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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (144920)	12/22/2018 4:27:45 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218054

Rainy season. Too far from industry. There are cars but dubious that there are enough to make a difference to the air at nostril. Cooking appears to be in the vast majority by electricity and gas. The air is excellent, I sense, but wet and cold. Hot chocolate weather. Deadly quiet which we from HK simply unaccustomed to. River potable but needing treatment I would imagine even as upstream activities sparse due to geographic location. Water in the main by treatment plant but I see advertisements for well-digging. In the meantime I see what it means that isis is defeated in Syria and immediate surroundings, as we begin to see effect of the invasion, and the spread of the rot. I doubt Europe has the wherewithal to expeditiously and successfully treat the issue. edition-m.cnn.com Strasbourg market attacker 'pledged allegiance to ISIS' - source Paris (CNN) — The man responsible for a fatal Christmas market attack in the eastern French city of Strasbourg pledged allegiance to ISIS, a judicial source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. "A video in which Chérif Chekatt pledged allegiance to ISIS was found on a USB key," the source said. It was found during the police search, the source said, but declined to provide further information. Sponsor content by Discover Budapest - Spice of Europe Award-winning cuisine from rising international talent in Budapest The December 11 attack left five people dead and about a dozen people injured. Chekatt was killed during a shoot-out with police in Strasbourg two days later. Cherif Chekatt was killed in a shoot-out with police. Following the gun and knife attack, ISIS claimed through its Amaq news agency that the assailant was a "soldier" of ISIS. However, the terror organization offered no evidence of advanced knowledge or planning involved in the attack. Chekatt, 29, was known to prison officials for being radicalized and for his proselytizing behavior in detention in 2015, Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz said earlier this week, adding that he had been incarcerated multiple times in the past. French prosecutors said the suspect shouted the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar," meaning "God is greatest," at the time of the attack. Chekatt also had an extensive criminal background in Germany and Switzerland for thefts, break-ins and violence but neither country had him on a radical Islamist list.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (144920)	12/22/2018 4:34:35 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 218054

They're working on it.... In China’s Coal Country, a Ban Brings Blue Skies and Cold Homes Feb. 10, 2018 QIAOLI, China — A monument to China’s efforts to wean itself from coal rises on the outskirts of this village deep in the heart of the nation’s coal country. Scores of old coal stoves have been dumped in a lot, removed by government decree in recent months in favor of cleaner-burning natural gas furnaces. “Defend blue sky and breathe together,” an exhortation painted on the brick wall surrounding the lot says. “Manage haze and work together.” China has long faced skepticism over its pledges to wage a “war on pollution” and end its unrestrained burning of coal. And indeed, demand for coal rose again last year after declining the previous three years. This coal-stove graveyard, however, is a manifestation of China’s ambitious effort this winter to all but end its dependence on coal for heating homes and businesses in hopes of clearing up the country’s eye-watering, throat-scraping pollution. The central government has set specific targets and backed up its decrees with threats of fines and other punishments. What has happened here in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, the country’s largest coal-producing region, and in other regions shows how far the government has gone in imposing its environmentalism from above. Eager to impress Beijing, officials in this province of 37 million people have moved so aggressively that in some cases they have created unintended consequences. Many coal stoves were removed before new furnaces were installed, leaving tens of thousands of people shivering without heat when winter’s first cold snap arrived earlier than normal. Then, with so many districts switching to natural gas at once, demand for the new source of fuel overwhelmed supplies, sending prices soaring and creating shortages. The benefits of the government’s campaign are nonetheless being felt in the comparatively blue skies that have blessed Beijing and other cities that were a focus of the authorities’ efforts, including in Shanxi’s provincial capital, Taiyuan. ***** Huang Miaoru, who follows China for Wood Mackenzie, the energy consultancy, said that China’s transition this winter was bedeviled by many factors. Overzealous regional officials — eager to impress their national superiors, or afraid of disappointing them — had teamed up with private energy companies to convert more homes than supply could meet. (Nationally, natural gas demand surged 16 percent in 2017, according to a report by the Rhodium Group, a New York-based consultancy.) Despite the setbacks, neither she nor others said they expected the government to retreat from its goal to reduce coal use after decades in which industrialization took precedence over the environment. Last month, the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced plans to reduce pollution still further by 2020. What is striking is the public support for the changes, which address nearly universal concerns in China about the impact of choking pollution on health and quality of life. Full story: nytimes.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (144920)	12/22/2018 6:17:31 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218054

it feels very modern to be on workation, and able to view machines hard at work, processing muck and extracting goodness, at one ton every 15-minutes, cleaning up the environment, from pond of gold, lake of silver, puddle of lead, and pot hole of zinc and sustainable, given that the base mental mine tenements are still resource-plenty, especially as prices eventually ramp in alignment w/ hyper inflation even as the aussie dollar should crater against ramping world pricing of the metals, and sustainable given there are a lot of tailings ponds in the base metal mining region where the antecedents of the locals had been mining the bulk base metals and ignoring the minuscule gold waste and silver garbage, dumping into tailings dam to await call of duty one fine day the pyrite stuffing, concentrated, aggregated and shipped to some smelter, to separate out the ingredients, partially by the energy to be generated from the pyrite itself - how wonderful, as if lifting up oneself by own bootstrap, or akin to the twirly schema of the farmer's lily pond alchemy, but socially relevant, and macro aligned. micro-sensible, per the minute products are produced, problems end - no marketing, sales, distribution, after sales service, or r&d; only accounting. the problem w/ pole-climbing in africa is that the activity does not enhance deliberated longterm thinking, and is a negative to clarity of take, a dire situation as we the world is veering towards the after-effects of 2001 financial collapse, that which we term 2026 teotwawki and 2032 darkest interregnum :0) turn the machines back on ... oops, no need, for the machines go 24-7-365, monitored by other machines