#mohammed bin salman

[nando161mando]

21,000 slave labourers killed by a brutal fascist dictatorship propped up by the USA.

[originalleftist]

Over half of anti-Heard tweets were bots or paid trolls, many linked to Saudi government bots.

"According to an investigation by Tortoise Media, which examined more than one million tweets, more than 50 per cent of anti-Heard messages in the run-up to the 2022 defamation case were "inauthentic' - either from automated "bot" accounts or people hired to attack the actress."

"Bradley Hope, author of a book on Bin Salman, told the podcast that the pro-Depp tweets emanating from Saudi Arabia appear to be produced by "flies", a name for Saudi bot accounts."

"An intelligence professional who tracks online disinformation campaigns, said there was only a "0.1 per cent chance" that the hate directed at Heard was from genuine Depp fans.

The investigation also claims that bot networks in Thailand and Spain tweeted large numbers of pro-Depp messages."

"...more than 100 Twitter accounts sent 1,000 identical messages at exactly the same time to any company that had worked with Heard, reading: "This brand supports domestic violence against men."'

"The makers of the podcast argue that the criticism of Heard could have affected the jury in the 2022 US defamation trial which found in favour of Depp."

"So, if you couldn't tell the difference between a real-life Johnny Depp fan and a bot in 2022, then you probably won't be able to tell a Russian troll from a US election official in 2024. And that represents a serious problem for the security of our democracies."-Alexi Mostrous, presenter of the podcast.

"Johnny Depp and the Saudi Embassy did not respond to Tortoise's request for comment."

[canadianabroadvery]

[odinsblog]

Some evil, greedy, treacherous mother fuckers associated with LIV Golf, all the way around

👉🏿 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/sports/golf/liv-pga-tour-saudi-arabia.html

👉🏿 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/world/middleeast/jamal-khashoggi-case-facts.html

[royal-confessions]

“Pls don't troll me for saying this, but OBJECTIVELY speaking, I think Mohammed bin Salman is one of the most good-looking royals out there. He's very tall around 6ft1, has a masculine build, beautiful brown eyes, full lips, great skin, nicely shaped eyebrows, sweet smile, great features overall. He was even more handsome when he was younger. I remember being mesmerised by his manly voice, watching live on TV when he had given a speech in english during a visit to my country, Pakistan.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[vyorei]

Saudi Arabia's Prince calling for an end to operations in Gaza again

[anthroxlove]

Guess Who's Johnny Depp's New Bestie?

"If you guessed MBS, congratulations. I guess you had that on your 2024 bingo card.

In case you forgot, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud ordered a hit on journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was chopped into little pieces by Saudi agents at a consulate in Turkey."

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[t3dd]

[deadpresidents]

You have mentioned your interest in reading about Saudi Arabia and I share your interest, so I want to know if you think the crown prince will actually become king eventually?

Yes, without a doubt. The Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), is already the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia and has instituted major economic, cultural, and religious reforms over the past few years that have dramatically changed Saudi Arabia. (Of course, he has also been responsible for some impulsive foreign policy disasters and brutal human rights violations.) With the possible exception of the Emirati leader, Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), the Saudi Crown Prince is already the most powerful leader in the Arab world.

King Salman is still alive (at least he was a few minutes ago), so he is officially in charge, but the King is nearly 88 years old and it is believed that he has been in failing health for a while now. It's not unusual for there to be a de factor ruler while the Saudi King is still living, and in every instance that de facto ruler ultimately succeeded the King. King Saud was forced to hand over power to the future King Faisal because Saud was utterly incompetent and unfit to effectively rule the country. King Khalid, who had assumed the throne when Faisal was assassinated in 1975, handed the reins over to future King Fahd because his health was failing. Fahd suffered a massive stroke in the 1990s, and future King Abdullah stepped in as de facto ruler until he was proclaimed King upon Fahd's death. So there's a lot of precedent for the de facto ruler to eventually become King in his own right. MBS has taken about as much control over Saudi Arabia as possible while still respecting the position of his father, but he's undoubtedly the person calling the shots and he's seemingly (and, in some cases, publicly) sidelined any potential threats to his rule once King Salman dies or abdicates.

Unless there is some shocking turn of events -- and it would probably take nothing short of a revolution at this point -- MBS will eventually succeed his father as King. That will make him the first grandson of Ibn Saud, the founder of the modern Saudi state, to become King. Since the death of Ibn Saud in 1953, every one of his successors as King of Saudi Arabia has been one of his roughly 50 sons. And because MBS is still so young (he's only 38 years old right now), he will likely have the opportunity to rule Saudi Arabia and become the most influential leader in the Middle East for decades to come.

[imkeepinit]

[mnera94]

🫡🤍

[aunti-christ-ine]

RIGGED SYSTEM!

Elon Musk says you can say anything you want on Twitter "X" . . . but his biggest investor might kill you if you do.

[galerymod]

Attention, this is not a joke but a killing joke,

Saudi Arabia takes over chairmanship of UN Commission on the Status of Women - human rights activists appalled.

