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Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower - The Pointless Hubris Of A Decadent Tyranny
Submitted by James H. Kunstler, via Contra Corner blog,
Behold the proposed new Kingdom Tower for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — at one full kilometer in height, about twice the size of New York’s new Freedom Tower.
The Kingdom Tower comprises 252 floors of mixed market apartments, hotel rooms, and offices. It is an axiom that imperial societies build their greatest monuments just before they collapse, so consider this a portent for the oil empire of Saudi Arabia. There will always be an Arabia — well something will occupy that desolate region — but it may not be the private domain of the Saud clan much longer, especially as war breaks out across the Middle East and Persia.
This will give you some idea of the scale. A year ago I went on on a junket to Dubai (a panel to discuss the development of a proposed a new urban quarter). The opening night cocktail party was held at the top of the Burj Khalifa. I took a cab to the base of the damn thing, looked up at the top, and almost blew chunks. Well, I guess some people enjoy being trapped 2500 feet up in the air.
Considering the hostilities currently ramping up in that part of the world, I have just one design suggestion to make (below) that might make explicit the true destiny of the Kingdom Tower. After all, that is a technique pioneered by Saudis.
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I wouldn't lose my head over this.
Wow! Amazing those Arabs have the tech and knowledge to build such a paragon of mal-investment!
I don't endorse the decision of letting Larry Silverstein insure it though.
Pull it!
There was once a time I was impressed with such structures. Now I see them as nothing more than pyramids built by slave labor.
In the world of central banking and fiat, there is no slavery and tax cattle. Don't you know the difference? /sarc
Don't worry, Yemen will take it down.
Sorry Abdullah, your penis is still small.
Not in comparison to the young boys they prefer...
This tower is a good thing. Every petrodollar spent building it is one less petrodollar spent to spread Wahhabism.
Forward (over the cliff).
If they could just get it up a little higher they might poke into the level where Mohammed keeps all those virgins for the jihadis and the rivers of wine and whatnot.
Modern day ziggurat as brazen and vulgar as imaginable.
Isnt saudi arabia the new -prison of australia- for the elites? remember how england would steal men and send them along with -legitimate?- prisoners to penal colonies in australia? during the american revolution era, tories who helped the revolution would inexplicably leave their families and allegedly go to england and vanish. other naughty elites and others who disobeyed and knew too much, ect ect were sent to the penal colonies where they were allowed to exist, but out of reach of all. Isnt saudi tyranny the new location for the vanished ? Those whose continued existance in the known world has been written out of the picture, but not deserving death, sent to the saudi penal colonies where they can exist but be forgotten. Like say that guy who texted from diego garcia saying he is alive and his plane was taken off course in flight and wtf where am I. Where are all the polish govt people that didnt die in a plane but vanished. ect ect.
saudi land of darkness in so many ways.
Riyadh has bigger problems; a two front war with one in Yemen and one in its Eastern Provinces.
Saudi Arabia Captures 4 Shia Rebels 1 Saudi Soldier Killed in Al-Qatif (Video)
One kilometer is 3168 feet, more or less.
3280.84 more or less
Can anyone say "The New Tower of Babel"?
"It is an axiom that imperial societies build their greatest monuments just before they collapse"
Isn't that like saying you always find things in the last place you look?
Only if you stop looking after you find it...
Standard or metric feet?
In any case you can be certain no female airplane pilots will be flying into it - women can't drive.
Let them build it into the goddamned stratosphere. When it all comes crashing down, it will all sound the same.
ground earth to the ionosphere, lets see what happens.
Hey JS—off topic but I just came across this: http://allofbach.com/en/
How many Bangladeshi migrants will "give their lives" in the making of this tower?
Dear ISIS, please use this as ground zero on your way to beheading al saud and his degenerate princes.
Yup, One billion less bullets that make into some ragheads rifle.
Hopefully oil keeps low and Saudi experiences more capital flight.
Islamic "logic":
Ancient Assyrian artworks = idol, must be destroyed.
Modern 1,000m phallic symbol = not an idol, must be built.
Praze be to all-Uhhhhh.
