It’s weird too the Russians just happened to drop off a load of explosives that no one wanted to get rid of, but I don’t know.
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I know. Something like this happens and a Russian guy who looks like a Russian gangster is the source. What are the odds?
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Now this is really sad.
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Lebanese government resigns
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Hmmm…so then the common factor in both of these explanations seems to be incompetent, corrupt morons? 
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Three things to note:
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Not confirmed as accidental yet
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Hezbollah evangelized Beijing investment of 12 to 20 Billion USD in Ports, Rail, Electric, and Waste disposal in prior months.
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Aug 2nd, Lebanon and IMF Bailout talks “plunged into a deadlock”.
Interesting context below:
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Definitely wasn’t cheap to store that much stuff at a port either. Weird now that you mention the financials of it. What person would just leave it there costing money every month while making the stock less potent. It would have been better to give it to someone for free at that point.
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Yeah it seemed to be occupying prime warehouse space at the port.
An explanation of all the legal wrangling here. Basically, the ship was judged unfit to sail, the owner refused to pay storage fees, the cargo was going to be auctioned off to pay for them, and it sat for six years while all the legal hassling went on.
While sailing through the eastern Mediterranean the Rhosus suffered “technical problems” and was forced to dock at Beirut’s port, according to a 2015 report for industry newsletter Shippingarrested.com that was written by Lebanese lawyers who represented the crew.
Mr Prokoshev told the BBC on Friday that the Rhosus only stopped off in Beirut because its owner had money trouble. The captain said he was told the ship needed to collect an additional cargo of heavy machinery, to fund passage through the Suez Canal.However, the machinery proved too heavy to load, and when the ship’s owner did not pay the port fees and fine, the Lebanese authorities impounded it, along with the ammonium nitrate, he added.
Shortly afterwards, the Rhosus was “abandoned by her owners after charterers and cargo concern lost interest in the cargo”, according to the lawyers. It was also subject to legal claims from creditors.
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The judge eventually agreed to allow the crew to disembark and in 2014 the port authorities transferred the ammonium nitrate into “Warehouse 12”, next to the grain silos. The lawyers said the cargo was “awaiting auctioning and/or proper disposal”.
This is not that uncommon. I was peripherally involved as a translator when a ship went aground off Taitung. The port of origin was Hiroshima, destination Pakistan, the cargo owner was in Dubai, the ship was registered in the Philippines, the crew was Bangladeshi and the captain, who was Lebanese, immediately took a taxi to the Taitung train station, a train to Koaohsiung, a flight to Hong Kong, and had disappeared by the time the Taiwan Maritime Police started looking for him.
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Sure, seen all that.
Now is the time for explosions.
Yesterday a gas station in Volgograd exploded spectacularly, injuring at least 13.
Volcano in Indonesia
So many tragedy in 2020 
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And the ship’s content went Hiroshima while it sat in storage… Oh the irony…
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Really suspicious.
The legal firm in Beirut must know. They would have been representing somebody, or some organisation. They’re the ones who should be getting squeezed.
截至8月6日共計有53個貨櫃，基隆港有11個貨櫃，分別儲存在西18號碼頭6個、西19號碼頭2個、西25號碼頭3個；台中港有28個，儲存在34號碼頭；高雄港有14個，儲存在108號碼頭7個、70號碼頭7個。
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