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  • Gebran Bassil fail

    Gebran Bassil fail

    Reminds me of Nicolas Sarkozy.

  • Minister Hassan Diab: A clear case of megalomania

    Looks like minister Hassan Diab felt a bit jealous from Gebran Bassil and decided to create his own book to enlist his “achievements” at the ministry over the past two years. But this time, it isn’t a comic book, it actually a giant one with over 1000 pages! That’s like two pages for every day he spent at the ministry.

    Now I feel like releasing a book too, because I didn’t make any notable achievement over the past two years as well!

  • The NBA All-Stars Exhibition at Geek Express

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    If you’re an NBA fan then you’ll definitely be interested in this NBA All-Stars Exhibition at Geek Express.

    The exhibition will showcase over 500 signed collectible cards, jerseys, actions figures, shoes, and basketballs that are all provided by Ramzi Traboulsi.

    For more information, check this Facebook event, it starts tomorrow at 7:30PM.

  • Security forces now seizing tomatoes from protesters

    This is funny! The security forces seemed to have learned from last time and were apparently seizing tomatoes from protesters today.

  • Nadim Gemayel, Nasawiya, and the sick degree of followership

    If this video is a proof of something, it would be that all politician are equal in being corrupt and believing they’re above the law.

    This is actually the same Nadim Gemayel who always complains about the militia-like behavior of Hezbollah, now giving silly excuses and justifying their actions. The people at Nasawiya might have started the whole thing after chanting against all MPs when they knew Nadim Gemayel was in the area, but that definitely doesn’t give the bodyguards the right to abuse their power.

    But to be honest, I wasn’t surprised by the whole incident, I mean what do you expect from Lebanese people in power? What surprised me the most were those people on social media and blogs who were actually defending Nadim Gemayel and calling to take the incident more lightly, just because they support him or his political view. What degree of followership are these people exercising?

  • Gold prospecting is illegal in Lebanon?

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    I never knew gold prospecting is actually illegal in Lebanon until I came across this piece of news by the National News Agency! Anyone knows the reason for that?

    وطنية – اعلنت المديرية العامة لقوى الامن الداخلي في بيان انه “ضمن إطار مهامها في مجال حفظ الأمن والنظام ومكافحة الجريمة بمختلف أنواعها، تمكنت قطعات قوى الأمن الداخلي بتاريخ 26/06/2013 من توقيف 58 شخصا لإرتكابهم أفعالاً جرمية على الأراضي اللبنانية كافة، بينهم: 8 بجرائم سرقة، 7 بجرم تنقيب على ذهب، 5 بجرم إطلاق نار، 4 بجرائم مخدرات، 4 بجرم إقامة غير مشروعة، 4 بجرم ضرب وايذاء، 3 بجرم عدم حيازة أوراق ثبوتية، 3 بجرم لوحة مزورة، 2 بجرم سرقة هواتف، 2 بجرم شيك دون رصيد، 8 بجرائم : إحتيال، معاملة بشدة، عدم دفع نفقة، محاولة قتل، طعن بسكين، حيازة أسلحة، تسبب بوفاة، مقاومة رجال الأمن، و8 مطلوبين للقضاء بموجب مذكرات وأحكام عدلية مختلفة.

    via Mahmoud Ghazayel

  • The greatest Chi.N.N episode so far

    If you haven’t watched Chi.N.N latest episode yet then make sure to do so now. 30 Minutes is all it took for Salam Zaatari to tell the sad truth about Lebanon nowadays.

  • Charles Ayoub begs Bashar Al-Assad for money

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    I’m not sure what Charles Ayoub has been smoking lately, but it sure seems like good stuff. The man wrote an article literally begging the Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad to lend him $700,000 since his newspaper (Addiyar) is going through a financial crisis, otherwise he’ll have to act against his father’s will and sell his house!

    You can read the whole article here.

  • Photos from the clashes in Saida

    The clashes between Ahmad Al-Assir gunmen and the Lebanese army have been going for around 24 hours now and it seems like the army is determined on either arresting Ahmad Al-Assir or getting him out of his complex in a body bag.

    According to The Daily Star, the clashes have so far claimed the lives of at least 17 soldiers and more than 25 gunmen.

    Below are some photos I managed to collect through twitter as well as a video showing some bodies of the gunmen. I hope it all end soon for the good people of Saida.

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    Photos via @jeanassy, @AlJadeedNews, @IbrahimDsouki and The Daily Star.

  • Zein El Omor attacks Ahmad El Asseer on TV

    Check what Zein El Omor had to say on Ahmad Al-Asseer after six Lebanese soldiers were killed by his supporters in Abra today.

    May all the fallen heroes of our army rest in peace.