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Photos From A "Fixed" Greece
Greece may have a new government that is the same as the old government, but what is important is that it is "fixed".
From the Daily Mail: "Starving Greeks queue for food in their thousands as debt-wracked country finally forms a coalition government":
Starving Greeks queued around the block for free food handouts yesterday as the country's politicians managed to end a crippling stalemate to form a coalition government.
Young children as well as the elderly waited in line in Athens to collect the parcels of fruit and vegetables donated by farmers from Crete to help ease the devastating austerity faced by many Greeks.
Lifeline: Hundreds of poverty-stricken Greeks are queuing for free vegetable handouts as politicians finally agree to form a coalition government
Desperate: An elderly lady, left, and a woman, accompanied by her son, carries a box of vegetables as thousands of Greeks and foreign immigrants line up during a free vegetables giveaway
Despair: Pensioners joined the lengthy queues behind barriers in Athens where people were waiting for a free food handout
Hungry: Greeks line up for the food handouts, donated by Crete's farmers
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Obesity problem solved.
Really sad. and Not due to any fault of their own.
Really? none?
Piss off. As if ordinary people ever had a chance or ever will have a chance to really influence anything. Not on their own.
WE ARE ONLY STRONG IN NUMBERS. THE UNIONS WERE ONCE A STRONG FORCE THAT KEPT THE FAT ASS BANKERS AND THEIR WHORES AT BAY.
Want to influence something, start on your own life. Crying about the fact you require some large group to protect you or help you be strong, is weak. Spend less than you make, don't rack up debt, buy some silver, plant a garden, get a chicken, read a book that will teach you something(not Harry Potter) learn to can, close your bank accounts (or keep a very small balance) I am sure you can see where this is going and fill in others. Some of the above may not fit your situation (like a chicken) but others are essential.
The company you work for sucks, quit and find a new job, or start your own company competing against the company you just quit. If they suck you should be able to take business from them easily using the skills they taught you and the contacts you made. You don't need a union to stick up for you, stick up for yourself first.
You are pissed that one group that you have given power to is not representing you and your solution is to find another group to hand over some more of your power. A union is a great idea, if you still believe in the red vs blue debate.
But that's just my opinion, yours may vary
Hahaha...spoken like a true LIB.
That's like saying Americans don't deserve a President like Obama.
Doing nothing while your country is taken over by banker fucks is what got the Greeks to this point. The Greek people COULD save themselves by just defaulting and kicking those fucking banksters out. Instead they vote to continue living as slaves.
Fear and desire - keeps the plebs in line nearly every time.
I'd like to change a few things myself. Only the fear of being gunned down by a dozen uninformed officers over a hopeless expression of rage keeps me here at home.
For a bunch of broke mother fuckers, they sure do dress well.
Designer shades, bright colors, patterned prints, golf hats. Oh the humanity!
That probably looks like paradise to most on the African continent.
Greece is paradise.
Yeah Greece is a beautiful part of the world. I'm not supporting what banksters are doing there but come on! These don't tug at the bleeding heart bitch portion of me at all! Shit like this is comin to every developed in debt nation on earth. It still isn't poverty when you look at the underclasses of India, most African nations, etc.
Don't feel bad for these people. We will all get to feel the exact same way in due time. Patience!
Whenever I assess poverty in photos, I look for women's makeup. Clothing and accessories can last, but makeup and nailpolish need to be replenished. They're also quite pricey in Greece.
The kids are are wearing bright clothes as well. Kids grow out of clothes every two months.
There are alot of yard sales and such where people look to pick up kids clothes. I had a garage sale last week to get stuff out of my house and people swarmed over the kids clothes. The clothes and toys were gone in minutes. I was shocked.
Most of it is shit but I have been frequenting flea markets more and more. I believe the all cash, underground, used item economy is our future.
I need to know the ins and outs of the flea markets before I need to use them exclusively.
agreed.
Had to down tick you there...I'm pretty sure that most of those people don't want to be standing in line like that for a few vegetables.
Hey you did what you had to do.
When this scene comes (well it already has but perhaps more vividly) I won't be saying woe is me! I've benefitted from my elders addiction to debt. I know I have benefitted greatly from the false wealth in my short time on earth.
I know this is all a fiat based illusion. I don't feel entitled to the motorcycle to my left. I have done what I can to prepare for the inevitable. I do believe though, in these situations, no one wins. The prepared ones just lose a little less.
