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China Sends In Chemical Warfare Troops, Orders Tianjin Blast Site Evacuation After Toxic Sodium Cyanide Found

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Four years ago, following the Sendai tsunami and resulting explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Japanese government had just one goal: to minimize panic among the population, even if it meant blatantly lying about the resulting deadly radioactive fallout the public was exposed to. After all the top prerogative among government bureaucrats has always been to minimize social disturbance even if it means sacrificing countless individuals to a death that could have been avoided if only the government had told the truth from the beginning.

This was also the playbook followed by the Chinese government three days ago after the massive chemical plant explosion in China’s port of Tianjin where the casualty count is increasing with every passing day (85 dead at last check and rising fast), but where the real danger is that toxic gases and chemical fallout, just as dangerous and lethal as Fukushima’s beta and gamma waves, have spread in the air and water, and are jeopardizing the local population.

Initially the government did everything in its power to cover up the spread of deadly contaminants. As we reported yesterday, People’s Daily openly lied to the local population: “Authorities tasked with marine monitoring announced there were no hazardous chemicals detected in waters off the blast site in north China's port city Tianjin on Friday.

A statement from the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said major measurement of seawater composition did not show any anomaly compared with historical records.

Hazardous materials such as cyanide and volatile phenol were not detected, while the variety of zooplankton was not affected either, it added.

The problem is that the Chinese government long ago lost all credibility and as we reported yesterday, local residents “wondered if even the air was safe because of the smoke, still billowing hours later from vestiges of the inferno, which destroyed an industrial zone near the port. Many people wore masks.”

“Right now, we don’t know anything,” said Sun Meirong, 52, an office cleaner who descended 13 flights of stairs with her 1-year-old grandson after the explosions blew in her apartment windows and front door.

 

… According to the Tianjin Tanggu Environmental Monitoring Station, calcium carbide was one of several toxic industrial chemicals stored by the company. The others included sodium cyanide, which can produce hydrogen cyanide, a volatile and flammable liquid; and toluene diisocyanate, which can also react violently in the presence of water.

We were quite skeptical the Chinese government can maintain the charade for long: unlike radiation whose effects take years to materialize, and thus afforded  the Japanese government free reign to lie to the people with impunity for years, the effect of the Chinese toxic gases manifest themselves quickly, and usually with a combustible or deadly outcome.

Which is why we were not surprised to learn that Chinese authorities ordered the evacuation of residents within a 3km radius of the Tianjin blast site “over fears of chemical contaminationaccording to BBC.

Replace fears with reality: the evacuation came as police confirmed the highly toxic chemical sodium cyanide was found near the site.

People sheltering at a school used as a safe haven since the disaster have been asked to leave wearing masks and long trousers, reports say.   

According to a tweet by The People's Daily, anti-chemical warfare troops have entered the site to handle highly toxic sodium cyanide which had been found there.

The discovery was confirmed by police "roughly east of the blast site" in an industrial zone, state-run Beijing News said.

What is Sodium Cyanide?

The chemical sodium cyanide is white crystalline or granular powder which can be rapidly fatal if inhaled or ingested, as it interferes with the body's ability to use oxygen.

It is mostly used in chemical manufacturing, for fumigation and in the mining industry to extract gold and silver.

It is soluble in water, and absorbs water from air, and its dust is also easy to inhale. When dissolved or burned, it releases the highly poisonous gas hydrogen cyanide.

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Which means that the lies can now end: officials have so far insisted that air and water quality levels are safe.

BBC adds that officials have also confirmed the presence of calcium carbide, potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate. Calcium carbide reacts with water to create the highly explosive acetylene.

Ironically, just like in the case of Fukushima where the government is desperately hiding the fact that there has been a core meltdown, so in Tianjin the deadly chemicals have made such a toxic mix that some fires have continued to smoulder and at least one reignited on Saturday.

Xinhua said several cars at the site had "exploded again".

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Since the port of Tianjin a critical infrastructure hub in the inbound commodity pathway, handling a substantial portion of China’s iron ore and steel supply chain, today’s evacuation and the admission that the chemical fallout from the explosion was far worse than officially admitted, means that a non-trivial component of China’s trade is about to be mothballed indefinitely.

It also means that with both imports and exports set to suffer even more following last month’s shocking prolapse, which was the sole reason for China’s currency devaluation (the justification used by some pundits that China is simply eager to gain SDR acceptance is utter nonsense: China would not reveal it is adding to its gold holdings if it intended to appease the IMF, and certainly would not intervene daily to prop up its stock market, something the “free market” IMF finds abhorrent if only publicly), and with critical logistical networks now certain to be blocked indefinitely, resulting in GDP-crushing supply chain bottlenecks, Beijing – which was eager to slowdown its Yuan devaluation on Friday in order to avoid cross-asset contagion and further selling of stocks and an acceleration of the capital outflow – will have no choice but to devalue the currency even more in the coming week as the only offset to what may have well been a true black (or rather mushroom cloud shaped) swan event, one for which neither China nor the world, had absolutely any contingency plan.

