AND NO ONE WAS HELD ACCOUNTABLE!

Spirits that I’ve cited 

for the Crooked Big Bang 2020

Words: 77,924 Rating: Mature Relationships: Lovett/Tommy, Alyssa/Erin, Emily/Jon  Summary:

Tommy, co-owner of Crooked Medium, a Boston-based agency for paranormal investigation, seems to find trouble everywhere he turns. His colleagues won’t stop fighting, their company is sinking inexorably deeper into debt, they’re barely bringing in enough cases to stay afloat—and if business is bad, his personal life is worse. In short, 2008 fucking sucks.

Jon Lovett’s case was supposed to be a quick job with an easy payoff until that goes wrong too, sticking Tommy with the responsibility for a trainee he never wanted. Slowly his life becomes more interesting, a lot funnier—and a hell of a lot more dangerous.

And just when Tommy thinks falling in love with his employee is his biggest problem, it turns out much more nefarious forces are at work.

A Short Story Of Moria

Warning, the footage above is graphic. There is no gore or death, but it shows the very real and dire circumstances refugees currently face in Moria on Lesbos.

Today, Joko and Klaas, a German duo of Entertainers/TV Personalities, got 15 minutes on live primetime tv on a major channel to do whatever they want. It’s the prize of a silly gameshow they sometimes do.

This time they used it to highlight the desperate situation in the refugee camp Moria on the island of Lesbos in Greece, to show people the situation. It was all filmed and narrated by a refugee on Lesbos, who also narrates the footage.  The first three minutes are in German, afterwards everything is in English, subtitles might be added in the future, they have done so on previous videos.

This is in Europe. In the EU that always prides itself on its values and how it champions humans rights, that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.

If you would like to help the refugees, here is a list of charities:

https://helprefugees.org/volunteer-blog/moria-february-2020/

Doctors without Borders

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/countries/greece

Some German charities:

https://www.kindernothilfe.de/weltweit-aktiv/projekte/gefluechtete-griechenland

https://www.caritas-international.de/hilfeweltweit/europa/griechenland/spendenaktion-griechenland

If you would like to support refugees and their situation in general:

I haven’t seen any posts about Moria here because this website is so US-centric.

This is Moria, Europe’s biggest refugee camp in Greece. And recently 99% of it was destroyed in a fire.

The camp is located on the island of Lesbos for one simple reason: Turkey won’t take the refugees back if they are brought to the mainland. The camp was designed for 3,000 people but in March 2020 there were 20,000 people living there. There have been several fires already which caused fatalities. Not the best place to live in during a worldwide pandemic.

Some people were evacuated from Moria already. But there are still 13,000 people living there. There have been 35 confirmed COVID-19 cases so far. And now, thousands of people are going to be homeless because of the fire.

And it’s not like the conditions there were great to begin with. This is how it looked like before the fire:

There’s violence, sexual assaults and not enough water. And all of this is happening in the EU.

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