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Topic: The Greek food brawl:
Hundreds fight each other
for free vegetables on the
streets of Athens |
The Greek food brawl:
Hundreds fight each other
for free vegetables on the
streets of Athens
Daily Mail [UK], by Sara Malm
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Posted By:BuckeyeRon, 2/6/2013 6:55:09 PM
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| Hundreds of people were fighting eachother on the streets of Athens during a food giveaway, prompting an outcry over the growing desperation created by economic crisis. Farmers protesting against government cuts gave away 50 tonnes of free vegetables and fruit in the Greek capital earlier today, causing chaos in the streets as impoverished and hungry people elbowed their way to the stalls. Startling images of Greeks struggling to seize bags of tomatoes and leeks thrown from a truck outside the Agriculture Ministry have sparked further debate about poverty in the debt-ridden nation. ‘These images make me angry.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 2/6/2013 7:07:42 PM (No. 9162558)
The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people´s food.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 2/6/2013 7:08:20 PM (No. 9162560)
Soon coming to your neighborhood as officials and FDA dig up a home owners vegetable garden, destroy their livestock.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross, 2/6/2013 7:08:21 PM (No. 9162561)
Coming soon to Obama´s America
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
4Justice, 2/6/2013 7:19:17 PM (No. 9162573)
No, they will just withhold our water. I know they are hungry, but how do you make a meal out of tomatoes and leeks???
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 2/6/2013 7:28:47 PM (No. 9162580)
these pictures make me want to weep...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Iraengneer, 2/6/2013 7:39:34 PM (No. 9162588)
What is Greek for "hang the Kulaks!" And how long until it is blamed on the Jews?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Flashback, 2/6/2013 7:40:54 PM (No. 9162590)
Their Fighting over VEgeTables!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
anonymous, 2/6/2013 8:09:59 PM (No. 9162624)
Greece is an outrageously beautiful country. Its islands are unique. The breathtaking vistas are out of this world. The summers are glorious gifts from nature. The azure waters of the Mediterranean are a playground for the rich and famous.
But the people? The people? Let´s just say that the people are in an awful mess right now. This is what happens when you allow the government to cede financial control to the northern Europeans as a consequence of bribes. The bribed have become the serfs.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/6/2013 8:34:57 PM (No. 9162649)
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
~~ Thomas Jefferson
True here, true there. But not understood.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/6/2013 9:02:08 PM (No. 9162669)
While on a cruise, one of the ports was Athens. The morning of arrival, there was a National strike, so there was no port pilot. Even if we had been able to get to the dock, there were no bus drivers, no taxi drivers. Greece would go on strike with regularity, always wanting more and more and more.
Was it worth it?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
annie xango, 2/6/2013 10:18:34 PM (No. 9162755)
I showed these pix to 2 friends of mine who are middle aged Greek ladies..and they are aghast....they had no idea how bad things were.and they still have a lot of relatives over there..but, they do not have a computer or cable or cell phones.....so they tend to be out of the loop on a lot of stuff.
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