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Griechische Insel will sich Österreich Anschließen—”Beautiful Greek Ikaria seeks union (Anschluss) with Beautiful German Austria?” I completely favor this move…..Ikaria needs the economic stability, and the Austrian Navy hasn’t had a seaport since 1919….

I think this is clearly the best news out of Greece in a very long time.  Austria, after all, defended Europe from the Turks after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, from 1453-1700 anyhow.  The idea of a Greek-Island seeking Anschluss with Austria for some reason reminds me of the wonderful old historical (former Heinrich Schiemann hangout) Hotel Belle Hélène in Mikinis (Mikinis is the modern Greek spelling for the town by Ancient Homeric Mycenae, hometown of Agamemnon) in the northeastern Peloponnesian Peninsula in Greece. In the 1990s the owners still proudly (and publicly) displayed and showed everyone their historic registry so that you could choose to stay in Hermann Goering’s, Joseph Goebbels’, Heinrich Himmler’s, or Alfred Rosenberg’s suites, among several other 1930s “glitterati” among the “Best and Brightest of the Big Bad Bully Boys from Berlin”—Der Führer AH himself apparently never visited SE Europe at all.

The first time we went there together, in 1990, my mother (who was the one who first called the former clientele “The Best & Brightest Big Bully Boys” in her strong southern drawl—surprising to some for a woman who studied and lived most of her life outside the deep south proper) choose the Himmler suite (it larger) and Elena and I chose Alfred Rosenberg’s quarters on purely philosophical grounds….it had a better view…. The last time I visited, in Y2K, I stayed in Goering’s old room.

Small Greek Island Of Ikaria Plans To Join Austria

17 July 2012 17:30 EDT

By eFXnews.com
   (I know not what course others may take but as for me—”give me Anschluss or give me….” I just cannot say how emphatically I agree with this idea!)

Ikaria, a 250 square mile island, wants to leave Greece and join Austria which is 1242 miles away from the small Greek island, Italian daily “Libero” reported.

The roots behind such a bizarre decision dated back to 1912 in the midst of the Turkish-Italian War. The islanders made advantage of that historical moment and declared their independence from the Ottoman Empire. In the same year, they signed a 100 year agreement to join Greece which is set to expire this week.

Now as the crisis takes its toll on the islanders, they think to join another European state for a better future.

“To remain independent is difficult for us; we want to connect to another state. Of course, we won’t ask Turkey; we prefer to join Austria,” said an Ikaria resident according to the report.

In the meantime, the islanders have some basic demands from Athens should they agree to renew their agreement.

“If they can’t assure us now new roads and a new hospital, we may decide to break away from Athens,” the report quoted another Ikaria resident as saying.

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Griechische Insel will sich Österreich anschließen

WELT ONLINEVon Max Boenke | WELT ONLINE – vor 17 Stunden

Das kleine Eiland Ikaria in der Ägäis hat genug von der Wirtschaftskrise. Die Insulaner wollen sich Österreich anschließen. Möglich machen soll das ein auslaufendes Abkommen mit Athen.

Von der griechischen Insel Ikaria bis nach Wien sind es etwa 2000 Kilometer. Kein Hindernis für die Insulaner aus der Ägäis mit den Österreichern große Zukunftspläne zu schmieden.

Ikaria jedenfalls hat genug von der Krise seiner Festland-Schwester und plant die Loslösung von Athen und anschließend die Angliederung an Österreich. Laut der italienischen Tageszeitung “Libero” überlegen die Bewohner Ikarias durch eine Volksabstimmung zu entscheiden, sich unabhängig zu machen.

Anlass für die skurrile Überlegung ist die Tatsache, dass in dieser Woche das 100-jährige Annektierungs-Abkommen zwischen Athen und Ikaria ausläuft. Die Insel gehörte bis zum Jahr 1912 zum Osmanischen Reich. In jenem Jahr tobte der Italienisch-Türkische Krieg, die Insulaner nutzten die Gunst der Stunde, erkämpften ihre Unabhängigkeit und erklärten sich kurzerhand zum Freistaat. Wenig später allerdings schloss man einen Angliederungsvertrag mit Griechenland. Vertragsdauer: 100 Jahre.

