S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A wEEkly GREEk-AmERICAn PublICATIOn www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 15, ISSUE 783 October 13-19 , 2012 $1.50 Protests After German Chancellor’s Visit, What is Greece’s Next Step? Against Merkel’s Trip Signals Eurozone Seeks to Fed Judge Be More Supportive

Garaufis By Andy Dabilis TNH Staff Writer

Jurist Maligned ATHENS – Declaring German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s six- for Affirmative hour visit to meet him a sign that Greece has ended its inter - Action in FDNY national economic isolation, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras By Mosi Secret turned to the more difficult task The New York Times of convincing international lenders to sign off on a package of $17.45 billion in spending One after another, nearly 150 cuts and tax hikes needed to re - white firefighters approached a lease more welfare aid to the lectern facing a federal judge government. and, voices sometimes trem - Guarded by 7,000 police, bling with anger, decried what snipers and with army and navy they called a perversion of jus - commandos on standby as tice. Years of hard work to make 50,000 protesters were kept far it into the ranks of the depart - away, Merkel offered praise to ment were being tossed aside to Samaras for continuing her de - make way for unqualified mi - PHOTOS: ASSOCIATED PRESS mands for more austerity, but nority candidates, they said, all PM Antonis Samaras and Chancellor Angela Merkel paid close put forth no relief in what was in a questionable effort to end attention to each other (top). They were also attentive in dis - seen as a symbolic gesture of discrimination. cussions with officials and businessmen (left.) In the street, cit - support. The target of their wrath sat izens were not impressed. Riot police fight demonstrators in Germany is the biggest con - silently before them: Judge front of the Parliament (bottom, left) and men dressed as Nazi tributor to a first round series Nicholas G. Garaufis of Federal soldiers are seen in front of a banner reading "Merkel out, un - of $152 billion in rescue loans District Court in Brooklyn, desirable.” from the Troika of the European whose expansive rulings have Union-International Monetary forced the New York Fire De - Fund-European Central Bank partment — “a stubborn bastion (EU-IMF-ECB) but the last in - of white male privilege,” in his stallment of $38.8 billion is on words — to overhaul its prac - hold until the new austerity plan tices to hire more minority can - is passed by the Parliament the didates. government controls. Also in One fireman, Sean Fitzger - limbo is a second bailout of ald, bluntly accused the judge $173 billion. of playing a “social experiment” “The Greek people are bleed - and questioned whether he was ing,” Samaras said of the aus - driven by “socioeconomic prob - terity sacrifices imposed by the lems, personal ambition or inner country’s lenders that he sup - guilt.” ports, adding that Merkel has The remarkable demonstra - displayed understanding and re - tion of opposition, which played spect for those sacrifices, al - out over four days in federal though protesting Greeks were court last week, underscored the furious at her visit. degree to which Judge Garaufis Samaras has Finance Minis - has emerged as the most promi - ter Yiannis Stournaras negotiat - nent and provocative figure in ing with Troika envoys to settle New York City’s most con - differences of $3.2-$4.5 billion tentious integration battle in in the budget plan for 2013-14. decades. Critics have dubbed Samaras wants the deal settled him “Emperor Garaufis” and before a meeting of EU leaders have accused him of being a on Oct. 18 because he said publicity-seeking liberal cru - Greece only has enough money sader whose imposition of racial to operate until the end of No - quotas has jeopardized public vember. Without continued for -

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WITH THIS ISSUE Greek Jobless Nick Gage’s Rate Hits New Sister, Eleni’s High of 25.1% Daughter, 79

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Un - Worcester Telegram employment in Greece hit a record high of 25.1 percent in Ylekeria (Gatzoyiannis) July as the country's financial Economou, whose courageous crisis continues to exact its escape during the Greek Civil heavy toll, official figures War at age 15 to join her siblings showed Thursday. in Worcester, MA was recounted And all indications are that in two books, died here Monday unemployment in Greece will be at Holy Trinity Hospice, sur - heading higher for some to rounded by her family, after a come. The country is widely- long illness. Known as “Lillia”, predicted to enter a sixth year she was born in Lia, Epirus, of a recession, that's already Greece on January 3, 1933. seen economic output slump by As recounted in the book and a quarter and youth unemploy - 1984 film “Eleni” by her brother, ment push way above 50 per - author and producer Nicholas cent. Gage, and in his subsequent "This is a very dramatic result book “A Place for Us”, when Lil - of the recession," said Angelos lia’s mother, Eleni (Haidis) Gat - For subscription: Tsakanikas, head of research at zoyiannis, planned a nighttime 718.784.5255 Greece's IOBE economic re - escape from their Communist- [email protected] search foundation. Tsakanikas held village in 1948, an order added that he does not expect Tourism Minister at Greek Investment Forum in New York came from the guerrillas for two employment to pick up signifi - women from their house to har - cantly for at least a year. In foreground: Yanos Gramatidis, Pres. American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, Nikos Kara - vest grain. The mother chose halios, Secretary Gen. of National Tourism Organization (GNTO), Minister of Tourism Olga Ke - Continued on page 8 falogianni, at the Press office of the Greek Mission to the UN. See story p. 2. Continued on page 6 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012 Greek Investment Forum Assembled in NYC GOINGS ON... n OCTOBER 12 Artist: Mario Frangoulis with By Constantine S. Sirigos clined from about 600,000 in CLEARWATER, FL – The Holy Vasiliki Lavina & Alexandros TNH Staff Writer 2009 and 2010 to less than Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Belles and a 15-Member Orches - 500,000 this year. They know is holding its annual Greek festi - tral Ensemble Conducted by the NEW YORK – Greek govern - they must take a different ap - val at 409 South Old Coachman Composer. Sunday, Nov. 4 at the ment officials and private sector proach with the lucrative U.S. Road from Friday, Oct. 12 to Cooper Union, Great Hall. 7 E. leaders arrived in New York this market, which Sunday, Oct. 14. There will be 7th St. in Manhattan at 4PM. week with a dual message: The Kefalogianni said is a priority, Greek food and pastries, and a Tickets: $50 $75 $100 $125. For Greek government is finally im - something that during the Q & raffle with a Chevy Camaro as a information and reservations: plementing reforms to make the A some guests testified was not grand prize. There will also be a 718-204-8900. country more attractive to in - always the case. The Minister children’s area with activities. For [email protected] vestors and that the “New said they welcome the assis - more information call 727-799- Greece” abounds with opportu - tance of the Greek-. 4605. n NOVEMBER 16 nities in a number of areas Karahalios noted the impact MANHATTAN – The 24th annual where the Greek economy has of negative publicity, but he also STAMFORD, CT – The greater Dinner Gala honoring New York great potential. A press confer - seemed outraged that in the past community is invited to view the State Senator Michael Gianaris, ence on October 9 focused on two years “there have been no American Hellenic Institute 12th District for his Dedication the critical tourism sector and advertising, media, or PR cam - (AHI) documentary “Cyprus Still to Public Service and Attorney featured the Minister of Tourism paigns in the United States,” and Divided: A U.S. Foreign Policy of the Year Kirk Karabelas, Esq. Olga Kefalogianni. that “market research that has Failure” at 6:30 PM, Friday, Oct. Karabelas and Papagianopoulos, At the heart of the trip, which not been conducted for the last 12 at the Annunciation Church LLP and Chairman, Alma Bank. includes visits with investors, decade.” However, he said they of Stamford. After the viewing, The Black Tie Optional affair experts, and key business orga - are now devoting resources now there will be a panel discussion will be held on Friday, Nov. 16 nizations is “The Greek Invest - TnH/COSTAS bEJ to research and that “Instead of including Nick Larigakis, Presi - at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. ment Forum in New York,” Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni with Deputy Minister just making plans in Athens we dent, followed by a panel discus - Cocktails at 7PM, Dinner imme - which was held from October 9- of Development Notis Mitarachi at a press conference. are here, and we are having sion. The event is FREE but diately following. Live entertain - 11 and is the joint effort of the meetings with specialized firms reservations are required at ment by Panos Chrysovergis and American-Hellenic Chamber of for those seeking a clear picture jects that have been stuck for who know the tourist business http://ahiworld.org/rsvp or by Aphrodite Daniels. ADVANCE Commerce (AHCC), represented of the current status and poten - decades are now going through, and with people who are skilled calling the church at 203-322- RESERVATIONS ONLY – NO by its president, Yanos Grama - tial of the Greek economy, and including the granting of li - at getting into the minds of 2093. The event is sponsored TICKETS SOLD AT THE DOOR. tidis, and the Athens Stock Ex - it recommends focusing on censes – after a 14 year delay – American travelers. For example, jointly by the American Hellenic For reservations and information change, whose chairman, Medical Tourism. for the construction of five ho - it is known that Americans are Institute, the Annunciation please email Stacey Pappas at. Socrates Lazaridis, was also a She said the tourism and tels in Crete. These are among more sensitive to security con - Greek Orthodox Church and [email protected] or call 917 - participant. The first day in - health are working together on the signals being sent to the in - cerns when they travel. Stamford AHEPA Chapter #99. 842-6534 by November 2. cluded panel discussions and the legal framework on a prior - vestment community that things One panelist informed the one on one meetings at the ity basis because it will benefit are actually changing. gathering of an initiative by the n OCTOBER 14 TARPON SPRINGS - Center for Bloomberg Corporation’s head - both vital sectors and it is ex - Kefalogianni said more im - ministries of Foreign Affairs and MANHATTAN – The Annuncia - Gulf Coast Folklife Programs Fall quarters. pected to be completed by the portant legislation is coming, in - Development to develop a strat - tion Ladies Philoptochos kicks off 2012 Workshops. Bouzouki It was announced that the end of the year. cluding laws enabling develop - egy for an integrated reposition - its Fall fund raising efforts with Workshops: Hosted by George Forum will be an annual affair OPTIMISM BASED ment of facilities in the sector ing of Greece benefitting invest - a multi-faceted event: a Bake Soffos. Sundays, 2-4 PM, Oct. 7 whose aim is to provide infor - ON REAL PROGRESS beyond the traditional hotels, ments, tourism and its public Sale featuring irresistible Greek & 21, Nov. 11, 18, & 25, Dec. 2, mation on what is happening in Greece’s Deputy Minister of such as golf courses, marinas, image. The group is meeting sweets, a Tag Sale with great bar - 9, & 16, Heritage Museum, 100 Greece. Gramatidis welcomed Development Notis Mitarachi spas, and sports and conference with branding experts in New gains “straight from Yiayia’s attic Beekman Lane, Craig Park in Tar - and introduced Kefalogianni, expressed optimism that the centers. York. & Pappou’s garage”, and, to help pon Springs. October 21 class who spoke of the progress of the combination of fiscal retrench - National laws have been He explained that Samaras you get an early start on your will be at the Center for Gulf structural reforms in Greece in ment and the steady implemen - passed addressing interference wants to make progress on the holiday gift shopping, exquisite Coast Folklife, 101 S. Pinellas Av - general, and in the tourism sec - tation of structural reforms, by local and she said there is laws, infrastructure and facili - hand-made Jewelry by Fotini De - enue in Tarpon Springs. $5 per tor. The early signs of success along with new tranches of aid now a special agency within the ties that impact people’s experi - signs and Fine Quality Cutlery class. George Soffos is consid - include greater cooperation be - and the release of development Ministry of Tourism which pro - ence of Greece, which will be by Cutco. 12 PM – 3 PM (after ered by many to be the best tween ministries, something funds Greece is entitled to, will vides guidance to potential in - the foundation of an advertising the Sunday Divine Liturgy), De - bouzouki player born outside of that could not be taken for dampen speculation that Greece vestors and operates as a “one and public relations campaign. mas Hall, Annunciation Greek Greece. Classes will be divided granted in the “Old” Greece said will leave the eurozone, thus stop shop” for approvals and Karahalios added that, “Strategy Orthodox Church, 302 West 91st into beginning (2-3pm) and ad - Nikos Karahalios Secretary triggering initiatives and invest - permits. and targeted marketing,” bring Street, (at West End Ave.), In vanced (3-4pm) sections. There General for the National ments. TOURISM HOLDING UP, the greatest results, “and exten - Manhattan. 212-724-2070. will be a few bouzoukis available Tourism Organization (GNTO). He said that in response to BUT CAN BE BETTER sive PR on all levels,” which is for beginning students. Kefalogianni emphasized early evidence of the commit - Karahalios stressed that the reflected in the extensive meet - WILKES-BARRE, PA – Attend the Greek Cooking Classes: Satur - that the ministry’s goal is to at - ment of Greece’s coalition gov - Greek brand is still strong, say - ings that are being scheduled 2012 Fall Greek Food Festival, days, 12-2pm, Oct. 13 & 20, Nov. tract tourists throughout the ernment to creating a new in - ing “despite the crisis and the with opinion leaders across the hosted by the Annunciation 10 & 17, Safford House, 23 year. She pointed out the obso - vestment climate, private equity lack of a substantial advertising US . Greek Orthodox Church, 32 East Parkin Ct, in Tarpon Springs. lescence of the “Sea and Sun” firms have shown interest in re - campaign, the number of visi - In response to a question by Ross Street (near the Wilkes- $20 per class, $18 for Cultural model for the sector and the cent days. tors overall continued to rise TNH Senior Writer Demetris Barre Post Office) in Wilkes- Treasures members, $10 for stu - need to introduce new forms of Mitarachi said “the primary and we are optimistic for the fu - Tsakas regarding direct flights Barre from Thursday, Oct. 4 to dents with ID cards. Excellent tourism. The Minister cited the change has been a change in ture.” to Greece, Karahalios cautioned Saturday, Oct. 6, 11AM to 8PM community cooks teach the deli - report by the Athens office of mentality,” in addition to the The overall number of that the importance of direct daily. Greek t-shirts and aprons cious cuisine of the Greek islands the consulting firm McKinsey & change in the regulatory frame - tourists increased 10% in 2012, flights can be overestimated. Ke - will be sold. Church tours will and Cyprus, and everyone enjoys Company titled: “Greece 10 work.” but Karahalios said they must falogianni, however, said some - be offered based upon clergy a meal together after the class. Years Ahead – Defining Greece’s The cutting of red tape is find out why there are fewer vis - thing is in the works in that re - availability. Customers may pre- Join us for food, fun, and fasci - New Growth Model and Strat - now a priority, and examples itors from America. The number gard, which is not ready to be order their food by calling (570) nating cultural insights at the his - egy.” It has become a must read were given. A number of pro - of tourists from America has de - announced. 823-4805 during festival hours toric Safford House! or by ordering online at greek - October 13: Symi – Maria An - foodfestival.webs.com. For more geliadis – fish plaki (stew) & information, please call (570) tourtes (cheese crescents); Oc - 823-4805. tober 20: Crete – Joan Hellenic Relief Foundation Holds Benefit Concert Frangedis—kalitsounia (spinach n OCTOBER 20 pie) & youvarlakia (soup with MANHATTAN – “Movie Night at meatballs in egg-lemon sauce); By Constantine S. Sirigos the Annunciation” proudly pre - November 10: Halki – Nikki TNH Staff Writer sents “My Sweet Canary”, an ex - Christu –fakorizo halkitiko uberant documentary film about (lentils with pasta & fried NEW YORK – The Hellenic Re - the life and career of singer Rosa onions) and horiatki(village- lief Foundation, an initiative of Eskenazy, A Sephardic Jew from style) cabbage salad; November Greek-Americans who wish to Asia Minor who became the most 17: Cyprus – Yiota Theofanus & address the health and nutri - recorded singer of "Rebetika" Eleonora Yiallouros – kleftiko tional needs of the people of songs (Greek blues) in the lamb and pishies (dessert) Greece, presented a fundraising 1920s, with a career that ex - EVENTS: Musical Presentation: concert of Greek musical fa - tended beyond the political Night in the Islands Saturday vorites at the Chian House in boundaries of Greece to the nights, 6-11PM. Oct. 6 and No - Astoria on October 5. Greek Diaspora and spanned vember 3. Sponge Docks. Night The sold-out affair that was many decades. Three musicians, in the Islands recreates the at - enjoyed by all was billed as “A a British-born Greek Cypriot, an mosphere of the Greek islands Hellenic Musical Journey” and Israeli and a Turk, embark on a with monthly outdoor dining on featured Grigoris Maninakis and mission to tell her incredible the Sponge Docks, performances the Mikrokosmos Ensemble with story. “My Sweet Canary” is di - by outstanding musical groups guest singers Makaria Psilliteli, rected by Roy Sher and features Ellada and Odyssey, Greek danc - Lina Orfanos, Anna Elliopoulou, the Greek singer Haris Alexiou, ing, and other arts. Free dance and Elena Toumaras. Yasmin Levy, Mehtap Demir, lessons will be offered from 6- With such a large selection Tomer Katz and Martha D. 7PM beginning Oct. 6. Exhibi - of songs (30) by a broad spec - Lewis. (In Greek, Hebrew and tion: Sacred Arts. Sept. 27-Nov. trum of great Greek composers Turkish, with English subtitles.) 30, Center for Gulf Coast Folklife and lyricists, it was impossible The suggested donation of $15 Gallery, 101 S. Pinellas Ave. Pub - for members of the audience not Violinist Megan Gould, singers Anna Elliopoulou and Elena Toumaras, Grigori Maninakis, supports the philanthropic work lic reception: Thursday, Sept. 27, to feel the music reflected the singers Makaria Psilliteli and Lina Orfanos, and drummer Spiros Arnakis. of the Philoptochos Society 5:30-7:30PM. Religion has been current reality in Greece, from which sponsors “Movie Night”. the inspiration for a rich array the errors of the past and the screen displaying informative nity, which is very concerned dinner for 160 people there and Refreshments will be served. of artistic creations. Whether current struggles and to the images and inspiring messages about Greece,” wants it dona - they really appreciate that Film starts at 7PM. Demas Hall, conveyed through architecture, hopes that a new Greece will while recorded music was tions to make the biggest possi - someone is thinking about them Annunciation Greek Orthodox painting, music, vestments, nee - rise from the ashes of the pre - played. After acknowledging the ble impact. “Whatever we do - in the United States.” Church, 302 West 91st Street (at dle arts, custom, or ritual, beauty sent disaster. presence of Greece’s Consul in nate, in any form is He said they are expanding West End Ave.) in Manhattan. in the expression of the Sacred One early selection was the New York, Evangelos Kyri - accompanied by our presence, beyond Athens, to places like 212-724-2070. is an important aspect of many poignant “ Mikri Ralou” with mu - akopoulos, and Cyprus’s Consul both to underscore the commit - Thessaloniki and Kerkyra and religious traditions. The opening sic by Manos Hadjidakis and General, Taketzis introduced ment that we have, and to reas - they plan to be registered as a n NOVEMBER 2 reception of the exhibit will take lyrics by Nikos Gkatsos, about 40 Maninakis, the evening’s musi - sure our contributors that charitable society in Greece with FLUSHING – Hellenic Public Ra - place from 5:30 to 7:30pm on young men who were drawn into cal impresario and lead singer. monies are being used for the tax-exempt status that will enable dio- Cosmos FM 91.5 is Celebrat - Thursday, Sept. 27. Gallery a fateful game of dice by moon - The more than 400 members purpose they were intended and donations to go even further. ing 25 Years of Broadcasting Ex - hours are Monday-Friday 9AM- light on the seashore. The second of the audience also appreciated in a timely fashion,” Mezitis said. Among the catalysts for the cellence and honor renowned 4PM. half of the program included “To the opportunity, in the words of He explained that on a Foundation were the concerns Composer Yiannis Markopoulos Pepromeno” with the lyrics to one of the foundation’s monthly basis someone repre - of the listeners and guests on with The 2012 Phidippides n NOTE TO OUR READERS “Pepromeno Sou Na Dinis Sima - founders, Dr. Nicholas Mezitis, senting the Foundation’s board Mezitis’ radio program on Cos - Award for Passionate Advocacy This calendar of events section sia” (pay attention to your des - who is also the president of the goes to Greece. Together with mos FM. A meeting was held of Hellenism at The 18th Annual is a complimentary service to the tiny) by B. Dimitriou. Both Hellenic Medical Society of New volunteers there, they purchase last December at the headquar - Phidippides Award Gala. Friday, Greek American community. All evoked the decades of errors and York, “to come and show with the goods on the best possible ters of the Federation of Hellenic November 2 at Terrace on the parishes, organizations and in - failures of Greece’s – and Eu - their presence, that we are cel - terms. They are provided with Societies of Greater New York Park in Flushing at 7PM. stitutions are encouraged to e- rope’s – political leaders who ebrating and helping Greece.” lists of people with documented and they decided to set up the mail their information regarding contributed to the current crisis. Taketzis told TNH the idea needs who receive basic food - group, which undertook the first n NOVEMBER 4 the event 3-4 weeks ahead of Musical optimism was pro - for a concert was born when stuffs to satisfy the needs of a food distributions with their MANHATTAN – Hellenic Public time, and no later than Monday vided by “Tipota Den Pai Maninakis approached some family of three or four would own money. Radio-Cosmos FM 91.5 is proud of the week before the event, to Hameno” (nothing goes to board member in May and said for two of three weeks. People like Prokopis Zervas to present Yiannis Markopoulos english.edition@thenationalher - waste) by Manos Loizos, and the he wanted to do something to More than 400 tickets were and Taketzis travelled to Greece Live in New York. Special Guest ald.com concert’s final song was “Ach support the good work of the sold, therefore more than 400 and made contact with rep - Ellada S’agapo” (oh Greece I foundation. The musicians im - families will benefit. utable organizations that assist love you). mediately agreed to perform pro They are very proud of the the homeless, and they and be - Maninakis invited the guests bono and sat down with Mani - volunteers who work with them gan to recruit volunteers, with QUESTION OF THE WEEK to participate by clapping and nakis to choose the songs they and said the Foundation also whom they are now in daily singing along – and there was would perform. aims to show that there are telephone contact. Vote on our website! even some welcome dancing in The Mikrokosmos ensemble many people in Greece who can The Foundation was recently the aisles. included Glafkos Kontomenitis do good things but “they need incorporated in the State of New You have the chance to express your opinion on our website Many individuals were re - on keyboards, Megan Gould, vi - a little morale boosting,” he York as a non-profit philan - on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - sponsible for concert and the olin and baglama, Yorgos said. thropic entity with a mission of lished in our printed edition next week along with the question rapid philanthropic success of Kostopoulos, bass, Spiros Ar - Mezitis told TNH that the providing support for the Greek for that week. the group whose beginnings date nakis, drums and Kostas Psarros price of a concert ticket will population suffering during the to meetings of concerned Hel - who sang and played bouzouki. meet the needs of a family for a present economic crisis. Tax-ex - The question this week is: Do you think Angela Merkel is to lenes in December, 2011. Stelios Mezitis said what they hope month. He and Taketzis stressed empt status (501(c) (3) with the blame for Greece’s current problems? Taketzis was chosen as the host to accomplish in the community that the concerts costs were all IRS and is currently pending. o Yes of the concert. After warmly wel - is to set an example for other covered by benefactors so that The foundation’s regular o No coming and thanking the audi - and he noted that several groups all revenue will go directly to meetings are now hosted by the o Maybe ence for supporting the cause, in different parts of the country families in need. Cretan Society Omonia and they he said “we came to make a dif - are cooperating with them. “We The Foundation not only pro - deeply appreciate the support of The results for last week’s question: Did you watch the first ference for a better future.” want to help Greece, but there vides food but they sponsor numerous companies, individu - Obama-Romney debate? The mood was set through can be no donation without rep - events to lift the spirits of people als and organizations such as 88 % voted "Yes" darkened auditorium that evoke resentation,” he said, paraphras - in places like the Geroulanion the Chian Federation, who do - 12 % voted "No" the long lost boites of Athens ing a classic American principle. home for the elderly in Athens. nated the hall of the Chios and New York and a large “That means that the commu - “A few days ago there was a nice House for the concert. Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012 COMMUNITY 3 Ambassador John Negroponte to Keynote Washington Oxi Day Celebration

