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The Spartans knew about Steel!

By Nicky Mariam Onti on February 9, 2013 in History, News

Back in 1961, the American nuclear physicist and research associate at the metallurgical laboratory in Chicago, Lyle Borst, visited Sparta influenced by the bravery of the ancient Spartans to study the weapons used in ancient Greece.
On his trip to Greece, Borst discovered that a “Manhattan District Project” in Sparta made steel in large quantities as early as 650 B.C.
Based on specimens he obtained from archaeologists, he theorized that steel was the secret weapon of the Spartans and that it was the reason for their military successes against enemies having only soft iron or bronze weapons.
Having such a weapon at that time, Borst said in a 1961 article in The New York Times, was almost the military equivalent of having an atomic bomb.
However, that actually stands as a scientific explanation of how 300 men managed to decimate the army of Persians, Medes and Cissians who amounted to 50,000 armed soldiers. Leonidas the brave was a 5th-Century B.C. Spartan military king who  led a small force of Greeks, mostly Spartan the famous 300, but also Thespians and Thebans, against the much larger Persian army of  Xerxes, at the pass of

Why Not Print More Money?

Ο κόσμος θα μπεί μεσα και θα σας κρεμάσει. Γκόντφρυ Μπλουμ, Βρετανός

It's a Wonderful Life! (with capitalism)

Kosher & Halal, «Θρησκευτικές πιστοποιήσεις» με μεγάλο εξαγωγικό ενδιαφέρον

Σε ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΗ, ΕΜΠΟΡΙΟ & ΕΞΑΓΩΓΕΣ / Από ΛΕΩΝΙΔΑΣ ΚΟΥΜΑΚΗΣ / Δεκεμβρίου 20, 2013

Η λέξη Halal (Χαλάλ) είναι αραβική και σημαίνει κάτι το αποδεκτό σύμφωνα με τον ισλαμικό νόμο, είτε είναι αντικείμενο, είτε είναι προϊόν ή πράξη. Το αντίθετο, δηλαδή το μη αποδεκτό λέγεται Haraam (Χαράαμ).

Τα τρόφιμα που πιστοποιούνται σαν Halal, είναι τα τρόφιμα και τα ποτά που οι μουσουλμάνοι επιτρέπεται να τρώνε ή να πίνουν σύμφωνα με την ισλαμική Σαρία. Αντίθετα, το πιο γνωστό παράδειγμα Haraam (Χαράαμ), δηλαδή μη επιτρεπόμενου τρόφιμου, είναι το χοιρινό – το μόνο κρέας το οποίο λόγω ιστορικών, θρησκευτικών και πολιτισμικών αντιλήψεων περί υγιεινής δεν θεωρείται από τους πιστούς μουσουλμάνους αποδεκτό σαν τρόφιμο. Τα υπόλοιπα κρέατα προκειμένου να θεωρηθούν αποδεκτά (Halal) προϋποθέτουν συγκεκριμένα κριτήρια  που αφορούν την προέλευση του ζώου, την αιτία και τον τρόπο θανάτου καθώς και την επεξεργασία του.

Είναι χαρακτηριστικό ότι στον τρόπο θανάτου του ζώου, η σφαγή πρέπει να πραγματοποιηθεί με συγκεκριμένη διαδικασία: Ένας πιστός (μουσουλμάνος) πριν από την σφαγή πρέπει να επικαλεστεί το όνομα του Αλλάχ (Bismillah – στο όνομα του Αλλάχ) και να αναφωνήσει στην συνέχεια τρεις φορές Allahu Ακμπάρ  (Ο Θεός είναι ο πιο μεγάλος). Η σφαγή του ζώου γίνεται με κοφτερό μαχαίρι στον λαιμό και το αίμα από τις φλέβες πρέπει να αποστραγγίζεται.

Οι Μουσουλμάνοι καταναλωτές πρέπει επίσης να διασφαλίζουν ότι ιδιαίτερα τα επεξεργασμένα τρόφιμα είναι επιτρεπόμενα (Halal) όπως και ότι μη διατροφικά προϊόντα, όπως π.χ. καλλυντικά ή φαρμακευτικά προϊόντα, είναι επιτρεπόμενα (Halal) και δεν περιέχουν ζωικά υποπροϊόντα ή άλλα συστατικά που δεν είναι αποδεκτά για την τροφή ή για την χρησιμοποίηση στο σώμα τους.

Τα πρότυπα Halal εγκρίνονται από το διεθνούς φήμης ισλαμικό μη κερδοσκοπικό ίδρυμα Halal Integrity Alliance(IHI) το οποίο εδρεύει στην Μαλαισία και διευθύνεται από τον Darim Dali Hashim, ένα Μαλαισιανό απόφοιτο του Πανεπιστημίου Μπρίστολ (Αγγλία) ο οποίος χειρίζεται άριστα πολλές γλώσσες

Βότανα που ρίχνουν την πίεση!

Η υπέρταση ανήκει στις σύγχρονες παθήσεις της εποχής και κατά κανόνα αντιμετωπίζεται με αλλαγές στον τρόπο ζωής και διατροφής (αποφυγή επεξεργασμένου αλατιού, διακοπή καπνίσματος, άσκηση, δίαιτα), καθώς και με φαρμακευτική αγωγή, αν αυτό κριθεί απαραίτητο από το γιατρό. Ωστόσο, υπάρχουν ορισμένα βότανα που έχουν την ιδιότητα να μειώνουν την πίεση του αίματος και θα μπορούσαν να βοηθήσουν στη ρύθμιση της υπέρτασης.


Τι να προσέξετε 
- Εάν έχετε σκοπό να ακολουθήσετε συστηματική αντιυπερτασική αγωγή με βότανα (δηλαδή να πίνετε τρία ροφήματα την ημέρα), τότε πρέπει να ενημερώσετε το γιατρό σας, ειδικά αν ακολουθείτε και φαρμακευτική αγωγή για τη ρύθμιση της υπέρτασης.
- Μπορείτε να πίνετε τα βότανα 3-4 φορές την εβδομάδα και όχι καθημερινά. Εάν τα πίνετε καθημερινά, τότε μετά τις τρεις εβδομάδες λήψης τους, καλό είναι να κάνετε ένα διάλειμμα μίας εβδομάδας.
- Αποφύγετε να συνδυάζετε πολλά βότανα μαζί. O συνδυασμός 1-2 βοτάνων είναι αρκετός.
Κράταιγος:
Oι κόκκινοι καρποί του κράταιγου θεωρούνται από τα καλύτερα τονωτικά του κυκλοφορικού και χρησιμοποιούνται για την αντιμετώπιση της υπέρτασης, της αρτηριοσκλήρωσης και της στηθάγχης. O κράταιγος είναι καλή επιλογή για όσους ταλαιπωρούνται από υπέρταση, κυρίως εξαιτίας προβλημάτων στα αγγεία τους. Έχει την ιδιότητα να εξισορροπεί με ήπιο τρόπο την πίεση του αίματος. Πίνετε το αφέψημα του

Η Ελλάδα του 2013

Οικογένειες στο σκοτάδι by CDemo83

Μια τρύπα στο νερό

Όσο περισσότερο απομακρυνόμαστε από την ημέρα που η Ελλάδα χρεοκόπησε, τόσο πιο έντονα αισθάνομαι πως χάνουμε χρόνο και πως τίποτα δεν πρόκειται να αλλάξει προς το καλύτερο στη χώρα μας αν δεν αναζητηθούν οι υπεύθυνοι που οδήγησαν την χώρα στην χρεοκοπία.

