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Children 'dumped in streets by Greek parents who can't afford to look after them any more'
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Posted on 01/11/2012 11:46:34 AM PST by traumer

Children are being abandoned on Greece's streets by their poverty-stricken families who cannot afford to look after them any more. Youngsters are being dumped by their parents who are struggling to make ends meet in what is fast becoming the most tragic human consequence of the Euro crisis.

It comes as pharmacists revealed the country had almost run out of aspirin, as multi-billion euro austerity measures filter their way through society.

Athens' Ark of the World youth centre said four children, including a newborn baby, had been left on its doorstep in recent months. One mother, it said, ran away after handing over her two-year-old daughter Natasha.

Four-year-old Anna was found by a teacher clutching a note that read: 'I will not be coming to pick up Anna today because I cannot afford to look after her. Please take good care of her. Sorry.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: greece; socialism; socialistnightmare
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To: Red Badger

I am thinking you are correct.

Keep in mind the dominance of the Greek orthodox church in the country.

Also keep in mind the British are looking for ways to collapse the euro currency.


61 posted on 01/11/2012 2:37:40 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory
Also keep in mind the British are looking for ways to collapse the euro currency.

Who are they sending? MR. BEAN? That would be like looking for tortillas in Mexico...........

62 posted on 01/11/2012 2:50:49 PM PST by Red Badger (If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
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To: Morgana
Wonder if they have money to open orphanages?

Would you want to consider the conditions of an orphanage in a country that subsidizes pedophilia as an occupation? Would the government-employed pyromaniacs burn the place down before the pedophiles could have sex with all the children? Greek reality TV!

63 posted on 01/11/2012 2:57:10 PM PST by Tax-chick (Be the one who gets it done (instead of a useless drone)!)
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To: nikos1121
Sorry, ain’t buying it. First off I doubt any Greek will be naming their daughter “Natasha”.

I agree. This has all the characteristics of tabloid sensationalism. And I don't even have a Greek-sounding screen name.

64 posted on 01/11/2012 3:28:32 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: traumer
What a load of sensationalizing cr*p! Did anyone commenting so far even read beyond the first paragraph?

Athens' Ark of the World youth centre said four children, including a newborn baby, had been left on its doorstep in recent months.

That's *four* abandoned kids in many *months* in a city of close to 4 million! Gee, show me one city of that size where that does *not* happen. Granted, there may be more cases other than those left at that Ark (which by its purpose would be an obvious magnet for leaving kids there - and yet only four in months), but still...

65 posted on 01/11/2012 3:59:43 PM PST by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: Tax-chick; little jeremiah

TC this kind of thing, pedophilia that is has been going on the Greek island since????? Plato? Socrates? Before both? Honestly if the who island fell into the ocean that would be the only way to end the pedophilia that has gone on since long before Christ.


66 posted on 01/11/2012 5:55:35 PM PST by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: traumer

How sad. I just saw Jolie and Pitt why don’t they go help these babies? Why doesn’t America wake up that this could be us soon?


67 posted on 01/11/2012 6:22:58 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: oh8eleven; abb; weegee
Not new.
19th century NYC streets were full of "unwanted" kids ...

Yeah, selling newspa .... whoops

68 posted on 01/11/2012 7:11:44 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

FYI: All in the picture are dead now.


69 posted on 01/11/2012 7:17:45 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: martin_fierro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsboys_Strike_of_1899

Newspaper boys, also called ‘newsboys’ or ‘newsies’, were the main distributors of newspapers to the general public from the mid-19th to the early 20th century in the United States. Standing on street corners, walking through neighborhoods and hawking their papers throughout every city, they first appeared with the rise of mass circulation newspapers. Newsboys tended to be among the poorest classes of society, often seen sleeping on the streets. The newsboys were not employees of the newspapers but rather purchased the papers from the publishers and sold them as independent agents. Not allowed to return unsold papers, the newsboys typically earned around 30 cents a day and often worked until very late at night.[3] Cries of “Extra, extra!” were often heard into the morning hours as newsboys attempted to hawk every last paper.[4]

Newsboys were not often well received. In 1875 a popular writer of the period wrote, “There are 10,000 children living on the streets of New York....The newsboys constitute an important division of this army of homeless children. You see them everywhere.... They rend the air and deafen you with their shrill cries. They surround you on the sidewalk and almost force you to buy their papers. They are ragged and dirty. Some have no coats, no shoes, and no hat.” However, the common ill-treatment of the newsboys was not a major concern of society.[5]


70 posted on 01/12/2012 1:13:16 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Morgana

Indeed, intergenerational same-sex intimacy has been a historical feature of Greek society for as long as there’s been history. (It’s important to emphasize the homosexual element, because they sure weren’t interested in little girls, nor much in adult women. Funny what that does to the birthrate ...)


71 posted on 01/12/2012 5:09:15 AM PST by Tax-chick (Be the one who gets it done (instead of a useless drone)!)
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To: JRandomFreeper
If I can eat, there's food for a bratling.

Who said anything about "food?"

72 posted on 01/12/2012 5:26:13 AM PST by papertyger
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To: martin_fierro

Your point?


73 posted on 01/12/2012 6:01:25 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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74 posted on 01/12/2012 6:58:23 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Tax-chick

don’t know much about history?
In ancient athens those caught with minors were stoned to death.
The spartan myth in that regards is a product of western professors mistranslating mentor/mentee or teacher/student into sex partner.

Even alexander the great was bastardized in the last 60 years despite actual historical records. (alexander threatening death to someone offering a young male rather than a woman.)

Either way the greek ecconomy is a mess.


75 posted on 01/13/2012 7:58:14 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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