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Caught On Tape: Massive Explosion At US Weapons Depot In Japan

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Explosions and implosions have become an everyday occurrence of late in Asia. 

Midway through the month the explosion of carry trades stemming from China’s devaluation of the yuan resulted in an untold number of "casualties" (figuratively speaking). Two days later, a tragic explosion at the Chinese port of Tianjin took the lives of 121 people and injured over 700 more. Next, Sakurajima threatened to erupt in Japan triggering fears of a nuclear meltdown at Sendai. Then, the Malaysian ringgit imploded along with trade in Indonesia and finally, on Saturday, a second chemical explosion rocked China killing one worker at a plant in Shandong. 

On Sunday we got another fiery blast from the East, this time emanating from a US Military Base near Sagamihara, Japan. This is from Fox:

An explosion has been reported at the U.S. military facility in Sagamihara, Japan, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports, citing the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation.

 

Sagamihara is a city in the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa, which borders Tokyo.

 

"Fire from the American military base has occurred," the Sagamihara Fire Department said, according to JBC.

 

The Sagami General Depot houses storage for petroleum products and ammunition.

 

Video and photos on began streaming in from social media shortly after Noon (EST), showing a large explosion, several loud booms, sustained flames and billowing smoke rising from a structure. No injuries have been reported.

The accompanying visuals:

 

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Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:23 | 6458002 sphindog
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Not payback...no way. Would never happen! Three random explosions within two weeks. Sloppy munitions experts worldwide, I suppose!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:25 | 6458009 Latina Lover
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Hmmm, could be Chinese Lightning, unless the USSA needed to replenish munitions that 'disappeared' into the hands of ISIS.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:28 | 6458027 TBT or not TBT
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Broken Windows baby.   Keynesians Gone Wild.  

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:30 | 6458035 remain calm
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Is that not a video of the Circuit Breakers Nikkei Stock Exchange?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:43 | 6458068 Publicus
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Chinese retaliation for the Tianjin chemical warehouse sabatoge.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:45 | 6458075 mophead
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"Explosions and implosions have become an everyday occurrence of late in Asia."

That's what I said would happen after the "chemical" explosion in China and I got more than a few of thumbs-down. None of this stuff is real. See it for what it is, like a scripted play.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:48 | 6458080 Pladizow
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Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action.” – Ian Flemming, Creator of James Bond

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:57 | 6458109 weburke
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oh those masonic guys. when israel starts the fuse, we are going to see lots of ......well, a real shit show. like smaug said...a darkness is coming.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:59 | 6458118 negative rates
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The greatest shit show on Earth is about to end.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:01 | 6458127 ParkAveFlasher
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WAR, BITCHEZ!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:02 | 6458128 SofaPapa
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And who said the revolution would not be televised!  It's just people don't yet recognize what we are seeing. ;)

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:16 | 6458180 TruxtonSpangler
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.

 

(Damnit! Pladizow beat me to it)

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:31 | 6458242 knukles
Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:54 | 6458334 AlaricBalth
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Hey bartender over here
Two more shots
And two more beers
Sir, turn up the tv sound
The war has started on the ground

Roger Waters
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=23BfprVu8mQ

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 17:41 | 6459006 SWRichmond
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So the MIC blows up a couple of chemical warehouses in China and then blows up a munitions dump in Japan in retaliation.  Who falls for this shit?

CUI BONO?

By contrast the Gleiwitz incident and the Reichstag fire were complex and hard to pull off.

Is this the best you f****** guys can do?  really?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 19:49 | 6459561 Keyser
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Since we are channeling Roger, this one is quite appropriate... 

 

What god wants, god gets...

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

 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 20:27 | 6459723 old naughty
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at the height of the (last) cold war, armistice talks between

the now-fallen and the now-falling empires, with the two teams of

vets (generals and diplomats) sitting across the table,

one set of notes (full of data, like you have 5,000 we have 7,700, you have 20,000, we have 8,000 stuffs) handed out to both sides, written by the same hand...

luv to read that, wouldn't you (or, seeing that played out)?

