Greece Tourism Board claims ownership of iconic Aussie landmarks !!!

[Lone Wolf]

BEWARE of Greeks baring cliffs !!!

THOSE crazy, self destructive Greeks are at it again, proving that when the rest of the world thinks they can't slide any further, someone over there comes up with yet another angle...

NOT happy with destroying a once proud culture (even though twas ~2200 years go, admittedly..), and currently holding the inenviable dual title of both Europe's and the Western world's sorriest basket-case and the planet's poorest excuse for either a country or an "economy"; Greece's tourist commission is now exposed as "stealing" Aussie landmarks and claiming them as their own, after being sprung earlier pilfering award-winning commercial video clips of the southern skies without permission..

Greece claims ownership of Twelve Apostles in tourism promotion

Date: November 16, 2014
Cameron Houston, Chris Vedelago

The Greeks consider themselves the founders of democracy and mathematics. Now they've taken credit for one of Australia's most recognisable landmarks, the Twelve Apostles.

Greece's national tourism agency has been caught out using the picturesque rock formation to depict the Greek coastline in its new international tourism campaign.

The embarrassing blunder has been compounded by "preposterous" claims by the Greek tourism ministry that the use of the images are justified because constellations seen in the sky above the apostles on the video "carry Greek names".

The controversy erupted after Australian astro-photographer Alex Cherney discovered that 15 seconds of footage from his award-winning time-lapse film Ocean Sky had been spliced without permission into an official Visit Greece tourism campaign video.
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In Gods, Myths, Heroes, the Greek tourism board uses the footage of the night sky moving over the Twelve Apostles to depict the birthplace of the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/greece-claims-ownership-of-twelve-apostles-in-tourism-promotion-20141115-11na9g.html#ixzz3JEuv2Kt7

     NOW, we all know Greece has shithouse scenery, some funny little islands, crappy food and plonk, and even worse beaches !

BUT REALLY, stealing other people's landmarks and videos ? THAT really sets new lows even for those pathetic greasers themselves..      

FOR MORE laughs at Greece's expense, check out these images put together by some Aussie since the story broke :        http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Greek+tourism+steals+australian+video&FORM=HDRSC2&id=60513055FCDF833FF22F729B537DC8FC54A939CE&selectedIndex=0#view=detail&id=717D8AFC99216A3E0332F8954988451133F14481&selectedIndex=13