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Alex Pattakos, Ph.D.
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The OPA! Way® is a new paradigm & formula for finding Joy & Meaning in everyday life & work uniquely inspired by Greek philosophy, mythology, & culture. OPA!
Greece; USA; Canada Katılım Mayıs 2009
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The Belgrade Tower! 🇷🇸🇬🇷
The blue and white illumination display on the tower included: “Ζήτω η Ελλάδα” (Long live Greece) 🇬🇷
The Belgrade Tower lighting up in blue and white to honour Greek Independence Day is a powerful and beautiful gesture of solidarity between Serbia and Greece. It symbolises the enduring friendship and shared values of the two nations.
Greek-Serbian Brotherhood:
The connection between Greece and Serbia is deeply rooted in shared common Orthodox Christianity faith and cultural and historical ties between the two nations.
Thank you Orthodox brothers. ☦️
📹: @srpska_istorija_1914 thank you for sharing. 🤝🏼
Music added by GCT
#BelgradeTower #Belgrade #Serbia #GreekFlag #Greece #GreekIndependenceDay #Orthodox
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🚨DERANGED: RAF Illegally BLOCKED 160+ White Male Pilots to Boost Diversity — MoD Confirms
“This is one of the craziest decisions ever made by any branch of the British state ever!”
The RAF literally paused hiring white men, preferring to recruit NO ONE over a qualified white male pilot, all to hit woke diversity quotas for women & ethnic minorities.
A senior female recruitment officer resigned in protest, calling it illegal & immoral.
MoD inquiry confirmed: it WAS unlawful positive discrimination. Over 160 male pilots had training suspended. 31 got compensation.
This is deranged. Putting ideology before competence doesn’t make our military stronger, it puts national security at risk.
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Apparently they think that supporting people at a very low level of civilisations shows how virtuous they are
American AF 🇺🇸@iAnonPatriot
Swedish reporter travels to Syria and has rocks THROWN at her by women and children because she’s not wearing a burqa.. Liberals want this in America for some reason.
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The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia.
Melanie Phillips (former Guardian journalist):
“Objective evidence was cast aside because it was too inconvenient. The very idea of reason and rationality was dismissed.
All these ideologies — multiculturalism, lifestyle choice, deep green environmentalism, moral relativism — were utopian. They promised perfection. Anyone who brought facts against them wasn’t just wrong… they were evil.”
Result?
- Evidence became “right-wing”
- Dissenters were bullied, ostracized, fired, threatened
- The Guardian itself became the heart of this ideological machine… until she fell foul of it.
When ideology is sacrosanct and the world must be perfected, facts become the enemy — and truth-tellers become heretics.
Have you watched this shift in real time — where inconvenient evidence gets labeled “hate” or “misinformation”?
Which sacred ideology do you think has done the most damage to open debate?
Your honest take 👇
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Dr. Alex Pattakos’ latest article, “Sharing the Greek Path to Well-Being,” for 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, which the Editors named an “Essential Read,” is again featured on the homepage of the magazine’s website. OPA!
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-me…

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@nfergus He warned us as a participant and witness to the River War in the Sudan. Written 126 years ago when he came back from the war.

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The Officer Who Held the Line When the System Wouldn't
A short video went viral last weekend for a simple reason: a police officer did her job. In Whitechapel, surrounded by an angry crowd of Muslim men demanding the arrest of a Christian street preacher, a lone Metropolitan Police officer calmly refused. She did not panic, apologise or search for a pretext to silence them. She stated the law. In Britain, people have the right to speak in public, and if you do not want to hear it, you can walk away. That moment of basic competence travelled across the internet because it felt extraordinary, and that is the real scandal: ordinary policing now looks heroic.
The officer's name has not been released and the Metropolitan Police have declined to comment, which in a way is fitting. She stands not as a celebrity but as a reminder of what the uniform is supposed to represent; calm authority, legal clarity and the quiet confidence of a state that knows its own laws and is not afraid to apply them. What she demonstrated in a few minutes has been missing for years.
Again and again, British police forces have arrested street preachers, comedians, activists and ordinary citizens for saying things that offended someone, and again and again the courts have thrown the cases out. Judges have repeated the same lesson: free speech protects ideas that shock, offend and disturb. The cycle is depressingly familiar – arrest first, apologise later and pay compensation at the taxpayer's expense – yet it continues.
This officer broke that cycle by applying Article 10 of the Human Rights Act on the street, in real time and under pressure from a hostile crowd claiming territorial ownership of public space. She understood something too many officers now forget: public order law is not a tool to silence speech but a tool to protect it, and that is why the video struck such a nerve. It was not merely reassuring; it was unsettling, because if this is what correct policing looks like, why does it feel so rare.
The answer lies in training and culture. Freedom of Information requests have shown that recruits receive almost no serious training on free speech law while being immersed in ideological frameworks, diversity seminars and social messaging. The imbalance is glaring. Officers are taught how to avoid offence before they are taught how to protect liberty, and the result is predictable.
Faced with complaints, many officers choose the path of least resistance: silence the speaker, remove the risk and let the courts sort it out later. It is safer for careers, easier for paperwork and disastrous for public trust. The Whitechapel officer chose the harder path, stood her ground, upheld the law and resisted the pressure of the crowd, behaving exactly as every British police officer should behave, and the fact that this felt remarkable should trouble every citizen.
This single moment exposes the gap between what policing is meant to be and what it has become. One officer knew the law and trusted it, and the public watched in relief because they are no longer sure the institution does. She should not be exceptional; she should be the standard. Until she is, the video will keep circulating as both a comfort and a warning.
"In Whitechapel, surrounded by an angry crowd of Muslim men demanding the arrest of a Christian street preacher, a lone Metropolitan Police officer calmly refused. She did not panic, apologise or search for a pretext to silence them. She stated the law."
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Dr. Alex Pattakos’ article, “Sharing the Greek Path to Wellbeing” for Psychology Today was just shared with the magazine’s 1.2 million followers on X! OPA! @greekcitytimes @MakeGreeceGreat @worldwidegreeks @GreeceInUSA @CanadaGreece @GreeceMFA #GreekMythology

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