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The demonstrations and attacks in the Middle-East targeted the wrong people, judging the fact that the American government considered the movie to be disgusting and didn’t take part in its making. It’s basically like Nigerians attacking the American consulate because some racist man made a racist film. (more…)
The parliamentary elections are in less than 9 months, and still no sign of an electoral law.
It’s not as if nobody tried to make another law. There was the Orthodox Gathering’s one (Each Sect elects its representatives.), the government’s one (Proportionality in 13 mid-size constituencies), the Fouad Boutros committee’s Law (more…)
Yes, that was Nabih Berri speaking. The officials’ salary hike is expected to be 4 Millions L.L. for the MPs and Ministers, while the top leaders enjoy a wage rage of 6 Millions L.L. according to a law that is supposed to give a raise to the civil servants’ wages. Two small comments: (more…)
Today is Sunday, September 9, 2012. On August 15, the Mikdad clan started an abduction of Syrian and Turkish Nationals. Between August 15 and September 7, the army and ISF didn’t do anything to free the hostages. They knew -Everyone did as they appeared in live press conferences- who were the kidnappers, what was their manpower, where they met, at what hour, what they thought, what they planned. But no one did anything. (more…)
By the time I’m writing, there are 1524080 Facebook accounts in Lebanon. Out of these persons, 1101840 are 21 and older. By removing fake profiles, accounts with incorrect birthdays, accounts that are owned by Lebanese (and not foreigners), and accounts that are rarely used, we’ll probably get a number close to a million.
Back in 2009, the electoral body was made out of 3257407 voters. Let’s maximize the number for 2013 and make it four million eligible voters. Let’s also higher the percentage of people who will actually go and cast a ballot and make it 55%. That makes 2.2 million Lebanese voters in 2013. 1 out of 2.2 million is equal to 45%.
In a nutshell, 45% of the Lebanese who will vote in 2013 have Facebook accounts. I will make the assumption that 75% of the Lebanese on Facebook will log in at least once in the next 9 months. That makes 33% of the voting population. (more…)
The PSP and M14 were demonstrating in the past few days in an attempt to pressure the Lebanese government to send the Syrian ambassador back to Damascus. Ironically enough, the presence of the Syrian ambassador in Lebanon was one of M14’s winning articles, if not the only one, that remains 4 years later after its mise en place intact in the Doha agreement of 2008. (more…)
مخبر: الحزب ما معو خبر بالموضوع؟
Translation:
Informer: Does the party knows?
Samaha: Several denying gestures.
While reading the leaked interrogation transcripts published by Al-Joumhouria (See here, here, here, here and here), these sentences caught my attention. Of course, the whole plot is worth talking about, but I’m going to focus on these two phrases. (more…)
Moulahazat 
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