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Lebanese Garbage Piles Yield Massive Protests

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The people of Lebanon are now rising up against the government for incompetence in the capital city of Beirut where the streets have long been filled with trash. Protest organizers have been working under a group name called “You Stink”, an insult directed at the government, but the issues the country has been having over trash collection is just the tip of the iceberg. Citizens have been fed up with the parliament’s inability to decide on a new president after well over a year, government corruption and the country’s failing water and electricity systems. Read more on the uprisings at CNN.

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