Archive for August, 2009
LBC News 2009-08-31
Monday, August 31st, 2009Navteq introduces intermediate map of Lebanon
Monday, August 31st, 2009Navteq, the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions has released its first map of Lebanon.
NEW GUINNESS BOOK WORLD RECORD
Monday, August 31st, 2009AFTER THE LARGEST KIBBE MADE IN EHDEN, LEBANON HAS ONCE AGAIN MADE GUINNESS BOOK PAGES BY RECORDING EVIDENCE OF THE WORLDS BIGGEST ASSHOLE.
MICHEL AOUN AND GEBRAN BASSIL RECENTLY COMBINED AS A SINGLE TEAM TO FORM THE WORLDS BIGGEST ASSHOLE.
BOTH MEN WERE HUMBLE IN VICTORY, GEBRAN SAYING ABOUT HIS FATHER-IN-LAW ” IF ANYONE EVER DOUBTED THAT MICHEL AOUN WAS THE BIGGEST EVER, THEN THIS SHOULD TEACH THEM ALL A LESSON”
AOUN WAS THANKFUL FOR THIS GREAT ACCOLADE AND REMINDED REPORTERS THAT HE COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT HIS HIZBALLAH SUPPORT SAYING ” THIS IS AN ASS-HOLY VICTORY, JUST LIKE 2006. ”
REPRESENTATIVES CLAIMED THAT THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE WAS ALSO A LEBANESE BY THE NAME ‘EMILE LAHHOUD’ BUT THE SIZE EXHIBITTED BY BASSIL/AOUN IS DEFINITELY ONE THAT WILL NOT BE BROKEN SOON , POSSIBLY EVER.
WITNESSES INCLUDED A LARGE PORTION OF THE LEBANESE POPULATION WHO HAVE BEEN WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT WHATSOEVER DUE TO THIS PHENOMENON.
“WHEN THE WORLDS BIGGEST ASSHOLE HAPPENS TO BE A POLITICIAN AS WELL, EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED”: SAID ONE WITNESS.
THE CEREMONY WAS HELD IN RABIEH, WHERE THE NEWLY RECOGNIZED WORLD’S BIGGEST ASSHOLE, AOUN, IS RESIDING.
News 2009-08-30
Monday, August 31st, 2009The Great Senator
Sunday, August 30th, 2009Today Senator Ted Kennedy was buried at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia USA, may he Rest in Peace. He spent 47 years in the US Congress where he proposed over 3000 legislation and passed many hundreds of laws, most of them were to help the poor and to give better rights to Americans, for example:
* Laws for Civil Rights to end race discrimination
* Laws to give rights to women and protect them from violence
* Laws to protect children and help them get education
* Laws to help immigrants and refugees
* Laws to improve Healthcare and help disabled people
When he was alive he was called the Lion of the senate because he worked so hard and so honest to help people (so it is easy to see the big difference with the Lion of Syria who throws poets in jail and suicides his political opponents).
In his personal life Ted Kennedy is known for some irresponsible behavior he made that caused great harm to some people, but nothing I know or read about him shows he wanted to harm someone on purpose, he made some bad mistakes but he also made many great achievements to give people more rights and more freedom. I wish we have 1 Ted Kennedy in Lebanon instead of 128 Gilberte Zouein.
But for me the best thing about Ted Kennedy is his humour, he was a very funny man and very MODEST even if many many people worship the Kennedy family. I was lucky one time to see him speaking at a political event and he told many funny jokes about himself and his brother President John Kennedy. He was never angry that he did not become president and he said in a joke “I don’t mind not being president, I just mind that someone else is president” (so it is easy to see the big difference with the arrogant wanna-be president who never make us smile and who blocks the country for the eyes of his son-in-law)
Ted Kennedy is called the greatest senator of his time by all his colleagues and by many Americans, some complexed people don’t like to hear that hard work and sacrifice and dedication for something can earn you a title like Majdou Loubnan 2ou3tia lahou, but Ted Kennedy is an example of this greatness, and no one today dare to take it away from him. May he Rest in Peace for all the good he has done.
This is a picture I took of him at his speech.
How dare you?