TNH Staff awarded the title of “Righteous racy. Melanne Verveer, U.S. Am - among the Nations” by Israel’s bassador-at-Large for Global WASHINGTON, DC - John Ne - Yad Vashem organization for Women’s Issues, is scheduled to groponte, the United States’ first risking his life to save the lives present the award. Director of National Intelligence of Jewish people during the The Oxi Day Battle of Crete and former Deputy Secretary of Holocaust. According to Yad Award is inspired by the women State, will deliver keynote re - Vashem, upon receiving this of Crete, Greece, who showed marks at the Second Annual award, “Metropolitan Chrysos - tremendous courage in joining Washington Oxi Day Black Tie tomos declared that he was fol - the fight against the invading Dinner on October 25th. Among lowing the example of Arch - Axis forces during WWII. In the distinguished award recipi - reprisal for their bravery: in bat - ents this year are Nobel laureate tle; in hiding and caring for Elie Wiesel, Pakistani women’s wounded fighters; in smuggling rights activist Dr. Fouzia Saeed, arms and messages when they and Chinese dissident and hu - knew that discovery meant cer - man rights activist Chen tain death; nearly 1,000 Cretan Guangcheng. women were killed and an ad - The event is the second an - ditional 500 women were de - nual celebration of the achieve - ported to Germany for taking ments and sacrifices of the peo - part in the defense of their is - ple of Greece and their land,” according to the Founda - contribution to the allied victory tion. in WWII and is presented by The The Foundation describes Washington Oxi Day Founda - Saeed as a “social activist who tion, which was established by brought issues rarely talked Andy Manatos. Left: The presentation of the 2011 Oxi Day Greatest Generation Awards took place at the about in Pakistan, like violence The gathering will also high - National World War II Memorial. The Honorees included: Bob Dole, on behalf of American against women, sexual harass - light the efforts of “the modern WWII Veterans, who was introduced by Tom Korologos. Right: Ambassador John Negroponte. ment and discrimination against day heroes who exhibit the women, into the public dis - same courage as the Greeks did sadors from numerous countries democracy and freedom today. survivor, in combating anti- course and mobilized action to in continuing to fight to pre - involved in WWII, as well as The award winners exemplify Semitism, discrimination and in - address them. By undertaking a serve and promote freedom and Greek-American leaders from today the David vs. Goliath tolerance.” very public and courageous fight democracy around the world,” across the country and WWII courage for freedom and Archbishop Demetrios of against sexual harassment at her according to the website oxiday - veterans.” democracy that Greece exempli - America will preside over this own workplace, she inspired a foundation.org. America turned to Negro - fied in WWII,” a press release award ceremony that is being bishop Damaskinos of Greece, broader movement in Pakistan The Greatest Generation ponte after 9/11 when he was noted, and continued, “It lead co-hosted by the American Jew - who on 23 March 1943, after which culminated in legal and Award will also be presented to appointed as the first Director Winston Churchill to say “If ish Committee at the Historic the first deportation trains left societal changes to benefit Pak - honor an American and a Greek of National Intelligence. He was there had not been the virtue Synagogue at 6th and I Streets, Thessaloniki for Auschwitz, pub - istani women. She is being rec - veteran who served valiantly in responsible for overseeing the and courage of the Greeks, we NW in Washington, DC on Oc - lished an outspoken condemna - ognized with the Battle of Crete WWII. CIA and all other American in - do not know which the outcome tober 25 before leaders of the tion of the deportation of Award for her efforts, which The Dinner will take place telligence services and was the of World War II would have Jewish community and Greek- Greece’s Jews. Damaskinos was both strengthened democracy in on Thursday, October 25 at the principle advisor to the Presi - been.” American community in the known to have said: ‘I have Pakistan and led to greater free - Willard InterContinental Hotel. dent on such matters. His other Wiesel was awarded the Met - United States. Wiesel will accept taken up my cross. I spoke to doms for women.” According to the Foundation, posts included U.S. Ambassador ropolitan Chrysostomos Award, the award in absentia via video. the Lord, and made up my mind The Oxi Day Award, which “Attendees will include policy - to the United Nations. which was created to recognize This award is named after to save as many Jewish souls as honors a man who took coura - makers from the White House, Negroponte “will focus on actions to stop anti-Semitism or Metropolitan Chrysostomos, possible.’” geous action to promote or pro - State Department, Defense De - the importance of Greece’s cru - discrimination. He is receiving who is credited with saving hun - Saeed will receive the Oxi tect freedom and democracy, partment, US Congress, top US cial role in the outcome of WWII the award “in recognition of his dreds of Jewish lives on the is - Day Battle of Crete Award, hon - will be presented to Chinese dis - think tanks and human rights and the importance of such lifelong contribution, as a writer, land of Zakinthos. oring a woman for courageous sident and human rights activist groups, leaders and Ambas - David vs. Goliath courage for professor, activist and Holocaust In 1978 Chrysostomos was action for freedom and democ - Chen Guangcheng. Greeks and Non-Greeks Alike Declare Golden Dawn Not Welcome in NYC

By TNH Staff Vournas. He said Federation He reflected the motivation of In closing, de Blasio said the community,” de Blasio said, and beget violence, oppression and president Elias Tsekerides asked the participants when he noted group “likes to be bold in their added that the purpose of the suffering. I stand with Greek- NEW YORK – When the him to be there in his place. It “We know all too well what hap - negative, xenophobic, racist day’s gathering is to make clear American leadership like AHEPA, rightwing political party from appears the group tried legitimize pens when someone does not statements, but they are not be - “this is what you are going to find who have made clear that ex - Greece, Golden Dawn, an - itself through the Federation. stand up early on and make their ing so bold about where they are if you show your head in Asto - tremist and divisive groups like nounced via the internet that it Vournas said the group ini - voice heard.” Kaplan was fol - going to locate their office in As - ria.” Golden Dawn are not welcome had established a chapter in New tially approached them and lowed by Shira Loewenberg of toria. They are keeping that quite De Blasio also noted the as - in our community.” York, individual Greek-Americans asked to help in their efforts to the American Jewish Committee a secret.” Investigations by TNH sistance of numerous local lead - Also present were representa - and organizations like AHEPA im - gather clothing for the needy in (AJC) “As an organization com - have demonstrated that the New ers including former District tives of the group Aristeri Kinisi mediately expressed their out - Greece. He said they were out - mitted to pluralism and human York Times was mistaken in re - Manager George Dellis. NY State NY, who with groups like Occupy rage. Despite the fact that their raged when it was later discov - rights that is opposed to any form porting that they had already Senator Michael Gianaris, who Astoria LIC were preparing to website has been down for days ered that they had written on the of discrimination, we stand with opened an office. could not attend due to a prior present what they call “an infor - and no offices for the group have boxes “for Greeks only,” and took all those who are gathered here “They made it very clear they commitment, issued a statement mation event,” in opposition to been identified, the outrage and photographs at the Federation in opposition,” to the group’s es - want to establish a presence but that said, "The painful lessons of the Greek party on October 9 at concern has spread to public of - headquarters without its knowl - tablishing a presence in New they also know what incredible our own history have taught us the Church of the Redeemer in ficials and non-Greek organiza - edge. The photos were posted on York. opposition they will find in this that extremism and intolerance Astoria. tions. the group’s website accompany - New York City’s Public Advo - ing a note that they had estab - cate Bill de Blasio traveled to As - lished offices in Astoria. toria to hold a press conference As Federation leaders told The on October 5. He said it was “a New York Times, “we have noth - show of concern here with lead - ing to do with them. What they ers of the Greek Jewish and As - are saying is false,” he said, ex - toria community” and declared plaining “we are a s 501 c 3 or - that the group is not welcome in ganizations and have no associa - New York. tion with Golden Dawn or any De Blasio was blunt, saying political party.” the party “stands for something De Blasio then introduced city absolutely foreign to this great councilman Peter Vallone, Jr., city: for intolerance, division, a who wasted no time, declaring Tickets available at box office before each performance negative attitude towards people “any group that doesn’t look at a or purchase and print on-line at www.nycgreekfilmfestival.com NYIT AUDITORIUM 1871 BROADWAY (Between West 61 and West 62 Streets), NYC, NY 10023

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New York City’s Public Advocate Bill de Blasio held a press Sunday, October 14 conference at Athens Square Park in response to an announce - ment that Golden Dawn opened a chapter there. 2:00 p.m. TWO MEN AND A BABY who are not like them that goes Swastika or hear the name Hitler 4:00 p.m. CHRISTMAS TANGO against everything we believe in and spit is not a group I want New York and as Americans.” anywhere near my neighbor - 6:15 p.m. MAGIC HOUR He shared photos from what hood. The sun needs to set on he said were “from a recent meet - Golden Dawn now.” He re - ing in New York. They are start - minded that in 1979 a Neo-Nazi ing to establish themselves.” He group came to Astoria, and when CINEMA VILLAGE noted text that “says in Greek and his father, Peter J. Vallone, Sr. set 22 east 12 STREET (Just east of Fifth Avenue), NYC, ΝΥ 1003 3 in English: foreigners out of himself against them, they fire - Greece. It’s a xenophobic, anti– bombed his offices. “The commu - immigrant organization.” nity did not back down then are Monday, October 15 He then called up various we will do the same thing now,” community leaders beginning he said. 7:00 p.m. THE FIEND OF ATHENS with NY State Assemblywoman Costa Constantinides, a De - 9:00 p.m. ALPS Aravella Simotas who said, “I am mocratic Party District Leader a woman who immigrated to this who is running for City Council country with my parents when I in 2013, demonstrated that the was an infant. When my family party is not representative of the Tuesday, October 16 came to Astoria – they were wel - Greek-American community. comed with open arms by other “The Greek community is one of 7:00 p.m. CHRISTMAS TANGO immigrants,” she said. the ethnic groups that has come 9:00 p.m. 100 Simotas declared, “I can speak to American and became part of for many Greek-Americans and the grand tapestry of Queens… (Q & A with the director after say we do not accept a group The message of hate and xeno - whose primary purpose is to phobia is un-American and un - screening) spew hate language,” and noted welcome,” he said. that Athens Square Park, where Rabbi Bob Kaplan of Jewish they were standing, was a gift by Community Relations Council of Wednesday, October 17 the Greek–American community New York (JCRC) said when one to Astoria that symbolizes the of the media outlets covering the 7:00 p.m. FRED WON’T MOVE OUT contribution of Greeks and other press conference, which included immigrants New York. “It’s im - DNAInfo, NY1, and the New York (Q & A with the director after portant for us as a community to Times, asked him why he was band together and to show our there, he replied, “It’s plain and screening) outrage that a group like this simple. A no-brainer: Any group 9:00 p.m. CITY OF CHILDREN would even think about coming that represents hate and wraps here,” she said. itself in the message of Nazism is She then noted the presence something that the Jewish com - of the First Vice President of the munity and members of every All films not in English have subtitles.Visit the website for full descriptions of the films. Federation of Hellenic Societies community must stand up of Greater New York, Christos against.” 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012 Protesters Blame Judge Garaufis for FDNY Hiring Unqualified Minorities

