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Hidden crisis: UK homelessness in rural areas is vastly underestimated


RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:52 UTC
homelessness UK Britain
© Luke MacGregor / Reuters
People are sleeping rough in parked cars and barns in the countryside because the stigma attached to homelessness in rural areas is "much stronger" than in cities, a new report says.

According to a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank, the "hidden crisis" of homeless people in England's countryside is being "underestimated" as people bed down away from the public eye in places like parked cars, barns, outhouses and tents.
"Homelessness, traditionally depicted as an urban street phenomenon, is notably absent in people's understanding of rural life," the report said.

"The stigma of being visibly homeless in rural areas can be much stronger than in urban areas and difficulties accessing local authority services can mean households remain uncounted in official records."
The report found that between 2010 and 2016, cases of homelessness increased by a staggering 32 percent in mainly rural areas, while they jumped by 52 percent in largely rural ones.


Comment: Strong and stable? Number of homeless families in UK has almost doubled since Tories took power in 2010

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Question

London police claim only 80 people died in Grenfell Tower fire, up to 255 residents survived


RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:13 UTC
Grenfell tower
© Hannah McKay / Reuters
Up to 255 residents survived the inferno which engulfed west London's Grenfell Tower in June, the Metropolitan Police has said.

The fire killed around 80 people according to current estimates, but the majority of those living in the Kensington tower block did reportedly escape.

The force claimed on Monday that its investigations had shown that 350 people should have been in the tower in June with 14 residents out on the night the blaze took hold.

Comment: London's Grenfell Tower blaze killed 500 residents: Local resident

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Pistol

2 family dogs shot in unfortunate encounter with witless cop

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:34 UTC
cop shoots dog
Sadly, there's been another cop versus dog shooting. This time the horrific shooting took place in Minneapolis and didn't involve just one family pet — but their two dogs.

As TFTP has noted, if citizens kill police dogs, it's practically considered murder, and the suspects are charged with felonious assault on a police officer (dog). But since police wear a badge, they can kill our pets at will with hardly any ramifications.

Jennifer LeMay did her part to protect her home and property by installing security cameras, and we're glad she did because the shooting of her two dogs was caught on camera.

The two Staffordshire Terriers, Cisco and Rocko are owned by LeMay and her four children, and have been in the family since they were puppies. They're therapy dogs, prescribed by a physician to help LeMay's two sons who struggle with severe anxiety.
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Quenelle

Older Americans unable to retire; many are working past 70

Ben Steverman
Bloomberg
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:22 UTC
old man working
More and more Americans are spending their golden years on the job.

Almost 19 percent of people 65 or older were working at least part-time in the second quarter of 2017, according to the U.S. jobs report released on Friday. The age group's employment/population ratio hasn't been higher in 55 years, before American retirees won better health care and Social Security benefits starting in the late 1960s.

And the trend looks likely to continue. Millennials, prepare yourselves. Better yet, consider this and this, so you have a choice in the matter when your time comes.

retirement graph

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Quenelle - Golden

Thousands protest Japan's new anti-terror legislation amid fears it will be used to crack down on civil liberties, legitimate protest


RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 07:06 UTC
tokyo protests anti-terror laws july 2017
Protesters opposed to new anti-terror legislation have taken to the streets of Tokyo in their thousands to voice anger at the law.

A crowd, which according to a local report was 8,000 strong, gathered in Shinjuku Central Park to denounce the controversial new anti-terrorism measure that was passed in Japan last month.


Comment: Surveillance power bill passes in Japan, power to arrest prior to committing crimes

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Attention

Turkey: 25-day March ends with hundreds of thousands at rally protesting government crackdowns on dissent


RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:04 UTC
protest in turkey
© Osman Orsal / Reuters
Turkey's main opposition party leader has concluded his weeks-long "March for Justice" from Ankara to Istanbul with a huge rally, reportedly attended by hundreds of thousands protesting against the government's crackdown on dissent.

A massive crowd gathered outside the Maltepe prison in Istanbul Sunday, to greet the Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who finished his 450-kilometer 25-day march from Ankara.

People were waving Turkish national flags, holding aloft "justice" banners in Turkish, while chanting "rights, law, justice!"
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Fire

Inmates set fire to Georgetown, Guyana prison, 4 escape, 1 officer killed (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)


RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:19 UTC
Fire at prison
© GUYANA UNCUT / YouTube
Inmates at a maximum security prison in Guyana set fire to the premises, destroying most of the building and prompting a gunfight with authorities. Four "very serious criminals" managed to escape.

The chaos broke out at Camp Street Prison in the capital, Georgetown, on Sunday, after inmates managed to obtain firearms and take control of the facility, AFP reported.

Prisoners then set the facility on fire in an effort to distract guards, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan told reporters.

One police officer died in the ensuing gunfight between authorities and inmates, President David Granger confirmed.
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Cult

The West's descent into the twilight zone of gender neutrality perverts democracy

Iben Thranholm
RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:42 UTC
gender neutral bathrooms
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
Does a doctor or a midwife still to have the right to determine the gender of a child at birth?

Not if you ask Kori Doty, a 'non-binary transgender person' who identifies as neither male nor female. Doty gave birth to a baby last November and has been battling ever since to keep the eight-month old's gender off all British Columbia government records. This struggle has now culminated in Canadian authorities issuing a health card to 'Searyl Alti' with no indication of gender.

The health card has a "U" in the space specifying 'sex' meaning either "unassigned" or "undetermined". British Columbia is believed to be the first public authority to issue an official card without gender identification. It's the first time in the world that a health card has been issued to a baby deliberately omitting indication of gender.

But apparently that is not enough. Doty is now waging a legal battle after government officials refused to issue a birth certificate without an indication of gender.

Comment: The demise of Western Civilization: "Gender fluidity" as a harbinger for Postmodernist Hell

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Handcuffs

Boys can't be boys: 9 y.o. handcuffed and arrested for throwing rocks and playing with a toy gun

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:34 UTC
kid arrest
A video posted to social media over the weekend caused heavy backlash for the Spartanburg police department which prompted them to release body cam video of the same incident. The videos show a 9-year-old boy being handcuffed and placed in a police cruiser for allegedly throwing rocks and playing with a toy gun.

The two videos highlight the importance of being truthful when sharing evidence of alleged police misconduct and the damage done by those out to spread false information.

The incident happened on June 29, when police were dispatched to a neighborhood over a 911 call about some children throwing rocks and playing with a toy gun.

The caller told dispatchers that the child with the orange-tipped toy gun shot her son in the buttocks and also threw rocks at her home.

The stories from both parents differed greatly.
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Apple Green

Facetown: Social media giant plans to build all-encompassing community for its employees


Sputnik
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 03:01 UTC
facebook town community
Not content with creating the globe's largest online social network, Facebook is now planning to build a large, all encompassing community for its employees in the real world.

Projected to include not just the workplace but also a market, pharmacy, a hotel and retail shops, Facebook has announced that it will create an all-inclusive environment — a Facetown, if you will — so that employees and their families need never, ever log off. Oops, we mean leave.

Imagine living in an airport: a Starbucks, CVS, McDonald's and Wells Fargo, all rolled into one carefully-curated environment in which an employee and their family can safely live out their days as paid cogs within one of the richest corporations on the planet, owned by one of Earth's richest men.

In revealing its plans on Thursday, Facebook announced an enormous construction project at the company's corporate campus in Menlo Park, California.
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