Stucky QOTD: Saudi Arabia and Nukes

Story on Drudge today that the Saud’s are inquiring about getting a nuke power plant …. for peaceful purposes, of course. Hardy har har.

 

Q1: Should Saudi Arabia even be allowed to acquire a nuke power plant?

— Q2: If “no”, to what degree should the USA be involved to prevent it?

— Q3: If “yes”, why?? Should they also then be allowed to develop nuke bombs, … for defensive purposes, of course? Heh heh.


Me?

Q1: Hell NO!!!!

Q2: Bomb them back to the Stone Age. Really! OK, maybe just back to the Dark Age.

Two things you must know about Saudi Arabia;

—- They are NOT our friend. Never have been. Never will be. (I understand that one should never say “never”. Fuk dat.)

—- They are the most evil, backward, and possibly dangerous country on Earth. Death to Saud’s!!


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SAUDI ARABIA IS SO ENLIGHTENED

Next decree: they won’t behead them for being raped.

 

Saudi king issues decree allowing women to drive – state media

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - DECEMBER 14 : King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz delivers a speech during an opening ceremony of new Shura Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 14, 2016. © Photo by Bandar Algaloud / Saudi Royal Council / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – DECEMBER 14 : King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz delivers a speech during an opening ceremony of new Shura…  
RIYADH, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Saudi King Salman on Tuesday ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, state media said, ending the conservative Islamic kingdom’s status as the only country where that is forbidden.The royal decree ordered the formation of a ministerial body to give advice within 30 days and then implement the order by June 2018, according to state news agency SPA.

Does the king realize what he is doing?


HOW IRONIC THAT THIS WOULD COME OUT ON SEPTEMBER 11TH

I’m shocked, shocked that the two most evil  and dangerous governments on earth (besides the United States) would turn out to be best buddies.

Breaking News of Saudi Crown Prince’s “Secret” Visit To Israel Brings Embassy Scramble

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Clearly the war in Syria and the international push for regime change against Assad has created strange alliances in the Middle East over the past few years. Among the strangest bedfellows are the Israelis and Saudis. It’s no secret that common cause in Syria of late has led the historic bitter enemies down a pragmatic path of unspoken cooperation as both seem to have placed the break up of the so-called “Shia crescent” as their primary policy goal in the region. But that’s perhaps why few pundits seemed overly shocked when Israeli media late last week began reporting that a Saudi prince made a secret visit to Israel, in spite of the fact that the kingdom does not recognize the Jewish state, and the two sides do not have diplomatic relations.

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The Inside Story Of How The Saudi King’s Son Plotted To Oust His Rival

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Less than a month after the Saudi king stunned the world when on the morning of June 21 he unexpectedly announced a “historic shakeup” in which he removed the existing successor to the royal line, his nephew Mohammed bin Nayef – the country’s counterterrorism czar – and instated his eldest son, the 31-year-old Mohammed bin Salman and de facto “OPEC’s most important man” as Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, and following a surprising report ten days later that the “deposed” Mohammed bin Nayef has been barred from leaving the kingdom and confined to his palace in the coastal city of Jidda, the full story of what really happened in this transition of power has finally emerged.

As a reminder, the conventional timeline of this dramatic power transition focused on how “seamless” it was and unopposed:

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Saudi Arabia Has Handed the Emir of Qatar an Opportunity to Redirect History

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

In the event you have noticed the hullabaloo about Qatar and wonder what it is about, it is about Al Jazeera, a news organization, established by the Emir who rules the oil and gas sheikdom on the Persian Gulf. Al Jezeera is far more professional than any news organization in the West. Al Jazeera’s problem is that it covers the actual news and tells the truth. This is unacceptable to the Saudis, the United Arab Emirates, and to Washington.

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Saudis Foil Iranian Terror Attack On Major Offshore Oil Field

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The situation in the Middle East is furiously escalating with each passing day.

While today’s news of Israeli financial support for Syrian insurgents came out of left field, our earlier assessment following the report of “turmoiling” Syrian rebels in the aftermath of the Qatar crisis still stands, namely that “the next major regional conflict appears set to be between Saudi Arabia and Iran. All it needs is a catalyst.”

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Iran Blames Saudi Arabia For Terrorist Attack, Vows “Revenge”

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Iran’s infamous Revolutionary Guards accused Saudi Arabia of being behind the twin terrorist attacks in Tehran, which killed 12 and left at least 39 injured, and have vowed “revenge.”

Earlier in the day, a group of four people in women’s clothes opened fire in the building of the Iranian Parliament, with a subsequent explosion. Another attack involving an explosion took place near the Imam Khomeini shrine. One of the perpetrators of the attack was detained and the rest were executed.

“This terrorist attack happened only a week after the meeting between the U.S. president (Donald Trump) and the (Saudi) backward leaders who support terrorists. The fact that Islamic State has claimed responsibility proves that they were involved in the brutal attack,” said the statement, published by Iranian media.

What is notable is that ISIS already claimed responsibility for the attack, so Iran is explicitly accusing Saudi Arabia of supporting the Islamic State.

