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It Is A Smoking Gun - Prince Bandar And Other Saudis Financed The 9/11 Terrorists
Plausible.
The “28 Pages” Explained
Plausible.
The “28 Pages” Explained
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obama is the current President, and supports the Saudis as much as anyone ever has.Typhoon wrote:The Saudis executed a peaceful cleric protester?
This is who the US supports?
This may have not made your news feed.
Censorship isn't necessary
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As does Trump, thereby continuing conventional US policy.Mr. Perfect wrote:obama is the current President, and supports the Saudis as much as anyone ever has.Typhoon wrote:The Saudis executed a peaceful cleric protester?
This is who the US supports?
This may have not made your news feed.
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Reuters | Saudi to shelve, reform billions of dollars of unfinished projects - sources
No wonder the Saudis want to take Aramco public.Saudi Arabia's government is ordering its ministries and agencies to review billions of dollars' worth of unfinished infrastructure and economic development projects with a view to shelving or restructuring them, government sources said.
Riyadh's Bureau of Capital and Operational Spending Rationalization, set up last year to make the government more efficient, is compiling a list of projects that are under 25 percent complete, the sources told Reuters.
Many of these projects are relics of a decade-long boom of high oil prices and lavish state spending, which ended when oil began sliding in mid-2014, making it increasingly difficult for Riyadh to find the money needed to complete their construction.
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Our old friend Pepe Escobar on SA and Trump.
https://geopolitics.co/2017/06/08/trump ... e-escobar/US President Donald Trump could not possibly have predicted the game-changing after-effects of his triumphal sword dance in Riyadh. Or could he?
The fact is the House of Saud went amok, in a flash, going after Qatar and bombing from the inside that glorious Arab NATO project – call it NATOGCC — sworn with pomp over a glowing orb.
An excited Trump tweeted three times his approval for Riyadh going after Doha.
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Spectator | Unlikely allies: Israel and the Saudis
By promoting some voices while preventing others from being heard, the royal [Saudi] court is testing the Saudi public’s reaction to a possible future announcement that the enemy (Israel) of my enemy (Iran) is my friend (Wahhabi-Zionist alliance).
This new geopolitical reality was championed last month by Donald Trump during his visit to Saudi Arabia and Israel. There, he too singled out Iran as the main instigator of terrorism and instability in the region. He gave King Salman (whom he had damned as a promoter of global Wahhabi terror and hatred just months earlier) a huge bear hug. Then he was symbolically flown on Air Force One from Riyadh to Tel Aviv, the first direct flight between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Trump, of course, did not write the speech he had been prepped to read. Truth be told, he would probably not have understood it if he had been in the audience. During the election campaign, he brazenly admitted that he had absolutely no understanding whatsoever of the difference even between (the Shia, Lebanon-based) Hezbollah and the (Sunni, Gaza-based) Hamas. Not since George W. Bush has the White House been inhabited by such an inarticulate, manipulable President with zero foreign policy experience.
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On the right & on the left
On the right, the country heading the UN Commission on Human Rights, and now a member of the UN Women Rights' Commission
On the left, well those are the bad guys.
On the left, well those are the bad guys.
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if we ignore cultural quibbling over which methods of murdering people are good and wholesome then the story is somewhat more complicated than that.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/saudi ... le/2638480
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia's crown prince declared war on the clerical elite who have long shaped Saudi society.
The man who will be Saudi Arabia's next king, Mohammed bin Salman, did so by delivering an unequivocal message, "We are returning to what we were before, a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world." The crown prince continued, "We will not waste 30 years of our lives wasting time dealing with extremist ideas. We will destroy them today," he said.
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BBC | Saudi princes among dozens detained in 'anti-corruption' purge
A new Saudi anti-corruption body has detained 11 princes, four sitting ministers and dozens of former ministers, media reports say.
The detentions came hours after the new committee, headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was formed by royal decree.
Those detained were not named.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says Prince Mohammed is moving to consolidate his growing power while spearheading a reform programme.
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Interesting to see what will follow. The surreal Roger Stone claims this "reformist" wants to purge Shia presence from SA.Typhoon wrote:BBC | Saudi princes among dozens detained in 'anti-corruption' purge
A new Saudi anti-corruption body has detained 11 princes, four sitting ministers and dozens of former ministers, media reports say.
