Massive explosion in china port

[space otter]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toxic-chemicals-tianjin-china-explosion_55d1b43ce4b0ab468d9da7d5?utm_hp_ref=world&kvcommref=mostpopular


Matt Sheehan
China Correspondent, The WorldPost
Posted: 08/17/2015 08:51 AM EDT | Edited: 08/17/2015 03:02 PM EDT

Rain Threatens To Ignite Toxic Chemicals At Chinese Blast Site

Deadly fumes, protesting families and rumors of corruption in Tianjin.

vid at link

Cleanup crews and local officials are scrambling to confront challenges ranging from chemical residue to protesting families five days after a chemical storage facility exploded in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin.

Fires continue to smolder at the site of the blast that has already taken 114 lives with 70 more people missing, and nearby residents have been evacuated in anticipation of changing winds and rainfall. Officials believe the warehouse that exploded was home to over 700 tons of sodium cyanide, a substance that can produce deadly toxins when it comes into contact with water.





Credit: Paul Traynor/Associated Press

Smoke rises from damaged container boxes near the site of an explosion at a warehouse in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015.


At a press conference Monday, He Shushan, deputy mayor of Tianjin, told reporters that most of the sodium cyanide will be cleared from the site by Monday evening, while military officials guaranteed that there would be "no secondary damage to the people" outside of the evacuation zone. That proved little comfort for area residents who feared the worst.

"I asked my in-laws to take my daughter home. I don't want them to stay here," Tian Binyan, a migrant worker, told CNN. "I'm worried. I heard it's going to rain later and that would make the air toxic."

As cleanup crews hustle to clear the blast site, local officials face mounting frustration from two main groups: nearby homeowners demanding compensation for their property, and the families of firefighters desperate for information about their loved ones.

Both Sunday and Monday saw protests by residents -- some with their heads still wrapped in bandages -- demanding to know how a chemical facility was located so close to their homes and calling on the government to purchase their damaged homes outright.

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Even more emotionally fraught have been the protests by families of firefighters. Many of the firefighters who responded to the blaze were contracted by the local port authority rather than the military. That could potentially put them "outside the system," meaning they would be excluded from the compensation and recognition granted to official military firefighters. The South China Morning Post reports that on Sunday, about 40 family members of firefighters marched to the local government offices demanding information and equal treatment for their family members.

Yuan Chenggang, father of a missing 18-year-old firefighter, vented his frustration.


We've been here for four days, but still haven't met anyone who can tell us anything useful," he told the Post while outside the local government headquarters.

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On Monday, local and national authorities attempted to address these issues. In a press conference, authorities said 85 firefighters remained missing, 72 of whom had been contracted by the local port. In a rare impromptu interview in Tianjin, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Hong Kong's i-Cable news that every firefighter's sacrifice would be equally recognized.

"For our heroes, no one is 'outside the system,'" Li said. "Regardless of whether they're firefighting officers or non-military firefighting workers, we will treat them the same."

Even as officials moved to calm anger over compensation to families and residents, Chinese media began reporting on the official ties of Ruihai Logistics, the owner of the chemical warehouse that exploded. On Sunday, the investigative media outlet Caijing quoted industry insiders who claimed that Ruihai's listed stockholders are merely a front for the real owners -- one of whom, sources claimed, is the son of the former head of the port's public security bureau.



Those accusations have yet to be confirmed, but they are feeding speculation that preferential treatment or corruption may have helped lay the groundwork for the massive blaze. Chinese authorities have pledged a full-fledged investigation, citing President Xi Jinping's ongoing corruption crackdown as evidence that any malfeasance will be punished.

For now, however, most of the punishment has been directed at newspapers and social media accounts accused of "spreading rumors" about the blast. China's Internet regulator said it has suspended or revoked the licenses of 50 websites for claiming there's been looting at malls, or for reporting death tolls of more than 1,000 people. Chinese authorities have taken a hard line on "rumors" in recent years, attempting to confine reporters to using official channels. In the days following the explosion, an academic monitoring Chinese social media reported a tenfold increase in censorship.


lots of embedded links in article


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http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/17/asia/china-tianjin-industrial-accidents/

27 photos  from explosion....must go to site to review

[Gigas]

Remember that Texas fertilizer explosion 2013 by Waco Texas.

