US message to Israel is that it can get away with ‘worse than starvation’
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/7/31/us-message-to-israel-is-that-it-can-get-away-with-worse-than?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Da un'economia di occupazione a un'economia di genocidio. Il nuovo rapporto di Francesca Albanese


Il convegno promosso il 29 luglio alla Sala del Cenacolo della Camera dei Deputati dall'Intergruppo parlamentare per la pace tra Israele e Palestina coordinato dall'On. Stefania Ascari.

Intervengono:

On. Stefania Ascari
Francesca Albanese, Rel. speciale delle Nazioni Unite sulla situazione dei diritti umani nei Territori palestinesi occupati dal 1967;
Duccio Facchini, giornalista e direttore di Altreconomia;
Stefania Maurizi, giornalista de Il Fatto Quotidiano;
Michele Carducci, professore di Diritto costituzionale comparato Università del Salento;
Alessandra Annoni, professoressa di Diritto internazionale all'Università di Ferrara
Michela Arricale, avvocata e copresidente del CRED
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“Dividing the political positions into liberal versus conservative is itself a leading example of [an old conceptual framework that organizes the world into categories and stereotypes] shared by journalists and media activists alike. As a result, it has taken decades for libertarians in the United States to break through this conventional view of the political spectrum and gain recognition as a distinct point of view. Over and above any hostility journalists had to…

Kafkaslarda Değişen Dengeler

Rusya-Ukrayna arasındaki savaş üç senedir devam ederken, Orta Doğu’da değişen dengelerden sonra, sıranın Kafkasya’ya geldiği anlaşılıyor. Bilindiği gibi, Rusya’nın Ukrayna savaşı ile meşgul olması nedeniyle Suriye’ye verdiği desteği geri çekmesi, Esat rejiminin devrilmesi ve bölgede Siyonist İsrail’in stratejik üstünlüğü ele geçirmesiyle sonuçlanmıştı. Şimdi de Rusya’nın savaşta olmasını ve güç kaybetmesini fırsat bilen ABD elebaşılığındaki Batı emperyalizmi gözünü yeniden Güney Kafkasya’ya dikti.

  1. yüzyılda, gelişmiş ve gelişmekte olan ülkelerin enerjiye olan ihtiyaçları çok büyük oranda arttı. Yeni bir Orta Doğu olmamakla birlikte, Batı’nın elindeki en önemli petrol sahası olup, yakın gelecekte tükenecek olan Kuzey Denizi rezervlerinin yerini almaya aday Hazar’daki enerji kaynakları ve hidrokarbonlar Güney Kafkasya’nın stratejik önemini daha da artırdı. Yapılan hesaplara göre, tüm dünyadaki enerji rezervlerinin, bugünkü tüketim hızı ile elli yıl ömrü kaldı. Çin ve Hindistan’ın gelişme seyrinin devam etmesi hâlinde enerji kaynaklarının ömrünün daha da kısalacağı tahmin ediliyor.
  2. yüzyılın Orta Doğu’su diyebileceğimiz Kafkasya’da, SSCB’den kopan üç devlet; Azerbaycan, Gürcistan ve Ermenistan jeopolitik tablonun önemli aktörleridir. Azerbaycan, Hazar Denizi havzasının ve Orta Asya’nın zenginliklerini içeren “şişenin” girişini kontrol eden, yaşamsal önemdeki “tıpa” olarak tanımlanabilir. Ermenistan; Kafkasya’ya açılan kilit, Türkiye’nin Turan yolu üzerinde stratejik bir engel, Kafkasya jeopolitik tablosunun önemli bir oyuncusudur. Gürcistan ise Karadeniz ile Kafkas ülkeleri arasında köprü ve Kafkasları kontrol açısından stratejik bir konumdadır. Bu özellikleriyle bölge, hem enerji kaynakları hem de Rusya’yı güneyden çevrelemek isteyen emperyalist ABD ve Primakov doktrinine göre, bölgeyi yumuşak karnı olarak gören Rusya için büyük önem taşımakta olup, alt emperyalist Türkiye’nin de hedefleri arasındadır. Bölgenin merkezî önemini kavrayan Rusya, gerek SSCB döneminde gerekse sonrasında, bölgenin üç devletinin desteğiyle, jeopolitik dengeyi büyük ölçüde kendi lehine çevirmişti. ABD tarafından güneyden kuşatıldığını hisseden Rusya’nın amacı, yakın çevresini, yani tüm Kafkasya’yı stratejik denetime alarak Çarlık Rusya’sından beri süre gelen jeopolitik gelenekleri sürdürebilmektir. ABD’nin jeopolitik çıkarı ise bölgeyi Rusya’nın etkisinden çıkarmak, enerji zengini Güney Kafkasya’yı emperyalizmin çıkarları doğrultusunda yeniden dizayn edip Orta Asya’ya ulaşabilmektir.

