Tyre Protestors Shout Anti-Bassil Slogans Over Severe Power Rationing
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Several residents of Tyre blocked on Sunday the road at the southern coastal city’s entrance to protest electricity cuts but the army later reopened it, the National News Agency reported.
NNA said the residents held a sit-in outside the Electricite du Liban building at the city’s northern entrance and hoisted banners against “the policy of rationing and corruption at the energy ministry.”
The protestors also shouted slogans against Energy Minister Jebran Bassil, asking him to resign, it said.
They warned that they would take escalatory measures after their “symbolic” sit-in, which caused heavy traffic at the city’s entrance, in case their demands were not met.
On January 31, the cabinet tasked a ministerial committee with studying the process of leasing power-generating ships. The committee has held several meetings so far.
Lebanon has been suffering from severe power rationing as Bassil has warned that the situation could get worse if the government doesn’t take quick measures to resolve the crisis.
12 February 2012, 12:38
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Blame Mikati not Bassil you morons. Get your facts right. Bassil can't provide electricity he doesn't have unless authorised by Miqati the disgraceful prime minister. Bassil is trying to bring you power unlike some.
12 February 2012, 12:58
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those people should shout anti-generator mafia slogans , bassil is beeing fought by those people , he cant do a thing ! People go protest agaisnt the real thiefs the generator mafias which are fighting bassil who is not corrupt as per cookie or flamethrower !!!!
12 February 2012, 15:32
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when irrefutable evidence emerges about bassil being corrupt, then we'll see. until them you're just accusing people you dont like and wish them to fail just because when your party was in power, they were to incompetent to improve the country's infrastructure. so it's normal and predictable that you want them to fail by having M14 deputies vote them down in parliament even if that means plunging lebanon in darkness for indefinite periods of time. (:
you want decent people to look like losers because you're cheap losers yourselves (:
12 February 2012, 16:31
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yep and strangely every one in Lebanon is yelling about electricity so it makes your minister the Loser ;) now shut up !
12 February 2012, 19:57
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Flamethrower, Bassil's isn't as corrupt as he is incompetent. His policies set back the telecom sector 10 or 15 years (ISP's have a 1 year licence, etc). He has also been the energy minister for how many years now, and the power situation grows worse.
If he weren't the SIL of Aoun, does anyone actually think he would have a job anywhere?
12 February 2012, 13:46
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Electricity or not, they will always live in the dark, the dark ages. The only electricity they should get is the one that should attempt to shock them into sanity. But in their case, even this is hopeless.
12 February 2012, 13:54
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Horai, finally the people are talking the truth about the corrupted leadership of Hezbollah and Aoun
12 February 2012, 14:32
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hang them aoun and bassil from the nearest tree in downtown beirut
12 February 2012, 15:27
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hariri and ouwwet didnt leave a tree in beirut unfortunately ya ayoor. from dora to beirut, LF cut the trees to have better shooting and sniping range and hariri took the parks and forests for his real estate mega projects.
it's very convenient to blame bassil for this outage.
more people are in need for electricity while the power grid has remained the same and now cant supply the growing demand, especially afet the real estate craze.
slash do you deny there are generator mafias with political cover who dont want their business revenue to stop? there's a huge billboard on the jounieh highway taking advantage from the power rationing to sell its generators. i advise you to look at it. many people are happy with the parliament obstructing bassil's power grid's projects. and in the midst of such crisis, what does miqati find best to do? he leaves to paris to boost his business (:
12 February 2012, 18:14
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a second fact : the ministry of energy and power was from 1990 with pro-syrian let it be amal-wa3d-and now fpm, this ministry coast 10b from the government ask yourself where this went! your minister has been responsible since when ? why didnt he find a correct solution? what is he doing is just showing that he has a like we say in arabic "wahra" in the state while people are freezing... it is not his work, if he is frustrated because he hasn't a "wahra"on his wife it is not the lebanese mistake
12 February 2012, 16:22
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God bless you FlameThrower that's right, everything is the fault of the hariri and ouwwet never the Syrian defense forces that protected Lebanon for thirty years by murdering the Sunni Christian terrorists and the civilian that sheltered them.
12 February 2012, 16:34
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If we go by what flame thrower said: when irrefutable evidence emerges about bassil being corrupt, then we'll see. until them you're just accusing people you dont like and wish them to fail .......... and if we abide by it both ways, then the comments made will become more objective and analytical (instead of just exchanging insults). The problems remains is that it is hard to produce such evidence in a country like Lebanon because no one is allowed to investigate and if proven any measure to punish the guilty could spark a civil war. Most Lebanese might be educated but we still have tribe-like emotions.
12 February 2012, 18:20
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let this crook tell us how come the state budgets were zeroed before 1990 ? and who signed this amendment ? who wanted to bring back Le general and did whatever it took for that ? now with all the evidences destroyed he is one of the purest... typicall hypocrisy and FPM !
12 February 2012, 19:47
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the filthy slimy imbecile zionist media terrorists hallucinate about some "facts" in order to blame everything on our patriotic goverment.
