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	Musharraf's end game by Thanos Kalamidas The first one has gone and it was about time. Pakistan’s dictator Pervez Musharraf resigned under the pressure of facing charges. Obviously he proved to have a bit of brain and just like Pinochet a few years ago he chose to leave power graci
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	Lift Spirits #08 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Lift Spirits HERE!For more Cartoons
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas A Zimbabwean journalist said militias loyal to monster Mugabe had gone door-to-door in townships outside the capital, Harare, forcing people to vote. That was
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas Almost every public transport vehicle has a poster of President R G Mugabe - "For total independence & total control". Mugabe is definitely a frea
	Four scandals and a funeral (in Greek) by Thanos Kalamidas Τέσσερα σκάνδαλα και μια κηδεία!
	Hammering Concrete! by Thanos Kalamidas A brand new exhibition from Thanos Kalamidas.For the full Hammering Concrete! Exhibition, click HERE!
	Photoville: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo by Thanos Kalamidas Mr Ballmer said Microsoft had raised its original offer from $44.6bn to $47.5bn (£24.1bn) - $33 per share. But he added that Yahoo had insisted on at least $53bn, or $37 a share - more than Microsoft was prepared to pay.
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet. They were t
	Lift Spirits #02 by Thanos K & Asa B Lift doors slide open, you enter, press the button and then face that awkward proximity to a stranger... perhaps this will lift your spirit.
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that he probably made mistakes in his first year in office by failing to explain his policies sufficiently. But in a live TV interview he also defended his presidency, saying
	Top Pakistan militant calls truce! by Thanos Kalamidas A top Taleban commander in Pakistan has ordered his followers to stop all attacks in the country. Baitullah Mehsud is the man the Pakistani authorities say ordered the killing of Benazir Bhutto.Pamphlets containing his order app
	1969: Earth's Epic Year by Thanos Kalamidas You could say that 1969 was an epic year for modern human history. By July humanity had conquered space with man landing on the Moon and the Soviet Union sent a space probe to Venus; back on Earth John Lennon, with Yoko Ono, sang “Give peace
	Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq! by Thanos Kalamidas Ms Rice said she saw a “coalescing of a centre in Iraqi politics” and that leaders of the various Iraqi factions were more united than ever.She arrived in the city a day after Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr threatened
	The Papal blessing by Thanos Kalamidas For more Photoville HERE! For more Cartoons,
	Lift Spirits #01 by Thanos K & Asa B Lift doors slide open, you enter, press the button and then face that awkward proximity to a stranger... perhaps this will lift your spirit.
	Should I stay or ... GO home! by Thanos Kalamidas
	Olympic race to the White House by Thanos Kalamidas Here it is again… something about Barack Obama that makes me stop and think, ‘What did he say?’ This time it was all about the Beijing Olympic Games and his call for President George W. Bush not to go to China for the Opening Cer
	ShowBizz #36 by Thanos K & Asa B An arrogant rooster, a sycophant pig, a wiseass dog and an intelligent tortoise are just some of the stars of Thanos and Asa's Show Bizz.
	Brown and the economy fears by Thanos Kalamidas The British Prime Minister said a 2.5% fall in March, recorded by the Halifax, should be seen in the context of 10 years of big increases and low interest rates. He added that the government was not a "spectator
	Finland's "Les Liaisons dangereuses" by Thanos Kalamidas I have often said that I love theater. I love theater and I like cinema, but nothing can compare to the experience of a theater play. A film, any film, however well made and however expensive, has nothing on a play i
	Life Undercover #733 by Thanos K & Asa B It is time to change the sheets... our inquisitive duvet-loving hero has some female company now asking the great questions of life, religion and the universe.
	Where is the end, Mugabe? by Thanos Kalamidas The day the people of Zimbabwe were voting I wrote an article asking the people of Zimbabwe to be calm and that Mugabe will do anything and everything not to lose but he will know that he lost in the hearts and brains of the Zimbabwe people.
	Testosterone in the air by Thanos Kalamidas It seems that the Finnish government has turned lately really …erotic, if not exotic, and that definitely makes a few faces smile knowing that there’s something different than the usual politics of Finnish life. You could say that Finn
	What Really Happened? by Thanos Kalamidas
	Missing the forest by Thanos Kalamidas I never pretended to be an expert on US politics and embarrassingly I have to admit that I learn a big deal on what’s going on in the White House and Capitol Hill from a television series called the “West Wing”. But I have to adm
	It's not all Harry Potter by Thanos Kalamidas I’m going to borrow an intro Asa has used because I feel like it works perfectly with what I want to write. Did I like the Harry Potter series? Yes! Do I believe Harry Potter series helped children’s literature? No! Actually, regarding
	2nd Opinion #46 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion,
	Monochromaticic: For Sale by Thanos Kalamidas The world in which we live is not black and white, but through the eyes of Thanos K it suddenly becomes monochrome with a splash of humour.
