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Massive fire engulfs Dubai luxury building


RT
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:38 UTC
Dubai fire
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A huge fire has broken out at the residential Oceana Building in Dubai's Palm Jumeriah.

At least one of the building's penthouses erupted into flames at around 10:30 p.m. local time Monday, according to 7Days UAE, with eyewitness capturing pictures of the blaze as it spread down the building from several kilometers away.

According to the official Dubai Media Office Twitter page, the building has been evacuated with no reported injuries and emergency fire services are continuing to battle the blaze.

The Oceana blaze follows a series of other skyscraper fires that have broken out across the city in Downtown Dubai, Deira and Dubai Marina this year alone.

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235 detained in wake of Istanbul attacks - fringe PKK group claims credit for attack


Sputnik
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:53 UTC
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Turkish police detained 235 people suspected of links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons group following the terror attack in Istanbul, the country's interior ministry said on Monday.

The police operation was carried out in 11 Turkish provinces including Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Mersin and Gaziantep.

The detained people are accused of propaganda of terrorist ideas through social networks and providing support for terror groups.

Earlier on Monday, the Daily Sabah newspaper reported that Turkish law enforcers have detained 118 members of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) following the attack in Istanbul.

Comment: The "Freedom Falcons" (TAK) claimed responsibility on their website, calling the attacks an "act of vengeance." This is the same group that took responsibility for the February Ankara attacks. They say they have nothing to do with the PKK, and the PKK says it has no control over them. More info here.

Update: Make that 568 people detained.

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Black Cat

Cops conclude investigation: Students breached firewall to frame teacher for watching porn at school

Victor Skinner
EAG News
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:31 UTC
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Police believe students may have hatched an "elaborate plot" to frame their teacher for viewing pornography on his computer at school.

Investigators cleared a teacher at Longfellow Middle and High School of wrongdoing after students accused him in November of watching a porn video on his school computer in class, Fox 59 reports.

"Investigators believe the teacher left a laptop sitting out, and students were able to breach the (Indianapolis Public Schools') firewall and load a porn website onto the computer," according to the news site.

"Police say they discovered inconsistencies in the allegation against the teacher," WTHR reports. "They say the students 'may have been involved in an elaborate plot to frame the teacher.'"
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Pills

500% increase in infants showing up addicted to heroin, opioids


RT
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:52 UTC
infants herion opioid addiction
© Claudia Daut / Reuters
A new study found heroin and opioid-related problems are showing a 500 percent increase among pregnant women and infants in rural areas in less than a decade. Among the problem are babies are being born with painful withdrawal symptoms.

"When they are born, because they're no longer being exposed to an opiate, they're going to go through withdrawal. That is what we deal with. We deal with babies going through withdrawal,"Dr. Sean Loudin, the medical director of a neonatal therapeutic unit at Cabell Huntington Hospital told KTLA.
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Attention

British police claim to have foiled terrorist plot to bomb Christmas shoppers


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:45 UTC
terrorism raids Britain
© Modica NewsSix people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences in series of morning raids across England

British police say they prevented a major terrorist plot to bomb Christmas shoppers from being carried out by raiding properties in London and the Midlands and arresting six suspected Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) sympathizers.

In the early hours of Monday, armed forces conducting a raid on a suspected bomb-making property seized four men from Derby, as well as a man from Burton and a woman from London, all aged 22 to 36, after army bomb squads had cordoned off the streets.

The arrests, which have been described as stopping a "significant" terror plan, come after months of close surveillance by the MI5 and a coalition of police forces.
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MIB

'Stalk an ex or look up anyone': Weak Uber security allowed spying on riders - report


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:53 UTC
Uber can now track their passengers' locations after they are dropped off even when their app has been closed
© PA
Uber's poor private data security allowed its employees to spy on high profile politicians and celebrities, a newly surfaced lawsuit claims. It also accuses the company of barring government agencies from accessing its data during raids on their offices.

These allegations against the ride-sharing giant stem from an October 2016 lawsuit filed by its former forensic investigator, 45-year-old Samuel Ward Spangenberg. In May, he sued Uber over age discrimination and whistleblower retaliation, but his case has gone under the radar these many months. It has just come to light, thanks to the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR).

In his court declaration, signed in October, Spangenberg points to a lack of effort on Uber's part to protect private customer data, which comes in violation of "governmental regulations regarding data protection and consumer privacy rights."

