2016 has started. At least here in New Zealand but it will be only 45 minutes to reach Europe. 2015 has been an annus horribilus for me and mine. Loss of health, job, career for my husband, the death of my mother in law and 5 people I knew in varying degrees, who died of […]
Tag Archives: Poverty
Here is my choice of links for today: Poverty: 29 signs poverty is exploding in the USA Wall street is a slumlord (no surprise there) Wealth: Nobody Should Shed a Tear for JP Morgan Chase BofAML Warns “US 10Y Yields Have Reached Massive Resistance” Spy scandals: Obama is shocked, shocked to hear everybody’s phone was […]
It is one of those quotes which never was but as it invokes such a powerful image of an elite devoid of any insight into the seething discontent caused by their parasitic behavior I will use it to illustrate the way I feel about the news headers over the weekend and this morning. Here is […]
Yesterday we celebrated one of the most powerful speeches in human history. The speech commonly known as the “I have a dream speech” was made by a black man. His name was Dr Martin Luther King. He was not perfect. In fact he was as fallible as anybody but he was a driven man too. […]
This will be fun….. Drug-testing expected to cost up to 5800 their benefits, and 8000 others with arrest warrants also in jeopardy. Thousands of people are expected to be chopped off welfare benefits as sweeping changes in the social security system come into force today. The reforms represent the biggest upheaval in the welfare state […]
Reagan, Pinochet, Privatization, Union busting, Austerity, Poverty, 1% Rich, 99% Poor, Neo-liberalism, Poll tax and 21 Incredibly angry songs about Thatcher and those are all the words I want to waste on the woman who said: “there is no such thing as society” condemning millions to poverty and hopelessness. I think it is fitting that […]
Here is a one and a half hour Greek documentary about the privatization and the “soft” coup in Greece by the same people who supported the Military Junta which brought misery to millions of Greeks in times not so long past. It is subtitled in English if you push the subtitle button!
This will only get worse as Europe collapses and people start to starve. BELGRADE, Serbia — Pavle Mircov and his partner, Daniella, nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes, desperate for economic salvation: a buyer willing to pay nearly $40,000 for one of their kidneys. Ervin Balo, a father of two with his wife, […]
In America many cities have banned feeding the homeless, in England the government is threatening to take the meagre dole people get to survive on and in Bahrain doctors who treated wounded protesters were convicted to jail for doing so. The result is more crime, more desperation and more violent protests. The title of this […]
With each day the situation in Greece gets more and more desperate! The economic crisis across Europe has perhaps been most keenly felt in Greece, where people have taken to the streets in violent and emotional protests against the austerity measures imposed on the nation. In this heartbreaking dispatch from the streets of Athens, SUE […]
While their government spends trillions of dollars killing brown people for their oil, opium and other resources the people of America are drifting towards the biggest economic collapse this world has ever seen. (The link shows a very underestimated vision of the real cost such as the millions of dead, hurt, misplaced Iraqi’s and Afghanis […]
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything, that we are free to do anything,” Chuck Palahniuk I hope it won’t come to this but with John Key borrowing and the banksters attacking Kiwi bank with their rating agencies I don’t have much hope. This can only be averted if we cut loose from the international banking […]
Does this sound like a receding recession to you? Nearly half of all US children, including an overwhelming majority of black children, will eat meals at some point during their childhood paid for by food stamps, an indicator of poverty, a study showed Monday. “If you get food stamps, you are by definition in poverty […]
For most Kiwi’s a recession means just a little moderation for awhile and for most the pending doom is not a reality at all and when you tell them about it their eyes glaze over and they go on with what they were doing and ignore the signs of what will turn out to be […]
This from a fellow blogger who tries to help his fellow men from poverty in the US. I feel for him. I have had a ringside seat to the economic downturn this year. It is not an abstraction to me. The folks at the bottom are always the first to feel the pinch, when it […]
While John Key’s ex-colleagues are riding roughshot over the worlds economy and do so in the style they are accustomed to the rest of us will pay and pay and pay. The current account deficit – the gap between what the country spends and what it earns overseas – grew in the three months to […]
The World Bank reported Tuesday that in 2005 an estimated 1.4 billion people in the so-called ‘developing world,’ one-fourth of its population, lived on less than $1.25 a day, the new official poverty line. This figure is 400 million more than the Bank’s 2004 estimate of 985 million. Another 1.2 billion people live on between […]