	2nd Opinion #45 by Thanos K & Asa B He is bad ...really bad! Seriously, I think you'll need a second opinion after this.
	ShowBizz #35 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE!
	Dino & Anty #16 by Thanos K & Asa B Dino is a vegetarian virgin dinosaur and his best friend is Anty, a carnivorous nymphomaniac ant.More Dino & Anty
	2nd Opinion #44 by Thanos K & Asa B He is bad ...really bad! Seriously, I think you'll need a second opinion after this.For more
	ShowBizz #34 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE!
	Bulgarian report by Euro Reporter Ex-King Mavericks to Form New Party The parliamentary group of mavericks that split from the ranks of the former king's cent
	2nd Opinion #43 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For
	Blogs, sex and lies by Thanos Kalamidas Η Ελληνική κυβέρνηση του κ. Καραμανλή όλο
	Life Undercover #732 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas "This race is very close, it's very contested," Clinton said, "I've won some, he's won some. Each of us has to get to 2025 delegates. So of course every single race is important."
	The Tsipras phenomenon (in Greek) by Thanos Kalamidas Καιρό τώρα σκέφτομαι να γράψω κάτι για το
	When I had enough (in Greek) by Thanos Kalamidas Όταν πριν από ένα χρόνο περίπου αποφάσιζ
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas Democratic hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton remain neck and neck and are battling for every vote.For every damn penny I would say according to the rumors at least! ****************************Mike H
	Long live the new archbishop! (in Greek) by Thanos Kalamidas Ο θάνατος του Αρχιεπισκόπου Αθηνών Χριστ
	Ovi Bad Boys Podcast #100 by The Ovi Team Download of the Ovi Bad Boys Podcast is totally free of charge. On the podcast page you will find all of their archived shows, which is a recording of their weekly live show broadcast across the Helsinki region on Lä
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas Egyptian security forces have pulled back from the border with Gaza after an apparent failure to reseal it. Palestinians seemed to be still crossing freely in and out of Egypt for a third consecutive day, to stock up on supplies in defiance of a block
	Reporters in crisis (in Greek) by Thanos Kalamidas Δημοσιογραφία σε κατάσταση υστερίας.
	2nd Opinion #41 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE!
	Life Undercover #731 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
	2nd Opinion #40 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE!
	Life Undercover #730 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
	Suicide justice (Greek) by Thanos Kalamidas Πριν τα Χριστούγεννα έγραψα ένα άρθρο με
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has a commanding lead in the country's snap election but it is unclear whether he has avoided a presidential run-off, the opposition said there was serious violations and called
	2nd Opinion #39 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE!
	A wish for 2008 by Thanos Kalamidas When writing an article of the most important events for the year 2007, I think I wrote is what I wish and want most for the year 2008. You see, I have lost all my hopes for peace on earth soon, I don’t think anymore for the end of criminali
	2007, as tears go by by Thanos Kalamidas The year 2007 has been extremely strange for me, Ovi magazine turned daily and that meant following all the news all the time just to be contemporary with international events. Of course that also had its dark side;
	Comical, but tragic (In Greek) by Thanos Kalamidas Πριν από λίγες μέρες με επισκέφτηκε Έλληνας που
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas At "Meet Mike Huckabee" event Friday morning in Pella, Iowa, the former Arkansas governor and surprising leader in Iowa clarified comments he made Thursday night suggesting that, in the wake of Benazir Bhutto
	Life Undercover #729 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE! For more Ca
	Life Undercover #728 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE! For more Ca
	Art in Politics Editorial by The Ovi Team I think a theme like 'art and politics' is one of the most suitable for the thematic Ovi magazine and there are so many angles I’m sure we will not even reach a fraction of them. But, after all, this has never been the role of Ovi
	A wonderful three years by Thanos Kalamidas I find it hard to believe that three years of Ovi magazine are behind us, three for you all, four for us with all the planning and the preparation. Ovi magazine was born and grew up in the era off blogs and personal journals and this is the reason
	An Ovi Christmas Card by The Ovi Team Ovi magazine takes a deep breath and wishes everybody one of the following: Boas Festas! Buon Natale! Buorit Juovllat! Chestita Koleda! Craciun fericit si un An Nou fericit! Feliz Navidad! Fröhliche Weihnachten! Glædel
	2nd Opinion #38 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE!