 

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Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:39 | 6428638 ParkAveFlasher
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Looks like this is under control. /s 

Good luck with that ore leaching when you're short cyanide.

"Buy the truth, and sell it not." Proverbs 23:23

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:04 | 6428700 Latina Lover
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In a country with 1.4 billion people, even if the city of Tianjin with a pop. of 15 million disappeared, that would represent a loss of slighty more than 1% of the total population.  I doubt anyone would even notice, except for family and friends.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:09 | 6428713 Looney
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...  The company’s owners and management are being hunted down and arrested.

Shouldn’t we do the same with our “financial engineers”?  ;-)

Looney

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:22 | 6428736 BrocilyBeef
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Perhaps they should have built Ghost Ports.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:33 | 6428753 Dame Ednas Possum
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It's the Tribe doing a stock take on the car stock pile.

Did Larry agree to 'just pull it' as all his insurances were in place?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:12 | 6428830 weburke
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media wont report any purposeful actions if evidence emerges. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:17 | 6428842 Doña K
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Black swan? 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:53 | 6428946 BaBaBouy
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All In All, This Tianjin Disaster Can Be Cleaned Up Relatively Easily, Just A Matter Of Time And Manpower.
There Exists No Technology To "Clean Up" Fukashitta. Radiation Lasting 1000's Of Years Is All Over The Place There. The Plutonium Infused Cores
Are Still In The Ground, Somewhere, Giving And Giving...

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:23 | 6429010 Xibalba
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In NewYawk, it's just called 'pollution'.  And after 9/11, they said it was all good. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:54 | 6429091 Sanity Bear
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If Woody had just maintained the peg, this never would have happened.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:34 | 6429166 toady
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Safety first.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:24 | 6429382 The Next Millen...
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No probrum here, move awrong

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:07 | 6429332 Excursionist
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Can't help feeling bitter after all these years about the fuck faces from the EPA and the mayor's office continually reassuring anyone who'd listen about air quality in downtown.

And of course there were the even bigger fuck faces from Solly's exec suite reassuring everyone that the air filtration system in 386 and 388 Greenwich absolutely, positively made everything safe to be at your desk, slaving away without skipping a beat.

Shame on me for not putting 1 + 1 together and being so completely stupid even after seeing daily water trucks hosing down dust on Tribeca's sidewalks.

I'll be posting from some oncology ward in 10 - 20 years.  #Winning.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:57 | 6429464 Handful of Dust
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"It's contained."

 

However, just to be safe, I'd stay out of the first rain or two and not play in puddles for awhile.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:18 | 6428996 Thirtyseven
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Yarmulke Swan.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:05 | 6428813 giggler321
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Well this was obviously planned, I mean they built all those ghost cites ready for just such an event...

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:17 | 6428994 Thirtyseven
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They have.

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:17 | 6429351 Slomotrainwreck
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I doubt anyone would even notice, except for family and friends.

Duh! - Tasteless.

Isn't that the result of any unfortunate death regardless of the numbers? For instance, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, Civil War, assasination by cop, etc.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:27 | 6428743 junction
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Both sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide are used in refining gold from mineral ores.  As in Durango, Colorado, where the EPA failed to mention the presence of cyanides in the spillwater from the Gold King mine.  You don't have to be a communist to be a lying government bureaucrat.

By the way, has anyone ever looked into what really happened to Senator Harry Reid to explain his "accident."  He looks to have ben beaten so severely that he lost sight in one eye, right after the Obama administration plans to take over Cliveden Bundy's ranch went smash.  Chinese "investors" were planning to do something in that part of Nevada.  Mention was made of a giant solar energy farm, arrays of solar cell panels on the ground to generate energy and, as a byproduct, incinerate birds flying by ("flamers").  When the news about the Bundy ranch standoff made national headlines, these investors, Triad members all, vanished. But they could have been angry over Reid not keeping his end of the corrupt bargain, hence the beatdown of Reid.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:32 | 6428747 LetThemEatRand
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The birds prefer being referred to as "nest-biters."

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:24 | 6429016 Thirtyseven
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That's the official line.  So where's Harry's lawsuit against the equipment maker?

