Authorities have released a timeline of events from the start of the killer’s mayhem to the time a SWAT team blasted their way into his 32nd floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort.
Paddock began firing thousands of rounds of bullets at 10.05pm local time (4.05pm AEDT), killing 58 people and injuring 489 others…
Speaking as a fan of David Lynch – The Elephant Man and Eraserhead being two of the most engaging films ever made – I think I cannot have been entirely alone in finding Twin Peaks a bit tricky to follow. With Eraserhead that didn’t matter so much, because you probably weren’t supposed to, and it was just the one standalone movie, but with the serialised Twin Peaks, shown a quarter of a century ago, it was rather more self-defeating. It was always difficult to justify the investment required to understand it, though it also meant that missing a few instalments had little material effect on viewer enjoyment.
Anyway the troupe are back – Kyle MacLachlan as special agent Dale Cooper, Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer) and Twin Peaks, Wendy Robie (Nadine Hurley) and the rest, all looking remarkably fine after such a passage of time. Maybe prophetically, Laura’s words at the end of the last run were “I’ll see you again in 25 years”. Maybe they’ll be back again in 2042, and that will make it Three Peaks. Maybe. Eight instalments in all, this time round, by the way,
A sort of cross between The Thorn Birds, I, Daniel Blake, and The Jeremy Kyle Show, Broken stars Sean Bean as a down-to-earth and excessively cool Roman Catholic priest in a deprived neighbourhood, and Anna Friel is his hard-pressed “Broken Britain” parishioner, single-mum and symbol of all that is wrong with Theresa May’s Britain. I suppose – the politics isn’t bashed out too clumsily, but you certainly feel as though the welfare state isn’t quite providing the safety net it is supposed to.
So this is “gritty” stuff, a revival of the social realism that hits television in waves – the 1960s and 1990s also witnessed it. I have no idea if it will make anyone more likely to vote for Jeremy Corbyn, but the plot is cleverly constructed, with one desperate and irrational act concatenated upon another and propelling Friel’s character onto what looks to be a disastrous journey. So quite grabby, this first of six parts.
On the election, this week we have Andrew Neil interviewing the main party leaders every night, with Theresa May up first on Monday evening. The “long-form” political interview seems to have gone out of fashion a bit recently, and that is a great shame, because such forensic duels could make for really gripping television. Andrew Marr’s Sunday morning show is the nearest we get to them, but such exercises are all too rare. Well done, then, the BBC for setting aside some peak-time BBC1 real estate for this exercise in democratic accountability. A must-see, even if you’re a bit bored with “strong and stable” slogans.
For documentaries my highlight, having worked at the Walkers crisps factory in my student holidays (and proud of it), is Secrets of our Favourite Snacks. I never cease to be astonished at the variety and volume of snacks that can occupy yard upon yard of supermarket space and, I confess, I can never get enough of roast chicken flavour. But I am perfectly happy with Pringles, Skips, Frazzles, Monster Munch, Quavers (do they still do those?), those miniature pretzels, the crisps they do without any salt, Seabrooks (from Bradford, and worthy competitors to Walkers of Leicester), Hula Hoops, Wheat Crunchies (especially tomato) and Mini Cheddars. If you worked on the production line at Walkers they’d let you eat as many as you liked, all nice and warm and as fresh and as crunchy as they could be. Delicious, but the start of a very bad habit.
I also ought to mention Count Arthur Strong, who this week takes on some rather crudely drawn gangsters. It’s not Count Arthur at his best (creator Steve Delaney is on tour at the minute, if you want to glimpse the peaks of comic genius Arthur can reach), but, as I’ve said before, any Count Arthur is better than none. Still room for improvement, though.
Last – you can waste plenty of time wandering round RHS Chelsea Flower Show, as hosted by Monty Don and Joe Swift, in the BBC’s week-long coverage. But shouldn’t you be making up your hanging baskets by now?
Source: Twin Peaks, Broken, The Andrew Neil Interviews – TV preview | The Independent
While the map does not show every computer that was infected by the ransomware, it shows that the attack struck simultaneously in many countries around the globe. MalwareTech collected the data by taking control of one of the domain names used in the attack.
The map shows infected computers that attempted to communicate with the server between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Eastern. Some infections between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. were not recorded.
They said he’d never be able to get away with behaving like this; that the fury and threats of his Twitter feed would come up against the sobering realities of government.
But those who thought President Trump would be neutered by Washington were wrong.
For all his misjudged tendency to talk publicly about investigations that should be secret, Mr Comey is widely admired for his integrity and independence — not least by Trump himself, who blew him a kiss in January and praised his ‘guts’ in reopening a probe into Hillary Clinton’s emails just before last year’s election.
