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Dubai: The End of the World
Baron Grim Started conversation Apr 7, 2009
I've just finished reading this excellent in-depth article on the conditions in Dubai.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html
Dubai is an amazing experiment and model. It is built upon nothing but sand and debt. It's built and serviced by slaves.
It was meant to be a paradise and it's quickly becoming a hell. For some it already is.
Dubai: The End of the World
Hypatia Posted Apr 7, 2009
My God. I don't know what to say. That should be required reading by everyone who is planning to travel even in that direction.
Dubai: The End of the World
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Apr 7, 2009
Dubai: The End of the World
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Apr 7, 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7986000/7986756.stm
That's a more permanent link to the story.
Dubai: The End of the World
Websailor Posted Apr 8, 2009
They have an additional problem looming now:
http://planetark.org/wen/52388
Websailor 
Dubai: The End of the World
Baron Grim Posted Apr 8, 2009
Grr... Golf courses in deserts. 
The Rio Grande doesn't reach the Gulf of Mexico anymore because of stupidity like that.
Tiger Woods and all the rest should be ashamed.
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