Μπορεί για κάποιους να έχει ενδιαφέρον το πόθεν έσχες των βουλευτών, να χαμογελούν με τα παθήματα του τελειωμένου -και ανώδυνου πολιτικά- Μιχάλη Λιάπη, να τους ενδιαφέρει η υπόθεση των υποβρυχίων, και άλλα πολλά, αλλά όλα αυτά δεν έχουν καμία...
απολύτως σημασία αν δεν οδηγηθούν στην Δικαιοσύνη οι υπεύθυνοι για την χρεοκοπία της χώρας.
Μου φαίνεται πολύ αστείο να γίνονται έξαλλοι κάποιοι επειδή κάποιοι βουλευτές έχουν μεγάλες καταθέσεις.
Ακόμα πιο αστείο είναι όταν τηλεδημοσιογράφοι που έγιναν εκατομμυριούχοι με αθλιότητες –κάποιοι, κυριολεκτικά, με το αίμα αθώων πολιτών-, σηκώνουν το δάχτυλο και κάνουν κήρυγμα ηθικής στους βουλευτές που έκαναν καλές επενδύσεις.
Το γεγονός πως όσοι οδήγησαν την χώρα στην χρεοκοπία είναι στις θέσεις τους δεν βλέπω να κάνει έξαλλο κανέναν.
Αυτό όλοι το «ξεχνάνε».
Γενικά, υπάρχει μια μεγάλη και ανεξήγητη αγωνία για το τι θα γίνει στη χώρα μετά την κυβέρνηση

This Single Chart Proves That Conservatives are Winning Americans' Hearts and Minds

Matt Vespa | On 19, Dec 2013

This is a real backbreaker for “progressives” who think they’ve tricked Americans into believing corporations are an existential evil, while big government is a force for positive change:

Gallup reported on the “biggest threat” facing the nation:

[E]ven a majority of Democrats (56 percent) agree that “big government” poses the greatest threat to the nation’s future, even during the tenure of an incumbent Democratic president. Nevertheless, substantially more Republicans (92 percent) and independents (71) are concerned about the expanding scope of government power.

Today, only 21 percent of Americans perceive “big business” as the biggest threat.

Cue sad trombone. Turns out Americans have enough common sense to figure out that big

Obamacare

A crow does tobogganing using a lid!!!

10 Stupid Things You Won't Believe Congress Blows Our Money On

• Mike Miller
• On December 17, 2013
• http://mikesright.wordpress.com/

Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has released his annual report, “The Wastebook,” which he calls “a compilation of about $30 billion of stupidity, incompetence, and waste” by the federal government.
Here are some of the “greatest hits” from Coburn’s 2013 Wastebook report:
#1. $390 thousand to NASA to create a cartoon superhero – “Green Ninja” – to teach children about “global warming”

A Big Message from a Little Country

I have seen it before – people thoughtlessly renouncing their individual liberties upon the promise of gaining a little collective security. I have seen it happening through the corrupt ways of the government, the politicians, the welfare system, the national single-payer healthcare system, the social security system and the leviathan of debt that was created by all these governmental programs that were supposed to promote and protect the wellbeing of the public. This country is Greece. I grew up and lived there during the earlier part of my life. Now, I see it witlessly dragging itself into the spiraling chasm of economic collapse because it refused to release itself from the bounds of economic protectionism and social nannyism.

The vast span of the government’s power and control over the lives of the Greek people has fostered a culture of corruption and irresponsibility throughout society. Nepotism is rampant, accountability is non-existent and bribery is the name of the game. Need an operation? The doctor from the state-run healthcare system will be conspicuously busy until you convince him that handling your case could be quite profitable. Want to have water, power and phone service installed in your home? The bureaucrat from the respective state-run company will overlook your application unless you refresh his memory with a friendly ‘gift’. Politicians and government ministers, unsurprisingly, do not lack this characteristic either. In effect, one cannot go about one’s daily business without contributing to some bureaucrat’s personal ‘pocket padding fund’. Naturally, this element of corruption does not cease to exist when it comes to the issue of government contracts, nay, it is merely magnified and enlarged to match the sums of money at stake. And that is not all, the worse aspect of this issue is that since the government

With free money, why would anyone work in America?

Wasting American Tax Dollars - This is how our hard earned tax dollars are being wasted. Benefits should be about the absolute necessities. Not letting these people eat out, split daycare money, and giving them as much free stuff as possible.

The failure in the welfare system is clearly illustrated in the phrase, "Who would want to work in

Somebody need to pay for my 15 kids (κράτος προνοίας)

Τα ρουσφέτια της χούντας

ΛΗΜΝΙΑ ΓΗ

Η ΛΗΜΝΙΑ ΓΗ ΗΤΑΝ ΦΑΡΜΑΚΟ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΠΡΩΤΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟ  ΜΕ ΕΥΡΥΤΑΤΗ ΔΙΑΔΟΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΠΟΛΛΟΥΣ ΑΙΩΝΕΣ, ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΑ ΜΕΧΡΙ ΤΟ 19Ο ΑΙΩΝΑ.

Η Λημνία γη αναφέρεται από τα αρχαία χρόνια ως υλικό με ποικίλες φαρμακευτικές ιδιότητες. Θεωρούσαν πως είχε αιμοστατική δράση, θεράπευε τη δυσεντερία, ανακούφιζε το έλκος στομάχου, εξουδετέρωνε το δηλητήριο των φιδιών και ως αλοιφή ήταν κατάλληλη για τις φλεγμονές των οφθαλμών.

ΜΕΡΟΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΣΗΜΕΙΟ ΟΠΟΥ ΒΡΙΣΚΕΤΑΙ Η ΦΑΡΜΑΚΕΥΤΙΚΗ ΛΗΜΝΙΑ ΓΗ

Εξορυσσόταν με τελετουργικό τρόπο από το σημείο που είχε πέσει ο Ήφαιστος στη Λήμνο, αφού κατά το μύθο με τη βοήθειά της θεράπευσε τα τραύματά του. Επίσης, ο Φιλοκτήτης με Λημνία γη θεράπευσε το πληγωμένο από δάγκωμα φιδιού πόδι του, όπως αναφέρει ο Φιλόστρατος στο έργο του "Ηρωικός":
"... καταλειφθήναι μεν γαρ εν Λήμνω τον Φιλοκτήτην ...ιαθήναι δε αυτόν αυτίκα υπό της βώλου της Λημνίας, ες ην λέγεται πεσείν ο Ήφαιστος."
Για πρώτη φορά γίνεται μνεία της από τον Ηρόδοτο. Στη συνέχεια πολλοί λόγιοι και γιατροί της αρχαιότητας τη μελέτησαν, τη χρησιμοποίησαν και έγραψαν γι’ αυτή, όπως οι: Θεόφραστος, Βιτρούβιος, Πλίνιος, Διοσκουρίδης, Φλάβιος Φιλόστρατος κ.ά. Όμως, εκείνος που διέδωσε τη φήμη της λημνίας γης ήταν ο Γαληνός από την Πέργαμο, ο μέγιστος μετά τον Ιπποκράτη ιατρός της αρχαιότητας. Το 167 μ.Χ. επισκέφθηκε τη Λήμνο για να αποκτήσει

Κυβερνήτες

Ageliki Kottaridi - Archaeology today

Αυτή είναι η λύση. Η προσωπική πρωτοβουλία. Αλλιώς περίμενε από το κράτος......

