And then there are people

[Queen Titania]

The UN refugee agency says it will struggle to provide basic supplies to a wave of refugees in the Greek islands if the country’s banking system fails in the coming days.

Greece’s islands have in recent weeks overtaken Italy as the primary entry point for refugees to Europe, with nearly 80,000 arriving this year from Turkey – a rate six times the equivalent figure from 2014, according to the UN.

More than 9,000 have arrived in the past week alone, and a UN spokeswoman on the island of Lesbos, which has taken in around half of the arrivals, says the organisation’s ability to give them items as basic as bottles of water and sleeping mats is at risk.

Laura Padoan said: “The precarious financial situation means that if we can’t access cash readily, it could threaten our programmes because we pay our suppliers through Greek accounts. We do depend on having ready cash. A lot of programmes depend on cash purchases of Greek goods.”

The Athens government has been overwhelmed by the unprecedented wave of refugees on its eastern islands, many of which lie just a few miles from the Turkish coast, allowing refugees largely from the wartorn countries of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to risk the short journey in rubber boats.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/09/greek-crisis-un-refugee-agency-struggle-cope-banks-fail

The World is interconnected ---

 

[Lukey]

The UN refugee agency says it will struggle to provide basic supplies to a wave of refugees in the Greek islands if the country’s banking system fails in the coming days.

Greece’s islands have in recent weeks overtaken Italy as the primary entry point for refugees to Europe, with nearly 80,000 arriving this year from Turkey – a rate six times the equivalent figure from 2014, according to the UN.

More than 9,000 have arrived in the past week alone, and a UN spokeswoman on the island of Lesbos, which has taken in around half of the arrivals, says the organisation’s ability to give them items as basic as bottles of water and sleeping mats is at risk.

Laura Padoan said: “The precarious financial situation means that if we can’t access cash readily, it could threaten our programmes because we pay our suppliers through Greek accounts. We do depend on having ready cash. A lot of programmes depend on cash purchases of Greek goods.”

The Athens government has been overwhelmed by the unprecedented wave of refugees on its eastern islands, many of which lie just a few miles from the Turkish coast, allowing refugees largely from the wartorn countries of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to risk the short journey in rubber boats.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/09/greek-crisis-un-refugee-agency-struggle-cope-banks-fail

The World is interconnected ---

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-08/caught-tape-other-crisis-happening-greece

 

[Queen Titania]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-08/caught-tape-other-crisis-happening-greece

Brings tears to your eyes doesn't it? And what for? All these people once had homes, we bought them War and now they are camped out in and needing help from another victim of the Rich and Powerful. Show doesn't it, how much kinder we are when life is simple. Sadly we never seem to take that kindness with us as we climb ladders.


ps I go to your zerohedge.com automatically now Look what you've done! You might even turn me into a half literate 'economic expert' ---- oooohh! Woe betide em then!

 

[Queen Titania]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-08/caught-tape-other-crisis-happening-greece

A school friend of my niece's read Arabic at Uni, she lived and worked in Syria, they were all told to leave and she moved to the Lebanon, she has visited the refugee camps there --- she say it is so heartbreaking she can't go anymore, having known how they lived and what they have been bought to is too much to bear, life is so fragile.

 

[Lukey]

A school friend of my niece's read Arabic at Uni, she lived and worked in Syria, they were all told to leave and she moved to the Lebanon, she has visited the refugee camps there --- she say it is so heartbreaking she can't go anymore, having known how they lived and what they have been bought to is too much to bear, life is so fragile.

I understand. There are many in the middle east who just want to work and raise a family and the religious zealots who have overthrown the authoritarian dictators who were keeping them from unleashing hell on the non-radicals are now running roughshod over them. It really is sad, and a direct result of the idiocy of the "Bush Doctrine." I'd really like to hear the candidates for the Republican nomination come out and formally repudiate the Bush policies - all of them - economic, fiscal, foreign...

 

[Queen Titania]

I understand. There are many in the middle east who just want to work and raise a family and the religious zealots who have overthrown the authoritarian dictators who were keeping them from unleashing hell on the non-radicals are now running roughshod over them. It really is sad, and a direct result of the idiocy of the "Bush Doctrine." I'd really like to hear the candidates for the Republican nomination come out and formally repudiate the Bush policies - all of them - economic, fiscal, foreign...

I think it is even more sinister. Our destruction of Libya and arming of the Chechens ( IS) for them to gain control of the Oil fields is a part of it --- A chess game for bastards.

When we think that Syria was a part of any Med Cruise, that people just popped over there in their yachts --- I can't get het up about dictators, not with the History of my country nor any other Great Empires, they all have their consequences --- for eg I can't even be unsympathetic to Sisi in Egypt, it is all very well saying he is undemocratic but look where the Bros were taking Egypt --- right into the arms of the Wahhabis.