If anyone finds the link(s), please share.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 16:10 | 6458658 kaiserhoff
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Hey knucks,

  What's all that weird hieroglyphics shit, covering up the screen;)

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:26 | 6458229 Ass Burger
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Who is "Gil Scott-Heron"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3od114a4o7Y

Oh, do I know what rhetorical means?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:32 | 6458258 knukles
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Those Masonic guys have such dark senses of humor!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:00 | 6458122 Captain Debtcrash
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Thought the same thing, may be a conspiracy theory, but three very similar detonations of stored explosives within a relatively close area smells fishy. 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:27 | 6458235 Santini Air
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Not a coincidence.  Covert war.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:39 | 6458282 Ignatius
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AQJ, Al Qaeda in Japan

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 15:48 | 6458542 HowdyDoody
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Rule No. 1 of Fight Club. Do not smoke in the ammunition stores.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 20:28 | 6459722 MontgomeryScott
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RULE #1 of the Fight Club:

Never, EVER mention the name 'Fight Club'!

Needless to say, the two tragic explosions in China followed by ther tragic explosion in Japan have NOTHING to do with ANYTHING. Only 'tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists' would make anything out of this BESIDES the 'three strikes is merely Co-inky-dink' rule.

Can I sell you some SOAP now, or are you still all panty-bunched by these events?

I'll give you a little time to calm down (and PLEASE, extinguish all tobacco products before proceeding).

 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:15 | 6458178 mophead
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And I still get thumbs-down! Dumb fucking idiots.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:18 | 6458189 TruxtonSpangler
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The explosions seem pretty real. I think what you meant was the narrative surrounding them is bogative.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:34 | 6458264 mophead
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So what you're saying is the down-voters think I meant: not physically real? Lol. What is the ZH demographic now, 12 year olds?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:42 | 6458295 Escrava Isaura
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Sometimes I wonder myself too.

 

Anyway, Zero Hedge is a MUST.

 

Second, as long as it is over there…..

 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 20:36 | 6459766 MontgomeryScott
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That's a nice comment.

How's the shit going down there in Venezuela, by the way? Do the ZH readers need to put together a charity fund so that you can eat some fresh bread today?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 15:57 | 6458591 DetectiveStern
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Technically nothing is real we are merely a wave of probability existing in multi dimensions and consciousness however for all intents and purposes we are real.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 16:05 | 6458634 Five8Charlie
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Really? Trying kicking a concrete block while barefoot and then tell me again nothing is technically real.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 16:45 | 6458798 TruxtonSpangler
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Only because you believe it hurts

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 18:21 | 6459152 mc225
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'you people' always retort with 'pain proves everything is real'. but does pain really prove that everything is real? maybe pain is fake, too.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 20:44 | 6459794 MontgomeryScott
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It's better now that you think this way, little one.

It makes it far easier on you, when that 'fake' pain becomes your reality (psychologically).

You are now simply an electrochemical machine, and the 'feeling' of 'pain' is purely an illusion. HERE, let me demonstrate with my knife, using your body as an example... you fucking ignorant DICKWEED...

 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 00:21 | 6460687 conscious being
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Detective, just leave off the probability part. To me, that's just a two dimensional way of dealing or making peace with the enigma. I would just say wave or wave function and leave it at that. You can look at all your downvotes as the revenge of the identity-self. 

Hang on to your morals and your ethics when making decisions and appreciate the amazing journey. (Not directed at you Detective, just an explanation fwiw of how one might try to go about being. Its a waste of time to hide from questions, boring even.)

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 17:06 | 6458857 Trogdor
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What is the ZH demographic now, 12 year olds?

Maybe the down votes were folks trying to rotate the camera on your avatar .... just a thought ....

