Inverted Kuwaiti Flag Placed instead of Emirati Flag At Mohamed Bin Zayed Hospital Centre Opening

Today was the opening of the "Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Emirati-Lebanese Hospital Centre for the Treatment of COVID-19 Patients" on the Beirut seafront today. The center has a capacity of approximately 80 beds, which will help receive patients, diagnose them and giving them the needed treatment before transferring them to hospitals, if needed. While this is good news, the Lebanese authorities showed their appreciation for the Emiratis by misplacing a Kuwaiti flag instead of the…

BDL is Blaming Facebook & Google on the Lira Collapse

Forget the decades of corruption, the third highest public debt-to-gross domestic product, the state-sponsored Ponzi scheme, the real cause behind the Lira collapse, aside from the notorious yet invisible US blockade of course, is Google & Facebook. No this is not a joke. the BDL issued a statement to Annahar today where they mentioned they're holding Google & Facebook responsible for allowing currency apps to publish their own currency rates and not adopting the "official"…
Humor

Who Are the Thawra Avengers?

4 years ago
We’ve had tons of new movements popping left and right ever since the revolution started, including a group whose logo has the “Avengers” on it with the Thawra first in the background. Those “Thawra Avengers” ...
Humor

Lebanese Government Formation Commonly Used Terms

4 years ago
Lebanon has been without a fully functional government for over a year now, and is headed towards more chaos and poverty amid a worsening social and economic crisis. Despite all that, the political parties fighting ...
Humor

[Spoiler Alert] What Happens To Beirut In The Movie Greenland?

4 years ago
Ever since the situation started deteriorating in Lebanon, especially in 2020 where we had to face an economic crisis, a pandemic, a collapsing Lira and the August 4 blast, many Lebanese would jokingly wish for ...
Humor

New Foreign Affairs Minister Finally Showing on Ministry Website

4 years ago
The above picture is showing the former Foreign Affairs minister, but if you visit the MFA’s website and click on its social media channels, you will be directed to the former minister instead of the ...
Humor

Caretake PM Hassan Diab is Not Happy With His Salary

4 years ago
Our grumpy good-for-nothing caretake PM Hassan Diab apparently has time to give interviews to foreign media. In his most recent interview with Financial Times, he was complaining on how he’s stuck in office on less ...
Humor

Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad is Joining The World’s Longest Zoom Meeting

4 years ago
The Lebanese Ministry of Information tweeted yesterday that minister Abdel Samad has received an invitation to host the longest Zoom meeting in the world that is expected to last more than 28 hours. The event ...
Critiques

Where Did the Bank Deposits Go?

4 years ago
Between end of 2018 and February 2020, 98,885 accounts were closed in Lebanese banks, the majority holding between 5 and 30 Million Liras. $21.3 Billion Dollars is the total amount of cash withdrawn from banks ...
Critiques

Latest Lalaland News: BDL Set to Introduce Digital Currency in 2021

5 years ago
BDL has been considering a digital currency since 2017 following the rise of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and is apparently set to launch it in 2021, according to Governor Riad Salameh. The digital currency is ...
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