Women ..!!

Wendy Davis: Abortion Rights Supporters Will Not Back Down In Texas

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is calling a second special session of his state's legislature to pass a controversial bill limiting abortion rights in the state -- but the woman who spoiled his first go-around is not backing down.

Wendy Davis, the Democratic Texas state senator who foiled the anti-abortion rights bill SB 5 by mounting an epic 11-hour filibuster, pledged Sunday to fight on.

"For all that you have achieved in terms of your profile and your views, are you not just delaying the inevitable?" David Gregory asked Davis on "Meet the Press.""We will fight as we begin the session again on Monday," Davis responded. "I don't think that we'll concede that the battle is over. And even if this bill passes, obviously there will be other challenges to it going forward." Davis, who represents Fort Worth, also took another shot at comments from the governor, who targeted her for her own experience as a single teen mother. "My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally," Davis said. "I think some of the comments that he made really demean the high office that he holds.

WOMEN TRIED TO SELL HER 3 YEAR OLD ON CRAIGSLIST

A bicycle. An old jailbroken iPhone. Maybe used furniture. Some free dirt. Those are the type of things you expect to buy off Craigslist. You definitely don't expect a Mom to offer up her three-year-old son on the seedy but useful classifieds website. But that's just what Stephanie Redus did. She used Craiglist to get her son adopted by a new family.

The Craigslist ad stated:

Hi, I'm trying to adopt out my 3yr old son. I'm not in a good place in my life and don't feel like I can care for him properly but I don't know where to start. If you or know anyone who is interested in caring for him, please let me know. I'm a single mom and can't do this.

Thanks, Desperate.

UK secretly tapping fibre-optic cables |ET| US trying to prosecute whistleblower

UK secretly tapping fibre-optic cables for data

Uk serectly tapping fiber optics cable 

LONDON: UK's spy agencies gained secret access to fibre-optic cables carrying global communications and gathered data larger than the US, a media report said on Saturday, quoting documents leaked by American whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Guardian newspaper said the revelations were based on leaked documents from the GCHQ - the UK's electronic eavesdropping agency. 


The information, including phone calls, Facebook posts, emails, Internet histories, was stored for up to 30 days to be sifted and analysed, the paper alleged. 
The GCHQ has started processing vast amounts of personal information and is sharing it with its US partner the National Security Agency (NSA), it said. 
 US trying to prosecute whistleblower Snowden


 BRUSSELS: The United States is confident it will bring Edward Snowden to justice for "extremely damaging" leaks about secret internet surveillance programmes, US Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday. 

Snowden is hiding in Hong Kong and the United States has launched

Facebook Exposed Million's Of Us ..!! | ET | Facebook Loses Million User's..!!

Facebook Bug Exposed Email Addresses, Phone Numbers Of 6 Million Users

On Friday, Facebook admitted that a bug made the private contact information -- either email addresses or phone numbers -- of 6 million users accidentally accessible to Facebookers who downloaded their account histories onto their own computers. Compared to Facebook's over 1 billion total members, 6 million isn't much. But any security flaw has the potential to frighten people away from a website.

A bug allowed "some of a person’s contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them," Facebook wrotein a note on its security page. Using the network's "Download Your Information" tool, some Facebook members were inadvertently sent the phone numbers or email address of Facebook friends that were otherwise private. Facebook assured users that the bug was fixed within a day, and that there is no evidence that the information was used maliciously.

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  Facebook Losses Million User's

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The Good Hacker & The Bad Hacker ..!!

Fund Grows For KYAnonymous, Who Helped Expose Steubenville Rapists

Deric Lostutter, who may face hacking charges after helping expose details in the Steubenville rape case, is getting a hand from supporters. As of Tuesday morning, his legal defense fund had collected more than $49,000.

"There is nothing that we would like more than the government to come to its senses and decide not to charge Deric and for us to be able to return all the funds to the wonderful people who have showed him support," his attorney, Jason Flores-Williams of the Whistleblower Defense League, told The Huffington Post on Monday. "Unfortunately, our indications are that that isn't going to happen, so we are preparing for a vigorous fight."

