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Did someone forget to pay the Saudis their bribe on time?

4-6-2017 < Humans Are Free 84 631 words
 

Yet another terror attack. And while at this writing, no group has claimed responsibility, one can assume, as with the vast majority of these attacks, it is not Iran but Saudi funded, educated, brainwashed ideological warriors involved.




At some point, a conversation about Saudi Arabia needs to be had.


— Stacy Herbert (@stacyherbert) June 4, 2017



And yet another response to terror which does not include any conversation about what exactly Saudi Arabia’s role is. Why?




At some point the US has to stop selling Saudi Arabia (and everyone else in Middle East) arms. Notice how london attackers only had knives? https://t.co/CePpDA8d9F


— BenAris (@bneeditor) June 4, 2017



Of course, let’s, indeed, rewind a bit:




let's rewind a bit https://t.co/yoOFwnPitr


— MvW (@amsterdamized) June 4, 2017



You will recall that the first of these terror attacks on London was 7/7 and we learned after that, that Prince Bandar threatened Tony Blair with another such attack if the Serious Fraud Office investigated the £1 billion slush fund for Bandar’s prostitutes, drugs, alcohol, sex parties, etc. Blair shut down that inquiry on national security grounds and we, collectively, refused to ask any further questions.


In light of this latest attack, however, it begs the question: did someone forget to pay this year’s bribe?


But, alas, we’re all in on the slush fund action now and so perhaps don’t want to hear ’embarrassing’ truths as Theresa May might say:




US & UK banks JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and HSBC are lead underwriters for Saudi Aramco’s upcoming $100 billion IPO – the largest ever.


— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) June 4, 2017



And I find it interesting that the media and our governments can whip so much of the population into a xenophobic hysteria about Russia allegedly ‘undermining our democracy’ and yet there is no greater undermining of our so-called democracies than our same government’s response to the never-ending Saudi financed terror events:




Theresa May has wanted to control the internet for a long time. Wastes no time exploiting this attack to demand this https://t.co/1QIm8VEMO9


— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 4, 2017





We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!


— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2017



I’m not suggesting we need to stoke the population into a xenophobic hysteria as the US beltway media has done against Russia (and re: that hysteria, this is an excellent piece to read). No, I’m suggesting we be honest with ourselves about the world we have created around us. And why we are hysterics against some and not others. Qui bono?




Saudi Aramco selling 5% of itself, could be worth $2 trillion. Considering either London or NYSE for listing. We should impose conditions.


— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) June 4, 2017



It’s time to have a conversation about Saudi Arabia.




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