18 April 2013 (22:45 UTC-07 Tango 17 April 2013)/07 Jumada t-Tania 1434/29 Farvardin 1391/09 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
A live reporter said he heard as many as 70 dead, 200 injured. The West, Texas, mayor is expected to give a press conference.
School buses are being pressed into service to evacuate people in West.
18 April 2013 (22:37 UTC-07 Tango 17 April 2013)/07 Jumada t-Tania 1434/29 Farvardin 1391/09 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
A local doctor, who was working in the nursing home that was hit by the explosion, says he personally knows the firefighters and EMS personnel that have been killed. So far no official announcement of deaths.
The doctor says the roof came in on the nursing home when the fertilizer factory exploded. He refused to get medical help and stayed to help other victims.
A live reporter just interviewed a woman who said everyone is being told to leave the town. She wanted to know why if the explosion and fire has passed, she says no official will give her an answer.
The factory is still burning, but under control. There is concern the factory might be emitting toxic fumes.
A local sports stadium is the emergency response command center.
18 April 2013 (22:28 UTC-07 Tango 17 April 2013)/07 Jumada t-Tania 1434/29 Farvardin 1391/09 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Live reports from Texas media saying the mayor of West, Texas, said there are people still trapped in their homes after the massive fertilizer factory explosion.
A live reporter is now saying that firefighters that first responded to the factory fire, before the explosion, are missing. He learned of this from spouses of firefighters who said they’ve not heard from their loved ones since they responded to the fire. City officials apparently have confirmed that firefighters have been killed.
The mayor also said the fire caused by the explosion is now under control.
Local and regional hospitals have put out the call for blood donations. It’s known that at least 70 people were medivaced to hospitals.
18 April 2013 (22:17 UTC-07 Tango 17 April 2013)/07 Jumada t-Tania 1434/29 Farvardin 1391/09 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
32 kilometers (20 miles) north of Waco, Texas, a fertilizer factory exploded dramatically. The explosion took place right before the anniversary of two important dates; the end of the federal instigated Waco Siege, and the vengeful Oklahoma City Bombing.
It happened around 19:50 UTC-06 Sierra.
Live video shows lines of emergency response vehicles streaming into the small town of West, Texas, where the explosion took place.
Home video shows the fertilizer factory on fire before it explodes. Witnesses say residents were just being told the site was on fire and to get the hell out, right before the explosion. Other witnesses say they heard three explosions, another said the explosion blew out the windshield on his vehicle, people living further away thought it was an earthquake.
Local reports say several hundreds of casualties, many who were hit by debris and fire from the explosion. Avoid Interstate 35.
18 April 2013 (20:50 UTC-07 Tango 17 April 2013)/07 Jumada t-Tania 1434/29 Farvardin 1391/09 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Local media reports from West, Texas, say the explosion which totally destroyed a fertilizer factory, has set buildings on fire. One building on fire is the West Middle School. A nursing home and apartment complex is also damaged. The blast was felt 24 kilometers (15 miles) away.
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco has called in all staff. Local law enforcement are driving in casualties in their cop cars. Triage has been set up near the site of the explosion. Helicopters are being used for medivac.
Electrical power has been cut for at least 2000 people. The explosion was reported at 19:50 UTC-06 Sierra.
18 April 2013 (20:30 UTC-07 Tango 17 April 2013)/07 Jumada t-Tania 1434/29 Farvardin 1391/09 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
20 miles north of Waco, Texas, a fertilizer factory exploded dramatically. Pics posted to the internet show what looks like the entire factory going up in a massive cloud of grey smoke. Reports say the explosion was so large it flattened parts of the town of West.
Local police expecting hundreds of casualties.
The explosion took place right before the anniversary of two important dates; the end of the federal instigated Waco Siege, and the vengeful Oklahoma City Bombing.
In Mississippi, a man has been arrested regarding the supposed ricin laced poison letters sent to senators and the President. It happened after a Mississippi judge got one of the ‘poison’ letters. It’s interesting to note that federal officials still have not confirmed that the letters contained ricin, although the main streamer media has been reporting it as if it were so.
17 April 2013 (17:25 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Jumada t-Tania 1434/28 Farvardin 1391/08 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
I’m assuming that the 90% that war criminal (just recently proven by bipartisan investigation, along with Bushy Boy) Obama, and the U.S. main streamer media, claim support more background checks for gun buyers, comes from the Quinnipiac University telephone poll conducted a couple of weeks back.
Fact: Only 1711 people were interviewed in that supposed ‘national’ poll. There are more than 300 million people in the United States. There is no way that poll was representative of ‘the American people’!
Fact: Most of the 1711 people surveyed are in the north eastern United States. Again, not representative of the whole country, and proof that is was not a ‘national’ poll!
Fact: The same poll showed a majority of those 1711 people surveyed also believed that background checks were a stepping stone to gun confiscation (as is happening in California). Why doesn’t the main streamer media report that?
17 April 2013 (14:23 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Jumada t-Tania 1434/28 Farvardin 1391/08 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Israeli media reporting that the Israeli police chief, Yohanan Danino, and his staff left for the U.S. the day after the Boston Bombings. It’s part of a ten day visit with U.S. Homeland Security, planned weeks ago.
Israeli media reporting that Danino announced Israel is willing to help with the investigations of the Boston Bombings.
17 April 2013 (12:26 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Jumada t-Tania 1434/28 Farvardin 1391/08 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Clear pics, taken from different angles, have surfaced from the Boston Marathon, showing men wearing black jackets, khaki pants and khaki shoes (paramilitary/contract cops?) and carrying large black backpacks. One looks to have security credentials hanging from his neck.
The backpacks match the remains of a shredded backpack found at one of the explosion sites (pic of that posted by FBI). There are also pics of several men in civilian clothes holding similar backpacks, they are all in the area of the explosions. Another pic shows a man placing a black backpack in a the threshold of a doorway of the building in the explosion area.
Apparently the pics were posted yesterday. The pics were taken from the second floor of the building where the first explosion took place. They focus on the crowd below, not on the runners in the street.
There is video of a man getting up and running for his life after an explosion. His black shirt and black pants are shredded, but he’s apparently not hurt because he immediately gets up and runs way before anyone else in the blast area has recovered their senses.
Do the internet search yourself.
17 April 2013 (10:20 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Jumada t-Tania 1434/28 Farvardin 1391/08 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Recently I was told by a Spanish small business owner I know, that he had to stop taking credit card payments because of a huge increases in fees being charged to small businesses.
He said the outrageous fee hikes involve VISA, MasterCard and American Express. Turns out that MasterCard is actually being investigated for violating the European Union’s anti-trust laws.
According to EU investigators, MasterCard has jacked up fees on purchases involving cardholders living outside the EU. Here in the U.S. credit card companies already charge cardholders extra fees for making purchases outside the United States, so it seems they’re now charging business owners in Europe extra fees for international sales as well.
MasterCard officials blamed banks for issuing cards with higher fee rates, but then said “….MasterCard always aims to balance the interests of both consumers and retailers to ensure that each party pays its fair share of the costs…”
You mean those outrageous interest rates aren’t enough to cover your costs, MasterCard? “Fair share” my ass!
MasterCard also said the higher fees were the only way the company could remain “viable”.
VISA is also being investigated. VISA is the biggest credit card scammer, I mean credit card service provider in the EU. It too has created outrageous ‘cross-border’ purchaser/seller fees.
What those dumb ass highly educated credit card corporate officials don’t realize is the net effect of continuing to create new fees, and jack up existing fees and interest rates, is that it will greatly reduce credit card use, which could render them inviable.