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Looks like journalists are not the only profession to be executed in Saudi Arabia...

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-31/saudi-arabia-executes-migrant-worker-without-informing-indonesia/10450624?pfmredir=sm

Interesting part of that is that there are 18 more Indonesian maids on death row.

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The Saudis do this to put the maids in line. Same conditions exist all over the gulf states.

Just in:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-saudi-execution/indonesia-protests-to-saudi-over-execution-of-maid-convicted-of-murder-idUSKCN1N51JA

Saudi Arabia is grotesque. Trump has even admitted the reasons why we are friends with them, because they buy our weapons and they "help" with Israel. Fine, but don't pretend to care about human rights abuses in Iran.

MBS has made a lot of enemies within his huge-ass family...

I believe it's hardly the first time Saudis pulled something like this. Their treatment of migrant workers had always been shameful, and many are in no better condition than slaves (a practice which wasn't "abolished" until the 60s.)

Don't they get rid of their errant or unliked servants by complaining to the local Imams that they are wizards and things of that nature?

I am calling BS on this one:

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/01/12/asia/saudi-teen-australia-canada-asylum-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F

She tried to come to Australia, but because we took longer than two days to process her refugee application, she apparently 'chose' Canada instead.

She claims her parents were going to kill her.

Which parent is going to kill their child after she told 5.7 Bn people on Facebook?

Social media attention-seeker who is politically allergic to Saudi Arabia because they are out of fashion at the moment.

Anyway, off to -40 deg in Toronto.

Good luck with that.

Once her social media star fades, she will be back in Saudi in less than 3 months.

She probably chose Australia originally because she thought she could make it there before her family figured it out. Since Canada is generally friendlier to refugees than Australia, it makes sense for her to head there. It's not as if Canada needs Saudi oil anyway.

In any case, the average low in Toronto in January is +20F and the record low is -27F and if she really can't stand the cold, in Vancouver, the average low is still above freezing and the record low is only 0F.

Toronto in January is the coldest s$%tcan i've ever been in.

Woah! I thought my heart was getting cold.

Yesterday in my work area, it was 118F.

Canada is Australia in a freezer. But seriously, summers in Australia sound nasty and unbearable, with highs of over 40 Celsius without the humidex. You can fry a egg on car in the summer in Australia and asphalt even melts in summers.

What 'da hell is a "celsius?" Speak American man!

Yesterday at my work:

117 deg F

At 5pm, 105 deg F

Bringing this thread back for this:

https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1502637051677581314

Bad country is still bad, more as we get it.

Saudi Arabia is a brutal regime that must be destroyed by Iran, China, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and the Houthis.

So with Russia floundering in Ukraine (and revealing itself to be a paper tiger -or bear) and the United States steadily withdrawing from the region, the Arab world (starting with Saudi Arabia) is looking to strengthen their ties to China instead:

Saudi Arabia invites China's Xi to visit Riyadh: report (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/saudi-arabia-invites-china-s-xi-to-visit-riyadh-report/ar-AAV3N0P?ocid=msedgntp)

Years into their expensive campaign, the Saudis are faring even worse than Russia. The Houthis have developed low-cost ballistic and anti-aircraft solutions and are putting them to effective use on their side of the border and deep within the Kingdom itself.

https://mobile.twitter.com/WorldNewsIL/status/1507369303020118016

Saudi Arabia and the UAE want to be pissy with the West? Ok, enjoy fending off the Houthis and Iranians yourselves.

Which border are the Houthis attacking from? Saudi Arabia should be able to maintain good security at it's border given their geographical isolation on the peninsula.

Saudi Arabia planning to build 500m high twin skyscrapers that run parallel next to each other for 120km.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/25/saudi-arabia-to-build-1tr-mirrored-skyscraper-in-neom

Housing up to 5 Million people in one building.

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https://interestingengineering.com/75-mile-long-skyscrapers-saudi-arabia

It's about time we showed up the Ancient Greeks, Persians and Egyptians. Not since Donald Trump have we seen a desire to build a structure on such a grand dimension.

