Lebanon: A Failed Country with Indecent Politicians and a Stupid People

This just received - From the only decent statesman Lebanon still has. Unfortunately, the criminal idiots who run the country today have an arrest warrant against him. What else would you expect? 

They had an arrest warrant against Michel Aoun back when he was in exile. When he returned and became one of them - corrupt, political family farm owner, a lackey to Syria and Hezbollah, etc... - he is today hailed as a senior member of the political establishment in Lebanon. Lest we forget, Michel Aoun, Amine Gemayel, Samir Geagea, Walid Jumblatt, Nabih Berri...etc. - i.e. the gods of the Lebanese political pantheon - are responsible for the hundreds of thousands that were killed in Lebanon since 1975, not to mention the maimed, the injured, the disappeared, the missing, and the destruction of the country.

While Abu Arz - Etienne Sacre - and his Guardians of the Cedars fought in the Lebanese War, they were the most principled, the least sectarian, the most decent fighters. They never robbed anyone, they never terrorized anyone except their enemies (Palestinians, Syrians, etc), and they did their duty without asking anything in return. Today, the Guardians of the Cedars are in exile - physical exile and moral exile - because the Lebanon they fought and died for is held by criminals, thugs, religious fanatics, and mercenaries whoring themselves on behalf of Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and any other foreign pimp willing to pay!

Lebanon should be terminated as we know it. It is a dysfunctional country that does not deserve to be a country. Lebanon should be partitioned into small cantons, each beholden to a foreign power. Yugoslavia was broken apart, and then its parts were further broken down - just look at the comical new "country" of Kosovo - an Islamic one to boot - created artificially by the West to continue its appeasement of radical Islamo-Fascism.

Lebanon deserves no less. Break it apart, sell it to the highest bidder, declare it bankrupt.... This whole "country as a mission" (الوطن الرسالة) and Islamo-Christian coexistence is one big lie. It never worked, and it will never work. The politicians of the 1970s massacred their own people in Lebanon. Today, they are transmitting political power to their sons and daughters like pharaohs, while the stupid Lebanese worship their bosses, those same criminals who massacred them and uprooted them. The ground is ready for another war, for another war of religious massacres and pogroms....

I blame the Lebanese people. But Abu Arz is more decent than me. He just blames the Lebanese politicians.

Hanibaal

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The Guardians of the Cedars Party  - The Movement for Lebanese Nationalism issued the following communiqué:

The invasion of Beirut airport by members of a political party was no surprise, except perhaps to the shortsighted or those who, like an ostrich, bury their heads in the sand. Any last observer of the Lebanese situation knows by now that the State is non-existent for all practical purposes, with maybe a formal presence in limited areas, the country is a free for all wasteland, and the Lebanese people live in a failed republic and under a system long known as the law of the jungle.

This observer also knows that the legal authority is present in the Serail, while the effective authority is in the southern suburb of Beirut, the former inept and incompetent, and the latter wielding opinion and decision-making. The violation of the airport campus in the manner it occurred last Sunday is a natural outcome of the growing influence of Hezbollah's Mini-State of the Southern Suburb at the expense of the official State, and the inevitable result of a policy of stupidity, cowardice and shortsightedness that successive Lebanese governments have implemented vis-à-vis this Mini-State over the past three decades.

Moreover, the statement by the Council of Ministers calling for, "...pacification and preservation of institutions, and the rule of law... and resorting to dialogue instead of disputes..." is mere pontificating sermonizing that deters no one, a specious narrative that treads water in the path of a mounting conflict between the parties, and a dose of temporary sedative whose effect will soon dissipate leaving the bickering to return to its status quo ante.

What an observer finds strange is not as much the invasion and violation of the airport, as the abject lack of responsibility by the ruling elite. In the face of this political decay, the moral corruption, and the flagrant failure of the government, no one resigns his post, no one dismisses anyone, and everyone is steadfast in their seats, conceding nothing and doing nothing, as if we are living in the jungle and not in a democratic state that holds the losers accountable and rewards the successful as is the case in the civilized world.

This pitiful republic is Lebanon only in name and has nothing to do with the deep-rootedness, the heritage and the history of the country, let alone its people. It is tantamount to a failed non-viable project which leaves but one option only, namely to rebuild this country anew – we do not say "restore", we emphasize "rebuild" – from scratch on correct rational foundations, and at the hands of great statesmen like the ones the country knew in generations past but to which, unfortunately, the current corrupt political class has no resemblance whatsoever.

Lebanon, at your service

Abu Arz

September 24, 2010

Corruption and Mercantilism versus Beirut Archietctural Preservation and Culture

The excerpt below illustrates the fundamental problem of the so-called country of Lebanon: The collusion - explicit and implicit - between the ruling political class, a destructive and money-driven real estate development business, and an apathetic Lebanese population that watches its own history and identity destroyed before its own eyes for money and greed. How can I call this Mafia-infested cesspool a country, let alone my own country?