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 17:19 | 6458916 janus
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yeah, guilty as charged... this 12 year old was trying to manipulate the perspective to a more areola-friendly view.

and on that note i'll say (once again) that, after all these years i still bear a grudge against Plazidow for changing his avatar.  Plazidow's ta-tas were among the best i'd ever seen...and now they're gone!

don't even ask, Plazidow -- you will NEVER be forgiven for denying janus and all ZHealots such superlative tits.

full stop,

janus 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:34 | 6458260 nope-1004
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No worries, dude.  Neg or Pos votes doesn't matter.  Love the avatar BTW.  I always give u +1 and I know what you meant by "not real" and I believe you are correct, this is just retaliation and there is a real global war going on.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 15:10 | 6458398 SuperRay
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Yale lives matter, Harvard lives matter, Princeton lives matter,

the rest of youse guys....?  not so much.  If fact, you matter so little, we don't even let you know what's really going on.  It's war all the time!  War yeterday, war today, war tomorrow.  Just ask skull & bones.  It's the Hegelian principle in an endles state of expression - the march of history, the  winnowing of the unnecessary.  Seven billion people?  Just too many, a waste of precious resources.

No problem, though.  We needed them to grow technology to the point A.I. can take over.  We won't need them any more.  Then we kill them off, meld our brains with technology via the Singularity, and build robots to take care of us.  It's on page 14 of the master plan.  You think you know?  Goyim puleese!!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 20:55 | 6459847 MontgomeryScott
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+1...

BOHEMIAN GROVE lives matter MOST!

(Sorry. your request for 'goyim' cannot be fulfilled at this time, due to the thermonuclear wars of the recent past. Please try your request at a later date. Our biochemical labs are still trying to recombinate the DNA, and this might take several of your 'decades'. While you wait for the Earth to repopulate, we suggest taking a tour of our virtual 3-D sex labs, where your orgasms are assured. Sincerely, HAL 9000)

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 15:36 | 6458505 tired1
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One from me for wining.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 16:24 | 6458725 abbottmd
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just seems like a lame fireworks show. 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:33 | 6458044 semperfi
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bullish !

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:31 | 6458039 Jack Burton
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Yemeni rebels used captured US MANPADs supplied to Pro American Yemenie army to shoot down Saudi Apache Helcopter that was attacking their postions. Fell like a stone after direct hit. The USA supplies the Apache and the Missile to take it down. The corporations make money on both ends. ISIS has American Armored Vehicles, anti tank missiles, MANPADS etc. Iraq Army say British Helicopters dropping supplies to ISIS just a few miles behind the front. The UK never denied the accusations

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:43 | 6458071 l8apex
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Source?  Link?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:54 | 6458106 Escrava Isaura
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Give a source that…. These are just accidents.

 

Please!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:46 | 6458308 l8apex
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Downvote?  wtf?  I'm wanting to read more about this.  Guess that's a crime.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:28 | 6460223 Jack Burton
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God man! Do you have google on your computer? Search "Saudi Apache shot down!" It is on fucking video.

Warning, I don't babysit people. I will never respond to 'Link?" again! Nope.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:35 | 6458116 Max Steel
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 aint using usa manpads they are using russian sa-18s . Total 3apaches have been shot down.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fSAbckDd_vE

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:47 | 6458306 jellen
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USA Manpads? They pass them out in the military now?? What happened to dont ask dont tell??

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 19:29 | 6459451 StychoKiller
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Ultra absorbent, with Wings!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:11 | 6458119 lincolnsteffens
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Is this the Tesla energy weapon at work, space based lasers or provocateurs on the ground?  3 x's is a bit hard to swallow as random coincidence.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:24 | 6458217 J Jason Djfmam
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 A small group of bad actors armed with flare guns and good aim.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 19:30 | 6459456 StychoKiller
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Somewhere in Asia, Wang Chung Watanabe is playing with matches...

