MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Ruth Pollard, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 27, 2014
Residents wait to receive food aid distributed by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp, south of Damascus. Photo: Reuters
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Photo available here much larger and less cropped, first of 30:
Syria Conflict in Photos, ABC News
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 4:24am
Thanks AA The poor people. Horrific? Very sad .
by Resistance on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 7:12am
Oh, sure, thanks-a-million...the "cropped" version brought me to my knees (and not for purposes of prayer...)
I guess I'm a victim of "the CNN effect"
Oh shit....that's all, just, "oh shit" (I am now a graduate of the Richard Day school of commenting-not that there's anything wrong with that...)
by jollyroger on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 2:01pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 4:42am
Am I to understand that for that sea of need the agency delivered 450 packages?
by jollyroger on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 2:02pm
I had put a comment with a question to that effect but then read their article more carefully and deleted it. It is badly written. It reports at the end the two days they could get in to do 7,000 parcels, 18 January and 20 February (plus a huge load of polio vaccines and sundry.) Oddly, neither of them coincide with the Jan. 31 date for the photo, so I still don't get it, it's confusing, not well done. Does that mean they lined up all these people on Jan. 31 but didn't give them anything on that day?
But overall, the article is meant like this, I think: we got in this day and that day and managed to do this, and then yesterday we got in for a few hours to do this little more (450), but boy, we really really need to get in some more.
Also on second thought, I deleted my question too because I had read about different types of parcels and they could be as large as a month's supply if just basic nutrition, so I shouldn't presume by just the number, that it's like just a day or week of food each.
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 2:13pm
Well, that's a bit of an improvement (as if....)
Edit to add: on re-read, I am still unable to come away with any impression other than that on some particular day, when all those people came waiting for food, all but 450 went away empty handed...
by jollyroger on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 2:18pm
This Guardian article of Feb. 26 clears up some of this:
and
and
Also note from the header:
What is still not clear is the story of the picture if it was indeed taken on Jan. 31, i.e., how much aid was distributed that day, if any, or if they were lining up for like, some kind of registration or whatever. Because Jan. 31 is not reported anywhere as a date they managed to distribute some of the approx. 7,000 parcels they have distributed in total over the whole period. Because the U.N. knows it could not handle the vast needs in one trip, I can imagine them setting up a system where people get like a number and then that serves as a sort of queue. So that everyone does not have to line up again on every distribution the U.N. can manage to make.
Also,comes to mind when you are handing out parcels for a "family of 8 for 10 days" but cannot get in enough to aid all at once, you really do need some sort of I.D. process for fairness, to avoid black market type ops, to avoid only the fittest getting aid and then selling it or giving out unfairly?
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/01/2014 - 2:48pm
Here's the website of the U.N. organization specifically dedicated to aiding all the Palestinian refugees in camps:
http://www.unrwa.org/
They are putting update info.on Yarmouk there, though I don't know how helpful to understanding the particulars of the situation, it's more like more P.R. about trying to get in.
Note it has an "how you can help" link:
http://www.unrwa.org/how-you-can-help
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/28/2014 - 6:25pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/04/2014 - 11:12pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/11/2014 - 3:52pm
So it's like the gazillions of orcs in the Two Towers....?
O/T:Just a reminder, like the Kings of Gondor, the Kings of the Visigoths age very slowly (take THAT, tmac....medicare perch indeed)
by jollyroger on Tue, 03/11/2014 - 7:24pm