Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on Monday.
The judgement was handed down against Mohammed al-Ghamdi in July by the Specialized Criminal Court, a secretive institution established in 2008 to try terrorism cases that has a history of unfair trials resulting in death sentences.
The charges against al-Ghamdi include conspiracy against the Saudi leadership, undermining state institutions and supporting terrorist ideology, sources briefed on the details of the case told AFP.
Why did we send a generations worth of our wealth to these people instead of developing solar and wind?
Conservatism. That’s why.
Better yet, go nuclear.
Same issue with providing countries
There are other alternatives to existing uranium-based nuclear power plants, like thorium which is much more abundant. Because nuclear isn’t mainstream in many places however, none of those alternatives have gained any steam to get built.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m for nuclear, and Thorium seems like a great alternative to uranium even if I haven’t researched it enough, but the issue with uranium is that it’s basically in dictatorships, just like oil
but the issue with uranium is that it’s basically in dictatorships
you have good intentions,
but
“our welth”? 🤡
Solar powered diesel trucks? How is that supposed to work?
Im struggling to see if you are serious and you don’t see how utterly stupid that question is or if you are playing the fool for comical reasons.
Electric semis dude. They are definitely coming.
Because oil is more efficient, simple as that
It was more profitable.
And? You make it sound like it isn’t obvious that oil is cheaper than investing in an experimental source of energy where not being in deficit is an achievement
experimental source of energy where not being in a deficit is an achievement
No one is talking about fusion here.
It’s not just fusion
This descriptor only applies to fusion.
The rest of renewables are pretty inefficient compared to oil tho
Or hear me out. Maybe we don’t give money to tyrants who kill their people who criticizing the government. It’s a crazy, novel idea, I know, but it’s possible.
Where do you think you get the resources to make a power generator from?
Its was short sighted, we could have been cutting edge leaders in the energy of the future, but we let oil refiners convince us that it was in our best interest to let China and others take that mantle. Now we lag behind. We could have used renewable technology and sanctions against hydrocarbon energy to shape the emerging markets of the world but noooooo let all that soft power slip away so oil barons can get more money. Oil was extremely expensive for all of us we just haven’t seen the true bill yet.
Our “ally”
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Saudís have been whitewashing their reputation for a while now.
Look at all the shenanigans during the World Cup and Liv Golf. They’ve bought governments and they’re not going anywhere.
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Don’t bash their prophets, bash their profits
Or Iraq them
That’s the dumbest fucking thing I heard in a while, and I just watched the GQP primaries.
Why would you do that to yourself?
Know your enemy
They’re not very enigmatic or opaque. It’s pretty obvious who and what they are without the need for self-torture.
Yeah I didn’t learn anything. My thought was to understand them better, but it was too vapid to learn anything.
That’s a great Idea let created EVEN MORE TERRORIST GROUPS. BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ENOUGH
like Jamal Khashoggi with extra steps
Hey remember all those times the US government did business with Saudi Arabia? I wish I could come up with something to say about that that wouldn’t get me visited by at least 9 letters worth of government agencies
I wish I could come up with something to say about that that wouldn’t get me visited by at least 9 letters worth of government agencies
Lol what? Yeah, no. That’s silly.
What’s silly is that we keep voting for people who keep selling weapons to terrorists
Ok. Still not going to be visited by several alphabet agencies for criticizing Saudi Arabia on the internet LOL
Why did ?
As European, I’m laughing or crying, depend, to see we have turned Putin to this…
Scumbags.
