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International

False Flag or Incompetence? Two more factories blown up in China!

02 September 2015 (03:07 UTC-07 Tango 01)/11 Shahrivar 1394/18 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/20 Yi-You 4713

In Gansu Province, a fireworks factory exploded killing at least two people and wounding six.  The factory was located in the city of Longnan.  Homes in the area are damaged.

A second chemical factory in Shandong Province was destroyed by a massive explosion.  It happened in the city of Dongying.  At least five people dead.  Reports say the factory was not near any residential areas, the fire lasted five hours.  Pics show massive damage similar to what happened in Tianjin.

After surprise investigations of chemical factories, the Chinese mainland government has decided that almost 1-thousand factories need to be relocated!

Toyota continues to get hit! Insurance payouts double!

The latest stats:

Gansu: At least one dead, six wounded after fireworks factory totally destroyed in two massive explosions. Reports say production was halted in May after inspections found numerous safety violations.

Shandong: At least five people killed by a single massive explosion in Diaokou Township, Dongying. Six executives of the Shandong Binyuan Chemical Company now in police custody.

In Dongfu Village, the Runxing Chemical Technology factory exploded, so far no new update reports but at least one person was killed and nine wounded.

Tianjin:

Residents who lost homes, or whose condos were badly damaged are being given the choice of selling-out to property developers or letting the government re-build their dwellings.

At least 11 people arrested, including the main shareholder of Rui Hai International Logistics, and a former Tianjin Port police chief.  The government has accused them of falsifying legal documents to avoid industrial safety regulations.

At least 40 types of volatile chemicals were stored in the Rui Hai International Logistics warehouse. 

4,460 PLA and police personnel deployed

159 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)

“Hundreds” still hospitalized

number of missing reduced to 14 (nine firefighters and five civilians), however I’ve seen reports from outside China that say 60 people are still missing.

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? 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? 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

 

Business/Economics, International

False Flag or Incompetence? 21,000 kg thermobaric ‘bombs’ hit Toyota & John Deere!

18 August 2015 (14:56 UTC-07 Tango 01)/27 Mordad 1394/03 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/05 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

“…it’s some kind of dysfunctional process of planning!”-Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Hofstra University, interviewed by CCTV-America about why residential units were allowed to be built so close to Tianjin warehouses containing massive volumes of volatile chemicals

The latest casualties as a result of last weeks earthquake causing thermobaric explosions in China are economic; Japan’s Toyota and the U.S. based Deere (formerly John Deere) have halted their operations in Tianjin.  (all three production lines at Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Company shutdown, Deere reports windows and doors at their Tianjin factory blown out)

Just over five days ago the Rui Hai International Logistics operated warehouse caught fire, then two massive explosions equivalent to 21-thousand kilograms (21 metric tons) of TNT knocked people who were 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) away on their asses!  (There’s plenty of cell phone video of the Tianjin explosions on the internet.)

The explosions nearly leveled the entire Binhai new district.  An investigation is underway to find out the cause, and why so many highly volatile chemicals were being stored together in one massive warehouse, and why more than 7-hundred metric tons of toxic sodium cyanide were also in the warehouse (that’s 30 times the allowed limit for warehouse storage).

The cyanide has contaminated the ground for at least 5km (3.1 miles) radius.  The city’s sewage treatment plant has been dumping activated charcoal into the water due to high levels of cyanide.  The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been spraying hydrogen peroxide in an attempt to neutralize the cyanide.

Despite the past week’s decontamination and search & rescue efforts, yesterday the PLA and city administrators revealed they still have not entered the epicenter of the explosion site due to massive chemical contamination.

The sodium cyanide was being stored for a Chinese mining supply company whose many customers are mining ops in North and South America.  If anybodies been paying attention to mining industry news then they’d know that the mining industry is undergoing massive shutdowns due to collapsing commodity market prices.  This could explain why more than 7-hundred metric tons of cyanide had built up in the Rui Hai warehouse.  Sodium cyanide is used to separate precious metals from rock.

It wasn’t just cyanide in that warehouse; massive amounts of benzene, hydrogen and various oxidizing agents, among other chemicals, as Rui Hai specializes in transporting volatiles. But these chemicals can also be used to make thermobaric bombs (fuel-air bombs), which are the next best thing to nukes.

Today it is raining in Tianjin, residents have been warned not to touch the rainwater runoff.  Pics show foaming effect as rainwater mixes with contamination on the ground.

Tianjin is China’s third largest port city, the biggest commodities handled there are oil, natural gas and iron ore. However, the explosions at the warehouse did not affect port operations.

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)

57 missing

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

6-thousand people evacuated

12 schools and 3 apartment buildings now evacuation shelters