Lets have a look see.



Witness report seeing an incoming projectile before the big explosion.

That PEPCO explosion north of Las Vegas, was huge. I picked up empty containers there once and the place was fenced in with signs no smoking. I drove in and before they let me out off the truck, I had to put on rubber boots. They told me this stuff is highly explosive and was a component for rocket fuel.

That shipment went to some little plant in south Arkansas if I remember correctly.

Back to the China blast. Those burnt out cars ready to be shipped, are reminiscent of the 911 event where cars burnt up as well. Yet, 911 had no detonation. Then again, they found traces of material used in nukes at 911 that they tried to wash away before letting anyone in. I'm guessing the same thing at the china port since they have it on lock down.

Edit to ad: this vid is the after math of the new cars being incinerated. Notice at 2:13 how a vehicle melted to a molten mass and cooled into a puddle.

[Dyna]

Another observation is the lack of scorch marks. not only on the blue containers but the other ones as well.
The blue containers are a mystery tho, they look like they where put there after the blast. Also note that they are smaller compared to the standard containers.

Odd.

There are a few more like them in the back left, crunched a bit.The ones in the foreground look as though they actually flew through the air a long ways.

Maybe the pushed out ones were full of popcorn headed to Cosco

[Gigas]

Guess what else is located at Tianjin.

The National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin is one of the main centers. It houses the Tianhe-I supercomputer which in October 2010 became the top speed record holder in the world by consistently operating at 2.507 petaflops. The Tianjin Computer Institute had been active as far back as 1984 when it developed the 16-bit TQ-0671 microcomputer system. A commercial affiliate of the Tianjin center had previously made the PHPC100 personal supercomputer in 2008 which was about twice the size of a normal desktop computer, but had 40 times the speed. In 2010 a second generation model was released.

Now they have this which the US stopped Intel from suppling the CPUs for

China now has the new improved "TIANHE-2 (MILKYWAY-2) - TH-IVB-FEP CLUSTER, INTEL XEON E5-2692 12C 2.200GHZ, TH EXPRESS-2, INTEL XEON PHI 31S1P" located at Guangzhou, China. Is that the next strategic target in the space/cyber wars

2,200ghz with 3,120,000 cores, when we only get maybe an 8 core 4.1ghz cpu for our home computers. We have to complain about that.

Then we had an embargo April 2015 on China not to sell Intel CPUs to them for that super computer.

"The US government has blocked Intel from shipping high-end Xeon processors to China's supercomputer builders – and other American chip giants are banned, too.

Intel confirmed to The Register last night it was refused permission to sell the chips to the Middle Kingdom's defense labs and other parts of its supercomputing industry.

"Intel was informed in August by the US Department of Commerce that an export license was required for the shipment of Xeon and Xeon Phi parts for use in specific previously disclosed supercomputer projects with Chinese customer INSPUR," a spokesperson for the Santa Clara-based biz said, adding:

Intel complied with the notification and applied for the license which was denied. We are in compliance with the US law.

Those Xeon chips are vital to high-performance computing needed for scientific research and similar work: they will be used to power the 50,000-node, 180-petaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer Intel and Cray are building for the US Department of Energy, due to go live in 2018. China's Tianhe-2 computer, today the world's fastest publicly known supercomputer, uses 3.1 million Intel Xeon E5 cores to hit 54 petaFLOPS in peak performance."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/10/us_intel_china_ban/

[Gigas]

Now that you got that, get this,

The National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin

On August 12 2015, the center was forced to shut down for a time (it was still offline as of August 14) due to widespread infrastructural damage, along with related security concerns, incurred as a result of the 2015 Tianjin port disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Supercomputing_Center_of_Tianjin

[Gigas]

Suit case nuke in a container. What ya think. That looked to be a powerful and loud detonation. That glow looked just a nuke blast with that mushroom cloud not to mention all that destruction for miles around.