Islamic logic? What the fuck do you know about religions? You have any idea of how many historically irreplacable sites have been looted and left to rot by looting mobs of 'Christians'? For fuck's sake read some history.
Read about what the Zionists have obliterated in "their Palestine" since 1947. It isn't amusing.
So defacing and destroying ancient Assyrian artwork is a positive move in your estimation, while building 1,000m phallic objects is to be encouraged by the same folks.
"Because idolatry."
Got it.
PS- What do I know about religion? Oh, just 5 decades of study, that's all.
it's just the same kind of mindset that led to christian missionaries burning the records of Easter Island
and burning the records of Mayan and Aztec civilizations. It's also the same mindset that led to
Chinese Red Guard burning the records of ancient chinese medicine.
How could you forget when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Quaking in my boots. Oh wait-- you said "Palestine". I thought you said "Pennsylvania". My bad.
You, sir, are both rude and stupid. Looting Christian mobs? what kind of hate juice do you have to drink to believe that?
BTW, Zionists (or anyone else) have not 'obliterated' anything in Palestine because THERE IS NO PALESTINE AND THERE NEVER HAS BEEN A PALESTINE. Where do you find this crap - stormfront?
One of the minor and interesting points about the religious zeal of ISIS in destroying the historical artifacts was that no one actually worships them any more. There are no active religions and in essence they were not active idols. You might as well destroy your grandma's old china.
However, their religion is just the cover to do the exact same thing all despots in history have done and return us to ancient history.
On the flip side, my sincere hope is to one day read about the Saudi royalty being beheaded by the very ideology they not-so-secretly support. I personally believe that is somewhere in the plan of ISIS somewhere down the line. Unless the dictators of the Middle East unite and can field some half-motivated well equipped armies they will be killed by the very rabid dog they created.
I saw a tshirt with pyramids that said "Slavery gets shit done!". I thought it was hilarious. The knee grow fan club, not so much.
Fuck political correctness, it's a funny T-shirt. I want one. Maybe Bad Idea T-Shirts has it.... :)
hairball
Not slaves per se but not an easy life for sure
http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/12/egypt-new-find-shows-s...
Dieter Wildung, a former director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, said it is "common knowledge in serious Egyptology" that the pyramid builders were not slaves and that the construction of the pyramids and the story of the Israelites in Egypt were separated by hundreds of years.
"The myth of the slaves building pyramids is only the stuff of tabloids and Hollywood," Wildung told The Associated Press by telephone. "The world simply could not believe the pyramids were build without oppression and forced labor, but out of loyalty to the pharaohs."
Hawass said the builders came from poor Egyptian families from the north and the south, and were respected for their work — so much so that those who died during construction were bestowed the honor of being buried in the tombs near the sacred pyramids of their pharaohs.
the egyptians never built shit. they were graffitists. much in mans past is hidden pre all religions.
re: slave labor
this from RT today:
http://rt.com/news/246901-migrant-workers-uae-slave/
‘Slave labor’: Migrants building Guggenheim, Louvre in UAE 'treated like battery hens'
Wait till they controlled-demolition that puppy and say "a dude in an airplane did it."
Maybe Jewish or Christian or even atheist zealots will fly planes into it, right?
or NORAD?
That will never happen until a kike owns it and it is double insured to ensure the mass murder is both profitable and instills the usual brainwashed sympathy for homeland kikeistan.
Yup and Indian labour at a $ a day!
Cheers Wattie
And Filipino engineers.
.
That is roughly how much the workers are getting paid.
Maybe we could go hijack some of their planes and fly them into THEIR tower....by remote control of course. :P
Then watch them invade Canada and Latin America in response.
"Maybe we could go hijack some of their planes and fly them into THEIR tower....by remote control of course. :P"
Like how MH370 was taken down?
Actually the Arabs have no tech, or knowledge of engineering, knowledge of how to get oil out of the ground, or much of anything else. All of it comes from places like the US, Europe, and other developed countries.
What the Arabs have is unlimited cash flow to buy the tech and knowledge.
What - did all those kids they sent west for education get their degrees in Women's Studies"?