I am especially troubled by the "...go elsewhere if [you are] looking for culture" statement. This is what you hear everywhere in Lebanon: If you don't like the smoking in your face, go elsewhere, leave the country. If you don't like the exclusive beaches built on public land that deny access to the majority of ordinary Lebanese, then leave the country. If you can't stand the pollution from filthy diesel gas, then go f---- yourself....If you don't like the fact that the vast majority of Lebanese politicians are being paid by a foreign country to continue destabilizing Lebanon (Nasrallah and Berri=Iran; Hariri=Saudi Arabia; Michel Aoun=Syria, etc...), then just pack and leave, this is not your country. Here, you play by our rules.

In general, if you don't like the corruption, the abuse of the environment, the denial of the most basic rights of citizens, the feudal-religious hold on politics, the cronyism and favoritism that is pervasive... then go. This is precisely why the millions of Lebanese emigrants never want to return and invest in their country of origin... it is because of this attitude by the resident Lebanese: "We are going to continue destroying this country to make money, and we want you (the emigrants) to help us by coming here as tourists, by buying property, by giving your hard-earned exile money to your families here because the government and the political class are not going to help them, and still, we want you to shut up and do not complain....

I say: Fuck Lebanon as long as this mentality rules and as long as feudal lords form the Ottoman era and idiotic religious leaders continue to run the country in collusion with big money whales like Hariri, Issam Fares, and others....

Hanibaal
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Architect Fadlallah Dagher said given that many of Lebanon's politicians also dabble in property, it should come as no surprise that draft legislation to protect the country's architectural heritage has been sitting in parliament for eight years.

"It's no secret in Lebanon that a lot of politicians are in real estate and have no interest to safeguard old homes," Dagher said, sitting in his family villa in Beirut's traditional neighborhood of Gemmayzeh. "Where there is land, there is money to be made," he added. "I was once told by real estate developers [in Lebanon] not to meddle in their affairs and to go elsewhere if I was looking for culture."

Warde acknowledged that he had come under intense pressure by politicians and developers to take bribes and turn a blind eye to the destruction.

"We're simply trying to preserve the identity of our city," he said. "We're trying to save what is left."(AFP)

[Excerpted from Naharnet - 24-Sept-2010]

Sabra-Shatila: But why not Damour?

THEY WILL ALL - PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS ALIKE - COMMEMORATE SABRA AND SHATILA. BUT NOT ONE WILL TALK ABOUT DAMOUR

This week, you will probably read many Palestinians write and talk ad nauseam about the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian camps in Beirut where Palestinian refugees were massacred by Christian militiamen in September 1982. You will probably read in gruesome details - the kind of details that only a sick and kinky left-wing Englishman like Robert Fisk loves to elaborate on - about those atrocities committed by the barbaric Christian militiamen (with all the negative connotations that the juxtaposition of "Christian" next to "militiamen" conjures up, as if Christians are not supposed to organize as militias, and only the "others", Palestinian terrorists,  Zionist supremacists, Al-Qaeda murderers, etc. can). You will probably read editorials by self-absorbed Israelis about their endless contrition and the deep psychological scars their complicity in the massacres left, notwithstanding their own ongoing annihilation and displacement of the Palestinian people to take their land.

But no one will talk about Damour, the peaceful Lebanese coastal town of 5,000 residents 20 miles south of Beirut, with its stone houses, its millennial terra cotta industry and its exuberant citrus and banana fields where the river Damour meets the Mediterranean Sea. During a bitter cold January of 1976, Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat - ugly face, unshaven beard, smile, and we now know his AIDS infection because of his sexual predilection for young boys - dispatched his own Islamic Palestinian militias, assisted by Syrian army soldiers and Muslim Druze fighters from the villages surrounding Damour, and proceeded to slaughter 1,000 unarmed residents of the town, while the remaining inhabitants fled by boats on the stormy sea because all roads leading to Damour were in their Muslim, Palestinian and Syrian butchers' hands.

As a result, one thousand innocent civilians were murdered in the three-day orgy of rape and slaughter,  babies cut in half before their mothers' eyes, elderly men and women killed in their beds with their throats slit, women lying in houses or in the streets of Damour with their skirts torn up to their waists and their legs wide apart, rows of young men shot in the back after being lined up at an execution wall, men hanged upside down from orange trees, limbs cut off....  There were babies with their small bodies already in a state of decomposition tossed alongside house rows with piles of Syrian and British army equipment and ordnance, and empty bottles of liquor scattered everywhere. The stone houses were demolished to piles of rubble, the road sign indicating the entrance to the city had been erased with spray paint and the word "Damour" crossed out and the word "Muddamarah" [destroyed] as these valiant Arab and Muslim heroes also saw poetry in their acts of heroism. All of this supposedly to "liberate Palestine" from the Zionists to whom Robert Fisks's own British colonialists had promised – yet again, after Yahweh – the Promised Land.

