Portraits of former Presidents George W. Bush, left, and George
H.W. Bush, his father, part of the show “The Art of Leadership: A
President’s Diplomacy.” The exhibit of portraits of world leaders by the
younger Bush are on display at the George W. Bush Presidential Library
and Museum in Dallas and runs through June 3. (AP / Benny Snyder)
The pathology of the rich white family is the most dangerous
pathology in America. The rich white family is cursed with too much
money and privilege. It is devoid of empathy, the result of lifetimes of
entitlement. It has little sense of loyalty and lacks the capacity for
self-sacrifice. Its definition of friendship is reduced to “What can you
do for me?” It is possessed by an insatiable lust to increase its
fortunes and power. It believes that wealth and privilege confer to it a
superior intelligence and virtue. It is infused with an unchecked
hedonism and narcissism. And because of all this, it interprets reality
through a lens of self-adulation and greed that renders it delusional.
The rich white family is a menace. The pathologies of the poor, when set
against the pathologies of rich white people, are like a candle set
beside the sun.
There are no shortages of acolytes and propagandists for rich white
families. They dominate our airwaves. They blame poverty, societal
breakdown, urban violence, drug use, domestic abuse and crime on the
pathology of poor black families—not that they know any. They argue that
poor black families disintegrate because of some inherent defect—here
you can read between the lines that white people are better than black
people—a defect that these poor families need to fix.
Report
based on survey of English housing associations and councils suggests
government moves to restrict benefits will result in a surge in tenant
evictions
High numbers of evictions are leaving housing associations in some areas without tenants.
Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
Social landlords are expecting a surge in rent arrears, tenant
evictions and homelessness as the government pushes ahead with more
welfare cuts and changes, according to new research.
The continuing impact of the bedroom tax, together with moves to
extend the benefit cap and impose further limits on housing benefit,
will put further financial pressure on tenants, predicts a report by
consultants Grant Thornton.
It concludes that the ability of councils and housing associations to
mitigate growing arrears has been severely eroded, and increasing
numbers are issuing possession orders to tenants who have fallen behind
with the rent.
Grant Thornton’s survey of English housing associations and local
authorities revealed that a majority had seen a rise in average rent
arrears over the past two years, with over a fifth reporting a “sharp
increase” in eviction notices being served.
Last week, official statistics showed that tenant evictions reached a six-year high
in the first three months of 2015. Over the same period, social
landlords made 27,000 possession claims – the first stage in the legal
process leading to an eviction.
Councils are also feeling the strain of increased evictions in the
private rented sector, with 59% reporting an increase in applications
for social housing from tenants who had been ejected by private
landlords.
The threat of further evictions will rise after a cut in the budget for discretionary housing payments
(DHP) from £165m to £125m this year, the report says. DHP grants, which
help tenants with rent shortfalls caused by welfare reform, were
originally intended as a temporary measure to enable tenants to stay in
their home while they got a job or arranged a move to a smaller
property.
Tory bullies set a furious expedition of fierce hosting with frowning scorn as they devise with fanatical commitment social housing benefit cuts that do not match the 'real' agenda of living.
Like a book of hideous horrors, ravenous eyes of blue will rip apart the welfare state budget and the knock on affect will be catastrophic, a real cataclysm of hardship and homelessness.
Feeling powerless is exalted to highest when you have no base, no home and are at the mercy of the state.
Its cold, void of empathy.
It's frighteningly undignified and humilation upon the face of the mother who has no front door key, who holds her child without cover and stands in front of housing officers who follow the tail of the one in front.
An unwelcome forced intimacy of front line reception housing, is filled with love abandon policies, evil in print and administrators unwilling to disobey and put humanity first before unclean wisdom and policy.
You face a plethora of hostile dialogues of conditions and financial sanctions before you are shunted off to unsuitable temporary accommadation and for what.
How many empty properties are there, and how many unscrupulous rich landlords are there?
Always a corrupt capitalist society will put profit before people and this is no exception and it helps only the wealthy.
‘David Cameron’s former chief strategist has launched a stinging
attack on the ‘insular ruling class’ threatening Britain’s democracy.
Steve Hilton said too many of those at the heart of government go to
the same dinner parties and send their children to the same schools.
He said the UK’s political system is now in ‘crisis’ because the same
type of people stay in charge whatever the outcome of the elections.
In what will be seen as a criticism of the ‘chumocracy’ of his former
boss, Mr Hilton warned: ‘Our democracies are increasingly captured by a
ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.
‘Regardless of who’s in office, the same people are in power.’ Read more: We're ruled by a cosy elite who all go to the same dinner parties, says former No10 policy guru chief Steve Hilton
‘Police will be forced to adopt a “paramilitary” style of enforcement
if the government inflicts big budget cuts on them, the head of the
police officers’ organisation has warned.
Steve White, chair of the Police Federation, said his 123,000
members, from police constables to inspectors, fear a move towards a
more violent style of policing as they try to keep law and order with
even fewer officers than now.
