This nasty winter

[David Jamieson]

Using youtube as a primary research tool is retarded. period. lol

[Hardwork108]

Using youtube as a primary research tool is retarded. period. lol

So is believing everything that you hear on the Evening News on your TV. Those with brains, can choose and evaluate the material on You Tube and other internet sources, whereas what you get on your official news programs regarding the important issues, is just regurgitated "repeats" of the official version of what dishonest political leaders decide to put out there, courtesy of lap dog "journalists", who are not interested in real news, nor shaking the boat.

The offical news fantasy, in turn becomes the "reality" for the neuron challenged members of the society, who then go on to scoff and ridicule anything that challenges their "implanted" two dimensional belief systems.

They do so quoting what is daringly called the official "news", together with feeble attempts at justifying their "intellect", by using as a basis their academic degrees, which are presumably the same type of qualifications possessed by the politicians who lie and steal from them every day.........

I hope the above post has been enlightening for you.....

[GeneChing]

Brutal cold in China leads to water pipes bursting in Rugao

[wolfen]

Brutal cold in China leads to water pipes bursting in Rugao

2017 Brutal Cold Leads to Bursting people

Photo of China’s ‘Ice Boy,’ Frozen on a Walk to School, Goes Viral


13 Jan 2018
A photo of a young Chinese boy has gone viral in the country, as he arrived in school with a frozen face and hair after walking through the frigid rural cold, The South China Morning Post reports.

The photos surfaced nearly a month after a report revealed that the Chinese government has significantly limited access to fuel sources in rural communities in an attempt to better conform to environmental standards.

The boy, named Wang Fuman, was photographed arriving at his a primary school in southwest Yunnan province with his hair covered in frost and bright red cheeks as a result of the sub-zero temperatures after walking around 4.5km (2.8 miles) to get there.
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Chinese media claim that the photo has prompted thousands of donations to the boy’s school. Eighty-one pupils have reportedly received around 50,000 yuan ($77) in subsidies. A local engineering firm also donated 144 items of warm clothing and offered the boy’s father a new job.

“I’m so happy because many people are helping me and have given me many gifts,” the boy was quoted as saying, adding that he wanted to save some of his pocket money for when his parents fall ill.
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Freezing temperatures and a lack of basic heating has become a major issue for peasant communities across China’s major cities, compounded by the regime’s recent clean air initiatives to tackle pollution.

Reports in December quoted social media posts from rural communities where residents protested that they had to sacrifice to adhere to the environmental whims of the Communist Party. “We are frozen to death. Please help us,” one such post read, according to the BBC.

That month, the communist government was forced to reverse a ban on coal to help ease the pressure of sub-zero temperatures, while many people are paying double the price for natural gas to heat their homes.

Like many parts of the world, China is currently experiencing a vicious cold snap from which ten people have died, while 567,000 people have been affected.

More Photos and story on the SCMP South China Morning Post

Donations pour in after ‘Ice Boy’ frozen trek to school moves China

Primary school in rural Yunnan province gifted US$15,000 after child’s chilly commute touches hearts across the country

The boy’s father has also been offered a job in his hometown so he will no longer have to leave his family and work away from home.

The first batch of 100,000 yuan (US$15,370) was handed over by the local authorities to Zhuangshanbao primary school in a rural area of Zhaotong in Yunnan province, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

The photograph widely shared on social media in China showed Wang Fuman as he arrived at school after walking about 4.5km (2.8 miles) from home.

Poor Chinese boy’s freezing trek to school touches hearts in China

His hair and eyebrows were covered in frost and his cheeks red with cold after he walked in freezing temperatures in thin clothing.

The picture moved internet users in China, depicting the hardships the boy from a poor family endures to get to school. [Wang pictured with some of the donated warm clothing.

Wang is a “left-behind child”, a term used to describe youngsters from poor families whose parents work in cities away from home. The amount of care and support given to left-behind children by the authorities has regularly sparked debate on social media in China in recent years.

State television said that on top of the first donation to the school, 81 pupils were each given 500 yuan in subsidies. [Two of the other children to receive donations.

Interesting. Public Donations to a cause, Government catering to(or making use of) to popular news stories. I think these are new things developed since the internet started.