Some of our Canadian friends are spinning a conspiratorial tale about foreign interest wolves in sheep’s clothing interfering in an important domestic industry. Oil, to be specific.
Some of our Canadian friends are spinning a conspiratorial tale about foreign interest wolves in sheep’s clothing interfering in an important domestic industry. Oil, to be specific.
Only the world's 26th richest man would color coordinate his giant sunglasses and his turtleneck sweater
The Toronto Sun outlines the paranoia:
An OPEC billionaire has publicly said what everyone long suspected… Saudi Arabia doesn’t want the world to develop unconventional sources of oil, like Canada’s oilsands.
Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the world’s 26th richest man, worth more than $19 billion, told CNN he’s worried if oil prices stay around $100 a barrel, the West will look for other sources of oil and Saudi Arabia would lose its dominant position.
Doesn’t mpact us since non-Muslim president Obama discovered plenty of oil in Brazil, not to mention his “green energy” investments that produce quantum-particle-like jobs (they vanish when you look for them.) The Canadians, who sit on vast fields of shale oil deposits, are all wound up, however:
Prince Al-Waleed’s comments were a rare Saudi public criticism of the West. Normally, they leave that sort of thing to their allies — professional environmental lobbyists.
There are about 100 professional anti-oilsands activists in Canada, who do nothing but attack Canada’s oil industry. Typically they pose as grassroots environmentalists. But the facts are different.
Most environmental activists are actually paid professionals. And most work for foreign lobbyists.
Greenpeace, for example, is a $200-million multinational corporation based in Europe. If they don’t raise a million bucks a day in fundraising, they’d have to shut down.
Call us stupid, but we had never considered the fact that Greenpeace’s anti-oil campaign might we funded by oil interests. Duh!
Thankfully, our media has more important stuff on its mind, like reading Sarah Palin’s old emails.
That Smart Diplomacy™ practiced by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is paying off again. For our enemies.
That Smart Diplomacy™ practiced by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is paying off again. For our enemies.
NBC’s Tom Brokaw reports that the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, our staunchest Arab ally, is not happy with the manchild President of the United States.
“I was told on the way in here that the Saudis are so unhappy with the Obama administration for the way it pushed out President Mubarak of Egypt that it sent high level emissaries to China and Russia to tell those two countries that Saudi Arabia now is prepared to do more business with them.”
More evidence that President Obama’s vaunted Cairo speech was meaningless twaddle peddled by the press and manipulated by the media.
Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt.
Looks like President Obama’s bow to the king of Saudi Arabia only convinced the former that the latter considers himself subservient. Because now the King has issued orders to the President.
President Obama moves in close to hear his latest orders from Saudi King Abdullah
The London Times reports:
Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt.
In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and warned that he would step in to bankroll Egypt if the US withdrew its aid programme, worth $1.5 billion annually.
America’s closest ally in the Gulf made clear that the Egyptian President must be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition towards peaceful democracy and then leave with dignity.
“Mubarak and King Abdullah are not just allies, they are close friends, and the King is not about to see his friend cast aside and humiliated,” a senior source in the Saudi capital told The Times.
Two sources confirmed details of the King’s call, made four days after the people of Egypt took to the streets. The revelation of Saudi concerns sheds new light on America’s apparent diplomatic paralysis and lays bare the biggest rift between the nations since the oil price shock of 1973…
“With Egypt in chaos, the kingdom is Washington’s only major ally left in the Arab world and the Saudis want the Americans to remember that,” said a source in Riyadh.
Well, that’s where the Saudis are wrong. They apparently haven’t heard about President Obama’s magnificent Cairo speech. You know, the one that convinced everyone in the Muslim world to love us. From what we hear it was very effective and we are universally adored in the region.
So put that in your hookah and smoke it, Abdullah.
Saudi Arabia is a country with vast quantities of oil, but very little rational thought. As this story clearly demonstrate
Saudi Arabia is a country with vast quantities of oil, but very little rational thought. As this story clearly demonstrates.