Son Ermeni-Azeri savaşına askerî olarak katılan Türkiye’de Turancılık, devletin resmî ideolojisi olarak, İttihat ve Terakki’den beri hep var oldu. Türkiye, ölümcül Turan fantezisi gereği, Azerbaycan yoluyla Hazar Denizi’ne, oradan da Orta Asya’daki Türkî cumhuriyetlerine ulaşmayı hedefliyor. Diğer yandan da Azerbaycan ve Orta Asya’dan gelip Batı’ya gidecek enerjinin terminal ülkesi olmayı hayal ediyor. Ermeni toprağı Zengezur koridoru, Türkiye’nin Orta Asya’ya ulaşmasını engellediğinden koridorun açılmasında ısrar ediyor. Türkiye, Ermenistan’ı Azerbaycan ile kontrol altına alma peşinde. Azerbaycan’ın 2020 ve 2023 senelerindeki saldırılarının asıl nedeni bu stratejik hedeftir. Bu nedenle Türkiye, Azerilerin haksız savaşını Azerbaycan ordusunu eğiterek ve fiilen son savaşa da katılarak destekledi.

Güney Kafkasya’da dengeler, Ermenistan’da Batı yanlısı Peşinyan’nın başbakan olması ile değişmeye başladı. Yukarı Karabağ’ın kaybıyla sonuçlanan 2023’deki savaşta Rusya’nın gerekli desteği vermemesi, Ermenistan’ın Rusya’dan yana stratejik pozisyonunu değiştirmesiyle sonuçlandı. Azerbaycan, Batı ile Rusya arasında denge politikası izlerken, ilişkiler 2024 senesinde Azerbaycan yolcu uçağının Kazakistan’da düşürülmesiyle bozulmaya başladı. Azerbaycan, Rusya kabul etmese de uçağın Rusya tarafından düşürüldüğünü iddia etti. Daha sonra Rus güvenlik güçlerinin iki Azerbaycan vatandaşını Moskova’da işkence ile katletmesi üzerine, 2025 senesinde taraflar medya ofislerinde operasyonlar yapıp kültürel faaliyetleri askıya alarak karşılıklı notalar verdiler. Bu arada Azerbaycan ile Ermenistan da yaptıkları görüşmeler sonucunda, Zengezur koridorunun açılması da dâhil, ihtilaflı konularda büyük oranda anlaşmaya vardılar. Peşinyan’ın Ankara’yı ziyareti de anlaşmayı perçinlemiş oldu.

Gelinen aşamada, bölgede Rusya lehine olan dengeler değişmiş olduğundan, Rusya-Ermenistan-İran ekseni dağılmış gibi görünüyor. Böylece Azerbaycan-Gürcistan-Ermenistan’dan oluşacak Güney Kafkasya zinciri ile Rusya’yı güneyden, İran’ı kuzeyden kuşatmak mümkün olacaktır.

Gerek Orta Doğu gerekse Kafkasya’daki gelişmeleri ve Rusya-Ukrayna savaşını, iki emperyalist devletin, ABD ve Çin’in arasında yapılacak “3. Paylaşım Savaşı”nın ayak sesleri olarak görmek gerekiyor. Hegemonyası gerilemekte olan ABD, bir yanda kendi cephe gerisini tahkim ederken, diğer yandan Çin’in stratejik ortakları Rusya ve İran’ı pasifize ediyor. ABD’nin tek süper güç olma pozisyonunu muhafazası ancak Orta Doğu ve Kafkasya’da petrol ve doğalgaz aktarımını kontrol etmesi, Pasifik’te ittifaklarını güçlendirmesiyle mümkün olabilecektir.

İsmi konmamış bu savaşta emperyalist Rusya ise Ukrayna savaşından başını kaldırdıktan sonra, yumuşak karnı Kafkasya’da dengeyi kendi lehine çevirebilmek için; karşıt unsurların bloke edilmesi, sosyo-politik ortamın destabilize edilmesi ve sert güç kullanmak da dâhil, her türlü enstrümanı kullanacaktır.

Ahmet Hulusi Kırım

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The US is building an unprecedented net of💔deportee dumping grounds, pursuing deals w ~a 3rd of the world’s nations to expel #immigrants to places *don't hold ctz. Once exiled🚨-sometimes detained, imprisoned, or in danger of being sent back to their country of origin.