Surely, as a lawyer and suit-happy liberal, he'd be all over that one with no expense spared.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:21 | 6429005 lasvegaspersona
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come on...look at the guy...do you really doubt he could have injured himeself with a rubber band? The guy is just not smooth.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:12 | 6429133 lakecity55
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He probably just short-changed a rent boy.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:59 | 6429468 Handful of Dust
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Piglosi had one too many and slugged him a few times when he brought up the taboo Botox question.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:27 | 6429386 delacroix
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his drunk brother kicked his ass.   white trash

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:41 | 6429047 tocointhephrase
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"Buy the truth and sell it not." The truth being Tristar Resources. And sell it not! This company has a roasting technique for gold and antimony making leaching look archaic! By the way China represents about 90% of the Antimony market which just blew a hole. Tristar are aiming to take 10% which may have just increased without even doing anything. STRONG BUY TSTR! Quality penny stock!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:37 | 6428641 negative rates
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All is fine, until it's not.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:39 | 6428644 silverer
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Cyanide certainly is dangerous.  Even in small amounts.  Wonder what the half life is in that environment?  Guess they'll be some dead fish in the nearby water as well. Too bad about all that.  They need to get some good rules drawn up on this stuff.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:43 | 6428651 ParkAveFlasher
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Sodium cyanide degrades quickly.  There is an initial die-off when it is released in concentration, but populations recover remarkably. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:23 | 6428859 junction
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". . .populations recover remarkably"  And you know this how?  Sodium cyanide powder is not released in concentration in the air, its stays in its powder form on the ground until it rains or is scraped off.  Zykon-B, the Nazi poison gas used in concentration camp death chambers, is sodium cyanide in aerosol form.  The decontamination squads that the Chinese government sends in to clean up Tianjin will probably have to spray areas with sodium hydroxide solution (lye) to hydrolyze any lingering toxic chemicals on the ground before backhoeing large areas in the blast zone.  Soon, there will be mountains of debris and dirt where productive warehouses once stood.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:26 | 6429249 Bunga Bunga
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Don't worry. The government has everything under control and they will give you any information which will have the slightest impact on your health. Government would never lie, they are here to serve you, trust them.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 15:03 | 6429473 Handful of Dust
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It was only a tiny leak...all tests are normal ....

 

 

http://photographyinparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bird-west-ni...

 

... and by the way, how are those salmon doing off the coast of Alaska?

 

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/71/158407986_2532d8df3f_z.jpg

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 22:52 | 6430708 techpreist
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For "populations recovering remarkably," there are more than a few books on the aftermath of toxic releases, and of population modeling. This explosion has prompted me to start writing an app for doing probit analysis (probability of death/injury), but perhaps eventually I could look at toxic releases. Then the Tylers could add some chart porn for these kinds of stories too.

The real question IMO is what the condition of the river wsa like beforehand.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:56 | 6428679 MSimon
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Well if cyanide is so dangerous you will need to be separated from your body. It produces cyanide.

 

In fact all mammals.

 

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Ignorance leads to unwarranted fears.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:15 | 6428722 LetThemEatRand
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Mammals also need water to survive, and in fact are largely composed of water.  Turns out the stuff can also make you drown.  And don't get me started with the difference between Fukishima and normal background radiation, which is harmless.  Ignorance also leads to unwarranted complacency.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:43 | 6429057 DIgnified
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This is the dumbest fucking comment I have ever read on this website. You should be embarrassed to be this obtuse. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:51 | 6429079 Global Hunter
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Ann Coulter posting on ZH?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:06 | 6428704 Bangin7GramRocks
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Screw you and your profit killing regulations!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:27 | 6429022 Montani Semper ...
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That is almost exactly what late Elmer Fike said in the early 80's. Fike Chemical sprang up in Nitro, WVa and it's laboratories were located mainly in some WWI era concrete bunkers.

 The town of Nitro was created under the Deficiency Appropriations Act of Oct 16, 1917, as America was facing a serious wartime gunpowder shortage at that time. The name Nitro is short for nitro-cellulose, so chosen by the Ordnance Department because it identified the type of gunpowder to be produced. An alternative name, Redwop (powder spelled backwards) was also considered. Almost as soon as the factories were complete and started to produce powder the war ended on Nov 11, 1918.

 I vividly recall the two sodium fires that occurred across the river at Fike Chem in the 80's, with one of them being fairly serious. Both were the result of improperly sealed drums that were left out in the rain. At least the Nitro FD was sophisticated enough to fight the fire with chemical foam. The area has been an EPA Superfund site since 1986, and serious concentrations of dioxin in the groundwater continue to plague the site today. Thank you Mr Fike.