The Saudis captured this Israeli spy, but so far he has refused to talk
The Daily Mail UK has details of Israel’s avian James Bond:
A vulture tagged by scientists at Tel Aviv University has strayed into Saudi Arabian territory, where it was promptly arrested on suspicion of being a Mossad spy, Israeli and Saudi media reported Tuesday.
The bird was found in a rural area of the country wearing a transmitter and a leg bracelet bearing the words ‘Tel Aviv University’, according to the reports, which surfaced first in the Israeli daily Ma’ariv.
Although these tags indicate that the bird was part of a long-term research project into migration patters, residents and local reporters told Saudi Arabia’s Al-Weeam newspaper that the matter seemed to be a ‘Zionist plot.’
The accusations went viral, with hundreds of posts on Arabic-language websites and forums claiming that the ‘Zionists’ had trained these birds for espionage.
Please allow us to start a new rumor: The Israelis have also trained a flock of parakeets to fly into Saudi Arabia, sit in the trees and screech at men walking by, “I saw your wife without her burqa. She reminds me of a camel I once rode across the desert.”
Is there nothing too evil for those damn Zionists?
Dr. Laura wasn’t the only radio talk show host to lose a gig this week. Just the only rational one. The Los Angeles Times has the sad news about a fatwa-issuing Saudi Arabian talk show host who’s now out of work:
Dr. Laura wasn’t the only radio talk show host to lose a gig this week. Just the only rational one.
The Los Angeles Times has the sad news about a fatwa-issuing Saudi Arabian talk show host who’s now out of work:
Fatwa-issuing Sheik Abdel Mohsen Obeikan has a face made for radio
No more fatwas for Sheikh Abdel Mohsen Obeikan, the Saudi cleric and royal court adviser who earlier this year earned notoriety for rolling out an eyebrow-raising religious decree that called on women to give men breast milk to avoid illicit mixing.
Saudi authorities on Wednesday reportedly pulled the plug on Obeikan’s radio program “Fatwas on Air,” a daily morning show in which Obeikan would go on air and issue fatwas – religious rulings — to the public on various matters.
Taking the sheikh off air appears to come as part of Saudi king Abdullah’s recent clampdown on the nation’s fatwa bazaar.
In a bid to stop unauthorized clerics issuing odd religious decrees, the king has reportedly put out a royal decree authorizing only members of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars to issue fatwas from now on.
With a resume like this, we don’t expect Obeiken to be out of work very long. According to what we hear, CNN’s search for Larry King’s replacement has been narrowed down to Obeiken and Ryan Seacrest.
Saudi women plan to turn a controversial fatwa (religious ruling) to their advantage and launch a campaign to achieve their long-standing demand to drive in this conservative kingdom. If the demand is not met, the women threatened to follow through the fatwa which allows them to breastfeed their drivers and turn them into their sons.
"Cab driver" is now the most sought-after job in Saudi Arabia
Saudi women have come up with a unique way to protest laws that prohibit them from driving.
QatarLiving.com keeps you abreast of the news:
Saudi women plan to turn a controversial fatwa (religious ruling) to their advantage and launch a campaign to achieve their long-standing demand to drive in this conservative kingdom. If the demand is not met, the women threatened to follow through the fatwa which allows them to breastfeed their drivers and turn them into their sons.
The campaign will be launched under the slogan: “We either be allowed to drive or breastfeed foreigners,” a journalist told Gulf News. Amal Zahid said that their decision follows a fatwa issued by a renowned scholar which said that Saudi women can breastfeed their foreign drivers for them to become their sons.
The renowned scholar said Saudi women can breastfeed their foreign drivers for them to be become their sons and brothers to their daughters. Under this relationship, foreign drivers can mix freely with all members of the family without breaking the Islamic rule which does not allow mixing of genders. Breast milk kinship is considered to be as good as a blood relationship in Islam. “A woman can breastfeed a mature man so that he becomes her son. In this way, he can mix with her and her daughters without violating the teachings of Islam,” the scholar said.
This news just in: New York City cab drivers have besieged city hall, demanding that a similar fatwa be issued in the Big Apple.