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 15:07 | 6458388 mophead
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Well you're just WRONG. Under the right conditions, chemicals can create a crater the size of several large skyscrapers as shown at the Tianjin blast site. My uncle's friend's brother is a chemical engineer and knows all about this stuff and he told me so! Please put away your tin foil hat, sir.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 15:47 | 6458537 Stumpy4516
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The crater in Tianjin did NOT occur at the location of the chemicals.  It occured some distance from the warehouse and the stored chemicals.  It was a covert attack using a modern weapon.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 16:14 | 6458681 angel_of_joy
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The BS is strong with this one...

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 16:22 | 6458712 mophead
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Wrong Stumpy! You're wrong!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:27 | 6458026 JLO
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China loves making fireworks

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:51 | 6458095 TheReplacement
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If the US comes out and blames China right away then you know it wasn't China at all.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:57 | 6458115 negative rates
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Don't worry, it's only the JV crew.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:13 | 6458144 Winston Smith 2009
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"Not payback...no way. Would never happen! Three random explosions within two weeks."

No, four. Why are people missing the huge Moscow River oil fire only 9 miles from the Kremlin on the very same day as the Tianjin event, an event that just happened to be 4 miles from China's brand new world-class financial center:

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

not to mention being in the closest possible port to Beijing.  

Four miles was beyond most shock wave damage range to that financial center (hey, they can only do so much), but how about those 700 tons of sodium cyanide so wisely stored next to all of that ammonium nitrate? A nice dusting for that financial center still under construction due to China's economic downturn.

And since the blown up site was under the typically corrupt ownership of Chinese officials, the incompetent government response and the lying will help prime the citizenry for widespread revolt after a probable major financial downturn there. 

Move along, nothing to see here! (Naked Gun)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjK2Oqrgic

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:18 | 6458173 junction
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“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.”
  Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

And let's not forget the attack on the French train by a terrorist who claims to be a homeless person who found his AK-47 and 8 ammo magazines in a park.  Plus he had a boxcutter, just like the 9/11 hijackers.  The worldwide conspiracy to topple civilization through terror is heating up.  Osama is gone but the NWO can always find another deranged mastermind to carry out its orders.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 00:27 | 6460708 conscious being
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Erawan Shrine.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:52 | 6458323 No.Fifth.Turning
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WOW! Those space lasers really DO work!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 18:43 | 6459255 toady
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Fail safe.

I am the matador. 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:23 | 6458006 Ginsengbull
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Just a me-too venture.

 

Can't let China have all the fun.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:24 | 6458008 steveharless
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Wow...wonder why the MSM isnt reporting this On the BOOB TUBE?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:25 | 6458012 ZeroPoint
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As I said before, China will respond in kind to the US.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:28 | 6458024 Skateboarder
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This one was tiny in comparison to Tianjin - like a bottle rocket vs. big-event fireworks.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:30 | 6458036 U4 eee aaa
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Maybe because Japan has more honest and adhered to storage regulations

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:43 | 6458070 Question Reality
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Except this occurred at a US military base, and the US military is pretty much exempt from local laws for all of their bases.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:46 | 6458076 CheapBastard
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The EPA was probably inspecting the storage facility.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:48 | 6458085 Question Reality
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Should be some amazing toxic releases then... Oh wait, might not qualify as a superfund site though.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:00 | 6458125 MsCreant
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China, working to become the world's largest superfund site...

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:24 | 6458199 Things that go bump
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You would not believe the shit that gets left lying around on military bases. When my ex-husband was stationed in Asia 35 years ago they were cleaning up a warehouse because some congressman was going to visit and found cannisters of nerve gas just stored as if they were nothing special and then forgotten. Boys can be so careless with their expensive toys.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:25 | 6458014 Christianman
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Nothing to see here...everything is fine.  Just a few...uh..."chemical reactions".  US and China are the best of friends, nothing funny going on here.  Just "mishaps"...3 of them in the past month no biggy.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:31 | 6458017 Chuck Knoblauch
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Trade war going kinetic.

Fire is a form of kinetic energy.

Eugenics is an ugly science.

