JOURNALIST BLOGGER MAKIS VRAHIOLIDIS ARRESTED IN ATHENS FOR WRITING OPINION PIECE AGAINST AUSTERITY MEASURES AND POLITICAL CORRUPTION

Democracy a la Greque. Handcuffed outside the police precinct. Greek justice is getting closer to
Iranian  justice and Chinese censorship.

SALONICA'S NAZI POGROM OF GREEK JEWS AT LIBERTY SQUARE EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS...WATCH THE HEROES AND MARTYRS OF SALONICA'S HOLOCAUST ABUSED BY THE NAZIS FROM THE GERMAN STATE ARCHIVES...

Under the false and misleading title "Jews Captured in Salonica" (similar to "...animals, or elephants, or tigers,  captured on an African expedition", but, still not considerd human beings 

in 2012 since this is firt and foremost "a human safari based on race and religion"), the German State Archives has photos from the very beginning of Salonica's Holocaust and the implementation of Himler's Final Solution

The  German state also claims copyright ownership over the photos  and that this is an "...intellectual property!!!!!" of the contemporary German state of chancellor's Angela Merckel dystopian society of Shylocks and extortionists (once a Nazi, always a Nazi!)... 

While the US Supreme Court and many European courts had ruled that is illegal from a  killer, or a mass murderer, to derive income, revenues, profits, or royalties the exploitation of the criminal activities, suffering, abuse, torture, and death of his victims. 

In this case German army photographers (soldiers) forced  Jewish inmates against their will to get photographed before transported to "concentration" (read DEATH) camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.

I dedicate this blogpost to the heroes and martyrs of Shoah (Holocaust).

Greek Jews are forced to perform "exercises" , so the Nazis, and their local neofasiscts collaborators can decide on their physical   fitness and capabilities.  Kept without food and water under the hot sun of July 1942 many hours  in Liberty Square,  they were later  transported with cattle trains to termination camps. In 2012, almost seventy years later, the Germans are attempting to dismember Greece financially, after  their successful operation of tearing apart with a military campaign the mighty power of the Balkans: Yugoslavia.

The Nazi SS, and their death squads, Waffen SS, were judged a criminal organization by the Nuremberg Tribunal (November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946). According to the U.S. Holocaust Museum a total of 405.222 prisoners were registered at the camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau alone, but those who were sent directly to the gas chambers upon arrival were never registered. Over 6.000.000 European Jews perished through the Holocaust (from January 30, 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945). Out of the 54.000 Salonica Jews that were deported to the extermination camps, only 1.950 survived.  

ALEXA VEGA FROM "SPY KIDS" IN ROBERT RODRIGUEZ'S "MACHETTE II"

MOLOTOV COCKTAILS, TEARGAS OUTSIDE GREEK PARLIAMENT

THESSALONIKI 2012: TRASH WITHOUT MERCY

25 REASONS FROM 25 PEOPLE WHO ARE VOTING FOR OBAMA WHO GOING TO GET RE-ELECTED FOR A SECOND TERM...

25 reasons from 25 people who are voting Obama:

1. "The Affordable Care Act is saving my daughter's life."
Stacey, Arizona

2. "Obama is for the vets. He helped us wind down in Iraq, he's improved mental health policy with VA benefits."
Joel, Minnesota

3. "Obama stuck his neck out for us, the auto industry. He wasn't going to let it just die, and I'm driving in this morning because of that, because of him."
Brian, Ohio

4. "Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive."
Joe Biden, Delaware

5. "Supreme Court Supreme Court Supreme Court."
Andrew, California

6. "Arithmetic."
Bill Clinton, New York

7. "He cares for the 100 percent."
Shana, Texas

8. "When Obama came into office, he successfully renewed our country's place in the community of nations, making cooperation in tackling the world's challenges possible."
Willis, North Carolina

9. "The actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very, very solid."
Colin Powell, Virginia

10. "I was really very grateful to him for standing up for those kids who are having a really rough time out there because of their orientation."
Jane Lynch, California

11. "For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together."
Bruce Springsteen, New Jersey

12. "He has a real plan for rescuing the economy that passes the 'math' test."
Teresa, Virginia

13. "Having someone in office who understands how powerful our voice can be is very important."
Jay Z, New York

14. "I am voting for Barack Obama and Joe Biden because I can trust them to care for the middle class and restore the American dream."
Steven, Florida

