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It seems like the explosion was on a smaller pier that is 1-2kms away from the main container port. The grain elevator obviously is gone, but they may still be able to get in imports otherwise.
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Aug 4, 2020 21:32
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Ardennes posted:It seems like the explosion was on a smaller pier that is 1-2kms away from the main container port. The grain elevator obviously is gone, but they may still be able to get in imports otherwise. it looks like there is also a container port in tripoli, though much smaller
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Aug 4, 2020 21:36
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So in the past few months Lebanon has been dealing with coronavirus, a global economic depression, a financial mega implosion, the highest tensions with Israel in years, and now the country's largest port exploded smothering Beirut in toxic gas. Seems bad to me.
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Aug 4, 2020 22:08
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Radirot posted:people are already celebrating this as karma for the barracks bombings. Imad Mughniyeh is already dead
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sum posted:So in the past few months Lebanon has been dealing with coronavirus, a global economic depression, a financial mega implosion, the highest tensions with Israel in years, and now the country's largest port exploded smothering Beirut in toxic gas. Seems bad to me. don't forget about the televised saudi coup that was reversed a week later!
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Aug 4, 2020 23:16
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Aug 4, 2020 23:34
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Al-Saqr posted:Reports coming out that apparently that warehouse had tons of explosive ammonium nitrate that wasn’t supposed to be there lol love how loving vague that is. like how after hariri came back from saudi and unresigned, and never really explained what the gently caress happened. it’s like every member of their government has an exploding collar on. if they even blink twice it goes off
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Aug 4, 2020 23:46
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Raskolnikov38 posted:ah well i'm sure this will have no effect on their economic crisis https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1290716494528155648?s=20 Food prices were already spiraling upward, so this is gonna be real bad.
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Aug 5, 2020 00:35
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I need to look into it more, but I'm seeing tweets that Lebanese enterprises will get hit by US sanctions if they try to import any supplies from Syria.
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Aug 5, 2020 00:39
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https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1290798292616577025?s=20 https://twitter.com/HalaJaber/status/1290740057431842817?s=20 https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1290786381321474049?s=20 this is gonna be a loving mess
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Aug 5, 2020 01:14
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Radirot posted:whoever was in charge of that port better start packing their bags. u might say he was on the first flight out of there
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Aug 5, 2020 01:16
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1290798292616577025?s=20 advanced
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Aug 5, 2020 01:36
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/1290798292616577025?s=20 lmao is that the best fake that they have out there? Jesus at least try and make it look like it isn't just a dot that you put in in mspaint in 5 minutes Isn't even in any of the other videos Plus, you know, the whole "it's probably just one of those small black birds that are in every video of it and look like they are really common in the city"
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Aug 5, 2020 01:41
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1290786381321474049?s=20 Wow gently caress this guy so hard what a piece of poo poo, don’t worry gently caress face our turn is coming soon you twat. Also you dumb gently caress, who destroyed yemen?!?! Care to answer that?!?!? Al-Saqr has issued a correction as of 03:23 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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Aug 5, 2020 03:14
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Spime Wrangler posted:advanced If that's a bird, why don't we see a cartoon-like feather puff? 
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Aug 5, 2020 03:20
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1290786381321474049?s=20 who the gently caress says image macro in 2020
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Aug 5, 2020 03:55
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https://twitter.com/Josiensor/status/1290749177157345285?s=20 An old Sea Law news letter might have some history into how 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate sat around for 6 years. https://twitter.com/NicijSamoSvoj/status/1290754052834369537?s=20 If you don't want to download the pdf: quote:On 23/9/2013, m/v Rhosus, flying the Moldovian flag, sailed from Batumi Port, Georgia heading to Biera in Mozambique carrying 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate in bulk. En route, the vessel faced technical problems forcing the Master to enter Beirut Port. Upon inspection of the vessel by Port State Control, the vessel was forbidden from sailing. Most crew except the Master and four crew members were repatriated and shortly afterwards the vessel was abandoned by her owners after charterers and cargo concern lost interest in the cargo. The vessel quickly ran out of stores, bunker and provisions. It was probably forgotten about till someone started welding on it.
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Aug 5, 2020 04:29
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Fast Luck posted:reading about that Galveston explosion BrutalistMcDonalds alluded to and it sounds just like that. Except that took longer to really kick off  i think the tall white building on the left
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Aug 5, 2020 04:58
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drat hezbollah taught birds how to arm and drop nuclear weapons? better not gently caress with those guys they sound op
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Long Time Defender of US-Saudi Relations gives good advice that will absolutely go unheeded:- Main points are that saudi is 100% hosed financially and politically if they dont:- 1) Stop the Yemen war 2) Cancel NEOM or put it indefinitely on hold use the money to make sure people dont go bankrupt. 3) Immediately start decoupling from trump and building good relations with democrats, because they are absolutely going to punish MBS once trump is removed. but of course, as with all good advice and arab dictatorships, you might as well yell at a wall. https://twitter.com/kdiwaniya/status/1290726030915796994?s=20
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Al-Saqr posted:3) Immediately start decoupling from trump and building good relations with democrats, because they are absolutely going to punish MBS once trump is removed. I don't believe this for a nanosecond.
