A powerful political face with seats in parliament and government my guest this week from beirut is one of its politicians musawi how does the self named party of god reconcile its very different activities. We welcome to conflicts around welcome to you thank you good morning 8 and 9 months oh of mass demonstrations against the political elite you included and nothing is changing where all the reforms that have been promised so many times in lebanon well this is a long story actually when you want to talk about the reforms in lebanon when you want to talk about the reforms and you have to talk about the events of the system we have been plagued by the most like of. Political diseases of of my say. And this is a long way to go actually it has to do with the confessional system it has to do with the economy that we follow or as we imposed it does not necessarily belong to the benefits of the people thats why were going to continue to have this vicious cycle as long as we continue to stic
Anyway Popular Mechanics which is not as popular as the title suggests that out dost protest too much Popular Mechanics recently published an article that was not meant to help people tear down statues of american racist icons but it happened to be titled how to topple a statue using science it goes on to list how the article goes on the less how one could bring down a statue if one wanted to but you totally should not read it and should not carry down a racist statue in what some consider vandalism the article says you will likely need 70 people pulling on very strong ropes or straps to bring down a statue so do not find 70 of your closest friends and have a top of the races slave owning wild party do not. Do not suggest there will be a free pizza there which will help make sure people show up do not do not make sure to get the ropes or chains around the head of the stats you because put them around the feet will not give you nearly enough leverage to accomplish the goal if you had su
Week from beirut is one of its politicians musawi how does the self named party of god reconcile its very different activities. We welcome to conflicts around welcome to you thank you good morning 8 months oh of mass demonstrations against the political elite you included and nothing is changing where all the reforms that have been promised so many times in lebanon well this is a long story actually when you want to talk about the reforms in lebanon when you want to talk about the reforms and you have to talk about the elements of the system we have been plagued by the most like of. Political diseases of my say. This is a long way to go actually it has to do with the confessional system it has to do with the economy that we follow or as we imposed it does not necessarily belong to the benefit of the people thats why were going to continue to have this vicious cycle as long as we continue to stick to the same system that what you it was part of there something i continue to do the same
Will never again know our history yes yes exactly one can only learn history from metallic facsimiles which consist of 30 percent copper 20 percent tin and 50 percent pigeon seeing these monuments is the only way to learn about things i myself had never heard of the existence of long pointy sticks in till i saw the Washington Monument i didnt know of americas love affair with beings until i saw the big shiny one in chicago and i thought giant vagina star gates were only a thing of Science Fiction and to live visited st louis others have argued there are National Statues teach children what is valued in our society and not going to agree more i couldnt agree more judging by the numbers women and people of color are about 95 percent less important than horses and any of our president s were horses oh horse invented the light bulb Thomas Edison was a horse thats what im saying to you right now you might argue thats not true but without a statute you can prove it some argue these statues a
Monuments is the only way to learn about things i myself had never heard of the existence of long pointy sticks in till i saw the Washington Monument i didnt know of americas love affair with beings until i saw the big shiny one in chicago and i thought giant vagina star gates were only a thing of Science Fiction until i visited st louis others have argued there are National Statues teach children what is valued in our society and i couldnt agree more i couldnt agree more judging by the numbers women and people of color are about 95 percent less important than horses many of our president s were or says oh horse invented the light bulb Thomas Edison was a horse. Thats what im saying to you right now you might argue thats not true but without a statute you can prove it. Some argue these statues are not racists in fact they are just large monuments to remind us of the military prowess of brave men who fought on the losing side of a battle to keep black people as their property or in colu