Max Keiser on Saudis Threatening Obama

[Nyan]

Keiser Report: Systemic Nature of Corruption (Apr.19th.2016)

Of all the countries in the world, these "Royal Scums" are the only ones that don't have to reveal how much US treasuries they hold.
Electing Obama to the presidency didn't really mean anything here -the Saudis overruled him.
So where do we go from now? What do you do when justice should stop at the Saudis' will?

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Royal Scum!

I love it.

The Royal Scum should be happy the Frat Boy and the Big Dick are living in retirement. They had a way of ginning up wars against inconvenient, uppity allies. That would have cost us $1 trillion, of course, but who cares if it all goes to arms manufacturers and that Legs Dimon and Pretty Boy Lloyd have that much more debt to service.

So it all works out for the American poobahs in the end. The crooked politicians get re-elected, the banksters make loans using the war debt as collateral and the arms merchants have parties with blue chip hookers popping out of cakes. We peons, who still don't have jobs, are left to pay the taxes.

[JDPriestly]

2. The US still has the largest, most powerful military in the world.

The Saudis know that. Why are they risking so much?

[Delver Rootnose]

3. Because thier kingdom ....

....is failing. They can't fight a war in Yemen and keep the subsides to the populace that they do, especially with peak oil and water problems and heat problems from rapidly advancing global warming. The rich in thier country should be planning to flee but the king has to try to keep it intact.

[truedelphi]

4. K & R for viewing later. n/t

[uhnope]

5. RT lol. This vid funded by a kleptocratic dictatorship as corrupt as the Saudis anyday

Why is a propaganda channel for a RW gay-bashing dictatorship on DU anyway?

[Ghost Dog]

6. Max Keiser is a patriotic American

who demonstrates his loyalty by speaking truth.

Those who would censor are not.

[uhnope]

7. "patriotism, the last refuge of the scoundrel"

Curious how these "patriots" love their dirty-money paychecks from foreign dictatorships that stifle the free press in their own country

[wolfie001]

8. He makes a habit of attacking Russian oligarchs that buy up ritzy London real estate

I'm sure they're all pro-Putin. He knows what the inside money-launderers are up to.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. k&R n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

10. Meanwhile the Cameron government eagerly helps the Saudis bomb and destroy Yemen.

UK Killing Civilians for Oil Again in the King Salman Canal Project
by Craig Murray

The UK government insists on continuing the massive supply – £2.8 billion since the start of the attack – of high tech weapons for Saudi Arabia to use against civilians in Yemen, despite opposition from the EU Parliament and every major human rights group. Furthermore UK special forces are operating inside Yemen in support of the onslaught. Thousands of civilians have died as a result, including many children.

Given this is not exactly popular in the UK, and that after the law takes its tortuous course there will very probably be embarrassment for the government down the line, the prize which Cameron perceives must be great. Of course, western elite support for the appalling Saudi regime is a given, because Saudi cash pumps primarily into banking, armaments and high end property, the three areas most dear to the interests of the 1%.

Yemen of course has very little oil of its own. But where the West gets involved in conflict, it is almost always at base either about oil resources (eg Kuwait, Libya, Syria, Iraq) or oil routes (eg Afghanistan, Georgia, Balkans). It turns out that Britain’s unflinching military support of Saudi Arabian aggression in Yemen is about oil routes.

Last year the Saudis announced a plan to drive a ship canal through Saudi desert, Oman and Yemen to the Gulf of Aden, bypassing the straits of Hormuz. This would reduce ship journeys by approximately 500 miles, and limit any potential physical threat to shipping from Iran. It is worth noting that Iran has stated it will not block the strait of Hormuz, and is a signatory to the UN Law of the Sea Convention which would make that illegal. Iranian control of the strait of Hormuz has long been the nightmare of the American right.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/04/uk-killing-civilians-for-oil-again/