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"Mysterious" Fire Hits Argentine Ministry Of Finance, Destroys Years Of Prior Regime's Files

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"If you play with fire, you get burned," apart from if you are an official in the Argentine government it would appear. Just days after Argentina threw out the Peronists, who have ruled almost non-stop in the three decades since the end of military rule, The Ministry of Finance suffered a mysterious fire in its computer center, catastrophically (and coincidentally) destroying the prior-regime's files.

 

As Perfil reports (via Google Translate)

The weekend came a mysterious fire at the Ministry of Economy , in the area of data center located on the fourth floor of the Economy Ministry.

 

The fire began on Sunday afternoon at the site containing the computers on which cost control files of the ministry.

 

The fire, reported Clarín , led to a police report .

 

On the fourth floor lies the entire operational area of Juan Carlos Pezoa, the head of the Ministry of Finance. It was in a small office on this floor, although far from the clerk's office, located in the Directorate General Information Systems Financial Management to the entrance of Balcarce 186, where the incident occurred.

 

According to the official version, which led to the fire was a short circuit in one of the air conditioners that refrigerate the room.

 

However, he noticed that the complaint was filed at the police station second day after the loss occurred by the head of the area, Maria Eva Sanchez. 

 

According to ministry employees, all computers that burned were in the room where it is kept cost control portfolio dependent commands Pezoa the secretariat.

 

This runs counter to the official version which speaks of "the ignition of the fire in the live-testing are of software developments."

This is not the first time a fire has destroyed government records - or second, or third, or even fourth...

With this new fire, and this year there are four key areas in the state.

 

In February, there were fires in the Pink House and Senate and last month in the Libertador Building.

And then there was last February's deadly fire which destroyed the central bank's records just days after a planned crackdown on the banking system.

While we are sure it is a very sad coincidence, on the day when Argentina decrees limits on the FX positions banks can hold and the Argentine Central Bank's reserves accounting is questioned publically, a massive fire - killing 9 people - has destroyed a warehouse archiving banking system documents.

 

 

 

As The Washington Post reports, the fire at the Iron Mountain warehouse (which purportedly had multiple protections against fire, including advanced systems that can detect and quench flames without damaging important documents) took hours to control and the sprawling building appeared to be ruined. The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately clear - though we suggest smelling Kirchner's hands...

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The bottom line is simple - where there's 5 fires in government offices in 18 months, there is smoke and mirrors and the lies and corruption of Kirchner and her operatives will hopefully one day be exposed.

 

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Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:35 | 6847743 CrazyCooter
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Let me guess, this ends in "... on ant hills, covered in honey."

Regards,

Cooter

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:44 | 6847927 ajax
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Good. I'm glad. Fire cleanses everything right?

You people here are constantly hoping the world will burn so don't be so fucking critical about it when it does. And it does.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 22:15 | 6848208 BlindMonkey
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Project Mayhem is a go...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:07 | 6850476 Fish Gone Bad
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I was trying to figure out why CVN 75 was in South American waters, it must be a coincidence.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:13 | 6851055 Theosebes Goodfellow
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Say, anyone check the fire extinguishers at the Treasury Dept. lately? What about the Fed? IRS? DOJ? The White House? You know, just askin'...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 22:12 | 6848196 Crash Overide
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Seriously?

Greek lightning in Argentina?, Global warming to blame?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:36 | 6847749 RopeADope
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Imagine all the fires if Trump, Sanders or Paul were elected.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:44 | 6847780 silverer
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We need the fires NOW, BEFORE Trump, Sanders, or Paul.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:29 | 6847885 philipat
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You mean a little like WTC7 and The Pentagon?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:09 | 6850480 Fish Gone Bad
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a lot like that

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:02 | 6847835 seek
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It's become common practice since Clinton was in office for computer hard drives (or entire PCs) to be trashed in the white house on administration changes. That fire stuff is so passe'.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:27 | 6847887 philipat
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Wiped? You mean like with a cloth or something?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:24 | 6850535 Fish Gone Bad
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner would have to agree. 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:16 | 6851065 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~"Wiped? You mean like with a cloth or something?"~

Nah, nothing that fancy. They just take out all the "ones" from the "zeros".