Poll: Only Three Percent of Americans Consider Immigration "Most Important" Problem

Christine Rousselle | Dec 13, 2013

Despite recent pushes by the Obama administration for immigration reform, a new poll released Thursday by Gallup shows that a majority of Americans are far more concerned with other issues such as healthcare, the economy, and a general sense of dissatisfaction with the government.
Twenty one percent of respondents said that the most important problem facing the United States was dissatisfaction with government, while 19 percent said the economy in general was the most important problem. Rounding out the top three responses was healthcare, which 17 percent labeled as the most important issue. Immigration was second to last with three percent, only slightly above "war/fears of war, lack of respect for each other, and the gap between the rich and the poor," which all garnered two percent of responses.
Immigration has not ranked in the top five of responses all year, as Americans have shown that they are primarily concerned with the economy and healthcare.
Republicans should take these polls into mind when strategizing for 2014 and beyond. It's obvious what Americans are not happy about: healthcare and the economy. By presenting clear plans to fix both of these

How Remote Places Can Get Cellular Coverage by Doing It Themselves

With Swedish telephone numbers and a tree-bound base station, a remote Indonesian village runs its own telecommunications company.

• By David Talbot on December 11, 2013

Canopy network: In the highlands of Papua, Indonesia, men use ropes to haul a base station high into the boughs of a cemara tree.

A four-hour drive from the nearest cellular coverage in the remote highlands of Papua, Indonesia, a new kind of guerilla telecom network is operating, albeit outside the law, using a cheap base station roped into a treetop.
The technology could provide a new model for self-managed “last mile” mobile coverage in the world’s hardest-to-reach areas, where traditional top-down telecommunications business models don’t work.
The project was set up by a team from the University of California, Berkeley. The resulting network is now operated by a tiny stand-alone telecommunications company run by a local NGO, with a laptop for local billing and a satellite connection to the rest of the world. The network relies on Swedish phone numbers because no local telecommunications company would provide them.
“It’s a telco-in-a-box that we put in a tree,” says Kurtis Heimerl, a developer at Range Networks and grad student at UC Berkeley who led the project. “It’s a demonstration that these populations can profitably and sustainably manage their own networks. We don’t need telcos to do this; these communities can do this by themselves.”
The village where the network is situated sits in the tropical highlands of Papua—a region where indigenous people avoided contact with westerners until scientists stumbled upon them in 1938.
The project was built partly with existing infrastructure: a small hydro-power generator and a satellite dish that provided Internet connectivity to a local school. To this the Berkeley group added a base station for local cellular connectivity, a battery for nighttime usage, a Wi-Fi router for a local Internet hot spot, and a billing system.
The project started operating this year with an initial $10,000 investment. It has 187 cellular subscribers and an average of $830 per month in revenue (including $368 in profits). That company provides several jobs,

Probably the best 2nd Amendment speech ever

Τα οφέλη των κάστανων

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Περιέχουν βιταμίνες και είναι άριστη πηγή υδατανθράκων

Η καστανιά λέγεται και «αρτόδεντρο». Το αρτόδεντρο είναι δέντρο τροπικό και κατάγεται από την Ωκεανία. Φτάνει ως τα 30μ. ύψος, τα φύλλα του είναι μεγάλα και πλατιά, χωρισμένα βαθιά σχηματίζοντας έτσι 3-9 λοβούς. Τα άνθη του είναι μικρά-αρσενικά και θηλυκά στο ίδιο δέντρο αλλά χωρισμένα.
Τα αρσενικά σχηματίζουν κρεμαστές τούφες και τα θηλυκά πυκνά σύνολα, σχεδόν σφαιρικά, κίτρινου χρώματος.
Αποτελεί ένα από τα πιο χρήσιμα δέντρα γιατί τα πάντα πάνω της -φύλλα, καρπός, φλούδα- χρησιμοποιούνται για τη θεραπεία πολλών ασθενειών όπως οι αιμορροΐδες, η ανορεξία, οι ρευματισμοί και ο πυρετός.
Ο καρπός του δέντρου αυτού είναι τα κάστανα και ανήκουν στην οικογένεια των ξηρών καρπών.
Οι ξηροί καρποί, αν και διαφορετικοί μεταξύ τους, ομαδοποιούνται μαζί υπό τον όρο «ξηροί καρποί» διότι η βιοχημική και διατροφική τους σύσταση είναι παρόμοια.
Τα διατροφικά χαρακτηριστικά και τα οφέλη του κάστανου είναι τα εξής:
– Από θερμιδικής άποψης, τα κάστανα είναι πλούσια μεν σε θερμίδες, συγκριτικά όμως με τους

Riot Police Remove Their Helmets in Solidarity With Italian Protesters

...when he pays with your money!

Bad Company

  

Νεποτισμός

Seeds Of Death

Θύελλα για τη «Δυναστεία Χριστινάκη» Οι δύο πανεπιστημιακοί φέρεται να έχουν «αποκαταστήσει» ακαδημαϊκά τα τρία τους παιδιά

