08-06-2020, 07:52 AM
** 06-Aug-2020 World View: Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer
Thank you for pointing that out. It's absolutely staggering that this
amount of fertilizer was left sitting there for years, with no proper
precautions, in a packed residential area in a densely populated city.
By the way, the estimate is of 2,750 tonnes = 2,750 metric tons = over
3,000 US tons.
The blast was heard as far away as Cyprus.
There is a growing fury in Beirut that the politicians who have been
destroying Lebanon's economy for years by lining their own pockets
have allowed this to happen. Apparently a lot of people knew about
the stored fertilizer, and a lot of people complained about it during
the last six years, but nothing was done. It was just allowed to sit
there, without proper precautions taken. Meanwhile the corrupt élite
politicians just continued growing fat and happy, allowing the
economic collapse to worsen month after month, allowing garbage to
pile up around the city, taking kickbacks for approving defective fuel
oil so there's been no electricity, and still going on tv and spouting
the usual unbearable self-serving crap that comes from all politicians
who are incapable of accomplishing anything but the enrichment of
themselves and their cronies.
(08-05-2020, 01:57 PM)David Horn Wrote: > Just as a benchmark for how serious this is, the Oklahoma City
> bomb built by Timothy McVeigh used 1 ton of the same
> fertilizer.
Thank you for pointing that out. It's absolutely staggering that this
amount of fertilizer was left sitting there for years, with no proper
precautions, in a packed residential area in a densely populated city.
By the way, the estimate is of 2,750 tonnes = 2,750 metric tons = over
3,000 US tons.
The blast was heard as far away as Cyprus.
There is a growing fury in Beirut that the politicians who have been
destroying Lebanon's economy for years by lining their own pockets
have allowed this to happen. Apparently a lot of people knew about
the stored fertilizer, and a lot of people complained about it during
the last six years, but nothing was done. It was just allowed to sit
there, without proper precautions taken. Meanwhile the corrupt élite
politicians just continued growing fat and happy, allowing the
economic collapse to worsen month after month, allowing garbage to
pile up around the city, taking kickbacks for approving defective fuel
oil so there's been no electricity, and still going on tv and spouting
the usual unbearable self-serving crap that comes from all politicians
who are incapable of accomplishing anything but the enrichment of
themselves and their cronies.
