Archive for the ‘Plain Talking’ Category
It was a promise by MTV and a heartfelt endeavor to the circle. An additional reason, not objected in the report, was the adamant fact that you no longer see Lebanon’s mountains, its horizon, its paysage, the greenery of what’s left of our Lebanon; For what? Loud & vulgar ads, imposing an “in yo’ face” [...]
Filed under: Circle Ethics, Lebanese Media, Lebanon Green Party, Plain Talking | Leave a Comment
Tags: Ads, Billboard, MTV
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If you wangle Ziad Baroud’s last interview with Marcel Ghanem, I see a pattern in his thinking. I feel his ideal government, is the government that governs least. I feel if the Lebanese society noticed that the Lebanese government is doing its part, society would feel compelled to play its part as well.
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On September 29, 1989, sixty-three of the seventy-six surviving members of Lebanon’s 1972 Parliament gathered in the city of Ta’ef in Saudi Arabia to reach a settlement to end the civil war at the request of Lakhdar Ibrahimi, envoy of the Arab Follow-Up Committee, set up by the Arab League. The meeting came against the [...]
Filed under: Arab world, Mediterranean, Plain Talking, Strictly Lebanese | 4 Comments
Tags: Arab, Lakhdar Ibrahimi, Lebanon, Taef Accord
The Termium 2009 conference is a flop. I received several thoughts from Lebanon out of a clump of observers concerning the Termium conference at BIEL, and listened to their ideas. It seems… Lebanese social mingles realize that there is more potential of an Entrepreneurial spirit. The internet is creating a lot of niches, each specilizing [...]
Filed under: Activism, Lebanese Startups, Plain Talking, Strictly Lebanese | 2 Comments
Tags: 2009, BIEL, Conference, Lebanon, Termium
Ideology… takes decades to refine. Forgive my bluntness, as a bias observer only to the Christian seats in the Metn Area, more precisely one seat, actually it’s the difference in number of votes. I really don’t care what the other goons are doing, they’re lowering the standard of what to expect. Also, I have stated my predictions [...]
Filed under: Analysis, Lebanese Elections 2009, Plain Talking | 1 Comment
Tags: Catholics, Christians, culture, customs, Hezbollah, ideology, Lebanese Christians, Maronites, Orthodox, Shiites
OTV – Where are you from?
I swear to you - I am striving on keeping an objective point of view in these elections, as I have done in the past three years, and we have a whole written blog on each post that you are free to search and browse to testify my case . I’m looking at the Elections in Lebanon [...]
Filed under: Lebanese Elections 2009, Lebanese Media, Opinion, Plain Talking | 7 Comments
Tags: OTV, Sami Gemayel, TV
The United States will provide the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) with twelve Raven unmanned aircraft in the coming months. Really? I mean who would read this and not think the U.S. intentions in doing its utmost not to monitor Hezbollah and it’s movements. The U.N. is doing its part rather efficiently, and effectively in keeping [...]
Filed under: American Culture, Plain Talking, Strictly Lebanese | 2 Comments
Tags: Hezbollah, Raven unmanned aircraft, surveillance