[Gigas]

Alright, somethings going on here. I modified several post from ME and the first one failed to post but posted the same original post again, minus the modification. The second post I just modified for a spelling error posted again as a new post. Some one explain that.

[Gigas]

Now that the world is full on space wars and cyber wars, here's a site that reports cyber wars.



See it in action real time

http://map.norsecorp.com/

[ArMaP]

Now that the world is full on space wars and cyber wars, here's a site that reports cyber wars.



See it in action real time

http://map.norsecorp.com/

I don't trust that site, as it uses some specific servers that nobody knows if they are representative of real targets. The fact that, as soon as it appeared it was presented by many people as the best way of seeing attacks makes me suspicious.

[space otter]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cyanide-detected-in-alarmingly-high-levels-near-china-warehouse-blast_55d5aaa2e4b055a6dab2f773?utm_hp_ref=world&kvcommref=mostpopular

Alana Horowitz
Senior Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 08/20/2015 07:53 AM EDT | Edited: 08/20/2015 03:55 PM EDT



Alarmingly High Levels Of Cyanide Detected Near China Warehouse Blast


vid at link

Officials inspecting the aftermath of a deadly warehouse explosion in Tianjin, China detected dangerously high levels of cyanide. The Aug. 12 blasts in one of the country's biggest port cities killed at least 114 people and leveled the surrounding area.

Reuters reports that the levels were at least 277 times the standard limit, but according to AFP, the figure was over 350 times that limit.

"Cyanide was detected at eight water monitoring spots inside the warning zone, with levels at one spot exceeding limits by 356 times," an official from China's Ministry of Environmental Protection said, according to CNN. "Cyanide pollution is severe inside the warning zone. Outside the zone overall, the amount of cyanide detected is at normal range," he said.
Local authorities had said on Monday that they were working to clear the area of hazardous chemicals. But when inspectors from the Tianjin Environmental Protection Bureau tested the water around the blast site on Tuesday, they found alarmingly high levels of the chemical in several different locations.

The warehouse likely contained around 700 tons of sodium cyanide, which is over 70 times the legal limit, according to the Guardian.



Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images

Cyanide poses a huge threat to humans. As Quartz points out, cyanide and water can form a toxic gas called hydrogen cyanide that is dangerous and even deadly when inhaled. When mixed with water, cyanide can combust. Officials worry that rain could trigger more explosions in the same area. 

According to Reuters, the warehouse was also closer than allowed to nearby houses.

A top U.N. safety official on Thursday criticized China for not sharing critical information that could have prevented the blast. According to the New York Times, workplace safety issues run rampant across the country.


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Brand new cars parked in Tianjin port that were badly damaged by the explosions, Aug. 13, 2015.



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A damaged police car is seen at the site of the massive explosions in Tianjin on Aug. 13, 2015.



Smoke is seen out of the broken window of an apartment near the site of the explosions in Tianjin on Aug. 13, 2015.


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Cars are burnt out after the explosions at a warehouse in Binhai New Area in Tianjin, on Aug. 13, 2015.




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Fire fighters watch partially pink smoke that continues to billow after an explosion at a warehouse in Tianjin, Aug. 13, 2015.



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A worker stands on a crane near the site of an explosion in Tianjin, Aug. 13, 2015.

many more photos at link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cyanide-detected-in-alarmingly-high-levels-near-china-warehouse-blast_55d5aaa2e4b055a6dab2f773?utm_hp_ref=world&kvcommref=mostpopular

[space otter]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dead-fish-tianjin_55d6be20e4b0f593f7f6eed3?kvcommref=mostpopular

Dominique Mosbergen
Senior Writer, The Huffington Post
Posted: 08/21/2015 03:41 AM EDT


Thousands Of Dead Fish Wash Up On Tianjin's Shores A Week After Deadly Chemical Explosions


"There has to be a link between the dead fish and the blast. What else could explain the death of so many?"

Crowds gathered on the banks of Tianjin's Haihe River on Thursday, looking agape at the grim and unnerving scene before them: there, washed up on the riverside, were thousands upon thousands of fish -- all dead.

