Home detox - homemade all natural house cleaners

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( NaturalNews) So, you've decided to get healthy. You're going all the way. You've cleaned up your diet. You're exercising regularly. What's left to do? You need to detox. But first, take a good hard look at the chemicals you use on a daily basis and get rid of them.

Dump the toxic shampoo, conditioner, shaving cream, after shave or perfume, soap, lotion, make-up - whatever it is you put on your body and pretend your skin doesn't soak right up like a sponge. Come on; face it. Whatever we put on our skin is drawn right into our bloodstream.

Whatever we breathe is taken right into the body as well. As soon as you are through tossing out the toxic products you use on your body, toss the toxic solutions you use to clean your home. Here are some great replacements for those noxious, dangerous chemicals you have been using.

Clean your bathtub without toxins

For years I've leaned over the tub and scrubbed with any number of cleaners from conventional to green alternatives. There are a number of ways to clean a bathtub. Not one of them comes close to this method. It is by far the easiest, cheapest, simplest way to clean your tub.

After you are through washing your body, let out half of the water. Now soap up your washrag, scrubby mitt, or whatever it is you use to wash yourself. Use it to wash out the soap ring around the tub. That same soap ring you have struggled to clean with numerous sprays and powders immediately dissolves when faced with plain old (better be organic!) soap. Just rub in a circular motion and rinse. Do this every time you take a bath and your tub stays clean.

Clean your oven without harsh chemicals

The Healthy Food Team suggests this ingenious, easy method of cleaning your oven.

Apply a paste of baking soda and water to the surfaces in your oven. Let it sit for 12 hours. Use a wet towel to wipe out the oven the next day. Spray vinegar on any residue that is left. Again, wipe with a wet towel.

How to clean floors naturally

Mop your tile, linoleum, and wooden floors with a mixture of water and vinegar. Just add 1/4 cup of vinegar to 2 gallons of warm water. Or add a few drops of your favorite essential oils to warm water.

How to naturally freshen the air

Boil citrus peels in a pot of water, spritz the air with water mixed with a few drops of essential oils, or use a diffuser with essential oils. Better yet, open your windows and let in some fresh air.

An environmentally friendly way to clean your carpets

Various sites suggest using cornmeal and/or baking soda to dry clean your carpet. No way I am putting cornmeal into the carpets. One of the reasons carpets are so hard to get really clean is that they trap dirt between the mesh that holds the carpet fibers together and the padding underneath the carpet. Why would you want to get edible bug attracting food caught there?

Baking soda? Now that's the way to go. You not only can get carpets cleaner by sprinkling baking soda on the carpet and then vacuuming it up, the carpets will smell better, too.

You can use plain hot water to wash your carpets, or you can add essential oils or vinegar to the water. For spot cleaning, try spraying with a vinegar solution of 1:1 vinegar to water.

Remember that the first thing to do when anything spills on the carpet is to blot, blot blot. After dabbing, stand on that towel to soak up anything that is trapped under the fibers. Then pour a little boiling, hot water on the area and blot it again.

Other non-toxic cleaners

Make sure you purchase truly green cleaners for washing dishes and clothes. This is not just for the environment - it is also for you! Remember you will be ingesting any chemicals that come in contact with your dishes and your skin will soak in any chemicals that come in contact with your clothes!

As far as other cleaners, use baking soda, lemons, salt, and vinegar as much as you can to replace those toxic chemical cleaners. If you do choose to purchase cleaners, read the labels well - beware of "greenwashing". Just because it says natural, doesn't mean it is.

Detox

Now that you've cleaned all of those toxic products off your shelves, it's time to clean their residue out of your body. Many chemicals are endocrine disruptors; others erode our health in numerous ways, including gut inflammation that disturbs the proper balance of bacteria so essential to all processes of the body. For a complete detox, we recommend Doc Shillington's Total Detox, but for those who need a simpler (easier and less expensive) alternative, check out the Cheap and Easy Detox Diet Plan.

