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Saudi Prince Calls For Royal Coup
In the wake of the petrodollar’s dramatic collapse late last year, we’ve been keen to document the projected effect on global liquidity of net petrodollar exports turning negative for the first time in decades. We also moved to explain how this dynamic relates to the FX reserve liquidation we’re now seeing across EM.
Of course we’ve also endeavored to explain that while grasping the big picture is certainly critical (and even more so now that China’s efforts to support the yuan in the wake of the August 11 deval have thrust FX reserve liquidation into the spotlight), understanding what “lower for longer” means specifically for Riyadh is important as well.
To recap, the necessity of preserving the status quo for everyday Saudis combined with funding two regional proxy wars while simultaneously defending the riyal peg isn’t exactly compatible with intentionally suppressing crude prices in an effort to outlast ZIRP and bankrupt the US shale complex. The difficulty of balancing all of this has created a current account/fiscal account outcome that makes Brazil look quite favorable by comparison and it has also forced the Saudis into the debt markets, suggesting that the kingdom’s debt-to-GDP ratio is set to rise sharply by the end of 2016 (although it would of course still look favorable by comparison in even the worst case scenarios).
Thrown in a catastrophic crane collapse at Mecca and an incredibly horrific hajj stampede (followed by some epic trolling out of Tehran) and you have a recipe for social upheaval.
It’s against this backdrop that we present the following from The Guardian followed by extensive commentary from Nafeez Ahmed.
From The Guardian:
A senior Saudi prince has launched an unprecedented call for change in the country’s leadership, as it faces its biggest challenge in years in the form of war, plummeting oil prices and criticism of its management of Mecca, scene of last week’s hajj tragedy.
The prince, one of the grandsons of the state’s founder, Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, has told the Guardian that there is disquiet among the royal family – and among the wider public – at the leadership of King Salman, who acceded the throne in January.
The prince, who is not named for security reasons, wrote two letters earlier this month calling for the king to be removed.
“The king is not in a stable condition and in reality the son of the king [Mohammed bin Salman] is ruling the kingdom,” the prince said. “So four or possibly five of my uncles will meet soon to discuss the letters. They are making a plan with a lot of nephews and that will open the door. A lot of the second generation is very anxious.”
“The public are also pushing this very hard, all kinds of people, tribal leaders,” the prince added. “They say you have to do this or the country will go to disaster.”
A clutch of factors are buffeting King Salman, his crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, and the deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
A double tragedy in Mecca – the collapse of a crane that killed more than 100, followed by a stampede last week that killed 700 – has raised questions not just about social issues, but also about royal stewardship of the holiest site in Islam.
As usual, the Saudi authorities have consistently shrugged off any suggestion that a senior member of the government may be responsible for anything that has gone wrong.
Local people, however, have made clear on social media and elsewhere that they no longer believe such claims.
“The people inside [the kingdom] know what’s going on but they can’t say. The problem is the corruption in using the resources of the country for building things in the right form,” said an activist who lives in Mecca but did not want to be named for fear of repercussions.
“Unfortunately the government points the finger against the lower levels, saying for example: ‘Where are the ambulances? Where are the healthcare workers?’ They try to escape the real reason of such disaster,” he added.
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Submitted by Nafeez Ahmed via Middle East Eye
On Tuesday 22 September, Middle East Eye broke the story of a senior member of the Saudi royal family calling for a “change” in leadership to fend off the kingdom’s collapse.
In a letter circulated among Saudi princes, its author, a grandson of the late King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, blamed incumbent King Salman for creating unprecedented problems that endangered the monarchy’s continued survival.
“We will not be able to stop the draining of money, the political adolescence, and the military risks unless we change the methods of decision making, even if that implied changing the king himself,” warned the letter.
Whether or not an internal royal coup is round the corner – and informed observers think such a prospect “fanciful” – the letter’s analysis of Saudi Arabia’s dire predicament is startlingly accurate.
Like many countries in the region before it, Saudi Arabia is on the brink of a perfect storm of interconnected challenges that, if history is anything to judge by, will be the monarchy’s undoing well within the next decade.