	Recognize the contribution of immigration by Thanos Kalamidas Would anybody ever imagine that England, with its language that has spread all over the world and with countries all around the globe that have English as the official language, that the day would come when there will be traffic or municipality si
	2nd Opinion #37 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE!
	Line-dancing between the Seasons of the Fabrics by Thanos Kalamidas There are some nights, just like this nightwhen the hopes are like threads that fly,I think that I can see all my thoughts and all the painsa glance in the dark sky, white snowflakes
	ShowBizz #33 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE!
	Life Undercover #727 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
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	Life Undercover #726 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
	A uniformed crime by Thanos Kalamidas Drew Paterson’s case seems that it came to remind us how much and how many women suffer nowadays and furthermore it came to remind us of the special problems people in uniform are dealing with. Please, I don’t want to be misunderstood,
	2nd Opinion #36 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas In a decision that could affect gun control laws across the nation, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to carry a gun.Wishful thoughts!
	Brazil raped for one month by Thanos Kalamidas Speechless and in real anger were my reaction a few hours ago after reading what happened in a Brazilian prison with a 15-year-old girl. The young woman was put in the same cell with 20 to 30 men and for one month she was repeatedly sexually abuse
	Real Politik in ...Annapolis! by Thanos Kalamidas This is it! It is just a week before the meeting for the Palestinians in Annapolis, USA; the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with reporters and tried to give them his optimism for a final result till the end of 2008 despite the last minute
	ShowBizz by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE!
	Africa's psychopath by Thanos Kalamidas The man is definitely a joke and even though there are a few jokes going around in the international political scene at the moment; here I’m talking about the worst of them, Zimbabwe’s Mugabe! In most countries and in most societie
	The Swiss and the Iranian nuclear plans by Thanos Kalamidas I have the idea that the Security Council and the EU suggested something to Iran under the threat of more sanctions for its nuclear program, Iran and the puppet president, in the beginning, refuse and when the second wave of sanctions is visual th
	Life Undercover #725 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE! For more Ca
	Ki-moon, you failed by Thanos Kalamidas For nearly a year I have been writing and screaming that when the UN finally arrives in Darfur it will be just too late. Unfortunately a top UN official, using the old 'lack of logistics' excuse, announced that the joint UN-African Union p
	A memory from the Polytechnic in Athens by Thanos Kalamidas Η πορεία του 1980 για το Πολυτεχνείο, ήταν η τε
	2nd Opinion #35 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For more Cartoons
	Circling the drain? by Asa Butcher On Thursday one of our readers felt the need to pose the question: Is Ovi's quality circling the drain or is it just me? Well, it was certainly a question that caught my eye and has prompted this response.As co-editor of O
	Andreas, we lost by Thanos Kalamidas Ανδρέα ...χάσαμε! Με έκπληξη και χωρ
	ShowBizz # 0728 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE! For more Cartoons HERE!
	World Diabetes Day by Thanos Kalamidas According to the World Health Organization, in 2006 at least 171 million people were diagnosed as suffering from diabetes. Diabetes in one of the top five most significant diseases and, in combination with the other
	Life Undercover #724 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
	Please ...shut up! by Thanos Kalamidas In the end it took a …king to say exactly what I have wanted to say for long a long time now. Let me make this a bit clearer: an Iberia-American summit took place last week in Santiago, Chile, and the often-interrupting Venezuelan leader Hug
	2nd Opinion #34 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For more Cartoons
	I want your... Euros by Thanos Kalamidas What does it mean when a fashion model refuses to be paid in US dollar but insists on being paid in Euros emphasizing that the US dollar is not a strong currency? To many probably nothing, but to bankers it raises a most likely huge, gigantic ques
	ShowBizz # 0727 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE! For more Cartoons HERE!
	Another dark day for Pakistan by Thanos Kalamidas A few months ago I was criticized because in one of my articles I was referring to General Musharraf as one of the worst dictators and I was sure that he has no intention to let Pakistan know democracy; after all, he was the last in a long chain o
	2nd Opinion #33 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For more Cartoons
	ShowBizz # 0726 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE! For more Cartoons HERE!
