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Apollo Belvedere, restored Roman copy of the Greek original attributed to Leochares, 4th century bc; in the Vatican Museum, Rome
🔴 A Turkish Warship hailed the "Nautical Geo" research ship operating near Crete, saying it was operating in the Turkish Continental shelf and asked it to leave the area
>https://archive.is/lZkX7
🔸 The incident happened on Friday (17/09). According to the information, a Turkish warship that was sailing in international waters, very close to Crete, called the crew of "Nautical Geo" to the radio, claiming that the ship is moving in an area of Turkish continental shelf and asked to be removed from the area. This process is known as consensus hailing and provoked the diplomatic reaction of the Greek government
🔸 With the hailing made by the Turkish warship on a research ship that was licensed by the Greek government just a few miles east of Crete, Turkey is trying to give substance to the illegal Turkish-Libyan EEZ deal
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>https://archive.is/lZkX7
🔸 The incident happened on Friday (17/09). According to the information, a Turkish warship that was sailing in international waters, very close to Crete, called the crew of "Nautical Geo" to the radio, claiming that the ship is moving in an area of Turkish continental shelf and asked to be removed from the area. This process is known as consensus hailing and provoked the diplomatic reaction of the Greek government
🔸 With the hailing made by the Turkish warship on a research ship that was licensed by the Greek government just a few miles east of Crete, Turkey is trying to give substance to the illegal Turkish-Libyan EEZ deal
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Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Selene and Endymion, 3rd century AD.
The moon goddess, Selene, falls in love with Endymion. He is said to be a shepherd, a hunter, or a king. Selene visited her sleeping love in the night as she rode her moon chariot across the night sky. She would come down to earth just to be with the beautiful Endymion.
Or else, looking down on thee from the starry heavens, the orb Selene the moon that was born after the old Arcadians will lose control of her white-shining car [for love of a rustic, like Endymion]. And lately she blushed fiery red, though no staining cloud obscured her bright face
– Seneca, Phaedra 786
Selene wished to be with Endymion forever so she asked Zeus to grant her lover eternal sleep so that she may visit him every night.
Endymion a man of unrivalled beauty, he was loved by Selene. When he was given a wish of his choice by Zeus, he chose to remain immortal and unaging in eternal sleep.
– Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 56
The moon goddess, Selene, falls in love with Endymion. He is said to be a shepherd, a hunter, or a king. Selene visited her sleeping love in the night as she rode her moon chariot across the night sky. She would come down to earth just to be with the beautiful Endymion.
Or else, looking down on thee from the starry heavens, the orb Selene the moon that was born after the old Arcadians will lose control of her white-shining car [for love of a rustic, like Endymion]. And lately she blushed fiery red, though no staining cloud obscured her bright face
– Seneca, Phaedra 786
Selene wished to be with Endymion forever so she asked Zeus to grant her lover eternal sleep so that she may visit him every night.
Endymion a man of unrivalled beauty, he was loved by Selene. When he was given a wish of his choice by Zeus, he chose to remain immortal and unaging in eternal sleep.
– Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 56
🔴 A 33 year-old Orthodox priest was blackmailed in Thessaloniki, 3 people were arrested
>https://archive.is/Jxll5
🔸 According to the report, the priest borrowed money from a 32 year old man. The man started threatening to post defamatory texts against the priest on social media if he did not pay him more money and did not pay back the amount he borrowed
👮🏼♂️ The police organized an operation which ended with the arrest of two people at first, a 31 year-old woman and a 26 year-old man who went to collect the extortion money from the priest under the instructions of the man who also showed up to the location shortly after the other two
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>https://archive.is/Jxll5
🔸 According to the report, the priest borrowed money from a 32 year old man. The man started threatening to post defamatory texts against the priest on social media if he did not pay him more money and did not pay back the amount he borrowed
👮🏼♂️ The police organized an operation which ended with the arrest of two people at first, a 31 year-old woman and a 26 year-old man who went to collect the extortion money from the priest under the instructions of the man who also showed up to the location shortly after the other two
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🔴 Turkey issued a strong statement opposing the declaration signed by the EUMED9 countries, which called for Turkey to abandon its aggressive stance and provocations against Greece, Cyprus and the region as a whole
>https://archive.is/KdKme
>https://archive.is/ATkcb
🔸 The Turkish statement is that this declaration is biased without vision and disconnected from reality. "We call on the EU signatory countries to abandon their unilateral stance. They are following Greece and Cyprus blindly under the pretext of solidarity" the announcement notes, among other things
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>https://archive.is/KdKme
>https://archive.is/ATkcb
🔸 The Turkish statement is that this declaration is biased without vision and disconnected from reality. "We call on the EU signatory countries to abandon their unilateral stance. They are following Greece and Cyprus blindly under the pretext of solidarity" the announcement notes, among other things
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Responding to @brussinf's post about an anti-NATO protest held in Athens, the majority of the protestors belong to leftist organizations, being them KKE (Greek Communist Party), EEDYE (Greek Committee for International Détente and Peace), OGE (Federation of Greek Women) and students' unions.
