ABOUT JOHN METAXAS
John Metaxas is a lawyer,
admitted to the bar in New York, and a
journalist with WCBS Newsradio 880 and
WCBS-TV. John publishes this blog as a source of information for
Hellenes
and philhellenes around the world.
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
OCHI Day national anniversary celebrated throughout Greece
From ANA:
The October
28 national holiday was celebrated with parades throughout Greece on
Sunday, with President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias expressing his
optimism that the country can achieve any goals its sets, no matter how
ambitious, because it has endless abilities, provided it leaves behind
self-centred practices and attitudes, speaking after the traditional
military parade in Thessaloniki.
National
defence minister Evangelos Meimarakis, who represented the government
at the Thessaloniki parade, stressed that Greece wishes to live
peacefully in the international environment, and responded with
dialogue to intransigence.
The
October 28 "Ochi Day" national holiday, commemorating the anniversary
of Greece's resounding "Ochi" (no) to then Italian dictator Mussolini's
demand for free passage to invade Greece during World War II, which
brought Greece into the war on the Allied side, was also celebrated
throughout the rest of the country with students' parades. On Oct. 28,
1940, fascist Italy presented Greece with the ultimatum, but Greek
leader Ioannis Metaxas tersely refused, and the country not only denied
Mussolini's forces free passage, it went on the offensive in
mid-November and drove the opposing forces back through part of
southern Albania.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Catisimatidis Moves to G.O.P. for ’09 Run
From The New York Times:
By DIANE CARDWELL
John
A. Catsimatidis, the supermarket mogul, has taken a page from Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg’s playbook, switching his party
affiliation
from Democrat to Republican — in anticipation of a mayoral
bid in
2009.
A
self-made billionaire like the man he hopes to succeed, and one of
Hillary Clinton’s strongest supporters, Mr. Catsimatidis said
in
a letter sent to Republican Party leaders on Thursday that he wanted to
keep the city from reverting to its past of high crime, low quality of
life, and clubhouse politicians in smoke-filled back rooms.
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Saturday, October 6, 2007
Plant One Tree for Every Greek American in the
Census
Dan
Georgakas submitted the following essay, which appeared
in the September 29 issue of The National Herald:
By
Dan Georgakas
The
fires that devastated Greece this summer have mobilized the Greek
American community in an unprecedented manner. Every parish, social
group, and parea is involved in raising money to assist the ancestral
homeland in some fashion. Aid valued in the millions has already gone
abroad.
A
few persons in Greece and the United States have written to me that
this helter-skelter ground level fundraising is inefficient. They
believe administrative costs will heavily cut into funds that actually
go abroad. They also fear and that some regions in Greece may be
neglected as the deciding factor, more often than not, will be family,
organizational, and regional ties rather than the scope of the
need.
My own view is that although a single, national effort makes more
organizational sense and would be more efficient in the long run, the
popular groundswell of multi-centered support has numerous
advantages.
Cumbersome state bureaucracies are being sidestepped. I doubt any needy
region will be neglected and those with personal ties will make sure
that the groups they have targeted for assistance actually get the aid
their specific organization has arranged.
That
said, when we turn to the problem of long-term solutions for the
calamity the fires have created, ad hoc efforts will not suffice. The
problems are too complex. Among those complex problems is how to
reforest Greece. We are not talking about volunteers planting seedlings
and nourishing them with a watering can. Nor is this a project to be
measured just in years, much less months. Further complicating the
problem is the muddled situation in terms of property lines and other
legal matters.
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
Police destroy file on Dink
murder suspect
From
Today's Zaman:
The
police file on a prime suspect in the murder case of Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink has been destroyed on grounds that the file was a
“state secret,” the private NTV station reported on
Wednesday.
The İstanbul court, which is currently trying 19 suspects in the murder
of Dink, who was shot outside his newspaper’s office by an
ultranationalist teenager in January of this year, had not demanded to
see the police files on Erhan Tuncel, a former police informant facing
trial for having incited the gunman to kill Dink. The court’s
request was turned down by the Intelligence Department, where
Tuncel’s file is stored, which said the document was
destroyed to protect state secrets.
The prosecutors carrying out the investigation had seen the police file
on Tuncel, a former informant who worked for the Trabzon police.
However, the file was apparently destroyed before the court had a
chance to see the document. Erdal Doğan, a lawyer representing the Dink
family, said this was a “legal scandal.”
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