This picture shows policemen in Saudi Arabia standing guard. - AFP/File
He was the latest of 84 Saudis and foreigners to be executed in the kingdom this year, according to an AFP tally. Rape, murder, drug trafficking, apostasy and armed robbery are punishable by death under Saudi Arabias strict version of Islamic Shariah law.
Did The Saudis And The US Collude In Dropping Oil Prices.
In 1973, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat convinced Saudi King Faisal to cut production and raise prices, then to go as far as embargoing oil exports, all with the goal of punishing the United States for supporting Israel against the Arab states.. In each, control of energy pipelines, this time primarily of natural gas pipelines���from Russia to the EU via Ukraine and from Iran and Syria to the EU via Syria���is the strategic goal,��� Global Research wrote in an Oct. 26 post.
Pakistan In Shock After School Attack That Killed More Than 100
In one of the worst terrorist attacks in Pakistans history, militants belonging to the Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday launched a brazen attack on a military-run school in the city of Peshawar. Officials said the eight-hour siege left at least 141 people.
The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: October 22, 2011
Saudi Arabia Faces Succession Planning After Death of Crown Prince Sultan. Saudi Arabias Crown Prince. The death of Saudi Arabias Crown Prince Sultan puts the spotlight on an untested system of succession set up by King Abdullah in 2006 to ensure stability in the worlds top oil exporter. With turmoil. Gasoline shipments from Europe across the Atlantic Ocean will decline during the next two weeks because of rising fuel prices and weaker demand in the U.S..
Unrest Continues in the Arab World
The Hindu reported that the ���Emir of Kuwait simply handed out bonuses of 1,000 dinars (about $3,000) transferred to every bank account, the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah injected $37 billion in pay rises and grants to students,��� and ���many Gulf. After Friday prayers several hundred people poured out on to the marble steps of the Jamal Abdul Nasser mosque, Tripolis biggest. And then the chanting began. First: God is great. Next: Death to Gaddafi. Then: All Libyans are brothers.
Oil Falls Below 50 As Global Financial Markets Begin To.
After the Saudis eliminate the competition, the price of oil will rise and the frackers will return. Guest. Good points.. We are sick to death and tired of this system and all these money making schemes. Oil glut? Haha ��� we��.
Biden to meet with Erdogan as divide between US and Turkey widens
Biden is expected to try to smooth over relations that have become increasingly strained by divergent views over Islamic State (Isis), the war-partitioned island of Cyprus and oil and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean. ���There are real.
New York chokehold death of Eric Garner brings attack on broken windows.
The broken windows law enforcement strategy of aggressively pursuing petty criminals is coming under attack, after a grand jury this week decided not to indict a New York police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man. Eric Garner.
Oil prices rise after Saudi Kings death
Oil prices rose on the news of the death of Saudi Arabias King Abdullah Thursday, but the kings death is not expected to change the course of oil prices over the next several months. The price of U.S. crude was up 88 cents, or 1.9 percent, to $47.19.
We Live In A New World And The Saudis Are The First To.
In an unusually frank interview, Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, tore up OPECs traditional strategy of keeping prices high by limiting oil output and replaced it with a new policy of defending the cartels market share at all costs... The buyout of a Texas utility, now called Energy Future Holdings Corp., was a bet that NG prices would rise forevermore, thus giving the coal-focused utility a leg up.. After all we are here to learn as well and not just score up votes.
From Glasgow to Kashmir
But Kashmir was geographically contiguous with both subcontinental neighbors, governed by a Hindu, and with a religiously mixed population. (Muslims were and remain the overwhelming majority in Kashmir Valley ��� but not in the narrowly Hindu Jammu or .
My uncles decade-old story foreshadowed what my brother-in-law went through.
After treating my uncle to a fabulous array of snacks, in the truest Arab custom, the friend asked him the reason for his impromptu visit. My uncle was at a loss of what to say. But he finally blurted out what was told the Saudis mother had died the.
Saudi Arabia projects huge deficit as oil prices tumble
Saudi Arabia announced a 2015 budget with a huge deficit Thursday as the worlds largest crude exporter begins to feel the impact of its own decision not to shore up oil prices.. Projected spending is slightly higher than planned for this year, but revenues are 140 billion riyals lower than estimates for 2014, said the statement read after a cabinet session chaired by Crown Prince Salman bin.. 0. Privacy is dead and its never coming back, Harvard professors say. 0.
The Wests Grooming of Radical Islam : Part 3 | Hindu.
Wednesday 21st January 2015,. Hindu Human Rights Online News Magazine �� Home �� HHR Bio. But in fact it would not be the first time that western nations cut a deal with the Khomeinist state where Revolutionary Guards regularly chant ���Death to America���. It is also an unfortunate fact that western... King Fahd of Saudi Arabia pressured OPEC to keep oil prices low while financing Reagans wars in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Zaire. Angola and Chad. The also sent��.
DownWithTyranny!: Civilization Clashes With Barbarism
Call Saudi King Abdullah a pirate and make sure youre not inside The Kingdom. He told the Kuwaiti paper Al-Seyassah that the price of oil is way too low. We believe the fair price for oil is $75 a barrel, he said, without��.
My 6 top geopolitical predictions for 2015
Besides the sliding oil price, high interest rates to defend a vulnerable ruble, a shrinking economy and financial sanctions (slapped on Moscow by the United States and Europe because of Ukraine) are a toxic combination.. the KAABA in Mecca from the Hindu Baal worshippers who established it during a Hindu king empire....moosehamhead...lied to the Sunni Arab descendants of Ishmael and Esau in Edom and told them Abraham and Ishmael built it..after��.
