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International

New study says avoiding skin cancer causes stomach cancer?

30 August 2015 (10:12 UTC-07 Tango 01)/08 Shahrivar 1394/15 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/17 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

“A lot of us are just not getting as much vitamin D as we ought to be, we’re being much more conscious….about sunlight exposure, but that’s our main source of vitamin D.”-Lynnette Ferguson,  University Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre

A study just published in New Zealand insinuates that efforts to avoid skin cancer could be causing increases in stomach and intestinal problems, including cancers.  Blame it on lack of vitamin D.

Vitamin D might be the main preventative of gut problems, yet the main source is the Sun.  Notice that there seems to be a correlation in the decades long campaign against sun tanning and an increase in abdominal ailments.  Skin cancer is almost always blamed on exposure to the Sun, but lack of vitamin D (which comes from the Sun) is causing stomach cancer.

“Too much vitamin D can possibly also have adverse effects, so defining an optimal level of vitamin D for an individual is important. At least in respect of gastrointestinal disorders, most of us would benefit from a substantially higher intake than we currently have.”-Lynnette Ferguson

The study also noted that food sources of vitamin D just can’t provide the amount needed to prevent intestinal illnesses.  The conundrum is that taking too many vitamin D supplements could result in poisoning.

Vitamin D is oil soluble which means your body can’t easily get rid of excess vitamin D, like it can with water soluble vitamin C.   The result is that it’ll build up to toxic levels if you’re not careful.

The role of vitamin D in reducing gastrointestinal disease risk and assessment of individual dietary intake needs: Focus on genetic and genomic technologies

 

International

AGOSTO-12: Mexico’s oil industry turns to China for help!

30 August 2015 (09:46 UTC-07 Tango 01)/08 Shahrivar 1394/15 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/17 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

Petróleos Mexicanos (PeMex) is about to take possession of the latest offshore gas compression rig, built in China.  The rig will be used in the Gulf of Mexico to compress gas at a rate of 61 million cubic meters (200 million cubic feet) per day, at a time when U.S. oil companies have killed off more than 100-thousand U.S. jobs.

AGOSTO-12 is said to be able to handle category 3 hurricanes and will reduce environmental pollution by recycling and reinjecting unused gasses into the Cantarell oil fields. It’s expected to operate for at least 25 years.

Fracking causes Oklahoma quakes, ironically shuts down oil wells!

Saber Rattling against China about huge oil reserves underneath China! It’s why China is on the warpath against Uygur Muslims! 

International

Drought forces Iran to beggar for food! Begins invading farms in other countries, with petro-cash of course!

29 August 2015 (06:10 UTC-07 Tango 01)/07 Shahrivar 1394/14 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/16 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

What U.S. economic sanctions?  It’s been revealed that the true reason for inflation in Iran is due to lack of food, not U.S. sanctions: “Between 38 to 40% of the Iranian families’ economy is related to food which requires us to build a base for reducing prices of nutritional products….”-Mohammad Reza Shafeinia, Ministry of Agricultural Jihad

After years of drought the Iranian Ag Industry is suffering from lack of water.  In some places the fresh water sources have dropped so low the water is now too salty.  The drought has also forced government agriculture administrators to abandon their plans to make Iran independent in wheat production (despite earlier reports saying Iran had a record wheat harvest this year).  Even the cultivation of Iranian watermelons and rice is under threat by Mother Nature.

As a result Iran has announced its first foreign farm operation in neighboring Kazakhstan.  A small farm of more than eight hectares (19 acres) has begun cultivation specifically for sale in Iran.  But the next move for Iran is war torn Ukraine.

Despite the U.S. created civil war in European Ukraine, Iran plans to begin farming ops there within the next few months.  After that a farm op in African Ghana.  European Serbia has indicated that it will invest in Iran’s Agriculture Beyond Borders program.

In the South American Brazil, Iran is planning a 60-thousand hectares (148-thousand acres) Beyond Borders farm project.

