Little Green Footballs has busted Reuters for cropping out an “activist’s” knife from a photo taken on board the Mavi Marmara. The original photo, published by Turkey’s Hurriyet (and, to their credit, by AP) clearly shows one of a group of “activists” standing over a wounded Israeli soldier (in the lower right corner of the [...]
Dirty, Despotic Dubai
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When most people think of Dubai, they think of the six-star hotels, the man-made islands, the indoor ski slopes… essentially the life of luxury. Of course, that life of luxury has a price and apparently, based on the recent stories coming from the international news wires, that price is way too high for Dubai to actually pay. They are up to their ears in debt and the entire emirate is on the verge of complete financial meltdown. If it weren’t for Abu Dhabi pumping a bazillion dollars into their emirate to help keep them afloat, the Dubai would be halfway to a dried up, shriveled up desert wasteland.
Naturally, with this being big news now, a lot of not-so-recent news stories and special editorials are making their way around the internet. Among them is a really detailed and riveting expose, written by Johann Hari for the Independent, of the outright slavery and exploitation that exists on a huge scale—openly—in Dubai.
Read this incredible story, “The dark side of Dubai“, and you will be blown away by how much of an illusion this “paradise” is, and just how close this bizarre society lives to all hell breaking loose.