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Roughly 20 attorneys provided notice to the McLennan County District Attorney's Office Monday that they intend for District Attorney Abel Reyna to be a material defense witness in the Twin Peaks shooting biker trials moving forward. The May 17, 2015 shootout, which involved both motorcyclists and law enforcement members, resulted in the deaths of nine people and the arrests of 177. Last week, Reyna -- who is currently prosecuting the first case involving Dallas Bandido Jake Carrizal -- recused himself from the next case against Matthew Clendennen. On Monday, defense attorneys representing the other bikers filed motions saying they believed...

Video at link. It's 4 minutes and 15 seconds in length. The first part of the video shows that Malmoe is now populated by immigrants as the Swedes have fled to other areas. At the 2:51 mark, the vlogger explains that the banks are now switching to cashless transactions. He notes that the bank will not accept cash deposits and asks questions when large sums of money are transferred. He feels that it's partly done to protect banks from bank runs it's a switch to the New World order (coming to a town near you soon?).

A key piece is missing from the national discussion about sexual harassment. The media’s spotlight on this terrible epidemic is welcome news for females everywhere, as the culture of silence has finally been dealt a severe blow. But, what about the men? I’m not referring to the lowlifes that victimize women—men that view us as objects to be groped, manhandled, or as the punch line in a dirty joke. I’m talking about the men who have witnessed this harassment or know it’s happened, but cowardly choose to stay silent.

Kevin Spacey's older brother Randall Fowler has spoken out about their abusive father, exclusively to DailyMail.com Spacey, 58, is facing allegations of trying to seduce actor Anthony Rapp when he was 14 years old and sexually assaulting a relative of Heather Unruh Fowler, 62, claims that their father Thomas Geoffrey Fowler was a Nazi and would rape Fowler throughout his adolescence and that his mother knew of the abuse Fowler said: 'There was so much darkness in our home ... It was absolutely miserable. Kevin tried to avoid what was going on' The limo driver claims that he personally didn't...

His late-night statement outraged many, particularly in the LGBT community, who accused Spacey of trying to deflect from a serious accusation — making a sexual advance on a minor — by coming out and implying that it was his choice to be gay. For years, the actor has danced around rumors he had relationships with other men.“Coming out stories should not be used to deflect from allegations of sexual assault,” GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement. “This is not a coming out story about Kevin Spacey, but a story of survivorship by Anthony Rapp and all those...

The View this morning started by covering the big news about the indictment of Paul Manafort, but things got very heated as soon as Hillary Clinton came up. Sara Haines remarked on the story that the “nothing-burger…tastes really good” right now, and Sunny Hostin also mentioned the indictment. Resident conservative Meghan McCain decided to tie in the recent news about the Clinton campaign/DNC ties to the Trump-Russia dossier, and as the panel went back and forth about this, Hostin cried, “Hillary Clinton is not the President and Hillary Clinton wasn’t just indicted!” McCain shot back she’s just trying to provide...

Last week, President Trump took to his Twitter account to promote a new book by Robert Jeffress. Jeffress hosted Fox News personality Sean Hannity at his church’s Sunday service, where he also gave a sermon denouncing the Supreme Court decisions that have allowed for abortion and disallowed government-sponsored prayer in schools, which he said will eventually cause the country’s “implosion.” Jeffress even linked the 1962 Engle v. Vitale decision on school-sponsored prayer to the numerous allegations of sexual assault against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, saying that what Weinstein is alleged to have done was the “natural result” of the nation...

Phil Robertson, the “Duck Dynasty” celebrity who will soon be getting his own program on the online CRTV network, suggested recording artist Beyoncé was responsible for sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, warning that her music would lead Americans into the “microbe world” that will “rot your genitals off.” In a social media video shared on Robertson’s Facebook page, Robertson listened to clips of various pop songs and predictably expressed his disapproval. Things started to go off the rails, however, when Robertson listened to Beyoncé’s song “Blow.” Robertson motioned for the song to be cut off. “And you wonder...

Actress Amber Tamblyn has claimed that the recent allegations of sexual assault and harassment against Harvey Weinstein would not have surfaced if Hillary Clinton had been elected last year. The 34-year-old star, who is very outspoken on the issue of sexual harassment, recently spoke to Cosmopolitan.com about how things have changed in Hollywood since Donald Trump was elected president. Amber argued that there has been a silver lining in living under the Trump administration, claiming that women are now feeling more free to speak out in cases of abuse. 'I think that without him being elected, if it had been...