White told the Guardian that more cuts would be devastating: “You get
a style of policing where the first options are teargas, rubber bullets
and water cannon, which are the last options in the UK.”’ Read more: Police warn big budget cuts will lead to 'paramilitary' force
‘Police were called to a primary school after a nine-year-old boy was
caught using a ruler as a pretend sword in a playground game of
‘knights and dragons’.
Teachers have been accused of overreacting after asking officers to
speak to Kyron Bradley, who waved the ruler around as he played with two
friends at St George’s Bickley CE Primary School, in Bromley, south
London.
The youngster’s mother Natasha Bradley said she burst into tears after hearing police were being called over a ‘stupid game’.’ Read more: Police called after boy uses a RULER as pretend sword in playground game of 'knights and dragons'
Street Democracy writes:
With a crushing force of militarised policing, peaceful innately decent people joining together to protest against sour governmental principles, have to be prepared for instantaneous dark durance of violent clashes with police and spontaneous arrests.
With blind obedience demanded everywhere, with dignity no longer sacred, we witness ruling elites oppress us in every step building up tensions that will bring a summer of civil disruption for sure.
The dispossess cannot reign and the Tory government like banded thieves are stealing freedoms away from the poor in the name of economic sanctions.
Our Tory 'iron fist's of blue' are a lot of things, but 'stupid' isn't one of them. They know protesting is coming and they want to criminalise all protesters and reign in police domination.
An absolute catastrophic shattering of street life democracy.
The weaponisation of the State, the criminalisation of the poor, the protester, anyone critical of government is legalised tyranny and we must not stand the stance of toleration.
‘Baltimore
officials, trying to collect some $40 million in long-unpaid water
bills, have shut off service to more than 1,600 customers in the past
six weeks.
But records reviewed by The Baltimore Sun show the city’s enforcement has been starkly uneven.
While
large commercial properties owe the biggest amounts, not one has been
shut off. All of the service cuts so far have been to homes.
And
while the majority of homes with unpaid bills are in the city, nearly 90
percent of shut-offs have been in Baltimore County. Dundalk and Gwynn
Oak have each had more service cuts than all of Baltimore.’ Read more: City shuts off water to delinquent residents; hits Baltimore Co. homes hardest
Street Democracy writes:
Baltimore's poor are being punished.
Administration
of hate speared through their air to pierce 'death dealing policies' at
the poor for owing money to the water companies, has shut them off.
Inhumane,
siege mentality, administrators with deep bitter malice towards the
poor can't hide their demented words of resentment, as their actions
speak loudly.
Following the tail of the
one in front, administrators, dictate, obey and follow 'evil in print'
to produce a true 'hunger game' society, a miserable onslaught for the
poor, for the basic necessity of life, water.
It
is a 'silent weapon' for a 'silent carnage' upon those suffering from
poverty a true gritty doleful shade of sorrow, anguish and a fixed
sadness.
They suffer an expulsion from mainstream society, and residents only face fierce dialogues frowning with scorn at them who shut their water off.
The poor are being held to ransom.
A
horrendous interval in family home life with children in need of clean
water and yet the corporate parks, display in arrogant splendour their
water features, their absolute control of privilege and all things they want.
It
is further proof democracy is being shattered across the political
spectrum, dignity is not sacred and to wreck and devastate citizens is a
daily sinister principle of our age, 'the oligarchs spirit of the age'
that is.
‘We learned recently from Paris that the Western world is deeply and
passionately committed to free expression and ready to march and fight
against attempts to suppress it. That’s a really good thing, since there
are all sorts of severe suppression efforts underway in the West —
perpetrated not by The Terrorists but by the Western politicians
claiming to fight them.
One of the most alarming examples comes, not at all surprisingly,
from the U.K. government, which is currently agitating for new
counterterrorism powers, “including plans for extremism disruption
orders designed to restrict those trying to radicalize young people.”
Here are the powers which the British Freedom Fighters and Democracy
Protectors are seeking:
They would include a ban on broadcasting and a requirement to submit
to the police in advance any proposed publication on the web and social
media or in print. The bill will also contain plans for banning orders
for extremist organisations which seek to undermine democracy or use
hate speech in public places, but it will fall short of banning on the
grounds of provoking hatred.’ Read more: Greatest Threat to Free Speech Comes Not From Terrorism, But From Those Claiming to Fight It
About me - Debbie Simmons BSc (Hons) Politics Soc.Sci - Dip.Soc.AD (OXON)
We experience hositle and aggressive politics controlled by unethical corporate powers and elites enforcing a commanding dialogue which is enshrined into laws.
A repressive political landscape, a monument of disempowerment, oppression and financial enslavement which amplifies misery.
We are forced to watch controlled conflicts run by oligarchs as we watch their greed speed our precious planet into ecological suicide.
Our planet is for profit, people are for profit, viewed as commoditiies, stripped of all dignity and live as economic slaves colonies in every town in every country.
Do we stand in splendid isolation and ignore or do we stand up to psycopathic leaders and corporate elites and fight back?
Make up your own minds!
Are we in an Orwellian Police State run by corporate oligarchs, owned by them, and controlled by them or do we have it wrong?
Debbie Simmons - STREET DEMOCRACY
