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    Default Re: Beirut: Many dead after huge explosion in Lebanese capital

    We now know that the government has resigned including the Prime Minister, leaving the familiar political vacuum.

    When the likes of Macron get wheeled out to talk about "political reform" we know are going to get all the usual fag-lines of "regime change" here - support of colour revolutions, support of destabilisation campaigns against sovereign nations and the like. Avaaz is already calling for the return of French mandate, and already have two petitions calling for such on both their official community forum and on their official Avaaz forum.

    We are seeing here a mixture of neo-colonialist interest, particularly from France of course, a desire from Israel to see Lebanon destabilised, and to see Hezbollah put up as the scapegoat for the disaster.
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    Default Re: Beirut: Many dead after huge explosion in Lebanese capital

    Thanks Moss Trooper for posting this. I went through 8 pages to see if anyone found the underground tunnels. This was all over the internet and now I will throw a monkey wrench into the mix. I felt even before it was mentioned elsewhere that the tunnel under the blasted building was not just a tunnel, but a waterway into the port. I saw the photos but sorry I will have to hunt those down. Here is what I know. Trump and the Q team with the Earth Alliance made up of various American and global troops have been blasting underground tunnels for years now ( D.U.M.B.) and rescuing children. This felt obvious to me if there is a tunnel that leads to a port. For the longest time, freight ships owned by Walmart ( this is really how they make their billions) and HRC via her Evergreen company, have stolen children placed in containers onto these ships and shuttled them everywhere. Another horrific act related to pedophilia and SRA. Trump knew this for some time. While we were all in quarantine ( covid hoax) thousands of those connected to this have been arrested, executed or standing trial in Gitmo. My info comes from various sources and has been validated. This was why we were all shut down to make the project work exponentially these last 6 months. I will not speculate on the blast and who was responsible but why not consider an implosion? The tunnels these soldiers were faced with are world wide. My inexperienced guess is that the children were removed before sent down the waterway to a port to cast them in containers and then more demolition occurred. It may have nothing to do with Israel or an attack but think as you will. There are concerted efforts globally on this operation. I can post a video from a Christian channel detailing their efforts and this is only one video, there are others related to the Canada and Europe. Also there is one related to the exact measurements of km down to the DUMB's related to exact EQ felt above ground. The rescues have been ongoing.
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    A Blast & The Squeeze – The Beirut Blast – Iran and Hezbollah’s Rope-a-Dope

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    By Ronald Thomas West
    Aug 15, 2020
    The Rope-a-Dope of Iran and Hezbollah
    How did “hundreds of kilograms” of ammonium nitrate suddenly morph into 2,750 tons, then get reduced by 1/2, prior to rendering 1/3 of the city of Beirut uninhabitable? Oh, and who did it? We could ask BND head, Bruno Kahl, to ring up his close friend, MOSSAD boss Yossi Cohen, for a start.

    But first, it only takes a moment to back the telescopic lens off of Beirut to understand what we are actually looking at is a case of Iran/Hezbollah ‘rope-a-dope’ in cold geopolitical calculation on a march towards a very hot war. Israel (or ‘Bibi’ and friends, not all Israelis are calculating criminals) are hell bent on dragging the USA into a war with Iran prior to November elections with no promise of a Trump victory; hence the multiple acts of sabotage throughout Iran. The Ayatollahs and Hezbollah are meanwhile, letting Israel punch and punch again, but it is hard to say if Iran and Hezbollah’s intelligence assessments ruled out an Israeli attack erasing the port of Beirut (with 1/3 of the city collateral damage.) Maybe they understood there would be nothing they could do if Israel attacked the port with an outcome of a conventional explosion packing the punch of a tactical nuclear weapon.

    Recalling the moron Bush & his ‘coalition of the willing’, the Emirates and Bahrain are being sucked into alliance with Israel (the Saudis are there, if not yet on paper, where Trump/Pence election needs are employing MOSSAD’s asset Kushner to exploit the Shia/Sunni divide) and all this points at what amounts to ‘foreplay’ in the orgiastic warmongers strategy.