Louis Charbonneau of Human Rights Watch made it clear on X (formerly Twitter): "Saudi Arabia's election to head the UN Commission on the Status of Women shows a shocking disregard for women's rights everywhere." A country that already imprisons women for fighting for women's rights has no right to such a post, Charbonneau continued.

He also criticised the other countries in the Commission for not preventing the change. "If everyone had stood up straight, this wouldn't have happened. But everyone kept quiet."

How can something like this go so wrong?

Abdulaziz Alwasil, Saudi Arabia's UN envoy, will be the chairman. According to the Guardian, none of the envoys from 45 countries raised any objections to his nomination at the CSW's annual meeting. There were also no opposing candidates.

The Philippines actually held the chairmanship for two years. However, other members from Asia had urged the country to hand over the seat after one year. Bangladesh had actually been intended as the successor, but instead Saudi Arabia pushed its way to the top with a lot of lobbying.

Let's put it plainly: everyone has let themselves be bought by a world of greed and corruption! That's what the nice, generous Saudis love. They simply buy influence and culture, football, golf, ...... pukes sorry

Saudi Arabia is trying to polish up its image to the outside world with reforms such as allowing women to drive.

What a charade, makeup on the ugly face of the unjust state.

Hooray, the goat has been declared a garden.

And they are about to prove to the saudis what they think of women's rights.

Completely nothing

Case: Manahil al-Utaibi

Fitness trainer faces eleven years in prison in Saudi Arabia

There have been some makeup reforms in Saudi Arabia recently. The country wants to appear cosmopolitan. At the same time, critics are silenced with long prison sentences. The case of a young fitness trainer is apparently no exception.

According to human rights activists, a female activist in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for her choice of clothing and support for women's rights. Manahil al-Utaibi was sentenced in January - more than a year after her arrest - by a special court for terrorism, the organisation Amnesty International announced on Tuesday evening.

The accusations against the 29-year-old fitness trainer related to her clothing and her calls on social networks to end the male guardianship system in the kingdom. She had also published videos of herself without the traditional Abaja overdress.

Saudi Arabia's government confirmed the arrest in December following an enquiry into the case by a UN special rapporteur. Al-Utaibi had been convicted of "terror offences", it said. The country's laws would protect the right to freedom of expression unless actions could "violate or exceed the limits of public order or social norms".

The last sentence immediately made us think of George Orwell! Freedom of expression with limits is good!

Amnesty International and the human rights organisation ALQST urged the kingdom to release Al-Utaibi immediately and unconditionally. According to them, she was physically and psychologically abused in detention following her arrest in November 2022. In addition, she was held in an unknown location for several months.

Well, chairmanship of UN Commission on the Status of Women

How is the status of Al-Utaibi ?

One of the representatives of nice Mohammed bin Salman, who simply had a journalist killed and dismembered in Turkey.

Shit, nobody would believe that in a novel, if you want to write a novel like that at all.

The new human injustice game for women's rights only. Now new from the nice grinning man who rules Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia rights vs women's rights

The New Game

There is only one dice with over all one on it for the women

A stack of cards with a card for women on it say go to jail for a long time and lose your wife and even your bonus human rights.

The Saudis always have one more bonus card when they need it where it says we always win.

A board of politicians, police, special courts, torturers, prison and just an absolute terrorist suspect wife.

Start of the game: The woman catches and does something really stupid she thinks she's women right, and Saudi Arabia wins.

Game idea from the makers I have a journalist killed in Turkey and nobody can catch me : Moammed bin Salman.

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Screenshots from the official Syrian Presidency 2023 video

What a year it has been for the Assads - two Arab Summits in Saudi Arabia, trips to Russia, Oman, the UAE and China, official Iraqi and Iranian visits, talks with Turkey, Hafez Jr graduating from Moscow University...

Not forgetting the earthquake and the terror attack on the military academy 😔

But this year, I'm also thinking about things that went on behind the scenes

Specifically regarding a Mr Hannibal Gaddafi

Remember, Assad met Michel Aoun too, and the Syrian government invited the Libyan Justice Minister to visit, but Dbeibah refused permission

And let's not forget Saif sending his lawyer to Syria...

[odinsblog]

No one loves Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman more than America’s elite. In recent years, we’ve seen leaders, investors, and celebrities hold out a Saudi exception to human rights in the service of a blurry concept of national interests that requires the U.S. to constantly compromise its values in service of an autocrat. And so MBS has been welcomed back into the establishment fold, and he won over Washington. And now he’s taking a victory lap.

When Saudi Arabia convened a 2018 summit in Riyadh, businesspeople shielded their name tags from view, sheepish about seeking MBS’s money just days after journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. But the stigma has apparently worn off, and big names in finance, tech, media, and entertainment showed up at the Miami edition of Davos in the Desert.

