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"Clients With Guns" Are Demanding Deposits From Crisis-Stricken Lebanese Banks

11-09-2019 • https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

Here we go as predicted: the Lebanese central bank attempts to prevent a "panic mode" scramble on the part of the public to remove all deposits, and the recently imposed (unofficial) regulations geared toward staving off capital flight are predictabl

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Syria is Lost.. Lebanon's Gold is Next

11-06-2019 • https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Steve Brown

The largest reserve gold traders on the planet are the six bullion banks. A bullion bank is a large multi-national bank authorized to serve as a conduit through which Central Banks – and the Fed primary dealers – loan their gold out into the mark

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Lebanese prime minister quits amid anti-government protests

10-30-2019 • https://apnews.com By ANDREA ROSA and BILAL HUSSEI

Lebanon's prime minister resigned Tuesday, bowing to one of the central demands of anti-government demonstrators shortly after baton-wielding Hezbollah supporters rampaged through the main protest camp in Beirut, torching tents, smashing plastic ch

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Why Lebanon And Iraq Are At The Brink Of Further Strife

10-30-2019 • https://www.moonofalabama.org, By B

Today the Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri resigned after -at times- violent protests. In Iraq the gadfly cleric Moqtada Sadr joined protesters after previous protests in Iraq also led to violence.

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Lebanon: Hundreds of Thousands Protested Against Corruption Leading to Government Reforms...

10-22-2019 • NeedToKnow.news

...as the Economy Is on Brink of Collapse. Protesters blamed the ruling elite for driving their children out of Lebanon because they failed to build a country that could provide jobs, as unemployment for under-35s is at 37%.

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Israel Launched Failed Overnight Drone Attack On Hezbollah In South Beirut

08-25-2019 • https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

Last night for the first time in over a decade Israel tried to carry out a targeted airstrike over the southern suburbs of Beirut.

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Miss Earth Lebanon is stripped of her title after posing for a photo with Miss Earth Israel

10-18-2018 • https://www.dailymail.co.uk, by SARA MALM

Miss Earth Lebanon has been stripped of her title after posing for a photograph with Miss Earth Israel during the international pageant in the Philippines.

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Israel's Coming War Won't Be Against Iran or Syria

05-25-2018 • lewrockwell.com By Darius Shahtahmasebi

Writing in the Asia Times earlier this month, David P. Goldman lamented that an Israel-Iran war is unlikely to take place any time soon.

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Lebanon in the Crosshairs

11-28-2017 • https://www.lewrockwell.com

If the United States climbs into bed with the Israelis and Saudis and commits to take down Iran it will wind up having to do the hard fighting in a war that could be unwinnable in any conventional sense.