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The Biggest News Stories Nobody Is Talking About

The rise in suicide rates among active military members.  This is related to the ridiculous number of soldiers returning home with post traumatic stress disorder and not receiving the medical and mental health care they need and deserve.  We're so worried about mental health as an excuse for gun deaths, but we don't care about it for the men and women who have seen more killing and done more than anyone in our country.

After the Boston bombing, I started reading a ton of  "terrorist plot foiled" articles and found something deeply concerning. Most of these plots, weren't terrorists at all, but the FBI fabricating evidence or stories to make regular cases seem uber-important.  Shouldn't this concern us greatly and be reported?

Probably one of the biggest science stories a few years back was the connection of Autism to vaccinations. The story took hold when John McCain, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey started doing a tour stating this as fact. Somehow this odd trio started this facade, with no empirical data and it stuck.  Today, people still believe this, although most researchers have shown no link.  So why the media outcry when celebrities said it, but not media outcry when it's debunked?  We might also want to look into the 17-year-old who may have found a cure for cancer.

The most noted scientist in the country who debunked climate change was given millions of dollars by the Koch brothers to research the theory and come to a conclusion that it was a hoax and basically throw out every shred of evidence found by Al Gore's team.  Only one problem, he came to the conclusion that it was not a hoax and was very real and much worse than originally believed.  This report and change of belief got absolutely no  airplay.  Not only that, but the Koch brothers joined with Exxon Mobil to run numerous ads continuing their belief, even after their initial belief that Dr. Mullins was "the authority" on climate change.

And finally, maybe this isn't a huge story, because it's just more of the same, but over 4400 people have been killed by gunshot in this country since Newtown.  This puts us on pace for another year of 10,000 or more people dying from gunshots.  The real story isn't the guns anymore, it's the reality that this awful massacre and all the other mass shootings that have followed haven't made us recognize anything.  Absolutely nothing has changed and we're no safer than we were.  We are the only country in the world who doesn't seem to learn from our mistakes and tragedies and maybe that is the real story.

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