but this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists.Nomismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and nomismatic archons is basic.Parallel to this we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and nomismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political end economic barometer are halcyonic.The history of our didimus organization on this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies.Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism one or two themes with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and nomismatic policies. apologize for having tyranized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous aytochtons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you Kyrie, the stenographers.

ONE OF THE MOST HEROIC PAGES OF WWII HISTORY: THE SONDERKOMMANDO RIOT...

SONDERKOMMANDO UPRISING  AT CONCETRATION CAMP OF AUSCHWITZ-BIRCENAU HAS STRIKING SIMILARITIESTO THE BATTLE OF "300"

AT THERMOPYLAE...

Los Angeles, CA — Independent production company Metaphor Entertainment, LLC today announced plans to produce “Land of The Angels,” a film depicting the termination of Salonica, Greece’s Sephardic Jewish population and the Sonderkommando uprising at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in which 135 Salonica Jews participated. Having optioned the rights to Robert B. Bowman's "THE AGONY OF GREEK JEWS 1940-1945" which documents the seldom-told story of the Greek Jews who perished in the Holocaust, producer-director Dimitri Vorris is aiming to begin production on the film in Spring 2011. The screenplay was co-written by Vorris and longtime collaborator Michael Kokkinaris. Steven B. Bowman, respected Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati and author of The Agony of Greek Jews 1940-1945, will also serve a technical advisor on the film.

“This is one of the most heroic pages of humankind history. The world forgets not only that Sephardic  Jewry suffered during the Holocaust too, but that Greek Jews were brave enough to revolt and fight under the most hopeless circumstances. These historical events have striking similarities with Leonidas and the 300 Spartans fighting the Battle at Theromylae. The major difference is that, in this film, you don’t have an elite army fighting an Empire, but imprisoned, entrapped, everyday people in a termination camp. They are hungry, tortured, abused, sick, ailing, armed only with an ingenious plot and self-made guns, against the Empire of the Third Reich. They are performing the ultimate sacrifice for their fellow man and woman,” said Vorris.

“I am delighted to be collaborating with Dimitri in a film presentation of an important, yet neglected, chapter in the millennial story of Greek Jews, namely their heroism and tragedy during World War II,” said Professor Bowman.

“Sadly, the telling of the story of the Greek Jews has become particularly necessary and timely, as Crete’s historic Etz Hayyim synagogue was vandalized by anti-Semitic arsonists twice in January 2010. My hope, in making this film, is to help fight the breeding of such anti-Semitism by reminding people how much we have in common,” said Vorris.

Salonica, now Greece’s second largest city, was once called “The Mother of Israel” because of its prosperous and progressive Jewish community of approximately 70,000, a population that dwindled down to under 1,000 after the Holocaust.

An all-star cast of American and European actors is going to be announced at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

CENSUS QUESTION No 9: WRITE GREEK...

Question 9: Indicate You Are of Greek Ancestry
According to Karacostas, there are 10 questions on the 2010 U.S. Census form. Unlike in previous years, there is no question that specifically asks about your ancestry or ethnicity. However, in Question 9 you can mark or check "White," and under the designation
"Some other race" write-in "GREEK."

ALEX JONES ON THE DESIGNED BANKRUPTSY OF GREECE, ICELAND ETC.

DRUG DEALERS & CONVICTED CRIMINALS CAN BECOME PUBLIC SERVANTS THANKS TO THE "SOCIALIST" GOVERNMENT OF GREECE...

http://www.taxalia.blogspot.com/
via http://www.antinews.gr/
http://www.antinews.gr/?p=36597

ATHENS CALLING 2: PROTESTS FOR CUTTING OFF SALARIES 30%....

INDIE SPIRITS....

Woody Harrelson, hailed for his performance in "The Messenger," took the first award of the evening ath the
INDIE SPIRITS...

FOCUS POCUS....

THE PYRAMID OF MORGAN FREEMAN PERFOMANCES....