What U.S. Sanctions? Iran loans Syria $1-billion!

U.S. imposes new sanctions!

Mormon bank caught violating U.S. sanctions against Iran! 

Too Big to Fail bank caught violating U.S. sanctions against Iran! 

U.S. sanctions against Iran shut down Peugeot, for General Motors.

U.S. allows farm Corporations to contiue business with Iran, oil contractors as well. 

United States renews Iran sanctions exemptions for 11 countries!

Iran oil revenues up 59% despite U.S. & EU sanctions!

Russia to help Iran avoid U.S. & EU sanctions! 

Japan says U.S. & EU oil sanctions against Iran will not affect global oil supply! 

Japan sues U.S. over Iran sanctions! U.S./U.K. media lie about Japanese bank freezing Iranian accounts! 

U.S. oil sanctions have actually increased Iranian oil sales! 

U.S. sanctions against Iran means death knell for French steel factory.

U.S. sanctions on Iran target Chinese company.

International

False Flag or Incompetence? Toyota continues to get hit! Insurance payouts double!

25 August 2015 (04:04 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Shahrivar 1394/10 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/12 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

More than a week after massive thermobaric explosions nearly destroyed the Binhai District in Tianjin, China, Japanese car maker Toyota continues to suffer economically.

Toyota is delaying the re-start of their production lines at least until the end of this week.  One report said Toyota’s Tianjin production shutdown is costing them 2-thousand 2-hundred new cars per day!

Toyota is also shutting down their Changchun factory due to lack of parts that are shipped from Japan through Tianjin.

Germany’s Volkswagen confirmed last week’s estimate of the number of VWs lost in the explosions.

French carmaker Renault is considering using ports other than Tianjin for future car shipments.

There are reports that the price of foreign cars are now skyrocketing in China.  However, United Kingdom’s Jaguar-Land Rover claims that it won’t raise prices even though there is now a waiting list for their vehicles.

Credit Suisse, of Switzerland, says expected insurance payouts have nearly doubled to $2.2-billion USD.

A Reuters reports said the Tianjin Rui Hai International Logistics warehouse explosions could be seen coming from a mile away: “More than 4-thousand people have actually died in 2-thousand 6-hundred accidents between 2009 and 2014, so this is a significant problem.”-Clare Baldwin, Reuters

Tianjin administrators even ordered Rui Hai International Logistics to review safety concerns at their warehouse the week before the explosions.  Analysts blame a combination of complicated multi-governmental agencies trying to regulate the chemical industry, with outright corruption across all levels of business and government.

Research by an Ecosocialist Feminist Revolutionary was able to connect the dots between shareholders of Rui Hai International Logistics and top Chinese government administrators.

The government of China has apparently imposed a news media blackout concerning the Shandong explosions.

Yet another chemical warehouse explodes in China! 

The latest stats:

4,460 PLA and police personnel deployed

129 people dead (mainly firefighters, police and warehouse employees)

692 wounded (confirmed 67 Toyota employees wounded, it could have been more as the majority of Toyota employees had the day off, U.S. farm vehicle maker Deere also reported wounded employees, but refused to give specific numbers)

610 people still hospitalized

number of missing reduced to 44

322 rescued

Blast radius 3km

779 buildings damaged or destroyed

More than 11-thousand new cars destroyed, area now called Tomb of Cars

Jaguar-Land Rover reports nearly 6-thousand new vehicles destroyed

1-thousand+ new Toyotas destroyed, 4-thousand 7-hundred new Toyotas damaged beyond repair

Lexus said they had 783 new cars at the port of Tianjin, but did not say they were damage, only that they would be delivered late. 

