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Saudi Arabia, a country named after a desert family is important.
It is one of the largest exporters of oil.
It has a $1.9 trillion PPP GDP (2018)......14th largest economy on earth.
BUT .....the MOST IMPORTANT aspect of the country is that it is the custodian and protectors of 3 key Islamic sites, Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, Makkah and Medina.
The last aspect is what gives the Saudi family regime its true LEGITIMACY. ....AND IMPORTANCE in the world.
All regimes, bad or good require legitimacy.
The Saudi desert tribe family were brought into power by the British Empire in the early part of the 20th century.
The bizarre puritanical skewered obscurantism of WAHABI ISLAM suited the British Empire. Both in India, Egypt and elsewhere the evil British Empire was up against MODERN SECULAR ANTI-COLONIAL MOVEMENTS that were real challenges to the rule of the British Empire. So the British empire set the dogs of Islamic fundamentalism, against the MODERN SECULAR ANTI-COLONIAL MOVEMENTS. In India it was called the Muslim League (an English name....where there is no pretence who directed its creation in 1905)....and in Egypt, it was called the Muslim Brotherhood created around 1928. Saudi Arabia is created in 1932........with the aid of the British empire.
After WWII, the USA with a GDP which represented 50% of the world, became another powerful ally of Saudi Arabia, along with American oil companies which were the premier buyers of Saudi oil (ahead of the British.).....cementing political ties.
In the 1970's after the collapse of the GOLD STANDARD, all oil sales were linked to the $$$$$$ dollar.....thus maintaining the primacy of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. ANOTHER GREAT REASON WHY SAUDI ARABIA BECAME an indispensable ally of the USA.
The British lost control of its empire thanks to Nazi Germany. It was bankrupt and exhausted. AND LOGICALLY, AND RATIONALLY (Adam Smith) .......you would think that the British State would not have any further interest in using ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISTS...destabilising and destroying countries......BUT this appears not to be the case for several reasons:
1. Bad colonial habits die hard, even though there is no apparent SECURITY benefit to the criminal UK STATE to do so.
2. The UK state is run by the Rothschilds of London....and has been the case since the middle of the 19th century. They are Jewish. The Rothschilds of London may think that Islamic fundamentalists running amok in the Greater Middle IS JOLLY GOOD fun, and good for Israel.....as 'al-CIA-duh' and ISIS make ISRAEL look positively normal---an otherwise illegal, racist, apartheid, war mongering, terrorising Jew state. So in the 1970's a Rothschild servant by the name of Sir Bernard Lewis OBE ...a JEW in the FO is sent to the USA to preach the utility of backing Islamic fundamentalism. The GLOBALIST in the Carter administration turn it into a state gospel and put it into action using the CIA.
3. Islamic terrorist False Flags keeps a tight leash on the British state illegally........often helping to pass unpopular legislation (We have to privatise the NHS because of the threat of ISIS......ISIS wants to kill Teresa May, and the Queen.....MORE BS...From the criminal UK security state.)
SAUDI ARABIA-----WAHABI SAUDI ARABIA---where purportedly 15 of the 19.... 9/11 hijackers came from. The suspect suspect list drawn up by INDIAN intelligence, and given to the FBI IN 2001. IS also a major player in funding ISLAMIC TERRORISM, using its petro-dollars. The CIA since the 1970's has organised Islamic terrorism mainly with Saudi money.
But now Donald Trump the great is unkind to Saudi Arabia....
Trump's AGENDA for America IS VERY DIFFERENT TO THAT of the Deep State.
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Trump Is Bashing The 'Salvator Saudi' - Why?
BY MOON OF ALABAMA
The Trump administration seemed to get along very well with the Saudi tyrant and his son Mohammed bin Salman. They together admired the orb and joined up to bash Iran. But now the Trump administration scolded and embarrassed MbS three times in as many days. One wonders what is going on behind that scene.
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In mid November a mysterious buyer bought a probably fake Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ for a cool $450 million. On December 6 the New York Times reported that some Saudi prince was the front-man for the purchase:
He is a little-known Saudi prince from a remote branch of the royal family, with no history as a major art collector, and no publicly known source of great wealth. But the prince, Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud, is the mystery buyer of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “Salvator Mundi,” which fetched a record $450.3 million at auction last month, documents show.The revelation that Prince Bader is the purchaser, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times, links one of the most captivating mysteries of the art world with palace intrigues in Saudi Arabia that are shaking the region. Prince Bader splurged on this controversial and decidedly un-Islamic portrait of Christ at a time when most members of the Saudi elite, including some in the royal family, are cowering under a sweeping crackdown against corruption and self-enrichment.
As it happens, Prince Bader is a friend and associate of the leader of the purge: the country’s 32-year-old crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
The NYT did not explain how it had gained access to the documents it reviewed. Later that day Bloombergreported that the painting would be shown in Abu Dhabi. This somewhat diverted from the trail to MbS:
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is getting Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” which sold last month at a Christie’s auction for $450 million, the most ever paid for a work of art.Christie’s said the artwork will be going to the museum, but declined to say whether the Louvre Abu Dhabi bought the painting. The Louvre Abu Dhabi said in a tweet Wednesday: “Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi is coming to #LouvreAbuDhabi.