Six years later in September 1982, the Lebanese Resistance perpetrated the Sabra-Shatila massacres in Beirut. The Lebanese Resistance was a conglomerate of grassroots militias that for years had been battling the Syrian occupation, the Palestinian terrorist organizations and all the radical Islamic movements of the late 1970s and early 1980s which tried to hijack Lebanon and use it as a base to fight Israel and their "Imperialist" backers in Tel Aviv, London, Washington and Paris. After all the defeats Israel inflicted on the Arab countries and the Palestinian terror organizations of Yasser Arafat in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973, the glorious Arab countries decided to stop their glorious wars. Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979, followed by Jordan a few years later. It would take the Palestinians another decade to also make peace with Israel.

But Syria - a stubborn vulgar dictatorship - refused, as it still refuses to this day. Instead, it shifted its war against Israel by opening Lebanon up as the only Arab war front from which all the terror groups could fight a war of attrition against Israel from the Lebanese south, a war Syria denied - as it continues to deny to this day – those same groups from fighting from its own territory along the Syrian-Israeli borders. The Syrian Golan had been occupied and annexed by Israel in 1973. But unlike Lebanon where they were free to plunder, the Palestinian and Hezbollah terror groups Syria prohibited from fighting Israel from Syria along the Golan. Syria had comfortably established a cease-fire in 1974 with the Israelis and to this day not one bullet was ever fired from Syria onto Israel. In Lebanon, however, Syria unleashed an all-out war against the Lebanese political system to weaken it enough to allow the terror organizations to operate freely from such "camps" as Sabra and Shatila and Nahr-el-Bared and many others. No longer refugee camps, these were turned into military bases with tunnels and piles of weapons stacked for endless war. Only in 2007, the Lebanese Army destroyed the Nahr El-Bared camp where Al-Qaeda had barricaded itself, after months of fighting. When the Lebanese Army tried to do the same in the 1970s against Sabra-Shatila, it was branded a tool in the hands of the Zionists and the Imperialists.

The Sabra-Shatila massacres in September of 1982 touched off an unprecedented and misguided fury against the Lebanese Resistance. Meanwhile, the Palestinian terrorists played the "victim" role perfectly, while the Israelis who had watched the massacres played the "psychologically-scarred sissies" who were made to feel guilty for the massacres, as if the entire Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 was just a nice neighborly visit and did not involve the systematic destruction of Beirut and the killing of 10,000 people.

Three years later in 1985, the Muslim Shiite militias in Lebanon (Amal and Hezbollah) were to unleash their own war against the Palestinian camps, killing upwards of 5,000 Palestinian refugees in the notorious "War of the Camps" in south Lebanon. But no one, not even Robert Fisk, talks about all these other massacres. He, and his Palestinian victim friends, continue to this day to masturbate uniquely on the Sabra-Shatila massacres. You see, Muslim killing Muslim, or Arab killing Arab, is not interesting to a racist white Anglo-Saxon Westerner... It is expected that "these people" will kill one another. But on the racist hierarchy in Robert Fisk's snotty imperial British view of the world, there is a descending scale of pain, one in which the revulsion at a massacre dwindles from a maximum pitch when a British soldier is involved, gradually sliding down the scale as the British soldier turns into a generic Western (e.g. US) soldier, an Israeli/Jewish soldier, then an Arab Christian soldier, and finally a Muslim or Arab soldier at which point there is no pain, let alone any revulsion or interest. Just count the books, articles, movies... written and published about Sabra-Shatila on one side, and the books, articles, movies...written and published about the Damour massacre of 1976, or about the Miye-Miye and the Palestinian Camps of south Lebanon in 1985...on the other hand, and you will understand.

Hanibaal

One Small Story: Lessons in Arabism

When I read the story below - Egyptian soldiers killing Sudanese migrants trying to enter illegally into Israel in search for jobs - I am reminded of the hundreds of so-called Arab Muslims from North Africa who die at sea each year, like "boat people" trying to sneak into Europe....

But the lessons are many:

- One "valiant" Arab country - Egypt - is actually protecting the "Zionist enemy" Israel's borders against illegal immigration.

- The 1973 War heroes - "Semitic White" Arab Muslims from Egypt, the first to make peace with Israel in 1979 - killing "Black-African" Arab Muslims from Sudan who are searching for their livelihoods.

- Arab Muslims - Black African Sudanese - fleeing the Glorious Arab Muslim country of Sudan under the leadership of the Great Leader Omar Al-Bashir, crossing a 1,000 miles through another Glorious Arab country (Egypt) under the leadership of senile and dying but no less Great Leader modern-day Pharaoh Hosni Mubarak, in order to make it into the "Zionist enemy" country of all Arabs, Israel, looking for work and jobs. It was once said, "you can tell good countries from bad countries by the direction of migration in and out of them." Countries whose citizens are constantly trying to "leave" them are bad countries, and countries which people of other countries are constantly trying to enter" are good countries....

