(ZHE) — Suicide is exploding in America – and the increase isn’t confined to celebrities like Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. Suicide rates have risen by an astonishing 30% since 1999, with suicidal people citing relationship stress, financial difficulties and other issues as the underlying cause. But suicide rates have increased for some professions more than others. According to CBS, farmers are […]
In recent months a string of school shootings in the United States has rekindled the debate over gun violence, its causes and what can be done to stop it. But amid endless talk of school shootings and AR-15s, a large piece of the puzzle has been left conspicuously absent from the debate.
Contrary to the notion that mass murderers are at the heart of America’s gun violence problem, data from recent years reveals that the majority of gun deaths are self-inflicted.
There is a direct connection between gun violence and suicide rates in the United States and America’s aggressive foreign policy, argues Will Porter. How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic May Have Roots in Overseas War Zones By Will Porter Special to…Read more →
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.
Biblical prophecies, brainwashed models and strange angels + this day in history w/the launch of SpaceShipOne and our song of the day by Trevor Moore on your Morning Monarchy for June 21, 2018.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA — As the Maryland lawyer remembers it, the call came from his mother a few years back. After a few financial setbacks, the lawyer’s younger, adult brother had moved back in with his mother but he hadn’t been himself of late. He slept away much of the day, and when he was awake, he was unusually lethargic and sullen, refusing to eat or shower most days.
All apologies, rap confessions and reefer records + this day in history w/the Maharishi gets dumped and our song of the day by Cult Tourist on your Morning Monarchy for June 15, 2018.
Monkey memes, Greece fires and high levels of vog + this day in history w/Lucky Lindy's ticker tape parade and our song of the day by Stephanie Hatfield on your Morning Monarchy for June 13, 2018.
This week Chuck Ochelli joins me to discuss geopolitics and the problems of the world. We start off discussing the recent Singapore Summit between North Korea and the US. Chuck and I both offer our opinions and analysis of the “deal” that is being hammered out by Trump. We talk about the realities of what is actually being presented, and discuss the larger context of what this may mean for the Korean Peninsula.
Suicide is now the United States’ 10th leading cause of death. It is also one of only three causes of death in the US that are increasing (Alzheimer’s disease and drug overdose are the other two).
