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Explosion at Pemex headquarters, workers injured
Yahoo News ^ | January 31, 2013 | Michael Weissenstein

Posted on 01/31/2013 4:32:12 PM PST by JerseyanExile

Edited on 01/31/2013 4:47:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico's state- owned oil company in the capital Thursday heavily damaged three floors of the building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline. Local media reported that at least one person had died and about 40 were injured.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mexicocity; mexicooil; pemex
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1 posted on 01/31/2013 4:32:21 PM PST by JerseyanExile
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To: JerseyanExile

Just saw this on Azteca news. Looks bad.


2 posted on 01/31/2013 4:38:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: JerseyanExile

Over the last 4 days the price of gasoline has gone up $0.30 per gallon. I’m sure it will now go up even more as a result of this calamity.


3 posted on 01/31/2013 4:38:38 PM PST by Obadiah (We must commit to remove every Senate Blue-dog Democrat from office in 2014!)
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To: JerseyanExile

I filled the tank of my Beemer with their fuel back in the ‘80’s...I suspect a bomb as I don’t think their gas is volatile enough to cause an explosion.


4 posted on 01/31/2013 4:39:37 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: JerseyanExile

Mexican authorities now report 14 dead and over 80 injured.


5 posted on 01/31/2013 4:40:08 PM PST by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: kristinn

No worries. They are covered under Obamacare.


6 posted on 01/31/2013 4:44:06 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: JerseyanExile
Brief Reuters report on casualties.
7 posted on 01/31/2013 4:46:03 PM PST by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: JerseyanExile

Perhaps PEMEX was pushing too hard to stop the Cartels from tapping the pipelines and stealing oil?


8 posted on 01/31/2013 4:48:21 PM PST by Rebelbase ( .223, .224, whatever it takes....)
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To: JerseyanExile
Holy carp. I first read the title as 'Pantex'.

I'll be back after I change pants.

/johnny

9 posted on 01/31/2013 4:50:28 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JerseyanExile
Holy carp. I first read the title as 'Pantex'.

I'll be back after I change pants.

/johnny

10 posted on 01/31/2013 4:50:43 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JerseyanExile

Have they reported it’s definitely not terrorism yet?


11 posted on 01/31/2013 4:54:57 PM PST by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: Rebelbase

It reminds me of the first WTC bombing.


12 posted on 01/31/2013 4:56:45 PM PST by virgil
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To: JerseyanExile
So this is an office bombing, and not oilfield sabotage?

Extortion gone bad?

-PJ

13 posted on 01/31/2013 5:00:35 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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“I'll be back after I change pants.”

Evidently you found your pants if you just had to change them. Also, I didn't know you had more than one pair of pants.

This was a headquarters building explosion, not a refinery.

It's in Mexico City and I was there not long after an earthquake there in downtown Mexico City and a building was collapsed. I was told it collapsed during the earthquake because part of its building materials was plastic foam instead of steel. After hearing that, I don't trust any building in Mexico City to stand up very long if there is any kind of outside stress.

14 posted on 01/31/2013 5:20:55 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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My prayers up for the victims, but my first thought was the Pantex plant in the panhandle that assembles nukes.

/johnny

15 posted on 01/31/2013 5:27:45 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JerseyanExile

One report says it looks like the explosion came from an underground parking level.


16 posted on 01/31/2013 5:32:34 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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Wasn’t that what happened in NYC under Clinton’s watch as a precursor to the 9/11 disaster?


17 posted on 01/31/2013 5:38:02 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Obadiah

It was their office and not an oil facility. But anything to spike prices artificially or not.....screw the citizen at all costs.....


18 posted on 01/31/2013 6:27:36 PM PST by Newbomb Turk (Freedom is my F word.)
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Considering 19 Saudis carried out the 9/11 attack and Saudis fund mosque construction everywhere ,and Saudis make enormous sums of money by selling oil to the Wset,I would not be surprised to learn they were behind many of the enviromental groups and everything else that slows Western energy independence.


19 posted on 01/31/2013 6:38:26 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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Saudis make enormous sums of money by selling oil to the Wset,I would not be surprised to learn they were behind many of the enviromental groups and everything else that slows Western energy independence.

They most certainly are. And, in particular, they are throughout the Obama administration.

Need I mention, for example, Abedin, Huma?

20 posted on 01/31/2013 6:42:24 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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