Mask blocs have popped up all across North America, especially in light of government abandonment of COVID-19 protective measures. Mask blocs are #MutualAid projects intending to get high quality masks into the hands of individuals and organizations that need them, especially in light of potential financial burdens.
CBC appropriately criticizes Fox for rushing to false #terrorism narratives following Wednesday's spectacular wreck at #Niagara.
"Some U.S. media began describing it as a terrorist explosion, caused by a vehicle entering from Canada. Every element of that preceding sentence was dispelled within hours as flat-out wrong. There was no attack from Canada; the incident occurred entirely on U.S. soil; in fact, authorities don't believe it was a terrorist attack at all."
Quite the assembly of law enforcement on the way to Niagara's Rainbow Bridge. They've turned off a couple of the other cameras so you can't see what they are doing. #niagara#rainbowbridge#incident
@Christo@mafeesh An engine explosion (e.g a thrown connecting rod) almost never damages even the rest of the car except in nitromethane-burning Top Fuel dragsters and funny cars. When an overloaded engine blows up at a drag race, the engine block may or may not survive, if it or the oil pan is pierced enough oil may spill to delay the races 45 minutes or so while the spill is cleaned up. The car in question is done for the day unless the owner brought a spare engine. A 40 foot fireball is quite impossible from this.
Transmissions are actually more dangerous: drag cars usually use an armored bellhousing if they have a clutch or armor around the transmission for an automatic transmission. A flywheel blowing up can cut a dragster in half, blow off the driver's foot (e.g Don Garlits) but won't make a 40 foot fireball-ever.
A car's gas tank CAN explode, but usually only after a fire started elsewhere reaches the tank. Even then it's more likely to simply spout a flame like a propane tank venting into a fire. The gas tank is one of the best protected parts of a modern car. To first atomize or vaporize all the gas, then ignite it for a fuel-air explosion would require a crash more like an aircraft going down. The car would have to be a fast one travelling at top speed, spin, and hit a solid barrier like a bridge abutment back end first. Even then a blast would be no guarantee.
A carload of ether for making meth could possibly give a big fireball that isn't heard over the falls, but that's an awful lot of either for a meth operation to need at once and to be released by crashing into a fence would probably have to be in glass.
Thus I conclude this is probably but NOT certainly a car bomb. Let's see where this investigation goes
@RoLarenRED57 This reminds me of Iraq during Bush's war. In that conflict car and truck bombs at US-run checkpoints were so common most of the fixed checkpoints installed heavy concrete blast walls.
Today in Labor History August 15, 1906: W.E.B. DuBois demanded equal citizenship rights for African-Americans during the second meeting of the Niagara Movement, saying, "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or little less than our full manhood." Founders of the movement named it for the “mighty current” of change they hoped to achieve. DuBois made his famous statement at Harper’s Ferry, sight of the failed insurrection led by John Brown, in 1859. For a wonderful speculative fiction story based on the premise that John Brown had succeeded in his raid, with the help of Harriet Tubman, read Terry Bisson’s “Fire on the Mountain” (1988).
In addition to cofounding the Niagara Movement, DuBois also cofounded the NAACP. He devoted his life to fighting racism, segregation, Jim Crow and lynchings. DuBois opposed capitalism and blamed it for much of the racism in America. He was also a prolific writer, an anti-nuclear and peace activist, and a proponent of Pan-Africanism.