{"id":15924,"date":"2016-01-03T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T16:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15924"},"modified":"2016-01-03T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T16:29:32","slug":"americas-vampire-aristocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15924","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Vampire Aristocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/01\/americas-vampire-aristocracy.html\" target=\"_blank\">America\u2019s Vampire Aristocracy<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On January 2nd, America\u2019s NBC News bannered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/reformist-cleric-sheikh-nimr-al-nimr-among-47-executed-saudi-n489116\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cArab Spring Cleric Nimr al-Nimr Among 47 Executed by Saudi Arabia,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and, one-third of the way into their report, showed this tweet:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSaudi execution of Nimr al-Nimr along w\/ al Qaeda members is straight from Assad\u2019s playbook \u2013 lumping nonviolent activists with terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2014 DavidKenner (@DavidKenner) January 2, 2016\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Even when Sunni-Islamic extremists, the Sauds, perpetrate mass-murder, in Saudi Arabia and not only in Yemen and in Syria, the U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media find some way to smear their audience\u2019s minds with the demon, \u201cBashar al-Assad,\u201d as if Assad actually had anything to do with it, and the King of Saudi Arabia, King Salman, had nothing to do with it. Salman, who owns Saudi Arabia and everyone in it (and who even\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/10\/11\/inside-the-world-of-gulf-state-slavery.html\"><span class=\"s2\">allows outright slavery there<\/span><\/a>), wasn\u2019t so much as mentioned by the NBC \u2018News\u2019 \u2018reporter\u2019 or propagandist. (Assad was mentioned in that \u2018news\u2019 report only because Assad allies with the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/propaganda-success-u-s-govt-reveled-success-lying-propaganda\/\"><span class=\"s2\">super-demon, Vladimir Putin<\/span><\/a>, the leader of Russia, who refuses to do the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s bidding, such as his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, much praised by the U.S. aristocracy, had done.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">America\u2019s main ally, and the largest customer for American-made weapons, the royal family that owns and runs Saudi Arabia, had just started out a new year of mass-executions, after their near-record year of 2015: the AP headlined only the day before, on New Year\u2019s Day,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/9491ceceac504ab8b19074fb59eaa2c2\/saudi-beheadings-soar-2015-under-discretionary-rulings\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cSaudi Beheadings Soar in 2015,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and reported that, \u201cSaudi Arabia carried out at least 157 executions in 2015, with beheadings reaching their highest level in the kingdom in two decades, according to several advocacy groups that monitor the death penalty worldwide.\u201d (King Salman wasn\u2019t mentioned in that one, either.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Vampire Aristocracy On January 2nd, America\u2019s NBC News bannered\u00a0\u201cArab Spring Cleric Nimr al-Nimr Among 47 Executed by Saudi Arabia,\u201d\u00a0and, one-third of the way into their report, showed this tweet: \u201cSaudi execution of Nimr al-Nimr along w\/ al Qaeda members is straight from Assad\u2019s playbook \u2013 lumping nonviolent activists with terrorists. \u2014 DavidKenner (@DavidKenner) January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[4863,1319,35,4394,6621,496,694,701,1899,776,827,11267,5510,3159,901],"class_list":["post-15924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-aristocracy","tag-armaments","tag-assad","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-king-salman","tag-mainstream-media","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sunni","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us-aristocracy","tag-washingtons-blog","tag-weapons","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15925,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924\/revisions\/15925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}