Sunday, August 30th, 2009Sayyed: Saad Hariri ‘You Are Your Father’s Killer until You Punish the Forgers’
I don’t get it, so here we have a mass murderer that committed atrocities and tortured many in the name of “Censorship” demanding that JUSTICE be brought to Harriri’s killers? I mean i’m not defending Saad el Harriri or anything but the irony here makes me sick to my stomach. Really of all people, how dare he open his mouth and try to give us a lecture about justice?!
Biggest Kebbe in the world …
Sunday, August 30th, 2009Lebanese women cut the biggest kebbe dish after entering the Guinness World Records in the town of Ehden in Lebanon.
I honestly hate Kebbe a lot, so this is like my biggest nightmare …
Hezbollah blocking government formation (ctnd)
Saturday, August 29th, 2009I posted this over a month ago.
Hezbollah blocking government formation
Hezbollah is still putting obstacles either directly or remotely through its puppet Aoun.
First it was the presidential elections, now it’s time to undermine the Sunnite position and weaken it until reaching a compromise.
And all under what name ?
National Unity & Reconciliation …
Lebanese should understand that Hezbollah still did not digest its loss in the elections and is trying to turn it into some sort of a fake victory somehow.
Latest reports speak of Hezbollah financing certain salafists groups in the North to cause unrest & create frictions within the Sunnite ranks.
LBC News 2009-08-28
Friday, August 28th, 2009The day Hezbollah murdered an army officer …
Friday, August 28th, 200928 Aug 2008:
A Lebanese officer is killed when a military helicopter was shot at in southern Lebanon. [...]
It wasn’t Israel, nor Palestinians but the so-called “resistance” shooting at the Lebanese army.
Pilot Samer Hanna was shot in the head and killed instantly. His killer was freed few weeks ago with only a fine to pay as it was “unintentional”.
Reactions to freeing Samer Hanna’s killer
Why did Hezbollah shoot the officer?
“because it crossed red lines that Hezbollah had warned the Defense Ministry and army command” not to cross, the sources said.
May he rest in peace and may God be with his family …
LBC News 2009-08-27
Thursday, August 27th, 2009La quête de l’eau : un défi constant pour Israël
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
«En 2015, 35 % de la consommation d’eau proviendra de la désalinisation». Crédits photo : ASSOCIATED PRESS
Aridité naturelle, pluies en constante diminution… Pour faire face, l’État hébreu recycle aujourd’hui 75 % de ses eaux usées et en 2016, il couvrira 35 % de ses besoins en dessalant l’eau de mer.
On n’a pas d’eau mais on a des idées ! Tel pourrait être le slogan d’Israël tant le pays investit depuis des années dans ce secteur alors que l’aridité est son lot depuis toujours et que les pluies n’ont cessé de décroître ces dernières années. Priorité numéro un : augmenter le volume. Usine de désalinisation, forages dans les aquifères profonds, augmentation de la pluviométrie… Il n’est pas de techniques qui n’aient été explorées.
Bkerke is a red line …
Thursday, August 27th, 2009I see some people are still failing to understand how serious Fadlallah’s statement is …
This is not an attack on the Patriarch …
This is an attack on Bkerke and what it represents …
This is what “Majd Lebnan 2out3iya lahou” means …
And here’s an answer from a friend that sums it up:
Mr Fadlallah, that slogan did not originate because the Maronites had weapons and threatened other Lebanese factions to impose it on them. This slogan originated from the fact that the Batrakiye was one of the main players when Lebanese State was created, and throughout the years, decades and centuries, defended the Lebanese State with their blood and effort. And it is pure ignorance to take that away from them and give it to a group of people who fought because either they were being well paid or because they were promised 72 virgins in heaven that they can not have here on earth.
How is that reply for you? Is it insulting enough? Because it seems you guys have no problems with insults.
LBC News 2009-08-26
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Fears of Shiite-Sunni Violence Breakout in Lebanon
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Beirut (AP)
No one knows when an international court will issue its first indictments in the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister, but Lebanese are already afraid it could spark a wave of violence between its Shiite and Sunni communities.
Now Fadlallah taking Jabs at the Patriarch …
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009This is what you get when your own community starts disrespecting Bkerke & the Patriarch.