So I guess I don't feel bad for the Greeks because they lived beyond their means for a long time just like us in America.
I'll stand by my underclass comment. They are truly in poverty and have never experienced quality living conditions. if we are going to all act like a bunch of bleeding heart liberals around here today, we might as well focus our efforts on people who are not only suffering by have sufferered their entire existence.
Thanks.
I agree with you on the poverty. This isn't real poverty when you look at nations where true poverty exists, and alot of this is because they , like us have been living beyond our means, but my guess is most of those people don't understand that. My guess is most of those people don't trully grasp where the problem lies, all they know is they were doing okay a couple of years ago and now they are standing in line for food.
When it comes to the U.S people like most of us on the Hedge will be okay,because we get it but it is going to be a shock to the rest of the coontry. I only hope it won't be as violent as I think it will be.
Peace, Love, and Understanding
Hardly popular sentiments, Dr. E.
New Sparta isn't going to be built on that foundation.
"My guess is most of those people don't trully grasp where the problem lies, all they know is they were doing okay a couple of years ago and now they are standing in line for food." I suspect you may be right; I assume there are useless-eater-sheeple among the populations of every country. ZH showed us a few months back that 45% of Greeks had still never used the internet: that makes those people officially 'Dumb as Shit'.
Ten people have never been to Africa.
What is your point? Africa is a shit hole, always has been a shit hole and always will be a shit hole.
Pretty and colorful, full of wildlife and full of resources but a shit hole of human civilisation regardless.
Ruanda being just one example.
So? What do you have to say now?
In ObameriKa they'd be in the checkout line. No SNAPS for you !
That's supposoed to be poverty? Go visit the townships of Gugulethu or Soweto. Or better yet, one of the Cape's 'informal settlements'. On second thoughts, don't. You might not make it out alive.
You're talking about long term vs recent poverty. Look at their clothes. They are wearing clothes that are wearing out. Several years old.
Soweto is their future, when the clothes have worn out.
How is recent poverty worse than long term poverty? The recents had wealth and the ability to open their eyes, prepare and chose not to.
Long term poor never had that chance.
Leben point is dead on. The cape is worse by many many multiples. If poverty makes you sad I can find poverty so much worse than this that you will become suicidal.
No. Sorry. I don't see it.
Seven people have never been to Africa.
Yeah I don't get the downvotes for us arguing that there is shit so much worse than this in the world.
Africa makes Greece look like an amusement park.
I don't think people are junking you guys for saying that there are many places with much worse poverty than what Greece is currently being forced to endure - because that's patently true. I think it's more a reaction to the fact that both of you seem to have the tone that what the Greeks are dealing with is just fine and dandy, because it ain't near so bad as parts of Africa.
The counter that many are trying to make, IMO anyway, is that no-one should have to suffer even Greek style 'austerity' let alone the shit the real 3rd world has dumped on them, just so a relative handful can lord it over the fucking rest of us. A human being does not let another starve so he can carry on putting stolen 3rd world fuel in his fucking Bentley. It's wrong when it happens in Africa. It's wrong when it happens in Greece and it's wrong when it happens any other fucking place.
I don't, for the record. I just don't generally see anything I'd call poverty yet.
Starving in a gold-threaded suit will still kill you, though. Food availability in the modern world is largely unrelated to some abstract "dollar value" you can place on a person's outfit. If there are real supply-line disruptions in a modern city, you don't eat, no matter what you have to offer.
Worth keeping in mind.
What the fuck is your point? The BLACKS there never had a chance to make a go of it and they never will MAKE A GO OF IT.
So fuck right off with your stupid innuendos and comparing Greece's FIRST WORLD (or what's left of it) to the vast majority of Africa's THIRD WORLD DRECKS LOCH poverty.
Go ahead, ask me if I support shiny white boyz going on mission trips to Africa. I could care less.
Do you support shiny white boyz goin on mission trips to Africa?
Sorry, I didn't realize how great a job Greeks were doing HAVING A GO AT IT these days.
And people ask me why I have long term food storage. No lines for me when the time arrives here in the US.
I try to keep that a secret so I don't have lines,or gunmen ,at my door.
Good point. Move along. Nothing to see here.
