🧵1/ 🇵🇸🇮🇱 3 MINUTES OF HELL: A MOMENT BY MOMENT ACCOUNT OF THE KING DAVID HOTEL BOMB EXPLOSION & ITS IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH. (JULY 22, 1946)
Today is the anniversary of the infamous King David Hotel Bombing perpetrated by the jewish Irgun terrorist gang, led by future Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin. The "bomb" was 350 kg of TNT packed into 7 large milk canisters.
To remember this occasion, I'm posting the chapter of the book "By Blood & Fire," that chronicles the exact moments of the bombing in excrutiating blow-by-blow detail. It's Chapter 25, titled "12:27 PM - 12:40 PM."
The human cost was enormous and grisly. You've been warned. It reminds me of 9/11 and also the horror the Gazans face every single day.
🧵2/ Page 220: "the pressure burst the hearts, livers and lungs of the clerks working on the floor above."
Fire alarms clanged in the basement. Campbell and Hadingham rounded the corner of the service passageway and ran into the main corridor. The Regence was fifty yards straight ahead.
The acid ate through the wood plug and dripped onto the detonator at 12:37, six minutes before schedule. The explosion of the fulminate in the blasting cap lasted one twenty-five-thousandth of a second. A full second later the TNT exploded.
Three hundred and fifty kilograms of TNT became 250,000 liters of hot gas. At the center of the explosion, the gas expanded at a velocity of 160,000 MPH, heating the air to over 3,000'C. and exerting a pressure of 500,000 pounds per square inch, thirty-four thousand times normal atmospheric pressure, the pressure burst the hearts, livers and lungs of the clerks working on the floor above.
A bright orange light flashed at the end of the basement corridor, burst into flames and swept toward Campbell and Hadingham. A bang stabbed their eardrums. A wave of scorching air slammed Campbell against the wall and flung him onto the floor. Hot blackness smothered him.
Hadingham somersaulted into the air. Jagged pieces of iron pelted him, ripping his uniform and slicing wounds in his hands and arms. "I've seen this happen to my men and I've scraped up bits of bone and flesh afterward," he thought. "Now it's happening to me. In a second I'll be nothing but bloody
🧵3/ Page 221: "bodies falling down off the roof and winging through the air."
pieces." As his wife's face flashed in front of him, he smacked into a wall farther down the corridor.
The blast was equivalent in force to a direct hit from a 500 kilogram aerial bomb. The churns disappeared and the pillars in the Regence supporting the Secretariat disintegrated.
The Secretariat became alive. Its outer stone walls bulged, swayed, convulsed inward and, with a thunderous roar, vanished into sheets of fame and clouds of smoke. The roof shot into the air and plummeted to earth like an elevator out of control, pitching the sunbathing ATS women into the garden and crushing those on whom it landed.
An elliptical shock wave swept into Julian's Way from the center of the explosion. Those standing close to the hotel felt the blast before they heard it. First they were slammed by a thrust coming from the blast and then, a split-second later, a reverse pressure, a suction pulling them toward the hotel.
The suction ripped off clothes, tore rings from fingers and watches from wrists. It sucked the window panes out of nearby buildings, spewing shards of glass into the street. Automobiles rolled over, small trees were uprooted, and cypresses and palms bent backward as if battered by hurricane winds. Ivan Phillips' driver was blown onto the metal spears of the YMCA's ornamental gate.
In the courtyard between the Secretariat and the canteen the shock wave pitched Mohammed the messenger backward and Jerry Cornes forward onto the ground. Cornes looked up and saw "bodies falling down off the roof and winging through the air."
The shock through wave shook the "milk truck" standing in the service driveway and tossed Hamburger against a wall, concussing him. Across the street from the Secretariat it blew in the door and shattered the windows of Meyer Levin's office. One of his cameramen raced into the street and began filming.
Lieutenant Tilly was standing nearly opposite Salameh's store when he heard a rumbling like that of a subway train approaching a station. The train scemed to get closer, the rumbling became louder and louder.
The King David was turned into a gigantic cannon and Julian's Way was its field of fire. Small pieces of concrete shot out of the smoke at the speed of sound, spraying the street like buckshot. Large concrete blocks flew into the air at speeds of up to a hundred miles an hour. They punched holes in the roof of the Signals Annex, smashing cars, blasting craters in the street and burying half the canteen. Many of the Arab bus passengers who had been wounded by the first Irgun explosion were killed by the second one.
Debris showered Julian's Way. Sheets of paper from top-secret files fluttered in and out of the smoke like white birds; slivers of glass shot from shattering windows; chunks of cement crashed into pedestrians; bodies were blown into the street.
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Liverpool's 2024/25 financials available on CH. A few highlights here before longer thread later:
CF statement:
- CF from ops of £110m
- Cash outflow for inv of £79m (net player: £60m; net capex: £19m)
- Cash outflow from fin of £30m (RCF paydown of £49m; new owner debt of £19m)
Net transfer debt of £55m at end-May '25 (payables: £123m; receivables: £68m).
Compensation to key management personnel increased YOY by £15m to £20m. This accounts for a little over a third of the £42m increase in overall wages (to £428m as previously announced by the club).
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🚨 ¿Cómo cerró 2025 el principal motor del crecimiento: la inversión?
Con datos del @INEGI_INFORMA, la Inversión Fija Bruta (#IFB) acumuló 16 meses consecutivos de caídas anuales, aunque mostró un ligero avance mensual.
A pesar que la contracción anual en diciembre fue la menor en lo que va del año, no se había observado una racha de 16 caídas continuas desde 2013 (sin considerar 2018 - 2021, periodo de la pandemia, cuando la inversión cayó 28 meses consecutivos).
🔎 ¿Qué explica este desempeño?
🏗️ Construcción: en diciembre se registró un avance en su comparación anual de 4.1%. El crecimiento se explicó por el componente residencial que creció 14.2%, mientras que el no residencial acumula 16 caídas anuales consecutivas.
🚛 Maquinaria y equipo: registró una caída de (-)7.9% a tasa anual, marcando el 13º mes consecutivo de contracciones anuales. Al interior, tanto el componente nacional como importado cayeron en su comparación anual y acumulan más de un año de caídas.
👉🏼 Frente a noviembre de 2025, la inversión total y el componente de construcción crecieron 0.5% y 0.9% respectivamente. Por otro lado, la inversión en maquinaria y equipo registró una disminución mensual (-0.3%) debido al rubro nacional, el importado creció 0.6% explicado en gran parte por inversión en equipo de transporte.
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NEW: Seattle Antifa extremist Alex Randall has shared videos and images of firearms training being conducted for transgender members of his new leftist group, "Moto Hooligans."
Randall, also known as "Squid Tips," says his training team is comprised of "entirely trans people" who believe that "armed minorities are harder to oppress."
The group has been conducting their firearms trainings in wooden areas of Washington state.
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