Current Events > Breaking: Massive explosion at port Beirut

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CADE FOSTER
08/04/20 9:07:29 PM
#153:


Notice how trump said the generals because he will blame them instead of saying he was wrong
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ChrisTaka
08/04/20 9:13:09 PM
#154:


CADE FOSTER posted...
Notice how trump said the generals because he will blame them instead of saying he was wrong

Ikr lol

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Crazyman93
08/04/20 9:17:39 PM
#155:


SiO4 posted...
I heard shit can be used as a fertilizer.
~But don't tell Timothy McVeigh that.

Questionmarktarius posted...
Pee is more useful as a nitrogen fertilizer.
In either case, how do you propose to safely collect it?

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BeyondWalls
08/04/20 9:19:19 PM
#156:


ChrisTaka posted...
Trump is now saying that this may have been an attack. Scary if true.

https://youtu.be/5Og_pkatCPM
Idiot.
Right now there's a room full of Generals going, "wait, what?"

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legendarylemur
08/04/20 9:22:58 PM
#157:


Trump doing Trump things. This is a pretty massive tragedy though... Foreign aid will also be not as forward due to every country dealing with Corona

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Blbmbr666
08/04/20 9:49:02 PM
#158:


Questionmarktarius posted...
Pee is more useful as a nitrogen fertilizer.
It's not please don't talk out your ass.

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troll_swag
08/04/20 9:54:03 PM
#159:


couple of different angles. The one from in the car is scary as fuck.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2437475953210954&id=100008457180452

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The_homelander
08/04/20 10:54:51 PM
#160:


troll_swag posted...
couple of different angles. The one from in the car is scary as fuck.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2437475953210954&id=100008457180452

wow at the white building disintegrating from the air impact. I take the guy filming died? How did his phone survive?


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The_homelander
08/04/20 10:55:35 PM
#161:


Blbmbr666 posted...
It's not please don't talk out your ass.

depends on what he eats? Lol

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Sir Will
08/04/20 11:41:37 PM
#162:


troll_swag posted...
couple of different angles. The one from in the car is scary as fuck.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2437475953210954&id=100008457180452
Holy crap.

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Jagr_68
08/04/20 11:42:35 PM
#163:


Well that was the scariest thing I've seen this year.

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gatorsPENSbucs
08/04/20 11:52:39 PM
#164:


The_homelander posted...
wow at the white building disintegrating from the air impact. I take the guy filming died? How did his phone survive?
What I read on reddit is that it was a live feed happening, so who knows what happened to the phone ... or the person. Im not sure what version is here but the one on reddit you can see someone running so just hoping its the person filming and they got out of there safe.

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Questionmarktarius
08/05/20 12:24:02 AM
#165:


Crazyman93 posted...
In either case, how do you propose to safely collect it?
Pee right in the watering can.
Don't know about poop. That seems like effort.

Blbmbr666 posted...
It's not please don't talk out your ass.
https://insteading.com/blog/human-urine-fertilizer/
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Bio1590
08/05/20 12:30:16 AM
#166:


So basically Government incompetence/corruption are why this shit was there in the first place but what caused it to go up is still unknown?
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N3xtG3nGam3r
08/05/20 12:33:36 AM
#167:


There was 6 months of grain stored in the Silos right next to the explosion. The city will most like never recover from this, due to mass casualties and injuries coupled with coronavirus.

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ColdOne666
08/05/20 12:39:55 AM
#168:


How did there economy get so bad in the 1st place?

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Questionmarktarius
08/05/20 1:02:04 AM
#169:


ColdOne666 posted...
How did there economy get so bad in the 1st place?
Hezbollah and covid, mostly.
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chelsearule89
08/05/20 1:34:14 AM
#170:


ColdOne666 posted...
How did there economy get so bad in the 1st place?

