Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts

Friday, April 9, 2021

The Role of a Lifetime: Prince Philip had a front row view of the entire world that nobody else had. In good times and bad, he exemplified the robust pride, courage, determination, stubbornness, and honesty of Great Britain and Britons


The Role of a Lifetime: Prince Philip had a front row view of the entire world that nobody else had. 
In good times and bad, he exemplified the robust pride, courage, determination, stubbornness, and honesty of Great Britain and Britons.


For 95% of the world, the closest thing to permanence -besides the Queen herself- we've had on the scene...

The last time #QueenElizabeth didn't know who #PrincePhilip was, she was 8 years old. 
1934. 
The @Cardinals' "Gashouse Gang" beat the @tigers in World Series. 
#FL's population was 1.585 million. 
Only 5% of #UK's population was alive before they married.





https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1380475865323212800

It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.

The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss. Further announcements will be made in due course.
Visit http://royal.uk to read the announcement in full.


https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-statement-on-the-death-of-his-royal-highness-the-prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's statement on the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.


From: Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP

Delivered on: 9 April 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)

It was with great sadness that a short time ago I received word from Buckingham Palace that His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh has passed away at the age of 99.

Prince Philip earned the affection of generations here in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth and around the world.

He was the longest serving consort in history,

one of the last surviving people in this country to have served in the second world war at Cape Matapan, where he was mentioned in dispatches for bravery

and in the invasion of Sicily, where he saved his ship by his quick thinking and from that conflict he took an ethic of service that he applied throughout the unprecedented changes of the post war era.

Like the expert carriage driver that he was he helped to steer the royal family and the monarchy so that it remains an institution indisputably vital to the balance and happiness of our national life.

He was an environmentalist, and a champion of the natural world long before it was fashionable.

With his Duke of Edinburgh awards scheme he shaped and inspired the lives of countless young people

and at literally tens of thousands of events he fostered their hopes and encouraged their ambitions.

We remember the Duke for all of this and above all for his steadfast support for Her Majesty The Queen.

Not just as her consort, by her side every day of her reign, but as her husband, her “strength and stay”, of more than 70 years.

And it is to Her Majesty, and her family, that our nation’s thoughts must turn today.

Because they have lost not just a much-loved and highly respected public figure, but a devoted husband and a proud and loving father, grandfather and, in recent years, great-grandfather.

Speaking on their golden wedding anniversary, Her Majesty said that our country owed her husband “a greater debt than he would ever claim or we shall ever know” and I am sure that estimate is correct.

So we mourn today with Her Majesty The Queen

we offer our condolences to her and to all her family

and we give thanks, as a nation and a Kingdom, for the extraordinary life and work of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.



Sunday, October 20, 2013

"Who is mystery blonde girl found in Greece gypsy camp?" Roma/Gypsies need a Hollywood PR Counselor, stat! Channel 4 News video is devastating reproach to many well-intentioned but naive people who just thought Roma were victims who had bad PR.; #childtrafficking



Channel Four News video: 19 OCTOBER 2013 -Greek plea over mystery girl found in Roma gypsy camp
http://www.channel4.com/news/roma-missing-girl-gypsy-madeleine-mccann-abduction

"Who is mystery blonde girl found in Greece gypsy camp?" Roma/Gypsies need a Hollywood PR Counselor, stat! Channel 4 News video is devastating reproach to many well-intentioned but naive people who just thought Roma were victims who had bad PR. No, in Sweden as in England, genuine facts and reality re Roma must trump holier-than-thou platitudes and good intentions/guilt; #MadeleineMcCann, #childtrafficking

I received this disturbing news on Saturday via my daily Snowmail from Channel Four News at 12:06 p.m.

With this news on Saturday, it appears to me that the year of all the naive pro-Roma stories written in Europe are about to come to a thud, esp. in the U.K. and in Sweden.

As I've previously mentioned to some of you via an email or two, this past summer, a week after Nationalsdagen, a sort of Swedish July 4th but without the military angle but with picnics, a nationally-televised TV show fusing Swedish traditions, music and the Royal family,



a college in the Stockholm area, for security reasons, ordered all of its students out of their dorms near a campus parking lot after Roma took it over with their vehicles and set about transforming it into a  place to live, and soon engaging in some unruly criminal behavior, to boot, which got the attention of everyone in the area.

