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The Lebanese Prime Minister has “resigned” on Saudi tv. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has rounded up a dozen other princes in the House of Saud in a startling move that threatens to upset the kingdom. Reports that King Salman will step aside for the crown prince abound. What on earth is happening? Joining us to help sort through the rubble of this incredible week is Marwa Osman, a political analyst and commentator in Beirut.
SHOW NOTES:
Marwa Osman’s Twitter
Saudi channel retracts Twitter posting on Salman rise to throne
Lebanese PM Hariri resigns, stresses ‘Iran’s hands will be cut off’
Saudi prince, relieved from National Guard, once seen as throne contender
Saudi Arabia Just Announced Plans to Build a Mega City That Will Cost $500 Billion
Mystery surrounds fate of late King Fahd’s son amid Saudi crackdown
Reports claim Prince Muqrin helicopter did not crash, was shot down
Saudi prince Mansour killed in helicopter crash near Yemen border
Hariri firm in Saudi Arabia ‘facing bankruptcy’
Lebanon president ‘waiting for Hariri to return to Beirut’ before taking further action
Oh! I am so glad that James interviewed Marwa Osman!!
Extremely important information from someone who is familiar with the situation.
I feel like this Saudi purge could be a precursor for what Corbett talks about in Episode 320 – Echoes of WWI: China, the US, and the Next “Great” War https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-320-echoes-of-wwi-china-the-us-and-the-next-great-war/
I have been making comments about Saudi Arabia on that thread, the last comment coincided with the upload of this “Interview 1320 – Marwa Osman Reports on the Saudi Purge”.
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-320-echoes-of-wwi-china-the-us-and-the-next-great-war/#comment-45241
BACKGROUND on Saudi Arabia Royals
http://911blogger.com/news/2016-05-31/game-thrones-recent-saudi-coup
In the early 20th century, Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia, took wives from the many tribal factions and also formed an alliance with the Islamic ultra-conservative Sunni sect known as Wahhabism. This provided Ibn Saud with a more unified, stable control of the region. He fathered many children, including 45 sons, some of whom later took the throne as part of the Royal Family’s “House of Saud”.
Here is the rub. Many of the high ranking government positions are given to members of the Royal Family. There are a lot of “power plays” in vying for these positions, because holding them helps to ensure power for a particular faction of the family tree. Another internal Saudi contender of the power struggle is the Wahhabism religious faction.
(Note: The word “clan”, such as the “Sudairi clan”, is often used. “Clan” refers to each of the 22 or 24 wives of the founder of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud. Ibn Saud died in 1953. The Kings of Saudi Arabia have been a son from one of the different wives or “clans” of Ibn Saud.)
History of Ibn Saud and Wahhabism influence (5 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B0kFmlI8hg
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Unpaid debts in Saudi Arabia.
About 18 months ago, I remember running across some reports of people who were working in Saudi Arabia. One unemployed engineer could not exit the country because he owed money, but he needed a job in another country to pay the debt.
“Can I get a Final Exit if I have unpaid loan / credit card debt?”
http://lifeinsaudiarabia.net/blog/2015/08/12/can-i-get-final-exit-if-i-have-unpaid/
“How to exit Saudi Arabia.”
http://lifeinsaudiarabia.net/blog/2014/04/06/procedure-of-final-exit-from-saudi/
== James Corbett vs William Ramsey ==
What’s the deal with this? If I recall correctly, it’s briefly mentioned early in this interview then not mentioned again. I added a question in the comments and now think it’s time to bring it here for answers and/or a resolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFrRiMTCZyA&lc=z23zj3dqtue4xzgyx04t1aokglthinlkgcrfochcja22bk0h00410.1510272649824417
I don’t know who William Ramsey is and if I’ve had any contact with him whatsoever I certainly don’t remember it.
Interesting. I was also surprised to hear about this. A nothing burger? Seems stupid to mention it (allegedly Corbett was annoyed that William Ramsey re-published Corbett’s work on the death of David Rockefeller without attribution or something to that effect, listen to the interview above). William Ramsey has done very good work (so far as I know).
On our woke/truther/non-partisan wavelength without going woo as many do, other folks in the William Ramsey and (very recommended) American Freedom Radio circles include Ed Opperman, Pearse Redmond (Porkin’s Policy), Chuck Ochelli, Jack Blood, Rachel L. McIntosh, and John Barbour. Also, Tom Secker, Tim Kelly, and Joseph Atwill may also be in wider overlapping related circles, among countless others.
