#FitB4Christmas: Week 2 Recap

I was less active during Week 2 and only averaged 10,077 steps on a daily basis but I've been skipping dinners when I wasn't able to exercise and I found a small mini cycle that I had forgotten about at home, so I completed a 20K cycle 3 times. I did twice the push-up exercises but I'm still behind schedule. As of this morning, I've lost so far 3.4 KG and I'm hoping to pick…

Tanker Spotted Dumping Waste In our Waters?

One of the blog's readers was trying out his new drone when he spotted a vessel facing the Jal el Dib coast dumping in the waters something that looked like either oil or their sewage waters. I'm not really sure what it is dumping, but I doubt that's legal to do so. Thank you Raffi
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Would Legalizing Electricity Production & Sales Solve Lebanon’s Power Crisis?

9 years ago
I saw this interesting video on the Lebanese Institute for Market Studies FB page where they are promoting the idea of legalizing electricity production and distribution to solve Lebanon’s Power Crisis. They are arguing that ...
Critiques

Nepalese Domestic Worker & Activist Deported by Lebanese Authorities

9 years ago
The Lebanese Authorities celebrated Human Rights day on Saturday December 10 by deporting a Nepalese migrant domestic worker who “was involved in the struggle for the rights of migrant domestic workers” as reported by Human ...
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Lebanon’s Environment Minister Keeping His Legacy Intact

9 years ago
A group of students from l’Institut moderne du Liban (Collège Père Michel Khalifé) in Fanar were assaulted by the workers while protesting against cutting of old trees next to their school. Workers threw rocks at ...
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More Fiber Optics Promises: 85% of Lebanese Will Have it By End of 2017

9 years ago
Quoting Telecoms Minister Boutros Harb, 85 percent of the Lebanese population will have access to the service by the end of 2017, which means in less than a year time. Minister Sehnaoui said the same ...
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Are We Finally Getting A Montreal-Beirut Non-Stop Flight?

9 years ago
[Kataeb] mentioned today quoting Beirut-Rafic Hariri airport’s manager Fadi El-Hassan that MEA and Air Canada are undergoing serious negotiations to bring back the non-stop Montreal Beirut flight. I can’t find Al Hassan’s statement anywhere so ...
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Who Killed Gebran?

9 years ago
Who killed Gebran? Is there any ongoing investigation? Why aren’t there any updates? Who is keeping his legacy alive? Gebran Tueni was killed on December 12 2005, 11 years ago. He was an outspoken Lebanese ...
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Parliament’s Administration and Justice Committee Agreed to Abolish Article 522

9 years ago
Update: Just to be clear, the committee agreed to scrap the article but the parliament still needs to vote on it. Also LBCI reported that the committee has only agreed so far to scrap it ...
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Should Bassel al-Amin be Arrested or Not?

9 years ago
We are all quick to jump to conclusions when someone is arrested over a Facebook post in Lebanon but one has to be aware of the Lebanese laws, especially when he’s a journalist, before writing ...
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