تقرير للـ CNN يسلط الضوء على "ماراثون" للنفايات في لبنان وناشطون على "الفيسبوك" يسخرون

not only have we rivers of trash but we also have resistance.

and 2 days ago, i read what a retarded poster jabal10452 was saying he was so proud of being lebanese and not arab. Not even in Somalia you have incompetent and corrupt politicians like you have in Lebanon.

It is not the problem, this river of garbage, it is the symptom of the illness that is Lebanon. In every society there is a point beyond which the people are not willing to sink. A point where the people are stirred to take action. The Lebanese people are apparently willing to take a dysfunctional government, and not be moved to action; to take a foreign militia establishing an order in the country by force of arms, and not be moved to action; no electricity, so what? No water treatment plants, we will swim in the ocean next to raw sewage. No clean water supply, we will drink bottled water. No garbage clean up, we will live next to the garbage.

Blame the politicians?? No, they are responsive to those who give them money. The people are not the sources of their power at all. The people are beggars who have their hand out and apparently think more of their handouts than living next to garbage piles. No, the political class know their sheeple well. They know that the people are docile and will not move to change the order of things and so there is no incentive to do anything, not even pick up the trash, without some member or other of the political class being paid handsomely for the service and of course, the sheeple stand with their hands out for the patronage money that will come with the contract.

What a disaster but the real shame is in accepting incompetence and complete chaos at all levels of government.

Those are profound word Beiruti. Sadly, nobody cares. The rich is getting richer, and the poor is helpless. The people in control don't even try to hide their corruption anymore. It took one million people to kick the Syrian occupation army
out of Lebanon. It is going to take more to make any change to the country's misery.

The Lebanese people have become desensitized to their misery. And those who dare to protest will eventually be silenced by bribes or by bullets. Those who can will leave, and the rest will accept their reality and bow in submission. We are witnessing a painful and slow death of a nation