>8,100 ppl have been expelled in this manner since Jan 20 +the US has made arrangements to send ppl to at least 13 nations *12: cited by the St Dept for sig HR abuses.
#Deportations #Sadism #Fascism #USPol theintercept.com/2025/07/29/tr…

Now We Know the Official Who Approved the Spikevax Vaccine for Children While Robert Kennedy Jr. Was Allegedly on Vacation

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/n…

GOP’s Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban

Link: cbsnews.com/news/hawley-democr…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

C'est marrant comme tous les cyclistes vous êtes là : faut absolument apprendre à réparer son pneu crevé.

Bah euh non, on peut faire du vélo sans savoir ça, oui ça arrive, mais franchement c'est pas si fréquent, c'est pas la fin du monde (sauf si évidemment t'es en rando solo loin de tout), ya souvent des gens trop contents de t'aider, et on peut ne pas avoir envie de le faire quoi.

Si c'est absolument nécessaire pour faire du vélo, bah je comprends que les gens disent la flemme. Et c'est ce que j'aurais dit.

Mais le vélo est mon moyen de transport du quotidien, et j'ai pas réparé / changé de chambre à air depuis 20 ans.

Je roule pas trop chargée, sur des routes ok, et j'ai un bon vélociste. (Et mon vélo a 20 ans, et des pneus classiques de VTC)

Wildfires burn in northern Portugal


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Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured wildfires burning in northern Portugal on Wednesday, 30 July. Image: Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured wildfires burning in northern Portugal on Wednesday, 30 July.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Unrelenting Israeli Siege Fuels Mass Deaths among Gaza’s Elderly, Children tn.ai/3365690

Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip continues, with at least 34 Palestinians killed since dawn on Thursday, including 15 aid seekers.
Source at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis says a young man from Rafah has died from starvation.
More, always more, Israel does not tire of its terror, destruction and murder.
Premature baby struggles to survive after pregnant mother shot in the head by Israeli soldier.

#gaza #genocide #palestine
#israel #IsraelTerroristState #un #us

“Companies that do surveillance pricing are violently allergic to sousveillance pricing. When they spy on you, that’s progress. When you monitor their behavior, that’s piracy.“

Read “Delta’s AI-based price-gouging“ by Cory Doctorow on Medium: doctorow.medium.com/https-plur…

I never thought about it this way. Spot on @pluralistic!

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification

Link: arstechnica.com/information-te…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

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Laws and legal institutions are the mechanisms by which nation states legitimize different forms of violence against those weaker than them. That's all they are, in reality. They can be ignored or attacked when they're inconvenient to powerful nations, of course.

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#palestine #uk_complict
Analysis: "Israel’s leaders said, explicitly, repeatedly, from the very beginning, that they are deliberately starving Gaza’s people."

Western politicians "knew what was happening all along & are complicit."

In April 2024, US govt depts told Biden that "Israel was deliberately blocking aid" - which legally required stopping the supply of weapons. Biden overruled it.
h/t @DrALJONES theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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LDieu n’est pas territorial,
Territorial n’est pas Dieu.

notesandsilence.com/2025/05/06…
#méditation #prière #silence #conscience


Une adolescente noire sort du bâtiment en même temps qu'une personne âgée y rentre. S'en suis ce dialogue :
"Non mais j'ai pas fait mai 68 pour que tu te laisses voiler par tes frères et des ayatollah.
- Je suis méthodiste.
- Et qu'est-ce que ça change ? Une vraie femme doit pouvoir se promener avec une plume dans le cul si ça l'amuse.
- Ça change que je suis protestante et que j'ai envie de mettre un bandana sur mes cheveux le temps de refaire mes tresses. Et puis même si j'étais musulmane, je vois pas en quoi ma tenue vous regarde puisque vous vous êtes battu pour que je mette ce que je veux."
#racisme #feminisme #islamophobie
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@Ysabeau @niavy En fait, y a toujours ce truc utlra essentialisant sur les questions de la féminité, où pour contrer un modèle réactionnaire sexiste on va en opposer un autre mais plus en phase avec nos propres valeurs "progressistes"; et c'est clairement une rhétorique qui a été hyper utilisée dans les années 2010 quand il y a un genre de méga confusionnisme entre féminisme et islamophobie (ce qui nous a donné du Printemps Républicain et Manuel Valls, et ça a of course été très rapidement Rouge-brun full powâââ).

I wonder how many more children have to die before the world starts taking measures that will force Israel to stop.