Flight engineering. They skpped the landing classes though.
They used to have Euclid, back when my ancestors were Druid.
They used to have Euclid, back when my ancestors were Druid.
"What the Arabs have is unlimited cash flow to buy the tech and knowledge."
A similiar description to Wall Street may apply.
"What the Arabs have is unlimited cash flow to buy the tech and knowledge.
A similiar description to Wall Street may apply"
To the Arab world as well..
If it wasn't for Arab's, western society wouldn't exist. While we were floundering around the dark ages it was they who preserved the knowledge we were happy to burn. Most of modern western science originated in the Arab world.
Prime contractor BinLadin corp with Yemen labour force. Good as Gold.
Time to implement The Bigger Dicks Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CghWWWXSUUU
Its amazing what tens of thousands of low paid Indian and bangladeshi slaves can build you these days.
They need to put all those yankee ferns somewhere.
Maybe the United States Department of State can move its Jeddah passport office to Kingdom Tower. You know, the passport office that, on orders from the CIA station chief, improperly issued visas to the Saudi 9/11 hijackers. You know, 15 of the 19 hijackers who did not qualify for a visa, yet they were granted one anyway.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september112012/cia-911-visas-tk.php
"You know, the passport office that, on orders from the CIA station chief, improperly issued visas to the Saudi 9/11 hijackers. You know, 15 of the 19 hijackers who did not qualify for a visa, yet they were granted one anyway."
Who issued the Dancing Mossads their passports?
The banksters need to repay us.
The official story of 9/11 is like a shoelace knot.
The story, knot, is tight until one pulls on one end of the lace, the near free-fall collapse of the three buildings, and the whole thing comes undone.
The banksters need to repay us.
"All the world is indeed a stage. Zion's stage."
I downvoted you for innocently peddling that worn out narrative...A few flagrantly obvious Arab patsies - with boxcutters blah blah blah -
don't bring down three modern skyscrapers. America is doomed if it doesn't bring out the full truth about 9\11...or I could have stopped at
'America is doomed' .
One eyewitness to the cockpit of a hijacked plane said he saw a hijacker moving around with a gun in his hand (Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura). Wayne Madsen reports that Mohammed Atta was a guest twice on Jack Abramoff's SunCruz Casino gambling boat, the business Abramoff stole from the original owner Gus Boulis with the aid of then Congressman Ney and the Ohio U.S. Attorney's office. Then Abramoff wrote $250,000 in checks to the Mafia capo who had Boulis killed, a crime Abramoff walked away from. You, Chandos, are a troll with a didactic mentality backed by a paucity of facts. Which is why I downvoted you.
Stopped reading at jessie ventura.
:/
Ummm, I'm pretty sure you would only need a mirror to find the troll here.
One eyewitness to the cockpit of a hijacked plane said he saw a hijacker moving around with a gun in his hand
There were survivors to tell the tale?
Babel lives again!
Where will they get the steel? From the downed WTC towers?
#MuckFohammed
Babel spoken here.
As in tower of..?
As in (two hands pointing 'down there', exclaiming) "Look at my dick!"
Easter Sunday Special:
In a wonderful book, Empires of the Word, Nicholas Ostler points out that in the first century AD, the whole region was in fact, a tower of Babel. The culture, and most writing was Greek, government was Latin, the populations spoke Aramaic, an early version of Arabic, and of course the Jews insisted on Hebrew for heritage and religious purposes.
So, if Jesus ever lived, the chances of any literate person understanding and recording his words, were slim to none.
That was never a problem since he was a fictional character.
As were many of the characters, events or deeds of the Old Testament. There's still no archeological evidence of King David and his 'kingdom', Slavery in Egypt, nor an Exodus from there, Arc of the Covenant, etc, etc.
Not a single event stands up to modern demands of forensics or of vetting. The poor or uneducated believe, the rich and educated do not, and Rulers (both secular and clerical) find Belief useful.
FYI... Your up/down arrows aren't working.
FYI... Your up/down arrows aren't working.
He started his post with italics, which for some reason creates a glitch that doesn't allow for an upvote.
Not the Italics. If you import text, and your box covers the voting area, it will block access.