This is the kind of story you can’t make up. Akbar Zeb is a Pakistani diplomat with a big problem. In Arabic, his Urdu name sounds more like the name of a porn star.
This is the kind of story you can’t make up. Akbar Zeb is a Pakistani diplomat with a big problem. In Arabic, his Urdu name sounds more like the name of a porn star.
That's "Ambassador Huge Penis" to you.
Fox News reports the flaccid details:
The Arabic transaltion of Akbar Zeb to “biggest d**k” has overwhelmed Saudi officials who have refused to allow his post there.
Zeb has run into this problem before when Pakistan tried to appoint him as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, where he was rejected for the same reason, according to Foreign Policy.
We must admit that we are surprised to learn that Akbar Zeb means “big prick.” We thought that’s what Rahm Emanuel meant.
Former Guantanamo inmates are being “rehabilitated” through a combination of art therapy and intensive recreation at a Saudi facility.
Excellent, Abdullah. Now color in the red arcs and your Obama logo will be complete.
Perhaps this conversation is taking place right now as former Guantanamo inmates are being “rehabilitated” through a combination of art therapy and intensive recreation at a Saudi facility.
According to the New York Post, the program is a cross between a daycare and terrorist training camp.
“In between tasty picnic-style meals of rice and lamb and snacks of Snickers along with dips in the pool, participants practice Arabic calligraphy, produce dizzying Jackson Pollack rip-offs and imagine the aftermath of car bombings in crayon.”
The concept hasn’t been that successful. Well, maybe we just need to re-define what “successful” means.
Graduates of the program have certainly succeeded at reestablishing their terrorist careers. One graduate, Said Ali al Shihri — a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who now heads up al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The same group that tried to blow up an airliner on Christmas.
Maybe al Shihri will be the next commencement speaker.
How successful do you think you’d be rehabilitating Muslim fanatics with something called the “art therapy rehabilitation program”? You are correct. Whatever it is, it was obviously an abysmal failure.
The Art Therapy Rehab program changed Muhamad al-Awfi from a cold-blooded killer to a cold-blooded attempted mass murderer
We’d like to pose a question. A hypothetical question, to be sure.
How successful do you think you’d be rehabilitating Muslim fanatics with something called the “art therapy rehabilitation program”?
You are correct. Whatever it is, it was obviously an abysmal failure. ABC News reports the ludicrous details:
Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest bombing in a Monday statement that vowed more attacks on Americans.
American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an “art therapy rehabilitation program” and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.
Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari, were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody. Al-Harbi has since changed his name to Muhamad al-Awfi.
The Art Therapy Rehabilitation Program. Or as it’s known in Waziristan, finger painting for fanatics.
A bungling al-Qaeda terrorist tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by detonating an improvised explosive device he had cleverly concealed up his…uh…in his…errrr…well, let’s just say where the sun don’t shine.
His Royal Highness the assistant of the Interior Minister for security affairs, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz survives assassination attempt
A bungling al-Qaeda terrorist tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by detonating an improvised explosive device he had cleverly concealed up his…uh…in his…errrr…well, let’s just say where the sun don’t shine.
According to the Associated Press, “Al-Arabiya, a Saudi-owned television network, said the attacker concealed the explosives in his anus, allowing him to evade detection. The network also quoted an expert as saying that the method of concealment aimed the blast away from the target, while blowing the bomber to bits.”
Deputy Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the Saudi prince, survived but the would-be assassin went to meet his 49 virgins in a most undignified manner.
At this point we would like to pause briefly to pat ourselves on the back for the remarkable maturity we displayed by not going with our original headline:
The liberal media’s global warming gang is so busy announcing dire threats to mankind’s existence that they can’t find room to run articles like this:
“Record low temperatures in 28 states”
Record low temperatures in 28 states go unreported by the media. Several of the records were more than 100 years old.
Source: IceAgeNow.com
“Coldest May morning on record in Australia”
Two far north Queensland towns experienced their coldest May morning in history on May 22, 2009.
Cooktown, an hour north of Cairns, dropped to 10 degrees Celsius (two degrees below its previous record low), while Coen on Cape York Peninsula recorded just 10.4 degrees Celsius.
