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Survey shows quarter of Americans feel they have no one to confide in

Ben Renner
StudyFinds
Thu, 30 May 2019 20:18 UTC

Depression is a courageous biological strategy to help us survive

When you're sad or stressed, do you have someone you can reach out to in confidence for help? A new survey suggests millions of Americans may be forced to bottle up their emotions and secrets when it comes to having someone to confide in.

The survey, commissioned by the counseling service BetterHelp, found that a quarter of the 2,000 adults questioned didn't have someone to privately turn to for their their private struggles or thoughts. Seven in ten participants admitted that when sharing their feelings with a co-worker, friend, or romantic partner, they tend hold back their true feelings. And a staggering 90% of participants say they downplay their emotions so they don't burden or worry a loved one.

The study segmented the participants by age. On the whole, participants between the ages of 18 and 30 are much more withdrawn than participants over 50 years old when discussing potentially anxiety-inducing topics like finances, job stress, parents and family, or other friends, with a partner.

Mom cries foul as cops say teen shot herself in mouth while cuffed behind her back

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 29 May 2019 20:05 UTC

It's been nine months since police claim 19-year-old Sarah Wilson allegedly got a hold of a gun and killed herself in police custody while her hands were cuffed behind her back. Since then, her mother has been grieving and also crying foul after police are sticking by the story and refuse to release any information.

As TFTP reported at the time, Wilson allegedly committed suicide on July 25, 2018, during a traffic stop near the intersection of Berkley Avenue and Wilson Road, according to the Chesapeake Police Department. According to police, while handcuffed with her hands behind her back, Wilson was able to acquire a Taurus Judge handgun, place it in her mouth, and pull the trigger.

Dawn Wilson, Sarah's mother has since come forward to speak out about the inconsistencies in the case.

Russia suspends 550 commercial pilots amid 'serious problems' in aviation industry

RT
Wed, 29 May 2019 15:50 UTC

The recent deadly crash-landing of a Sukhoi Superjet-100 was a result of the poor state of Russia's aviation industry, with pilots lacking qualification and outdated safety regulations, the country's Prosecutor General said.

Since 2017, 550 commercial pilots have suspended and 160 flight certificates annulled in the country after prosecutorial inspections, Yury Chaika told MPs, as he appeared before parliament on Wednesday.

"The issue of dedicated training of pilots still remains a pressing one," he warned. Many aviation training centers lack qualified teachers and hardware to operate effectively. Two such centers could not properly train pilots and had to be shut own. There were also cases of aviators taking to the skies after incomplete training programs, the Prosecutor General said.

The state aviation safety program hasn't been updated in Russia since 2008 and doesn't meet the international requirements anymore, he pointed out. There's also no one in government specifically tasked with overseeing this program and how it's being implemented.

Comment: Recent airline crashes run against trend toward safer flying

Worldwide, there were more than 50 fatal airline accidents a year through the early and mid-1990s, claiming well over 1,000 lives annually, according to figures compiled by the Flight Safety Foundation. Fatalities dropped from 1,844 in 1996 to just 59 in 2017, then rose to 561 last year and 209 already this year.

Nearly half of the airline deaths in 2018 and 2019 occurred during the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max jets in Indonesia and Ethiopia. In each case, investigators are examining the role of flight software that pushed the nose of the plane down based on faulty sensor readings.

That raises concern about safety around automated flight controls, said William Waldock, an expert at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

"Pilots are not being trained as much as pilots as they are system operators and system managers," he said. "So when something happens and the automation fails, they get flummoxed."

Nearly 25% of Americans incur debt just to pay for necessities like food

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00 UTC

Even though we are told the economy is doing great, all the evidence shows that main street Americans are struggling more and more every day. A recent report claimed that the costs of goods have risen to the point that 25% must use debt to pay for necessities, such as food.

According to a new Experian report that came out last week, Americans have an average of $6,506 in credit card debt. But some expenses are weighing much more heavily on the credit cards of the average American...

Necessities, like food and rent, are being put on credit cards. A full 23% of Americans say that paying for basic necessities such as rent, utilities, and food contributes the most to their credit card debt, according to a new survey of approximately 2,200 U.S. adults that CNBC Make It performed in conjunction with Morning Consult. Another 12% say medical bills are the biggest portion of their debt. Medical bills additionally likely contribute to the purchases of food on a credit card.

This news isn't shocking unless you believe the mainstream media's glorification of the false "recovery" we've experienced since the Great Recession of a decade ago. American households have taken on historic levels of debt, which will crush them in the next economic downturn.

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After ousting president who wisely refused unfair association deal, Ukraine now blames EU for bad integration pact

RT
Thu, 30 May 2019 17:32 UTC

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Kiev has endured trade imbalances with most of its European partners, according to the latest data from the country's statistics agency. Ukraine is still struggling to make its domestic products meet the rigorous EU standards.

In the first quarter of the current year alone, the overall trade deficit with the European Union totaled $535 million. Europe's number one economy, Germany, contributed most to the ever-widening gap.

Ukraine signed the controversial association agreement with the EU five years ago, shortly after the Maidan revolution brought down the government of then-president Viktor Yanukovich, who had rejected the association deal. The political part of the agreement has been in effect since September 2014 and the economic part has de-facto operated from January 2016.

