Chinese city hit by multiple explosions at public buildings

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/china-explosions-reported-liuzhou-guangxi-public-buildings

State media quotes police chief in Liuzhou as saying reportedly fatal blasts triggered by explosive devices in mail packages

Chinese city hit by multiple explosions at public buildings
Associated Press
Wednesday 30 September 2015 07.35 EDT

Multiple explosions have targeted public buildings in a small southern Chinese city, according to state media.

At least three people have been killed and 13 injured in the blasts on Wednesday, which the official Xinhua news agency said took place in Liuzhou, in the Guangxi region.

Quoting local police, Xinhua said the explosions took place at a hospital, market, supermarket, bus station and government buildings including a township office, a centre for disease control and a dormitory building for government workers.

The state broadcaster CCTV reported that the the local police chief has called the case criminal in nature and said the blasts were triggered by explosive devices delivered in several mail packages.

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1. Liuzhou, China, Rocked by 'Massive' Explosions; 6 Reportedly Dead

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A local police chief told state news agency Xinhua that the 13 explosions hit locations including a hospital, a food market and a bus station, state news agency Xinhua reported.

Web users post photos of a partly collapsed building in Guangxi following explosions; cause of blasts still unknown pic.twitter.com/up0rnbstuF
— CCTVNEWS (@cctvnews) September 30, 2015

State-run broadcaster CCTV cited a police chief saying the blasts were caused by "parcels containing explosives," without providing further information.

CCTV said six people had been killed and "dozens" injured. NBC News could not immediately independently confirm that tally.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/liuzhou-china-rocked-massive-explosions-3-reportedly-dead-n436041

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2. Timing and location suggest a provocative act focusing attention on

Uyghurs, who have had violent clashes with Chinese authorities at the border with Vietnam in Guangxi province.

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/border-01192015143452.html

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3. That would be the best first guess.

China being an empire and all there are some other possibilities, but Uighurs would be my first assumption. Or somebody imitating Uighurs in order to provoke the Chinese state. Either way Uighurs are the go to.

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4. Part of bigger, global shift in alliances focused on Mideast, I would also guess

Please see the Russian intervention in Syria thread.

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5. Yes, there are stories about the Chinese getting into Syria too.

I am waiting for more on that, it would make more sense for them to get pushy in the South China Sea, where we are "challenging" them.

We are governed by ignorant morons.

The Pentagon is going to have some momentous decisions to make soon, our bluff is finally being called, I think. But I think it is a done deal really, they have so thoroughly shit on the floor with their Petraeus-sucking "training the moderates" bullshit, which means hiring some locals to fight for us, a very old strategy which never has worked that well militarily.

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6. Afghanistan seems to be going up in smoke now now too ...

i think that leaves exactly no success at all for our friends in the Pentagon.

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7. Afghanistan is another grudge that Russia harbours against the Saudis.

Let it be their problem again.

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8. I've been waiting for some time to see them ushered off into the dustbin.

Not just because they are assholes, but also because their assholeishness supports our assholes, turning this country into a land of assholes too. You have to be careful whom you hang out with, things rub off on you.

We will have to wait to see, but I expect Putin to try to make a few points while he is attacking the jihadis:

He will try to demostrate the excellence of Russian arms.
He will try to ram Assad right down our throats,
He will try to show that he can bring stability back and that Russia is a trustworthy player. He won't get this chance twice.
(The promoters of American excellence at the Pentagon, insecure about their own abilities, will try to prevent that. We have to cheat to win, see?)
If he can manage to punish the Sauds and Bibi along the way, so much the better.

Edit: I think his timing is excellent too, he knows how to wait, that refugee crisis really changed the atmosphere in Europe. All of a sudden it is personal. I've been waiting for that since 2011 or so, the refugee crisis. People just do no starve quietly, not all of them, they start to forage, they start walking..

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9. Syria regime change was Petraeus and Hillary's show. Catastrophic results, dead US Ambassador,

Al-Qaeda morphed into a mini-state that threatens to make Damascus the capital of the New Caliphate. ISIS terror attackers in Paris announce to the customers in the Deli they stormed that al-Alwaki was involved in running that one - al-Awlaki (or his doubles) was a CIA double agent who was involved in literally every actual AQ casualty attack in the US. That whole operation has been blown wide open, and everyone knows it except for a lot of Democratic voters.

The White House thought they had shot down Petraeus, but he's still walking. It's now time to really close down everyone who has created this mess, including Hillary, who is a pawn of the Saudis (like the Bush family and much of the Bush CIA)(She's also run by the oligarchs who own Netanyahu).

It's time to finally open the books on 9/11. If the real story on what led up to the WTC/Pentagon attacks doesn't arouse the American people to make some major changes, nothing will, and we continue to deny the obvious, we deserve to be the next world-straddling Empire that goes down due to our own corruption, cupidity and venality.

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10. Saudi Prince Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz al-Saud dies at age 83

Prince Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, special adviser to King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, passed away late Tuesday night at the age of 83, Saudi Press Agency reported.

The 22nd son of King Abdulaziz al-Saud, Prince Nawwaf was a senior member of the House of Saud and a close ally of the late King Abdullah.

He previously served a number of positions, including director of intelligence under King Saud in 2001 and, briefly in his early years, chief of the royal court in 1961.

SPA did not confirm the cause of death.

http://www.albawaba.com/news/breaking-saudi-prince-nawwaf-bin-abdulaziz-al-saud-dies-age-83-749008

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11. The pace of change accelerates.

Former head of the Saudi Intelligence Service, who was replaced 10 days prior to September 11 with Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz,
who accompanied Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of the National Guard Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on his official trips overseas.

Al Faisal became then Minister of Foreign Affairs. Faisal is connected to Unocal (-&gt through the Saudi Arabian Delta oil company.

On September 5th, 2001 he visited Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri,
"to whom he also conveyed messages from the Saudi leadership concerning the latest developments in the Middle East".

Turki al Faisal is primary target in one of many 911victim- lawsuits (-&gt to have been one of the sponsors and founders of the September 11th attack.
On 8 November 2001, in a rare television interview with Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC),
Prince Turki Al-Faisal described how "Crown Prince Abdullah sent a letter to President George W Bush
before 11 September, in which he stated that relations between the two countries were at a crossroads.
" Fifteen of the 19 suspects believed responsible for the attacks on the US are reported to have come from Saudi Arabia.
Source: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/560/re5.htm

Indeed, as the CIA confirmed on October 20th 2002, "Al Qaida is supported by 12 financiers, most of them Saudis" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_7.html

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12. I think it's about to get ugly.

Like Kim Jong Un ugly; when these 2nd and third generation emperors take over they tend to lack all restraint (as one can observe, for example, in Yemen).

But maybe not yet, he might have just died. When you are 83 it happens.