Tianjin explosion carried out by Pentagon Rods from God space weapon

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BOMBSHELL: China and America already at war: Tianjin explosion carried out by Pentagon space weapon in retaliation for Yuan currency devaluation... Military helicopters now patrolling Beijing - NaturalNews.com

Monday, August 17, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) EXCLUSIVE: Mainland Chinese dissidents have handed Natural News the following bombshell story. (Two minor updates / corrections are now included in this story, see below.)

The Tianjin explosion was waged as an act of "kinetic retaliation" by the Pentagon in response to China's currency war Yuan devaluation, according to dissident sources from mainland China. The Chinese government has put in place unprecedented secrecy surrounding the mysterious explosion, and aggressive police state tactics are now being invoked to control the flow of information surrounding this event.

Officials have come under fire over their lack of response to the twin blasts which set off a giant fireball and devastated a vast area of the port

"Last week's explosions sent massive fireballs into the sky and hurled burning debris across the industrial area at the world's 10th-largest port, burning out buildings and shattering windows kilometres away," reports the Daily Mail UK.

The Chinese government's official explanation for the explosion, which has now killed 114 people, is a complete whitewash. China is going to declare regional martial law in the next 18 days, Natural News has learned, in order to exercise total control over the movement of people and information.

The government has banned reporters from entering the area and has begun arresting bloggers who promote what the government calls "conspiracy theories" regarding the cause of the massive explosion.

"After looking through the images of the Soviet nuclear tests, the new lake in China appears to have been made by a slightly sub surface burst of at least a 5 kiloton nuclear bomb...

This was NOT an accident and the fracture pattern around the crater proves a sub ground burst. If it was a sub ground burst, then a small nuclear weapon is the biggest possibility because once a nuke has to push dirt, the blinding flash will not happen.

A slightly subsurface detonation would explain why camera sensors did not get strange artifacts.

And if it was not a nuke, it was something else incredibly huge, but not a fuel air bomb because fuel air bombs will not leave craters."

Space-based kinetic weapons "dropped" onto targets are explained by Popular Science in this article from 2004:

When instructed from the ground, the targeting satellite commands its partner to drop one of its darts. The guided rods enter the atmosphere, protected by a thermal coating, traveling at 36,000 feet per second--comparable to the speed of a meteor. The result: complete devastation of the target, even if it's buried deep underground.

"When required, these projectiles can be commanded to dive, singly or en masse, at targets on the Earth's surface, smashing into the victim at orbital speed. As the projectile's kinetic energy is released, the blast would be equivalent to a large conventional bomb," explains Armaghplanet.com.

China to declare martial law as total control
of information and people kicks into high gear

Martial law will be declared across Beijing in the coming days, dissidents have told Natural News. Meanwhile, the Chinese government -- which runs a massive state-controlled firewall that snoops into all internet traffic and blocks VPN access -- has added "Tianjin" as a red flag keyword to its internet traffic filtering.

Local police raids have already begun at the locations of bloggers and independent journalists who have attempted to report true stories on what really happened at Tianjin. The Chinese government is engaged in a total cover-up.

Natural News has learned that the Chinese government is now setting up roadside checkpoints near and around both Tianjin and Beijing. Additional security measures now in place to control the movement of people include:

• All hotels are reporting details of visitors to the government, including passport numbers, nationalities, names and phone calls made from the rooms.

• Tourists who don't stay in hotels are now required to register with local police or risk arrest. The Chinese government has mandated that it must know the location of every person at all times.

• Red armbands are now being worn by workers to indicate they are serving as Stasi-like obedient police snitches. The red armbands indicate total obedience to the government, and the workers wearing them have all been trained in how to spot dissident behavior. It's China's version of "If you see something, say something" just as was pushed in the United States.

• In preparation for China's Sep. 3 celebration for the defeat of Japanese occupation -- it's the 70th anniversary -- China has banned Japanese writing in most of its large cities. Government propaganda runs 24/7, condemning the Japanese and the horrifying war crimes committed by Japanese soldiers against China. (It's true, the Japanese committed unimaginable atrocities such as mass-raping women and then chopping them into pieces with machetes to destroy the "evidence.")