	Life Undercover #723 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
	2nd Opinion #32 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For more Cartoons
	Hillary making history by Thanos Kalamidas For a long time many said that what is missing for the position of the American president is either a black or a woman, and it seems that their wish is coming true at least to a certain point, since a black man and a woman are the favourite candid
	ShowBizz # 0725 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE! For more Cartoons HERE!
	Something changing by Thanos Kalamidas Over the last few months something has changed in Helsinki and even though in the beginning I believed it was just me lately coincidences started becoming more often to stop my doubts. But I think it is better explain what I mean with an example.
	OS, Windows or Linux? by Thanos Kalamidas I don’t know who created Earth, but at the moment I’m angry with the one who created three environments for my digital life and a couple of more sub-environments to make sure that I am in really deep shit! To give
	Life Undercover #722 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
	A presidential companion by Thanos Kalamidas What is more tempting to write about: Mr. Sarkozy’s divorce or Mikhail Gorbachev’s return to politics with a new political movement in Russia? I will try to avoid the semantics and similarities in both cases but let’s see what ma
	2nd Opinion #31 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For more Cartoons
	Brazil's Mr. Loco by Thanos Kalamidas What makes a 21-year-old man send a letter to a judge begging for an extension to his imprisonment because there is nothing for him outside of the prison bars? The young man, in perfect mental and physical health, has a very strong argument: if he
	Life Undercover #721 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
	Hope wanted by Thanos Kalamidas Over the last months I have had the feeling that everything goes wrong and I really hope this feeling is just temporary and nothing to do with reality. But again, reading what's going on around the world makes you feel a bit depressed. It'
	2nd Opinion #30 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For more Cartoons
	ShowBizz # 0724 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE! For more Cartoons HERE!
	Lost in murder by Thanos Kalamidas My favorite Finnish literature book has long been Väinö Linna’s Under the North Star, when I finished the trilogy my first reaction, since I’d read it in English and not in its o
	2nd Opinion #29 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For more Cartoo
	A sumo mountain by Thanos Kalamidas However strange it may sound, out of my Japanese experiences what I enjoyed the most is sumo and after so many years I still watch it every time I have the chance! As a fan of football and classic sports, I never really liked boxing or wrestling.
	Greek elections (in Greek) 3/3 by Thanos Kalamidas Το τι συμβαίνει αυτή τη στιγμή στο ΠΑΣΟΚ ε
	Greek elections (in Greek) 2/3 by Thanos Kalamidas Για την παρουσία του κυρίου Καρατζαφέρη τ
	Greek elections (in Greek) 1/3 by Thanos Kalamidas Ο λόγος που απέφυγα να γράψω κάτι για τις ε
	The Little Rock Nine by Thanos Kalamidas What happened in Little Rock Central High School in 1957, in the US state of Arkansas I think is well known in many ways, including a number of films and books either for the Little Rock Nine or from references to the events.
	The King of Horror by Thanos Kalamidas It just happened that in the last few days I decided to read again a book entitled Insomnia and you guessed well if you thought Stephen King is the author! It is the story of a seventy-year-old man who’s suf
	Life Undercover #720 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE! For more Cart
	Sibelius' magic secrets by Thanos Kalamidas There is only one way to appreciate Jean Sibelius' music: Close your eyes and let his music fly you into the forest. Johan Julius Christian ‘Jean’ Sibelius was born December 8th 1865 and died exactly 50 yea
	The creation of a monster by Thanos Kalamidas How can you negotiate and trust somebody who took over a country with a military coup using all the resources the state gave him, exiled or imprisoned all the opposition with a lot of questionable disappearances and
	Chinese executional tricks by Thanos Kalamidas As we get closer to the Olympic Games year criticism is coming more often about different things, therefore Peking had to do something, even if that something is just for show. The Chinese Supreme Court has ordered judges to be more …sparing
	ShowBizz # 0723 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE! For more Cartoons HERE!
	Jewish Nazis? by Thanos Kalamidas I think it is a couple of years ago when Asa and I were talking about racism and traces of Nazism in the most unexpected places because of an article Asa was writing for Ydin magazine and some research led us to some unexpected results. The strang
	Russian poker with a marked deck by Thanos Kalamidas Is the end of the last emperor who came in from the cold getting closer and is he going to give up power easily or is he going to become a puppeteer in the long Russian tradition that not even the Soviet regime stopped? The Russian Prime Minister,
	Following orders by Thanos Kalamidas General Petraeus, the latest US military commander in Iraq, has faced heavy criticism in Congress while reporting on the non progress of the US targets in the country for security and stabilization of life. Actually the general must be a very brav
	Wishful thought and a financial horror by Thanos Kalamidas Imagine going to the bakery early one the morning to buy three small hot bread rolls. For three euros you get them with butter and a nice cheese that will make them a good breakfast. The smiling baker takes the three euros and wishes you a good mo
	9-11 for the right reasons by Thanos Kalamidas Is this how it is going to be from now on? Bin Laden will send a video calling us to worship Islam as the only solution for our survival and George W. Bush calling us to fight terrorism harder by helping Iraq? Is this really what comes from 9-11?
