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2015-08-09 Arabia

Saudi may go broke before the US oil industry buckles, fracking destroys the Saudi patronage slush fund

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Posted by anon1 2015-08-09 05:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Salafists

#1 best story i read for ages. sharia is one of the great evils of the world today. it is spread by saudi money.

IS will topple them and then we are going to have the war we have been deferring since 9/11

Posted by anon1 2015-08-09 05:28|| 2015-08-09 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 question for the 'Burg: what do we do if Saudi implodes leaving a large number of newly poor unskilled men with a massive sense of entitlement and full of resentment

these people are going to be a massive problem in the future

and there will be refugees as well, economic migrants, with the worst mind set imaginable

Posted by anon1 2015-08-09 08:20|| 2015-08-09 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 question for the 'Burg: what do we do if Saudi implodes leaving a large number of newly poor unskilled men with a massive sense of entitlement and full of resentment

Kill them as they emerge, blinking in the sunlight, from their lair?

More seriously, without the funds for foreign educations and adventures, surely they'll be more of a plague in the region than firther afield.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-08-09 08:28|| 2015-08-09 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 ahh, TW, a woman after my own heart ;)

Seriously though i was just watching Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss on YouTube

They are trying to get the atheist debates and science talks translated into arabic, urdu and persian

This could really help - especially the Christopher Hitchens vs Tariq Ramadan debate on "is Islam a religion of peace" - these debates would really open up the minds of a lot of Islamists never exposed to any thought outside what they've been brainwashed

And they've all got satellite dishes and YouTUbe access

plus some translations the other way can help = Lawrence Krauss is writing the foreword to Raif Badawi's book which is being translated to english. Raif Badawi is the Saudi blogger who is being flogged for blasphemy

Posted by anon1 2015-08-09 08:41|| 2015-08-09 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 OH the pain. We must offer whatever assistance we can provide. Extend Obamacare to them and welfare programs. Allow them to vote in our elections. Well, after all its our fault. Our evil fracking industry has caused this to happen anyway. Encourage immigration so they will have an able labor force to do the manual things that are required. Who pays for this? now don't forget Obama's stash.

Posted by Dale 2015-08-09 08:57|| 2015-08-09 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 what do we do if ~~Saudi~~ Latin America implodes leaving a large number of newly poor unskilled men with a massive sense of entitlement and full of resentment

I believe its called California or El Norte in general.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-09 08:59|| 2015-08-09 08:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Question for the Burg: This not related to the specific post, but your insight is appreciated. We have the State Dept. and who knows how many other govt. agencies infested with M.B. agents via the lead of Huma W. Then we have the ValJer effect of Iranian influence in the admin. Now, nominally those organizations are at cross purposes to each other, and sometimes they unite for common goals.
What does the community think about this US infection?

Posted by Zebulon Sforza9322 2015-08-09 09:26|| 2015-08-09 09:26|| Front Page Top

#8 The House of Saud may go broke, or not. As I recall, they own a substantial stake in western oil companies.
There's stall a lot of bleeding to be done before the end.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-08-09 10:37|| 2015-08-09 10:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Idiots we can all get rich. Oil isn't a zero sum pie, there will be cash for oil and all. Calling oil over $85 by 2017.

(That should be just long enough if I am wrong)

Posted by Shipman 2015-08-09 10:51|| 2015-08-09 10:51|| Front Page Top

#10 The actual house of Saud will do ok. They have billions stashed in Swiss bank accounts. They will escape to London, the US, and wherever they can.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-09 10:52|| 2015-08-09 10:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Kill them as they emerge, blinking in the sunlight, from their lair?

More seriously, without the funds for foreign educations and adventures, surely they'll be more of a plague in the region than firther afield.
Posted by trailing wife

Made for teevee trailer available? History Channel? Don't be a TEASE !

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-09 11:10|| 2015-08-09 11:10|| Front Page Top

#12 "Don't spit food out---think of all the starving children in Saudia."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-08-09 11:12|| 2015-08-09 11:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Calling oil over $85 by 2017.

Even higher than that if the Fed keeps 'creating' money and the Treasury keeps printing it without any real backing. See - Venezuela

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-09 11:14|| 2015-08-09 11:14|| Front Page Top

#14

Posted by 2015-08-09 11:54|| 2015-08-09 11:54|| Front Page Top

#15 Calling oil over $85 by 2017

Oh, it most certainly will go up by then, though I wouldn't put a specific dollar value on it.

Posted by Pappy 2015-08-09 12:58|| 2015-08-09 12:58|| Front Page Top

#16 question for the 'Burg: what do we do if Saudi implodes leaving a large number of newly poor unskilled men with a massive sense of entitlement and full of resentment?

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2015-08-09 13:52|| 2015-08-09 13:52|| Front Page Top

#17 I am surprised no mentions of the soon-to-be nuclear power Iran, and of the possible response from filthy rich Saudi Arabia. In your future considerations, throw in 2 more nuclear powers with no real future worth having, a couple of nukes on an oil shipping dock or the Strait of Hormuz, then the possibility of SA going broke won't matter one little bit.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-08-09 16:11|| 2015-08-09 16:11|| Front Page Top

#18 Time to buy a Doomstead a cow, 1 KW of solar panels, 10 years of MREs for the cow and a good blanket to hide under.

Posted by Shipman 2015-08-09 17:24|| 2015-08-09 17:24|| Front Page Top

#19 I am surprised no mentions of the soon-to-be nuclear power Iran, and of the possible response from filthy rich Saudi Arabia.

Irrelevant except as a transient event. Drilling through the thin glowing layer of trinitite that will soon cover vast swaths of the Middle East is no problem.

Posted by Halliburton - Foreign Affairs Division 2015-08-09 19:55|| 2015-08-09 19:55|| Front Page Top

#20 and nobody to bitch about spills...

Posted by Frank G on the road 2015-08-09 20:37|| 2015-08-09 20:37|| Front Page Top

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