I lost all of my food storage in an unfortunate boating accident.
rule #1, if you have food, then you MUST also visit the food lines... you have to supplement enough to be healthy, but not to look too healthy. Questions become difficult to contain.
You've got to visit the food lines, so people don't wonder where you're getting your food from.
You're wrong, and for several reasons.
When the time arrives in the US, what leads you to believe your food supply will outlast it? IT'S FOREVER. It's not a bump in the road. It will be FOREVER.
But, you are right that you won't stand in lines. When your food runs out, the people who would have stood in a line will all be dead so wherever you go there will be no lines, nor any trucks handing out food. The truck drivers will be dead by then, too.
You'll be dead a few months later.
I doubt that. But at least I'll out live your dumb a$$. And that will make it all worth the while.
By the way, before we had the civilization of today, we had plenty of people who "survived" on their own hard work and subsistence skills. I don't doubt you will die off cuz you're already beat. I'm pretty sure I'll be OK without all you sheep around.
It's not going to be forever... but it will be a prolonged period... if we have to digress to steam engines, we can do so... it's not like we've lost our predecessor technologies... the boom/bust credit cycle does actually provide something... (of course, at the risk of losing everything, but I don't think the library is going to burn so to speak).
I don't believe that for a minute. The golden horde will ravage everything in sight and there will be a big die off but there will also be an opportunity to rebuild.
@crashisoptimistic
I up voted you because I love sensationalism!
sssshhhhhhhhhhh! shush!!
They do not look like "starved", however all the boxes on the pictures clearly display "Anatoli" brand... Smells like a dirty PR-move to me.
they packed empty boxes with food, retard.
They were of course empty boxes before they were filled. But if you read the box, it clearly confirms what it is and where it came from.
"Anatoli" isnt a brand, but a region of greece where most of the produce is grown from. It is known to have the greatest number of greenhouses in all of Europe. I learned this by typing Anatoli into a search engine. Lets not get lazy guys...
and to think such images were unique to communist countries
hmm wrong! empty shelves for the masses, abundant overflowing stores for the communist elite.
Russia, Cuba, probably every Communist country.
In fact, it was "millions of peasants starving to death" in Ukraine, so this picture of people with a rather large box chock full of fresh veggies in no way shape or form evokes any images from the Communist Countries.
Shoulda seen the line at the ouzo & tobacco concessioins...
"...but what is important is that it is "fixed"."
I may be fixed, but that doesn't stop me from.....er.....nevermind.
Wrong "fixed". :>)
Horse races are "fixed" too
Mrs. Cog has put me out to pasture.
Obummers new anti-obesity plan. Have Michelle arms by sunday.
And the fucking rapist bankers all get paid. Pathetic.
YOU GET THE AWARD FOR BEST BOTTOM LINE COMMENT.
This is the real message we ought to be repeating over and over and over again until our political whores are small as dung beetles. Because that is who they resemble the most.
Wasn't that the last barrier keeping everyone from uttering the dreaded "D" word (i.e. food lines)?
I have a message for the square-mile, two words, retribution for one, redemption for the other. Or, what goes around is about to come around.
Keep the people thinking ONLY about food and they won't focus on the corrupt government.
Castro has done this for years in Cuba....it works.
Looks like the Greeks have been thourghly beat into submission..time to move on and impoverish the next country.
A lot of people in that last picture don't look very Greek to me
All to save the Euro.
FUCK THAT.
Those vegetables will last mere days, then what?
FUCK THAT
then the vegetables will grow from the ground AGAIN !! !oh my god the sky is falling IN!!
I love Anatoli!
Strange, made me think about the Turkish Army being the one giving the handouts...
Those young ladies are sure putting on a brave face.
There is nothing fake about the above. Their clothes are from another time. They still wear clothes. What is the matter with some of you guys. Only in Amertica will we storm lines and not wait our turn. Other countries, especially in Europe are a bit more civilized. This is a sad set of pictures. But, just the beginning.
We won't have food lines in America. We have EBT's, bitchez!
I cannot imagine how it must feel to have the rug pulled out from under you like that.
Granted, in a couple of years at best I will have to.
Debt and interest will sap your soul.
pods
Talk to your parents and grandparents about the stories they were told by their parents and grandparents about why the family left Europe to come to America...because the same Euro elites pulled the rug out from under them many years earlier. History is just repeating itself.
Our course Americans' forefathers had the character to get out of that master and servant game and start a new life on this side of the Atlantic.
