inane Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I don't even know why they bother with the anti corruption bs. Corrupt king takes out threats to power. Very medieval of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanCityE Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 57 minutes ago, Harvey Spector said: Wow!!!!! Jared Kushner was just apparently in Saudi Arabia. Sh*ts getting real... i Bow down sir i remember this tweet actually thought he was just calling out a rich guy he's draining the swamp it's awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Spector Posted November 5, 2017 Author Share Posted November 5, 2017 Kushner took unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia By ANNIE KARNI 10/29/2017 02:03 PM EDT President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner returned home Saturday from an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia — his third trip to the country this year. Kushner left Washington, D.C., via commercial airline on Wednesday for the trip, which was not announced to the public, a White House official told POLITICO. He traveled separately from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who led a delegation to Riyadh last week to focus on combating terrorist financing. Kushner was accompanied in the region by deputy national security adviser Dina Powell and Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt. Greenblatt continued from Saudi Arabia to Amman, Jordan; Cairo; the West Bank city of Ramallah; and Jerusalem, where he was on Sunday. The Trump administration has said its strategy is to try to draw in neighboring Arab leaders to play a role in Middle East peace. “Jared has always been driven to try and solve the Israel-Palestinian dispute,” said billionaire real estate investor Tom Barrack, a longtime friend and close Trump confidant. “The key to solving that dispute is Egypt. And the key to Egypt is Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.” The trip comes at a moment when the president’s son-in-law has played a downsized diplomatic role in other parts of the globe, such as China. But it shows that he is still firmly at the forefront of the administration’s efforts in the Middle East. The White House official would not say who Kushner met with in Saudi Arabia. But he has cultivated a relationship with the crown prince, Mohammad Bin Salman, who, like Kushner, is in his 30s. Kushner arrived back in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night in time for a surprise birthday dinner for his wife, Ivanka Trump, at the Trump International Hotel. “The Senior Advisor to the President, the Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy, and the Special Representative for International Negotiations recently returned from Saudi Arabia,” the White House official said in a statement to POLITICO. “The Senior Advisor has also been in frequent contact with officials from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.” The White House official added: “While these regional talks will play an important role, the President reaffirms that peace between Israelis and Palestinians can only be negotiated directly between the two parties and that the United States will continue working closely with the parties to make progress toward that goal.” https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/29/jared-kushner-saudi-arabia-244291 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanCityE Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 33 minutes ago, Harvey Spector said: No the Crown Prince Bin Salman is cleaning house. Getting rid of the swamp in Saudi Arabia. Remember Trump’s first foreign trip was to Saudi Arabia. Well maybe he inspired a swamp draining over there while abroad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tystick Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 This is huge! Podesta's are up next. Then good-bye Hillary! Oh man, everyone on this planet is about to get red pilled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanCityE Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 7 minutes ago, Tystick said: This is huge! Podesta's are up next. Then good-bye Hillary! Oh man, everyone on this planet is about to get red pilled Lovvvvvve this comment , i hope its true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancaster Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Chances are this is just a power struggle/consolidation of power. China has been doing the same these last 5 years... all it has done is made their leader stronger. IIRC, this Crown Prince wasn't supposed to be the next ruler. Something about how heirs are usually the siblings of the King rather than the son? While this may "drain the swamp" in a sense... I'll wait until more heads starts rolling (literally or figuratively?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBH1926 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Recent failures in regards to public health, as well as handling of natural disaster. were mostly caused by corruption. Hundreds of Saudis lost their lives because of it. Also there is a consolidation of power, tying this to Clintons is laughable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Still nowhere near enough. Bring down the Hammer of THOR upon these scumbags ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 2 hours ago, inane said: I don't even know why they bother with the anti corruption bs. Corrupt king takes out threats to power. Very medieval of them. Real life Game of Thrones, without the bewbs and dragons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 This purge is connected to the revelations coming out about the Clinton's and the Podestas. It's no wonder why the DNC is now completely abandoning ship and throwing the Clinton's under the bus. The corrupt elites in Saudi were working hand-in-hand with the Clintons and the Podestas. It's also important to note that many of the Saudi's who have been arrested have HUGE stakes in media networks in the U.S. Hillary Clinton, The Podesta Group And The Saudi Regime: A Fatal Menage A Trois If I told you that Democratic Party lobbyist Tony Podesta, whose brother John Podesta chairs Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, is a registered foreign agent on the Saudi government’s payroll, you’d probably think I was a Trump-thumping, conspiratorial nutcase. But it’s true. The lobby firm created by both Tony and John Podesta in 1988 receives $140,000 a month from the Saudi government, a government that beheads nonviolent dissidents, uses torture to extract forced confessions, doesn’t allow women to drive, and bombs schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods in neighboring Yemen. The Podesta Group’s