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► LIVE SCIENCE 21 October 2013
■ Breast Milk Bought Online May Have High Levels of Bacteria
■ Is Playing a Musical Instrument Good for Your Health?
■ New Hair Loss Treatment: Follicle Method Shows Promise
■ 6 Myths About Girls and Science
■ Astronaut Uses Single Hair To Show Newton's Laws | Video
► NY POST 17 October 2013 : Gal finds success as a male model
► LA CONFIDENTIAL 21 October 2013 : Anne Hathaway Hosts Elyse Walker 9th Annual Pink Party
► ABC NEWS 20 October 2013 : NJ Governor Ends Gay Marriage Fight as Couples Wed
► GUARDIAN 21 October 2013
■ Student pleads guilty to attacks on Midlands mosques
■ Snowden leaks: France summons US envoy over NSA surveillance claims
► WISEBREAD 21 October 2013 : The Happiness Habits: 7 Ways to Feel Better Now
► NY TIMES
■ 21 October 2013 : Ruling on Katyn Killings Highlights Russia-Poland Rift
■ 20 October 2013 : China's Arms Industry Makes Global Inroads
► USA TODAY 25 September 2013 : U.S. signs treaty to regulate global arms trading
► DAILY KOS 21 October 2013 : The HealthCare.gov fiasco
► SLATE 21October 2013 : How Annie’s Homegrown exploded in size without destroying its wholesome, grassroots image.
► NASA :Earth from Juno
► SPACE 21 OCtober 2013 : Space History Photo: Airlock Testing
► CNN 21 October 2013
■ CNN Poll: 75% say most Republicans in Congress don't deserve re-election
► MARKET WATCH 21 October 2013 : White House aide hints at no fines for individuals
► ENTERTAINMENT : Fall Documentary Series: Life According to Sam (HBO Documentary Films). Published on Oct 18, 2013 by HBODocs
► Obama promises fix for healthcare websites. 'Frustrated' Obama promises fix for malfunctioning healthcare website
By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama sought to limit political damage from the problematic launch of the government website for his signature healthcare law.
* Ohio panel OK's Medicaid expansion in win for Obamacare
* Video: Obama acknowledges problems with healthcare website
* Despite budget win, Obama has weak hand with Congress
► Dollar edges up, gets some relief ahead of U.S. jobs data
► U.S. drone strikes killed Pakistani grandmother, laborers: Amnesty
► Yahoo tried to slow Microsoft search rollout: filing
* Yahoo sought to 'pause' search rollout with Microsoft
* Gory videos OK when posted for users to 'condemn': Facebook
40% of all global corruption related to the arms trade. Corruption and greed to boost the sale of weapons. Arms trade transactions conducted at all times and on every continent, both official and illegal. Escalation and preservation of armed conflict, civil war, guerrilla-terror, and the spiral of violence also turned on by the production, transfer, distribution of arms and ammunition. Weapons seem to be synchronized with other commodities in the global and national markets. Circulation of weapons sometimes pegged as fair bilateral trade relations.
Arms embargo against the country's conflict-ridden country is only a deal on paper. Why Congo can bring in weapons that killed 4 million people? Why France supplying weapons to Guinea who commit murder civilians? Why Chinese grenades and guns found in Darfur - Sudan?
In 2011, the German government allowed sales of 200 units of Leopard 2 tanks to Saudi Arabia. Protests from opposition groups, activists, the media, religious institutions, and social - humanitarian ignored.
Spiegel Online wrote, "Merkel, Money, and Morals". Angela Merkel dodging the fight in front by selling the weapons. This is a cunning political dictum and irresponsible. Then the German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle rationalized it as," Germany is not able to resolve all conflicts around the world."
But Germany exported its war equipment to all over the world. War equipment made in Germany are always sought after by many countries. Germany ranks as the world's third largest arms supplier. Western countries which is said to appear as a fighter for democracy and the protection of human dignity and the dignity, turns out to have a double moral. But the weapons industry investment as profitable land continues to be developed. On average, each year allocated $ 60 billion for weapons. The biggest arms fairs like Milipol-Paris is always crowded.
In 2011, through the transnational arms trafficking, the United States made profits of U.S. $ 1.74 trillion dollars and Germany reached 10.8 billion euros. Then the people were manipulated and tamed with gifts named the electoral democracy accessories.
Arms-exporting countries more implementing the principles of business and profits than morals and responsibility. Consequences of this ridiculous principle is very brutal-barbaric.
Across the world there are about 700 million guns and 14 billion rounds of ammunition. Internationally, every single second of life is spent with a weapons. This means, the weapons prey 500,000 people/year.
Trade weapons as the dark side of immoral globalization is none other than the great business of death. Export-import of weapons should be questioned and deconstructed. Why are the weapons exported and imported? The reason must be checked critically.