Black gold hemorrhage
The biggest elephant in the room is oil. Saudi Arabia’s primary source of revenues, of course, is oil exports. For the last few years, the kingdom has pumped at record levels to sustain production, keeping oil prices low, undermining competing oil producers around the world who cannot afford to stay in business at such tiny profit margins, and paving the way for Saudi petro-dominance.
But Saudi Arabia’s spare capacity to pump like crazy can only last so long. A new peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering anticipates that Saudi Arabia will experience a peak in its oil production, followed by inexorable decline, in 2028 – that’s just 13 years away.
This could well underestimate the extent of the problem. According to the Export Land Model (ELM) created by Texas petroleum geologist Jeffrey J Brown and Dr Sam Foucher, the key issue is not oil production alone, but the capacity to translate production into exports against rising rates of domestic consumption.
Brown and Foucher showed that the inflection point to watch out for is when an oil producer can no longer increase the quantity of oil sales abroad because of the need to meet rising domestic energy demand.
In 2008, they found that Saudi net oil exports had already begun declining as of 2006. They forecast that this trend would continue.
They were right. From 2005 to 2015, Saudi net exports have experienced an annual decline rate of 1.4 percent, within the range predicted by Brown and Foucher. A report by Citigroup recently predicted that net exports would plummet to zero in the next 15 years.
From riches to rags
This means that Saudi state revenues, 80 percent of which come from oil sales, are heading downwards, terminally.
Saudi Arabia is the region’s biggest energy consumer, domestic demand having increased by 7.5 percent over the last five years – driven largely by population growth.
The total Saudi population is estimated to grow from 29 million people today to 37 million by 2030. As demographic expansion absorbs Saudi Arabia’s energy production, the next decade is therefore likely to see the country’s oil exporting capacity ever more constrained.
Renewable energy is one avenue which Saudi Arabia has tried to invest in to wean domestic demand off oil dependence, hoping to free up capacity for oil sales abroad, thus maintaining revenues.
But earlier this year, the strain on the kingdom’s finances began to show when it announced an eight-year delay to its $109 billion solar programme, which was supposed to produce a third of the nation’s electricity by 2032.
State revenues also have been hit through blowback from the kingdom’s own short-sighted strategy to undermine competing oil producers. As I previously reported, Saudi Arabia has maintained high production levels precisely to keep global oil prices low, making new ventures unprofitable for rivals such as the US shale gas industry and other OPEC producers.
The Saudi treasury has not escaped the fall-out from the resulting oil profit squeeze – but the idea was that the kingdom’s significant financial reserves would allow it to weather the storm until its rivals are forced out of the market, unable to cope with the chronic lack of profitability.
That hasn’t quite happened yet. In the meantime, Saudi Arabia’s considerable reserves are being depleted at unprecedented levels, dropping from their August 2014 peak of $737 billion to $672bn in May – falling by about $12bn a month.
At this rate, by late 2018, the kingdom’s reserves could deplete as low as $200bn, an eventuality that would likely be anticipated by markets much earlier, triggering capital flight.
To make up for this prospect, King Salman’s approach has been to accelerate borrowing. What happens when over the next few years reserves deplete, debt increases, while oil revenues remain strained?
As with autocratic regimes like Egypt, Syria and Yemen – all of which are facing various degrees of domestic unrest – one of the first expenditures to slash in hard times will be lavish domestic subsidies. In the former countries, successive subsidy reductions responding to the impacts of rocketing food and oil prices fed directly into the grievances that generated the “Arab Spring” uprisings.
Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth, and its unique ability to maintain generous subsidies for oil, housing, food and other consumer items, plays a major role in fending off that risk of civil unrest. Energy subsidies alone make up about a fifth of Saudi’s gross domestic product.
Pressure points
As revenues are increasingly strained, the kingdom’s capacity to keep a lid on rising domestic dissent will falter, as has already happened in countries across the region.
About a quarter of the Saudi population lives in poverty. Unemployment is at about 12 percent, and affects mostly young people – 30 percent of whom are unemployed.
Climate change is pitched to heighten the country’s economic problems, especially in relation to food and water.
Like many countries in the region, Saudi Arabia is already experiencing the effects of climate change in the form of stronger warming temperatures in the interior, and vast areas of rainfall deficits in the north. By 2040, average temperatures are expected to be higher than the global average, and could increase by as much as 4 degrees Celsius, while rain reductions could worsen.
