Lebanon Explosion

Two weeks ago I had an unusual dream involving a white cat. In the dream I encountered an unidentified woman and a white cat. The woman said to me, as I looked at the Persian-like cat, that it had arrived from Hiroshima the day before. Hiroshima has a particular association for me because I first arrived to start a new teaching job in China on Hiroshima Day, August 6th of 2009. The woman mentioning the day before and Hiroshima in the same context meant August 5th to my waking mind as I considered the dream on the morning after. 

The dream was so unusual that it stuck in my mind and I became somewhat apprehensive as the date approached. On the morning of August 5th, I was watching RT on YouTube and saw the Beirut explosion that had happened the day before, around 6pm, in that city. The initial explosion was clearly non-nuclear but the second clearly was, despite subsequent that it was not. Most people have seen video footage of nuclear explosions and this was clearly the same, only on a smaller scale. It's only now, on Hiroshima Day, that I've drawn the connection between the Beirut explosion and my dream with its mention of the day before Hiroshima.

My dream does seem a little precognitive but that's not important. What's important is the devastation caused by the second and far more powerful explosion that to me seems clearly nuclear and not caused by ammonium nitrate. Whatever the cause, the damage has been done and Lebanon has been plunged into an even more difficult financial situation. 

Terrifying Explosion in Beirut Wasn't Nuclear, Experts Say

The "experts" have been very quick to leap in and assure everyone that the blast was not nuclear.  Israel is the likely suspect as it has fomenting unrest in the country for the past fifty years or more. I must confess to not knowing a great deal about the history of Lebanon and didn't realise that it has been under French control until its independence in 1946. It's certainly an interesting country but one that has suffered terribly from its proximity to the rogue state of Israel.

So nuclear explosion or not? The Washington Sentinel reports:

Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, said that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored for six years near the waterfront had accidentally ignited causing the explosion. As a means of comparison, the fertilizer bomb Tim McVeigh used to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 contained only 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate.

Of course, the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 and the framing of Tim McVeigh is another can of worms entirely. Explosions of this sort are nothing new. In 2015, there were reports of tactical nuclear weapons being used in Yemen. The responses from mainstream media sources were as predicable back then are they are now. Here is one example:

Recent weeks have seen numerous reports that an explosion in Yemen was a “nuclear bomb” or even a “neutron bomb”.  These particular reports, about a large explosion in Yemen in late May 2015 are largely re-circulating due to articles in the widely derided and generally discredited Veterans Today. It is clear to me, for reasons that I will explain below, that the reports of nuclear warfare in Yemen are a fabrication, and that a large conventional explosion has, once again, fooled the unwise, uneducated, and/or deluded into thinking that a nuclear weapon was used.

Note the reference to Veterans Today as "widely derided" and "generally discredited". Hmmm ... derided and discredited by whom? Anyone who could even entertain the possibility of a nuclear attack is "unwise, uneducated and/or deluded". The reference to Veterans Today however, prompted me to check out what this site had to say about the Lebanon explosion and there is general agreement that it was a nuclear attack by Israel, specifically:

First explosion was caused by Gabriel anti ship missile of Israel. The second explosion was caused by Israeli Delilah missile from F16.

After watching further footage on Veterans Today of the explosion from various angles, it's clear that the second blast was nuclear and, tellingly, the Beirut Governor has called the explosion a national disaster akin to Hiroshima. It's interesting to note that August 12th 2015 also marked the date of the explosion in Tianjin that some have attributed to a tactical nuclear strike. 

I'm not quite sure what the orientation of the Veterans Today website really is. There is some weird stuff there. For example, this August 3rd 2020 article runs:

Unmasking the Zionist COVID Disinfo Machine

There is a huge and well-funded conspiracy theory disinfo operation that encompasses Chemtrails, vaccines, 5G, and now COVID-19. The authors of these theories are all Zionist stooges, mostly working for well-funded think tanks that function as disinfo outlets.

Hilariously, the author goes on to identify some of the "Zionist-funded disinfo scumbags" as David Icke, Tony Cartalucci, Whitney Webb, Eric Zuesse, James Corbett, Jon Rappoport, Patrick Henningsen and Paul Craig Roberts.

It will be interesting what some of my other regular alternative news commentators have to say about this Beirut explosion in the coming days.