Above: Beirut after the 2020 blast at Hezbollah’s ammunition stores.
henrymakow.com – Jan 14, 2021
Lebanon is suffering from political corruption & gridlock, a banking and debt crisis, and a simulated pandemic that is crippling the economy.
“Time is running out to address this culmination of simultaneous ordeals. Barring an unforeseen development, a tipping point is steadily fast approaching. I am sad to say darker days lie ahead.”
Ron, 36 has BS in Computer Science. He had a stint in journalism in early career and is now an administrator.
by Ron — (henrymakow.com)
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Unfortunately, the situation in Lebanon keeps getting worse and is now coming to a head as longstanding problems and new hardships converge.
We, the Lebanese people have been taken hostage by a group of warlords-turned-politicians who were handed the keys of the country in 1990 on the heels of a bloody 15-year civil war.
The delicate political system imposed after the civil war consists of a diverse sectarian power-sharing between 18 Christians, Muslims and Druze recognized sects. This formula of religiously-based, fragile governance has since maintained uneasy peace but does repeatedly flare up as it engenders volatility and socio-economic inequality.
The system is rife in bribery, cronyism, favoritism, patronage, and vote-buying. It has allowed the ruling establishment to use sectarian conflict as a cover for socioeconomic disparities and justification of their constant bickering.
Main political figures are Michel Aoun, Christian previous Commander of the army and current president of the republic; Saad al-Hariri, son of assassinated Sunni leader Rafik al-Hariri and former prime minister; Hassan Nasrallah, head of Shiite party Hezbollah, the most powerful – and only publicly armed – group in the country; Nabih Berri, leader of Shiite civil war militia Amal Movement and current speaker of parliament; Walid Jumblatt, former Druze militia commander and head of the Progressive Socialist Party; Samir Geagea, Christian politician and leader of the Lebanese Forces, another former civil war militia.
An ever-worsening economic crisis pushed people of all sectarian affiliations to take to the streets in October 2019 to the surprise of the ruling elite. We would protest corruption, lack of reforms, huge sovereign debt, deficits in the budget and current account and run-down infrastructure.
The effects of poor public services, skyrocketing unemployment rates, worsening poverty, high inflation rates and a continued brain drain have spared no one. I personally have long lost faith in any prospect of change and have been living and working abroad since 2010.
To make matters worse, foreign exchange reserves at the Lebanese Central Bank are currently depleted and unregulated capital control measures by banks are firmly in place. Like hundreds of thousands of other compatriots, our hard-earned savings are now up in the air.
Explosion
Above: Beirut after the 2020 blast at Hezbollah’s ammunition stores.
I thought the story was settled with ANFO.
The Beirut port massive blast last August left us all traumatized. Little less than three tons of mysteriously stored ammonium nitrate exploded.
Or does he mean 3000 tons.
I made a calculation but can’t remember, definitely closer to 3000 than 3 tons
There is only one problem in lebanon, and that is the jews in nearby israel
Israel is the seat of all world terrorism
If Lebanon and Syria fall then Israel and the US will control the whole eastern Mediterranean seaboard. A bridgehead into the whole Middle East. But now the fascist elite is bringing down the world economy the oil won’t help because there’ll be no markets for it. Israel will probably get the land it wants, for now, until it’s chased out, and the oil and its products will be able to supply the dominant military forces for a while. But there will be no lifeblood, no economy, to make the system function to maintain their dominance.
Uninventing money could undo them in the end. That push to take all could see them lose all.
Lebanon’s problem is that it lies next to the Satanic false nation of IsraHELL. The Ashkenazi Satanic Bolshevik Communists of Israel, who actually come from the lands between the Black and Caspian Seas,
have NO connection to the land of Palestine, and NO connection to the ancient Hebrews of the Christian Bible. Israel is a false country established by European Satanists. The Satanists of Israel have done horrible things in Lebanon, from Sabra and Shatilla to Qana (twice). Do your own research. But, the Satanic Khazars of Israel need more water, and their interest is to steal the lands north of the Litani River in order to control the river. As long as false Christians continue to support the evil Israelis, Lebanon will continue to suffer.
Lebanon’s government has several MI6 assets in senior positions, as the recent Anonymous hack exposed. They need to excise these tumours quickly.
“Beirut after the 2020 blast at Hezbollah’s ammunition stores.”…???!!!
What BS! “Ron” seems like a novice who believes Bullstream Media narratives about what goes on in the world!
“Lebanon is suffering from political corruption & gridlock, a banking and debt crisis, and a simulated pandemic that is crippling the economy.”
“Time is running out to address this culmination of simultaneous ordeals. Barring an unforeseen development, a tipping point is steadily fast approaching. I am sad to say darker days lie ahead.”
This can be said about the whole locked down world, not just Lebanon!
“The system is rife in bribery, cronyism, favoritism, patronage, and vote-buying. It has allowed the ruling establishment to use sectarian conflict as a cover for socioeconomic disparities and justification of their constant bickering.”
It sounds like he’s talking about any country you pick! The US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, the UK, etc., etc….