- The so-called "Arab world", its supposed unity, its supposed glory under the banner of fucking Islam, and how its governments - all dictators, feudals, sultans, kings, emirs, and "presidents for life" - are protecting their peoples (300 million) against the "enemy Israel" (4 million) - while depriving their own citizens of the basic necessities of life - is just ONE BIG LIE propagated by an Arab Muslim elite that inherited its power from the Ottomans, whom they served as servants and lackeys for 400 years....

The "Arab World" - from Mauritania to Iraq, and from Syria to the Comoros Islands and Djibouti (I have no idea why these people even want to be part of the Arab cesspool!!), does not need reforms - reforms will never work under the present social-political construct of these countries....

They need a bloody revolution - they need to go through what Europe went through for hundreds of years, from the early Middle Ages through the 19th century - wars, civil wars, religious wars, revolutions and more bloody world wars - to understand what it takes to have a country, to be a people, and to have governments that work.....  They need to flush ISLAM DOWN THE TOILET, like the West has flushed Christianity and Judaism down the sewage pipes, where only residual idiots continue to dwell in the belief that God will somehow provide for them by turning sand into water or splitting oceans or selecting His preferred chosen people or rising from the dead or being born out of a holy vagina or eat flesh and drink blood to be saved from some fucked-up idea of original sin or to die and go to some heaven where everything will be alright..... Religion is indeed the Great Escape, the Great Opium trip of the people, the Great evasion from the reality of our world and life on earth.....

Enough escape... enough evasion... enough hallucinations....enough belief in immortality.... there is nothing to save humans from their miserable condition - to be born and to die inexorably. Our only "consolation" is to live this life in basic happiness and contentment, without pain or fear, knowing that we will die one day never to return, to this world or to some other imagined world.

To do this, we need to reject all stupid religious and political beliefs, and act to ensure that our time - as individuals, not as peoples - on this earth should be spent free from fear and pain. We need to have governments that work for us, ordinary people. Many countries are very close to having achieved this goal, but many others are still way behind. Among the latter are Arab countries, African countries, and many others....

The peoples of the Arab and Islamic worlds must rise against their governments and emancipate themselves from the hold of the feudal and religious prisons in which they live. Social and political revolutions are the necessary path to this emancipation. There is no other way.

Hanibaal
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Egypt police kill Sudanese migrant on Israel border

September 18, 2010 

Egyptian police killed a Sudanese man and wounded three others on Saturday when they opened fire on would-be migrants trying to enter Israel, the official MENA news agency reported.
Mohammed Adam Sharafeddin, 38, died of the gunshot wounds while his three compatriots were taken to hospital and the rest of the group who were trying to cross the border were arrested, MENA said.
The death raises to 31 the number of migrants killed on Egypt's border with Israel since the beginning of the year- most of them by Egyptian police.
Cairo has come under fire from human rights groups condemning its policy of using lethal force against migrants.
The 250-kilometer border has become a major trafficking route for African migrants seeking jobs in Israel.
FROM: -AFP/NOW Lebanon

Maids in Muslim Arab Mideast: Modern-Day Slavery

Maids in Muslim Arab Mideast: Modern-Day Slavery


SAUDI ARABIA: Nails and needles as punishment for breaking a plate

L.P. Ariyawathie left her native Sri Lanka to work as a housemaid in Saudi Arabia. At first, she said, her employers mocked the basic Arabic she had learnt during a 15-day training course before she left for the Gulf. Then, "The torture started when a plate was broken by accident. (My employer) asked me whether I was blind and tried to prick something in my right eye," the 49-year-old said. "When I covered it with my hand, they pricked a needle on my forehead above the eye." Ariyawathie returned home from Riyadh last month, traumatised after what she said was months of beatings and abuse. Doctors had to operate to remove dozens of nails and needles driven into her forehead, legs and arms. Saudi authorities have questioned the mother-of-three's account.
 
But the case has brought into focus the thousands of poor women from South Asia and beyond who work in the Arab Middle East, lured by the promise of better wages to help support their families back home, but who end up abused, raped, beaten, held against their will, and commit suicide when unable to get any help. Instead of clamping down on the human rights abuses, Arab governments - themselves notorious human rights violators - protect their abusing citizens and refuse to provide any protection to the maids and other foreign workers. Human Rights Watch has raised concerns about Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia, because cruelty and ill-treatment -- from withholding wages and travel documents to overwork and sexual abuse -- have been documented extensively among Gulf Arab states, in Syria and in Lebanon.


LEBANON: Sexual abuse, torture and killings
Joynal Abedin Joy, a charity worker in Bangladesh, said rapes, beatings and brandings were "routine" in Lebanon. "Last week a girl came back from Lebanon," Abedin told AFP. "She was bald. Her employer had shorn her hair because she refused to have sex with him. In 2009 alone, the dead bodies of 11 Bangladeshi girls came from Lebanon. "Most had torture marks on their bodies. I know of a girl who called her home for help. Two days later, her Lebanese employers informed her family that the girl had died due to a heart attack."
 
