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"I Could Feel Death" - Massive Explosion Rocks Chinese Port City, Martial Law Declared, 42 Dead (9 Firemen), Over 400 Injured

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Update (via Bernama): TIANJIN EXPLOSIONS KILL AT LEAST 42, INJURE OVER 400

Two powerful explosions at a "dangerous materials” warehouse jolted China's northeastern Tianjin on Wednesday night, leaving at least 42 people dead, including nine firefighters, and over 400 wounded.

 

The incident happened before midnight on Thursday; netizens on China-Twitter such as Weibo posted images of the blasts which resembled a huge mushroom cloud.

 

More than 1000 firefighters and 143 fire engines were dispatched to the scene since last night and massive rescue efforts were underway, the Tianjin Fire Department said on its official Weibo account.

 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for an all-out effort to save the injured while Premier Li Keqiang vowed a thorough investigation and open and transparent information disclosure to the public, Xinhua news agency reported.

(via AP)...

The official Xinhua News agency says 32 people remain in critical condition and 283 others have been hospitalized following the explosions late Wednesday.

 

In all, more than 400 people have been injured.

 

The Beijing News newspaper says on its website that nine firefighters are among the 17 dead.

 

As is customary during disasters, Chinese authorities are trying to keep a tight control over information.
 
Police are keeping journalists and bystanders away with a cordon as many as a few kilometers (miles) from the site.

 

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As we explained earlier...
It appears that carry trades are not the only thing blowing up in China. A massive explosion, fireball, and mushroom cloud can be seen at chemical storage facility in the Chinese port town of Tianjin...
  • *DEATH TOLL FROM BLAST IN CHINA'S TIANJIN RISES TO 17: DAILY
  • *TIANJIN HALTS SUBWAY TO BLAST-HIT BIN HAI NEW AREA ON THURSDAY
  • *TIANJIN MAYOR URGES CONTROL OF SECONDARY ACCIDENTS AFTER BLAST

Close-up...

The explosion could be seen from space...

As AP reports,

Huge explosions at a warehouse for dangerous materials in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin killed at least 17 people, injured hundreds and sent massive fireballs into the night sky, officials and witnesses said Thursday.

 

China's state broadcaster, CCTV, said that at least 17 people were killed and that 32 were in critical condition in hospital. Hundreds of others were taken to hospital. The explosions late Wednesday knocked doors off buildings in the area and shattered windows up to several kilometers (miles) away.

 

"I thought it was an earthquake, so I rushed downstairs without my shoes on," Tianjin resident Zhang Siyu, whose home is several kilometers from the blast site, said in a telephone interview. "Only once I was outside did I realize it was an explosion. There was the huge fireball in the sky with thick clouds. Everybody could see it."

 

Zhang said she could see wounded people weeping. She said she did not see anyone who had been killed, but "I could feel death."

 

There was no indication of what caused the blasts, and no immediate sign of any large release of toxic chemicals into the air. Beijing News reported on its website that there was some unidentified yellow foam flowing at the site.

 

Police in Tianjin said an initial blast took place at shipping containers in a warehouse for hazardous materials owned by Ruihai Logistics, a company that says it's properly approved to handle hazardous materials. State media said senior management of the company had been detained by authorities, and that President Xi Jinping has demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the explosions.

 

The official Xinhua News agency said an initial explosion triggered other blasts at nearby businesses. The National Earthquake Bureau reported two major blasts before midnight, the first with an equivalent of 3 tons of TNT, and the second with the equivalent of 21 tons.

 

The explosions took place in a mostly industrial zone, with some apartment buildings in the vicinity. Buildings of a half-dozen other logistics companies were destroyed in the blasts, and more than 1,000 new Renault cars were left charred in nearby parking lot, Beijing News said.

 

Photos taken by bystanders and circulating on microblogs show a gigantic fireball high in the sky, with a mushroom-cloud. Other photos on state media outlets showed a sea of fire that painted the night sky bright orange, with tall plumes of smoke.

 

About 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the explosion site is the luxury Fifth Avenue apartment complex on a road strewn with broken glass and pieces of charred metal thrown from explosion. Like surrounding buildings, the Mediterranean style complex had all its windows blown out, and some of its surfaces were scorched.

 

"It's lucky no one had moved in," said a worker on the site, Liu Junwei, 29. "But for us it's a total loss. Two years hard work down the drain."

 

"It had been all quiet, then the sky just lit up brighter than day and it looked like a fireworks show," said another worker on the site who gave just his surname, Li.

 

In one neighborhood about 10 to 20 kilometers (6 to 12 miles) from the blast site, some residents were sleeping on the street wearing gas masks, although there was no perceptible problem with the air apart from massive clouds of smoke seen in the distance.

