Τεράστιες δασικές πυρκαγιές στην Αθήνα Προάστια, Νότια Πελοπόννησο

Οι πυροσβέστες στην Ελλάδα μάχεται μαζικές πυρκαγιές στα περίχωρα της Αθήνας, και περισσότερες πυρκαγιές στη νότια Πελοπόννησο, που ανάγκασαν εκατοντάδες χωρικούς να εγκαταλείψουν.

Η φωτιά έξω από την πρωτεύουσα εξαπλώνονται γρήγορα, fanned από ισχυρούς ανέμους και καταβροχθίζουν τα μέρη των λόφων δημοφιλής με τους πεζοπόρους και τους τουρίστες. Σημεία της πόλης βρίσκεται σε παχύ καπνό.

Ο πρωθυπουργός Αλέξης Τσίπρας είπε ότι η Ελλάδα έχει ζητήσει βοήθεια από το στρατό της χώρας του και της δύναμης του αέρα, καθώς και το ευρωπαϊκό κέντρο αντιμετώπισης καταστάσεων έκτακτης ανάγκης. Δύο νερού-ρίψη αεροσκάφη είχαν απογειωθεί από τη δεύτερη μεγαλύτερη πόλη της χώρας, της Θεσσαλονίκης στο βορρά για να βοηθήσει με την φλόγα της Αθήνας, είπε.

Islamic State (ISIS) Child Jihadi Carries Out A Savage Beheading Of A Syrian Army Soldier

By BI: ‘Cub of the Caliphate,’  no older than about 10, is seen executing a Syrian Army soldier by decapitation as the terror group increasingly uses young boys to kill.

HEAVY  A new video (below) purportedly released by the Islamic State shows a young boy soldier beheading a Syrian army officer in Palmyra, Syria.

UK Daily Mail  Wearing camouflage and a black headdress, the boy’s face is uncovered – revealing a chilling dead-eyed stare that offers a glimpse of the evil he has witnessed carried out by ISIS’ killers.

The soldier is seen being forced to lay on his stomach as the young boy approaches him from behind, pulls his head back by the hair, and uses a small knife to slit the man’s throat and set about beheading him.

In a moment of true horror the child then lifts the victim’s severed head in a warped celebration of the brutal murder. He then places the head on the victim’s back.

Throughout the entire killing, a senior ISIS fighter is seen observing the shocking scene.  At the end of the video the older militant turns to the camera and makes a chilling threat to the West.

‘Our goal is not only Palmyra or Homs or Damascus, rather our goal is to conquer Bayt al- Maqdes [Jerusalem] and Rome, God willing,’ according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, who say they were sent a copy of the video.

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Bastille Day fireworks light up the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Βίντεο αποκαλύπτει τον ακριβή χρόνο της διαφυγής του Βαρωνου της κοκας Χοακίν "Ελ Chapo" Guzman--Revelan video del momento exacto de la fuga de Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán

Η αστυνομία βίντεο δείχνει προσγείωση αεροπλάνου στην εθνική οδό--Police video shows plane landing on highway

ΟΙΚΟΠΕΔΑ ΙΟΝΙΟΥ και νοτίου ΚΡΗΤΗΣ: Παράταση στην... παράταση!

ΟΙΚΟΠΕΔΑ ΙΟΝΙΟΥ και νοτίου ΚΡΗΤΗΣ: Παράταση στην... παράταση!
Σήμερα 14 Ιουλίου 2015, στις 14.00, λήγει η προθεσμία υποβολής φακέλων προσφορών από τις εταιρίες που ενδιαφέρονται να αναλάβουν έρευνα και εκμετάλλευση υδρογονανθράκων στα οικόπεδα των περιοχών Ιονίου και νοτίως Κρήτης. Πρόκειται για την προκήρυξη που εξέδωσε η ελληννική κυβέρνηση προ ενός έτους (Υπ. Απ. D1/Α/12892/31.07.2014) και δημοσιεύθηκε στην Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως ως 2186/B/08.08.2014) ενώ δημοσιεύτηκε και στην Εφημερίδα των Ευρωπαϊκών Κοινοτήτων με αριθμό 2014/C400/03 στις 17 Νοεμβρίου 2014. Σ' αυτήν υπάρχουν οι χάρτες με τα υπό παραχώρηση 20 οικόπεδα.
Η αρχική προθεσμία έληξε στις 14 Μαίου 2015, χωρίς να παρουσιαστούν ενδιαφερόμενες εταιρίες! Δόθηκε παράταση 2 μηνών, μέχρι σήμερα δηλαδή. Ήδη, προ 4 ημερών, στις 10 Ιουλίου, εξαιτιας του κλεισίματος των Τραπεζών, η κυβέρνηση εξέδωσε ανακοίνωση με την οποία παρατείνει την υποβολή των προσφορών για 10 εργάσιμες ημέρες από την ημέρα που θα ανοίξουν οι Τράπεζες:
"Following restrictions applied on bank transactions in the context of the short-term bank holiday in Greece started in the 29th of June 2015, by means of the Legislative Act of the 28th of June 2015 (.......................) ...can be submitted to the Ministry (...), within a time period of ten (10) working days following the official end of the bank holiday."
Φαίνεται ωστόσο ότι τελικά δεν θα υπάρξουν προσφορές, εκτός ίσως από τα Ελληνικά Πετρέλαια (ΕΛΠΕ) που κατά πληροφορίες θα υποβάλλουν προσφορά για το οικόπεδο 1 (βορείως της Κέρκυρας) για το οποίο εξέφρασαν προσφάτως αμφισβητήσεις οι Αλβανοί.
Το γιατί δεν υπήρξε ενδιαφέρον από τις ξένες εταιρίες για τα οικόπεδα αυτά είναι ένα ζήτημα που έχει διάφορες αιτίες και ερμηνείες που ίσως αναλυθούν και λεπτομερέστερα σε άλλο ευρύτερο κείμενο. (Δρ Ι. Παρίσης / 14-7-15)

