Social Issues

Since the start of the year, a tiny village in central India has seen an unprecedented eighty suicides While locals have blamed blame it on demon spirits, some researchers say that pesticides could be behind widespread depression. In a bizarre combination of financial distress, superstition and clinical depression, Khargone, has reported 381suicides in the past year. The continuing ‘depression’ forced the village to declare a state of emergency in early April.  It was reported that the youngest resident who tried to attempt suicide was just 11 years old.

Pro-refugee protestors are rallying at the Brenner Pass on the Austrian-Italian border.

As RT reports, the activits oppose the Austrian Governments decision to increase controls at its border with Italy, and are demanding that refugees are allowed to enter the country.

Police at the Brenner Pass. They say 400 anarchists & extreme left plan to protest Austrian plans to close border pic.twitter.com/PVRjYK3oMA

— Bethany Bell (@BethanyBellBB) May 7, 2016

London has voted for a new mayor in the form of Sadiq Khan. He is the first London mayor with Muslim and Asian heritage and he won 57% of over 1.3 million votes. Some people are curious to know if the non-white, non-Christian new mayor of London is also non-homophobic. The Gay UK reports: Sadiq Khan is the MP for Tooting in London.

Ireland is fighting back against injuries caused by the HPV vaccine and Big Pharma control over its public health services. R.E.G.R.E.T. is a support group  that was set up by parents of Irish teenage girls who developed serious health problems after receiving HPV vaccines (Gardasil) at secondary school. The vaccine has been offered to teenage girls in Ireland since May 2010 as part of the schools vaccination programme and is recommended by the World Health Organsiation.

I just got a phone call from an old friend in north Texas. She does a lot of work with law enforcement, especially in the area of domestic violence counseling and response. I hope she will not mind me saying, but she’s a tough Texas chick. She called to tell me what she and her teenage son dealt with last night at the movies in Frisco, a prosperous suburb of Dallas.

“I thought I knew what was going on in this country,” she said. “I was wrong.”