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About the author:
Kali Sinclair is a copywriter for Green Lifestyle Market, and a lead editor for Organic Lifestyle Magazine. Kali was very sick with autoimmune disease and realized that conventional medicine was not working for her. She has been restoring her health by natural means and is interested in topics including natural health, environmental issues, and human rights.

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How turmeric kills cancer and how to optimize curcumin absorption

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 (NaturalNews) Turmeric is a bright yellow root with a tan skin that is typically used in Middle Eastern, Northern African, and Southeast Asian cuisine. Turmeric is one of the main ingredients in curry spice blends, and it makes a great addition to soups, meats, salads, stir-frys, and more. It's a very versatile herb that enhances the flavor of a great many dishes.

Curcuminoids are the beneficial compounds within turmeric. Specifically, curcumin, one of these specific compounds, is considered to be the most potent, medicinally powerful, cancer-killing component of turmeric. Curcumin helps to detoxify and rejuvenate the liver, reduces negative effects of iron overload (and this is important because iron with sweet wormwood is a powerful cancer killer, too), increases antioxidant capacity in the body, regenerates brain cells and improves cognitive function, reduces likelihood of and treats Alzheimer's, is anti-inflammatory, reduces heart disease risk, reduces depression, and fights premature aging.

How does curcumin kill cancer? It literally kills cancer.

The Murderous Aspect Of Curcumin

The human body contains approximately 10-13 trillion cells. We replace these cells at the rate of approximately 100 to 130 billion each day. A tightly regulated, cell- suicide process known as programmed cell death or apoptosis destroys cells.

Cancer cells don't suicide. They turn off the suicide genes.

Curcumin activates the death receptors through many different means, ways we are still learning. One of the more interesting ways is by activating enzymes that literally chop up the proteins within the cells. It is believed that one of the reasons cancer cells do not develop some sort of resistance to curcumin like they do with chemo drugs, is due to the fact that curcumin activates the cells death in so many different ways. We also don't know exactly why curcumin doesn't kill normal healthy cells, but it doesn't. It seems to simply target the cells that were supposed to have already died.

Our bodies want to dispose of most of the curcumin we eat. Without help, our ability to absorb curcumin would be very low.

How to Increase the Bioavailability of Curcumin

The only problem with curcumin is that our liver, in an effort to prevent excessive drugs and supplements and such, inhibits most of the absorption of curcumin (a process called glucuronidation), which makes the compound much less effective than it could be. But there are ways to increase the body's ability to absorb curcumin.

Mix Turmeric With Black Pepper

Piperine is the alkaloid responsible for the pungency of black pepper. This compound inhibits certain enzyme metabolism functions, which normally cause the disposal of what the body considers to be excess curcumin (this effect is not limited to curcumin, black pepper can increase the absorption of other supplements, too). Curcumin absorption increases up to 2,000% or more with just a small amount of piperine.

Consume Turmeric with Beneficial Fats

Curcumin is fat-soluble. Without fat, the compound doesn't dissolve properly, and then curcumin has a tough time getting into the gut and being absorbed into the bloodstream and then into the cells that needs the compound.

Try consuming turmeric with healthy fats like avocado, olive oil, and coconut oil.

Eat Turmeric With Quercetin

Quercetin is a plant flavonoid that inhibits the enzyme that deactivates curcumin.

Foods high in quercetin include red wine, red grapes, onions, green tea, apples, cranberries, blueberries, black plums, red leaf lettuce, raw kale, chicory greens, raw spinach, sweet peppers, snap beans and raw broccoli. The best whole food source of quercetin is capers.

Conclusion

If you're looking to kill cancer, or get the other benefits from turmeric, don't just pop a few curcumin pills. We are discovering the incredible synergistic relationships of many different foods. The best way, really the only way, to get your body to a place of optimum health is by consuming a wide variety of produce and eliminating toxic, refined foods. Check out this golden milk tea recipe and see Foods, Vitamins, and Herbs That Kill Cancer.