1-thousand 5-hundred new Renaults destroyed

2-thousand 7-hundred new VWs destroyed

Evacuation radius 5km

Vanke Harbor City residential area hardest hit affecting 260-thousand square meters (853-thousand square feet)

10 hectares (24.7 acres) confirmed contaminated with sodium cyanide

17-thousand families evacuated

30-thousand people directly affected

12 schools and 3 apartment buildings now evacuation shelters

International

False Flag or Incompetence? U.S. Army explosions’ bark worse than their bite?

24 August 2015 (19:12 UTC-07 Tango 01, 23 August 2015)/02 Shahrivar 1394/09 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/11 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

Very little info has been published about the explosions at the U.S. Army’s Sagami General Depot in Japan, but daytime video of the site revealed the nighttime explosions were more visually impactful than the damage they caused.

A small corrugated steel warehouse showed one big hole in the roof, and buckling on the opposite corner, otherwise it was still intact.  Japanese news media said Army representatives explained it was a warehouse storing gas cylinders and other chemicals, not the ammo depot.

Responding firefighters were ordered not to use water.

Multiple explosions hit U.S. base in Japan!

International

False Flag or incompetence? Multiple explosions hit U.S. base in Japan!

23 August 2015 (11:38 UTC-07 Tango 01)/01 Shahrivar 1394/08 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/10 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

“I was asleep, and at first thought it might have been the roar of thunder, but then there was a sequence of explosions for 10, maybe 15 minutes. A pillar of orange rose to the skies, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.”-witness interviewed by NHK

Hours after yet another chemical warehouse exploded in China, reports and cell phone video of massive, multiple explosions at the Sagami General Depot, a U.S. Armed Forces base in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Despite video’s posted to the internet only now is the incompetent U.S. Department of Defense responding: “We’re aware of the report, but we don’t have confirmation that the explosion occurred on the base.”-Commander Bill Urban, USN Pentagon

The U.S. Army runs the Sagami General Depot, located in Sagamihara.  Back in October 2014, the U.S. Army said it was returning 17 hectares (42 acres) of the Sagami General Depot land to Japanese control.  In July of this year Army administrators said there were plans to return more land to Japan.  The Japan Self Defense Forces are scheduled, in the near future, to share about 35 hectares (86 acres) of Sagami General Depot with the U.S. Army, as part of the Obama regime’s Operation Pacific Pathways (aka Pacific Pivot).

Japanese news sources say the explosions began about 01:00 hours, 24 August Japan time.  The audio on the video sounds just like munitions going off.

Japan news sources also say that in April the depot was bombed by a Japanese “left wing” organization.

Kanagawa Prefecture is also home to the Yakosuka U.S. Naval Base and the U.S. Naval Air Facility Atsugi, USAF Yokota Air Base and the U.S. Army’s Camp Zama.

Operation Pacific Pathways: Obama preps for war with China 

International

False Flag or Incompetence? Yet another chemical warehouse explodes in China!

23 August 2015 (11:09 UTC-07 Tango 01)/01 Shahrivar 1394/08 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/10 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

It’s starting to look intentional as yet another massive explosion in a different chemical warehouse in China!  This time it happened in Dongfu Village, Shandong.  The latest reports say a dozen people have been killed or wounded at the Runxing Chemical Technology Company.

Chinese news media say 150 firefighters are still fighting fires, and more firefighters from neighboring areas have been called in.  Runxing Chemical makes chemicals used in automotive paint and anti-corrosive agents.  People living near the factory said the explosion could be felt 5km (3.1 miles) away.  Windows were blown out in residential areas that are less than 1km from the factory.

Some reports say the Runxing fire was started by a tank of acrylonitrile.  PubChem says it’s used to make “…rubber, resins, plastics, elastomers and synthetic fibers and to manufacture carbon fibers used in aircraft, defense and aerospace industries.”

This explosion comes a couple of days after the Chinese government ordered surprise inspections of chemical factories and warehouses, which resulted in more than 2-hundred being shutdown due to massive safety violations.

The death toll at Tianjin continues to increase.

Fire in the Tomb of Cars!

