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Research study finds teen dating violence has declined; boys more likely to be victimized than girls

Terra Marquette
Study Finds
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
teen dating violence
“A lot of our interventions assume that the girl is always the victim, but these findings tell us that it isn’t always so"
Who is more likely to be victimized by teen dating violence? If you're quick to think it's girls, new data shows you're wrong. In a surprising twist, recently published research indicates boys are more likely to report being victims of dating violence committed by partners who hit, slap or push them.

Researchers with the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU) conducted a longitudinal study of dating violence. While reports of physical abuse went down over time, they say there is a troubling gender-related trend.

Five percent of teens reported physical abuse from their dating partners in 2013, down from 6 percent in 2003. But in the last year, 5.8 percent of boys reported dating violence compared to 4.2 percent of girls.

"It could be that it's still socially acceptable for girls to hit or slap boys in dating relationships," says lead author Catherine Shaffer, a PhD student with SFU, in a release. "This has been found in studies of adolescents in other countries as well."

Comment: The findings aren't so surprising despite the constant howls about 'toxic masculinity' by rabid feminists. Other studies have found that the highest prevalence of domestic violence is committed by females. See: Five Feminist Lies We Take For Granted

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Suicide rates spike more than 30 percent in US since 1999

Tess Bonn
The Hill
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 19:26 UTC
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The principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warned on Wednesday that suicide is on the rise in the U.S. among almost every age group.

"Suicide - in all ages except for young children and the elderly - is one of the few conditions that's getting worse instead of better around the country," Anne Schuchat told "Rising" Hill.TV co-hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton.

Suicide is a leading cause of death in the U.S.
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Yemeni cabinet ends UN human rights mandate after report says Saudi's responsible for majority of civilian deaths


Sputnik
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:02 UTC
Yemen rubble
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The Yemeni cabinet on Thursday announced the end of the mandate in the country of the UN human rights agency's group of experts over its criticism of violence by its allies, as reported by Al Jazeera news channel.

"The mandate of the UN Human Rights Council's group of experts will be discontinued," the cabinet said in a statement, cited by Al Jazeera news channel.

Yemen's internationally-recognized government accused the experts of pro-rebel bias and attempts to politicize humanitarian crisis in the country, hit by five years of civil war.

Comment: Yemen's cabinet will be hard-pressed to deny the Saudi coalition's responsibility for the deaths of millions via starvation and the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure:
While everyone's eyes are on Syria's Idlib, US continues to decimate YemenTo date, the US-backed Saudi-led coalition has struck well over 100 hospitals, as well as wedding parties, refugee camps, food trucks, factories, transport routes, agricultural land, residential areas, and schools, to name a few. Yes, you read that right. Yemen, with only 2.8 percent of its land being cultivated, is actively targeted by the US-backed coalition. According to Martha Mundy, professor emeritus at the London School of Economics, "to hit that small amount of agricultural land, you have to target it."
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Rocket hits Afghan govt compound as president holds meeting there


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:52 UTC
Afghan policemen
© Mustafa Andaleb / ReutersAfghan policemen keep watch at a check point in Ghazni city, Afghanistan, September 16, 2018
Rocket attacks were reported in the capital of Afghanistan's southern Ghazni province during President Ashraf Ghani's visit on Thursday.

One rocket landed near the house of the governor in the morning, just as the Afghan president was holding a meeting there, local media cited security officials as saying. The other rocket hit the Kabul-Kandahar highway. Neither caused any casualties.

MENAFN news network said three rather than two rockets were fired at Ghazni city, citing provincial police chief Ramazan Ali Mohseni.

Ghani was visiting the city to review the security situation. No group immediately claimed credit for the attacks.

Last week, a rocket attack in Afghanistan was directed at a military university in the capital Kabul. That incident caused no harm either.
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Killing our pollinators: Monsanto's weedkiller contributing to global loss of bees and habitat

Damian Carrington
The Guardian
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:00 UTC
Glyphosate kills bees
© Vivian Abagiu/College of Natural Sciences/UT AustinGlyphosate – the most used pesticide ever – damages the good bacteria in honeybee guts, making them more prone to deadly infections
The world's most used weedkiller damages the beneficial bacteria in the guts of honeybees and makes them more prone to deadly infections, new research has found.

Previous studies have shown that pesticides such as neonicotinoids cause harm to bees, whose pollination is vital to about three-quarters of all food crops. Glyphosate, manufactured by Monsanto, targets an enzyme only found in plants and bacteria.

However, the new study shows that glyphosate damages the microbiota that honeybees need to grow and to fight off pathogens. The findings show glyphosate, the most used agricultural chemical ever, may be contributing to the global decline in bees, along with the loss of habitat.

