Post whatever is on your mind!!

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Canada sent 89.8 million in foreign aid to Lebanon last year

https://cidpnsi.ca/canadas-foreign-aid-2012-2/

And?

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We'll never know what happened. My opinion is that some of our aid money helped snuff out Beirut residents today and I don't like that.

Not following the trail here, how did that aid contribute to the explosion? Is there a theory/evidence that what exploded was some form of munitions purchased with aid funds?

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If you want to learn more about foreign aid and links to unsavory groups Tom Quiggin has done the best job of connecting the dots.

Sounds like Ammonium Nitrate stored in a warehouse from this long abandoned vessel https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-ne...rhosus-beirut/ was ignited by welding spark.

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Sounds like Ammonium Nitrate stored in a warehouse from this long abandoned vessel https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-ne...rhosus-beirut/ was ignited by welding spark.

That's absolutely irresponsible and criminal to store seized explosive material in a busy port/city for 6+ years (if that is in fact what it was).

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stick to the comforting lies, no unpleasant truths allowed

If you'd like to believe that it's somehow comforting that:

- Extremely hazardous materials routinely pass through port cities though means of transit that are generally in poor repair and staffed inadequately
- Levels of government and their enforcement bodies are so inept that they seize hazardous materials they are in no way equipped to deal with safely
- Bureaucracies are so overburdened that they can forget/choose not to deal with 3000lbs of volatile explosive materials stored near densely populated areas in a timely matter
- Such levels of hazardous materials being woefully cared can be well documented through news agencies and still result in nearly no public outcry

Sure, I guess that's the "comforting" storyline we're accepting here? I mean ineptitude is no where near as glamorous as conspiracy but no less terrifying in my opinion.

[5.4MarkVIII]

I thought ammonium nitrate had to be mixed with something for it to go big kaboom?

[ZR]

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[5.4MarkVIII]

Wasn’t looking for terrorist related stuff. Just asking as I’m not an explosive expert.

I though ammonium nitrate when it gets wet or breaks down creates nitrous oxide
Which is not a high speed explosion. However if you add certain additives and compress it. It will have a detonation of over 10000 m/second.

[ZR]

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