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About the author:
Michael Edwards is the founder, owner, editor-in-chief, and janitor for Organic Lifestyle Magazine and Green Lifestyle Market. At age 17, Michael weighed more than 360 pounds. He suffered from ADHD, allergies, frequent bouts of illness, and chronic, debilitating insomnia.

Conventional medicine wasn't working. While he restored his health through alternative medicine he studied natural health and became immersed in it.

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Heart attack symptoms women shouldn't ignore

 

 

 

 Tingling down one or both arms or legs 

 

  While this often means you've got a pinched nerve or arthritis in your neck, "it's important to rule out heart problems first," says Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director of the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women's Health at NYU Langone Medical Center. See your doctor if you notice any tingling in your extremities.

Nausea/vomiting

You could have more than just a bug if your upset stomach comes along with other heart-related symptoms, such as shortness of breath, a cold sweat or pain in your chest or back. 

Shortness of breath/racing hear

It can be really difficult to differentiate between a panic attack and a heart attack, since they share these symptoms. A few tells: Panic attacks can be triggered by a stressful event (though not always), and other signs can include trembling, intense terror and an overwhelming sense of doom. Panic attacks also typically come on suddenly and should pass within five minutes, while women's heart-attack symptoms tend to start slowly and linger. The only way to be sure about 

 what's happening, however, is to get to the ER. 

 Jaw pain

 Your jaw could hurt if you're having a heart attack, because the nerves attached to it lie close to ones that come out of your heart. If the pain is constant, you probably have a dental problem; if it pops up intermittently and gets worse when you exert yourself, it's more likely to be heart-related. 

Dizziness/light-headedness

Feeling faint for no obvious reason (like doing a tough workout or being dehydrated) could mean that not enough blood is getting to the heart, especially if you're also suffering from shortness of breath and a cold sweat.

Discomfort or burning in the chest or back

Women often describe a heart attack as tightness, heaviness, pressure or a squeezing sensation. The pain doesn't have to be severe or sudden; it could come and go for weeks, so it's often mistaken for indigestion or heartburn. If it doesn't come on shortly after a meal, if you don't normally have indigestion or if you're also experiencing symptoms such as nausea, it needs to be checked promptly by a doctor.

 Extreme fatigue

If you're unable to walk a block comfortably or if you feel like you have to stop and rest while going about your daily activities, it could be a sign that blood is not getting to the heart fast enough.

How heart attacks happen

They're most often triggered by a buildup of fatty deposits called plaque in our coronary arteries. When that plaque thickens and hardens, you develop atherosclerosis—a common heart disease that causes attacks. (Other forms of heart disease include arrhythmia and congenital issues.) Atherosclerosis can block blood flow, and therefore oxygen, to the heart muscle and lead to a heart attack. Some risk factors for heart disease are a family history, elevated blood pressure and/or cholesterol, obesity, smoking, high stress levels and having a sedentary lifestyle, although you can have heart attacks without being predisposed to them. Less common causes include a blood clot and a blood-vessel tear in the heart (known as a spontaneous coronary artery dissection, a rare condition that is most prevalent in those age 30 to 50).
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Measles outbreak likely caused by vaccinated children, science shows

(NaturalNews) While the media continues to spew emotionally charged tirades about how the anti-vaccination "movement" allegedly triggered the recent measles outbreak that health authorities believe started at Disneyland, actual science suggests that the most likely cause of this insanely overblown outbreak was a person who was recently vaccinated.

Numerous published studies reveal how live-virus vaccines like MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) actually shed these diseases for many weeks or even months following vaccination, potentially infecting others, both vaccinated and unvaccinated. This means that any child who was recently given an MMR vaccine is a walking disease-spreader, a truth that the media is refusing to report as even just a possibility in this case.