This would be accompanied by more extreme weather events, like the 2010 Jeddah flooding caused by a year’s worth of rain occurring within the course of just four hours. The combination could dramatically impact agricultural productivity, which is already facing challenges from overgrazing and unsustainable industrial agricultural practices leading to accelerated desertification.
In any case, 80 percent of Saudi Arabia’s food requirements are purchased through heavily subsidised imports, meaning that without the protection of those subsidies, the country would be heavily impacted by fluctuations in global food prices.
“Saudi Arabia is particularly vulnerable to climate change as most of its ecosystems are sensitive, its renewable water resources are limited and its economy remains highly dependent on fossil fuel exports, while significant demographic pressures continue to affect the government’s ability to provide for the needs of its population,” concluded a UN Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO) report in 2010.
The kingdom is one of the most water scarce in the world, at 98 cubic metres per inhabitant per year. Most water withdrawal is from groundwater, 57 percent of which is non-renewable, and 88 percent of which goes to agriculture. In addition, desalination plants meet about 70 percent of the kingdom’s domestic water supplies.
But desalination is very energy intensive, accounting for more than half of domestic oil consumption. As oil exports run down, along with state revenues, while domestic consumption increases, the kingdom’s ability to use desalination to meet its water needs will decrease.
End of the road
In Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Egypt, civil unrest and all-out war can be traced back to the devastating impact of declining state power in the context of climate-induced droughts, agricultural decline, and rapid oil depletion.
Yet the Saudi government has decided that rather than learning lessons from the hubris of its neighbours, it won’t wait for war to come home – but will readily export war in the region in a madcap bid to extend its geopolitical hegemony and prolong its petro-dominance.
Unfortunately, these actions are symptomatic of the fundamental delusion that has prevented all these regimes from responding rationally to the Crisis of Civilization that is unravelling the ground from beneath their feet. That delusion consists of an unwavering, fundamentalist faith: that more business-as-usual will solve the problems created by business-as-usual.
Like many of its neighbours, such deep-rooted structural realities mean that Saudi Arabia is indeed on the brink of protracted state failure, a process likely to take-off in the next few years, becoming truly obvious well within a decade.
Sadly, those few members of the royal family who think they can save their kingdom from its inevitable demise by a bit of experimental regime-rotation are no less deluded than those they seek to remove.
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We would only ask if all of the above means that future vists to the US will look dissimilar to this:
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Need to turn the kingdom of Saud from sand into glass.
I love the smell of Middle East conspiracies in the morning...
The damn family. Of evil
You guys better stop trash talking the Saudis being that they are now represented on the UN's human rights council. Hannibal lechter's ambassador must be showing them how to properly torture and terrorize populations.
This is peak inversion.... has to be.
Maybe each half of the family will execute the other for some bullshit Sharia law infraction and so make the world a better place.
Any Saudi Arabian discontents for the behavior of these medieval muderous muslims can take their complaint to the UN Human Rights tribunal.
Wish the US ould bring some of its chaos creaating middle east magic foreign policy to the Kingdom
Wonder how well those Black limos would do in the dersert sand, with Toyota Tacomas full of ak waving jihaadist hot on their tails
Here is your answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZNigEanrUo
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Hey! I'd be a good King, appoint me.
No, I am not in the Royal Family, nor a Saudi, but what difference at this point does it make?
A little affirmative action is the only right thing to do. And I would only be the slightest bit corrupt, promise!
I'll vote for ya, provided you have the proper bearings ;)
That's certainly one point in my favor. I would buy good highly-engineered 52100 steel products at good value. So there is that.
I'd pick up some gold for the Treasury too. I promise I would take less than 5%. Maybe less than 3%.
Off with all the Saudi Royals' heads!
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudi-prince-sexually-assaults-3-women-...
I can't find my image of W holding hands with the Saudis, so that link will have to do....
OT: The fat guy in black with the glasses reminded me of that freak in Beetlejuice. Carry on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUoycVXw9ew
Looks like the sharks are smelling blood.....wait till the cauldron of shit blows.
The petro-dollar will end, as will as these shitbags.
Putins moves r sending tremors.....
