Posted on 09/07/2015 6:14:42 AM PDT by dynachrome
An explosion shook a chemical plant in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, state media said on Monday, though there were no immediate reports of casualties in a country on edge after blasts killed more than 160 people last month.
The blast caused a fire and thick smoke to bellow from the plant in Lishui city shortly before midnight, state radio said on its official Weibo microblog.
Firefighters were on the scene and there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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“It’s like déjà vu all over again.”
That, or China realized abortions hadn’t reduced the population enough.
FR's first response ...
WE are SOOOOOO good at this
It would certainly be a way for Muslims to get back at China for making it illegal to teach Islam to children under 18, parading imams around in embarrassing ways at the start of Ramadan recently and executing those associated with terrorism in its west.
My first thought bankrupt company and its records go boom!
Or possibly Norks looking to destabilize the region.
Certainly it can’t possibly be because any shortcuts were taken in the building or operating of the plant, because they’re not at all obsessed with making money ...
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I wonder if maybe these explosions have happened a lot over the years. The Chinese safety and environmental standards have always been almost non-existent. What may have changed could be the government’s willingness to let the information be reported.
If that’s true, the question would be, Why?
I’d say two possible reasons are most likely. They are letting out the news so they can suggest Muslims or, more likely, westerners, are causing it. And, given Obama’s stated intent to punish China for hacking his pitifully secured government computer systems, this one is hard to deny. A little malware in the chemical plant’s control computers, and Boom!
The other possibility could be that the government has lost the ability to suppress the news. Or some element in government is letting the news out for their own internal political reasons.
In the last blast, where there were photos of all those cars, the tires were not burnt and melted, but they were TURNED TO ASH. Which to me, somewhat concludes the opinioon that a nuke went off.
Since this is blast number FOUR, and it is happening to manufacturing/processing facilities, they are not ‘random chance encounters’, but the word ‘covert’ does come to mind.
Hmmm, foreign military ships show up in Alaskan soveriegn waters, BOOM.
The Chinese are more ruthless towards their mohammedan inhabitants, than the rest of the world. There MIGHT be a connection. But, somehow, i think not.
Well isn't this the fourth plant to blow up in like the last 30 days or so?
Odds are that it isn't neglect or shoddy workmanship/maintenance that made them all blow up within such a restrained time frame.
Old military saying: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action."
China is sure having a rough time with their chemical plants exploding.
Probably, too many Made-in-China parts in use.
I thought that was from James Bond, where Q is showing him the reports of missing ships ...
Anyway, I’m guessing it’s not Muslims, but incompetence because they’re not really talking about it. They are fighting against Muslims in the western desert, true, but if it really was a hard, external threat behind all these explosions, the whole country would be mobilized in a public way (like India after Bombay 2008).
China has been on a real push to catch up to the US economy by any means necessary, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see construction or operational shortcuts as the cause - just like the recklessness we saw with their stock market.
“How Conrad Black foresaw China’s crisis even during the country’s years of double-digit growth”
in a country on edge
HAHA
This sounds like China has a civil war going on,
I know Zero isn't smart enough for that, or would even if he could think of it, but I'm wondering if this isn't something hatched under W?
Just another in an ever growing line of coinky dinks. Yep, nothing to see. Move along. All video devices will be confiscated.
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