Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsJune was worst month for Army suicides, statistics showclipped by: havetwocatsclippers remarks: The story speaks for itself. June was worst month for Army suicides, statistics showWashington (CNN) -- More U.S. soldiers killed themselves last month than in recent Army history, according to Army statistics released Thursday, confounding officials trying to reverse the grim trend. The statistics show that 32 soldiers killed themselves in June, the highest number in a single month since the Vietnam era. Twenty-one of them were on active duty, while 11 were in the National Guard or Army Reserve in an inactive status. Seven of those soldiers killed themselves while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Army numbers. American Psychosisclipped by: lifecyce1898clippers remarks: "When a culture lives within an illusion it perpetuates a state of permanent infantilism or childishness." "The decline of American empire began long before the current economic meltdown or the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It began before the first Gulf War or Ronald Reagan. It began when we shifted, in the words of Harvard historian Charles Maier, from an ?empire of production? to an ?empire of consumption.? By the end of the Vietnam War, when the costs of the war ate away at Lyndon Johnson?s Great Society and domestic oil production began its steady, inexorable decline, we saw our country transformed from one that primarily produced to one that primarily consumed. "  The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble. This celebrity culture giddily licenses a dark voyeurism into other people?s humiliation, pain, weakness and betrayal. Day after day, one lurid saga after another, whether it is Michael Jackson, Britney Spears or John Edwards, enthralls the country ? despite bank collapses, wars, mounting poverty or the criminality of its financial class. We have a right, in the cult of the self, to get whatever we desire. We can do anything, even belittle and destroy those around us, including our friends, to make money, to be happy and to become famous. Hair -The Musicalclipped by: wiganfootie Award-winning Broadway show Hair is the first hit musical to appear at a UK festival. The 2009 remake of the production is currently being shown in Londons West End, but the cast will perform a 30-minute extract at the Latitude festival in Suffolk on Sunday. The musical is about long-haired hippies living in New York in the 1960s, who get naked, take drugs and protest against the Vietnam War. "When you see it, you realise the world is still trying to achieve the same things it was then," says Gavin Creel, who plays the shows main character Claude. [Video] Thailand uses wasps to kill bugsclipped by: hotdoge3Thailand uses wasps to kill bugs Thailand will deploy a 250,000-strong army of wasps in the northeast of the country in a bid to get rid of bugs that have been nibbling away at its cassava crops. Originally from South America, the mealybug feeds only on cassava and in 2009 destroyed 20% of Thailands cassava. The pest has also chomped its way into Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam. Rod Lefroy, an agricultural scientist with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, said Thailand has raised a special army of wasps which are known to be particularly effective in wiping out the mealybug. Researchers have tested the wasp on insects native to Thailand to see if it upsets the natural ecology, and so far, the insect appears to feed only on the mealybug, Lefroy says. Starch is also extracted for use in a wide variety of food and other products. Thailands cassava makes up more than 60% of global exports of this root crop and generate more than $1.4 billion of income for Thai farmers each year. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2010/07/19
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