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The author wrote that the electrical interconnection provides adequacy and security of power supply, as well as geopolitical enhancement. He argued that Cyprus will become an energy hub for Israel and Egypt and a bridge to the European electricity grid. He then wondered why. https://t.co/4mZPeQC37B #Ενέργεια #Γεωπολιτική #Κύπρος #CY #IL #EG #EU (translated)

Nikī Tsavela stated that Antonis Samaras had instructed his supporters to accuse New Democracy of distorting its identity by broadening its appeal to other political spheres. She contrasted this with the European elections of 2014, when Samaras was prime minister, and claimed that Maria Spiraki, whom she described as a close associate of Akis Tsochatzopoulos, was his chosen candidate. She wrote that Samaras's team was intensely pressuring the party organizations to vote for her and that Spiraki received almost half a million votes. Tsavela mocked the reference to the "immaculate" faction and added that Samaras always had, to his credit, close friends from other political spheres. #ΝέαΔημοκρατία #Ευρωεκλογές #Πολιτική (translated)

Spyros wrote that Giorgos Bartzokas was, in his opinion, targeted by the "system" once and glorified a hundred times. He stated that, while other coaches were cursing during timeouts, Bartzokas chastised his players to a much greater degree, even when they circulated the ball correctly and missed their shots. Spyros also mentioned that the coach cursed spectators during matches and climbed onto the railings, directing insults at women and children. According to him, the outcry stemmed from the combination of these behaviors and not from Boukouras or any other single factor. He added that the Olympiacos fans contributed to this image, as he wrote that they had depicted him on a T-shirt cursing women and children and defended him. He urged Bartzokas to start with himself if he wanted to change something, saying that, although he considered him an excellent coach, he risked being remembered in history for his offensive behavior. #Μπαρτζώκας #Ολυμπιακός #Καλαθοσφαίριση (translated)

Chris Avramidis stated that he asked the government how many projects from the Recovery Fund had been completed and were functioning, but he did not receive a numerical answer. He said that Kyriakos Mitsotakis was celebrating "100% absorption" of the 36 billion euros, while, according to a comparative study by PASOK, about two-thirds of the measures in the original "Greece 2.0" plan had been reduced in terms of physical scope, altered targets, or completely removed. According to him, several projects had been transferred to ESPA programs or to national resources. In light of the floods in Crete, Avramidis said that in July none of the four anti-flood projects and the 18 irrigation projects under consideration had been completed, and the same was true for water supply projects. He also noted that none of the civil protection policy objectives he set had been completed: the 13 regional centers, the upgrading of seven Canadairs, and the 11 firefighting aircraft. According to Avramidis, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis did not provide numbers and referred to other issues such as the personal doctor, the digital tutor, job vacancies, and absorption rates. When Avramidis repeated the question about civil protection projects, Marinakis reportedly said, "you probably have no idea about the functioning of the Recovery Fund," and pledged to ask for an update. Avramidis concluded by asking how much of the initial physical scope had been delivered and how many projects had practically improved the daily lives and safety of citizens. He said he was still waiting for numbers. #ΤαμείοΑνάκαμψης #Πολιτική #Δημοκρατία (translated)

Adonis Georgiadis mentioned that he traveled to Karpathos for the inauguration of a new CT scanner at the island's hospital, which he installed along with Giorgos Hatzimarkos. He added that the establishment of an artificial kidney unit was also progressing. Subsequently, according to his post, he welcomed the President of the Republic Konstantinos Tasoulas and participated in the events commemorating the anniversary of the Karpathos Revolution on October 5, 1944, which, he noted, led to the liberation of the island. Georgiadis said that he returned to Athens for the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of New Democracy, although he had other ministerial obligations. He criticized colleagues who, as he wrote, chose to be absent from the event due to other commitments. He also mentioned that he would travel from Rhodes to Kalymnos, where the surgical team of Mr. Sokorelos's Orthopedic Clinic would be transferred, so that patients who needed orthopedic surgeries could be operated on the island instead of being transported to Rhodes. He presented the initiative as part of a new philosophy of the National Health System, which would provide services to patients wherever they were. #Καραπάθος #Υγεία #ΕΣΥ (translated)