15. "The first measure he signed into law after becoming president was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act -- so a female high school counselor or physical education teacher can fight for equal pay for equal work."
Connie Britton, California

16. "I believe in the America he wants for my grandchildren."
Nancy, Michigan

17. "We need four more years of repair, of helping the middle class achieve a sustainable economy."
James Taylor, North Carolina

18. "I've watched him fight for our country, stand by the middle class, the working class, the military, the education of our children, universal health care, women, the environment, and matters of national and domestic security."
Susan, Virginia

19. "The gifted 12-year-old I taught, whose parents were deported and left her here with her grandmother, will be allowed to stay and finish her education. She's been in the U.S. since age one."
Jamie, North Carolina

20. "I want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above electoral politics."
Michael Bloomberg, New York

21. "I have four children who are under 26 and able to stay on my health care plan. That's been huge."
Amy, Pennsylvania

22. "He's fighting to defend and better Social Security and Medicare -- because millions of Latino seniors rely on them."
Cristina Saralegui, Florida

23. "Thanks to the President's efforts to keep student loan rates low, I can expect to save nearly $1000 as I work to repay my student loans. And I don't have too many of those, thanks to the Federal Pell Grant program."
Sam, Minnesota

24. "It's been wonderful to have President Obama as a champion for access to health care for all women in this country."
Cecile Richards, New York

25. "Re-electing Barack Obama would lead to a stronger economic recovery than would be the case were Mitt Romney to win on November 6th."
Jared Bernstein, Washington, D.C.

OBAMA TO WIN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. STILL HOLDING STRONG IN BATTLEGROUND STATES.

"People are fired up. They are almost as fired up as they were in 2008. They're pissed because they think the president has been treated unfairly."
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell

And an analysis from SLATE of what changes a Mitt Romney administration would bring to America.
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AΛΕΞΗΣ ΤΣΙΠΡΑΣ: EKΛΟΓΕΣ ΤΩΡΑ! O ΣΥΡΙΖΑ ΕΤΟΙΜΟΣ ΝΑ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΕΙ...

(...) Είχαν την ευκαιρία μετά τις εκλογές του Ιούνη να αξιοποιήσουν τη δυναμική επαναδιαπραγμάτευσης που τους έδωσε ο λαός μας, με τη ψήφο του.

Δεν έκαναν.

Δεν το τόλμησαν.

Δε το ήθελαν.

Δε το μπορούσαν.

Εμείς και θέλουμε και μπορούμε και θα το τολμήσουμε και θα το πετύχουμε.

Έχουμε καθήκον απέναντι στο λαό, απέναντι στη δημοκρατία, απέναντι στη ιστορία.

Έχουμε καθήκον να τους σταματήσουμε.

Να σταματήσουμε τη καταστροφή, να ξαναχτίσουμε την Ελλάδα.

Καλούμε τους βουλευτές να αναλάβουν την  πατριωτική τους ευθύνη.

Καλούμε το λαό σε διαρκή ειρηνικό ξεσηκωμό για να μην περάσουν αυτά τα μέτρα.

Είναι συνταγματική, πατριωτική και δημοκρατική ευθύνη όλων. Για να σωθεί ο τόπος.

Να επιβάλει με τη δράση του τη προσφυγή στη λαϊκή ετυμηγορία.

Σε αυτή τη κρίσιμη καμπή για το τόπο και για το λαό, μόνο μια λύση υπάρχει και είναι πολιτική λύση:

Εκλογές για να μιλήσει ο λαός.

Εκλογές για να σταματήσουμε τη καταστροφή της οικονομίας και της δημοκρατίας στον τόπο μας.

Εκλογές για να σταματήσει η εξαθλίωση του ελληνικού λαού προς όφελος των τραπεζών.

Εκλογές για να επιστρέψει η αξιοπρέπεια και η δικαιοσύνη, για να αναλάβουμε τη ευθύνη, οι υγιείς δημοκρατικές και πατριωτικές δυνάμεις, να ανοικοδομήσουμε τον τόπο μας.

Είναι απαίτηση του λαού. Να σωθεί ο τόπος από τον Καιάδα του τρίτου Μνημονίου.

Στη Δημοκρατία, δεν υπάρχει άλλος δρόμος. Δεν υπάρχει άλλος τρόπος.

