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► Your emotional side needs some work today, so make sure that you're giving yourself the time and space you need to deal with whatever has been bugging you. It's easier than you'd think! Someone with a critical eye isn't going to be shy about dishing their criticisms of you today, but you need to try to not get defensive about it! Hear them out -- there is value in what they have to say. Your reputation is your top concern right now, so if they have some ideas on how to improve it, you need to hear it. Feelings don't matter when real knowledge is out there to be had. You cannot sacrifice such valuable insight just for the sake of your slightly sensitive ego.
► MEDICAL N EWS TODAY 31 October 2013 : Walking speed may indicate severity of MS
► VARIETY 7 November 2013 : 'The X Factor' Screws Up Live Vote, Contestants to Sing Again
► ABC NEWS 5 November 2013 : Couple Celebrates With Killer Wedding Cake
► DAILY NEWS 6 November 2013 : Paul Simon, Sting announce U.S. dates of 'On Stage Together' concerts
► ISRAEL HERALD 7 November 2013 : Israel convicts Islamic leader for inciting riots || ► NEW KERALA 7 November 2013 : Israel convicts Islamic leader for inciting riots
► GUARDIAN
■ 8 November 2013 : NSA leaks: UK's enemies are 'rubbing their hands with glee', says MI6 chief
■ 7 November 2013 : Syria crisis: Saudi Arabia to spend millions to train new rebel force
■ 7 November 2013 : Russell Brand row: Nick Clegg criticises Jeremy Paxman's 'sneering'
► SLASH DOT 7 Noevember 2013 : Scientists Says Jellyfish Are Taking Over the Oceans
► Dublin's People: Canon 7d 24p
[Many idiots in this world with the smoke in their mouth. The world is running out and polluting. With dwindling food supplies in the world -- for a moment -- I highly approve a crazy idea if cigarette manufacturers and smokers should be wiped off this earth such as cigarette butts when they are turned off. Tobacco companies are the destroyers of the environment healthy, but they still reap the earth assets to be consumed by those foolish.
Dahling, I want them to classify smoking cigarettes as a violation of human rights.
- Signed : CZ]
► Look At Me
► Sofia's People [Stop smoking cigarettes, stupid!]
► Wizard Smoke
► Snowden urged NSA staff to give up passwords - By Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel
WASHINGTON - Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said.
* UK spy chiefs emerge from shadows to blast Edward Snowden
* Germans see Snowden as hero but don't favor asylum: poll
* Germany wants Snowden to give evidence in Moscow, not Berlin
* U.S. officials offer few concessions on NSA spying to privacy board
► Super typhoon Haiyan slams into Philippines, at least three dead
MANILA - The strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land battered the Philippines on Friday, forcing more than a million people to flee, cutting power lines and blowing apart houses.
► Israel rejects mooted interim Iran nuclear deal, Kerry heads to talks
► The U.S. economy in charts
Today's GDP numbers were a mixed bag, with strong inventory growth but signs that U.S. consumer spending stalled.
* Planned layoffs jump
► US and Cameroon authors win top French literary prize
► Russia launches Sochi Olympic torch into space
► Kadhafi's jailed son appears on Libya TV
► Ex-Israel PM Sharon aide says Israel stayed out of Arafat death || ► PLO official urges global probe into Arafat 'killing'
► Marvel announces comic with new Muslim superhero. Marvel Comics introduce a new superhero, 16-year-old Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager living in Jersey City, New Jersey. The character's story will launch early next year.
► Astronauts take Olympic torch into space ahead of Sochi
► Raw: Time-lapse of Soyuz Rocket Before Launch
► Widow: Arafat's Death 'Crime of the Century'
► Typhoon Haiyan Blasts the Philippines
► NEWS
■ Syrian army breaks rebel hold on southern Damascus suburbs
■ Kurds protest against wall along Turkey's border with Syria
■ Failure of peace talks may ignite third intifada: Kerry
■ UK spymasters say Al-Qaeda 'lapping up' Snowden leaks
■ UK spy bosses: Al-Qaida is loving Snowden leaks
■ Olympic torch blasts into space for 1st spacewalk
■ X-ray Space Telescope of the Future Could Launch in 2028
■ Kerry to join Iran nuclear talks amid hopes of deal
■ Kerry warns Israel of troubles ahead if peace talks fail
■ EU official says French foreign minister joining Kerry at Geneva nuke talks: Israel critical
■ Proposed Iran deal would be 'historic' error: Israel
■ U.S. budget talks hit snag, Republican senator says
■ Evangelist Billy Graham feted by hundreds at 95th birthday party
■ President Obama says he’s sorry for Americans losing insurance plans
■ On-The-Run Terror Suspect In 'Torture' Claim
■ Who did it? Yasser Arafat was probably poisoned, scientists say; Israel denies involvement
■ Taliban plan wave of revenge attacks in Pakistan
■ DR Congo's M23 rebels surrender to Uganda
■ Inspectors: 1 Syrian chemical site was abandoned
■ No Proof That Cosmic Rays Cause Global Warming, Study Says
■ Six-tailed asteroid stuns scientists
■ Bizarre Asteroid with Six Tails Spotted by Hubble Telescope (Photos)
■ Too fat to fly: French family stranded in US
■ Year's strongest typhoon blasts Philippines
■ Toddler Dressed Up as Tiger Makes Friends With Tiger Cub
► TV : Pamela to Ellen: 'I stole your haircut'
► SHINE
■ Believe It: Mayonnaise is the Secret to a Better Cake
■ Extra, Extra! Kate Middleton Has Gray Hair, Too
► GOOD MORNING AMERICA : 5 Foods That Could Become Illegal With FDA Move to Ban Trans Fats
► GRIND TV : Amazing wildlife video shows crocodile taking down a warthog
► HOMES : Awesome Aquariums: 4 Cool Modern Fish Tank Designs
► FINANCE : Mark Zuckerberg's Sister: Get Off Facebook!