• Helicopter patrols are now routinely witnessed across Beijing and Tianjin, where military choppers are flying in formation as a show of strength.

• Massive populations of laborers are now living in underground dwellings, underneath the clean, high-tech buildings of Beijing that seem like world-class architectural achievements.

(Update: Previously, this story stated "underground cities" but we have been corrected on this point and have updated the description to "underground dwellings." Essentially, they are below-ground mass housing basements.)

Mysterious Acid Foam Rain After Tianhai Explosion

The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets.

Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.

The original news.

Tianjin explosion exposes toxic chemicals in China - CNN.com


OK, Fellow Travelers on the Road of Life:

Was this anything more than what the Chinese government would have us believe?

Here are a few screen shots from various videos to help see things clearer. (Click to enlarge)

[Senduko]

I still believe this is indeed retaliation for the devaluation, see Thailand attacks recent days.

But wouldn't the Chinese just come out and say, hey world "American attacked us with some iffy probably not Geneva convention approved weapon" ?
Right now, America needs the Chinese more then the Chinese need America.

I mean, they took our jobs? frig no, American( western) businesses where happy to outsource.

[zorgon]

Interesting timing

China's Police Arrest 15,000 For Internet Crimes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-internet-crimes_55d32ca8e4b055a6dab1551b?utm_hp_ref=world&kvcommref=mostpopular

[thorfourwinds]

KINETIC RETALIATION | Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis

KINETIC RETALIATION

On August 11, China's central bank devalued its tightly controlled currency, causing its biggest one-day loss in two decades. Gerald Celente of Trends magazine appeared on Ground Zero to announce that China has been rigging the game all along and that any kind of devaluing of currency or stocks or an economic sputter in China could plunge the United States economy as well.

The Chinese devalued their currency stating that the change would help drive the currency toward more market-driven movements. The move also signaled the government's growing worry about slow growth.

In the past, we have seen the rigging of the system by the world's flawed and fraudulent banking system at the expense of entire populations. Bank manipulations and money devaluing have sent economies into the bowels of hell, and poverty has been known to spark wars, fully funded by the banking systems that launder the money for criminal regimes.

A day later a terrible disaster struck China.

Two massive explosions in the port of Tianjin, northern China, killed more than a hundred people and left hundreds more injured and devastated large areas of the city.

It also left a huge crater in the ground.

The massive destruction was caught on a cell phone and the explosions were also felt as quakes registering 2.5 on the Richter scale.

The explosions took place at a warehouse at the port which contained hazardous and flammable chemicals, including calcium carbide, sodium cyanide, potassium nitrate, ammonium nitrate and sodium nitrate.

Officials insist it is not yet clear what triggered the blasts.

However, a website called Natural News has reported that Chinese dissidents are claiming that the "mainstream report" of the explosions is not the truth and that the truth is that the United States has fired the first shot in the war from space.

According to a Natural News story that has appeared in a recent Google news feed, the Tianjin explosion was waged as an act of "kinetic retaliation" by the Pentagon in response to China's currency war Yuan devaluation. The Chinese government has put in place unprecedented secrecy surrounding the mysterious explosion, and aggressive police state tactics are now being invoked to control the flow of information surrounding this event.

Immediately following the massive explosion, the Chinese government began flying "black helicopters" in a formation across Beijing. The news site has provided pictures of American military helicopters patrolling the area looking over the damage that was caused in the explosions.

They also report that China is going to declare regional martial law in the next 18 days, in order to exercise total control over the movement of people and information.

The government has banned reporters from entering the area and has begun arresting bloggers who promote what the government calls "conspiracy theories" regarding the cause of the massive explosion.

If a conspiracy theory has already been made, it would be the idea that there was an attack on Tianjin and that an alleged "rod" from a space-based platform was dropped on the chemical plant as a stern warning shot from the United States, which is angered at the idea that China is on the verge of announcing its own gold-backed currency while declaring a fire sale on U.S. debt holdings.

The "Rod of God" weapon deployment by the U.S. Pentagon, is being said to be America's "shot across the bow" to send a powerful warning message to China while disguising the attack as a domestic chemical explosion.