March 2016 filing, required under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, shows that Tony Podesta himself oversees the Saudi account. At the same time, Tony Podesta is also a top campaign contributor and bundler for Hillary Clinton. So while one brother runs the campaign, the other brother funds it with earnings that come, in part, from the Saudis. John and Tony Podesta have been heavyweights in DC insider politics for decades. John Podesta served as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, founded the influential DC think tank Center for American Progress (which regularly touts Saudi “reforms”), and was counselor to President Obama. Tony Podesta was dubbed by the New York Times as “one of Washington’s biggest players“ whose clients “are going to get a blueprint for how to succeed in official Washington.” The brothers seem to have no problem mixing their roles into the same pot. Tony Podesta held a Clinton campaign fundraiser at his home featuring gourmet Italian food cooked by himself and his brother, the campaign chairman. The fundraiser, by the way, came just days after Tony Podesta filed his Saudi contract with the Justice Department, a contract that included an initial “project fee” payment of $200,000. The Saudis hired the Podesta Group in 2015 because it was getting hammered in the press over civilian casualties from its airstrikes in Yemen and its crackdown on political dissidents at home, including sentencing blogger Raif Badawi to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes for “insulting Islam.” Since then, Tony Podesta’s fingerprints have been all over Saudi Arabia’s advocacy efforts in Washington DC. When Saudi Arabia executed the prominent nonviolent Shia dissident Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, causing protests throughout the Shia world and inflaming sectarian divisions, The New York Times noted that the Podesta Group provided the newspaper with a Saudi commentator who defended the execution. The Podesta-Clinton-Saudi connection should be seen in light of the recent media exposes revealing the taudry pay-to-play nature of the Clinton Foundation. Top on the list of foreign donors to the foundation is Saudi Arabia, which contributed between $10 million and $25 million. What did the Saudis get for their largesse and access? Wikileaks revealed a 2009 cable by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying: “More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar e-Tayyiba and other terrorist groups.” Instead of sanctioning the Saudis, Clinton did the opposite: She authorized enormous quantities of weapons to be sold to them. On Christmas Eve in 2011, Hillary Clinton and her closest aides celebrated a massive $29.4 billion sale to the Saudis of over 80 F-15 fighter jets, manufactured by Boeing, a company which coincidentally contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation. In a chain of enthusiastic emails, an aide exclaimed that it was “not a bad Christmas present.” I’m sure the Yemenis at the receiving end of the Saudi bombings would not be so enthusiastic. The Clintons have said that if Hillary Clinton gets elected, the foundation will stop taking foreign donations. But what about no longer taking campaign contributions from people who are paid by the Saudi government to whitewash its image? The Podesta Group should be blacklisted from contributing to Clinton’s campaign until they drop the monarchy as a client and return their ill-gotten gains. If Hillary Clinton wants to be a meaningful symbol for human rights and women’s empowerment, her campaign must live up to the values she claims to represent, and this would be one step in the right direction https://www.huffingtonpost.com/medea-benjamin/hillary-clinton-the-podes_b_11779826.html 'The calm before the storm'. - DJT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerridwen Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 14 minutes ago, Chandymen said: Spoiler This purge is connected to the revelations coming out about the Clinton's and the Podestas. It's no wonder why the DNC is now completely abandoning ship and throwing the Clinton's under the bus. The corrupt elites in Saudi were working hand-in-hand with the Clintons and the Podestas. It's also important to note that many of the Saudi's who have been arrested have HUGE stakes in media networks in the U.S. Hillary Clinton, The Podesta Group And The Saudi Regime: A Fatal Menage A Trois If I told you that Democratic Party lobbyist Tony Podesta, whose brother John Podesta chairs Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, is a registered foreign agent on the Saudi government’s payroll, you’d probably think I was a Trump-thumping, conspiratorial nutcase. But it’s true. The lobby firm created by both Tony and John Podesta in 1988 receives $140,000 a month from the Saudi government, a government that beheads nonviolent dissidents, uses torture to extract forced confessions, doesn’t allow women to drive, and bombs schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods in neighboring Yemen. The Podesta Group’s March 2016 filing, required under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, shows that Tony Podesta himself oversees the Saudi account. At the same time, Tony Podesta is also a top campaign contributor and bundler for Hillary Clinton. So while one brother runs the campaign, the other brother funds it with earnings that come, in part, from the Saudis. John and Tony Podesta have been heavyweights in DC insider politics for decades. John Podesta served as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, founded the influential DC think tank Center for American Progress (which regularly touts Saudi “reforms”), and was counselor to President Obama. Tony Podesta was dubbed by the New York Times as “one of Washington’s biggest players“ whose clients “are going to get a blueprint for how to succeed in official Washington.” The brothers seem to have no problem mixing their roles into the same pot. Tony Podesta held a Clinton campaign fundraiser at his home featuring gourmet Italian food cooked by himself and his brother, the campaign chairman. The fundraiser, by the way, came just days after Tony Podesta filed his Saudi contract with the Justice Department, a contract that included an initial “project fee” payment of $200,000. The Saudis hired the Podesta Group in 2015 because it was getting hammered in the press over civilian casualties from its airstrikes in Yemen and its crackdown on political dissidents at home, including sentencing blogger Raif Badawi to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes for “insulting Islam.” Since then, Tony Podesta’s fingerprints have been all over Saudi Arabia’s advocacy