Comey has run America’s most important law enforcement agency since 2013 and had six years to serve. Yet he was ejected like a losing contestant on Mr Trump’s reality TV show, The Apprentice, with an abrupt note telling him he had been ‘terminated’.
The White House machine attempted to insist that Comey was sacked after an investigation into his handling of the Hillary email case. But as Trump was swamped yesterday by ferocious accusations that he’s engineering a cover-up and abusing his power, it was clear that nobody in Washington buys the official line.
Comey’s demise, they are convinced, is entirely to do with Russia — and Trump’s growing frustration at the FBI inquiry into claims that members of his team colluded with the Kremlin to help him win the election via the hacking and leaking of sensitive information about his opponents.
Donald Trump may have shrugged off accusations of misogyny and racism over the past year. But the suggestion that he or close aides might be Russian agents, willingly propelled into the White House by Muscovite dirty tricks, is a dark cloud hanging stubbornly over his presidency.
It was claimed yesterday that the President had been mulling over sacking Comey for more than a week after becoming ‘enraged’ by the continuing Russia investigation. He had reportedly asked aides repeatedly why the controversy — which he has dismissed as ‘fake news’ — wouldn’t disappear. Sometimes, he ‘would scream at television clips about the probe’, said one underling.
That angry petulance has long been a feature of his character. When you’re a billionaire businessman, you probably think you can yell at employees as you please. But the same isn’t true of the President.
So will Trump’s latest act backfire appallingly? Some Democrat congressmen argued that the mere fact he was willing to sack his FBI chief — the first time a president has done so since 1993 — suggests Trump is convinced that he will be implicated.
As Adam Schiff, a Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, put it, the sacking ‘raises profound questions about whether the White House is brazenly interfering in a criminal matter’.
If the President’s political opponents weren’t previously determined to see the Russia inquiries through to the bitter end, they certainly are now.
Ted Lieu, a Democrat congressman, appealed to FBI agents to remember that their oath of office demands loyalty to the country’s justice system rather than to the President.
Amid all the rancour, it was deliciously ironic that the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov arrived at the White House yesterday, less than a day after the FBI director was sacked.
He was there for talks on Syria and Ukraine but — in a telling illustration of a recent thawing of relations between the Trump and Putin camps — felt he could crack a joke about the biggest story in America. When asked about Mr Comey, he said with a sarcastic smile: ‘Was he fired? You’re kidding.’
The row has also reminded people of the extraordinary dossier compiled by a former British MI6 agent alleging that the Kremlin had sensational compromising information against Trump over his activities in the past in Russia.
Allegations — strenuously denied by Trump and generally not regarded as credible — referred to tawdry accounts of hijinks with escort girls in a Moscow hotel.
For all his insistence that he has nothing personally to answer in the Russia collusion investigations, the President is certainly not out of the woods.
Sources say that the FBI has what one describes as ‘concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and [Russian] agents relating to the use of hacked material’ from Democratic emails last year.
There is no doubt that Trump and his family have had extensive and well-documented business dealings with Russians since the Eighties…
READ MORE HERE: Has Terminator Trump sowed the seeds of his own downfall? | Daily Mail Online
Tens of thousands of people gathered in the pre-dawn light at Kings Park to remember those who lost their lives in war.
As dawn spilled in over the city skyline from the east, the lone bugler stepped forward to play the iconic last post, signalling those who fell to rest.
Among those who laid wreaths were WA Governor Kerry Sanderson, Premier Mark McGowan and Returned and Service League (RSL) state president Peter Aspinall.
World War II veteran John Wade said he was happy to see so many children at Kings Park.
“They are interested, otherwise they wouldn’t be there on a chilly morning would they?” he said.
A MAN has died after he was shot by police officers after a traffic stop in Darlington, in the Perth Hills.
Police said the 29-year-old man was in the passenger side of a Ford Falcon sedan armed with a shot gun when he was stopped about 5.30pm on Thursday.
The shooting happened on Pine Terrace, with one local saying children were in the area in the minutes leading up to “five shots being fired”.
Police confirmed on Friday morning that “officers fired their weapons and the man received a number of gunshot wounds”.
They said police administered First Aid and St John Ambulance attended, but the man died at the scene.
VIDEO: Darlington police shooting: man shot by officers in Perth Hills dies | Perth Now
A preview clip for Tuesday night’s episode of the FYI reality series sees Jaclyn calling her temporary spouse James to tell him that his wife Kelsey was texting her husband Dustin at 2am.
Source: Seven Year Switch star wanted to cheat on her husband | Daily Mail Online