I so respect the Persians (Iranians) more than these vile shitbag Saudis. This is particularly true with Hezbollah helping protect all Syrians including Christian Syrians and also the vile Saudis using cluster bombs against the Yemenis. Also plenty of those ISIS shitbags in Syria are Saudis.
I doubt the House of Saud are even really Muslims. I think they are Red Shield Mi6 actors. Lawrence of Arabia? He was an Mi6 stooge helping the Red Sheild grab the oil.
Hezbollah is respected in Lebanon by Christians and obviously Muslims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JElx0Eg2iZs
Famous Christian singer in Lebanon singing about Hezbollah defending Lebanon and ALL Lebanese people from you know who.
The word was if the aggressors hit Beruit that Hezbollah would hit Tel Aviv (2006). Beruit was not attacked.
all the result of sibling miscegnation, once-removed
to wit: http://consang.net/index.php/Global_prevalence
The sooner the Shitdom collapses, the better for the rest of the world.
Bedouin cultures are known as the ultimate democracies. Consensus appoints the leaders.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
But first, make sure the Bush family is all assembled in Ryhad with Cheney strapped head first into a camel's ass.
what did the poor camel do to deserve that??
Agreed. Poor camel has no say at all. Since time immemorial they have safely carried travellers across hostile terrain and this is the thanks she gets.
Cheney camel sphincter suffocated, anywhere will suffice.
So how long before their finally armed military turns the guns around and overthrows the House of Saud? Their military isn't armed in their own country. They're terrified of their own people.
Need a colour revolution.
Right after Texas leaves the Union?
Hmmmmm - aren't coups usually done quietly and behind closed doors?
The Persians and Putin must be licking their chops. They've played their hands well and deserve the Saudi oil fields.
Somehow I think Iran and the Saudis made a deal with China that China can have Saudi Arabia.
The USA is so stupid and corrupt. At least the USA has shale and lots of nat gas.
The Z-Scum in the Z-State department treat all people around the world as subhuman.
Unless they spew the most virulent forms of Islam and in that case they get free tickets to Maine, Minnestoa, Colorado and other places where the Soros Red Shield Z-State Dept dumps Somalis and other vermin.
They'll let in Muslim extremists, but not Christians.
Explain that to the neighbors of Somalistan in Minnesota. Well, MN, ME and CO did vote for Obama, so maybe they're now even...
Should become interesting when Barry flies in another ten to twenty thousand ... for starters. Then the various fighting Moslim factions can continue their tribal disputes here and duke it out here in Merika.
I wonder what names they'll give their gangs? Camel Jocks v the Ragheads, for example?
Too bad I can't name their gangs for them.........
This certainly sheds some light on the Syria pipeline thing, doesn't it?
"followed by a stampede last week that killed 700"
700 dead - they were shia muslims from iran
i assume it was planned to kill them by jew-ruled sunni arab trash
http://syrianperspective.com/2015/09/damascusmoscow-teheran-belarus-to-s...
One poster there posted this.
Report: Mossad and Saudi’s pre-coordinated the Mina stampede to abduct key members of The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
http://awdnews.com/top-news/report-mossad-and-saudi%E2%80%99s-pre-coordi...
This is just incredible, all of it. The Saudis and the US are throwing everything they have at Russia right now as far as oil goes. We have even begun to unleash Iran's oil.
Here in a few months we may just be able to roughly calculate how much oil we can produce globally. Yeah I know, of course it wont be perfect and there is going to be all of this miracle technology that is going to change everything in unicornistan and then there is all of the huge stores that are just left fallow for no credible reason but you can bet some will be watching.
Appoint Caitlyn Jenner Queen.
I understand that Caitlyn is willing to wear a burkha.
The current cruel, corrupt, criminal regime in Saudi Arabia should have been replaced decades ago. Everyday the Saudis are committing new crimes:
131 civilians killed in alleged Saudi airstrike on Yemen wedding
http://www.rt.com/news/316830-yemen-airstrikes-wedding-casualties/
The large convoy of Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, the King's son, caused the stampede that killed 717 & wounded 863
The Lebanese daily Al Diyar reported late Thursday that the stampede was triggered by the arrival on the scene of a large militarized convoy transporting the 30-year-old deputy crown prince, who is also the country’s defense minister.