    In short, the deliberate erasure of the port of Beirut (with the ‘unfortunate’ rendering of nearly half the city uninhabitable) was a preemptive take-down of a Hezbollah supply line, anticipating the Iran aligned front opening on Israel’s northern frontier. This is little more than a preliminary play.

    Relevant to this, in the Spring of 2020, with a vigorous effort of MOSSAD (years in the making), Germany outlawed Hezbollah’s political wing. Part of the Israeli endeavor had been to produce convincing evidence Hezbollah had been storing “hundreds of kilograms” of ammonium nitrate at a port warehouse in Beirut. [1]

    The many hundred of tons of ammonium nitrate reduced to hundreds of kilos by MOSSAD reporting is simple ‘cover your ass’ disinformation; in case the Israelis took a decision to detonate (eliminate) the explosive (and got caught) it could be claimed this was not knowledge in the hands of the saboteurs or other elements of the Israeli state ostensibly going after a Hezbollah weapons stash. The objective of severely damaging Hezbollah’s logistics by wiping the port of Beirut out of the upcoming war equation had been accomplished.

    Incidental to the preceding:
    Despite the reporting of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated, the blast was actually half of that according to a recent Lebanese interior minister, the other half having been “stolen” (read removed by Hezbollah) over the years. [2]
    Evidence of the Israeli strike on the port is forthcoming from state sources in Israel itself. [3]

    And then:
    “Channel 12’s source described Bruno Kahl, chief of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) as “a close friend of Mossad.”” [at [1] ibid]
    The intelligence agencies are “crime organizations with a license” (quoting Tamir Pardo, former director of MOSSAD) somehow exempt from all law, including, it would appear, every human rights convention. Germany’s Bruno Kahl knows what happened (was complicit in the political preparations), as well, Trump was correctly informed when he stated the Beirut blast was an “attack.”
    “Iran has said the explosions should not be “politicized,” while French President Emmanuel Macron, who has assumed an outsized role in managing the fallout and on Thursday demanded an international probe, as of Sunday judged there was “enough objective evidence” to judge the double blasts as “accidental” [4]
    Everyone is lying on this march towards opportunity at literal Armageddon (co-engineered by Mike Pence i.e. Trump’s apocalyptic, 90 million strong, evangelical base’s theology), where Iran dare not be seen to take the initiative in what appears to be inevitable, upcoming war, Hezbollah cannot take responsibility for its port weapons facilities (including 1,350 tons of ammonium nitrate remainder after years exfiltration of explosive), Israel cannot admit it blew the ammonium nitrate up, Germany cannot openly & honestly point its finger at the perpetrator known to the intelligence agencies (a small matter of national ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ due to certain historical factors) and Pence and his Generals no doubt told Trump to “shut up.”


    [1] https://nation.com.pk/04-May-2020/ge...ared-by-mossad

    [2] https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/lebano...-blew-up-port/

    [3] https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2...beirut-attack/

    [4] https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/planes...-before-blast/

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    Default Re: Beirut: Many dead after huge explosion in Lebanese capital

    Quote Posted by happyuk (here)
    We now know that the government has resigned including the Prime Minister, leaving the familiar political vacuum.

    When the likes of Macron get wheeled out to talk about "political reform" we know are going to get all the usual fag-lines of "regime change" here - support of colour revolutions, support of destabilisation campaigns against sovereign nations and the like. Avaaz is already calling for the return of French mandate, and already have two petitions calling for such on both their official community forum and on their official Avaaz forum.

    We are seeing here a mixture of neo-colonialist interest, particularly from France of course, a desire from Israel to see Lebanon destabilised, and to see Hezbollah put up as the scapegoat for the disaster.
    Avaaz is owned by globalist, funded by George Soros the evil in person, I would stay away from anything coming from Avaaz, all the petitions are there because it serves a purpose and interest nothing else.