The latest Tianjin stats:

4,460 PLA and police personnel deployed

123 people dead (mainly firefighters, police and warehouse employees)

692 wounded (more than 50 Toyota employees wounded, it could have been more as the majority of Toyota employees had the day off, U.S. farm vehicle maker Deere also reported wounded employees, but refused to give specific numbers)

624 people still hospitalized

number of missing reduced to 50

322 rescued

Blast radius 3km

779 buildings damaged or destroyed

More than 11-thousand new cars destroyed, area now called Tomb of Cars

Jaguar-Land Rover reports nearly 6-thousand new vehicles destroyed

1-thousand+ new Toyotas destroyed

1-thousand 5-hundred new Renaults destroyed

2-thousand 7-hundred new VWs destroyed

Evacuation radius 5km

Vanke Harbor City residential area hardest hit affecting 260-thousand square meters (853-thousand square feet)

10 hectares (24.7 acres) confirmed contaminated with sodium cyanide

17-thousand families evacuated

30-thousand people directly affected

12 schools and 3 apartment buildings now evacuation shelters

 

 

International

False Flag or Incompetence? Fire in the Tomb of Cars! Massive economic damage affecting U.S. & European companies!

22 August 2015 (03:39 UTC-07 Tango 01)/31 Mordad 1394/07 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/09 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

U.S. farm vehicle maker Deere & Company (aka John Deere) reduced its profit expectations for 2015, saying they think sales will fall 21%.  There was not mention of the fact that their production in Tianjin has been directly impacted by the Rui Hai warehouse explosions.

New York City business analysts say they were surprised by the sudden downgrade of Deere’s outlook, but it makes sense considering Deere’s factory in their biggest market was hit by the explosions.

The surprise safety inspections, launched yesterday, have resulted in more than 2-hundred chemical companies across China shutdown for safety violations.  This will also negatively affect the economy.

There are reports that four new fires erupted in the blast zone, including in the massive new car park now called the Tomb of Cars. The other three fires are in the epicenter.  Fires seem to be starting spontaneously due to the volatile chemical contamination.

“…there are about 40 kinds of chemicals stored in the warehouse. The situation is very complicated.”-Wang Hongjiang, deputy mayor of Tianjin

Rabbits are now being used as ‘canaries in the coal mine’.  Caged rabbits are being placed throughout the blast area.  One news report said it was to reassure residents that the air is safe, but it’s more likely an early warning system for NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) personnel who are still not sure about what chemicals were stored in the warehouse, and the fact that spontaneous chemical fires continue to erupt.

More than 3-thousand tonnes of contaminated water has been removed from blast zone.  Water from one test site had sodium cyanide at 54.6 times what is considered safe.

Massive 100 meter crater!

The latest stats:

4,460 PLA and police personnel deployed

121 people dead (mainly firefighters, police and warehouse employees)

692 wounded (more than 50 Toyota employees wounded, it could have been more as the majority of Toyota employees had the day off, U.S. farm vehicle maker Deere also reported wounded employees, but refused to give specific numbers)

640 people still hospitalized

number of missing reduced to 54

322 rescued

Blast radius 3km

779 buildings damaged or destroyed

More than 11-thousand new cars destroyed, area now called Tomb of Cars

Jaguar-Land Rover reports nearly 6-thousand new vehicles destroyed

1-thousand+ new Toyotas destroyed

1-thousand 5-hundred new Renaults destroyed

2-thousand 7-hundred new VWs destroyed

Evacuation radius 5km

Vanke Harbor City residential area hardest hit affecting 260-thousand square meters (853-thousand square feet)

10 hectares (24.7 acres) confirmed contaminated with sodium cyanide

17-thousand families evacuated

30-thousand people directly affected

12 schools and 3 apartment buildings now evacuation shelters

International

False Flag or Incompetence? Massive 100 meter crater! Surprise inspections reveal massive violations!