Their slogan was "Neither soil nor water to the murderers of the people". These groups are usually a minority in Greece, in general anything that is strongly Anti-American can be associated with the KKE or their offshoot organizations.
Most Greeks are indeed against NATO, but mostly because of NATO's positioning regarding Turkey. Good examples of that were of 2020's Evros crisis in March and the growing Turkish provocations with NAVTEX exercises and open war threats against Greece, which prompted NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to propose a "military de-confliction mechanism" of which he was very proud to propose and even said both countries had agreed to it before anything had been officially discussed
Obviously the bureaucratic move of having a de-confliction mechanism had no effect, with the only consequence of it being that Turkey was not even criticized by Mr. Jens who always talks about negotiations and diplomacy instead. Given that Turkey does not follow international law regarding maritime zones (UNCLOS), Greece so far is the only country with something to lose even if such negotiations never reach a conclusion since Turkey never stops its provocations such as Hailing a research ship (Nautical Geo) near Crete last week claiming it was within the Turkish Continental Shelf and asking the ship to leave
Greeks have indeed been growing more skeptic of certain things, the anti-EU and anti-immigration sentiments have been growing in recent years due to the problems caused by both, be that of EU ineptitude regarding immigration or of their blatant protection of Turkey, avoiding to sanction them or even proposing more economic deals despite Turkey's aggressive behavior towards Greece and other European countries such as France, Cyprus and Austria
NATO so far is not seen negatively by most Greeks since there are benefits to it such as military deals and also because immigration has become a much bigger problem in the eyes of most people, with the Government Spending a lot more money to maintain illegal immigrants than it does with military not to mention the wave of crimes and other social problems caused by it
Their slogan was "Neither soil nor water to the murderers of the people". These groups are usually a minority in Greece, in general anything that is strongly Anti-American can be associated with the KKE or their offshoot organizations.
Most Greeks are indeed against NATO, but mostly because of NATO's positioning regarding Turkey. Good examples of that were of 2020's Evros crisis in March and the growing Turkish provocations with NAVTEX exercises and open war threats against Greece, which prompted NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to propose a "military de-confliction mechanism" of which he was very proud to propose and even said both countries had agreed to it before anything had been officially discussed
Obviously the bureaucratic move of having a de-confliction mechanism had no effect, with the only consequence of it being that Turkey was not even criticized by Mr. Jens who always talks about negotiations and diplomacy instead. Given that Turkey does not follow international law regarding maritime zones (UNCLOS), Greece so far is the only country with something to lose even if such negotiations never reach a conclusion since Turkey never stops its provocations such as Hailing a research ship (Nautical Geo) near Crete last week claiming it was within the Turkish Continental Shelf and asking the ship to leave
Greeks have indeed been growing more skeptic of certain things, the anti-EU and anti-immigration sentiments have been growing in recent years due to the problems caused by both, be that of EU ineptitude regarding immigration or of their blatant protection of Turkey, avoiding to sanction them or even proposing more economic deals despite Turkey's aggressive behavior towards Greece and other European countries such as France, Cyprus and Austria
NATO so far is not seen negatively by most Greeks since there are benefits to it such as military deals and also because immigration has become a much bigger problem in the eyes of most people, with the Government Spending a lot more money to maintain illegal immigrants than it does with military not to mention the wave of crimes and other social problems caused by it
🔴 A fire broke out at the Vathi immigrant camp in the island of Samos, the camp was immediately evacuated and the illegal immigrants will be transferred to the new camp of Zervou
>https://archive.is/ui0hG
🔸 Thevery coincidental fire broke out last night (19/09), one day before the transfer of the illegal immigrants living in the camp to the new camp of Zervou