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    TEXAS: Beirut Anti-Disinfo

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    By Russell Bentley
    On Aug 18, 2020


    In these days of gaslighting, misinformation, disinformation and downright bull****, the fevered postulations of some self-styled “pundits” about a secret weapon or mini-nuke being used in the Beirut blast are as irritating as they are inaccurate and improbable. That the US and or Israel are responsible for the detonation is indeed, highly likely, but yet to be proven, and not the point in question. But the irresponsible and absolutely unsubstantiated claims of a Hezbollah weapons depot, mini-nukes and secret weapons are not only preposterous, but provably false, and the otherwise respectable authors and news outlets that have published them have done themselves and their readers a real disservice. Allow me to set the record straight.

    Before I get into the facts of the explosion in Beirut, I’d like to mention that I served three years as a 12-B Combat Engineer, a demolition specialist, in the US Army, and I have been trained on, worked with, and detonated pretty much every non-nuclear explosive, including quite a bit of ammonium nitrate. I’m not saying I am an expert, but I can assure you I know more about explosives than any of these armchair experts who have never even thrown a hand grenade. So, let’s get to it.

    THE HEZBOLLAH “WEAPONS DEPOT”
    The first thing I notice about all these sensationalist, bogus and unfounded articles is that they all seem to take for granted that Hezbollah (HZB) actually had a weapons depot at the port. That’s bull**** right off the bat. HZB DID NOT STORE WEAPONS OR AMMO AT THE PORT. HZB certainly knew, as probably every secret service in the world did, that there was a ticking time bomb sitting there since 2013, and if they stored ANY weapons ANYWHERE near the port, they’d be giving the zionist entity (ZE) a perfect excuse to destroy half of Beirut and blame it on HZB.

    Furthermore, they (HZB) couldn’t have stored any kind of weapons there, even if they wanted to. The port is controlled by Hariri’s “Future Movement” political party, the true source of corruption in Lebanon, and the true enemies of HZB, and has been since before the Rhosus docked there in 2013. The port is in the affluent north of Beirut, HZB’s political base is in the proletarian south.

    Hassan Nasrallah himself has said, “No weapons, no ammo, no rockets, HZB stored _nothing_ at the port”. It makes sense, and there is NO reason to doubt his word. For HZB to store weapons at the port, under the control and observation of their main political rivals in Lebanon, next to a enormous explosives stockpile that could be detonated by an ostensibly “justified” strike by Israel on HZB weapons, is as counter-intuitive and absolutely illogical and self-defeating, not to mention needless, as Assad gassing civilians in Ghouta or Russians poisoning the Skripals in the UK. It just doesn’t make sense. So, HZB says they didn’t store weapons there, there was zero reason for them to do so and myriad reasons not to, and they literally could not have, even if they had wanted to.

    SECRET WEAPONS AND MINI-NUKES
    Some authors have posited that the explosion was “too powerful” to be anything but a “mini-nuke” or some new “secret weapon”. First of all, this is baseless speculation on their part, and furthermore, proves that they know nothing about explosives.

    Well, I do, so let me explain. First of all, the smallest “mini-nuke” is the M-388 “Davy Crockett”, a true “mini-nuke” with an explosive payload between 10 and 20 tons of TNT. The explosion in Beirut of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate was equal to about 1,800 tons of TNT. Explosives vary in their detonation speed, which is directly related to their explosive power. TNT is the standard explosive by which other explosives are compared. The Fat Man atomic bomb , dropped on Nagasaki 75 years ago this month, had an explosive power of 21 Kilotons, which is the explosive equivalent of 21,000 tons of TNT. Ammonium nitrate is, in fact, a low explosive, with a detonation speed 2,700 meters per second, as compared to TNT’s speed of 6,900 m/s. TNT is a high explosive.

