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Secret Santa saves dog after being hit by car in Bradenton, Florida

Max Wintiz
MySuncoast
Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:31 UTC
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An anonymous Good Samaritan, or in this case, a secret Santa, has given the best gift of all this year to a little dog named, Bandit. The gift of life.

On Christmas night, Bandit, a poodle mix, was hit by a car on Tamiami Trail in Bradenton. The driver fled the scene and left Bandit in the middle of the road to die. Moments later, another driver stopped her car, put Bandit inside and rushed to the Veterinary Emergency Center in Bradenton.

"He was essentially comatose when he came in. Initially we thought he wasn't going to make it," said Dr. Ilonka Ambros, with the Veterinary Emergency Center.

Bandit is suffering from internal injuries, severe road rash and various cuts and bruises.

Had it not been for the anonymous Good Samaritan, Bandit would have certainly died.
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Posted on a humor site former chief of security for Israeli airports: Serious takedown of the TSA

Sharona Schwartz
The Blaze
Wed, 25 Dec 2013 11:30 UTC
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© FlickrRafi Sela, the former chief of security for Israeli airports, has a blistering takedown of the TSA
In a blistering takedown of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's approach to airport security, the former chief of security for Israeli airports described an agency riddled with incompetence and wastefulness and that, despite large infusions of government money, may never have actually stopped a single terror attack. The TSA may even be inviting a deadly attack on airline passengers due to poor planning, he charged.

Though his analysis was posted on the humor website Cracked, airline security expert Rafi Sela detailed serious flaws in American airport protection, ones he contrasted starkly with his own experience in Israel.

For one thing, Sela said the notion that standing in a security line and stripping off one's shoes is a "necessary precursor to safe flying" is "bullsh**."

"The TSA couldn't protect you from a 6-year-old with a water balloon," Sela wrote.

Sela told TheBlaze that despite posting the article on a humor site, it is serious and accurately reflects his analysis of the dire state of American airports, which he shared in detail with Cracked writer Robert Evans.

"There is truth in every parody," Sela told TheBlaze in an email. "I think when we get to a stage where Congress has been made aware of the issues and decided not to act even on a pilot basis and continue to waste billions of dollars of the taxpayers' money to make the big industries bigger, it might be a good idea to just joke about it because NO ONE is taking this seriously anyway."

Comment: Obviously, security is not TSA's purpose. With all of the people TSA has molested, harassed, humiliated and violated it makes you wonder what their true purpose is:

US Congresswoman Blackburn: TSA is staffed with pedophiles and child pornographers
Woman: TSA Agents Singled Me Out For My Breasts
ABC producer says TSA agent felt inside her underwear
Toddler Terrorist: TSA threatens lockdown over 4-year-old girl
Rape Survivor Devastated by TSA Enhanced Pat Down
More Women Speaking Out About Humiliating Experiences With TSA
US: TSA Pats Down Breast Cancer Survivor Even After Getting Scanned
Miss USA molested by TSA
TSA agents took my son
Wheelchair-bound girl, 12, with brittle bone disorder left in tears after TSA detains her for an hour 'after detecting traces of explosives on her hands'
TSA Forces Woman to Pump Breast Milk into Bottles Before Boarding
TSA and cop abuse new mother - A Blood Boiler!
Airport passenger screener charged in distributing child pornography
TSA agent: 'We laugh at your nude images, dear passengers'
Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped up
Woman Sobs Over Sexual Violation By TSA Agent
US: Harold Rodman, TSA worker, arrested for sexual assault
TSA Hiring Pedophiles and Child Pornographers
Young Boy Strip Searched by TSA
Menstruating woman subjected to TSA grope because panty-liner obscured her vulva on pornoscanner

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CNN Poll: Opposition to Obamacare hits record Highs, support crashes to new lows

Mike Opelka
The Blaze
Wed, 25 Dec 2013 15:44 UTC
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The results of CNN's latest poll on Obamacare were delivered just two days before Christmas - and it's unlikely they are making President Barack Obama very happy.
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The telephone poll, taken between December 13-19, asked 1035 adults - 950 of whom were registered voters - the following question: "As you may know, a bill that makes major changes to the country's health care system became law in 2010. Based on what you have read or heard about that legislation, do you generally favor or generally oppose it?"
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Burglar calls police after inadvertently stealing child sex abuse videos

Al Goodman
CNN
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:23 UTC
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If you doubt there's an unwritten code of honor among criminals -- governing certain behavior that's just not permitted -- consider this:

Police say a burglar in southern Spain who stole an old Super 8 camera and tapes from a home discovered to his horror the graphic video content of a man sexually abusing boys.

The burglar put three tapes in a brown envelope, hid them under a parked car, and then called police from a public phone, directing them to go find it.

Inside the envelope, police found a note with the home address of the suspected pedophile and a message from the burglar:

"I've had the misfortune that these tapes have fallen into my hands and I feel obligated to turn them in so that you can do your job and put that (expletive) in prison for life."

Spanish national police confirmed Thursday they arrested a 64-year-old suspected child molester this week at his home -- the one that had been burglarized -- in the southern provincial capital of Jaen.

