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Caught On Tape: Another Huge Chemical Warehouse Explosion Rocks China
ZeroHedge ^ | 8/22/15 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 08/22/2015 9:06:35 AM PDT by Kartographer

Who could have seen this coming?

Just a little over a week after a powerful explosion killed 114 and injured more than 700 in the Chinese port of Tianjin, it appears as though a second blast has occurred at a chemical warehouse, this time in China's eastern Shandong province. A residential area is reportedly located just 1 km away.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: chemicalexplosion; china; chinaexplosion; tianjin
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What is going on in China??
1 posted on 08/22/2015 9:06:35 AM PDT by Kartographer
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Uighurs?

CC


2 posted on 08/22/2015 9:07:43 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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To: Kartographer

Like my gut said re; the first explosion......sabotage!


3 posted on 08/22/2015 9:09:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Insurance swindle - business is bad and, hell, let’s just blow it up instead of burning it?


4 posted on 08/22/2015 9:09:06 AM PDT by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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To: Kartographer

Mere coinky dink?

Or it depends on what might really really be in those specific ports and warehouse

Or who collects the insurance


5 posted on 08/22/2015 9:09:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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If these are “youths”, I can’t wait to see what a nation unconstrained by political correctness can do to solve the problem


6 posted on 08/22/2015 9:09:39 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Celtic Conservative

BBC

China explosion: Fires at Shandong chemical plant

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34029202

Independent

Shandong chemical plant explosion: Firefighters on scene after warehouse catches fire

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/shandong-chemical-plant-explosion-firefighters-on-scene-after-warehouse-catches-fire-10467160.html


7 posted on 08/22/2015 9:10:15 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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Ian Fleming:
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it’s enemy action.”


8 posted on 08/22/2015 9:10:17 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Kartographer

Sum Ting Wong in China!


9 posted on 08/22/2015 9:10:43 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Things are brewing in Korea
Things are brewing in China...


10 posted on 08/22/2015 9:12:03 AM PDT by lancium
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US space based lasers punishing China for devaluing the yuan...


11 posted on 08/22/2015 9:12:33 AM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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To: SE Mom

PING!


12 posted on 08/22/2015 9:13:01 AM PDT by maggief
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Things are brewing in Korea
Things are brewing in China...

TEA?

13 posted on 08/22/2015 9:13:23 AM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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To: Kartographer

Suddenly the “US has an orbiting space laser shooting Chinese warehouses” conspiracy theory doesn’t seem to tin foily...

Of course it could just be good olde fashioned incompetence accelerated due to their economy imploding.


14 posted on 08/22/2015 9:13:27 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Payback for making Urgyur Imams get drunk or otherwise embarrass themselves during Ramadan makes that a possibility.


15 posted on 08/22/2015 9:14:38 AM PDT by tbw2
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muzzies


16 posted on 08/22/2015 9:16:01 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: 2banana

Sit Hap Ens.


17 posted on 08/22/2015 9:16:35 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Kartographer

third factory in a few weeks.

this rules out internal sabotage, unless all three companies are owned by the same corporation.

this would point towards terrorism or industrial sabotage by competitors.

terrorism would be either the crazy nutjob variety or state sponsored (ie: military special forces attacks)


18 posted on 08/22/2015 9:16:44 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: maggief

What in the world...


19 posted on 08/22/2015 9:17:04 AM PDT by SE Mom (Dear God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: maggief

RT ‏@RT_com 2h2 hours ago #Shandong explosion: Residential area only 1km away from blast site http://on.rt.com/6plo


20 posted on 08/22/2015 9:17:41 AM PDT by maggief
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