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Jim Mellas

@jimmellas

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Views/Insights from a logical perspective & not through the prism of left/right politics - Clowns to the left, Jokers to the right, stuck in the middle with You

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5 years
My protest inside the #BritishMuseum was streamed live on this day a year ago! Thank you for your support which has been phenomenal over the last 12 months! It’s time to Reunite the Parthenon #Athens #parthenon #acropolis #greece #ReturntheMarbles #AcropolisMuseum #bringthemback
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Many of the Crown Jewels that will be used at the Coronation of #KingCharlesIII are looted items stolen during the British Empire’s colonial past - gems from the Cullinan Diamond form part of the Crown Jewels #coronation #looted 🎥: @AJEnglish
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Nektaria Tambakis and her family protest with the Greek Flag in Room 19 at the British Museum where the Caryatid is being held hostage #reunitetheparthenon #parthenon #bringthemback #athens #acropolismuseum #britishmuseum #caryatid @acropolis_the @cultureGR @greekcitytimes
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Turkey has continued to illegally occupy #Cyprus for 49 years as the World continues to turn a blind eye to it! Shame on the UN, NATO, EU & the US who are complicit in having allowed the invasion to happen and the occupation to continue #Cyprus1974 #NeverForget
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More dancing outside Novak’s Hotel Prison! Merry Orthodox Christmas to all of our Serbian friends - with thanks to @therealrukshan #novakdjokovic #AustralianOpen #novak #OrthodoxChristmas #Serbia #AusOpen   #Covid #VaccineMandate #Orthodox
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The British Museum has ended its partnership with BP after 27 years, a move lauded by environmental activists as a victory. This marks a sharp withdrawal by BP from the British art world #BritishMuseum #BP #art #museums @britishmuseum @drop_BP
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RIP Harry Belafonte! Here he is on the Danny Kaye show in 1965 with Danny Kaye and Nanna Mouskouri #HarryBelafonte #dannykaye #nanamouskouri #HarryBelafonteRIP
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Boycott Turkey! -Don’t buy anything made in Turkey -Don’t travel to Turkey -Don’t holiday in Turkey -Don’t fly Turkish Airlines -Don’t watch Turkish TV shows/movies -Don’t collaborate in any way with this brutal Islamic regime #boycottturkey #HagiaSophia #Greece #Cyprus #Syria
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It is 570 years since the Fall of Constantinople - The Ottomans massacred, killed, raped, enslaved, desecrated & pillaged the city. Almost 6 centuries later Christians are still being persecuted around the world! #Constantinople #Byzantine #Greece #Reclaim1453 #Christian
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Greek Australian artist Anthony Tartaglia has created a highly emotive artwork entitled ALONE to help with the reunification of the #Parthenon Sculptures #reunitetheparthenon #Athens #caryatid #BritishMuseum @acropolis_the @cultureGR via @greekcitytimes
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The thief who stole & defaced artefacts from #BritishMuseum for decades had been promoted to be in charge of the #Parthenon Sculptures at the museum whose existence is based on displaying stolen artefacts #reunitetheparthenon @acropolis_the @britishmuseum
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2 years
Raising the Flag at the Acropolis in Athens on ΟΧΙ Day 2022 #OXI #oxiday #ΟΧΙ #parthenon #evzones #ParthenonSculptures #Ελλάδα #acropolis #athens #εύζωνες #reunitethecaryatids #reunitetheparthenon
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RIP Barry Humphries One of the first (and still very few) to break the glass ceiling known as the Australian Cultural Cringe #BarryHumpries #BarryHumphriesRIP #DameEdnaEverage #lespatterson #australia
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Today is 571 years since the Fall of #Constantinople - In 1453 the Ottomans massacred, killed, raped, enslaved, desecrated & pillaged the city. Today #Christian communities are still being persecuted around the world! #Constantinople #Byzantine #Reclaim1453 🎥: @GreekReporter
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1 year
Greece has recovered hundreds of looted artefacts, including a 2nd-Century bronze statue of Alexander the Great, from a British antiquities dealer after a 17-year legal battle #greece #antiquities #artefacts @acropolis_the @cultureGR @BBCWorld
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Turkey Purges Greeks & Targets Orthodox Churches - refusing to return stolen Greek properties in Constantinople after eliminating the indigenous Greek population from the city - excellent article by Uzay Bulut @bulutuzay_ @EuroConOfficial #constantinople
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5 years
Fake News Academy Award nomination to this reporter though not for the alleged refugees who are laughing and mocking!! Disgraceful reporting of what is going on at the Greek Border! We are in the era of Fake News #IStandWithGreece #GreeceUnderAttack #GreeceDefendsEurope #Greece
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4 years
#Greece is behind a rescue mission to save #Stonehenge by shipping it to #Athens to display it at the #AcropolisMuseum with Attica’s sun shining upon it and the blue sky as it’s background. Support @ReuniteMarbles SIGN HERE: #parthenon #reunitetheparthenon
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30 days
“Congress must call the White House and State Department and make clear: There can be no F-35s for Turkey, no matter how much money Turks and their Azerbaijani vassals spread around Washington’s PR and lobby firms, universities and think tanks” @mrubin1971
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4 years
Reading “Deep State Target” by George Papadopoulos - thank you George for the signed copy of the book @GeorgePapa19
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Vladimir Putin: “Why are the Ukrainian authorities dismantling the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? Because it brings together not only the territory, it brings together our souls. No one will be able to separate the soul." #PutinInterview #Putin #TuckerCarlson
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3 years