The detentions came hours after the new committee, headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was formed by royal decree.
Those detained were not named.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says Prince Mohammed is moving to consolidate his growing power while spearheading a reform programme.
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Breaking News thread
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We should have a "breaking News" thread
Sudden, Important things happening in all subjects and domains
King Fahd's grandson flees to Iran, asks asylum
Prince Turki bin Mohamed bin Fahd is reported to have fled Saudi Arabia and sought asylum in Iran
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We should have a "breaking News" thread
Sudden, Important things happening in all subjects and domains
King Fahd's grandson flees to Iran, asks asylum
Prince Turki bin Mohamed bin Fahd is reported to have fled Saudi Arabia and sought asylum in Iran
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Second Saudi prince dead in 24 hours
Prince Abdul Aziz, 44, was the youngest son of King Fahd.
Probably CIA eliminating all Arab patriots
"Princes" represent different "tribes" .. tribal war, "civil" war, could be ahead
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Second Saudi prince dead in 24 hours
Prince Abdul Aziz, 44, was the youngest son of King Fahd.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Aziz_bin_Fahd
Abdul Aziz bin Fahd (عبدالعزيز بن فهد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود) (16 April 1973 – 6 November 2017) was a Saudi prince and member of the royal House of Saud. It is alleged that he died during a gunfight in November, 2017, resisting arrest
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Probably CIA eliminating all Arab patriots
"Princes" represent different "tribes" .. tribal war, "civil" war, could be ahead
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Report in ME papers is, there is a general travel, exit, ban on all Princes, big business, rich people in Saudi Arabia.
Many arrests happening right now.
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Report in ME papers is, there is a general travel, exit, ban on all Princes, big business, rich people in Saudi Arabia.
Many arrests happening right now.
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And for another take from Roger L. Simon:
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/us-saudi-arabia-now/
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/us-saudi-arabia-now/
These days things in Washington resemble Riyadh more than we care to admit. And unlike the Saudis, we don't have Iran's clients flying missiles into our airports. What's our excuse?
Not much really -- just hatred and the lust for power. We're tribal too -- and then some. Indeed, we may be worse. How else to explain what's going on inside our major political institutions -- from Congress to our political parties to the Department of Justice to, needless to say, the FBI? The skullduggery has been endless.
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the saudi press is certainly pushing it as a reform from the 1979 revolution.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1189856
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1189856
After 30 years in a coma, the real Saudi ‘awakening’ begins now
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Each time MBS tried to counter Iranian influence,
he managed to do harm to almost everyone
except Iran.
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Each time MBS tried to counter Iranian influence,
he managed to do harm to almost everyone
except Iran.
In Lebanon however, things are already backfiring. The Saudi move had an unexpected result. Whereas Sunnis and Shias in Lebanon have seemed for the last 10 years incapable of sharing common ground on regional alliances, the “kidnapping” of their prime minister at the hands of his own Saudi boss managed to infuriate Hariri’s own community [bold mine-DL].
On Sunday, Hariri’s party even praised Hassan Nasrallah, calling him a “responsible man” who placed above all the country’s “national interest,” a first in more than 10 years.
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The Spec | Saudi Arabia has united with Israel against Iran – and a desert storm is brewing
Mass arrests are the Crown Prince’s opening salvo in a fight against corruption and an embrace of moderate Islam.
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Typhoon wrote:.
The Spec | Saudi Arabia has united with Israel against Iran – and a desert storm is brewing
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Mass arrests are the Crown Prince’s opening salvo in a fight against corruption and an embrace of moderate Islam.
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Modern Islam ! ! ! ! .. Modern Islam is Shia , with Ayatollahs
Come on
Crown Prince should first explain where he got the $ 500 m to buy that Yacht
These (so called) Princes would not get a job in a gas station .. all imbeciles
Kushner an Israeli operative to destroy Arabs , the whole rubbish is Natanyahu/Kushner plan.
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Iran via its Houthi proxy just shot multiple missiles at Riyadh Saudi Arabia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-arab ... 018-03-25/
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-arab ... 018-03-25/
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