 

"It was like what we were told a nuclear bomb would be like," said truck driver Zhao Zhencheng, who spent the night in the cab of his truck. "I've never even thought I'd see such a thing. It was terrifying but also beautiful."

 

At the nearby Taida Hospital as dawn broke, military medical tents were set up. Photos circulating online showed patients in bandages and with cuts.

 

State broadcaster CCTV said six battalions of firefighters had brought the ensuing fire under control, although it was still burning in the early hours of Thursday.

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Wed, 08/12/2015 - 17:30 | 6420041 Blue Vervain
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Shipping of plastic shit around the world will be AFFECTED by this.

Fixed

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 23:24 | 6421074 pocomotion
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BV, They ship ergonomically accepted bobble-heads for sure.  But, we need to prepare for the unexpected.  Hug your family.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 17:50 | 6420111 king leon
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" You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off "

 

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:51 | 6420403 Abbie Normal
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"Krug, target engines only, understand?"

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 17:56 | 6420127 NoWayJose
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America used to have accidents like this - back when we used to mine coal, build dams, make steel, build factories, and employ American construction and manufacturing workers.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:44 | 6420365 Vlad the Inhaler
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America used to have accidents like this, until those rat bastard regulators and unions got involved.  Oooh, look at me, I dont' want to die on the job, waaaah.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:03 | 6420143 Moccasin
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The timing of this and the declaration of martial law seems like a distraction from the economic crisis that China has entered into. I am not saying that this is not an accident... I don't know any more than what I have read but the track record of false flags and governments taking advantage of disasters to screw the people out of rights or worse is all too common a theme these days.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:03 | 6420145 sidiji
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obviously fake CGI...too much Hollywood

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:11 | 6420172 the not so migh...
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There is no such thing as coincidence

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:25 | 6420199 Brindle702
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Here is something for the tinfoil hatters: Herbert Hoover (the eventual US President) was working for the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation in 1900 at about age 26 in Tianjin when the Boxer Rebellion stranded him there.  The Boxer Rebellion was the Chinese response to attempt to end foreign imperialism and Christian missionary influence in the region.  Also of note is that when Hoover was president, his handler was Edward Mandell House (Colonel House) a NWO bastard and author of Philip Dru Administrator.  My tinfoil argument being that Tianjin is a historically significant and strategic city.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 21:07 | 6420561 monad
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Tinfoil hats are for ignoramouses and predators. Dr Leary's thesis is that Herbert Hoover was, at the age of 26 in the august years of his character development, and that this experience guided his judgement which resolved the 1920 crash so effectively that you never heard of it.

Books have been written about this. Read them. This is what people pay so much to colleges for: to make them read a diverse range of boooks, and and thiiink about whhaaat it meeaanss... that they would otherwise have not. @ $200 a ton I mastered some heavy shit with a few tons of coffee and a whole lot of spirit. I never asked you for anything, not even to get out of my way. My attachment to you is zero. No guilt, no sympathy, no obligation, no regard. At all. Love can motivate. Fear drives.

I have compassion for my fellows. My fellows are not academics. We are not Financiers. We are not Politicians. We are the The Hairy Apes upon whom your house of cards rests. You want me to give you economic security? Feed me, bichez. 

Coming soon: State academia (for the proles) goes online. Universities and colleges continue to exist, teaching another curriculum exclusive to the nepotist 1% crowns. 'K? Its already there. Since 1978.

The rules are merely... guidelines

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/21/nyregion/ex-choate-student-receives-pr...

NO LAW

Having seen it and fought off a bunch of guys who would otherwise have raped drunk girls, I do not at all like to read about 14 y.o. girls at concerts showing up in the EM with alcohol poisoning. Thats my knight. Once my king directed me in his affairs as He required.

Not anymore.

Watch where you step.

For the dandies: Your daughters slip out all the time. The ones I saved might have been yours. Take this into consideration when we meet at court.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 21:20 | 6420646 wendigo
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How much acid do you do, and can we do it together sometime?

Fri, 08/14/2015 - 21:38 | 6428046 monad
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Maybe this classic propaganda from the old country will trigger flashbacks. Cheers

The Trip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwuTEV2G1HU

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 21:33 | 6420694 flyingcaveman
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Just curious, do they do much gold refining there? 