"We demonstrated that the abundances of dominant gut microbiota species are decreased in bees exposed to glyphosate at concentrations documented in the environment," said Erick Motta and colleagues from University of Texas at Austin in their new paper. They found that young worker bees exposed to glyphosate exposure died more often when later exposed to a common bacterium.

Other research, from China and published in July, showed that honeybee larvae grew more slowly and died more often when exposed to glyphosate. An earlier study, in 2015, showed the exposure of adult bees to the herbicide at levels found in fields "impairs the cognitive capacities needed for a successful return to the hive".

Comment: Bayer needs more than an aspirin to cure its Monsanto-sized headache

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US fines Brazil's oil giant Petrobras $853mn for bribery


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:49 UTC
oil refinery
© Pilar Olivares / Reuters
The US Justice Department said on Thursday that Brazilian oil company Petrobras has been fined millions of dollars for paying bribes to Brazilian politicians and political parties.

Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said in a statement that Petrobras executives at "the highest levels," including board members, orchestrated hundreds of millions in bribes "and then cooked the books to conceal the bribe payments from investors and regulators."

The payment includes a tentative deal to pay $682.6 million to a Brazil fund, and an additional $170.6 million equally split between the US Justice Department and the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Kuwait skyscraper inferno: 2,500 workers escape building fire without injury


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:09 UTC
National Bank of Kuwait
© ReutersSmoke rises from the construction site of the headquarters of the National Bank of Kuwait.
An under-construction skyscraper in Kuwait, set to become the headquarters of the National Bank, has seen 2,500 workers scurry to flee the flames and black smoke that engulfed the tower.

Social media videos show flames licking at the lower levels of the skyscraper, as plumes of thick, black smoke are seen billowing into the sky. The Bank of Kuwait called the blaze a "partial fire in the new NBK headquarters construction site." It released a statement saying that the 2,500 workers were "evacuated from the site in a record time without any injuries."
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Mr. Potato

Pussy Riot founder claims he was target of Russian-govt ordered poisoning


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:43 UTC
Pyotr Verzilov
© Ramil Sitdikov / SputnikPyotr Verzilov at a rally on Trubnaya Square in Moscow to support the election of opposition's coordinating council
German doctors cannot determine the substance used in the alleged poisoning of the Russian artist who was sent abroad by his fellow art group members, apparently in hopes of confirming the theory of government involvement.

The artist in question is Pyotr Verzilov - one of the founders of the notorious Voina Art Group, and the mastermind behind the 'performance art' of self-styled 'punk band' Pussy Riot. Verzilov recently began working for the Mediazona news site, which specializes in the rights of inmates in Russian prisons and criminal suspects and convicts in general.

Comment: The traction these degenerates get in the Western media is sickening.

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Hammer

Leftist indoctrination: Tulane University mandates new students take 'race and inclusion' course

Toni Airaksinen
Campus Reform
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:25 UTC
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Students have mixed reactions to the requirement, mostly falling along ideological and political party lines.
Tulane University now requires all incoming students to enroll in a "Race and Inclusion" course, a new addition to the curriculum that has been condemned by some students for its lack of acknowledgment of viewpoint diversity.

In a recent press release, Tulane announced that all new enrollees will be mandated to enroll in a course that focuses at least 60 percent of it content on "race and inclusion" to help students understand the "increasingly diverse society" they live in.

Courses such as "Dear White People," "Critical Race Theory," "Introduction to Fiction: Race and Inclusion," and "Difference and Inequality" all fit the "Race and Inclusion" course requirement.

Professor Michael Cunningham, who advocated for the new requirement but won't be teaching any of the classes, told Campus Reform that the new requirement was partially prompted by students' disappointment with the lack of diversity engagement on campus.

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Ford reports $1bn in lost profits thanks to Trump's trade wars


RT
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:21 UTC
Ford US flag
© Larry Downing / Reuters
US President Donald Trump's tariffs are intended to help America's iconic companies. However, Ford's boss is not that happy about Washington's trade duties.

"From Ford's perspective the metals tariffs took about $1 billion in profit from us," CEO James Hackett told a Bloomberg conference in New York. "The irony of which is we source most of that in the US today anyway. If it goes on any longer, it will do more damage."

Hackett was referring to Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs against America's largest trading partners including China, Canada and Europe. Ford's CEO didn't specify the period of the losses incurred, but a spokesman for the company said he was referring to internal forecasts for higher tariff-related costs in 2018 and 2019.

Comment: Also see: Please God, no: Trade tensions between US and China could drag on for decades

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