Protesters block New York streets after officer cleared in death of Eric Garner
Thousands of demonstrators blocked streets, snarling New York City traffic into early Thursday morning, after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer for causing the death of an unarmed black man with a chokehold. Mostly peaceful.
WHO says number of Ebola cases has passed 10000
The number of confrimed Ebola cases has passed the 10,000 mark according to the World Health Organisation claiming the lives of almost 5,000 people. The United Nations health agency warned however that this landmark figure may be inaccurate due to .
Rusty instruments used at Chhattisgarh sterilization camp where 13 died
BHUBANESWAR: The number of women who died after operations performed by a doctor accused of using rusty equipment at a mass sterilization camp in India rose to 13 on Wednesday, highlighting the dangers of the worlds largest surgical contraception .
The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria | Counter.
What has happened is that the long-time US ally inside OPEC, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has been flooding the market with deep discounted oil, triggering a price war within OPEC, with Iran following suit and panic selling.. Shortly after signing with Iran and Iraq, on August 16, 2011, Bashar al-Assads Syrian Ministry of Oil announced the discovery of a gas well in the Area of Qarah in the Central Region of Syria near Homs... Police State 4: The Rise Of FEMA
Citizen Warrior: We Can Bankrupt the Global Jihad
If the Saudis decide to lower the world price of oil to make the U.S. lose interest in methanol, they would not make enough money to fulfill their commitments to pay off their subjects, who would probably rise up and throw the monarchy out. But if the Saudis keep the. Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, Saudi King Abdullah almost doubled his Kingdoms budget, committing billions in subsidies, pensions and pay raises in an effort to keep his subjects from storming the palaces.
Saudi king calls for religious tolerance (in general.
The Saudis have billed the gathering �������� which also includes Buddhist and Hindu participants, as well as practitioners of several Eastern religions �������� as a strictly religious affair. Theres to be no mention of hot-button issues such as the war in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iranian nuclear ambitions or rising oil prices. Other than the inaugural. 2008 at 10:21 am. Id like to know if the death penalty has been rescinded for the crime of apostasy in Saudi Arabia���
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2014
Brady took up a personal campaign for increased gun control after surviving a head wound when a man tried unsuccessfully to kill President Ronald Reagan, for whom Brady was press secretary. Chung began a years-long quest for justice, which eventually .
Trashing Saudi Cutouts: Ransacking their Gold | The.
It is the trashing of the Saudi cutouts, whose kingdoms boundaries were created by the British in the 1950 decade, and whose king was recognized formally by the West.. My suspicion is that when the gold price starts rising, it will mean that China no longer has been given the big wide berth in high volume cheap gold purchases.. The key piece overlooked by the American public, and much of the West, is the death in progress of the defacto Petro-Dollar standard.
The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 4 - Zero Hedge
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, Add these factors up and we conclude there is no visible price limit on oil after supply falters. Ive been. When supply cannot be jacked up to meet demand, prices will rise. As I have.. If everybody falls in line to the Saudis and they behave as a properly functioning cartel once more, the results could be lower production and higher prices.. South Stream isnt dead never was...ignore the lying politicians.
How Kalynda Davis could face firing squad over plot to import ice into Australia
She was a fresh faced Sydney schoolgirl and beautiful person from a happy and well-off family who who once simply described her passion for playing basketball with its my life. Now Kalynda Davis faces a possible execution by firing squad in China.
Death by oil: Why US and Saudi Arabia are colluding to.
One reason being suggested is that it is in the interest of both the United States as well as Saudi Arabia that oil prices go lower than���. Typically, oil prices start to rise at the sign of the slightest trouble in the Middle East.. In fact, in September before addressing the United States on the threat of ISIS, President Barack Obama is supposed to have called up Saudi Arabias King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The ISIS.. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.
Paris: Peshawar and Boko Haram ��� Religion, Politics and Violence
The debates regarding freedom of expression, sharia laws, education for girls continued to be in the fore and columns after column either dissociating Islam from these mindless acts or boosting the perception of Muslims being in the business of.
WikiLeaks and Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to.
. beyond security to want an attack on Iran. Namely it would hinder an oil competitor and financier of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah which Saudi Arabia opposes, while also causing the price of oil to sky rocket.. And that was why when asked what would happen to the Muslim world after his death, he said, about Saudi Arabia that the side of the head of satan will rise out of Najd (the then name of area of greater Saudi Arabia). But apparently someone told me long ago that this��.
Oil down after Saudi Arabia slashes crude price
News King 5. Frequent Flyer 3. Member 1. Know more about Times Points. ��� 25 days ago ���Follow. SINGAPORE: Oil fell in Asia today after major producer Saudi Arabia slashed the price of the crude that it sells to Asia and the United States, analysts said.
NYPD gathered intel on professional agitators in Ferguson to prepare for.
The Associated Press reports that the New York City Police Department sent detectives to Ferguson, Missouri in order to gather intelligence on ���professional agitators��� as the grand jury investigating the chokehold death of a Staten Island man draws to.
The 52 Best Photographs From Around The World In 2014
After several weeks of calm, violence has again flared between police and anti-government protesters, who are calling for the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych over corruption and an abandoned trade agreement with the European Union.. February 4.