"The hashtag #SueMeSaudi is soaring after a source at the Saudi Arabian justice ministry reportedly said he would sue a Twitter user who compared Saudi Arabia to the terror group 'Islamic State.'"
The twitter user is not wrong. Saudi Arabian government has beheaded many people but the west turns the other whu because...... Oil...... A.KA. strategic ally
Last edited by combustiblefuel; 12-02-2015 at 05:53 AM.
Legit questions: If the Saudi goverment (or any other foreign government/entity) sues someone from another country and their court rules in the government/entity's favor, are your forced to make payment somehow? Do countries have deals with each other that state if one of their citizens is sued, they are forced to pay? Or do you kind of just laugh it off and go on with your day?
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Legit questions: If the Saudi goverment (or any other foreign government/entity) sues someone from another country and their court rules in the government/entity's favor, are your forced to make payment somehow? Do countries have deals with each other that state if one of their citizens is sued, they are forced to pay? Or do you kind of just laugh it off and go on with your day?
I have no idea how any of this works.
I would compare it to getting a ticket in a private parking lot. They can't force you to pay, but if they catch you in the lot they can tow you. I imagine a foreign country can't force you to pay, but if you go there and they catch you they could. I don't think a country would extradite someone if they got sued.
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I would compare it to getting a ticket in a private parking lot. They can't force you to pay, but if they catch you in the lot they can tow you. I imagine a foreign country can't force you to pay, but if you go there and they catch you they could. I don't think a country would extradite someone if they got sued.
__________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
Legit questions: If the Saudi goverment (or any other foreign government/entity) sues someone from another country and their court rules in the government/entity's favor, are your forced to make payment somehow? Do countries have deals with each other that state if one of their citizens is sued, they are forced to pay? Or do you kind of just laugh it off and go on with your day?
I have no idea how any of this works.
How many times has the MPAA threatened to sue someone in Canada?
Legit questions: If the Saudi goverment (or any other foreign government/entity) sues someone from another country and their court rules in the government/entity's favor, are your forced to make payment somehow? Do countries have deals with each other that state if one of their citizens is sued, they are forced to pay? Or do you kind of just laugh it off and go on with your day?
I have no idea how any of this works.
You'd have to have the judgment recognized in a court of law here. No court in Canada would register a judgment that so clearly violates freedom of speech (or at least I hope they wouldn't). If by some miracle the judgment was registered hear they could then do things like lien it against your property.
I have zero idea why North America continues to purchase oil from Saudi Arabia.
It was to keep the peace(price peace) for the most part but since shale oil came on the scene it's been dwindling to the point where North America only buys about 15-18% from OPEC. The Saudi's/OPEC are getting squeezed by us in the west and Russia in Europe.
To give you an idea of the extent that this has hurt the Saudi's, In 1980 50% of Saudi oil was sold to Europe, in 2013 about 6% went to Europe. Now Russia has taken over the EU oil share to estimates of 35%.
We are now in the cat&mouse game, OPEC wants to crush expensive shale/dirty oil by flooding the market with their "straw in the sand" oil and about $650 billion in oil reserves.
Personally I would love to set up a second oil cartel, Venezuela and Canada are #2-3 in the world for oil reserves, USA and Mexico are top 10. I say let OPEC and Russia/Iran fight it out for EU supremacy and we look after the America's.
It was to keep the peace(price peace) for the most part but since shale oil came on the scene it's been dwindling to the point where North America only buys about 15-18% from OPEC. The Saudi's/OPEC are getting squeezed by us in the west and Russia in Europe.
To give you an idea of the extent that this has hurt the Saudi's, In 1980 50% of Saudi oil was sold to Europe, in 2013 about 6% went to Europe. Now Russia has taken over the EU oil share to estimates of 35%.
We are now in the cat&mouse game, OPEC wants to crush expensive shale/dirty oil by flooding the market with their "straw in the sand" oil and about $650 billion in oil reserves.
Personally I would love to set up a second oil cartel, Venezuela and Canada are #2-3 in the world for oil reserves, USA and Mexico are top 10. I say let OPEC and Russia/Iran fight it out for EU supremacy and we look after the America's.
To clarify the US only buys about 15% of its imports from the middle east. The US now produces the majority of its own oil.
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