Im Jahr 2012 herrscht in Griechenland zwar kein grausamer Krieg mehr aber dafür eine heftige Wirtschaftskrise. Und wieder wollen die Bewohner der etwa 250 Quadratkilometer großen Insel die Gelegenheit nutzen und einen Neubeginn wagen. “Athen hat uns vergessen, deshalb denken wir über eine Angliederung an Österreich nach”, sagte wohl ein Sprecher von Ikarias Bürgermeister Stafrinadis Christodoulos.

Auf den ersten Blick erscheint die Angliederung an Österreich etwas wahllos, doch bei genauerer Betrachtung ist das Alpenland die einzig logische Konsequenz. Die etwa 60 Kilometer entfernte Türkei ist nach Ikarias Abnabelung vom Osmanischen Reich eher unbeliebt und im Zweiten Weltkrieg stand die Insel zwischenzeitig unter deutscher und italienischer Besatzung. Bleibt ja quasi nur noch Österreich. Grundsätzlich wäre die Annäherung zwischen Mittelmeer und Neusiedlersee ja auch ein wunderbares Zeichen der Europäischen Integration und Identifikation.

Für die Insulaner ist die sonderbare Ankündigung zumindest eine Möglichkeit auf sich aufmerksam zu machen: “Wenn man uns jetzt keine neuen Straßen und kein Krankenhaus zusichern kann, können wir die Loslösung von Athen beschließen”, drohen sie.

Zum Freistaat aber wollen sie nicht zurückkehren: “Unabhängig zu bleiben, ist für uns schwierig. Wir könnten aber den Anschluss zu einem anderen Staat fordern. Natürlich nicht zur Türkei, lieber zu Österreich”, sagten die Bewohner bei den Feierlichkeiten zum 100-jährigen Jubiläum ihrer Unabhängigkeit.

Die separatistischen Drohungen des kleinen Ikarias bereiten den Griechen indes große Sorgen. Das Meer um die Insel ist für die Fischerei besonders wichtig, und Ikarias Fischer beliefern einen Großteil des Athener Fischmarkts. Die Loslösung der Insel könnte für die griechische Wirtschaft gravierende Folgen haben, berichtete “Libero”.

Ob Ikaria demnächst tatsächlich zehntes Bundesland in Österreich wird – dazu hat die griechische Botschaft in Wien eine klare Meinung: “Griechenland wird nicht föderalistisch, sondern einheitlich verwaltet”.

Es bestehe somit “kein auslaufendes Abkommen zwischen der griechischen Regierung und der Insel”. Der Vertrag von Lausanne aus dem Jahr 1923 würde außerdem in Artikel 12 bestätigen, dass die Inseln der Ostägäis, darunter auch Ikaria, zu Griechenland gehören, so die Botschaft.

(1) What is it with Austria? (2) Ladies of Liberty: Addendum, Jane Burgermeister, Austrian Activist Faces Psychiatric Commitment, Guardianship (Loss of Civil Liberties and Independence) and Confinement—for what? For her ACTIVISM!

Last month I published a list of my three favorite “Ladies of Liberty” on this blog.  I had apparently missed a very important personage, JANE BURGERMEISTER, who is about to be subjected to a fate worse than death: personal disappearance into a bureaucratic labyrinth of PSYCHOLOGICAL MIND CONTROL, GOVERNMENTAL SUPERVISION AND DESTRUCTION OF INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY & PERSONALITY, AND THE MENTAL TORTURE OF BEING A PERFECTLY NORMAL, FEISTY AND INDEPENDENT PERSON, WHO MAY WELL BE DECLARED INSANE/INCOMPETENT AND RENDERED A NON-PERSON—SHE SHOULD FLEE AUSTRIA!!!!!  And any decent country should give her asylum:

Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdJh64Odlw8

This is a quote from a video published on Youtube July 21 2010:

http://www.janeburgermeister.org/

Jane Bürgermeister and other critical bloggers in and around Austria are being targeted, declared insane and stripped of their civil rights. As the cases pile up, a pattern of corruption and systematic persecution emerges. But Jane Bürgermeister, who has been a major force in educating the world about the dangers of the H1N1 vaccine, will not give up that easy. Ultimately, the power lies in our hands, as the past has shown. Stay tuned for updates.

