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The New York Times reports (and Yahoo! News repeats without any paywall) that the government of Saudi Arabia is threatening to sell $750 billion in treasury securities and other unidentified assets if Congress passes the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The bill would allow foreign governments to be sued by 9/11 victims and their families. The threat was issued by Saudi Arabian foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir to unnamed US lawmakers while he was visiting Washington sometime last month, on the grounds that these assets could be in danger of being frozen by US courts.
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Saudi Arabia Threatens to Sell $750 Billion in US Assets If 9/11 Bill Passes
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(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Sunday April 17 2016, @09:06AM
And the people fighting / dying / trying to live in the expected target areas are the same which decide / benefit from the weapons deal? I don't think so... It's not Americans against non-Americans, it's rich against poor for a couple of decades already. Trust that with all big trade agreements, all wars, all weapons deals some already rich people will benefit while some poor people somewhere else will bare the consequences.
Until a couple of years / decades ago, while the concept was the same already, the average person of a rich country benefited as well. Nowadays - due to globalization - the split between rich and poor is not that much restricted by country borders anymore. The whole national pride thing, racism and so on is a huge smokescreen to distract the now-average and soon poor majority from looking at the real problem. I think there was a nice quite from Warren Buffet on the topic. The war of our age is not between countries, religions or ideologies, it's rich against poor. And the rich won already. If I find a reference, I'll post it later.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by q.kontinuum on Sunday April 17 2016, @09:34AM
Ok, looks like I overstated the Warren Buffet quote.
BUFFETT: It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be. [cnn.com] The interview is interesting though. I wonder if US wouldn't do better with his kind as president compared to some other investors running. (Probably not with Warren Buffett himself, he is a bit old by now. Although, given the alternative...)
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(Score: 2, Informative) by terryk30 on Sunday April 17 2016, @10:55AM
Christopher Lasch [wikipedia.org] wrote on that topic [wwnorton.com] as well.