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Stringent posted:I don't believe this for a nanosecond. yeah I dont either. that's the one point I think he's wrong about. but it was primarily Jared Kushner and Trump who helped MBS get away with killing Khashoggi so who knows what will happen with them out of power.
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Aug 5, 2020 06:24
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if it's anything like previous democratic administrations, the U.S. will tilt back toward qatar... which is hosting the world cup in 2022 it's all coming up qatari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePuns7_JDiM&t=18s
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Aug 5, 2020 06:28
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i wonder what ship that is. i don't think's anything that big in the lebanese naval inventory https://twitter.com/Ambrey_Intel/status/1290914995446964224
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peepeepants posted:https://twitter.com/Josiensor/status/1290749177157345285?s=20 I don't buy the welding explanation, seeing as the video footage clearly shows a shitload of fireworks going off before the nitrate warehouse goes boom. I also saw people initially saying there was only fifty tonnes of nitrate in that warehouse, presumably thanks to the initial haul being sold off and disposed of over the years since its capture. That's a much more sane size for the sort of explosion we saw, especially with flour from the grain elevator thrown in as an accelerant. If this was a proper three-kiloton boom, we wouldn't be getting video footage from eyewitnesses anywhere near as close, because they'd all be dead and their phones would be obliterated. Remember that Oklahoma City was only two tonnes of ammonium nitrate. 2750 tonnes is just a silly number. It's happened before (in Halifax and Texas City), and it doesn't look like this.
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Aug 5, 2020 11:55
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Darth Walrus posted:I don't buy the welding explanation, seeing as the video footage clearly shows a shitload of fireworks going off before the nitrate warehouse goes boom.
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Aug 5, 2020 12:23
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Bob Socko posted:Could that have been power lines arcing? Judge for yourself, but those sure look and sound like fireworks to me. https://twitter.com/svnewsalerts/status/1290674216623366144?s=21
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Aug 5, 2020 12:35
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Speaking of mushroom clouds, China is helping Saudi Arabia to build a Uranium Yellowcake refinery. https://twitter.com/wsj/status/1290759830156836866?s=21
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Al-Saqr posted:Speaking of mushroom clouds, China is helping Saudi Arabia to build a Uranium Yellowcake refinery. heheh! [tugs collar, sweats nervously]
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Jesus loving Christ the first fire drew in almost all of Beirut’s fire fighter brigade then the explosion killed all of them in one swoop https://twitter.com/abirghattas/status/1290982265812639744?s=21 Also the head of the port authority just admitted he knew the loving ammonium nitrate was parked in the warehouse but didn’t think they’d explode https://twitter.com/malekawt/status/1290977588782006272?s=21 Al-Saqr has issued a correction as of 13:39 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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Al-Saqr posted:Speaking of mushroom clouds, China is helping Saudi Arabia to build a Uranium Yellowcake refinery. 
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Aug 5, 2020 13:42
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so there's going to be a revolution in lebanon now, i'm gathering
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Aug 5, 2020 14:00
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:so there's going to be a revolution in lebanon now, i'm gathering The problem is who? Who is gonna do this revolution that will magically jump over every sectarian stronghold? How are they going to get rid of the sectarian parties?
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Aug 5, 2020 14:04
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https://twitter.com/gorsefires/status/1290955099590852609?s=21 Looks like that was a misinterpretation of the news about the fire brigade - every firefighter sent to the site was killed, but that was only about ten people.
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Aug 5, 2020 14:21
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/gorsefires/status/1290955099590852609?s=21 I mean gently caress, still. Jesus. 
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Al-Saqr posted:Jesus loving Christ the first fire drew in almost all of Beirut’s fire fighter brigade then the explosion killed all of them in one swoop wow its literally the same as the texas city fire: some dumbass had an explosive boat the entire fire department was there
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Darth Walrus posted:I don't buy the welding explanation, seeing as the video footage clearly shows a shitload of fireworks going off before the nitrate warehouse goes boom. I also saw people initially saying there was only fifty tonnes of nitrate in that warehouse, presumably thanks to the initial haul being sold off and disposed of over the years since its capture. That's a much more sane size for the sort of explosion we saw, especially with flour from the grain elevator thrown in as an accelerant. If this was a proper three-kiloton boom, we wouldn't be getting video footage from eyewitnesses anywhere near as close, because they'd all be dead and their phones would be obliterated. Whatever the tonnage, I still can't believe they let any amount of ammonium nitrate sit around for 6 or 7 years. apparently it gets more volatile with age. I'm having trouble believing the welding story too but these are the same idiots who stored fireworks in the same warehouse. What an easily avoidable disaster...
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Al-Saqr posted:The problem is who? Who is gonna do this revolution that will magically jump over every sectarian stronghold? How are they going to get rid of the sectarian parties?  i dunno but the lebanese political system seems like the most libertarian system in the world. that patchwork kinda "works" in the aftermath of a civil war where everyone basically agrees to disagree, so lebanon can go on looking something like a country. but it doesn't seem like it's really working any longer when it can't keep the lights on, can't collect the garbage, and can't stop its ports from blowing up in massive explosions and destroying the capital. something has to give eventually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0c2gASHCdo
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