The entire conceit of the conference is that Saudi Arabia can be abstracted from MBS, who is hardly ever mentioned yet remains the unspoken force behind the events. The host, the Future Investment Initiative Institute, a mouthful, is essentially the crown prince’s personal think tank. Session after session offered platitudes and ruminations on the least controversial ideas ever—AI is going to change the world! Climate is important! Sports bring people together! The two-day gathering was titled “On the Edge of a New Frontier,” itself a sort of redundant name. (Isn’t a frontier an edge?)

Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of a major sovereign wealth fund that’s currently under Senate investigation, led the proceedings. The Public Investment Fund that Al-Rumayyan runs is the conference’s founding partner and powers its lavish events. That Al-Rumayyan has $70 billion in annual investments to dole out is enough to draw out financial titans, curious entrepreneurs, and former Trump officials.

Jared Kushner, who had grown a beard, was talking about his theory of investing, without noting that MBS’s sovereign wealth funds had reportedly contributed $2 billion to his Affinity Partners. Steve Mnuchin, who similarly snared $1 billion of Saudi funds for his Liberty Strategic Capital, wore a suit and dress sneakers and talked about Israel as a tech hub. Mike Pompeo, in a tie, said that U.S. leadership in the world requires a “stability model” that involves working with “like-minded nations,” though “they’re not all going to be democracies.” Little wonder he rushed U.S. arms to Saudi Arabia as secretary of state as part of an end run around Congress.

Doing business with Saudi Arabia has become so normalized that the CEOs of major corporations and investment firms showed up in droves. There was Accenture’s Julie Sweet, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, and Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby. David Rubenstein—the billionaire who has played host to President Joe Biden at his Nantucket estate—spoke alongside his daughter Gabrielle. (This year, the Biden administration didn’t send an emissary, but the deputy commerce secretary, Donald Graves, attended in 2021.)

Journalists have kept a distance from Saudi Arabia after the dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Khashoggi, but in Miami the moderators included CNN’s Bianna Golodryga, Fox’s Maria Bartiromo, Bloomberg’s Manus Cranny, and The Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker.

MBS has especially used boldfaced names to rehabilitate his standing post-Khashoggi, his crackdown on women activists, and the destructive Yemen war. In Miami, there was a fireside chat with failed Senate candidate Dr. Oz. “Saudi Arabia is, I think, doing some wise investing and shifting mindsets by trying to leapfrog, in some cases, where the West is,” Oz said.

For Gwyneth Paltrow, it was just another fun public event. She spoke about how Goop had “built meaning” for its fans, in conversation with entrepreneur Moj Mahdara, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton. It was particularly incongruous when Paltrow discussed bringing more women to the cap table to fight the patriarchy.

Rob Lowe had some advice for Riyadh’s efforts to break into Hollywood and create its own film industry. “My view is there’s no reason that Saudi shouldn’t be the leader in IP in the same way they’re attempting to be the leader in sports and everything else,” Lowe said. “You need to have someone who can communicate: Why Saudi, why now.”

For all of the glitzy stage management and slick social media branding, at many moments there were fewer than 50 people watching the livestream on YouTube. But what mattered more were the opinion leaders, financiers, and tycoons in the room.

Big Tech was there, too, with Google’s Caroline Yap and Dell’s Michael Dell. Nothing was quite as obsequious as last year’s gathering in Miami when Adam Neumann, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz—all beneficiaries of Saudi Arabia’s financial largesse—gushed about how MBS is like a “founder,” except “you call him, ‘His Royal Highness.’”

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[royal-confessions]

“Crown Prince Hussein juts confirmed he has no leadership skills, in his interview he talked like he rehearsed everything he said, it doesn't come naturally. Apart from being Saudi ARABIA'S puppet I don't know what we learned from his interview.” - Submitted by Anonymous

“I was curious so I watched the interview of Prince Hussein, what can I say about it? Once again he praised his wife, praised saudis and praised MBS in other words : HE IS SAUDI ARABIA'S PUPPET. The man is too weak. Good luck to Jordanians” - Submitted by Anonymous

“Maybe you've had already a few confessions on Hussein's interview with a Saudi channel😅 I want to add my opinion if you don't mind. His interview clearly showed why he married a saudi woman. I don't have to add more. Real eyes realize real lies. Ps:I'm saudi😅” - Submitted by Anonymous

“Hussein of Jordan doing an interview : oh I love Saudis people , my wife is a blessing 😂😂. Nobody can teach him how to not make it obvious he is so scared of the big Saudi Arabia? Scared of another coup?? And we thought he could be King one day!” - Submitted by Anonymous

“Prior announcing the engagement of R&H, there was a public poll for the Jordanian public asking which Gulf country should they have better relationships with and the winner was KSA. Recently, Prince Hussein stating in TV he is now related to the royal family of Saudi is the most telling thing ever. He made a clown of himself and showed so much servitude to a different country with that boot-licking statement.” - Submitted by Anonymous

“Prince Hussein said he admires MBS.🤢🤮There is 2 options :1) he is scared of him and it means he is up for a life of submission to him or 2) he is just like him which says a lot about him!” - Submitted by Anonymous