CD had it allowing only up votes once, I think by accident. Fine trick though;)
We Babeled some folks
kaiserhof - I'm checking out your interesting assertion.
Ok, so far so good. You are correct. Now, what's a box? All I can think of is what this guy is talking about. Eight Piece Box.
Wrong. You obviously haven't looked into the faith very well as expected. You atheist tards can't help but spread your lies on Easter can you?
The Jew laughs at your Jesus...
Aramaic Hebrew (Aramaic was a group of languages, not a single dialect) would have been spoken by Jesus
And the literacy rate in the region was higher than today's America
In fact anyone speaking Hebrew today could understand ancient Aramaic Hebrew, and transcribe it
Literacy rate? Reading what? Time magazine, the WaPo? There was nothing to read outside a handful of libraries, and no one to teach reading, unless you were rich and bored or a temple scribe.
No one learned to read from the rabbi, because the rabbinic movement began, after the fall of the Temple, in 70 AD.
Good grief, it takes real study to understand Shakespeare, a mere 400 years ago, but 2,000 years changes nothing in the land of miracles and unicorn farts.
But - but - but AIPAC believes in sadistic torturing of animals and bleeding them to death.
Your Aryan Shakespeare is nothing compared to this hailed spirit from the desert.
The ignorance of history or anything before cell phones is staggering.
In Elizabethan England, a period I have studied, only three people in a town could really be expected to be literate: the school master, the parson, and the clerk of records. There might be a reader in one of the great houses, or there might not.
But of course, Israel is magic beans.
History is not linear
Civilization has had many ups and down
Jericho is 9000 years old, constant habitation
Gobelki Tepe in Turkey 12000 years old
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
Indian cities dating back to the ice age, now under water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_archeology_in_the_Gulf_of_Khambhat
Forget the history you were taught
Kaiser,
if there was a school teacher, what the heck was he teaching? Ora et labora, most certainly... And "shut up, slave", of course.
On another note:
If this ancient god wanted his word to be spread and heard, he'd have sent his "Son" to China in those times. The most advanced population, verifiably the most literate people on Earth at the time. But, as the bible says (when something bad happened): Lords ways are mysterious. If something good happens, then "thank God"....
Actually the public school system in Israel predates the Rabbinic era and there was an educated middle class in the cities where it was not uncommon to find people who could read and write fluently in several languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_ancient_Israel_and_...
But I will grant you that literacy did rise further after the Rabbinic era to reach very high levels amongst Hebrews, and has stayed there since. Education, is today, and has always been highly prized in Judaism.
Martian...im calling it as i see it...a lie.
I know because a canadian friend told me that before socialized healthcare people only lived till 15....see they died before they could be educated.
RIPS
Everything I've written is factually correct and as stated in the wiki article.
There was a 10% tax, it was "voluntary", it funded schools, orphanages, that sort of thing.
http://lonang.com/commentaries/conlaw/taxation/c53/
Jesus' main opposition came from the educated cosmopolitain city dwellers and the entrenched religious class.
Yes country peasants were less educated, but far moreso than English peasants in Shakespearean England.
He was sarc-ing you. Canadians believe the world began when socialized medicine was instituted...unless of course they are really sick then they come to the USSA (before Obamascare that is).
You have to admit, it would be a cool place to watch ISIS advancing across the desert from all sides...,
oh wait.
i gave you an uptick.
but you do realise that isis is a jewish project and the house of saud are low level oriental jews?
Is this the situation?
ISIS = Washington army.
Houthis = Beijing army.
Saudis = crapping their pants between a rock and a hard place.
<-- Cheering for Houtis
<-- Cheering for ISIS
<-------rooting for blowfish
<-------rooting for blowfish
house of saud "low level oriental jews" ? no. you really think that task was relegated to some random clan?
A Target store at the top of the tower? That's so... middle class...
That's Targét to you, mister!
Upper middle class? :-)
Even the Saudis don't like Wal-Mart.
