Charity Is No Answer To Poverty.

Is it possible for a shaking can to eliminate the poverty?

POVERTY'S DEEPER THAN THE POCKET.

Day and daily the cry goes up

cans are shaken beneath your nose,

give generously, help fill their cup,

but anybody that can think, knows

our poverty is deeper than the pocket.

Poor, struggling to create a life

as privilege shuts the door,

feeling the thrust of poverty's knife

cut right to the core,

they know, poverty's deeper than the pocket.

Rich, no desire to arrest

this Tammany that purloins by stealth,

potential, opportunity, by poverty oppressed,

inequality, injustice, privilege tied to wealth

ensure, poverty's deeper than the pocket.

Prince's fund, charity shop,

gala evening for some "GOOD" cause,

smiling patronage from the top,

egos washed in loud applause

all to conceal, poverty's deeper than the pocket.

We don't want your charity

patronisingly given from plundered gold

accrued by endless barbarity

from a system where dignity is sold:

you're the reason, poverty's deeper than the pocket.

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Tragedies Feed Corporations.

“Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There’s no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we’re the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.” – Bill Hicks

     This little quip from a favourite of mine, the late Bill Hicks, is to me a true reflection of that babbling brook of bullshit we call main stream media. They continually juxtapose graphic images of some horror, like a typhon torn country with bodies buried in the rubble, and the latest fashion in poodles neck wear, scenes from some mass shooting somewhere, and Harry and Kate shaking some prat's hand. I suppose, like all propaganda, it is very well thought out. Pretend to bring you what is happening in the world, but hope to leave you smiling, feeling that a lot of nice things happen in our country. Over the years I have gone from watching the “news” with a little disinterest to now seething with rage and disgust at the lack of information, lack of depth, and the fact that a great big slice of the world I live in, is censored out. Reported tragedies seem to be no more than appeals for you and I to throw lots of money at the banks, who after making millions from it, will pass it on to corporate organisations who will make a fortune delivering a portion to those in need. In this society, tragedies are a means for the corporate bodies to make a mint. Why is it always you and I that are expected to supply the money and not the multi-national corporations with their billions sloshing around in their bank accounts. In such tragic situations as the recent typhon, you and I would give willingly what we could to help, and freely offer ourselves when possible. The rich fat corporate world waits until the money is collected from you and I, before it offers up the goods. Fat cats feeding off the misery of ordinary people, acceptable and the norm in this greed driven system of capitalism. Humanity takes second place to profit.

 

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CHARITY AND SLAVE LABOUR CAN'T GO TOGETHER.

       The government's gift of slave labour to the corporate world still trundles on, though resistance is growing. However it is not just the corporate greed machine that is taking advantage with free labour workfare scheme, charities are up there among the greed merchants taking advantage of the disadvantaged. These charity shops rely on the public handing in stuff and donations and yet the will screw the same public by taking on unpaid labour. Lots of charities are withdrawing from the slave labour scheme but there are still those that are hanging in there making a cheap buck.

 This from Boycott Workfare:

 The continued exodus of charity shops from the Government’s workfare schemes leaves the Mandatory Work Activity scheme looking perilously close to collapse.
Oxfam, Marie Curie and Shelter, who all refused workfare in their stores, have now been joined by others. Scope say they are ending mandatory work schemes as have Age UK (though not necessarily in their independent stores). Cancer Research UK have said they are pulling out of mandatory work activity placements. Meanwhile British Heart Foundation have said they are ‘moving away’ from mandated work, though have continued to take placements in their stores.
It now seems that the largest providers of mandated workfare are likely to be conservation and environmental charities such as The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), a mis-named charity who have been quietly building an army of unpaid workers.

Read the full article HERE:

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THE AMERICAN RECOVERY, POVERTY AND TENT CITIES.

         As the populations of countries across the developed world face a brutal attack on their living standards from the financial Mafia, we keep getting told it is the “economy” and all this suffering is necessary to get the economy going again. We are also told that the American “economy” is recovering, so everything should be OK. Well we can accept that most of the “good news” is bullshit propaganda approaching the Presidential elections, Obama needs some help.

      Let's take the poverty in America, it is estimated that there are more than 47 million Americans living below the poverty level, on top of that there are approximately 5,000 people living in tent cities, with an estimated 55 such tent cities dotted around America. The largest of these ironically, is not that far from Disneyworld in Florida, where approximately 300 people live in tents on a 13 acre site. Most of these sites don't have electricity and the sanitation leaves much to be desired. On top of that most can't even feed themselves, they rely on charity. The BBC covers some aspects of this situation in its Panorama program.

       The following extract is another take on the American “recovery” and it is well worth reading the full article.

The other day I was struck by this wierd feeling of deja vu. Where had I seen this kind of listlessness before? Where had I observed this sort of laggard, slumping despair? Then I remembered. It was back in Russia during the Yeltsin years. It was the exact same atmosphere: Things were shitty and getting worse. Life was shabby and dilapidated. Their rulers were corrupt and didn’t give a damn. Cosmically rich oligarchs were cannibalizing the country, and the system was so badly broken there wasn’t a damn thing anyone could do about it. Drink up. Continue reading;

  This austerity is necessary for the recovery.

         Like I keep on spouting, we have to stop looking to our “own” bunch of political crooks and liars to sort it out for us, and realise that this is an international war. This is the world wide corporate fascists plundering the ordinary people of the world, your “own” little bunch of crooks and liars are not on your side. If they even hint at improving the social fabric of society, the big financial boys will have you down graded, grab their capital and leave, or they might just do as they have done in Greece and Italy, suspend your so called “democratically elected” government and put one of their henchmen in to take charge, to get you back on the right track of austerity and handing them the public purse.

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