If you haven't noticed these are some pretty tragic times for humanity, The natural disasters that have occurred in the past few years, the fading of usable water supplies in already semi-arid areas in Africa and the US. Political upheaval and wars are also exacting their toll on humanity the exodus of the Syrian population has been a sad ordeal, spurred by our own action as another spoon stirring up a pot that won't stop boiling over. The civilians have no way to get food, nowhere to be safe. Their country has become poisonous and the longer they stay the greater the chances the viper will strike them.
So they flee, and join the hundreds of thousands of refugees with the same or worse stories. We are watching an opportunity for men to show a great deal of kindness to people very different than themselves..Or we are watching men claim that the treasures they can hold in their hand or slip in a pocket are more important than a life.
This is the same dilemma that we face, most of my fellows here say that we have a responsibility to ourselves first, before we worry about others. But I wonder which part of Us are we worrying about?
Yes trolls I give to charity. we also give food and do work at the food pantry and have gone to the homeless kitchens to cook and serve meals, Not as much now because of my mobility. No we can't adopt a foreign orphan as much as I'd love to but I'm disabled and on a fixed income.
This is a good read with a different perspective on our emigration problem
http://www.thenation.com/article/who-killed-beylin-sarmiento/Thoughts on what to do? any answers?
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Italian coast guard says 430 others on the vessel were rescued
August 26, 2015 10:23AM ET
Some 50 refugees were found dead in the hold of a boat off the coast of Libya on Wednesday during a rescue operation that saved 430 other people, the Italian coast guard said.
Thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, have put to sea this year in the hope of reaching Europe, often dangerously packed onto small boats that were never designed to cross the Mediterranean.
A representative for the Italian coast guard said the Swedish ship Poseidon, working with the European Union's border control agency Frontex, went on Wednesday to help a boat in difficulty and found the bodies.
It was not immediately clear how the refugees died.
More than 100,000 refugees have reached Italy so far this year, but at least 2,300 are believed to have died while trying to make the crossing.
Emergency services received 10 calls for help from various boats in difficulty on Wednesday, all in an area around 30 miles from the Libya coast, the representative said.
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mergency services received 10 calls for help from various boats in difficulty on Wednesday, all in an area around 30 miles from the Libya coast, the representative said.
An Italian coast guard vessel saved 113 people from a partly deflated rubber boat, but one passenger, who was already fighting for their life, died soon after.
The Poseidon earlier saved 130 people from another rubber boat, and a merchant ship picked up 225 people in a separate operation.
An Irish coast guard ship is in the process of rescuing up to 500 people from another boat, the representative said.
Reuters
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Hungary made plans on Wednesday to reinforce its southern border with helicopters, mounted police and dogs, and was also considering using the army as record numbers of migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, passed through coils of razor-wire into Europe.
In Germany, which expects to receive 800,000 of them this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel was heckled by dozens of protesters as she visited an eastern town where violent anti-refugee protests erupted at the weekend.
The surge in migrants seeking refuge from conflict or poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia has confronted Europe with its worst refugee crisis since World War Two, stirring social tensions and testing the resources and solidarity of the 28-nation European Union.
A record 2,533 mainly Syrians, Afghans and Pakistanis crossed from Serbia into EU member Hungary on Tuesday, climbing over or squirreling under a razor-wire barrier into the hands of an over-stretched police force that struggled to fingerprint and process them. Authorities said over 140,000 had been caught entering so far this year.
Unrest flared briefly at a crowded reception center in the border region of Roszke, with tear gas fired by police.
Another 1,300 were detained on Wednesday morning. More will have passed unnoticed, walking through gaps in a border fence being built by Hungary in what critics say is a futile attempt to keep them out. They packed a train station in the capital, Budapest, hundreds of men, women and children sleeping or sitting on the floor in a designated “transit zone” for migrants.
ROSZKE, Hungary | By Marton Dunai
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/26/us-europe-migrants-hungary-idUSKCN0QV0L720150826