    There were 2,750 tons of AN stored at the Beirut Port. 2.75 kilotons of AN have the explosive power of between 1.2 and 1.8 kilotons of TNT. As you can see from the blast calculator below, a 1.8 kiloton explosion would in fact be quite similar to the destruction and damage actually caused by the Beirut Port blast, with heavy damage out to 0.22 Km, moderate damage out to about 1 Km. and lighter damage in an area of about 6.5 square kilometers.



    So, in fact the damage is actually precisely what could be expected from a detonation of 2,750 tons of AN. And while AN is considered a stable explosive, it does NOT require fuel oil to be added to make it explosive, and it can be set off in a chain reaction with a relatively small amount of Semtex, TNT, C-4 or dynamite.

    In fact a small backpack with 20 pounds of high explosive, placed correctly, would certainly be enough to detonate the entire warehouse of AN, which was haphazardly stored in 2,750 one-ton bags. As you can see, they were stored close together, touching, in fact, which would allow for sympathetic detonation. Once one went, they all would go. Instantly.




    THE MUSHROOM CLOUD
    There have also been ridiculous claims that mushroom clouds “prove” the explosion was nuclear. The fact is, that mushroom clouds are commonly caused by conventional explosives in large amounts, (such as, say, 2,750 tons, and even much less) and even by volcanoes.

    So anyone who tells you the mushroom cloud is significant as an indication of a nuclear component has exactly zero credibility. ZERO. The reddish-brown color of the smoke is also consistent with large detonations of AN, and the white vapor clouds seen forming with the shock wave are also completely common in large explosions and are in no way indicative, much less proof, of a nuclear blast. Again, if anyone tries to tell you this is proof of a nuclear detonation, it only proves they don’t know what they are talking about, at all.

    THE RADIATION “SPIKE”
    Of course, the most conclusive proof that the explosion was non-nuclear is the total lack of radiation increase. There was a fake news piece passed around about a “strong spike in radiation levels” picked up in Sicily shortly after the blast. Apparently, the image being touted was actually a malfunction, since the “spike” actually occurred several hours before the blast itself. You can also see the monthly and annual radiation levels of the exact monitor here, and note the “spike” is well within normal parameters, and in no way remarkable. Here is the fake reading –



    Looks pretty scary, until you look at the timestamp of the spike, 1:30 PM. The explosion in Beirut happened at 6:08 PM, and there is only one hour time zone difference between Italy and Beirut. Any competent or responsible journalist would have noted the timestamp and realized the data was irrelevant.

    Furthermore, Sicily is 1,200 miles from Beirut. So if a radiation “spike” had registered in Sicily, it would have also registered in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and even in southern Russia. If it did, none of the monitors in any of these places have seen fit to mention it. Which, if there was evidence that an actual nuke had been used against a civilian target for the first time in 75 years, (which could have only been done by one of nine nations) you’d think one of these monitoring nations would have had something to say about it. They didn’t. No radiation, no nuclear detonation. Period.

    SHAVING THE MONK AND THE HITMAN’S LOGIC
    In the early 1300’s, a philosopher and theologian named William of Occam developed the Law of parsimony, a principle of logic and problem solving later to be known as Occam’s Razor. The law, in its essence, states that the simplest explanation for an event is usually the correct one, and that when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one should select the solution with the fewest assumptions. Likewise, a soldier or a hitman, faced with a life or death mission, will remember Murphy’s Law and choose the method to accomplish the mission with the fewest possible things that can go wrong.

    The ammonium nitrate was a sitting duck, an easy target and a ticking time bomb. Personally, I have little doubt that the Zionist Entity, in connivance with neo-con elements in the US (and other fascist governments) were the culprits and the cause of the explosion, most likely along with Lebanese traitors. But the method by which they destroyed the Beirut Port and have attempted to bring Lebanon and above all The Resistance to its knees neither used nor required mini-nukes or new secret weapons.

    If a single competent, reliable and trusted operator could have detonated the AN with a small backpack full of untraceable conventional explosive, then why would the enemies of Lebanon even consider using F-16’s and missiles, much less mini-nukes or secret weapons?