Look at this picture:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n6sNpauTtZI/XzWnKm_Rw0I/AAAAAAAAEFM/3wrIp0SQ5mAQE9Y-ovvpTkLze0SRra-7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/beirutblast1.png
Ammonium nitrate? Sure….
The Prime Suspect Does it Again – Yukon Jack
http://grizzom.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-prime-suspect-does-it-again-yukon.html
thausands tons of ammon nitrat cannot result in a big hole more than
40 meters deep in concret quay and rock underground . beirut on
rock , i know this because i swam there in the 60ties. all nukespecialists
know that that hole was made by an israeli mininuke. look in :
VETERANS TODAY
The Jews are experts at turning countries into shitholes. Is it a coincidence that all nations surrounding Israel are now shitholes? Who did 911? Israel. The war on terror is really a Jewish war of terror on the world. And our glorious MAGA president worshipped these warlords, chaos managers, shithole builders.
Trump 2.0? HELL NO!
Lebanon and Gaza today, Amerika tomorrow. Right before our eyes Amerika is being turned into a shithole. Who is responsible? Jews and Israel. Bibi Netanyahu even admits he and his Jewish cohorts are the one doing it:
“”America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. Why? Because it is the will of God, and America is big enough to take the hit so we can do it again and again and again. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them suffer for refusing to be our slaves.””
But don’t say it’s the Jews, because we must all cry big tears for the poor wittle Jews who got Holoroasted by those evil Jew hating Nazis. Jews (like Makow) can not help but try cutting off any real rescue plan for White peoples being ground up by the Jewish despotism machine – so there is an endless campaign to bash Hitler and the Nazis. The one thing Jews actually fear is AH because he had them pegged, used his charisma to articulate the problem and then rounded them up!
Gee, do ya think we ought to do the same?
We love much of what you write HM
but we ain’t buying your anti-Hitler rhetoric.
And as Amerika falls into the Jewish abyss, Christians say we must turn back to the Lord, get religion again, when it is this Judeo-Christian religion that blinds the believers to the truth about Jewry. When I was raised Catholic I attended Catholic school for 12 years, and I was taught to revere Jews and believe in a Jewish savior named Jesus.
Later I learned Jesus was fiction and earth is hell, and I learned that the Hindus had gurus who knew what happened after death, our souls just recycled back here to earth which is the real hell. Then I realized that Jews were the ones making it the hell. Then I learned earth was owned by alien space race that created us with their own DNA. Our fathers in the heavens were devils!
All this talk about the return of Christ, or God’s love is the exact same HOPIUM as Q-Anon about good guys coming to our rescue. Nope. Christ was a lie – no god is coming back, God loving us is a lie, going to heaven in the afterlife is a lie, Jews being God’s chosen ones is a lie unless you want to believe the space devils choose Jews to torture us.
My final big realization, that unifies all the horror of what I mention above, is that earth is a prison planet, humans are a domesticated slave specie, the gods or archons set up earth as a loosh farm – harvesting our energy. Earth is kept in constant turnmoil so the human farm animals maximize loosh (strong emotional energy) production. Humans are used and abused and thrown away, the soul is caught and recycles into another body, or their is no soul…
Last year I penned an essay as soon as I had a self realization that the soul was invented by the priest to sell the afterlife. Believe me I was horrified, but is had the ring of truth terrible that it may be. Obviously when you are dead you are dead, as anyone can see that that when their fellow dies they are dead as a door nail, lifeless, no long animated. So a grand theory was invented to explain how you could go to heaven or hell – the soul. The priest (con artist) said your soul survives death, and thus the priest’s afterlife extortion racket was saved.
This is a big deal as humans (the one’s in flesh/ego consciousness) are terrified of death. This, I reasoned, was due to their self conscious minds. So any being that is animated in flesh and also self conscious has a big need to invent religion. Because of self awareness, humans invented big myths to survive the terror of being alive on a planet in a dimension of tooth and claw.
So if you just hate what I laid out, think of it this way, does the farmer tell the cows what he has in plan for them? Does the farmer take care of the cows? Yes, he may even love them, but in the end the cow is being sacrificed for the livihood and survival of the farmer. Thus we can postulate, that all higher lifeforms are preying on lower in a grand web of life, and at the top are the gods feeding on us all. (The exception is parasites, lower lifeforms can take over a host. Thus the Jewish survival strategy is to take over their nation-state hosts.)
So if you use this as a model of our manipulated reality, the gods are using certain people/tribes to do their bidding. This is why the worst tribe got in possession of the sacred knowledge. The gods chose the Jews to infect the world’s population with the Yahweh god meme. That explains why the Jews always win, as the gods are marshalling the Jews to win because it serves their agenda – which is to maximize loosh production of the human animal farm.
So my next realization on how this works is this: in order for us to survive this hell we must have hope. We believe that the afterlife is heavenly, that way we bear our burdens in this life. Humans must have hope to survive, so the gods who farm us are using hope as the cope dope for their plantation. We are given just the smallest amount of hope dope to keep this game going – and it is big business as humans need any hope they can find.