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Like many of the "nouveau riche", the rulers of the KSA have absolutely no taste.

I would think that a 120K (75 miles) long tower would suffer from engineering issues, since earth's curvature probably starts playing a factor. I'm also not sure how many people would want to live in this structure (and better hope their electricity is 100.00% reliable if you live in a high floor, both for elevators and water).

It also seems to be a long east-west fence (dont tell Trumpsters). I'm guessing there isnt much wildlife in the Saudi desert, but I wonder about bird flight paths.

Does anybody think a huge mirror in the desert is a good idea?

I think it's a great idea.

The curvature of the Earth is not a problem. The Earth definitely curves over 120km. So much so, you might not be able to see one end of the building from the other end if you had super binoculars. Need a mathematics-physics person to test that hypothesis.

The real issue is what caused the eventual destruction of the seven Ancient Wonders of the World.

Rampaging Mongols and Greeks. Just jokes.

No. Earthquakes are a huge risk to a structure of this scale. The Earth's surface is actually like a jelly, it flexes and bends with long wavelengths.

Wahhabi clerics: we must destroy all godless and idolatorous human history in Arabia

al-Saud: so we can replace it with self-parodying post-modern horror

The Houthis and the Iranian regime are not a threat and do not want war against any NATO member and even Israel. Why do we need to fend them off?

Saudi Arabia is one of the worst regimes in the region. They, along with most other Gulf States, literally practice slavery, but nobody gives a sh**t.

Wait...does the US not even have an Ambassador to Saudi still?

lol

Anyone else watch the Saudi Arabian F1 Grand Prix?

Before the race, the band played this, but I don't know the Saudi anthem, so it was difficult to tell if this was legit.

Saudi National Anthem

https://youtu.be/VUjur_PQJQs

Another weird fact was that the track has only four grand stands. Two on the home straight one one each on turns 3 and 4 respectively. It took me a while to figure out, but essentially, there was no crowd at this race. Depsite the lack of seating, I could have bought tickets online from Australia the day before the race.

King of Saudi Arabia does not believe Iran is even comparable to his country.

Hitler of Iran

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1HgoP-P0p9/

Very big mistake conflating MBS and his faction with the al-Saud family in its entirety.

I doubt that Xi has any plans to "destroy" a country that seeks to be a willing partner in the BRI, and that has only been developing warmer and warmer relations with China following the ascent of the current leadership of both states.

Hamas has no compelling motive to seek the "destruction" of Saudi Arabia. The hostilities that do exist between Hamas and Saudi Arabia are just an afterthought of the wider hostility between Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood as a whole (of which Hamas was/is the Palestinian branch) which have to do with the Brotherhood's conflicting interests with the Saudis, nothing to do with the "brutality" of either side.

The Al-Assad regime in Syria has no compelling motive to seek the "destruction" of Saudi Arabia. Although the Ba'ath Party's ostensible goal is to unite all Arab countries under a nationalist republican regime, the Alawite Assad knows that he could never hope to have the entirety of the majority-Sunni Arab World submit to his geopolitical leadership, and the "Arab Cold War" of the late Twentieth Century is long dead; neither Assad nor the al-Saud have any territorial aspirations over each other's domains. KSA's support for the opposition in the Syrian Civil War was not the result of any thoughtful desire for regime change, but rather merely token/obligatory support done in order to neutralize and counter the Islamic Republic of Iran (the benefactor of the Assad regime) and maintain their credibility as a protector of Sunni/Salafist interests and the opponent of IRI proxies. Since MBS came to power, the KSA has reversed course in Syria and sought rapprochement with Assad's Syria; providing support for the Syrian opposition at the onset of the war provided leverage that the KSA could use to negotiate a stronger guarantee that Assad's Syria would desist from any pro-IRI activity that posed any threat to the KSA, and MBS has utilized that leverage.