no other "gods" ever made that claim. Buddha and Confucious and all other "gods" are dead, they are not able to answer your prayers
Coal is the largest contributor to the climate being fooled up
As you can see Canada increased supplying China with coal, only last year by 21 %
All who voted were disappointed about the coal problem.
No one had the guts to protest and not vote until something was done about coalCanadian coking coal exports to China jump 21% in 2020
Canada's coking coal exports to China increased by a fifth in 2020 amid a “verbal ban” imposed by Chinese authorities on cargoes from Australia late last year.
Shipments from Canada amounted to 3.96 million tonnes, up by 21% from a year earlier, according to data released on March 1 by the Port of Vancouver.
China imported a total of 72.63 million tonnes of coking coal in 2020, down by 3% from 74.49 million tonnes a year earlier, the country’s customs data shows.
Since late 2020, Chinese steel mills without easy access to domestic coking coal have been increasing their term contract volumes with Canadian suppliers, market sources told Fastmarkets previously. ................
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The little boy and his sister, lived next to the German border, they often watched the trains go past, this was not a passenger train it was a cattle train this time. They heard people crying out, water, water.
Later they knew the people in the train were prisoners on the way to camps in Germany.
The little boy saw people being executed as some of the people were forced to watch.
He saw a hand sticking up in the dirt it was still moving, what could he do, he was only a little boy 8 years old.
I lost two of my immediate family members shot dead by the German's
The war broke out in ‘40. I was three years old, having been born in September of ‘37. “My dad went to Germany he would not be back for several years.
He went there out of his own free will, believing that he could do more for his family that way, before he would be forced to go.
My dad loved the German people and they loved him. (Not the Nazi’s)
Dad was able to send money home and other people who were later forced to go could not do this he also helped some German friends.
It was up to my mom now to take care of her two children my sister Greetje and I, and find food for us all.
Living in the North of Holland, only several hours away from the farmers, the first few years were not too bad for us, but that slowly changed. My mother had to sell her best linens, her gold watch and sewing machine for food.
The farmers did not care to receive money as it was worth nothing, so anything of value had to go.
A bottle of oil, a very valued commodity, would sell for $250.00 guilders.
My mother would bring home dried fish that stank something awful. We had to eat it anyway.
Looking back it still amazes me how resourceful people are when they have to be.
I would go to where coal was loaded onto trains, and take with me a small broom and dustpan and bring home coal dust. We would chew tar and turned it into chewing gum. It also whitens your teeth.
You could do the same with grain. We kids would go to where the grain was being loaded onto trains, and we would pick up what had fallen on the ground. It takes a long time to chew that grain, but believe me it will turn into gum.
Sometimes we were lucky and had a piece of real chewing gum. We kids would take some sugar to give it some flavor again after we had been chewing it for some time and all the flavors had left.
At night we wound it around the iron bed post.
If friends had gum and asked if you wanted to come out and play with them, you would tell them: “Sure if I can have your gum.” “Okay but only for awhile”
Later came bubble gum, and because of the sharing, we would all have sores around our mouth.
Would you like to know what happens to gum if you chew it for days? It crumples up into nothing. (It does take several days)
We may have been kids but we did things that were beyond our age.
We would climb onto trucks loaded with sugar beets, and throw them off the truck so people could make sugar.
I remember that one day I was about six years old, when I was sent shopping at the corner store for groceries. I could see from the store the school the Germans occupied, as it was around the corner of our street.
I saw a truck heaped high with coal. I saw no Germans, so I climbed onto that truck and started to shove the coal down.
What was amazing was how quickly people realized what was going on. They came with buckets and pails to scoop up what they could. When others took over from me to shovel more coal down, I ran home to tell mother at home to get some for us too.
The Germans let us be for a while they must have known what was going on. Most of them were mere boys.
We were also sustained by the soup kitchen. One of our neighbors called to say that there was meat in the soup that day. Quickly I was sent to get some of that good stuff. In the meantime, our neighbors had found the source of the meat, it was the tail of a mouse. I can't remember if we ate that soup.
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