GREECE: TROIKA REPORT HIGHLIGHTS

Reuters has it

East African Food Crisis

BBC Report

Down at the Kondokali Crossroads (Blues Latitude Live)

I'll miss the Blues Latitude gigs on 10 and 17 June, but the poster should pull 'em in.

The PRISM, GR2010

This looks like an interesting collective multimedia project, the innovative  PRISM, documenting the hard winter of 2010 in Greece.

The first five episodes are now online in English. Click on screen below for trailer in full screen mode.

Pensions for the Dead

This story doesn't go away: 4500 dead former public servants in Greece have been receiving regular pension payments.

Bild

Spiegel Online

There's a blues song here: "See that my pension's paid on time".

Hat tip to Eurointelligence.

How far can you Press a Poet? Stevie Smith was right!

How far can you press a poet?
To the last limit and he'll not show it
And one step further and he's dead
And his death is upon your head.

Stevie Smith



A propos:

Letter from Byron to John Murray, 31 July 1821:

'Are you aware that Shelley has written an elegy on Keats - and accuses the Quarterly of killing him? -
    Who killed John Keats?
    I, says the Quarterly
    So savage & Tartarly
    'Twas one of my feats -

    Who shot the arrow?
     ............................