Της Λινας Γιανναρου
Στους παροικούντες τη... Θεολογική Σχολή ήταν γνωστή και ως «Αγία Οικογένεια». Τελευταία, μετά την ταχύτατη κυκλοφορία ανώνυμης καταγγελίας από email σε email, ο δημοφιλέστερος χαρακτηρισμός φαίνεται πως είναι «Δυναστεία Χριστινάκη».
Πρόκειται για την οικογένεια Ελένης και Παναγιώτη Χριστινάκη, της κοσμήτορος της Θεολογικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών και του συζύγου της, καθηγητή και πρώην προέδρου του Τμήματος Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας, οι οποίοι φέρεται να έχουν «αποκαταστήσει» ακαδημαϊκά τα τρία τους παιδιά, το σύζυγο της κόρης τους και... τον αδερφό τού συζύγου της κόρης τους, τοποθετώντας τους σε διάφορες θέσεις της Σχολής! Ειδικότερα, σύμφωνα με τα καταγγελλόμενα, η κόρη του ζευγαριού Ειρήνη Χριστινάκη έλαβε διδακτορικό τον Αύγουστο του 2004 από το Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας, με επιβλέποντα καθηγητή τον πατέρα της Παναγιώτη Χριστινάκη, τότε πρόεδρο του Τμήματος. Σε λίγους μήνες, εκλέγεται επίκουρη καθηγήτρια και εντός τριών ετών γίνεται τακτική καθηγήτρια. Στη συνέχεια, ο σύζυγος τής Ειρήνης, Αθανάσιος Γλάρος, εκλέγεται επίκουρος καθηγητής στο ίδιο Τμήμα, ενώ ο αδερφός του, Γεώργιος Γλάρος, ετοιμάζεται για άλλη θέση στο ίδιο Τμήμα. Την ίδια ώρα, η άλλη κόρη Ολγα Χριστινάκη έλαβε θέμα διδακτορικού από τη Σχολή με επιβλέπουσα καθηγήτρια την αδερφή της Ειρήνη, ενώ και ο γιος Επαμεινώνδας Χριστινάκης, χωρίς πτυχίο Θεολογίας και χωρίς μάστερ, γίνεται υποψήφιος διδάκτωρ στη Σχολή Θεολογίας. Μιλώντας στην «Κ», ο κ. Παναγιώτης Χριστινάκης, φανερά ενοχλημένος από τις διαστάσεις που φαίνεται να λαμβάνει η υπόθεση, έκανε λόγο για «λασπολόγους», συνδέοντας το χρόνο της κυκλοφορίας του επίμαχου μηνύματος με τις εκλογές στη Σχολή.
Δεν διαψεύδειΩστόσο, δεν προχωρά σε διάψευση των καταγγελιών. «Επειδή εγώ είμαι καθηγητής θα απαγορεύσω στο παιδί μου να ακολουθήσει την ίδια επιστήμη;», αναφέρει χαρακτηριστικά. Οπως τονίζει, ο ίδιος δεν έλαβε μέρος στις κρίσεις που αφορούσαν την κόρη του και το γαμπρό του, «οι οποίες έγιναν από άλλους αξιόλογους καθηγητές». Οσο για τη γρήγορη ανέλιξη της κόρης του στη θέση της τακτικής καθηγήτριας, οφείλεται στην αξία της. «Είναι γνωστό αυτό που λένε στη Σχολή ότι η κόρη ξεπέρασε τον πατέρα». Σε ό,τι αφορά το γιο του Επαμεινώνδα, ο κ. Χριστινάκης επισημαίνει ότι «κατά τη γνώμη

Sub-average

Ἐμμανουὴλ Ῥοΐδης - Τὰ ἐφήμερα

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Φυλλομετρῶν ἡμέραν τινὰ τὰς περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστορίας τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους ἔτυχε ν᾿ ἀναγνώσω ἐν αὐταῖς τὰ ἑξῆς:
«Περὶ τὸν Ὕπανιν ποταμόν, τὸν περὶ Βόσπορον Κιμμέριον, ὑπὸ τροπὰς θερινὰς καταφέρονται ὑπὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ οἷον θύλακοι μείζους ῥωγῶν, ἐξ ὧν ῥηγνυμένων ἐξέρχεται ζῷον πτερωτὸν τετράπουν· ζῇ δὲ καὶ πέτεται μέχρι δειλῆς, καταφερομένου δὲ τοῦ ἡλίου ἀπομαραίνεται καὶ ἅμα δυομένου ἀποθνῄσκει, βιῶσαν ἡμέραν μίαν, διὸ καὶ καλεῖται ἐφήμερον». (Περὶ τὰ ζῷα Ἱστορ. E´, ιθ´).
Πρώτην φορὰν ἤκουον περὶ τῶν ἡμεροβίων τούτων τετραπόδων τῶν γεννωμένων ἐκ τῶν ῥωγῶν· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐγένετο λόγος εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν σελίδα περὶ «κωνώπων, ἃ γίνονται ἐκ τῆς περὶ τὸ ὄξος ἰλύος» καὶ περὶ σαλαμάνδρας, «ἡ διὰ πυρὸς βαδίζουσα κατασβέννυσι τὸ πῦρ», ἔκλινα νὰ κατατάξω καὶ τὰ ἐφήμερα εἰς τὴν κατηγορίαν τῶν παραδόξων ἀκουσμάτων. Δὲν ἠξεύρω ὅμως πῶς ἔτυχε νὰ ἐγχαραγχθῇ εἰς τὴν μνήμην μου τὸ ἀριστοτελικὸν τοῦτο χωρίον καὶ πῶς μὲ ἤγαγεν ἔπειτα νὰ ἐξετάσω τίνα πράγματι εἶναι τὰ ἐφήμερα ταῦτα.
Εὔκολος ὑπῆρξεν ἡ ἰκανοποίησις τῆς περιεργείας μου, διότι τὸ χωρίον τοῦτο τοῦ Σταγειρίτου εἶχεν ἑλκύσει ἀπὸ πολλοῦ πλὴν τῆς ἐμῆς τὴν προσοχὴν πλήθους φυσιοδιφῶν. Κατὰ τὰς ἐρεύνας αὐτῶν τὰ ἐφήμερα πράγματι ὑπάρχουσι, καὶ μάλιστα ἀφθονοῦσιν ὄχι μόνον εἰς τὸν Ὕπανιν τοῦ Κιμμερίου Βοσπόρου, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς πάντα σχεδὸν ἄλλον τῆς Εὐρώπης ποταμόν. Εἶναι δὲ ταῦτα τετράπτερα ἔντομα τοῦ εἴδους τῶν νευροπτέρων, διανύοντα ἐντὸς τοῦ ὕδατος τὴν ἐμβρυώδη περίοδον τοῦ βίου των, ἐξερχόμενα ἔπειτα τέλεια ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τίνας μόνον ὥρας ζῶντα.
Μέχρι τοῦ Ῥεωμύρου ἐπιστεύετο, ὅτι τὰ ἔντομα ταῦτα δὲν συζεύγονται, μὴ ἔχοντα καιρὸν πρὸς τοῦτο, ἀλλ᾿ ὁ φυσιοδίφης οὗτος ἀπέδειξε, καὶ ἔπειτα παρὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἐβεβαιώθη, ὅτι ὁ ἔρως εἶναι ἀπεναντίας ἡ μόνη του βραχυτάτου βίου των ἀσχολία. Ἀφ᾿ ἑτέρου ὅμως δὲν περισσεύει εἰς ταῦτα καιρὸς πρὸς φαγητόν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἴσως ἐθεώρησε περιττὸν ἡ Θεία Πρόνοια νὰ τὰ προικίσῃ διὰ στόματος καταλλήλου πρὸς κατάποσιν τροφῆς.
Τὰ ἔντομα ταῦτα διήρεσαν οἱ ἐπιστήμονες εἰς γένῃ καὶ εἴδη, κατεμέτρησαν τὸ μῆκος τῆς νευρικῆς ἁλύσου τῶν γαγγλίων των, διέκριναν τοὺς ταρσοὺς αὐτῶν καὶ ἠρίθμησαν τὰ ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ των ᾠά, τὰ ὁποῖα εὑρέθησαν ὀκτακόσια.
Τὰ ἐφήμερα δύναταί τις νὰ παρατηρήσῃ πρὸ πάντων τὰς μεσημβρινὰς ὥρας τοῦ θέρους, ἐξορμῶντα

Republic vs. Democracy

Rule by Law vs. Rule by Majority

Just after the completion and signing of the Constitution, in reply to a woman's inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin said, "A Republic, if you can keep it."

