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.

Russian state television has provoked a storm of criticism after it aired an uncorroborated report claiming that the Ukrainian army publicly nailed a three-year-old boy to a board in a former rebel stronghold.

Ukraine accused Russia of ratcheting up its propaganda war by airing an interview in which a woman gave graphic details of the alleged incident in the Ukrainian flashpoint city of Slavyansk, which neither AFP nor other media have been able to confirm.


Channel One television at the weekend broadcast footage of a woman who said she recently saw Ukrainian soldiers round up people in central Slavyansk, which the army took over this month after three months of clashes with separatists, and nail an insurgent's child to a notice board.

A spokeswoman for Ukraine's interior ministry, Natalya Stativko, on Monday slammed the report as "following in the footsteps of Goebbels," Nazi Germany's minister of propaganda.

Saturday brought a turning point to Operation Strong Cliff.^* Everybody was expecting one, the start of an IDF ground operation in Gaza Strip. Instead, at 4:30PM, July 12, 2014, Hamas made history. After almost a week of brutal bombings of Gaza, it pulled out its best missiles and hit Nahariya, a Jewish town on the border with Lebanon.

Hamas Shocks Israel

The list of "Red Color" sirens heard on July 12, 2014, 4:30PM starts with Nahariya, 170km north of Gaza. "Tzeva Adom" (Red Color) is the IDF code for approaching missiles. One missile fell on an open space in the town, setting a distance record for Hamas. It fire capabilities cover the entire Coastal Plain.

There were at least two other massive launching events at 3PM and 4PM. The launching included medium and large range rockets and short-range mortars.

Ashkelon, near Gaza, was hit seven times during the day. In one of the sites hit, a fire started.

In 2012, during Operation Pillar of Cloud, I used official IDF data and calculated a success rate of 25% of the antimissiles used. This was in contradiction to the 75% claimed by Hebrew media. In the linked articles I described the statistical manipulations used by the IDF.

More careful than then, the IDF is now reporting the success rate on a daily base. It is below 25%.

Day...............Launchings...Intercepts...Success Rate
Monday.........63...................11................17%
Tuesday........157.................29................18%
Wednesday...130.................24................18%
Thursday.......197.................44................22%
Friday............137.................27................20%
Saturday........124................10..................8%

A point to keep in mind is that the price of the launched rockets starts at $100 for cheap Kassam missiles. Every antimissile launching costs over $50,000.

In the following night, four soldiers from Shayetet 13, the IDF Naval Commando, were hurt while unsuccessfully trying to invade a Hamas launching base. They were taken to the hospital in Ashkelon, the most hit town on Saturday. On the Jewish Shabbat, Hamas launched its best rockets and shocked Israel.

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) officials announced that residents of some Donetsk districts are suburban areas are being evacuated in an orderly manner due to constant artillery strikes carried out by Ukrainian troops, reports Interfax.

"We evacuated around 500 people just yesterday in the evening from the private household districts, which were subject to artillery fire, so on average we evacuate regularly seven to eight buses from the city districts and suburbs," DPR First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Purgin told reporters.

"The evacuation is being held in an orderly fashion and information of large-scale evacuations of the entire Donetsk population does not exist," he stressed.

According to Purgin's statement, Ukrainian military continually shells Donetsk suburbs and its outskirts. As a result of gunfire last night about 15 people were killed, the militia reported.

The militia fighters said that over the past day they have "destroyed about 100 personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces, five tanks, two infantry combat vehicles"

People's militia fighters in the southeast of Ukraine have armed themselves with tanks, warplanes, multiple rocket launcher systems and artillery. According to the self-defense forces of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, the armaments have been taken in combat with the Ukrainian security forces. People's militia fighters previously said that they managed to start an exhibition sample of a WW2 tank that was removed from a military memorial pedestal.