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King Hussein of Jordan cuts the wedding cake with his American-born wife, Queen Noor, after their wedding ceremony at Zahran Palace on 15 June 1978. The couple is surrounded by family members and friends.
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New Valentine Low Book Excerpt
"Meghan’s lawyers also argued that she had no idea about Prince Mohammed’s suspected involvement in Khashoggi’s murder. But by the time she wore the earrings for a second time, this claim was even harder to sustain."
#valentine low#book#british royal family#prince harry#meghan markle#prince mohammed#earrings#jamal khashoggi
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Over half of anti-Heard tweets were bots or paid trolls, many linked to Saudi government bots.
"According to an investigation by Tortoise Media, which examined more than one million tweets, more than 50 per cent of anti-Heard messages in the run-up to the 2022 defamation case were "inauthentic' - either from automated "bot" accounts or people hired to attack the actress."
"Bradley Hope, author of a book on Bin Salman, told the podcast that the pro-Depp tweets emanating from Saudi Arabia appear to be produced by "flies", a name for Saudi bot accounts."
"An intelligence professional who tracks online disinformation campaigns, said there was only a "0.1 per cent chance" that the hate directed at Heard was from genuine Depp fans.
The investigation also claims that bot networks in Thailand and Spain tweeted large numbers of pro-Depp messages."
"...more than 100 Twitter accounts sent 1,000 identical messages at exactly the same time to any company that had worked with Heard, reading: "This brand supports domestic violence against men."'
"The makers of the podcast argue that the criticism of Heard could have affected the jury in the 2022 US defamation trial which found in favour of Depp."
"So, if you couldn't tell the difference between a real-life Johnny Depp fan and a bot in 2022, then you probably won't be able to tell a Russian troll from a US election official in 2024. And that represents a serious problem for the security of our democracies."-Alexi Mostrous, presenter of the podcast.
"Johnny Depp and the Saudi Embassy did not respond to Tortoise's request for comment."
#Amber Heard#Depp v Heard#Johnny Depp#Johnny Depp Is A Wife-Beater#Johnny Depp Is A Rapist#Tortoise Media#Who Trolled Amber?#Mohammed bin Salman#Prince Bone Saw#Propaganda#Misinformation#Bots#Foreign Influence Campaign#Indict Johnny Depp#Indict Adam Waldman#Disbar Adam Waldman#Johnny Depp Is A Saudi Asset#Probably A Russian One Too#I Stand With Amber Heard
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Wonder Woman by Mohamed Aouamri
#Mohamed Aouamri#diana of themyscira#diana prince#dc comics#dc universe#dcu#dc superheroes#wonder woman#dc heroes#art#wonder woman art
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THE EARTHSHOT PRIZE 2021
October 17, 2021 || Alexandra Palace, London, UK
#1 week to go!#the earthshot prize#earthshot prize 2021#prince william#prince of wales#kate middleton#princess of wales#british royal family#mohamed salah#emma watson#david oyelowo#yemi alade#coldplay#ed sheeran#mine
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“In 1973 the US threatened to bomb Saudis oil fields after King Faisal of Saudi Arabia cut off their supply for supporting Israel, King Faisal replied “You're the ones who can't live without oil. We come from the desert, our ancestors lived on dates/milk, we can go back and live like that again!” In 2023, Crown Prince MBS said “We condemn what the Gaza Strip is facing from military assault, targeting of civilians, the violations of international law by the Israeli occupation authorities. We stress on the need to stop this war and the forced displacement of Palestinians” LITERALLY A MONTH AFTER the crisis started. What a weak ass man. Have the guts to bonesaw dissident but no guts to stand up for Palestinians like his family did in the past.” - Submitted by Anonymous
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The social media company formerly known as Twitter has been accused in a revised civil US lawsuit of helping Saudi Arabia commit grave human rights abuses against its users, including by disclosing confidential user data at the request of Saudi authorities at a much higher rate than it has for the US, UK or Canada.
The lawsuit was brought last May against X, as Twitter is now known, by Areej al-Sadhan, the sister of a Saudi aid worker who was forcibly disappeared and then later sentenced to 20 years in jail.
It centers on the events surrounding the infiltration of the California company by three Saudi agents, two of whom were posing as Twitter employees in 2014 and 2015, which ultimately led to the arrest of al-Sadhan’s brother, Abdulrahman, and the exposure of the identity of thousands of anonymous Twitter users, some of whom were later reportedly detained and tortured as part of the government’s crackdown on dissent.