The suspect is a local football (soccer) coach who lived alone. He lured some of his young players into watching pornographic videos together, and then sexually abused them, police said.
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Target denies insider claims that encrypted PINs were stolen along with 40 million card numbers


Daily Mail
Wed, 25 Dec 2013 15:29 UTC
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  • Target hackers allegedly stole encrypted PINS in 'sophisticated' operation
  • The retailer says it has learned of some scam emails related to breach but doesn't have specific information as to how it happened
  • Details of 40 million credit and debit card accounts stolen between November 27 and December 15
  • Target claimed Wednesday that encrypted personal ID numbers were not accessed by hackers
  • Target faces at least 15 lawsuits seeking class action status
Target Corp is crying foul on insiders who recently told the media that encrypted PINs were stolen along with more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers in the retail behemoth's catastrophic data breach.

The hackers who attacked Target Corp and compromised more than 40 million credit cards and debit cards also managed to steal encrypted personal identification numbers, according to a senior payments executive familiar with the situation told Reuters.

However, Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder insisted that 'no unencrypted PIN data was accessed' and there was no evidence that PIN data has been 'compromised'.

She confirmed that some 'encrypted data' was stolen, but declined to say if that included encrypted PINs.
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Whistle

The Real Snowden

Andy Greenberg
Forbes
Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:30 UTC
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© ForbesThe Electronic Frontier Foundation hoodie Edward Snowden often wore to work in his NSA Hawaii office.
Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions.

The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency's logo, with the traditional key in an eagle's claws replaced by a collection of AT&T cables, and eavesdropping headphones covering the menacing bird's ears. Snowden wore it regularly to stay warm in the air-conditioned underground NSA Hawaii Kunia facility known as "the tunnel."

His coworkers assumed it was meant ironically. And a geek as gifted as Snowden could get away with a few irregularities.

Months after Snowden leaked tens of thousands of the NSA's most highly classified documents to the media, the former intelligence contractor has stayed out of the limelight, rarely granting interviews or sharing personal details. A 60 Minutes episode Sunday night, meanwhile, aired NSA's officials descriptions of Snowden as a malicious hacker who cheated on an NSA entrance exam and whose work computers had to be destroyed after his departure for fear he had infected them with malware.

But an NSA staffer who contacted me last month and asked not to be identified - and whose claims we checked with Snowden himself via his ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner - offered me a very different, firsthand portrait of how Snowden was seen by his colleagues in the agency's Hawaii office: A principled and ultra-competent, if somewhat eccentric employee, and one who earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors with sheer talent.
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Arrow Down

Multimillionaire philanthropist leaps from his NYC high-rise after suffering stroke

George Chidi
The Raw Story
Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:02 UTC
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Robert W. Wilson, a hedge fund manager and decades-long patron of the ACLU, committed suicide Monday by throwing himself from his luxury Central Park West high-rise apartment in New York into the courtyard.

Wilson, 87, had earned an estimated $800 million as a noted short seller by 2000, the New York Post reported. Estimates of his gifts to groups including the World Monuments Fund, the Nature Conservancy, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Wildlife Conservation Society range between $400 million and $500 million. He spent millions fighting Proposition 8 in California - the state's gay marriage ban - and backed a measure which would expand state funding and oversight for treatment and rehab programs for nonviolent drug offenders and parolees while reducing criminal penalties and limiting courts' authority to lock up offenders who violate probation or parole.

He also devoted time and money to the cause of criminal justice reform. He established a matching donation in 2010 for anyone leaving money to the ACLU in their will of up to $10,000 each.
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No charges after family member's gun fatally shoots 2-month-old on Christmas Eve

David Edwards
The Raw Story
Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:23 UTC
An autopsy was being conducted on Thursday after a 2-month-old girl was shot to death in Pennsylvania on Christmas Eve.

The Lancaster Intelligencer Journal reported that the infant had been killed by a single gunshot wound in East Lampeter Township on Tuesday just after 2 p.m.

Investigators said that the only person at home with the child at the time of the shooting was an adult male. According to The Patriot-News, police said that the gun was owned by a family member.

First responders were unable to revive the girl and she was later pronounced dead at Lancaster General Hospital.
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Internet privacy as important as human rights, says UN's Navi Pillay

Haroon Siddique
The Guardian
Thu, 26 Dec 2013 08:18 UTC
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© Martial Trezzini/APSir Tim Berners-Lee and Navi Pillay, during a press conference in Geneva earlier this month.
The UN human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has compared the uproar in the international community caused by revelations of mass surveillance with the collective response that helped bring down the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Pillay, the first non-white woman to serve as a high-court judge in South Africa, made the comments in an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee on a special edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, which the inventor of the world wide web was guest editing.

Pillay has been asked by the UN to prepare a report on protection of the right to privacy, in the wake of the former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden leaking classified documents about UK and US spying and the collection of personal data.

The former international criminal court judge said her encounters with serious human rights abuses, which included serving on the Rwanda tribunal, did not make her take online privacy less seriously. "I don't grade human rights," she said. "I feel I have to look after and promote the rights of all persons. I'm not put off by the lifetime experience of violations I have seen."
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U.S. bans 49 more books from schools in 2013


You Tube
Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
More books have been banned in US schools than ever before. Book burning next?

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