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The Watchers – by Adonai

Heavy rains that began on Thursday, December 18, 2014, triggered massive flooding across North Sumatra, Indonesia and north-eastern Malaysia.

At least four people drowned in floods that have hit north-eastern Malaysia and more than 25 000 people have fled to evacuation centres, welfare and rescue officials said today.   Continue reading “Heavy flooding across Malaysia and North Sumatra”

NBC 4i – by Denise Yost

COLUMBUS, Ohio –A local woman says she was kicked off of welfare for not reporting that she was in a coma.

Kimberly Thompson was laid off earlier this year from her job at a warehouse in Central Ohio. She applied and was approved for food assistance and cash assistance. But then her life was turned upside down by a medical emergency.

Thompson spent two and a half months in the hospital last summer after an infection ravaged her body. During nearly half of her hospital stay, she was in a coma.    Continue reading “Columbus Woman Removed From Welfare For Not Reporting While In Coma”

Police One – by Jeff Reinitz, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

WATERLOO, Iowa — A Waterloo man rammed his SUV into a police car, injuring two officers during a disturbance investigation Tuesday.

The driver, Kelvin Plain Jr., originally left the scene at police request, threatening officers as he pulled away, police said. Plain drove down Niles Street, but returned a few minutes later, hitting his Saturn sport utility vehicle’s accelerator and ramming one squad car into another and hitting a neighbor’s passenger car at a high speed, said Daniel Trelka, Waterloo director of safety services.   Continue reading “Iowa cops hurt after suspect rams squad”

Dissident Voice – by Martha Rosenberg

There is good news and bad news when it comes to conflicts of interest (COI) between the drug industry and clinical medicine. The good news is the “Sunshine Act,” part of the Affordable Care Act, has been implemented and many drug company web sites now list the payouts–including to “grassroots” groups that are actually Pharma fronts like the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

The bad news is that editors and publishers sill cooperate with pulling the wool over the public’ eyes when it comes to conflicts of interest. Here are some ways that transparency about pharma payouts is blocked, even though it greatly affects the drugs that doctors recommend and prescribe.   Continue reading “Is Your Doctor Paid by Big Pharma?”

Raw Story

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to extend a stay sought by Florida officials defending the state’s ban on same-sex marriages, allowing gay marriages to proceed in Florida next month.

Weddings would be allowed to start on Jan. 6 under an order by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta earlier this month.   Continue reading “Supreme Court allows marriage equality to proceed in Florida starting in January”

Car and Driver – by Benjamin Preston

If you live in Arizona, Louisiana, New York, or one of more than a dozen other states, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has bad news for you. Come January 19, your driver’s license will no longer allow you access to certain federal facilities. Unless DHS changes its mind. Again.

In 2005, Congress passed a bill called the Real ID Act, based upon recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission. Whether or not you’ve heard of the law depends largely upon how in tune you are with conspiracy theories. Where you live matters, too, because nearly a decade after the law’s passage, only 19 states actually comply with its standards.   Continue reading “The Feds Want to Replace Your Driver’s License with a National ID Card”

Intellihub – by SHEPARD AMBELLAS

WASHINGTON D.C. (INTELLIHUB.COM) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, now formerly known as ISIS, is nothing more than an excuse for a “slush fund” created by the C.I.A. and Pentagon to finance their private armies, war machines and weapons producing factories around the globe, as pointed out by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California.

“It’s a gimmick to avoid the budget cuts that are punishing other critical areas of the budget like education and health. Fundamentally, it is a black box of unchecked federal spending that needs to be eliminated. All DOD programs should be funded from the base-budget which is more than sufficient.”, Lee said in a statement to CBS.   Continue reading “Pentagon rebrands ISIS to “Daesh” after alternative media kicks establishment’s ass in information war”

Opposing Views – by Michael Allen

An elderly couple in Alexandra, New Zealand, almost died after thinking they were trapped in their new ”keyless” Mazda 3.

Brian and Mollieanne Smith spent almost 13 hours in their car unaware they could have left at any time.

The incident happened on Nov. 5 in the couple’s garage. The Smiths left their new car’s manual inside their home and the car’s remote control outside the vehicle, reports the Otago Daily Times.   Continue reading “Old Couple Almost Dies After Being Trapped For 13 Hours In Unlocked Car”

RT

Eight children aged from 18 months to 15 years have been found stabbed to death inside a house in Manoora suburb of the city of Cairns in far north Queensland, police have confirmed.

Authorities were initially called in the scene after reports of a woman with serious injuries around 11.20am local time.   Continue reading “8 children stabbed to death in Australia, 34yo mother in serious condition”

Japan Times

FUKUSHIMA – Up to 6 tons of radioactive water has leaked into the ground at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co.

The water, which had been scrubbed by Units A and C of the advanced liquid processing system (ALPS), leaked from pipes while being transported to storage tanks on Wednesday afternoon, the utility said.   Continue reading “Six tons of tainted water leak at Fukushima No. 1 during Korean safety tour”

Bloomberg Business Week – by Jason Scott and Isabel Reynolds

Australia is considering buying top-secret technology from Japan to build a fleet of new generation submarines, a move that would risk reigniting diplomatic tensions with China only recently smoothed over.

China and Japan are competing to build their domestic arms industries, and for China the export of Japanese military technology is particularly sensitive given their wartime history and territorial disputes. Choosing Japan to play a role in the multi-billion dollar submarine project could prompt a stern response from Australia’s biggest trading partner.   Continue reading “Australia Mulls Japan Submarines Under China’s Cautious Gaze”

Strange Universe – by Paul Seaburn

Multiple eyewitnesses, including one who was quick with her camera, spotted strange squiggly contrails just before dawn one morning this week over Biysk in southern Russia. Many of the witnesses believed the contrails were from UFOs. Were they?

According to reports, Elisha Ponomaryov saw other people looking skyward and pointing at the contrails. She didn’t know what they were but had the presence of mind to take a photo. Unfortunately, she was too late to capture what caused the contrails. However, other witnesses claimed to have seen three or four yellow spheres flying haphazardly and leaving the trails behind them. One was Zemfira Bocharova, who gave this description:   Continue reading “Strange Contrails Appear Over Russian Town”

GHacks – by Martin Brinkmann

Ports are used for communication in computing. It would go too far to describe the technical details involved but you can think of ports as doors that allow interaction with a device.

Common ports are TCP port 21 ftp, port 23 for Telnet or port 80 for the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).

While it makes sense to keep certain ports open on your system, as you would not be able to use services associated with them otherwise, it is usually a good idea to make sure only ports that you require are open.   Continue reading “Display all open ports on your network using PortScan for Windows”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Jackson County, Oregon voted by an overwhelming majority of 66% to ban GMO crop cultivation beginning June 6, 2015 via Measure 15-119. This date is fast approaching, and Monsanto thinks they are above the law.The biotech giant is trying to use two Jackson County GMO farmers to overturn the ban.   Continue reading “Monsanto Tries to Overturn 66% Majority GMO Ban”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

A Japanese government official has reported, “I was overwhelmed by the amount of contaminated water coming from the reactors, we must dump it in the ocean.” This isn’t such great news for the US since President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently gave their approval for “dramatically raising permissible radioactive levels in drinking water and soil following “radiological incidents,” such as nuclear power-plant accidents and dirty bombs.”   Continue reading “Obama Increases Allowable Levels of Radiation in Drinking Water ‘Dramatically’”