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More than 20 nighttime explosions have rocked rural Pennsylvania since April. No one knows why.

Via the Washington Post

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The early-morning blast on Mother’s Day was big enough to stop nature itself, if only for a moment.

A blast wave at 3:35 a.m. rippled through the woods around Lonely Cottage Road in Upper Black Eddy. Frogs stopped croaking. Crickets ceased chirping. And Nick Zangli loaded a gun to defend himself from whatever it could be.

He found an eerie quiet following what he would later call “a very large explosion” in that part of rural Pennsylvania. The next day, someone found a four- or five-foot-wide crater, about a foot deep, alongside a back road shaded by dense trees. Debris was scattered along the pavement, Zangli told ABC affiliate WPVI.

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THIS IS WHAT VICTORY IN AFGHANISTAN LOOKS LIKE

Loud explosions and gunfire have been heard in the parliament building in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Gunmen have stormed the lower house of parliament, with several blasts going off inside and in front of the building.

A Taliban spokesman has claimed responsibility for the attack on the parliament.

“We have launched an attack on parliament as there was an important gathering to introduce the country’s defense minister,” Reuters cited Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid as saying by telephone.

According to Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi, one Taliban fighter blew himself up in a car stuffed with explosives just outside the gates of the parliament compound, while six others took up positions nearby. All of them were killed in the two-hour firefight, while the attack left 21 people wounded, including four women, the police spokesman said.

Karimi confirmed that all the Afghan MPs and journalists were securely evacuated.

Lawmakers have criticized security agencies for not preventing the attack.

“It shows a big failure in the intelligence and security departments of the government,” MP Farhad Sediqi said.

The firefight between the militants and the parliament security force continued for more than 20 minutes before additional security forces came to their rescue, Rahmani told TOLOnews.

Rahmani also said that the parliament had been warned about a possible attack a few days ago.

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WHO NEEDS A PIPELINE WHEN YOU HAVE WARREN BUFFET’S CANNONBALL EXPRESS?

Dramatic Explosion Footage: Warren Buffett-Owned Oil Freight Train Derails, Bursts Into Flames

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/05/2015 21:14 -0500

Back in March 2013 we wrote a post presenting “the new US petroleum pipelines” in which we explained “why crony capitalist #1, the “rustic” Octogenarian of Omaha, and Obama tax advisor #1, Warren Buffett has been aggressively attempting to corner the railroad market, while the administration relentlessly refuses to allow assorted new, and very much competing petroleum pipelines from America’s neighbor to the north to cross through the US.” The answer was shown on the chart below which showed the exponential increase in petroleum rail car loadings.

 

It also explains why after Buffett’s purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) in 2009, Obama has been so staunchly against allowing the Keystone XL pipeline: because if there is anything that would allow Buffett to preserve the momentum of his soaring oil transit business, it is maintaining a veto on any competing pipelines. A veto which Obama implemented for the latest time just a few days ago.

Of course, it would be uncouth of the US president to say that he is against a pipeline because one of his crony backers, his tax advisor (“push income tax higher all you want, but don’t you dare touch that capital gains and dividend tax”), and perhaps the biggest single beneficiary of the government bailout of Wall Street in 2008, tells him to. So instead Obama, to appease his progressive rank and file, decided to crack down on the “danger” of pipelines – after all, the world is riddled with horror stories about the tens of thousands of miles of US commodity pipelines spontaneously combusting, exploding or otherwise blowing up and destroying the pristine nature all around them.

Maybe not, but that’s where the “unbiased” media comes into play. The same media which we doubt will have much if anything to say about the train derailment, crash and subsequent massive explosion which took place at 1:20 pm in a rural area where the Galena River meets the Mississippi.

The train in question? One of Warren Buffett’s own: a BNSF Railway freight train loaded with crude oil.

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