Not only have we failed to keep it, most don't even know what it is.

A Republic is representative government ruled by law (the Constitution).   A democracy is direct government ruled by the majority (mob rule).   A Republic recognizes the inalienable rights of individuals while democracies are only concerned with group wants or needs (the public good). Lawmaking is a slow, deliberate process in our Constitutional Republic requiring approval from the House, Senate, Executive (President or Governor), The Supreme Court, and individual jurors (jury-nullification).   Lawmaking in our unlawful democracy occurs rapidly requiring approval from the whim of the majority as determined by polls and/or voter referendums.   Voter referendums allow legislators to blame bad law on the people.   A good example of democracy in action is a lynch mob.
Democracies always self-destruct when the non-productive majority realizes that it can vote itself handouts from the productive minority by electing the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury.   To maintain their power, these candidates must adopt an ever-increasing tax and spend policy to satisfy the ever-increasing desires of the majority.   As taxes increase, incentive to produce decreases, causing many of the once productive to drop out and join the non-productive.   When there are no longer enough producers to fund the legitimate functions of government and the socialist programs, the democracy will collapse, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.
Even though nearly every politician, teacher, journalist and citizen believes that our Founders created a democracy, it is absolutely not true.   The Founders knew full well the differences

Liberal ‘media’ group gets $520k dark money donation for war on right

By Tori Richards  /   December 4, 2013 

 

  

 

 

By Tori Richards | Watchdog.org
MADISON, Wis. — Two weeks ago, the liberal Center for Media and Democracy kicked off a national campaign to reveal the identities of anonymous contributors to conservative groups in an effort to unseat the GOP governor here.

Photo courtesy of C-Span 3

I’M RIGHT AT HOME: CMD’s Lisa Graves appears on C-Span 3 discussing money and politics

Now the group may have to answer embarrassing questions about its own anonymous donors.
A Watchdog.org review of financial documents reveals the Madison-based CMD, which bills itself as a journalism organization, received $520,000 in 2011 from the Schwab Charitable Fund. That’s 60 percent of the $864,740 CMD received that year.
CMD lists no donors on its tax returns, but its website identifies numerous financial backers without any financial data. Several are highlighted in bold and labeled “current donors.” But one important name is missing: Schwab.
RELATED: Center for Media and Democracy says liberals are morally superior to conservatives. 
Schwab is a so-called donor-advised fund, a financial institution that manages contributions to nonprofits so that donors remain anonymous. Such donor-advised funds are legal. Like many nonprofits, Watchdog.org’s

The Ultimate Equalizer

Another Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality

By Matt Taibbi

POSTED: December 4, 5:10 PM ET

General Electric's corporate headquarters.

STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images

 

I love covering trials, which is one reason I've been a little sad since switching over to the Wall Street beat: Few of the bad guys in this world ever even get interviewed by the authorities, much less indicted, so trials are comically rare.
But we did have one last year, a big one, and though it was boring and jargon-laden enough on the surface that at least one juror fought sleep in its opening days, I thought it was fascinating. In a story about the Justice Department's Spring 2012 prosecution of a wide-raging municipal bond bid-rigging case, I called it the "first trial of the modern American mafia":
"Of course, you won't hear about the recent financial corruption case, United States of America v. Carollo, Goldberg and Grimm, called anything like that . . . But this just completed trial in downtown New York . . . allowed federal prosecutors to make public for the first time the astonishing inner workings of the reigning American crime syndicate, which now operates not out of Little Italy and Las Vegas, but out of Wall Street."
Dominick Carollo, Steven Goldberg and Peter Grimm were mid-level players who worked for GE Capital. They were involved in a wide-ranging scheme (one that also involved most of America's biggest banks, from Chase to BOA to Wachovia) to skim billions of dollars from America's cities and towns by rigging the auctions banks set up to help towns earn the highest returns on the management of municipal bond issues.
The case was over 10 years in the making and involved offenses that took place long before the 2008 crash. All three defendants were convicted in May 2012, with Goldberg ultimately getting four years and the other two getting three.
Now, they're all free. A New York federal judge last week ordered their convictions overturned in a quiet Thanksgiving-week transaction.
The GE Muni-riggers will now join such luminaries as the Gen Re defendants (executives from an insurance company who were convicted in 2008 of helping AIG conduct a fraudulent accounting transaction) and the KPMG defendants (executives of the U.S. arm of the Dutch accounting giant who were convicted in the

The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia

How America's biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy - until they were caught on tape

By Matt Taibbi

June 21, 2012 11:20 AM ET

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American mafia. Of course, you won't hear the recent financial corruption case, United States of America v. Carollo, Goldberg and Grimm, called anything like that. If you heard about it at all, you're probably either in the municipal bond business or married to an antitrust lawyer. Even then, all you probably heard was that a threesome of bit players on Wall Street got convicted of obscure antitrust violations in one of the most inscrutable, jargon-packed legal snoozefests since the government's massive case against Microsoft in the Nineties – not exactly the thrilling courtroom drama offered by the famed trials of old-school mobsters like Al Capone or Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo.
But this just-completed trial in downtown New York against three faceless financial executives really was historic. Over 10 years in the making, the case allowed federal prosecutors to make public for the first time the astonishing inner workings of the reigning American crime syndicate, which now operates not out of Little Italy and Las Vegas, but out of Wall Street.
The defendants in the case – Dominick Carollo, Steven Goldberg and Peter Grimm – worked for GE Capital, the finance arm of General Electric. Along with virtually every major bank and finance company on Wall Street – not just GE, but J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, UBS, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Wachovia and more – these three Wall Street wiseguys spent the past decade taking part in a breathtakingly broad scheme to skim billions of dollars from the coffers of cities and small towns across America. The banks achieved this gigantic rip-off by secretly colluding to rig the public bids on municipal bonds, a business worth $3.7 trillion. By conspiring to lower the interest rates that towns earn on these investments, the banks systematically stole from schools, hospitals, libraries and nursing homes – from "virtually every state, district

Rand Paul Outlines His Recovery Plan For Detroit

The State Causes the Poverty It Later Claims to Solve

Mises Daily: Saturday, December 07, 2013 by Andreas Marquart

If one looks at the current paper money system and its negative social and social-political effects, the question must arise: where are the protests by the supporters and protectors of social justice? Why don’t we hear calls to protest from politicians and social commentators, from the heads of social welfare agencies and leading religious leaders, who all promote the general welfare as their mission?
Presumably, the answer is that many have only a weak understanding of the role of money in an economy with a division of labor, and for that reason, the consequences of today’s paper money system are being widely overlooked.
The current system of fractional reserve banking and central banking stands in stark opposition to a market economy monetary regime in which the market participants could decide themselves, without state pressure or coercion, what money they want to use, and in which it would not be possible for anyone to expand the money supply because they simply choose to do so.
The expansion of the money supply, made possible through central banks and fractional reserve banking, is in reality what allows inflation, and thus, declining income in real terms. In The Theory of Money and Credit Ludwig von Mises wrote:

