Govt. Refers Waste Management File to Municipalities, Continues to Search for Landfill
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The cabinet agreed on Thursday to refer the trash disposal file to municipalities during a “productive” session that witnessed the boycott of ministers from the Free Patriotic Movement, Hizbullah, and their allies.
The government decided during the meeting that lasted over three hours to refer the waste management issue to municipalities that will agree to handle it.
Ministers after the meeting deemed it “productive”, while expressing hopes that the boycotting officials would return for future sessions.
Information Minister Ramzi Jreij said after the meeting that concerned waste collection companies have been ordered to collect the garbage that has been piling on the streets across the country.
The trash will be collected at landfills that will “soon” be properly equipped to contain them, he explained to reporters without indicating the location of these dumps.
Addressing the weekend's violence that erupted during civil society protests against the waste crisis and political deadlock in the country, Jreij emphasized the cabinet's keenness on freedom of expression and holding demonstrations.
“Investigations will continue to uncover protesters and security forces members who resorted to violence during the rallies,” he stressed.
The cabinet also approved dedicating funds to finance the salaries of public sector employees.
Following the session, Speaker Nabih Berri contacted Prime Minister Tammam Salam, urging him to take some time before calling a new cabinet session to “allow consultations to reach solutions that guarantee the attendance of all parties.”
A new session has not been scheduled yet.
Hizbullah, FPM and Tashnag ministers walked out on Tuesday of a cabinet session meant to discuss the worsening garbage crisis. They also received the backing of the Marada Movement whose minister had not attended the session for being abroad.
It was not clear however what compelled the FPM and Hizbullah to take the decision of boycott.
In a statement Tuesday, Hizbullah said the garbage crisis reflected the "endemic and accumulated corruption of the past two decades" and policies that only serve "personal and political interests at the expense of citizens." It said holding peaceful protests was a legitimate right.
The protesters say they are fed up with leaders they accuse of caring only about lining their own pockets and a system they say ensures incessant bickering and paralysis. They contend the entire trash crisis is about which politicians get the bigger cut from waste management contracts.
FPM chief MP Michel Aoun is scheduled to hold a press conference to address the latest developments, including the passing of decrees in the absence of the boycotting ministers.
Local dailies said that around 70 decrees, which had been passed without the signatures of the FPM and its allies, would be presented to them for signature under an initiative made by Berri.
The FPM has been claiming that the signature of only 18 ministers violated the cabinet's working mechanism in the absence of a president.
Lebanon has been without a head of state since May 2014.
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27 August 2015, 08:01
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I am the_roar: I am a regular poster on naharnet. I have 50 fake accounts and I live on this forum 24/7. I make fake accounts and insult people when I have no argument or debate. I am a Shia who pretends not to speak Arabic and claims to live in Australia. I know every street in Lebanon and every MP's name despite my claim that I am 3rd generation Australian and having never been to Lebanon. I tell people I don't post on weekends to give them the impression I have a life. I lie and lie and lie and think people believe me. I love to see my comments in the top rated section so people think I am important.
27 August 2015, 08:07
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Dear Mr. Salam:
Why is mowaten so smart?
Why is the_roar so popular?
Why is southern so educated?
27 August 2015, 11:06
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Dear mowaten: I will be brief as I am in the middle of a cabinet session:
1) mowaten is smart because he thinks he is
2) the_roar is popular because he makes himself popular through voting for himself
3) southern is educated because he received his education in nabatiyyeh.
27 August 2015, 08:23
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Dear politicians, please keep your hands out of this movement! If Hizbollah, FPM or even FM, LF, and anyone else wishes to join, they are more than welcome... but only under the banner of the Lebanese flag.
27 August 2015, 08:45
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lebjack
you know how much i respect and how highly i think of you.
can you tell me why i was banned?
27 August 2015, 09:01
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Ebola and FPM have a common objective : destroying the institutions.
27 August 2015, 13:09
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After failing miserably with their "Christian rights" demonstrations the populist hypocrites of the FPM now cynically want to ride the coattails of the civil society groups' protests. How pathetic especially after the farce that was Bassil's coronation.
27 August 2015, 13:30
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لأن نظام الزبالة الفاسد انتهى #نازلين #بدنا_نحاسب
لأن الكهرباء ما بتجي الا ببيوتن #نازلين #بدنا_نحاسب
لأن ما في مي الا لرش المتظاهرين #نازلين #بدنا_نحاسب
لأن كل النواب و الوزرا اتباع و حرمية #نازلين #بدنا_نحاسب
لن نسكت عن سرقاتكم و سمسراتكم بعد الآن
لن تمرروا الصفقات المشبوهة فقد جاء وقت التغيير
هذه الدعوة موجهة إلى كل الفئات الشعبية والقوى الشبابية والهيئات المدنية الراغبة في المشاركة والتحضير من أجل عمل موحد جامع وفاعل.