Nargis Begum, a 26-year-old Bangladeshi, said her employers in Beirut gave her electric shocks, beat her with chains and leather belts and burnt her with hot irons over five months, during which she was also raped.
"Ninety-five percent of the Bangladeshi girls I met there told me they were raped at their work place. They don't tell their families out of fear. They endure it and accept their fate," said the mother-of-two.
 
KUWAIT: Rape, overwork, detention and rape
Maya Gurung, 35, left Nepal in 2004 for a job as a cleaner in Kuwait. She said she was forced to work up to 20 hours a day and was often made to survive on scraps of leftover food from her employers. Her attempts to leave were dashed because the recruitment agency had taken away her passport. She became pregnant and had to quit her job after a man she met a local church offered to get the documents back in exchange for sex. When she appealed to the police for help, she was jailed on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant. What do you expect in Muslim Arab societies where a rape victim is usually blamed for the rape and ends up whipped or jailed while her rapists go free to brag about their actions? Gurung managed to return to Nepal last year but her family shunned her and she now lives in a shelter in Kathmandu.

Unions, activists and human rights campaigners say migrant workers need greater protection, as individual governments are failing to include them in labour laws -- or where they are, their rights are still limited.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is working towards new guidelines for such employees, including written contracts and complaint mechanisms, as well as guarantees on minimum wages and working hours.
In the meantime, lawmakers like Sri Lanka's Ranjan Ramanayake have called for government action, describing the plight of the country's female migrant workers as a "social issue" and suggesting Saudi Arabia should be blacklisted.
"I'm ashamed to say this but the truth is we have become international pimps... by sending or rather selling our mothers, sisters and daughters to be enslaved or abused," he said.
 
Campaigners in Bangladesh, Nepal and India also want their governments to do more. "Migrant workers have simply not been on the political agenda in Nepal," said Sharu Joshi Shrestha, from the UN Development Fund for Women. "They are seen as unimportant because they can't vote. This is Nepal's main source of income, bringing in 210 billion rupees (2.8 billion dollars) a year. But just a fraction of the national budget is spent on helping these people."
Gurung herself added: "None of this would have happened had the proper systems been in place. As a woman alone, with no money, no passport and no embassy to turn to, I was completely powerless."  The National Domestic Workers Movement, which campaigns for the estimated 92 million domestic workers in India, is running awareness courses for women considering employment overseas and wants the migrant work sector regulated.

Fuck the Islamic Niqaab: No Hypocrite Islamic Symbols on French Soil

Musulmans d'Europe: Allez Vous Faire Foutre!

French Senate passes ban on full Muslim veils

Excerpted with modifications from:

Associated Press

September 14, 2010

Je crois que c'est un homme au volant! Regardez ses mains.
I think it is a man driving! Look at his hands.

PARIS – The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil in public. The Senate voted 246 to 1 Tuesday in favor of the bill, which has already passed in the lower chamber, the National Assembly. It will need President Nicolas Sarkozy's signature.

Legislative leaders said they wanted the Constitutional Council to examine it. "This law was the object of long and complex debates," Senate President Gerard Larcher and National Assembly head Bernard Accoyer said in a joint statement explaining their move. They said in a joint statement that they want to be certain there is "no uncertainty" about it conforming to the constitution. The measure affects less than 2,000 women, but is a symbol of a defiant Islam that wants to change the face of secular France into the primitive religious cesspool typically seen in backwards religious countries where women are treated like cattle.

The vast majority of the French stands behind the measure. They say it will preserve the nation's singular values, including its secular foundation and a notion of fraternity that is contrary to those hypocrites who hide their faces and their religious fanaticism behind a piece of cloth.

France would be the first European country to pass such a law though others, notably neighboring Belgium, are considering laws against face-covering veils, seen as anathema to the local culture. "Our duty concerning such fundamental principles of our society is to speak with one voice," said Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, opening a less than 5-hour-long debate ahead of the vote.

The measure was passed overwhelmingly by the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, on July 13.

Where Backwardness Meets Corruption: Electric Blues in Lebanon

Zeinab's refrigerator is more like a box than an ice box: the 29-year-old Lebanese civil servant cannot store meat, dairy products or fruits and vegetables for more than a day. Like the majority of Lebanese who cannot afford a generator to keep things such as refrigerators running during daily power cuts, which in some neighborhoods can last most of the day, the rhythm of Zeinab's life is set by the hours she has electricity. Since the country was ravaged by the war waged by the Islamist-Syrian-Palestinian alliance against the Lebanese State between 1973 and 1990, the now Muslim-led Lebanese government has been unable to restore round-the-clock electricity, not because of a lack of infrastructure and not because of lack of money. After all, the entire population of Lebanon is 3.5 million, which is a tiny population in comparison to such mega-cities like New York, Mexico, Seoul and others which never experience blackouts.