 It is evident the Chinese have decades of catching up to do in terms of hazardous material handling and disposal, and have the cavalier attitude of Fike that environmental safety rules cost jobs, money and ultimately GDP.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:43 | 6429056 tocointhephrase
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See Tristar Resources!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:22 | 6429147 Montani Semper ...
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 I did as you said and I learned that the active ingredient in fire suppressing foam is antimony, which has it's own long list of safety hazards. Thanks a lot, now I have something else to worry about!

 To qoute a popular phrase from my hippie days:

 Better living through chemistry!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:52 | 6429184 Montani Semper ...
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One more trip down memory lane from the Fike Chem days, and that was the frequent spills of methyl mercaptan that happened there.

 The strongest, most pervasive and foulest odor imaginable, it was akin to a skunk on steroids. Not only did it smell putrid, but it left an aftertaste on the back of your tongue as an added bonus.

 

Sun, 08/16/2015 - 14:29 | 6432382 tocointhephrase
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Antimony, like silver is a metal critical for the twenty first century. China represents over 90% of the market. Leaching is sure to come under pressure (pun not intended) and Tri-Star Resources have a safer technique and about to take 10% of the market. Watch this space. TSTR for gold and antimony recovery!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:39 | 6428645 2500saturdays
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I will take a chemical reaction over a nuclear reaction any day. Truely a mess but nothing like FUK.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:42 | 6428649 JustObserving
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700 tonnes of Sodium Cyanide:

The information filtering out as to the cause of the disaster has triggered open recriminations against the regime of the Stalinist Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Reports indicate that a warehouse operated by Rui Hai International Logistics, a company started in 2011, was storing up to 700 tonnes of highly dangerous sodium cyanide and unspecified quantities of calcium carbide. Containers holding these substances will explode when heated. The fire-fighting crews sent to combat a blaze at the warehouse were not told about the chemicals. At least 21 emergency workers died in the blasts that followed.

Hundreds of port workers were sleeping barely 600 metres away in overcrowded dormitories. Some 90,000 people live within a five kilometre radius of the warehouse. If the explosions had taken place during the day, when the streets and buildings surrounding the docks were bustling with human traffic, the carnage would have been far worse.

The CCP government in Beijing is nervous over the public reaction to the Tianjin explosions, which have demonstrated again the consequences of the unchecked capitalist development over which it has presided for more than 35 years. According to official reports, Rui Hai International Logistics was storing deadly chemicals without the knowledge of, or intervention by, any authorities. The company’s owners and management are being hunted down and arrested. They will more than likely face execution or draconian prison sentences after highly public trials, in an effort to deflect any scrutiny of the broader issues posed by the disaster.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/15/pers-a15.html

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:52 | 6428670 MSimon
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the consequences of the unchecked capitalist development

 

China is not a capitalist country. At best it is a crony capitalist country. Or more precisely an oligarchy or fascist country.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:36 | 6428756 goldhedge
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Just like Amerika then?

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:32 | 6428887 bamawatson
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Brack Swan

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:45 | 6429061 tocointhephrase
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Tristar Resources gonna benefit!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 17:27 | 6429810 ThroxxOfVron
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Enough already.

Go shove your penny stock hustling bullshit up your ass and take the ass-pack to MarketWatch or where ever...

Sun, 08/16/2015 - 06:10 | 6431200 tocointhephrase
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Look hustle or no hustle given this boards interest in physical gold and with the vast majority understanding that getting it out of the ground (about 30% is unprofitable to extract) and Tristar Resources have a safe way of extracting it and given that some (if not most) don't even blink when you mention $40,000 gold per Oz and given that I am on a financial website and given the particular news story I am underneath, why would I not stand at the top of the highest mountain with a megaphone and scream BUY F'in TSTR!

Shalom in fight club!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:09 | 6429124 lakecity55
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Yes, that is who they copied.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:31 | 6429388 Slomotrainwreck
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the consequences of the unchecked capitalist development

No worries

Undoubtedly, they had insurance and everyting will soon to be cleaned up shortly, if not eventually or else later. That's what insurance is for, isn't it?

 

Hell, even Shell cleaned up the whole Gulf of Mexico in a couple months, better than new actually /s

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:32 | 6428746 Berspankme
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And surely Rui Hai logistics is owned by some government officials. Lived in China for 6 years and believe me that's how it works. Will guarantee government ownership and the idea nobody knew is pure bullshit.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:42 | 6428767 therevolutionwas
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China is not capitalist.  The USA is capitalist in name only.  Fascist is much closer to the truth for both countries.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:09 | 6428824 trader1
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You got it all wrong.

Both implement a fair dose of anti-humanist policies...

