Journalists, gardaí, lawyers have been talking about everything except the why.
Surely it's as clear as day the oxygen that feeds all this horror is poverty and deprivation.
Irish society created this horror.
The politicians are telling us that they 'visited' the area. Stomach churning.
Unemployment rate in the inner city? Number of school-going children going to Germany or France or Italy this summer to improve their language skills?
The talk on the radio and in the newspapers is simply insulting, annoying too.
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"The latest data available for poverty in the EU highlights that more than a third of the population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion in five EU Member States: Bulgaria (48.0 %), Romania (40.4 %), Greece (35.7 %), Latvia (35.1 %) and Hungary (33.5 %). At the other end of the scale, the lowest shares of persons being at risk of poverty or social exclusion were recorded in Sweden (16.4 %), Finland (16.0 %), the Netherlands (15.9 %) and the Czech Republic (14.6 %).
The poorest in the EU now spend over 40% their income on a roof over their head. This does not include those nations under the brutality of the Troika enforced austerity programme such as Ireland, Spain, Portugal and poor old Greece, where 40% of the entire population now find themselves in total poverty and experiencing a crisis of daily life curtosy of the banks.
The EU buries it head on the matter. It does not undertake periodic large-scale surveys designed to understand the extent and characteristics of their homeless populations. Census data from 2011 were inconsistent or were not collected, making the generation of an EU-level homelessness figure based on census results impossible.
The European Observatory on Homelessness determined that in five nations; Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and France, there was an average increase in homelessness of around 26% in just three years to 2013 giving some indicator of scale, particularly as all five are considered wealthy nations with strong welfare systems. England saw a 37% increase in people sleeping rough due to welfare cuts.
Last winter in the UK, 25,000 people died as a direct result of fuel poverty. Again, the EU does not count what is known as ‘excess winter mortality” rates. In a research report called “Excess winter mortality in Europe: a cross country analysis identifying key risk factors” by the Journal of Epidemiology, it was found by using decades of hospital data that something in the region of 94,400 such deaths occurred in just 8 european countries. That is one third of a million deaths related to fuel poverty per year in the EU.
Social housing construction is 90% short against the need of desperate citizens. The EU does not want to acknowledge the problem. After all, it only spends 26 billion euros on kit for a mixed bag of squabbling armies in defence of its citizens and then stands idle seeing them starve or die of the cold.
Germany, where the highest proportion of its citizens pay more than 40% of their income on housing (after Greece of course) are not only facing acute housing problems, but they now have one and a half million homeless refugees to consider. In a leaked secret document the Guardian reported that the German authorities were concerned about the risk of a “breakdown of provisions” and that they were already struggling to procure enough living containers and sanitary facilities for the new arrivals."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-winter-and-poverty-in-the-eu-the-unfolding-european-housing-crisis/5491126
The banking world is trapped and can't even afford a small country like Greece to collapse because it would trigger a 'Derivatives Chernobyl' which leads us into a 'Parade of Bailout Schemes' which gets at the end rid of the middle class and makes the poor people even poorer. A recipe for civil unrest & crime.
Media is or media are?
Indeed, I was thinking about that. Was about to change it, then had no time and decided to leave it. Could it be considered a collective noun?
Is anonymity a mascline of feminine noun?
And it sure is a major issue in the north inner city. Though I did teach a girl from those flats in Cumberland Street and she scored an A in her Leaving Cert German.
German for anonymous is die Anonymität and it is a feminine noun.
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