Saudi Arabia

[Chairman Meow]

25 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

That's some scary shit

Yet we still sell the cunts mass amounts of highly sophisticated weaponary 

Money and oil are much more important than something as unprofitable as a single human life.

 

I presume those are those the British values that we always hear politicians saying that foreign people don't understand. 

[Dougie Do'ins]

BBC News - Jamal Khashoggi: Saudis sentence five to death for journalist's murder

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-50890633

[Dr Nowt]

I’m sure they were judiciously selected.

[Bjornebye]

So they send a hit squad over to kill someone, don't like the global attention to got so sentence 5 of them to death. No sanctions will brought internationally because of oil. 

 

What a world we live in. 

[Mudface]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/23/shameless-influencers-face-backlash-for-promoting-saudi-arabia-music-festival

 

Scum.

 

 

Shameless' influencers face backlash for promoting Saudi Arabia music festival

Celebrities criticised for posting about a ‘cultural revolution’ in country without mentioning human rights record

Alyx Gorman

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Mon 23 Dec 2019 03.28 GMTLast modified on Mon 23 Dec 2019 03.38 GMT

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 Armie Hammer, Joan Smalls and Wilmer Valderrama attend the MDL Beast Festival Lunch at the historical city of Diriyah in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images

MDL Beast had all the markings of a big budget electronic music festival. The line-up included big name acts like David Guetta and Steve Aoki. The guest list featured supermodels (Joan Smalls and Alessandro Ambrosio) and actors (Armie Hammer and Ed Westwick), and there was plenty of fluorescent face paint and neon lights.

But the event was not held in the California or the Nevada desert. Instead, MDL Beast was located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The festival, which took place over the weekend, billed itself as “the region’s biggest music event”. Now many of its high profile attendees are being accused of engaging in “image rehab” for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

It is not the first time western celebrities and influencers have been criticised for promoting Saudi Arabia as a tourist destination. In September, the kingdom announced it would open itself to foreign tourism. In addition to offering tourist visas, the government enacted policy changes to make the region more appealing to tourists, including allowing unmarried foreign couples to book hotel rooms together, and allowing solo female travellers to rent hotel rooms.

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Following these changes a number of influencers, with follower numbers in the hundreds of thousands, accepted paid-for press trips to the kingdom, and posted fawning commentary on social media.

The biggest-name attendees at MDLBeast have follower counts in the millions. While many documented their experience at the festival on social media, mentions of the kingdom’s human rights record were noticeably absent.

Actor Armie Hammer said on Instagram the festival was “felt like a cultural shift”.

Journalist Yashar Ali responded by asking Hammer “Did you find Jamal Khashoggi’s body while you were there?” Podcast host and writer Aminatou Sow said on Twitter that influencer culture was “shameless”.

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According to Instagram stories posted by model Theodora Quinlivan, Emily Ratajkowski – who has more than 24 million followers – turned down a paid invitation to attend the festival, because she was uncomfortable with Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, particularly for LGBTIQ+ people.

The actions of the influencers were called out by Diet Prada, an Instagram account that has garnered 1.6 million followers for criticising the fashion industry on issues of plagiarism and cultural appropriation. Diet Prada received a statement from Ratajkowski detailing why she declined to attend.

“It’s very important to me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, freedom of expression and the right to a free press. I hope coming forward on this brings more attention to the injustices happening there,” the statement said.

Writer and editor Phillip Picardi, who has previously worked as digital editorial director of Conde Nast’s Teen Vogue was also critical. On Instagram stories, he said he was “extremely, profoundly disappointed to see people on my Instagram feed who traveled to Saudi Arabia as part of their government’s image rehabilitation campaign”. He later posted: “a lot of the messaging of the captions is about portraying SA as changed and accepting, and the trips appear to be coordinated with the government or tourism board. You can’t really ‘buy’ that kind of messaging, and how was your experience there tainted by who organized your trip and what you can or cannot say?”

Smalls, Hammer, Westwick, Amy Jackson and Ambrosio, amongst others, all posted content from the festival, as did Halima Aden, one of the first hijab-wearing models to sign with a major modelling agency. Ambrosio and Aden disclosed that they had been paid to post.

Conde Nast publication Glamour UK also included a sponsored campaign from the festival.

The festival comes more than one year after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The killing was soon traced to the door of the Saudi royal court. The stain on the reputation of the royal family endures, despite Crown Prince Mohammed’s repeated denials that he had personally issued the “kill order”.