    The simplest way is the most reliable, the most deniable, the most effective and in fact, the most inexpensive. Israel and other enemy countries have at least hundreds of trained operators in Lebanon, with access to any weapon they might need. An F-16 costs about $15 million, and $8,000 per hour to operate. Why risk one of those, with or without a secret weapon or mini-nuke, when a dude with a backpack can bribe a port guard for a hundred bucks or so and leave an absolutely reliable and untraceable detonator that will do the job even better?

    The point of all this is don’t fall for sensationalist bull****. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. When someone gives you an incredible story, remember exactly what “incredible” means. Trust your gut, use your common sense.

    Don’t fall to the temptation to be the first to share some secret revelation or amazing story or “inside information” that later turns out to be bull**** We’ve all done it, and I have too, but it’s pretty sheepish when you realize you got chumped.

    The bull**** artists are usually the first with the wild hypothesis that falls apart in a few days. Don’t let them fool you. Truth and our own credibility are among our most valuable assets and our most important weapons. Don’t buy no magic beans or trust the old hag in the gingerbread house.

    We’ve got a lot of important work to do, and avoiding bull**** is job one. Understanding, discerning and sharing the truth. the objective truth, goes right along with it. As Bob Dylan wrote,
    “There are many here among us who think that life is but a joke. But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour’s getting late.”

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    Default Re: Beirut: Many dead after huge explosion in Lebanese capital

    A useless(?) factoid I just discovered.


    The date of the explosion(s) was Obama's birthday (59th).
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    Default Re: Beirut: Many dead after huge explosion in Lebanese capital

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    Beirut copy-cats:

    Ice Age Farmer Report: Food supply spontaneously combusting! Controlled demolition of supply chain

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    From grain elevators in Iowa, to sugar silos in New Orleans, to food warehouses in Essex, to grain reserves in Beirut -- the world's food supply chain is going up in flames. With farm labor running from COVID-19 tests, meat plants ordered closed, and weather warfare destroying crops, why not just torch the rest? Christian breaks down a few blazing coincidences this week.

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    A huge fire has erupted in the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut, one month after a massive explosion there killed more than 190 people.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-54100251
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    Default Re: Beirut: Many dead after huge explosion in Lebanese capital

    Half a year after the explosion, Russia Today does a documentary on how life continues in the city of Beirut.

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    Lebanon in COMPLETE DARKNESS after 2 power stations shut down, blackout will ‘continue for few days’
    https://www.rt.com/news/537061-lebanon-goes-dark/

    Due to fuel shortages, two of Lebanon’s biggest power stations were forced to shut down on Saturday, leaving the crisis-hit country in the dark, an official source has said.

    The blackout in the country of almost six million is expected to last for several days, the government source told Reuters.

    “The Lebanese power network completely stopped working at noon today, and it is unlikely that it will work until next Monday, or for several days,” the official told the agency.

    The authorities will attempt to use the military’s oil reserves so the power plants can temporarily resume operations, he said, but warned that it wouldn’t happen anytime soon.

    The affected Deir Ammar and Zahrani power stations had been providing 40% of Lebanon’s electricity, according to their operator, Electricité Du Liban.

    The facilities ran out of fuel because the government lacked foreign currency to pay foreign energy suppliers. Ships carrying oil and gas had reportedly refused to dock in Lebanon until payments for their deliveries had been made in US dollars.

    The Lebanese pound has sunk by 90% since 2019, amid the economic crisis, which has been further deepened by political deadlock. Rival factions haven’t been able to form a government in the 13 months since the deadly blast in the port of Beirut, only finding common ground after the approval of a new cabinet in September.

    The power-supply situation had been dire in the country before the complete blackout, with residents able to get electricity for only two hours a day.

    Some residents have been relying on private diesel generators to power their homes, but such hardware has been in short supply in the country.
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