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Along a dirt-covered road deep in Texas farm country, the cryptocurrency company Argo Blockchain is building a power plant for the internet age: a cryptocurrency “mining” site stocked with computers that generate new bitcoins. But unlike other bitcoin mining operations, which consume large quantities of fossil fuels and produce carbon emissions, Argo claims it’s trying to do something environmentally responsible. As Peter Wall, Argo’s chief executive, led a tour of the 126,000-square-foot construction site one morning this month, he pointed to a row of wind turbines a few miles down the road, their white spokes shining in the sunlight. The...

Search teams have found a black box from the China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed on Monday, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday, which could provide clues as to why the Boeing 737-800 jet carrying 132 people nosedived out of the sky in China’s worst aviation disaster in 12 years. Key Facts One of two black boxes from the China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 has been recovered after two days of searching, a Chinese aviation official announced at a press conference on Wednesday, according to state broadcaster CGTN. Black boxes—which are actually painted bright orange to make them easier to...

Long forgotten is Vladimir Putin’s conciliatory speech to the German Bundestag more than two decades ago. He explained:No one calls in question the great value of Europe’s relations with the United States. I am just of the opinion that Europe will reinforce its reputation of a strong and truly independent center of world politics soundly and for a long time if it succeeds in bringing together its own potential and that of Russia, including its human, territorial and natural resources and its economic, cultural and defense potential.He went on to declare: “One of the achievements of the past decade is...

Lord Coe has said that the integrity and future of women’s sport is “very fragile” if federations do not get it right when creating regulations around the participation of transgender women. The president of World Athletics said that “gender cannot trump biology” when deciding whether trans athletes should compete alongside those who were biologically female at birth. Coe, who has been head of the sport’s federation since 2015, was speaking at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade, two days after Lia Thomas became the first known transgender athlete to win a NCAA swimming title in the United States, with...

Vladimir Putin’s war was plunged into deeper crisis today amid reports that Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has vanished from view with 'heart problems'. He has not been seen for 12 days and old footage and pictures have been shown of him on TV, say reports in opposition media. -snip- Shoigu is seen as one of Putin’s closest and most loyal allies.

Scientists have been telling us that humanity will end in ten years for the past half-century. Jonathan Overpeck, Ph.D., a professor and dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan is the author of an article titled “Whatever it Takes,” posted on The Hill recently. In his article, Professor Overpeck made a torrent of apocalyptic predictions and delineated a host of “inexorable and accelerating” calamities attributed to Global Warming. “I care about future generations, who stand to inherit either an unimaginable climate change disaster or a world transformed that is free of climate change, toxic...

Every time there’s a headline involving Democrats and children it is evident that as a group, Democrats hate children. Every time there’s a headline involving Democrats and children it is evident that as a group, Democrats hate children. Not only do they appear to hate them, they appear to enjoy, support and promote sexually and mentally abusing and killing them. They want to abort them, even when a fetus is shown to probably be viable after 24 weeks. Even if that means crushing the baby’s skull and tearing that fetus apart limb by limb in order to “deliver” it. That’s...

23 March 2022Wednesday of the 3rd week of Lent St. Turibius Chapel at the Josephinum Pontifical College, Columbus, Ohio Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingDeuteronomy 4:1,5-9 ©Keep these laws and observe themMoses said to the people: ‘Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you. ‘See, as the Lord my God has commanded me, I teach you the laws and customs that you are to observe in...

• Photo taken with a mobile phone shows pieces of a crashed passenger plane's wreckage found at the crash site in Tengxian County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 22, 2022. A passenger plane with 132 people aboard crashed in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday afternoon, the regional emergency management department said. The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft, which departed from Kunming and was bound for Guangzhou, crashed into a mountainous area near the Molang village in Tengxian County in the city of Wuzhou at 2:38 p.m., causing a mountain fire, according to the department....

Vladimir Putin's Russian Army has lost another commander - the 15th of Putin's top military leaders to be killed as the country's invasion of Ukraine heads into its second month. Colonel Alexei Sharov became the latest high-ranking Russian official to die in what has become the country's biggest loss of military higher-ups since World War II. His death was announced by Ukrainian armed forces on social media Tuesday. The commander of the 810th Guards Separate Order of Zhukov Brigade in the Russian Marines, Sharov was reportedly killed in Mariupol, a city in which over 100,000 people have been trapped amid...