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:47 | 6428657 CheapBastard
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Several explosions reported at Conroe oil drilling manufacturer

 

http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/woodlands/news/article/Several-explosi...

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:33 | 6429264 Bunga Bunga
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Calm down, just some hot surplus liquidation "sales".

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:48 | 6428662 MSimon
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Radiation hormesis. It means exposure to small extra doses (above background) of radiation improve immune function.

 

Radiation damage is not linear - as the government insists.

 

It is also why radon laced spas are so popular in Europe. It is a treatment referred to as "the waters".

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:56 | 6428682 ParkAveFlasher
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You come out with a glowing complexion!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:57 | 6428685 all-priced-in
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When your hair starts to fall out it is time to go home.

 

 

/s/

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:03 | 6428697 MSimon
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Ah. A down vote by the ignorati. Matybe I should leave an educational link.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis

 

BTW the idea that small doses of poison improve immune function "hormesis" is well known.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis

 

Evidently it is not widely accepted. And that is OK. The linear model (no safe dose) is a stronger safety criteria. But we do know in fact that for poisons - it is the dose that matters. After all alcohol - a known poison - is widely consumed in non-poisonous doses.

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:33 | 6428750 Stuck on Zero
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You are correct about radiation hormesis.  All life evolved with low levels of radiation.  Unfortunately exposure to Fukushima radiation often results in high specific doses of radiation such as through the uptake of Cesium and Strontium. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:55 | 6429094 lincolnsteffens
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Your link to wikipedia says "hormesis"in radiation is a hypothesis, not scientifically accepted fact.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:47 | 6429283 Bunga Bunga
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Radiation hormesis was proven incorrectly already. Any radiation above natural dosage is harmful to the human body. A study examined the health data of 300,000 NPP workers. The leukemia rate among those workers is higher compared to the normal population. There is a linear relationship between radiation dosage and health damage. Also the exposure time makes no difference. A low exposure over a long time period has the same effect as a high exposure over a short period, given the same dosage.  

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026%2815%2900...

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:52 | 6428671 NoWayJose
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Have to feel for the first guys who went in there without hazmat suits and said - "Shit - this looks like cyanide!"

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:58 | 6428688 negative rates
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Same with the guys who were told to go back upstairs and continue working after the first plane hit the towers.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:34 | 6428754 fattail
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That's what you get for following orders.  At some point your darwinian instincts need to kick in or you get removed from the gene pool.  Or maybe just being a little curious.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:59 | 6428952 Arnold
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http://www.darwinawards.com/

 

I missed the awards ceremony this year. It was on at the same time as the People's Choice.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:55 | 6428759 Dame Ednas Possum
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...and they went back upstairs?

WTF? Think about it people.

*I guess they needed a solid bodycount of martyrs. Can't let a good disaster go to waste.

To me the emergency services (first responders) truly got the shitty end of the stick. Something like 800 of these guys have died of respiratory problems since 9-11....often with lower insurance coverage for their families as officially they didn't die in the line of duty.

But at least Silverstein didn't have to pay to remove the asbestos fire cladding from his buildings...and he was duly compensated for losing his daily breakfast restaurant...which he and his daughter just so happened not to be in that fateful morning.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:56 | 6428681 NoWayJose
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Dang that King Mine full of cyanide and heavy metals in Colorado. I knew it was deep, but they must have dug clear through to China!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:01 | 6428692 medium giraffe
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I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night,
And I think to myself.....

 

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:41 | 6428766 Dame Ednas Possum
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...wow, we're really making a mess of this wonderful world.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:14 | 6428988 11b40
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.....what a f**ked up world.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:06 | 6428706 847328_3527
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I wonder if anyone in Korea is testing their air for these chemicals since the wond is blowing the fumes east?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:07 | 6428711 SoDamnMad
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THIS is why the Chinese built all those ghost cities that are empty. When you have a disaster just bus the people to the empty city.

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:14 | 6428719 Motasaurus
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All over the world. The Chinese have been building "ghost" cities all over the world. Hundreds of the things. Just enough to house the 500 million people that will survive whatever is coming.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:53 | 6429090 J Jason Djfmam
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No silly.

The built the ghost cities to house the millions of ghosts left behind after the "Big Purge of 2015".

