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China’s coal production hit record levels in 2021

China’s coal production reached record levels last year as the state encouraged miners to ramp up their fossil fuel output to safeguard the country’s energy supplies through the winter gas crisis.

The world’s biggest coal producer and consumer mined 384.67m tonnes of the fossil fuel last month, easily topping its previous record of 370.84m tonnes set in November, after the government called for miners to work at maximum capacity to help fuel the country’s economic growth.

Official government figures show that China’s coal binge also spurred the country to record high coal output over the year as a whole. Chinese coal production climbed to an all-time high of 4.07bn tonnes, up 4.7% on the previous year, in a blow to climate campaigners months after the UN’s Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Green-Scam

Opioids and the Unattached Male

Policymakers should understand that the drug-overdose crisis is a crisis of single men

The United States now averages about 275 drug-related deaths per day, largely from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. Many are aware by now that the spike in drug overdoses has hit white men without a college degree hardest (though black men are, unfortunately, gaining ground in this area). But one factor continues to be underdiscussed: it is disproportionately a crisis of single men.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Zeitgeist"

Box Office: ‘Scream’ Scares Off ‘Spider-Man’ with $30.6M Debut

NEW YORK (AP) — After a month at no. 1, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has finally been overtaken at the box office. Paramount Pictures’ “Scream” reboot debuted with $30.6 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•Hollywood

Moral Panic, Class, and Our ‘Woke’ Media

“Once a tool to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable, today American journalism comforts the comfortable, speaks power to truth, and insists on an orthodoxy that protects the interests of the elites in the language of a culture war whose burden is given to the working class to bear,” writes Batya Ungar-Sargon in her new book.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Journalists"

China’s population growth rate falls to 61-year low

China’s population growth rate has fallen to its lowest level in six decades, barely outnumbering deaths in 2021 despite major government efforts to increase population growth and stave off a demographic crisis.

Across China, 10.62 million babies were born in 2021, a rate of 7.52 per thousand people, the national bureau of statistics said on Monday. In the same period 10.14 million deaths were recorded, a mortality rate of 7.18 per thousand, producing a population growth rate of just 0.34 per thousand head of population.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

New Book Claims Jewish Notary May Have Betrayed Anne Frank’s Family to the Nazis

A new book based on an investigation by a team led by a former FBI agent has concluded that Holocaust diarist Anne Frank’s family may have been betrayed to the Nazis by a Jewish notary who collaborated with the German occupiers.

Anne and her family hid from the Nazis during most of the war, but were captured in August 1944 after being betrayed by a still-unknown informant. They were sent to several concentration camps, and Anne died in Bergen-Belsen shortly before it was liberated by the Allies. Her diary, published after the war, became a classic of Holocaust literature.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•Holocaust

Gallup: “Dramatic shift” in electorate in 2021 — away from Dems

Will the 2022 midterms produce a red wave … or a red wedding for Democrats? Based on this 14-point swing in the gap for party registration since Joe Biden took office, better work on your RSVPs and butcher’s aprons. Gallup’s latest look at the composition of the electorate shows just how badly Biden and Democratic leadership bungled away a potential generational opportunity…

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Russia moves troops to Belarus for joint exercises near Ukraine border

Russia has begun moving troops to Ukraine’s northern neighbour Belarus for joint military exercises, in a move likely to increase fears in the west that Moscow is preparing for an invasion.

The joint military exercises, named United Resolve, are to take place as Russia also musters forces along Ukraine’s eastern border, threatening a potential invasion that could unleash the largest conflict in Europe for decades.

Social media videos from Belarus appeared to show artillery and other military vehicles arriving on flatbed carriages owned by the Russian state railway company, and Alexander Volfovich, the head of Belarus’s security council, said in a briefing that troops were already arriving before exercises scheduled for February.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•Russia, Ukraine

Barbara Kay: What we don’t know about unmarked graves at residential schools

Over the past month, three noteworthy events have presented as provocative grist to the groaning mill of Indigenous-“settler” relations.

First, acclaimed Cree playwright/novelist Tomson Highway’s memoir , Permanent Astonishment, was published by Penguin-Random House. Highway’s experiences at a residential school did not embitter him. On the contrary, he credited that nine-year stint for the foundational skills that led to creative self-realization. But saying so publicly, once permissible, has become a form of blasphemy in the chattering classes.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•Aboriginal Issues

Cracking the case of the ‘woke’ prosecutor

One of the most puzzling conundrums about “progressive” prosecutors — who favor de-prosecution and de-carceration — is to ascertain their motivations.

What are these elected chief prosecutors thinking when they unilaterally decide not to enforce the law? And why, even as murders increase in the big cities they police, do they continue to support these policies without shame?

Let’s consider the options…

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Progressive Paradise"

The remarkable lengths taken to whitewash Bill Clinton’s cosy links to pervert Jeffrey Epstein when Hillary ran for President

The email came out of the blue one day in 2016. Almost a decade had passed since Miles and Cathy Alexander had left their jobs as residential managers of Little St James, Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.

Since then, Epstein had been jailed — briefly — for paedophile offences and the couple had retired to their native South Africa.

But now Darren Indyke, the disgraced tycoon’s attorney, was back in touch. The lawyer wanted the Alexanders to do something that would be of particular benefit to Hillary Clinton and her campaign to become the first female President of the United States, later that year.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Clintons"

Revenge is Sweet! ChiComs Say Canada Infected Beijing With Omicron Tainted Mail!

Did Omicron arrive in China’s capital Beijing by mail from Canada?

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus could have entered the Chinese capital Beijing via contaminated mail from Canada, the city’s centre for disease control said on Monday.

Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, said the city’s first Covid-19 patient to be diagnosed with the variant had received a letter mailed from Canada on January 7.

“We do not rule out the possibility that the person was infected through contacting an object from overseas,” she said.

h/t FD

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Paxlovid, Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 pill, approved in Canada

Pfizer’s Paxlovid COVID-19 antiviral pill has been approved for use in Canada.

Health Canada announced Monday it has approved Pfizer’s pill for use in the fight against COVID-19. The regulator posted on its website that the drug has received authorization.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Destroying Taiwan

America can save Taiwan from Chinese invasion by promising to destroy it, or at least its chipmaking capability, argues an article in Parameters, the U.S. Army War College’s quarterly. In “Broken Nest: Deterring China from Invading Taiwan,” Air University’s Jared McKinney and Colorado State University’s Peter Harris say that Taipei and Washington should make the island “unwantable.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Taiwan

FBI finally admits Texas synagogue siege WAS an anti-Semitic terror attack after first claiming it was ‘not specifically related to the Jewish community’

The FBI has finally admitted the Texas synagogue siege was an anti-Semitic terror attack after initially claiming it was not directly targeting Jews.

Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn in the UK, held four people hostage, including a rabbi, for ten hours at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Saturday night.

Speaking Saturday after the attack, which ended with the death of Akram in a hail of bullets, FBI Special Agent Matt DeSarno said: ‘We do believe from our engaging with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community. But we’re continuing to work to find motive.’

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", FBI, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA, WTF?