The government is run like the mafia. One of the most corrupt in the world
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Crazyman93
08/05/20 2:39:29 AM
#171:


Bio1590 posted...
So basically Government incompetence/corruption are why this shit was there in the first place but what caused it to go up is still unknown?
Probably a stray cigarette or the like.

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s0nicfan
08/05/20 10:12:00 AM
#172:


Saw this picture drop online earlier this morning. It looks like there were precisely zero safety precautions taken in keeping massive stacks of this stuff in that warehouse.



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-Kush-
08/05/20 10:15:49 AM
#173:


I like how Trump was quick last night to say it was an attack based on the advice he got from experts.

Don't jump to conclusions Trump.

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Sictis
08/05/20 10:18:39 AM
#174:


big boom
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Sir Will
08/05/20 10:20:27 AM
#175:


s0nicfan posted...
Saw this picture drop online earlier this morning. It looks like there were precisely zero safety precautions taken in keeping massive stacks of this stuff in that warehouse.

It was piled up right next to the door!? A door somebody said they were then going to weld? That just....

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s0nicfan
08/05/20 10:41:05 AM
#177:


Zangulus posted...
Source for that picture?

Just social media. Apparently you can match the door to the one from shots before the explosion.

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s0nicfan
08/05/20 10:43:15 AM
#178:


It also cratered the port:


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BeyondWalls
08/05/20 10:45:51 AM
#179:


s0nicfan posted...
It also cratered the port:
Oh shit.

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Austin_Era_II
08/05/20 11:52:52 AM
#180:


It's a 3rd world country where many companies have no safety regulations. Sad.

Just Youtube forklift videos from around the world and watch what some of them do.

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JlM
08/05/20 12:44:14 PM
#181:


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/world/satellite-images-beirut-explosion-before-after-trnd/index.html

Before and after slider pictures. That first one, jesus.
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Crazyman93
08/05/20 12:56:05 PM
#182:


Austin_Era_II posted...
It's a 3rd world country where many companies have no safety regulations. Sad.

Just Youtube forklift videos from around the world and watch what some of them do.
Forklift nothing. Go look at how they load trucks up for shipping. It's enough to give the US DoT or any Euro equivalent an aneurysm.

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Stagmar
08/05/20 1:04:07 PM
#183:


https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200804170113-26-beirut-explosion-0804-super-169.jpg
I had to look twice at this one.

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fire_bolt
08/05/20 1:04:17 PM
#184:


I'm just hearing about this. Can I get a TL;DR? I need to know if I can mark off Terrorist Attack on my 2020 bingo card
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Prismsblade
08/05/20 1:08:10 PM
#185:


-Kush- posted...
I like how Trump was quick last night to say it was an attack based on the advice he got from experts.

Don't jump to conclusions Trump.
I'm a little curious why he was even asked such a thing, as if him and our goverment are well informed of every disaster happening in the world immediately.

And why Trump couldnt just state he had no comment at the time. You dont need to have a ansew to everything right off the bat.

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UnholyMudcrab
08/05/20 1:08:36 PM
#186:


Prismsblade posted...
I'm a little curious why he was even asked such a thing, as if him and our goverment are well informed of every disaster happening in the world immediately.

Why the fuck wouldn't they be
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Prismsblade
08/05/20 1:14:17 PM
#187:


UnholyMudcrab posted...
Why the fuck wouldn't they be
I have no idea. A place like this probabaly wouldnt be on their radar.

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LeadPipeCinche
08/05/20 1:15:23 PM
#188:


chrono625 posted...
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1290672058297286656?s=20

holy shit


Had a bigger explosion in my toilet earlier.
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Bio1590
08/05/20 1:26:19 PM
#189:


Prismsblade posted...

I have no idea. A place like this probabaly wouldnt be on their radar.

Why not? It's the capital of Lebanon, it's like 70 miles by car from Damascus and Lebanon borders Israel/Palestine.

