“…on the day when Argentina decrees limits on the FX positions banks can hold and the Argentine Central Bank’s reserves accounting is questioned publically, a massive fire – killing 9 people – has destroyed a warehouse archiving banking system documents.” (h/t marc in calgary)
That would be one of those friction fires.. Caused by investigations rubbing up against incriminating evidence.
…global warming strikes again.
For those who don’t know, Iron Mountain is a very large company that specialises in the long-term storage and retrieval of documents. The New Yorker had a piece on it last fall:
Many Lives of Iron Mountain
The company builds in lots of fail-safe mechanisms to ensure that things survive such events as floods, fires, earthquakes, etc. That they would all fail at once is, as Arte Johnson once said, “Veeeeeerrrry interesting…”
Poor Argentina
Its only talent seems to be being misruled by idiotic crooks
When not losing a silly war to Britain over crappy islands.
So close to God
So far from reality.
The press in Argentina has faced quite a bit of pressure from the Fernandez gov’t over criticism of, well, everything. That is the part of the press’ job that is sorely lacking in the first world msm / press.
Hence this, no curiosity whatsoever:
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/151473/at-the-scene-residents-help-cry-and-gawk
Another at this Buenos Aires Herald covers the firemen’s killed, and the country’s first female fireman that died. “National mourning”
But no mention of the coincidence of the international financial squeeze currently facing Argentina. It may as well of been a furniture manufacturer in the Iron Mountain building.
The president of the warehouse archiving banking system seems to have committed suicide by shooting himself in the head eleven times.
The Forbidden City also had a fire like that, I think, when somebody wanted an inventory…
“The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately clear.”
Thermite maybe? Gasoline is too street-gang for government work.
From the ZH comments:
The quoted report states “nine first responders were killed”. I wonder, just how did they die? What did they see before they died? My God have mercy on the faithful doing their jobs.
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They probably saw a team of elite troops representing the ‘powers that be’ holding rifles – that’s what they saw.
…Word, brother.
Make the days of military cabal look pretty good.
Records burned nearly as fast as Obamba’s life’s records and accomplishments!
Obviously a coverup.
Buddy worked in a high security records center. He said that they were trained to keep an eye on the door if they were in the halon vault because if smoke or heat was detected a klaxon sounded which meant he had 30 seconds to get out before the doors sealed shut and the vault flooded with halon gas. I guess the hole in the ozone precludes the use of halon nowadays.
I guess the hole in the ozone precludes the use of halon nowadays.
Halon is still used in some systems, mostly for remote un-manned facilities. The newer suppression gasses are more effective in lower concentrations, and not as harmful to humans as halon.
I seem to remember an episode from a science fiction story wherein the government announced that personal and financial data for several million citizens had been destroyed, and that those affected should immediately report to the authorities so as to restore the database.
Several million citizens promptly went off grid.