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When
Media Shill For Saudi Money
By Moon Of
Alabama
April 24, 2016
"Information
Clearing House"
- "Moon
Of Alabama"-
A
timely Washington Post piece looks at how the Saudis
bribe left, right and center:
Saudi government has vast network
of PR, lobby firms in U.S.
The
Saudi government and its affiliates have spent
millions of dollars on U.S. law, lobby and
public relations firms to raise the country’s
visibility in the United States and before the
United Nations at a crucial time.
...
Five lobby and PR firms were hired in 2015
alone, signaling a stepped-up focus on ties with
Washington. The firms have been coordinating
meetings between Saudi officials and business
leaders and U.S. media, ...
The Saudis
are getting some bang for their money.
And just
today these three well-paid-for pieces appeared.
Notice how they have a common, lobby induced theme:
They may
have promoted al Qaeda’s poisonous ideology. But
Saudi Arabia is too valuable an ally
against today’s terrorism to allow ordinary
Americans to make the kingdom pay.
While
Tehran continues to sow anti-American terrorism
across the Middle East, Riyadh holds the key to
regional stability. This is not the time to back
away from the House of Saud.
The Saudis
are particularly angry about the Iran nuclear
deal, and they believe that only the next U.S.
president -- whether it's Hillary Clinton or
even Donald Trump -- will be able to restore
Saudi Arabia's status as America's key
ally in the Middle East.
- The
biggest sellout yet is Bloomberg which whored
out the May issue of Businessweek, including the
cover, to a Saudi prince:
The $2 Trillion Project to Get
Saudi Arabia’s Economy Off Oil - Eight
unprecedented hours with “Mr. Everything,”
Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In
Prince Mohammed, the U.S. may find a
sympathetic long-term ally in a chaotic
region.
The Saudi
mafia clan is not just itself corrupt. It is
massively corrupting others. It bribes them to do
take part in their crimes, no matter how nefarious.
Just consider this, mentioned in the WaPo lobby
piece above:
In
2014, consultants at the PR firm Qorvis
developed content for the Saudi Arabia embassy’s
YouTube and Twitter pages, and
ran the Twitter account for the
Syrian Opposition Coalition.
The Saudis
are the major money behind the war on Syria. They
are building ISIS and Al-Qaeda not only in Syria but
also
in Yemen and elsewhere. A former Saudi foreign
minister, quoted in
in yesterdays Financial Times (see
here), admitted such:
Saud
al-Feisal, the respected Saudi foreign minister,
remonstrated with John Kerry, U.S. secretary of
state, that "Daesh [ISIS] is our [Sunni]
response to your support for the Da'wa" - the
Tehran aligned Shia Islamist ruling party of
Iraq.
Whoever
shills for the Saudis should be considered adhering
to enemies. |
