Mohammed bin Salman

Elections & Saboteurs: From Lula to Bibi to Kushner’s Netherlands

Posted on by Helena

Lula won Brazil’s Election yesterday defeating Bolsonaro’s son by 4 million votes.  Bolsonaro has refused to accept the results claiming that the Supreme Court illegally extended the voting period by two hours. Given the Supreme Court is the final judiciary, it is unclear who Bolsonaro would sue. Netanyahu appears to be trailing his election against Eisenkot which is scheduled for tomorrow.  Over 2000 “Election Observers” will be deployed by Netanyahu – all will be carrying guns and any licensed individual is encouraged to carry their gun as well. Intimidation if RIFE.

An internal bloodbath?  There is rumbling that Bibi will use this interval time to strike Iran and call for a Wartime national security halt to the election.  It is likely, he is having discussions with Trump as to their bests timing given the fallout of Republicans. But it appears Netanyahu is willing to see all of Israel implode if he is not elected. Literally.

Vivek Ramaswamy has added a new level of pedophilia ignorance to dominate Ohio and the polls are not happy.  But like every other state – affordability – is the theme whether republican or democrat or independent voters. And a Trump endorsement is not necessarily a positive. The US Debt has risen by $3.8 Trillion in Trump’s first two years and the gross inability for politicians to understand ‘our economy is in dire desperation’ spinning a false presumption that everyone is making millions is losing steam, coal, wind, and water. It ain’t happening.

An interesting consequential shift is potentially evolving as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey defense officials are all meeting inside Iran. This shift may be a response to Trump’s mouth as he refers to all Muslims as jihadists and makes derogatory comments while mocking the name Muhammed. The Middle East is stewing and Iran is calling for alliances.

Apparently, whistleblowers are waiting in the wings for a change in political power after the elections.  Impeachments will be on the short order with Trump and Hegseth seeing the greatest possibility of that occurring.  At this point, no one seems to be defending either from such a legacy.  The Kushner scandal has left a largess black X on the Trump family as Musk has attempted to bury the topic.

Despite legal notice by Kushner’s attorneys to cease and desist, both Vanity Fair Magazine and its owner, Conde Nast, are holding steady.  Simon and Schuster released the Matthew Cole book detailing the Netherland’s spy mechanism that claims illegal bank accounts, subversive deals, and payments to a hitman, a mercenary and a warlord lifted off Kushner’s iphone.  Other than his attorney’s, no one appears to be defending Kushner – not even the Heritage Foundation.

Jamal Khashoggi’s death seems to be attached to this scandal. Lawsuits filed by exiled Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz and Khashoggi’s widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, accused the Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group of supplying Pegasus spyware to the Saudi government. Pegasus spyware  maliciously targets journalists, human rights activists, dissidents and political figures infecting their phone and extracting personal information including texts, emails and passwords. 

David Friedman is the Executive Chairman of NSO Group and devout Zionist.  He was Trump’s ambassador to Israel during Trump #1 Regime and a personal advisor alongside Jared Kushner. Through Friedman’s organization, American Friends of Bet EI Institutions, Jared Kushner was a financial supporter. According to Citizen Lab; a prosecutor whose investigation killed a corruption scheme linked to Jared Kushner’s business interests in the Serbia received an Apple threat notification consistent with state-sponsored surveillance – ie Pegasus. Kushner was going to build a Trump Tower in Belgrade – the project was cancelled December 2025 amidst claims of forgery and abuse of office resulting in massive protests across the country.

The same can be said of the proposed project in Albania. Causing one to believe bribery was involved in both Serbia and Albania, financed by the purported undisclosed bank accounts.

The connection between Israel and Kushner is not welcome in countries wherein the population is abundantly aware of the Palestinian genocide.    

Kushner has denied the entirety of allegations as presented in Matthew Cole’s book, Princes and Thieves, claiming the author did not provide receipts, records or evidence. Why his legal team decided to attack Vanity Fair for posting quotes from the book but made no attempt to cause the book’s publishers, Simon & Schuster, to refrain from release is either an oversight or negligence.

The fact that Kushner and his legal team are publishing their respective responses on X is a bit of an odd choice from a legal perspective given any small misprint could impact Kushner rather negatively.  And obviously people are going to respond.  

In 2018, The Intercept reported that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman boasted that US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner was “in his pocket”.  Citing three sources, one of which was Mohammed bin Zayad – who was quoted in Matthew Cole’s book. The relationship with MBS and MBZ was well documented, and discussed ways they, China, Israel, and Mexico could manipulate Kushner.

How this will affect Kushner’s loyalties is yet to be seen.

Matthew Cole’s Grab:  “A groundbreaking exposé of the secret conspiracy between Jared Kushner, the UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ), and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to fund a hidden policy agenda, influence the Trump White House, and reshape the Middle East.”