The prince has presided over an opening up of the kingdom, allowing women to travel without the permission of a male guardian, register a marriage and be the legal guardian of children.

Still in place, however, are rules that require male consent for a woman to leave prison, exit a domestic abuse shelter or marry. Women, unlike men, still cannot pass on citizenship to their children and cannot provide consent for their children to marry.

 

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[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Great bunch of lads. I, for one, am delighted that our government has maintained cordial relations with these misunderstood barbaric head choppers. 

[polymerpunkah]

The Al-Yamamah Arms Deal

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal

 

Apparently it means "dove".

 

Not the bird, more along the lines of "if you've not dove under something solid, you're liable to get blown to pieces."

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

They're mad fuckers. 

 

I'm not sure if I mentioned it on here, but I read an article about them which suggested that Khashoggi was just one of a list of dissident voices who they wanted rid of. They never fell for it, but they apparently tried the "we need you to come to the embassy, there's some documents that you need to sort out" trick with a fair few others. God knows how many of them would've been chopped up if they fell for the initial invite. 

[Red Phoenix]

Quote

The price of crude oil has plunged by almost 27% after Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, said it would step up production from next month, flooding global markets and most likely depressing petrol and diesel prices.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/08/oil-price-to-plunge-as-much-as-20-as-saudis-vow-to-step-up-production

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

On 23/12/2019 at 12:41, Mudface said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/23/shameless-influencers-face-backlash-for-promoting-saudi-arabia-music-festival

 

Scum.

 

 

Shameless' influencers face backlash for promoting Saudi Arabia music festival

Celebrities criticised for posting about a ‘cultural revolution’ in country without mentioning human rights record

Alyx Gorman

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Mon 23 Dec 2019 03.28 GMTLast modified on Mon 23 Dec 2019 03.38 GMT

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 Armie Hammer, Joan Smalls and Wilmer Valderrama attend the MDL Beast Festival Lunch at the historical city of Diriyah in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images

MDL Beast had all the markings of a big budget electronic music festival. The line-up included big name acts like David Guetta and Steve Aoki. The guest list featured supermodels (Joan Smalls and Alessandro Ambrosio) and actors (Armie Hammer and Ed Westwick), and there was plenty of fluorescent face paint and neon lights.

But the event was not held in the California or the Nevada desert. Instead, MDL Beast was located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The festival, which took place over the weekend, billed itself as “the region’s biggest music event”. Now many of its high profile attendees are being accused of engaging in “image rehab” for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

It is not the first time western celebrities and influencers have been criticised for promoting Saudi Arabia as a tourist destination. In September, the kingdom announced it would open itself to foreign tourism. In addition to offering tourist visas, the government enacted policy changes to make the region more appealing to tourists, including allowing unmarried foreign couples to book hotel rooms together, and allowing solo female travellers to rent hotel rooms.

The Instagram influencers hired to rehabilitate Saudi Arabia's image

 

 

Read more

Following these changes a number of influencers, with follower numbers in the hundreds of thousands, accepted paid-for press trips to the kingdom, and posted fawning commentary on social media.

The biggest-name attendees at MDLBeast have follower counts in the millions. While many documented their experience at the festival on social media, mentions of the kingdom’s human rights record were noticeably absent.

Actor Armie Hammer said on Instagram the festival was “felt like a cultural shift”.

Journalist Yashar Ali responded by asking Hammer “Did you find Jamal Khashoggi’s body while you were there?” Podcast host and writer Aminatou Sow said on Twitter that influencer culture was “shameless”.

Sign up to our Film Today email

 

 

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According to Instagram stories posted by model Theodora Quinlivan, Emily Ratajkowski – who has more than 24 million followers – turned down a paid invitation to attend the festival, because she was uncomfortable with Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, particularly for LGBTIQ+ people.

The actions of the influencers were called out by Diet Prada, an Instagram account that has garnered 1.6 million followers for criticising the fashion industry on issues of plagiarism and cultural appropriation. Diet Prada received a statement from Ratajkowski detailing why she declined to attend.

“It’s very important to me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, freedom of expression and the right to a free press. I hope coming forward on this brings more attention to the injustices happening there,” the statement said.

