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- lazycat, on 08/04/2008, -1/+20Video presentation for the project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqXUpCnJ47M&eurl=ht ...
- inactive, on 08/04/2008, -0/+16At least the GCC countries can boast of an oil-fueled richness, and a skilled and qualified expatriate workforce and increasing global investor interest especially Dubai.
- thesheqq, on 08/05/2008, -0/+11"Confessions of an Economic Hitman" has been on my reading list for a long time. I'm about halfway through now and reading this article takes on a new light. I recommend everyone read that book.
- inactive, on 08/04/2008, -1/+9Pretty big con if you ask the UN, which would have to be involved in order to keep the world from going to war over the Suez being closed.
- RocketGib, on 08/05/2008, -2/+8For some reason, a title containing "Twin" and "bin Laden" in the same breath caught my attention...
- BlockedUser, on 08/04/2008, -3/+8This is all good, but before they spend the $200 billion on giant towers and bridges, they should take care of their starving people.
- lamiaconfitor, on 08/05/2008, -1/+6Its trickle down economics, if you build a bunch of of stuff for rich people, the poor people get magic free food! Umm, mana-ie!
- zeebo, on 08/05/2008, -0/+5Is it really such a good idea to put a multi-billion dollar bridge over an active rift where the continents are pulling apart? Not to mention that the island that they would be going by is a volcano.
- DanAtkinson, on 08/05/2008, -3/+6Let me guess... You're American?
- Sokkratez, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3They should just part it again and walk over.
- h3lx, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3Charlton Heston doesn't live there anymore. He got old and moved to Florida.
- lamiaconfitor, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3where is the sarcasm tag?
- inactive, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3/extreme sarcasm
- inactive, on 08/05/2008, -1/+3I watched a 5 part bbc series on Dubai -
1) Built by, basically, slave labor (indentured servitude; people are recruited from Indonesia / Eastern Europe, etc. and cannot pay off their initial debt)
2) Looks like building codes are not good / inspectors are bribed (would survive earthquake?)
3) Looks like with environmental changes the temp will be in the 140s F and/or the water will rise to make the city unusable within 100 years.
How is this different. again? - blatantninja, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2How would it close the Suez?
- ORBAT, on 08/05/2008, -2/+3I seriously doubt you do.
- svendm, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1“A hope for all humanity" or a convenient way to suck natural resources out of Africa?
I'd go with the third option: Yet another Arabic vanity project to squander their oil money.
Comparisons to Dubai can stop there though. Yemen was ravaged by civil war. It has relatively modest oil resources. One third of the population is unemployed. I think they'd be better off spending their money on other stuff. - inactive, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1yes - the google the movie Endgame
- Aliwalla, on 08/05/2008, -1/+2The bridge might be a good idea, if there was anything to connect it to on either side of the strait.
- thecoolestguy, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1I think this is a great idea. I think Dubai's can be recreated throughout the Arab world given the money the Saudis have.
- nads, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1No, I saw what he did and you can't me from know it
- sndream, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1I think I saw the Obelisk of Light in the promotional material, i really do hope it will be able to shoot laser.
How they plan on making money on this?? Do they have any material on it? - HallenbeckJoe, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1impressive. thank you
- nads, on 08/05/2008, -2/+2I see what you did there.
- smotpoker1, on 08/05/2008, -2/+1***** all bin ladens hope they get leprosy and their dicks fall off.
- daleziemianski, on 08/05/2008, -3/+1My guess is Ethiopia's got as much oil as Saudi Arabia, and this guy's comin' to dinner with plastic flowers and cheap wine... thinkin' he's gonna git some Djibouti
- aamer, on 08/04/2008, -4/+2uh huh, good luck with that, tarek
- inactive, on 08/04/2008, -7/+3as long as we get involved and make sure it's run as a democracy with no nuclear capabilities, i'm all for it!!
- deathsythe, on 08/05/2008, -7/+2Sorry I have an auto-bury macro for anything by "* bin Laden"
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