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Reply #330 - August 24, 2015, 10:04 AM

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Greece's coast guard was searching Monday for at least five people missing at sea after the dinghy they were using to enter Greece clandestinely from Turkey overturned off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos.

The coast guard said it had rescued six people and recovered the bodies of two men, and was searching the area for the missing. It was alerted after a fishing boat picked up one person off the island's eastern coast Monday morning, and a second managed to swim to the island. The two told authorities they had been in a boat carrying about 15 people when it overturned.
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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9b67577e90904ca495bff7c28d29ebd6/migrant-boat-capsizes-greek-island-1-dead-6-rescued

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Reply #331 - August 24, 2015, 03:28 PM

James Galbraith and Daniel Munevar - What the Greek memorandum means

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/europe-greece-memorandum-understanding-mou-galbraith-munevar

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Reply #332 - August 24, 2015, 03:40 PM

Germany suspends Dublin procedures for Syrians

http://www.asylumineurope.org/news/24-08-2015/germany-halt-dublin-procedures-syrians

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Reply #333 - August 24, 2015, 04:10 PM

Amnesty International on conditions for refugees on Lesvos

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/08/chaos-and-squalid-conditions-face-record-number-of-refugees-on-lesvos/

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Reply #334 - August 25, 2015, 09:11 PM

Asteris Masouras reporting from Lesvos on Twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/asteris/status/636244362570145792

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Reply #335 - August 26, 2015, 10:31 AM

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For George Tyrikos, a 33-year-old butcher and science-fiction author turned volunteer, the surge in Syrian refugees arriving on the Greek island, Lesbos this summer has given him the chance to repay a 70-year-old family debt to the people of Syria. George’s grandmother Eleni was one of many people who fled to Syria from Lesbos in 1943. Like thousands of others, she was escaping the great famine that devastated Greece during the Second World War.

George has been helping refugees on Lesbos for the past 10 years. He volunteers for a small nonprofit called Agkalia, which supports refugees in the village of Kallon after they wade ashore from rubber rafts launched from Turkey by smugglers. The group has depended solely on generous contributions from the community, but has seen a drop in donations since Greece’s economic crisis set limits on the amount of cash residents are allowed to withdraw.
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http://m.rescue.org/blog/meet-george-activist-greece-who-cannot-turn-his-back-people-syria

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I cannot turn my back on Syrians now, it’s that simple for me.

I’m only here talking to you because my grandmother was a refugee in Syria. My grandmother did the opposite of what Syrians are doing now: She went to their homeland in order to survive.

She fled because of the famine and because of the war. It was a path many people took. Everyone who could, left.

It was just like now. Greeks used smugglers to get to Turkey. My family first went to Turkey but moved on to Syria because there was an Allied refugee camp there. They sold everything on the black market and used the money to go to Syria. But of course not everyone could fit in the camp. So people started dispersing all over the region.

They found this lady in Aleppo who they lived with for six years. The kindness of this lady helped my family survive.
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Reply #336 - August 26, 2015, 02:14 PM

People are fleeing from Syria because of the war, to escape been killed.
People are crossing in Greece and heading to Germany to have a better life.
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Reply #337 - August 26, 2015, 02:26 PM

Varoufakis speaking in France: http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/08/25/10081/

It looks like Syriza is falling apart with 53 members of the central committee resigning from the party today, another split in the parliamentary party, and suggestions that other MPs will simply not stand for reelection. Varoufakis is probably in the latter group but as yet hasn't spelled out his intentions.

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Reply #338 - August 26, 2015, 03:10 PM

CBS report from Lesvos: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrants-escaping-from-middle-east-aiming-for-greece/

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Reply #339 - August 26, 2015, 03:48 PM

Amnesty International - illegal push backs put lives at risk: http://www.euronews.com/2015/08/25/greece-routinely-pushes-back-immigrant-boats-out-to-sea-says-amnesty/

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Reply #340 - August 26, 2015, 07:58 PM

That Hungarian border fence: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-08-26/syrian-refugees-cross-hungary-razor-wire-border/

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Reply #341 - August 27, 2015, 10:00 AM

Recalling their own war, Belgraders embrace Syrian refugees: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/recalling-their-own-war/2079632.html

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Reply #342 - August 27, 2015, 10:33 AM

Varoufakis to launch European anti-austerity movement: http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2015/08/27/varoufakis-to-launch-pan-european-anti-austerity-movement-and-political-party/

Listen to the ABC radio interview: http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programitem/pg8AG3B1p7?play=true

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Reply #343 - August 27, 2015, 12:31 PM

Greece offers to accept Ukrainian Greek refugees: https://euobserver.com/justice/130007

Which is good, but it does highlight the differing treatment of (Orthodox) Greek Ukrainians and (Muslim) Greek Syrians.