CATCH "DECEMBER RIOTS" AT THE 53RD THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BEFORE HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF WITH MORE RIOTS, CHAOS< AND MAYHEM...

"Dimitri Vorris's DECEMBER RIOTS arrives like a storm that signals the times are a-changing again and that as a world we're on the cusp between despair and hope." Amos Poe, Filmmaker, Leading figure of the No Wave Cinema Movement, "UNMADE BEDS", "THE FOREIGNER", "SUBWAY RIDERS", "EMPIRE II", "THE GUITARS", "ROCKET GIBRALTAR"

"December Riots is important, timely, and hits it's mark. Acclaimed Greek-born filmmaker Dimitri Vorris has beautifully interwoven fact and fiction, to create a dramatic tale, that is both horrifying and thought-provoking".Christopher Martini, Director-Producer "The Stone Child", "Trooper"

...Police violence. Interpersonal relationships’ violence. A looted country in despair. Seven characters trapped in an arthouse movie theater. A countdown to extinction...Three years before the movement of the “indignados” and OCCUPY WALL STREET there were December Riots.

«DECEMBER RIOTS», is a feature length film written, produced and directed by Dimitri Vorris, was in post-production, while a new wave of riots swept Greece on June 29th, 2011. The film's epicenter is the cold-blooded execution of 15 year-old student Alexander Gregoropoulos by two policemen in a downtown Athens café on December 6, 2008. "December Riots," a film about the Gregoropoulos killing, an incident that sparked riots in over seventy cities and twenty-two countries aound the world including the US, is produced, and directed by Greek-born Dimitri Vorris. The filmmaker acquired exclusive access to many never-before-seen court documents and evidence from the trial that followed Gregoropoulos’s killing.

Based on a real incident-the director himself was trapped on December 8, 2008 in a downtown arthouse movie theater during the 2008 riots-the independently financed, claustrophobic thriller, that was filmed entirely on location in Athens, Greece, focuses on a group of seven characters, Europeans and Americans, trapped in an art-house movie theater during the 2008 riots. 23 year-old newcomer British actress Lucy Lemos, Duncan Skinner, Fanis Katechos (“El Greco”), prolific actor Avraam Papadopoulos, popular comedian-director Nikos Giannikas anchor a youthful and talented supporting cast that includes Vivian Ioannou, Aris Athan, Nasos Pappas, Michael Angels, Louise Rheas, Aris Pappas, Maria Floratou, , Kostas Antalopoulos, Christina Mani (narrator).

KROQ'S BEAN, IN AN AMAZING ACT OF KINDNESS, TO DONATE HIS KIDNEY TO A LONGTIME STATION EMPLOYEE

KROQ's Bean (via @clydetombaugh/Twitter)

If you've ever listened to KROQ's "Kevin & Bean" show you know that the duo indulge regularly in good-natured ribbing and humorous morning-shift banter, but today one half of the longtime radio twosome revealed something serious: he's about to surrender one half of an internal organ that comes in a pair. Bean is donating a kidney to longtime station employee Scott Mason.

Bean (real name: Gene Baxter) posted to the KROQ site this morning about the upcoming surgery. He describes how dire the situation is for Mason, who has held several posts at the station over several years, including DJ, programmer, and, recently, head of engineering:

Scott has had medical issues for much of his adult life, including his kidneys failing, and that led him to have a transplant from a cadaver back in 1999. Well, now that one has failed too and Scott is back on dialysis for many hours a week. The kidney processes waste out of the blood and without one your body is being poisoned all the time. The dialysis helps but is a temporary solution. You only get off the machine if you get a new kidney or you die.

The morning show host got a sense of how ill Mason was when he saw him in the spring; Bean lives in the Seattle area and does the show from a home studio, and Mason makes an annual trip to do equipment maintenance and upgrades.

"[Mason] explained his situation and that he was about six years out on the waiting list for a new kidney," writes Bean, adding: "That was inconceivable to me, to imagine that all over America there are people like Scott, who are very sick and might die, waiting for organs at the same time that literally of thousands of them are being buried every year."

So later this month, Bean will be checking in to Cedars-Sinai to be a live kidney donor. He says the choice for him was "a no-brainer," and explains that he expects a bit of discomfort but minimal disruption to his life.

Bean discusses how things will work for him--and Mason--with their newly distributed kidneys:

One of the things I’ve learned is that we have two kidneys and when one is removed the other one steps up and works harder so that instead of the expected 50% remaining function I should have about 80%. Scott will go from nearly 0% to that same 80% and that will improve his quality of life dramatically.