efforts in Washington DC. When Saudi Arabia executed the prominent nonviolent Shia dissident Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, causing protests throughout the Shia world and inflaming sectarian divisions, The New York Times noted that the Podesta Group provided the newspaper with a Saudi commentator who defended the execution. The Podesta-Clinton-Saudi connection should be seen in light of the recent media exposes revealing the taudry pay-to-play nature of the Clinton Foundation. Top on the list of foreign donors to the foundation is Saudi Arabia, which contributed between $10 million and $25 million. What did the Saudis get for their largesse and access? Wikileaks revealed a 2009 cable by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying: “More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar e-Tayyiba and other terrorist groups.” Instead of sanctioning the Saudis, Clinton did the opposite: She authorized enormous quantities of weapons to be sold to them. On Christmas Eve in 2011, Hillary Clinton and her closest aides celebrated a massive $29.4 billion sale to the Saudis of over 80 F-15 fighter jets, manufactured by Boeing, a company which coincidentally contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation. In a chain of enthusiastic emails, an aide exclaimed that it was “not a bad Christmas present.” I’m sure the Yemenis at the receiving end of the Saudi bombings would not be so enthusiastic. The Clintons have said that if Hillary Clinton gets elected, the foundation will stop taking foreign donations. But what about no longer taking campaign contributions from people who are paid by the Saudi government to whitewash its image? The Podesta Group should be blacklisted from contributing to Clinton’s campaign until they drop the monarchy as a client and return their ill-gotten gains. If Hillary Clinton wants to be a meaningful symbol for human rights and women’s empowerment, her campaign must live up to the values she claims to represent, and this would be one step in the right direction https://www.huffingtonpost.com/medea-benjamin/hillary-clinton-the-podes_b_11779826.html 'The calm before the storm'. - DJT I find it rather hilarious that you use an opinion piece from Medea Benjamin who is one of the co-founders of CODEPINK to take a shot against Hillary Clinton! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 2 minutes ago, Cerridwen said: I find it rather hilarious that you use an opinion piece from Medea Benjamin who is one of the co-founders of CODEPINK to take a shot against Hillary Clinton! sjw's turning on their own is a guilty pleasure of mine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerridwen Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 9 minutes ago, Chandymen said: sjw's turning on their own is a guilty pleasure of mine... Touche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clam linguine Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Give this guy some credit....he's got cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Saudi plane crash - media reports death of Prince Mansour bin Muqrin Sun 5 Nov 2017 20:22:37 GMT A plane transporting eight Saudi officials reportedly crashed near Abha Saudi state outlets now confirm Prince Mansour bin Muqrin was aboard and has died in the crash He was deputy governor of the Asir Province It appears it was a helicopter not an fixed wing plane: helicopter crash near Yemen border http://www.forexlive.com/news/!/saudi-plane-crash-state-tv-reports-death-of-prince-mansour-bin-muqrin-20171105 I'm sure it's a coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nux4lyfe Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Trump did call this back in 2015! Quote Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal wants to control our U.S. politicians with daddy’s money. Can’t do it when I get elected. #Trump2016 7:53 PM - 11 Dec 2015 MAGA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Strome Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 19 minutes ago, nux4lyfe said: Trump did call this back in 2015! MAGA! You guys shouldn't use Trump as an example. The worst thing Trump has done so far was to sign a massive arms deal for this terrible nation to kill it's own people. His first foreign visit was this terrorist nation ffs. The whole Saudi regime and royal family should be jailed for their crimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 7 hours ago, Ryan Strome said: You guys shouldn't use Trump as an example. The worst thing Trump has done so far was to sign a massive arms deal for this terrible nation to kill it's own people. His first foreign visit was this terrorist nation ffs. The whole Saudi regime and royal family should be jailed for their crimes. As of right now, it looks as if the new Saudi regime is committed to cleaning out house and corruption with the recent revelations. That being said, it looks as if that deal is looking justifiable, but time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 On 11/4/2017 at 10:33 PM, Cerridwen said: I find it rather hilarious that you use an opinion piece from Medea Benjamin who is one of the co-founders of CODEPINK to take a shot against Hillary Clinton! The thing I find odd is that he's claiming that this "Corruption" crackdown is tied to the Podestas (and of course, the Clintons) by citing a year-old opinion piece. From what I can gather, @inane has the right of it. This is a consolidation of power/purge by the ruling royal family. Alwaleed is one of the few royals who has been speaking out against restrictive policies in Saudi Arabia for years and has close personal relationships with several American CEO's. Quote The question is how long will it be before Citigroup Chairman Michael O'Neill, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, Disney's Michael Eisner, Apple's Tim Cook or Twitter's Jack Dorsey get on the phone to Trump and ask him to intercede with his great friend, the King? Through the years, Alwaleed has developed close personal relationships with the leaders of many of these companies, particular Citigroup. Alwaleed is especially close to former Citigroup Chief Executive Sanford Weill, a relationship dating back to the 1990s when the prince began investing in Wall Street. And, as Alwaleed told me, he has come to the aid of several of these CEOs in boardroom battles. It's not unreasonable to assume they might now return the favor. http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/opinions/saudi-prince-corruption-opinion-andelman/index.html I don't see his arrest as "swamp draining", because the ones "cleaning house" appear to be the swamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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