Georgia - The Chattooga County School District has signed a five-year contract to use StudentConnect, a product that lets school districts and parents track students using ID cards that contain radio frequency identification device (RFID) chips. The program will be free of charge to the school system and optional for parents."The service is offered free of charge to the school system", said Kayode "Kay" Aladesuyi, chairman and CEO of East Coast Diversified Corp., the holding company that owns StudentConnect.

"StudentConnect plans to make money through advertising that will show up on parents' smartphones along with text messages or email notifications of their children's whereabouts."

Using the RFID badges is not being sold at cost to parents, however, it is being given away for free. It will know when and where students get on and off the bus and notify the bus drivers if a student gets on the wrong bus or fails to get off the bus.

Israel Is Winning the Propaganda War

Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza?

So far, Americans don't know or don't care ...

A new poll by Pew shows that only 14% of Americans sympathize with Palestinians, while 51% - including 73% of all Republicans and 44% of Democrats - sympathize with Israel:
Numerous other polls show similar results.

Jose Aguinelo dos Santos, who lives in an old people's home Bauru, Brazil, was, according to the document, born on July 7 1888 - making him 126 years old. If the certificate is genuine, he is the oldest person EVER - beating Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who was born in 1875, and died in the town of Arles in 1997 at the age of 122. The oldest man to ever live was Jiroemon Kimura, of Kyotango, Japan, who died aged 116 in June last year.

Mr dos Santos, who is known as Ze, has never married or had children, eats a plate of rice and beans and smokes a packet of cigarettes every day.

The former coffee plantation worker was born just two months after slavery was abolished in Brazil. He was born in a slave compound in the town of Pedra Branca in northeastern Brazil.

He told Brazil's G1 website there is no secret to living a long life: "The truth is that you just keep getting older. You take each stage at a time. If I got to this age it's because I've lived a lot, that's all."

Mariana Silva, psychologist at the Vila Vicentina home, said Jose has no health problems and is so lucid he still amuses other residents by cracking one-liners.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed - Martin Luther King
Once Again, Detroit Prosecutors have attempted to bring criminal charges against Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo. And once again, they have failed.

On March 24, 2011, the Maryanne Godboldo case garnered international headlines when images of a battle-ready SWAT team, tanks and a helicopter, were unleashed upon a Detroit mother for refusing to administer a dangerous and potentially lethal antipsychotic drug to her daughter. The illegal seizure of the then 13-year old caused a firestorm of press and public outcry. By December 11th, 2011, nine months and numerous court battles later, Godboldo was acquitted of all charges based on the unconstitutional and illegal seizure of the child.

But Detroit prosecutors seemed hell bent on making an example of Maryanne Godboldo, attempting and failing twice in the last few months to prosecute Godboldo. Last Friday, July 11th, 2014, there was loud applause in the court when Judge Gregory Bill reaffirmed the dismissal of criminal charges against the Detroit mother for a second time this year.

Watch video to see Maryanne Godboldo describe all her fears coming true when the state took and force drugged her daughter:

The Ku Klux Klan is recruiting in South Carolina, leaving bags of candy and anti-immigration literature in people's driveways during the group's 'national night ride', its triannual membership drive.

Residents in a Seneca subdivision, a town of just over 8,000 in the northwest corner of the state, woke up Sunday morning to find bags of candy labelled, "Save our land, join the Klan." The flier also included the number of the "Klan Hotline," WHNS reported.

The voicemail at the number listed with the candy says, "Be a man join the Klan! Illegal immigration is destroying America," discusses immigration concerns and ends with, "always remember if it ain't white, it ain't right. White power."

One woman and her family found the candy when they ran it over on their way to church. She said it shocked her and made her angry.

Washington - Dozens of employees at Florida amusement parks, including Disney World, have been arrested in recent years for sex crimes involving children, according to an investigation by broadcaster CNN.

A Disney spokesperson confirmed the arrests to dpa on Tuesday. Police and court documents show at least 42 arrests since 2006 of amusement park employees, including 35 from Disney World in Orlando, Florida, two SeaWorld employees and five employees of Universal Studios amusement park.

Those arrested included security officers, tour guides, a costumer, salesmen in gift shops and others. None of the unrelated cases involved guests at the parks. Several of the arrests involved possession of child pornography or police sting operations in which men solicited sex with people they believed were minors.

Disney spokesperson Jacquee Wahler stressed the park's commitment to keeping children safe and noted extensive background checks on employees. "Providing a safe environment for children and families is a responsibility we take very seriously," she told dpa.

"The numbers reported by CNN represent one one-hundredth of 1 per cent of the 300 000 people we have employed during this time period."

Disney World employs 70 000 people at its resort in Florida.

Source: South African Press Association

The latest price-fixing scandal to hit Germany has seen 21 companies fined a total of €338m (£270m) for collusion on pricing its national dish - the humble sausage.