"I don't understand why, after 20 years since the (1975-1990) civil war, we still don't have electricity 24 hours a day," said interior designer Liliane Khalifa. "That is beyond my understanding," says the 46-year-old in frustration.

"When I was small, I did my chores by candlelight. Today, I am married, I have children, and we still need a generator to survive 10-hour power cuts," lamented the resident of Jounieh who pays a 100-dollar monthly fee to hook up to a privately-owned neighborhood generator. Hooking up to a generator is a common practice throughout the country, to make up for the government rationing of the electric power it generates, assuming one has the money to pay such a fee in a country where the minimum wage is $200 a month. The whole nation seemingly runs on generators which, for a fee, power whole buildings or neighborhoods.

 

Frustrations over power cuts exploded last month in demonstrations, mainly in the impoverished north of the country and the capital's southern suburbs. Electricity is a constant concern for the Beirut government, which allocates the third largest slice of its budget, after debt servicing and salaries, to power supply. In the tradition of all post war government ministers, the incompetent and corrupt Energy and Water Minister Gibran Bassil continues to provide limited power to the country, about 1,700 megawatts of electricity, while demand is closer to 2,500 megawatts. In addition, about a third of the country, mostly its Shiite community led by the terrorist organization Hezbollah - which is Bassil's main ally in the Lebanese government - does not pay any money for the electricity it receives from the government. The reason? Bassil says that since Hezbollah is "defending the country against the Israeli enemy" (i.e. supplanting the national Lebanese Army with an illegal militia), it shoudl receive free electricity and other benefits and service. For example, 7% of every Lebanese Army soldier's monthly salary is deducted and given to Hezbollah because the latter is fighting the "enemy" while the Lebanese Army is not!

 

"Successive governments did not invest by building, for example, new power stations to meet demand," which has steadily risen, said Violette Balaa, head of the economy section at An-Nahar newspaper. She said that in large part, blame for the electricity woes lay with the political establishment Mafia that runs the country and which  refuses to enact any reform of the sector. In other words, the government does not want to build infrastructure to meet the demand because government members are making money selling privately-generated electricity. The way this Mafia operation works is that the owners of large generators who sell electricity in the secondary market that offsets the government's dereliction are cronies of politicians like Minister Bassil, for whom the current situation is lucrative and who prefer not to find solutions.

 

In addition, in many areas where the government does not have full authority - like all areas under the control of the Shiite terrorist militia Hezbollah (Minister Bassil's allies) or the Palestinian terrorist organizations - the government cannot collect the bills due for the electricity service, and residents in those areas steal electricity from the grid by connecting illegally without a meter.

So when it comes to not paying the bills, politicians apparently figure among the biggest offenders. Last June, while Bassil pretended to force the politicians to pay their electric bills, he still did not demand that his ally Hezbollah and its Shiites bandits and thieves pay their bills. He went only after his opponents in the government, not his allies. In a grandiose campaign destined mostly for the media, Bassil announced that the total for unpaid water and power bills by officials and politicians over the years amounted to eight million dollars (6.5 million euros).He warned it would now be lights out for anyone owing more than 3,300 dollars. "Yes, we have cut off power from some influential figures' households," the minister said.

"Not only do the politicians not pay their home electricity bills, they also refuse to pay the electric bills for all the factories and businesses that they own and run, thus further compounding the state of corruption and incompetence that the Lebanese State is reputed for.  Apparently, the government recently approved a reform program to guarantee 24-hour electricity by 2015, cutting economic losses due to power cuts, estimated at 4.5 billion dollars a year. "That's a pipedream," scoffed Balaa. That is tantamount to asking the thief to voluntarily give up on the cash cow he has been milking for decades. 

The "reforms" enacted by the Taif Agreement, which were supposed to end the abuses of the Christian-led governments of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, have in fact multiplied the abuses and corruption, thus proving that a Muslim-dominated government is by far more corrupt and more inferior in running the country. During the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, Lebanon was a prosperous liberal advanced country that was the envy of the world. Today, like most Muslim-led countries, Lebanon is a filthy, dirty, corrupt, and incompetent third world country that survives on donations by the US, the EU, and rich Arab countries, and that also wants to fart higher than its asshole. For not only this country of 3.5 million is unable to provide electricity, water, security and a million other basic services to its people, it also wants to liberate Palestine on behalf of the 300 million Arabs who - having been defeated several times by Israel - have given up on Palestine, and have instead began building their infrastructures and educating their people, which means providing electricity, running water, education, social and medical services to their citizens.

Hanibaal

Gaza 2008, South Lebanon 2011: Israel's New Army Chief

Goldstone Report not withstanding, General Galant is the man who screwed the Hamas rocket fuckers to the hilt in Gaza. We hope within a year or two he can do the same with the Hezbollah missile masturbators in south Lebanon. 

