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Surprising no one: Saudi Arabia’s Decision to Scale Back ‘THE LINE’ Project

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We will use the powers of Islam to show the apostate nature of the state of Israel!

Uh… no one wants to live there? Well, it’s still the will of Allah, so we’ll keep building it. Because ridding the world of Jews and what the Christians call “the Old Testament” are still very important to us. Uh… no, we love all of Allah’s children. Now stop asking questions, or we keel you!

(face-palm on the “MORE:” – it’s never worked before, but we are the chosen people, so we can MAKE it work!). I think I’ve heard that before…)

Here’s an additional problem that they just unleashed.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/desert-metropolis-under-water-years-worth-rain-causes/

Too much water…at once…
Certainly will do some unexpected consequences.

A Line in the Sand meets a line in the sand.

Neom – The Line – The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia’s Linear City. – Patrick Boyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4on5uTaTg

Not surprised.

Saudi Crown Prince MBS (Sheikh Mohamed bin Saud) was also snookered in 2017 when he was advised to buy the Salvator Mundi painting by da Vinci for $450 million (US) that now sits hidden away somewhere. Why? Highly regarded experts in the art authentication business say it’s a fake.

It’s no wonder that MBZ (Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed) of the UAE is the de facto leader of the Arab world. MBS is now proving to be a mark for any fast talking shingle salesman.

Oops!
Mohamed bin Salman.

Dear Saudis; I will NEVER make my home in a “Module” in a “Mega” city. I cannot think of anything more dehumanizing. No. I will not live like The Borg in your dystopian AI future.

BTW … that giant linear mirror in the god forsaken desert? Won’t that incinerate every living thing that comes within its reflective boundary? Your “Line in the Sand” will prevent any neighbors, and make travel outside its walls certain death. Who dreams up these Nightmares of futuristic cities? Who puts psychopaths in charge of human “progress”

Lots more MONEY than sense.

I think they killed some people who opposed this.

And BTW … living in that hermetically sealed, multi-mile, glass capsule fed by (certainly) the largest HVAC system ever conceived by mankind … will make “sick building syndrome” sound like a quaint disease of the past as the residents all begin to suffer from SICK mega-module syndrome. Legionnaires disease? Try Megalopolis disease!

Your title, Kate, was my thought exactly.

To be fair, at least they are openly scaling it back, under our system of government a similar project might never actually get built but it would keep going forever so that thousands of government employees could make a living off of it and thousands of politically connected middlemen and contractors could get richer and richer.

Kenji says:

April 17, 2024 at 9:49 am

See: California’s “high speed”* train to and from nowhere.

* It will never travel faster than 65 mph between stations. Look it up.