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Thirty-two soldiers took their own lives last month, the most Army suicides in a single month since the Vietnam era. Eleven of the soldiers were not on active duty. Of the 21 who were, seven were serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Department of Defense said.

Army officials say they don't have any answers to why more and more soldiers are resorting to suicide.

Last year, a record-breaking 245 soldiers committed suicide. The Army seems on track to surpass that number this year, as 145 soldiers have taken their lives in the first half of 2010.

Metfloquine, also called Lariam, is used to protect soldiers from malaria, but has been known to have side effects including paranoia and hallucinations. It has been implicated in a number of suicides and homicides, including within the U.S. military ranks. In 2009, the army decreed that soldiers who’ve suffered traumatic brain injuries should not be given the drug. But this month, just nine days after Bales’ shooting rampage, the army issued an emergency decree calling for the review to be expedited.

"A government-backed website, designed to champion the UK's start-up businesses has inadvertently linked users to malware, it has emerged."

An amusing story about stupid pirates, with obvious spin at the end.
"Experts" say piracy will continue because Somalia doesn't have a functioning government. Somalia has "lawless" shores. Do laws stop piracy? Seems to me that vessels being allowed to protect themselves would stop piracy. Oh, and what is that Dutch ship doing on the African coast, taking guns away from people?

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US ~ TheAlyonaShow - US Soldier: "I was Tortured For A Month, Then Handed A Bill..."

Mahdi Hashi, the British-Somali man who disappeared from east Africa shortly after being stripped of his British citizenship, appeared yesterday in a New York federal court alongside two Swedish men. All three appear to have been rendered by the United States from Djibouti, and have now been charged with terrorism offences. Hashi, 23, is accused of ‘providing material support’ to Somali militant group al Shabaab. A statement released by the FBI revealed that Hashi has been in the US penal system since November 12. Neither his family nor his UK legal team were informed.

Most radio stations in Somalia have stopped playing music, on the orders of Islamist Hizbul-Islam militia, who say that songs are un-Islamic.

Some people like to claim that Somalia is an example of libertarian ideals at work in the real world. They have no government, supposedly, but this sounds a helluva lot like government to me.

Swiss prostitutes are being trained to use defibrillators to prevent clients with heart problems from dying on them, it has emerged.

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US ~ http://youtube.com/TheAlyonaShow - OBAMA TORTURING AMERICAN SOLDIERS WITH PERSONALITY DISORDER - Large numbers of soldiers have been wrongly discharged with personality disorder, meaning they're no longer able to receive medical care and forced to give back a slice of their signing bonus. But the big question is whether these discharges are valid, or just a way for the Pentagon to save billions of dollars.