Comment: In the West's view, Ukraine was never meant to be more than a buffer against Russia, and by dangling the remote possibility of EU and NATO membership, a continual irritant on Russia's south-east border.

Man sets himself ablaze near White House, dies after being rushed to hospital

Dan Mangan & Kevin Breuninger
CNBC
Wed, 29 May 2019 13:05 UTC

An unidentified man set himself on fire early Wednesday afternoon in front of sightseers on the Ellipse park in downtown Washington, D.C., not far from the White House, authorities said.

The man, identified Thursday as Arnav Gupta of Bethesda, Maryland, died of his injuries later Wednesday after being transported to a local hospital, U.S. park police said.

The Ellipse is a 52-acre park area that lies south of the White House and north of the National Mall, in the heart of Washington. The fire occurred just north of the Washington Monument.

Twitter slaps ban on researcher who exposed journalist ties to Antifa

RT
Thu, 30 May 2019 17:22 UTC

A researcher based in Germany was suspended from Twitter on the same day he published an article exposing the troubling connections of more than a dozen journalists to Antifa. There was no official explanation for the ban.

On Wednesday, the journal Quillette published a lengthy article by the Stuttgart-based researcher Eoin Lenihan, mapping a network of connections between fifteen Twitter-verified journalists and "Antifa" activists they covered - often approvingly and unquestioningly.

Comment: Eoin Lenihan's article: It's real: The journalists writing about Antifa are often their cheerleaders

It's real: The journalists writing about Antifa are often their cheerleaders

Eoin Lenihan
Quillette
Wed, 29 May 2019 16:32 UTC

On February 1, 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to give a talk about free speech at the University of California, Berkeley. But he was prevented from speaking by a group of 150 or so masked, black-clad members of a then-obscure movement calling itself "Antifa." The protestors caused $100,000 worth of damage to the campus and injured six people as they threw rocks and Molotov cocktails. Nine months later, again at Berkeley, an "anti-Marxist" rally descended into violence as approximately 100 masked Antifa members harassed journalists and beat rally organizers and attendees.

Berkeley was where Antifa rose to national attention, but it hasn't been the only place where the group has engaged in sustained acts of violence. At a Washington, D.C. Unite the Right rally in August 2018, Antifa members hurled objects at police and assaulted journalists. In Portland, Oregon, violent street clashes involving Antifa have become regular events. Notwithstanding claims that Antifa is a peaceful, "anti-fascist community-defense group," it has adopted tactics that often are more violent than those of the right-wing movements that the group opposes.

On waiting for the most insane libtard media takes from Special Counsel's statement

RT
Thu, 30 May 2019 16:17 UTC

After Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a public statement standing by the findings of his final report, liberal commentators began reading between the lines. How long before Putin is accused of getting to Mueller?

Mueller delivered his public statement on Wednesday, and offered very few surprises. His final report, which cleared President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia in 2016 and found insufficient evidence to bring obstruction charges against the president, "speaks for itself," Mueller said. The Special Counsel also stated that Attorney General William Barr has already "made the report on our investigation largely public," and that he would not testify on anything beyond the publicly available information.

So a bland statement of Justice Department policy? On the surface, yes. But that didn't stop Democrats from clamoring for further investigations, or viewing Mueller's declination to prosecute as a dog-whistle for impeachment.

Sickening: Cops bet a sandwich that woman would kill herself - then let her do it

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 29 May 2019 00:00 UTC

Taxpayers are now shelling out $860,000 after officers bet a Subway sandwich that a woman would kill herself, and then allowed her to do it, cheering after.

According to a recent settlement from a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections, multiple corrections officers made jokes about the potential of an inmate killing herself and even made bets that she would. Sadly, 25-year-old Janika Edmond did end up killing herself, and one of the corrections officers ended up winning lunch, a Subway sandwich. Now, the family has reached a settlement in the case for $860,000.

Edmond had a history of depression and suicide attempts, and she allegedly announced to the prison guards that she was going to kill herself, but was ignored by the guards as people in her position often are. But these officers went further, not only ignoring her cries for help, but actually turning them into a sick game.

The lawsuit noted that everyone in the prison was well aware of her condition, considering that she had attempted suicide or requested to be put on suicide watch 8 times in 13 months.

Her mental health was such a concern prison doctors ordered she receive certain treatments for her depression, and that she be kept under a close watch in case she ended up attempting suicide, or even talked about it.

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Society's Child

Survey shows quarter of Americans feel they have no one to confide in

Mom cries foul as cops say teen shot herself in mouth while cuffed behind her back

Russia suspends 550 commercial pilots amid 'serious problems' in aviation industry

Nearly 25% of Americans incur debt just to pay for necessities like food

After ousting president who wisely refused unfair association deal, Ukraine now blames EU for bad integration pact

Man sets himself ablaze near White House, dies after being rushed to hospital

Twitter slaps ban on researcher who exposed journalist ties to Antifa

It's real: The journalists writing about Antifa are often their cheerleaders

On waiting for the most insane libtard media takes from Special Counsel's statement

Sickening: Cops bet a sandwich that woman would kill herself - then let her do it

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