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 22:02 | 6420821 Brindle702
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I don't know the status of gold in Tianjin.  Hoover was there for coal.  "The mines are situated on the Tientsin, Newchang Railroad, 90 miles from the city and river port of Tientsin, 60 from the harbor of Tongku, and 72 from the new Treaty Port of Ching-Wan-Tao.  There were three shafts, with coal seams 85 feet deep along 23 miles of railroad, containing an estimated available quantity of 525 million tons of bituminous coal, domestic, locomotive and naval"

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:25 | 6420208 Mintcoin
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Wow! This is bad. Keeps getting worse.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:48 | 6420389 lakecity55
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"Wo Fat, we leveraged up those chemicals 25X! The Inspector is coming."

 "Then, Light fuse, get away!"

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:26 | 6420211 abbottmd
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That one heck of a margin-call blow-up.
If it had been in the U.S., the govt would have been out with reassurances that there were no signs of terrorism within about 2 minutes.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:33 | 6420225 Mintcoin
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Only 13 found dead? How many completely vaporized??? With a blast like that, you are talking nothing left, no remains at all.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:36 | 6420226 Mintcoin
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This death toll seems very low

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:37 | 6420231 bid the soldier...
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I only had a little puff.  Swear to God

But after when I went to see what was on Der Spiegel web site auf Deutsch about China, the pictures came up with this headline 

 

ERZHERZOG ERMORDET

 

my hand to God.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:39 | 6420236 zstard
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Could that have been a cyber attack retaliation?

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:41 | 6420242 The Darwin Mode
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Proof that Israel just nuked China!

--Gordon Duff, Veterans Today

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:36 | 6420354 dsty
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darwin

de evolution of man

blame the jews of course

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 23:01 | 6420781 bunnyswanson
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3/10 Japan made a deal with Iran - 3/11 all hell breaks lose.  Deal is never spoken of again.

As reported by the Jerusalem Post:

"According to a report in the Taiwanese press, China is set to provide the Islamic Republic with 24 J-10 fighter jets.

In exchange, Iran will permit China access to its largest oilfield for the next 20 years. The total estimated value of the deal is $1 billion"

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran/Report-China-set-to-provide-Iran-w...

 

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150809000116&c...

8-9-15

"...Beijing and Tehran are currently in negotiations to finalize a deal for the J-10 that will involve access rights to Iran's Azadegan oilfield. Chinese media speculate that deal may involve the supply of 24 J-10 jets by 2020 in return for 20 years of access rights, which experts estimate would be equivalent in value to about US$1 billion."

 

3-11-2010

"In February 2010, Nikkei Business Daily reported that Japan was prepared to offer to enrich uranium for Iran’s nuclear power needs in an attempt to calm international concerns over Tehran’s nuclear program. Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada stressed that while the questions around Iran’s program should be resolved diplomatically, he also hoped "that Iran considers a related UN Security Council resolution seriously."[12]

http://www.irantracker.org/foreign-relations/japan-iran-foreign-relations

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:03 | 6421158 gezley
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Fukushima was 2011, not 2010. Interesting connections nevertheless.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 07:34 | 6421443 bunnyswanson
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Exactly 1 year later.  Maybe I am wrong. 

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2015-07-13/china-iran-nucl...

Council for Foreign Affairs

"There is considerable risk that Tehran could covertly procure nuclear materials from Chinese brokers and circumvent a nuclear deal by secretly creating a new parallel nuclear program."

"J-10 is rumored to have been developed on the basis of the Lavi fighters designed by Israel and the United States in the 1980s. Israel allegedly sold the blueprints for the Lavi to China and now the technology could find its way to what Tel Aviv perceives as its archenemy."

Oil 4 Jets

http://sputniknews.com/business/20150806/1025459491.html#ixzz3igLDcgrL

 

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/12/was-china-nuked-today-by-rothsch...

VT - Veteran's Today article fails to address the Iranian connection, focuses on the Yuan but agrees the potential exists.  Major port deal is underwent between Israel and China, in Israel, as well s mega port in Iran.  So, it's just something to think about for now.  Distracting the natives while the middle class is annihilated globally is cut off at the pass may also apply.  Or just an industrial accident.  Coincidences, you know, rarely exist.  This is huge loss of ability to transport and knowing a Chinese woman who was in the business, insuring their shipments did not always happen, she said the odds were so slim it was not worth the cost of liability coverage. 

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 11:58 | 6422377 Benjamin123
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Actually Israel is doing its best to get as close to China and India as possible. Israelis can feel the US will not always be there for them.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:44 | 6420248 Keyboard Kommando
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Too bad it didn't happen in Israel!

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:45 | 6420253 PrimalScream
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"This death toll seems very low"

I agree.  If it's only 13 dead - they were very lucky.  Could have been muc worse.

but we do not know how many people are still MISSING. they got lucky ... this happened at night. If it happened in the middle of the work day, I hate to think.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:51 | 6420271 homebody
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martial law declared - I didn't know it ever ended

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 18:55 | 6420283 mcbond
Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:01 | 6420291 Bunga Bunga
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Peak China!