Continued from page 1 haul of the state’s system of “They had no idea who I the normal legal issues. housing people with mental ill - was,” Judge Garaufis recounted. After a bench trial in which safety. Mayor Michael R. ness — the ruling was recently “I wasn’t a former prosecutor. I he was the sole arbiter, Judge Bloomberg has called for his re - overturned on appeal on tech - wasn’t a former partner in a ma - Garaufis ruled that the entrance moval from the case. nical grounds. He also twice jor New York law firm. I wasn’t exams were not only flawed, as But the case has highlighted took the unusual step of urging a former magistrate judge. I judges before him had found, the evolution of his thinking on a presidential administration to wasn’t a former state judge. I but that the city had also inten - the government’s role in helping reconsider a death penalty case. didn’t hold any of the positions tionally kept its firefighting minorities. A product of the ma - In scores of drug cases and where they might have learned ranks mostly white. He called chine-driven world of Queens mob trials, he has filled his something about me.” the city’s failure to integrate the politics, he fiercely opposed fed - fourth-floor courtroom with oc - From the start, he did not department a “shameful blight erally mandated integration ef - casional eruptions, jokes and hesitate to demonstrate his au - on the record of six mayors.” forts as a young school board dramatic flair. In one encounter, thority, making quick decisions In January, the city appealed, member from a mostly white a juror tried to escape her ser - in the courtroom and showing accusing the judge of bias and district in the 1970s. Decades vice by detailing her many racial little patience for lawyers who of being enamored of news me - later, he pulled aside a black col - biases, and he punished her by questioned him. He also, draw - dia attention. Hundreds of peo - league on the federal bench and ordering her to continue serving ing on skills honed in his Queens ple gathered in Manhattan this asked him searchingly, “How in perpetuity. In another, one days, showed an aptitude for summer to watch the oral argu - does it feel to be a black person that showed his sense of humor, pushing intransigent bureaucra - ments at the United States Court in society?” he lent his shirt and tie to Vin - cies and working the press. of Appeals for the Second Cir - That question came in the cent Basciano, the fashion-con - Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis has forced the NY Fire De - The case that has defined cuit. Judge Garaufis, who had early days of the now five-year- scious Mafioso nicknamed partment to overhaul its practices to hire more minorities. him more than any other has recently been rebuked and re - old firefighter case. Vinny Gorgeous who had been been the civil rights lawsuit versed by the court in another Since then, Judge Garaufis, accused of plotting to kill him. quotas, and turned down fed - he established himself as a legal against the New York Fire De - high-profile case, did not attend 64, has become a relentless “Judges can’t afford to worry eral money meant to help the adviser for the Democratic Party partment, which claims that the but his law clerks listened as the critic of the Fire Department, about what other people think poorer minority students who and officials, including Con - department’s entrance exams il - appeals judges questioned his unafraid to use the considerable of them,” Judge Garaufis said in were being bused in. As a result, gressman Gary L. Ackerman and legally discriminated against mi - rulings. powers of the bench to advance an interview, which he agreed he was among those called the former Queens borough nority applicants. That case, The appeals court may not his notions of racial justice. to on the condition that he racist by black parents and even - president Claire Shulman. “He brought by the United States issue its opinion for months, but Though his rulings are under would not answer questions tually stripped of power by the is willing to absorb punches in Department of Justice and sup - even though his rulings are in scrutiny from an appeals court, about the firefighter case. school chancellor. order to do what he believes is ported by the Vulcan Society, a jeopardy they seem to already after complaints from the city Judge Garaufis, the grandson “We already have an inte - the right thing,” Mr. Ackerman group of black firefighters, was be having an effect. For the first that he “lost any semblance of of Greek immigrants, has spent grated school district,” Judge said. the latest effort in an integration time in five years, the city stands neutrality,” Judge Garaufis nearly his whole life in Bayside, Garaufis said during the battle, In 1995, President Bill Clin - battle that dragged on for ready to resume hiring firefight - found a measure of vindication Queens. He began his career as in 1978. Using language strik - ton appointed him chief counsel decades without resolution, ers after a record number of mi - last month when he lifted a pro - a lawyer in the late 1970s, ingly similar to that of some of of the Federal Aviation Admin - landing in Judge Garaufis’s nority and female applicants hibition on hiring in the Fire De - worked for the state attorney the firefighters who testified be - istration and five years later courtroom in 2007. took and passed a redesigned partment after a new test used general and returned to private fore him three decades later, he nominated him to the bench. After receiving the case, he firefighter exam this spring; to screen applicants was passed practice. added: “What I feel is unreason - Judge Garaufis’s first wife, turned to a mentor, Judge Ster - nearly half of the 42,000 appli - by a record number of black and In one of his earliest posi - able and unfair is a marathon Eleanor Prescott, a journalist, ling Johnson Jr., for guidance. cants were nonwhite and nearly Hispanic applicants. He ordered tions in public life, he won a of surveys and statistical break - died unexpectedly in 1997, leav - As they discussed the underlying 2,000 were women. Even the the city to grant minority hires seat on the local school board, downs that is unnecessary to ing him to raise two young sons. issues he posed the startling city, whose lawyers fought the retroactive seniority and pay, at representing a district in north - achieve what we have already In 2002 he married Betsy Seid - question of “how does it feel” court-ordered requirements at a cost of as much as $70 million. eastern Queens known for its achieved.” man, a director of a philan - to Judge Johnson. An officer almost every step, praised the Supporters, including the strong schools and stable neigh - Judge Garaufis declined to thropic foundation who was one with the New York Police De - test results. black firefighters who joined a borhoods where many of the talk about the school integration of the members of the Senate’s partment as a young man, That is one reason so few suit filed by the federal govern - longtime Irish, Italian and Jew - case in the interview, or to ex - judicial search committee that Judge Johnson, 78, described to black and Hispanic firefighters ment, claimed the rulings were ish residents were unnerved by plain how his thinking had recommended him for his cur - his colleague what it was like to showed up at the hearings last necessary to fix a biased system efforts to integrate their chil - changed. rent role. serve in the department before week, which allowed the public that had withstood previous ef - dren’s classrooms. After making an unsuccessful The legal community did not it was fully integrated — how, to comment in favor of or in op - forts to increase diversity. The He quickly found himself at run for State Senate — during know what to make of a behind- for example, he was prohibited position to Judge Garaufis’s rul - department remains 90 percent the center of that battle — es - which he secretly recorded a the-scenes political player with from riding in squad cars with ings — leaving the parade of white despite New York’s demo - pousing an opinion sharply at damaging conversation with a almost no trial experience who white officers. Judge Garaufis, comments to their white col - graphic transformation: a ma - odds with the ones he has writ - rival politician and later re - was suddenly presiding on the he realized, was trying to un - leagues. By most measures, they jority of residents here are now ten in the Fire Department case. leased it to the news media — federal bench. derstand something deeper than said, they had already won. nonwhite. Joining with a narrow majority This is not the first case to of the school board, he fought bring publicity to Judge Garau - to prevent the district from col - fis; even other judges marvel at lecting demographic data on the how often he is in the spotlight. school population, viewing it as Emmanuel Meimaris: Trusted Immigration Lawyer He ordered a sweeping over - a first step toward establishing

By Theodore Kalmoukos plete and file all applications, but tion and proper presentation, re - I also prepare my clients for their sulting in delays and adverse BOSTON, MA – Emmanuel V. USCIS interviews and accom - consequences.” Meimaris, a Boston-area attorney pany them on their interview But Meimaris does not worry of Greek heritage, has built a day,” said Meimaris. “I reap great that lawyers will be lacking for solid reputation for acumen in satisfaction from my clients’ suc - work. “People will always need the field of immigration law as cesses.” legal assistance,” he added, “and well as other legal areas. During Other visa categories include new areas of law open up as the his 18 years in private practice, employment, financial invest - world continues to change. Take, Meimaris’ clients have praised ment by foreign entrepreneurs, for example, the constant tech - him as a lawyer whose integrity, extraordinary ability in the arts, nological advances, the widening work ethic and legal knowledge science, education, business, or use of the Internet, and the im - is second to none. athletics, and finally, humanitar - plications on privacy rights. The That is particularly important ian or political asylum reasons. law constantly evolves and ad - in the field of immigration law. Except for the humanitarian cat - dressing new legal challenges is With increased scrutiny on im - egory, USCIS officials evaluate exciting.” migrants entering the United employment and investment visa HELLENIC HERITAGE: States following the 9/11 terror - applications on the basis of how PROMINENT LIFE FACTOR ist attacks, the process for for - the applicant can benefit this Meimaris takes great pride in eigners to obtain a visa for U.S. country. “The USCIS does not his rich Hellenic culture that legal permanent residency – recognize economic hardship as dates back to the Ancient Greek commonly referred to as obtain - a basis for immigration to the Immigration Attorney Em - philosophers – Socrates, Plato ing a “green card” – has grown United States,” said the Boston- manuel Meimaris, of Boston. and Aristotle among them – who increasingly more complicated. area immigration lawyer. “De - so profoundly influenced the de - Fashion Mogul John Varvatos It is an area where Meimaris’ spite the current economic up - Tsiotos, “I have found him to be velopment of Western thought. knowledge of the United States heaval in Greece, there are no a strong advocate for his clients “I’m proud to have a Hellenic Designs Special Edition Cars Citizenship and Immigration Ser - new loopholes in immigration and professional in his dealings background,” says Meimaris, vices’ (USCIS) latest quotas and law for Greeks seeking a new life with other attorneys.” “and I keep in touch with my guidelines, as well as consular in the United States.” Known for his negotiating heritage through my church By Joanna Varikos practices at U.S. Embassies Immigration is a highly com - skills, Meimaris works closely work, participation in a variety greekreporter.com abroad, has helped smooth the plex area of law, and the visa ap - with clients who want to buy or of Greek cultural events, travel path for many foreigners want - plication process can be over - sell a business. He prepares pur - to Greece, and helping fellow ing to live and work in the whelming. If the USCIS denies chase and sale agreements, con - Greeks in need. As part of my Fashion designer and Greek-American John Varvatos joined United States. Meimaris’ desire an application, it could result in tracts, and leases, establishes cor - pro bono work, I collaborate forces with Chrysler to design limited edition vehicles for the to help people is one reason he serious consequences for a fam - porations, and represents clients with the Greek Orthodox Me - car manufacturer, who he also just happened to work for when decided to become a lawyer and ily, a career, and financial inter - applying for local and state li - tropolis of Boston and area hos - he was a kid growing up in Michigan. make immigration law one of his ests. Immigration attorneys pro - censes. 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a the Hellenic culture will continue to evolve and grow.” THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012 COMMUNITY 5 Profile: Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, UConn Nanotechnology Professor

By Theodore Kalmoukos ously].” tration in the nearby blood vesi - work in Patra and Crete, and Translated from the original Papadimitrakopoulos ex - cles, while keeping it far away some of them are in progress, Greek plained that “this microchip is from large veins”. but he acknowledges that he has inserted a few millimeters under Papadimitrakopoulos is the not made as much collaboration the skin and specifically directly founder of Biorasis Inc. as he would have liked. STORRS CT – Dr. Fotios Pa - underneath a watch that serves (www.bio-orasis.com), one of The University of Connecti - padimitrakopoulos, a nanotech - as its proximity communicator. the frontier corporations in the cut (UConn) has about 35,000 nology Professor at the Univer - The microchip is extremely field of miniaturized, im - students, while according to sity of Connecticut, has recently small [like a sliver] and is easily plantable, wireless glucose sen - Prof. Papadimitrakopoulos there realized an invention that is are 8 to 10 faculty of Greek and highly beneficial for diabetic pa - Greek-American descent. He tients. It is based on a tiny semi - notes that “these faculty mem - conductor chip that is inserted bers are serious researchers and a few millimeters underneath clear minds and that the Uni - the skin (in the subcutaneous versity has made a strong in - tissue) and is capable of provid - vestment in infrastructure and ing continuous glucose concen - facilities, as well as allowing the tration readings without requir - Greek community to have a ing patients to prick themselves Center for Hellenic Studies in order to draw blood. within the campus.” Papadimitrakopoulos is a Papadimitrakopoulos was on young and emerging Greek- Dr. Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, professor of nanotechnology the UConn faculty for six American researcher who has at the University of Connecticut and the Secretary of Paideia, months before someone men - contributed to his field with at the latter organization’s new amphitheater at his school tioned to him that there was a noteworthy discoveries. A Hel - (left photo) and in his laboratory (right photo). Greek church under construc - lenist and deep supporter of the tion within the UConn campus. Greek Education, language, and across the water with minimal Papadimitrakopoulos’ post - “I vividly remember the first civilization, he is the Secretary vibration in order to attain high doctoral studies at AT&T Bell time I arrived at the construc - of Hellenic Society Paideia and speeds. “Thus, I began to de - Laboratories were in microelec - tion site, where I found a person a close friend and collaborator velop a liking to newly-discov - tronics and optoelectronics ap - hammering nails on the roof of of its president, Ilias Tomazos. ered materials that are currently plications of these new materi - the church. That person was Il - Born in Athens, Papadimi - used for advanced applications als. He said that “Bell Labs ias Tomazos, the president trakopoulos was raised in his fa - like aircrafts and Formula 1 allowed me to investigate novel Paideia. From the time I met ther’s native city of Sparti, for cars. The materials exhibit ex - properties of these materials, Ilia, I have changed a whole lot most of his youth. He returned ceptional mechanical properties, such as their semiconducting be - inserted using a thin hypoder - sors. as a person. He helped me to to Athens to study chemistry at like strength, stiffness, and are havior, luminescence, and phos - mic needle in a painless outpa - Explaining how Nanotech - understand that the most im - the University of Athens before lightweight, and at that time phorescence. Utilizing the novel tient setting. Here, it is impor - nology got its name, he referred portant thing is not money but leaving to pursue graduate stud - were unequal to all other mate - opto-electronic properties of tant to note that such microchip to the subdivisions of the meter will, and if you have the will, ies at the University of Massa - rials. these materials, we began to is a passive device and useless (i.e. millimeter, micrometer and money will follow. This pro - chusetts, in Amherst, where he “Carbon and graphite com - construct novel devices, which without its proximity communi - nanometer, which are a thou - vided an entirely new dimen - earned a PhD in Polymer Sci - posites are already in use in we put them in use in order to cator. This renders the device sandth, millionth, and billionth sion in my life, and I consider it ence & Engineering. Subse - most racing cars, but they have realize the aforementioned useful for only medical purposes of a meter, respectively). Corre - as a lifelong lesson.” quently, he joined AT&T Bell yet to attain wide adoption in miniaturized biosensors. These and not for trucking. spondingly, the technology in - At the time that he first met Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, the automotive industry. This is newly-discovered properties en - “The microchip stays put un - volving objects with size in the Tomazos, Paideia’s secretary where he pursued two-year due to certain limitations that abled us to develop wireless derneath the skin and doesn’t order of a millionth of a meter was Evangelos Michalopoulos. post-doctoral studies before ac - need to be overcome, such as powering and communication circulate in the blood. He said is termed “microtechnology”, Papadimitrakopoulos said cepting a faculty position at the price and brittle fracture ten - for these sensors, thus avoiding “it is designed to be large while that with sizes at a bil - “when Mr. Michalopoulos left University of Connecticut. dency, [upon collision] they can the need to prick the skin and enough to stay put, yet small lionth of a meter is termed “nan - the United States for Greece, Ilia Papadimitrakopoulos was at - break into many pieces, as op - draw blood, something very im - enough to pass through a regu - otechnology”. asked me to help with the sec - tracted to Chemistry because “it posed to metals that readily col - portant for diabetic patients. lar, 16 gauges, hypodermic nee - With respect to Greece, he retarial position, which I have was the profession of my father, lapse, thus are prone to frag - Moreover, we properly engi - dle.” said that there are many profes - held since.” whose specialty was food and ment-induced injuries. neered the surface of these im - He explained that “the ideal sors that specialize in nanotech - Speaking about the Paideia’s juice chemistry.” [Nonetheless], I am very opti - plantable devices so that they location of the microchip sensor nology, and can be found at Door-Opening Ceremony of the While studying chemistry, mistic that we will soon see cars attain a harmonious coexistence is directly underneath the epi - Democritus Institute, University Open-Air Greek Theater, he material science and in particu - and car parts made from carbon with the body, thus preventing dermis, where small amounts of of Athens, Patra, Crete, Thessa - noted that “we have witnessed lar polymers (i.e. plastics), the and graphite composites. After inflammation and fibrosis (the fat and thin blood vesicles pro - loniki, and Ioannina. He said the realization of an ideal Cen - process of making windsurfing all, these materials are already formation of fibrous tissue) that vide an environment with ample that “when my schedule per - ter of Hellenic Studies, as was boards caught his attention. The in use for the construction of are detrimental to their function body fluid for glucose sensing. mits, I give lectures in Greece. conceived and implemented by boards need to be ultra light and advanced bikes, skis, surfboards, [to measuring the concentration This permits the sensor to accu - Invitations have been extended the pioneering mind of Ilias very stiff so that they glide boats, etc.” of glucose in our body continu - rately sense the glucose concen - for collaborations and joint Tomazos.” In New Book, Psarouthakis Asks Why 21st Century So Daunting for U.S.?

