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BigmanPigman

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1. MSNBC's Richard Engel reported that the people

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2020, 02:43 AM

Aug 2020

have had only hours of power/electricity each day, every day. Their money/savings are gone so they are trading to get food and milk. The residents have to trade due to the lack of currency. Now, tons of fertilizer has beed ignited and caused two massive explosions, harming thousands and countless dead. These poor people have had bad on top of bad and it is somehow getting even worse...

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Live updates and on death, injury and destruction in Beirut, Lebanon.... [View all] KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2020 OP

MSNBC's Richard Engel reported that the people BigmanPigman Aug 2020 #1

Thanks, BigmanPigman for that update. Lebanon needs massive help and..... KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2020 #2

Yes, their situation is so bad that it makes ours look like a picnic. BigmanPigman Aug 2020 #3

News from Twitter: Rhiannon12866 Aug 2020 #4

And, of course, 45 is now declaring (without evidence) that it was a terrorist attack... regnaD kciN Aug 2020 #5

The conspiracy theories are already flying. Behind the Aegis Aug 2020 #6

I'm sure it's the usual ones with their own agenda. Something horrible happened due to an accident JI7 Aug 2020 #7

In the end, I suspect this will come down to Lebanese government disfunction. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2020 #8

And already dealing with the Coronavirus JI7 Aug 2020 #9

Yup! It is their way. Behind the Aegis Aug 2020 #10