08-12-2020, 03:43 PM
Thx for the feedback @ikk157 Awesome you had already posted the video of the guy who took it. I'm sure he must be making lots of money from it.
Today in the news looks like the port is opening up with 12 cranes working out of 16. That's good news at least. But probably easy for them to do considering that the Government wasn't as involved with running the port - like had a hands off approach and probably has very little understanding for how it works, except that the port is the only place where money can still change hands. And it has to get emergency supplies, medicine and food and particularly grain as a matter of survival.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/b...44497.html
I'm looking at that explosion in the same way as the Air Crash Investigation Specialists I've been watching on TV. Even though everything was devastated, there may have been clues relevant to engineers, and cell phone footage that could have been collected on the spot. Problem is that interviews should have been held and professionally documented right after the blast happened, because the longer time that elapses, the more likely stories may change. Human memories are inclined to add or subtract things when they remember things and are questioned for the first time vs, recollections of events weeks later. For me I can't wait to see this investigation being launched on a professional as well as unbiased international level. I'm sure there must be plenty of experts outside Lebanon who are itching to be involved in the investigation as it's going to be a mother of investigations. Hopefully they won't be covering up stuff. But since the Caretaker Government is a resigned Government, maybe chances could be good that they will look for an objective inquiry by professionals from outside Lebanon.
Today in the news looks like the port is opening up with 12 cranes working out of 16. That's good news at least. But probably easy for them to do considering that the Government wasn't as involved with running the port - like had a hands off approach and probably has very little understanding for how it works, except that the port is the only place where money can still change hands. And it has to get emergency supplies, medicine and food and particularly grain as a matter of survival.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/b...44497.html
I'm looking at that explosion in the same way as the Air Crash Investigation Specialists I've been watching on TV. Even though everything was devastated, there may have been clues relevant to engineers, and cell phone footage that could have been collected on the spot. Problem is that interviews should have been held and professionally documented right after the blast happened, because the longer time that elapses, the more likely stories may change. Human memories are inclined to add or subtract things when they remember things and are questioned for the first time vs, recollections of events weeks later. For me I can't wait to see this investigation being launched on a professional as well as unbiased international level. I'm sure there must be plenty of experts outside Lebanon who are itching to be involved in the investigation as it's going to be a mother of investigations. Hopefully they won't be covering up stuff. But since the Caretaker Government is a resigned Government, maybe chances could be good that they will look for an objective inquiry by professionals from outside Lebanon.