Writer and editor Phillip Picardi, who has previously worked as digital editorial director of Conde Nast’s Teen Vogue was also critical. On Instagram stories, he said he was “extremely, profoundly disappointed to see people on my Instagram feed who traveled to Saudi Arabia as part of their government’s image rehabilitation campaign”. He later posted: “a lot of the messaging of the captions is about portraying SA as changed and accepting, and the trips appear to be coordinated with the government or tourism board. You can’t really ‘buy’ that kind of messaging, and how was your experience there tainted by who organized your trip and what you can or cannot say?”

Smalls, Hammer, Westwick, Amy Jackson and Ambrosio, amongst others, all posted content from the festival, as did Halima Aden, one of the first hijab-wearing models to sign with a major modelling agency. Ambrosio and Aden disclosed that they had been paid to post.

Conde Nast publication Glamour UK also included a sponsored campaign from the festival.

The festival comes more than one year after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The killing was soon traced to the door of the Saudi royal court. The stain on the reputation of the royal family endures, despite Crown Prince Mohammed’s repeated denials that he had personally issued the “kill order”.

The prince has presided over an opening up of the kingdom, allowing women to travel without the permission of a male guardian, register a marriage and be the legal guardian of children.

Still in place, however, are rules that require male consent for a woman to leave prison, exit a domestic abuse shelter or marry. Women, unlike men, still cannot pass on citizenship to their children and cannot provide consent for their children to marry.

 

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Never heard of the cunts.

[polymerpunkah]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52224358

 

SA et al announce cease fire in Yemen.

 

No indication of whether or not the Houthis will agree to it. But discussions are ongoing.

 

A bit of good news amidst the gloom.

 

(Though it's not going to do my BAE stock a lot of good.)

[Jairzinho]

Are they trying to tip the UK government over the edge?

 

It's a disgrace.

[Bjornebye]

They’ve had a surge in shoplifting since this virus went ballistic so they aren’t short of arms at the minute 

[polymerpunkah]

They announced the cease-fire in Yemen, so I shifted a little of the BAE portfolio into Whips 'R US, just to diversify a bit. There is no way in hell they're going to stop flogging, right? 

 

They've announced they're going to stop flogging:

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52420307

 

Heartless bastards.

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, polymerpunkah said:

They announced the cease-fire in Yemen, so I shifted a little of the BAE portfolio into Whips 'R US, just to diversify a bit. There is no way in hell they're going to stop flogging, right? 

 

They've announced they're going to stop flogging:

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52420307

 

Heartless bastards.

Geordie market traders hearts breaking all over the world. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

To busy killing football these days.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

We've decided to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite them committing "possible" war crimes as they were "isolated incidents." 

 

That's sound, then... 

[Bjornebye]

Utter fucking cunts. Raab was only taking about sanctions for other countries yesterday. Obviously Israel, Saudi etc can get away with literal murder though. 

[Duff Man]

Johnson was ready to sign off on an actual fucking deployment last year, so just resuming the sale of Tornados really isn't a big surprise. Again, another great example of the utter vacuity that was the constant both-sideism from complete fucking frauds in the media before the last general election.

[TheHowieLama]

On 23/12/2019 at 07:27, Dougie Do'ins said:

BBC News - Jamal Khashoggi: Saudis sentence five to death for journalist's murder

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-50890633

 

On 23/12/2019 at 07:37, Bjornebye said:

So they send a hit squad over to kill someone, don't like the global attention to got so sentence 5 of them to death. No sanctions will brought internationally because of oil. 

 

What a world we live in. 

 

 

A Saudi court has overturned five death sentences over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, in a final ruling that jailed eight defendants for between seven and 20 years, state media reported.

[Anubis]

Jail as in don’t leave Saudi Arabia.

[Numero Veinticinco]

The worst country in the world? I’m not sure, but it’s certainly one of the leading contenders. 

[Gnasher]

On 07/09/2020 at 21:19, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

 

A Saudi court has overturned five death sentences over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, in a final ruling that jailed eight defendants for between seven and 20 years, state media reported.

How nice that they are taking a new  liberal approach to criminal sentencing, they might even ease up on public humiliation beatings, which if they buy Newcastle United will be welcome news for the geordies goalkeeper.

 

Anyway as it's the anniversary weren't most of the scum who drove the plane into the twin towers from Saudi?

 

Great pic this though a bit eerie,

 

 

[Anubis]

Click on to read the full thread.

 

 

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

He should be banned from entering any country that deems murder a crime.