	From a slap to murder by Thanos Kalamidas A few weeks ago the foreign community in Finland, especially the Greeks, read in the papers that a musician of Greek origin, well-known in the circles that follow ethnic and music events in Finland, had violently killed his wife, mother of two inf
	The last guillotined by Thanos Kalamidas Does the name Hamida Djandoubi mean anything to you? He was a Tunisian immigrant who tortured and killed his girlfriend and for that reason he was sentenced to death by a French court in Marseille and was sent to the guillotine on September 10th 1
	"The most beautiful parts of me" by Thanos Kalamidas Click the cover to download Thanos' PDF poem (free of charge).
	ShowBizz # 0722 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE! For more Cartoons HERE!
	Banning dignity by Thanos Kalamidas I know, I know, I’m going to be my usual cynical self but it was about time for the General Secretary of the United Nations to remember why he’s actually there and move from the fancy New York receptions to Darfur. Really, has anybody
	The long daily road by Thanos Kalamidas It was sometime last July, a weird period for me because of a problem with my daughter’s health that kept us really tense, when it came the time for the next monthly issue of Ovi magazine. It was the period we were dealing with the copycats
	Fires...in Greek by Thanos Kalamidas Τελικά είτε μου αρέσει είτε όχι, νιώθω υποχρεωμ
	Democracy unveiled by Thanos Kalamidas Who makes more sense: a president with a wife that covers her head with a veil due to her faith, or a president who often talks with god and this god told him to invade a country? I presume the answer is quite simple and to unveil the protagonists
	Who's the property? by Thanos Kalamidas Why Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki became angry with Hillary and Carl Levin is a big mystery to me; he even went as far to say that the Democratic Senators were acting as if Iraq was their property. I’m going to be a bit cynical, but
	2nd Opinion #28 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For more Cartoons
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas Two men who tried to hijack a Turkish plane have surrendered after all 136 passengers and crew escaped unharmed. From the plane to …midnight express!!!
	Some anniversary by Thanos Kalamidas Over the last few days we have often watched on the news how India and Pakistan celebrated their 60th independence anniversary from the British. It seems I don’t really remember how they celebrated their 50th anniversary, but it was really i
	Which... wows!!! by Thanos Kalamidas 'Where are the wows' is something I often talk about with Asa and he has written a couple of very good articles about it, always referring to the lo
	Hungary Report by Euro Reporter Koreans ate… Hungarian dogs!Under different circumstances this would sound more like a joke than a report and unfortunately helps all kinds of prejudices and stereotypes. South Korea's Ambassador to Hungary Eom Seock-Jeong ha
	And that was June 2007... by The Ovi Team Well, what did you make of that month? The world thought it was bidding farewell to Tony Blair, but within hours he was back in the headlines in his new job, and everybody in the Northern Hemisphere was patiently expecting the start of summer,
	Greek-report by Euro Reporter Attica’s worst fire in decades The worst forest fire in more than a decade ravaged some 3,000 hectares of Mount Parnitha, one of the few oases of g
	Life Undercover #714 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE! For more Cartoons
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	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas US President George W Bush is expected to receive an enthusiastic reception in Albania when he becomes the first US president to visit the Balkan nation. Is America s
	ShowBizz # 0715 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE! For more Cartoons HERE!
	Negotiating survival by Thanos Kalamidas It is a strange feeling leaving the solution of a major problem to the ones who are mainly responsible for the problem and, furthermore, who stubbornly refuse to recognize it. Angela Merkel is seeking for the improvement of the Kyoto Protocol in c
	Troubles and demons by Thanos Kalamidas There is an old saying: when you sow troubles, you grow demons. Somehow this is what’s going on in Iraq - how it started and how it still goes on is going to bring a lot of demons before the end. And it is not that I like to blame everything
	Three Finns in a boat & an Iranian by Thanos Kalamidas I hope Jerome K. Jerome can forgive me but I cannot avoid it and I’m also really sorry for not being able to avoid laughing at the Iranian education system - you are probably wondering what the hell I’m talking about. The Iranian navy
	ShowBizz # 0714 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE!