What's the connection between Puccini, Neville Chamberlain and David Bowie? Answer: The biggest hit of a prodigious talent who died a few days ago at the age of 89. Fats Domino sold over 65 million records, which is more than any other Fifties rocker save a certain E. Presley. But he was such a modest and self-effacing man (and not just by comparison with relentless self-promoters such as Chuck Berry and Little Richard) that the part he played in a particularly turbulent period of American popular music was often relegated to an afterthought. He last swam, almost literally, into public...

One of Washington's most powerful lobbying firms did not disclose the wide extent of its lucrative political work for a Ukrainian group tied to both onetime Trump adviser Paul Manafort and to pro-Russian politicians, new records show. The firm, the Podesta Group, said nothing in a 2012 lobbying report to Congress about at least 32 meetings, emails and other communications it had with the State Department, at a time when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was scrutinizing Ukraine's upcoming election, records show. The new disclosures shed light on the web of contacts between Russian-leaning Ukrainians, Washington lobbyists and U.S. policymakers...

At some point in your childhood, you probably decided you’d had enough of the tyranny of living in a loving family home where your every need is met. I recall doing that myself at about age 7. I gathered all my favorite children's books and prepared to exit through the back door of the house. That was as far as I got. The books were too heavy to carry by myself. Plus, it was night time, and it was scary outside. I decided to endure the tyranny a little longer. Long enough to have a hot chocolate, anyway. So much...

American Indian, opposite gender, Mexicans, and members of a certain religion are among the costumes some colleges do not want you to dress up as this Halloween. Administrators or students at The College of New Jersey, Millersville University in Pennsylvania, and other institutions have issued warnings ahead of Halloween regarding the costumes people should wear. “Although the intention may be innocent, the impact can often be damaging,” said Baldween Casseus, the student government vice president of diversity and inclusion at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), in an email sent to the college community and obtained by The Daily Caller...

Video at link. I haven't read about these bombings online. The only photo police released showed....no identifying information.

An artificial intelligence run by the Russian internet giant Yandex has morphed into a violent and offensive chatbot that appears to endorse the brutal Stalinist regime of the 1930s. Users of the “Alice” assistant, an alternative to Siri or Google Assistant, have reported it responding positively to questions about domestic violence and saying that “enemies of the people” must be shot. Yandex, Russia’s answer to Google, unveiled Alice earlier two weeks ago. It is designed to answer voice commands and questions with a human-like accuracy that its rivals are incapable of. The difference between Alice and other assistants, apart from...

Twenty years ago - October 31st 1997 - a pair of actors emerged from Seneca Creek State Park in Maryland and were taken to the local Denny's for their first full meal after eight days in the woods living on Power Bars and bananas. They had been filming a "naturalistic" horror film, and described how "surreal" it felt to return to the real world and be surrounded by booths of people dressed in Halloween costumes. And thus did one of the most unusual of all movie shoots wrap. It's hard now to recall how huge this thing was upon its...

"Oswald subject was trained, under cover of the office of Naval Intelligence, for Soviet assignments." #JFKFiles transforms another conspiracy theory to fact. #CIA trained #LeeHarveyOswald in 1957. Source: #4chan's [pol/ of course. Once again, #DJT keeps another promise    

There is a parallel between the core basics of survival and those things that nature takes from us in one of these powerful hurricanes. When I think of survival and the very basics, there is shelter, water, food and fire. As the powerful winds and punishing rains of Hurricane Harvey approached Texas people were most concerned with these survival basics. It was immediately apparent that there were many people unprepared to deal with the aftermath of this storm. Most resources were gobbled up in storm prep and no one really knew when trucks would return to Houston to restock shelves....

Video at link is 3:06 minutes in length. Vlogger relies upon National Hurricane Center simulations - diagram of new projected path at the start of the video. Storm is moving very fast at 29 miles per hour. This isn't the only vlogger who says this storm resembles Hurricane Sandy. Quick summary of the first minute of the video below in case you don't want to watch a video. Currently the storm is sitting over the left edge of Cuba with winds of 40 miles per hour. If it maintains it's current speed of 29 miles per hour. By 2 am...

Video at link. Boeng 757-200 at 30,000ft. The related article is at www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-5026537/Oklahoma-City-Thunder-stunned-bird-clashes-plane.html