Category: Poverty
Cut From The Frozen North To The Tropics…
September 12th, 2008, No Comments
While the UK and US media are having a happy happy fun time decidering the election and the actual electorate gets more and more irate about it, banana republicanism and all round diplomatic skullduggery goes on as blithely as usual. In this particular instance, Venezuela, it may have electoral implications – but perhaps that’s the [...]
This Is How They Do It
September 11th, 2008, No Comments
Lost everything in the recession? Foreclosed? Homeless? Well, now you’ve lost your vote too – Republican ratfuckery in Michigan, from the Michigan Messenger via the estimable Attaturk: The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Mich., a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes [...]
If Jackboots March And No-One Reports It, Does Fascism Make A Sound?
August 5th, 2008, No Comments
Talk about turning a wilfully blind eye: there are armed troops on the streets of Italy, a major EU country, today and not one single UK newspaper has it as a front page story, at least not in their online editions. To be fair, The Independent does have a front page story about Italy- but [...]
Repost: First They Came For The ‘Malingerers’
July 24th, 2008, No Comments
I’m reposting this March ’08 post because banker David Freud is prominent right now as the evil genius behind New Labour’s brutal welfare reforms. As the BBC, particularly, seems to be regurgitating government press releases almost verbatim, accepting Freud’s outright lies (he claims 2/3 of Incapacity benefit claimants fraudulent, when the DWP’s own figures say [...]
Comment Of The Day
July 22nd, 2008, No Comments
Comes from the Guardian, to Polly Toynbee’s column on New Labour’s welfare reforms: stillthinking Jul 22 08, 10:18am (about 2 hours ago) My brother (now 45) has chronic schizophrenia (inherited not drug induced). He is best cared for in the stress free environment of the family home. His interpersonal skills and levels of paranoia means [...]
It’s Getting Hot Over There
July 7th, 2008, 2 Comments
Gasmap is a service that maps the US petrol price nationwide and maps it in terms of heat. As you can see, California is boiling. This does not bode well. But hey, at least the site proves there’s still new niche markets to exploit, even in a recession and inflationary spiral. Sarcasm aside, it is [...]
My Heart Bleeds
June 26th, 2008, No Comments
Yahoo News: Angry kids protest gas prices after losing cable TV.
What New Labour Wants For The NHS
June 25th, 2008, No Comments
The danger of privatised health care: Doctor Holds Patient Hostage Until She Pays Her Bill A doctor named John Drew Laurusonis and two of his assistants in Georgia have been accused of locking a woman in an examination room “when concerns arose about her ability to pay the bill.” The three were indicted last week [...]
It’s Not So Brilliant Here Either
May 16th, 2008, No Comments
The US may treat European visitors like vermin (see previous post) but we’re hardly spotless in our attitude towards immigrants, as events in Naples show: Residents of the former communist stronghold on the northern outskirts of Naples have been raising hell about the camp since Saturday, when a woman claimed a Gypsy girl had entered [...]
Who You Gonna Call, Ghostbusters?
May 7th, 2008, No Comments
For once the Guardian has a comment piece, by Madeleine Bunting, that tells it like it actually is for the thousands upon thousands of low paid and badly-treated people condemned to live their daily lives in quiet and increasingly panicky desperation as a result of New Labour’s complete capitulation to the corpocracy and their wilful [...]
