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Just when you thought he was breaking new ground figuring out ways to secretly drone people and how to spend more on weapons and such, we learn he wants to get into our minds.
Hide the kids, get in the storm cellar.
Yes, suicide is a very serious problem, but can we really trust this guy's motives? Seems it's a plan to say that a decade plus of war isn't to blame - that non-military people kill themselves too. sorry, but I just don't trust the guy...
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WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Friday promised a new focus on suicide prevention by military leaders, not just to benefit troops and veterans but also the country as a whole.
My long-term goal is for the Department of Defense to be a game-changing innovator in this field, he said during remarks at an annual interagency suicide prevention conference. Just as we helped foster the jet age, the space race and the Internet, I want us to break new ground in understanding the human mind.
Panetta was the third Cabinet official to speak at the three-day conference, designed to bring the nations top mental health experts together to discuss research and solutions to the growing problem of military and veterans suicides.
But officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon framed the problem not simply as an outgrowth from a decade of war but also as a serious national mental health crisis.
http://www.stripes.com/news/panetta-suicide-problem-goes-far-beyond-combat-veterans-1.181079
MADem
(135,425 posts)Certainly war has played a role, anyone suggesting otherwise isn't dealing in the real world. However, in the past, even in peacetime, the Services have gone through spates and clusters of suicides--are they random? Were they caused by any changes in training, selection, other criteria?
The more research the better, IMO.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)it started over ten years ago.
Here an article on suicide in san diego in general
http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/8862
and an ok article on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Suicide_Prevention_Lifeline
There is also quite a bit of academic work, and you should know the VA is actually seen as a model and early adopter.
patrice
(47,992 posts)Occupation of an INNOCENT nation known as Iraq . . . it would almost be funny.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Problem solved.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)Hmm?
gsosbee
(15 posts)Drones symbloize the immediate threat to humanity.
Pls see report on democracy & mankind, followed by my reports in the links below.Thanks.
"means of information war threaten democracy and mankind "
http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v194/
For many persons social media saves the day as a gap filler for lazy/incompetent/fearful mainstream media moguls.Evidence that media covers up police state, usa.
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/node/68776
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/noticetomedia.html
Serve your country in war, return home & serve again; then be treated as an insane experimental dog for speaking out against fbi/cia atrocities:
CJS, fbi , Police, Mil Intel, UT Chancellor GONE MAD!
UT police create fraudulent 'BOLO' against ME to cover up crimes by UT police & fbi:
http://antwerpen.indymedia.org/node/5389
http://pt.indymedia.org/conteudo/newswire/8102
http://italy.indymedia.org/n/6972/05-07-12/evidence-police-state
http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/profiles/blogs/evidence-of-police-state?xg_source=activity
Police Thugs to Me:
http://forums.leoaffairs.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=114579&start=15