Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/19

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Subject: [Leica] Greece's woes
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:52:23 -0500
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On Jul 19, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Mark,
> Not as funny as you think - they want to sell off US$30 billion worth of
> islands, according to some reports. From there, it is but a short step to
> selling their cultural sites. At least they will get some money for it - 
> all
> the countries which had European masters for any length of time are used to
> having all their cultural artifacts shamelessly looted - the British Museum
> and the Louvre are the largest repositories of stolen loot in the world.
> Even the so called 'Crown Jewels' is almost 100% loot!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Sell off their history?!?!
>> That's really deeply nasty stuff Larry!

In case folks are not keeping up - Local and State Parks are being 
"privatized" - towns are being given to corporations - right here in the US 
of A.

George
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Greece's woes)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Greece's woes)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Greece's woes)