21 August 2015 (00:46 UTC-07 Tango 01)/30 Mordad 1394/06 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/08 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

Tianjin Lite Rail 9 (aka Subway 9, Line 9, Binhai Mass Transit) was shutdown due to the explosions.  It is the main east-west rail line into and out of Binhai, running along the Haihi River.  It is not expected to become operational until October.

At the latest news conference a warning of “secondary disasters” was given, due to the massive amounts of volatile chemicals spread over the disaster area.  Of note, “explosive metallic sodium” is being found.

It was revealed that Rui Hai International Logistics was stacking chemicals in containers three high, and they were not taking into account what the chemicals were, in other words they were mixing the stacking of containers with chemicals that react violently with each other!

People’s Liberation Army personnel are getting closer to the epicenter of the devastating thermobaric explosions in Binhai district, Tianjin, China.  A news crew was allowed to follow one NBC unit as they attempted to find a safe way in.

They avoided puddles of water and smoke as they could contain toxic or corrosive agents.  A steel conex box was smoking but it turned out to be hay.  At this point Nuclear, Biological, Chemical  personnel are limited time-wise by the hot protective suits they wear, one soldier showed signs of heat exhaustion and they had to turn back.

This brings us to a fine example of how big the blast area is.  Satellite pics show a crater that is 1-hundred meters (328 feet) in diameter.   It’s filled with 50-thousand metric tons of water from the fire fighting efforts and the recent rain.  Testing of the water shows it’s contaminated with sodium cyanide, 40 times what is considered “normal”.

“The concentration of all pollutants that we monitor has been the within national standards since August 16th. All the water that has been found containing cyanide has been collected and will not be discharged until it passes the test, cyanide pollution within the danger area is still serious but outside it is basically safe except for some rainwater pipelines. Offshore, there is no significant change in the concentration of cyanide in the sea water compared to the past year. It’s all within the national standard.”-Tian Weiyong, Ministry Of Environmental Protection

Despite the claims that ocean water is safe, there are reports (and pics) of thousands of dead fish washing up on beaches near the blast area.  However, those fish are not coming from the ocean but from the Haihi River.  Government administrators explained that such die-offs are normal during summer, as hot temps allow algae blooms which suffocate fish.

To find out if incompetent handling of volatile chemicals has become the norm, the Chinese government began surprise inspections of ports and chemical companies across the mainland.  So far 2-hundred violations of safety standards has been documented, several operations have been shutdown.  Apparently allowing ‘communist’ companies to adopt ‘western’ corporate ways of doing business results in massive safety problems.

U.S. farm vehicle maker Deere has resumed production at its Tianjin factory.  This is another fine example of how massive the explosions were, the Deere factory is 9.6 kilometers (6 miles) from the blast zone!  Deere administrators say they are still repairing damaged windows and doors.  A Deere employee and his wife are still hospitalized.

Proof it was the World’s biggest Thermobaric bomb!

The latest stats:

More than 4-thousand PLA personnel deployed

114 people dead (mainly firefighters, police and warehouse employees)

692 wounded (more than 50 Toyota employees wounded, it could have been more as the majority of Toyota employees had the day off, U.S. farm vehicle maker Deere also reported wounded employees, but refused to give specific numbers)

646 people still hospitalized

number of missing increased to 69

322 rescued

Blast radius 3km

779 buildings damaged or destroyed

1-thousand+ new Toyotas destroyed

1-thousand 5-hundred new Renaults destroyed

2-thousand 7-hundred new VWs destroyed

Evacuation radius 5km

10 hectares (24.7 acres) confirmed contaminated with sodium cyanide

17-thousand families evacuated

30-thousand people directly affected

12 schools and 3 apartment buildings now evacuation shelters

 

 

International

False Flag or Incompetence? Proof it was the World’s biggest Thermobaric bomb! Nerve Gas?