A day later, on December 7 the Trump administration gave a tip to the Wall Street Journal's Shane Harris. The real buyer, it confirmed, was the Saudi clown prince:
Prince Mohammed, known by his initials MBS, was identified as the buyer of the 500-year-old painting, “Salvator Mundi,” in U.S. intelligence reports, according to people with direct knowledge of the information. American officials have closely watched the activities of the 32-year-old, who is trying to portray himself as a reformer determined to root out corruption in the oil-rich kingdom.
The NYT had already hinted at MbS as the real buyer. But it did not say from where it had that information. The WSJ confirmed the buyer and made explicit that the Trump administration was behind the embarrassing leak.
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A few weeks ago MbS arrested 200 of the richest and most powerful people in his country. He locked them in a hotel and is fleecing them for their money which, he says, was gained though corruption. That claim is nonsense. He simply wants to steal that money and let them know who the boss is.
The Saudis have a budget problem and are cutting on social spending in the country they rule. It does not look good to cut money from the poor, fleece other members of the wider family and to then waste a large fortune on a picture that might even be fake.
On top of that owning that picture is religiously problematic for MbS. Under Wahhabi doctrine no visual portrayals of prophets like Jesus Christ are allowed.
On top of that owning that picture is religiously problematic for MbS. Under Wahhabi doctrine no visual portrayals of prophets like Jesus Christ are allowed.
The UAE again came to the rescue. Today the museum tweeted:
Louvre Abu Dhabi @LouvreAbuDhabi - 1:57 PM - 8 Dec 2017
Louvre Abu Dhabi is looking forward to displaying the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo Da Vinci. The work was acquired by the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi for the museum.
The Department of Culture and Tourism seemed to confirm (ar) that, but when the museum was directly asked by the AP it went mum:
Jon Gambrell جون @jongambrellAP - 8:07 AM - 8 Dec 2017
The Louvre Abu Dhabi refused to say whether they made the $450 million bid or if someone gave the Department of Culture and Tourism the painting when asked by the @AP.
Hmmm ... this is a cover up. Why is the UAE doing this?
The de-facto ruler of the UAE is the 56-year-old crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed. He is the mentor of (and brain behind) the 32-year-old crown prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman. Did MbS buy a little Christmas gift for MbZ, but was embarrassed when the Trump administration let the world know about it? Or is MbZ running covering for an outrageous buy MbS made for himself?
(What is Habibi MbS doing collecting bad Christian Iconicastical art? Why does he not just give the money to needy brothers like me...and get free blessings)
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The buying of the picture is not the only issue at hand. Just the day before the administration leaked to the WSJ about the art deal, President Trump had publicly scolded MbS about the situation in Yemen:
President Trump called on Saudi Arabia to lift its crushing blockade against its war-torn neighbor Yemen on Wednesday, hours after defying the kingdom and saying the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.In a statement Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Trump said he had directed members of his administration to reach out to the Saudi leadership "to request that they completely allow food, fuel, water, and medicine to reach the Yemeni people who desperately need it."
Today Secretary of State Tillerson again pushed that line:
Speaking in Paris on Friday, Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state, called on Saudi Arabia to be "measured" in its military operations in Yemen.
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Tillerson urged Saudi restraint."With respect to Saudi Arabia's engagement with Qatar, how they're handling the Yemen war that they're engaged in, the Lebanon situation, we would encourage them to be a bit more measured and a bit more thoughtful in those actions to, I think, fully consider the consequences," he said.
He once again demanded a "complete end" to the Saudi-led blockade of Yemen so that humanitarian aid and commercial supplies could be delivered.
Embarrassing MbS about the art buy and publicly(!) scolding him for the situation in Yemen, for which the U.S. is just as much responsible as the Saudis, is quite an assault. What has MbS done - or not done - to deserve such a punishment?
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Trump has just declared that the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Did the administration expect the applause of the Saudis for its breaking of international law with regards to Jerusalem? Does it lash out to the Saudis to get their agreement?
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If so the miscalculation is clearly on the U.S. side. It is impossible for the Saudis to concede the Haram al-Sharif, the mosque on the so called temple mount, to the Zionists.
The Saudi King would no longer be the "custodian of the two holy mosques" in Mecca and Medina but the "seller of the third holy mosque" of Islam in Jerusalem.
The people would lynch him.
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If the issue of this public hustle it is not Jerusalem, what else might it be that the Trump administration wants and the Saudis can not, or are not willing to concede?
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A few hours ago the Saudi King fired his ankle biting Foreign Minster Adel al-Jubair. A relative of the king, Khaled bin Salman, will take the job. Is this related to the spat with Trump?
Saudi Arabia selling Jerusalem and the Dome of the rock to the Jew, for the chance of attacking Iran.