Ethical values, humanities ideals and general welfare (bonum commune) should never be moved by the urgency of national prestige and business fields of defense and security. Tragically, proliferation, traffic buying and selling guns always prioritize the objective rationality (Zweckrationalitaet), simultaneously eliminating the rationality value (Wertrationalitaet). Eisenhower regretted such a political complexion, as well as inviting us to contemplate, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, meaning a theft from those who hunger, cold and have no clothes."
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► France to summon US ambassador 'immediately' over spy claims || ► US seeks to ease concerns over spying claims
► Two years after Kadhafi's death, militias haunt Libya
► Obama acknowledges healthcare website glitches
► Two dead, two injured in US school shooting
What's so special with two people dead in this world, hm? It's been so many children in the world die due to famine, war, or a deadly disease. If the I die today, then there are at least three people died today (and one person does not need to be preached is me), but we have to admit that the U.S. is indeed a jerk in handling its gun ownership law. That's it.
► Raw: Deadly School Shooting in Nevada
► Raw: Russian Bus Blast Caught on Dashcam. Dashcam video captured the moment a female suicide bomber blew herself up on board a city bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd killing six and injuring about 30 people.
► NEWS
■ U.S. tries to calm Saudi anger over Syria, Iran
■ Netanyahu's mission: to head off Iran sanctions relief
■ Egypt's Christians stunned after church shooting
■ List of angry allies grows over NSA spying; report reveals NSA sweep of French communications
■ Hamas says it's responsible for tunnel under Gaza-Israel border
■ France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report
■ Europe warns Ukraine time running out for Tymoshenko solution
■ Russia condemned over probe into Katyn massacre of Poles in 1940
■ 70.3M records, 30 days: NSA report draws Paris ire
■ What if Kennedy lived?
■ Dick Cheney defends the tea party: 'These are Americans'
People often give advice, "Just be yourself". It sounds easy, but how? Well, it is hard. Robert Kelsey, author of What's Stopping You Being More Confident? revealed that accepting ourselves is the first step how we can be ourselves. Not only that, there are six other steps should to be tried :1. Accept ourselves as we are [There are people who take years to find advantages in themselves, some are trying to continue and focus so that they can more quickly find advantages in themselves.]
2. Do not complain [Unpopular while in school? Ignore it. Do not pay attention or complaining about the unimportant things. Better to give ourself a chance to grow and define our own restrictions. We in the past will not be the same as we at 15 or 35 years later. So learn from mistakes and keep getting better step.]
3. Stop torturing ourselves [Comparing ourselves to others is the same as torturing ourselves. Stop it and see the advantages in us. What are the advantages for others may not be suitable for us. Let us be ourselves, and you become your own self as well. There is no point to envious or jealous of what others have. Being honest will give a positive effect on personality, and that's important.]
4. We will not be able to please everyone [It should be noted that we will not be able to make everyone happy with us, and of course there are one or two who hate us. There are even people who hate the big figures such as Dalai Lama or Aung San Suu Kyi, although they also greatly admired by other people. The important thing is, stop trying to always perform as desired by other people just to make them happy. But be what we are, and let them accept us so. Pretending to be someone else so that we can be accepted is just gets tiring us.]
5. Accept the negative things in ourselves [When there is someone who does not like you, accept it and do not overreact. According to Robert, indeed, in fact there will be one or two people who feel insecure or do not like your presence, but leave it alone, do not take care. Keep focus on improving your capabilities the better.]
6. Provide a special time to find ourselves [This special time can be regarded as "me-time", or time alone with no one else. The goal does not mean having fun alone, but use to find exactly what we want and need. The preoccupation with work, family, and friends, sometimes makes us forget to make time for ourselves.]
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► AUTOS : 10 ugliest cars for sale right now
► US drone strike killings in Pakistan and Yemen 'unlawful'
► Drones kill rescuers in 'double tap', say activists
► French anger over US spying claims
French President Francois Hollande voices "deep disapproval" over claims the US National Security Agency secretly tapped millions of phone calls in France.
* French fury - VIDEO
* Kerry: Protecting citizens 'complex'
► FUTURE
■ Medieval social networks: a small world?
■ Orion: Nasa's $5bn spacecraft in need of a mission
Aw, this is so unfair. You just talk about pastry, but I think all things related to France. Then I wonder why my mind is willing to get busy in the effort to recall everything and then give a name to everything, including a broken pot and cooking utensils that can never ripen a raw teen girl inside me.
► MAGAZINE: Folger Shakespeare Library's collection to go online
O, that infected moisture of his eye,
O, that false fire which in his cheek so glowed,
O, that forced thunder from his heart did fly,
O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestowed,
O, all that borrowed motion seeming owed,
Would yet again betray the fore-betrayed,
And new pervert a reconciled maid!'
(SHAKESPEARE - A Lover's Complaint 325-330)
► Today's African Proverb : "Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens" - Sent by Ami Beckkons, Texas, US
Why? Because the corn will be eaten? Ehehehe ..., all the words are all fun. Chicken. Corn. And a court in between them. Ahahaha, without a court though, usually the chickens like corn, right? One of the chicken feed is corn. And you make a hardship by forcing the chickens to compose the court for a case of asking for justice, with the victim is corn! Ahahaha ....