“On August 12th, I am supposed to appear before a court as part of a process to strip me of all my civic rights on the spurious grounds I am a crazy conspiracy theorist and am damaging my estate.
Clearly, this is an attempt by elements in the Austrian government to silence me, a critic of the swine flu vaccine, who has managed to make use of the internet to spread information on the false swine flu pandemic and vaccine suppressed by the mainstream media, but which is now the subject of inquiries at PACE and in parliaments.”
– Jane Bürgermeister (July 13th, 2010)’

Jane Bürgermeister – Bloggers Persecuted & Declared Insane to

Silence Dissent – Vienna 07/18/2010

WeAreChangeAustria 42 videos 
Austria has always been my very favorite destination on the European Continent.  From the time of my first visit when I was 9 years old, I thought that the Hotel Sacher and Bristol Hotel Wein were the most magical spots on earth.  But Austria has become a frighteningly repressive place in recent years.  I only became aware of this fact with the November 11, 2005, arrest and imprisonment of David Irving, one of the most respected and prolific historians of World War II, from his “Destruction of Dresden” to “Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich.”   This noted historian was charged by state prosecutors in Styria with the thinking and speaking crime of “trivialising the Holocaust”.    David Irving’s application for bail was denied on the grounds that he would flee or repeat the offense, and so he remained in jail awaiting his trial.  On 20 February 2006 David Irving pleaded guilty to the charge of “trivialising, grossly playing down and denying the Holocaust“.  He spent almost all of 2006, until December, in Austrian prison and was then banned from the country on December 21, 2006.   How can it be that this most delightful country, the home of Sigmund Freud, of Johann & Richard Strauss, and of F.A. von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and other founders of the libertarian Austrian School of Economics, could have turned so repressive?

Every sane parent knows that suppressing a child’s questions or curiosity about sex, drugs, or rap music will only enhance that child’s interest in such things, and systematic repression will lead to obsession on the child’s part.  (This is precisely why in my teenage days it was well known that while there were some brainy and beautiful girls at non-sectarian schools such as the one I attended, all the really easy “nymphos” were to be found at All Girl Catholic schools.)  So if you happen to think that the standard history of the Holocaust is correct and requires no correction, you should just continue and deepen your own research to prove you are right.  You should not persecute and denigrate the likes of David Irving.  And if you believe that there is no danger to the Swine Flu vaccine, you need to allow Jane Burgermeister to say her peace, and then tear her argument apart.  But let Jane Burgermeister speak and publish freely and let David Irving do the same!  Austria has made a martyr of sorts out of David Irving—because if one man can be jailed for thought and speech crimes, all men can be, and if Jane Burgermeister is crazy for all her articulately expressed concerns about public health, then thousands and millions of us should likewise be jailed—and ironically enough, in the words given to Victor Lazlo in “Casablanca“: “From every corner of Europe, thousands will rise up to take their place, even Nazis can’t kill that fast.”  (As delightful as Austria is, it suffers in the minds of many from having been the birthplace of that certain German Chancellor from 1933-1945 who made David Irving’s career, and sharpened and sensitized the world to the possibility of a government-sponsored chemical program of extermination, such as Jane Burgermeister fears).
Austria needs to experience a New Birth of Freedom!  A new respect for the intellectual ferment and artistic and creative fervor for which Vienna has for at least the past three hundred years been so rightly famous.  For the meantime, if Jane Burgermeister can make it out of Austria, I’m sure she will find a welcome place here “in the Freedom of the Americas”—which is still greater than the lack of freedom in Austria, apparently, although it is not what it used to be….