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originally posted by: Mclaneinc
For me its a massive failure waiting to happen, a man made oasis built on a desert by people with too much money to comprehend but driven by a fanatical code to be seen as the epitome of brilliance and technological supremacy being managed by men who buy gold cars they then crash trying to drift race across the desert.
Basically its like children at Xmas all year around for them yet eventually the debt collectors will come and it will be a massive failure, a fallacy, a folly and a historical proof of how slavery still went on undisturbed for reasons of greed..
No more with there be gold vending machines and cheetahs for pets......These men disturb me...
originally posted by: angeldoll
They save money, for one thing, by using slaves to build all those structures. Years ago when it started going up and up there was an article in Vanity Fare about how they advertised in Pakistan needing workers. Many, many came, some using their life savings to make the trip. These were poor people.
When they got there, they were not allowed to leave. There were pictures of them loading into buses after a dawn to dusk work day, being taken to their camp 'quarters".
I wish I had kept that article, but I gave that magazine to a friend to read on the plane while he was on his way to Dubai.
Of course the journalist wasn't allowed to interview any of them, but managed to talk to one of them for a few minutes. The Pakistani guy told them they were being paid almost nothing, and it was impossible to leave. They were all wanting to go as it was nothing like it had been represented. He said they considered themselves enslaved, and the work itself was incredibly difficult, with many sustaining injuries on a daily basis.
eta: I posted without reading the thread. I will go do that now. It looks very interesting. S&F.
First the city is on the coast, that's an attraction for the plebs no bother, then there are the islands and all the apartments.
originally posted by: JetBlackStare
Just to add to the synchromystic/occult strangeness, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Emir of Dubai and the man lauded as the visionary, driving force and ultimate arbiter behind development there, lost his first born son, the Crown Prince, from a heart attack at age......33.
www.independent.co.uk...
originally posted by: JetBlackStare
What in the world is going on in Dubai? I always understood that they have a helluva lot of money. Of course it's oil, right? RIGHT? Maybe... Or not. I came across this blog post that peaked my interest like no conspiracy has in a long while. I read it, I re-read it. I showed it to my friend, I googled the heck out of Dubai. We were both dumbstruck by all the weirdness/coincidences and we can't come up with a rational theory beyond gross excess. A play ground for the Super Elite. But with oil crashing and some conjecture that the world economy is on the brink again, not to mention the precarious state of the Middle East...Dubai keeps growing.
secretsun.blogspot.com...
The city-state of Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, is one of the great puzzles of our time. Why did a sprawling metropolis that looks like like it stepped out of a Star Wars movie spring out of an obscure strip of sand in the Persian Gulf, practically overnight? Given that Dubai itself has little in the way of oil wealth, who paid for it all?
How does a city that is perpetually mired in debt continue not only to expand but to expand in ways that make the rest of the world's great cities look like provincial backwaters?
When oil was trading at 100 dollars a barrel and up you could see the logic. Maybe. But with the current oil crash showing no signs of ending anytime soon you have to wonder, where is the money coming from?
Sure, you can see the need for a hub in that part of the world, a city-state for global corporations doing business with the wealthy oil monarchies of the Gulf and an international airport for flights connecting from Europe to points farther east.
But that doesn't quite explain Dubai.
There is way more at the link. Including conjecture about the Annunaki, some ancient God/Alien, Oannes.
More certain is the history of this area, and the strange, enigmatic figure that entered the record via one Berossus, who wrote what was then the definitive history of Babylon.
Berossus told of a figure named Oannes, who made his home in the Persian Gulf and came ashore every day to instruct mankind in the arts of civilization. This is one of those episodes in the historical record when something completely insane is recounted entirely soberly, as if it were long accepted as truth. But to our eyes Oannes, who is often identified with the Philistine god Dagon, can only be described as "alien."
At Babylon there was (in these times) a great resort of people of various nations, who inhabited Chaldæa, and lived in a lawless manner like the beasts of the field. In the first year there appeared, from that part of the Erythræan sea which borders upon Babylonia, an animal destitute of reason, by name Oannes, whose whole body (according to the account of Apollodorus) was that of a fish; that under the fish's head he had another head, with feet also below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish's tail.
Really hoping some of the Ancient Civilization contributors can chime in with more on that. Is it just a coincidence that this is the historical background of the area?
So I put it to you ATS, what's going on there? Why are they building a hermetically sealed dome environment? Why do they keep building state of the art structures despite a very low occupancy rate? Who are they building all of this for if there is so much empty space? Why were the fireworks for a huge casino opening only visible from space? Why are they building islands in shapes visible only from the sky, like the Palm Islands or the World Islands?
What are they preparing for? How are they able to pay for all of this and yet the most powerful country in the world, the USA, can't manage to fill pot holes or take care of our vets? Is this where the world's money is flowing to? Why?
Are there any ATS members who reside in Dubai or have visited there? What is your take on it? What's really going on in Dubai?
originally posted by: angryhulk
originally posted by: JetBlackStare
Just to add to the synchromystic/occult strangeness, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Emir of Dubai and the man lauded as the visionary, driving force and ultimate arbiter behind development there, lost his first born son, the Crown Prince, from a heart attack at age......33.
www.independent.co.uk...
Drugs probably.
Criminal capitol of the world, built with slave labor & profits from the Iraq missing pallets & the "War on Terror". You know all those shadowy figures you complain of messing up your world, well this is their playground, where anything is legal if you have the cash.
It is thought that the temples were constructed to worship the god Enki, the god of wisdom and freshwater...
originally posted by: m83x1
Keshe Foundation is preparing Peace Event in Dubai in April... maybe there is really a bigger picture we are not seeing...
Dubai, one of seven emirates in the UAE, received another five years to repay the loan at a 1% annual interest rate. Dubai owes a total of $142 billion in debt, equivalent to 102% of its gross domestic product, according to the International Monetary Fund. Some $35 billion of the total belongs to the government or is guaranteed by the government. About $60 billion comes due between 2013 and 2017, according to the IMF.
You couldn't pay me enough to go there.
originally posted by: JetBlackStare
Here are some crazy images of the excess and oddities:
Gold vending machine
www.buzzfeed.com...
That's a robot.
wonderfulengineering.com...