This is why i’ve repeatedly warned about attacking Bkerke and its head.
Tfaddalo ya Massi7iyye ! Tfaddal ya Michel Aoun wou ya Frangieh !
العلامة فضل الله: مجد لبنان لم يعط الا لشعب لبنان
25 آب 2009
أكد العلامة المرجع السيد محمد حسين فضل الله أن مجد لبنان لم يعط الا لشعب لبنان “هذا الشعب المجاهد والمقاوم والذي يعيش القوة”. واضاف في حفل افطار “انه يقول ان العالم يشتمل على اكثرية تحكم ومعارضة تعارض، نحن نسأل اذا كانت المسالة هي مسألة الاكثرية فلماذا تحصرونها بالاكثرية النيابية، ونحن ندعو الى الاكثرية الشعبية الى الاستفتاء الشعبي الى الديمقراطية العددية فعندها يعطي الشعب كلمته”.
A small note to Fadlallah here:
- Lebanon is a PLURALISTIC country, try googling that and then you will realize how wrong is your statement.
- The Shiite community should be praising Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir & Bkerke more than anyone else, because they wouldn’t have a country to begin with if it wasn’t for Bkerke. They would have been persecuted as a minority in the Sunnite world.
- Democracy has many shapes, and The “Demokratiyye 3adadiyye” is definitly not the answer for Lebanon, it is the way to Islamize it and make it anothe rotten arab regime.
Finally,
Ekoro dlebnon ote le (Majd Lubnan ou3tiya lahou wou bass)
If this is not a wake up call for the Maronites & Christians of Lebanon, i don’t know what is.
Jpost : Lebanese villagers repel Hizbullah men
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009UPDATE : Video from Haaretz
In what may be an indication of Hizbullah’s waning influence over the residents of southern Lebanon, the security establishment released on Tuesday documented proof of Hizbullah operatives being forcibly prevented from entering a village near the Israeli border.
The grainy video showed residents of Kfar Manisim, which is only a kilometer from Israel, standing in front of a Hizbullah jeep and arguing with its occupants. The operatives, who had apparently tried to station arms in the houses of the villagers, resisted, and both sides began firing warning shots into the air. The incident eventually ended when the Hizbullah men turned around and drove away.
Following the confrontation, Lebanese army troops arrived at the village to ensure that order was maintained.
Israel has long maintained that Hizbullah has made a concerted effort to not only re-establish its presence in southern Lebanon, but also has consistently hidden weapons and fighters within the Lebanese civilian population. While the former charge would be a violation of UN Resolution 1701, the latter would be a violation of international law.
In July, a Hizbullah arms cache in southern Lebanon exploded, leading Israel to accuse the group of breaking the ceasefire agreement by stockpiling smuggled weapons in the southern part of the country. Hizbullah denied that the weapons were smuggled, saying that they had been stored prior to the Second Lebanon War.
LBC News 2009-08-25
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Lebanon: Economic Overviews
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009From THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT
OUTLOOK FOR 2009-2010
• A new government is still being formed, but will be led by the pro-Western “March 14th” coalition and its allies, who won the June election.
• The opposition “March 8th” bloc will be included in the government, but will lose their power to veto cabinet decisions. Ministers nominated by and allied to the president and Walid Jumblatt will probably have the casting vote.
• Policymaking will be hampered by a lack of consensus and by the unwillingness of fragile coalitions to address sensitive issues such as the representation of each sect in the political system and the role of the armed forces of Hizbullah, a Shia political-military movement.
• Rapprochement between Syria and Saudi Arabia is helping to keep Lebanon relatively peaceful, but renewed tensions in the region, or between the US and Israel and Iran, could reignite unrest in Lebanon.
• There is a need for fiscal reform to reduce the large public debt stock, as the costs of debt-servicing weigh heavily on the budget, but it will be slow at best.
• The budget deficit is forecast to widen in 2009, to more than 11% of GDP, as tax revenue growth slows and spending on wages and subsidies rises.
• Real GDP growth is forecast to slow to 2.4% in 2009, before accelerating to 3.3% in 2010, as a modest pick-up in regional growth boosts investment and tourist arrivals.
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