Army: 182
Marine Corps: 48
Air Force: 59
Navy: 60
Marine Corps: 48
Air Force: 59
Navy: 60
A rundown of the record-high number of military suicides in 2012. (via motherjones)
January 15th, 2013
November 28th, 2012
August 2nd, 2012
U.S. Drought 2012: Half Of Nation's Counties Now Considered Disaster Areas
URGENT: THE US DROUGHT IS WORSENING. “The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s addition of the 218 counties means that more than half of all U.S. counties – 1,584 in 32 states – have been designated primary disaster areas this growing season, the vast majority of them mired in a drought that’s considered the worst in decades.” In addition to the corn failure 35% of soy beans are rated as poor or very poor, over 80% of hay is similarly effected, and 75% of cattle grazing land is failing.
May 29th, 2012
30 years ago, efforts began to save the California condor, an iconic species on the brink of extinction. Since then, a lot of progress has been made, and the last count revealed 405 known California condors. The population is split between 179 individuals living in zoos, and 226 living in the wild. But while the progress that has been made so far is encouraging, it’s too early to say that the California condor has been saved.
Key among issues are lead poisoning caused by condors eating animals, or gut piles from animals, shot with lead ammunition.
(via California Condor Population Rebounds to 405 After Near Extinction : TreeHugger)
May 25th, 2012
Most armed country in the world: The U.S. has 90 guns per 100 people
Are U.S. gun rights being trampled? No.
March 1st, 2012
Lower tuition fees helped cities bag a spot in the top ten, as Paris, Vienna, Zurich and Berlin all averaged under $1,000 per year, compared to $30,000 in the United States.
February 20th, 2012
Birth Control.
(Source: tonybaldwin, via shannonloveslove)
February 17th, 2012
Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.
Huey P Newton (via warriorsrise)
(via shannonloveslove)
February 16th, 2012
If money is speech, poverty is silence.
OWS (via d-roth)
(via shannonloveslove)
December 19th, 2011
Study: Income Inequality In America May Be Worse Than It Was In Ancient Rome
By Travis Waldron on Dec 19, 2011 at 1:50 pm
The 99 Percent Movement effectively changed the American political debate from debt and deficits to income inequality, highlighting the fact that income inequality has increased so much in the U.S. that it is now more unequal than countries like Ivory Coast and Pakistan. While those numbers are startling, a study from two historians suggests that American income inequality may actually be worse than it was in Ancient Rome — a society built on slave labor, a defined class structure, and centuries of warfare and conquest.
In the United States, the top 1 percent controls roughly 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. According to the study, which examined Roman ledgers, previous estimates, imperial edicts, and Biblical passages, Rome’s top 1 percent controlled less than half that at the height of its economic power, as Tim De Chant notes at Per Square Mile:
Their target was the state of the economy when the empire was at its population zenith, around 150 C.E. Schiedel and Friesen estimate that the top 1 percent of Roman society controlled 16 percent of the wealth, less than half of what America’s top 1 percent control.
Of course, the millions of Romans at the bottom of the empire’s class structure — the conquered and enslaved, the poorest Romans, and the women who had little civic or economic empowerment — would probably disagree with the study’s conclusion. Still, it serves as yet another highlight of how large the income gap in the United States has become over the last three decades.
