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RE: NEOM
April 14, 2018 at 4:49 pm
(April 13, 2018 at 7:39 am)notimportant1234 Wrote: When Saudi Arabia starts to be more ambitious than the US, that raises a red flag.
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The basicaly want to build a city 33 times bigger than New York that would rum fully on renewable energy.
The point when dictatorships jump the shark?
When they decide to start building unrealistic and stupid grandiose projects.
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RE: NEOM
April 15, 2018 at 12:00 am
(April 14, 2018 at 4:49 pm)Wololo Wrote: (April 13, 2018 at 7:39 am)notimportant1234 Wrote: When Saudi Arabia starts to be more ambitious than the US, that raises a red flag.
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The basicaly want to build a city 33 times bigger than New York that would rum fully on renewable energy.
The point when dictatorships jump the shark?
When they decide to start building unrealistic and stupid grandiose projects.
They have the money the technology exists and it's already possible. I wish them the best of luck honestly.
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RE: NEOM
April 15, 2018 at 12:11 am
So, a mega city of that size, ALL of the Palestinians, for instance, would not fill up even a single ethnic neighborhood. Should they want to get in on the ground floor of this??
Way better deal than they'll ever squeeze out of the Israelis, BTW.
Rohingyas too. They won't be murdered there, and getting in early would seem a great move.
South Sudanese ??
How about a melting pot corollary in Islam ??
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RE: NEOM
April 15, 2018 at 11:21 am
(April 15, 2018 at 12:00 am)dyresand Wrote: (April 14, 2018 at 4:49 pm)Wololo Wrote: The point when dictatorships jump the shark?
When they decide to start building unrealistic and stupid grandiose projects.
They have the money the technology exists and it's already possible. I wish them the best of luck honestly.
Who's going to live there, what's its economic purpose, how many resources is it going to waste?
If the build costs are less than 2/3 kickbacks I'd be very much surprised. This has all the hallmarks of Hitler's Berlin to Germania plans, or of Saddam's attempt to rebuild Babylon.
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RE: NEOM
April 15, 2018 at 6:41 pm
Don't believe the jokes of the Sauds.
The Saudi current king and his son are trying to survive with any means necessary, and the result is "Vision 2030" and the "NEOM Project". Saudi Arabia don't have the skills or the knowledge to lead such ambitious -if not imaginary- projects, even their weaponry is bought from the outside.
The kingdom has nothing but cash. And cash itself began to evaporate now between the thievery of the king's son, to the failed visions and projects, up until the failed wars (Yemen and Qatar).
Saudi Arabia is doomed, don't let the "Whiskey allowance dreams" and the "Stripping of Niqab" fool you and "The driving of women" deceive you. They just got hit so hard on the head due to their acts and abuse of human rights for the last 100 years.
They are doomed. NEOM and vision 2030 are just to give the masses a shiny toy to discuss while MBS robs the treasury of the land before 2030.
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April 16, 2018 at 6:51 am
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It'd be nice if everything in SA could improve all at once under a benevolent and representative government that wasn't robbing people blind...but..failing that, baby steps. Calming down with the islamist horseshit is an improvement in human rights anyway.
IMO, curbing islamism and promoting sustainable developments (even operated as a front) is a good start.
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April 16, 2018 at 4:41 pm
Doesn't Saudi Arabia have massive unemployment problems? Sounds like they should focus their energies on domestic policy before promoting this pie in the sky nonsense.
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April 17, 2018 at 6:49 am
A green grid needs alot of labor.
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RE: NEOM
April 18, 2018 at 2:03 pm
(April 17, 2018 at 6:49 am)Khemikal Wrote: A green grid needs alot of labor.
which means jobs, in turn, can help with that unemployment situation. and people get paid they just have to stop wwith caste
system it's really not benefitting anyone really or helping them. just because you were born into a poor family shouldn't
force you to stay poor people can and will get ahead eventually.
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