The fact that vaccinated individuals can and do carry around contagious measles for many weeks while displaying no symptoms of the disease suggests that this latest outbreak might just be another example of a vaccine-strain outbreak. While a handful of the roughly 100 measles cases identified so far have tested out as wild genotype B3 measles, according to the latest reports, the original source of the outbreak has yet to be identified.

"Numerous scientific studies indicate that children who receive a live virus vaccination can shed the disease and infect others for weeks or even months afterwards," said Leslie Manookian, a documentary filmmaker and activist. "Thus, parents who vaccinate their children can indeed put others at risk."

A fairly recent example of this occurred in New York City during a measles outbreak that was documented in 2011. A twice-vaccinated individual -- that is, an individual who received two separate doses of MMR in accordance with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations -- was found to have spread measles to multiple individuals.

Nearly two decades ago, the CDC itself came to this same disturbing conclusion in a study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Urine samples collected from newly vaccinated 15-month-old children as well as young adults revealed that nearly all of them had detectable levels of the measles virus inside their bodies, meaning they are the real contagion threat.

"In some cases, measles virus RNA was detected as early as 1 day or as late as 14 days after the children were vaccinated," explains the study about the unpredictability of the vaccine-transmitted virus.

Most disease outbreaks occur among vaccinated populations, CFR report admits

There's still so much that's unknown about the current outbreak, including where and how it actually started, that it's painfully obvious the media has a sinister agenda. The unvaccinated are the easiest scapegoats, because they're a minority (and they contradict the official story), so they're the ones being tagged as the instigators in supposedly "bringing back" this disease.

Measles has been around forever, even since the MMR vaccine was introduced, and outbreaks are quite common among both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. In many cases, those who succumb to the disease are those who were already vaccinated, developing the condition either from the vaccine itself or from others who received the vaccine. A 2014 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has this to say about who the real instigators of disease outbreaks typically are.

According to GlobalResearch.org, the report openly states "that the most highly vaccinated populations are also those with the greatest number of outbreaks for those same infectious diseases. This was especially the case for measles, mumps, rubella, polio and pertussis outbreaks."

Oh, but vaccines only work when most everyone is vaccinated because of a magical concept known as "herd immunity," right? Not so fast. The Office of Medical and Scientific Justice (OMSJ), having thoroughly analyzed the conclusions presented in the CFR report, determined that even the CFR isn't convinced that herd immunity is a scientifically legitimate concept.

According to Global Research, the OMSJ concluded that given "the repeated incidences of infectious outbreaks in populations with 94% or more vaccine compliance [the alleged threshold when herd immunity is activated], and the emergence of new viral strains, the concept of herd immunity should be forgotten.

"The Office offers several possibilities to explain the report: 1) vaccines are increasingly becoming ineffective and causing 'immune dysfunction,' and 2) 'vaccine antigen responses' may be reprogramming viruses while weakening the immune systems of the most vaccinated individuals."

Don't expect to hear any of this from propaganda outlets like CNN, Fox and USA Today, which are preying on the weak-minded in order to advance the sentiment that unvaccinated people are a threat -- or worse, a societal scourge. If anything, the exact opposite is true when considering published science, which shows that vaccinated people are the biggest threats.

"Health officials should require a two-week quarantine of all children and adults who receive vaccinations," contends Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF). "This is the minimum amount of time required to prevent transmission of infectious diseases to the rest of the population, including individuals who have been previously vaccinated."

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Arab World Unites in Anger After Burning of Jordanian Pilot

The New York Times

By ROD NORDLAND and ANNE BARNARD

 

  © Khaled Elfiqi/European Pressphoto Agency Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb called for the Islamic State’s extremists to be “killed, or crucified, or their hands and legs cut off.”

 

  AMMAN, Jordan — There was one feeling that many of the Middle East’s fractious clerics, competing ethnic groups and warring sects could agree on Wednesday: a shared sense of revulsion at the Islamic State’s latest excess, its video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive inside a cage.

