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Eighteen people are reported to have been shot on Monday night in the shiite residential area of Karbala, Iraq. Protests and civil unrest in Iraq and Lebanon have been blamed on corruption and western influences. Shiite leaders have complained of excessive use of force and have advised protesters to seek changes legally.
Hundreds are reported to have ransacked protester’s tents and stalls in Beirut this week and amid the chaos the Lebanese prime minister has threatened to resign.
The prime minister of Iraq since October last year is Adil Abdul Mahdi who was a critic of the 2010 election. The newly elected council of representatives of Iraq, previously the united Iraqi alliance, once the largest Shia party, won elections in 2005 but fell apart when factions who were said to be seeking reform, left.
The council of representatives of Iraq, the unicarmel legislature have been meeting in the as called Baghdad international zone. The Iraqi national movement was formed to contest the 2010 elections and is said to consist of both shia and sunni leaders. The government was said to be under pressure to pass legislation concerning oil and gas; and supposed pressure to vote against the nationalisation of the oil industry but despite opposition from the Kurds, new legislation concerning oil was passed in 2009.

The u.k. are adamant that there should not be a border between northern and Southern Ireland in the wake of Brexit, but an eu outer border has to appear somewhere and northern Ireland are either in or out. The acting MP for northern Ireland in Westminster has stated that the north stays with Britain unless they want to do otherwise. In view of this why not formally invite the north to join Ireland instead of waiting passively for more unlikely deals? Their acceptance or refusal would then demark the border.

The UK are criticising the US for getting out of Syria yet are praised for their insensible announcement describing the killing of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. All this when Syria now have to work towards living peacefully together again.
The as called prisons which hold women and children who have been described as isis by the UK media might be food stations. Charities have described the situation in Syria as a crisis of homelessness but it may be that the widespread displacement of people may be due to no food.

Not to be outdone, the UK have founded the european council which they describe as the collective body that defines the eu’s overall political direction and priorities. The president is believed to be Donald Tusk.
Their role may be advisory, in the same vein as the un.

When Israel withdrew from Gaza on 2005 as per agreement, according to news all hell let loose as the Palestinian authority, at large in Samaria or the West bank as called, were challenged by HAMAS, who are thought to be affiliated to Egypt and beyond.
Nine thousand Israeli citizens were forcibly evicted yet Israelis continue to maintain strict external control.
The Gaza blockade denies freedom of movement and some have implied that HAMAS are paramilitaries who are definitively anti-Israel, and have been accused of various atrocities in Gaza, including executions. It is a concern that children may grow up to blame Israel because of the blockade.

South Yemen was a socialist state until 1990. In 1980, Abdul Fatah Ismail, founder of the Yemeni Socialist Party is reported to have resigned. No details. He is said to have left Yemen. On his return there was a civil war of short duration between his supporters and the supporters of his succesor Ali Nasir Muhammad, which led to the death of Ismail and the proposed deposition of Ali Nasir.
The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic, north and south, merged in 1990. Details unknown.

Southern Yemen has a British colonial history owing to the 17th Century. The Front for the Liberation of occupied Yemen and the Marxist National Liberation front were both contingents for Yemen in the 1960’s. The consequences of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the six day war, were many casualties and an end to the front for occupied Yemen, resulting in a socialist state:
It is said to be proposed oil drilling in north Yemen is the reason for a planned merger, but violent outbreaks from the north resulted in said intervention from the Arab league in 1979.
Since 2007 northerners have again been actively seeking independence. Northern Houthis are loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh who served as president until 2012. He was assassinated in 2017.

Alfonso XIII of Spain, said to be known as the african gave up the Spanish throne after the proclamation of a socialist republic in 1931. The Spanish civil war broke out in 1936, the result of a coup by monarchists, and lasted for three years. During this time many socialists fled to northern Spain.
Francisco Franco Barhamonde, otherwise known as Franco was head of state from 1939. He was preceded by Miguel Cabanellos, an army officer during the Spanish civil war and the ruling military junta who was prime minister from June to October 1936. When Franco took office he was officiated as chief inspector of the army.
Franco was head of state until 1975. His policies favoured a centralised government, previously discarded, and he abolished the official use of regional languages in favour of Spanish. Franco was criticised for being secular, and Spain was politically and economically isolated until the 1960’s and the tourist boom. He was succeded by King Juan Carlos I.
Pedro Pérez Castejón has been described as acting prime minister since June 2018 in a movement towards pseudo-socialism
King Felipe VI was enthroned in 2014 following the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos. Reason unknown.

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Protests in Lebanon have been attributed to discontent with the government, the latest complaint being reportedly, proposed taxation hikes; but current reports tell of ruined infrastructure, believed to be the result of war.
After the first world war, Lebanon became the subject of a league of nations mandate. During this time Beirut, according to legislation became the capital city and a banking haven, especially for the Persian Gulf oil boom. Civil unrest in Lebanon has been due to a conflict between east and west factions.
A 1982 war with Israel is reported to have begun after Israel’s ambassador to the UK was assassinated. During the war, French and US barracks were attacked by suicide bombers killing 307 people, mainly soldiers.
A lot of building was required after the war and Solidere, a said to be privately owned company was founded during the practical non-existence of a functioning government, as described, in order to reconstruct damaged and demolished infrastructure. Policies were the subject of criticism, a major controversey being the expropriation of land.
Wars with Israel have resulted in severely damaged infrastructure. Fatalities unknown. The current financial crisis in Lebanon has resulted in a meeting with the world bank. The world bank claims to be partnering with countries to end extreme poverty. They deal in loans and the rebuilding of infrastructure but are also involved in corporate procurement of land amongst many legislative procedures.

The world bank was created in 1944 by the u.n., and according to legislation in order to regulate the international financial order. A three week conference resulted in agreements being signed by delegates from 44 nations that became legislative and resulted in the international monetary fund and the International bank for reconstruction and development; which came from ideas concerning a financial order of the post war world. The international monetary fund was authorized to set and maintain control of the exchange rate and convert a debt into assets. These dubious policies have morphed into present day scenarios such as food-for-oil programmes. In the middle East and South America there have been suspicions concerning the ruining and burning of crops in order to facilitate such programmes.
According to world bank legislation, all member countries are required to subscribe and legislation passed has curtailed economic nationalism, trade blocs and economic spheres of influence in favour of new regulatory legislation which marks the end of national autonomy.

Michael Gove, a British conservative politician who has been an official of the duchy of Lancaster since July has warned that a no deal Brexit will result in a continuation of Westminster rule in Northern Ireland; but was the reported power sharing government in Stormont really power sharing and were they stooges for Westminster?