re: Massive Explosion: Beirut

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If you could somehow extrapolate 15 of them to several million you wouldn't need anything extra.

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True but I cannot see a scenario where you could wrap that many tightly enough to cause that kind of explosion... right now, I am going with a baby milk factory and the powered milk with a static discharge caused it all...

I love the fireworks that got into the fertilizer scenario that was floated above though...

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Yet another example of how multiculturalism is almost always doomed to fail.

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But in this case, the situation in Lebanon was relatively peaceful under both Mamluk and Ottoman rule, and all the various groups are native to the region, with much of the Lebanese population currently linked to ancient Canaanite (and Phoenician) populations thorough DNA data. There was very little movement of large populations through the area, and very little admixture between the ruling groups and the population at large. The terrain helped create smaller, relatively orphaned communities of various minorities. Barkey points out the triumph of the Ottoman administrative system, which was based loosely on earlier Roman and Byzantine models of polities, which resulted in a hands-off, administrative approach which gave groups autonomy as long as tax receipts were paid. Indeed, the Ottomans at times claimed the mantle of the Byzantine Empire, as Suleiman the Magnificent took on the title of Kaiser, as well as a full name (Sultan Sleyman Han bin Selim Han bin Bayezid Han) which reflected the heterodox religious traditions of the subjects. The millet system itself was designed on the explicit protection of religious minorities (in the sense that it served as a set of institutionalized procedures between the imperial administration and each religious minority group) that varied depending on the desires of each minority group. This is not to say that the millet system was perfect, but the imperial administration system of both the Ottomans and the Austrian Empires (but not the Hungarian portion) were extremely effective at dealing with the sundry minority groups they ruled.

That situation devolved towards the latter days of the Ottoman Empire, when Turkish nationalism, inspired by nationalist movements in Europe, began to take hold, and undid the millet system. That, combined with the subsequent French Mandate, set the stage for the conflict later, as the demographic balance was tilted by refugees from the Israel-Palestine conflict. So I don't see multiculturalism as a source, but rather the mass movement of people in a relatively quick fashion, which is a common, prevailing cause of unrest in numerous geopolitical hotspots, of which Lebanon is now one.

Why are all the people in the lower video not wearing masks and social distancing? Don't they know the Covid is running rampant and will kill the frick out of them...

Reddish Brown color to me spells Nitrogen Tetraoxide. Oxidizer used in rocket propellant.

Finally! A friggin rocket scientist!

Mossad blew up a dirty nuke probably

6 mile radius. Holey sheet.

NBA reporter and amateur weapons expert Chris Palmer

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The mushroom cloud forms outside of the factory. There is no question that was an atomic bomb. That is a controlled detonation.

If every firework went off at the same time it wouldn’t do that. A fireworks factory exploding wouldn’t blow out windows 10 miles away.

Christ what a retard.

Mushroom cloud doesn’t mean nuke, it means an explosion over a certain level. And having multiple tons of nitrate fertilizer go off could do it.

Isn’t everyone in the NBA an amateur weapons expert?