It's a story about a 17-pound rooster.
The minute-long video that somehow made its way onto Twitter was shared by 35,000 users as of Monday evening, and left thousands of people with a long list of questions: Is it a child in a chicken costume? Is it some kind of hybrid poultry that we didn’t know about?
Finally, after hours of unanswered questions, we got our answer. “The chicken in that video is a Heritage Breed Brahma Chicken,” The Livestock Conservancy confirmed in a Facebook post Monday afternoon.
Often referred to as the “King of All Poultry,” Brahmas are large chickens with feathers on shanks and toes that come in three color varieties — light, dark and yellowish-beige. They’ve been known to reach incredible weights of 13 to 14 pounds for hens and 17 to 19 pounds for cocks. That's a bit more than a capon, which is a castrated rooster, and about the same size as a domestic turkey. I'm guessing the Heritage Breed Brahma tastes like alligator.
[NYT] SEOUL, South Korea -- It was a dog-eared manuscript, 743 pages bound in string. But for Do Hee-youn, an activist campaigning for human rights in North Korea, it was nothing less than stunning.
In 2013, Mr. Do got hold of what he believed was the first manuscript by a living dissident writer in North Korea that had been smuggled out. Written in meticulous longhand on the coarse brown manuscript paper used in North Korea, the book -- a collection of seven short stories -- was a fierce indictment of life in the totalitarian North. The author wrote of living "like a machine that talked, a yoked human."
Thanks to Mr. Do’s efforts, the book, "The Accusation," written under the pseudonym Bandi ("Firefly" in Korean), has found audiences around the world. It has been translated into 18 languages and published in 20 countries. Translated by Deborah Smith into English and published by Grove Press, "The Accusation: Forbidden Stories From Inside North Korea" hit the United States market this month.
"This is the debut of ’North Korea’s Solzhenitsyn,’" said Kim Kwang-jin, a defector and researcher at the government-funded Institute for National Security Strategy in Seoul, the South Korean capital, comparing Bandi to the Russian novelist and Nobel laureate whose writing helped raise global awareness of the gulag forced labor camps of the old Soviet Union. The Guardian wrote, "In its scope and courage, ’The Accusation’ is an act of great love."
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Sadly, the effective audience may not recognize 'a book'. I remember a read, and reread of Gulag. Then I had no more time. Active readers now have a 30sec or less attention span. 'Sticky Eye' ads and video clips target 13sec. A 4 line email or a full 140 char tweet exceeds their capacity for missives.
Texas is once again making life difficult for OPEC.
The Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico has emerged as the new poster boy of the U.S. shale oil revolution. Land prices in the Permian have skyrocketed, drilling activity has tripled since last year and production there is poised to soar despite cheap oil prices.
Some are even predicting this hotbed of shale activity could eventually surpass the colossal Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest oilfield.
The Permian's rise on the global stage couldn't come at a worse time for OPEC, which just last November cobbled together a delicate deal to deal with the oil glut by cutting production...
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"There's no doubt we've got too much oil. We're trying to figure out how to balance through that," Thummel said.
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Destroy OPEC? Many deserve destruction and some are on their way. OPEC members are: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, SA, UAE, and Venezuela. They have tried to screw the rest of the world for a long time.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News Channel has pulled legal analyst Andrew Napolitano from the air after disavowing his on-air claim that British intelligence officials had helped former President Barack Obama spy on Donald Trump.
A person with knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because it was a personnel matter said Napolitano has been benched and won't be appearing on the air in the near future. Fox had no immediate comment Monday.
Napolitano's report last week on "Fox & Friends," saying he had three intelligence sources who said Obama went "outside the chain of command" to watch Trump, provoked an international incident. Britain dismissed the report as "nonsense" after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer quoted it in a briefing, part of the administration's continued defense of Trump's unproven contention that Obama had wiretapped him at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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#2 Anyone who tells the truth must be yanked.
Exactly Herb. Must be that truth is not valued in DC. The hearings are Kabuki theater. Why do I always get this feeling that when someone won't give a straight answer or that when they invoke the cloak of security to not testify, I think they are lying or complicit?
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It wouldn't be the first time a news analyst/commentator has made unsubstantiated claims. So why did he get sacked? There's more than a good chance he was told by the news division not to say anything until they could verify the report but he chose to ignore them.
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Napolitano has been benched and won't be appearing on the air in the near future.
It sounds more like he was given a time out than that he was sacked, DepotGuy. But perhaps this is how they ease him off the payroll without upsetting his fans.
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It's all stageplay theatre for the masses, JohnQC.
That's why they each have their scripts. You will often see a camera cut to an empty face 'listening' to a question, that is being read.
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Perhaps it was true, and the value of the "*" process for internal screening of each other's citizens is considered so vital to national security that it's exposure is viewed as a catastrophic setback to the WOT. I suspect The judge was told to be silent and because of his integrity refused. Hence his benching.
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There was this paper from the late 90s published in Oz that explained that part of the game. It came right after the US spying on Soviet Sats spying on the US so that it wasn't direct spying on the US population.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s main Druze leader, Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... , on Sunday publicly confirmed his son Taymour as his political heir, extending the tradition of dynastic politics that plays a big part in the country’s sectarian government.
Jumblat, the leading politician of the minority Druze community, took off his Paleostinian koufieh scarf and placed it on the shoulders of his son at a televised rally in the town of Moukhtara in the Chouf mountains.
"Walk forward with your head held high, and carry the legacy of your grandfather," Jumblat told his son at the event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the liquidation of Walid Jumblat’s father, Kamal Jumblat.
Speaking to Rooters, Jumblat said the scarf symbolized the issues he wanted his son to fight for and defend: Paleostine, "Arab, progressive Leb" and reconciliation with Christians, whom the Druze fought in the 1975-90 civil war.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Texas is once again making life difficult for OPEC.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News Channel has pulled legal analyst Andrew Napolitano from the air after disavowing his on-air claim that British intelligence officials had helped former President Barack Obama spy on Donald Trump.
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