The country's Federal Cartel Office (FCO), fresh from slapping a similar penalty on 10 breweries and three sugar producers earlier this year, said it had found evidence of anti-competitive practice in the sausage sector going back years, leading to higher shop prices.

The national competition watchdog said: "Numerous statements and documentation prove that there was a 'fundamental understanding' to agree regularly on requests for price increases."

In addition to the companies involved, including Herta, the watchdog also levelled penalties against 33 individuals. It charted pricing activity among firms and company officials on the sidelines of an annual sausage industry summit.

The FCO explained that sausage makers had met legitimately for decades, but found some members were also conducting discussions and agreements over pricing - often in private phone calls.

In its latest annual report, which was published last week, the cartel office said it expected to issue a record number of fines for anti-competitive behaviour this year. Already in February, the watchdog fined three large sugar producers - Pfeifer & Langen, Suedzucker and Nordzucker - €280m (£220m) for price-fixing.

The breweries were fined more than €300m (£238m) at the beginning of the year for fixing beer prices between 2006 and 2008.

Rihanna tweeted a message of support for Palestine following a week of deadly violence in the area and quickly deleted it minutes later.

TMZ reached out to Rihanna's rep for a comment on the tweet that went out to her 36 million followers, but no explanation yet. Rihanna is known for being outspoken on social media, but it seems that this isn't a subject either she or someone higher up wanted to tackle.

My money is on someone from her management at Roc Nation putting the kibosh on her activism but I doubt we'll ever know for sure.

This isn't the first time Rihanna has been thought to express support for Palestine. Last October, it was reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz that during a performance in Tel Aviv, Rihanna changed the lyrics of her song "Pour It Up" from "All I see is signs / All I see is dollar signs" to "All I see is Palestine." Haartez later issued a retraction of the lyric change.

Just days after getting arrested in a child sex sting, Robert Kingsolver is a long way from his beloved job at Walt Disney World.

Inside his rented house in a suburban Orlando neighborhood filled with children, he sits in a folding chair in a nearly empty room, wires dangling in the corner where his computer used to be connected.

Now, he can't be online or near children.

"My life is ruined," he told CNN in an interview at his home. "My family's life is ruined. My kids' life is ruined. I've devastated my parents because of bad judgment."

Kingsolver, 49, is one of at least 35 Disney employees arrested since 2006 and accused of sex crimes involving children, trying to meet a minor for sex, or for possession of child pornography, according to a six-month CNN investigation that examined police and court records, and interviewed law enforcement officials and some of the men who have been arrested.

Five Universal Studios employees and two employees from SeaWorld have also been arrested.

So far, a total of 32 have been convicted, with the remaining cases pending.

Two cases, which were for possession of child pornography, occurred on Disney property, according to police reports.

None of the cases involved children or teenagers visiting the parks.

Kingsolver, a service manager who oversaw ride repairs at the Magic Kingdom, has pleaded not guilty to soliciting a child for sexual acts and traveling to meet a minor for unlawful sexual activity.

He said he thought he was going to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex at a house set up by detectives from the Lake County, Florida, Sheriff's Office, according to police records. Instead, when he showed up at the house, he was met by detectives.

Kingsolver told CNN he was just trying to protect the girl, and planned to call authorities when he showed up at the house. He said his family is standing by him.

"They love me," Kingsolver said. "My kids know me, and they know how much I care for kids. They know that their dad is not somebody that will go out and hurt a young child. They know their dad is somebody that would go out and protect a young child at any cost."

Other Disney employees caught up in the police stings and child porn cases include security guards, a costumer, a VIP tour guide in training, a gift shop employee and maintenance workers, according to police and court records.

Fourteen different rice paddies outside of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant evacuation zone were contaminated with radioactive material in August 2013, Japan's agriculture ministry has found.

Despite the findings - which blamed the removal of a large piece of debris from the Fukushima No. 3 reactor building for the contamination - Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) is moving ahead with plans to remove more highly radioactive debris from the No. 1 reactor building later this month.

According to the Asahi Shimbun, TEPCO's removal process was halted when the agriculture ministry informed it of the contamination back in March, but operations are set to begin again soon. The ministry instructed the operator to implement protective measures for future work, but it's unclear how extensive those changes are. One thing TEPCO officials will do is deploy more anti-scattering agents than they did before, but the company cautioned that "a large amount of radioactive substances" would likely be released anyway.

"(If TEPCO hopes to resume rubble-clearing operations), providing information on the possibility of the spread of (contaminated substances) is a major premise," Takehiko Murayama of the Tokyo Institute of Technology said to the newspaper.

In addition to the fourteen paddies contaminated beyond the Fukushima evacuation zone, five sites within the zone were also contaminated. The rice paddies are located in the city of Minami-Soma - more than 20 kilometers away from the nuclear plant itself - and government officials said that crops gathered in August featured cesium levels beyond Japan's safety limit of 100 becquerels per kilogram

So far, officials believe Minami-Soma is the only city within Fukushima prefecture containing multiple sites with such high cesium levels.