Lawyers for Al-Sadhan updated their claim last week to include new allegations about how Twitter, under the leadership of then chief executive Jack Dorsey, willfully ignored or had knowledge of the Saudi government’s campaign to ferret out critics but – because of financial considerations and efforts to keep close ties to the Saudi government, a top investor in the company – provided assistance to the kingdom.
The new lawsuit details how X had originally been seen seen as a critical vehicle for democratic movements during the Arab spring, and therefore became a source of concern for the Saudi government as early as 2013.
The new legal filing comes days after Human Rights Watch condemned a Saudi court for sentencing a man to death based solely on his Twitter and YouTube activity, which it called an “escalation” of the government’s crackdown on freedom of expression.
The convicted man, Muhammad al-Ghamdi, 54, is the brother of a Saudi scholar and government critic living in exile in the UK. Saudi court records examined by HRW showed that al-Ghamdi was accused of having two accounts, which had a total of 10 followers combined. Both accounts had fewer than 1,000 tweets combined, and contained retweets of well-known critics of the government.
The Saudi crackdown can be traced back to December 2014, as Ahmad Abouammo – who was later convicted in the US for secretly acting as a Saudi agent and lying to the FBI – began accessing and sending confidential user data to Saudi Arabian officials. In the new lawsuit, it is claimed that he sent a message to Saud al-Qahtani, a close aide to Mohammed bin Salman, via the social media company’s messaging system, saying “proactively and reactively we will delete evil, my brother”. It was a reference, the lawsuit claims, to the identification and harming of perceived Saudi dissidents who were using the platform. Al-Qahtani was later accused by the US of being a mastermind behind the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
“Twitter was either aware of this message – brazenly sent on its own platform – or was deliberately ignorant to it,” the revised lawsuit states.
Twitter, now X, does not respond to questions from the press.
The Guardian contacted the company lawyer in the case, Ben Berkowitz of Keker, Van Nest & Peters, but did not receive a response. The Guardian also contacted Dorsey’s new company, Block, Inc, to request a comment from the former Twitter chief executive, but did not receive a response.
After Abouammo resigned in May 2015, he continued to contact Twitter to field requests he was receiving from Bader al-Asaker, a senior aide of Mohammed bin Salman, for the identity of confidential users. He made clear to the company, the lawsuit alleges, that the requests were on behalf of his “old partners in the Saudi government”.
The lawsuit also alleges that Twitter had “ample notice” of security risks to internal personal data, and that there was a threat of insiders illegally accessing it, based on public reporting at the time.
Twitter “did not simply ignore all these red flags … it was aware of the malign campaign”, the lawsuit claims.
On 28 September 2015, Twitter received a complaint from a Saudi user that their accounts had been compromised. But, the lawsuit alleges, the company did not act to bar one of the Saudis who was later accused – Ali Hamad Alzabarah – from having access to confidential user data, even though he had accessed the user’s account previously.
Saudi Arabian authorities, the lawsuit alleges, would formally follow up with Twitter once it received confidential user data from its agents working inside the company, by filing so-called EDRs – or emergency disclosure requests – in order to obtain documentation that confirmed a user’s identity, which it would then use in court. Often those EDRs were approved on the same day.
In May 2015, when two Twitter users tweeted about the kingdom in a way that al-Asaker found objectionable, Albabarah accessed the users’ data within hours. EDRs about the users were then sent, and automatically approved by Twitter, the lawsuit alleges.
Between July and December 2015, Twitter granted the kingdom information requests “significantly more often” than most other countries at that time, including Canada, the UK, Australia and Spain, the lawsuit alleges.
On 5 November 2015, just days before Twitter was confronted by the FBI about its concerns about a Saudi infiltration of the company, it promoted Alzabarah – now a fugitive living in Saudi. In response, Alzabarah sent his Saudi government contact, al-Asaker, a note, conveying his “unimaginable happiness” for the promotion. The note, the lawsuit claims, is evidence that Alzabarah believed al-Asaker had “arranged” or “been influential” in connection to the promotion.
Once Twitter was made aware of the FBI’s concerns, it put Alzabarah on leave and confiscated his laptop, but not his phone, which he has used extensively to contact his Saudi state contacts. Twitter, the lawsuit alleges, “had every reason to expect that Alzabarah would immediately flee to Saudi Arabia, which is exactly what he did.”
The US attorney’s office in San Francisco, which handled the case, did not respond to The Guardian’s request for comment on the company’s handling of the matter.