No one race wants to submit to another race.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:04 | 6458142 negative rates
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Pain in the neck those race wars, I say.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:28 | 6458028 fishwharf
Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:36 | 6458051 Chuck Knoblauch
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The attention span of Americans is about a day.

What are you talking about?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:42 | 6458067 general ambivalent
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Another 'known extremist'. How surpising. Also a petty criminal with drug offences and an 'unknown conviction'. In other words, they leaned on him, offered him time in a white collar prison resort, and the 72 virgins which are mandatory with CIA human trafficking in Ukraine and its side missions.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:05 | 6458143 chunga
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Mrs. chunga likes to see the weather report and watches the "news" every morning drinking coffee. Of course they had this thing on and I heard "true american hero", "grateful france", "terrorist", "courage" about 20 times. When the tv people mentioned box-cutter, then "AK" she started laughing "of course he has one of those". 

Lovey has the discipline to ignore crappy current events but she didn't believe this story was very true lol. So even casual observers of the "news" are skeptical of this hero baloney all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U68s4JI22Zk

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 00:36 | 6460737 conscious being
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Here, here, but better you and Mrs. Chunga don't expose youself. To the Tube that is, because they have made a science of how to get inside and tweak your nobs, if you know what I'm talking about. By now, they've probably been through a bazillion focus groups, collecting and collating along the way to refine their "product". Even the "I'm not really watching, we don't fall for that", focus group. More than once most likely.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 17:29 | 6458971 Thick Willy
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America is the only thing standing between Europe and extermination at the hands of the Muslims.  I am not surprised at all that a few Americans were able to take down this Muslim terrorist whereas had they not been there he would have likely slaughtered dozens of the defenseless European sheep.  Americans are warriors and America is a warrior nation and culture.  American men still have their balls.  Unlike these cucked effeminate European pansies.

Trump is getting elected in a landslide and he will kick out all the illegals and the Muslim refugees and make America great again.  Meanwhile Europe will continue to spread her legs nice and wide for millions upon millions of African and Muslim "refugees" that will literally rape their way across Europe and destroy its weak willed, soft population of childless old women within 15 years.  RIP Europe.  America will not back down and will not go quietly.  You Europussies could learn from us if you weren't so busy looking down your noses at us, sneering at the "brutish Americans" while you let millions of literal savages in from Africa and the Middle East.

Europe is about to learn what real brutality is all about.  Sweden (rape capital of Europe thanks to their 25% "refugee" population) already knows.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 00:41 | 6460749 conscious being
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ThickWilly - consider this. American engineered chaos is making large parts of the ME unlivable, by design. People would be home in the souk if we weren't directly, or through proxies, blowing them up.

Wait a minute. Is this a gag post? Are you like MDB? Did you forget your /sarc tag?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:29 | 6458032 general ambivalent
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May you live in interesting times (where there are no coincidences).

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:29 | 6458033 Winston Churchill
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TAT.

Looks like the Phoney war stage of WWIII is over.

History rthymes.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:03 | 6458133 MSimon
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T.I.T.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:21 | 6458198 J Jason Djfmam
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Sadly there was no tit for tat.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 16:19 | 6458700 Sanity Bear
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looks to me like there were two titties

 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:31 | 6458037 FreeShitter
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Fuck these warehouse charades...break out the big shit.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:27 | 6458234 J Jason Djfmam
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We're saving the nation killing natural disasters for Shemiptember 15th.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:32 | 6458038 SSRI Junkie
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.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:34 | 6458045 thunderchief
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Japan is one of those places I hoped would keep its act together.

The world has gone mad..

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 20:27 | 6459728 JamesBond
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This happened on a US miliary base; nothing to do with the locals.

