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Animals, Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Jul 12th, 2012,
As I’m heading for the Greek islands this week I hope I shall encounter those most intelligent of sea creatures while cooling my soon to be frying skin in clear azure waters. I’m referring, of course, to dolphins. Yes, dolphins – those playful cetaceans we routinely catch inadvertently in our nets when fishing for tuna and on purpose when fishing for dolphins to populate our aquatic parks. We do this despite many scientists’ belief that dolphins and other cetaceans should be afforded ‘human rights’. I probably will not meet any porpoises, whales or any of their cousins since I’ll be…
Tags: dolphins, Florida, Greece, Greek, Malta, Staten Island
Green living, Politics, Mar 28th, 2012,
In a country where the ‘troika’ (European Union, International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank) has imposed crippling, draconian austerity measures, the people are finding resourceful ways to survive. Greece is in its fifth year of recession, with unemployment at 21%, medicines in critically short supply and nearly 10% of Athens’ residents using soup kitchens. Last month I posted about some ways Greeks are bypassing conventional economics by bartering and using alternative currencies. But these were generally limited to small communities with no large, echoing effects throughout the country. The potato movement has changed all that. Struck by sharp…
Tags: Greece, Greek, movement, potato
Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Feb 22nd, 2012,
If you’ve been following the global economic crisis and particularly the Greek crisis, you may be wondering just what the hell the Troika (IMF, EMU, European Central Bank) are playing at. The neo-liberal, anti-democratic, anti sovereignty, German-led bailout (loaded with economic and societal killing measures) doesn’t make sense to economists, political analysts or anyone except those who stand to make money from it. As the Independent reports, suicide rates have jumped 40% due to the crisis and salaries are being slashed from already non-living wage levels. The only Greeks making money are the bottom feeders. It’s nice to know that…
Tags: crisis, Greece, Greek
Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Jul 31st, 2010,
Dolphins are a common sight in the calm, warm waters of the Greek Mediterranean and Aegean Sea. There they can be observed living free in their natural habitat. And so it may seem strange that a dolphinarium – an aquatic animal park featuring dolphins – exists in Greece. Animal welfare activists believe so and are protesting a dolphin park at the Attica Zoo in Athens, which they believe to be cruel. The dolphinarium’s operators disagree, claiming the park has educational as well entertainment benefits. Click on the below link to watch the BBC News report on the story: Greek dolphin…
Tags: animal, cruel, dolphinarium, dolphins, entertainment, Greece, Greek, welfare
