California resident Edie Littlefield Sundby wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that Obamacare could end up killing her after learning the affordable medical insurance that has kept her alive and battling stage-4 gallbladder cancer will be cancelled on Dec. 31. New York Daily News – by BILL HUTCHINSON

A California cancer patient says President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act is costing her the world-class medical team that has kept her alive for seven years.

Edie Littlefield Sundby, who is battling stage 4 gallbladder cancer, said her “affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy” is being canceled because her insurance company refuses to participate in Obamacare.   Continue reading “President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act dooms me to die: cancer patient”

Pocket-Sized Water Purification Technology Saves LivesWorld Health

Diarrhea from contaminated drinking water is second only to pneumonia as a cause of childhood deaths worldwide. More than 2,000 children die every day as a result of diarrheal illnesses. The Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) program, a humanitarian effort led by Procter & Gamble, has distributed water-purification packets, which transform cloudy, brown water into crystal-clear, drinkable water that meets all the requirements for drinking water.   Continue reading “Water-purification plant the size of a fast-food ketchup packet saves lives”

New York Times – by Kenneth Chang

A European satellite that mapped Earth’s gravitational field in exquisite detail will be pulled down by gravity to its fiery destruction sometime in the next few days.

 

Where and when it will crash no one knows. It could be almost anywhere on the globe. About 25 to 45 fragments of the one-ton spacecraft are expected to survive all the way to the surface, with the largest perhaps weighing 200 pounds.

It is the latest in a parade of spacecraft falling from the sky in what are worryingly called “uncontrolled entries.” About 100 tons of debris will fall from the sky this year alone. There are, however, no known instances in which anyone has been injured by space debris.   Continue reading “Satellite Will Fall to Earth, but No One Is Sure Where”

Reuters

Several small bombs exploded in front of a Communist Party building in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring another eight, state media said.

The official Xinhua news agency said what appeared to be small-scale bombs went off outside an office building of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi province.

“Judging from the scattering of small metal balls, it is suspected that improvised bombs exploded,” the news agency said.   Continue reading “Explosions kill 1, injure 8 in north China city: reports”

obama_with_militaryWND – by F. MICHAEL MALOOF

WASHINGTON – After multiple top generals described to WND what they regard as a full-scale “purge” of the U.S. military by the Obama administration, the commander of U.S. Army Garrison Japan was summarily relieved of duty and his civilian deputy reassigned, pending a “misconduct” investigation.

Nine generals and flag officers have been relieved of duty under Obama just this year – widely viewed as an extraordinary number – and several sources put the total number of senior officers purged during the five years of the Obama administration as close to 200.   Continue reading “‘Purge Surge’: Obama Fires Another Commander”