"a glimpse of a new world order"
Like finding gold in the bottom of the pan!
"Rich with all but Americans" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | October 26, 2008
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The six-lane highway that runs from the airport toward the world's fastest-growing city skyline is dotted with neon signs in Arabic script. If you could read them, they would sound familiar: Applebee's, Chili's, Pizza Hut.
American fast food has found a home in Dubai, a once-impoverished desert kingdom now the frenetic, oil-rich financial capital of the Arab world. But Americans themselves are scarce. In this burgeoning oasis of modernity, US citizens number 19,000 of the estimated 1.2 million foreigners living here.
If Dubai is a glittering slice of the future, a glimpse of a new world order, and a gateway to the deep pockets of the Middle East, then Americans are struggling to occupy just a tiny corner of it.
NWO leaving us behind?
In this city of man-made lakes and islands, where bureaucrats seed clouds to make it rain and where luxury hotels air-condition the sand, the population itself is artificial, imported. Foreigners make up roughly 90 percent of Dubai's residents. In the mushrooming forest of skyscrapers, Pakistani and Afghan laborers march through the night like ants on 24-hour construction shifts.
In the palace-like Al Qasr hotel, where golf carts and gondolas ferry guests to villas, Russian and Saudi investors enjoy 24-hour butler service and views of the glittering Persian Gulf, while British lawyers bake themselves on the beaches.
Doesn't look like they are suffering 'economic crises," does it, shit-eating Amurkns?
Indian hawkers sell their wares in the old open-air gold market in historic Deira, as Iranian traders hold court in spice shops their families have owned since the early 1900s. But weeks could go by here without seeing an American.
In this city of symbols of Arab pride, where the tallest building in the world pokes like a bony finger through 120 degree heat, the Americans you hear of are celebrities: Brad Pitt, helping to design a new American-themed hotel; The Tiger Woods Dubai golf course and resort.
Pffft! So now Brad is a globalist! Another LEGENDS of the FALL, 'eh, Brad?
US companies are just dipping their toes into the market long dominated by the British (who, in the 19th century, exerted control over the ruling families that now make up the United Arab Emirates). Citibank,
But they can't school our own kids.