"Former EU ambassadors warn: Europe’s silence on Gaza is complicity - In an open letter, 58 former EU envoys urge the bloc to end arms exports, sanction Israel, and act to stop what they call atrocity crimes."

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/…

#Gaza #genocide #eu

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Επίσης. Τους έμεινε φάκελος στο χέρι και έκλεισαν μικρόφωνα μέχρι να δουν τι έγινε και τι θα κάνουν. Ούτε να μετρήσουν...
Ίσως αυτό και να εξηγεί ότι είπαν 83 ψήφισαν και βγαίνει 82 τοο άθροισμα.
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Είδα λίγο την 1η μέρα και το γιουχαρισμα που έφαγε ο Φλωρίδης όταν αναφέρθηκε στην παρεμπόδιση των Ισραηλινών τουριστών, είπε " Προέρχεται από γελοίες περιθωριακές ομάδες που υπονομεύουν την συμμαχία Ελλάδας - Ισραήλ προς όφελος των Τούρκων". Κλασικό πολιτικό σκουπίδι, να τον χαίρονται οι ψηφοφόροι-πελάτες του.

Sheikh Naim Qassem: Hezbollah will not hand over arms to Israel en.abna24.com/news/1713152/She…

Gen. Mike Flynn Demands Prosecution of Obama and Deep State Minions for Conspiring to Overthrow the United States: “We Now Need to See Some ACCOUNTABILITY!”

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Whisper of Ashes.
( A Zen moment )

In stillness I sit—
the world holds its breath with me,
time curled like incense.

Smoke climbs the silence,
each thought folds into the sky,
soft and vanishing.

Then—
a sound so small
the earth forgets it was heard:
The ash touching the ground.

TsL. 25
#mypoems #Zen #Meditate

Democrat fire attack against Virginia Republican city council member
"Lee Vogler is known for his commitment to conservative values and has been involved in promoting limited government, which suggests he is not a Democrat. He has been active in Republican circles and is running for a state senate position as a conservative candidate"

LIMITED GOVERNMENT 😱 He must be one of those fascists we hear so much about ...

They claim that it's personal. Personal as in "the attacker knew Lee Vogler and disagreed with his policies".

DeSantis: "A lot of these Republicans say, 'You can have a million people plow in. As long as it's legal, that's good.' Is that really good? A lot of these tech companies are laying off American workers and then importing H1B visas. I think that's a TOTAL scam."
#minds minds.com/newsfeed/17976307508…

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FU all in the face

It's the American workers that are being replaced by foreign slave labor by big corporations.

Trump promised to take care of this but of course he doesn't give a shit about American workers and lets the big corporations replace American workers with H1B visas and H2A visas

Corporations are bringing in hundreds of thousands of foreign workers under the H-2A visa program.

Workers tell us it’s basically a human trafficking scheme — a way to replace farmworkers who unionize and fight for higher pay.
Trump could expand it with little oversight.

FU all in the face.

Campaign Promises? "That plays great before the election, now we don't care". ~ Donald J&J Trump

I promised to get rid of H1B visas but now my good friends are telling me I'm going to increase H1B visas so lets talk about something really important, really beautiful and most importantly, FU all in the face.

Campaign Promises? "That plays great before the election, now we don't care". ~ Donald J&J Trump

NEVER FORGET - TRUMP LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING

Donald J&J Trump the master of the Flip Flop

Campaign Promises? "That plays great before the election, now we don't care". ~ Donald J&J Trump

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Amazon made a War of the Worlds movie - the copyright has expired - where Amazon is the hero corporation that spies on people and saves the world via Amazon orders 🤣

gizmodo.com/amazons-new-war-of…

Israeli Justice Minister to High Court: Gov't unable to garner support of former AGs, justice ministers, for AG's ouster haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

Early Look at elementary OS 6 New Desktop Features - Road to Odin


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elementary OS 6 Odin will probably release before the end of the year, and since I contributed to their AppCenter for Everyone campaign, I got access to the betas for that new release. This is the first of a series of videos about the various new features that we can expect in Odin, and we'll start with the desktop features themselves.

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Please remember this is still very much in development, and if some things don't look right or don't work as intended as of yet, it's perfectly normal.

The first thing you can notice is the new theme. It's not finished yet, as you can see with this back button which doesn't sport the back arrow shape yet, but the basic elements are still there. I really, really like the improvements to the stylesheet. Everything feels more physical and contrasted, with more raised, cleaner buttons. The switches, checkboxes and radio buttons haven't changed all that much visually, but they already looked amazing in the first place.
The headers are more raised, which makes them pop a lot more, and better differentiates the window's content from the window itself. I also feel that unfocused windows are more recognizable as well.

