One day, the thieves of Lebanon will be hung in Public arenas. And all their pictures will be taken down and burnt.
Tag: facebook
Thought of Today: July 23, 2018 at 02:15AM
In Lebanon, everything is connected to everything. There are no partial solutions. Comprehensive solution or none.
Thought of Today: July 22, 2018 at 02:21AM
The “Arab Spring” was the beginning and not the end of a continuous shock waves to come to the Arab world.
No nation has less imagined characters than the Arab nations…. a product of haphazard borders drawn by French and Birtish diplomats in 1918 who ignored history, geography, economy, culture, and religion.
For example, South Lebanon (Jabal Amel) and its inhabitants were completely ignored in the Cycas Beacon agreement, and through out the Lebanese national identity up to 1975 when consequentially Civil war broke up, and still going (in the form of cold civil war).
The Islamic imagined identity, or pan-Arabic imagined identity are far stronger than the national one.
That’s why I believe in the inevitable Arabic Unity in the future, once the decadence of the Arab world reaches an implausible and impossible level that result in continuous revolutions.
Thought of Today: July 22, 2018 at 12:47AM
لا أمانع من وجود قانون يعاقب على ازدراء الأديان، اذا كان مقابله قانون يعاقب على ازدراء العقل.
I don’t mind a law that penalizes the contempt of religions if there was a law at the same time that penalizes the contempt of mind.
Thought of Today: July 21, 2018 at 02:19AM
Today, there are estimated 80,000 giraffes, 200,000 wolves, 250,000 chimpanzees.
Compared to…
1,500,000,000 cattle, 400,000,000 dogs, and 7,000,000,000 humans.
We have taken over the world.
“Perhaps 65 million years from now, intelligent rats will look back gratefully on the decimation wrought by humankind, just as we today can thank that dinosaur-busting asteroid” Yuval Harari
#species
Thought of Today: July 21, 2018 at 02:14AM
Medieval times:
Peasants lived frugally
Aristocrats lives extravagantly
Today:
Poor and middle class live extravagantly on credit card and hyper consumerism.
Rich and Successful Entrepreneurs live frugally on careful budgets and invest.
#sapiens
Thought of Today: July 21, 2018 at 02:08AM
The US population spends more money on diets that the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.
#sapiens
#badspecies
Thought of Today: July 14, 2018 at 08:40PM
Capitalism founded America not vice versa.
Settlements in America in 17th century were established by joint-stock companies such as the London Company, the Plymouth Company, the Dorchester Company, and the Massachusetts Company.
The Mississippi Company, chartered in France, colonized the lower Mississippi valley, establishing New Orleans.
The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) was chartered in 1602 by the Dutch hires mercenaries and colonized Indonesia for 200 years.
The Dutch West Indies Company (WIC) controlled trade through the Hudson’s and built settlement New Amsterdam in the river’s mouth which is lower Manhattan today. The wall they belt to protect the settlement from British and Native Indian attacks is what we know as Wall Street today.
British East India Company (BEIC) conquered India.
That’s why Napoleon used to make fun of the British Empire calling it (a bunch of shopkeepers).
Nationalization happened late in the game.
The world as we know it today was established and drawn mostly by unchecked corporate greed.
Thought of Today: July 14, 2018 at 08:26PM
Mass production of sugar in America beginning in 16th century changed the world.
10 million slaves were imported to America, 70% of which worked in sugar plantations.
Free market controlled sugar.
Slave-trading companies sold shares in Amsterdam, London, and Paris stock exchanges. The yield was about 6% a year.
Everything was being done due to greed and indifference, and not racism or hate, although racism was a prevailing norm at that time.
#sapiens
#badspecies
Thought of Today: July 13, 2018 at 12:25AM
Action: creating garbage disposals next to the beach. Routing sewage to beaches.
Result: Some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, are all toxic to swim in. Ecoli level at Ramleh Baida (the only public beach in Lebanon) is 400 times bigger than safe standard. 3% chance for any swimmer to get sick immediately.
Reaction of Lebanese people: reflecting all the officials who have created this situation.
Wissam Charafeddine 