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<div class="">Saudi maybe, like many other authoritarian nations a safe place to raise children of the privileged, as western expats tend to be, been there, done that. However, tell it to the parents of the locals, the poor, the parents of young people who
dared to question their rulers, or do even the most modest of challenge to authority, as their children are likely dead. Tell it to the parents of the nations bombed by Saudi, inYemen.</div>
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<div class="">On May 10, 2018, at 13:46, bjornsona--- via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">My recent (and very short in duration) visit to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia might confirm that SOME authoritarianism in a human-planet-affirming<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> direction is more attractive in SOME circumstances than
the hellish hodge-podge we are experiencing in this country at this time. I missed 60 Minutes' interview of Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), which I heard was interesting. Apparently not too long ago, MBS decreed that the traditional Thursday-Friday weekend
was not working (presumably for business dealings with the rest of the world), so he changed the weekend to Friday- Saturday. Just like that. Up until less than a year ago, I believe, there was one public cinema in S. A. MBS announced it was ok for Western
movies to be shown, cinemas are popping up. Western ex-pats in certain areas find Saudi a safer place to raise children than in the West for many reasons. The propaganda we and the other maj or NATO citizen media consumers get here and have gotten for so many
years is so biased, false, and pointed toward war with Iran that it can hardly be overstated. Imho. Anne</span></div>
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<div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">From: </b>Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss<peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net class=""></peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net></div>
<div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">Date: </b>Thu, May 10, 2018 12:29 PM</div>
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<div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">Subject:</b>[Peace-discuss] Is Capitalism a Threat to Democracy?</div>
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<div class="">The idea that authoritarianism attracts workers harmed by the free market, which emerged when the Nazis were in power, has been making a comeback.</div>
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