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Mass psychosis in the US. Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux. Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses - primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder. Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics.

Not just for psychotics anymore Cost benefit analysis Making patients worse. JUDAISM. CAMERA: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in Ameri. United with Israel. Israel and Zionism Maps. MEMRI - The Middle East Media Research Institute. Prophet of Doom - Islam's Terrorist Dogma in Muhammad's Own Words. French Mideast envoy fired for opposing Palestinian UN bid. Caroline Glick: A prayer for 5771 « 3rd Circle. I’m a big fan of Caroline Glick. So much so that if I was president, I would ask Ms. Glick to be my national security adviser. In my opinion, her understanding of national and political Israel is unmatched in its strategic clarity and moral coherence. But Caroline is also an American and I believe she understands our country in ways that many in our own leadership do not.

Ms. In the essay below, I believe she has identified a profound truth that can help us understand some of the deepest currents that are flowing in this time. RJ Jonas Original article at On August 28, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck confounded his colleagues in the media when he brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC for a rally he called “Restoring Honor.” While former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker, the rally was decidedly apolitical. The crowd was enthusiastic but not rowdy. European Anti-Semitism versus Measuring European Anti-Semitism « The Prince and The Little Prince. Anti-Semitism in Europe is a given — but the ways of measuring it are not. The most recent survey of anti-Semitism in Europe by the Anti-Defamation League does not properly assess anti-Semitism.

The magnitude of anti-Semitism in Europe is alarming, according to the survey, and the magnitude of anti-Semitism in Europe is no doubt alarming — but not because the survey accurately measured it. The survey covered Austria, France, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Respondents were asked whether or not they thought the following four statements were “probably true” or “probably false.” 1) Jews are more loyal to Israel than to this country. 2) Jews have too much power in the business world. 3) Jews have too much power in international financial markets. 4) Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust. Respondents were also asked whether they agree or disagree with the statement that “Jews are responsible for the death of Christ.” 1. 2. 3.

Like this: More Effort to Harass Israel on the World Stage « A Modern Perspective. From the WSJ: “Israel is believed to be the only Middle East country to possess atomic weapons. Its government neither confirms nor denies their existence.” Israel has allegedly maintained nuclear weapons for almost 4 decades. Had they wanted to use them for aggressive and hostile purposes or posturing, the world would have seen that already. Unlike Iran, and every other Middle Eastern country, Israel does not parade its long range missiles down its main city streets, nor do its government leaders loudly preach utter annihilation and destruction to its enemies. Instead this society produces more Nobel Laureates, technological advancements, and medical breakthroughs per capita than any other nation on earth.

Israel’s silent and secret nuclear program is to ensure that Jews will not face another attempted genocide or holocaust this century. Like this: Like Loading... Jewish State vs Jewish Homeland « The Third Way: Finding Balance In Mideast Analysis. In my recent piece on the Israeli demand to be recognized “as a Jewish state,” I made the point that there is no clear definition of what it means t be a Jewish state. There is no consensus in Israel as to what this means; indeed, this has been a question that has vexed Jews both in Israel and the Diaspora since the birth of the Zionist movement. That put me in mind of a question a good friend asked me some time ago. Knowing that I am a strong believer in a two-state solution, he asked me whether I believed it was possible for Israel to be both Jewish and democratic.

Whatever its character, Israel will always be home to both Jews and Arabs My answer was yes, but not until the term “Jewish state” is defined more clearly and very differently than I perceive it to be used in common parlance today. The issue of Israel’s identity is one that can only be resolved by Israelis, of course (I note: Israelis, which means all citizens of the state, Jewish or not).

I wrote to my friend the following: CIA :=) Egyptians Celebrate Pictures. Loyalists enter Niger but no sign of Qaddafi. Updated at 3:38 p.m. ET TARHOUNA, Libya - Armed loyalists of Muammar Qaddafi, including his security chief, fled into neighboring Niger in multiple convoys across hundreds of miles of desert on Tuesday.

Libya's former rebels — now the country's de facto rulers — claimed the convoys were a major flight by Qaddafi's most hardcore backers from his final strongholds. The claims could not immediately be confirmed. Information on the size of the convoys and who was in them was scarce as they made their way across the vast swath of Sahara — over 1,000 miles — between any populated areas on the two sides of the border. But as the first group of a dozen vehicles pulled into Niger's capital Niamey on Tuesday, a customs official confirmed that it included Mansour Dao, Qaddafi's security chief and a key member of his inner circle, as well as around 12 other Qaddafi regime officials.

Three major cities remain under Qaddafi's sway — Bani Walid, Sirte and Sabha. U.S. . © 2011 CBS Interactive Inc. Libyan spy files document Qaddafi regime's fall. This Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011 photo shows an ransacked desk in Muammar Qaddafi's intelligence headquarters in Tripoli, Libya. Hundreds intelligence documents seen by The Associated Press in Tripoli show how Qaddafi's authoritarian regime using all its means failed to quash an armed rebellion largely fueled by hatred of its tools of control. AP Photo/Ben Hubbard TRIPOLI, Libya - As the uprising grew against Muammar Qaddafi, secret reports from his vaunted intelligence service flowed back to Tripoli.

Some were mundane — how agents erased anti-regime graffiti. The reports grew more desperate as the Libyan rebellion veered into civil war: Military leaders in the western mountains were disregarding orders; troops in the city of Misrata ran out of ammunition, turning the situation into "every man for himself. " These reports and hundreds of other intelligence documents seen by The Associated Press in Tripoli trace how the tide shifted in the six-month uprising that ended Qaddafi's 42-year reign. Afghanistan. About Yad Vashem.

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