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:16 | 6420317 22winmag
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Martial Law?

 

Really?

 

Folks, it ain't really Martial Law unless the civilian government has been deposed one way or another. I'm so sick of every little government crackdown being misportrayed as martial law.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:25 | 6420335 Falling Down
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Hopefull, something like that happens here in the States, soon. We need Barry to declare himself dictator for life.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:28 | 6420339 thebigunit
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And now a live report from our on the scene reporter. Dan, what's the situation?

"SHIT, MAN! F*CK!"

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:33 | 6420349 bamawatson
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Where is the link and/or evidence verification of Martial Law in China?

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:34 | 6420352 bamawatson
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Where is the link and/or evidence verification of Martial Law in China?

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:34 | 6420489 monad
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Evidence that China, or any nation greater than a tribe - an extended family - has ever been free of martial "law" for > 3 generations , in the entire 2.2 million year history of the 2 legged rat?

This was Kurt Vonnegut's masters thesis. It was rejected. Instead he took his master of anthropology by describing the cinderella (not to be confused with the cinderfella) pattern of literature.

Layers, upon layers, upon layers. Graduated layers. You read into the master's works what you can see at the time.

If you haven't read them in a decade, read them again.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:39 | 6420362 squid
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Think you used enough dynamite there Butch?

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:43 | 6420375 BarkingCat
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The deaths will only be mourned if they are female.
Given China's demographics they might welcome eliminating some males.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 19:50 | 6420398 henry chucho
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I predict that within the next 2 weeks.you'll see a sale on "Smoked Tianjin Teriyaki" meat pepperoni sticks,at your local Wal*Mart superstore..

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:51 | 6420574 ToSoft4Truth
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Soylent Green Is People!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 13:27 | 6420432 GoinFawr
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At least the Chinese still bother to "declare" martial law; where I am to it's just surreptitiously and stealthily imposed by hammering in the thin ends of wedges.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:10 | 6420468 _SILENCER
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Jesus, that thing was goddamn gnarly. I'll wager Raytheon is looking for a way to bottle that shit

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:20 | 6420501 jacship
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looking like second pipe line just got its funding from us treasurys

 

 

 

this is not your fathers socialism

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:24 | 6420517 imbrbing
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The U.S. hasnt payed for their shipments yet??? Brow it up!

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:29 | 6420531 RazorForex
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This is payback for the Yuan revaluation.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:36 | 6420542 all-priced-in
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I was 5 miles from the Phillips plant -Pasadena Texas - when it blew up back in 1989 -

 

I was sitting in my office on the  2nd floor of a brick building

 

It felt like a BIG truck had rammed into the side of the building - I looked out my window expecting to see an 18 wheeler half way inside the building.

 

Then it hit me - MY plant blew up - we had about 1,200 people working that day  -

 

I ran down  the hallway,  ceiling tiles were all over the floor - people were running around scared shitless -but no reports of any real damage - no injuries - no fire - WTF??

 

Took me about 5 minutes to be sure it was not an explosion at my location - so I called the emergency preparedness 800 number  -

 

They had already received a report from inside the Phillips plant  - which amazes the crap out of me to this day - to be blown to hell and still have the process in place to call the thing in -

 

My wife was home - 15 miles in the opposite direction from from me - so 10 miles from the plant - and she thought it had been an earthquake.

 

 

 

 

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:43 | 6420549 A Dollar Short
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I heard they were exporting thousands of porta-potties to the US, with poo included.  Someone accidentally sat in one and lit a ciggie..

BANG!

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:48 | 6420566 insanelysane
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Was there an aircraft carrier flying a flag with a rising sun in the vicinity?

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 20:49 | 6420569 ToSoft4Truth
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Windex for the mind.

 

Snot a good look!: Revolting moment a Missouri Congresswoman is apparently caught eating a booger on live TV

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3193653/Missouri-Rep-Ann-Wagner-...

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 21:06 | 6420609 The Duke of New...
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Let me guess: Larry Silverstien owned the building that blew up? ... and he tripled the insurance just days after buying it.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:00 | 6421145 Bloodstock
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None of the buildings fell in their own footprint so, nah, Larry not involved.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 02:33 | 6421337 22winmag
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They pulled it!

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 21:08 | 6420617 ToSoft4Truth
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What channel are the air strikes from Turkey on?