TNH Staff enth book. Its title is what he Jobs! Jobs!’?” versible force – technological calls America’s challenge, The Psarouthakis says the prob - progress.” ANN ARBOR, MI – Greek- Technology Imperative: What lem can be seen clearly accord - Psarouthakis is the founder American businessman, acade - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Really Means ing to a release by his publisher, and president of JP-Manage - mic, and author, John in the 21st Century. which can be found at gavdos - ment Center (jp-mc.com) that Psarouthakis, PhD, just com - Psarouthakis says that Amer - press.com: “Populist political provides CEO and Senior Exec - pleted and published his sev - ica must define its problems be - rhetoric will strangle the free- utive coaching and advisory ser - fore seeking solutions. He uses market generator of wealth for vices in person or via the Inter - that fundamental engineering all Americans, leaving us with a net, strategic growth model principle to demonstrate that a failed economy and a failed na - development and organizational single problem (and opportu - tion. The American capitalist effectiveness. nity) underlies its economic economic engine needs repair, He lectures selectively on 2012 problems. now. It must find new ways of business enterprise and society, He believes the book is rele - sharing the wealth it creates – and on technology and society, Presidential vant to the forthcoming elec - as it did via job creation in the and is currently a visiting pro - tions in November and he asks 20th Century – or the politicians fessor at the University of Edin - a rhetorical question apropos of will ensure that the prevailing burgh in Scotland. Race - Update the political rhetoric he sees at gloom will be warranted.” He was born in Chania, the heart of much of America’s Both history and what he Crete, and grew up there current difficulties: “If the 20th sees on the ground today make through the Second World War By Constantinos E. Century was the American Cen - John Psarouthakis just com - him optimistic according to the and the Greek Civil War. After Scaros tury, why does the 21st Century pleted and published his sev - release: “Just as our 19th Cen - finishing a science-oriented high seem so daunting for America? enth book (above). He is opti - tury farmer nation endured so - school in Chania, Psarouthakis In yet another example If we are still the globe’s leading mistic about the American cial upheaval but prospered in applied to MIT and was ac - demonstrating that presi - manufacturer (and we are), economy. a massive shift to an urban and cepted. Later on, he studied also dential debates do in fact why does globalization terrify manufacturing 20th Century, we at the University of Maryland, matter, the most recent us? If the entire world sends its education system need reform? Why do politicians of every face a new upheaval today. Both and Carnegie-Mellon University. Gallup Poll showed that Mitt best and brightest to American Why is the most affluent nation stripe find maximum traction enormous transitions stem from He lives with his family in Ann Romney had pulled even graduate schools, why does our mired in a stagnant economy? with empty chants of: ‘Jobs! the same all-powerful, irre - Arbor, MI. with Barack Obama, at 47% apiece, following the first debate – which 72% of the voters gave to Romney. Obama’s and Romney’s Johns Hopkins Hellenic running mates, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan, respectively, were scheduled for their one Student Assoc. Fall Reception and only debate Thursday evening, after this edition By Zach Winters and ‘friend raiser’ not a ‘fundraiser’,” went to press. A recap of Johanna Myers he says while addressing his that debate will appear in guests. “The point is meeting old this space next week. Glyndon, MD – The air was friends and making new ones. Meanwhile, Obama got electric at the Johns Hopkins Networking. Bringing people to - some good news last Friday Hellenic Student Association’s gether! I love doing that.’’ when the unemployment (HSA) “Fall Reception & Friend A major theme of the night numbers hit their lowest Raiser.” Organized and hosted seemed to focus on cultural ap - point in 44 months and fell by President of the HSA, George preciation. “There’s such a cross to 7.8%, an important num - Petrocheilos, the event took section of people here,” Aris ber symbolically – as 8% place at Aris Melissaratos’ grand Melissaratos says happily. “It’s seems to have become the estate in Glyndon, MD. The not just about being Greek referendum on whether or guests ranged from top bankers, tonight. America is a cultural not Obama’s policies are CEOs, and leading attorneys to mosaic, and this room is a snap - working. community leaders and elected shot of that. It’s great to see that Former General Motors officials at the federal, state, and everyone is able to be proud of CEO Jack Welch made noise city levels. their own culture and heritage,” when he accused the Bureau Comprising the honorary adding, “Each ethnicity has had of Labor Statistics (BLS) of guest list were former Senator its turn in this melting pot that “cooking the books” to make Paul Sarbanes, Lt. Governor An - is America,” Melissaratos com - the numbers more seem thony Brown, Rep. Chris Van mented. “We all have things to more favorable to Obama so Hollen (D-MD), Rep. Elijah contribute.” as to help his reelection ef - Cummings (D-MD), Rep. John This mindset is reflected in fort. But the BLS, of course, Sarbanes (D-MD), Rep. Andy some of the upcoming events takes incredibly well-regu - Harris (R-MD), former Rep. He - planned by the Hellenic Associ - lated and meticulous steps len Delich Bentley (R-MD), ation. One which Petrocheilos is to insure the integrity of the County Exec. Ken Ulman, and particularly excited about in - process. many others. volves a reception commemo - One has to wonder “It’s pretty special when you rating the bond between the whether all these conspiracy can get five or six congressmen Greek and African-American theorists even understand at a party,” Aris Melissaratos cultures planned for February what the United States of says proudly. 2013. America is all about: that it He is also proud of the work “It’s because of Aris that I is not some flimsy nation of Petrocheilos. “If you were in - have met all of the people in built on smoke and mirrors, vited, then you’ve already met this room,” George says, ad - where anyone can dupe the George. And if you didn’t meet dressing the crowd at large. “I government and 300 million George, then you weren’t in - am blessed that I can spend so people, except for the eight vited tonight,” Melissaratos an - much time with someone so suc - or nine geniuses who fig - nounces, to raucous laughter cessful, so generous and so bril - ured out the diabolical plot. from the crowd, who know that liant.” In any case, with less just about everyone has met “We should also point out than four weeks to go, him. that all desserts were a dona - Obama’s once small-but- But the Hellenic Student As - tions of YiaYia’s Bakery and the solid lead is now in a little sociation’s President made sure Korologos brothers. Ouzo Bay $125 Per Person | Table of 10 for $1,150 bit of jeopardy. Stay tuned! to direct attention to the real fo - donated several cases of Aris cus of the event. “This is a Greek Lager,’’ Petrocheilos said. 6 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012

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9 Μιλώ Ελληνικά DOWNING-FRYE REALTY, INC. mentator on “Monday Night formed their own production the All-Decade Team of the 5 1 7 Football,” died Wednesday. He company and it was Clark who 1960s. 2 was 77. played the role of his wife on Karras later wrote an autobi - Karras had recently suffered Alex Karras “Webster.” ography, “Even Big Guys Cry,” kidney failure and been diag - Recently, his wife said Kar - and two other books, “Alex Kar - TO PlACE yOuR ClASSIFIED AD, CAll: (718) 784-5255, nosed with dementia. The Lions handed the powerful 1962 ras’s quality of life deteriorated ras” and “Tuesday Night Foot - ExT. 106, E-mAIl: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com also said he had heart disease Green Bay Packers their only de - because of head injuries sus - ball.” and, for the last two years, stom - feat that season, a 26-14 upset tained during his playing career. ach cancer. He died at home in on Thanksgiving Day during Ms. Clark said her husband Los Angeles surrounded by fam - which they harassed quarterback couldn’t drive after loving to get ily members, said Craig Mitnick, Bart Starr constantly. behind the wheel and couldn’t Karras’s lawyer. Packers guard Jerry Kramer remember recipes for some of Oldest Greek-American Passes at 109 “Perhaps no player in Lions wrote in his diary of the 1967 the favorite Italian and Greek history attained as much success season about his trepidation dishes he used to cook. and notoriety for what he did over having to play Karras. “This physical beating that he By Theo Karantsalis "Aunt Mary still pushes her after his playing days as did “I’m thinking about him every took as a football player has im - Special to The National Herald own cart at Publix," her “young” Alex,” the Lions’ team president, minute,” Kramer wrote. pacted his life, and therefore it nephew Gus Efthimiou Jr., 86, Tom Lewand, said. For all his prowess on the has impacted his family life,” she Mary Dimakis, the oldest liv - told TNH in 2010. That year, His death also will be tied to field, Karras may have gained told The Associated Press this ing Greek-American in the Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado the N.F.L.’s conflict with former more fame when he turned to year. “He is interested in making United States, has died at 109. and Commissioner Frank Car - players over concussions. Karras acting in the movies and on tele - the game of football safer and Back in 1903, when Dimakis ollo visited Dimakis at home to in April joined the more than vision. hoping that other families of re - was born: the Wright Brothers sing her happy birthday. The city 3,500 football veterans suing the Playing a not-so-bright tired players will have a health - flew the first plane, also issued a proclamation mak - league for not protecting them bruiser in Mel Brooks‘s “Blazing ier and happier retirement.” Henry Ford rolled out the ing Sept. 9 “Mary Dimakis Day” better from head injuries, imme - Saddles,” he not only slugged a Ms. Clark has said he was for - Model A, and Teddy Roosevelt in honor of her community ser - diately becoming one of the horse, but also delivered the mally diagnosed with dementia was president. vice. best-known names in the legal classic line, “Mongo only pawn several years ago and has had Aside from being the oldest She lived a full life, fight. Mitnick said the family had in game of life.” symptoms for more than a dozen resident in Miami, Dimakis also Efthimiou said, and lived alone not yet decided whether to do - Several years before that, years. He joined hundreds of ranked as one of the oldest liv - in a modest Roads section nate Karras’s brain for study, as Karras had already become a bit other former players suing the ing Greeks in the world. In home. Her favorite pastime was other families have done. of a celebrity through George league. March, Mersene Zohos, of rocking her chair by the front Born in Gary, Ind., Karras Plimpton‘s behind-the-scenes “It’s the same thing as back Pocatello, ID, died at 111. window and waiving to neigh - starred for four years at Iowa. book about what it was like to in the gladiator days when the "Right after I was born, my bors. Detroit drafted Karras with the be an N.F.L. player in the Motor gladiators fought to death,” Mr. parents took me to the Jordan Her secrets for a long life in - 10th overall pick in 1958 and he City, “Paper Lion: Confessions of Mitnick, who represents Karras River to be baptized right where cluded daily prayer, eating was a four-time All-Pro defen - a Second-string Quarterback.” and hundreds of others in the Jesus was baptized," said Di - Mary Dimakis Greek food, and having a good sive tackle more than 12 seasons That led to Karras playing suit, has said. “Fans care about makis, who moved from Greece sense of humor. with the franchise. himself alongside Alan Alda in these guys when they’re playing to Miami more than 90 years 1926 hurricane and watched the When asked her age, Di - He was the heart of the Lions’ the successful movie adaptation and they are heroes. But as soon ago. building of the world-renowned makis would sternly answer: "I defensive line, terrorizing quar - — Karras and Mr. Plimpton, who as you’re not a hero and not A Miami pioneer, Dimakis landmarks like the Biltmore Ho - tell people the same thing every terbacks for years. The Lions died in 2003, remained friends playing the fan doesn’t really hunkered down through the big tel and Freedom Tower. year – I’m 39!” THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012 COMMUNITY 7

ALL HISTORY The Roaring 20s Dens of Iniquity? More Tales of the Bloody Greek Barbers

By Steve Frangos types of alcoholic beverages pro - (and frequently did!) go astray. bad, and no good young person TNH Staff Writer hibited. Private ownership and Common for this kind of ar - should do near them.’" consumption of alcohol was not ticle is the text found in the En - Did the Anglo-Saxon youth PART SEVEN made illegal. Prohibition ended glewood Times, a Chicago of this era heed such journalistic CHICAGO- Throughout the with the ratification of the 21st newspaper, in the March 30, warnings? In the Oakland Tri - 1900s tales of Greek barbers are Amendment, which repealed 1906 edition. In this account bune of February 10, 1912 we found scattered across American the Eighteenth Amendment, on one hears of a “fly-cop.” Again find what could well be called a newspapers from sea to shining December 5, 1933. In the following the slang of the period preemptive strike: "Miss Helen sea. As in times past, accounts United States, Prohibition was such a person is an especially Rathburn, 16 years of age, was of Greeks and murders, may - the outgrowth of the Temper - streetwise plains-clothes police - arraigned before Judge George hem, and theft are regularly ance Movement which had its man. The implication here is Samuels on a charge of battery told. Yet for the careful reader, roots in the mid-1800s. As a that the plains-clothed police - this morning for slapping the racial prejudice and the chang - grass-roots social movement, man is like an unseen fly on the face of Chris Galos, a Seventh ing laws of everyday life can the legal prohibition of alcoholic wall. Under the headlines: street barber, who is alleged to also be found in the tales of the beverages was enforced in vari - “Need Watching” and then “A have bothered the school girl by Greek barbers for this same era. ous states before the enactment Wise 'Fly-Cop” Gives Us a Hint staring at her as she passed his Among any and of all these of the Eighteenth Amendment. on the dangers of Some Fruit shop. At the same time Mrs. news accounts on Greek barbers The so-called “Maine law,” Stores and Chop Suey Joints' we Mary Rathburn, mother of the in America, we always find the passed in 1851 by the Maine read: girl and landlady of a lodging bizarre. On September 23, legislature, was one of the first “To the uninitiated the Greek house at 467 7th Street, was ar - 1910, at Thieros Dosokalos' bar - of these state-based laws. Iowa candy store, and even the Chi - raigned on a charge of disturb - bershop on lower 25th Street in had statewide prohibition in nese chop suey joint are harm - ing the peace by aiding and Ogden City, UT the building sim - 1916. less affairs, and as their patrons abetting her daughter in attack - ply fell down. As reported in the But Balderoff, if you are have little to say about them ing the Greek barber. Evening Standard, Dosokalos "at watching the dates here closely, they pass with much better rep - “The two cases were contin - the time of the collapse was en - had not violated any state or utations than they deserve. ued to February 13 for the de - gaged in lathering the face of a federal crime in terms of alco - However, one of the best 'fly- fendants to enter pleas before customer. A second barber was hol. Mason City, IA was the lo - cops' in Chicago told me this the court. It is understood that also at work on a patron's face. cation of one of the largest con - week that the most dangerous at that time the cases will prob - The floor dropped and the wall centrations of Greeks in the criminal breeding places in ably be dismissed. fell out with almost no warning state. The various Iowan news - town were these same harmless “Galos, who caused the ar - and the occupants rushed to the variety of Iowa newspapers will was accused of “illegal posses - papers in which this brief ac - (?) fruit and candy stores and rest of the two women, denies street, thinking that an earth - provide us something of the sion and single sale.” In the lan - count appeared were Akron, chop suey joints, and the latter that he gave the girl any trouble. quake was in progress...The temper of the period. In the first guage of the era, “illegal pos - Carroll, Marble Rock, Monti - were especially the rendezvous He declares that she attacked building is almost a complete two weeks of February 1911, session and single sale” meant cello, Morning Sun, Rolfe and of all that is criminal and bad in him without provocation, strik - wreck and the proprietor of the under the headline “Pleads the sale of alcohol and individ - other small towns and hamlets. both sexes, and he never saw a ing his face several resounding shop moved his barbering Guilty; Pays Fine” we read: “Ma - ual cigarettes. The “single sale” A broader reading on the history decent woman enter one, in - blows with her open hand. The equipments upon the street, son City – Convicted of selling of cigarettes, e.g. selling one in - of Greeks in North America be - spired by curiosity even, but that mother is alleged to have ad - fearing that the entire structure liquor and also cigarettes, dividual cigarette at a time out tween 1870 until World War II it made him shudder. As for the vised her daughter by 'coaching was about to topple." Nicholas Balderoff was fined of a pack, is still illegal. Both of sees Greek owned businesses as, fruit stores, they are the meeting her on the sidelines.' Mother It seems the collapse was due $100. Balderoff is a Greek bar - those men were charged with again employing the language places of young people of both and daughter are out on $35 to the excavations for a new cel - ber and a member of his race the same set of crimes. of the past, portrayed as “dens sexes, whose parents would ob - and $25 bail respectively.” lar next door. As with all too entered his shop for a shave, but Prohibition in the United of iniquity.” A den of iniquity ject did they but know the class As we read on, the two many of those news accounts, was refused and ordered out, he States was the national ban on was a place filled with criminal they were associating with, but women are likely to be acquitted there appears to be no follow- declares. He then filed a com - the sale, manufacture, and activity and wickedness. The doubtless can see no harm in because as any good fly-cop up story. Some restitution must plaint against Balderoff to which transportation of alcohol. In businesses of Greeks and other their daughter or son going to a knows all those dirty foreigners have been given Dosokalos, but he pleaded guilty without trial.” 1920, the ban was mandated by foreign-born people were fre - fruit store. This may not apply want is one thing – to corrupt whatever it was it presumably As reported in the Daily Ken - the 18th Amendment to the quently cited in the American to all stores, but my informant the morals of White Anglo did not strike journalists and ed - nebec Journal on January 13, Constitution. The Volstead Act press as such dens of iniquity is a good man, and a wise one Saxon Protestant youth! itors as newsworthy. 1911 in Kennebec, ME another established the rules for enforc - where young White Anglo- with years of experience, and he A short account found in a Greek barber, George Michaels, ing the ban and defined the Saxon Protestant youth could says: 'Take it from me, they are [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Becoming an Author

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos his coffee now cold from the inquired, curiously. George nod - “I don’t know how much but Special to The National Herald long concentration. ded. this technician went into the “But…” Dimos shrugged. “… “He’s already demonstrated bank the other day with pockets George was first to arrive at you’re not rich! How can you hundreds of pointers. The man’s bulging. I waited across the Dixon’s that particular Sunday. write about something you a genius at it! He should be ad - street. He came out grinning He was deep in meditation as know nothing about?” vising the government. I tell you from ear to ear holding a bank the others ambled in after get - “I know nothing about it but when I’m done with it it’ll be a book and walked away like a ting their coffees and seating I know someone who knows a best-seller. And, I’m going to four star general.” themselves – all, excepting Yian - lot about it. I’m calling it, ‘The charge big bucks for it.” They Just then, Yiannis entered nis who had not yet arrived. Techniques of Economies.’ I will looked at one another with in - and went to the coffee urn. He “What’s up, George?” asked Di - list ways to find inexpensive credulity and doubt. “Hey! I’ve came and sat in his regular seat mos, observing his friend’s seri - items, eat cheaply and still stay got to get something out of it, – his threadbare suit and worn ous demeanor. nourished, get free haircuts, sell too.” Still, skeptical no one said shoes making a statement. “Was it a hard week, items people have discarded anything. George continued. “How’s everything, Yiannis?” George?” asked Kipreos, reach - and dress without shopping at “Look! Anyone can make money asked John, flitting his eyes at ing for a donut. high priced places. In fact, I can by working, right? Well, I’m the others. “Is everything alright at fill several chapters on how to writing about someone who “How can they be?” Yiannis home?” John asked. George economize.” never worked and still has sighed, heavily. “Did any of you looked up as if seeing them for “That’s how one gets rich?” ever. Doesn’t money – lots of it! There’s the notice that the coffee here went the first time. “Everything’s fine asked John, doubtful. George Maybe, he work? Has a bank account, difference!” Suddenly, Dimos up five cents? How can a man at home. And, I’m okay too! But, nodded, “Of course! I’m getting could give you point - too?” Dimos shook his began to suspect who George like me survive, I’d like to I was thinking about something my material from an expert – ers, George.” head. “Can’t be was talking about. know? It can end ugly, I tell you. very important.” the best of economists!” “Nah!” done – unless “This …technician…the one One of you may have to spring “What?” they asked simulta - John offered, “I have an ac - George he’s a thief.” you’re going to write about… for a cup for me next time.” He neously. countant for my business. He waved his “Oh, has lots of money? Are you reached out for a donut. “Or, “I’m going to write a book.” should know a lot but he isn’t hand at their suggestions. “My that’s part of the technique. But, sure?” George nodded, trying to Areti may have to get a second The others looked up, surprised. rich.” technician can outdo your ac - he’ll never be arrested. Larceny keep a straight face. job. Or, we may have to apply “A book!” Kipreos repeated. “My accountant saves me countants. You see, they work – and cunning is part of the for - How do you know that? I for lunch at a soup kitchen.” Di - “What about?” money every year, too, but he this guy doesn’t and has a bank mula.” doubt he’ll tell you if he had mos, patting George’s shoulder, “How to get rich without works hard and I pay him well. account, too.” They looked at “And, this guy will give you money in a bank – or, how whispered, “About that book...” working!” he told them, stirring He could give good advice, how - George, disbelieving. pointers for your book?” Kipreos much.”