John Vatatzes wrote that the Tsar of the Bulgarians, Samuel, had built, approximately 1,000 years ago, the church of Saint Achilles on an islet in Little Prespa and that the lakes of Ohrid and Prespa were in the heart of his kingdom. He mentioned that Professor Nikolaos Moutsopoulos had found the bones of Samuel in 1965 on Greek soil and that they were kept in Thessaloniki. According to Vatatzes, Greece was asking Bulgaria to return thousands of relics and manuscripts that, he claimed, had been looted from monasteries in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace during the occupation of the area in 1917. He also noted that the Treaty of Neuilly provided for their return and that in 2014, during the premiership of Antonis Samaras, it had been agreed to return approximately 2,000 relics, without Greece agreeing to relinquish the rest. He himself accused Kyriakos Mitsotakis of giving Bulgaria the bones of Samuel in 2026, which he described as being of inestimable historical and ideological value to the Bulgarians, in exchange for just 48 relics. He compared the move to Alexis Tsipras's concession of the name Macedonia in 2018 and argued that Greece had now lost its bargaining tool for the return of the remaining relics. #Ελλάδα #Ιστορία #Μακεδονία (translated)

Nikolaos Boyiopoulos wrote that Pierrakakis submitted the draft budget of the Mitsotakis government to Parliament. He claimed that it predicts an increase of 4.2 billion euros in taxes on goods and services in 2027, from 73.645 billion in 2026 to 77.878 billion. Regarding indirect taxes, he mentioned that Special Consumption Taxes remained at 7.3 billion euros and that VAT was projected to increase by 1.3 billion, from 29.229 billion in 2026 to 30.581 billion in 2027. He added that taxes on individuals were planned to increase by nearly 1.2 billion, from 15.815 billion to 16.995 billion, while capital taxes were, as he wrote, limited to 262 million euros. Boyiopoulos described the government’s policy as "social cannibalism" and said that the draft's figures reflected that. #ΈλλειψηΔικαιοσύνης #Φορολογία #Πολιτική (translated)

Chris Avramidis reported that he covered a demonstration in which, as he wrote, members of the riot police were continuously pushing protesters and even moved towards banners held by children. He said he recorded with video and photos how some officers had indistinct identification numbers written with a marker, while others in the same unit did not wear identification. Avramidis said he asked the government what the timeline was for implementing the identifiers, which, he stated, had been announced since 2019. According to him, the government spokesman initially responded that the police did not allow the road to be closed and, when asked about the identifiers, referred to the ministry, saying that the government had responded many times. He added that he reminded the spokesman of an 84-page report by Amnesty International on police violence in Greece, which, he said, demanded that there be identifiers so that police officers could be identified. He mentioned that he raised the question about the timeline again and received the same response. He also stated that he had sent inquiries to the Ministry of Citizen Protection via email without receiving a response. Avramidis argued that New Democracy announced the measure when it took over the government, but seven years later had not announced when it would be implemented. He concluded that officers without clear individual identification were harder to identify and hold accountable for their behavior, attributing responsibility for the situation to the government. #antireport #αστυνομία #διακριτικά #διαμαρτυρία (translated)

The account "Completely Exhausted" used a derogatory term for the Roma and claimed that the perpetrators did not randomly enter homes. Referring to an article, it stated that they first called the woman to convince her that there was a malfunction and that they knew specific details about her application for the installation of fiber optics. The author estimated that there may be a ring that leaks personal data, applications, names, addresses, and phone numbers to mobile phone companies and to the DEDDIE. It was written that the woman was alone at home with her baby and called for the prosecution to investigate DEDDIE and the mobile phone companies, asking to identify those leaking the information and any compensation they may be receiving. He described the case as "rot" that, as he said, must be dismantled immediately. https://t.co/DWzLjUXu0e #ΔΕΔΔΗΕ #ασφάλεια #πληροφορίες (translated)