We are constantly hearing rumors about the millions of dollars that are secretly funneled into Pentagon projects that are blasted into space during secret launches. Their payloads are classified and while the final frontier used to be a means to generate hope and accomplishment it is now that dark void that has become a junkyard and a potential mine filed for weapons and payloads for war.

Ground Zero also reported Friday that Popular Science already blew the whistle on the secret space program and that Russia, China and the United States were already prepared for a space warfare scenario and that this would indicate that there has always been a secret space program that would fight wars in space, but also create a cause for orbital bombardment.

Kwajalein Space Launch Facility

If we look back in history at proposed space weapons programs, we can see that there have always been plans in the works to make space the perfect place to keep weapons in order to have an advantage at first strike capabilities.

However, the tricky part is setting up weapons that don't violate nuclear treaties. The answer to this problem is to create weapons that don't have a nuclear payload but can do the same amount of damage.

This was accomplished with a program called 'Project Thor', a space-based weapons program – or at least an effective facsimile – that is believed to be secretly employed above us.

'Project Thor' was named after the hammer-wielding Norse god who could rain metal death down from heaven as he pleased.

'Project Thor' is basically summed up as "Rods from God" or "an orbiting tungsten telephone pole with small fins and a computer in the back for guidance." Once given the launch command, a satellite would drop the 'pole,' which would then speed up until going at orbital velocity, around 10 miles a second. At this speed, when it hit a ground based target, it would have the explosive equivalent of a small-yield nuclear weapon and would also have great penetrating power because of its long, thin profile.

This program is the first example of what we now call "kinetic bombardment," using dense objects traveling at very high speeds to eliminate targets without the need of explosives, no need for nuclear bombs. The force would be similar on a smaller scale to that of a comet or meteor impact on the planet.

If a Kinetic Kill vehicle was used in Tianjin, it most certainly was a devastating test of might. The initial impact an explosion destroyed six city blocks.

On August 16th, the New York Times reported that the Obama administration has delivered a warning to Beijing about the presence of Chinese government agents operating secretly in the United States.

The New York Times also reported that The American officials report that Chinese law enforcement agents covertly in this country are part of Beijing's global campaign to hunt down and repatriate Chinese fugitives and, in some cases, recover allegedly ill-gotten gains.

The Chinese government has officially named the effort Operation Fox Hunt.

The warning from President Obama, which was delivered to Chinese officials in recent weeks demanded a halt to the activities and reflects escalating anger in Washington about intimidation tactics used by the agents.

It comes at a time of growing tension between Washington and Beijing on a number of issues: from the computer theft of millions of government personnel files that American officials suspect was directed by China, to China's crackdown on civil liberties, and of course the devaluation of the currency.

There has been commentary that this attack, if it was an attack, has similar earmarks of the attack on Japan in the 1940's.

For those following the Shemitah theories, the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan also occurred during a Shemitah year, in the month of August, 1945, exactly 70 years ago. This is precisely TEN Shemitah cycles ago, or what might be called a "deca-Shemitah." Of course many people are saying that this Shemitah year will trigger a Black Swan event that will devalue the economy and plunge the world into war by this Fall.

It is also an interesting aside to report that one of China's supercomputers was forced to shut down for safety reasons. Though Liu Guangming, director of the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, said the Tianhe-1A supercomputer was running smoothly and protected by a reinforced room, it was still temporarily shutdown.

Tianhe-1A can perform 2.57 quadrillion computing operations per second and was recognized as the world's fastest computing system in 2010.

Does anyone remember the real time website norsecorp.com where we saw real time attacks from China during the glitch that happened that had New York Stock Exchange shut down for three hours?

Elana Freeland, who recently published the book Chemtrails, HARRP, and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth and is presently writing a book about the electromagnetic space fence has taken a keen interest in this story and is reporting that the U.S. government recently denied China access to technology needed to upgrade the Tianhe-2 supercomputer.

