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Civil Unrest and Terrorism (Civil Wars, Riots, Crime, Terrorism) US Police State. Poverty. Major Causes of Death. Plutocracy. Gender Issues. Preventable Death. Gross Environmental Negligence Costing Human Lives. Environment. Borders. Racism. LGTB Hate. Misc. Human Rights (speech, education, etc.) Contemporary Slavery. Abuse of Drug Patents Costing Lives. Nestle. War & Peace. History of Science. The history we're built on. Conflict Minerals. Executions. Treatment of Non-Human Persons. China's Censorship. Organized Crime. Non contacted humans. Priorities, Disorganization, and a Talent for Self-Deception. Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for' As many as three quarters of a million young people in the UK may feel that they have nothing to live for, a study for the Prince's Trust charity claims.

Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'

The trust says almost a third of long-term unemployed young people have contemplated taking their own lives. Urgent action must be taken to prevent the young jobless becoming the young hopeless, it says. The government commented that it was doing "everything possible" to help young people find work. Last month, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the UK unemployment rate had fallen to its lowest level since 2009, with the number of people out of work falling by 99,000 to 2.39 million in the three months to October. 'Devastating' The Prince's Trust Macquarie Youth Index was based on interviews with 2,161 16 to 25-year-olds. Among those respondents classified as Neet, the percentage of those agreeing with the statement rose to 21%. One in three (32%) had contemplated suicide, while one in four (24%) had self-harmed. TrepanationBy45 comments on Doctors Without Borders calls US bombing of its hospital a war crime.

A Disturbing Number of Americans Are in Pain. 5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia (That Makes it Worse) Before we get started, can we all agree that there's a difference between trying to understand something and condoning it?

5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia (That Makes it Worse)

There's nothing on Earth so awful that we should avoid talking about it completely. If anything, the more scared you are of a thing, the more you should try to understand it. Talking about a subject like pedophilia isn't going to make it worse. But refusing to talk about it -- or accusing those who do of glorifying it or normalizing it -- definitely will. No problem has ever been solved with ignorance. And we are ignorant; pedophilia is almost a total mystery to modern science. So, here it goes: We sat down with several self-professed (but non-offending) pedophiles, as well as David Prescott (a therapist who specializes in sex offenders) and Dr.

. #5. Erik Snyder/Photodisc/Getty Images Jupiterimages/Goodshoot/Getty Images "Ehhhhh? " Hell, we don't even know what percentage of the population are pedophiles -- estimates range from one percent to an astounding 20 percent. t93FORo.png (698×853) Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mohammad Mosaddegh or Mosaddeq[a] (Persian: مُحَمَد مُصَدِق‎; IPA: [mohæmˈmæd(-e) mosædˈdeɣ] ( );[b] 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967), was the democratically elected[1][2][3] Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 until 1953, when his government was overthrown in a coup d'état orchestrated by the British MI6 and the American CIA.[4][5] An author, administrator, lawyer, prominent parliamentarian, his administration introduced a range of progressive social and political reforms such as social security, rent control, and land reforms.[6] His government's most notable policy, however, was the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC / AIOC) (later British Petroleum or BP).[7] Mosaddegh was removed from power in a coup on 19 August 1953, organised and carried out by the CIA at the request of MI6, which chose Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Mosaddegh.[8] Early life[edit] Education[edit]

Mohammad Mosaddegh