The most important of the causes of a diminution in the value of money of which we have to take account is an increase in the stock of money while the demand for it remains the same, or falls off, or, if it increases, at least increases less than the stock. ... A lower subjective valuation of money is then passed on from person to person because those who come into possession of an additional quantity of money are inclined to consent to pay higher prices than before.[1]

When there are price increases caused by an expansion of the money supply, the prices of various goods and

Η ΑΘΗΝΑ 40ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΡΙΝ

Obama Administration About to Give "Kill As Many Eagles as You Want" Pass to Wind Farms (This is the Greenies for you)

Katie Pavlich | Dec 06, 2013

The punishment for killing a golden or bald eagle in the United States comes at a hefty price. Simply having eagle feathers or parts in your possession will land you in prison with a heavy fine to pay. Felony killing of eagles comes with a fine of $250,000 and prison time. These penalties fall under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

This law, originally passed in 1940, provides for the protection of the bald eagle and the golden eagle (as amended in 1962) by prohibiting the take, possession, sale, purchase, barter, offer to sell, purchase or barter, transport, export or import, of any bald or golden eagle, alive or dead, including any part, nest, or egg, unless allowed by permit Bald Eagle sitting in tree (16 U.S.C. 668(a); 50 CFR 22).

"Take" includes pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb (16 U.S.C. 668c; 50 CFR 22.3). The 1972 amendments increased civil penalties for violating provisions of the Act to a maximum fine of $5,000 or one year imprisonment with $10,000 or not more than two years in prison for a second conviction. Felony convictions carry a maximum fine of $250,000 or two years of imprisonment. The fine doubles for an organization. Rewards are provided for information leading to arrest and conviction for violation of the Act.

Wind farms in the United States kill thousands of birds, including eagles, every day. For years, the industry has escaped punishment for doing so and now, the Obama administration is getting ready to give the industry a free pass forever.

The Obama administration is moving toward finalizing a rule that would give alternative energy farms a pass for killing bald and golden eagles for decades, just weeks after it took legal action for the first time against a company for doing so.

The rule by the Interior Department extends the length of the permits that allow farms to unintentionally kill the eagles without penalty from five to 30 years, according to department records.

The rule authorizes the “non-purposeful” killing of eagles, but also will require farms to implement certain guidelines to help with eagle conservation. The White House finalized its review of the rule Thursday, The Hill reports.

An official with the Interior Department tells The Hill the department has been working for more

Γιατί στήν Σπάρτη δέν εὑρέθησαν ναοί;

Δέν ἀναρωτηθήκατε ποτέ γιατί δέν ἔχει μείνει κάποιο ἀρχαιολογικό εὕρημα στήν Σπάρτη;
Δέν εἶχε ναούς ἡ Σπάρτη;
Ἀγάλματα; Μνημεῖα;

Εἶχε… 

Ἁπλῶς «φρόντισε» ἕνας Ἑβραῖος Ἀββὰς νὰ τὰ ἐξαφανίσῃ, διαλύοντας τὰ πάντα.
Ὁ ἀββὰς λοιπὸν Μισὲλ Φουρμόντ, ἀπεσταλμένος τοῦ Λοδοβίκου ΙΕ’, ὥστε νὰ συλλέξῃ βυζαντινὰ χειρόγραφα, τὸ 1729, ἔφθασε στὴν Σπάρτη.

Χρειάστηκε 53 ἡμέρες γιὰ νὰ καταστρέψῃ τὰ πάντα!!!
Ἀκολουθεῖ ἡ ἐπιστολή του πρὸς τὸν κόμητα Maurepas…

Κύρος Μανούσκας

“επί 30 μέρες και πλέον 30, 40 και 60 εργάτες εκθεμελιώνουν, καταστρέφουν, εξαφανίζουν την πόλη της Σπάρτης. Μου υπολείπονται 4 μονό πύργοι να καταστρέψω… Προς το παρόν ασχολούμαι με την καταστροφή των τελευταίων αρχαιοτήτων της Σπάρτης. Καταλαβαίνετε (αποτείνεται στο Maurepas) τι χαρά δοκιμάζω(!).

Αλλά να η Μαντινεία, η Στυμφαλία, η Τεγέα και ιδιαίτερα η Νεμέα και η Ολυμπία αξίζουν την εκ

Ασύμμετρη απειλή της Ελλάδος η παράνομη μετανάστευση.

Πρόεδρος Ν. Αφρικής: Πυροβολήστε τους λευκούς

Νέα Μουσουλμανική κατοχή στην Ισπανία!

ΒΙΝΤΕΟ-Η ταγματάρχης που πουλάει μανταρίνια

Expert Testifies That President Obama's 'Ignoring Laws' Could Lead To Overthrow Of Government

The Secret of Oz - Winner, Best Docu of 2010 v.1.09.11

Girl Banned From Selling Mistletoe To Pay For Her Braces; Guess What She Was Told To Do Instead?

• Michael Miller
• On December 3, 2013
• http://mikesright.wordpress.com/

11-year-old Madison Root had a plan to help pay for her braces. She would pick mistletoe and sell it in the market. A security guard stopped her because she didn’t have a permit. His suggestion? Beg for money.

Via The Oregonian: Madison spent much of the day last Friday cutting and bagging mistletoe at her uncle’s farm. On Saturday, the 11-year-old went to the Portland Saturday Market with dozens of beribbonned bags inside. In less than a half-hour, she’d sold seven of them at $4 a pop.

“She had an idea to make some money to help pay for her braces,’’ said her father. Actually, the idea came from her dad, who did the same thing when he was a kid to make extra cash for Christmas presents.

But the sixth-grader’s home-grown business was short-lived.

A private security guard for the market told Madison and her dad that they were violating a city code: “Soliciting For or Conducting Business” in a public park. Under the rule, it’s illegal to “sell or offer to sell any

The Knockout Game

Thought Process of an Obama Voter

Thomas Sowell -- Dismantling America

Allen West » True racism lies among white liberals

Yeah, Things are Bad... But It Could Be Worse

Mike Shedlock | Nov 30, 2013

The employment and pay situation in Spain is so bad that 33% struggle to pay their bills. More importantly, 25% would consider leaving the country for better opportunities.

Via translation from La Vanguardia, please consider One in three Spaniards have no money after paying their bills.

One in three Spanish claims to have no money left after paying the bills, according to a report on consumer payments. The study further reveals that 25% would be think of emigrating because of their economic situation. The same percentage say do not have enough money for a decent life.

Those are the most conclusive findings in the study Consumer Payments 2013, made by the Credit Management firm Intrum Justitia which surveyed 10,000 consumers from 21 European countries with the aim of understanding their payment behavior.

In regard to Spain, the percentage of citizens who say they have no money after paying the bills is higher than the European average, which stands at 26 percent, although some countries like

Greece: The history behind the collapse

Georges Prévélakis

Historically positioning themselves between an unruly, oriental population and the western powers, since 1981 Greek elites have siphoned off EU funds into a bloated public sector favouring corruption, patronage and social climbing. The threat posed to Europe by the breakdown is less contagion to the centre than a wave of anti-western feeling that could exacerbate geopolitical instabilities in the region.

