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posted by takyon on Sunday April 17 2016, @12:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the idle-threat dept.

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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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2016, @02:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2016, @02:54PM (#333274)

    To tie things together, all BRICS needs for a credible push to move away from USD is TPP/TTIP/TISA. I'd bet bitcoins if I had them that Clinton does a 180 on her current position on those treaties, which she only holds so she can maximize her votes in the primary, back to the position she held as Secretary of State when she's POTUS. Those treaties conspicuously leave out BRICS and seek to turn the Western world into one giant economic zone (with plenty of internet censorship since megacorps will be able to sue to bring down more than just copyright violations as I understand TISA).

    What the superwealthy interests Clinton represents are gambling is that they don't need China and India to make cheap shit for the masses and that those two countries in particular won't be able to manage a transition to a modern economy where their own manufacturing is driven by their own middle class.

    I'm still on the fence about Trump, and it's yet to be seen if he can carry a contested convention. I supported Sanders, but it's becoming clear now that there's simply no way he can win. Somehow, despite her husband's latest flub, Clinton will carry most of New York as the black demographic seems to be suffering from mass hypnosis as far as I can tell. (It's pretty clear that black "leaders" are all in her pocket, and I wouldn't even be surprised if she's the one sending protesters with Bernie signs in hand to Trump rallies--if there is somebody bankrolling those protesters.)

    In the event Cruz or Roboromney get the nomination, I'll definitely abstain from the general election. Kasich is the only candidate that beats Clinton in the polls (whereas Sanders beats pretty much all of them), but I doubt he'll somehow get the nomination. I guess if he does, I'd need to research him more deeply. There are people predicting WWIII if Trump gets in office. I'm not sure if the world will be a safer or more dangerous place given some of the things he's said like arming Japan and South Korea with nukes, but I am certain that while he's no business genius, Trump isn't a dummy either. Even if we all chuckled a bit when he said he'd call up Bill Gates about shutting the internet off, I gained some respect for him. At least he knows he's no expert, and he has no problem finding the experts and listening to them. (I could see Bill Gates putting him in contact with an actual expert, but the point is that Trump knows he doesn't know.)

    WWIII is much more likely with the direction the superwealthy elites have been taking the West. I've been thinking it's a distinct possibility since about mid last year. It just so happens that Clinton was their ordained choice, which wasn't clear a year ago, at least not to me. I thought there was something seriously weird about how the West handled the Arab Spring. Somebody up there made the connection: the West is dead-set on keeping oil in USD only. BRICS is on the verge [wikipedia.org] of creating its own independent monetary infrastructure. Of course they'll want to use some other currency than USD to trade for oil.

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