1. After Trump, Putin: The Russian President Goes to China to Meet Xi on May 19 and 20
John of Patmos in his “Apocalypse”, may indeed have been writing fairy tales for little children, but one must admit: the man had a rich imagination.
Still, if he were alive today, he would probably give three names to the “Antichrist,” the “Beast,” and Abaddon. Choose whichever you prefer — and in whichever order.
2. Mitsotakis: “I am always by your side on the front line — Together we will move the country forward”
“The curtain rose yesterday in a celebratory atmosphere at the New Democracy Congress, with ministers, MPs, party officials, and members from all over the country attending en masse at the Metropolitan Expo for Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ opening speech. The Prime Minister set out the dilemmas of the next electoral battle, calling for the mobilization of the entire center-right camp.”
How did the unbeatable master of aphorisms, Bernard Shaw, put it? “The punishment of the liar (Kyriakos Mitsotakis in this case) is not that others no longer believe him, but that he himself cannot believe anyone.” Not even us, who, with full awareness of his political history, tell him that his time is over. His partisan existence — which was anything but political — has reached its end.
And if he does not hide himself away in some distant and forgotten place, then in the savage days that are soon coming upon the country — when even today’s impoverishment of the Greeks will tomorrow be remembered as “the good old days” — they will drag him and flay him “upon thorn bushes,” like a new Ardiaeus, for the calamities he piled upon the country.
Let him not sleep peacefully believing that another Papachelas, Kalyvas, or Marantzidis will once again write his hagiography, just as those wretched bought-off pens once did for his father, the high priest of the Apostasy, and for the leader of the old ERE’s and New Democracy’s paramilitary circles and assassins. We warned him — and our conscience is clear.
3. Metallica Concert in Numbers: 87 Double Trucks for Equipment, 3,000 Workers, and Thousands of Hotel Reservations
It does not take such massive technical means nor thousands of hands to torture bodies in Guantánamo under the dry, metallic noise that deafens, maddens, and pollutes — produced by the unholy monsters of the California band.
But such means are indeed necessary to whitewash such crimes through the delirious screams of the 90,000 mindless fans filling the Olympic Stadium. These are the very people who give them the audacity to say: “So what if terrorists were tortured using our music?” Or: “We are not politicians, we make music. We do not care whether they murder or torture people — even innocents.”
Provocation also requires accomplices. And the arrogant Metallica possess many such useful fools standing behind them.
4. Journalist Thanasis Avgerinos Joins Karystianou’s Party: “A Historic Juncture,” He Says
Hubris!