Οι μυστικες Πισίνες από τις Κατακόμβες του Παρισιού--The Secret Swimming Pools of the Paris Catacombs

The Secret Swimming Pools of the Paris Catacombs

It felt like the pavements of Paris could have melted this month. The city’s swimming pools were filled with splashing bodies and escape from the heat seemed futile. But there is one place, beneath the baking pavements, where only few will venture and plunge into the cool waters of the underworld. So let’s follow them to the deep end, the Parisian explorers known locally as the “cataphyles”, to find the secret swimming pools of the catacombs…

A friend of a friend of a friend, (that’s how these sort of clandestine connections only ever come about), an Australian ex-pat in Paris with a moustache that Dali would be proud of, Alexander J.E. Bradley can usually be found on the rooftops of Paris, 30 meters above ground or 30m below the streets in the catacombs, happily snapping away with his troupe of fellow creatives and urban explorers.

As an all-round purveyor of the occult in Paris, he’s teamed up with some pretty interesting characters of the underworld to create his films, stage his performance art and document it all with his camera over the past few years. One such character he’s encountered is a Parisian cataphyle who goes by the codename “Plongeur” (Diver), simply because he’s had the incredibly good fortune of going scuba diving beneath the city of Paris.

The often flooded and forgotten century-old tunnels have been his aquatic playground for more than 30 years and the brave diver has explored hundreds of meters of unknown galleries. The only reason the Department of Quarries inspection now knows of the existence of many of these tunnels is because he mapped them.

Together with the anonymous “Plongeur”, Bradley and his production team Mais Oui! made a fascinating short film about their experience following the local diver to plunge into the labyrinth of lost passages and discover what lies beneath the unknown waters of the catacombs. If you have any interest at all in Paris and its secrets of the underworld (which I have a sneaky feeling you do), “The City of the Sea” is something I think you really need to see…

Make sure to turn on the English subtitles if you need them in the bottom right hand corner. 

For a chilling moment there, it felt like they had discovered a lost “Atlantis” city beneath the streets of Paris.

Since his first descent into the watery deep of the catacombs with Plongeur, Bradley and his circle have began making their own trips to cool off in the secret swimming pools of the catacombs, and you can bet that he’ll be down there during the Parisian heat waves this summer for a clandestine pool party.

This is his privilege, having been passed on the knowledge and responsibility, from one cataphyle to another. So before you start enquiring if you can join on his next subterranean swimming session, bear in mind this is not in any way for a leisurely activity for beginners. Crouching over in one meter high pitch-black tunnels and trudging through murky waters up to your waist is not something you’re ever prepared for– even if there is the promise of crystal clear blue waters at the end of the tunnel. Cataphyles do not easily welcome first-timers, or what they call “tourists”. And of course, it’s all very illegal. So, be careful what you ask for.

Inside Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo's 2nd Prison Escape

Federal investigators are reading into every aspect of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s latest prison break as they intensify their search for the Mexican drug lord.

There was a gap of roughly 50 minutes between the time he was last seen Saturday night, when a prison guard gave him his daily medicine, to the moment when he was no longer visible on the internal video camera system, according to the Mexican national security commission.

Massive Manhunt for Mexican Drug Lord 'El Chapo,' Who Escaped Prison Using Tunnel

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Monte Alejandro Rubido, the head of the commission, said Sunday an alert was sent out at 8:52 p.m. and when guards went to his cell, they found a small opening in the shower area of his cell.

Photos have been released from the apparent escape route, but not inside the shower facility where an opening that is 2 square feet is believed to be through which the kingpin escaped, Rubido said.

Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo

PHOTO: In this Feb. 22, 2014, file photo, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of Mexico?s Sinaloa Cartel, is seen in custody in Mexico City following his capture in the beach resort town of Mazatlan.

Attorney Generals Office/Reuters

PHOTO: Mexico's Attorney General Arely Gomez Gonzalez looks into the entrance of a tunnel connected to the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary that was used by drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to escape on the outskirts of Mexico City, July 12, 2015.

From there, a ladder led to a tunnel that Rubido said was made out of PVC pipe that was just about as tall as Guzman himself, roughly 5-foot-6.

The tunnel extended for about a mile underground and featured an adapted motorcycle on rails that officials believe was used to transport the tools used to create the tunnel, Rubido said.

The photos show the tunnel extending into a home outside of the prison's property and there was a similarly small exit found in the floor of one of the building's rooms where the drug lord is believed to have left the tunnel and entered the free world.

Manuel Velasquez/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

PHOTO: Exterior view of a half-built house used by "El Chapo" to escape from prison near the maximum security prison of Altiplano in Almoloya de Juarez, state of Mexico on July 12, 2015.

Attorney Generals Office/Reuters

PHOTO: A box with clothes is seen at a property where the entrance of a tunnel connected to the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary used by drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to escape was found, on the outskirts of Mexico City, July 12, 2015.

There have been no reported sightings or publicized leads in the first day and a half of searching for Guzman, making this his second-known escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.

The first incident came in 2011 when he escaped from a different prison, and while few details have been confirmed in that case, he is believed to have gotten help from prison guards.

Marco Ugarte/AP Photo

PHOTO: Federal police guard a drainage pipe outside of the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya, west of Mexico City, July 12, 2015.

On Saturday night, 18 guards from the Altiplano maximum-security prison in Almoloya de Juarez, where the most recent escape occurred, were being questioned.