Category: poverty
White, middle-age male suicide has hit 40% in the last 10 years. Why?
Middle aged Americans are turning to suicide in alarming numbers. The reasons include easily accessible prescription painkillers, the mortgage crisis, and most importantly the challenge of America’s troubled economy. The Centre for Disease Control suggest suicide rates due to automobile deaths is in the increase among this age group.
Whilst in the UK, new figures show that men in their forties and fifties are twice as likely to kill themselves as the rest of the population.
That more men take their own lives than women is not new. But in 1981 the menâs total was only about double, or just under, the womenâs. Now itâs nearly four times as many.
Is this due to the austerity measures the UK government have rigidly adhered to or is there something else to it?
The fact that middle-aged men do not feel they have a life anymore due to a number of reasons but chief among them is their workload could be another factor.
Since 1973 wages have pretty much flat-lined. This has meant both couples have to work. It has also increased the pressure on families.
Whatever the reason this is shocking news and has to some degree be attributed to the way we all have to work these days. Slaves to the wage working in a servile state whilst the few get the money whilst the others commit suicide.
May we be saved from evil thoughts
and deed of enemies of world peace
who find pleasure in creating havoc
and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
Yahya Jammeh
Workers
of
the
world,
unite
against
the
fascist
corporate
police
state.
- Labels: art, equality, human condition, love, paradigm shift, poverty
Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone.
- Labels: poverty
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 â April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
King is often presented as a heroic leader in the history of modern American liberalism. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King’s efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he expanded American values to include the vision of a color blind society, and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and stopping the Vietnam War.
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. (read more)
- Labels: equality, martin luther king, poverty, prejudice, racism
sexism…the oldest form of de-humanization.
racism…came next adding to de-humanization.
war…made the civilian populations combatants.
i’m a number…not a person, indexed, filed, controlled.
bill moyers…..culture of corruption…follow the money.
economic slavery…people are consumers, commodities.
germ warfare…antithesis of humanity…they will kill us all.
citizens united vs F.E.C….corporations get more influence.
indoctrinated…programmed, surveilled, brainwashed, used.
pharma guinea pigs…they don’t need rats…they have us now.
engineered terrorism…culture of fear…they instill fear and hate.
they want to give a zygote…full human rights…a cell is not human.
human testing…Operation Whitecoat…Tuskegee…mental patients.
“All my life I’ve heard Latin America described as a failed society (or collection of failed societies) because of its grotesque maldistribution of wealth. Peasants in rags beg for food outside the high walls of opulent villas, and so on. But according to the Central Intelligence Agency (whose patriotism I hesitate to question), income distribution in the United States is more unequal than in Guyana, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and roughly on par with Uruguay, Argentina, and Ecuador. Income inequality is actually declining in Latin America even as it continues to increase in the United States. Economically speaking, the richest nation on earth is starting to resemble a banana republic. The main difference is that the United States is big enough to maintain geographic distance between the villa-dweller and the beggar”…..Timothy Noah.
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The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 â 23 December 1834), was a British scholar, influential in political economy and demography. Malthus popularised the economic theory of rent.
Malthus has become widely known for his theories concerning population, and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. The six editions of his Principles of Population, published from 1798 to 1826, observed that sooner or later population gets checked by famine, disease, and widespread mortality. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving, and in principle as perfectible. William Godwin and the Marquis de Condorcet, for example, believed in the possibility of almost limitless improvement of society. So, in a more complex way, did Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose notions centered on the goodness of man and the liberty of citizens bound only by the social contract, a form of popular sovereignty.
Malthus thought that the dangers of population growth would preclude endless progress towards a utopian society: “The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man”. As an Anglican clergyman, Malthus saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour. Believing that one could not change human nature, Malthus wrote:
“Must it not then be acknowledged by an attentive examiner of the histories of mankind, that in every age and in every State in which man has existed, or does now exist, that the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence, that population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and, that the superior power of population it repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice.”
Malthus placed the longer-term stability of the economy above short-term expediency. He criticised the Poor Laws, and (alone among important contemporary economists) supported the Corn Laws, which introduced a system of taxes on British imports of wheat. He thought these measures would encourage domestic production, and so promote long-term benefits.