According to Spangenberg, due to "Uber' s lack of security," employees were able "to track high profile politicians, celebrities, and even personal acquaintances of Uber employees, including ex-boyfriends/girlfriends, and ex-spouses."
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Fake News drives Liberals to 'demand' new elections; ignorant claim of FBI collusion with Russia!

Sara Gonzales
The Blaze
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:43 UTC
Liberal crying mining salt
© AP Photo/Matt RourkeNervahna Crew cries as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appears on the screen during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26.
Some people still aren't handling the presidential election results well, and they want President Barack Obama's help with a new election. A new Change.org petition demands that "we the people" hold a new election due to the 2016 presidential election being "infiltrated" and "tampered with" by the Russian government in order to secure a win for President-elect Donald Trump.

The petition alleges that the Russian government worked in collusion with the FBI, even though there are no sources that show the allegation is accurate. It also mentions "widespread voting malfeasance and suppression," something that Democratic leadership has, for years, insisted was not an existing problem in U.S. elections.

Started by a woman in Massachusetts, the petition says the new election should be held in federal buildings and overseen by federal officials:
In light of recent evidence reported by the CIA, that the United States 2016 Presidential Election has been infiltrated and tampered with by the Russian government to elect Donald J. Trump, in collusion with the FBI, and abetted by widespread voting malfeasance and suppression, We The People of the United States demand a new vote on the 2016 Presidential election, to take place in Federal buildings, and overseen by the Federal Government.
The petition has been signed by nearly 70,000 people and needs only 5,000 more to be delivered to Obama. It is unclear if the author of the petition has a basic understanding of the election process, and her sources of the incorrect information are unknown; however, it seems likely that "fake news" of some sort is the culprit.
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Attention

Why the protests? North Dakota pipeline spilled over 176K gallon of oil before it was shut down


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:32 UTC
pipeline spill ash coulee creek north dakota
Oil is pictured in Ash Coulee Creek northwest of Belfield, N.D., on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016.
A pipeline in North Dakota spilled over 176,000 gallons of oil before it was shut down, state officials say. The spill happened 150 miles from the Dakota Access pipeline protests, with thousands of people rallying against the construction for months.

The data initially came from the state's Department of Health spokeswoman Jennifer Skjod.

The last week's blizzard in the area hampered the efforts to assess the damage, and the authorities "have no estimate on when or if it will be operational," Skjod said as quoted by The Huffington Post.

It's not entirely clear what caused the spill, either, according to Wendy Owen, a spokeswoman for the plant's owner, Wyoming-based True Companies.

The pipeline is partly buried on a hill near Ash Coulee creek, and the "hillside sloughed," which could have broken the pipeline, Owen told AP.

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War Whore

'Miscarriage of Justice': Police Say Video of Cop Bashing Innocent 16-yo Boy's Head is 'Insufficient Evidence' to Charge Him

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:15 UTC
Cop beats boy
Baton Rouge police announced last week that one of their officers will not face any consequences for repeatedly punching a 16-year-old boy in the head while his fellow officers held him down.

According to the Advocate, the internal affairs complaint against the policeman, Sgt. Todd Bourgoyne, was found to be "not sustained" by Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. on August 25, according to police spokesman Lt. Jonny Dunnam, meaning investigators didn't find evidence of wrongdoing or a violation of department policy.

Investigators claimed that the video showing the officer pound the child's head repeatedly was apparently 'insufficient evidence' to support a complaint against Bourgoyne.

While attending an annual Earth Day celebration, the unarmed 16-year-old high school student was repeatedly punched in the head as five cops ended up holding him face down on the ground. Although the teen was charged with resisting arrest and battery against a police officer, the video clearly shows the boy attempting to protect his head as the cop kept punching him.

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Barbaric! Female genital mutilation 'parties' taking place in UK despite ban


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:27 UTC
african boys
© Siegfried Modola / Reuters
Female genital mutilation (FGM) parties are taking place in the UK, where specialist midwives flown over from Africa are carrying out the illegal procedure, a charity claims.

The Leeds-based Black Health Initiative says it had to intervene and break up one party recently, and stopped another from taking place.

Latest NHS figures show more than 8,000 women across England have recently been identified as victims of FGM.

The World Health Organization defines FGM has the total or partial removal of the female external genitalia for non-medical reasons.
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