{"id":1093,"date":"2011-04-28T07:16:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2011-04-28T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T15:16:22","slug":"royal-spectacle-is-tarnish-to-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Royal Spectacle is Tarnish to Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Royal Wedding &#8211; &#8220;Dirty little Secret&#8221; in Bahrain<br \/>\nby Finian Cunningham<\/p>\n<p>The British royal wedding is turning swiftly into a public relations disaster, with news that Bahrain\u2019s Crown Prince is respectfully turning down his invitation to the event because of the \u201csituation reigning\u201d in the Persian Gulf kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>However, the real story behind the headlines is that the diplomatic shuffle reveals that the British establishment is well aware of the vicious repression being conducted by the Bahraini rulers along with the armed forces of neigbouring Gulf states, including Western allies Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa reportedly said that that he did not want his presence to \u201ctarnish\u201d the royal wedding due to take place at Westminster Abbey in London this Friday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=viewArticle&#038;code=CUN20110425&#038;articleId=24493\"> &#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D1093&amp;text=Royal+Spectacle+is+Tarnish+to+Humanity&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Royal Wedding &#8211; &#8220;Dirty little Secret&#8221; in Bahrain by Finian Cunningham The British royal wedding is turning swiftly into a public relations disaster, with news that Bahrain\u2019s Crown Prince is respectfully turning down his invitation to the event because of the \u201csituation reigning\u201d in the Persian Gulf kingdom. However, the real story behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1093#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[752,247],"tags":[751,750],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}