👨🏾🦱 The Vathi camp officially housed over 4.5k illegal immigrants
🟢 What most likely happened is that the transfer process was gradual and would take several weeks to transfer all illegal immigrants to Zervou, so the illegals burned the camp to make sure the transfer would be faster and to remind the government that if they dont get what they want, the new camp will also burn just as what happened to Moria and now Vathi
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>https://archive.is/ui0hG
🔸 The
👨🏾🦱 The Vathi camp officially housed over 4.5k illegal immigrants
/GBG/🟢 This has become common practice, illegal immigrants, burn their own camps when they dont like their benefits in order to force the authorities to transfer them to another location such as hotels or other camps
🟢 What most likely happened is that the transfer process was gradual and would take several weeks to transfer all illegal immigrants to Zervou, so the illegals burned the camp to make sure the transfer would be faster and to remind the government that if they dont get what they want, the new camp will also burn just as what happened to Moria and now Vathi
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🔴 Satellite image shows the research ship Nautical Geo and the Turkish Frigate who hailed it on Friday (17/09) asking it to leave the area, claiming it was within the Turkish Continental Shelf
>https://archive.is/UYZHJ
🔸 The area being researched by Nautical Geo is represented on the map in Red, an action licensed by the Greek Government
👉 Previous Post about the incident
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>https://archive.is/UYZHJ
🔸 The area being researched by Nautical Geo is represented on the map in Red, an action licensed by the Greek Government
👉 Previous Post about the incident
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A Roman copy of a Greek original depicting Goddess Selene - the original was from the early 4th century BC., while this piece is from early imperial times.
She is wearing a chiton and her himation forms the billowing shape behind her. The attributes that confirms her identification is, apart from the raised cloak, the crescent moon on her head the torch in her hand (it might look like the sheath for a dagger, but it's not - but the flame itself is gone).
Selene was the Greek moon goddess (her Roman equivalent was Luna), the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and the sister of Helios (the sun) and Eos (the dawn). In Classical times she was often identified with Artemis (and in Rome, Diana).
She is wearing a chiton and her himation forms the billowing shape behind her. The attributes that confirms her identification is, apart from the raised cloak, the crescent moon on her head the torch in her hand (it might look like the sheath for a dagger, but it's not - but the flame itself is gone).
Selene was the Greek moon goddess (her Roman equivalent was Luna), the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and the sister of Helios (the sun) and Eos (the dawn). In Classical times she was often identified with Artemis (and in Rome, Diana).
🔴 Headless Statue of Greek Health Goddess “Hygieia” Unearthed in Turkey
>https://archive.is/nUcR2
🔸 A headless statue of the Greek mythological goddess of health, Hygeia has been unearthed in a 5,000 year old site
🔸 “We unearthed a statue of Hygieia, known as the goddess of health and cleanliness, the daughter of Asclepius, the god of health in Greek and Roman mythology” said Gokhan Coskun, who coordinates the dig in the ancient Greek city of Aizanoi where the discovery was made recently
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>https://archive.is/nUcR2
🔸 A headless statue of the Greek mythological goddess of health, Hygeia has been unearthed in a 5,000 year old site
🔸 “We unearthed a statue of Hygieia, known as the goddess of health and cleanliness, the daughter of Asclepius, the god of health in Greek and Roman mythology” said Gokhan Coskun, who coordinates the dig in the ancient Greek city of Aizanoi where the discovery was made recently
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🇫🇷🐗 HUNTERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT
👉🏻 This Saturday, tens of thousands of hunters are demonstrating all over France as the government wants to ban a traditional form of hunting for "ecological" reasons.
ℹ️ Hunters represent nearly 1 million people in France and they are particularly feared by the different governments.
👀 Indeed, they live in the rural areas of France, far from the metropolis. They have a rather traditional and minimalist way of life. They are known to support right-wing and far-right parties.