We, the Lebanese, are a bunch of sissies for not telling the truth to ourselves and for not speaking out about what we really think, namely that we want the Hezbollah nightmare finished, that we want this horrific war that the Syrians and Palestinians began in the late 1960s against the Lebanese State, which Hezbollah and Iran are now continuing against our children, our country, our economy, our safety and security... 

We, the Lebanese, are a bunch of hypocrites because, on one hand we criminalize as spies and traitors those among us who deal with Israel to fight Hezbollah, yet we welcome Ahmad Abul Gheit and Amr Moussa, and the Jordanian King Abdullah, and the Syrian filthy beggar Bashar Al-Asad and his syphilis-infected bitch Bouthaina Shaaban and swine-flu generator fat pig Walid Al-Muallem, and the child-bugger Saudi King and all the asshole British-lackeys Emirs of the Gulf, and the Palestinian "President-Terrorist-in-Chief" Abbas (a former killer of Lebanese children between 1975-1982) and every other Arab fucker who has an embassy and trade offices with Israel or who meets and negotiates with Israel, or who welcomes Israeli officials and takes them on tours of their downtown markets, or who attends academic conferences with Israeli officials.....

ALL THE ARABS ARE DEALING WITH ISRAEL, while ONLY THE LEBANESE ARE BEING FORCED TO FIGHT ISRAEL because the ARABS ARE COWARDS and DON'T WANT TO FIGHT ISRAEL THEMSELVES. Just look at the Golan Heights: Occupied and Annexed by Israel since 1973, yet Syria has NEVER FIRED ONE BULLET AGAINST ISRAEL since 1973 to try and liberate the Golan, like they have forced Lebanon to fight to liberate the so-called "Shebaa Shitholes" in the south of Lebanon.

If we, the Lebanese, want to be consistent with our rhetoric, we should ban anyone among the Arabs who have dealt with Israel from visiting Lebanon. And we should arrest them when they come to Lebanon to advise us on how to best fight the "enemy", while they have an embassy in downtown Tel Aviv, and the "enemy" has an embassy is downtown Amman, Cairo, and Nouakchott, and trade offices in Tunisia, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates, or when the imbecile Syrians, those "valiant pulsating penises of the Arab World", negotiate peace every other year with the "enemy", while we, the Lebanese, are banned from even contemplating negotiating with Israel on our own to end the 40-year old nightmare on our land.


How can we, the Lebanese, accept to be the war fodder for the Arabs, when all the Arabs do is cheer and clap and build and develop their countries while Lebanon continues to sink behind into the cesspool that it has become? 


That is why, like in 1967, I will cheer the Israelis under the command of General Galant when he will bomb Hezbollah and anyone who supports Hezbollah to smithereens. We have had enough. We want peace. Like the Egyptians and the Jordanians, we want to negotiate peace with Israel, settle our stupid minor border issues with Israel, and have a peace treaty with the Israelis like the Egyptians and Jordanians do. Egyptians and Jordanians today shine my shoes, clean my toilets, and sweep my streets.... they are maids and butlers and chauffeurs in my country. They are not better than me. If they deserve to have peace in their countries with Israel, then I deserve at least the same thing: PEACE WITH ISRAEL, and an END TO THE STUPID WAR OF LIBERATION that HEZBOLLAH, SYRIA, AND IRAN have forced on my country. 

I call on all the Lebanese leaders to show the balls they claim to have in their pants, and speak the truth and act according to their people's wishes and aspirations , not according to their bosses in foreign countries like Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, America and others....


But, over 40 years, I have learned that we, the Lebanese, do not have any balls. We are worse cowards than all the Arabs combined, because we do not dare say the truth. Until we do and take our own destiny in our own hands, I will wish and hope that the Israelis will clean Lebanon for me of all the Iranian and Syrian scum that has ruined my country.


Hanibaal
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Israel Appoints Gaza War Commander as New Military Chief
The Israeli cabinet on Sunday confirmed as armed forces chief Major General Yoav Galant, who directed Israel's 2008-2009 Gaza war, the prime minister's office said.
"The government approved his appointment as chief of staff for a period of three years, with a possible extension to four years in exceptional circumstances," it said in a statement.

"Yoav Galant has proved himself in the course of 33 years of service in the front line of the Israel Defense Forces," the statement quoted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying.

He is to take over the post from Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi in February after the latter's term expires. The appointment required approval by the cabinet, which held its regular weekly meeting on Sunday. Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced his nomination last month. As head of the southern command, Galant oversaw the December 2008-January 2009 war that crushed the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
 
Other leading candidates for the military's top job were Major General Benny Gantz, Ashkenazi's deputy, and Major General Gadi Eizenkot who heads the army's northern command. "The decision was a hard one," Barak's office quoted him as telling cabinet colleagues before the vote. "All the candidates are worthy, talented, deeply experienced; men of the highest attributes."