Last April, the IEEE Spectrum reported:

"When China wanted to upgrade Tianhe-2, currently the world's fastest supercomputer, it turned to U.S. chipmaker Intel. But the U.S. government has blocked Intel from helping with the tech upgrade and blacklisted several Chinese supercomputing centers over concerns for their involvement in nuclear weapons development.

Experts warn that in the long run such a move may hurt the business of U.S. chipmakers and encourage China to speed up its homegrown chip development.

The U.S. Commerce Department initially denied Intel an export license for supplying chips to China's supercomputing centers last fall, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Commerce Department followed up by posting a notice on 18 February that listed the Chinese supercomputing centers as having been 'involved in activities contrary to the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.'

Specifically, the notice cited those centers' involvement in 'nuclear explosive activities' that could cover anything from research and development to testing."

Although the denial of services to China could be seen as an attempt to hurt the rising superpower, some experts believe it will actually have the reverse effect of helping the Chinese economy and hurting the U.S. economy.

Elana Freeland asks "Is there any significance to the proximity of the explosion to the supercomputers?"

The explosion also comes just days after the U.S. Department of Defense accused the Chinese government of hacking "the personal emails of all top national security and trade officials." While the source of this claim was reported by NBC News as "anonymous government sources," it does make sense that China would attempt to hack the U.S. as both nations are currently in a struggle for global hegemony."

The Guardian reported that:

"These attacks – among the more than 600 hacks attributed by officials to hackers working for the Chinese government – sought personal email info from top administration officials and began in 2010. NBC's source said the hacks were still going on but would not name any of the officials targeted."

The alleged Chinese hack comes after another breach attributed to hackers working for the Russian government. Again, the hacker claims come from "anonymous government sources" speaking to NBC.

Wired reported that:

"The anonymous officials say the intrusion took place around July 25th and affected around 4,000 Joint Chiefs of Staff personnel (both military and civilian). It's not entirely clear why the attack is being attributed to Russia. The Pentagon responded by shutting down the entire unclassified email system and internet during the investigation. The system has been shut down for around two weeks."

Meanwhile The CONtrail" internet site from Australia notified news groups the following:

Another news site from the United States called the Unhived Mind published pictures of a "lake crater" left behind by the explosion and states that the crater looks like it could have been made by a 5 kiloton nuclear blast.

"After looking through the images of the soviet nuclear tests, the new lake in China appears to have been made by a slightly sub surface burst of at least a 5 kiloton nuclear bomb..."

This was NOT an accident and the fracture pattern around the crater proves a sub ground burst. If it was a sub ground burst, then a small nuclear weapon is the biggest possibility because once a nuke has to push dirt, the blinding flash will not happen. A slightly subsurface detonation would explain why camera sensors did not get strange artifacts.




And if it was not a nuke, it was something else incredibly huge, but not a fuel air bomb because fuel air bombs will not leave craters."—"The Unhived Mind."

Popular Science explained that a space based "Rod from God" could simulate a nuclear explosion:

"When required these projectiles can be commanded to dive, singly or en masse, at targets on the Earth's surface, smashing into the victim at orbital speed. As the projectile's kinetic energy is released, the blast would be equivalent to a large conventional bomb."

Furthermore:

"When instructed from the ground, the targeting satellite commands its partner to drop one of its darts. The guided rods enter the atmosphere, protected by a thermal coating, traveling at 36,000 feet per second–comparable to the speed of a meteor. The result: complete devastation of the target, even if it's buried deep underground."

The Pentagon in the past have denied that these weapons exist.

However, the "U.S. Air Force Transformation Flight Plan," published by the Air Force in November 2003, references "hypervelocity rod bundles" in its outline of future space-based weapons, and in 2002, another report from RAND, "Space Weapons and Earth Wars" dedicated entire sections to the technology's usefulness.

There are other interesting things to consider as well.

Back in 2008, President Bush had asked the Pentagon to come up with a plan to destroy a dead satellite that was heading to Earth. Many observers said a "shoot-down" was unnecessary because such objects falling to Earth typically burn up when re-entering the atmosphere.