If it was an attack they'd have known before the missile even hit.
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thronedfire2
08/05/20 1:27:16 PM
#190:


UnholyMudcrab posted...
Why the fuck wouldn't they be

well we know Trump doesnt read intelligence briefings

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Bio1590
08/05/20 1:36:01 PM
#191:


Anyways 100% Trump wants to frame this as an "attack" by Hezbollah or some shit to justify going after Iran before the election. The US and Israel are STILL trying to provoke Iran into a war and have been the entire time this fucking pandemic has been going on.
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Sir Will
08/05/20 2:01:42 PM
#192:


fire_bolt posted...
I'm just hearing about this. Can I get a TL;DR? I need to know if I can mark off Terrorist Attack on my 2020 bingo card
You cannot. It was an accident with negligence and poor storage practices as contributing factors.

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SiO4
08/05/20 2:02:05 PM
#193:


Bio1590 posted...
Anyways 100% Trump wants to frame this as an "attack" by Hezbollah or some shit to justify going after Iran before the election. The US and Israel are STILL trying to provoke Iran into a war and have been the entire time this fucking pandemic has been going on.


This is the one time when starting a war before and Election would backfire.
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ChopinList
08/05/20 2:03:20 PM
#194:


That looked like a nuke went off

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mustachedmystic
08/05/20 5:13:00 PM
#195:


Prismsblade posted...
And why Trump couldnt just state he had no comment at the time.

His massive ego won't let him admit that he doesn't know something, even when there is absolutely no reason why he should know anything. So he just says whatever he thinks, because he's so smart(in his mind) that anything he thinks has to be right.

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Questionmarktarius
08/05/20 5:29:43 PM
#196:


Sir Will posted...
You cannot. It was an accident with negligence and poor storage practices as contributing factors.
Hanlon's Razor on a catastrophic scale.
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Crazyman93
08/05/20 5:32:56 PM
#197:


ChopinList posted...
That looked like a nuke went off
The amount of ammonium nitrate that went off had a TNT yield roughly equivalent with a smaller nuclear weapon. And it was one of the explosions powerful enough to mushroom cloud.

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UnholyMudcrab
08/05/20 5:33:21 PM
#198:


So from what I gather, the ammonium nitrate was in there because it had been offloaded from a ship back in 2014 and the judicial system spent 6 years ignoring requests to have it removed.
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s0nicfan
08/05/20 5:35:34 PM
#199:


UnholyMudcrab posted...
So from what I gather, the ammonium nitrate was in there because it had been offloaded from a ship back in 2014 and the judicial system spent 6 years ignoring requests to have it removed.

I think it was more that the request to remove it was formally made years ago and people in charge of the port just didn't bother and said they did it. Apparently a bunch of people have been placed on house arrest pending further investigation.

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Questionmarktarius
08/05/20 5:36:08 PM
#200:


UnholyMudcrab posted...
So from what I gather, the ammonium nitrate was in there because it had been offloaded from a ship back in 2014 and the judicial system spent 6 years ignoring requests to have it removed.
sauce?
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UnholyMudcrab
08/05/20 5:39:54 PM
#201:


Questionmarktarius posted...
UnholyMudcrab posted...
So from what I gather, the ammonium nitrate was in there because it had been offloaded from a ship back in 2014 and the judicial system spent 6 years ignoring requests to have it removed.
sauce?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53659282

Mentioned in that under "what triggered the explosion?"
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UnholyMudcrab
08/05/20 5:44:46 PM
#202:


s0nicfan posted...
UnholyMudcrab posted...
So from what I gather, the ammonium nitrate was in there because it had been offloaded from a ship back in 2014 and the judicial system spent 6 years ignoring requests to have it removed.

I think it was more that the request to remove it was formally made years ago and people in charge of the port just didn't bother and said they did it. Apparently a bunch of people have been placed on house arrest pending further investigation.


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/officials-knew-danger-beirut-port-years-200805032416684.html

Says that at least five requests were made between 2014 and 2017
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