 

jb

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 00:45 | 6460758 conscious being
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Doesn't matter. Japan has gone mad. Respect lost, at the very least for being such toadies, propping up the anglozino-beast at expense of its citizens and most of the world, but yes, they do make a quality pick-up.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:37 | 6458048 Quinvarius
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Good thing we have Obama in office.  He is an expert at defusing situations and conflicts.  If this is NK or China, he will solve it without undue escalations.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:55 | 6458110 MsCreant
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I am so grateful that all of the potential candidates for president all look like they would be great at diplomacy. 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:45 | 6458303 Latitude25
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Yeah all full of incredible solutions just like Obumble before his first term.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 01:14 | 6460834 MsCreant
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in-credible, as in lacking credibility... yes... I see that.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:53 | 6458335 Socratic Dog
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Peace-loving men all.

And Trump has announced he will offer complete and absolute support to police state USSA.  I feel so much safer.  You Ms, a member of the fairer sex, you must be feeling particularly safe right now.

 

 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 01:12 | 6460824 MsCreant
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Hillary is the one that makes me feel extra safe. I know she would never make sneaky backroom deals that would endanger us all. She would never resort to unethical behavior just to reach a goal, and piss someone one off. She'd certainly be smart enough not to get caught if she did. As a diplomat (which do I emphasize there, the dip, the low, or the mat? Hmmm...) she is on par with the finest states-people to ever negotiate their way across the world stage. 

I'm so pleased to have her as a White House hopeful, representing how history will judge my gender as "presidential material" in the future.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:57 | 6458345 Automatic Choke
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My favorite bumper sticker from waaaay back in the era of Reagan's re-election (1980?)  was:

"Nixon in '80, better crooked than stupid".

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 19:03 | 6459344 TEOTWAIKI
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My all-time favorite bumper sticker was the one that read:

"Lick Bush in 2000"

I saw it on a dilapadated brown Rambler rusting next to a rough hewn A-Frame on a commune in Oregon in'99.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:37 | 6458052 stant
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" third time is enemy action"

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:37 | 6458053 Consuelo
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Would you guys just calm down and read this:

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-23/hasty-judgments-and-exaggeratio...

 

Oh - and stop being so 'Bombastic'...

 


Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:03 | 6458138 ebear
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When all you have is a hammer....

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:37 | 6458056 Boomberg
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Same story was told by .gov to New Mexico residents when the first A bomb exploded. Just sayin....

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:37 | 6458057 Son of Captain Nemo
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As if Japan and it's people need anymore misery in their lives after two nuclear bombs and one commercial nuclear facility housing multiple reactor(s) on them.

The only "silver lining" to this story is that what blew up this time is American!

Maybe this is the way you will get "round eye" to finally bug out!

Germany...

Take notes!!!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:43 | 6458059 besnook
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probably yokosuka navy base in yokohama, also home to the largest china town in japan. correction could also be camp zama.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 20:31 | 6459742 JamesBond
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One of the biggest scams running is for local chinese women to befriend US servicemen and get escorted onto the base for a peek.  Happens 24/7.

 

jb

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:44 | 6458073 PoasterToaster
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Practicing for bigger false flags.  CIA traitors.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:05 | 6458146 MSimon
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The only true flags are hemp flags.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:20 | 6458195 TeethVillage88s
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Wouldn't it be fun if Russia, Israel, Taiwan, British, French, Germans, Actually were responsible for these 3 Explosions.

Sun Zsu?

We know US has Private Intelligence Companies and Private Armies... So perhaps it was Bankers that are Responsible for the 3 Explosions.

But yeah... have to put Neo-Cons at the top of the list.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:47 | 6458079 Omega_Man
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I think someone (people) learned how to use lasers...or microwave weapons to heat shit up...and went to china, then chinese went to japan

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:48 | 6458082 Ms No
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There have also been interesting explosions in Russia recently but they are not obvious sabbotage but interesting.  They have also had a ton of missles, planes and rockets go down upon launch or shortly thereafter. 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/aug/13/river-fire-burst-pipeline-moscow-russia-video

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:50 | 6458094 Dre4dwolf
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secret hot war between U.S. and China... retaliation for chemical depot attack.