Galant was born on November 8, 1958 in a mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhood of Tel Aviv. He joined the navy's Flotilla 13 commando unit, rising through the ranks to become its commander from 1994 to 1997. The unit carried out the May 31 raid on an aid ship bound for Gaza in which nine Turkish activists were killed. In 2005, Galant was appointed to head Israel's southern command.

Hezbollah Arms Explosion South of Litani: Violates UNSCR 1701

The hardline radical terrorists of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which controls the Lebanese government and dominates the Lebanese Army, have once again proven to the world and to the Lebanese that they are violating United Nations Security Council resolution 1701 by smuggling, storing and using missiles and weapons south of the Litani River.

Therefore, Israel is right when it says that Hezbollah is continuously violating the resolution, and Israel's flying reconnaissance planes over Lebanese airspace is a justified action in response to Hezbollah's breach of the terms of the resolution and the threat it poses to both Lebanese and Israelis.

The bottom line is that Hezbollah, like Hamas, and their bosses in Syria and Iran, are not interested in peace with Israel. They will never be interested in peace with Israel, in contrast to all the other Arab countries who have made the strategic decision of peace with Israel pending conditions and agreements over issues of dispute.

Lebanon is interested in peace. But Lebanon has been forced by Syria, Iran and Hezbollah to be the only Arab country to actually fight Israel and suffer the consequences. The whole notion of Lebanese "Resistance" against Israel is one big lie and a charade. In 1967, during the Israeli-Arab War, the Lebanese were cheering Israeli fighter jets bringing the Syrian jets down. The Lebanese were always thought to be the first Arabs to make peace with Israel. The Lebanese, being minorities for the most part, understand the Israeli mindset and sympathize with it.

Lebanon is sick and tired to being forced to fight war after war by either radical extremists like the Syrians and Hezbollah, or by coward so-called moderates like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt who all have ties with Israel while claiming bloody murder against the "enemy".

The lie must end. The Lebanese must declare that they refuse to fight UNLESS ALL ARAB COUNTRIES JOIN IN THE FIGHTING. Otherwise, the Lebanese should declare their neutrality - like Switzerland - and get on with their lives, and let Palestine never be except a footnote in history. Palestine does not belong to the Muslims alone. It also belongs to Christians and Jews and every other religious asshole who still believes in God, Jesus, Moses, Mohammad, and all the insane prophets of thousands of years ago. Such beliefs in promised lands, chosen people, last prophecies, virgin births, resurrections, and ascending to heavens on winged horses should just be placed in a toilet and flushed down the sewage disposal system a million times over.

Let regular ordinary people live normal lives..... including in Lebanon.

Hanibaal

If it's Cocaine - It Must be Hassan Nasrallah's Hezbollah

As the noose tightens around his thick simian neck, Hassan Nasrallah has no option but reject the civilized offer by Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare to him (to look into Hassan Nasrallah's alleged - but oh so lame and stupid - evidence that Israel, not Hezbollah, killed Rafik Hariri in 2005) .

Of course, he cannot accept Bellemare's offer because Hassan Nasrallah is lying and he has no evidence whatsoever and he can run but he can't hide... So he is using this lame excuse as a pretext to further try to erode thecredibility of the STL and of Bellemare. 

Hassan Nasrallah is just a phony and a dangerous idiot, whom a majority of Lebanese have chosen to follow and accept as their leader. But nothing can change the trajectory of the Tribunal. And there is where the danger lies. Unless the West and the UN make a deal with Syria and Iran - Hassan's bosses - the inevitable is fast approaching: A conflagration of monumental proportions. When the injured dog - Hassan Nasrallah - is cornered and has nowhere to go but down, he is going to lash out and bite and cause some major damage.

Meanwhile, Hassan Nasrallah's drug smuggling operations between Lebanon and South America -documented now for several years - is alive and well. See below for the report about where Hassan gets his money to buy missiles and terrorize Lebanon. In addition to drugs, he markets pirated electronics media, blood diamonds from Africa, and you name it, he's doing it to buy off his one million Shiite scumbags in Lebanon who follow him to their graves like numb sheep.

Hanibaal
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Lebanon- S. America Cocaine Network Uncovered Security forces on Friday uncovered a significant network involved in the smuggling of cocaine between South America and Lebanon. A statement from the Central Office for Drug Control (CODC) said the ring was discovered after intensive follow-up over a period of time and different dates. It described ring as one of the "most important highly complex networks active in the smuggling of cocaine from some countries in South America to Lebanon and elsewhere." The statement said CODC busted a house in Doha south of Beirut and confiscated about 50 kilograms of cocaine and arrested five members of the network -- a Venezuelan and four Lebanese. It said the deal between Venezuela and Beirut was worth more than $ 8 million. The detainees confessed that the seized cocaine was part of 255 kilograms they planned to smuggle.

Beirut, 03 Sep 10, 19:02