20 August 2015 (22:34 UTC-07 Tango 01, 19 August 2015)/29 Mordad 1394/05 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/07 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

“We were shocked to find out that these three companies were able to store extremely dangerous chemicals so close to public areas including kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools….this information was not known by people living close to the dangerous storage warehouse. This is a clear violation of the regulations.”– Wu Yixiu, Greenpeace East Asia

Is this a big insurance pay-off scam?  One estimate said insurance companies will payout at least $1.5-billion USD to companies affected by the Tianjin explosions.

There are reports of nerve gas being detected at the epicenter of the thermobaric explosions that hit now non-existent Rui Hai International Logistics warehouse in Binhai district, Tianjin, China.  The estimated strength of those blasts has been increased to 24 metric tons (24-thousand kilograms).

City administrators downplayed the reports of nerve gas saying air monitoring sites outside the blast area do not detect nerve gas, but it was local firefighters conducting decontamination work that made the report about nerve gas.  The big problem is that the company operating the warehouse is now believed to have lied about what was being stored.  This comes as the international environmentalist radical group Greenpeace claims they’ve discovered there were two other companies that were illegally storing toxic chemicals within the blast area, before the fire and explosions rocked Tianjin.

“There are around 40 types of hazardous chemicals stocked in the warehouse, mainly in three categories. This includes 1,300 tonnes [metric tons] of ammonium nitrate and potassium nitrate; 500 tonnes of metal sodium and magnesium and 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide.”-He Shushan, Vice Mayor of Tianjin.

Besides the benzene, hydrogen and sodium cyanide previously reported, the latest reports say potassium nitrate, ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate, magnesium and calcium carbide were among many chemicals being warehoused.

Magnesium can be used for welding, and in armor defeating thermite grenades and incendiary bombs.

Calcium carbide is used in fertilizers and in the metals industry.  It can be mixed with water to create flammable acetylene gas.   It’s been raining in Tianjin, so besides the concern over the sodium cyanide contamination, there was concern about rainwater mixing with the calcium carbide.  The good news is that city administrators say the rain has apparently cleared Tianjin streets of the residual contamination.

Nitrates can be used as food preservatives, fertilizers or explosives.  Bomb detectors used by the U.S. TSA at U.S. airports detect chemicals including nitrates.  I had a relative who was flying back to California and he had bought an Idaho made smoked sausage.  I knew it would set off the bomb alarm at the Pocatello Airport, and it sure did.  It was hilarious to watch the TSA employees’ befuddled facial expression as they ran their hand held scanner over a less than foot long sausage that apparently was a bomb!  I pointed out that sausages are made with nitrates, they looked at the ingredient label and seemed amazed to see nitrates as one of the ingredients.  They let my relative board the plane with his treasured Idaho sausage.

In April 1995, the U.S. federal Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed by a truck bomb made with thousands of pounds of ammonium nitrate and acetylene (made with calcium carbide), as well as other ingredients.  Another 324 buildings in a 16 block radius were damaged.  168 people killed.

Back in Tianjin, the People’s Liberation Army NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical) teams have been rotating 40 minute excursions into the epicenter, it’s that contaminated.

21,000 kg thermobaric ‘bombs’ hit Toyota & John Deere! 

The latest stats:

114 people dead (mainly firefighters, police and warehouse employees)

692 wounded (more than 50 Toyota employees wounded, it could have been more as the majority of Toyota employees had the day off, U.S. farm vehicle maker Deere also reported wounded employees, but refused to give specific numbers)

number of missing increased to 64

322 rescued

Blast radius 3km

779 buildings damaged or destroyed

1-thousand+ new Toyotas destroyed

1-thousand 5-hundred new Renaults destroyed

2-thousand 7-hundred new VWs destroyed

Evacuation radius 5km

10 hectares (24.7 acres) confirmed contaminated with sodium cyanide

17-thousand families evacuated

30-thousand people directly affected

12 schools and 3 apartment buildings now evacuation shelters