GREECE - Stand Tall

Stand up for your welfare and dignity. Leave the EU, they don't care who of you starve. The EU currency was always bound to fail because the common currency must always impose upon and subjugate national sovereignty, it is a flawed ideal.

You are now a sacrificial lamb to the EU and world financial ideology. That financial ideology of endless debt is bound to fail. You are better out of this giant Ponzi scheme that is called world finance. There is much pain to come for all its adherents.Your future lies in independence and self management - just look at Switzerland and Scandinavia - the most effective societies on the planet.

Your strength, in the short term, may lie in your own history, as the cradle of modern intellect and democracy, and in terms of hard cash as an attractive destination for tourism if well promoted and managed. Melbourne, Australia, is the largest Greek city outside of Greece and that country is most grateful for the immigration of hard working Greeks. Your young unemployed would be a boon to Australia as it was after World War II, and that may be a salve for them and for their Greek families until the world financial crisis plays out.

There is much pain soon to come for western families from the mismanagement by politicians, financiers and central banks. We might all soon be in the position that Greece now finds itself, including a collapse of currency value. Greece may be well advised to weather that storm before the rest of the western world and find itself one of the first to emerge into prosperity.

Travel Trivia - an eye for Geology

The sciences provide additional dimensions for interest when traveling - Geology, Botany, Zoology, Climate and Ecology being the most obvious. While crossing the seemingly endless road between Western and South Australia, the area called the Nullabor Plain on the shores of the Southern Ocean in the far south of the continent, a distance of some 2000 km, I was intrigued by the geology of the ancient limestone deposits which cover hundreds of kilometres along the Eyre Highway.

The modern shoreline (shown above) with the ocean is a dramatic limestone cliff many hundreds of kilometres long around the Great Australian Bight. The theory of continental drift proposes that the continent of Australia and the Antarctic continent were once joined in the area of the Bight, supported by the matching limestone on both continents.

There is also an ancient shoreline which is readily observed running almost parallel with the modern one, but up to fifty kilometres inland, which runs for hundreds of kilometres beside the highway. It is also a limestone cliff, but a little more weathered than the modern version. Below is a picture of the ancient shore.

  
 The question which arises is why the land was uplifted creating a new shoreline. It may be postulated that after the Antarctic split from Australia, there was a release of weight from the southern shore of Australia, causing it to rock on the hot liquid mantle below upon which the continent floats, raising the level of the land. That phenomenon is called 'isostasy' by geologists.

A little knowledge and research of the sciences can really enhance interest in the surroundings through which one moves. :)

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