Father Epiphanios, monastic figure, renowned chef and winemaker, introduces us to the beauty of Mount Athos and reveals the secrets of the Athonian Gastronomy. Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in northern Greece and an important centre of eastern orthodox monasticism. It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Greek Republic under the official name Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. Mount Athos is home to 20 monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Mount Athos has been inhabited since ancient times and is known for its nearly 1,800-year continuous Christian presence and its long historical monastic traditions, which date back to at least 800 A.D. and the Byzantine era. Today, over 2,000 monastic figures from Greece and many other Eastern Orthodox countries, such as Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Russia, live an ascetic life in Athos, isolated from the rest of the world. The Athonite monasteries feature a rich collection of well-preserved artifacts, rare books, ancient documents, and artworks of immense historical value, and Mount Athos has been listed as a World Heritage Site since 1988. Shot entirely at Holy Mount Athos in Greece by Constantinos Tseklenis on a Panasonic GH4 Camera, with Panasonic Lumix G 12-35 mm f/2.8, Olympus 7-14 mm 1.8 and Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95 Lenses. Drone shots where made with the Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K Quadcopter.

• published: 29 Sep 2016
• views: 6784

Μultimedia documentary of Athens Syntagma square Media Center. Starring Pigoulinos, representing the people of P.I.G.S. http://realdemocracygr.wordpress.com/ http://www.amesi-dimokratia.org/ There is a plan to strangle financially the nations so that the rich become richer and the poor poorer. A “select” few want to control entire states. To start with, the banks set in motion in each country the plan for the extreme accumulation of debt, assisted by corrupt governments. Then comes the I.M.F. in the guise of the saviour and sanctions the plan. To conclude, subdued and corrupt governments implement the plan at the expense of the people once the equally corrupt mass media have adequately promoted it to the population. Now the vultures can take everything for nothing and democracy can be brought down. They started with Southern Europe, with us P.I.G.S., testing it out first on Greece. A small country where 2,500 years ago democracy was born and where the power belonged to the people; in this country the “Ecclesia”, what could be described as a people’s assembly, voted their representatives in and out of power according to their contribution or harm to the common good. In this country the process of direct democracy was much of a custom in the same way that it was in other indigenous communities of the old world. In Ancient Athens they issued with swift procedures a verdict against politicians who harmed the city morally – the penalty being eviction from their office on the same day- while confiscation of property awaited those who harmed the city financially. Ostracising was another preventative measure for the smooth running of the polity: exile for those who posed a threat to democracy. However, in modern Greece today a different system predominates. It is called Debtocracy. This is a regime whereby the people are burdened with a debt not theirs. This debt is generated instead by banks and states. The people are called to pay it off despite the money that the banks and the states stole from them in the previous years. The money ends up in the hands of the same bankers who created the debt in the first place. The financial terrorism by banks, politicians, credit rating agencies, governments, the EU and the mass media leads the people to financial enslavement. The governing party in Greece, using procedures proper to a parliamentary coup, introduced outrageous “rescue programmes” dictated by the IMF. This government wasn’t in the least ashamed when confronted with the majority of the Greek people who took to the streets for almost two months against an unjust future that bodes ill for them and their children. This government instead of defending the interests of its own people surrendered the country to the profiteers. In this they were assisted by the police who attacked for no reason the peaceful protesters launching a chemical warfare, intentional mass beatings: a wave of extreme and unprecedented violence. Debtocracy, this new political system that silences the voice of the citizens, already exists in the rest of the P.I.G.S. countries and also in Ireland. Sooner or later it will come to your own country if it is not there already. And this is how it works: A conservative political party in power conceals the public debt, while it spends without regard. They and their friends the bankers live in luxury. They squeeze dry the people and the already indebted country with luxurious events like the Olympic Games. The purchase of weapons imposed on Greece by other EU countries is still a domain where backhanders proliferate. Financial scandals that make the news never reach a court of justice. However, election time arrives. A self-proclaimed socialist party that was in power previously and has also been heavily implicated in financial scandals in the past, promises to bring under control the state finances and declares that “the funds are there”. Their friends, the bankers, swap sides and promise the aspiring Prime Minister to help him get elected in exchange for the financial enslavement of the country. With the help of the corrupt mass media he wins the elections. A few days later, the new Prime Minister admits that it is impossible to bring the debt under control and that the former government is to blame for concealing the data. BUT WE KNOW THAT ALL OF THEM WERE IN THE KNOW. The Europeans, claiming ignorance of the actual situation, start issuing strict warnings. The markets start acting in a threatening way. The government, assisted by its puppet journalists in the mass media, blackmails the people to support a new loan attached to a “rescue plan” of subjection. Hence, the IMF takes over. Following the first “rescue package” the country enters the recession and the austerity regime is implemented with the sole purpose of making the people pay the interest of the loan for generations to come. A short while ago the second “rescue package” came into effect provoking

