Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Oh boy Obama is standing with Belgium , is that the man who represents the USA , the ones who had to rely on the Russians to bomb ISIS oil tankers .

A woman beheaded in the road. Five headless corpses hanging from cranes. As a documentary exposes the horror of life in Saudi Arabia, why DOES Britain cosy up to this kingdom of savagery?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3502079/Saudi-Arabia-s-kingdom-savagery-DOES-Britain-cosy-butchers.html

I think this documentary is to aired this week about Saudi . Why do we have anything to do with any of these countries .

Because they buy arms and things off us jimmy .

Stan,

Post 343.

GB is a bloated windbag full of biased rants and slogans and jumping on any passing bandwagon.

Stan,

Post 343.

GB is a bloated windbag full of biased rants and slogans and jumping on any passing bandwagon.

primarily but not exclusively, oil

Still wrong .

on the passport paper does it ask your religion or is that the elec roll

Neither. It is the 10 yearly census that asks.

Exposure 'Saudi Arabia uncovered' 10.40 ITV tonight.

grannyboy that was the link i posted earlier ,i shall watch that.

i find the daleks scary, so certainly shan't ....... anyway, it's well past my bedtime

Being as politically correct Britain has gone silly on Gender i have decided to change mine and demand certain human rights .
From now on i am Python Gender .
I shall wear a Burka with a bra top ,army trousers and stiletto heels and expect to be treated with respect in all public buildings including courts and places of worship which will include mosques and Christian and Catholic churches .
I will expect to be able to enter banks and board planes dressed in this way.

What ya doin tonight luv .

you'll get all the respect you deserve on here!

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SAUDI
there's no question but that it is a distinctly oppressive regime, and woe betide you if you fall foul of the muttaween (the strict religious police)

i think much of this oppression stems from the inherent weakness of the house of saud (ruling family) who are wahhabi sunni (strictly orthodox), for there is a significant minority in the country who are shia

house of saud is friendly to the west, but of course that upsets the large fundamentalist clique in the court, that also has many adherents throughout the country
thus there are always the seeds for underlying unrest


i think i've got all the above correct

See what i mean ,it's gone pear shaped already if you excuse the pun.
I would at least expect Fred to recognise it.

In February 1945, King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia met President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the 'USS Quincy' in the Suez Canal.

A historic handshake agreeing on supplying oil to the USA in exchange for guaranteed protection to the Saudi regime is still in force today. Despite a few hiccups, this deal has survived seven Saudi Kings and twelve US presidents.

We the Brits missed out on a deal with the Saudis.....so they turned to the USA....anyway coming back to the atrocities : what is needed to combat these nutcases is help from the muslim community : I mean they must be shocked as anybody to these murders...they could do more than what they are doing at the moment which is sitting on their hands it seems....sorry but that community needs to do more....

What community?

Grow up and see reality!

No what we really need is a load of Nations leaders to walk down a street in Brussels holding hands saying it's War , then continuing to let the world into Europe unchecked throwing money we haven't got at this that and anything , while having a nutcase woman decide the fate of innocent people she's supposed to look after .