Malthus became hugely influential, and controversial, in economic, political, social and scientific thought. Many of those whom subsequent centuries sometimes term “evolutionary biologists” also read him, notably Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, for each of whom Malthusianism became an intellectual stepping-stone to the idea of natural selection. Malthus remains a writer of great significance and controversy. (read more)
- Labels: agriculture, gluttony, overpopulation, people, poverty
“Injustice anywhere
is a threat to justice everywhere”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
I just want to eat
DESTROY
YOUR
CREDIT CARDS
NOW!
In 1935 as part of the New Deal in the United States,
the Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort
during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.
The FSA is famous for its small but
highly influential photography program, 1935-44,
that portrayed the challenges of rural poverty.
You can see a portion of this collection at the
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
- Labels: compassion, family, good, government, poverty, profit
The PlayPump Water System uses the energy of children at play to operate a water pump.
There are more than 1000 PlayPump systems in sub-Saharan Africa, providing clean drinking water to more than one million impoverished people.
The PlayPump water system is a like a playground merry-go-round attached to a water pump. The spinning motion pumps underground water into a 789,500-liter tank raised seven meters above ground.
Roundabout Outdoor is a company that manufactures, installs, and maintains PlayPump water systems throughout sub-Saharan Africa. PlayPumps International is a nonprofit that raises the funds to donate PlayPump water systems to African communities and schools.
Feelings weep like eye lids beam in the morning sun
Beauty passes all ugly memories of the past
Truth never held from the public
Given to all to devour
Problems arise, but controlled within a touch of a magical spell
Magic happens in places never before thought of
Feelings connected through each individual living or dead
Pain is controlled through re-verse psychology
Words describe feelings, pleasure and love in ways never understood
Love encompasses all
Divine beauty stretch all of our imaginations
Politics is a game played by usually the Kings
Queens stands by the Kings
President is like a King
First Lady is like a Queen
Soul is something we are
Body is something we rent out
Mind is something we posses
Heart beats one moment then stops the next
Computers connect the knowledge of our past
Cars drive us from point A to point B
Books open up the imaginations
Lyrics flow through the stations
Poetry opens up the racist
Death is something to look forward to
Living is something of a different stroke of keys
Guitar played in the background
Movies tell a story written down in words
Music touches our souls
Communities are divided in some parts of the world
Poverty is on the rise
Rich are on top of the Pyramid
Conspiracy Theories tell a different story
Who knows who is right or wrong
Laws should be followed
If you cannot use your own common sense
Logic is important in this day and age
Young pregnant beauties ignored
So they fall
Throw away the kids
And run away
Hoping to get with their life some day
Never to forget what they have done
Cops using their power to kill the innocent ones
They never question and get any answers
Donât they know they work for us
The people
Hidden Secrets are deep in the gutter
Search and you will find the ultimate truth to all that that is.
Michelle Obama is planning the first vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Rooseveltâs victory garden in World War II.
It’s about time we resurrect the old fashion notion of a vegetable “victory” garden in every backyard or patio in America.
I think everyone should plant a vegetable garden. It’s hours of family fun and exercise, not to mention all the great fresh vegetables you’ll be enjoying.
Don’t cry for me…..
…..I’m already dead.
……..The Simpsons……..
- Labels: food, greed, overpopulation, poverty, sharing
Germany : The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07
United States : The Revis family of North Carolina
Food expenditure for one week $341.98
Food expenditure for one week $341.98
Italy : The Manzo family of Sicily
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11
Mexico : The Casales family of Cuernavaca
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09
Poland : The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27
Egypt : The Ahmed family of Cairo
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
Ecuador : The Ayme family of Tingo
Food expenditure for one week: $31.55
Food expenditure for one week: $31.55
Bhutan : The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village
Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
Chad : The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
- Labels: economy, food, materialism, poverty
Have a good look at Haiti. It is ground zero for poverty. I think I will have to agree with this article I found; that Haiti is so far gone it will need major intervention from the world body if anything is to succeed. In the meantime, there is something we might be able to do to alleviate the poverty and starvation. Send chickens! As I have written before, chickens are a sustainable source of eggs and meat, fertilizer and insect control, and cost very little to raise. Free range chickens nearly feed themselves. If we can introduce several flocks of chickens to selected groups or families in Haiti with instructions to establish breeding stations and in turn more breeding sites, the snowball effect could produce an explosion of chicken production! As it happens, I have a friend with connections already established in Haiti and we can use these connections in our endeavor. This is my goal, to introduce and sustain chicken production countrywide, for FREE! If you want to assist in this endeavor I’d be happy to have your help. Email me and let me know what you are willing to do to advance the “chicken project”, and thanks for your help……Oberon.