2 warehouses exploding is a coincidence 3 is shits going down.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:57 | 6458114 Usura
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James Bond put it this way:

Once: Happenstance;

Twice: Coincidence;

Thrice: Enemy Action.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 13:55 | 6458111 Duc888
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Tit for tat.

I see you your one 1980's "Star Warz" death ray and raise you my new Microwave scaler ray.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:03 | 6458139 fowlerja
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That's why we have "no smoking" signs at weapons depots....

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 20:33 | 6459754 JamesBond
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yeah, but who can read a pictogram these days?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:06 | 6458149 cookies anyone
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USA:China 1:2, go nukes go

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:08 | 6458157 Rockwell
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Reports of radiation risk with this incident. Could be just depleted uranium rounds going off.. or, not.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:08 | 6458158 kublia khan
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o dear.... usa fireworks look prettier than those chinese ones.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:10 | 6458164 Ceomegaglobalcorp
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Something is afoot. Gradually, and then all of a sudden, indeed. I work pretty far away from my loved ones but I feel like I need to be close. Every month I am a little less certain I will get paid or be able to access my funds or that they will spend. That paranoia has grown by a third since China's stock market troubles began.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:29 | 6458243 Latitude25
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I hear that about getting paid.  Where I work they have to float loans to make payroll since contract payouts come irregularly.  If credit freezes up again like 08 they'll probably ask me to work for an IOU and that's the best case scenario.  lol

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:11 | 6458167 Ms No
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I think it was obvious that it was going down after the first explosion because of the timing, after the second explosion there was really no question.  If you wait for thrice to come to the conclusion that it is enemy action chances are your already dead.... just sayin.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:12 | 6458170 earleflorida
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whose next in the 'chemical warfare deptartment'?

'tit 4 tat'

INDIA?!?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:16 | 6458182 Winston Smith 2009
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Explosions Reported Near U.S. Army Base in Japan

Police suspect left-wing Japanese extremists are to blame

http://www.wsj.com/articles/explosions-reported-near-u-s-army-base-in-ja...

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:23 | 6458212 TeethVillage88s
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Sagami Army Depot is what it sounds like.

But look NATO has secret Armies and Japan has Secret armies... and one thing that we know about NATO Secret armies is they like covert ops for political gain and have been involved in Terrorism like in Bologna Italy.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:47 | 6458285 Winston Smith 2009
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Well, I don't know what you're talking about with "armies," but the stuff that has occurred doesn't even begin to require an army, just covert action by (possibly bribed or blackmailed) individuals. The Tainjin event was an accident ASKING to happen. Chemicals that burst into flame with the application of water, another that emits highly explosive acetylene gas with the application of water stored next to 700 tons of sodium cyanide and who knows how many tons of ammonium and potassium nitrate. 

These left wing Japanese possibly responsible for the latest explosion show that a small group can cause these events and that others believe the Chinese events are not accidents.

Although Chinese industrial safety is mostly lip service and they've had, as a result, more than their share of major accidents, there seems to be a cluster of them recently, the last really big one prior to the Tianjin event being a huge explosion at a petroleum plant in July:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbsmWg5bCWg

Note that THAT huge explosion is being MISREPRESENTED in some slimebag YouTube videos as the recent Shandong's Runxing Chemical Co. fire which was MUCH smaller.

 

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 15:04 | 6458372 Stumpy4516
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As is now being reported, the main explosion at Tainjin was not at the warehouse but was a rather small distance from it.  Sat photos show the main crater (or subsidence) and compare it to the location of the warehouse in previous sat photo's.  There was nothing at the location of the main explosion to have caused it.  Thus it was a covert attack of some kind.

We know or suspect the US has weapons to do this type of attack  But what kind of capabilities do the Chinese have?  Based upon the number of strange explosions/accidents ect in China and Russia lately I would guess that there will be at least one more retaliation to make sure the US gets the message.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 19:03 | 6458567 TeethVillage88s
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"Three explosions linked to a left-wing extremist group were reported in the vicinity of the base in April, according to the Wall Street Journal."

