Gremingration: Nearly 500K Left Since Crisis Start
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S O C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkly GrEEk-AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 978 July 9-10, 2016 c v $1.50 Greekmail- Gremingration: Nearly 500K Left Since Crisis Start Gate: Debt Bank of Greece Study Shows Over 1.7 Fund Leak Million Departed in 20th, 21st Centuries TNH Staff 2015.” As Lazaretou told By Clinton Kathimerini, the emigration of ATHENS – A report by the Bank Greeks in search of employment of Greece (BG) titled "Fleeing abroad is still ongoing and when Son-in-Law Invested Human Capital: Contemporary it will halt is unknown. What is Migration Tendency of the certain is that this is the third Heavily as Then-Sec. Greeks in the Years of Crisis," mass migration known to the which was published in country. Of State Shared Info Kathimerini, reveals that In the last 100 years, the 1,764,000 Greeks emigrated country has experienced two TNH Staff from the country in the 20th and other very similar phases and 21st centuries, with more than three key features emerge from Newly released emails from 427,000 of them (ages 15 to 64) their comparative study. All Hillary Clinton’s private server having left since the onset of the three phases a) are long in du - reveal that in 2012, while still economic crisis six years ago. ration, about ten years, b) have Secretary of State, she shared The report compares the cur - an increased intensity regarding classified information about rent situation with previous mi - the intensity of the flow, and c) how Germany viewed the gration phases, analyzes the have a delay in the onset of the prospects for a Greek bailout, as macroeconomic consequences phenomenon in relation to the her son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, and proposes solutions to deal time of the recording of high un - heavily invested in a hedge fund with the phenomenon. employment rates. centered on Greek bonds, Fox "Migration and poverty are The periods of mass immigra - News reported. undoubtedly the two most dis - tion of Greeks are from 1903 to Mezvinski established a $325 tressing consequences experi - 1917, 1960-1972, and 2010-pre - million offshore fund under Ea - enced by a society under the sent, and all three phases are as - glevale Partners in 2012 conditions of a protracted crisis," sociated with economic incen - through a special arrangement Sophia Lazaretou, a BG econo - tives, with the exception of the with Goldman Sachs, Fox News mist and the author of the re - second wave during the years reported. Clinton has made port, told Kathimerini. "In 2013, 1969-1971, which was due to speeches for Goldman Sachs for we see a tripling of the average political reasons (the junta dic - fees totaling $675,000 and has from 2008, and the immigrants tatorship). "It is no coincidence been under pressure to release are more than 100,000 individ - that all three phases took place the transcripts of those uals, while according to all indi - after an intense recessionary dis - speeches, which to this point she cations, the phenomenon con - turbance that widened the gap has not done. The mass immigration of Greeks occurred from 1903-1917, 1960-1972, and 2010-present, and tinues with unabated intensity between our country and devel - The new evidence shows that all three phases are associated with economic issues, except during the years of the junta 1969- in 2014 and is further exacer - she and Clinton Foundation con - 1971, when many left for political reasons. bated during the first half of Continued on page 11 sultant shared the information about Germany vis-à-vis Greece at least with her husband, for - mer president Bill Clinton, in vi - olation of the treatment of what 43rd Clergy-Laity Congress amid a Changing World Goulandris is deemed “protected informa - tion,” Fox reported. Federal regulations prohibit By Theodore Kalmoukos They are valid today as they WEAKNESSES non-Orthodox $3 Billion using public information to fur - deal with strengths, weaknesses, The lack of adequate under - The ease and utilization of ther the private interests of oth - NASHVILLE, TN – In his opportunities and threats to our standing of the Orthodox Faith communication media ers, and even the mere appear - keynote address to the 43rd Archdiocese. We have to keep by the faithful The Orthodox people in key Family Feud ance of conflict of interest or Clergy-Laity Congress on July 4 them in mind in what we do or The limited understanding of business, political and educa - other impropriety raises con - in Nashville, TN, His Eminence plan to do. Among them, there Orthodoxy by those outside the tional positions cerns. Archbishop Demetrios Geron of are the following: Church THREATS TNH Staff Neither Eaglevale nor the America