In Syria, the government denounced the group that has been fighting it for months, but so did Qaeda fighters who oppose both the government and the Islamic State. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian government for once agreed on something, the barbarity of the militant group for the way it murdered the Jordanian, First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh. Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the head of Cairo’s thousand-year-old Al Azhar institute and a leading Sunni scholar, was so angered that he called for the Islamic State’s extremists to be “killed, or crucified, or their hands and legs cut off.”

In a way that the beheadings of hostages had not, the immolation of Lieutenant Kasasbeh united the Arab world in an explosion of anger and disgust at the extremists, also known as ISIS or ISIL, or to most Arabs by the word “Daesh,” derived from the extremists’ Arabic acronym.

The sense of anti-Daesh unity made for strange scenes throughout the region. Jordan’s King Abdullah II, caught by surprise in Washington when the video was released, returned home not to anger at his absence, but to a hero’s welcome. Crowds lined his route from the airport to cheer Jordan’s decision to promptly retaliate by executing two convicted terrorists, both with connections to the Islamic State, only hours earlier.
Never known as a charismatic leader, King Abdullah got rave reviews at home for his tough talk in Washington, where in a meeting with congressional leaders he said his retribution would remind people of the Clint Eastwood movie “Unforgiven.”

While the propaganda video, with its vows to kill other fighter pilots bombing Islamic State positions, was clearly aimed at trying to scare Jordan out of the American-led coalition fighting the extremists, it seems to have had the opposite effect among many Jordanians. Jordan is one of a half-dozen Arab countries actively participating in the coalition, in addition to Iraq, and Jordan’s government spokesman said the kingdom would now step up its involvement.

“I guess in a way we lost a pilot, but at the same time I think the government gained a collective support for fighting them, in Jordan and from all around too,” said Adnan Abu-Odeh, a former head of Jordan’s intelligence service. “Daesh have made a big error. When you are weakened as they have been, you try to make your supporters think you are strong by being more monstrous, but this time they went too far.”
In Syria, where a chaotic four-year insurgency provided the Islamic State with an incubator, both those supporting President Bashar al-Assad and those opposing him condemned the act, as did their foreign backers.

Iran, the Syrian government’s most important ally and no friend of Jordan, called the pilot’s killing “inhumane and un-Islamic.” Al Manar, the television station of another ally of the Syrian government, the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, called it “the most gruesome” of many atrocities committed by the Islamic State.
Qatar, which opposes Mr. Assad, likewise condemned the killing as “contravening the tolerant principles” of Islam. Turkey, blamed by many in the region for allowing foreign fighters to cross its borders into Syria, where some join the Islamic State, also chimed in.

 

 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called it an act of “savagery” that had no place in Islam, adding, “I curse and damn the burning of the Jordanian pilot.”
Denouncing the Islamic State as a “diabolical” terrorist group, Al Azhar’s leader and grand imam, Mr. Tayeb, cited Quranic verses to show that Islam forbids the burning or mutilation of enemies at war.
“This vile terrorist act,” he said in a statement issued by Al Azhar, “requires punishment as cited by the Quran for oppressors and spoilers on earth who fight God and his prophet, that they be killed, or crucified, or their hands and legs cut off.”

Al Azhar, a seat of Islamic learning, considers itself a beacon of moderation and tolerance for the Sunni Muslim world, and the statement offered no explanation for the incongruity of Mr. Tayeb’s advocating some of the same medieval punishments typically employed by extremists.

Mainstream Arab leaders reacted to the immolation in a categorically different way to the long string of hostage beheadings that preceded it. Partly that may have been because, according to many commentators Wednesday, burning someone alive is prohibited in Islam as a punishment that belongs to God alone, applied in hell. Beheadings, on the other hand, have a long Islamic history.

Others, while condemning the Islamic State, sought to draw attention to the Syrian government’s barrel bombings of cities that, according to Human Rights Watch and other organizations tracking the conflict, kill far more civilians than the extremists — however depraved and attention-grabbing the militant group’s methods.