TheLocal (Sweden)
Students forced out over traveller safety fears 
14 Jun 2013 18:26 CET
By Oliver Gee

The reason that the college felt obliged to require the students to get out toute-de-suite was that the Police did NOT want to intervene right away and remove the new arrivals because, as we'd later learn months later, there were some complication.
Complications and secret efforts that very few people in Sweden knew, which is to say that about 99.99% of the country did not know anything until later this summer:


Plus,
a.) Sweden has what is, alternately, a charming/quaint/preposterous law that is treasured by many and lamented by some that allows people to use/camp/hike on unoccupied private land if it's not specifically prohibited, but with that comes certain responsibilities.

In this instance, and not for the first time you suspect, the Gypsies involved intentionally conflated and stretched the limits of what is permissible under Allemansrätten and the Police knew that if they tried anything, they'd cite their rights under Swedish law.


Clearly, a university parking lot is not one of those places envisioned by the law, which was/is geared towards allowing the public free access to nature, near private property on lakes, forests, etc.

(NOT asphalt and concrete and proximity to a 7/11, which are on every third or fourth corner in Stockholm for reasons I'll get into in a future blog post.)

Owing to the fact that it was summer break for most college students, so the parking lot  was obviously more empty than usual- and,

b.) Police were very concerned that in light of the riots in immigrant-intensive Husby this spring in the town NW of Stockholm, professional Leftist community activists-types and 
the area's legitimate political players would immediately criticize the Police for trying to remove them, as we'd expect to see happen here  in a similar case of trespassing.

So in essence, the Police wanted a green light first from these political players that they could proceed rather than simply walk into what they perhaps rightly perceived a no-win trap, and
subsequently find everyone criticizing them for just doing their job.

That's the part of Sweden and Swedish life that you never read about in the U.S. news media, and which consistently drives many people there -like my friends, par exemple- quite crazy, since some things in a society DON'T need a consensus, they simply need people prepared to do their job correctly and as professionally as possible, however difficult sometimes.

My friends and their neighbors want the same thing that people here in Broward County want in their interactions with and expectations of local and regional government, and especially the Police Department. 
They want PREDICTABILITY.
The same thing the individual police officer wants.
But politics and good intentions often gets in the way of that, just as it does in England as well.

The Telegraph YouTube Channel video: Truth about the Romanian beggars of Park Lane. Uploaded July 28, 2013. http://youtu.be/SNhhJh81GxE

By the way, here's one of the possible reasons why the Police in Skåne had a registry of Roma children in the first place: http://www.thelocal.se/50464/20130926/

So that when, oh, hypothetically, blonde-haired, green-eyed girls were found that are clearly not related to anyone they are traveling with, Police know to immediately put out an alert.

Or to quote the piece, "Channel 4 News has been told the story reflects
a common trend in Eastern Europe." 
Right, because sometimes, a list is composed NOT to keep track of who belongs in a group, but rather for who doesn't, no?

Exactly.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Four Weeks of the Olympic Torch Relay thru Britain -London 2012 Olympics; Isabella Duder's video of Will.i.am carrying Olympic torch in Taunton


Olympic Torch Relay Week 1 Highlights - London 2012, May 26, 2012.
http://youtu.be/BSsi3vcaP_0



Olympic Torch Relay Week 2 Highlights - London 2012, June 2, 2012.
http://youtu.be/Kp3XUllY3qU



Olympic Torch Relay Week 3 Highlights - London 2012, June 9, 2012.
http://youtu.be/SHcs-qR9XLs



Olympic Torch Relay Week 4 Highlights - London 2012, June 16, 2012.
http://youtu.be/90Cu7PdxrNk



Olympic Torch Relay Day 29 Highlights - London 2012
Included Gateshead, Hadrian's Wall, Sunderland, Durham
http://youtu.be/nZUOEPZTPVI


1,019 communities in 70 days: Monday is Day 31, with the Torch Relay in North Yorkshire, and starting in Middlesbrough and winding its way to Hull. 
39 days untill the Olympic Games begin Friday July 27th.


Watch the Olympic Torch Relay LIVE at 
http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/video/live.html


Don't miss blogger Isabella Duder's great photos of the Torch Relay on Day Three in Taunton featuring Will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas carrying the torch there:
http://isabelladuder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/olympic-torch-relay-day-3-taunton.html



Her May 22nd video is at: http://youtu.be/7-ZUvK2veiQ 
First are some photos, then the video starts at 0:19.


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http://www.london2012.com/


http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/


http://www.lloydstsblondon2012.co.uk/en/In-your-community/Olympic-Torch-Relay/

Official London 2012 Olympics YouTube Channel: 
http://www.youtube.com/user/london2012


http://www.olympic.org/