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How the Homeless Population Is Changing — and Becoming Much More Vulnerable

By David Posted on February 1, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, housing, the matrix, USA

‘On any given night in the United States, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, over half a million people are without a home. That number may have decreased nationwide in the past few years, but California remains on the forefront of the problem, accounting for 20 percent of the country’s homeless in […]

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Calls grow for Duncan-Smith to resign over court defeat of the hated ‘Bedroom Tax’

By David Posted on January 30, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity

Three top judges have ruled that the DWP’s hated bedroom tax discriminated against victims of domestic abuse and the disabled and calls have grown for the resignation of Iaian Duncan-Smith. Read more: Calls grow for Duncan-Smith to resign over court defeat of the hated ‘Bedroom Tax’

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1.5 million benefit claimants ‘could face destitution’ – report

By David Icke Posted on January 16, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, UK

‘Close to 1.5 million benefit claimants could face destitution after disappearing from the welfare system, a former Labour minister has warned. Benefit sanctions are being imposed on a “scale unknown since the Second World War” and the wellbeing and status of at a least 33 percent of those who have been targeted is “anybody’s guess,” […]

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People My Age Have Had Their Aspirations Crushed by Austerity – It’s Time to Change That

By David Icke Posted on January 6, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, cameron, housing, UK

‘We know the devastating impact austerity has had on our most vulnerable, but what we don’t talk about is how it has resulted in crushed aspirations for a whole generation. That generation are people my age who went through their twenties and entered their thirties as the global financial crisis gave way to an age […]

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Department for Work and Pensions sees the rise in UK foodbank useage as ‘collateral damage’

By David Icke Posted on January 3, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, Tories, UK

Hundreds of thousands of the UK public who have been driven to the use of foodbanks by the austerity measures and welfare cuts inposed by the current Tory government are seen by the DWP as ‘Collateral Damage’ says the Trussel Trust who are continually being threatened by the Tory government for speaking out on the […]

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U.S. Laws Criminalizing Sleeping in Public Have Grown as Much as 60 Percent in Just a Few Years

By David Icke Posted on January 3, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, Benefits

‘There is a war on, and it concerns the homeless’ right to sleep. Across the United States, recent years have seen a spate of municipal laws that criminalize the act of sleeping in public places. These laws often target the act of sleeping in private vehicles under the guise of “anti-camping” legislation. The problem is, […]

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Squatters occupy old Royal Mint to protest homelessness, inequality and climate change (which is meant to justify more of the other two)

By David Icke Posted on December 31, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with activism, austerity

‘Activists protesting against homelessness, wealth inequality and climate change have occupied part of the former Royal Mint building opposite Tower Bridge in central London. The group of squatters took over the building, which is no longer used as a mint but still holds great symbolic significance, on Monday afternoon and hung banners reading “System change […]

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51% rise in Scottish children going to school hungry, stealing food – survey

By David Icke Posted on December 31, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, hunger, Scotland, UK

‘Crippling government austerity measures are forcing schoolchildren in Scotland to go hungry, steal food from their peers and develop mental health issues, teachers have claimed. An Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) survey, which quizzed more than 300 primary and secondary school teachers about life in Scottish schools in 2015, found there had been a 51 […]

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George Osborne’s last minute Christmas gift to Britain is beyond a joke

By David Icke Posted on December 23, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, Economy, Lies

‘As offices close, and mistletoe kisses occur at work parties across the nation, George Osborne slipped a card in our pockets which read: ‘Merry Christmas! I’ve overspent by billions this year, and I used your credit card to do it.’ As Business Insider reports: The UK’s public sector borrowing figures for November just came in […]

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Spain has Fallen – not like Greece – but Fallen all the Same

By David Icke Posted on December 23, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, Elections, spain

‘The Spanish elections – 20 December – were a deceit and a farce. Nobody seems to notice. At least not those concerned, the ignorant electorate, those who will suffer again possibly under a new neoliberal Rajoy leadership. People forget and are vulnerable to propaganda and lies and manipulations through the bought media in Europe as […]

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Cameron ends year with final blow for secure and affordable housing

By David Icke Posted on December 21, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, cameron, housing

‘Things were bad enough for people in social housing – but they’ve just got a whole lot worse. The government is now ensuring people in council housing will have their tenancies constantly reviewed – at least every five years – and a slight change could see them lose their home. This isn’t the only thing […]

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Sshh! Don’t tell anyone but Cameron is trying to hide a report showing the Bedroom Tax has failed

By David Icke Posted on December 19, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, UK, welfare

‘While Labour members are busy tearing strips off each other – the Cameron government has tried to secretly slip out a report today showing the bedroom tax isn’t working. The official study shows Cameron’s bedroom tax has not only failed to release more housing stock for needy families – as it was supposed to – […]

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Universal Credit: £15.8 billion for a computer system that isn’t needed

By David Icke Posted on December 18, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, UK

‘With the built-in 42-day delay in benefit payments, Universal Credit can easily be calculated by hand – so the only reason the taxpayer can possibly have been made to spend so much money on a computer scheme is to keep the money from being used elsewhere. Have you noticed that the £15.8 billion, quoted in […]

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Greeks Watch Passively as Government Drains Them Dry

By David Icke Posted on December 17, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, eu, greece, Lies, syriza

‘If one had asked any Greek exactly one year ago, that the full of promises SYRIZA party would come to power to finish off the crisis-stricken Greek economy and drain his personal wealth, with his blessing, he would have called them a lunatic. Yet, a year later, the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition has legislated measures and reforms […]

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Half of America Is in or Damn Near Close to Living in Poverty

By David Icke Posted on December 16, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, Jobs, USA, welfare

‘Recent reports have documented the growing rates of impoverishment in the U.S., and new information surfacing in the past 12 months shows that the trend is continuing, and probably worsening. Congress should be filled with guilt — and shame — for failing to deal with the enormous wealth disparities that are turning our country into […]

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