Beirut - Massive explosion

Being America of course there is alot of conspiracy theories about it.

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Most conspiracies revolving around American Intelligence can be explained by basic incompetence followed by attempts at bureaucratic cover ups

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Did a big research project on the OKC Bombing for year 12 legal studies.

Fascinating and Interesting are probably horrible words to use to describe something so horrible but there was something very fascinating and Interesting and doing that project.

Why he did it
How he did it
The trial
The sentencing
The execution

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I get where you’re coming from, but it further illustrates the media’s propensity to want to get to the story first rather than get it right. When you miss report something like that it triggers parties to consider preparing a response. It’s incredibly irresponsible.

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Can’t argue with that.

Yeah and I think a lot of that is due to social media and news getting out on there faster than they used to in mainstream. So now they run with whatever they can, then change it after they get more details. It’s why sports media has become the joke it is now (plus the lack of quality people).

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Timothy McVeigh’s final statement

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream for his final meal.

And what was your take on it/him ?

Oklahoma City Memorial is an excellent visit…and, strangely for the US, very sensitively done.

Beside the building is the Field of Chairs…a normal-size one for each adult killed and a small one for each child killed in the creche.

All of these arseholes are self pitying scumbags.

And as it turns out, rubbish poets.

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Written by William Ernest Henley

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Oh, so he had all that time in custody and on death row and he couldn’t even come up with something original?

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Is that your way of back peddling from accidentally sledging a somewhat famous poet? :joy:

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90% of the country’s grain supply came through that port, stored in the grain silo right beside the factory that exploded.

Not just the dead and injured from the explosion. An entire country without food.

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lol, no. Its a rubbish poem.

It’s reminiscent of some self-indulgent claptrap i wrote in Year 11/12.

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It was distributed far and wide by airmail?

Too soon?

Maybe he just liked the peom, who knows what his motivation was for using it?

Haha fireworks factory my ■■■■

Why the fck is a bomb factory built in the middle of a city

Anyone done the beirooted line yet?

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