He also hopes what he's doing in the public sphere will inspire others to give--from blood to bone marrow to organs.

http://laist.com/2012/11/01/kroqs_bean_to_donate_a_kidney_to_lo.php

SANDY, AMIDST HALLOWEEN HOLIDAY, BROUGHT DEATH AND DESPAIR IN NEW YORK. HERE SOME WAYS TO HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS...

NYCService urges would-be volunteers to email nycservice@cityhall.nyc.gov with their name, email address and borough.  New York City Mayor Michael Bloombergdescribed @NYCService in a tweet as the “best way” to help.  He also said financial contributions could be made to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.

NYC Service and the Mayor’s Fund are among several programs retooled for the storm, or created to help harness an outpouring of concern, energy and money for victims. New York City public advocate Bill de Blasio has his own volunteer program, hosted on his website. His staff is collecting information on volunteers through aGoogle form. By Tuesday, 700 volunteers had already stepped. “The need is considerable and is going to grow,” said Mr. de Blasio’s press secretary, Wiley Norvell. In the early days of the storm, the program sent emails to would-be volunteers asking for help with door-to-door wellness checks in specific buildings.

Volunteers in New Jersey are being coordinated through an emergency response hotline, 1-800-JERSEY-7 (1-800-537-7397). Alternate numbers, for when the hotline isn’t staffed, include 609-775-5236 and 908-303-0471 or emails can be sent to Rowena.Madden@sos.state.nj.us.

For those who want to send other kinds of help, the American Red Cross collects funds and coordinates blood donations. The organization sheltered more than 3,000 people across nine states during the worst of the storm.  You can donate $10 by phone by texting the word REDCROSS to 90999.

The United Way has created a regional fund for communities hit by Sandy. They’re asking for donations at uwsandyrecovery.org.  Donors can also give $10 by texting RECOVERY to 52000.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) takes donations to rescue and shelter animals affected by the storm. Immediately after the storm nearly 240 animals were staying with their owners in pet-friendly Red Cross shelters in New York City, according to spokesperson Emily Schneider. That number was closer to 400 at its peak. The group delivered supplies to a Lower East Side senior center without power, where a lot of residents have pets and stopped at an evacuation center in Jamaica, Queens to provide free wellness checks for animals sheltered with their owners.  A water rescue effort is planned for Friday afternoon for animals abandoned in Ocean City, NJ and the group is shifting focus to hard-hit Staten Island.

Neighborhood-by-neighborhood “how to help” efforts are being compiled by WNYC, the public radio station in New York City.

The Huffington Post is also collecting volunteer resources in real time.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/11/01/occupy-wall-street-bikes-power-nycs-lower-east-side/

NYNatives.com talked to residents ofC- Squat on the Lower East Side Thursday and learned they’ve been biking their way to a dry environment using none other than the OccupyWall Street bicycle generators. Water, water everywhere. New York City’s Lower East Side is bailing itself out after flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy engulfed the neighborhood earlier this week. Here’s an excerpt from the full story:

“The residents of C-Squat have set up 2 grills, are receiving food donations and are essentially feeding the neighborhood. After pumping out there own basement and rescuing the Occupy Wall Street bikes, the residents pumped out the water from the bar next door and the deli on the corner. As one C-Squat resident exclaimed: “”It’s like a block party!”"

According to The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS), these same bikes were used to give power to the protestors in Occupy Wall Street last year.

New York City After Hurricane SandyMonte BurkeForbes Staff

“In a press release as of November 1, MoRUS shared “The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) is using one of its exhibits to provide the community with free cell phone charging. Working with environmental group Times Up, MoRUS has set up Occupy Wall Street bike generators on Avenue C between 9th and 10th Street. For the past two days, volunteer riders have been pedaling as crowds of people gather to charge up their cell phones. For many people, this has been the first time they’ve been able to contact loved ones after Hurricane Sandy hit earlier this week. Meanwhile, C-Squat, the squat which houses MoRUS, has set up a street-side barbecue. They have been accepting donations and providing the community with free food.” 

