💐 🇺🇸 US suicides hit an all-time high last year

About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which posted the numbers, has not yet calculated a suicide rate for the year, but available data suggests suicides are more common in the U.S. than at any time since the dawn of World War II.

https://apnews.com/article/suicides-record-2022-guns-48511d74deb24d933e66cec1b6f2d545

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This is our first post in a series where we'll be describing the process and providing information towards the gunlaws of all of the /SCI/ nations as well as a guide on the process towards how to adquire the necessary license (or licenses) to take the first step in preparedness and arming yourself.

We shall begin with the country admin is most familiar with their gunlaws, Argentina 🇦🇷 and next Paraguay 🇵🇾, we'll be expanding later on to cover the other Southern Cone nations and maybe even some other nations beyond those.

The format in which we'll do it is first giving a short introduction followed by describing the number of licenses generally available in the country for most people, the weapons which those license allow you to own, any restrictions on their storage, transport and (most importantly to your self defense) carry, we'll also mention normally how much self defense is worth as a legal defense.

Here is //ARGENTINA//
https://telegra.ph/Gunlaws-in-Argentina-08-17

🇿🇼 Political Succession and Intra-Party Divisions: Examining the Potential for Violence in Zimbabwe’s 2023 Elections

https://acleddata.com/2023/08/17/political-succession-and-intra-party-divisions-examining-the-potential-for-violence-in-zimbabwes-2023-elections/

⚡🇪🇬🇸🇩 1 Million Sudanese people have entered Egypt for safety and refugee since the start of the conflict.

This doesn't include the preexisting 5 million.

That adds up to 6 million Sudanese people, where at least 4 of them came here for asylum.

Add in the millions of Palestinians, Syrians, Libyans, Africans, and we're going on a count of over 12 million Middle Eastern/African nationals here, Europe doesn't have more than 9 million refugees across all of the continent, and they can't even integrate them.

I want to think best of my country, but that's simply too much mouths to feed, and over 120 million people live on land the size of Benelux, I think that the Egyptian government may threaten Europe the same way Libya threatened them.

Libya was guaranteed free food shipments from Italy, investments, money, etc, for keeping people at bay from trying to seek illegal residency in Europe, Egypt may try to do the same, already, Europe is dumping tens of millions of Euros to Egypt in establishing food aid and border security, but maybe that's not enough.. if billions of euros can't keep out hundreds of thousands a month, how are 23 million euros going to ensure that a few million stay here?

By the way, about the Sudanese who've come here since the start of the conflict, to the best of my knowledge, that's 5,000 people going to Cairo every day, and we can't close down the border for humanitarian reasons.

@themediterraneanman

Atlas shrugged

💬 Illinois city distributes more than $1 million in reparations payouts

The small Illinois city that became the first in the United States to guarantee funding for reparations to black residents announced Wednesday it has passed the $1 million mark. 

📌 Washington Examiner

✅ New Right News

Greg Johnson announces the formation of a new public policy research institute: the Homeland Institute.

https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/introducing-the-homeland-institute/

🇪🇨 Since 2022, incidents of violence targeting politicians and government officials in Ecuador have been mainly concentrated in the coastal provinces of Esmeraldas, Guayas, and Manabí, which are home to strategic locations along key drug trafficking routes.

📎 ACLED