It takes character to break the shackles.
At least they waited. In Argentina they put their pots and pans together and went chasing the banksters down the street. I guess that will happen when the weather turns but maybe not before the Spanish civil war.
here in the usa we have food stamps..otherwise we would have these same images here..gee guys getting rid of glass stegal and letting banks go from 12 to 1 leverage to 50 to 1 really has worked well..
A shout out to the farmers of Crete. I doubt that everyone in the line needed the handout, but I'm certain that some/most did.
Wow, that is disgusting and makes me want to destroy banks and hang the banksters that are out on yachts eating, drinking and generally being fucking merry! How long does this insanity continue before the human beings stand up and fuck the banks and gubmints?
Its as bad or worse here with some 46 million people collecting EBT cards as food stamps. The populations of the world are having everything stolen from them and their countries, its beyond criminal! As I read on a bumber sticker once: "Kill them all (bankers) and let God sort them out!"
As it continues there will be, at some point in the near future, a complete breakdown of society which will morph into a consolidated effort to take bank control of our world and finally eliminate the paradigm of consumption and fiat currency. I hope I live long enough to see it happen and get to see people like Bernanke, Geitner, Summers, Clinton, Bush, Obama, etc get theirs, all of them put in prison or executed for treasonous activities against the country AND the people of the world!
If fairness can ever again prevail we'll see the day when the monetary systems collapse and we are able to take back control, that will be a very bad day for the bankers and gobmint officials everywhere. It reminds me of Italy post WWII and what happened to Mussolini, the guy who took fascism and made into a goverment. In the end his headless corpse was dragged through the streets while his head was planted on a pole in front of the Government buildings in Rome! This is exactly what the powers that be are afraid of, because they know instinctively that ultimately this is exactly what will happen - yet they cannot stop themselves, its never enough.
The "Let them eat cake" mindset ala Christine Laguarde and taxes will once again inspire the battle cry of the populace, hpoefully Christine will be one of the first to have her head separated from her body and placed on public display right in front of Timmy the Tool's office window. At some point, if it hasn't occurred already, the 1% will be increasingly paranoid to the point where they hire bodyguards for themselves and small armies for their fenced in communities.
Question is when we make our move will the military and police side with the people or with the overlords? This is really the question because without them it will be extremely bloody - basically another civil war.
Farmers save the day again.
i.e. People who do real work.
yes, but are they doing 'God's' work?
I'm not suggesting that the problems in Greece are not severe. But I think 'hungry' Greeks might be more accurate than 'starving' Greeks. Also, as I look closely at a couple of photos I see men in green military style pants. Extreme left side of the bottom photo has what could be the butt of a gun. Perhaps armed personnel are there keeping order? Either way, fuck the elitist banking/politico cocksuckers.
upcoming queue, soylent greek
The chick carrying the kid in the orange top looks like a girl (actually Greek, too) that my mate John dated (well, sounds better than 'was banging', doesn't it?) when we were on RAF basic training. Come to think of it, the kid looks a bit like him....
Sad to watch a country that should be prosperous, given it's obvious advantages in climate, arable land, fishable waters and basic mineral resources, end up like this. Though much worse is to come, of course - here, there and eventually everywhere. And all so a bunch of mega-wealthy sociopathic pricks can get a tiny bit richer and more powerful. Ought to be burned at the fucking stake, the lot of them!
This is coming to a neighborhood near you soon.
Whew, I feel much better now knowing that Greece is fixed.
At least the food looks like it hasn't expired.
I had to go to a food pantry a few years back and I was thankful to get a can of salmon that was 4 years beyond the expiration date. I ate it and lived. The smell was normal but the fish had darkened somewhat. A lot of food at a food pantry is either old or has been in a flood. Only during the holidays is the food 'more fresh' and within the expiration date.
When the drachma returns and it costs 1 trillion for a tomato and all you have is a couple of billion, well then i guess you would be a starving billionaire
I wonder if there's an aquaponics movement in Greece. Perhaps a bit late for the greeks, but...
http://www.friendlyaquaponics.com/
The urban farming guys are doing some pretty cool work.
http://theurbanfarmingguys.com/
++1 on the urban faming guys and the aqua ponics tip. They are soooo cool arent they? I just love the urban farming guys.com. They could also benefit from their bio digester models for energy. And no I don't think its too late, its never too late to get into producing your own food for cheap
Been doing it for a couple of years, since you mention it.
