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Saudi Arabia right now

The arrests are said to be part of the corruption committee crackdown. Seems like prince bin Salman is making good on his word.

Damn the arrests were within hours of the committee being formed.
 
MomentsofSanity said:
The arrests are said to be part of the corruption committee crackdown. Seems like prince bin Salman is making good on his word.

Damn the arrests were within hours of the committee being formed.
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We shall see. When you rule by decree you can just go post-truth to consolidate power. Donald must be so jealous...
 
As much as I like Fox News, there isn't shit about this missile on their website, just the prince crap. Even Drudge Report.
 
John Connor said:
As much as I like Fox News, there isn't shit about this missile on their website, just the prince crap. Even Drudge Report.
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Just saw it on NYT.

Trump will probably congratulate the Crown Price on the arrests--though it was probably Jared's idea. 😉

Interesting how the King and Crown Prince are pro-Trump and the billionaire arrested prince is a long time Trump critic.
 
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/11/chi...-and-thats-going-to-affect-the-us-dollar.html

China will 'compel' Saudi Arabia to trade oil in yuan — and that's going to affect the US dollar
  • "I believe that yuan pricing of oil is coming and as soon as the Saudis move to accept it — as the Chinese will compel them to do — then the rest of the oil market will move along with them," Carl Weinberg, chief economist and managing director at High Frequency Economics, told CNBC
  • In recent years, several nations opposed to the dollar being the world's reserve currency have progressively sought to try and abandon it
  • OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia is at the crux of the petrodollar
 
http://tucson.com/news/national/gov...cle_65e24543-1d86-5c4f-a82a-197e2830a2a0.html

Jared Kushner and other senior White House advisers traveled to Saudi Arabia last week to continue discussions on Middle East peace, a White House official told CNN.

Deputy national security adviser Dina Powell and Jason Greenblatt, special representative for international negotiations, joined Kushner on the trip.

Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, traveled commercially, leaving Wednesday and returning Saturday evening. Politico first reported the trip, which was not announced to the public.


The White House official would not say who Kushner and the other officials met with while in Saudi Arabia.
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...future-movement-surprise-latest-a8037266.html

Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri announces surprise resignation over 'assassination plot'

'I have sensed what is being plotted covertly to target my life,' says leader

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has resigned during a trip to Saudi Arabia in a surprise move that plunged the country into uncertainty amid heightened regional tensions.

In a televised address from Riyadh, Mr Hariri launced a vicious tirade against Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah group for what he said was their meddling in Arab affairs and said “Iran’s arms in the region will be cut off”.

“The evil that Iran spreads in the region will backfire on it,” Mr Hariri said, accusing Tehran of spreading chaos, strife and destruction throughout the region.
 
UglyCasanova said:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/11/chi...-and-thats-going-to-affect-the-us-dollar.html

China will 'compel' Saudi Arabia to trade oil in yuan — and that's going to affect the US dollar
  • "I believe that yuan pricing of oil is coming and as soon as the Saudis move to accept it — as the Chinese will compel them to do — then the rest of the oil market will move along with them," Carl Weinberg, chief economist and managing director at High Frequency Economics, told CNBC
  • In recent years, several nations opposed to the dollar being the world's reserve currency have progressively sought to try and abandon it
  • OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia is at the crux of the petrodollar
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I do not believe that this will happen within the next 20 years potentially longer depending on the worlds economy. China has backed themselves into a corner with their cheap labor and artificially low currency. The Saudi family also has an affinity for American weapons which are decades ahead of Chinas. Moving the dollar out of the picture in place of the yuan means keeping our weapons with us.
 
There’s some big shit going down in the region right now. One can only assume a coup attempt, but who is really behind it? Who’s the "good guys" and who’s the "bad guys"? What is it over - Yemen, the petrodollar, simple power, something else?
 
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41869135

President Donald Trump has made a pitch to Saudi Arabia to float the world's biggest oil company in the US.

He tweeted: "Would very much appreciate Saudi Arabia doing their IPO of Aramco with the New York Stock Exchange. Important to the United States!"

The proposed share flotation will see 5% of the state-owned company sold in an Initial Public Offering next year.

It is expected to list domestically and on at least one foreign exchange with New York and London vying for the deal.

The Aramco IPO is expected to be the largest in history, raising around $100bn in revenue for the Saudi kingdom.
 
UglyCasanova said:
There’s some big shit going down in the region right now. One can only assume a coup attempt, but who is really behind it? Who’s the "good guys" and who’s the "bad guys"? What is it over - Yemen, the petrodollar, simple power, something else?
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Perhaps it is an invasion of Qatar?
 
bbhaag said:
I have noticed that in this forum as well. It seems to have an unnatural obsession with President Trump.
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You opine as if Trump is just a normal kind of guy you'd meet on the street. He's not. He is by far quite the exceptional character in a very alarming kind of way in that the job he presently holds affects every single person in the nation he now is the purported "leader" of.

Having an unnatural obsession with Trump is a natural kind of thing because Trump is a very unnatural kind of guy. For starters, he is unpredictably dangerous which is very unnatural and unbecoming for a POTUS.

If anything, having an unnatural obsession about him is completely justified given his unusual underhanded untrustworthy unnatural behavior. 😉
 
tweaker2 said:
You opine as if Trump is just a normal kind of guy you'd meet on the street. He's not. He is by far quite the exceptional character in a very alarming kind of way in that the job he presently holds affects every single person in the nation he now is the purported "leader" of.

Having an unnatural obsession with Trump is a natural kind of thing because Trump is a very unnatural kind of guy. For starters, he is unpredictably dangerous which is very unnatural and unbecoming for a POTUS.

If anything, having an unnatural obsession about him is completely justified given his unusual underhanded untrustworthy unnatural behavior. 😉
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What I stated was simply an observation. There is no need to get upset or defensive about it.
 
bbhaag said:
I have noticed that in this forum as well. It seems to have an unnatural obsession with President Trump.
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Soooo.....Fox/Hannity/Beck/OReilly's obsession with Obama wasn't unnatural when they attacked Obama for ordering Dijon mustard on his burger?

Forget about that? (Of course you did.)

In May 2009, Fox News host Sean Hannity devoted airtime on his show to a frank, honest conversation about whether then-President Barack Obama was capable of leading the country. His biggest issue was that America could not trust a president that uses Dijon mustard on his food.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ing-dijon-mustard_us_593c0450e4b0b13f2c6af2f1
 
I did not know that President Obama puts mustard on his sandwiches. I could not forget about that because I did not know about that.

I do not understand why I am being singled out for voicing my observations of this forum.
 
bbhaag said:
I did not know that President Obama puts mustard on his sandwiches. I could not forget about that because I did not know about that.

I do not understand why I am being singled out for voicing my observations of this forum.
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Once you speak out about Obama, the former President, they'll back you into a corner. If you speak in support of Trump, the current President, they'll back you into a corner. Go figure. We see what kind of audience is here. A lot of Trump derangement syndrome.
 
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