FEATURE Not Every Pioneer is the Market Leader: How Fage Lost the Greek Yogurt War

By Al Ries meaningless. "Many assume that ecutive of Muller Quaker Dairy, Ad Age Blogs half efforts can be effective," the joint venture will introduce wrote Carl von Clausewitz, "but "mainstream premium" products What's the leading producer no one wishing to cross a wide that fill a gap between mass of Greek yogurt in Greece? ditch would cross half of it first." brands like Dannon and Yoplait It's not Chobani, the hot Many companies have too and niche brands like Chobani brand of Greek yogurt in Amer - many brands, too many markets, and Fage. ica. It's Fage, with more than too many marketing campaigns. Brands live or die based on 25% market share in Greece. Vi - In a sense, dozens of half efforts their positions in either existing vartia is No.2. Furthermore, that usually leave the brands in or new categories. A brand with - Fage was the first brand of Greek the middle of the ditch. Better out a category is on its way out. yogurt introduced in the Amer - to concentrate all of your re - (Think Yahoo.) ica market. Fage arrived in 1998, sources on a few campaigns that Will "mainstream premium" nine years before Chobani hit have the most promise. ever be a new yogurt category? supermarket shelves. Current And which campaigns have I doubt it. market shares: Chobani, 47%. the most promise? Those that Michael Brandtner, our affil - Fage, just 14%. involve brands that are first in iate in Germany, once suggested Not every pioneer winds up about the features of the product cials, the Barilla spots focused because it's Italy's No. 1 pasta." their categories. to Muller that they market the at the top of the category. Being (thicker and creamier) and focus on creating rapport with con - THE DANGERS NExT UP: MULLER BY brand as "the breakfast yogurt." first in the marketplace doesn't on your leadership credentials. sumers in order to make them OF "NICHE" THINKING QUAKER Good idea. Look what a sim - assure leadership; it only gives "No.1 Greek yogurt in fall in love with the brand. One reason Fage might have The next yogurt brand to try ilar idea did for Folgers. "The you a license to pursue that goal. Greece," for example. There's nothing wrong with a hesitated in launching a full- the American market is "Muller best part of waking up is Folgers Getting into the mind first is In a media-saturated world, "falling in love" approach, pro - scale U.S. marketing attack is a by Quaker," a joint venture be - in your cup." what builds leaders; not getting consumers will ultimately figure vided you add one additional in - belief in the power of a "niche" tween Muller, a large German And on second thought, into the market first. Be honest. out the advantages of Greek yo - gredient: credentials. approach. yogurt maker, and PepsiCo, maybe they could put oatmeal Did you ever hear of Greek yo - gurt and then have to make a What were Barilla's creden - Some clients of ours have ob - which owns the Quaker Oats in the yogurt and have a "two- gurt before Chobani arrived? I brand decision. And which tials? They were featured in the jected to our suggestions be - family of brands. The verbal in-one" breakfast brand. didn't, and I assume most con - brand are they likely to choose? commercials and on the pack - cause they didn't want to alert strategy: "European for yummy." What built Fage into the lead - sumers didn't either. The brand with the better cre - age. "Italy's No. 1 pasta." (Since potential competitors. "Let's keep The two companies are in - ing brand of yogurt in Greece? And look at the Fage packages. dentials. changed to "Italy's No. 1 brand the brand under the radar. Let's vesting $206 million in a plant Silly question. You know what As you can see, you might think THE GOLD STANDARD IN of pasta.") use a niche approach," was their in Batavia, New York, to produce built the Fage brand in Greece. the brand name was "Total." ExPLOITING CREDENTIALS Subtract the credentials from thinking. some 5 billion cups of yogurt a It was the first branded yogurt The company calls its prod - In 1999, three years after the commercials and you have Niche thinking is obsolete. year. in the country. ucts "Fage Total Greek Yogurt," Barilla was introduced in the nothing but mush. Beautiful, en - There are no truly successful "Muller by PepsiCo" is an out - Fage was also the first Greek possibly because competitive U.S. market, the brand became chanting, romantic mush. niche products. There are either landish name, but is "Muller by yogurt in America. That simple products are not "total" Greek the No. 1 pasta in America. Advertisers often confuse niche products that made it big Quaker" much better? Wouldn't idea could have built a powerful yogurt. If so, what does Total 0% Traditional wisdom credits cause and effect. Sure, every ad - (Greek yogurt) or niche products it suggest to consumers that brand. Instead, the company and Total 2% mean? (Fat con - Barilla's success to its barrage of vertiser wants the consumer to that never went anywhere. Muller has found a way to put buried its brand name (Fage) tent, of course, but it's certainly 30-second TV commercials. An fall in love with his or her brand. Who knows until the market oatmeal into yogurt? (As a gen - and its brand new category an odd way to communicate a American woman makes eye That's the effect the advertiser decides? Therefore, a new brand eral principle, why use two (Greek yogurt) under the name simple idea.) contact with a mysterious Italian wants to create. But what's the in a new category should think names when one would do? "Total" set in big, bold type. Is The Fage approach violates stranger who serves her Barilla cause? big and assume the category Quaker adds nothing to the this the way they practice mar - what I call the law of the cate - pasta, all set to vocals by tenor Invariably the cause is some could become a dominant one. Muller name except confusion.) keting in the home country? gory. If you want to be the cate - Andrea Bocelli. variation of the brand's creden - Marketing is like warfare in Then there's the category is - If so, no wonder Greece is in gory leader, you should forget Like many other commer - tials. "The brand must be good the sense that small victories are sue. According to the chief ex - trouble. 8 GREECE CYPRUS THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012 Chinese Company, Which Leased Half of Piraeus Port, is Quite Productive

By Liz Alderman leasing or even selling the rest member of the Dockworkers’ The New York Times of the Port of Piraeus to China. Union, alleged that Cosco was But if the Cosco example is rep - also saving money by cutting PIRAEUS, GREECE – The cap - resentative, the tradeoffs — corners on worker safety. “They tain gazed from his elegant of - mainly a sharp reduction in la - are bringing third-world labor fice overlooking this port on the bor costs and job protection standards to Europe,” he said. Aegean Sea and smiled as tow - rules — might be ones many For Tasos Vamvakidis, ering cranes plucked container Greeks would be loath to accept. Cosco’s commercial manager after container from a giant “Unionized labor will push here, such complaints amount ship, while robotic transport ve - back to keep the protection it to sour grapes. “It’s easy to say hicles fanned out to transfer the has enjoyed,” said Vassilis An - things against Cosco; but when cargo to smaller vessels bound toniades, the chief executive of you come here, you see that for the Mediterranean. Boston Consulting Group in everything works properly,” he Cosco leased half of the Port Greece. For Mr. Antoniades, a said one morning on the Cosco of Piraeus in 2010 and quickly management consultant who dock, raising his voice to be converted a business that had has advised the Greek govern - heard above the machinery’s languished as a Greek state-run ment, union protection is a key din. “We win business by show - enterprise into a hotbed of pro - obstacle to improving the coun - ing that we work 24-7, 365 days ductivity. try’s economy. But the Cosco in - a year.” The cargo volume here is vestment, he said, “shows that Casting a glance at the Greek three times the level it was two under private management, side, he added: “Maybe in other years ago, before the captain, Greek companies can be glob - terminals, people work less. In Fu Cheng Qiu, was put in charge ally competitive.” any case, if it’s so bad, thou - here by his employer: Cosco, a Captain Fu, for his part, says sands of people would not be global shipping giant owned by Greece has much to learn from applying to work for Cosco.” the Chinese government. companies like his. Captain Fu said Cosco took In a 2010 deal that put €500 “The Chinese want to make pains to avoid seeming like an million, or $645 million, into money with work,” he said. In invader, in part by hiring Greek the coffers of Greece’s cash- his view, too many Europeans companies to rebuild the pier strapped government, Cosco have pursued a comfortable, Cosco, a company owned by the Chinese government leased half of the Port of Piraeus in 2010 and to oversee the labor force leased half of the Port of Piraeus protected existence since the and quickly turned around a struggling operation as a Greek state-run enterprise. in accordance with Greek law. and quickly converted a busi - end of World War II. “They He boasted repeatedly that ness that had languished as a wanted a good life, more holi - port, cargo traffic has more than port at the School of Naval Ar - public employees. Cosco had only seven Chinese Greek state-run enterprise into days and less work,” he said. doubled in the last year, to 1.05 chitecture and Marine Engineer - On the other side of the 2.5- managers, who he said trained a hotbed of productivity. “And they spent money before million containers. And while ing in Athens, said it was ineffi - meter-high, or 8-foot-high, their Greek work force up to the The other half of the Port of they had it. Now they have profit margins are still razor thin cient “because worker relations chain-link fence that separates highest standards. Piraeus is still run by Greece. many debts.” — €5 million last year on sales were very cumbersome.” the Chinese and Greek opera - In the gleaming executive And the fact that its business Greece’s troika of foreign of €72.8 million — that is Some workers’ salaries tions, Captain Fu said he would suites abutting Captain Fu’s ex - lags Cosco’s is emblematic of the lenders — the International mainly because the Chinese reached €140,000 a year with love for Cosco to run all of Pi - pansive offices, a recently com - entrenched labor rules and rel - Monetary Fund, the European company is plowing a lot of its overtime; Cosco is typically pay - raeus, if the government put it pleted €1 million renovation at - atively high wages — for those Central Bank and the European money back into the port. ing less than €18,000. On the up for sale. That expansion tested to the efforts in lucky enough to still have jobs Commission — has made simi - Cosco is spending more than Greek side of the port, union would cement Chinese domi - Chinese-Greek corporate diplo - — that have stifled the country’s lar arguments. Among other €300 million to modernize its rules required that nine people nance of one of the most strate - macy. Pictures of sculptures of economic growth. things, they are urging Prime dock to handle up to 3.7 million work a gantry crane; Cosco uses gic shipping gateways to South - Greek gods faced paintings of “Everyone here knows that Minister Antonis Samaras to end containers in the next year, a crew of four. ern Europe and the Balkans. Chinese dragons, while blown- you must be hardworking,” said blanket protections for workers which would make it one of the “It was just crazy,” recalled Such a move, though, might up photos of President Hu Jin - Captain Fu, under whose watch and unions and to require world’s 10 largest ports. Beyond Mr. Psaraftis, who was the chief meet stiff opposition from Greek tao standing shoulder to shoul - the Chinese-run side of the port Greece itself to operate more that, workers are also laying the executive of the Port of Piraeus unions and officials at the Pi - der with Greek leaders adorned has lured new clients, high-vol - like a productive modern busi - foundations for a second Cosco from 1996 to 2002. “I told them, raeus Port Authority, who criti - a cavernous meeting room. ume traffic and bigger ships. ness. pier. if you keep this up, this thing cize Cosco’s approach to labor. “At the beginning, the Greeks In many ways, the top-to- Besides the €500 million that Meanwhile the Greek-run will be privatized. But they “It’s like another country were worried that the Chinese bottom overhaul that Cosco is put half of the Port of Piraeus side of the port, which sustained didn’t listen.” over there,” Thanassis Koinis, a would come in here and take imposing on Piraeus is what into Chinese hands, the Greek a series of debilitating worker Since Cosco arrived, “compe - deputy director at the Piraeus over,” Captain Fu said. “Instead, Greece as a whole must aspire government is receiving more strikes in the three years before tition has forced us to take ini - Port Authority, said one recent we showed the local people that to, if the country is ever to re - income from taxes as a result of Cosco came to town, has been tiatives to find better ways of morning as he stared out the we want to help them develop; store competitiveness to its re - the pickup in business at the forced by the Chinese competi - working,” said Stavros Hatza - window of his dilapidated office we don’t want to take work cession-sapped economy, make port. tion to seek its own path to kos, the general director of Pi - at the cranes soaring above from them and give it to the Chi - a dent in its 24 percent unem - Other than a handful of Chi - modernization. Still, only about raeus Port Authority, which runs Cosco’s docks. nese.” ployment rate and avoid being nese managers, moreover, a third of its business consists the Greek operation. “Employ - Mr. Koinis and some other As Greece struggles to over - dependent on its European Cosco’s operation is providing of cargo handling; the rest is ees think twice about strikes and Greeks accuse Cosco of using haul its economy, Captain Fu neighbors for years to come. around 1,000 jobs to Greek made up of more lucrative pas - labor action now,” he said. And employment subcontractors that said, Cosco represents an oppor - As the Greek government workers — compared with the senger traffic. the ones still on the job have hire temporary, unskilled, tunity for Greek workers — and contemplates shedding state- 800 or so who work the dock For years, the container ter - taken salary reductions, as part nonunion workers desperate for the country itself. “Cosco is their owned assets to help pay down that is still under Greek man - minal was a profitable opera - of the across-the-board wage jobs and exploit them by paying future,” he said. “We are here the country’s staggering debts, agement. tion. But Harilaos N. Psaraftis, cuts of 20 percent or more that low wages. to stay.” it might be tempting to consider On Cosco’s portion of the a professor of maritime trans - the government has imposed on Babis Giakoymelos, a board Greek Unemployment Hits Record High 25.1%

Continued from page 1 ship of the euro currency. at least. Finance Ministry figures said 1.26 million Greeks were The vital rescue loan flows showed that the deficit-busting jobless in July, with more than After losing access to inter - have been frozen until Greece's effort is on track despite lower- 1,000 jobs lost every day over national money markets and conservative-led government than-anticipated revenues. the past year. In the worst-af - nearly defaulting on its moun - manages to save a further €13.5 The ministry said the Janu - fected 15-24 age group, unem - tain of debt, Greece has survived billion ($17.4 billion) over the ary-September deficit was ployment was 54.2 percent. on international bailouts since next two years. €12.64 billion, lower than the The unemployment rate rose May 2010. Finance Minister Yiannis €13.5 billion target. Although from 24.8 percent in June. In However, solvency comes at Stournaras will hold new talks revenues were €1.3 billion off July 2008, a year before a harsh price: To secure and Thursday evening with repre - target, spending was €2.2 bil - Greece's acute financial crisis continue receiving the loans, sentatives of the European lion less than budgeted. broke, there were only about Athens imposed tough austerity Union, International Monetary Nearly three years of belt- 364,000 registered unemployed. measures, such as spending cuts Fund and European Central tightening have aggravated a re - "I'm afraid that unemploy - and tax increases, in an attempt Bank. The so-called troika has cession that has shaved a total ment will remain around cur - to get its public finances in or - to sign off the package for the 25 percent off economic output rent levels in 2013 too," said Greek businessman Vlassis Kambouroglou was found dead. der. release of the funds. since 2008. The contraction is IOBE's Tsakanikas. "Even if eco - More austerity is due if it's Some evidence emerged set to continue for at least an - nomic recovery were to some - not to default on its debts and Thursday that the government's other year. how arrive, the process of job Middleman Linked to ex-Def. potentially abandon its member - strategy is working on one front, Greece's statistical authority creation is always much slower." Minister Found Dead in Hotel Men in Black Present Cyprus with Bill for Bailout By Andy Dabilis claimed during questioning by TNH Staff Writer prosecutors earlier this year that By Tony Barber politician, Mr Christofias terms Kambouroglou was involved in Financial Times them a “colonial force” – but ATHENS – A Greek business - bribing the ex-minister. Greek now he must eat his words. man who authorities believe media reported that Kam - One sensed in July 2011 that As it became impossible this was a middleman helping jailed bouroglou may have had as the European debt crisis was go - year to disguise the overexpo - former Defense Minister Akis much as $8.75 million in secret ing to prove a more hazardous sure of Cyprus’s banking system Tsochatzopoulos run a money- bank accounts. experience for Cyprus than for to Greece, the president’s in - laundering scheme to hide the Tsochatzopoulos had vowed other eurozone strugglers. That stinct was to negotiate a second theft of as much as $1.29 billion to tell all he knew about corrup - was when the island, having just Russian loan of as much as from defense contracts was tion in Greece as the case grew been locked out of world capital €5bn. But someone in the Krem - found dead in a hotel room in against him and more evidence markets, proceeded to lose half lin said nyet, showing that even Jakarta, Indonesia. came to light that authorities its electricity supply. the solidarity inherent in a Vlassis Kambouroglou was said he was stealing money A cache of weapons, seized shared Christian Orthodox, anti- the Managing Director of Dru - from an array of contracts to en - from an Iranian vessel in 2009 imperialist Weltanschauung has milan International, which was rich himself and drive up the and stored in Mediterranean its limits. By some accounts the involved in the sale of a Russ - cost of the equipment. heat near the island’s largest Russians were angling to be ian-made TOR-M1 missile sys - In September, a Greek mag - power plant, exploded in a ball treated as preferred creditors, tem to Greece. Authorities in In - istrate investigating the alleged of fire. For a while, Cypriots like the IMF and European Cen - donesia did not say how he money-laundering racket said were reduced to using cash tral Bank, should Cyprus go died. Kambouroglou was called he was ready to order the boxes instead of electronic tills belly up. This would have been to testify before a Parliamentary seizure of $12.7 million worth and handheld fans instead of air a difficult concession for Mr inquiry into the arms deal in of Tsochatzopoulos’ properties, conditioning. Christofias. Having made an ad - 2004 but denied that his com - the newspaper Kathimerini re - Now the electricity is turned mittedly vague request in June pany made any money from the ported. on again and it is the country’s for EU-IMF aid, he knew well deal. No charges were brought The former head of procure - European partners who are that these creditors would be against him. ments at the Defense Ministry, turned off. At a Monday session AP PHOTO/PETROS kARADJIAS first in line for a full repayment Greek media reported that Yiannis Sbokos, pleaded his in - of eurozone finance ministers, President of European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, right, of loans to Cyprus. authorities believe that Kam - nocence to accusations that he Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxem - and Cyprus' President Dimitris Christofias talk during a meeting As a consequence, the bouroglou was only a front for helped former minister Akis bourg, the acid-tongued host, to discuss Informal European Integrated Maritime policy in Li - shadow of the “men in black” is Drumilan and that it was really Tsochatzopoulos launder some observed that “the Cypriots massol, Cyprus, Monday, Oct. 8. EU Commission President lengthening over Cyprus. Mr operated by Tsochatzopoulos, 80 million euros, ($103.74 mil - aren’t reacting adequately” to Jose Manuel Barroso is urging Cypriots to rally behind austerity Christofias is being dragged like whose cousin, Nikos Zigras, a lion) in bribes for arms con - requests that they prepare an measures that are needed for the country to quickly sign a an errant child into the arms of key suspect in the graft case, tracts. economic reform plan credible bailout deal with the other 16 countries that use the euro. stern foster parents in Brussels enough to justify emergency fi - and Frankfurt. nancial aid. ots of the island’s north. But the €2.5bn loan extended to Cyprus They are considering a Greece, with its swollen pub - July 2011 explosion and its af - was a drop in the ocean of its €10bn-€15bn rescue for Cyprus lic sector and attachment to tax termath took this mistrust to a foreign exchange reserves and but in return want prompt ac - evasion, is usually seen as the new level. a way to stabilise a country tion to slim the public sector eurozone’s most reform-resis - The incident revealed much, loaded with billions of euros in wage bill, improve business tant economy and political cul - not only about safety proce - Russian bank deposits and real competitiveness, reduce tax eva - ture. But that is, perhaps, be - dures in Cyprus but about estate investments. For Mr sion and recapitalise banks. cause Cyprus, which accounts whom Demetris Christofias, the Christofias, it was a way to get It will be no easier for Mr for 0.2 per cent of the area’s eco - island’s communist president, cheap funds and avoid having Christofias to deliver on these nomic output, slips under most and his government, regarded his arm twisted by the Euro - objectives than it has been for people’s radars – though evi - as their friends in a crisis. When peans and IMF. one prime minister after another dently not Mr Juncker’s. Mr Christofias decided last year In the debt crisis the IMF and in Athens since the first EU-IMF Suspicion of Cyprus owes a that Cyprus needed financial as - the Europeans are hardly rescue of Greece in May 2010. great deal to what other Euro - sistance, he turned not to its EU flavour of the month anywhere Less than five years after Cyprus peans view as the stonewalling partners and the International in the Mediterranean. They are joined the eurozone, it is dis - tactics of successive Greek Monetary Fund – as Greece, Ire - known rather rudely in Spain as covering that the membership Cypriot-led governments in their land and Portugal had done – “the men in black”. In language price is higher than it could ever A Russian-made TOR-M1 missile systems. dispute with the Turkish Cypri - but to Russia. For Moscow, the that befits a Moscow-educated have imagined. THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012 GREECE 9 After German Chancellor’s Visit, What is Greece’s Next Step?