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Reply #344 - August 27, 2015, 01:03 PM

Omaira Gill - The refugee crisis that everyone has disowned: http://omairagill.com/2015/08/27/the-refugee-crisis-that-everyone-has-disowned/

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Reply #345 - August 27, 2015, 05:52 PM

Another horrible tragedy.

https://youtu.be/Kz9KQ6zM7ZE

Update: some 50 deaths. BBC reporting also.
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Reply #346 - August 28, 2015, 09:00 AM

Opinion poll results: https://mobile.twitter.com/damomac/status/637160711345557504

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Reply #347 - August 28, 2015, 09:08 AM

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Another horrible tragedy.

https://youtu.be/Kz9KQ6zM7ZE

Update: some 50 deaths. BBC reporting also.

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70 people died in a truck on a European highway. Not crossing the med or on some dangerous desert route. On one of the world's safest roads.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nadimhoury/status/637170071895412736

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Again: #Germany suspending Dublin treaty deportations is little more than a PR stunt. #Refugees still have to risk their lives to get there.

https://mobile.twitter.com/IrateGreek/status/637165400036347904

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200 more people fleeing to save their lives and the lives of their children, who didn't make it. #refugeesgr https://twitter.com/TheTimesofMalta/status/637129571041677312 …

https://mobile.twitter.com/xoriskanape/status/637155553156943872

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Reply #348 - August 28, 2015, 09:53 AM

Hungarian police arrest driver of lorry: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/28/more-than-70-dead-austria-migrant-truck-tragedy

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Reply #349 - August 28, 2015, 11:38 AM

Varoufakis in conversation with leading academics as Syriza splinters and election beckons in Greece

http://theconversation.com/varoufakis-in-conversation-with-leading-academics-as-syriza-splinters-and-election-beckons-in-greece-35861

Interview with Jeffrey Sachs

http://www.ekathimerini.com/200949/article/ekathimerini/comment/parallel-currency-would-have-led-to-grexit-says-jeffrey-sachs

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Reply #350 - August 28, 2015, 05:15 PM

Slovakia will only accept Christian refugees.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33986738
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Reply #351 - August 28, 2015, 07:25 PM

Patrick Kingsley - some thoughts on the migrant/refugee lexical debate

https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickKingsley/status/637284363957370880

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Reply #352 - August 28, 2015, 07:31 PM

An alternative electoral prediction: https://mobile.twitter.com/IrateGreek/status/637316212666597377
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Irate crystal ball:
Syriza <25%
ND <20%
Potami, KKE 7% max
Pop Unity ~10%
ANEL 4%
Various centrists 5%
Golden Dawn 12-15%
I'm taking bets.

Here are the actual polls: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lzD1ieIBip1mc0GUR-ezsbH3lUS-P6BldEBKfJu2Gk/htmlview?pli=1

On past form these aren't to be relied on.

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Reply #353 - August 28, 2015, 07:42 PM

Golden Down 15? I hope is something wrong. The other poll put them at half of this.
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Reply #354 - August 28, 2015, 07:49 PM

"71 migrants, thought to be Syrian, died in a lorry... 59 men, 8 women and 4 children... Officials said the victims probably died after suffocating in the vehicle... Among the victims was a girl aged between one and two years old."

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Reply #355 - August 28, 2015, 07:55 PM

Fishing boats off the Libyan coast are searching for more bodies after two migrant vessels capsized on Thursday.
Around 200 people are feared to have drowned as they tried to cross from Zuwara, west of Tripoli, to Italy.
The victims include Syrians, Bangladeshis and people from sub-Saharan Africa.
Police in Italy have detained 10 suspected traffickers after 52 people were found dead in the hold of a ship off the coast of Libya on Wednesday.

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Reply #356 - August 28, 2015, 08:30 PM

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Golden Down 15? I hope is something wrong. The other poll put them at half of this.

That one isn't actually a real poll, more of an educated guess by a very astute Greek commentator. Usually I'd put more faith in her judgement than I would in most other people writing about Greek politics - and the official polls in Greece are very problematic. I really hope she's wrong about the Golden Dawn vote though.

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Reply #357 - August 28, 2015, 09:53 PM

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Slovakia will only accept Christian refugees.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33986738

cf. opposition to accepting Jewish refugees in Ireland in 1939: https://mobile.twitter.com/Limerick1914/status/637285466358870016

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Reply #358 - August 28, 2015, 11:45 PM

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Today a boat capsized & one man arrived in Molivos distraught at the loss of his friend, presumed drowned. A fisherman rescued the friend...

…and reunited them. What's more the fisherman paid for a slap-up dinner for both. #goodnews #refugeesGr

Last night a woman went into labour in a boat on the crossing from Turkey to #Lesvos. The child was born at Molivos harbour

3 heavily pregnant women at the reception area today. Just shows the situation in Syria must be desperate to travel in this heat

https://mobile.twitter.com/priddy

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Reply #359 - August 28, 2015, 11:56 PM

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100s dying every day reaching #EU yet we still let racist politicians and media outlets set the terms of the debate on refugee crisis.

Maybe we shouldn't be too harsh when talking about UK media debate on refugee crisis. They're only following orders.

How many in UK media using the Yuppie Nuremberg defence when it comes to vilifying refugees, 'You need to pay the mortgage'?

https://mobile.twitter.com/teacherdude/status/637363112002355200

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