► US may be guilty of war crimes over drone use – Amnesty Intl
► Volgograd suicide blast was planned for Moscow - Investigative Committee source
► CryptoSeal VPN service opts to close down rather than grant NSA access
► Space cannon ready: Japan to shoot asteroid for samples in 2014 mission
► Putin approved of Navalny's candidacy in Moscow poll – mayor
► OP- ED : 'Sisi regime in Egypt paves the way for another Israeli invasion of Gaza' – Hamas spokesman
► Internal clock that measures aging discovered in DNA
► Russia and India talk direct oil supplies, joint use of GLONASS, nuclear power generators
► Terrorist blast kills 6, injures over 30 in Volgograd, central Russia
► VIDEOS
■ Power is Money: Green energy costs EU taxpayers a bundle, prompts crisis. 'Robin Hood'-like subsidies for Green power are driving the EU towards an energy-crisis, this according to Europe's top utilities firms. The problem, they say, is - billions in hand-outs are killing innovation and competitiveness and the results are there for all to see. Germany, though, has found a way around it. Instead of taxing businesses and factories it puts the entire burden of subsidies on ordinary households. RT's Peter Oliver reports.
■ Plug & Pray: EU's first step towards data protection in wake of Snowden leaks. Brussels is expected to finalize a new set of rules aimed at stopping the transfer of EU data to third countries. It's the first attempt at legislation in reaction to the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden. The measure would make America's secret court orders powerless, forcing companies to comply with European laws. And MI5 agent Annie Machon thinks there's still a lot of room for improvement in protecting privacy.
■ Operation Intimidation: Syrian state media becomes terror target. The date has been set for the long-awaited peace conference on Syria. The Geneva-two talks will start on the 23rd of November. The government of Bashar al Assad has reiterated its willingness to take part, but stressed it won't negotiate with terrorists. This comes after 30 people were killed in a suicide truck bombing at an army checkpoint outside the Syrian city of Hama. The blast set a nearby fuel tanker on fire, causing several more explosions. Despite an army installation being the target, most of the dead were civilians. Earlier, sixteen more people were victims of a blast on the outskirts of Damascus. The capital remains the main objective for opposition fighters who often target civilians. And as RT's Paula Slier reports, they also seem bent on scaring and killing state media journalists.
■ BRICS Shift: Indian PM in Russia to strike economic deals. With Europe and America struggling, the BRICS powerhouses are looking to take up some of the economic slack. The Russian and Indian Presidents are meeting in Moscow, to try and prove that power is shifting to other parts of the world. I discussed this with RT's Irina Galushko.
■ Consumer Burden: German green energy subsidies hurt taxpayers. Britain, at least, wants the best of both worlds - and has just authorized the construction of a new nuclear power plant, the first in a generation. It will be built by a French-led consortium, and according to the plan, will help power the UK's grid for 50 years. More now on the Green vs conventional debate, with Fred Roeder, Director of Young Voices international advocacy group
■ Bus Suicide Bombing: 'Terror attack in Russia's Volgograd a global concern'. Three days of mourning have been declared in the Russian city of Volgograd after a suicide bombing aboard a packed bus. Witnesses described a nightmarish scene of body parts and bloodied survivors left in shock, unable to comprehend what had just happened. RT's Lindsay France is in Volgograd. Also, Alexander Domrin, an expert on international terrorism and a visiting lecturer at several US universities, joins RT studio.
■ 'Will I Be Next?' Pakistan drone survivor evidence prompts calls for US war crime trials. Amnesty international is accusing the US of committing war crimes through its drone program in Pakistan. A report from the Human Rights organization lists recent incidents and says there's an almost complete absence of transparency. The activists have challenged the Obama administration to prove it has thoroughly investigated all cases of unlawful killings. RT's Lucy Kafanov reports. RT also speaks Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for Policy Studies.
■ Volgograd bus blast: Deadly terror attack rocks сentral Russia
■ CrossTalk: Echo chamber
■ 'Night raids, torture, sham trials a daily reality in Bahrain' - human rights activist
► US drone strikes condemned by rights groups
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► E.U. : Europe Pushes Data Rules After NSA Revelations - A new set of privacy laws is moving quickly through European Parliament following fresh allegations from Edward Snowden
► HEALTH CARE : Obamacare: A Work in Progress - President Obama tried to reassure Americans that his health reform promises will be fulfilled, despite website glitches.
* Tech Experts to Fix Health Care Site
► POLITICS : Czech President Gets Giant Purple Middle Finger - It's floating right outside his castle
► RUMORS : A New iPad Is Coming - 10 things to expect at Apple's 2013 event
► 'Catwoman' No. 24 first look: Ann Nocenti talks Joker's Daughter
► OPINION
■ "The public has grown more conservative during the Obama presidency. The catch: It's grown less Republican too."
■ How Obamacare reduces premiums for some without subsidies
■ Bad childcare in this country? Guilty as charged
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