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Najib
Apr 04, 2020 05:24
Early last week, The American University of Beirut Medical Center announced that they're now performing COVID19 tests at their newly established Pandemic Evaluation Clinic And Center. The PECC is located in Building 56, the focal point for AUB’s clinical response to the novel pandemic, and was prepared in just under 10 days! AUBMC relocated existing functions and units to the hospital, and made sure the newly formed unit complies with international COVID-19 requirements. The clinic…
Posted By
Najib
Apr 04, 2020 06:01
Leave it to the BDL geniuses to figure out new ways to screw us over while pretending to "facilitate" cash withdrawals for people. It took me a couple of hours today to understand the latest circular they issued, and it translates to the following: - The memo concerns approximately 1.6 million account holders in Lebanon having less than LL5,000,000 Or $3,000 in their accounts. - Those who have more than $3,000 will still be forced…
Posted By
Najib
Apr 04, 2020 04:52
Lebanon's Energy Minister tweeted today that the government has decided to go ahead with the construction of a controversial dam in the Bisri Valley. The same government that just defaulted on its foreign debt, that couldn't allocate more than $12M dollars to help poor families, that doesn't have enough liquidity to buy fuel or finance building new power plants, wants to add to its debt a $620M loan from the World Bank. Talk about priorities!…
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Najib
Apr 04, 2020 04:36
For those who missed Abou Talal's disgraceful video, he was on TV yesterday claiming girls dancing in TikTok videos are behaving like "Mia Khalifa", and stating that this is a phone app not Maameltein. Even worse, he condoned rape and sexual assault due to their "actions". His statements obviously caused outrage online, so he went back on today supposedly to issue an apology, but instead barely delivered a half apology and sounded like it was…
Baladi
5 years ago
Fairouz appeared yesterday in a YouTube Video sitting in her living room reciting a prayer (asking God to save us). It’s not clear if this is a recent recording related to the COVID19 pandemic or ...
Baladi
5 years ago
The COVID19 did not stop the Lebanese Oriental Orchestra from doing what they do best. They connected online, each at his place to perform Fairouz’s “B7ebbak ya Lebnan” and send out a message for everyone ...
Critiques
5 years ago
Update [April 14 2020]: The Lebanese government has halted the distribution of parcels because they found in the lists: – Families not in need of financial aid. – Deceased individuals. – Wanted individuals. – Families ...
Fun
5 years ago
82-year old Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was captured wearing an AirDoctor card during his meeting with a group of ministers earlier this week. The card in question is a Japanese product that supposedly “protects against ...
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