The revamped theme is accompanied by a new feature you'll notice right after install, and in the settings: you'll have the ability to switch to a dark mode, and select an accent color for buttons, switches and controls. This is very, very nice.

The dark mode will probably make some people a bit mad, since it doesn't apply automatically to all applications. It's not a dark theme that just replaces the current theme with darker backgrounds, it's a mode, that applications can opt-in to, or not, so it's up to the app developer to decide if they want to support it or not. By default, not all elementary OS 6 apps will use it.

The system indicators and the dock will also turn dark, at least, but for third party applications, the behavior will be less consistent.

The notification center also has a new look, with more legible grouping of notifications per application. The previous iteration was serviceable, but not that pretty, I think the new one is a lot more user friendly, and looks good as well.

There is a new accessibility feature, which, in true elementary fashion, is not hidden in an "accessibility" tab, but displayed where users might expect it to be, and it's the dyslexia friendly text. It switches the system font to a more readable one for people suffering from dyslexia. It's a good improvement to make sure elementary OS is as accessible to as many people as possible.

Finally, there is a new system-wide font called Inter. It replaces the previous default, and it looks way better. I've been using it on elementary OS 5 for a few months now, and it really looks more professional. It's less wide, more compact, and it just looks better defined. It's a crisp font, and it polishes up the look.

A small change, but a welcome one, is the ability to right click on the desktop to change the wallpaper or access the display settings. Don't expect icons on the desktop, it's still not coming, although there is the Desktop Folder app in the App Center, or there will be once the developer can update it to support elementary OS 6.

The housekeeping feature is now enabled by default. It automatically cleans up some temporary elements, like trashed files and temporary files, after a certain amount of time. It already existed in elementary OS Hera, but had to be turned on manually, so it's nice that it's now the default.

The Online Accounts part of elementary OS had always been pretty limited, with just Last.FM, FastMail, and generic IMAP email support, but this will change in Odin, since they seem to be using the same providers as GNOME does, so you might see the ability to add Google accounts, Nextcloud accounts, and a lot more, to better integrate them with your desktop. It's a very, very welcome change, although most providers don't appear in this list yet, so we'll have to see how that evolves.

The settings also add a "Wacom tablet" panel. Since I don't own any of that kind of hardware, I can't try it out, but I'd expect it lets users tweak the settings of their graphic tablets, and that's good for designers and artists.

There is also a new Wallet panel, which will serve to save, encrypted and on your device only, some payment information for you to use in the AppCenter.
And finally, users will find all the necessary controls for their flatpak installed applications in the "apps" settings panel.

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No one can cancel #MiriamMargolyes! She's a LEGEND. Besides, she's Jewish. How can a Jewish lobbying group *cancel* another Jew? That makes no sense! Dare I say it but that would be pretty #AntiSemitic too! ---


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Trump’s Gaza “Food Centers” Miss the Real Problem: #Israel’s Aid Blockade

As with many of #Trump’s proposals, it’s unclear how serious he is about his vague call for further #US involvement in Gaza food aid.

Matt Sledge
July 31 2025, 6:00am

They also emphasize that at this point, women and children in Gaza are in need of not just food but also specialized medical care to reverse severe malnutrition.

“The proposal is ludicrous,” said Dr. John Kahler, a pediatrician who co-founded a nonprofit group MedGlobal that supports re-feeding centers for children in #Gaza. “Nothing new needs to get done. It’s a simple but not easy solution: Stop the bombing, open up the gates, and let the people who know how to do it, do it.”



theintercept.com/2025/07/31/tr…

#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopStarvingGaza
#USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopArmingIsrael
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #USPolitics
#news #press #politics @palestine

As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Palestinianterritories #Israel-Gazawar #Worldnews #USnews #Israel #Gaza

Video. Crowds risk death for food in Gaza as famine warnings intensify
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/07/31/crowds-risk-death-for-food-in-gaza-as-famine-warnings-intensify?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Ο κουμπάρος μου πρότεινε να πάω διακοπές στην Καλαμάτα και του απάντησα:
Καλύτερα να ξοδέψω τα λεφτά μου στην αλβανική ριβιέρα ή στην μαύρη θάλασσα παρά στην πατρίδα του Σαμαρά
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@koustompola εννοείται πως ναι. 3 φορές πήγαμε μαζί Γιάννενα - Αθήνα και τον πήγα από Ιτέα γιατί δεν έχω διαβατήριο να περάσω Αντίρριο - Ρίο 🤣