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Scotland’s green-obsessed left-separatist government has been left with egg on its face by revelations that dozens of gigantic onshore wind turbines are having to be hooked up to diesel generators, leaking thousands of litres of hydraulic oil into the countryside. Scottish Power — led by a Spaniard, Ignacio Galan, and actually a subsidiary of Spanish firm Iberdrola — conceded that some 71 of its turbines had to be hooked up to diesel generators to keep them warm in December, according to the Sunday Mail, with a whistleblower telling the left-leaning newspaper that problems with the turbines are deep-seated.

(Last Updated On: February 1, 2023) NATIONAL FROZEN YOGURT DAY National Frozen Yogurt Day on February 6th recognizes a sweet frozen dessert that has gone from fad status to staple freezer item in a few decades. #NationalFrozenYogurtDay Frozen yogurt sales are increasing every year as people want a healthier alternative to ice cream. The explosion of flavors and topping choices add to the popularity of frozen yogurt. H.P Hood developed the first frozen yogurt in 1970 in the United States. It was created as a soft-serve treat called Frogurt. Not long afterward, Humphreys and Dannon released their own versions of...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Oil-rich Norway is looking to donate 75 billion kroner ($7.3 billion) to Kyiv as part of a five-year support package that would make the Scandinavian country one of the world´s biggest donors to war-torn Ukraine, the Norwegian government said Monday. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said the money would be split evenly between military and humanitarian assistance over five years, broken down to 15 billion kroner ($1.5 billion) annually. The proposed aid package will be put to a vote in parlia

A fire at New Zealand’s largest egg producer has killed about 75,000 hens, sparking fears that a national egg shortage could worsen. The fire at a Zeagold farm broke out on Monday morning and had “taken better part of the day to contain”, a spokesperson for the company said. Twelve workers who were on site were “unharmed but very distressed”, the spokesperson said. Work was under way to assess how many hens had died, but Zeagold estimated it to be about 75,000. The fire may have ripple effects beyond the immediate demise of the hens, with concerns it may worsen...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed. Mark 6:56It would have been truly awe-inspiring to witness Jesus healing the sick. The people who witnessed this clearly had never seen anything like it before. For those who were sick, or whose loved ones were sick, each healing would have had a powerful effect upon them and upon their whole family.Today, modern medicine, with its ability to treat so...

Our Lizard Overlords aka the Deep State have been floating the name of Michelle Obama for President of the United States since about five minutes after her husband Barack (Praise be upon him.) Obama won election in 2008. Call me a cynical RACIST YT woman, but if the Overlords wish it to be so, it will be so. Woe be unto us peasants if the fondest desires of the Deep State come to fruition. We began ruminating on this subject because the Washington Examiner posted this column today “Could Michelle Obama become the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nominee?”. It’s an honest...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ JESUS RIDES INTO JERUSALEM AS KING ֎ Featuring 26 Paintings and 1 Window ֎ M A T T H E W «Chapter 21»* As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, tell him that the Lord needs them, and...

A UK nonprofit with ties to global corruption throughout the COVID-19 crisis as well as historical and current ties to the UK eugenics movement launched a global health-focused DARPA equivalent last year. The move went largely unnoticed by both mainstream and independent media. The Wellcome Trust, which has arguably been second only to Bill Gates in its ability to influence events during the COVID-19 crisis and vaccination campaign, launched its own global equivalent of the Pentagon’s secretive research agency last year, officially to combat the “most pressing health challenges of our time.” Though first conceived of in 2018, this particular...

PM Netanyahu said that Israel has received requests for humanitarian aid from both Turkey and Syria in wake of the deadly earthquake...

A son and mother found shot to death on their Lowcountry property. News of the deaths of Paul Murdaugh, 22, and Maggie Murdaugh, 52, has led to national headlines. Not only for the mystery surrounding their murders but for the ties to other death investigations in the area: Stephen Smith in 2015, Gloria Satterfield in 2018 and Mallory Beach in 2019. 1920-2005: For three generations, members of the Murdaugh family serve as the South Carolina 14th circuit solicitor, the top prosecutor representing Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Allendale and Colleton counties. July 8, 2015: Stephen Smith, 19, is found dead on Sandy...

