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How We Should Talk About Mental Health in 2016 | VICE | United States - 0 views

  • How We Should Talk About Mental Health in 2016
  • In 2015, Britain's mental health crisis grew increasingly dismal
  • The human ramifications of the mental healthcare failings of 2015 make for upsetting reading.
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  • That people have become so active around such issues should mean that conversations about mental health will be more frequent in 2016, better informed, and more encouraging of empathy, because this is what helps break down social stigma.
  • In 2016, mental illness and stigma are still a double helix that needs dismantling.
  • The media must change its behavior. Headlines are not just headlines; language is how we form perceptions. And if that language is discriminatory, the trickle-down effect is seismic.
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Tensions Boil Over As Iran Accuses Saudi Arabia Of Bombing Embassy - 0 views

  • Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's eastern Shiite heartland prepared to hold a funeral service Thursday night to honor the executed Shiite cleric, Nimr al-Nimr.
  • However, an Associated Press reporter who reached the site just after the announcement saw no visible damage to the building.
  • Iranian protesters responded by attacking the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad.
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  • Somalia joined Saudi allies such as Bahrain and Sudan and entirely cut diplomatic ties with Iran
  • There are concerns new unrest could erupt.
  • Many ultraconservatives of the Saudi Wahhabi school of Islam view Shiites as heretics.
  • In other developments, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir arrived in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, for meetings with Pakistani leaders. Pakistan, which is a predominantly Sunni Muslim state but has a large Shiite minority, has expressed hope that Saudi Arabia and Iran will be able to normalize their relations.
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A Brief History of Americans Revolting Against Their Government | VICE | United States - 0 views

  • A Brief History of Americans Revolting Against Their Government
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      Interesting to make connections with revolutions we are studying...
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Immigration Officials To Launch Large-Scale Deportation Raids - 0 views

  • preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of families who have flocked to the United States since the start of last year
  • has not been given final approval by DHS
  • target only adults and children who have already been ordered removed from the United States by an immigration judge
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  • first large-scale effort to deport families who have fled violence in Central America
  • violence that was a key factor in driving people to flee Central America last year has surged again
  • "It would be an outrage if the administration subjected Central American families to even more aggressive enforcement tactics,"
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UN: World's Refugees And Displaced To Exceed 60 Million This Year - 0 views

  • The number of people forcibly displaced worldwide is likely to have "far surpassed" a record 60 million this year, mainly driven by the Syrian war and other protracted conflicts, the United Nations said on Friday.
  • Nearly 2.5 million asylum seekers have requests pending, with Germany, Russia and the United States receiving the highest numbers of the nearly one million new claims lodged in the first half of the year, it said.
  • Developing countries bordering conflict zones still host the lion's share of the refugees, the report said, warning about growing "resentment" and "politicization of refugees."
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  • Syria's civil war that began in 2011 has been the main driver of mass displacement, with more than 4.2 million Syrian refugees having fled abroad and 7.6 million uprooted within their shattered homeland as of mid-year, UNHCR said.
  • Many refugees will live in exile for years to come, it said. "In effect, if you become a refugee today your chances of going home are lower than at any time in more than 30 years."
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Feds Want Nebraska, Oklahoma To Quit Harshing Colorado's Mellow - 0 views

  • asked the Supreme Court to stay out of a controversial lawsuit the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma filed last year challenging the constitutionality of Colorado's legalization of marijuana.
  • "original and exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States."
  • When Nebraska and Oklahoma sued last December and asked the Supreme Court to intervene, they argued that "Colorado’s affirmative authorization of the manufacture, possession, and distribution of marijuana presents a substantial obstacle to Congress’s objectives under
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  • But Verrilli countered that the federal government retains authority to review on a "case-by-case basis" significant drug trafficking crimes.
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When Correctional Officers Carry Shotguns, The Result is Death And Mayhem - The Huffing... - 0 views

  • the same tiny pellets that sport shooters use to blow apart clay pigeons and that hunters use to kill birds and rabbits.
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      Treatment of inmates as animals
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      treatment of inmates as animals
  • Guards inside prisons shouldn't have guns. That's pretty much an accepted fact. Except in Nevada—and the results are mayhem and death.
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      Graphic image disclaimer, but really important read
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      Graphic image disclaimer, but really important read
  • Ramos fired a warning shot, but the prisoners kept scuffling. Then he fired three live rounds. When he stopped, the left side of Arevalo's body was loaded with shots. Perez lay motionless and bleeding on the floor, near a shower bag and a towel. He had at least 30 pellets in his face, 30 in his neck and as many as 200 in his chest and arms.
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  • while he tried to reload his gun.
  • “extensive” shots to the “left face, left neck, left arm, left chest, left flank.”
  • lowest ratio of guards to prisoners of any correctional system in the country—only about one security staffer for every 12 inmates, according to the Association of State Correctional Administrators.
  • The state defines this method as a “non-deadly” use of force, but a shotgun loaded with pellets can easily draw blood from as far as 50 yards away.
  • “Neither could affect an effective offensive,” McNeill recalled. “It was like some awkward and quirky dance, then 'BOOM.'”
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Under Fire From G.O.P., Obama Defends Response to Terror Attacks - The New York Times - 0 views

  • explained that his refusal to redeploy large numbers of troops to the region was rooted in the grim assumption that the casualties and costs would rival the worst of the Iraq war.
  • realizes that he was slow to respond to public fears after terrorist attacks in Paris and California, acknowledging that his low-key approach led Americans to worry that he was not doing enough to keep the country safe.
  • defense of his approach came as Republican presidential candidates have been branding him as weak and competing in their calls for more robust action to combat the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
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  • especially exasperated with Mr. Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslims’ entering the United States.
  • Mr. Obama said that it was “understandable” that Americans were concerned, but that they should be reassured.
  • Mr. Obama claimed progress in pushing back the Islamic State, also called ISIS or ISIL, through a strategy of airstrikes combined with Special Operations raids and support for local forces on the ground.
  • Moreover, he added, part of the group’s strategy is to draw the United States into a broader military entanglement in the region.
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Is Red Dye 40 Toxic? - 0 views

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      Red Dye Number 40
  • petroleum distillates or coal tars
  • human carcinogen
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      Cancer causing agent
  • reproductive success
  • physical and behavioral toxicity
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My brother died in Paris. My sister died in... - Sayed Ammar Nakshawani - 0 views

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  • There is no need to say that you care only for one country and not another, and there is no need to say that one tragedy is worse than another.
  • this is the moment where we have the potential to show the greatest humanity.
  • If you are a non-Muslim, give your love and compassion to a Muslim.
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  • Remembrance is not just for the divine personalities of our history, but for all of these innocents.
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More Than 3,700 Migrants Rescued In Mediterranean - 0 views

  • 3,700 migrants from overcrowded and unsafe boats in the last two days
  • Italy's coastguard
  • 18 different boats
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  • six rescue operations
  • traveling in a fishing boat and five rubber dinghies
  • Authorities also brought ashore a corpse in a metal coffin
  • shot dead
  • Sicilian court is investigating the death
  • waves of migrants arriving in overcrowded boats from North Africa
  • Italy
  • trying to convince the EU to help
  • deeply divided
  • EU this year agreed to triple funding for sea rescues off the coasts of Italy and Greece
  • manage the migrants once they come ashore
  • distribute 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean asylum seekers
  • "hot spots"
  • Commission pla
  • identify migrants and refugees
  • calls for those
  • thousands of new boat arrivals each week
  • France is increasingly turning back migrants
  • Rome and Milan
  • Italy's train stations
  • 100 migrants have been sleeping rough along the Italy-France border for almost two weeks
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