Continued from page 1 aging Director Christine Lagarde said Greece should get the two eign aid, Greece won’t have more years he said he wanted to enough money to pay its work - impose more austerity and meet ers and pensioners. fiscal targets to reduce the deficit Fearing a default that could from 9.3 to 3 percent. But the push Greece out of the Eurozone agency also said that the coun - of the 17 countries using the try’s debt will climb to 179.3 per - euro – and jeopardize the whole cent of Gross Domestic Product financial bloc – Merkel tried to (GDP) next year, far from the tar - prop up the Samaras govern - get of 120 percent by 2020 set ment, which includes his New by the lenders. Democracy Conservatives, the “We will spare no time, no ef - PASOK Socialists led by Evange - fort to actually do as much as we los Venizelos, and the tiny De - can in order to help Greece,” La - mocratic Left of Fotis Kouvelis. garde said. The fund’s purpose They, as did Samaras, have re - is “to make sure that Greece is neged on pre-campaign pledges back on its feet, that it can one to resist austerity and given in to day return to markets, that it the Troika. doesn’t have the need for con - Merkel is despised by many stant support.” Greeks because of her insistence THE MOST VULNERABLE on more pay cuts, tax hikes, and While he got the ear of Merkel slashed pensions, but said the and Lagarade, he doesn’t have it country has no alternative other from many Greeks. Labor unions than austerity. “It is worth have called for another general Greece’s while to continue, be - strike on Oct. 18, the second cause if it does not, the situation month in a row that workers will will be even tougher in the fu - PHOTOS: AP PHOTO/lEFTERIS PITARAkIS leave their jobs for a day, and ture,” she said. Above: Protesters try to bring more street protests are looming. Receiving the chancellor after down a police barrier during Samaras put a ban on protests her talks with Samaras, President a protest in front of the par - during Merkel’s visit, an action Karolos Papoulias stressed that liament in Athens, Tuesday not taken since the days of the the public has reached its limit Oct. 9, 2012. Left: The leader ruling military junta, but failed with the unprecedented austerity of the main opposition party as Greeks defied the prohibition of the last two-and-a-half years. SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras is and marched before the Parlia - “The Greek people are experienc - greeted by supporters during ment in mostly peaceful demon - ing trying hours and has nearly the protest in Athens on Tues - strations although anarchists exhausted its limits of en - day Oct. 9, 2012. German again clashed with riot police as durance,” Papoulias said. leader Angela Merkel arrived usual. Samaras told Merkel he will amid draconian security mea - With the next round of aus - follow the Troika’s orders and sures and a mass protest in terity – the fourth for pensioners, tried to persuade her that Greece Athens Tuesday for her first some of whom will now receive needs the next $38.8 billion as visit to Greece since the euro - monthly benefits of around soon as possible and without zone crisis began there three $386, before taxes – the govern - waiting for the Troika to sign off years ago. Her five-hour stop ment has again targeted mostly as she and other EU leaders have is seen by the Greek govern - workers, pensioners and the said, arguing that it is needed to ment as a much-needed boost poor, people who have no chance keep the economy from floun - for the country's future in Eu - but to pay and critics said the dering any further. rope — but protesters view it sense of injustice is fueling more Merkel also said she will sup - as a harbinger of further aus - rage. port Athens’ efforts to secure terity and hardship. Alexis Tsipras, leader of the sorely needed credit for develop - major opposition party Coalition ment projects, particularly from of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) de - the European Investment Bank. administration of then-premier nounced Merkel’s visit as an ex - She also suggested that assis - George Papandreou, who re - pression of support “for a gov - tance may be available from Ger - The top priority on the list is trying to convince the Troika that cut back drastically on spending. signed last year in the face of re - ernment that is on the brink of many's KfW public investment the long-delayed privatization ef - there should be only $9.28 bil - Despite a rise in the Value Added lentless protests against austerity. collapse.” bank, though she did not elabo - fort to sell or lease state-owned lion in savings next year instead Tax to 23 percent, for example, He has gone on to Harvard to Speaking at a protest rally in rate. entities and properties. The OPAP of the $11.26 the lenders want, taxes from restaurants and tav - teach government. front of the Parliament, he said, PUSHING PRIVATIZATION gambling agency is already set but he told them that a strike by ernas have fallen by $1.54 bil - Beyond its economic prob - “Merkel is here to support the NET state television, citing to be sold off and other pending tax collectors has led to revenue lion, 4,000 restaurants have lems, Samaras also has pitched 'Merkelites' of Greece: Samaras, sources in the premier’s office, targets include the site of the for - projections for this year falling closed and 30,000 workers in the the geographic importance of Venizelos and Kouvelis.” Tspiras reported that the money’s dis - mer Elliniko Airport on the city’s by $644.5 million. industry lost their jobs. Greece as the EU’s southernmost said that his party will continue bursement will depend on Southern coast, which was sup - The austerity measures have Samaras has tried to show country near the Middle East and to resist and, “The democratic whether the government can im - posed to become the biggest park largely backfired, hitting a new Merkel and other EU leaders that the growing clashes in Syria, tradition of Europe will not allow plement 89 structural reforms in Europe but now seems set for record for unemployment of 25.1 his government is fragile and be - which has provoked a wave of a European people, the Greek outlined by the Troika. Papan - commercial development in - percent, closing 68,000 busi - ing further weakened by the new immigrants trying to reach people, to become a guinea pig dreou’s government have failed stead. nesses and shrinking the econ - same kind of rising social unrest Europe. of the crisis and to turn Greece woefully in that area. Stournaras was reportedly omy by 7 percent as Greeks have that brought down the previous He got a lift when IMF Man - into a vast social graveyard." With an Eye Toward Her Own Reelection, Merkel Reaches out to Greece

By Harvey Morris were behind the change in tone. when you embark on the elec - International Herald Tribune There probably would never tion trail.” be a perfect time for the Euro - Mr. Marsh said the average LONDON, England – The Greek pean leader the Greeks most German voter was “irritated at authorities welcomed Angela love to hate to brave a trip to the thought of dispatching more Merkel, the visiting German Athens. So why now? taxes or savings to feckless chancellor, on Tuesday by cor - “What’s the justification for southerners, yet is desperate for doning off central Athens, creating a three-ring security cir - the respect and good will to Ger - putting thousands of police of - cus in the Greek capital, a gen - many that comes from public ficers on the streets, snipers on eral strike and quite possibly a displays of magnanimity. rooftops and water cannons on major riot?” Paul Murphy asked “When Ms. Merkel flies to standby. in a Financial Times blog. Athens, she is showing she is in The formidable security op - Alex White of JP Morgan an - charge, and she cares. These are eration appeared to contradict swered Mr. Murphy’s question things the voters expect a Ger - the optimistic assessment of in part by suggesting the visit man leader to do.” Steffen Seibert, Ms. Merkel’s would help her respond to calls Whether the Greek public spokesman, that the chancellor’s by the Social Democrats, a Ger - was prepared to return the com - first visit to Greece since the man opposition party, for her to pliment is another matter. start of the euro zone crisis was be more open about her policy Nick Malkoutzis wrote in the “normal.” toward Greece. Greek daily Ekathimerini on The one-day trip has been “If Merkel were to enter next Tuesday: “No matter how cor - billed as a gesture of solidarity year’s election having never vis - dial discussions between the for Antonis Samaras, Greece’s ited Athens, this would allow German chancellor and Prime conservative prime minister, as the S.P.D. to categorize her as Minister Antonis Samaras are he struggles to meet the terms being; i) insufficiently interested behind closed doors, if there is for the next installment of a in the details of the Greek pro - AP PHOTO/lEFTERIS PITARAkIS mayhem on the streets, that’s bailout package to salvage the gram, and ii) insufficiently con - A banner with the picture of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen during a protest in the image that will be shown on indebted economy. cerned about the impacts and front of the parliament in Athens, Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012. TV sets around Europe.” That, in turn, underlines Ms. reality of adjustment,” Mr. He said those who felt the Merkel’s often-declared commit - White said. bad,” Germany’s Der Spiegel she has insisted in return for aid.” Ms. Merkel’s political future.” unruly Greeks were not worth ment to keeping Greece within She should have visited quoted him as saying. David Marsh, co-chairman of He said Ms. Merkel’s formula saving would have their minds the euro zone. Greece earlier, according to Der Spiegel saw the visit as the London-based Official Mon - for winning an election next made up by what they saw, “es - Ms. Merkel has been sound - Carsten Schneider, one of her part of a charm offensive aimed etary and Financial Institutions year was: “Be nice to Greece pecially if this includes pictures ing more conciliatory toward Social Democrat critics. “The cri - at improving Ms. Merkel’s image Forum, wrote on Tuesday: “Ms. when you travel abroad and of German or E.U. flags being Greece of late, with some com - sis has being going on since in Europe, “where many see her Merkel’s visit has little to do with when you meet their represen - burned or protesters waving mentators suggesting that do - 2009 and just giving advice as indifferent to the hardship securing Greece’s economic fu - tatives in Berlin. Be tough when placards of Merkel dressed as mestic political considerations from one’s desk in Berlin looks caused by austerity measures that ture. It is all to do with securing you speak to the Bundestag or an SS officer.” Turkey's Davutoglu in Talks with New Greek Gov't Merkel in Athens: Greek Protesters Have Focused on the Wrong Villain ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Re - gional rivals Greece and Turkey Wall Street Journal Greece will never reach a sustain - will press ahead early next year able debt level unless public-sec - with a long-planned joint minis - Angela Merkel's trip to Athens tor creditors take a loss on the terial meeting, officials said Tuesday was greeted by violent €194 billion Greece owes the EU, Wednesday. protests and a sarcastic banner IMF and ECB. Greek Foreign Minister Dim - informing her that the Greek cup - Meanwhile, consider this: Be - itris Avramopoulos said the ses - board was already bare. The fol - tween 1999 and its peak in 2007, sion — only the second since an lowing day, Greece's largest per capita GDP in Greece rose by inaugural meeting in 2010 — unions announced a 24-hour gen - 33%, according to Eurostat fig - was expected in January 2013. eral strike to coincide with the ures. The figure was 15% for Ger - He spoke after talks with European Union summit on Oc - many. Even after recent declines, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet tober 18. Greek GDP per capita is up 12% Davutoglu, who is paying his first Scapegoating Germany and its since the euro was founded. visit to Athens since Greece's con - Chancellor for Greece's woes is This is not to dismiss the pain servative-led coalition govern - nothing new in this crisis. But the Greece has felt from seeing the ment was formed in June. latest surge of anger highlights better part of a decade's worth of Relations between the uneasy the gulf in Greece between pop - economic growth wiped out. But NATO allies have improved ular perception and the reality of as the Greeks go to the barricades, greatly since the late 1990s, but what ails the country. Reality is they'd do well to understand that Athens and Ankara remain at that Greece would have gone bust much of that earlier growth was odds over a broad range of issues, in 2010 if Germany and its part - the product of successive govern - including Aegean Sea bound - ners hadn't broken all the EU ments borrowing from abroad aries, the war-divided island of rules to keep Athens afloat with and spending it at home – while Cyprus and illegal immigration. hundreds of billions of euros. hiding the extent of that borrow - Greece is the main transit Athens's creditors aren't done ing. If the cupboard is now bare, point for illegal immigrants en - AP PHOTO/THAnASSIS STAVRAkIS paying either. The International it's not because the Germans have tering the European Union, and Greece's Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, right, and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Monetary Fund admitted last been stealing from it, but because most cross into the country Davutoglu shake hands after a news conference during their meeting in Athens, Wednesday, month what readers of these earlier Greek governments per - through Turkey. Oct. 10. Relations between the two regional rivals have improved greatly since the late 1990s. pages have know for some time: petrated an act of political fraud. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012