Unless, of course, the satellite was possibly carrying 'hypervelocity rod bundles' made of tungsten. Out of all of the metals, tungsten has the highest melting point (3,422 °C) (6,192 °F), lowest vapor pressure, and the highest tensile strength. Tungsten has the lowest coefficient of thermal expansion of any pure metal. That means tungsten rods don't burn up speeding through the Earth's atmosphere to the intended target.




If the satellite was carrying kinetic weapons back then, there would be a definite reason to shoot it down. At the time, the shooting down of the satellite was "suspect" and the military said that they needed to eliminate the possibility of hydrazine, a toxic chemical, dispersing over a populated area.

Many speculated that the reason why China and Russia were prompted to monitor the situation was that the countries were concerned about the missile and whether or not it was in reality a Pentagon weapons test.

After the shooting down the dead satellite, a United States policy on incoming near-earth objects was changed to state that all things that fall from the skies are classified.

U.S. military policy explicitly states that, "incoming space debris, bolides and fireballs, are classified secret and that details about them falling in United States airspace are not to be released to the public."

Now this policy was conveniently enacted at a time where Obama was monitoring China and their space activities. At the time, he was in support of President George W. Bush's plan for space exploration. China at the time was planning its moon exploration program.

After killing budgets for any moon or Mars launch, money was poured into the development and launch of surveillance satellites. The project cost the United States $10-billion dollars plus.

It was a Space-Based Infrared System that provides a more detailed infrared picture of Earth for battlefield surveillance, early-warning alerts and the U.S. missile defense program.

The United States own at least 500 satellites alone, as many as the rest of the world's satellites combined. It is believed 100 of those U.S. satellites are used for military purposes.

Is this a coincidence?

Most of the surveillance project is classified and I am sure the Pentagon would be uncomfortable if anything just happened to fall from the sky that would reveal that there is most certainly a secret space program.

So this Chinese explosion is now becoming a classified story.

Martial law and checkpoints have already begun in Beijing.

If this is part of a covert space war between China and the United States, we may see an escalation that would ultimately devastate the economies of both nations.

It would also be the first shot fired in the metaplanetary war.

Public anger grows as China confirms hundreds of tonnes of cyanide were held at blast-hit port of Tianjin | Peace and Freedom

Families of firefighters clash with police as officials acknowledge hundreds of tonnes of chemicals were stored at one of the nation's busiest ports.

Chinese officials confirmed on Sunday that hundreds of tonnes of highly poisonous cyanide were being stored at a warehouse in the port city of Tianjin  when it was hit by explosions last week, as authorities vowed to investigate whether any officials were guilty of dereliction of duty.

The developments came as the death toll from the disaster, which has crippled one of the world's busiest ports, rose to 112 dead and 95 still missing – 85 of them firefighters who  responded to the initial blaze.

Fears of toxic contamination have grown and anger at a lack of transparency by the authorities has intensified, prompting protests by families of the missing firemen.

Shi Luze, chief of staff of the Beijing military region, said cyanide had been identified at two locations in the blast zone.

"The volume was several hundred tonnes, according to preliminary estimates," he said.

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[burntheships]

Very interesting. The pictures show more devastation than
what is shown on MSM.

This may be related, or maybe not. Posting for the record.

Obama Administation Warns Bejing About Covert Agents
Operating in U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/us/politics/obama-administration-warns-beijing-about-agents-operating-in-us.html?_r=0

The Obama administration has delivered a warning to Beijing about the presence of Chinese government agents operating secretly in the United States to pressure prominent expatriates — some wanted in China on charges of corruption — to return home immediately, according to American officials.

The American officials said that Chinese law enforcement agents covertly in this country are part of Beijing's global campaign to hunt down and repatriate Chinese fugitives and, in some cases, recover allegedly ill-gotten gains.

The Chinese government has officially named the effort Operation Fox Hunt.

[ArMaP]

Very interesting. The pictures show more devastation than
what is shown on MSM.

I suppose you have been looking at the wrong MSM.

[Senduko]

One of the things I find curious is the time between both explosions.
Exactly 30 seconds. ( might need 30 seconds to re-calibrate)

Then again, according to the China Earthquake Administration's official account on Weibo, the first explosion was registered at a magnitude of 2.3 and the second at 2.9.