Flores-Williams said the government has indicated that it will indict Lostutter, 26, on alleged felony violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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Anonymous Hackers Bring Down Sony Websites

If Sony’s ongoing legal offensive against those who reverse engineer its products was intended to protect the company from hackers, it seems to have had the opposite effect. On Monday, as of 1pm Eastern time, Sony.com and Sony’s Playstation.com were both suffering intermittent downtime as a result of denial of service attacks launched by the hacker group Anonymous.

Google settles lawsuit with shareholder | ET | Google's $5 Million Plan To Rid The Internet Of Child Porn

Google settles lawsuit with shareholder

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year. The settlement announced came on the eve of a scheduled Delaware chancery court trial that threatened to cast an unflattering light on Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The class-action by the Brockton Retirement Board in Massachusetts and another Google shareholder, Philip Skidmore, alleged that Page and Brin engineered the stock split in a way that unfairly benefits them while shortchanging the rest of the company's shareholders. Google denied the allegations and maintained that the proposed stock split announced 14 months ago would benefit shareholders by ensuring that Page and Brin would preserve the power that has enabled them to make the same kinds of bold bets on technology that has helped increase the company's market value by more than $260 billion during the past nine years. 

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Google-settles-lawsuit-with-shareholder/articleshow/20644563.cms

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Google vs. Child Porn: The Search Giant Will Try To Eradicate All Of The Internet's Child Porn

Google's founding mission is to "organize the world's information." But there's some disgusting data that the tech giant will spend millions to scrub off the web.

Over the weekend, Google announced that it has been creating a database tagging child pornography on the Internet in an effort to eradicate images of child abuse entirely from the web. The company plans to spend $5 million to fight child pornography online

U.S. Surveillance: China Asks USA | ET | UK Spies Hacked Diplomats Phones & Emails

U.S. Surveillance: China Asks Washington To Explain Monitoring Programmes

BEIJING, June 17 (Reuters) - China made its first substantive comments on Monday to reports of U.S. surveillance of the Internet, demanding that Washington explain its monitoring programmes to the international community.
Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to revelations by an ex-CIA employee over a week ago that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of internet companies for personal data.
"We believe the United States should pay attention to the international community's concerns and demands and give the international community the necessary explanation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily briefing.
The Chinese government has previously not commented directly on the case, simply repeating the government's standard line that China is one of the world's biggest victims of hacking attacks.
A senior source with ties to the Communist Party leadership said Beijing was reluctant to jeopardise recently improved ties with Washington.

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UK Spies Hacked Diplomats' Phones, Emails, Guardian Report Claims

LONDON — A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response from traditional rival Russia and provoked demands for an investigation from Turkey and South Africa.

Apple: How Authorities Nibbled Customers' Private Information | ET | Yahoo Forced To Join Secret Program

Apple Reveals How Authorities Nibbled Into Customers' Private Information

NEW YORK — Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May.

The company, like some other businesses, had asked the U.S government to be able to share how many requests it received related to national security and how it handled them. Those requests were made as part of Prism, the recently revealed highly classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet companies.

Prism appears to do what its name suggests. Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism takes large beams of data and helps the government find discrete, manageable strands of information.

Prism was revealed this month by The Washington Post and Guardian newspapers, and has touched off the latest round in a decade-long debate over what limits to impose on government eavesdropping, which the Obama administration says is essential to keep the nation safe.

Apple Inc. said that between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in data requests between Dec. 1, 2012, and May 31 from federal, state and local authorities and included both criminal investigations and national security matters.

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Yahoo Was Reportedly Forced To Join PRISM By A Secret Court

Yahoo fought PRISM, and PRISM won.

Fewer than 300 phones under lens in 2012: US | ET | Obama Thinks It Violates Customer Privacy

Fewer than 300 phones under lens in 2012: US

300 Phones under lens

WASHINGTON: The US government only searched for detailed information on calls involving fewer than 300 specific phone numbers among the millions of raw phone records collected by the National Security Agency in 2012, according to a government paper obtained by Reuters on Saturday.