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:38 | 6847758 krispkritter
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Head of the IT department, Sancho 'Sparky' Mendoza, was unavailable for comment. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:16 | 6847857 nmewn
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It's a little more serious than just removing W's from all the keyboards ain't it?...lol.

Where the hell you been krispy?...long time...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:33 | 6847900 krispkritter
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ZH burnout and health issues. ;) Related?  Been stalking but very limited.  You ever get your place wired? Hope so, the complete and utter lunacy we're seeing every day does not bode well... ;)

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:48 | 6847933 nmewn
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Yeah, got some really neat shit aimed at the driveway from the trees, pretty proud of it all actually, it'll get em off the drive in a hurry and out into the field where I got some other goodies waiting...plus the field is all landmarked & sighted in on distance for stragglers, should be quite a show, the folks next door will freak of course, theythought I was just being a good neighbor and landscaping ;-)

Well just damn on the medical but I'm saying you beat it and don't let the lunatics drag you down around here...you were missed my friend.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:20 | 6848007 krispkritter
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TMI!...just wondering on the genset ;) Have to 'chat' here sometime, to a degree. Have a bunch of goodies that will probably help. Let me investigate. Stay prepared.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:30 | 6848036 nmewn
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I live in Coopers Condition Orange...always, let me know ;-)

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:38 | 6847760 Xibalba
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Pull it

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:45 | 6847781 Philo Beddoe
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WT7ened. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:45 | 6847785 CheapBastard
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That's odd.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:35 | 6847906 A Nanny Moose
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Wipe it

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:39 | 6847766 PGR88
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All collectivists are evil.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:40 | 6847768 Sanity Bear
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I lost my nuclear weapons and Germany's gold in a boating accident

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:43 | 6847777 silverer
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How convenient.  A fire.  Just when you need one.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:47 | 6847790 Philo Beddoe
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Maybe they will find some sort of Passport gingerly left behind on a pile of ashes. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:47 | 6847788 scatterbrains
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Chill bitchez,  at least this is more plausible than a passenger jet taking out a narrow  1st floor level office at the Pentagram.

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:49 | 6847793 kerfuffled
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oct 4

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 04:46 | 6848861 AchtungAffen
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April 10th. In spanish dates are noted as DD/MM/YYYY

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:45 | 6849237 BarkingCat
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That date format is used by most of the world, because it makes sense. It is American stupidity on display with the month being first.

Although for computer files and dates year month day is the logical format. Easy for sorting.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:49 | 6847794 rapetrain
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Austerity (noun): a state in which you can't even afford two airliners to crash into the evidence you wish to destroy

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:49 | 6847795 Ms No
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Well at least they didn't blow up the whole building... or three.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:50 | 6847797 dsty
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Didn't Hillary have a fire like that destroying incriminating evidence prior to Bill getting elected, Whitewater and all.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 22:41 | 6848313 e_goldstein
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Don't forget the Murrah building in OkC.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:24 | 6849190 Bendromeda Strain
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Wasn't that the Enron stash?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:52 | 6847800 Francis Marx
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Kind of like the Pentagon finance department destroyed on 911. How convenient?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:55 | 6847813 seek
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Maybe they can have their prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, investigate. Oh, wait...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:57 | 6847818 JuliaS
Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:58 | 6847826 Seasmoke
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Hopefully they took out $2Billion insurance on Saturday. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:59 | 6847829 VWAndy
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Information is power baby. Find all the copies fast. Start the perp walks with everybody that worked in the building like now.

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:03 | 6847837 djsmps
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Probably the work of Dutch communists.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:06 | 6847841 GhostOfDiogenes
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5 fires?

The Argentine's are slackers with their false flag attempts to destroy incriminating evidence.

Here in the non corrupt banana-less banana republic our leaders take down whole buildings with explosives.
Live!
And get insurance money to build bigger ones.

What pikers.

Nobody does false flags like the usa.

We are exceptional.....at false flags.

Anumba1

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:07 | 6847844 rsnoble
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I think it's time for all the peoples of the world to rise against their gov't and topple them, no matter how many of us get killed.  It's too bad there isn't a day when we all wake up on the same page with blood in our eyes.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:16 | 6847859 GhostOfDiogenes
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There is no other way for humanity to redeem themselves but by.....refreshing the tree of liberty.