It all started two years ago, in the autumn of 2009. Having won a convincing victory at the head of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in the parliamentary elections, the new Greek prime minister, George Papandreou suddenly opened a real Pandora's box. Forced to admit to his electors that he would not be in a position to keep his manifesto promises, he accused his New Democracy opponents and predecessors of having concealed the extent of the deficits and debt. To explain the contradiction between his resounding declaration prior to the election ("There's plenty of money!") and the inevitable austerity policy that would follow, he deliberately exaggerated the position and compared Greece to the Titanic.

His announcement had serious consequences. The markets took fright; the government found that it was unable to finance its deficit or to honour debt repayment dates. Threatened with bankruptcy, the effects of which would destabilize the entire European economy, the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF set up a troika that came to Greece's aid by standing in for it in the markets. In exchange, the Greek government was asked to stabilize the situation by reducing the deficit and undertaking structural reforms. This was in spring 2010.^[1]

More than a year later, in summer 2011, there was no mistaking the fact that these measures had failed. Reforms had been carried forward only minimally; the public sector was still acting in a spendthrift fashion, despite cuts in salaries and pensions, whilst the public spending deficit had been only slightly reduced and the ratio of debt to GDP was rising. The Greek government, bogged down in its own contradictions, had taken steps that were too late, utterly inadequate and, very often, counter-productive. The administration, already ineffectual and dysfunctional, was now immobilized by incoherent political reactions. The economy slid into a deep recession that could only partly be accounted for by the absence of state stimulus measures and a shrinkage in the purchasing power of civil servants and pensioners. A series of contradictory statements from the government posed threats to various sections of the population (doctors, lawyers, civil servants, and so

Before the Greek Debt Crisis, Karl Heinz Roth

Apr 10th, 2013 | By Zero Books Editor | Category: Extract

From Greece: what is to be done? – A Pamphlet

In the spring of 2012, the euro crisis intensified dramatically. The epicenter of the crisis is Greece, a country that has been experiencing a severe recession since the beginning of the world economic crisis. What outcome this recession will yield is a decisive question not just for Greece, but for all of Europe and indeed for the entire world economy. We need therefore to consider the story behind this crisis, and the restructuring programs imposed, since May of 2010, by the so-called “troika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund). We also need to consider possible alternatives to these restructuring programs.
In 1981, Greece became a member of the European Community. A spirit of optimism prevailed in the country. The Socialist Party (PASOK), an offshoot of the Pan-Hellenic Resistance Movement against the 1967–1974 military dictatorship, had won the parliamentary elections for the first time. Due to its welfare-oriented platform, PASOK enjoyed widespread popular support.
As the conservative Karamanlis government stepped down, there began an era of social, cultural, scholarly and economic progress. This trend was in no way affected by the monetary restrictions associated with the European Monetary System that had been introduced within the European Community in 1979.[1]
Greece was not to join this system until 1993. Like the currencies of the other new southern European member states (Portugal and Spain), the drachma was kept outside the currency agreement. While the intra-European disparities in economic development entailed certain distortions of competition, the Greek government was able to compensate for their effects by periodically devaluing the Greek currency. Thus

The Origins of the Greek Financial Crisis

Letter from Thessaloniki

By Antonis Kamaras

December 13, 2011

Before the modern Greek state assumed its present day contours in the aftermath of the first world war, communities in the trading cities of Alexandria, Odessa, Salonika, Smyrna, and Trieste, already had a long history of running their own school systems, hospitals, and orphanages. This was partly a legacy of Ottoman rule. With the exception of political stability, the Ottomans were not in the habit of providing public goods so, when it came to public health and economic development, citizens had to fend for themselves. That system worked. Through local and communal organization, by the mid to late nineteenth century, the Greeks were one of the most prosperous and dynamic groups in Southeast Europe.
Once the Greek state was fully formed, however, a central administrative structure took over communal institutions. Powerful new national party machines displaced the local elites who'd successfully served as administrators. In Greece's second largest city, Salonika, this process took a bit more than a decade. Between 1912, when the city was integrated into the Greek Kingdom, and 1925, Salonika's schools, hospitals, and other institutions were nationalized and its local trustees were replaced by centrally appointed bureaucrats. Likewise, the responsibility for funding these institutions passed to the central government. To grasp how dramatic the change was, imagine that Washington nationalized all colleges and universities in the state of Massachusetts, Harvard included, and then ran them through political appointees.
So, as the Greek state expanded territorially it also expanded its responsibilities, undercutting old traditions of localism and community action. Herein lies the root of the country's current crisis. Long-established, autonomous local elites were displaced in the 1920s, their place taken by a new group of people adept at

29 ΦΕΒΡΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ : ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑΣ ΑΝΑΘΕΜΑΤΙΣΜΟΙ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΕΘΝΟΥΣ ΨΑΛΛΟΝΤΑΙ ΣΤΙΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ

Συνημμένο  στο   http://www.koutouzis.gr/xristianismos.htm

          Με ιδιαίτερη λαμπρότητα και με σύσσωμη κατ’ έθιμο τη συμμετοχή της πολιτικής, στρατιωτικής και πνευματικής ηγεσίας του Ελληνικού Κράτους, θα εορτασθεί στις 29 Φεβρουαρίου όπως κάθε χρόνο από της ιδρύσεώς του έως σήμερα την Α΄ Κυριακή της Σαρακοστής, η Κυριακή της Ορθοδοξίας.

          Κάθε χρόνο την ημέρα αυτή, από το 787 μ.Χ. αφ’ ότου η Ζ΄ Οικουμενική Σύνοδος της Νικαίας υπό την προεδρία του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχη Ταρασίου διατύπωσε  τα κείμενα του Συνοδικού και τα καθιέρωσε ως μέρος της επίσημης ακολουθίας ψάλλονται σ΄ όλες τις ορθόδοξες εκκλησίες επτά αφορισμοί κατά των Ελλήνων και του Ελληνικού πολιτισμού καθώς κι ένα υβριστικό τροπάριο κι ένας υβριστικός μακαρισμός.

          Τα απαράδεκτα αυτά κείμενα έχουν ως εξής :

1 «Έτι, τοις φρονούσι και λέγουσι κτιστήν είναι πάσαν φυσικήν δύναμιν και ενέργειαν της τρισυπόστατου θεότητος, ως κτιστήν εκ τούτου πάντως και αυτήν την θείαν ονσίαν αναγκαξομένοις δοξάζειν. Κτιστή γαρ κατά τους Αγίους ενέργεια, κτιστήν δηλώσει και φύσιν άκτιστον δέ, άκτιστον χαρακτηρίζει ουσίαν. Καντεύθεν ήδη κινδυνεύουσι εις θείαν παντελή περιπίπτειν, και την ελληνικήν μυθολογίαν και την των κτισμάτων λατρείαν, τη καθαρά και αμώμω των χριστια-νών πίστει προστριβομένοις, μη ομολογοϋσι δε κατά τας αγίας θεοπνεύστους θεολογίας, και το της Εκκλησίας ευσεβές φρόνημα, άκτιστον είναι πάσαν φυσικήν δύναμιν και ενέργειαν της τρισυ­πόστατου θεότητος ανάθεμα τρις».

