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One can call Saudi Arabia - the world leader in weapons imports and decapitations per capita - many things, but a bastion of "democracy and moderation" is not one of them.

Some analyst, such as Beacon Advsiros, expected a diplomatic scandal as a worst case scenario outcome from Trump's keynote speech at the Arab Islamic American Summit in Saudi Arabia. That did not happen, and instead Trump delivered a speech that many pundits on both sides of the aisle said was better than expected, even if in a very strict sense.

Clocking in at just over 3,400 words, here is a full transcript of what Trump told Saudi Arabia and the world on Sunday afternoon.

Via The Daily Bell

Why did “private” prison stocks soar the day after Trump got elected?

It is almost like people in the industry knew something that the public didn’t. The former Attorney General Yates said that private prisons would be phased out. So before any cabinet members had been announced, why were stockholders betting that private prisons would not be phased out after all?

It could just be Trump’s tough on crime stance in general. But something else happened days earlier that suggests Washington insiders already knew what was going to happen.

Update: President Trump invoked the wrath of God and good versus evil in his Saudi Arabia address, declaring that terrorists "worship death" rather than any religion. The president said if people do not act against this organized terror, then "we know what will happen and what will be the end result." He said peaceful societies will become "engulfed in violence."

"Drive them out; drive them out of this earth" Trump implored his audience discussing terrorists:

Authored by Jake Anderson via TheAntiMedia.org,