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Surely this rings of the cliched image of the baron in feudal England who tracked down the lowly serf who dared enter his land and take his game, right?
I’m talking about the story of Country Star Luke Bryan’s rare Red State getting taken by poachers from his land. This red stag is the Lord’s stag, sir, and you shall keep your place!
Just kidding, but man, Luke, the optics bruh. I mean, you did nothing wrong but how you gonna keep it real on the farm when you literally have rare deer roaming your estate?
Someone Illegally Shot Luke Bryan’s Deer – Billboard
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An exotic red stag owned by country music singer Luke Bryan was shot and killed on his private property outside of Nashville last week, Tennessee wildlife officials confirmed.
Investigators think the deer was shot from the road, state Wildlife Resources Agency spokesman Barry Cross told The Tennessean on Monday.
The wildlife official said Bryan’s farm manager reported the shooting, which investigators think took place between last Wednesday and last Friday. The Maury County Sheriff’s Office is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible, according to a bulletin posted to Facebook on Saturday. -
The euro-cops may be learning from the Chinese how to use tech to monitor and control citizens. They’re turning to face recognition software to help them build a database of faces that, to start out, will just be used for ‘criminal’ purposes.
Face recognition in European police forces – Algorithmwatch
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Of 25 member states of the European Union reviewed by AlgorithmWatch, at least ten have a police force that uses face recognition. Five plans to introduce it in the coming years. Just two countries, Spain and Belgium, do not allow it yet. Four police forces have yet to answer our requests. -
The men of The Duran dissect the Horowitz Report, with a take that claims the report itself is setting up Barr and Durham for vicious opportunities for prosecution. So far, the report seems to be producing an equal amount of confidence and zeal in both of the major factions represented in this showdown on Capital Hill between the motive and intent gang and the due process gang, as it seems to be shaping up from where I’m looking.
Horowitz delivers devastating report. Sets the table for Barr & Durham – The Duran
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 400. The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Horowitz report and the immediate reactions from US Attorney General Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham who found, “clear abuse” in the IG probe into the FBI’s handling of the FISA process.
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My personal philosophy in life is generally always prefer smaller scales, generally. And in that vain, let me pause to congratulate the recent choice made by the Boungainvillians, currently of Papua New Guinea, to separate from that same aformentioned place to become their own country.
Here’s some deets on this fine soon-to-be-maybe country:
Bougainville Island is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea. This region is also known as Bougainville Province or the North Solomons. Its land area is 9,300 km2 (3591 sq miles). The population of the province is 234,280 (2011 census), which includes the adjacent island of Buka and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets. Mount Balbi at 2,700 m is the highest point.
I stand with Bougainville Island!
Boungainville votes for independence from Papua New Guinea – Washington Times
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The South Pacific region of Bougainville voted overwhelmingly to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea, results showed Wednesday.
Bougainville Referendum Commission Chairman Bertie Ahern was cheered when he announced that more than 98% of valid ballots favored independence. The other option in the vote was greater autonomy from Papua New Guinea.
The referendum is nonbinding, and independence will need to be negotiated between leaders from Bougainville and Papua New Guinea. The final say would then go to lawmakers in the Papua New Guinea Parliament. The process of becoming a separate nation could take years to achieve. -
This is where zombies start, my friends, in Los Alamos. How many zombie movies start in Los Alamos, or, at least, how many SHOULD?!
This one starts with someone stumbling upon 250, that’s right, 250 freaking barrels of nuclear waste, and passing out drunk, only to wake up dead and zombie because nuclear and whatnot.
But seriously, 250 barrels of nuclear waste are LITERALLY missing from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. All this worry over global warming and we probably ALREADY created an army of zombies that is growing in the desert of New Mexico, sipping on that sweet nuclear waste. The zombies will get us before the sun does.
Report: LANL lost track of 250 barrels containing nuclear waste – KRQE News 13
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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE)- A state report is claiming the Los Alamos National Laboratory lost track of 250 barrels filled with nuclear waste.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the contractor who has been in charge of lab operations for the past year. The New Mexico Environment Department listed 19 violations of Triad National Security LLC’s permit.
One of which involved the shipment of 250 barrels of predominantly mixed waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad without tracking them. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the mixed waste contains low-level radioactive waste…
One Quantum Closer to Seeing Gravity – NewsPoem
We have the technology, perhaps, soon, to LITERALLY see gravitational waves. Even as I write this, I expect flat earthers the world over are in a panic, as one comes to the realization that the ‘gravity is not real’ meme may soon come to an end (not likely, but one can hope, for all of humanity, really).
Quantum tech is what they’re calling it, and somehow it will let us see gravitational waves, well, sort of. Trust me, the FEs are FINISHED!