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	Life Undercover #711 by Thanos K & Asa B For More Life Undercover HERE!
	Human rights don't have a colour by Thanos Kalamidas The issue of human rights in China isn’t complicated. Unfortunately the global situation regarding human rights has made it so. China is guilty for violating human rights and all the NGOs and human rights’ organizations are totally
	Dino & Anty #14 by Thanos K & Asa B For more Dino & Anty HERE! For more Cartoons
	Captains Ahab and Eva by Thanos Kalamidas I don’t write critics often because, as a principal, I believe that what you like and what you don’t like is very personal and that even goes to what the majority consider classics. Asa very correctly pointed out in the past that even
	iBite French style by Thanos Kalamidas France's new President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy has called for unity after a bitterly-contested campaign. The conservative won a clear victory over his socialist rival Segolene Royal, gaining 53% o
	ShowBizz # 713 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE!
	Public relations for a...Stalin! by Thanos Kalamidas Imagine working in a public relations firm and one day the door opens and Stalin asks you to take over his P.R. and improve his image abroad. Imagine he has all the excuses for the murders and holding a whole nation under an iron fist – dict
	2nd Opinion #19 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! for more Cart
	What's up Mr. Annan? by Thanos Kalamidas The best way to start this is with a scream! But let me rephrase it: the former General Secretary of the United Nations Kofi Annan warns that the aid targets for Africa “will be missed” unless more is done. This is the part you start s
	Life Undercover #710 by Thanos K & Asa B For more Life Undercover HERE! For more
	It reminds me of Stalin by Thanos Kalamidas On my first visit to Estonia I visited a habitat museum where you could see buildings and houses through Estonian history. It was very nicely made in a beautiful park that gave you the chance to enjoy the green nature. In the very same museum and
	Farewell Slava by Thanos Kalamidas It is a month ago since many of us watched on our television screens a very old Mstislav "Slava"* Rostropovich walking with the assistance of the Russian president Vladimir Putin and entering a Kremlin hall where he celebrated his 80th b
	ShowBizz # 712 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE! For more Cartoon
	Mexico's abortion by Thanos Kalamidas You cannot ignore what happened in Mexico City lately. After long debates where the Roman-Catholic church, even the Pope himself, played a major role, the city’s lawmakers voted to legalize abortion. The abortion-right group emphasized that
	2nd Opinion #18 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE! For more cartoons
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	Life Undercover #709 by Thanos K & Asa B For more Life Undercover HERE!
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	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas Voting in state elections in Nigeria have been extended after many polling stations opened hours late, causing chaos and frustration for voters. Electoral chief Maurice Iwo assured Nigerians that "people who are alr
	2nd Opinion #17 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd opinion HERE!
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	Conspiracy of silence by Thanos Kalamidas Following the release of a report on child abuse in India, the Minister for Women and Child Development, Renuka Chowdhury said: “In India there’s a tradition of denying child abuse, it doesn’t happen here is what we normally say.
	Dino & Anty #13 by Thanos K & Asa B For more Dino & Anty HERE!
	ShowBizz # 27 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE!
	A dark blue government & the jolly greens by Thanos Kalamidas Finland’s electoral system leads to coalition governments where the small parties often play a very decisive role. For the last government the Christian-Democrats and the Swedish Party were the ones who managed to enter government and suppor
	iBite by Thanos Kalamidas Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has condemned the UK as "arrogant and selfish" for refusing to apologise for the Royal Navy captives crisis. And
	And that was March... by The Ovi Team "Beware the Ides of March," was the soothsayer’s warning to Julius Caesar, but what was so bad about Ovi’s March 15th article about joint accounts? Some people worry too much…one of those is Thanos by the looks of h
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	2nd Opinion #16 by Thanos K & Asa B For more 2nd Opinion HERE!
	It was better in Brussels by Thanos Kalamidas Romano Prodi should know that when he left his seat in the EU commission for Italian politics that the game has totally different rules and the often sensitive balance he had to keep with the EU members is not the same fragile balance he has to ke
	Life Undercover #706 by Thanos K & Asa B For more Life Undercover HERE!
	ShowBizz # 0708 by Thanos K & Asa B For more ShowBizz HERE!
	Stop the slave trade by The Ovi Team On March 25th 1807, two hundred years ago, the parliament of the United Kingdom passed an act with the name “An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade” and with this act brought an end to the trade that had started in 1562 during Eli
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