If a rod of tungsten would be fired from space, wouldn't the magnitude be higher? ( Just asking here )
Also shouldn't there be some kind of liquefaction happening around the hole?


And again, if this was an attack, why isn't China calling the US out on it?

[ArMaP]

Also shouldn't there be some kind of liquefaction happening around the hole?

I agree, we should see signs of a fast moving object having hit the ground, besides the fact that the object itself would be visible (I think) as a meteor.

[burntheships]

I suppose you have been looking at the wrong MSM.

Perhaps, or maybe have not looked deep enough to find   

Natural News does go out on a limb with speculation at times.

[Dyna]

The "Rod of God" weapon deployment by the U.S. Pentagon, is being said to be America's "shot across the bow" to send a powerful warning message to China while disguising the attack as a domestic chemical explosion.

So then what is causing the explosions in the US. and elsewhere. The train explosions seem odd.How about the Wash Motel 6 explosion. Remember the house that exploded into toothpick sized debris?

Maybe some sinkholes are a weapon at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions

[Senduko]

So then what is causing the explosions in the US. and elsewhere. The train explosions seem odd.How about the Wash Motel 6 explosion. Remember the house that exploded into toothpick sized debris?

Maybe some sinkholes are a weapon at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions

I doubt they would use such a weapon on some small clandestine missions.  Say Bunkers in Iraq or something but not some train or motel.

[Dyna]

Practice, have to have some target practice 

[Sinny]

First thing that crossed my mind when this broke the news was space based weapons. Considering they can be used pretty much anywhere anytime...

I dunno, Dr.Beter has made me paranoid, rightly so.

[thorfourwinds]

Tianjin, China, cyber attacks and 'computationally amplified warfare' - Health Ranger warns of China's plan to destroy America from 7000 miles away

Thursday, August 20, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) As a follow-up to our exclusive Natural News story on the Tianjin explosion in China -- which also covered military helicopters in Beijing and "kinetic retaliation" by the Pentagon using exotic space weapons -- I'm offering additional analysis of the global war that's already under way (and where it's headed).

There are two things to disclose up front. First, make no mistake: I am pro America in all this. China is an evil, communist regime that enslaves its people and commits heinous crimes against humanity (such as the organ harvesting of political prisoners).

Although I am extremely critical of the corrupt Obama regime currently in power in Washington, I am 100% pro-America and pro-freedom (and especially pro-Texas). I offer this information in the hope that America can defend itself against the crippling attacks that will soon be unleashed by China.

Secondly, I thought it was common knowledge that I speak conversational Mandarin Chinese and previously lived in Asia, but it seems a lot of people weren't aware of that. I can only speak and listen to Mandarin, I cannot read it, so I rely on translators to help me read Chinese documents. (Documents from mainland China are written in "simplified" Chinese, while those from Taiwan are mostly written in traditional Chinese.)

For many years, I have maintained contact with dissident sources in mainland China, and while they aren't 100% accurate, they have proven reliable over time.

Mainland China, much like Google News, censors NaturalNews.com and does not allow anyone to access this website.

The Chinese government operates a massive censorship firewall which forbids the transmission of any content that's critical of the government. (Similar to the NY Times or the Washington Post, both of which are state-run media mouthpieces for the criminal regime in Washington D.C

As a result, Chinese dissidents risk their lives to bring you the information you're reading here. China just recently arrested 15,000 people for so-called "internet crimes." Such "crimes" include writing a blog that reports the truth about Chinese government corruption.

The Chinese game plan for attacking America

Based on what I've learned from multiple sources, the Chinese game plan for America consists of a triple-layered simultaneous surprise attack -- an "electronic Pearl Harbor" -- as described below. For the record, this information is gleaned from a combination of things I've been told, things I've read and the exercising of "connect the dots" logic that anticipates likely tactical moves targeting the United States.

Here's the triple-layer assault America may soon face:

Layer #1) An attack on the dollar and U.S. debt instruments.

China is gearing up to announce its own gold-backed currency. This will be accompanied by a fire sale of U.S. debt on the global market, driving up U.S. borrowing costs across the globe, thereby accelerating America's Ponzi-style debt demise.

