Bill Gates @ Kingdom Resort
What's that now?
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Prince Alwaleed meets with French President Hollande
alwaleed.com.sa/news-and-media…
"In 2014, Prince Alwaleed met Mr. Tom Wolber, President of Euro Disney S.A.S, Paris. The two discussed a number of issues that included KHC’s investment in Euro Disney in which it holds a 10 % stake..."
And again..
Prince Alwaleed Attends 20th Microsoft CEO Summit
Prince Alwaleed Meets Warren Buffett & Bill Gates
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2017: "Two VIP Billionaires Teamed Up to Run Luxury Hotels. It’s Been a Slog" - WSJ
archive.ph/jiFdT
Yeah, we know, we know...🙄
"Prince Alwaleed Meets Chairman of Bloomberg & Chairman of Goldman Sachs in New York..
During the meeting, the two discussed media related issues."
alwaleed.com.sa/news-and-media…
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"Prince Alwaleed Receives Advisor to the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan ..
In 2008, Prince Alwaleed visited Kazakhstan and met with the President Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev in response to an official invitation."
Kazakhstan, you say? #TonyBlair *cough*
Kazakhstan.. 🤔
Sir Paul Judge was "a Special Adviser to the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House where he chaired the North American Advisory Council and a Member of the Council of the Crown Agents. "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Judge
"Prince Alwaleed Receives Nigerian Charge D'Affaires..
During the meeting, the two discussed a number of social, philanthropic, investment & economic issues& Prince Alwaleed referred to KHC’s investments in #Nigeria via the banking sector via #Citigroup"
Prince Alwaleed and Kingdom Holding Company (KHC)..
"In 2018, Carnival Corp. & plc entered into a strategic partnership w/ Shamal Holding with the aim of transforming Dubai into the major maritime tourism hub serving the region""
Shushy shushy 🤫👇
"Abu Dhabi regards the Muslim Brotherhood as a fifth column, and anyone who sympathises with them can expect to be arrested, tortured and thrown in jail; Dubai goes along with whatever Abu Dhabi does"
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"Anyone who has spent time in Doha or Dubai or Abu Dhabi will testify that the Gulf is no longer a place one associates with a traditional, pastoral way of life. The discovery of oil in the 1950s and 60s consigned that lifestyle to history.."
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"and the camel, which had been so central to the lives of the peninsula’s bedu tribes, found itself in need of a career reboot. Enter the hejin, or racing camel, an impressive 400 kg beast capable of sustaining an average speed of 35 kilometres per hour over long distances"
"..the Sheikhs had to use the lightest jockeys possible to remain competitive, which meant they needed to use other people’s young children in their races..usually between four and six years old"
"Inevitably the scale of the trafficking operation and the visibility of the problem began to attract the attention of groups like Save The Children, UNICEF, and Anti-Slavery International, and when reports of the mistreatment of the children began to emerge in the late 1990s,.."
"..they made uncomfortable reading.
The smashing of genitals.." 👀👇
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"Children who spoke to Anti-Slavery International said that they were underfed to keep their weight down, forced to work long hours with either minimal or no pay, and beaten. UNICEF reported that some children were also sexually abused."
josimar.no/artikler/the-m…
"Save the Children described harrowing stories of children stung by scorpions .., children bitten in the face by camels as they posed for photos with victorious sheikhs, children given electric shocks for stealing dates intended for the camels, and .."
"..child jockeys trampled and left untreated in the backs of vans
UN report in 2001 included details of the death of a 7yr old as the result of kidney damage sustained during a camel race in Dubai, & described how the ‘smashing of genitals is common and indescribably painful.’"
"In a 2005 BBC article , a child tells of the punishment meted out to a disobedient jockey:“There was a child in the camp, and because he wanted to leave the camp and go to Dubai, one of the racetrack owners ran over the child in a truck and killed him.”"
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asi…
"The description of the jockeys as children doesn’t do justice to the horror of this situation. An award-winning documentary, “Sport of Sheikhs”, first aired on HBO in 2004 contains footage of children as young as 3 years old being strapped onto camels for training runs. "
👆"Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan is the de facto owner of Manchester City – and a big fan of camel races. Here he enjoys the company of Fifa president Gianni Infantino."
I'll get to FIFA eventually
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