“Texas police are not backing down or apologizing for arresting a man for drunken driving, even though his Breathalyzer result showed no hint of intoxication, the Raw Story reports. Larry Davis was arrested Jan. 13 after he ran a stop sign, the news site notes. Davis—who, officers on the scene said, appeared to be drunk—defended himself, saying that he …
Pastor Targets The Young Turks & We Can’t Stop Laughing
“A so-called birther pastor in New York this week accused President Barack Obama of a plot to have “white homo demons” lure African-American men away from African-American women. In a YouTube video posted on Tuesday, Atlah World Missionary Church Rev. James David Manning said that he had displayed the following sign outside his Harlem church: “Obama has released the …
Woman Confesses To Murder Attempt On Live TV
A Knoxville, Tennessee news crew was covering the near-fatal stabbing of a 61-year-old woman at an apartment complex Tuesday morning when the victim’s apparently disturbed daughter approached them and confessed to the crime, with the camera rolling… Read More At: http://gawker.com/woman-walks-up-to-t…
Unprecedented Supreme Court Video Shows Protestor Forcibly Removed
Support 99rise: http://www.99rise.org/ *For the first time, video footage of U.S. Supreme Court proceedings has been recorded and posted online. The Supreme Court has always barred any type of cameras, including news media, from recording proceedings. The video shows a protester who disrupted an oral argument on Wednesday. The shaky, low-quality video, just over two minutes long, shows a brief …
Massive Webcam Spying Program Exposed
*Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to …
The Dating Scam You Have To Hear To Believe
“A group of Japanese singles filed a lawsuit against real estate agents which they accused of faking romantic interest so they will be persuaded to purchase properties from them. The twelve plaintiffs, two men and ten women, are all in their early 30s to 40s. The victims sued 14 companies, real estate firms, and loan companies, and are seeking …
Paula Deen Compares Herself To ‘That Black Football Player’
“Eight months after her fall from Southern grace, celebrity chef Paula Deen is looking to make a comeback. In People magazine’s cover story this week, Deen said that she’s “fighting to get my name back” after an admission of using the N-word brought her public shame in June. “I feel like ’embattled’ or ‘disgraced’ will always follow my name,” …