• published: 01 Sep 2011
• views: 504

Father Epiphanios, monastic figure, renowned chef and winemaker, introduces us to the beauty of Mount Athos and reveals the secrets of the Athonian Gastronomy. Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in northern Greece and an important centre of eastern orthodox monasticism. It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Greek Republic under the official name Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. Mount Athos is home to 20 monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Mount Athos has been inhabited since ancient times and is known for its nearly 1,800-year continuous Christian presence and its long historical monastic traditions, which date back to at least 800 A.D. and the Byzantine era. Today, over 2,000 monastic figures from Greece and many other Eastern Orthodox countries, such as Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Russia, live an ascetic life in Athos, isolated from the rest of the world. The Athonite monasteries feature a rich collection of well-preserved artifacts, rare books, ancient documents, and artworks of immense historical value, and Mount Athos has been listed as a World Heritage Site since 1988. Shot entirely at Holy Mount Athos in Greece by Constantinos Tseklenis on a Panasonic GH4 Camera, with Panasonic Lumix G 12-35 mm f/2.8, Olympus 7-14 mm 1.8 and Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95 Lenses. Drone shots where made with the Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K Quadcopter.

• published: 29 Sep 2016
• views: 6784

Μultimedia documentary of Athens Syntagma square Media Center. Starring Pigoulinos, representing the people of P.I.G.S. http://realdemocracygr.wordpress.com/ http://www.amesi-dimokratia.org/ There is a plan to strangle financially the nations so that the rich become richer and the poor poorer. A “select” few want to control entire states. To start with, the banks set in motion in each country the plan for the extreme accumulation of debt, assisted by corrupt governments. Then comes the I.M.F. in the guise of the saviour and sanctions the plan. To conclude, subdued and corrupt governments implement the plan at the expense of the people once the equally corrupt mass media have adequately promoted it to the population. Now the vultures can take everything for nothing and democracy can be brought down. They started with Southern Europe, with us P.I.G.S., testing it out first on Greece. A small country where 2,500 years ago democracy was born and where the power belonged to the people; in this country the “Ecclesia”, what could be described as a people’s assembly, voted their representatives in and out of power according to their contribution or harm to the common good. In this country the process of direct democracy was much of a custom in the same way that it was in other indigenous communities of the old world. In Ancient Athens they issued with swift procedures a verdict against politicians who harmed the city morally – the penalty being eviction from their office on the same day- while confiscation of property awaited those who harmed the city financially. Ostracising was another preventative measure for the smooth running of the polity: exile for those who posed a threat to democracy. However, in modern Greece today a different system predominates. It is called Debtocracy. This is a regime whereby the people are burdened with a debt not theirs. This debt is generated instead by banks and states. The people are called to pay it off despite the money that the banks and the states stole from them in the previous years. The money ends up in the hands of the same bankers who created the debt in the first place. The financial terrorism by banks, politicians, credit rating agencies, governments, the EU and the mass media leads the people to financial enslavement. The governing party in Greece, using procedures proper to a parliamentary coup, introduced outrageous “rescue programmes” dictated by the IMF. This government wasn’t in the least ashamed when confronted with the majority of the Greek people who took to the streets for almost two months against an unjust future that bodes ill for them and their children. This government instead of defending the interests of its own people surrendered the country to the profiteers. In this they were assisted by the police who attacked for no reason the peaceful protesters launching a chemical warfare, intentional mass beatings: a wave of extreme and unprecedented violence. Debtocracy, this new political system that silences the voice of the citizens, already exists in the rest of the P.I.G.S. countries and also in Ireland. Sooner or later it will come to your own country if it is not there already. And this is how it works: A conservative political party in power conceals the public debt, while it spends without regard. They and their friends the bankers live in luxury. They squeeze dry the people and the already indebted country with luxurious events like the Olympic Games. The purchase of weapons imposed on Greece by other EU countries is still a domain where backhanders proliferate. Financial scandals that make the news never reach a court of justice. However, election time arrives. A self-proclaimed socialist party that was in power previously and has also been heavily implicated in financial scandals in the past, promises to bring under control the state finances and declares that “the funds are there”. Their friends, the bankers, swap sides and promise the aspiring Prime Minister to help him get elected in exchange for the financial enslavement of the country. With the help of the corrupt mass media he wins the elections. A few days later, the new Prime Minister admits that it is impossible to bring the debt under control and that the former government is to blame for concealing the data. BUT WE KNOW THAT ALL OF THEM WERE IN THE KNOW. The Europeans, claiming ignorance of the actual situation, start issuing strict warnings. The markets start acting in a threatening way. The government, assisted by its puppet journalists in the mass media, blackmails the people to support a new loan attached to a “rescue plan” of subjection. Hence, the IMF takes over. Following the first “rescue package” the country enters the recession and the austerity regime is implemented with the sole purpose of making the people pay the interest of the loan for generations to come. A short while ago the second “rescue package” came into effect provoking

• published: 01 Sep 2011
• views: 504