► TRAVEL : Top 10 cities in the world
► FUTURE
■ Can games create an education fit for the future?
■ Preventative genetics: The ultimate way to halt disease
► CULTURE : Finding Shakespeare in Thor: The Dark World
► MAGAZINE
■ Tut Tut - Which would you rather visit - a fake tomb or a real one?
■ Question of hate - How anti-Semitic is Germany 75 years after Kristallnacht?
► Anti-Semitism 'on rise in Europe'
A survey of Jewish people in Europe says anti-Semitism is increasing, particularly on the internet, an EU agency finds.
* Attacks on rise in Germany
* Chief rabbi fears anti-semitism
► Today's African Proverb : "A monkey who sits on the ground does not fall from the tree" - Sent by Liisa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Ahahha .. true! but beware, your ass could be bitten by ants! Yauwww... ahahahaaa...
► Iraq 2013: Deadliest year since 2008 with 7,000+ killed
► Snowden 'asked' for colleagues' logins, passwords to access classified NSA data
► 'Web of financial secrecy': Britain, satellites dominate tax haven rating
► Bit-heist: Over $1mn in bitcoins stolen from Australian online bank
► OP-ED : Why India's Mars mission is about more than power and prestige
► VIDEOS
■ Soyuz spaceship with Olympic torch on board blasts into space
■ UK Called to Heel: GCHQ chiefs to stand grilling in wake of Snowden revelations
■ RT Inside Gitmo: US military base with Taco Bell & no internet
■ 'Weed consumption is a human rights issue' - Irish MP Luke Flanagan
■ Olympic Orbit: Sochi 2014 torch delivered to International Space Station
■ Dangerous Phase: Fukushima's radioactive fuel rods to move to safe storage
► Killing Arafat: Al Jazeera speaks to Arafat's widow
► Evidence of massacre uncovered in CAR
► Inside Story : Is it time to end the global war on drugs? It's a multi-billion dollar industry, driven by violent criminal gangs which has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world, but is the so-called war on drugs working?Two world leaders do not think so. Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso say repressive approaches to containing drugs have failed.Both men are members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy - and they are calling for a new approach.In an newspaper opinion piece they wrote: "'We called on governments to adopt more humane and effective ways of controlling and regulating drugs. We recommended that the criminalisation of drug use should be replaced by a public health approach."We also appealed for countries to carefully test models of legal regulation as a means to undermine the power of organised crime, which thrives on illicit drug trafficking."Those in favour of reform say the war on drugs is a colossal waste of government resources; regulation could instead yield billions in tax revenues; it would be a blow to organised crime and put drug dealers out of business, and it would cut street crime and violence related to drug trafficking.Those against legalising drugs say it would create a large black market; it would lead to yet more addicts and more crime; an increase in the use of soft drugs could see users graduate to harder drugs, and drugs could fall more easly into the hands of children.Drugs became a symbol of youthful rebellion and social upheaval in the 1960s, and in the summer of 1971 US President Richard Nixon first declared the so-called 'war on drugs'.It is estimated to have cost more than one trillion dollars in the four decades since then, with the bill now running at 100 billion dollars a year.The UN estimates the drug market itself to be worth 1.3 trillion US dollars and growing, and generating profits of around 435 billion dollars a year.Latest UN figures show some 230 million people took illicit drugs in 2011, with estimates suggesting the number of drug-related deaths could be as high as a quarter of a million.Calls for the decriminalisation of drugs are growing stronger around the world.Portugal is seen as a pioneer. It decriminalised drug use twelve years ago, putting possession of a small amount of drugs on a par with illegal parking.Colorado and Washington in the US have legalised the recreational use of cannabis for those over 21.Chile, Ecuador and Colombia have ruled that the possession of drugs for personal use is no longer a crime.And Uruguay is considering a passing legislation which would see the government growing and selling marijuana, for as little as a dollar a gram.The Secretary General of Uruguay's national Drug Board, Julio Calzada, said last week: "... starting with the passing of the law, and it being put into place, it will progressively capture more of some of the most important parts of the black market."But the president of the Senate's Health Commission, Alfredo Solari, countered: "It is not that it is a bad bill, it's disastrous ... we have a marijuana use problem at a certain level in some populations, so to minimize this problem we are going to compete with drug dealers."So is it time for a fresh approach to the war on drugs based around legalisation and regulation?And can decriminalisation help reduce drug abuse and organised crime?To discuss this, Inside Story, with presenter Hazem Sika, is joined by guests: Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project which works to end the domestic and international war on drugs; Amanda Fielding, a drug policy reformer and founder of the Beckley Foundation, and Manuel Pinto Coelho, president of the Association for a Drug Free Portugal.
► BREAKING : Palestinians: Israel only suspect in Arafat death
► SYRIA : Hizballah in Command - They're getting ready for a key battle
► SOCIETY : 5 Steps to a Female President - It's not just a 'women's issue'
► SCIENCE &SPACE : Don't Upset Your Internal Clock - Sleep when your body says you should
► HOW TO : How to Protect Your Wi-Fi Privacy - Public networks aren't always safe
► From prison isolation to a sense of doom - A former prisoner at Pelican Bay lives with memory loss, anxiety and fear. He partly blames the separation from human contact, but not all researchers agree.
► OPINION
■ Chris Christie is the tea party's newest nightmare
■ 10 Republican senators want Sebelius fired over Obamacare rollout
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