Profile picture
İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
@iyad_elbaghdadi
, 3 tweets, 1 min read Read on Twitter
Here's a reminder that Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia, yet its people have been starving (and children dying of malnutrition) under Maduro. Three million people have fled the country.
Look, you don't have to listen to me. Listen to John Oliver.
And no, my position on Venezuela was not formed watching Last Week Tonight. It was formed listening to Venezuelan human rights activists for 5+ years.
Missing some Tweet in this thread?
You can try to force a refresh.

Like this thread? Get email updates or save it to PDF!

Subscribe to İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
Profile picture

Get real-time email alerts when new unrolls are available from this author!

This content may be removed anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @iyad_elbaghdadi see all

Profile picture
İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
@iyad_elbaghdadi
The pettiness of this Gulf states feud is beyond childish. If what this tweet describes is true, then absolutely FIFA should investigate, especially after reports the UAE government bought the tickets for all these jeering fans
Qatar still won btw, 4-0.
Looks like it's totally for real.
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
@iyad_elbaghdadi
When you're a Democratic member of Congress, and people who literally work for Kremlin-owned media outlet Russia Today like your tweets, you have a problem. A serious problem.
I just realized that @IlhanMN has retweeted Rania Khalek. I really hope she doesn't actually know who Rania Khalek is, because she's about to lose the goodwill of every single anti-Assad voice on this platform.
Sixteen hours later and @IlhanMN still has that tweet up. Either she didn't get to her tweets all this time, or she's sending us a message.
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
@iyad_elbaghdadi
We Muslims have a word for a wealth tax, we call it "zakat". The early Muslim state collected no income tax, but collected an annual wealth tax of 2.5% from those with total savings above a certain amount.
There was also a land use tax (5-10%) levied upon prized land (productive agricultural land, or prime urban land). Land ownership was seen as conditional, not absolute. Meanwhile natural resources (mining etc) were taxed at 20%.
At the same time there were no customs, no income taxes, no sales taxes, no price controls, and money was basically gold/silver, which meant the government couldn't inflate the money supply. The rulers were also expressly forbidden from levying any other taxes.
Read 8 tweets

Related threads

Profile picture
Andrew Stroehlein
@astroehlein
Some points on #Venezuela in a short thread...
Venezuela is facing an unprecedented human rights and humanitarian crisis that has generated a massive exodus of Venezuelans.

The number of Venezuelans who have fled their country in recent years is over 3 million, which has generated a refugee crisis in Latin America.
Venezuela is seeing outbreaks of preventable diseases that had been eradicated, such as measles and diphtheria, dramatic surges of illnesses such as malaria and tuberculosis, and increasing levels of malnutrition.
Read 9 tweets
Profile picture
Mona Eltahawy
@monaeltahawy
#Saudi feminist Loujain al-Hathloul, 29, was detained in May in unprecedented crackdown vs feminists. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aide Saud al-Qahtani, personally oversaw her interrogation, which incl waterboarding & threatened to rape & kill her google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.…
Of 18 detained activists, at least eight have been physically abused in custody, according to Saudi advisers, activists &others with knowledge of the prisoners’ treatment. One said security officials electrocuted her hands. “My fingers resembled barbecued meat, swollen and blue”
Glad to see some finally pay attention to misogyny in #Saudi Arabia - I call it gender apartheid. RIP Jamal Khashoggi. It should not be lost on us that it took the murder of a man for some to finally pay attention to women.
Read 15 tweets
Profile picture
Mona Eltahawy
@monaeltahawy
#Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman,suspected to have ordered murder of journalist #JamalKashoggi, launched unprecedented crackdown vs women’s rights activists in May. Those activists have been tortured & one has tried suicide 3 times google.com/amp/s/www.wash… h/t @SherifaZuhur
Some of the activists (none of whom have been formally charged or given access to lawyers) have been subjected to psychological or physical abuse while in custody, including electric shocks, sexual harassment, sleep deprivation and beatings. #Saudi
“In one reported instance, one of the activists was made to hang from the ceiling, and according to another testimony, one of the detained women was reportedly subjected to sexual harassment, by interrogators wearing face masks.” amnesty.org/en/latest/news… #Saudi
Read 21 tweets
Profile picture
Karol 🌿
@karolcummins
🤔VenezuelaAndTeamTrump🤔

#TeamPutinTrumpChina’s love/hate obsession with Venezuela. Hint: oil, 💰 & so much more.

#VenezuelaTrump

📌RU & China launch Gold/Yuan based New Oil Desk.
💰The VZ Players💰

Putin, Xi, Trump, Cons Think Tanks, Citgo Oil, PDVSA, Trump Inauguration, Thomas Barrack, Gates, DonJr pals Gentry Beach, Wadie Habboush, Flynn, Bannon, Pence, Lewandowski. BitCoin, Sanctions, business opportunities, refugees, drones & pirates, oh my!
Venezuela has rich resources of gold, nickel, iron ore, steel, diamond, alumina, coal, bauxite, asphalt, natural gas, and petroleum.
azomining.com/Article.aspx?A…
Read 60 tweets
Profile picture
Anonymous
@YourAnonCentral
#Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro survives drone assassination attempt during televised live speech. At least two drones loaded with C4 were shot down by government snipers. theguardian.com/world/2018/aug…
Unknown group on twitter @soldadoDfranela, allegedly claiming reponsibility for failed drone assassination of Maduro: ``We demonstrated that they're vulnerable, it wasn't achieved today but it's a question of time.'' #Venezuela …
Images: moment #Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro's personal guard covered him with bullet proof shielding after second drone exploded.
Read 12 tweets
Profile picture
Mr Alex 🇺🇸✌️
@Mr_Alex_Graham
1) As noted Middle East partners (KSA & GCC nations) will be increasing their oil production to prevent any adverse effects on the market.
2) This action by the Trump administration is directly targeted at the Iranian regime & their use of oil revenues to fund terrorism.
3) It must of had the full support of the GCC for them to be increasing their oil production.
business.financialpost.com/commodities/en…
Read 14 tweets

Trending hashtags

#Hamas #UnitedStates #Australia #NewYorkTimes #Tunisia #Democracy #HugoChávez #SaudiArabians #IranUprising #Assad #Twitter #Syria #Oil #تظاهرات_سراسرى #Russia #NPR #Iraq #Prestitute #Sisi #Venezuelan #HighAlert #Erdogan #S300 #Yemen #EU
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!