Dear Doves,
Another prophecy comes
true today from Apostle John's Revelation of
Jesus Christ over the rising cost of
simple foodstuffs.
Revelation
6:6
6 Then I heard what
sounded like a voice among the four
living creatures,(A) saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for a day’s
wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s
wages,[d](B) and do not damage(C) the oil and the wine!”
Maybe translated don't
ruin our fun by expecting us to pay
for their good times.
Relax, they'll eat for
free!
Greeks squabble for free food handoutShare on facebookShare on twitter
Friday,
08 Feb 2013, 06:30
When a group of farmers handed out free fruit and veg in front of the Ministry of Agriculture in Athens Wednesday, they couldn't have predicted the ensuing chaos. In just two hours hoardes of hungry Greeks scrabbled to get their share of 50 tons of hand-outs, which led to skirmishes in the streets and comparisons with Nazi occupied Greece in the World War II.
Families
and the unemployed queued up to catch rations
given out from vans. "Look", an old man gestured
on local TV, "they're pulling supplies out of the
trucks. It's like war time." "My pension is worth
600 euro", said another elderly woman, "and me and
my three unemployed kids have to live on that".
A
former electrician said, "I've been out of work
for three years. I've done everything possible to
find a job. A bag of tomatoes and some broccoli
will last me and my wife a week".
Aside
from those Greeks who are open about their new
found poverty, a separate social group called the
"kryfoptochi" is emerging. The kryfoptochi are too
embarassed to even admit to friends that they are
poverty struck, and rather than heading for soup
kitchens, forage for food in dumpsters in the dead
of night. In evidence of the fact that the crisis
is hitting everyone hard, Giorgos Apostolopoulos,
former chief of the Athen's homeless body, said
that well known artists and even women from rich
areas of the city come to get food handouts too.
"Some
pretend that they're collecting food to give to
the poor", he said. But a silent form of
solidarity is taking shape. Those who can afford
it hang baskets of food on their bins for the
poor.