“The large convoy of Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, the King's son and deputy crown prince, that was escorted by over 350 security forces, including 200 army men and 150 policemen, sped up the road to go through the pilgrims that were moving towards the site of the ‘Stoning the Devil’ ritual, causing panic among millions of pilgrims who were on the move from the opposite direction and caused the stampede,” the newspaper reported.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/09/25/pers-s25.html …
Russia.
Nuke the whole worthless fucking kingdom on behalf of these people and the ones in Syria that use to be your business partner doing their best to survive without your support!
P.S.
You should have done it during the "Hadj" but maybe you can kill two birds with one stone in a few more months with Chanukah!!!
Seems like I've seen some classic literature that followed this story line--In Greek maybe?
the ussa is covertly behind the saudi's
both the saudi's and ussa benefit from lower oil prices
ussa will bankrupt the soviet's, 'energy dependent economy', while the saudi will benefit from the soviets demise in the energy sector and have a monopoly on gobal energy once again
here's how it works:
in 2010 the total cost of imported energy from the persian gulf was ~ $10bn +/+ annually, while the cost to the DOD was ~ $50bn +/+, a ratio of 1:5... to keep the region under ussa hegemony/control, with the DOD having an annual FY budget of ~$260bn +/+ forever?
now with that ratio 1:5 the ussa can sectretly subsidize the kingdom with free armaments and defense systems holding iran's ambitions at bay
http://www.eia.gov/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MTTIMUSSA1&f=A
http://www.eia.gov/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mttimussa1&f=a
WOW!!! link above just won't work,-- sorry exhausted all my option :: if interested plug in link physically ps. just reinforces belows reference link.
https://butnowyouknow.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/oil-prices1.jpg
Ps. when bush #43 got into office all he cared about was building out reagans 'star-wars program' via an ellaborate missile defense system in which he accomplished along with integrating the preditor drone program in the fore
well done MIC
Ps2. note that in 1998-99 the FRB raised rates and at the same tyme 'opec' cuts [making matters worse?] production as is a mirror image of today, with a coincidentally russian financial crises [who'd of known?!?]
Ps3. remember it was the IMF easy money that created the problem in the asian financial crises and it was their austere money lending later [solving the problem/ lol?] that set the mood for a loss of 70% in the baby tigers EM's before all was said and done...
So what's the problem...just call for early elections. :)
The "royal family" is pretty much fucked and they know it.
Paying off indolent working age males to sit on their asses all day, obstensively cuz "they're special" but really to keep the young males hands otherwise "occupied" only goes so far ;-)
At cozy mansions in Geneva, London and Los Angeles...
Yeah, otherwise that "could be their head-in-a-basket".
The heads (and all sense of worldly reality) of the commenters on ZH would explode if I were to say there is very little difference between King Salman, Obama, St.Pooty, the "Queen" (lol), Assad, Soros, Hillary!, Jeb! and Trump.
They all want one thing...power...and to amass personal wealth. If they have to put half (or all) of "their citizens" on EBT or into public housing etc. they'll certainly do it. It doesn't cost them (personally) a dime.
And the crowds go batshit crazy wild for moar, look how generous they are! ;-)
I personally have never been able to understand why "enough" never is among the corrupt over there...
Hey, 1000 oz of gold, a nice European apartment or cozy mansion, and a recent model Gulfstream should be "enough".
Well, maybe 2000 oz of gold. :)
3000?
Yeah neither have I, of course you and I have have never been in the position to "loot the national treasury" and then throw some five cent bubble gum into the crowd and be called a good man and a great leader.
Maybe it would change our perspectives...lol.
Like I've always said, I think I could hold up maybe two years creating absolute havoc among the "hangers on", the court, the movers & shakers plotting against me.
Then the confrontation...the worldly devices (we all have our weak spots), the enticements, followed by the threats when it doesn't work and the attempted assassinations, sooner or later you go down.
But just damn!...we could create a mell-of-hess ;-)
nmewn
Be a good sport and tell our amigo knukles sometime that today marks three years for me! And, shi'ite, this was the longest one yet!
Thanks, mate! See you and LTER in camp!
