He's a proven liar and hypocrite, and now Greece's major opposition SYRIZA-Regressive Alliance leader and former premier Alexis ‘Up in Smoke’ Tsipras is a failed soothsayer too.

Giving new meaning to the term cell phone, the jailed former spokesman for the neo-Nazi nutcase Golden Dawn party, doing time with former lawmakers convicted of running a criminal gang, started a new extremist party while in the hoosegow.

There was no more joyous image in the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey – that also hit Syria – than the image of Greek and Turkish rescue teams working together in the rubble and plucking out a 7-year-old girl alive.

While then-Premier Alexis Tsipras, whose government didn't have a disaster or evacuation plan in place, nor implemented early warnings on cell phones, was running around clueless and looking for someone to blame for the wildfires raging outside Athens in July, 2018, the heroes were there.

While you were snug at home, watching a football game or your favorite TV show in the United States in December, 2020 – while the coronavirus was raging – Hanad Abdi Mohammad was trying to save the lives of 31 refugees off the coast of Lesbos.

There's been more trial balloons over Athens about the prospect of the stolen Parthenon Marbles kept by the thieves of the British Museum being returned to Greece than Turkish drones, and almost as worrying.

How did the acclaimed Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras get from Z to Zero, from the riveting 1969 political drama loosely based on the 1963 assassination of Greek left-wing activist Gregoris Lambrakis, to Adults in the Room, with the second-rate economist politician Yanis ‘Crock Star’ Varoufakis?When you think of Z, you think of Mikis Theodorakis' pulsating music driving it fast and furious.

Phew, 2022 couldn't end fast enough for a lot of people in Greece, the ones who were most affected – as always – with struggles to make ends meet while the rich and privileged prospered and profited, as the late singer Leonard Cohen, who spent a lot of time on Hydra, famously put it.

Aaaaaaannnnnnndddd…..

Maybe Eva Kaili, now an ex-Vice President of the European Parliament and booted from Greece's red-faced PASOK Anti-Socialists, facing charges of taking bribes from Qatar, has a logical explanation why police said she had 150,000 euros in her Brussels home and her father had 600,000 more in a suitcase at a hotel.