WATCH "DECEMBER RIOTS" AT THE 53RD THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AGORA SECTION

"Dimitri Vorris's DECEMBER RIOTS arrives like a storm that signals the times are a-changing again and that as a world we're on the cusp between despair and hope."Amos Poe, Filmmaker, Leading figure of the No Wave Cinema Movement, "UNMADE BEDS", "THE FOREIGNER", "SUBWAY RIDERS", "EMPIRE II", "THE GUITARS", "ROCKET GIBRALTAR"

"December Riots is important, timely, and hits it's mark. Acclaimed Greek-born filmmaker Dimitri Vorris has beautifully interwoven fact and fiction, to create a dramatic tale, that is both horrifying and thought-provoking".Christopher Martini, Director-Producer "The Stone Child", "Trooper"

....Police violence. Interpersonal relationships’ violence. A looted country in despair. Seven characters trapped in an arthouse movie theater. A countdown to extinction...Three years before the movement of the “indignados” and OCCUPY WALL STREET there were “December Riots”.

«DECEMBER RIOTS», is a feature length film written, produced and directed by Dimitri Vorris, was in post-production, while a new wave of riots swept Greece on June 29th, 2011. The film's epicenter is the cold-blooded execution of 15 year-old student Alexander Gregoropoulos by two policemen in a downtown Athens café on December 6, 2008. "December Riots," a film about the Gregoropoulos killing, an incident that sparked riots in over seventy cities and twenty-two countries aound the world including the US, is produced, and directed by Greek-born Dimitri Vorris. The filmmaker acquired exclusive access to many never-before-seen court documents and evidence from the trial that followed Gregoropoulos’s killing.

Based on a real incident -the director himself was trapped on December 8, 2008 in a downtown arthouse movie theater during the 2008 riots-the independently financed, claustrophobic thriller, that was filmed entirely on location in Athens, Greece, focuses on a group of seven characters, Europeans and Americans, trapped in an art-house movie theater during the 2008 riots. 23 year-old newcomer British actress Lucy Lemos, Duncan Skinner, Fanis Katechos (“El Greco”), prolific actor Avraam Papadopoulos, popular comedian-director Nikos Giannikas anchor a youthful and talented supporting cast that includes Vivian Ioannou, Aris Athan, Nasos Pappas, Michael Angels, Louise Rheas, Aris Pappas, Maria Floratou, , Kostas Antalopoulos, Christina Mani (narrator).

Additional footage was filmed in late June 2011, while the film was being edited, when violence again erupted in Constitution Square. A new sequence with haunting and shocking images of Greek riots has been added.

“...people have not forgotten about Alexander or his senseless killing.There is still fury and rage that needs to be purged and there are still questions that need to be answered. While one film can’t answer the myriad of questions and dilemmas, ’December Riots’ honors Alexander’s memory and I do hope filmgoers worldwide are going to see through the film a new perspective on the systemic corruption and the looting of Greece. What's happening in Greece, is happening, or is about to happen everywhere else; Greece is just the canary in the mineshaft!."

ACTION DRAMA "THE LAST TYCOON" TO OPEN SCREEN SINGAPORE ON DECEMBER 4

The Last Tycoon 大上海, the upscale period action drama starring CHOW Yun-fat 周潤發 and Sammo HUNG 洪金寶, will get its world premiere on 4 Dec as the opening night film of ScreenSingapore.

Based on real events in the 1930s Shanghai underworld, Tycoon is directed by Hong Kong's WONG Jing 王晶 and produced by Andrew LAU 劉偉強 on behalf of China'sBona Film Group Ltd 博納影業集團有限公司.

Bona's Distribution Workshop (HK) Ltd 發行工作室（香港）有限公司 is handling internationals sales. The Hong Kong-based sales company screened Treasure Inn 財神客棧, also produced by Bona, at the festival's inaugural edition last summer.

Bona's founder, chairman and CEO YU Dong 于冬 will give a keynote address at ScreenSingapore (4-7 Dec), which is this year co-located at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, Marina Bay Sands.

Expanding on the topic of China, ScreenSingapore will also host three panel sessions with a focus on co-production, financing, investment and film technology in and with China. Topics include co-production trends and insights in US-China film industry relations, as well as revolutions in film technology including 3D, IMAX and VoD.

"We are thrilled that Singapore will be the first country in the world to screen this epic Chinese drama at ScreenSingapore. The decision reaffirms Asia as the rising market for filmed entertainment and Singapore is a great place to highlight the talents and opportunities that exist here," said Greg COOTE, chairman of the board of ScreenSingapore.

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