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:12 | 6428829 Ms No
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Well on the bright side, at least it's not Dupont's C8 which was used in Teflon production.  That is in nearly every living American's blood by the way. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:54 | 6428948 Its_the_economy...
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Tell it.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:25 | 6428866 mijev
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They're building a new (ghost) city in Tianjin right now. Or they were.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:17 | 6428721 strangewalk
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If the wind blows east the plume could go to Pyongyang, even to Japan, but if it blows west it will quickly cover Tianjin proper, one of China's largest cities. However, this could be just phase one of the die-off--China plans to construct 10 nuclear plants per year for the next 10 years. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:17 | 6428728 Atomizer
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Nuclear test at Frenchman's Flat, Nevada - YouTube

Ghost cities to test under the disquise of Globalisation. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:25 | 6428741 wally_12
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There are scientic studies that state that "Background" radiation can cause cancer. Depends upon what DNA cells are damaged by the harmless radiation. Background radiation is a known cause of Breast cancer. Very rare but still a probability.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:24 | 6428863 mijev
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I've also read (unconfirmed conspiracy theory) that lung cancer was unfairly blamed on smoking to cover up the fact that radioactive particles had caused the sudden increase since ww2. A recent article on ZH said that lung cancer incidence in china had risen 30% in the last 20 years while smoking levels stayed the same or slightly decreased. Who knows?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:52 | 6429081 Ms No
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Funny you mention that.  I read a rat study where mice were being exposed to radiation and dying of cancers.  They also were studying tobacco on rats.  Funny thing happened one day, the smoking rats got loose into the radioactive rat environment and ended up being the only rats to survive the radioactive particles. They replicated this.  Why did the smoking rats live?  They theorized that it was due to the rats lungs having a nicotine coating and thus through coughing they expelled the radioactive particles.

One question I have about smoking and cancer is, is it the bazillion chemicals in the tobacco or the tobacco?  Cancer is very rare in the archaeological record and they say that this is because people didn't live as long but there has always been long lived people.. just not as many.  It is also an undisputed fact that cancer rates in the US have skyrocketed over the last century.

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:00 | 6429208 Global Hunter
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appreciate the post.  I get my smokes from the reserve, they say no additives and use only natural leaf tobacco.  They definately taste a lot better than the non-native ones.  Now on the rare occassion I smoke a non native cigarette it chokes me up and I can't inhale it.  I figured it was chemicals and additives but I haven't researched it myself.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:18 | 6429237 Rock On Roger
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I'm sure these couple of thousand nuclear reactions has nothing to do with today's cancer rates.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:38 | 6429417 delacroix
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that background radiation, is the residue of thousands of above ground nuclear tests.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:47 | 6428773 pipes
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6GW?

 

I think it's possible.

 

While outwardly, this event is not subtle or soundless, at a source-level, it may well be...

 

"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate." -Sun Tzu 

Sixth Generation Warfare...you thought you were paranoid before...

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:07 | 6428817 trader1
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a diversion in context of a much bigger game?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:04 | 6429112 lakecity55
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Wo Fat: George, we need another attack on US infrastructure."
Soros: I have my hand full with Hitlery right now."
Wo Fat: The Central Committee demands Action."
Soros: I'll do what I can, but your security should have been better.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 15:02 | 6429475 trader1
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US infrastructure = Chinese ports

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:20 | 6428852 ToSoft4Truth
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6-G deep.  That’s hard core.

I can’t rally any family members to attack anyone let alone 6 G Deep! 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:46 | 6428778 Seasmoke
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Watch out for rivers of more floating pigs.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 09:53 | 6428790 Global Hunter
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Sodium cyanide main application is used in gold mining (just checked on wiki).  Apologies if any other poster above me said the same. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:06 | 6428814 trader1
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time to ban use of sodium cyanide for gold mining operations?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:53 | 6428941 Son of Captain Nemo
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time to ban use of sodium cyanide for gold mining operations?

And the only way you'll know George Soros was involved is when you see the PBOC dump another five hundred to a trillion dollars in the next 2 or 3 months with Janet Yellen NOT broadcasting another rate hike...

Which leaves only more "hired Soros guns" to arson other shipping ports in China as retaliation?...  Which will more than likely happen... That, or an encounter/event near one of it's man made islands with the U.S. Navy!

We're truly fucked!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:01 | 6429105 lakecity55
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Wo Fat: Minister, our gold-mining supplies have been decimated."
Minister: The Anglo-Zionists are behind this! Prepare a response."
Wo Fat: We just trashed one of their rivers."
Minister: Do something else!"
Wo Fat: McGarrett is watching me...
Minister: Be careful.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:07 | 6428818 Ms No
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Acetylene is unstable even in tanks (usually black tanks) where it is dissolved in liquid acetone.  Here is a video of what it looks like when those go up. Many people will buy backpack torches or big cylinders for hobbyist reasons and not handle them properly.  "Professionals" mishandle them frequently as well, this is exceedingly stupid.