Left wing groups can take the blame, and this pulls public opinion toward the Right.

This was the plan in Italy. The Secret Army was exposed in the Press, P2 Lodge was Exposed, Members of the Military and Police were exposed, confessions were obtained, and I think there were some apologies.

edit: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-explosions-army-base-japan-...

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 18:21 | 6459154 Hope Copy
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I saw the picture of 'the hole' and thought it rather strange.  More car bomb like.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 15:11 | 6458399 TeethVillage88s
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You make sense. I have dug for additional news on Tianjin yet and will check your link. Didn't get much on Shandong.

Daniel Ganser is a Swiss who wrote his doctorate on NATOs secret Armies, he exposed a lot of the code word designations and additional details. The story came out in the 1970s or early 1980s, Operation Gladio is the name of the Italian Secret Army. They killed a Police officer, and exploded at least 3 bombs I think. One group of their operatives ran to Spain and this story proved a relationship with the Spanish.

Stay behind Armies
Operation Gladio
Turkey Even had/has a Secret Army
Jean Claude Juncker lost his job in Belgium when it was discovered that Gold was unaccounted for but part of the Belgium Secret army and someone was bugging or taping the King of Belgium... There are two New York Times stories on this.

Anyway the Secret Armies were made of people who were either fascist or Nazi or Right Wing and they were to have weapons, tactics, and training to fight any communist invasion. Later one they set out to turn politics from the Left to the Right by kidnapping, bombing or terrorizing their own people. In the 1980s there were plenty of suspect bombings, that were blamed on RAF, Bader-Meinhoff, and other radical groups.

Sybil Edmond did a couple of videos on this, but the best is BBC Time Watch, Operation Gladio, which interviews people in various languages with subtitles.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 00:56 | 6460786 conscious being
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Just search on "Operation Gladio". Like Bldg#7, easy to understand. Italy, I believe, still has arrest warrents out on CIA agents. Yes, blowing up civillians in terror bombings, especially women and children, at various locations around Europe. It was for the kids, they had to do it.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:22 | 6458203 Able Ape
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"Anybody got a RIGHT?..."

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:23 | 6458207 Sanity Bear
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Guess this is what a war between major nuclear powers really looks like. None of the elites on either side really want to see a nuclear exchange, it would be most unpleasant for them. So it's war-by-espionage instead.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:56 | 6458247 TeethVillage88s
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America's Announcement of a Pivot to Asia gave both sides time to recruit from local population.

What was it 4 years ago?

But I just don't know how boots on the ground could hope for success in this.

North Korea kidnapped Japanese long ago and probably learned Japanese and have been trying infiltration of Japan for like 30 years. Maybe the Chinese Recruited North Korean Operatives through Kim Jun Un.

I guess USA could us Taiwanese Special ops to infiltrate China.

Edit: I guess Japan probably has Protesters and People that don't like the US Military... they could have hopped the fence, but normally they wouldn't be able to damage or gain entry to Ammo storage. I can't see that happening.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 00:59 | 6460795 conscious being
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Every now and then I had to pull guard duty. Stuff looked easy enough to access, especially with inside help. The US outsources everything.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:39 | 6458219 Latitude25
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From mysterious nailguns to mysterious bombs.  Evolution.  What's next?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:27 | 6458231 Lmo Mutton
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Kenesians are moving away from broken windows and wars and searching out ammo dumps?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:27 | 6458232 silverer
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Wait!  Just bill it to the US taxpayer!   Yeah, that's it!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 15:28 | 6458474 TeethVillage88s
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Broken Windows.

Hey war is great, big loans to government, big weapons purchases and big fuel purchases, then they destroy the weapons, houses, buildings, businesses, roads, highways, infrastructure, utilities... and they we help them rebuild.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:34 | 6458265 Debugas
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China strikes back ?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:37 | 6458275 Dickweed Wang
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Tit for tat . . . . and it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better!

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