Twitter would later notify users who had been exposed, telling them their data “may” have been targeted, but did not provide more specific information about the scale or certainty that the breach had, in fact, occurred.
By “failing to give this crucial information, Twitter put thousands of Twitter users at risk,” the lawsuit alleges, claiming that some may have had time to escape the kingdom had they understood the risk. Even once Twitter was aware of the breach, it continued to meet and strategize with Saudi Arabia as one of its vital partners in the region. Dorsey met with bin Salman about six months after the company was made aware of the issue by the FBI, and the two discussed how to “train and qualify Saudi cadres.”
“We believe in Areej’s case and we will zealously prosecute it – but what she wants most is for Saudi Arabia to simply release her brother and let him re-join his family in the United States,” said Jim Walden, a lawyer representing Al-Sadhan from Walden Macht & Haran. “Were that to happen, she and Abdulrahman would gratefully resume their lives and leave justice in God’s hand.”
#us politics#news#Twitter#x#jack dorsey#saudi arabia#human rights abuses#united states#united kingdom#canada#Areej al-Sadhan#Human Rights Watch#freedom of expression#Muhammad al-Ghamdi#prince Mohammed bin Salman#Saud al-Qahtani#Ahmad Abouammo#fbi#Jamal Khashoggi#the guardian#world politics
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You have mentioned your interest in reading about Saudi Arabia and I share your interest, so I want to know if you think the crown prince will actually become king eventually?
Yes, without a doubt. The Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), is already the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia and has instituted major economic, cultural, and religious reforms over the past few years that have dramatically changed Saudi Arabia. (Of course, he has also been responsible for some impulsive foreign policy disasters and brutal human rights violations.) With the possible exception of the Emirati leader, Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), the Saudi Crown Prince is already the most powerful leader in the Arab world.
King Salman is still alive (at least he was a few minutes ago), so he is officially in charge, but the King is nearly 88 years old and it is believed that he has been in failing health for a while now. It's not unusual for there to be a de factor ruler while the Saudi King is still living, and in every instance that de facto ruler ultimately succeeded the King. King Saud was forced to hand over power to the future King Faisal because Saud was utterly incompetent and unfit to effectively rule the country. King Khalid, who had assumed the throne when Faisal was assassinated in 1975, handed the reins over to future King Fahd because his health was failing. Fahd suffered a massive stroke in the 1990s, and future King Abdullah stepped in as de facto ruler until he was proclaimed King upon Fahd's death. So there's a lot of precedent for the de facto ruler to eventually become King in his own right. MBS has taken about as much control over Saudi Arabia as possible while still respecting the position of his father, but he's undoubtedly the person calling the shots and he's seemingly (and, in some cases, publicly) sidelined any potential threats to his rule once King Salman dies or abdicates.
Unless there is some shocking turn of events -- and it would probably take nothing short of a revolution at this point -- MBS will eventually succeed his father as King. That will make him the first grandson of Ibn Saud, the founder of the modern Saudi state, to become King. Since the death of Ibn Saud in 1953, every one of his successors as King of Saudi Arabia has been one of his roughly 50 sons. And because MBS is still so young (he's only 38 years old right now), he will likely have the opportunity to rule Saudi Arabia and become the most influential leader in the Middle East for decades to come.
#History#Saudi Arabia#Middle East#King of Saudi Arabia#Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia#House of Saud#Mohammed bin Salman#MBS#King Salman#Ibn Saud#Saudi Kings#Saudi Succession
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Sheikh Hamdan / فزاع FAZZA / ذكرياتي مَعَ راشـد / My Memories of Rashid
#fazza#faz3#fazza3#dubai#sheikh hamdan#hamdan#uae#crown prince of dubai#فزاع#@faz3#rashid#sheikh rashid bin mohammed almaktoum#Youtube
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Queen Zein Al Sharaf & her son Prince Mohammad of Jordan
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Qatar and Saudi Arabia are going to try and stop Apartheid Israel's genocide-in-progress and get more aid in to those trapped in Gaza
Obviously I don't have high hopes they'll be able to do anything but regardless, you have to hope SOMEONE will drag those fucking bastards out.
