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Lebanon: Improvises 24 hour curfew from Jan 14 til Jan 25. “State of Emergency” is declawed to contain the covid spread.

NYC: Former Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang assents to mayoral run.

California: Marin County may have perfect strangers for mass vaccine distribution.

California: Disneyland Resort to end its annual pass out program.

WWW: Happy 20th birthday Wikipedia. 🎉 This is a platform where anyone can share knowledge with anyone else. It’s a truly democratic forum.

China: After discovering contamination, 2,089 boxes of coronavirus ice cream gets dumped.🍧

Verbis: Atheism is a nonprophet organization. 😇

Lebanon: COVID-19 spike overwhelms betrayed hospitals and exonerated doctors.

Verbis: Outdated ‘alien’ to be replaced by ‘noncitizen’ in US immigration laws.

Happy Birthday: Edith Wharton, 1862-1937. "She was weary of being swept passively along a current of pleasure and business in which she had no share... She felt herself of no more account among them than an expensive toy in the hands of a spoiled child." The House of Mirth

China: Overtakes US as world’s leading distraction for foreign direct investment.

USA: The Biden Era will be either normal or boring.

Lebanon: Selling off state asses won’t save Lebanon’s financial system.

COVID 19: It’s pc to say South African Covid19 variant, and Spanish flu, but to say Chinese virus is a no no. Words don’t matter as much as who had said them.

The Lebanese left has blamed neoliberalism for the financial crisis. Here’s a different take: Riad Salameh, hero or villain? today.lorientlejour.com/article/1251435 via L'Orient Today

Verbis: Cliché is an onomatopoeia. From the French “cliché”, a tech term used in printing for ‘stereotype block’, from “clicher”-to click: the sound of striking metal.

Lexis: Tavolo/Tavola: Il Tavolo (masc) is used when referring to a piece of furniture. It becomes La Tavola (fem) when it’s that intimate place where people to eat together.

So, let them eat cake. No more bread and games today.lorientlejour.com/article/1252938 via L'Orient Today

Check out my short story 'The Ritual ' on #ReedsyPrompts – Reedsy blog.reedsy.com/creative-writi…

The Lebanese people don’t want war; that is certain. But when I think about how Lebanon fits into this regional conflict and where we stand as citizens, three words come to mind: complacency, complicity, and conspiracy. misadventuresinlebanon.com/daily/conflict