Monday, November 30, 2020
Trying to embed Twitter into this blog
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You'll just have to look here.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Modern classic--Roshamon and Other Stories.
https://www.amazon.com/Rashomon-Other-Stories-Ryunosuke-Akutagawa/dp/1987817656#reader_1987817656
If you can afford the collectible editions, buy it!
You can see from the free sample what a great writer he was.
10-20-2018
From Al Waleed bin Talal wiki (2017 Saudi princes purge)
Main article: 2017 Saudi Arabian purge
On 4 November 2017, Al-Waleed was arrested in Saudi Arabia in a "corruption crackdown" conducted by a new royal anti-corruption committee.[48] This was done on authority of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, his cousin (both are grandsons of Ibn Saud, first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia).
Just days before his arrest, Al-Waleed reportedly contacted US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (who has publicly criticized the Saudi government in the past) and invited him to return to the Kingdom in order to contribute to Mohammad bin Salman's vision.[49]
The authorities in Saudi Arabia were demanding $6 billion from Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal,
In total, 320 princes, ministers and businessmen were detained.[50] Al-Waleed was released from detention in late January 2018, nearly three months after his arrest,[19] after he and most of the other Saudi notables arrested the previous year had made a financial settlement of some kind with the Saudi government.[18] Prince Mutaib Bin Abdullah, the son of the late King Abdullah (1924–2015), was released after paying a reported $1 billion.[51] According to a Wall Street Journal report, the price for his release was $6 billion.[52]
The Saudi Arabia government did not disclosed charges or produced evidence and the negotiations were held in secret.[53]
quote fr Saudi wiki--an eye for an eye surgically removed.
Capital and physical punishments imposed by Saudi courts, such as beheading, stoning (to death), amputation, crucifixion and lashing, as well as the sheer number of executions have been strongly criticized.[186] The death penalty can be imposed for a wide range of offences including murder, rape, armed robbery, repeated drug use, apostasy, adultery, witchcraft and sorcery and can be carried out by beheading with a sword, stoning or firing squad, followed by crucifixion.[187][188][189] The 345 reported executions between 2007 and 2010 were all carried out by public beheading. The last reported execution for sorcery took place in September 2014.[190]
Although repeated theft can be punishable by amputation of the right hand, only one instance of judicial amputation was reported between 2007 and 2010. Homosexual acts are punishable by flogging or death.[187][189][191] Atheism or "calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based" is considered a terrorist crime.[192] Lashings are a common form of punishment[193] and are often imposed for offences against religion and public morality such as drinking alcohol and neglect of prayer and fasting obligations.[187]
Retaliatory punishments, or Qisas, are practised: for instance, an eye can be surgically removed at the insistence of a victim who lost his own eye.[182] Families of someone unlawfully killed can choose between demanding the death penalty or granting clemency in return for a payment of diyya (blood money), by the perpetrator.[194]
Even after allowing women to drive and work, public places in Saudi Arabia are still gender-segregated and the kingdom has very strict laws on how unrelated men and women can dine together. In September 2018, a man was arrested by the Saudi authorities for appearing in a video with his female colleague while having breakfast at a hotel, where they both work.[195]
Human rights
Friday, October 19, 2018
Saudis now say Khashoggi dead "of chokehold after/during altercation."
https://go.cnn.com/?stream=cnn%3Fsr
This story does not wash at all.
Also reports Kushner gave MbS a hit list.
If so --trmps are finally done for.
10-19-2018
Refugee caravan runs through Guatemala fence into Mexico
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/10/19/caravan-migrants-break-guatemala-border-fence-rush-mexico/23566379/
trmp saying he will call out army.
Not good.
10-19-2018
Impt. Sabah (independent Turkish journal) on Khashoggi disappearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpNh3LBwt0Y
As usual, journalists are doing the investigating.
10-19-2018
Thursday, October 18, 2018
BBC--who's who in 15 member Khashoggi Saudi hit team.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45822374
The most ghoulish characters than any novelist could hardly imagine.
10-18-2018
Megan and Harry's 41 m Sydney rental--
http://www.lonny.com/Inside+Prince+Harry+And+Meghan+Markle's+41+Million+Australian+Rental/articles/VnFGOK9dXGi/Motorcade+Ready
How much is this junket costing UK taxpayer? Though we love the couple compared to say--trmps.
10-18-2018
trmp and FBI HQ
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/18/658509261/trump-intervened-in-fbi-hq-project-to-protect-his-hotel-democrats-allege
This article in not clearly written.
Robert Mueller may turn in his report after Nov. midterms. Probably already has it under seal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7in_Y2Jd-k
More people will go to jail.
Cohen has already talked to Mueller for more than 50 hours.
10-18-2018
From archive--Boris Johnson reciting Kipling poem at Shwedagone, Rangoon, stopped by Brit Ambassador.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2017/sep/30/boris-johnson-caught-on-camera-reciting-kipling-poem-in-burmese-temple-video
"Come you back you British soldier,"
"You're on mic."
10-18-2018
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Quote of day--from Quora --how long will Saudi oil last.
Granville Phillips
Granville Phillips, 12 years in Saudi Arabia
Answered Nov 28, 2016 · Upvoted by Steven Merz, PhD Candidate Chemical Engineering · Author has 875 answers and 806.5k answer views
This is not transparent as Saudi Arabia keeps these details as basically a State secret. Stated reserves in 2015 were 206bn barrels. So on the basis of 2015 consumption, about 70 years. The trouble is no one really knows. The stated reserves are the same as 10 years ago - so either new reserves have been found (and no major discovery was announced) or oil sources have become more economically viable with new technology.