I wonder how the elitists will divide the world once they achieve their one world government. Historically elitists have not played well together. Will they find a way to peacegully create their 10 horns (10 regional kings) on 7 heads (7 continents). Or, will they do what they always do, create wars against each other for petty rivalry.
The Saud are showing us just how it is done, globalist style... coups and daily beheadings.
But ya know what? I don't think that Satan cares who wins as long as there is plenty of fear and chaos.
Son of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah suing Los Angeles over 'mega-mansion' -- 2012
Saudi Prince Arrested in Beverly Hills for Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Female Employee — and He Can not Claim Diplomatic Immunity -- 2015
Why is it a "royal family" and "kingdom" for Saudi Arabia? Call them what they are: a blood thirsty murderous 1st century dictatorship that is the primary funder of terrorist organizations throughout the world.
The Fuckin House of Fraud
Fuck these sand grabbing cunts.
Well played ExxonMobil.
Those Saudi folk don’t play. Look what they did to the U.S. without repercussion.
Damn.
They should go Pay-per-view.
Day 6 of the Shemitah Year...so far this year hasn't disappointed
Maybe they'll all kill each other and rid the world of at least one kind of scum.
A chap can dream for a few seconds every now and again. It's the awake part that's hard.
What seems to be happening.
Mohammed Bin Salman: The Saudi Scapegoat? – Analysis
By Gulf State Analytics
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
By Akhil Shah*
Modern history has demonstrated that Middle Eastern rulers face high political risks in the aftermath of humiliating military defeats. This is particularly true when victory is expected. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military campaign in Yemen has fallen short of what Riyadh had in mind on March 26, when it launched “Operation Decisive Storm” (later named “Operation Restoring Hope”). That four months into the Saudi-led campaign there is still no end in sight is problematic for the kingdom’s image. Moreover, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud risks losing power as a result of a costly quagmire in Yemen, which would alter Saudi Arabia’s current line of succession.
For the Saudi leadership—and to various extents its fellow Arab statesmen in eight other capitals—the war in Yemen presented an opportunity to stamp their authority both regionally (against Iranian influence) and domestically (against democratic opposition movements). For Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the conflict was critical. As a young and inexperienced member of the ruling Al Saud family, he has most likely led efforts in Yemen to publically establish his leadership credentials. Yet, the less than fruitful results and deadly blowback have left him open to much criticism—internally and externally—and have provided more senior princes with a legitimate reason to remove him from the line of succession following the death of his father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/27082015-mohammed-bin-salman-the-saudi-scap...
This is how shitstorms start.
Concentrate on preserving not the empire, but the Principles and the Rule of Law.
Focus on the by-design most closely connected to citizenry and most powerful to restore positive trajectory...
You can and may well spend the rest of your life bitching and moaning,
but will rue the day you didn't climb out of your hole and direct your attention and energy (attention and energy works that way) towards a neatly and expertly crafted organization of 535 persons who have the power to keep the Principles and Rule of Law intact.
The fact that they are collectively a cohort of criminals should piss you off in their direction even more...
You won't get a soft landing pissing in the wind...
Sharia don't like it... ROCK the casbah!
ROCK the casbah!
The Bedouin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T.E. Lawrence
Those who appreciate austerity typically understand Wahhabism or Salafi, the virtues of the scholar al-Wahhab.
While contrary to tits-in-your-face American culture much can be learned from studying your far away neighbors.
"zionist house of suad.... they gona go the same way as israel once thi sall unravels... Can't wait lol
I'm a big fan of the House of Fraud. What's not to like? Head-chopping wife-beating polygamist white-girl raping old school medievalists that love to stick their wealth in your face. Poster boys of America's Democracy Export model.
Along with the crane falling and the stampede, Saudis are destroying almost all early Islamic sites in Mecca. Why? Some would say to obscure aspects of the origin of the religion that the Saudi Wahhabis are uncomfortable with.
More on the stampede.
Mohammed Jafari, an adviser to Haj and Umrah Travel, ... Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said: “The Saudis say after every disaster ‘it is God’s will’. It is not God’s will – it is man’s incompetence. Talking to pilgrims on the ground yesterday, the main reason for this accident was that the king, in his palace in Mina, was receiving dignitaries and for this reason they closed two entrances to where the stoning happened ... these were the two roads where people were not able to proceed.