Acetylene tanks should never be laid on their side, always have flow meters and never allowed to seriously redline on the regulator guages (except maybe a tad for certain purposes) or allowed to bounce around in the back of trucks.  If you bury the needle once you get it closed up leave it alone, if the tank blows it is often the second guy who cracks open the tank that gets it. 

If you ever need to bevel mild steel pipe with OxyAcetylene the guages should be at 35 & 7 no more and no less.  Of course some misguided individuals may argue this point ( ;

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoatgaQrK28

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:20 | 6428825 Chuck Knoblauch
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The only thing I know is that there was an explosion.

It was either an accident, false flag, or an attack against China.

I don't think it matters.

What matters is how China responds to the incident.

BTW, what was the make and model of those vehicles?

If US cars manufactured in China, good way to reduce inventory.

China is willing to kill its own people to keep the status quo.

Once the US middle class is gone, this shit starts happening in the US.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:04 | 6428964 Berspankme
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Cars were renault

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:10 | 6428971 Chuck Knoblauch
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The Chinese hate the French.

Who doesn't?

Thought I saw some German VW's too?

Could this be a hit by the US against European trade with China?

Where is Tom Cruise?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:18 | 6428998 no1ninja
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The conspiracy theaories on ZH are too funny trainted dolphins... lol....

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Kind of like the Fertilizer plant in Texas.... satupid gets what stupid does. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:28 | 6429018 Ms No
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Oh, your not aware of the Navy Seal's dolphin training program?  They do much more than PBS was told undoubtedly.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/slideshow-u-s-navys-dolphins/

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:06 | 6429217 Chuck Knoblauch
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And they do it because they love their trainers.

There is a special place in hell for these trainers.

May they spend an eternity experiencing agony.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 17:43 | 6429862 fishwharf
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The trainers love their animals, and from my experience working with the Navy's marine mammal trainers based in San Diego, I can't imagine them strapping explosives to one of their animals for a mission.  There are many easier and less expensive ways to deliver an explosive package to a target than to use a bottlenose dolphin with the years of training necessary to pull off such a mission.  They are far more valuable for search and security missions that take advantage of their intelligence, incredible sonar, swimming speeds approaching 20 knots and their ability to dive to 3000 feet.  I found the Navy personell who worked with the dolphins and sealions to be very knowledgeable and protective of the animals in their care.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:58 | 6429103 Chuck Knoblauch
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Young retarded fool.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:57 | 6429101 lakecity55
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Don't put anything against Chicom slackness.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:17 | 6428841 ToSoft4Truth
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Dr. Zaius: The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:56 | 6428903 Chuck Knoblauch
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Human don't like smart ape.

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:32 | 6428890 russwinter
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Cancers (specifically uncommon thyroid and blood cancers) Widespread Among 9/11 Responders:

http://winteractionables.com/?p=23862

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:56 | 6429096 lakecity55
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B for IS Chairman: "Our attempts to wipe out many useless eaters are progressing well. ManBearPig, where have you scheduled the next disaster?"

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:38 | 6428910 Amish Hacker
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Hydrogen cyanide, calcium carbide, potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate---sounds like they were making children's pajamas.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:48 | 6428934 ToSoft4Truth
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It was a war ship that popped.  The Chinese are being delayed in arming the coral reefs they recently built in the middle of the ocean.  LOL

The laser tipped dolphins Bush trained came in handy after all.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:15 | 6428990 no1ninja
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You don't need laser tipped dolhphins to blow up a Chinese port.... their greed and poor oversaight will do it all for you.

 

Chemicals next to combustables, no problem, just pay off and store. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:21 | 6429004 I Write Code
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Cigarettes smoked next to leaky pipes.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:42 | 6428921 Monetas
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Always plenty of idiots ..... ready to die for socialism ---- WWII, Jihad, Chernobyl .... this fits the Chernobyl model !

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:46 | 6428933 fiftybagger
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Remove completely port number 10 Tianjin, China from the list and China's ports still do 7 times the container volume than the U.S, whose busiest port comes in at number 19:

http://www.worldshipping.org/about-the-industry/global-trade/top-50-worl...