Leonidas Palaiodimos mentioned that last year a middle-aged acquaintance of his, who did not know any English and had no computer skills, had received an offer to pay a small amount to obtain certificates in English and computer science. He argued that there was a broader market for fake degrees, from which those who issued them, those who suggested them, and those who overlooked this activity benefited. He added that, in his estimation, many complaints would have been made to the authorities. He linked this market to the point system for academic degrees for appointments in the public sector, even when they were not necessary for the position. Palaiodimos wondered why a foreign language certificate was required for public positions unrelated to that subject, as well as ECDL certification for positions that only needed basic computer and internet use. He also questioned the point system for postgraduate and language certifications for a teacher who taught mathematics to junior high school students. Addressing Sofia Zacharaki, he asked why, as he argued, citizens were being asked to spend their savings and time to accumulate certifications that had no measurable impact on their work. #πτυχία #μυθολογία #εκπαίδευση (translated)

Nikos Boyiopoulos criticized journalist Zacharos for a comment he made on his show on the ONE television station regarding Erietta Molcho, who, as he stated, had been missing after the train collision in Tempi. According to Boyiopoulos, lawyer Th. Staikos, who represented the Voulgaris family in the trial for Tempi, noted on the show that Molcho had not been located. Zacharos, as Boyiopoulos wrote, questioned whether she was on the train and linked the mention of the missing persons to previous claims that there were no deaths during the Polytechnic uprising. Boyiopoulos stated that the 23-year-old Molcho was on the passenger train that collided with a freight train on the night of February 28, 2023, and that no trace of her had been found on the train. He added that her parents had attended the court in Larissa last April and had filed a motion to support the charges in the pre-trial proceedings. As he noted, after the reactions, Zacharos apologized, describing his wording as incorrect. He claimed that his intention was to offer ironic criticism of those adopting theories surrounding Tempi and had apologized to Molcho's family and the relatives of the victims. Boyiopoulos concluded his post by addressing him with a heavy insult. #Τεμπη #Πολυτεχνείο #δημοσιογραφία (translated)

Aggelina claimed that Giorgos Mazonakis was murdered and did not die from substance abuse. She criticized people who, as she wrote, were close to him or knew him, saying that with their behaviors and insinuations they became ridiculous and reinforced the public's affection for him. She described their attitude as sacrilege, desecration, and roguery. https://t.co/iJKRgWBjrX #Μαζωνακης #Δικαιοσύνη #Αλήθεια (translated)

Thanos Tzimeros criticized a university professor and writer, whom he described as leftist, a supporter of Mamdani and a fan of Bernie Sanders, as well as a critic of the rise of the far right in Europe. He mentioned that she had attributed the responsibility for the 1897 war to King Otto and had characterized the conflict as Greece's biggest national own goal. Tzimeros argued that Otto had died 30 years before the war and had left Greece five years earlier. He also criticized the way the professor had described the king, noting that the Greco-Turkish War of 1922 was not referred to as a greater national mistake. He added that she was now an emeritus professor and was receiving a pension. https://t.co/2utOlrUD8S #πολιτική #ιστορία #εκπαίδευση (translated)

