Psychiatrists and other mental health specialists who are revising the industry’s main mental health manual are poises to reclassify additions in a way that will result in millions more people being labeled as addicts, according to a New York Times report released today.
The revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (D.S.M.) expands recognized symptoms for drug and alcohol addition and reduces the required number of symptoms for a diagnosis. In addition, gambling would be considered an addiction for the first time. Continue reading →
Pro-life activists are refocusing their battle to stop abortion in the United States by concentrating on the state level rather than the national level.
In 2011, more than 92 pieces of legislation designed to protect life were passed on the state level. Different kinds of pro-life laws are being considered in more than two dozen states.
The president of the Susan B. Anthony List says there is a lot of pro-life support at the state level. She attributes the momentum to many factors that started with Roe v. Wade. Continue reading →
Russia’s secret service agency has foiled a plot by terrorists to attack the city of Sochi, host of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
The FSB discovered ten stockpiles of guns and ammunition last week in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia. The raid discovered portable surface-to-air missiles, grenade launches, flame throwers, grenades & explosives and rifles.
The attacks are believed to be masterminded by Doku Umarov, a Chechnen rebel leader who has arranged delivery of weapons and ammunition to Abkhazia.
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Five Al Qaeda members were killed in an airstrike overnight in southern Yemen. Continue reading →
US Intelligence officials have reported the stopping of a new “underwear bomb” plot by Al Qaeda’s Yemeni operatives similar to the failed 2009 Christmas Day plot.
The FBI is studying the bomb, allegedly an upgraded version of the underwear bomb used in 2009, after being seized in an unnamed middle eastern country. The plot was broken up in the early stages between the making of the bomb and before the public was put at any risk. Continue reading →
A space weather scientist in England is reporting that a “solar storm” is likely to happen soon which could send cities into darkness as it destroys power grids and other electronic devices.
Mike Hapgood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford, England has published a piece in the science journal Nature that says the world is not prepared for a truly damaging solar storm. Continue reading →
South Korean officials have seized nearly 17,500 capsules of drugs from Chinese manufacturers that contain the powdered remains of aborted babies.
The pills, believed by some parts of their culture to be a “tonic” for disease, actually contained what the Korea Customs Service said is a “super bacteria” that is dangerous to humans. Continue reading →
A French scientist has been sentenced to five years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks with the help of Al Qaeda.
Adlene Hicheur exchanged e-mails with an alleged Al Qaeda operative suggesting he was willing to be part of an “active terrorist unit” with the goal of destroying French targets. Continue reading →
Egyptian troops injured eight protesters outside the Egyptian Defense Ministry’s building on Friday. Continue reading →
A teenage suicide bomber struck at a government check post killed 19 people including two government officials. Hospital officials reported the attack resulted in 57 wounded.
The Taliban said the two officials had been targeted in retaliation for the death of an Al Qaeda commander in 2011. Continue reading →