Source: Cairns.com.au via IceAgeNow.com
“Snow in Saudi Arabia”
Saudis were surprised by snow in Al-Baha city south-west of Riyadh on May 19, 2009. Torrential rains accompanied by gusty winds left snow on the mountains, valley areas and forests near Al-Zaraeb and Khayrah.
Is it just us or is there something just a little creepy about Katie Couric’s manner in this report from Saudi Arabia?
On one hand, she tries her best to be oddly bubbly. On the other hand, she acts as if she expects the Saudi religious police to swoop down on her at any moment.
And is it just us or does she seem a little too flippant about buying her daughter a mosque-shaped alarm clock?
Our advice for Saudi men: Always put your sword in its sheath before having sex
What is this world coming to? Just yesterday morning we did a story about the CIA wooing elderly Afghani chieftains with Viagra. Now we’re sad to report that young Saudi men are becoming addicted to little blue pills.
Here’s how CrossroadsArabia.org reports the story:
Young Saudi men go wild over notorious blue pill
The kingdom has been gripped with a craze for erectile-dysfunction medications by young men – an occurrence which has many worried.
A large number of married Saudi youths are flocking to pharmacies to take hold of Viagra – “the little blue pill” – or any other stimulants that will give them more satisfaction.
The catchy words and obscene images that appear on online advertisements of these medications are another factor luring youth into buying packets of these stimulants.
According to Saudi doctors, this phenomenon reflects the spread of a negative sexual culture among the younger generation in the Kingdom.
This must be what journalists mean when they talk about hard news.
Miss Congeniality 2009, Farina al-Muqtar bin Akbar, shows her stuff during the swimsuit competition Call us blasphemous, but for Christ’s sake, how would they know?
The Saudi’s are putting on a little competition that may never rival the excitement of the Miss Universe pageant, but it does have a definite fervor about it. A religious fervor, that is.
Here’s how Associated Press described it:
Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so no one can tell what she looks like. She also admits she’s a little on the plump side. But at Saudi Arabia’s only beauty pageant, the judges don’t care about a perfect figure or face. What they’re looking for in the quest for “Miss Beautiful Morals” is the contestant who shows the most devotion and respect for her parents.
”The idea of the pageant is to measure the contestants’ commitment to Islamic morals… It’s an alternative to the calls for decadence in the other beauty contests that only take into account a woman’s body and looks,” said pageant founder Khadra al-Mubarak.
“The winner won’t necessarily be pretty,” she added. “We care about the beauty of the soul and the morals.”
Too bad Perez Hilton wasn’t invited to judge the Saudi Miss Morality pageant. From what we hear, the Saudis are far less tolerant of gay marriage than Miss California is.
The President of the United States bowing to the King of a country that allows 60-year old men to marry girls younger than his daughters Malia and Sasha.Great news from Saudi Arabia. Really great news. A Saudi court has ruled that a 60-year old Saudi man cannot have sex with his 8-year old wife.
Ahhh, but don’t break out the champagne quite yet. The court didn’t annul the marriage nor condemn the marriage nor even raise an eyebrow over the marriage. It just said the old geezer couldn’t violate the girl until she reached puberty.
Justice Minister Muhammad Issa said he wanted to end to the “arbitrary” way in which Saudi parents marry off underage girls. But he said nothing about outlawing the practice. Not a word.
This brings up a few questions for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Is this one of those international laws you want to use as precedent in American law? If you’re not following the United States Constitution, how do you determine which international laws to follow and which ones to ignore? Will your choices as “arbitrary” as those of the Saudi judge? And finally, are you really as friggin’ uninformed and un-American as you appear to be?
Just weeks after that grand Hollywood delegation visited Iran on a “cultural” exchange, they’ve received bad news from neighboring Saudi Arabia. Movies are now taboo.
