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Breaking — Massive explosions rock Beirut…
Citizen Free Press ^ | 08/4/2020 | RinaseaofDs

Posted on 08/04/2020 9:43:38 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs

Massive explosion, mushroom cloud.

Footage at the link.

(Excerpt) Read more at citizenfreepress.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; ammoniumnitrate; beirut; beruit; blogpimp; explosion; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; lebanon; notnuclear; sidebarabuse
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To: EEGator
Not nuclear.

The pandemic has everyone on edge...maybe we need rapid response teams to tamp down rumors ...

41 posted on 08/04/2020 10:12:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (Leo Terrell - Michael Shellenberger - Stephen Hsu - Bari Weiss .- Bernell Trammell - John Kass)
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To: BobL
Probably a ... ‘mosque’ there or something, since they don’t have weapons depots.

What type of a mosque doen't have a weapons and explosives depot in the basement?

42 posted on 08/04/2020 10:12:59 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Ben Dover

After watching the video, maybe fertilizer. Wow China had an accident like that a couple years at a port.


43 posted on 08/04/2020 10:14:56 AM PDT by DEPcom
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To: Dead Corpse

Tell you one thing though. It was really something hey?

Like the one in Vegas years ago.

Even at a ground burst, a nuke would send out a flash of light that would blind anyone who happened to be looking that way.

This one had a fire going-like you said, and then it touched off something.


44 posted on 08/04/2020 10:16:15 AM PDT by crz
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To: DesertRhino
vapor explosion

I think you nailed it. Note the lack of a lasting "stem" to the 'shroom. (The black column is from an explosion that starts earlier, a little back of the "fast" blast.)

I've never actually seen a "pool" of leaked natural gas vapor blow -- maybe something like this?

45 posted on 08/04/2020 10:18:46 AM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

It was a “Holy Shitake!” mushroom cloud.


46 posted on 08/04/2020 10:19:01 AM PDT by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Probably will be one of these days


47 posted on 08/04/2020 10:19:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Are those grain elevators in front of the fire before the explosion?


48 posted on 08/04/2020 10:20:00 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: b4its2late

Groundburst nukes don’t cause EMPs, and wouldn’t prevent a cell phone video from being taken. (Uploading it might be a problem, however.)


49 posted on 08/04/2020 10:21:32 AM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Secondary explosion — not nuclear.


50 posted on 08/04/2020 10:21:49 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: RinaseaofDs
The head of my ____ is a bigger mushroom than this tiny explosion.

If it were a nuke the camera would never have recorded this firecracker explosion.

This thing isn't even a MOAB.

51 posted on 08/04/2020 10:22:00 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE TERRORIST, MOOSELIMB SAVAGES, NOW.)
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To: hardspunned

https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1290675854767513600?s=21

What is the yellow building in front of the fire? Is that a complex of grain elevators?


52 posted on 08/04/2020 10:23:00 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Click here for many Lebanon explosion pictures

53 posted on 08/04/2020 10:24:02 AM PDT by blam
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To: RinaseaofDs
Scientific American article about how mushroom clouds form

Hint: its from the creation of a bubble of hot gas by any method, not necessarily nuclear.

54 posted on 08/04/2020 10:24:58 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after az><n election.)
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To: McGruff

50 of us must have missed it.


55 posted on 08/04/2020 10:25:12 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: DarthVader

Precisely.


56 posted on 08/04/2020 10:25:47 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: central_va

I don’t think it was an air drop. I was mostly talking about the huge vapor cloud. It Looked like a fire that lit off something really big. It was not a slow explosion, looked more like HE.


57 posted on 08/04/2020 10:26:43 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: crz

Several theories being bandied about right now.

Nitrate processing plant.
Grain elevator.
Tanker fueling/defueling.
Weapons/fireworks raw materials warehouse.

I’m leaning towards that last one judging from how the smaller initial fire appeared to have bright phosphorous/magnesium streaks. There was another Twitter video, from a now most likely deceased camera person, from right across the street showing stuff cooking off before the big blast.


58 posted on 08/04/2020 10:26:45 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: blam

BLAM!!! Or BOOM! Take your pick.

Obviously not nuclear.

5.56mm


59 posted on 08/04/2020 10:30:40 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: RinaseaofDs

I’ll bet that that was a terrorist ammo dump that just went up in smoke.

That appeared to be a low yield explosive since the smoke appeared to be black. A high yield would normally be white.

I’ll say this.That was one hell of a shock wave though.

I wonder how many people were killed when that place went up in smoke.


60 posted on 08/04/2020 10:37:50 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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