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NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia's Neom dream unravelled

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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia's Neom dream unravelled

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NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago
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  • Stamau123@lemmy.world
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    Unraveled? It was never together

    • davel@lemmy.ml
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      Right? It was self-evidently a grift, yet “serious” bourgeois rags like FT pretend otherwise.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
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    It was too ambitious and the economy wasn’t able to make it happen. Still other projects such as Riyadh Metro were successful.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      I was being recruited on to work on that project and I worked with some engineers who ended up working on it.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    Saudi Arabia tends to have a tradition of ambitious projects that fail due to various reasons.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    A vast desert complex is better built underground. There are some nice funnel-formed concepts around.

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    The people who did 9/11 tried to build a horizontal skyscraper because they just love to see those things on the ground. Fuck Saudi Arabia. I’m glad it’s failing

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      how’d that propaganda taste?

    • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml
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      The man who did 9/11 died a couple days ago

    • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
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      People believe this shit and it is wild. Osama Bin Laden was opposed to the Saudi government and living in exile having had his citizenship revoked many years before 2001 while he was still working with the CIA stirring shit up in Central Asia.

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