The primary leverage point here is to destroy faith in the dollar (and the credit rating of the U.S. Treasury) at the same time the Yuan is declared to be backed by gold, which the Chinese government has been secretly accumulating to the tune of thousands of tons over the last 15 years or so. (Don't believe the official numbers of reported gold holdings. They are intentionally misleading.)

Layer #2) A massive cyber warfare attack on the U.S. infrastructure.

In military strategy language, we often hear the term "asymmetrical warfare" which usually refers to terror-style attacks achieving a seemingly disproportionate psychological or tactical impact on the target population. However, China's cyber warfare strategy goes far beyond asymmetrical warfare.

They are gearing up to unleash what can only be called computationally amplified warfare which relies simultaneously on the power of computational prowess (on the attacking side) and the rapid collapse of computational weaknesses (on the target side) to achieve speed-of-light domination over the relative field of battle (which is now the realm of interconnected computers rather than cities, roads and bridges).

Likely targets of this "computationally amplified warfare" include:

• Nuclear power plants
• Water pumping stations and treatment facilities
• Transportation and logistics companies
• Oil refineries
• Credit card processors and transactional commerce hubs
• Hospitals and clinics
• Emergency responders (fire stations, police, Sheriff's offices)
• Government (agencies, regulators and coordinators)
• Military organizations and weapons suppliers
• Communications hubs, including satellites and point-to-point ground-based transmission networks

If you consider that cyber attacks may succeed against some percentage of these targets at the same time China is selling off U.S. debt, denouncing the dollar and disrupting financial transactions nationwide, you begin to get a sense of the total social chaos that can be unleashed through such an attack.

Layer #3) An attack on U.S. military satellites to maximize the disruption of military communications, banking transactions, emergency services and other systems that depend on satellite communications.

Satellites are fragile things. Destroying them does not take much in terms of actual mass; it only takes targeting capabilities to direct small mass objects into the orbital trajectory of the satellite itself.

This is surprisingly easy to accomplish by any nation that possesses orbital launch capabilities.

Communications satellites move in predictable orbits with only minor deviations. Intersecting those orbits with small pellets of tungsten moving at ridiculously high velocities is ridiculously easy for any advanced nation to achieve.

Because impact energy equals mass times velocity squared, even very small pellets of mass can shred satellites upon impact. (A simple BB from a BB gun can destroy a billion-dollar satellite if their two paths intersect at sufficient relative velocity.)

Why tungsten? It's cheap and has very high density per volume, with isotopes achieving atomic masses of 182, 184 and 186, if I'm remembering my lab tables correctly. Common lead isotopes, by comparison, have atomic masses in the range of 206 - 208.

An obvious military strategy for America's enemies would be to destroy U.S. military and communications satellites at the same time the cyber war and currency war is launched. Cutting off satellite communications will paralyze the U.S. military, shut down banking transactions and cripple much of the nation's transactional and media infrastructure.

The aim is to cause maximum confusion and disruption at the same time that stocks are crashing, banks are bleeding and debt instruments are collapsing.

From China's point of view, it also doesn't hurt that such an attack would likely disable the national EBT card transaction system, sending nearly 50 million Americans into mass riots across America's major cities, demanding their government food stamp money.

In addition, China obviously hopes to destroy the Pentagon's secret space weapons (i.e. "Rods of God" orbital weapons) which are now believed to have rained down kinetic Hell upon Tianjin as a warning against currency manipulations. While such satellites may be devastating weapons against immobile ground targets, they have no defenses against orbital projectiles themselves. All the Pentagon's satellites, ultimately, are "sitting ducks" in orbit.

As it turns out, it is far easier to destroy satellites than it is to build them, so China's strategy of destroying satellites is bound to out-pace America's ability to replace them. The destruction of satellites also has the "benefit" (from China's point of view) or polluting orbital paths with space debris, effectively creating "no fly zones" at high Earth orbit. Any object crossing into such a zone is likely to be obliterated by debris.

I discuss each of these in more detail at the NaturalNews website.