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Greece and the Ecosystem of Money: The Placebo Remedy Postmaster send change of address to: THE NATIONAL HERALD, 37-10 30th Street, LIC, NY 11101-2614 It is time to stop seeing the The snowballing the United States current intermediate period, Greek economic situation in a of repaying the pulled its first sur - where either the total fiat credit vacuum, and rather start seeing debts and the pay - prise card of not money system gives in and col - it as it is, i.e., within its current ing up for all the converting dollars lapses through a period of historical context, without of unfunded liabili - for gold in the do - deleveraging, deflation, devolu - Admirable Maturity course denying the need for ma - ties has a dual ef - mestic market), and tion and depression, or consoli - jor structural adjustments that fect: first, it de - inflationary pres - dates until a new international Angela Merkel’s visit to Greece is now history. the Greek economy needs (as pletes existing sures appeared. monetary regime is engineered Now, we can draw some conclusions about the German chan - we have pointed out before). incomes by paying However, the fur - (hopefully it will have an anchor cellor’s trip based on additional information that we have, and Bluntly put, then, growth is up for interest and ther accumulation this time). with a cooler mind given the passage of some, even a small amount, stalling almost everywhere due principal; and sec - of liabilities, i.e. dol - Simply put, this consolida - of time. to the gargantuan amount of ond, it disrupts the lar reserves abroad, tion period dictates the presence There are two important points to be made. Both are related to debt (public and private). Cen - fertilizing process by JOHN continued un - of only one main reserve cur - the Greek side, which, as we have stated so many times, holds the tral banks have been exploiting of productivity CHARALAMBAKIS abated, after the rency, and by default that has key to success. First is that the Greek people demonstrated ad - their balance sheets, applying growth due to 1967 surprise card to be the U.S. dollar. There is mirable maturity. Their participation in the demonstrations was placebo treatments to their sick fears that the Special to was pulled. Con - no doubt that there have been small compared with previous protests. There were fewer incidents, economies. These treatments ecosystem of The National Herald cerns mounted as to periods where two currencies and those were less violent than many had expected. are nothing but sham proce - credit is unstable. ability to convert played the role of reserve cur - Since the summer, many analysts thought that Greece’s remain - dures based on wrong diagnos - In the case of Greece, the euro those dollar liabilities into phys - rencies simultaneously. How - ing in the Eurozone will depend on the Greek people’s reaction to tics. These sham procedures aim bondage is so heavy that it does ical gold, and growth started ever, such incidents need to be the new coalition government’s policies. at buying time, but have been not permit monetary flexibility stalling while the United States viewed in their historical and Most thought that the reaction would be violent, that the people experiencing diminishing re - while it imposes burdens that was losing ground against other geopolitical context, both of would be up in arms when they returned from vacation and found turns. The time will come that misallocate resources. Moreover currencies and against the an - which are totally different the bills waiting. we cannot have two main fiat the prescription enhances the chor (gold). nowadays. But no such thing happened, at least thus far. reserve currencies (the USD and downturn, advances social and It was time then for the sec - Hence, the abolition of the Maybe it is because most people now understand that demon - the euro). One has to go away political instability, all for the ond surprise card, called sus - euro (what we have been calling strations do not lead anywhere. On the contrary, they are destruc - and that will be the euro, (un - sake of clicking to a fetish pension of the gold window for controlled disintegration for sev - tive of the country’s image, driving away investors and tourists. less war erupts as the deus ex (euro) that sooner or later will the international markets. On eral months now) in the ecosys - Maybe it is because they see a government that is at least trying, machina). If that is the case be gone. August 15th 1971, the United tem of money and credit cre - leading to hope for something better. Or maybe it is because they then, the sooner Greece aban - This situation could not have States pulled that card and ation may turn out to be a don’t believe that SYRIZA’s leader Alexis Tsipras, who is on the dons the monetary bondage that been created under the gold growth stalled for good, while necessary condition towards the sidelines restless to take power, is the solution. the euro inflicts, the better off standard since the issuance of stagflation prevailed. The transition to the new interna - Whatever the reason, the result is that the people showed re - it will be. credit was limited by the pres - process was completed two tional monetary regime. It markable maturity. The therapeutic applications years later when the fixed ex - would not then be a bad idea to Unfortunately, most of the international media did not perceive of placebo treatments are inept On August 15, 1971 change regime was abandoned. abandon the Titanic called the it. They focused on the demonstrations rather than the substance in affecting the real things that The United States was forced to euro sooner than later. It is of the visit. matter, such as productivity. The the U.S. abandoned not only use its income to pay quite inconceivable to observe The second point is this: Antonis Samaras risked his career by central banks seem willing to the gold standard off debts (and hence limiting its the desire of many to stay on inviting Merkel to Athens and bestowing the highest honors upon supply unlimited reserves (but growth potential), but also the board (of an ill-conceived and her. However, it turns almost everyone agrees that the visit was a careful not to allow those re - for the fiat money fears about the stability of the ill-executed fiat currency) just success for both leaders. But now Samaras must implement what serves to become actual money system. Stagflation system did not allow the pro - because the maestro ordered he promised to Merkel. It is true that if he carries out these changes supply) for unlimited time, until ductivity machine i.e. the fertil - music being played, even if that Greece will regain a large part of its lost confidence. And it is also the patient (economies) in their arose, and growth izer to function. The indicator music is by Bob Dylan. true that these measures will make the country competitive. delusion – where perception is stalled for good. that the fiat money system was It could be that in his song Yet, the same measures cross the red lines of the labor unions. reality – proclaim that they are unstable was reflected in the “A Series of Dreams” Bob Dylan That is where the real battle – and test of maturity - is expected to better. Like in a dream, it seems ence of physical gold which is price of gold which run from saw the nightmare: take place. The sooner the better. that the fight between the hori - finite. To some extent, it was $35/oz. to close to $500. Some I was thinking of a series of zontalists (those who advocate also under control when the might claim that any similar run dreams that the central banks simply ac - global regime operated under up in gold prices over the last Where nothing comes up to the commodate credit demands) vs. the gold exchange standard decade is coincidental. We top There are No Saviors the verticalists (those who be - (1944-1971) with fixed ex - would simply refuse to engage Everything stays down where it's lieve that central banks control change rates, (where nations with such convoluted rationale. wounded credit) is over, and the horizon - could exchange their dollar re - If the fiat money system were And comes to a permanent stop Saviors. The Greeks are always looking for them. Every time talists appear to have won. The serves for physical gold). Both to survive it had to pull another Greece undergoes a crisis, the people declare “he’s the one” and reason being the total amount systems were anchored, and an surprise card. On October 6, Like in a dream when someone pin their hopes on him. Or her. of credit created (due to “inno - anchored system is stable. The 1979 the Federal Reserve pulled wakes up and screams The savior is pampered. They try to evoke his pity and expect vative” financial instruments) accumulation of liabilities and that card, abandoning the inter - Thinking of a series of dreams him to bestow his grace upon them. Because they are the descen - will either have to be restruc - trade imbalances on behalf of est rate target and adopting a Where the time and the tempo dants of a great civilization, and so on. tured or those demands be ac - the United States in the 1950s monetary target. The surprise drag After the Second World War, the bankrupt British Empire turned commodated by the central and the 1960s allowed for the card gave life to the system for And there's no exit in any over responsibility for Greece’s rescue and oversight to the United banks for some time until a new accumulation of dollar reserves almost 30 years while it also al - direction States. system emerges. abroad. When the fear started lowed the presence of a new fiat Except the one that you can't see From the looks of things, it now appears that America is passing Hence, unless new sources of settling in that the United States currency, the euro. The crisis with your eyes the baton to Germany. The United States offered Greece the Mar - growth are identified along with may not have enough physical that erupted in 2007 was the shall Plan and the Truman Doctrine. Germany offered a "haircut" new resources, economic gold to exchange for those re - natural outcome of an aged sys - We could only add, then: for its debts and new possible loans to Greece. growth as it has been known serves, the fertilizing process tem that lacks an anchor. This Ode to exits that cannot be seen Of course, Washington is watching these developments with since the end of WWII is done. was disrupted (first in 1967, but crisis opened the door to the with the eye! mixed feelings, seeing Merkel received with such high honors in Greece that used to be reserved for American Presidents. Mixed feelings because, on the one hand, they are relieved that they are PRESS CLIPPING not the ones who have to bear the burden of the Greek crisis, that it is not an American president that is making the populace see red, and that it is not the Stars and Stripes that protesters are trampling. The United States is not the object of their hatred, and Merkel’s High-Stakes Trip to Greece Appears Successful Washington is not being blamed for their problems. The United States is also relieved that it is unlikely that things in Greece will descend into chaos between now and Election Day Financial Times ras, Greece’s prime minister, just a strong signal to both sides that coalition partners on the right, here at home. as the government prepares a the game now has to change. who believe she has not been On they other hand, Washington must find it disturbing watching German chancellor shows new round of cuts and tax rises. While stressing that more still tough enough. It is a difficult the influence of this country wane in a country in which it had in - solidarity with her Greek visit. It was also politically astute. needs to be done, Ms Merkel has balancing act that the German vested so much in the past and whose geopolitical importance has Angela Merkel, Germany’s Ms Merkel’s visit should draw a acknowledged that “much of the chancellor has managed with been increasing. normally cautious chancellor, line under a damaging summer ground has been covered”. This some skill in recent months as Nevertheless, there are no foreign saviors for Greece. No deus took a big risk in travelling to of speculation about Germany’s Europe’s debt crisis intensified. ex machina will lift them from their nadir. In this, the Greek people Athens this week. Barely two desire to keep Greece in the eu - She gambled when she backed will be disappointed. hours after her arrival, were po - rozone. Merkel usually avoids the European Central Bank’s Therefore, as important as Merkel’ s visit is, and it was very im - lice using stun grenades and Comments by German politi - risk, but her gamble bond-buying programme, de - portant, indeed, the Greeks need to realize that only they can fix tear gas to disperse angry cians that they did not fear a spite opposition from Jens Wei - their problems. crowds. But Ms Merkel was Greek exit have sowed resent - to travel to Greece dmann, Bundesbank president, There are no saviors. right to gamble. ment in Greece. Public opinion apparently paid off. and did so again in flying to Since Greece embarked on sees no point in accepting more Athens. its deeply unpopular austerity austerity if, ultimately, Berlin public endorsement could help As for Mr Samaras, he now programme, European leaders wants the Greeks out. Germans, Mr Samaras to argue for the ex - has to recognise the risks that Merkel’s Meeting have largely avoided meeting meanwhile, are not prepared to tra €13bn in austerity measures Ms Merkel has taken. Only by the growing dissatisfaction transfer yet more money to a he needs to secure the next swiftly completing the new aus - head-on. As leader of the coun - country, which has failed to im - tranche of rescue funds. terity package and implement - During her short visit to Athens, German Chancellor Angela try blamed for enforcing the plement promised reforms. She has also answered two ing long overdue structural re - Merkel met privately with a very small (7) and selective group of painful cuts, Ms Merkel is the Ms Merkel’s uncharacteristi - opposing camps of critics at forms will he prove to Greek businesspeople. focus of this public fury. In this cally positive message, that the home: the Social Democrats on still-sceptical Germans that One of them was Stylianos Zavos, a Harvard Business Graduate context it took courage to accept pace of reform in Greece “has the left, who argue she has been Greece can be a trustworthy and president of Zeus Capital, with considerable influence in the the invitation of Antonis Sama - picked up considerably”, sends too hard on the Greeks; and her partner in Europe’s recovery. Greek-American community and in general. It is noteworthy that Zavos was not there as the representative of an institution as most were, but as the head of a strong invest - ment fund. The meeting, attended by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras as • Mail Delivery service is available from • Classified services available with a wide well, we are told was quite productive. Services to our readers: coast to coast. 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League, led by Sparta, concluded “Great Powers,” less The Arab Ankara has floated the idea the Thirty Years Peace and ended than superpowers but Spring also, of replacing Assad with Syria’s Sovereignty, and Others the first Greek world war. Al - strong enough to in - among other Vice-President Farouk al-Sharaa. though this global conflict was flict global destabiliza - things, heralded Al-Sharaa is part of Assad’s old One of the most there is no light at confined to the Greek world, it tion. a decline of U.S. guard and a member of Syria’s interesting questions the end of the tun - has offered an insightful view of The general con - influence in long-suffering Sunni majority. in the first Obama- nel. the first use of the balance of sensus is that the Egypt and The Turkish plan will maintain Romney debate in - And in the face power as an instrument of secu - United States, the sole Lebanon, which the status quo in both Syria and volved the candi - of ever-growing rity. superpower, is slowly coupled with the region. Al-Sharaa will keep dates’ view of the demands for The Thirty Years Peace barely giving up its hege - failure in Iraq Syria’s alliances with Russia, role of government. greater austerity, lasted 15 years, but it enabled mony over the Middle by DR. ANDRE and Afghanistan, China and Iran, as well as satisfy This question was a more salary cuts, the Athenians and Spartans to East and attempting to GEROLYMATOS represent signifi - Israel’s insecurities in the after - very pertinent one, and repeated theft transform the ancient Greek city- maintain its predomi - cant setbacks for math of a post-Assad Syria. Fun - and not just for of pensions by the states into a bipolar power stric - nance in the Pacific. Special to American foreign damentally, the Turkish scheme American politics. state, no one in ture. The Athenians and Spar - America has pulled The National Herald policy. A case in aims to establish a balance of The most telling government has tans accepted that this out of Iraq and is in point is the power in the Near East and East - answer – better and by Christopher had the intestinal relationship could only exist be - the process of withdrawing from American impotence to stop the ern Mediterranean where upon more truthful that TRIPOULAS fortitude to come tween equal powers and by so Afghanistan. It is doubtful that slaughter in Syria, albeit, the As - the Americans will accept a Russ - the ones given by ei - Special to out and speak the doing brought to an end a mu - U.S. proxies in these countries sad regime has almost unquali - ian-Chinese presence in the re - ther candidate – is a The National Herald truth: that the cur - tually destructive war. The great will survive much longer, with fied support from Russia, China, gion, and indirectly concede a timeless zinger rent European fis - Peloponnesian breaks out in 431 the exception of India, South and Iran and Israel. Turkey, America’s role for Iran. In other words, all coined by Greek author and cal and economic system is very BC and brings about the destruc - Central Asia will come under the strong Muslim ally in the region, the powers get something and journalist Emmanuel Roidis, flawed, and that no amount of tion of the Athenian Empire, but sway of Russia and China. supports the Syrian Free Army – the people of Syria may even be who said that “political parties austerity will be enough to cor - that was because the Athenians In the Near East and the Lev - the disparate groups that make spared further bloodshed. are composed of groups who rect the situation if there isn’t succumbed to hubris and ig - ant America’s former protégé, up the opposition to Assad. If either the Obama or Rom - know how to read and spell cor - structural change. nored the balance of power. Turkey, is attempting to resusci - Are we witnessing the cre - ney administration accepts a Syr - rectly, are able-bodied, but loath The IMF seems to have fig - During the course of the Cold tate the Ottoman Empire and es - ation of a new balance of power ian outcome made in Ankara; every form of work. ured this out, which is why their War the U.S. and USSR also ac - tablish its own hegemony over which also satisfies Russian, Chi - The people, united under representative Pol Thomsen is cepted the nightmare reality of the Arab Middle East. In the nese Iranian and Israeli interests, one leader – any leader – seek doing just about everything to Mutual Assured Destruction and 1990s, Turkey, with American Is the U.S. ready to they will also indicate that who - to lift him to the post of prime kill the next bailout tranche. established a bipolarity that cre - support, had tried to expand its reduce its role in the ever is in the Whitehouse will minister by any means, so that Germany and the rest of Eu - ated a balance of power that pre - influence over the former Soviet Mideast, thereby shift- concede that America is no he may in turn provide them rope’s best-dressed criminals vented a nuclear holocaust. But Central Asian Republics, but longer willing or able to play with the means to live without running the banks are naturally with the end of the Cold War, the pulled back in the face of Russian ing the power balance? world policeman. They will then doing manual labor.” reacting, because they don’t balance of power the superpow - and Chinese pressure. Indeed, accept a balance of power that Politics – partisan politics – want to incur a haircut on their ers had maintained for half a the Turkish failure in Central as the tensions between Syria recognizes that other countries is all about trying to get an easy share of Greek debt – something century evaporated. The result Asia was also a setback for the and Turkey escalates? When the have valid interests in the Middle ride. And political parties re - they imposed on Greek domes - has been a mushrooming of con - United States. American influ - Syrians downed a Turkish war - East, Asia and ultimately in the ward this disdain for work, this tic funds, virtually wiping out flicts throughout the world. ence receded in the face of plane, the Obama Administra - Pacific and that these interests ingenious laziness, by looking the nation’s pension system. The Middle East, in particular, Russo-Chinese cooperation that tion avoided giving Ankara any have to be addressed. The end out for special interest groups, If this situation wasn’t so is at the center of several power aimed to checkmate their inter - direct support and cautioned re - result of this new balance of constituents, donors… tragic because the livelihoods struggles, the outcomes of which ests in Central Asia. The writing straint. More recently, a Syrian power will not be a weakening (and the very lives) of so many will determine the future of not was on the wall for U.S. interests mortar fired into Turkish terri - of the United States, but the ini - people are at stake, it would be only the region, but also the in the region when Russia and tory, killing one adult and three tial steps towards relative inter - The U.S. Presidential somewhat comical to watch structure of the “Great Powers” China, along with four of the children. Turkey immediately re - national peace and security. election serves to these greedy vultures sit and try of the international community. Central Asian Republics, con - taliated with an artillery barrage remind that when it to poke each other’s eyes out. The term “Great Powers” was in cluded the Shanghai Pact in against Syrian army positions Andre Gerolymatos is professor “Envy, indeed, does not know to use in the 19th century because 2001. The Pact had no other aim and threatened a full-scale con - of history director of the Stavros comes to defective opt for the beneficial” (Bride - no one empire had superpower except security cooperation flict. Over five days both Syria Niarchos Foundation Centre for government, things groom service of Holy Tuesday). status – perhaps the time has aimed to stem American en - and Turkey have been exchang - Hellenic Studies at Simon And throughout the entire come to recycle this concept croachment in the region after ing mortar and artillery fire. The Fraser University in Vancouver. are bad here, and process, government is conspic - even worse in Greece. uously absent. The Greek Gov - ernment didn’t even put up a Mitt Romney’s choice com - fight, opting to allow the nation LETTER FROM ATHENS ments for the 47 percent of to be occupied by a bunch of Americans he doesn’t care about unelected heartless technocrats and Barack Obama’s failure to who can’t even calculate the re - nail even one major insurance cession rate accurately. The Secret Lists of Socialist Leader Evangelos Venizelos executive who has been profit - European governmental ing at the public’s expense re - agencies stood idly by while flect their views on government. bankers, creditors, and a hand - When current PASOK Social - the account holders tainted as stolen would be kept under wraps. In Greece, the situation is ful of nations drive the weaker ist leader Evangelos Venizelos – are Venizelos, the property, why was - Venizelos’ duplicity led one even worse. The troika looks peripheral states bankrupt. was finance minister in the gov - financial crimes n’t Lagarde ar - of his party’s stalwarts, former ready to deliver the death blow In fact, the only decision that ernment of the fallen and failed squad SDOE, and rested? Is it be - interior minister Yiannis to the Greek people, and all the the European Parliament could former prime minister George insiders, because cause she’s now Ragousis, to quit PASOK in dis - Greek Government can do is come up with was fining British Papandreou, there was no tax the government, as head of the Inter - gust, another defector from a stand by idly and trip over its Eurodeputy Nigel Farage nearly hike or pay cut the financial it’s readying yet an - national Monetary party that has fallen from 44 own two feet. $4,000 for telling EU President chief without any financial other round of pay Fund, one of the percent of the vote after win - Ever since the arrival of this Herman Von Rompuy that he training didn’t like. He doubled cuts, tax hikes and Troika of lenders ning the 2009 elections to noxious band of economic as - has “the charisma of a damp rag income and property taxes and slashed pensions propping up the barely 8-10 percent now. So sassins, all Greek politicians and the appearance of a low- taxed the poor under the guise on workers, pen - Greek government much for leadership, and (from all different parties) have grade bank clerk.” of trying to help Greece’s econ - sioners and the with $325 billion in Venizelos had to try to defend been doing is talking about With this in mind, perhaps omy from defaulting. poor, is keeping the by ANDY two bailouts? himself to his party’s lawmakers what a poor job of negotiating the claims made by the organi - He had the second property list secret to protect DABILIS Or, as many in Parliament. If they believed that their predecessors did, and zation “END National Debt” of tax bill put into people’s electric the country’s rich Greeks wonder, is it him, there’s a bridge in Brooklyn how they have the knowhow having deposited bonds up to bills and ordered their lights elite. Special to because the names I’d like to sell them. and negotiating skills needed to US $600 billion in Canadian turned off if they didn’t pay, and The names The National Herald include politicians But this is all part of Venize - turn things around. banks so as to acquire Greece's it was too bad it didn’t happen came from a CD of and public figures los’ sad attempt to remake him - And the more this myth of debt should not sound so to him just to see the look on data stolen by a former software in the circle jerk daisy chain of self as a populist when he’s re - supposed negotiating aptitude strange. his face when the limelight he technician and listed details of incestuous financial dealings that ally just another political spreads, the quicker that Greece Admittedly, this Greek-Amer - prefers always be around him 24,000 accounts from HSBC’s make up the club of Greece’s rich hypocrite (is that an oxy - finds itself sinking in the quick - ican group’s claim to such an go dim. private bank. The CD was given and powerful and those immune moron?) for saying he now op - sand. obscenely large amount of While he was beating his by then-French Finance Minister from prosecution? poses the austerity measures he During the first presidential money – which is attributed to breast for his homeland and said Christine Lagarde to former fi - Financial prosecutors Grig - championed, perhaps sensing debate, both Barack Obama and one man, the benefactor of the he was scouring the land for nance minister George Papacon - oris Peponis and Spyros Mouza - that Samaras’ days are num - Mitt Romney agreed that raising loan – sounds very hard to be - every last euro he never men - stantinou, who was summarily kitis ordered SDOE to investi - bered as everyone from labor taxes on the middle class is a lieve. tioned there were lists of fired by Papandreou and re - gate the list that it lost, and let’s unions to workers, pensioners, recipe for economic stagnation. But those who would dismiss Greece’s wealthy hiding their in - placed by Venizelos as Greece hope they don’t lose this one be - the disaffected and unemployed World class economists like them must be equally vigilant come in foreign banks, includ - was sinking. cause Venizelos might be run - young, anarchists, leftists, right - Joseph Stiglitz have been saying in dismissing the other prepos - ing 1,991 of them said to have Papaconstantinou, who, like ning out of memory sticks. The ists, centrists, the disabled the same thing. But no Greek terous things that have been deposited $1.95 billion in the Papandreou, has moved on to SDOE’s new chief Stelios whose benefits are being cut, prime minister can bring himself taking place during this three- Geneva, Switzerland branch of teach Failed Government 101 at Stasinopoulos, a buddy of Prime professionals, the self-em - to declare this unrelentingly be - year path to perdition that HSBC. Harvard, said he gave it to the Minister Antonis Samaras, a ployed, the unemployed, police, fore the troika tyrants. Greece has been on. Just 20 of them were said to SDOE where it disappeared into charter member of Greece’s Rich military officers, garbage collec - Ever since joining the Euro - After all, instead of defend - have accounts totaling $1.56 bil - the black hole where all incrim - Club, turned over the names tors, doctors, lawyers, pharma - pean Union, Greek politicians ing the nation’s sovereignty lion and it’s unknown how inating data against the rich and and also gave a report to cists, and teachers are ganging have ceased representing posi - (that’s what Greeks have been many, if any, violated Greek law powerful in Greece wind up. Supreme Court Deputy Prosecu - up on him. tions and simply argued that doing, even when odds are by failing to report it to avoid When current Finance Min - tor Nikolaos Pantelis. Venizelos doesn’t want to be they deserve election because against them; e.g. Leonidas and paying income taxes. Switzer - ister Yiannis Stournaras said But still – no names have associated with a government they are better administrators the 300 Spartans vs. the Per - land is a favorite tax haven for he’d find out where it was, been released, unlike a leaked that could fall so he’s laying the than their opponents. Political sians, Emperor Constantine rich crooks around the world be - Venizelos stepped up and said list of 36 politicians, including groundwork to say, “See, I told life in Greece became com - Paleaologus vs. Sultan Mehmet, cause they figure if Swiss banks he had a memory stick as a seven former ministers – being you so!” if it does. If that hap - pletely utilitarian, and as a re - October 28th 1940) and prose - didn’t mind taking money from back-up but never acted on ex - probed to determine why they pens, someone should draw up sult, utterly materialistic. This, cuting those who are responsi - the Nazis they wouldn’t balk at amining the accounts to deter - had so much money in their a list to see who’s responsible in turn, led to the practice of ble for ceding it, successive opening secret accounts from mine if there was tax evasion Greek bank accounts. The ques - for Greece’s downfall, including overborrowing. Greek governments continue people stealing money from going on because it was stolen. tion, of course, is how they man - tax evaders, but make sure this The Greek people have in - negotiating with economic ter - their country and cheating on That didn’t keep the French, aged to make so much money name is at the top: Evangelos curred an unprecedented (and rorists and blackmailers despite taxes. Italians, Spanish, and British and not be smart enough to put Venizelos. in most instances, unfair) loss the fact that the numbers never The only people in Greece from going after tax cheats it in HSBC’s private bank in in their quality of life, and still add up. who know the names – besides based on the data, and if it was Switzerland so their names [email protected] Amid Economic Uncertainty, Cost to Protect Greece’s Public Sector Must Be Rethought