🚨 Today we asked something very simple about the filling up in Tempes: Pavlos Marinakis had declared that the "work" was done to lift the carriages and find people alive. Adonis Georgiadis said that voices and cries could be heard. Makarios Lazaridis said it was a matter of human lives. 📌 However, the official report states that the last trapped survivors had been freed by 00:20. When large cranes and a bulldozer started arriving around 04:00, the operation was now about retrieving bodies. ❓ So we asked: Were you uninformed about what had really happened or were you consciously lying that the cranes were going to retrieve living people? ❌ To this question, the government spokesman did not respond. 🎯 Instead of answering, he followed the classic tactic: He tried to divert the discussion, attacking the journalist who posed the question, talking again about "career" and "weaponizing" human pain. ❓ But who is really making a career out of this case? The journalist who asks what the relatives want to be asked or a government spokesman who is paid to defend the government's positions? 💬 We are neither paid based on whether the government does well nor do we have any interest in whether a government that defends what happened after the accident will communicate well. Another ⚠️ And most importantly: these questions are raised by the relatives themselves. How is it that the one who conveys the relatives' question is "weaponizing" their pain, while the one who represents a government that treats the relatives as opponents (according to their statement) appears to be the one who respects human pain? 🔴 Then he said something else. That then he "had no such authority." And immediately afterward claimed that later he simply "transfers the real data as they are." ❓ But if he had no authority and did not know what had happened on the ground, how did he know that the work was done to find people alive? ⚖️ Here there are two possibilities. Either they did not know what had really happened and yet they spoke publicly with certainty. Or they did know. One is a huge issue of criminal incompetence. The other is much worse. 🕯️ And we are talking about a case in which there are people mourning their children and relatives. 🔎 That’s why we insisted. We asked him again, now that there is an official report: Do you still insist that the specific work was done to find people alive? Do you still stand by what you said then? ❌ He did not answer there either. ⚽ And then the familiar refrain followed. The ball is in the stands. 🎭 The classic Machiavellian tactic: I do not answer today to what you are asking me. I load it onto a third party and preferably into an indefinite future, when perhaps I won’t even be here to bear the political cost of the answer. ⚖️ The "independent" Justice will decide. Somehow. Somewhere. Someday. 📍 In short: you ask him if he acknowledges that the government made inaccuracies about the filling up and if he still defends what he said then. And instead of answering, he tells you that Justice, somehow, somewhere, someday, will decide. #Τεμπη #Τεμπη_εγκλημα #Τεμπη #Δικαιοσυνη #Ερωτηματα (translated)

Meanwhile, everyone who says about Mantzouka that it's impossible for him to reach Sasha's level and laughs at this (which no one knows), let me remind you that Sasha at 23 was the last player of Barcelona's rotation, and at 31 he has 2 MVPs, obviously because he worked very hard. There is therefore no reason to prejudge a 23-year-old boy, let's allow him to work and time will tell.. #μπάσκετ #Σπόρ #Μαντζούκας (translated)

Why are batteries not manufactured in Greece, like in Bulgaria? Simply because this would lower electricity prices in the evening - as it would not require the involvement of natural gas, whose high price is charged by all the others for the electricity from their renewable sources. If batteries were manufactured, then the energy cartel would lose subsidies and charge high prices - so this is the reason we export very cheap electricity to Bulgaria in the afternoon, which fills its batteries and sells it back to us very expensive in the evening. Does the government know this? Of course, much better than us - it just does nothing and mocks us with charity allowances to lull us to sleep. #Ενέργεια #Μπαταρίες #Ελλάδα (translated)

