#Lebanon
Dear Mr. #ErnestoRamirez
Being the new head of mission of the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND, #Facts you should know about the senior Lebanese officials and members of the ministerial committee tasked to negotiate with the @IMFNews
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Bank owners, Bank investors, Politicians (who are bank owners and investors) are the committee working on the Capital Control law
Instead of having the Bank owners and investors carry the burden of the decisions THEY MADE when they lent OUR MONEY to BDL making huge profits on insanely high interest rates for years,
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with BDL lending to the government (whose overlords then siphoned most of the money and deposited these in the banks and got insanely high interest rates, and then transferred their money abroad in the past 3 years) when ordinary citizens could not access their bank accounts
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Instead of Bank owners/investors and politicians in their boards paying the price of their greediness
They are planning through a Capital Control Law to legalize their theft and legitimize future theft - making the Lebanese pay once again what is left of their lifetime savings
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Now the same Politicians and Bankers who transferred their money overseas can swoop in and buy our National assets and heritage, getting even richer while cleaning their money!
This is a Ponzi scheme within a Ponzi scheme within a Ponzi scheme.
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In any other country
They will be dragged into the streets by their hair,
They will be thrown in Trash bins & hung on Lamp posts,
They would be serving multiple life sentences in high security prisons!
#Lebanon
‘Water Salute’ to the Swiss International Airline (SWISS) after landing it’s first flight in #Beirut 🇱🇧 from #Zurich🇨🇭
The #WaterSalute is a touching airport tradition to honor new airline service.
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The water salute is a touching airport tradition to honor military veterans, foreign dignitaries and new airline service.
Salutes typically involve two firefighting rigs spraying arcs of water over an arriving or departing flight. It is a sign of respect, honour & gratitude.
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the water cannons are positioned carefully, in safe locations, allowing enough space for the plane to pass through. The wind direction is taken into account as well, and the process is coordinated together with Air Traffic Control.
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#Lebanon
5:00am, youths from #Akkar exposed a tank for storing gasoline in a site in Al-Talil area, north Akkar.
A camouflaged area for building materials, but actually it was a reservoir full of gasoline for the aim of monopolizing it or smuggled it to Syria (as stated)
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The Lebanese army confiscated most of the quantity, which was about 60,000 liters, according to a video that circulated yesterday at the moment the site was revealed.
They left 20,000 liters to be distributed to the people for free.
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People with shortage of gasoline headed at dawn to the site to take advantage of the opportunity to fill in gasoline in light of the shortage of the substance and in anticipation of the crazy rise it witnessed after the lifting of subsidies.
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2 years of hard work, consultative & inclusive process, institutional mapping, public law discussion & voting in Parliament,
A law that was reviewed twice by the OECD-Sigma and the World Bank, praised by the procurement professionals network in the MENA & the int’l community.
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And after the @LBpresidency signed the public procurement Law No.244 of July 19, 2021,,,
The Free Patriotic Movement’s MPs challenged the Public Procurement Law in front of the constitutional council describing it as ‘illegible’😡
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