تظاهرات في بيروت وعدة مناطق احتجاجا على تردي الوضع المعيشي
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على وقع عودة التأليف الحكومي الى "قطة الصفر"، إنفجر غضب المواطنين في وسط بيروت في وجه القوى السياسية معبّرين عن وجعهم، وعن تردي الوضع المعيشي والاقتصادي، تخللها كر وفر مع قوى الامن.
ونزل مئات المواطنين الى ساحة رياض الصلح تلبية لدعوة للتظاهر عبر مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي. حمل المتظاهرون الاعلام اللبنانية، وارتدى بعضهم السترات الصفراء من وحي متظاهري باريس، ورفعوا شعارات مطالبة برحيل الطبقة السياسية.
وبعد تَجمهر المتظاهرين في رياض الصلح منذ الحادية عشرة صباحاً، حَوّل مشاركون فيها وجهة التظاهر في اتجاه السراي الحكومي محاولين اقتحام العوائق الحديدية. تخلل التظاهرة، عمليات كرّ وفرّ بين المتظاهرين والقوى الأمنية، وبعض أعمال شغب أسفرت عن تكسير مستوعبات النفايات على الطرقات.
بعدها، إنتقل المتظاهرون الى شارع الحمراء ليعودوا أدراجهم ليلاً الى ساحة رياض الصلح، حيث تجمّعوا أمام السراي الحكومي وسط تدابير أمنية مشددة نفّذتها عناصر من مكافحة الشغب وجيش وقوى أمن وفوج الاطفاء.
وشهدت مدينة صور وبلدتي حبوش وكفرمان تظاهرات ايضا احتجاجا على الوضع المعيشي.
15:47 ,2018 كانون الأول 23
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Ex-minister Wiam Wahhab supports this so it must be legitimate.
17:19 ,2018 كانون الأول 23
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let's hope the demonstrations keep going without a sectarian tone. Lebanese need to wake up and do what was done in the Ukraine and put ALL of the Lebanese politicians in garbage cans one by one.
17:52 ,2018 كانون الأول 23
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Bunch of loosers. They want to smoke arguileh all afternoon and get a health care card care of the state.
From where is the state going to pay their entitlements? Country is indebted to the core. If you tax the rich, they stop investing in lebabon, and these commies lose their jobs.
They want money, let them work to earn it Let them ditch their car and maid, use public transport, get their typical lebanese sized ego in check.
18:45 ,2018 كانون الأول 23
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They want to fight the corrupt politicians, yet most likely if am guessing right they voted for the same politicians in last elections. Do they dare go protest infront of who's holding the government hostage? bet you not. Yes the country is broke. Too big of a bureaucracy, redundant employees, pensions, etc.. etc... Government cannot provide everything. The only salvation is in privatizing some state industries and let the free market does it job.
Saw W. Jumblatt in Marcel Ghanim's show, although he's a "progressive socialist", but basically said he's against any privatization. Only governments that totally control all industries are communists
19:32 ,2018 كانون الأول 23
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Sounds good what public transport? what jobs? The people are getting educated and graduating and no jobs so they leave. So when the people have jobs and pay taxes that are not stolen by the government you will see progress, the governments main job is to create employment by encouraging investment in the country and not wanting to be partners with anyone who wants to invest and set rules that make them run back to where they came from ( I am speaking from experience). Take a close look at how much money each politician earns and what his net worth was before he started and what it is now. Educate yourself before you say things that make no sense
19:59 ,2018 كانون الأول 23
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Those who want to leave them leave work in dubai and retire in lebanon. No place here for everyone.
If they were manifesting for public transport, no problem. But they want handouts.entitled loosers.
If they dont like their parliamentarians, let them not vote for them
They are not asking for the rule of law and for measures to foster a conducive business climate. They are just nagging for handouts.
So understand my comment before attacking.
Tired of the constant nagging.
20:03 ,2018 كانون الأول 23
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Also they shoild demonstrate against army officer and government employees payments. Each officer gets 600,000usd as end of service compensation plus a free driver. This plus corruption is what they should demonstrate against.
19:59 ,2018 كانون الأول 24
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There used to be a party that represented the Lebanese workers and intellectuals. It was called the Lebanese Communist Party. It's intellectuals were murdered one by one by the Islamic Resistance in the mid 80s. Basically they suffered the same fate as the intellectual Communists in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. For instance Dr. Hassan Hamdan's seminal work The Sectarian State (1986), under the pseudonym Mahdi Amel, and Hussein Mroue's highly critical editorials led to their assassinations. They and others like them were dangerous secular voices in a Shii3a community about to be infested by the Iranian Islamic culture. After the fall of the USSR the Syrian regime destroyed what remained with internal strife. The same as it did to the SSNP in the 1970s. Today's LCP is just a subservient tool that has nothing to do with the old one, like the SSNP. Not even Hanna Gharib's good intentions can save it.
20:58 ,2018 كانون الأول 23
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These guys need to realize that under current management, Lebanon is not a .state, much less a Republic. It is a collection of tribes existing under the thin veneer of a state. Under that thin veneer, the militia leaders are still there,as they were 30 years ago. The only difference now is that they used to contest for “shares” with weapons and bloodshed that only drew into the mix the Syrian mafia to compete with them, so, in 2005, they threw off the Yrian mafia and agreed to compete for “shares” as they do it now.
Eat while the people go without basic services, no electricity, no water treatment plants no nothing of a modern state. So don’t expect from these guys what they have no intention of giving.
21:22 ,2018 كانون الأول 23
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The people want to topple the regime. What kind of regime do they want to replace it with, this one?
https://youtu.be/0VO44iU27kw?t=31