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        2 «Τοις τα ελληνικά διεξιούσι μαθήματα, και μη δια παίδευσιν μόνον ταύτα παιδευομένοις, αλλά και ταις δόξαις αυτών ταις ματαίαις επομένοις, και ως αληθέσι πιστεύουσι και ούτως αυταίς ως το βέβαιον εχούσαις εγκειμένοις, ώστε έτερους ποτέ μεν λάθρα, ποτέ δε φανερώς ενάγειν αυταϊς και διδάσκειν ανενδοιάστως ανάθεμα τρίς».

 3  «Τοις μετά των άλλων μυθικών πλασμάτων, αφ' εαυτών και την καθ' ημάς κλίσιν μεταπλάττουσι, και τάς πλατωνικάς ιδέας ως αληθείς δεχομένοις και ως αυθυπόστατο την ύλην παρά των ιδίων μορφούσθαι λέγουσι, και προφανώς

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Ὡς νὰ ἦτο χθεσινὴ ἐνθυμοῦμαι τὴν ἤδη τεσσαρακονταετῆ του σκύλου ἐκείνου ἱστορίαν. Ἤμην τότε μαθητὴς τῆς πρώτης τάξεως τοῦ ἑλληνικοῦ σχολείου εἰς τὸ Ἑλληνοαμερικανικὸν Λύκειον τοῦ μακαρίτου Χρήστου Εὐαγγελίδου. Ἐρχόμενος ἐξ Ἰταλίας δὲν εὑρέθην ὅσον ἐφοβούμην εἰς τὴν Σύραν ξενιτευμένος. Πολλοὶ τῷ ὄντι ἀπέμενον ἀκόμη εἰς τὴν ὑμνηθεῖσαν ὑπὸ τοῦ Ὀρφανίδου ξηρόνησον Ἰταλοὶ πατριώται ἐκ τῶν φιλοξενηθέντων μετὰ τὴν ἀποτυχίαν τῆς ἐπαναστάσεως τοῦ 1848. Οἱ Ἰταλοὶ ἦσαν οἱ πλεῖστοι ἀκονηταὶ ξυραφίων, καθαρισταὶ κηλίδων, συγκολληταὶ σπασμένων πινακίων, ἀνακαινισταὶ παλαιῶν ὑποδημάτων, διακοσμηταὶ τῶν νεκρικῶν φερέτρων, εὐνουχισταὶ πετεινῶν, ὑπαίθριοι τηγανισταὶ σμαρίδων καὶ πάντες ἀνεξαιρέτως οἱ ζωγράφοι, λιθοξόοι, χοροδιδάσκαλοι καὶ μουσικοί. Αἱ ἀξιώσεις τῶν καλλιτεχνῶν τούτων περιωρίζοντο εἰς τὸ νὰ μὴ ἀποθάνωσι τῆς πείνης, ὁ δὲ βίος δὲν ἦτο τότε ὅπως σήμερον ἀκριβῶς. Ἀντὶ εἰκοσιπέντε τὸν μῆνα δραχμῶν ἠδύνατό τις νὰ εὕρῃ ὁλόκληρον μονόροφον οἰκίσκον εἰς τὰ βαπόρια καὶ ἀκόμη εὐθηνότερον, ἂν εἶχεν ἀμβλεῖαν τὴν ὄσφρησιν, παρὰ τὰ βυρσοδεψεῖα, καὶ μὲ ἓν μόνον σφάντζικον νὰ χορτάσῃ κεφτέδες, στουφάδον καὶ καπαμᾶ εἰς τὰ αὐτοκαλούμενα «Εὐρωπαϊκὰ ξενοδοχεῖα».
Ἀνάλογος τῆς τοιαύτης τοῦ βίου εὐθηνείας καὶ τῆς πληθώρας διδασκάλων ἦτο τῶν μουσικῶν μαθημάτων ἡ τιμή, οἱ δὲ φιλόμουσοι πάσης κοινωνικῆς τάξεως Ἑρμουπολίται ὠφελοῦντο τῆς εὐκαιρίας, ὅπως διδαχθῶσιν ἕκαστος ἀντὶ μικρᾶς θυσίας τὸ ὄργανον τῆς ἐκλογῆς του. Οὐδέποτε οὐδαμοῦ ἀντήχησαν ὅσα τότε εἰς τὴν Σύραν βιολία, φλάουτα, τρόμπαι, πίφερα, μανδολίνα, κόρνα καὶ κλαρινέτα. Ὁ περιερχόμενος τὰς στενωποὺς τῆς πόλεως, καὶ μάλιστα τὰς Κυριακάς, ἐπνίγετο εἰς κύματα μελῳδίας ἐξορμῶντα ἐκ παντὸς παραθύρου. Οὐδ᾿ ἠδύνατο νὰ καθήσῃ εἰς τὴν ἕδραν κουρείου ἢ τὴν τράπεζαν καφενείου χωρὶς νὰ εὑρεθῇ ἀντιμέτωπος πατριώτου τοῦ Μιχαὴλ Ἀγγέλου καὶ τοῦ Κορεγίου ζητοῦντος τὴν ἄδειαν νὰ εἰκονίση ἀντὶ τριδράχμου «τὴν εὐγενῆ καὶ ἐκφραστικὴν κεφαλήν του» ἢ νὰ ψοφήση ὁ σκύλος, ὁ γάτος ἢ ὁ ψιττακός του χωρὶς νὰ δεχθῆ αὐθημερὸν τὴν ἐπίσκεψιν τοῦ προτείνοντος νὰ βαλσαμώση τὸ λείψανον «τοῦ ἀξιεράστου ζώου». Ἂν δὲ ἐκινδύνευε νὰ μεταβῆ εἰς τὰς αἰωνίους μονὰς διακεκριμένον τῆς Συριανῆς κοινωνίας μέλος, τότε ὄχι νὰ κρυώση, ἀλλ᾿ οὐδὲ κὰν νὰ ξεψυχήση ἐπερίμεναν οἱ προσφερόμενοι νὰ διαιωνίσωσι διὰ γυψίνου ἐκμάγματος τὴν ὄψιν «τοῦ ἐπιφανοῦς μεταστάντος» ἢ νὰ ὑμνήσωσι τὰ ἀλησμόνητα ἔργα τοῦ εἰς τὰ ἔγκριτά της Ἰταλίας φύλλα. Ἀδύνατον εἶναι νὰ ἀνακαλέσω εἰς τὴν μνήμην μου τὰς τοιαύτας παρὰ τὴν θύραν παντὸς ἑτοιμοθανάτου συνελεύσεις πειναλέων Ἰταλῶν, χωρὶς νὰ ἐνθυμηθῶ συγχρόνως τὸ δημοτικὸν δίστιχον·
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καὶ καρτεροῦν κι᾿ ἐγδέχονται τὸ πότες θὰ ψοφήση.
Τὸ δὲ κακὸν ἦτο, ὅτι δὲν περιωρίζοντο μόνους τοὺς νεκροὺς ν᾿ ἀνυμνῶσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ζώντων διέστρεφον τὸν νοῦν διὰ τῶν ὀγκωδεστάτων ἐγκωμίων. Οἱ Λατῖνοι ποιηταὶ ἐσατύρισαν ἀσπλάγχνως