Aquaponics for tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, bell peppers, chillies, etc. Hybrid raised bed / hugelcultur for peas, beans, spuds, etc. And I'm gradually climbing the south facing walls with a vertical gardening setup, as time and money allows. Got pots with strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants and a metric shitload of herbs and spice plants on all the window ledges, too. Kids even have their own small aquaponics setup in the bedroom window, with peppers and strawberries in it.
Fun to do, too!
looks like the Athens Syndrome
Coming soon to a theater near you...
Well, this is a one well fixed country. More fixing coming soon closer to you. And when the fixing is done ... there will be more fixing, till eventually, the Arab countries are fixed too, and they start selling the oil, for the Gold equivalent. This will be the time when everything that has wonderful odour, and is extremely nutritious for the plant life, will hit the fan.
It is funny, for finally, when the TRUE nutrients come, the (organic) growth will finally return.
hEARD A RUMOUR ON A RUMOUR THAT 1285 IS THE NEXT PAUSE b4 the next bailout discussion..........................
There are over 800.000 ( illegal ) Albanians and immigrants in Greece who flock to this bankrupt country because it is better than their own failed states. Besides, we in prosporous The Netherlands have tens of thousends people who live of free foodboxes. The " European " Empire is slowly but steadily falling into pieces.
Well, they voted for Old Democracy.
sad, sad, sad
Some suggesting the people are lining up for a box of veggies in the midday Greek heat for fun is just stupid.
What is more fucked up is that Crete is a major agri producer for Europeans but they're giving food away because they probably can't sell into the EU with her fucked up bureaucracy that limits the amount of produce any nation can bring to the table. EU bureaucracy has created lakes of milk and landfills of apples and other produce because of subsidies and other government intervention.
When do these fucking bankers give up and let people breathe? Never, I guess. Until we force them. Save your ammo it will get bloody.
Some suggesting the people are lining up for a box of veggies in the midday Greek heat for fun is just stupid.
And some people line up in the NY midday sun to pay $800.00 for an iPad. Anyway, they all look about retirement age (puberty) so what else do they have to do?
I've an acquaintance (used to work with his brother) who's an orchard farmer in southern France - grows apples, pears, cherries, all kinds of stuff. His business partner is Russian, believe it or not.
You ought to hear him lose his temper about the EU agri stupidity when he comes over to the UK to visit family. Once you get a couple of pints in him, you start to worry he might have a shotgun in the car!
Good. I hope he brings the shotgun. I'd bring my cattle prod. We could be drinking and hunting buddies and declare open season in Brussels and Strasbourg.
Someone has to put an end to this crazy nonsense or we're all waking up in the Twilight Zone!
Talk about spinning the truth. What these photos actually depict are the prosperous Greek people lining up to deposit their excess wages in local banks. Then they are proceeding to pick up some groceries on the way home. The nerve of some news organisations and their propaganda.
How about providing some facts, or evidence at the very least, to back up your rediculous statements. Or are you just another shit talking jackass?
I believe that is sarcasm you are reading there. Maybe he should have put a disclaimer for you.
MSM reporting the turkish shoot down
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j685QR9mI8NGpomO7T5TXx...
Syria apologizes for taking down Turkish warplane: Turkish PMhttp://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/pilots-rescued-from-military-plane-cras...
O/T Just beaking
Syria apologizes for taking down Turkish warplane: Turkish PMhttp://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/syria-apologizes-for-taking-down-turkis...
From June 15
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/world/europe/russia-sending-air-and-se...
And helicopter retrofits shipment bakc in Russia
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20120622/174188356.html
I remember watching an episode of "No Reservations w/Anthony Bordain" a couple of years ago when he was in Greece. Tony was sitting on a beach, sipping ouzo and eating seafood with some of the locals who were telling him of all of the time for vacations they had and how early they could retire. Tony, in his particularly smarmy way, commented on how the Greeks really had it figured out and the rest of the world could take a lesson.
Well, they have finally run out of other peoples money, so I wonder if the rest of the world will take a lesson when we see people going hungry because they have put their trust in a government that told them they would be taken care of forever.
On a serious note, most of you Westerners who are casting down arrows at the mention of Africa have no idea - no idea whatsoever - of what real poverty and desperation are. An American ghetto is like a reasonably well-off Cape Coloured suburb, never mind the worst parts of Sierra Leone.
