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© KDKA-TV video screenshotRachael DelTondo
What happened to her?
Rachael DelTondo, an Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, school teacher, had just returned to her mother's home Sunday night after getting ice cream.
When she exited the vehicle, an assailant reportedly fired several shots into DelTondo's torso. According to KDKA-TV, DelTondo died at the scene.
The Beaver County Coroner's Office ruled the teacher's death a homicide, according to KDKA, and noted that she died of multiple gunshots.
A neighbor said that he heard at least six shots fired.
© Brian Snyder/Reuters
In a pointed rejection of Manafort's claims late on May 15, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sided with Mueller, ruling that his case against Manafort is not overly broad or improper despite not being directly connected to the election.
Manafort was charged in connection with his lobbying work for a pro-Russian former Ukrainian president years before serving briefly as the head of Trump's campaign in mid-2016.
The charges against him include conspiring to launder money, conspiring to defraud the United States, and failing to register as a lobbyist for a foreign government. He faces a second set of charges in Virginia that include bank fraud and filing false tax returns.Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, none of which are directly related to work he performed for Trump's campaign.
© Christine Olsson / ReutersRinkeby suburb, outside Stockholm, Sweden February 21, 2017.
By 2025, its entire workforce is expected to grow by 207,000 people-yet it needs more than that number just to staff its fabled welfare state. The worker shortfall could crimp services and raise labor costs, especially in a political environment less hospitable to immigration.
The mismatch is one of the biggest headaches facing Sweden's next government. Past precedents don't bode well. The workforce rose by 488,000 between 2007 and 2017, with less than a third of that increase absorbed by the public sector.
On 6 March 2016, the Washington Post bannered, "How to understand Putin's jaw-droppingly high approval ratings", and opened, "Russian President Vladimir Putin has an 83 percent approval rating."
It found a way to blame Russian culture for this, because they couldn't find a way to deny that Putin is extremely favorably viewed by the Russian people, and the WP is rabidly against Russia's Government; so, blaming Russia's culture (essentially, blaming Russians) for the findings was the best they were able to do.
© Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.orgA medic carries a Palestinian child during a protest in the Gaza Strip, as part of the Great March of Return, May 14, 2018
The Israeli army has shot and killed 68 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza while the Israeli High Court deliberates whether or not it is legal to shoot unarmed civilian protesters who pose no threat to human life. That number has likely gone up in the time since this article was published.
When a handful of human rights groups filed an urgent petition to the High Court on April 15, demanding that it strike down the army's open-fire regulations that authorize shooting unarmed civilians just because of their proximity to the Gaza border fence, army snipers had already gunned down 33 unarmed protesters in the Great Return March, including three minors.
© SANA
The seized amounts were hidden by terrorists of Jaish al-Islam and Jabhat al-Nusra within secret caches in al-Batra and al-Rhaiba Mountains to the northeast of al-Qutaifa area before they were evacuated to northern Syria.
A field commander told SANA that the uncovered amounts included tanks, rockets, mortar cannons, anti-armor missiles, machineguns, rifles, rocket shells, mortar rounds, RPG rounds and locally-made rocket launchers in addition to a robot which was used by terrorists to detonate explosive devices remotely.
Terrorism and US invasion pushes Iraq closer toward Iran as Shiite parties win Parliamentary victory
© AFP 2018 / Haidar HAMDANI
The success of Shiite parties in the May 12 Iraqi parliamentary elections was predictable from the outset, analysts told Sputnik Persian, stressing that they have long enjoyed support from Iran.
"The outcome of the parliamentary elections... was obvious, since Shiite Muslims constitute the majority of the population of Iraq," says Emad Abshenas, the editor-in-chief of the Iran Daily newspaper, chairman of NGO International and leader of the Iranian Reporters Without Borders group. "Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] destroyed infrastructure in many regions of the country with a predominantly Sunni population. Many residents fled, so, unfortunately, not all of them were able to vote."
© Unknown
A few days ago some 300 Holocaust survivors placed an ad in the New York Times condemning the massacre in Gaza. My colleague from Local Call, John Brown, has selected a few of the responses on Facebook that Israelis posted in response to the ad.
I've translated a few from John's selection:
David Cohen: Those aren't Holocaust survivors those are probably collaborators with the Nazis.
Shmulik Halphon: He's invited to go back to Auschwitz.
Itzik Levy: These are survivors who were Kapos. Leftist traitors. That's why they live abroad and not in the Jewish State.
Vitali Guttman: Enough, they should die already. They survived the Holocaust only to do another Holocaust to Israel in global public opinion?
Meir Dahan: No wonder Hitler murdered 6 million Jews because of people like you you're not even Jews you're disgusting people a disgrace to humanity and so are your offspring you are trash.
Comment: Such pathology in Israel appears to be widespread:
- Ponerized society: Poll shows that Israelis overwhelmingly support shooting of Palestinian protestors
- Thousands of Israelis hit the streets and rally for death to Palestinians
- Extreme Ponerization: Israeli officials and rabbis "honor" settler who beat, tortured and stripped Palestinian teenager
© Desconocido
After Israeli forces opened fire on a mass of Palestinians attempting to cross the border fence into Israel, reportedly killing at least 28, Coulter posted a link to a New York Times article about the shooting along with the text "Can we do that?"
Israel's heavy-handed clampdown on Palestinian protests - some of them violent and linked to terrorist organization Hamas - has been condemned by human rights watchdogs. Amnesty International called the Israeli response "another horrific example of the Israeli military using excessive force and live ammunition in a totally deplorable way." The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that Israel was committing "outrageous human rights violations."
Comment: Coulter is a troll. The irony is that many over-the-top conservatives like her, who rightfully point out all the flaws in Leftist ideology, would be the ones cheering on the executioners in a totalitarian state like that of the Nazis or the Soviets. They might even be the ones pulling the trigger, and enjoying it.
Comment: Still wrestling with legalities, Manafort may be going down for 'the counts'.