Donald of Arabia: A Disgusting Spectacle

Guest Post by Justin Raimondo

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Has there been a more disgusting spectacle during the four months of this presidency than the sight of Donald Trump slobbering all over the barbarous Saudi monarch and his murderous family of petty princelings? It’s enough to make any normal American retch, especially when one remembers what Trump said about them during the election:

“Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays. Hillary must return all money from such countries!”

And then there was this tweet:

“Tell Saudi Arabia and others that we want (demand!) free oil for the next ten years or we will not protect their private Boeing 747s. Pay up!”

Now Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, is calling up Lockheed-Martin to get a discount for the Saudis, personally brokering the biggest arms deal in US history. What a difference a presidency makes!

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IS HE WRONG?

Meanwhile Trump is going out of his way to fuck with Iran, ironically proving to the hard liners that they were right all along to say that there can be no compromise with US belligerence:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/05/11/under-trump-u-s-policy-on-iran-is-moving-from-accommodation-to-confrontation/

Rouhani’s big win after record turnout clearly broadcasts to the world that Iranians want peace and accomodation with the US and Europe.  Not that it matters.  The Israelis and Saudis want war and they get what they want, or else.

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Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri
Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri

Iran’s chief Armed Forces spokesman has criticized the United States’ ignorance of the Islamic Republic’s policies, saying that the withdrawal of US forces from the Middle East is the only way to restore peace and tranquility to the region.

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Trump Signs “Single Largest Arms Deal In US History” With Saudi Arabia Worth $350 Billion

I judge people by their actions, not by their words. The non-interventionist candidate’s words were meaningless drivel to get elected. His actions reflect those of a neo-con warmonger still believing the US can police the world and has no problem selling arms to the people who were behind the 9/11 attacks. Trump is promoting military action around the globe. We will reap what he sows. Next up, a war to distract from his domestic agenda failures. Wag that dog.
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When all other sources of economic growth appear tapped out, there is always the military-industrial complex coming to the rescue of US GDP with the sale of arms and equipment to the world’s biggest purchaser of weapons: Saudi Arabia. Because when one looks beyond the pageantry, pomp and circumstance of Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, the main purpose behind the president’s visit is precisely that: selling weapons, some $350 billion over the next decade, according to estimates.

To be sure, Trump arrival in Saudi Arabia on Saturday was quite a spectacle, with the Saudi king throwing the president’s family arrival at the Royal Diwan a “welcome fit for a king.”

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THE HORROR! THE HORROR! (PART TWO)

In Part One of this article I detailed how propaganda has been utilized by the Deep State for decades to control the minds of the masses and allow those in control to reap the benefits of never ending war. In Part Two I will discuss recent events, false flags, and propaganda campaigns utilized by the Deep State to push the world to the brink of war.

“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

The use of graphic images, electronically transmitted across the world in an instant, along with a consistent false narrative promoted by the captured corporate media, is the preferred means of appealing to the emotions of those who want to believe atrocity propaganda. Instigating a march to war through the use of unfounded fear, misinformation, staged photo ops, and appealing to passions and prejudices was as revolting to Albert Einstein  in the 1930s as it is today to normal thinking individuals.

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” – Albert Einstein

It seems the level and intensity of the propaganda campaigns has ratcheted up dramatically in the last half dozen years and appears to be reaching a crescendo as we speak. It’s almost as if the Deep State is frantically trying to maintain the status quo, even as the worldwide financial Ponzi scheme of debt approaches the point of collapse. The domestic conditions in Europe, North America, and Asia are deteriorating rapidly. The propaganda doled out trying to convince citizens their financial situation is not worsening has failed.

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THE HORROR! THE HORROR!

I’m constantly amazed by the ability of those in power to create a narrative trusted by a gullible non-critical thinking populace. Appealing to emotions, when you have millions of functionally illiterate, normalcy bias ensnared, iGadget distracted, disciples of the status quo, has been the game plan of the Deep State for the last century. Americans don’t want to think, because thinking is hard. They would rather feel. For decades the government controlled public education system has performed a mass lobotomy on their hapless matriculates, removing their ability to think and replacing it with feelings, fabricated dogma, and social indoctrination. Their minds of mush have been molded to acquiesce to the narrative propagandized by their government keepers.

“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”Thomas Sowell

With a majority confused, distracted, malleable, willfully ignorant, and easily manipulated by false narratives, heart wrenching images, and fake news, the Deep State henchmen have been able to control the masses with relative ease. The unanticipated rise of Donald Trump to the most powerful role in the world gave many critical thinking, anti-big government, skeptical curmudgeons hope he could drain the swamp and begin to deconstruct the massive out of control Federal bureaucracy.

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The First Thing We Need To Do Is Kill All The Generals

President Trump, with respect, start ruthlessly purging the U.S. general officer corps

 

President Trump:

Last time we discussed your refusal to abide by the Constitution’s hard-and-fast war-making provision, a decision that merits — as it did for most of your post-1945 predecessors — impeachment proceedings. Waging war in the manner you did in Syria is the work of an absolute monarch or a dictator, not that of a popularly elected president of this republic.

Today, we must discuss a topic that has been covered in this space on multiple occasions; namely, the need for you to immediately purge — via forced retirement — scores of your general officers. The American fetish for treating these officers as god-like wonders is baseless, and must be curtailed to the greatest possible extent. Among the most obvious reasons they merit forced retirement are:

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