{"id":4175,"date":"2011-12-09T10:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:57:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:57:02","slug":"saudi-human-rights-improve-west-okay-with-selling-king-abdullah-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4175","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Human Rights improve &#8211; West okay with selling King Abdullah nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cd editor: Obviously the United States and greedy bastards in the West think King Abdullah is doing a fine job on Human Rights.  It doesn&#8217;t seem the victim of a public beheading in Saudi Arabia, condemned to death in the streets, will have much to say on the matter.  Surely with this kind of event, a casual occurrence, we can all rest easy that King Abdullah won&#8217;t be about building nukes and use them to kill witches or terrorists? <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQJxUdLC0AE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saudi Arabia to spend $100bn on 16 nuclear plants<\/strong><br \/>\nSIDI 2012 News &#8211; December 2011<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia will spend more than $100 billion to establish 16 nuclear energy plants in different parts of the country within the next few years, Commerce and Industry Minister Abdullah Zainal Alireza told a Saudi-US business forum in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>He made this comment while talking about the Kingdom&#8217;s efforts to develop solar and other renewable energy technologies to reduce dependence on oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have allocated $3 billion to produce solar energy panels in Jubail and Yanbu,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Alireza said Saudi imports from the US are expected to cross $95 billion or 23 percent of the total US exports to Arab countries by 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This amount is expected to double by 2015,&#8221; the minister said while highlighting the significance of Saudi Arabia as a big market in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This goes in line with President Barack Obama&#8217;s initiative for increasing US exports and creating 2 million new jobs for the Americans,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Alireza emphasized the strong, historic relations between Saudi Arabia and the US and hoped the Atlanta forum would contribute to strengthening the Saudi-US partnership. The US received 95 percent of the total Saudi exports to North America valued at SR124.68 billion in 2010, a statistical report issued by the Ministry of Economy and Planning said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saudi Arabia and the US should complement one another and integrate their strong points to build a value-added relationship,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are good prospects to expand these relations covering all economic sectors with the support of the two leaderships,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Education Minister Prince Faisal bin Abdullah led an impressive 250-member Saudi delegation to the forum, including government officials and business leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The forum, which concluded on Wednesday, discussed new investment opportunities worth $385 billion in the Kingdom in the key sectors of education, energy, electricity and water, transport and logistics, petrochemicals and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In his keynote address, Alireza said Saudi-US relations are based on mutual values and respect.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the need to develop an institutional cooperation to take bilateral ties to new heights.<\/p>\n<p>He underscored Saudi Arabia&#8217;s position as the largest economy in the Middle East and a key member of the G-20.<\/p>\n<p>Massive public investment, rapid private-sector growth and new sector initiatives are driving an expansion projected to offer more than $1 trillion in trade and investment opportunities over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>He said the economic and judicial reforms introduced by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah were instrumental in boosting the Kingdom&#8217;s economy and attracting foreign investment. According to the World Bank&#8217;s \u201cDoing Business 2012: Doing Business in a More Transparent World\u201d report released in October 2011, Saudi Arabia ranked as the 12th most business-friendly country out of 183 economies worldwide and led the Middle East region on the list. <\/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%3D4175&amp;text=Saudi+Human+Rights+improve+-+West+okay+with+selling+King+Abdullah+nukes&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cd editor: Obviously the United States and greedy bastards in the West think King Abdullah is doing a fine job on Human Rights. It doesn&#8217;t seem the victim of a public beheading in Saudi Arabia, condemned to death in the streets, will have much to say on the matter. Surely with this kind of event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4175#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":[247],"tags":[2167,2169],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175"}],"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=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}