After the excerpt comes the NewsPoem
New Quantum Tech is About to Bring a Major Boost to Gravitational Wave Detections – Discover Magazine
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Physicists have successfully developed a new instrument that significantly reduces quantum-level noise that has thus far limited experiments’ ability to spot gravitational waves. Collisions between massive black holes and stars are thought to generate these ripples in space-time that were first detected in 2015. In all, about 11 detections have been fully confirmed so far.
The device marks a major improvement to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, increasing its detection range by 15 percent. Since the sky is a sphere, scientists expect to be able to detect about 50 percent more gravitational waves. They now predict that they will catch dozens of these rarely detected events during LIGO’s ongoing experiment run through April 2020, which could transform their understanding of the phenomena. The collaboration published their findings today in the journal Physical Review Letters.
One Quantum Closer to Seeing Gravity – NewsPoem
Quantumnal the forest
is a collection of lights. Out on the fizzle.
The gravitationals. The ringed sky within.
Quantumnal.
The morning of holding the weight that is the weight, that makes the weight…..
in the palm of the ether where facsimile moans,
“I am the bind that ties, the humble home.”
I am melted. But I am gravitational. The skyspheres slice through the head,
as waves,
the flick of the green diadems of facsimile between the magnetic loads.
I am real, yes I am.
I am real and you are home.
One quantum home. The inner circle of the egg is the flow
that you and I are also following.
We let it go
and we are weightless, merely, less of load
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China and US negotiators plan to delay Dec.15 tariffs: Report – Yahoo Finance
Fmr. Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Wendy Coutler spoke to Yahoo Finance’s Aikiko Fujita about the looming tariff deadline and the report that the tariffs may be delayed. -
The parents and brother of Joshua Watson told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning that Watson, who was 23, would still be alive if he were able to carry a firearm during his pilot classes.
“These men and women are asked to go defend their country overseas or wherever and my brother was an expert marksman. He was captain of the Rifle Team for the Navy. He was well-qualified to have a firearm and defend himself,” Watson’s brother Adam said on the program Tuesday. “And, if we’re going to ask these men and women to stand watch for our country, they need the opportunity to defend themselves. This isn’t the first time this happened, and if we don’t change something, it won’t be the last.” -
Turkey Launches New Website Denying Armenian Genocide – MassisPost
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The Turkish president’s press office has taken another step towards the denial of the Armenian Genocide by launching a new website, 1915.gov.tr, which is aimed at fighting against “Armenian Genocide claims”, Ermenihaber reports.
“This website will respond to Armenian Genocide slander used against our country at every possible opportunity in the international area, by putting historical information and data to the fore,” Daily Sabah quoted Turkey’s Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun as saying. -
Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco surpassed Apple to become the world’s most valuable company Wednesday, when its shares jumped 10% in a stock market debut that’s part of an ambitious shift away from the very fossil fuels the country’s economy depends on.
The shares’ rally on the Saudi exchange brought state-owned Aramco’s value to $1.88 trillion. The 1.5% of the company that is listed has raised $25.6 billion, a record for an initial public offering.
Despite the success of the sale, the kingdom’s decision not to list the company on a larger foreign exchange points to concerns that a global flotation would raise. Listing shares outside Saudi Arabia would open up the company to greater disclosure rules and expose it to foreign laws at a time when the country is under scrutiny for its role in regional conflicts as well as for the killing of a dissident journalist. -
Ankara threatens to close down U.S. Air Force base in Turkey – Defence-Blog
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A senior Turkish official said that Ankara threatening to close down the U.S. Air Force Incirlik Air Base.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a statement that Ankara may insist that the U.S. leave Incirlik air base if Washington goes ahead with the sanctions it has threatened in response to Turkey’s purchase of S-400 air defense systems.
“We will assess the worst-case scenario and make a decision. If the US imposes sanctions against Turkey, then the issue of the Incirlik and Kurecik bases may be on the agenda,” Cavusoglu said. -
Serial Biotech Entrepreneur Kevin Ness Has Raised $260 Million To Get His Genome-Engineering Device Into The Hands Of Every Scientist Who Wants One – Forbes
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Kevin Ness has made a career of building tools for biologists. Now, with the burgeoning field of synthetic biology booming, he’s ramping up his latest venture, Inscripta, which wants to get a genome-engineering device into the hands of every scientist who wants one. The company has been operating largely under the radar, but with the announcement today that it had raised $125 million in a round led by Paladin Capital Group, for total funding of $260 million, it’s ready to make its mark.
“Our instrument is the early Apple. It’s the first personal computer for biology,” Ness told Forbes during a recent meeting in New York City.
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