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 21:18 | 6420643 Heywood Jahblohmee
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Presdent of China said 

''We will find who did this''

China invades Japan, and USA.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 22:26 | 6420906 idontcare
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So Xi Jinping is descended from King John of England like our nutcases?

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:41 | 6421212 Rock On Roger
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Spell, 2015.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 21:37 | 6420711 shankster
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All good libs should continue to shelter in place until further notice.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 21:40 | 6420722 rsnoble
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17 dead in an area where people live stacked 20 high?  Bullshit.  Just like the rest of the commie's numbers.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 22:09 | 6420765 John Law Lives
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This recently posted CCTV video shows the power of the blast.  I feel bad for the poor souls in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOa5J-V0viU

 

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 21:52 | 6420778 homiegot
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I had to laugh a little.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 22:19 | 6420882 homiegot
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Sum ting wong

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 22:29 | 6420916 Ms No
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"I could feel death".  No dude that's just the Shemitah jubilee blood moon tetrad of love, calm the fuck down.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 23:49 | 6421114 PrimalScream
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36 firefighters missing.

the real scale of the damage - NOT KNOWN.

Wed, 08/12/2015 - 23:53 | 6421125 PrimalScream
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JOHN LAW LIVES - don't see how that guy survived.  If he did, he's got serious injuries and his body is pierced with a huge number of glass fragments.  that was a bad way to go.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:05 | 6421132 PrimalScream
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"This is payback for the Yuan revaluation."

unfortunately, with the rumor floating in the news that Obama would retaliate because of the Chinese hacking in DC - THE Chinese authorities are probably going to investigate the explosion as a possible act of terrorism or espionage. 

The PROBLEM is - the two big detonations have torn everything apart.  There may be very little evidence.  It could take Chinese investigators years to analyze the scene, or they may never determine the cause.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:03 | 6421156 reader2010
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pERFECT timing indeed. The government will likely blame the slow economy on the blast.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:14 | 6421180 Hope Copy
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End of the fireworks celebrations, they just got much more expensive.  Please note that the insurance companies are going to take a 'bath' in this incident.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:35 | 6421204 pcrs
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It's the EPA again, releasing superfunds

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:39 | 6421210 22winmag
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What else would you expect from a nation that is the undisputed world leader in peasants shitting on the side of the road?

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:46 | 6421216 Surveyor4Pres
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At least they don't have an EPA that purposefully destroys an entire ecosystem.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:47 | 6421219 Rock On Roger
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In my part of earth only bears shit on the road.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 02:17 | 6421325 dumbStruck
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In my part of the world there are oligarchs who shit all over the rest of us.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:39 | 6421211 Karaio
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I think it was inevitable.

In Brazil we had a few months at the Port of Santos a fire of great proportions.

Lasted nearly three weeks, a nephew of mine worked a half weeks on site, posted gruesome pictures on watzap.

They killed few people because the site was proper and safe for the equipment.

The physical damage of the structures are shocking, very financial loss.

I believe that China will be the same.

Port facilities both there and here are managed by the Navy.

Strict safety standards, such as airports.

Do not hold your breath, it was probably a pyrotechnic fire.

After all, with one billion and four hundred million inhabitants, if they die a hundred thousand, not tickles.

hehe.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 00:54 | 6421228 dumbStruck
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 "President Xi Jinping has demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the explosions..."

I am sure someone from middle management will be found... Shit sure doesn't rise to the top in China any better than elsewhere.

 

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 01:48 | 6421296 83_vf_1100_c
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  I'll start the rumor that obama ordered it. Spred the word, East.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 01:46 | 6421293 roodeetoodee
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NSAs response to chinese hacking. 

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 02:48 | 6421353 83_vf_1100_c
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"U.S. agricultural-machinery maker Deere received reports of damage to its Tianjin works from the blast..."

  If I were them I would of ate the damage and shut up. They'll lose some customers who believed Deere was still made in Amerika.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 07:30 | 6421568 CheapBastard
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The cheimcal factory's maintenance company probably the same one that maintains escalators:

 

Experts warn of poorly maintained, aging equipment and not enough inspectors

 

http://time.com/3981884/china-escalator-safety-elevator/

 

In any case, it's a sick tragedy.

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 08:41 | 6421710 Jack Oliver
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This could well be a missile attack from a South Korean US base - Especially as there is no data on the targeted 'scapegoat' company - China always keep their cards close to their chest - the truth would create panic and mayhem !!

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 22:26 | 6424794 bunnyswanson
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GoFundMe page for victims of explosion has just gone up. 

https://www.gofundme.com/wqdt66gw/thankyou?d=YjnmyPkNRfrkUJ2r%2ByuXof8HZ...

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!