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.

Apparently outraged by a verbal reproach of his driving habits, a young man deliberately ran over an elderly driver who dared to criticize him. The shocking footage was leaked onto YouTube which led to criminal charges against the enraged motorist.

Recorded by a dashcam of one of the witnesses of the road clash, the disturbing footage shows a number of cars moving through one of the Moscow's streets. The date stamp on the footage shows the incident took place on Monday, around 15:53 GMT.

As the traffic halted on a red light, an elderly man got out of the vehicle and approached a car that was tagging behind him for some time and even tried to perform a rightside passing at a previous intersection.

After apparent brief verbal exchange, as the elderly man was trying to get back into his Nissan Almera, the driver of BMW 116 with whom the verbal conflict took place, blatantly runs him over - pinning the Nissan driver against his own car in broad daylight.

What is more shocking, is that he just left the scene of the accident, but not before getting out of his white BMW to check for damages to his car. Witnesses had to rush in to aid the injured man, who was taken to hospital.

In March 2010, Obamacare was about to be voted upon by the House of Representatives, and the Democrats were in the process of deciding whether to ignore public opinion at their peril. At that time, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that Obamacare would cost $938 billion over a decade and would reduce the number of uninsured people by 19 million as of 2014 (with a reduction of 1 million prior to 2014 and 18 million in 2014 alone). Unimpressed, the American people overwhelmingly opposed the intrusive overhaul - with 20 of 21 polls taken that month showing it to be unpopular, most of them by double digits. The Democrats willfully passed Obamacare anyway and lost 63 House seats that November.

Two years later, the Supreme Court declared Obamacare's coercive Medicaid expansion to be unconstitutional as written, and the CBO adjusted its projection for the number of uninsured accordingly. It projected that Obamacare would reduce the number of uninsured by 14 million as of 2014 (2 million before 2014 and 12 million in 2014 alone), at a 10-year cost of $1.677 trillion - or $739 billion more than the 2010 projection. (This February, the CBO projected that Obamacare's 10-year cost would eclipse $2 trillion.)

Thousands have fled northern Gaza after Israel warned residents to leave the area to avoid airstrikes. At least 167 people, mostly civilians, have already died as a result of Operation Protective Edge, which entered its sixth day on Sunday.

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Israel dropped leaflets in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, located near the border with Israel, urging residents to leave the region by midday Sunday and warning of airstrikes on Hamas sites.

Residents of the town, which has a population of 70,000, were told via the leaflets and telephone calls that "those who fail to comply with the instructions to leave immediately will endanger their lives and the lives of their families."

At least 167 Palestinians - most of them civilians, including about 30 children - have died as a result of airstrikes since Israel's Operation Protective Edge began on Tuesday, Gaza's Health Ministry reported. More than 1,100 others have been injured.