On this I concur.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:50 | 6849252 BarkingCat
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There are a few days a year when many people wake up with blood in their eyes. Of course they have a
massive hangover and last thing they want is o e involved in some noisy activities.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:13 | 6847848 WTFUD
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Shit Happens! s/c

If it's not on hard copy it never happened.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:31 | 6847896 bid the soldier...
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Thanks, Tyler

I hadn't thought about the 18 minutes missing from Richard Nixon's tape for a couple of decades.

Only when you're having sex is there a difference between doing it once and doing it five times. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:38 | 6847912 knukles
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You didn't Argentine that yourself.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:39 | 6847914 Oldrepublic
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For a record storage company Iron Mountain sure has a lot

of "accidents," In February 2014 there was big fire at its

location in Buenos Aires. Also fires in London

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:34 | 6848054 PT
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There I was thinking that I was a whiny, wussy, bitter, burnt out, lazy fucker but no!  This article only confirms my theory that the reason I cannot progress in the corporate world is because I am honest and competent.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:47 | 6848092 mvsjcl
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Paid handsomely for those fires, too.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:59 | 6847955 Raging Debate
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So sorry! It all burnt up except the drive that says the people owe 50 trillion pesos to the Central Bank. The military also seems to have a copy.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:12 | 6847982 Knob Creek
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Pull it

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:47 | 6848094 cpnscarlet
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Oh, BTW...numerous Bitcoin wallets are gone too.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:50 | 6848105 ali-ali-al-qomfri
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because a building collapsing on itself has been played.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:55 | 6848122 NoWayJose
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Damn - that was the offsite backup for Lois Lerner's emails, Hillary's emails, the Fed's QE purchasing records, and Obama's lost golf balls!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 22:30 | 6848275 uhland62
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That's the difference between Argentina and Germany. In Argentina they use fireworks, in Germany they do it on the quiet.

During the Kohl-Regime they wangled the Leuna-Refinery and 2,500 Minol gas station allottments to the French oil company elf Aquitaine. Kohl said it was a sale and people who wanted to investigate that were threatened in nocturnal phone calls. When Kohl's sale contract was to be inspected, his office shredded all documents and the copy that should have been in the ministry had been eaten by the dog. I never knew how much the Kohl-Regime pocketed from the 'sale' of our family's land in Berlin, Prenzlauer Promenade 191. Some money was found on Geneva bank accounts, though. My brother died through the resulting chain of events - corruption is not a victimless crime.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 00:12 | 6848576 BritBob
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The fire contained details of Argentina's Falklands' sovereignty claim. But never mind a copy is already on-line and can be seen if you Google: 'Falklands - Some Relevant International Law' Sorry Cristina.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 00:52 | 6848635 Deez Nuts
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In the days before kike-invented "political correctness" this is what was widely called jewish lightning.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 01:22 | 6848681 Yen Cross
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  I didn't know they have Guerrillas in Argentina?

 I can't wait to visit that ZOO. </sarc>

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 02:12 | 6848738 tool
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I remember when the Howard government in Australia got the boot they were shredding documents like motherfuckers. Nothing like democracy to bring the best out of people.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 02:21 | 6848749 Joe A
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What about the files on that prosecutor that was murdered on the day he was about to launch a trial exposing dubious government actions?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 04:44 | 6848859 AchtungAffen
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Err, this news is from April 10th though...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 06:07 | 6848910 Svendblaaskaeg
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Backup? - We Don't Need No Stinking Backup

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 08:26 | 6849011 Peterus
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Easy way to fight those fires. Enact a law that if government fails to pass some of the most valuable files (financial records included) - prime minister and all ministers that had control over such records - get automatic life in prison sentence with no celmency (presidents' included). But, whoever would enact it would have to cut one option from his own repertoire.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:56 | 6849268 BarkingCat
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I was thinking death penalty. A law can always be overturned and criminals released.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:48 | 6849247 Unix
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what is mysterious about arson?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:55 | 6849266 Kirk2NCC1701
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Tyler, didn't you run an article a 1-2 years ago, about a fire in Iron Mountain, that wiped out their financial records?

If so, these guys have the worst of luck.  ;-)

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:07 | 6853040 nonibaby
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Reminds me of 911 somehow

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