🔥 And above all, they own 2/3 of the firearms in circulation in France, about 20 million weapons.
📌 The government's fear is often that hunters will join protest movements like the Yellow Vests or the movement against the vaccine passport.
🔗 Source : France Bleue (MSM)
👉🏻 This Saturday, tens of thousands of hunters are demonstrating all over France as the government wants to ban a traditional form of hunting for "ecological" reasons.
ℹ️ Hunters represent nearly 1 million people in France and they are particularly feared by the different governments.
👀 Indeed, they live in the rural areas of France, far from the metropolis. They have a rather traditional and minimalist way of life. They are known to support right-wing and far-right parties.
🔥 And above all, they own 2/3 of the firearms in circulation in France, about 20 million weapons.
📌 The government's fear is often that hunters will join protest movements like the Yellow Vests or the movement against the vaccine passport.
🔗 Source : France Bleue (MSM)
🔴 Turkish Coast Guard ship pointed its weapons at a Greek Coast Guard ship near Farmakonisi on Sunday night (19/09)
>https://archive.is/DGoZk
🔸 A boat of the Turkish Coast Guard, which seems to have accompanied a boat with migrants to the Greek island, performed dangerous maneuvers towards the boat of the Greek Coast Guard, which was on patrol in the area and noticed the movement of the boat to Farmakonisi.
🔸 The Turks, however, were not limited to the aggressive maneuvers towards the boat of LS-ELAKT, reaching a breathing distance from the Greek patrol. They also turned their weapons towards the Greek ship and the Officers of the Greek Coast Guard. For several minutes the two boats remained in the area. Finally the Greek boat managed to prevent the boat of illegals from crossing into Greek Territorial Waters and leaving with the Turkish ship
/GBG/ 🗂
>https://archive.is/DGoZk
🔸 A boat of the Turkish Coast Guard, which seems to have accompanied a boat with migrants to the Greek island, performed dangerous maneuvers towards the boat of the Greek Coast Guard, which was on patrol in the area and noticed the movement of the boat to Farmakonisi.
🔸 The Turks, however, were not limited to the aggressive maneuvers towards the boat of LS-ELAKT, reaching a breathing distance from the Greek patrol. They also turned their weapons towards the Greek ship and the Officers of the Greek Coast Guard. For several minutes the two boats remained in the area. Finally the Greek boat managed to prevent the boat of illegals from crossing into Greek Territorial Waters and leaving with the Turkish ship
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🔴 Turkish newspaper once again claims Greece is violating the Lausanne treaty due to the possible signing of a new military deal with the U.S in which the newspaper claims would allow the U.S to build bases in Greek islands surrounding Turkey
>https://archive.is/lEqJb
🔸 Ennoscriptd: "Athens Concedes Islands to the Pentagon: The Presence of Troops Violates The Lausanne Treaty" The article fantasizes about American bases in the islands of Lemnos, Lesvos, Samothrace and Skyros, after Alexandroupolis
🔸 "The US, which is building a military base in Alexandroupolis, 40 km from Turkey , now wants the islands that surround the Dardanelles Straits. The islands that the Pentagon wants to establish bases are Lemnos, Lesvos, Samothrace and Skyros. Especially Lemnos will be used for US air operations" said Yeni Safak, arguing that the islands are governed by a "civilian regime" and that the move violates the Lausanne Accords
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>https://archive.is/lEqJb
🔸 Ennoscriptd: "Athens Concedes Islands to the Pentagon: The Presence of Troops Violates The Lausanne Treaty" The article fantasizes about American bases in the islands of Lemnos, Lesvos, Samothrace and Skyros, after Alexandroupolis
🔸 "The US, which is building a military base in Alexandroupolis, 40 km from Turkey , now wants the islands that surround the Dardanelles Straits. The islands that the Pentagon wants to establish bases are Lemnos, Lesvos, Samothrace and Skyros. Especially Lemnos will be used for US air operations" said Yeni Safak, arguing that the islands are governed by a "civilian regime" and that the move violates the Lausanne Accords
/GBG/🟢 The Lausanne treaty does allow partial militarization by Greece
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Column capital with the monogram of Byzantine Emperor Justinian, Hagia Sophia. You can see traces of the great civilization that built it all over Hagia Sophia.