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Ta Yp' Opsin news roundup podcast (in Greek) available for download:

PART I:
Conventions in the political rearview mirror, swing states ahead

Greece’s uneasy coalition leaders and the hard-to-please troika

What Chrysi Avgi really wants is to harass

Wanted: a peace plan that might work in Syria

Iran and the world powers stick to their guns

The Haqqani network’s new designation

Plus, in PART II:

Infidel “Christian” tomatoes and alcohol under attack by Salafists

McDonald's: no meat for you unprofitable India

Hijab on TV OK, Cross at work a No-No

Don’t rename the Hitler store Mengele

Is sex change operation a constitutional right?

Lap dances as dramatic (and tax exempt) arts performances!

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Ta Yp’Opsin (Consider These) weekly podcast with Greek Chicago journalists Elena Spilioti and George Zorbas. Discussion, analysis and great music!

Fall asleep and wait for a kiss

A Ukrainian-Canadian artist is presenting an interactive art project called "Sleeping Beauty," in which five attractive young women take turns sleeping under dim lights in Kiev's top gallery, each under a pledge to marry the visitor who wakes her with a kiss.
Any unmarried museum-goer can kiss the woman in the hope of making Beauty fall in love and awaken.
Taras Polataiko, a Ukrainian-born artist now based in Canada, says the goal of his exhibit is to recreate the famous fairy tale and witness the birth of love.
But it also has political undertones, symbolizing the patience of the Ukrainian people trapped by what he calls the oppressive government of President Viktor Yanukovych, and hopes that the nation will one day awaken to true freedom.
-AP

Loukanikos in Washington, DC

Before visiting the White House[:)], Loukanikos stopped by Wagtime Pet Spa & Boutique in Washington, DC. Although he was impressed by the cage-free doggie daycare, he prefers roaming the streets, smelling tear gas and marching alongside protesters.
Loukanikos (Sausage in English), also known as Kanellos (Cinnamon), is the Greek riot dog that brought a bit of cheer back to the streets, tagging alongside protesters during demonstrations in Athens in 2011.
Photo: Linda Davidson/The Washington Post

Loukanikos in South Africa

A Loukanikos look-alike and friends march alongside striking mineworkers outside Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa as they await the arrival of freed colleagues, September 6 2012.  Loukanikos (Sausage in English), also known as Kanellos (Cinnamon), is the Greek riot dog that brought a bit of cheer back to the streets, tagging alongside protesters in the city during demonstrations in Athens in 2011.
Photo: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Staged suicides, real despair

A coast guard, a police officer and a firefighter stage fake suicides in front of the parliament during a rally in Athens. 
About 4,000 Greek police, coastguards and firemen protested in Athens on Septembet 6, 2012, staging fake suicides on gallows they placed outside the finance ministry and parliament to symbolize the pain of budget cuts.
"The troika is sucking our blood," they shouted, referring to the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, the international creditors bankrolling Greece on condition it cuts public spending and raises taxes.
Athens plans to slash police pay in a new round of cuts worth nearly 12 billion euros ($15.16 billion)over the next two years, a plan likely to provoke new protests in the coming weeks.
The staged hangings were meant as a reminder to politicians that suicide rates have soared in Greece since the austerity measures took hold.
Earlier on Thursday, protesting officers blocked the entrance to the riot police headquarters, preventing buses carrying forces from leaving for the site of major demonstrations planned this weekend in Thessaloniki.
Scuffles broke out as riot police tried to clear the entrance of several dozen police union members - many in uniform - chanting anti-austerity slogans and holding banners.
Some riot police appeared reluctant to tackle uniformed officers. "They make us fight against our own brothers," said one riot policeman who declined to be named.
-(Reuters)
Photo:EPA

Evidence of a wider use of waterboarding

Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the United States, in a report Thursday that details further brutal treatment at secret CIA-run prisons under the Bush administration-era U.S. program of detention and rendition of terror suspects.
The report also paints a more complete picture of Washington's close cooperation with the regime of Libya's former dictator Moammar Gadhafi in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
AP News : Rights Watch: Evidence of wider US waterboarding

Download the September 2 Ta Yp' Opsin podcast

Ta Yp' Opsin news roundup podcast (in Greek) available for download:

PART I:
RNC speakers stray from reality and comprehension

Greece: the last of the spending cuts?

The–day-after plans for Syria

Plus, in PART II:

How old is too old to drive (or give a speech at the Republican convention)

Domain and copyright disputes

Messages and bottles (lots of them)

Thou shall not change electronic signs more than twice a day!

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Ta Yp’Opsin (Consider These) weekly podcast with Greek Chicago journalists Elena Spilioti and George Zorbas. Discussion, analysis and great music

Κατεβάστε το podcast Τα Υπ΄ Οψιν της Κυριακής 2 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012:

Στα Υπ΄’Οψιν μεταξύ άλλων συζητούνται:
Πρώτο Μέρος
= Παραληρήματα και ασυναρτησίες στο συνέδριο των Ρεπουμπλικάνων: τελικά τί έμεινε;
-Ελλάδα: η δόση της δόσης... και το τελευταίο(;) πακέτο
=Συρία: η επόμενη μέρα που αργεί και το θολό παρόν της γειτονιάς της

Και στο Δεύτερο Μέρος,
-Οι αμερικανικές εκλογές και το (αβέβαιο) μέλλον της τεχνητής γονιμοποίησης
-Το τιμόνι στην σύνταξη, η κάνναβη στην εφηβεία: όταν το μυαλό γίνεται ...λίγο

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Τα Υπ’ Οψιν με την Ελενα Σπηλιώτη  και το Γιώργο Ζορμπά. Σχόλια στην επικαιρότητα, συζήτηση εφ’όλης της ύλης και πολλή  μουσική!