As AsiaNews/Agency in Riyadh explained it:
Cinema and theatre are “against Sharia” because they distract people from work and weaken their efforts in achieving progress, said Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Shaikh Abdul Aziz Alu Al Sheikh during a conference on leisure, visual arts and literature attended by students at King Saud University. “Theatrical performance, whether it is a cinema or a song, would generally make an impression that is against Sharia. People need only those (art forms) that are useful to them to change their way of life (in an Islamic manner),” he decreed.
They continued. And so did the nutcase Mufti:
In his address to students at King Saud University, the grand mufti warned against playing chess because it “causes a man to lose his wealth and waste his time.”
Conversely “photography is one of the necessities of life” because it helps in “lectures, [. . .] religious activities [. . .] while maintaining public security.”
“Only the photography of sculptures and models is prohibited,” he said.
Remuneration for poets who attend festivals and cultural events is permissible if their words are good, faultless, without “abusive words or references.”
Finally, the mufti urged students to stay away from cigarettes and avoid reckless driving, especially at night or early morning.
Hold on. He didn’t mention cable TV, did he? Can they watch cable TV Saudi Arabia? If so, we highly recommend Entourage to the Grand Mufti. We’re pretty he’ll like it.
But he might want to watch it with the blinds pulled down.
Another week, another Obama nominee bites the dust. But at least this one had paid his taxes.
President Obama’s controversial choice to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council has withdrawn his name from consideration for the post.
Charles W. Freeman blamed the “Israel lobby” for his problems. Others said the withdrawal had more to do with questions about Freeman’s financial ties to China and Saudi Arabia.
Financial ties to China and Saudi Arabia? Who does this guy think he is, Bill Clinton?
Speaking of Bill Clinton, remember how the Clinton campaign was so successful using Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” as its theme song?
We think it’s time for you to choose a theme song for your administration, Mr. President. May we suggest the little ditty performed by Queen in the attached video. Certainly seems appropriate.
Don’t thank us, Mr. President. We’re here for you.
Starbucks has been outted. A Saudi cleric has revealed the coffee giant’s devious, long-term, secret plan to contaminate the hands and gullets of Muslims worldwide. To make the whole sordid mess even more offensive, they’re doing it with Jewish cooties right on Islamic soil.
Egyptian cleric Safwat Higazi announced that the woman in the Starbucks logo shows is none other than Esther, the Queen of the Jews. This, of course, is an abomination.
Luckily, Higazi is not recommending issuing a fatwah. In fact, he’s telling
Muslims to not burn the stores down. Instead, he just wants to put the
stores out of business. Now that’s a moderate Muslim if we’ve ever heard
one.
Here are some of the revelations from the wise cleric, translated from the outstanding Memri.org:
“Today, I would like to talk about the Starbucks coffee shop. Starbucks is to be found in Mecca, in Al-Madina, opposite the King Abdul Aziz Gate in Mecca, opposite the Al-Majid Gate in Al-Madina, as well as in Cairo. Starbucks is to be found everywhere, with this logo. This is the Starbucks logo.
“Has any of you ever wondered who this woman with a crown on her head is? Why do we boycott Starbucks? I will tell you, so you will know why you should boycott this company, and what this logo stands for. As I’ve already said, it is not enough to avoid entering this coffee shop. It is not enough to refrain from drinking this coffee. You must urge people never to go there, but none of you should even consider throwing a stone, breaking anything, or burning [the place] down.
and …
“We want Starbucks to be shut down throughout the Arab and Islamic world. We want it to be shut down in Mecca and in Al-Madina. I implore King Abdallah bin Abd Al-‘Aziz, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques: It is inconceivable that in Mecca and Al-Madina, there will be a picture of Queen Esther, the queen of the Jews.”
According to completely unsubstantiated news reports, Higazi will announce
next week that Dunkin’ Donuts is a front for the Illuminati.
The liberal media’s global warming gang is so busy announcing dire threats to mankind’s existence that they can’t find room to run articles like this:
Starbucks has been outted. A Saudi cleric has revealed the coffee giant’s devious, long-term, secret plan to contaminate the hands and gullets of Muslims worldwide. To make the whole sordid mess even more offensive, they’re doing it with Jewish cooties right on Islamic soil.