Khaled Khoja, the president of the main Syrian exile opposition group, linked the pilot’s participation in the struggle against the Islamic State directly to his own country’s opposition’s struggle against Mr. Assad.
“Moaz’s blood has mingled with the soil of our beloved Syria, and whose remains mingled with those of hundreds of thousands of Syrians killed by Assad’s barrel bombs and the terrorist group ISIS,” Mr. Khoja said in a statement. “While I strongly condemn this barbaric act, which symbolizes pure evil that the terrorist group represents, and the deepest of depravity to which they are prepared to sink, I call upon the peoples and governments of the world to stand by the Syrian people and end their suffering caused by the Assad regime and ISIS alike.”

Ken Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, said that both forms of killing should be condemned.

“ISIS’s despicable conduct shouldn’t make us lose sight of the largest killer of civilians in Syria: Assad’s barrel bombs,” he said in an email. “The world has been reluctant to address them out of a misguided sense that nothing should be done that might constrain the fight against ISIS, but barrel bombs have little if any military significance. They are so inaccurate that the Syrian air force doesn’t dare drop them near the front line for fear of hitting its own troops.”

“It will be hard to win the hearts and minds of the Syrian people by arguing that they should stand up to ISIS’s atrocities while ignoring the government’s,” he said.

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YANG SAMPAI SELAWAT, BUKAN DOA !

YANG SAMPAI SELAWAT, BUKAN DOA !

"Yaa Rasulullah tolonglah kami.... ya Rasulullah berikanlah syafaatmu."

Demikian antara lirik-lirik syirik dalam qasidah golongan tareqat sufi masa kini yang mendapat sambutan ramai khusus umat Islam di negara ini. Benarkah boleh berdoa kepada Rasulullah? Adakah baginda mampu mendengardan mengabulkan doa tersebut?

Jawapan:

Rasulullah shallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam telah menjelaskan bahawa apa yang sampai kepada baginda dari amalan umat Islam setelah kewafatannya hanyalah selawat dan salam yang diucapkan oleh mereka. Sabdanya:

وَصَلُّوْا عَلَيَّ فَإِنَّ صَلَاتَكُمْ تَبْلُغُنِيْ حَيْثُ كُنْتُمْ.

"Berselawatlah kamu kepadaku. Sesungguhnya selawat kamu sampai kepadaku di mana pun kamu berada." [Shahih Sunan Abu Daud, no. 2042]

Adapun selain itu, seperti doa yang ditujukan secara terus kepada baginda, maka tidak ada satu jua dalil yang menjelaskannya. Bahkan dalil-dalil sedia ada hanya menjelaskan tentang ketidaktahuan baginda terhadap apa-apa yang telah dilakukan oleh umat Islam setelah kewafatannya. Sabda Rasulullah shallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam:

أَنَا فَرَطُكُمْ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ وَلَيُرْفَعَنَّ مَعِي رِجَالٌ مِنْكُمْ ثُمَّ لَيُخْتَلَجُنَّ دُوْنِي فَأَقُوْلُ يَارَبِّ أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوْا بَعْدَكَ.

"Aku mendahului kamu di telaga. Dan sungguh beberapa orang di antara kamu diangkat (diperlihatkan oleh Allah sehingga aku dapat melihat mereka), kemudian disingkirkan daripadaku. Lalu aku berkata: “Wahai Rabbku, (mereka semua) adalah sahabat-sahabatku.” Kemudian dikatakan (kepadaku): “Sesungguhnya engkau tidak tahu apa yang diada-adakan (bid'ah) oleh mereka selepasmu.” [Hadis riwayat al-Bukhari, no. 6205]

Perhatikan hadis di atas, jika Rasulullah shalallahu ‘alaihi wasallam sahaja dikatakan tidak mampu untuk mengetahui perkara yang dilakukan dan diada-adakan oleh umat Islam setelah kewafatannya, lalu bagaimana mungkin untuk dianggap baginda mampu mendengar dan seterusnya mengabulkan doa-doa mereka?