Each of these folks has their own personality, character, and flaws (like all of us) but I’ve found them to be extremely solid, despite a very few perspectives and/or blind spots I may not agree with. If anyone has other stories to challenge, deny, or support my views I’d be grateful to hear them. I think these folks do great work. (Two of them were assholes to me, but they still do great work.)
I don’t mean to cause shit, rather to find clarity and resolution – especially before it grows legs. (ie. I don’t know who psyop.news is on YouTube.)
== BitChute Will Not Save You (Yet?) ==
I have a big bone to pick with anyone pushing BitChute (and other alternative site solutions, like Steemit, GAB, etc).
I don’t like the BitChute interface much nor the Disqus forum that has utterly shitty search capabilities – but that’s not my biggest beef. I download everything from YouTube well before I watch and archive it. Maybe I’m building an archive for the landfill or some greater purpose, but that’s moot. I have to use a download addon. So too with BitChute.
BitChute’s great claim to fame is that it is decentralized. BULLSHIT! Not only is the site centralized, the torrent magnets don’t fully add the torrent info, seed the torrent, much less download the torrent and there is no simplistic download button. Popular videos are the only working exceptions to this giant flaw/misrepresentation. This could be very easily fixed.
I could also bitch about BitChute’s alpha-numeric nomenclature naming of the torrented video, without even a title, date, author, much less a “BitChute” prefix, but that’s a stupid absent file-naming feature I can tediously manually deal with – if I even had any BitChute torrents that actually fricken worked!
Steemit claims to be a solution, but it’s just as centralized, monopolized, and controlled as anything else. One big investor or hostile takeover and that shit gets shut down. Free today, censored tomorrow.
We need to stop pretending these are novel solutions when they are tightly controlled mini-monopolies.
I’m mad as hell and I have to keep taking it because I don’t know what else to do, other than DEMAND CORBETT REPORT ON THIS ! ! !
I wouldn’t have to rant here, if like most software and app developers, if BitChute had any kind of developers forum (even on the annoying as fuck Disqus) for suggestions, praises, features, bugs, glitches, etc. BitChute could figure out a way to go open source if it really wanted to help mankind.
Man I wish I could code. I’d make a decentralized fusion “site/network” featuring currency(ies), forum/reddit/voat, wiki/archive, tweet/gab/message, and audio/video/torrents.
Wow! I am impressed!
James, check the link to “New World Next Week”. Right now the link goes to an older NWNW.
Gosh guy! You have been a really busy guy! I can barely keep up.
Thanks for the tip HRS, but I’m afraid I don’t know which link are you referring to?
Sorry, I should have better defined the situation.
Currently, when I go to the Home Page and see the Featured Video which is “Why Is The US Air Force Collecting Russian DNA? – #NewWorldNextWeek”, under the video is a link-script “CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES AND MP3 AUDIO”.
However, currently the link takes me to this page…
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1315-new-world-next-week-with-james-evan-pilato/
OK, thanks for the clarification. The link has been corrected.
Also, for the record, you can always find the (presumably correct) link to the interview page via the “Recent Audio” section underneath the Latest Article on the front page.
Interesting…
Currently, Trump is in the Asia region.
Washington Post Nov 9, 2017
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/9/china-energy-invest-83b-west-virginia-shale-gas/
QUOTE
China Energy, the world’s leading power company, announced Thursday it plans to spend more than $83 billion on shale gas and chemical projects in West Virginia, a deal that represents a massive foreign investment in American energy.
A memorandum of understanding between the company and American officials was signed as President Trump meets with his Chinese counterpart. The agreement is part of a broader package of deals signed between the two nations totaling well over $200 billion.
The investment is expected to stretch over two decades. The $87 billion will be spent on power generation efforts, chemical manufacturing facilities and liquefied natural gas storage projects….
Thanks for the info, HRS, but perhaps you can put this info in a related thread, like my recent appearance on Howe Street Radio where I discussed Trump’s Asia visit:
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1319-james-corbett-on-the-rise-of-the-petroyuan/
Wow! Thanks!
I completely missed that Interview!
(Will do…I will try to place articles under the proper topic.)
ha!!…
I gotta laugh. All these videos and articles…
No wonder people fabricate a rumor mill that you have some kind of large production crew behind you.