The unclassified paper was circulated on Saturday within the government by US intelligence agencies and apparently is an attempt by spy agencies and the Obama administration to rebut accusations that it overreached in investigating potential militant plots.

The administration has said that even though the NSA, according to top-secret documents made public by former agency contractor Edward Snowden, collects massive amounts of data on message traffic from both US based telephone and internet companies, such data collection is legal, subject to tight controls and does not intrude on the privacy of ordinary Americans.

The paper circulated on Saturday said that data from the NSA phone and email collections programmes not only led US investigators to the ringleader of a plot to attack New York's subway system in 2009, but also to one of his co-conspirators in the United States.

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NSA Wants To Filter People's Emails And Tweets | ET | NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests

Keith Alexander, NSA Director, Wants To Filter People's Emails And Tweets, According To Expert

The National Security Agency isn't quite sure that it's doing enough when it comes totuning into people's digital lives. A profile of NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander in Wired magazine offers this frightening possibility: One day the organization may intercept online communications directly.

"In his telling, the threat is so mind-bogglingly huge that the nation has little option but to eventually put the entire civilian Internet under his protection, requiring tweets and emails to pass through his filters, and putting the kill switch under the government’s forefinger," wrote James Bamford for the magazine. It may seem like an exaggeration, but Bamford, author of about a half dozen books on the agency, should know better than anyone else.

Read the rest of Wired's profile of Alexander.

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NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests

Facebook reveals snooping details

WASHINGTON: Facebook revealed on Friday it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from US authorities in the second half of last year, as it seeks to shield itself from a growing scandal. 

The requests covered issues from child disappearances to petty crimes and terror threats and targeted between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts, the social networking site said, without revealing how often it complied with the requests. 

Facebook "aggressively" protects its users' data, the company's general counsel Ted Ullyot said in a statement. 

"We frequently reject such requests outright, or require the government to substantially scale down its requests, or simply give the government much less data than it has requested. And we respond only as required by law," he added. 

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Women Are at the Table, So Now What? | ET | Australian Army Chief : Respect Women Or 'Get Out'

Women Are at the Table, So Now What?

Top Women in the World 

NEW YORK — The focus of feminism has long been on inclusion and equality: giving women access where they had been shut out, ensuring the same opportunities and rewards as for men. This focus can distract from a harder, pertinent question: How would everything in the world be different if the female half of humanity had not been more or less locked out of its design ?

It is a tricky subject. Many arguments for equality flow from the premise that gender differences have historically been overstated. To suggest that women have a distinct way of thinking is, in this view, to flirt with the kind of logic that held them down.And yet other arguments for equality suggest that limiting the diversity of any gathering curtails the range of life experiences and perspectives in the room, and results in narrower, dumber decisions. In this view, it is at least plausible to maintain that the way meetings are conducted, wars are waged, books are written — that these ways were influenced by the absence of those without a direct voice

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/us/15iht-currents15.html?_r=1&

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Australian Army Chief Warns Service Members To Respect Women Or 'Get Out'

Lt. Gen David Morrison

Lt. Gen. David Morrison is not messing around.

Following allegations that a group of servicemen circulated emails degrading several female service members, the Australian army chief issued a stern warning to the military branch: Respect women, or "get out."

In a striking public service announcement posted on YouTube, Morrison addresses the allegations of "unacceptable behavior" and clarifies his stance on any action that is demeaning to women.

"Those who think that it is okay to behave in a way that demeans or exploits their colleagues have no place in this army," he says in the video. "On all operations, female soldiers and officers have proven themselves worthy of the best traditions of the Australian army. They are vital to us maintaing our capability now, and into the future."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/australian-army-chief-warns-video_n_3442822.html

Walmart Has Improved 'Women's Lives Around The World' | ET | Obamacare Is Turning Walmart Workers Into Temps

Tom Cruise: Walmart Has Improved 'Women's Lives Around The World'

Critics are calling out Hollywood star Tom Cruise this week for praising Walmart as “a role model” that has "improve[d] women’s lives around the world" during the retailer’s shareholder meeting earlier in June, according to MSNBC.

