Category: suicide

LIVE 12/06, at 10:30 AM ET: Elon Musk Exposes Potentially Criminal Censorship and Collusion; Canada Promotes Suicide Message

Elon Musk is putting his money where his mouth is, with his pledge to restore citizen journalism on Twitter. The billionaire founder of Tesla began releasing what he calls “The Twitter Files,” which include internal communications from Twitter that detail how the U.S. government has been censoring Americans by using Twitter. The findings are being…


Record Number of Prisoners Dying in Scottish Jails, With Drugs and Suicide to Blame

Deaths in Scottish prisons have reached record levels in the last three years and only a fraction of the number were as a result of COVID-19, say researchers from the University of Glasgow. In their report the team, led by Sarah Armstrong, a professor of criminology, found there had been 121 deaths in jails in Scotland…


Encouraging Self-Harm Online Will Become Criminal Offence Under UK’s Online Safety Bill

Online encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised under an updated version of the Online Safety Bill, the UK government has said. Culture secretary Michelle Donelan said the update would create a new offence that would target communications that encourage someone to physically harm themselves, making it illegal to do so, and bringing it in line…


‘No One Knows What’s Happening in This Small City’ in China: Resident

A resident in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, asks for more media coverage of the chaotic pandemic control policies used by local governments. “Your reports are very helpful to us. Our governments are very corrupt. They feel some pressure only when they find reports from the outside. Unlike Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, ours is a small…


‘We Lost Our Purpose’: Border Patrol Sees Surge in Suicides as Morale Plummets

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seen four personnel die by suicide in the last two weeks, National Border Patrol Council Vice President-at-Large Sergio Moreno, who is part of the agency’s National Suicide Prevention Workforce, revealed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Three Border Patrol agents died by suicide in the two week period,…


How Money, Government, and Big Pharma Are Intricately Intertwined

“There’s a systemic problem with our whole drug safety system,” Kim Witczak says. “I like to call it a spider web. That’s the premise I start from. It’s a big business full of conflicts of interest.” In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek spoke with Witczak, whose beloved husband died from…


Family in Oklahoma Murder-Suicide Faced Financial Pressures

BROKEN ARROW, Okla.—An Oklahoma couple considered “primary suspects” in last week’s killings of their six children faced growing financial pressures and the husband experienced recurring pain from a workplace head injury, according to family members. Eight people were found dead Thursday in a burning home in a Tulsa-area suburb in what authorities are investigating as…


The Pentagon’s Suicide Report Shows How Deep the Army’s Problems Go

The Pentagon’s annual active duty military suicide report shows how the Army continues to lag behind the other services when it comes to military culture, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. While the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force each saw a decline in suicide rates between 2020 and 2021, and rates for the Reserve and…


Australian Deaths by Alcohol Abuse at Record High, Suicide on the Rise

Mortality rates in Australia increased 3.2 percent in 2021, with alcohol-induced deaths at the highest rate in a decade, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Lauren Moran, director of mortality statistics at ABS, said while the rate of deaths in 2021 had increased on the previous year, it was still lower than the…


Young Criminal Attempts Suicide, Leaves His Body, Enters ‘Hell’—And Is Shown the Errors of His Ways

When he was 19 years old, Jeffrey C. attempted suicide after finding out his girlfriend was cheating on him with his best friend. After he swallowed a lot of pills, his mother realized what had happened and called an ambulance. Jeffrey hadn’t been a model citizen, but his experience of nearly dying was pivotal in…