Interesting to see how peaceful a protest can be when the Police in military gear are not bullying and assaulting the protestors! #protests #vicpol #covid19 #VaccineMandate #VaccinePassports #DanNext #SpringSt
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1 year
Parthenon Sculptures: Pressure growing on British Museum - A YouGov survey, suggests the majority of Brits support returning the sculptures to Greece in a "cultural partnership" #reunitetheparthenon #britishmuseum @acropolis_the @cultureGR @UniteParthenon
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Today marks the 109th anniversary of the #ArmenianGenocide during which 1.5 million Armenians were exterminated. Turkey continues to deny the Genocide of the Armenians & also the Genocide against the Greek & Assyrian people Armenians #NeverForget #LestWeForget
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The Caryatids in Athens are still waiting for their sister who is being held hostage at the British Museum. Let's reunite the Caryatids & bring her back home! #Caryatids #ReuniteTheCaryatids #AcropolisMuseum #reunitetheparthenon #Greece #BritishMuseum @acropolis_the @cultureGR
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The Victorian Bar has urged the Andrews government to delay its controversial pandemic management Bill, warning that the proposed laws are too broad and need to be wound back #KillTheBill #COVID19 #DanNext #SackDanAndrews #PandemicBill @_davidlimbrick
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2 years
Panathenaic Stadium in Athens in Green to celebrate St Patrick’s Day with the Parthenon in the background! 📸: Embassy of Ireland, Greece @IrlEmbAthens #Athens #Greece #StPatricksDay #Panathenaic
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A Loan to Greece is Not Repatriation: I’d much rather the UK government passed an act transferring the marbles to Greece. An act vested their curation in the British Museum. An act can send them back home! Excellent Article by @CatharineTiti
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Ange Postecoglou: a Greek Australian who played for South Melbourne, captained them to 2 premierships then coached them to another 2 & led them to the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship, won the A League twice, the 2015 Asian Cup with the #socceroos , the J League, and the
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Turkey has to illegally occupied Cyprus for 50 years since its invasion in 1974! Shame on #NATO #UN #EU and the west who are complicit in having allowed the invasion & the ongoing occupation #Cyprus1974 #NeverForget #cyprus #Δεν_Ξεχνώ 🎥: @omegatvcy
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The #Erechtheion in #Athens is one of the most iconic temples of the #Acropolis and has influenced #Greek -style architecture ever since 406 BC - it is time for the #caryatid in the #BritishMuseum to be reunited with her sisters @acropolis_the @cultureGR
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Andrew Annitsakis, a young Greek American made a stand at the #BritishMuseum with the #Greek Flag! Bravo Andrew! 🇬🇷 Thank you to @greekcitytimes for the photos #reunitetheparthenon #parthenon #athens #acropolismuseum #Greece #bringthemback @cultureGR @acropolis_the @kmitsotakis
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3 years
Massive turnout in Melbourne protest against the Pandemic Bill! No doubt the main stream media tonight will tell you there were just a few hundred protestors! #KillTheBill #COVID19 #SackDanAndrews #Melbourne #PandemicBill #Melbourneprotest @_davidlimbrick
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4 years
The sultan: “If Europe continues this way, no European in any part of the world can walk safely on the streets” Turkey is a problem Europe dodges at its own peril! #StopErdogan #SanctionTurkey #BoycottTurkey #Greece #Cyprus #Armenia #Artsakh @ANCaustralia
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3 years
Yesterday due to the #VaccineMandate elected members were excluded from the #victorianparliament ! Next year we have state and federal elections - will the unvaccinated be excluded from attending at polling booths to vote? @_davidlimbrick @LibDemAus #VaccinePassports #DanNext
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Greece brands Turkish designer’s 2024 fashion show at the British Museum ‘an insult’ - Outraged Culture Minister said the museum has “zero respect” for the Parthenon Sculptures #reunitetheparthenon #Greece #ParthenonMarbles @acropolis_the @cultureGR
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3 years
BHP’s vaccine mandate rejected by Fair Work Commission - the attempt to require all staff at a massive coal mine in the Hunter Valley to be vaccinated against #COVID19 has been rejected in a blow to all private sector jab mandates #VaccineMandate #bhp
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Hellenic Republic v Trustees of the British Museum: A moot court led by Nicholas Le Poidevin KC and Roger L. Michel, Jr. and other distinguished judges, barristers & diplomats to assess Greece's legal claims to the Parthenon Marbles @acropolis_the @DigiArchaeo @cultureGR
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Message from Russian tennis player Karen Khachanov, who has an Armenian roots, after he qualified for the round of 16 of the Australian Open: "Artsakh, stay strong" #ArtsakhBlockade #Artsakh #Armenia @ANCA_DC @karenkhachanov @AustralianOpen @ANCaustralia
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3 years
New weekly column “The Parthenon Report” by our colleague Don Morgan Nielsen in @greekcitytimes re the campaign for return of the Parthenon Sculptures #parthenon #reunitetheparthenon #bringthemback @acropolis_the @ioannislefas @ReuniteMarbles @cultureGR
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It is 547 years since the Fall of #Constantinople - The Ottomans massacred, killed, raped, enslaved, desecrated & pillaged the city. Today #Christian communities are still being persecuted around the world! The “Sultan” must be stopped by the West #Byzantine #Greece #Reclaim1453
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On Friday, Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni led a ceremony to welcome the return of fragments from the #Parthenon Sculptures from the #Vatican #reunitetheparthenon #acropolis #acropolismuseum #britishmuseum @acropolis_the @cultureGR
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Not at all surprised by the British response! It is their usual reaction to the issue! Only one way to deal with the issue - time to head to the International Court of Justice #parthenon #athens #greece #britishmuseum #reunitetheparthenon @acropolis_the
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