#free gaza#free palestine#gaza strip#irish solidarity with palestine#palestine#gaza#news on gaza#al jazeera#boycott israel#israel#Jerusalem#Colonialism#Emiri Diwan#Emir Sheik Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani#Prince Mohammed bin Salman#Qatar#Saudi Arabia
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this is so based i'm going to cry. if it weren't for the arabs with infinite petrowealth, the passion-megaprojects genre would have died out, the chinese are too pragmatic and normal to do stupid shit the way russians or arabs can
#crown prince mohammed based salman please redirect yangtze to flow along silk road into red sea#just to see what happens
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🎂Happy Birthday, Hamdan! 🎂
I say this every single year, but you really do age like a fine wine. Forty looks good on you, sir.
✨Wishing you many years of health, love, adventure and prosperity. ✨
#fazza#fazza3#faz3#sheikh hamdan al maktoum#prince of dubai#crownprinceofdubai#hamdan bin mohammed bin rashid al maktoum#hamdan#Happy Birthday Hamdan#hamdaddy
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5 Truth Bombs from The Crown S5
Don’t Sweat the Technique
It’s official: The Crown is a fictionalised drama, not a documentary. Only 1% of GB adults surveyed viewed the whole show as fully accurate (which a drama will never be.) That figure edges up to 2% for those in the Gen-Z age bracket.
Nobody tell the 2% about ‘Spencer’, ‘The Windsors’ or those lifetime movies when Harry Botswana’ed Meghan and the, err, spirit of Princess Diana lives on in a lion (or something.)
But as Gillian Anderson put it recently, whilst certain scenes are fictionalised, The Crown is heavily researched, double and triple-checked. There’s true gems amongst The Crown’s jewels!
#1 Prince Charles did try to breakdance*
*apologies if eye-bleach is required
Actor Dominic West told Jimmy Kimmel that The Crown hired a choreographer(!) so he could dance in the same 'style' as Charles.
That’s a gift that must keep on giving during party season.
#2 Mohamed Al-Fayed did restore the former King’s home AND employed valet Sydney Johnson
When Sydney Johnson (Jude Akuwudike) started working for the Duke of Windsor it was unusual for a person of colour to be employed in a royal household. He went on to maintain this position for 30+ years before being employed by Al-Fayed (Salim Daw.)
Mohamed Al-Fayed auctioned the royal heirlooms in the 1990's – with rumours abound that Queen Elizabeth II was a secret bidder!
#3 Prince Philip donated his real DNA to identify the Romanovs
Prince Philip’s (Jonathan Pryce) maternal grandmother was Czarina Aleksandra’s sister. He donated blood to prove that bones unearthed in a Russian forest in the 1990′s belonged to the Romanov family, who were executed in 1918.
Philip’s DNA helped prove that Anna Anderson was what Time magazine called “one of History’s greatest imposters.” Anderson claimed to be the lost Grand Duchess Anastasia, but none of the Czar’s children survived the shooting.
#4 Prince Charles and Princess Diana really became “Couple 31”
After the biggest royal wedding of the 1980′s, the most famous royal fairytale whimpered to an end as just another couple in divorce court.
Neither Charles or Diana attended court for the routine hearing (perhaps too busy making breakfast?!🍳) Their divorce was later finalised in Aug 1996.
#5 Princess Diana did vote against the monarchy
“Monarchy: The Nation Decides” was televised in the UK in January 1997. According to one source, the real Diana voted ‘no’ for a monarchy 250 times(!)
Head of Research Annie Sulzberger told The Crown Podcast that although this wasn’t shown on screen, teenage Prince William was there too, trying to convince his Mother not to keep voting due to the cost of the phone calls.
Image(s): Ana Blumenkron, courtesy of Netflix
#the crown#british royal family#dominic west#prince charles#mohamed al fayed#sydney johnson#jude akuwudlike#salim daw#prince philip#jonathan pryce#the romanovs#princess diana#elizabeth debicki#prince william#jimmy kimmel#articles#truth bombs#season 5#5x05#5x03#5x06#5x09#5x10#gifs#thecrowntv#our articles#season 5 content
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Wonder Woman by Mohamed Aouamri
#Mohamed Aouamri#wonder woman#diana of themyscira#diana prince#dc comics#dc universe#dcu#dc superheroes#dc heroes#art#wonder woman art
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The Duke of Cambridge meets His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to pay his respects on behalf of The Queen, following the death of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in The United Arab Emirates -May 16th 2022.
#prince william#duke of cambridge#british royal family#england#2022#may 2022#united arab emirates#united arab emirates 2022#sheikh khalifa bin zayed al nahyan's death#sheikh mohammed bin zayed al nahyan#the cambridges#my edit
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