China will have that port rebuilt faster than you can say "ghost city".  We are right on their heels though.  Moonbeam's high speed rail might be done by 2040

 

Silver For The People

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:12 | 6428982 no1ninja
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...just as long as they don't blow it up by accident while rebuilding it. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 10:49 | 6428939 Ms No
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When I look at their chemical weapons garb I find myself thinking... I sure hope their bioweapon suits are not as poorly designed.  Maybe they hadn't finished putting them on but seems like they're leaving a bit much skin exposed.  With China's population density bioweaponry should be a big concern for them.  Biowarfare has huge advantages, one of which is that it is more difficult to point the finger definitively in the case of an induced outbreak.  Unfortunately we can count on seeing it at some point if we haven't already.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:53 | 6429088 lakecity55
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Where are photos of the NBC suits they are using? I can tell a lot from that.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:06 | 6429116 Ms No
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Oh, I was just drawing a hasty conclusion from the photo in the article.  All of their hands are exposed and the sleeves are not tight fitting. 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:03 | 6429215 Global Hunter
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looks like they are suiting up to me the gloves will be put on next.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:04 | 6428965 Monetas
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This, from the inventors of gun powder ?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:07 | 6428970 Monetas
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Only greedy Capitalists ..... would put their workers .... at risk .... like this ?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:09 | 6428974 Infinite QE
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Any dancing israeli videos yet?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:15 | 6428989 Chuck Knoblauch
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Mossad is a Vatican sock puppet.

Maybe the black pope will release their Temple treasures someday.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:46 | 6429068 Infinite QE
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Mossad reports to the Vatican? LOL. You forgot the /sarc.

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:54 | 6429095 Chuck Knoblauch
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Follow the money.

The Roman Empire never fell.

It consolidated.

Now it wants to expand again.

It's strictly business.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:56 | 6429302 Oh regional Indian
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All roads DO lead to Rome...

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:38 | 6429419 Infinite QE
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Rome's been under zio control for generations.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 16:20 | 6429641 Chuck Knoblauch
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Sorry, but the Roman Empire existed before the Rotchilds.

The Rotchilds answer to Rome.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 18:54 | 6430058 Benjamin123
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A stupid myth. Get a few hundred stein-bergs in high profile positions making outlandish declarations and its all proven.

The FED for instance is owned by the wasp elites. Jews are put at the seat to take the heat.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:13 | 6428983 Chuck Knoblauch
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I blame the US spooks for this attack.

Don't retaliate against me.

I had nothing to do with it.

Nuke the Vatican.

Save us all.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:33 | 6429036 Son of Captain Nemo
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The only proof we need Chuck.  Doesn't matter whether those stars on Ol' Glory are "six sided" are not!...

After all we're a team!!!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:46 | 6429062 Chuck Knoblauch
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Nuke Vatican City and you kill the Beast.

Kill the SJ's.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:12 | 6429227 83_vf_1100_c
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You can't nuke God, he is God. I am fairly certain The Beast falls under the same invincibility to mortals cloak.

SJ? Soldiers of Jesus... Sodomite Jesuits (not that there is anything wrong with that)... Ah! Something to do with Jews, right? Do we kill the Jews or the Catholics? I'm still stuck on killing brown people who wear rags on their heads. I need a score card. This stuff changes so fast a poor Southern boy can't keep up.

It ain't trained dolphins. It ain't one of Ronnie Raygun's space based weapons. It's just an industrial accident. Some uneducated Chinese peasant lit a ciggie in the wrong place. Or, Biden's handlers left him unattended in the war room and he started pushing buttons.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 13:27 | 6429250 bid the soldier...
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Very Convincing.

How would you like to sit near Michelle at Obama's last SOTU?  And get some applause for your patriotic remark?

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 16:17 | 6429257 Chuck Knoblauch
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Syndicate of Jesus.

Listen to their extreme oath.

It's on YouTube.

They've sacrificed their souls to their Order.

Disgusting.

 

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 14:29 | 6429391 monad
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After 40 years of corrupting American values we can no longer lead by example. Zion is exposed as the statist criminals they are. Jews are patsies. Not too bright...

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:13 | 6428985 Ms No
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We can only criticize the Chinese so much however, this video is actually a huge understatement of some of the stupidities of the Bakken especially where explosions are concerned.  Definitely turn down the volume and start about 40 seconds. Coal would NEVER get away with any of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-YAuYyv2oQ

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:18 | 6428992 Chuck Knoblauch
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Yes, blame the scapegoats.

Israel or Islam are on the menu.

Young fools.

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:51 | 6429080 lakecity55
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Yeah, let's bust the Chicoms after a cheap-ass EPA contractor fucked up the Animas River.

Motherfuckers!!

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:56 | 6429073 OneTinTrooper
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Remember the world class fireworks display inserted into their Olympics video feed?  These folks are the masters of imitation and trickeration.  Second only to the USA which declares CIA outposts to be consulates.  You can be pretty confident there is going to be high level people eliminating low level people in this one.  Perhaps, they should get some help from the USA with the "clean up".

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 15:02 | 6429478 ebear
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"Remember the world class fireworks display inserted into their Olympics video feed?"

San Diego has waaaay better fireworks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVhgq1yHdA

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