I don't know why you would get down ticked. I guess it really goes to show how sheltered Americans are.
Unpleasant glimpses of reality scare the SHIT out of a lot of people.
Just close the eyes, whistle a happy ditty and it will all be okay like it always was in just a couple minutes.
The State Department is acknowledging that the Russian helicopters Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said represented an escalation in the Syrian conflict were actually returning to Syria after being refurbished and are not new tools against Syrian opposition groups.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57453417/state-department-syria-boun...
Long ~ steel barricades
Won't get fooled again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHUD2XmLN4
In a let-them-eat-cake response to the Greeks’ plight, IMF chief Christine Lagarde in an interview with Britain’s Guardian newspaper called Greeks scofflaws and tax evaders, ruling out any relief from austerity measures that are devastating the country. Her arrogance is particularly hypocritical coming from a world planner who pays absolutely no taxes on a $500,000 salary (her salary of $467,940 a year plus $83,760 additional allowance a year).
CommonDreams.org wrote on May 26: “Asked by The Guardian newspaper how she blocks out of her mind mothers in Greece unable to get access to midwives or patients unable to obtain life-saving drugs, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde replied: ‘I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.’”
She's wrong about that. The kids in Niger don't need any more help than the Greeks do. What we ALL need is to be liberated from the oligarchs that live lavish lifestyles by stealing 90% of the benefits of our productivity. Third World ghettoes are there because the elite want it that way; the people in them have about the same chance to make something of their lives, communities and countries as anyone in the 'First' world - they just aren't allowed to.
What we need to end is the paradigm that states that one can only be 'rich' when everybody else is poor.
...one can only be 'rich' when everybody else is poor.
Money is an abstracted proxy for social control.
When everyone can provide for their own survival and amusement, being "rich" has little appeal--it won't give you the ability to command the activities of others.
I think you're mistaken about "ending some paradigm."
Every once in awhile you'll meet a person who truly doesn't care about money. Those are the folks who really threaten the current system--they just won't play by the rules of economics.
You'll never be free until you decide to be.
Ante gamisou Bernanke!
In America we do things differently, bankers line up in front of the Federal Reserve and are given lots of "cabbage"...
My dog was 'fixed'....he is mellow.
Bloomberg just has a very good interview with some dude called Luigi Zingales. He basically summed it up when he said 'who needs credit analysis when its all become political analysis. He floogin a book as well but if I find it on line I'll post it.
So the solution is what? Greece can announce right now that it is stiffing the EU or Eurobanks, and nothing changes in Greece and nothing changes in these food lines. This guy can still go stick a camera in people's faces and show them getting free food, dignity be damned. Other than the small UK Law bond that was repaid at par, Greece isn't servicing any of its debt now, so it isn't as if people are going without in order to repay banks. People are going without because the economy isn't functioning, hasn't been functioning, and likely never will function within the euro. However, since polls show 85% of Greeks want to stay in the euro, what is the solution?
Iceland was Bernie Madoff at the sovereign level, but the Icelandic people---who benefited from the Ponzi by getting easy credit to speculate on property, funded by Scottish pensioners---had a functioning economy underneath the Madoff-like ruse. Greece lacks that advantage. Had Greece not been able to borrow cheaply---public and private level---owing to membership in the EU, these lines would have been present shortly after the country adopted the euro and the joke of its membership was laid bare. The inevitable was merely postponed until lenders realized the country and its people, on balance, were bad credit risks. The credit inflow stopped, the euro remained the means of exchange, and these food lines are the result. They are not going away until the euro does.
Tonight Greeks and Germans have something completely different in mind.
Its Football (soccer) European Championship Time tonight in Poland
Its the Quarter Final knock-off Game tonight we have Greece with the following team:
Goalkeeper: Crisos
Defenders:: Insolvenzos, Kreditos, Bankrottos, Nixeuros
Mid field:: Ruinos, Pleitos, Blankos, Moneygopolus
Attack: Noliquidos, Fiaskos
The German team ont yet completely nominated, please fill in:
Goalkeeper: Controllos
Defenders::
Mid field::
Attack:
Come on. The game starts in one hour.
The Resto du coeur organization in France has distributed 115 million free meals this winter, attending 900.000 persons per day... Visit their site for more info (http://www.restosducoeur.org/).
and France has not defaulted yet.....