emphasized the STRENGHTS: The low awareness of Ortho - The number of Orthodox Clinton campaign responded to strengths, weaknesses, opportu - The spiritual leadership of doxy in America who are not well informed It’s a story you can’t make up Fox’ request for comment. nities and threats of the Arch - the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese The inadequate funding about their Faith because it’s too convoluted, but Robert Hormats, a former diocese of America. of America OPPORTUNITIES The number of Orthodox rich with Hatfield and McCoy- Vice Chairman of Goldman He said: “let me remind all The skilled and competent The marriage between Or - who are not active participants like internecine family battles – Sachs, along with Clinton of us of some of the findings of Clergy thodox and non-Orthodox in the life of the Church but this one over a $3 billion art shared an extensive email trail, a special research project. They The strong spiritual identity Christians The increasing secularization collection, part of which may or including state department were presented 10 years ago The strong electronic media The emerging technologies The weakening of the insti - may not have already been sold here in Nashville in 2006 in our The competent volunteers and relative resources but wasn’t. Continued on page 5 38th Clergy-Laity Congress. and laity The increase interest from Continued on page 4 Confused? Easy to be when trying to plow through the long saga surrounding the art works owned by the late shipping mogul Basil Goulandris and late Mamidakis’ Galbraith’s wife Elise, a childless couple who were among the world’s Suicide Shakes richest tycoons in the 1950s and Fiery Book for decades later, jet-setting from New York’s Hamptons to Up Bus. World the ritzy Swiss aristocratic scene On the Crisis in Gstaad, or traveling the world TNH Staff on their yacht Paloma. In a detailed look, the Wall ΑΤΗΕΝ S – The suicide of Kyri - TNH Staff Street Journal’s Kelly Crow tried akos Mamidakis, the founder of to sort out the who’s who and leading Greek fuel supplier, James K. Galbraith, an econ - what’s what behind rival claims Mamidoil-Jetoil has troubled omist, academician, and prolific to their art collection, ranging the Athens business community author on economic matters, from Pollock to Monet and in - already upset by the financial has written a new book, Wel - cluding invaluable pieces, 11 Pi - struggles and collapse of several come to the Poisoned Chalice: cassos, six Van Goghs, five large, well-known local compa - The Destruction of Greece and Cezannes as part of a treasure nies. Mamidoil-Jetoil, the the Future of Europe (Yale Uni - that has devotees drooling. Mamidakis’ family-owned busi - versity Press, 2016). The Goulandris collection is ness filed for bankruptcy, then Publisher’s Weekly has now at the center of one of the just two days later, on June 26, deemed it “an eloquent and in - biggest and most complex legal Mamidakis was found dead formed chronicle of the Greek disputes over art in Europe—in - from a single gunshot wound to debt crisis for current readers cluding a bombshell revelation and future historians.” in the Panama Papers, master - Continued on page 11 Holder of the Lloyd M. pieces hidden for more than 20 Bentsen Jr. Chair at the Lyndon years, a secret seller using an B. Johnson School of Public Af - offshore company to put up fairs at the University of Texas paintings for auction and a fight For subscription: in Austin, Galbraith has been a that boils down to one non-ex - 718.784.5255 longtime advisor to numerous istent will and one cryptic one. [email protected] TNH/COSTAS BEJ major Greek government fig - THE STUFF OF MOVIES Update on Progress of St. Nicholas Nat’l Shrine at the World Trade Center ures. His father, John, was a You can’t make this stuff up. world-renowned economist At the center of a 16-year The rebuilding of St. Nicholas is progressing steadily at 130 Liberty Street, a short walk from known for his penchant for real- family feud is a niece of the the church's original location in Lower Manhattan. The original St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church opened in 1916, welcoming Greek immigrants as they arrived from Ellis Island. Continued on page 5 Continued on page 5 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 9-10, 2016 Rare Gems – Angelopoulos Retrospective at Museum of Moving Image By Eleni Sakellis u on their own in search of their O At center, Bruno Ganz and Is - l absent father and will open the u abelle Renauld, in ETERNITY O ASTORIA— The Museum of retrospective on July 8. P AND A DAY (1998), Theo An - O l the Moving Image will present Marcello Mastroianni starred E gelopoulos's Cannes Film Fes - G Eternity and History: The Cin - in The Beekeeper (1986), mark - N tival Palm d'Or winning film.