Sungguh hadis ini merupakan petir yang menyambar dan membakar akidah sesat golongan Ahli Bid’ah yang gemar berdusta atas nama Allah dan Rasul-Nya!


~ Mohd Hairi Nonchi

King Salman’s appointments signal change ahead in Saudi Arabia The Guardian

King Salman’s appointments signal change ahead in Saudi Arabia

The Guardian

Ian Black 14 hrs ago

© Provided by Guardian News Prince Mohammed is King Salman's son.

Saudi Arabia’s new ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been quick to signal that he will continue the policies laid down by his predecessor. But two appointments made since the announcement of King Abdullah’s death point to significant change ahead – the start of the handover of power to a new generation of royals.

Salman, 79, and his crown prince, Muqrin, 69, are both sons of Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, who founded the conservative kingdom in the 1920s. The choice of deputy crown prince – now second-in-line to the throne — is Muhammad bin Nayef, a nephew of Abdullah and the first and one of the most capable of the grandsons and great nephews of Ibn Saud jockeying for power in the future.

Even at a time of change, perhaps especially at a time of change, ruling Saudi Arabia remains a family affair – with the modern state named after its founding dynasty, as if Great Britain were called Windsoria.

Bin Nayef is 55 and no stripling himself. But he has a reputation as a moderniser and is well versed in the ways of the west. Governments in Washington and London admire him in his role as interior minister. Having previously been in charge of Saudi counterterrorist efforts, he survived a close-quarters assassination attempt by an al-Qaida suicide bomber.

Bin Nayef is the son of the former crown prince and defence minister, who died before he could ascend the throne.

Significantly, MBN – as friends refer to him – gets to stay in that powerful role as well as occupying the number two slot in the succession. Muqrin’s shortcomings – he is widely described as genial but ineffective – are also likely to play to Bin Nayef’s advantage, analysts and diplomats suggest.

Prospects for future reform beyond the glacial changes under Abdullah remain unclear, though the Saudi liberal view, usually whispered rather than spoken out loud, is that the monarchy must adapt to survive: the big question is whether any moves will be made towards representative government in a country with neither an elected parliament nor political parties.

Another key appointment suggests that the direction of travel is clear. King Salman named his own son, Prince Mohammed, to replace him as defence minister. Mohammed was born in 1980, making him almost an infant in a system hitherto dominated by men in their 70s and 80s. The prince was head of his father’s court when Salman was crown prince and is said to be among his favourite sons.

Other princes to watch are three of Abdullah’s sons who are already in prominent positions: the National Guard minister, Prince Mitab; the governor of Riyadh, Prince Mishaal; and Abdulaziz, who is deputy foreign affairs minister.

The emphasis in Riyadh, beset by regional problems, turbulence in the oil markets, job-hungry youth, worries about the Islamic State and an irritating foreign focus on human rights, is on stability and continuity. Still, surprises may yet lie ahead over the succession.

Saudis and foreigners alike point to Prince Ahmed, 72 and one of the last surviving competent sons of Ibn Saud, as someone who may yet try to disrupt the move to the next generation.

“Prince Muqrin does not have a reputation for competence, and if he is in the line of succession when … Salman dies, there could be an intervention to bypass him,” said the strategic consultancy Stratfor. “If this occurs, Prince Ahmad is the likely replacement.”

For the moment though, in the mysterious world of Saudi-watching, an Arabian version of cold war-era Kremlinology, all eyes are on Bin Nayef. “Naming MBN is a decisive moment for the Saudis,” said a diplomat with long experience in Riyadh.

“He is a moderniser and a relative liberal and he would be the first Saudi monarch with a western education – though Muqrin has a western education too. Bin Nayef, through the interior ministry, has his finger on the pulse of the nation. He knows better than anyone how ready the Saudi public is for more progress – and how much conservative opposition there is as well. King Abdullah had huge regard for him. So even that is part of his long-term legacy.”


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