Uploaded October 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
I’m starting to sound like a record on repeat as yet another pair of blasts rock the Chinese port city of Tianjin and investigators confirm that a Russian made BUK missile shot down flight MH17. Plus Japan theaters to pull out of UNESCO and hostages in the Philippines plea for their lives.
New explosions rock China port city of Tianjin
Just two months after a massive set of explosions rocked the Chinese port city of Tianjin, another warehouse blast was reported on Tuesday. This time, the explosion was registered near an alcohol storage facility and started a fire. At present, no fatalities have been reported… While that is good news, but given the flow of information after the last major event, or, I should say the lack thereof, take the information with a grain of salt.
What shot down Flight MH17? A Russian missile.
Right after Malaysian Airlines flight 17 went down over Ukraine, the predominant theory as to the cause was that pro-Russian separatists fired a Russian made BUK missile at the aircraft. On Tuesday, investigators in The Netherlands officially came to that conclusion.
Japan reacts like a spoiled child to Nanjing news
On Monday, I mentioned that UNESCO would be inscribing the Nanjing massacre into the Memory of the World register — Something Japan wasn’t happy about. The event, in which up to 300,000 people may have been slaughtered, is flatly denied to have happened by Japan or relegated to a minor “indecent” where some noncombatants were killed. Now, the Japanese government is acting like a spoiled child who didn’t get their way and is threatening to take their funding away from the program.
Hostages plea for own lives in Philippines
Two Canadians, a Norwegian and a Filipino woman appeared in a video, pleading for the Philippines to stop military operations and for Canada to negotiate their freedom from the Islamist militants who abducted them. The group was taken at gunpoint by 11 men in September and believed to be linked to al Qaeda Islamist militants.
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I’m starting to sound like a record on repeat as yet another pair of blasts rock the Chinese port city of Tianjin and investigators confirm that a Russian made BUK missile shot down flight MH17. Plus Japan theaters to pull out of UNESCO and hostages in the Philippines plea for their lives.
New explosions rock China port city of Tianjin
Just two months after a massive set of explosions rocked the Chinese port city of Tianjin, another warehouse blast was reported on Tuesday. This time, the explosion was registered near an alcohol storage facility and started a fire. At present, no fatalities have been reported… While that is good news, but given the flow of information after the last major event, or, I should say the lack thereof, take the information with a grain of salt.
What shot down Flight MH17? A Russian missile.
Right after Malaysian Airlines flight 17 went down over Ukraine, the predominant theory as to the cause was that pro-Russian separatists fired a Russian made BUK missile at the aircraft. On Tuesday, investigators in The Netherlands officially came to that conclusion.
Japan reacts like a spoiled child to Nanjing news
On Monday, I mentioned that UNESCO would be inscribing the Nanjing massacre into the Memory of the World register — Something Japan wasn’t happy about. The event, in which up to 300,000 people may have been slaughtered, is flatly denied to have happened by Japan or relegated to a minor “indecent” where some noncombatants were killed. Now, the Japanese government is acting like a spoiled child who didn’t get their way and is threatening to take their funding away from the program.
Hostages plea for own lives in Philippines
Two Canadians, a Norwegian and a Filipino woman appeared in a video, pleading for the Philippines to stop military operations and for Canada to negotiate their freedom from the Islamist militants who abducted them. The group was taken at gunpoint by 11 men in September and believed to be linked to al Qaeda Islamist militants.
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