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Wahhabi branch is the most brutal form of Islam. There is no nuance about it.

Historically nothing is ever resolved till the superior power wants it.

0-6.

New Star Wars looks good.

This one is unbelievable. Maid finds evidence of the death of the original maid. Kept in chicken shed for days without food etc...

They are savages NSFW. Beatings and rape of foreign workers and women for whatever made up reason. To put it into context when this ocassionally happens in India or Pakistan the culprits are hunted down and justice is served and the Govt denounce the behavior. The world media goes into a frenzy about it. Happens in Saudi there is hardly a peep about it and what does count for criticism is often couched in careful wording. Migrant workers are basically slaves and live in fear of their lives and person. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a6_1441674890 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=813_1372118052

Defenders of the Saudi death penalty say beheadings, usually with a single sword stroke, are at least as humane as lethal injections in the United States. They deplore any comparison between the kingdom's execution of convicted criminals and Islamic State's extra-judicial killing of innocent hostages. But rights activists say they are more concerned by the justice system behind the death penalty in the kingdom than by its particular method of execution. And critics of the Al Saud ruling family say the latest wave of executions may have a political message, with Riyadh determined to demonstrate its toughness at a moment of regional turmoil. Saudi Arabia beheaded 26 people in August, more than in the first seven months of the year combined. The total for the year now stands at 59, compared to 69 for all of last year, according to Human Rights Watch. " http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/20/us-saudi-execution-idUSKCN0I91G220141020

Them and Qatar are the main money men for terrorism. Evidently, the situation has not improved since Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Late last year, Vice President Biden caused a stir by undiplomatically speaking the truth at an event at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, saying: "Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks were great friends... [and] the Saudis, the Emirates, etcetera. What were they doing?.... They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad -- except that the people who were being supplied, [they] were al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda, and the extremist elements of jihadis who were coming from other parts of the world." More recently, the Saudi role in promoting extremism has come under renewed scrutiny. Calls for declassifying the redacted 28 pages of the 9/11 congressional commission have been getting stronger. And statements from the lead author of the report, former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, suggest they are being hidden because they "point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as the principal financier" of the 9/11 hijackers. He has been unusually explicit, "Saudi Arabia has not stopped its interest in spreading extreme Wahhabism. ISIS...is a product of Saudi ideals, Saudi money and Saudi organizational support, although now they are making a pretense of being very anti-ISIS." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-yousaf-butt-/saudi-wahhabism-islam-terrorism_b_6501916.html More backstory but a little kinder to the Jihadi's (saying most are not so religious)... http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2014/11/wahhabism-isis-how-saudi-arabia-exported-main-source-global-terrorism Dearlove … sees Saudi strategic thinking as being shaped by two deep-seated beliefs or attitudes. First, they are convinced that there “can be no legitimate or admissible challenge to the Islamic purity of their Wahhabi credentials as guardians of Islam’s holiest shrines”. But, perhaps more significantly given the deepening Sunni-Shia confrontation, the Saudi belief that they possess a monopoly of Islamic truth leads them to be “deeply attracted towards any militancy which can effectively challenge Shia-dom”. Western governments traditionally play down the connection between Saudi Arabia and its Wahhabist faith, on the one hand, and jihadism, whether of the variety espoused by Osama bin Laden and al-Qa’ida or by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Isis. There is nothing conspiratorial or secret about these links: 15 out of 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, as was Bin Laden and most of the private donors who funded the operation. *** http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-does-the-u-s-support-saudi-arabia-a-country-which-hosts-and-finances-islamic-terrorism-on-behalf-of-washington/5398408

IQ's are low according to some University research somewhere on the internet.

Getting better all the time. Must rank up there with one of the best value buys anywhere in the PL.

The Leftovers (no not a series written by CT). Brilliant. Cross between Twin Peaks/Lost/Taken. Wild bravura writing and genuinely packed with ideas. Get on it.

Will be worth 20m in a season or two. Effortless and not really even up to speed yet. Easily more balanced and confident than Mangala.

For once all the players were actually trying.

Coke did actually used to have cocaine in it. /noonebelievesthat

Black Mass. Good central performance not much else.

We set up House of Saud like the mischief makers we are.

In Afghanistan some children can hear them and are posted as sentries when there is any kind of celebration or wedding etc...

It's a must watch.

Love a gunship me.

Russian Hind gunships going in low and hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfixnxELdrI

Boy to be crucified in Saudi Arabia. Unreal. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/mother-of-saudi-man-sentenced-to-crucifixion-begs-obama-to-intervene

Ireland joined the single currency in 1999. At the time it was enjoying healthy growth, fuelled by investment from high-tech multinationals such as Dell, Intel and Pfizer, attracted by Ireland’s low 12.5 percent rate of corporation tax. But after the Irish turned over their currency and their interest rates to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, things began to change. The ECB insisted upon low interest rates for the eurozone to help the sluggish German economy. But what suited Germany was all wrong for Ireland, turning healthy growth into a debt-fuelled property mania. First the Euro-enthusiasts across the EU fostered the idea that, since all the members of eurozone shared a single currency and had promised to adhere to strict limits on debt and inflation, they were all equal in risk. This fiction led investors to imagine lending to Greece or Ireland was no more risky than lending to Germany or the Netherlands. So Irish banks were free to suck in billions from Asia and Europe. These billions - many of which came from the City of London - were what fuelled Ireland’s asset bubble. ECB policy made sure the money was lent on to Irish property speculators at real interest rates that were actually negative. So in 2007 Ireland built half as many houses as Britain, which has more than 13 times its population." Arse raped.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/the-dirty-dozen-the-12-men-who-together-destroyed-our-economy-26798490.html Shortly after becoming Taoiseach, Mr Cowen presided over a series of unfortunate events. Among the disastrous decisions for which the Offaly politician will go down in history are the infamous 2008 bank guarantee, the January 2009 nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank, and the ceding of Ireland's economic sovereignty to the EU, IMF and ECB in November 2010."

Why are Ireland in the EU anyway? Voted against it (Lisbon)and then a few years later got totally cleaned out by it. The only upside was Bono lost half his fortune in the building scams.

The job loss thing is nonsense and pure scaremongering. We run a huge deficit with the EU and Germany is our biggest trade partner no idea how anyone can site any argument that they would take out punitive tariffs or barriers against us. BMW and VW make cars in the UK ffs!