Archives Bellaciao EN 1999-2016

Cooking in a Coffee Pot

2009-06-15T16:39:04Z

Cooking in a Coffee Pot and Other Useful Tips for the Homeless By David Glenn Cox
I write this for the millions who, like myself, are holed up in basements, garages, empty houses, fields, culverts and what have you. Guilty of being Americans and homeless, trying to make it through just one more day in the land of Fuck You and the home of the slave. I am at the top of the homeless pyramid; I still have internet access and a toilet.
The one thing to remember about the homeless is that (…)

- contributions / Logement, Poverty-Precariousness, USA, Daveparts

Chinese drywall poses potential risks

2009-04-12T01:50:20Z

At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when building materials were in short supply, American construction companies used millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was abundant and cheap. Now that decision is haunting hundreds of homeowners and apartment dwellers who are concerned that the wallboard gives off fumes that can corrode copper pipes, blacken jewelry and silverware, and possibly sicken people.
(04-11) 18:31 PDT PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — By BRIAN SKOLOFF and CAIN (…)

- contributions / Health, Logement, USA

Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens

2009-03-27T14:20:09Z

Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens
Global Research, March 26, 2009 Reuters SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Emergency shelters brimming with homeless people in California's capital are quietly turning away more than 200 women and children a night in a sign of the deteriorating U.S. economy.
The displaced individuals on waiting lists at St. John's Shelter and other facilities often turn instead to relatives or friends for temporary living quarters, perhaps moving into a spare room, (…)

- contributions / Logement, Poverty-Precariousness, USA

Letting the Market Place Work

2008-10-24T11:51:02Z

Letting the Market Place Work By David Glenn Cox
They tell us that we must let the marketplace work, we must never allow the heavy hand of government to impinge on our freedoms. While the rest of the industrial world has national healthcare, we in America have our freedom. Our freedom and forty-seven million people without healthcare.
The markets must be allowed to work! The marketplace always has the best answer; wasn't that written on the backside of those tablets once handed to Moses? (…)

- contributions / Logement, USA, Daveparts

Video: "Shanty Town" - The first tent city in the US after the housing burst

2008-01-27T22:08:39Z

Video: "Shanty Town" - The first tent city in the US after the housing bubble burst
Here are some videos of a tent city / shanty town that has popped up in the suburbs of Southern California. I've never seen anything like this in America since the great depression.
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeH...

- contributions / Logement, Poverty-Precariousness, USA

biggest drop in new homebuilding in 27 years

2008-01-18T08:28:18Z

Biggest drop in new homebuilding in 27 years Drop of 24.8 percent in 2007 from prior year second-biggest on record The Associated Press updated 6:42 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2008
WASHINGTON - The steep slump in housing intensified at the end of last year, pushing home construction down by the biggest amount in nearly three decades.
Analysts forecast more bad news in the months ahead with the big question remaining whether the housing slump will be severe enough to push the country into a (…)

- contributions / Economy-budget, Logement, USA

A People's Revolution in New Orleans - So begins the Civil War in the United States (video)

2007-12-29T21:11:18Z

"The New Orleans City Council has unanimously voted to move ahead with the demolition of 4,500 units of public housing. Under the plan, the city's four largest public housing developments will be razed and replaced with mixed-income housing. Hundreds of people were turned away from the City Council meeting with pepper spray and tasers. Many were arrested."
"Footage by Luisa Dantas and Michael Boedigheimer of JoLu Productions, Robbie Leppzer of Turning Tide, Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise (…)

- contributions / Edito, Logement, USA

Put moratorium on foreclosures, state consumer coalition advises

2007-08-22T17:00:39Z

Put moratorium on foreclosures, state consumer coalition advises
By Steve Lawrence
August 22, 2007
SACRAMENTO – Consumer advocates yesterday called for a moratorium on home foreclosures, warning that California is facing a tidal wave of foreclosures over the next year as more homeowners are hit with payment increases brought on by subprime loans and risky mortgages.
“The curve is really starting to go up,” said Alan Fisher, executive director of the California Reinvestment Coalition, (…)

- contributions / Trade-Exchange Rates, Logement, Poverty-Precariousness, USA

US mortgage crisis forces homeowners to take refuge in their cars

2007-03-25T09:14:46Z

SUE ZEIDLER IN LOS ANGELES
THEY are victims of the United States' growing mortgage crisis - low-paid workers whose homes have been repossessed amid rising interest rates, a stagnant property market and a lax lending regime.
But in Los Angeles, where having a car is as essential as owning a home, many are sleeping in their vehicles to ensure a roof over their head.
Campaigners for the homeless expect more to hole up in their cars as they lose homes due to the problems that have dogged (…)

- contributions / Edito, Un/Employment, Logement, Poverty-Precariousness, USA

America's Collective Delusion Must Endure: Domestic Genocide of an Economic Nature

2006-10-20T01:12:06Z

By Jason Miller
“The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein
Accomplishing a logic-defying feat, the wealthiest nation in the world has “attained” the highest rate of homelessness amongst developed countries. 3.5 million human beings experience homelessness each year in the United States. Almost a million are homeless every night (1).
In the most heavily militarized nation in the history of the human race, 30% (…)

- contributions / Logement, Governments, USA, Jason Miller