🔴Stefanos Sarafis: "Commander of ELAS, by spitting." 🔴As I have emphasized many times, immediately after the German attack against the USSR, Stalin instructed the communist parties of the occupied countries to organize guerrilla warfare, primarily to harass the Germans, forcing them to maintain strong military forces in these countries, which, otherwise, would have been transferred to the eastern front. 🔴In Greece, a secondary objective of EAM - ELAS was to monopolize the guerrilla movement, to be the only armed force in the country after liberation, and to seize power by force. For this reason, according to G. Papandreou, the tactic was as follows: "It does not allow anyone else to rise to the mountains and fight the occupier. It punishes with death the Greeks who fulfill their patriotic duty. A former example is the present colonel Sarafis..." 🔴So, let's talk about Colonel Sarafis, who was made head of ELAS. He was born in 1890 in Trikala, graduated from the Non-Commissioned Officers School and became a second lieutenant in 1913. He sided with the Venizelists and actively participated in the failed military movements of 1933 and 1935. 🔴During the occupation and after discussions with various individuals about creating a resistance organization, a five-member committee was formed (Sarafis, Grigoriadis, Panopoulos, Chatzimpeis and Simos Vlachos), which evolved into the AAA Organization (3A, Struggle – Restoration – Independence). With the approval of the others, Sarafis went to Thessaly to form a guerrilla unit. 🔴After contacts he made there, he moved to Epirus, where on February 7, 1943, he met with Zervas and the representative of the Middle East Command, Colonel Eddie Myers, and they agreed to form guerrilla groups, with three sections: Epirus, led by Zervas; Thessaly, led by Sarafis; and Roumeli, led by Psarros. 🔴As soon as the news spread in Thessaly, EAM considered that with Sarafis’s reputation in the area, he could become a very dangerous opponent. Thus, initially, the mechanism of his moral extermination was put into operation, with the accusations that he was "a collaborator of the Italians" and "a man of the occupied prefect of Trikala." After the slanders did not succeed, EAM decided to take more drastic measures. 🔴After a trap, they treacherously captured him and other armed leaders, as well as 150 guerrillas who followed them. Ultimately, EAM decided that it would be preferable to force him to join ELAS rather than kill him. So, they locked him in a dungeon, and following orders, ELAS guerrillas would pass in front of him, spit on him and label him a "traitor," to break his spirits. 🔴When faced with the dilemma of "ELAS or the grave," Sarafis preferred to save his life. Of course, the communists exploited his joining to convince other former officers who hesitated to join ELAS due to the bad reputation that accompanied him. Of course, the position they gave him, that of the military leader of ELAS, was more "decorative," as decisions were made by the "chief captain" Aris Velouchiotis and the political commissioner Andreas Tzimas. 🔴The results of recruiting officers were mediocre because it had become known how Sarafis was forced to join ELAS. It is historically recorded, the phrase of politician Georgios Kartalis to Sarafis: "You were made commander of ELAS by spitting." 🔴What would have been Sarafis's fate if the KKE had prevailed? There is no doubt that he would have met the same fate as all the "fellow travelers" of the communists around the world. In the first "cleansing," he would be labeled a "agent" and "enemy of the people" and would be taken to the firing squad! Specifically, Sarafis would certainly be labeled an "agent of the Intelligence Service," as he had married British archaeologist Marion Pascoe. 🔴The comments are yours! #Σαράφης #ΕΛΑΣ #Κατοχή (translated)

Zalgiris, in the absence of its main creator and best perimeter player Nigel Goss, would rely heavily on Jonas Valanciunas from the start. Coach Bartzokas (in something he has done many times in the past) went for multiple help defenses in post-up situations when the Lithuanian superstar received the ball, setting the tone that he didn’t want any shots taken from there. Valanciunas' quality, in the absence of a creator, was enough to keep Zalgiris in the game: in a match decided by a single point, Valanciunas dominated, finishing with +13 (something we leverage, as the difference with him on the court was glaring), creating 7 assists, 5 potential assists, and 4 passes to assists (!). This is one of those times when the public discussion is not exactly right: yes, you don't play drop against Fournier. But for Zalgiris, to be within a point against elite teams, Valanciunas' presence on the court is a necessary and sufficient condition - because his quality and impact cannot be matched. So we have two situations: A correct tactical choice on one side (not executing Valanciunas in the post, shifting Zalgiris’ offense to long-range shots or close-outs). And on the other hand, the opponent's quality to find a solution to this correct tactical choice and be well within the game. Great things again this year in the Euroleague! Tomorrow our analysis, along with today’s matches and of course the game of PAO! #Ζάλγκιρις #Valanciunas #Ευρωλίγκα (translated)

Did you know that wild cats living freely in nature do not meow? Then why do domesticated kitties not stop all day? Come on... Therefore, cats, from the moment they were domesticated and stayed close to humans, understood one simple thing. At the cry of the baby, the human... #Γάτες #Φύση #Ζωολογία (translated)