The dead fish were found only a few miles from the scene of the deadly explosions that rocked the Chinese city last Wednesday. The gruesome phenomenon has sparked serious concerns that toxic chemicals from the blast site -- a warehouse that stored at least 2,500 tons of hazardous chemicals -- have leaked into the river.

Chinese officials, however, have denied that the fish deaths are linked to the blasts.

Military teams are reportedly  "still struggling to decontaminate"  the blast site more than a week after the explosions, The Guardian reports.

Wastewater runoff near the site of the explosions have been found to contain hundreds of times as much sodium cyanide than is considered "safe." Sodium cyanide is extremely toxic to humans, even in very small quantities.

Chinese authorities, however, have insisted that water samples taken from the river where the dead fish were found on Thursday did not contain toxic levels of cyanide. The fish were found about four miles from the blast site.

Deng Xiaowen, head of Tianjin's environment monitoring center, said the agency would launch an investigation into the fish deaths. He maintained, however, that "it was not uncommon for fish to die en masse in local rivers during summer, due to poor water quality," per The Guardian.

Despite such assurances, residents of the area have expressed skepticism.

"I've never seen anything like it," Wang Lei, a 47-year-old man at the river banks Thursday, told the New York Times. "There has to be a link between the dead fish and the blast. What else could explain the death of so many?"

At least 114 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured in last week's explosions, which were so powerful that "cars melted and homes crumbled." According to ABC News, 70 people are still missing.

As residents continue to demand answers and compensation for their damaged property, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to thoroughly investigate the disaster.

"The incident has caused heavy casualties and property loss," he said at a Politburo meeting Thursday, per the New York Times. "It was a profound lesson paid with blood."

[Gigas]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cyanide-detected-in-alarmingly-high-levels-near-china-warehouse-blast_55d5aaa2e4b055a6dab2f773?utm_hp_ref=world&kvcommref=mostpopular

Alana Horowitz
Senior Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 08/20/2015 07:53 AM EDT | Edited: 08/20/2015 03:55 PM EDT




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Brand new cars parked in Tianjin port that were badly damaged by the explosions, Aug. 13, 2015.

Look how those cars look like they were crushed with roofs caved in, burnt out and hoods missing showing no engines. Perhaps China builds cars with no engines and parks them in the port for export where the final destination inserts the engines. I don't think so.


There we go again, all China 911 with burnt out cars and motors disintegrated out of the vehicles. We saw the same thing with Americas 911 where cars and trucks burnt up and witness reported engine blocks turned to molten metal running out from under the vehicles.

I remember those pictures but google does not show them anymore.

Guess those pics have been scrubbed from the net.

[space otter]

ya just gotta look harder.. they're there


http://www.henrymakow.com/911_-_nukes_caused_this_devast.html

All of these cars have unexplainable similar damage: Paint gone, instant rusting, and all of their door handles and engine blocks are missing!


A squad car on FDR drive with wilted doors, burned paint, instant rust and no door handles or engine block.

http://www.drjudywood.com/articles/DEW/StarWarsBeam5.html

Figure 66. Toasted cars in a lot near the WTC.

[ArMaP]

Look how those cars look like they were crushed with roofs caved in, burnt out and hoods missing showing no engines.

I think the engines are there, only fallen from the supports. And that's the only model in which the hood is missing, in all the photos I have seen all other models have the hood.

Perhaps China builds cars with no engines and parks them in the port for export where the final destination inserts the engines. I don't think so.

Most (if not all) of the cars on that port were imported.

[zorgon]

Thousands Of Dead Fish Wash Up On Tianjin's Shores A Week After Deadly Chemical Explosions

Many years ago in Toronto my dad and I went SMELT FISHING at the mouth of the Don River. At a certain time of year, like Salmon... the smelt go up river in huge hoards to spwan... and then die.

You are allowed to catch them as they head up river. You use big nets called Smelt Nets... the common ones in Canada are big squares  something like this



Typical scene during a smelt run on many rivers around the world



During the night they go into a spwaning fewnzy on the beach and river shores



Then they die off by the MILLIONS 




And all the conspiracy sites use these images

Yet it is a NATURAL annual event...  stinks like heck for a few days but the seagulls have a FEAST