May 21, 2013

Stubenville, OH Teens Ma’Lik Richmond and Trent Mays Found Guilty of Rape

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*(Via CBS News) – Two former star high school football players broke down and openly wept on Sunday morning in court after being found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl during a night of partying last August. Ma’Lik Richmond, 16, and Trent Mays, 17, had been charged with digitally penetrating the intoxicated girl twice on [...]




Teen in Steubenville Rape Case Speaks to ABC (Watch)

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*One of two high school sophomore football player in Steubenville, Ohio accused of raping a 16-year-old girl from across the Ohio River in West Virginia while at a party with several other teenage boys is speaking out about the incident. Ma’lik Richmond, 16, spoke with ABC News about the case, which has created a firestorm [...]




Fox News Guest Receives Death Threats After Saying Guns Won’t Solve Rape of Women (Video)

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*The Fox News channel is regularly under fire for their ultra conservative views, incendiary statements, and racist viewpoints. Even when it appears that they are making a step in the right direction, their viewers step in to say the things they cannot. Zerlina Maxwell is a Griot contributor and regular guest on Fox News. But [...]




Snoop Ignores Question about Girl’s Gang Rape in India

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*Snoop Dogg has just arrived in Mumbai for his first trip to India, which will include the rapper’s performance in the western city of Pune near Mumbai today, and in Gurgaon near Delhi on Sunday. At a press conference in Mumbai Thursday, Snoop was asked by a reporter from news network Times Now to comment [...]




Chris Rock Settles Breach Lawsuit involving Model, Pellicano

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*Chris Rock has reached a confidential settlement to end a lawsuit that involves a Hungarian model, paternity, Anthony Pellicano and a Kleenex tissue kept in a freezer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the legal claim was filed by Monika Zsibrita in Los Angeles Superior Court. She brought a paternity action against Rock more than a [...]




The Socialist’s Journal: Protesting Victoria’s Secret’s PINK Panties Series

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*Hannah Brancato and Rebecca Nagle recently made news when they promoted a line of panties satirizing the Victoria’s Secret PINK series. Only their statement was less comical and more political. The PINK line of panties by Victoria’s Secret features slogans such as “Sure Thing”, “No Peeking”, and “Yes No Maybe.” For Brancato and Nagle these [...]




It Gets Worse at First Baptist Church of Hammond, IN

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*The sermon was called “The Polished Shaft,” and in the many times that Jack Schaap, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, had delivered it, it was the kind of showstopper that made him a rock star to his flock, says BCNN1.com. (Or would have, had Schaap not habitually railed against the evils of rock [...]




Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Settle Rape Case with Maid

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*A settlement may have been reached in the alleged attempted rape case between former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid. According to the Associated Press, however, his troubles may not be over as he is now being accused of being linked to a French prostitution ring. A source leaked that lawyers [...]




Condoleezza Rice Supports Mitt Romney on Women’s Issues

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*Condoleezza Rice, who served as President George W. Bush’s secretary of state, is speaking out in defense of the GOP presidential ticket on women’s issues, saying the Romney-Ryan ticket will “respect” those who differ with them on those subjects. “I would like to say to people that I am not always in agreement with everything [...]




Mike Tyson Shut Out of New Zealand: Visa Cancelled

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*Former boxing champ Mike Tyson is no longer allowed into New Zealand. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Officials at the country’s Immigration Service have reversed their decision to grant Tyson entry into the country, where he had hoped to stage his one-man show for charity next month. The decision came after a benefactor at New [...]




Man Beats, Rapes, and Taunts Philadelphia Woman ‘I Gave You HIV’ (Video)

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*The sick individuals in the world are on the rise this week. Women can’t walk the streets in the day or in the night for fear of an attack. One woman was beaten nearly unrecognizable in Philadelphia a couple weeks ago. He is still at large and Philadelphia police are offering a $10,000 reward for [...]




On the Record: Clifton Powell Denies Rape Accusations

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*It’s been a year since actor Clifton Powell was first accused of raping a Harrah’s employee in New Orleans. During a phone conversation with the Ryan Cameron Show,  he protested that the story is a big lie. “I’ve never hurt anyone,” theactor featured in “Friday,” “Ray,” “The Brothers” and decades of other movies and television [...]




The Socialist’s Journal: The Implosion of the Republican Party

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*In the beginning of The Princess Bride after Vizzini repeatedly uses the word “inconceivable” another character tells him: “I do not think it means what you think it means.” That basic disagreement about a word is used for a laugh in the movie but the idea that people can hear a word, see a scene, [...]




Rape Victim Gabby Union Rips Akin for ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment (Video)

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*Gabrielle Union is hot about some very ignorant remarks made by GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin recently about rape. Akin, who opposes abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, told an interviewer over the weekend that in cases of “legitimate rape,” women won’t get pregnant. Say what? Monday, on MSNBC’s “NOW with Alex Wagner,” [...]




Georgia Man Receives Life Sentence for Rape

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*The man who broke into a DeKalb County church and raped a woman pleaded guilty to the crimes Friday in court and was sentenced to two life sentences, reports AJC. John Russell Carver (pictured), 51, pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including rape, armed robbery, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, burglary and possession of a [...]