خلونا نتلاقى سوا لنحاسب سوا
#بدنا_نحاسب
27 August 2015, 13:52
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You know? There's something truly unrealistic about these two sides, M8 and M14, they are still at it when the nation is now taking to the streets to remove them, ceremoniously or unceremoniously, either way it will come. They are still taking and turning us in circles, in fact, there's absolutely NOTHING they've ever solved, nothing!! One side walks out on the other, then the other side walks out on the former, it's the same tune now for 10 years, this country is now truly on its knees, yet these two sides don't even give a horse's hoot over the fate of Lebanon. Wlak ya jame3a, this is a rather simple issue, it's the TRASH issue, even that you have to fight over? But for those whose eyes are still closed, open them, even our trash is gold for them to fight for, in the meantime rest assured, if these two sides keep clinging to power, come another 10 years and it will remain just the same, nothing will ever change so long as they share power and the cake.
27 August 2015, 14:32
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(1). Southern, in 2005 I was there to rally for the removal of the Syrian occupation forces, and bingo, they left peacefully. My dear Southern, it may surprise you of just how many Shiites and Mitweles keep coming to the demos, most are disgusted with your Hezbollah and Amal. You ya Southern you are part of that blind flock that can't but see the world in tunnel-vision form, so you can't and won't ever see the real world. What do you know of me, other than I am of LF rank? Have you not been capable of seeing the real Bachir Gemayel spirit that is in me?
27 August 2015, 14:33
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(2). Southern. Have you ever taken time to listen to one of Bachir's speeches? If you didn't, then try, have the decency and courage to do so, then you will understand how people like me think, if not, then you should join the "You stink movement". Now try this. Shave clean, put a big wooden cross on your neck, please no hair gel for God's sake, try your hand at a bit of French if you can, join the demo trying to look like a Christian from Ashrafieh and try to speak to the Shiites coming to the demo, then brace yourself for the biggest jolt in your life over the realities on the ground, not everyone is a Yellow sheep like you, fortunately. Let us then see how much you will last trying to pose as a Christian my friend before you start bursting by the seams.
27 August 2015, 17:22
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Southern, my dear dear Southern, if you judge my inner peace as being angry, so be it. No Southern, you are a true Hezbollah partisan, come on old chum, every single line of your posts is as Shiite Hezbollah as can be. What you are trying to do here is to deceive people, but will it go past? You see Southern, people like me make people like you very uncomfortable, very ill at ease. My calmness, my pointed responses, the way I write are like an arrow inside your heart, anyway, the issue is not about me, but about people that want no violence but change thru peaceful means, an end to your militia's attempts to homogenize our country. You will live to see us change this country, you will live to see people like me be one of those who will have taken your pants down without your ever realizing it. You wait. No hatred, no rancor, no regrets.
27 August 2015, 14:35
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Aoun and the FPM are sheer opportunists, they are trying to reverse their ill-luck, not knowing just how many of their former partisans are there to work for changes, changes without the old guard and their flock of decaying sheep.
27 August 2015, 17:28
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You're right Southern, and I see in you one sheep, the only difference is that you have longer horns, so that you can be seen as a party leader, you know, a people shifter. Do accept my frankness, but trust me, there is no hatred, no anger, no rancor, and no regrets either. Mix with people like me, and you will feel Seasons when they happen, so far you're still waiting for the storm, and you shall never see Spring, nor the new flower buds, nor the bird that comes to sing the end of winter.
27 August 2015, 18:05
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Mballa ya Southern, you do care what I say of you, otherwise you would not be trolling us so much, I am tormenting you people more than you wish to accept or admit. But it's nothing personal, I post about the issue4s, you people post about the posters, that's the difference.
27 August 2015, 15:24
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باسيل رئيساً لـ”التيار” الوطني الحر” بعد رفض ترشيح اللائحة المنافسة
اعلن أمين عام “التيار الوطني الحرّ” ايلي خوري فوز وزير الخارجية جبران باسيل برئاسة “التيار” والوزير السابق نقولا صحناوي نائباً للشؤون السياسية ورومل صابر نائباً للشؤون الداخلية بالتزكية.
ورغم تقديم ترشيح لائحة ثانية ضمّت زياد البايع مع نائبيه ايلي معلوف وفارس لويس، إلا انها لم تستوف شروط النظام الداخلي حسب ما أعلنت الأمانة العامة لـ”التيار الوطني الحر”، لتفوز لائحة باسيل بالتزكية.
27 August 2015, 15:51
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I am happy to witness the fall of the Family Protected Mazra3a.
This fall has already started when the Caporal asked the Christians to apologize to the Butcher...and then witnessing the obedience to Ebola, Syria and Iran and the corruption which followed.
Now that imbassil is at the top, the fall will accelerate ending up in a small family club.
27 August 2015, 17:23
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Tric, there will be elections when you start writing in proper English, masalan, you can get started with this: Christians, Militar,...OK, start.
27 August 2015, 19:06
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Southern sure those were LF troublemakers trying to spoil the demos.. and they went to Dahieh beforehand to get themselves some Twelvers Shia paraphernalias, necklaces and tattoos just to fool the cameras. Look dimwit next time just wait for the Aounist and Hezbollah propaganda departments to finish Photoshopping some LF crosses on the Shia punks burning, vandalising and looting and then provide a link.
28 August 2015, 02:48
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When regional interests paralyze the country and pin disgruntled and unworthy leaders (more like thieves) against one another, and convince you to pursue unworthy, false believes (bullshit religious superiority) and worship credulous characters, this is how they will further succeed in fundamentally changing the tapestry of the country. Most of you don't even deserve this land and should move to the smelly arm pits of your respective masters in Saudi Arabia or Iran.
