Saudi Arabia is falling, It's all over

[WinterHold]

[Pat Mustard]

That's what you get, for turning the holliest place on earth, into a cheap version of Las Vegas.

Word to the wise, all "holy" places end up looking like Vegas, and for the same reason, that it's easier to gull the foolish when they're distracted by all the shiny.

Oh, and why are you so enamoured of a polytheistc fetish object?

[ReptilianPeon]

[Jackie]

Perhaps; this is the most serious topic I wrote and will write. I don't intend to joke, or tell them events following my typical writing style. What you read here is the truth of the present state of the desert kingdom.


Atlas's Journals:
Monday, May 9, 2016

There are no jobs. Oil prices have increased, going out costs a lot nowadays. The high-standards of living has begun to vanish, the advent of this crisis brought a grim atmosphere that is dropping its shadow on the society.

The royal regime was hit so hard by the last drop in oil prices; the kingdom that almost have no source of income except the profits coming from oil extraction, had to kneel and immediately declare a change of tactics, under the name "vision of 2030".

Vision of 2030 includes giving up on the Wahhabi//Sunni faith that the kingdom always advocated -since its citizens have literally became furious with the faith and incapable of keep practicing it-, the infamous "Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice" will face strong restriction and it won't be able to move freely like it used to move; the pressure of certain western movements (especially in Britain) and the broadcast of many controversal videos, embarrassed the royal regime that used the " "Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice" for so many years to terrorize the population and keep it under control; keeping it isolated from the outside world, and punishing even the smallest acts -like getting a haircut or wearing bracelets- with lashing and torture.

The economical face of "Vision 2030" will sell the country's own & only commodity: oil extraction, by offering the main oil extracting company (ARAMCO) for sale, to the international private sector. It's as if the U.S have sold its whole fortune of gold to China, or Russia sold all of its natural gas to the NATO. In other words; they offered the whole desert kingdom (along with its citizens) for sale. Thus; the precious oil was not just linked and sold with a foreign currency (dollar); the whole oil reserve will be under the control of different foreign entities.

The country is dry; and the remains were sold. Oil costs a lot now, food prices increased, water bills were increased (so as electricity), and the propaganda has never been more severe.

The kingdom also wasted a whole year in wasting resources in a useless war in the South -in Yemen-; a war against a militia that the kingdom couldn't win, and after almost a year of wasting resources, it had to sit on the table of negotiation and solve it politically with the "Houthy" Militia.

Saudi Arabia is falling..the horn of the devil is breaking down.



That's what you get, for turning the holliest place on earth, into a cheap version of Las Vegas.

To be fair, humans don't like to think of the dead religion's holy places as such, but the Greeks and Romans and Egyptians had their holy buildings and holy people too. 

Mecca and Vatican City and Angkor Wat are all monuments to human narcissism, it is just that some are still currently popular. Fantastic artwork for sure, but so were the Egyptian Pyramids.

It would be nice if our species would spend less on religion and use that money to end things like poverty and pollution.

[Regina]

When these Wahaabi-Salafi scholars appear in the TV and are asked to condemn Rajm (stoning) the beheading they always say things like "Saudi and Iran do not have true Sharia" and they don't really condemn .

Saying Iran and Saudi Arabia don't practice true Sharia is like saying that American chattel slavery wasn't instigated by real white people. It doesn't mean anything. It's still a reality for the people languishing under it regardless.

[Jackie]

When these Wahaabi-Salafi scholars appear in the TV and are asked to condemn Rajm (stoning) the beheading they always say things like "Saudi and Iran do not have true Sharia" and they don't really condemn .

Saying Iran and Saudi Arabia don't practice true Sharia is like saying that American chattel slavery wasn't instigated by real white people. It doesn't mean anything. It's still a reality for the people languishing under it regardless.

I hate it when anyone, including atheists pull the "true" fallacy.

Civility and morality isn't in a common label, but in our species actions. We are still ultimately individuals first. If a  label had magic powers we could expect to see a society with no prisons at all, but every nation, friend and foe alike all have prisons.

Holy people don't have magic bat pones. Holy books don't have magic powers. Economic views also don't mean the individual will only do good. Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution. Unfortunately evolution does not care which wins. Fortunately for our species, we do have the ability to think about how we interact with each other. Fortunately humans can chose to be non violent when we chose.

[SofaKingHigh]

Selling Aramco?    They're not now are they?  They're considering a limited IPO on around 5%of shares, which will probably have nothing to do with the core, crude producing business.  the shares will probably be in the "downstream" businesses they run.

So, not like Russia selling arms to NATO or some such nonsense.

At all.

[Pat Mustard]

If you go into one of the many Catholic Cathedrals you get asked to be a bit respectful, cover up your shoulders for the duration of your visit, and maybe donate a little money to keep it free to enter as they need the money for upkeep. If you go to the Vatican you will not find literature telling people Protestants or the Eastern Christians (e.g. Copts, Armenians, Assyrians and Maronites) are terrible and evil.

You've got to hand it to the rcc, the world's richest organisation, deeply steeped in money laundering and tax evasion, can even convince non-believers that they can't afford to fix the gutters on their high vale palaces. And I wouldn't be too sure about the rcc not calling other denominations evil, the holocaust had direct catholic roots (protestant too), not too long ago the church in Italy could legally abduct jewish children if it had been found out they had been adopted behind their parents' back. I also remember cases in Ireland in the 60's where Jehovah Witnesses were severely beaten after pulpit denunciations, and nothing was done to the assaulters or those who incited it (speech which amounts to incitement to hatred was then and is now a crime here).

The rcc is better at seeming reasonable than most other cults, that is all.

[The Grand Nudger]

Why cover your own losses when you can convince investors to cover them for you by offering a limited stock option for a product you're otherwise having trouble selling? GG Saudi Arabia

[Rev. Rye]