WHERE'S HIS PARENTS? GEN Z IS ******! Freepers I came across this video, don't know this youtuber. Some punk kid, about 13 years old (?), won't let an adult pass at a park somewhere. Then the kid starts hitting the man. So the man knocks him to the ground and the kid cries like a bitch. "This is gold bro" Where are his parents?

Turkey has been hit by a second massive earthquake, hours after an earlier catastrophic quake devastated the region and killed more than 1,700 people. The 7.8-magnitude night-time tremor, followed hours later by a slightly smaller one, wiped out entire sections of major Turkish cities in a region filled with millions of people who have fled the civil war in Syria and other conflicts. The later 7.5 magnitude quake struck at 1.24pm (1024 GMT) two-and-a-half miles southeast of the town of Ekinozu and around 60 miles north of the first quake that has wrought devastation across Turkey and Syria. Hundreds are...

A Chinese spy balloon crashed into the Pacific off the coast of Hawaii four months ago, U.S. officials say. Fox News has also learned that at least one Chinese spy balloon flew over portions of Texas and Florida during the Trump administration, despite the former president's insistence it never happened. The White House said that Biden followed the advice of the Pentagon and top military leaders not to shoot the craft down over the U.S. in case it caused civilian casualties and other collateral damage. Biden administration officials claimed that Chinese surveillance balloons also briefly transited the continental U.S. at...

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.8 magnitude earthquake at 6:15 a.m. centered on the northeastern edge of West Seneca, near the Lackawanna border. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said shortly after 6:30 a.m. that he had spoken with his county emergency services department and confirmed the initial reports showed the quake had been "felt as far north as Niagara Falls and as south as Orchard Park." Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told WBEN Radio that no injuries have been reported. “It was a heavy vibration that shook the whole house. It was crazy,” said Jim LiPuma of Academy Road.

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled the southern province of Kahramanmaraş, claiming the lives of at least 1014 people and injuring more than 5,000 others, while tremors were also in nine other provinces in the country. The magnitude 7.7 quake struck 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) below the surface in Kahramanmaraş’s Pazarcık district on Feb. 6 at 4:17 a.m., according to Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD). After multiple large and small tremors, another 7.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in Kahramanmaraş at 1:26 p.m. Many buildings damaged in the first major earthquake collapsed by the impact of the second major earthquake. The...

ADANA, TURKEY — An earthquake rattled this southern city Saturday, killing at least 108 people and injuring about 1,000, including several Americans at a military base, officials said. Among those killed in the magnitude 6.2 quake were 37 people who lived in the slums of Adana, a city of 1 million, said Deputy Gov. Ardahan Totuk. At least 30 people were reported dead in the nearby town of Ceyhan, site of an oil terminal, the Anatolia news agency said. It was not clear whether the oil pipeline linking Iraq to Turkey had suffered any damage. State radio said 108 people...

That’s what great powers do, so get used to it ... Consider this: The Chinese military has operated such endoatmospheric satellites over the hotly contested South China Sea for years. These balloons are cheap but effective tools for surveillance– and targeting. They are used by China to track US Navy warships transiting the South China Sea. The surveillance equipment is provided by China’s major technology firm Huawei. To protect its own wounded political image at home, the Biden Administration has since released information that China launched three similar balloons into the United States during the Trump administration and the forty-fifth...

One state even wants to make it a felony to fight voter fraud. But the technology to expose the bad guys isn't going away. The narrative about "free, safe, secure elections" changed 180 degrees since November 2022. Almost nobody is crazy enough to say America has free, fair elections. After Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, the most wimpish George Bush RINO hesitates to say "elections are fair." Since our team processed billions of election roll "snapshots" taken since 2020, we run the largest election database in the world. We concluded that U.S. elections are rigged by both parties, and they...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 2Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners 13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. 15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were...

We have files of Richmond and other Southern papers to the 3d inst. The Richmond papers of the 3d give an account of the affair off Charleston harbor, which is essentially the same as that already published, but with this addition: RICHMOND, Saturday, Jan. 31. The Secretary of State has notified the British and French Consuls of this city that he has received official information of the opening of the blockade off Charleston. "We also learn," says the editor of the Dispatch, "that a steamer was dispatched from Charleston, after the raising of the blockade, to Nassau, to convey to...