rubl
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Post by rubl on Aug 5, 2020 17:00:26 GMT 7
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Post by smokie36 on Aug 6, 2020 3:05:55 GMT 7
Did blether fart?
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siampolee
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Post by siampolee on Aug 6, 2020 6:49:22 GMT 7
seems as if the root cause was or is possibly due to the first blast having possibly or may have been in a fireworks warehouse at the port. Officials say the second, more devastating explosion most likely came from a nearby 2,750-ton stockpile of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical often used as fertilizer, which Prime Minister Hassan Diab said had been stored in a depot for six years.
The explanations as to this disaster seem to be getting more positive as time passes
Of course, we also need to remember that sometimes the truth is indeed a very strange beast!!
However, I am of the opinion that it was indeed an accidental explosion doe to the inability of the warehousing company to take of or make adequate precautions regarding the care and stability of that aforementioned 2,750-ton stockpile of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical often used as fertilizer, which Prime Minister Hassan Diab said had been stored in a depot for six years.
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Post by AyG on Aug 6, 2020 6:58:47 GMT 7
I'm guessing this was a Hezbollah store for use in a future attack against Israel. It's just what they do. Police found a Hezbollah store of ammonium nitrate in London in 2015, and another in Germany earlier this year. The carnage was simply another gift from The Religion of Peace.
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Post by rubl on Aug 6, 2020 10:06:41 GMT 7
Which reminded me of a book I read a long time ago, The Spoilers by Desmond Bagley.
"Follet said flatly, 'You're going to blow that door open with fertilizer. You did say that -- or am I going nuts?"
'I said it,' said Tozier. Tom and I were in the Congo. We were just outside a place called Mwanza and the opposition had blown down a cliff so it blocked the road and we couldn't get our trucks through. We were low on ammunition and had no blasting explosives, but we had a secret weapon -- a South African called van Niekerk who used to be a miner on the Witwatersrand.'
He put his hand in the sack and lifted out a handful of the white powder. 'This is agricultural fertilizer -- ammonium nitrate -- good for putting nitrogen into the soil. But van Niekerk knew a bit more. If you take a hundred pounds of this, six pints of fuel oil, two pounds of coal dust, and mix it all together then you get the equivalent of forty per cent blasting gelignite. I've never forgotten that. Van Niekerk scared the pants off me -- he brewed the stuff in a concrete mixer.'"
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Post by siampolee on Aug 6, 2020 11:18:45 GMT 7
One is led to hope that the local anti terrorist group do not arrive at the rubl residence em masse in response to his post above which may have led them to believe he is a anti social element thus s danger to civil order.
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Post by rubl on Aug 6, 2020 11:21:56 GMT 7
No surprise. I just knew that reading English books would get me into problems with the law and other nice people eventually.  |
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Post by me on Aug 6, 2020 12:58:35 GMT 7
About 5 times that is stored in a port in WA. People for years have been trying to get it moved and the movement of it on big road trains (some also carrying bulk diesel)controlled but so far have not been successful. Both farmers and miners have big lobbby groups.
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Post by me on Aug 6, 2020 13:01:16 GMT 7
No surprise. I just knew that reading English books would get me into problems with the law and other nice people eventually. That is what the priest used to say so that the faithful qwqould not find out they should not be playing with children. The printing press has lots to blame and praise but I guess now we have to find who to blame for the bits and bytes. |
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Post by rubl on Aug 6, 2020 19:27:28 GMT 7
No surprise. I just knew that reading English books would get me into problems with the law and other nice people eventually. That is what the priest used to say so that the faithful qwqould not find out they should not be playing with children. The printing press has lots to blame and praise but I guess now we have to find who to blame for the bits and bytes. Luckily I didn't know an appropriate quote from Marquis de Sade. Heaven knows what comment I would have gotten then. As for bit and bytes, I only take responsibility for those I programmed myself. PS only when bits fall over in their bank account people realise the value  PPS this is what Dave Allen had to say about Australians |
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