Saudi Tensions Rising – Lebanon in the Cross

Posted on by Helena

The escalation of events in Saudi Arabia spawn not just their ongoing wars against Yemen and Syria, not just a purging of corrupt royals, and not just a growing disconcert with Iran and by default, Lebanon and Hezbollah, but the Saudi’s are losing money, lots of money, and their proxy wars need funds to survive.

With a nearly 100% concentration on oil, the economy has been on a rocket launched downward spiral and gaining warp speed with each devastating decision. Unemployment is rife, education is sorely inadequate, and the youth have no skills. They have no innovation, no manufacturing, no art, no culture, and tourism is abysmal given Sharia Law, a lot of sand but no beaches.

The cost to ‘sustain’ the Royal family is over $10 billion annually, only 30% of the population own their own homes, and unless there is another country taken out of the oil purge, Saudi Arabia has no hope of recovering.

What to do? What to do? Purge the corruption, demand the return of 70% of their wealth, infuse that money into more weapons, and take out Iran and Lebanon. Experts claim the cost of oil would rise five fold, if that were to happen.  A win for Saudi Arabia…

Mohammed bin Salman, the newly crowned Prince and potential King next week, at 33 is young, ambitious, and a gambler.   The old ways have not raised a dime, and drastic measures are sometimes the only rule a ruler can manipulate.   Perhaps he sees a last ditch effort to purge the Middle East of Shi’a as his duly ordained proxy. Hezbollah is Shia. Iran is Shia. Yemen – was Shia.   Any Syria was an ally of those Shia countries.

But the plan didn’t quite work out.  ISIS did not solve the problem, and instead exasperated the jittery Fall of the Middle East. The US sanction hit on Russia backfired. Brazil and Venezuela joined forces with the BRICS, and radical decisions were required. The aged King at 81, was not pro-active enough, and so, enter the mental equivalent of McCain – bomb ‘em all to Hell!   And the Middle East is – imploding.

But Saudi Arabia has fewer and fewer allies in the Middle East, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Qatar, Houthis, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, Azerbaijan are all Shia aligned. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Turkey, Algeria and Tunisia are predominantly Sunni.

It is the Sunni vs Shite, with the remaining oil wealth at the central core.  Russia diversified – quickly.  The Middle East spent and spent and spent…  It’s like the guy mowing his lawn with a mower 40 years old, the blades are rusted, it has 3 wheels, it blows leaky gas exhaust all over creation – but it ‘used to work’ – so by golly…

A recent UK commissioned gathering headed by Macron (groan) has rightly concluded that any involvement by outsiders would be a declaration of World War.   Russia sides with the Shi’a, and to date, the US and Europe have sided with Sunni’s. Add to the fray that a majority of the population in Lebanon identify as Christian, and any Saudi aggression could most easily fracture our very tenuous hand on the red button all out global self annihilation.

As it is, the UN, the US, and Europe have turned a blind eye to the atrocities created in Syria and Yemen for the purpose of a failed coup initiated on behalf of the Saudis. The recent abduction by the Saudis of Hariri, the PM of Lebanon, has been quietly purged from the media, and a non-topic of our government. He is a scared Sunni feeling like he might get caught in the middle of a civil war initiated by Saudi Arabia and is looking out for his own scared skin.  It would appear that Macron is trying to assure him protection when the Saudis bomb Beirut.   “Dig a bomb shelter – quickly…”

Will Lebanon be the next victim?  Will they become the next Syria and Yemen?

Saad Hariri, of Lebanese and Iraqi descent, was schooled at Georgetown University in DC and later served with his father in Saudi Arabia, until his assassination in 2005.  Initially the assassination was attributed to Assad, then to Hezbollah, and then to a Saudi/Israel collusion.  Hariri is Sunni, serving in a dominant Christian/Shi’a country (80%). How he could have won the election is up for debate… But based on the fact that there was only a 20% voter turnout amidst allegations of fraud and corruption may have created a weighted electoral win given the religious percentages.   (Ya think?)

Given the Saudi/Israel connection, it is fair to presume that a second assassination may have been a consideration.

The Middle East is now facing rising tensions, shifting of sides, aging royals, a sagging deficit, and a centuries old desire to once and for all eliminate, purge, create genocide – of the ‘other’ sect, ie, Shi’a.  As such, their wealth, which is infused by tourism and oil, is quickly diminishing setting the stage for a return to abject poverty in a society that does not look and prepare for the future.

But having a Sunni Prime Minister in Lebanon is about as logical as having a Sunni President in the US…  Hariri knows this – but he also knows he is expendable and his Saudi ties are worthless when the brick hits the fan…