This need for hope is exploited by intelligence agents in Q-Anon. Also “god” or the energy parasite exploiting us never actually reveals itself (ever notice that?) because as any parasite it must remain hidden or it would be extracted by the host. I wrote an essay about this GOD REMAINS IN THE SHADOWS TIME TO ASK YOURSELF WHY.
I also reasoned that if God was Love (as claimed by the god knee benders) then God would immediately terminate this hell. Real mercy is ending the torture chamber. The Buddha said all life is suffering, that in my mind is the greatest condemnation of life and the Creator God. God should terminate itself and it’s Creation if you think about it.
Not just for more turf to strike norward in the ME, but Israel, the US and the UK are also after the large natural gas reserves off the coasts of Lebanon and Syria, and agents of those nations will just keep stirring the pot with bribes, subversion and unrest until they can march in and take them over.
Just more Semitic mongrel mayhem…
Alcoholics are in mourning for their inner organs and then projecting (into the comments, sometimes) their sorrow, but I will look mostly at the Netanyahu (fake name of an Ashkenazi) quote YJ gives. Why does the Yid torture America to death?? Is there one reason? No, there are four–because there is not one real one. These are: we hate America (not a reason); it is big enough to take it (ditto); it is the will of God (an excuse pulled out of arse) and “we hate them for not being our slaves” but then we need to know why they have to be your slaves, Yid-mensch. No reason is offered, but in Yid-world you can heap up some items of rhetoric and it passes for logic, even in their occupied universities. Unfortunately for them, I hear them talk.
Some still think Beirut explosion was Hezbollah’s ammunition depot. If they are just misinformed then they should just check the map, Hezbollah is in the south and has nothing to do with the Christian run port in Beirut. Hezbollah has massive wide tunnels going to Gaza and to Syria, they keep most of the missiles underground.
Then there are some who think Israel used mini-nukes. The fact that so much volatile material is stored in such way in a port for a long time is crazy and we can assume enemy influence and bribery here, the fires that started could have been easily set off by enemy agents. There is no solid evidence of radiation or Israeli missile, drone or aircraft. Just because the explosion was massive does not make it a nuke or a mini-nuke. And yes it is very likely that Zionists did this because it serves their goals.
The main goal of the Zionists is to keep the region “wrecked”, this is done by any means necessary: through sanctions/embargo, infiltration, war, famine, destabilization, assassination, bribery, psy-ops and propaganda, etc… in order to make the people of the region unhappy and keeping their countries underdeveloped, weak, corrupt, and so prone to capitulation and entering bad deals with the enemy just to ensure basic survival, unable to think about higher goals. Another side effect is the waves of refugees moving away from the region.
Despite all the evil Zionists have done to the region, Israel is also “wrecked”, things that you normally don’t see in the msm: Like Israeli soldiers stealing weapons and selling them to Palestinians to cover for their addictions! The corruption in Israel is even worse than its neighbors.
Amazingly, Iran in comparison to other countries of the region is decades ahead in development and infrastructure… very far from “wrecked”, despite “maximum pressure” and currently having a very bad Liberal government (Rohani’s team). Usually europeans and others visiting Iran are surprised as they expect to see something even worse than Egypt (friendly with US and not under sanctions); Egypt is described as “shithole” by many. So people of the world must not know that a country can be number one enemy of US/Zionists and still do much better than countries that are seemingly friend or even allies of US/Zionists.
“But we thought you were only ‘resisting’ !!!” an EU tourist in Iran
In terms of military power, IRGC has only invested in weapons and technology that matters in the era of cybernetics, primarily in sure-strike missiles, drones, satellite and electronic warfare. And you will see how sure-strike conventional missiles are key in 2021 and beyond. Today the traditional categories of power of a country (Economic, Cultural, Military, Political, Scientific) no longer apply, what matters is 1- Information, 2- Energy, everything else is secondary and so old-fashioned weapons such as the huge and painfully slow aircraft-carriers that are easily deterred and rendered obsolete within the 2000 KM range by a ballistic missile that can exit atmosphere with the guided warhead that detaches and re-enters right above the target striking with “minimum” mach 7 speed. There is nothing anything can do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khev3f0BJ90 (smaller payloads used in the wargames)
as the IRGC commanders have said, The 1000-10000 missile storm option is on the table! And yet US just sends one nuclear powered submarine to the Persian Gulf and some B52 bombers (Vietnam era stuff) to scare Iran. Experts know that Persian Gulf environment is only suitable for fast-boats. If one large vessel sinks it can block the entire choke-point. PG’s maximum depth is about 40m, and only a narrow part near Iran cost is this deep. Iran will never sink a nuclear armed and powered sub or ship in PG, this would ruin the environment for hundreds of years. That’s why IRGC had many war-games involving capturing an aircraft carrier! If Iran can shoot down a Global Hawk with its older generation anti-aircraft missile system, B52 becomes a joke. Now most of the people of the world (average people) don’t understand these things and won’t until the great spell is dispelled. How can US Superpower be defeated in just 3 days?! And these Iranians are just boasting and Photoshop work!
US and Israel and their puppet Arab allies (Zionists) are in their worst position ever.