By John Sfakianakis public sector. This leaves fewer mains fierce. Many analysts say Allgemeine in June. Wages in the public sector the country’s national statistical The New York Times and fewer workers in a country that the newfound strength of The two parties, which alter - were on average almost one and service, since December 2009 where the unemployment rate Syriza, the formerly fringe leftist nated in power in the decades half times higher than in the pri - the number of people working For generations, political now hovers around 25 percent group that is now the main op - since the end of military rule in vate sector. Government spend - for the government is down 12 power in Greece has been based to pay the taxes that provide the position party in Parliament, 1974, “increased the taxes to ing on public employees’ percent. But the number of in large part on providing public salaries for the people who work came as support eroded for the unhealthy levels and risked a re - salaries and social benefits rose workers in the private sector has sector jobs in exchange for for the government. governing coalition that is trying cession to protect their clientele by around 6.5 percentage points dropped by 55 percent. votes. To protect workers from The current government, to reform Greece. in the state apparatus,” Manos of G.D.P. from 2000 to 2009, Painful salary, pension cuts being thrown out when a rival formed by the New Democracy, The expansion of Greece’s said. while revenue declined by 5 per - and higher taxation could have party came to power, virtually Pasok and Democratic Left po - huge government sector took centage points during the same been avoided had the public sec - iron-clad job protections for litical parties, while devoted to decades to create, but its growth period. The solution was to bor - tor been downsized from the government workers were en - keeping Greece in the euro in recent years has been partic - The economy can no row more. outset of the crisis. Had the rate shrined in the Constitution. zone, makes no secret of its al - ularly striking. Public employ - longer justify draining Continuous over-consump - of public sector layoffs been Though it was very rare for legiance to its supporters in the ment grew by fivefold from private sector in order tion in the public sector has con - doubled, the country may have a government worker to be dis - public sector. When the coali - 1970 through 2009 — at an an - tributed to productivity losses been close to a surplus in 2011 missed, this did not stop politi - tion was formed in June it im - nual growth rate of 4 percent, to save the public one. and trade imbalances. In a re - and would have likely achieved cians from continuing to hire mediately issued a statement according to a recent academic port last year, the World Eco - one in 2012. The pension sys - supporters — feeding a bloated, saying that “the general aim is study by Zafiris Tzannatos and According to the Organiza - nomic Forum ranked Greece’s tem could have been in better inefficient and expensive public no more cuts to salaries and Iannis Monogios.. Over the tion for Economic Co-operation public institutions No. 84 in the shape, and taxpayers could have sector that was accountable to pensions, no more taxes,” and same four decades, employment and Development, in some gov - world. Germany was 13. avoided paying more while no one. added that it would not carry in the private sector increased ernment agencies overstaffing Public sector wages account earning less. Every political party, whether out any public sector layoffs. by only 27 percent — an annual was considered to be around 50 for some 27 percent of the gov - In the past, a more produc - in the coalition government or Greece’s creditors — the rate of less than 1 percent. percent. Yet so bloated were the ernment’s total expenditures. As tive and expanding private sec - in opposition, fears the conse - troika comprised of the Euro - “Instead of shrinking the managerial ranks that one in the crisis has worsened, Greece tor could have withstood – to a quences of losing the support of pean Commission, the European bloated government apparatus five departments did not have has shed some government degree – the financial drain of a a voting bloc of more than Central Bank and the Interna - and making it more efficient, any employees apart from the workers, mostly through retire - costly and profligate public sec - 700,000 government employees tional Monetary Fund — have New Democracy and Pasok department head, and less than ment, but it has failed to imple - tor. Today, shielding the public and their families. made public-sector layoffs a hardly even touched it,” Ste - one in 10 had over 20 employ - ment a so-called labor reserve sector is no longer an option, So today, for every seven pri - condition for providing the next fanos Manos, a former Greek fi - ees. Tenure ruled over perfor - law last year, which called for especially when it comes at the vate employees who have been tranche of the biggest bailout in nance minister, said in an inter - mance as the factor determining the eventual slashing of 30,000 expense of the rest of the popu - laid off, only one has left the history. But political pressure re - view with Frankfurter pay. public sector jobs. According to lation. 12 FEATURE THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 13-19, 2012 Presidential Candidate Virgil Goode Speaks with TNH, Repudiates Bigotry Accusations

By Constantinos E. Scaros neuver, threatened a lawsuit ney. sales tax on goods. If Congress GENT,” the more likely that it is asked him how he and Ellison TNH Staff Writer against the Constitution Party to IMMIGRATION is unwilling to implement such all a bunch of hogwash. Rather fared as Congressional col - keep Goode off the ballot in Most of the other candidates, sweeping tax reform, then than rely on counter-rumors, leagues, to which Goode To paraphrase a quote from their state, challenging the va - to varying degrees, speak Goode would prefer to change however, I decided to get the replied: “When I saw Congress - the Bible, it very well might be lidity of the 30,000+ signatures vaguely about the need for im - our current income tax system story straight from the man him - man Ellison in the halls of Con - easier for a camel to go through that the party obtained – a num - migration reform, and limit to a flat tax (with no national self. gress, I spoke to him just as I the eye of a needle than for Vir - ber quite plausible considering their preventive measures to sales tax). The key question I asked him did to other members of the gil Goode to be elected presi - the party’s size and that its stopping illegal immigration. PROTECTING AMERICAN was: “Would you treat anyone House.” dent of the United States in headquarters are in Lancaster Considerably venturing beyond JOBS with less respect and deny that NOT A CONSPIRACY 2012. Nonetheless, not only is (PA). The PA GOP declared that that point of view, Goode also Recognizing that windfall person any opportunity based THEORIST his candidacy worth examining, its attorneys’ fees would exceed favors a moratorium on legal profits in corporate America do on his or her race, nationality, Conservative third-party can - but there is a realistic chance $100,000 and vowed to hold immigration – i.e. immigrant not necessarily mean more jobs or religion?” Goode’s answer didates often attract the type of that he might decide this year’s the Constitution Party liable for visas – until unemployment falls for Americans – as corporations was an unequivocal “no.” fringe voters who are “birthers.” election. In an exclusive inter - them. Not wanting to risk such below 5%. Goode realizes that often outsource jobs to China, Goode’s objection to Muslims They insist that Obama was re - view with TNH, Goode discusses an astronomical debt, that party viewpoint is neither politically India, and other nations where centers from his objection to im - ally born in a foreign country. his presidential campaign and relented, and Goode is not on correct nor politically practical labor is much cheaper – Goode migration diversity visas. What Some take the notion further, dispels the rumors that he is a many Americans don’t know is insisting that Obama is some “racist” and a “bigot.” that in addition to the “green sort of “Manchurian candidate,” THIRD PARTY POLITICS IN cards” (legal permanent resi - whose mission is to destroy MODERN-DAY AMERICA dence status) given to aliens America from within. Goode Ronald Reagan, Lester Mad - based on family or employment does not believe that Obama dox, and Eugene McCarthy were reasons, 50,000 diversity visas wants to harm America on pur - instrumental, albeit inadver - are granted every year to aliens pose, but emphasizes that the tently, in securing a victory for from nations that have experi - president’s policies – as well as Jimmy Carter over Gerald Ford enced comparatively low immi - Romney’s for that matter – will in 1976 presidential election. gration rates to the United hurt millions of Americans Surely just about everyone has States over the previous five nonetheless. heard of Reagan, but who in the years. Effectively, that is affir - Goode is not a birther, but world are Maddox and Mc - mative action for immigration. he does not expressly denounce Carthy? My point exactly. (Eu - Goode rails against both major the birthers, either. “I would like gene, by the way is not the “Mc - parties for virtually turning a to hear chief proponents and Carthy” associated with blind eye to illegal immigration, chief opponents of whether McCarthyism. That one was and for not having the courage [Obama] was born in Hawaii Joseph.) Along with Reagan, to curb legal immigration as make their arguments in the they took enough votes away well, at least until America’s presence of each other,” Goode from Ford in 1976 in key bat - economic conditions improve. said. tleground states enabling Carter He lambastes Republicans for THE LOUDEST STATEMENT to win. More recently, there is wanting to flood America with OF ALL strong reason to believe that more immigrants so as to keep Goode’s stance on the na - George W. Bush won the 2000 wages low and, in turn, corpo - tion’s prevalent issues is bold election because of Ralph Nader. rate profits high, and says the and unequivocal. Accordingly, Forget the recount and the en - Democrats want to bring in im - he will have many supporters suing legal battles: it all came migrants from nations that and detractors. And even down to Florida, which Bush would tend to vote Democratic though many will agree with won by 537 votes. Had the left- – including ones with substan - what Goode says, they will hes - leaning Nader not been in the tial Muslim populations. That is itate to vote for him for fear of race, the lion’s share of his the crux of Goode’s “anti-Mus - “throwing away” their vote. It 97,488 votes surely would have lim” sentiment. is important to note, then, that gone to the Democrat (Al Gore) The other part has to do with much of the sweeping reform rather than the Republican AP PHOTO/DOn PETERSEn, FIlE Goode’s objection in 2006 to that has taken place in Ameri - (Bush). Presidential Candidate Virgil Goode seen here campaigning Lynchburg, VA, his home state, where Congressman Keith Ellison’s pri - can history – such as guarantee - That brings us to Goode his support might be strong enough to tip the scales and decide the entire election. He says he’s vate swearing-in ceremony on a ing the right of women and per - (whose name rhymes with not a spoiler, because there is no real difference between Obama and Romney, anyway. copy of the Quran (officially, in - sons of color to vote – happened “food,” not with “good”). A for - coming members of Congress because a third party candidate mer six-term Congressman from the ballot. Pennsylvanians may (immigration has long been con - wants to repeal any agreements are sworn in en masse). Ironi - ran and lost – yes, lost. Virginia who has been both a still write in his name on Elec - sidered a “third rail” issue that that do not protect American la - cally, it was a copy of Virginian Often times, when third Democrat and a Republican and tion Day. (By the way, far too politicians of both major parties bor, and bring outsourced jobs Thomas Jefferson’s Quran that party candidates lost but gained has since parted ways with both many Americans do not realize are afraid to touch, for fear of back to the United States. Ellison, an American-born Mus - enough attention, one of the major parties, Goode is the pres - they are not limited to the can - alienating the sizeable Latino- Other Issues lim, had borrowed for the occa - two major parties adopted their idential nominee of the conser - didates they see on the ballot – American population), but he Goode is staunchly pro-life, sion. Goode’s reaction, taken on popular ideas anyway. The can - vative/libertarian Constitution they can write in other candi - emphasizes that each year, hun - strongly supports gunowners’ its face, would certainly sound didate may have lost, but the Party – which in recent years dates’ names.) dreds of thousands of new im - rights, wants to establish Eng - offensive: that the oath should idea won. has become the third-largest po - But Goode does not see him - migrants enter the American la - lish as the official language in be taken on the Bible, not on Of course, none of that mat - litical party in the United States. self as a spoiler candidate, be - bor force, directly competing the United States, and favors the Quran, and that unless we ters to folks who think that The reason Goode’s candidacy cause as far as he is concerned, with American citizens for pre - Constitutional amendments that change our immigration laws, a Obama is clearly superior to may be catalytic is because pres - it doesn’t really matter whether cious few jobs. Goode would set Congressional term limits majority of Congress will take Romney, or vice versa. Obama’s idential elections are not de - Obama wins or Romney wins. provide for some exceptions to and that would define marriage the oath on the Quran someday. supporters will vote for their cided by a national popular In his words, they are “Twee - the moratorium, such as permit - as being only between one man Goode explained to me what man, and hope that if disgrun - vote. Instead, the winner must dledum and Tweedledee.” (I call ting visas for aliens with extra - and one woman. Goode also he meant: first, religion aside, tled Republicans can't bring attain a majority of electoral them “Obamney,” but the idea ordinary skills and abilities, and pledges to take big money out he considers the Bible the tradi - themselves to do so, too, then votes, which are determined is the same.) those engaged to American citi - of politics. Leading by example, tional book used for swearing- at least they’ll vote for Goode state by state. The overwhelm - GOODE ON THE ISSUES zens. he does not accept any Political in processes. His comment and not for Romney. Meanwhile, ing majority of states are not Besides being in the right U.S. MILITARY Action Committee (PAC) money, about Ellison’s choice of book Romney supporters hope that even in contention: New York, place at the right time, elec - INTERVENTION and limits individual campaign was less anti-Quran than it was Goode steps aside, lest he hand for example, is so heavily De - torally speaking, Goode piqued Goode would bring troops contributions to $200. pro-Bible for cultural American Obama four more years. But for mocratic that it is almost impos - my interest because of the sub - home from Afghanistan and THE ANTI-MUSLIM rather than Christian purposes. those who see Obama vs. Rom - sible to conceive that Romney stance of his campaign. His from other parts of the world as CONTROVERSY Goode would have been critical ney no different than, say, a could win it. Similarly, Obama brand of Constitution-centered well. He is not against military The main reason that I de - as well, for instance, if Ellison temperature of 78 degrees v. 79 has virtually no chance of win - conservative populism, which force per se, but believes the de - cided to interview Goode was had taken the oath by placing degrees, a vote for Virgil Goode ning Republican Oklahoma. Like resonates traditionally with vot - cision to deploy troops rests to inform the voters about his his hand on a copy of Sports Il - might be the loudest statement it or not, the election is going ers on both coasts and especially with Congress, not with the candidacy. The other was to lustrated or Time magazine. to make of all. to come down to a small hand - in between, is not represented president. He told me that as clear his good name (no pun in - Goode also stated that his com - Goode relishes the chance to ful of states, and Goode’s Vir - by any of the other major (or president, he would not send tended). ments about “a majority of Mus - debate Obama and Romney di - ginia is one of them. quasi-major) party candidates. troops to Iran or anywhere else Countless Internet blurbs lims” had to do with his objec - rectly, but he won’t get that KEEPING GOODE OFF THE Certainly not by the center-left unless, as per the Constitution, claimed that Goode was a tion to the diversity visa chance. The Commission on BALLOT Obama or the silver-spoon cor - Congress formally declared war. “racist” and a “bigot,” who program, geared toward in - Presidential Debates, which is Virginia Republicans have porate Romney, and not by the ELIMINATE INCOME TAx wanted to keep Muslims out of creasing immigration among heavily stacked with Democrats desperately tried to get Goode very libertarian Gary Johnson AND REPLACE IT WITH A the United States. Soon enough, specific groups, including Mus - and Republicans, has very strict kicked off the ballot there, so or the very green Jill Stein, NATIONAL SALES TAx I realized the rumor probably lims. He said the voters have a entry rules that make it incredi - that he doesn’t seal the election nominees of the parties bearing Goode favors a national sales wasn’t true, because a good rule right to elect whomever they bly difficult for third party can - for Obama. Democrats, in turn, those names (minus the “very”), tax, but only as a complete re - of thumb I follow is: the more want and that person has a right didates to be eligible to share though certainly no fans of respectively. Incidentally, the PA placement of the income tax. random websites – ones that to take the oath on whatever the same stage with the major Goode, are quietly grateful for GOP didn’t seem to have a prob - Under Goode’s plan, American look like they were created in book he or she chooses. To the party nominees. “I say the things his candidacy, as they’ll take any lem with Johnson and Stein be - workers would keep 100% of someone’s basement or garage extent that Goode would permit other candidates are afraid to help they can get. ing on the state ballot, as nei - their paychecks, with no taxes – that report a particular tanta - or deny legal immigration, he say,” Goode said. “If they let me Pennsylvania Republicans, in ther of them is much of a threat taken out of them. Instead, lizing rumor, in large, bold ensured that it has nothing to into the debates, I’d win the an even more outrageous ma - to take votes away from Rom - everyone would pay a national black-and-red font marked “UR - do with a person’s religion. I election.”

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