Cruise, who was joined at the event by fellow celebrities Hugh Jackman and Kelly Clarkson, also called Walmart a “role model for how business can address some of the biggest issues facing our world, in ways big and small."

The claim drew criticism from some activists, who called Cruise's comments out of touch with reality. Cruise "didn’t really tell the truth about what happens on a day-to-day basis,” one activist told MSNBC. Others took to social media to criticize the actor,accusing        him of being a "tool," among other things.
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Obamacare Is Turning Walmart Workers Into Temps

Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) opponents warned it would happen, but now there’s mounting proof that full-time employees are being replaced with part-timers, at least in the retail industry where Walmart is focused on keeping the majority of workers to part-time hours only.

A new hiring policy uncovered byReuters shows that nearly half of its stores are only hiring part-time employees, thus avoiding the mandate to provide health care or pay a fine.

A Reuters survey of 52 stores run by the largest U.S. private employer in the past month, including one in every U.S. state, showed that 27 were hiring only temps, 20 were hiring a combination of regular full, part-time and temp jobs, and five were not hiring at all.

It’s company directive, according to sources interviewed by Reuters who asked to remain anonymous.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauraheller/2013/06/14/obamacare-is-turning-walmart-workers-into-temps/

NSA Surveillance Violates Constitution | ET | Facebook and Microsoft Release Numbers on Government Information Requests

Al Gore: NSA Surveillance Violates The Constitution

Former Vice President Al Gore broke with many of his fellow Democrats Friday and said that the NSA surveillance programs violate the constitution.

"This in my view violates the constitution. The fourth amendment and the first amendment – and the fourth amendment language is crystal clear," he told The Guardian, which revealed the agency's phone surveillance and reported on its Internet data-mining. "It is not acceptable to have a secret interpretation of a law that goes far beyond any reasonable reading of either the law or the constitution and then classify as top secret what the actual law is."

"I quite understand the viewpoint that many have expressed that they are fine with it and they just want to be safe but that is not really the American way," he added.

Gore called "blanket" surveillance "obscenely outrageous" in a tweet on June 5. Nevertheless, he has mostly criticized Obama over climate change, an issue where the 2000 presidential nominee won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in 2007.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/al-gore-nsa_n_3443646.html

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Facebook and Microsoft Release Numbers on Government Information Requests

Facebook has disclosed that it has received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests from “government entities in the U.S.” in the six month period ending December 31, 2012.  These requests are “from any and all government entities in the U.S. (including local, state, and federal, and including criminal and national security-related requests),” according to a blog post written by Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot.

And, according to Reuters, Microsoft disclosed Friday that it has received between 6,000 and 7,000 government requests during the last six months of 2012 that affected between 31,000 and 32,000 users.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2013/06/14/facebook-and-others-release-numbers-on-govt-information-requests/

Man Stab's Brother Over Macroni & Cheese .!

Randy Zipperer Allegedly Stabs Brother After Macaroni And Cheese Goes Missing

Randy Zipperer, 47, has been charged with aggravated battery and obstructing an officer without violence.

Looks like this guy wasn't using his noodle.

Randy Zipperer, 49, is accused of stabbing his younger brother following an argument about missing macaroni and cheese.

A witness told deputies in Volusia County, Fla. that Randy and his brother, 47-year-old Edward Zipperer, started arguing over Randy's missing macaroni and cheese, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported. His younger brother helped him look, but during the mac-hunt, Edward knocked over a beer Randy had been drinking.

The spill allegedly made Randy even angrier, and deputies say he began waving around a knife that wound up inserted in his brother's stomach.

When deputies arrived, Edward had a small puncture wound in his abdomen. Investigators noted a trail of blood between the kitchen and bedroom, according to Click Orlando.

Randy allegedly admitted that "I poked him a little with the knife, but I didn't mean to."

He has been charged with aggravated battery and obstructing an officer without violence.
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