The reality is that after 50 years if there has been no economic diversification by Saudi, they are in trouble. I they manage to diversify economically then this will be less of a leading question.
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Aidan Keener
Aidan Keener, studies at Hillsdale High School (2020)
Answered Jul 17, 2018
As the Green Revolution continues to spread around the world over the next decades, producing oil will become less and less profitable. Around 2050, oil production will no longer be profitable for most nations, and by 2100 the reserves will be depleted in the Middle East. But Saudi Arabia has a plan for this.
There seems to be some sort of pervading myth that the oil-based economies of today don’t realize oil can’t last forever. Therefore, once the oil market collapses all these nations will die along with it. Obviously, this is untrue. Every one of these nations, from Angola to Saudi Arabia, is already making strides to diversify. The Vision 2030 program, led by the so-called “liberal” Prince Mohammad bin Salman (which really just means he’s a few steps to the left of the Ayatollahs), will boost sectors such as tourism and consumer goods. Hopefully, this will lead to Saudi Arabia moving their societal norms from the 15th century to the 19th.
In conclusion, the end of oil in Saudi Arabia, and in all oil-based economies, will just be a minor hiccup as their economies diversify, mostly in the name of preserving power but with a side effect of liberalization.
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Paul Freund
Paul Freund, former Worker in Energy Industries Including an Oil Major
Answered Oct 1, 2016
Let me put something forward to get the discussion going.
The Saudi’s resources will last forever because the world’s need for oil will have diminished to a very low level before their resources are depleted. That’s because they have more resources, especially the attractive light oils, than almost anywhere else!
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Abdul
Abdul, A Saudi with various interests. Hold an MBA and a B.A. in International Studies.
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Oil never ends. It accumulates over hundreds of years and it is an ongoing process. Oil extraction cost might get higher. Anyway, if oil does vanish Saudi Arabia will still be able to produce oil for 90 additional years because the huge reserve it has.
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Mark Latham
Mark Latham, Managing Partner at Commodity Intelligence. (2008-present)
Answered Aug 20, 2018
The official answer, according to ARAMCO is 69 years.
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TRMS--New York Times article on Khashoggi disappearance, intv with NYTs correspondent Kirkpatrick in Istanbul.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/photos-of-suspect-with-prince-defy-trump-saudi-rogue-killer-story-1346003523748?v=raila&
Pompeo smiling and yakking it up with MbS, saudi Crown Prince.
Doesn't look like he's "looking for answers" at all.
More like , yeah yeah, it must have been rogue killers as you say.
trmp involved in cover-up, even uses same term "rogue killers."
Hit man identified from Turkish records and independent NYTs investigation.
Mubharak or Saudi CIA is directly under MbS.
Moreover, no "US investigation" on ground, as trmp alleges, but that's not surprising, most of what d j t says are lies.
10-17-2018
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
TRMS + Anderson Cooper 360 on Khashoggi "narratives" 10-16-2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m7r7zJ0WQA
In other words, the story keeps changing.
Is a "botched interrogation" any better.
Al Jazeera has names and photos of 15 member assassination team.
It could not have happened without MbS knowing, in a country as authoritarian as that?
Stay tuned.
I feel so badly for Khashoggi's family and his fiancee.
trmp has to do something more than send Pompeo to meet Saudi king for 15 mins.
10-17-2018
TRMS--Rachel talks to Vanity Fair's Emily Jane Fox--
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cohen-has-spent-over-50-hours-talking-trump-to-investigators-1345090115731?v=raila&
Trmp involved his son Eric in Stormy Daniel's hush up.
What kind of father is that?
10-16-2018
More Khashoggi details--Saudi consul left Istanbul Tues, his residence will be searched Wed.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/10/16/middleeast/khashoggi-turkish-investigation-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2F
I'm only a writer with no mideast experience, but I think the dismembered remains are in the Saudi residence's garden.
Why did the Consul leave?
It's very fishy and the whole affair stinks to high heaven.
10-16-2018
Monday, October 15, 2018
Favorable review of my paintings by Louis Jacobson City Paper.
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/13024003/henry-callahan-kyi-may-kaung
TO APRIL 28
Henry Callahan
Kyi May Kaung
Unlike even the most experimental artists who preceded them, the abstract expressionists of the mid-20th century prided themselves on ignoring cues from the tangible world. For them, art was predominantly a way to express their deepest emotions. On first inspection, Henry Callahan's acrylics on canvas—now showing at the Foundry Gallery along with works by Kyi May Kaung—call to mind the works of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. But where those ab-ex giants would channel their emotions, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Callahan unabashedly channels nature when making his abstractions: Before the Storm (pictured) calls to mind a sea-and-sky horizon, complete with piscine forms roiling in the ocean. Similarly, Titanium Crescent features cresting waves and vertical strips that approximate undersea vegetation; the dark-hued upper half of Concrete Jungle suggests a deep forest. Kaung's palette is much lighter, though not always cheerier. Her works are a mix of watercolors and monotypes, influenced almost equally by Asian calligraphy and Western action painting: Several of her calligraphic pieces suggest a cacophony of street signs in an urban business district, whereas a number of her inkblot-filled works spin propulsively beyond the matte in the spirit of Jackson Pollock or Franz Kline. But her simplest works are her most pleasing; Courage and Haiku (for DG), feature balletic brushstrokes that cohere in near-perfect harmony. Both artists' works are on view from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday; and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, to Sunday, April 28, at Foundry Gallery, 9 Hillyer Court NW. Free. (202) 387-0203. (Louis Jacobson)
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