There is virtually no life left in processed foods. Fresh of any food product costs much more than processed food. It is no conspiracy. We trade time for the ease of processed food preparation to be able to spend it making a living or watching TV. Trade offs that in the end cost time in health and longevity. We all have a 24 hour day. Every extra day in shelf life put in processed food will be paid for in time from a long healthy life. Choose wisely.
The US in a few years. Wall Street and the banksters push to reduce medical coverage and Social Security while reducing taxes for the top 1%.
In the mean time Bernanke and the Fed will swipe more from the 99% by increasing asset prices, cost of living and stagnate wages.
Now this:
Power traders in at least four countries have reduced or halted electricity exports to Greece due to non-payments
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/debt-crisis-live/9348354/Debt-crisis-live.html
They have run out of money after they paid the bankers.
That's so sad to see.
I looked at that picture of the young boy and thought about my own son. Damn Shameful! I wish these people, and all Americans, would have spent some time becoming self sufficient and putting food away into food storage to ast as food insurance. Just one can of tuna put away for a week for a year can make a huge difference in whether you're in a food line or toughing it out for a few months. I wish them all luck, especially the young who don't have a say in how their parents prep or how their governments mismanage resources.
New York has now about 1200 soup kitchens, when it used to be only about 20-30 for decades. So things have changed a little bit recently.
Going from 20-30 soup kitchens to 1200 soup kitchens is what any right thinking person would call PROGRESS.
Bigger IS better.
i have a food bank in the hood which i could hit with a pitching wedge if i could ever hit anything straight
it has a schedule and people go at their assigned day & time and get their package, which is substantial; you just sign up, i think; it isn't total goobermint-accounting and is run local volunteers, some few of whom are coming from the womens' homeless shelters here, at times
so the lines are never long; people drive up and it looks just like greece excpt the lines are shorter and 1/3 here are on cellular; all the kids over 10 are hooked up; plenty of free parking in the hood
they throw the box in the car and drive away; these operations are all over the town, county, state, and nation
people are encouraged throw stuff in the food bank barrels before they leave the grocery
once upon a time, slewie had a part-time job in a non-profit agency and the break room became a food bank for all the agencies in the building and their poor needy clients
so one day, along with the baked goods, dried grains/pasta and fresh veggies, these pallets of 5-lb bags of fresh organic shitake and other types of mushrooms start appearing in the break room...
...get the ship, BiCheZ! these puppies are perishable!
If huge amounts of mushrooms start appearing in the break room, it's damned well past time to clean and disinfect the place!
The french knew what to do in 1789 when their leaders bankrupted the country trying to beat the english. And what was the revolutionaries first action? Declaring war on the english so they could get beat up all over again by nelson.
Shamefull.
Fixed Greece? I had my dog fixed once.
why can not they grow their own vegetables ?
On their balconies? they're in the city!
i heard the bankers are fattend up enough and ready for the slaughter. They say they taste just like bacon.
"People can't feed themselves due to deep austerity measures"???
Uh, no. That's totally fooking wrong, bra'... and whoever wrote that should be tied up and each person in this line should be able to dick punch him on the way by.
The people can't feed themselves because of the fooking socialist fookers who bankrupt the country in the first place... for fooking fook sake who writes this SHIT!?!?!?!?!
Who writes this shit? The spin artists. Who the hell else?
THe roads for socialism in Greece ends in the same place where it ended for the Cubans, NKoreans,Russins,Chinese,Poles, Czechs,Slovaks,Hungarians, Serbians, Montenegrans, Croatians, Slovenians, Cambodians,............
I think you get my drift.
How pathetic is this? All for the sake of a Fucking stupid ideology.
I know: Let's pretend what's happening now is socialism.
Capitalism has made this bed. If socialism is the result, I would suggest capitalism take a good hard look in the mirror.
Maybe shit will work better the next time it comes into vogue. Christ, first it fought communism, then it announced victory, now it claims to have succumbed . . . with a hundred thousand new rich cocksuckers left behind to tell us it's our own fault.
Money seems to transform people into cunts and it sucks to have to see them rot.
But they insist.
In America, pizza is considered a vegetable so go figure.
In the Real America, Obama and Romney are also considered vegetables.
Personally, I'd rather have a big fat pizza. For dinner OR for president.