Huge explosion in Lebanon, 4th Aug 2020
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NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Sounds like better news than having all that grain blown up/contaminated with ammonium nitrate. Small mercy I'm guessing.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Bellingcat is a mouthpiece of the western intelligence services. Fact.
It has direct links to the Integrity Initiative and (the more american) Institute for Statecraft. It's main purpose is to support the US/UK/NATO narratives in geo-political matters.
Many of their utterings, lies, fabrications and twistings can be found posted and promoted verbatim on this site by certain urbanites, as well as direct links to their stuff without making it clear who they are and what they do. Fact.
Any reasonable adult who can't find that out with a quick search is a liar or incompetent. Fact.
It has direct links to the Integrity Initiative and (the more american) Institute for Statecraft. It's main purpose is to support the US/UK/NATO narratives in geo-political matters.
Many of their utterings, lies, fabrications and twistings can be found posted and promoted verbatim on this site by certain urbanites, as well as direct links to their stuff without making it clear who they are and what they do. Fact.
Any reasonable adult who can't find that out with a quick search is a liar or incompetent. Fact.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Go on then, provides some reliable links to back-up your claim.
Small mercies hopefully.
maomao
普費斯
This post has done more to sell Bellingcat to me than anything else.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Urban Dictionary: tobyjug fact
A fact which is in reality a steaming pile of bollocks.
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Either that or "End of."
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Plus the good old standby of "do your own research" without providing a single source, why not if it's supposedly so easy?
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Oh, fuck. 
www.aljazeera.com
Beirut explosion death toll rises to 135 as 5,000 wounded: Live
Information minister says army will oversee house arrest of those responsible for storage and guarding at Beirut port.
Edited.Oh, fuck.
Beirut explosion death toll rises to 135 as 5,000 wounded: Live
Information minister says army will oversee house arrest of those responsible for storage and guarding at Beirut port.
Doesnt bear thiniing about the long term effects of this.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Noooooooooooooooooooo.............
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I, for one, look forward to a load of RT links and a dozen 4 hour YouTube videos from cranks, racists, putinbots, and holocaust deniers....
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
The image I saw of the silos earlier ^^^ - there is spilt grain heaped up against the collapsed structure. One of the grain ships that was moored at the unloading dock looks to be sinking by the stern. The conveyor that would be used to move the grain to the silo building is destroyed.
Also. I would be very surprised If any of the silos on the far side from the explosion site are completely undamaged, and their contents un-contaminated.
That's a lot of unsafe material in a country that already has a problem with corruption, poverty & hunger and the site is not only dangerous but insecure.
If there is grain aboard ships "at sea" where are they going to unload it ? - bulk carriers like that require specialised equipment (my late father was designing silos / grain handling kit when I was a teenager).
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
And "Simples"
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I'd be stunned if any of the infrastructure at Beruit airport is still working - the runways should be fine/ok, but the radars, the communications, the fuel distribution systems etc.. are probably fucked.
The big military airlift aircraft will be able to get in and try to rebuild capacity like air transportable radars and ATC systems, but it will take a bit of time. The fuel issue shouldn't be the problem it might otherwise be because there are lots of big international airports not far away that aircraft can pop into to fill up the tanks, but it's not going to help.
Sealift, which can bring in much larger quantities of aid - water purification systems, field hospitals, mobile bakeries, huge numbers of tents and sanitation systems - is a lot easier when you have a working port, and Beruit doesn't. Amphibious assault and logistics support ships can put stuff on the beach, but you need lots of lorries to move it to where it need to be.
The big military airlift aircraft will be able to get in and try to rebuild capacity like air transportable radars and ATC systems, but it will take a bit of time. The fuel issue shouldn't be the problem it might otherwise be because there are lots of big international airports not far away that aircraft can pop into to fill up the tanks, but it's not going to help.
Sealift, which can bring in much larger quantities of aid - water purification systems, field hospitals, mobile bakeries, huge numbers of tents and sanitation systems - is a lot easier when you have a working port, and Beruit doesn't. Amphibious assault and logistics support ships can put stuff on the beach, but you need lots of lorries to move it to where it need to be.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
allies tested the idea during world war 2 to get a destructive wave you need 2,000,000 kg of explosives 8km out to see and also said it was not an effective weapon
not enough explosives in this one and it was a surface explosion in shallow water
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
The grain silo seems to be in the heart of the port area. OTOH the big infrastructure like jetties and roads tends to be pretty sturdy, so it's quite likely that quite a bit has survived to to some extent or other - it will look crap, and fragile stuff like lights will be wiped out, and it's probable that it will have to be demolished at some stage - but it's quite likely that some port infrastructure has been left intact. That makes efficient sealift possible, which is a good thing...
gosub
~#
5.4 kilotons
What a year this is turning out to be
Turns out it was much less than that.(though still awful) I don't mind admitting when I get things wrong.
I wonder if this lot will... https://twitter.com/veteranstoday
Israeli involvement in massive Beirut port blast ruled out by both sides
Lebanese terror group says 'no truth' to rumors of airstrike on one of its weapons caches; Israeli official says Jerusalem had nothing to do with explosion
www.timesofisrael.com
Israel offers aid to Lebanon after blast, Israeli ministers say
Israel has offered humanitarian assistance to Lebanon after a massive explosion rocked its capital Beirut on Tuesday, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said.
www.reuters.com
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How to help the victims of the Beirut explosions
At least 100 people have died and 4,000 others have been injured following massive explosions in Beirut on Tuesday 4 August
www.independent.co.uk
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Turns out it was much less than that.(though still awful) I don't mind admitting when I get things wrong.
I wonder if this lot will... https://twitter.com/veteranstoday
Israeli involvement in massive Beirut port blast ruled out by both sides
Lebanese terror group says 'no truth' to rumors of airstrike on one of its weapons caches; Israeli official says Jerusalem had nothing to do with explosion
Israel offers aid to Lebanon after blast, Israeli ministers say
Israel has offered humanitarian assistance to Lebanon after a massive explosion rocked its capital Beirut on Tuesday, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said.
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How to help the victims of the Beirut explosions
At least 100 people have died and 4,000 others have been injured following massive explosions in Beirut on Tuesday 4 August
I note that a number of twitter accounts are going to town on that 'veteranstoday' group - it's a Kremlin front job: tax rebates, conspiracy theories, anti-semtism, and the odd bit of 'powerful Russia/wise Putin' stuff.
krtek a houby
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