Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Iraq's outspoken Shi'ite interior minister was quoted on Sunday as saying he hoped his verbal onslaught on Saudi Arabia would be a "passing summer cloud" and that ties between the two countries would remain strong.
Bayan Jabor had last week referred to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal as a "bedouin riding camel" and slammed the kingdom's treatment of women and minority Shi'ites, forcing the Iraqi foreign minister to apologise to Saudi Arabia.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday moved close to winning admission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this year after over a decade of tough negotiations and domestic debate on opening up its markets.
WTO sources said the world largest oil producer had completed the package of documents setting out the terms of its membership in the currently 148-nation body. These would be submitted to a key meeting on October 28, the sources added.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
Dr. Iyad Allawi, former Iraqi Prime Minister and member of the National Assembly, discussed the Iraqi burdens, with the Kuwaiti government, in an attempt for helping Iraq out of the crisis it is going through and the necessity for actual assistance help for achieving stability and security in the region.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
The government of Saudi Arabia has blocked access to Google's Web blogging service Blogger, Yahoo!'s photo sharing website Flickr, and the diary service LiveJournal as well as some other prominent and popular websites through their nationally run Internet Services Unit (ISU) last Tuesday. As a result, English-speaking Saudis were denied the ability to publish blogs, reading journals, or view pictures on Flickr.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
US President George W Bush it seems was not content with limiting his campaign in the war on terror to Iraq and wanted to extend it to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, if reports are to be believed.
The Nation quoted a report in The New York Times as saying that Bush in a private telephonic conversation with UK Premier Tony Blair told the latter that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq" in dealing with the spread of illicit weapons. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were two countries in the list of countries posing particular problems.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
Sanaa denied on Sunday that a crisis is looming with Saudi Arabia, on the background of the request it asked Riyadh to hand over its former foreign minister Abdullah al-Asnaj.
A source at the Yemeni foreign ministry told "September 26" paper, which is close to the Presidential palace, an official request was given to Saudi Arabia to "hand over al-Asnaj who has been conducting hostile practices against Yemen and is damaging the warm and remarkable brotherly relations between the two countries."
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
The Saudi police in the holy Muslim city of Mecca arrested a group of Nigerian immigrants on Monday who were distributing leaflets carrying a big photo of Osama bin Laden. According to Arab newspaper al-Hayat, before they were detained by the security forces, the Nigerians had handed out many copies of the flyer in at least five areas of the city, which is the most important in the Islamic world.
The contents of the leaflet were highly critical of the Saudi government and close to the Jihadist thinking, the newspaper reports. During the interrogations it emerged that the young Nigerians had been approached by an unknown man who, in exchange for a large sum of money, had asked them to distribute the flyers everywhere. Taking advantage of the Nigerians' scant knowledge of Arabic the man had told them the document merely contained advice and direction of a religious nature.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
After an absence of about 20 years, cinema will make a tentative return to Saudi Arabia next month with a screening of cartoons for an audience of women and children. A one-hour programme of foreign cartoons dubbed into Arabic will be shown at a hotel in Riyadh three times a night for two weeks, starting from November 2 or 3, when the holy month of Ramadan ends.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
On October 13th, a new Islamic terrorist group announced its formation in Saudi Arabia. The “Echo of Tuwayq Brigades in al-Zulfa" declared themselves part of the Organization of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia needs all the help it can get, as most of its known members have been arrested or killed. The Tuwayq Brigades mentioned that among their first operations would be revenge attacks for all the al Qaeda members killed by the government over the last two years.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
Saudi actors in a TV series dealing with the issue of terrorism have received death threats after the programme was broadcast on Syrian television, the Saudi newspaper Arab News reports. The 30-episode series, Al-Hoor al-Ain (Beautiful Maidens), is about Jordanian, Lebanese, Moroccan, Egyptian and Syrian families living in residential complexes in Saudi Arabia and the Islamic terrorists who want to attack them.
Mishael al-Mutairi, one of the actors in the series who plays a would-be suicide bomber, said he started receiving threatening phone calls and text messages before the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, but they increased after the series was broadcast by the MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Corporation) TV station. "The messages annoyed me, but I try to ignore them. I expected to be criticised when I agreed to play a young Saudi who has been driven to do things by suspected terrorists," he was quoted as saying.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
According to reports of Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) the economy of the country shot up due to the high oil prices. This has created a budget surplus for the last financial year and also the highest ever balance of payments surplus.
"Actual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 5.3%, coupled with a surplus of USD 28.5 billion in the state budget," said Hamad al-Sayari
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
The booming Saudi economy is at its best performing period ever with oil export revenues hitting 22-year highs and the real gross domestic product (GDP), as a result of the higher oil production than in 2004, growing at a phenomenal 6.8 percent.
A new climate of hope about the pace of economic reforms and several developments that have occurred early in Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah's reign indicate that the growth will be optimal in this boom cycle. It will also enable the country to strengthen its fiscal position as revenues continue to be robust.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
Iran and Saudi Arabia here Sunday discussed possible avenues for bolstering bilateral relations as well as key developments in the region.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, during a meeting with Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Iran Osama bin Ahmad al-Sonosi, described ties between the two countries as "positive."
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee was supposed to focus long-overdue attention on the single most important factor in the future course of the War for the Free World: Which side is Saudi Arabia on? Unfortunately, the press of other business has caused this most timely of hearings to be postponed.
The reason this question deserves urgent attention should be obvious: Since November 2001, there has been a roughly three-fold increase in the price of a barrel of oil, from $18 to as much as $70. As a result, Saudi Arabia — which currently exports about 10 million barrels per day — receives an extra half billion dollars every day from oil-consuming nations.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
Saudi Arabia appears likely to get the green light Friday to join the World Trade Organization, a move that would pry open the fast-growing but long-protected economy of the world's largest oil producer.
After 12 years of negotiations, a WTO working party in Geneva is moving toward approving final terms under which the kingdom would enter, probably in December.
_________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
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