“You have a stream of people going in and if you stop that stream, and the population builds up, eventually there is going to be an accident.
“It is the fault of the Saudi government because any time a prince comes along, they close the roads, they don’t think about the disaster waiting to happen.”
The Saudi royal family are Donmeh Jews pretending to be Muslim. They are destroying the archaeological heritage of Mecca because they hate Islam with all of their hearts and want to erase any memory of Prophet Muhammad from the face of the earth. The Prophet's house in Mecca, standing for 1400 years unmolested by previous Muslim rulers, was demolished by the Saudis and the site is now used as a public toilet. The grave of the Prophet's mother Aminah, that he would visit regularly to weep over and pray for her soul, was not only demolished by the Saudis, but these scumbags went as far as to douse it with gasoline to show their contempt for the Prophet's beloved mother.
When I visited Medina, I found that the ancient Jewish cemetery of the city was walled and protected by the Saudis, but Jannat al-Baqi, the cemetery where the Prophet's family and companions are buried, has been bulldozed. That speaks for itself about who these people are.
Here's Wayne Madsen's masterful history of the Donmeh:
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/10/25/the-doenmeh-the-middle-...
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/10/26/the-doenmeh-the-middle-...
Thanks, I'll read the links.
The Vegas-style development around the Kabbah DOES seems contemptuous of tradition:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/oct/23/mecca-architecture-h...
"hey hate Islam with all of their hearts and want to erase any memory of Prophet Muhammad from the face of the earth".
And the bad thing about that is....?
Without Prophet Muhammad, Europe would still be in the Dark Ages. Islam preserved the texts of Plato and Aristotle in Moorish Spain while they were destroyed by the Church as heresy. European scholars had to travel to Muslim universities to recover lost classical knowledge, as well as learn new fields such as mathematics and astronomy that the Muslims advanced. The Renaissance is a direct product of Islam, as there was no information left in Europe to fuel this knowledge base.
Without Prophet Muhammad, Jews would no longer exist. The Church was hell-bent on eradicating Judaism, and Jews fled European pogroms to Spain and the Middle East, where they found refuge as People of the Book (and ended up becomming wealthy and powerful, rising to ministers of state in the Moorish and Ottoman courts). Einstein lived because Prophet Muhammad lived.
Without Prophet Muhammad, women would not have the right to own property or inherit or testify in court (he introduced those legal advancements, which were not permitted in the Bible).
I can go on and on, but the ignorant will remain wilfully ignorant.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
<< Einstein lived because Prophet Muhammad lived.>>
I am sure Albert was a nice guy but so were lots of other people. What is so special about him? Albert lived longer than my father or my grand-fathers did. Can I blame the early deaths of my fore-fathers on the life of Mohammad??
Better yet, can I blame our fucked up pseudo-science-fiction-religious culture on Mohammad??
Bring back the Kaiser.
mabbe puppetmaster America is not happy with the present king so therefore it must be fomenting trouble as it does everywhere
Great insights in the comments so far...thx folks...trying to understand it all
I learned more about economics and geopolitics on ZH than any textbook ever could have done.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the rapes of three women in Beverly Hills last week by a Saudi Prince who of course posted bail and skipped town immediately back to Camel Ville, I particularly like this bit, "Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner (U.S. State Department) welcomed the appointment of Saudi Arabia to a leadership position on a U.N. Human Rights panel"
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudi-prince-sexually-assaults-3-women-u-s-flee/
Well done America! I still find it rather strange that when plane loads of Saudi hijackers brought America to its knees America then invaded Iraq.....WTF
alleged rapes
The king might get 'staple gunned' soon.
Educational material:
King Salman’s palace coup and the Saudi royal politicsA Saudi saying: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father had a limousine, while I fly in my private jet. But my grandson will be lucky to ride a camel." Some know what's coming.
Arab Spring...lol
This article lost all credibility to me when I read this one paragraph.
In Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Egypt, civil unrest and all-out war can be traced back to the devastating impact of declining state power in the context of climate-induced droughts, agricultural decline, and rapid oil
Pretty sure the US had more to do with this than the climate.
For those net fluent in reading arabic, the first sentence says something like:
"May a dead goat fart on your mothers carpet."