CAIRO, Saturday, March 22. The Ohio River is rapidly rising at this point, (Cairo.) In the last twenty-four hours it has risen a foot. The streets are covered to the depth of four feet in some places. A balloon was sent to the fleet of Commodore FOOTE, yesterday, for the purpose of making a reconnoissance of the works of the enemy. The dispatch boat arrived this morning, and represents that the condition of affairs at Island No. 10 is without change. The mortar and gunboats indulge in occasional shots, but so far without further perceptible results. Steamers are continually moving...

In this Humanist article, Megan Hunt is described as an openly bi-sexual, atheist, Progressive. She was born in 1986, so she is 35 years old. Hunt recently gained notoriety for this tweet. From Twitter.com: Owning a gun isn’t a “God-given right.” It’s a slave-owning, misogynistic founding father-given right. I’m not against 2a, but be real – the Constitution was written by people! Today I’m filibustering a bill that would allow concealed carry without training or a permit. #NELegIt is hard to see how filibustering a bill that restores Second Amendment rights to Nebraska can be “not against 2a”, but Progressives...

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As the latest existing home sales report cautioned, with NAR chief economist Larry Yun warning that “housing affordability continues to be a major challenge, as buyers are getting a double whammy: rising mortgage rates and sustained price increases,” BofA joins the chorus warning that last year’s housing euphoria is unlikely to repeat and this year will be a much more challenging year for the housing market given significant headwinds to affordability and ongoing supply-side challenges. Among the numerous headwinds facing US housing, BofA warns that the Russia/Ukraine conflict adds a new factor to the mix as higher oil and commodity...

The "Greens" promise renewables, solar and wind power, will replace fossil fuels. After all, the wind and sun are free, and they don't pollute! Oops. Now countries that embraced renewables are so desperate for power that they eagerly import coal, the worst polluter of all! Do they apologize? No. Greens never apologize. Germany was a leader in renewable energy, so confident in solar and wind power that they closed half their nuclear plants. Oops. That leaves Germans so short of power that Germans are now desperate to buy fossil fuels from Russia. Even worse, pollution-wise, high-pollution coal now tops wind...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blasted Swiss food and beverage giant Nestlé for maintaining business ties to Russia despite its invasion of his country.“‘Good food. Good life.’ This is the slogan of Nestlé. Your company that refuses to leave Russia,” Zelensky said during a televised address to the people of Switzerland on Saturday.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is once again in the crosshairs of liberals. This has been going on since his confirmation hearings in 1991, when President George H.W. Bush had the temerity to nominate a Black conservative to take the Supreme Court seat of Thurgood Marshall. Thomas' confirmation hearings provided a laboratory showing how low liberals are willing to go to try to discredit a conservative, even more so one who is Black. Now liberal journalists are having their most recent field day because it happens that Thomas' wife, Ginni, is a conservative like him, is an American patriot...

Geneva (AFP) – Scientists are urging Europe not to delay the transition to greener agriculture in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which threatens global wheat supplies and raises fears over food shortages. The European Commission is preparing to pass emergency measures on Wednesday to deal with the consequences of the war and sanctions on Russia, also a major exporter of cereals. That will include granting temporary exemptions for fallow land, but some states, including agricultural powerhouse France, are calling for a much greater roll-back of the EU’s green agricultural policies. The bloc's "Farm to Fork" strategy -- which aims...

Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine proceeds in accordance with previously set goals and plans, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday. “It (the special operation) is going on strictly in accordance with the plans and with purposes that were established beforehand”, he said, adding that from from the very beginning, no one was expecting it to take “a couple of days”...

Over his many years as the leader of Russia, President Vladimir Putin has dedicated a lot of time and effort to controlling history. The Kremlin works hard to ensure Putin’s constructed worldview, in which Russian greatness is derived from the country’s past glory and suffering, is taught in schools and shown in all media and academic discourse as reality. A shocking and important example of this was the closing late last year of the Memorial human rights organization, which investigated Soviet repression, with the prosecution claiming that Memorial “creates a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state and...