I suspect the whole building may become a target.
lolololololol @ skateboarder
...if you pronounce it 'Tar-je' (w/ a French accent) it almost sounds fashionable : )
Looks pretty fucking cool to me, but I'm a sucker for space-age utopian dream projects
"Dream projects" are always utopian, i.e. the peasants build a tower of stone with their flesh and bones to take the Wizard to the sky - same as it always was.
Rainbow - Stargazer
"In the heat and the rain
With the whips and chains
To see him fly
So many die
We built a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
Just to see him fly
But don't know why
Now where do we go?"
... or maybe just a shovel ready job for a change. Think what this country could have done with all those trillions of $ used to bail out the banks, by instead writing off the bad debt and starting over. What a waste. But I agree, slavery seems to be the next step, what with the globalist greed that drives the world we live in today
I stood at the top of the Tower
And Achmed sang to me
In the peaceful haze of beheading time
A song of eternity
If you raise your hands to heaven
You will live a hundred years
I stood there like a Coptic
Lost in the atmosphere
The clouds were suddenly parted
For a moment I could see
The patterns of the landscape
Reaching to the Mediteranean sea
I looked upon a Culture
unevolved for forty centuries
I stood at the top of the tower
And Ackmed sang to me
In the peaceful haze of beheading time
A song of eternity
I thought of time and distance
The hardships of history
I heard the hope and the hunger
When Ackmed sang to me...
With apologies to RUSH
Neil Peart would be proud!
@Bumpo: "what a waste" applies to homo sapiens at large at this stage - the species that got the golden ticket and flushed it down the toilet. A cosmic shame to consciousness.
Hey Skateboarder .. In the spirit of Easter and all that Springs eternal, may the 100th Monkey show up soon and turn this cruise liner of conciousness around
Geddy and Alex might indeed find it an improvement as Geddy stated that the song was an error and Alex has stated it is the worst Rush song.
rafterman
here ya go rabbi
911-Conspiracy Finally Solved!: Names, Connections, Motiveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdE1Cwnymzc
I missed the part where New York City collapsed after the Empire State Building was built.
Yeah, end of the "Saudi Empire" all right.
The Great Depression began during its construction. For over a decade after completion, it was called the "Empty State Building" as janitors switched lights on and off to make it look occupied.
It was the world's tallest building until the World Trade Center was completed, right at the cusp of the 1970s stagflation.
They should use it to launch ISIS members off of or impale upon.
When the House of Saud finally go flinging Saudi princes off the Tower will be the best use ever found for the thing.
Why bother with ISIS? They are just a bunch of ragheads and angst ridden teens. Together the best they could do it kill some villagers and post picks on twitter.
Let us think more of who provides them with arms, training, logistics, intel, funding, and leadership. Those people are really the enemies of both us and ISIS (if ISIS only knew the truth).
"Mine's bigger!"
Billy Jeff's leans to the left. Vat else?
The beauty of this is the fucking Saudis are gonna need to pump a load of oil to fund that piece of shit, helping keep the price down.
You mean the oil they'll run out of in 15 years because they piss the money up the walls of follies like this?
Not to worry. Already securitized and being sold to pension funds around the world as we speak.
Now, where did Wenchly leave that lipstick?
the sauds are part of one of the old families. hence the hand holding with the bushes.
The Pyramids will last longer.
Not necessarily. ISIS is almost there ready to destroy those too.
Pull it!
That will never happen until a kike owns it and it is double insured to ensure the mass murder is both profitable and instills the usual brainwashed sympathy for homeland kikeistan.
do you find jews smarter and more talanted than you are?...there is help...hang yourself
No, actually the Carnegie mellon local "Know it all" local boy kike, I proved him wrong >90% of the time in economics and foreign policy, both of which he was supposedly studying. Got plenty of witnesses.
I made him look so bad his EX hates me and won't even look at me because I made him look like such a fool.
No, they are NOT smarter. They only more connected, hate to spend money, deceptive and use their collective ill gained wealth to buy politicians (national news lately?) and to lobby the GOV.
F you and your kike tribe!
I hate it when a people that has been ousted from oVer 100+ countries over the last 1000 years has come to have such an influence on this country (and no one has done anything about it) as to tear it apart from within. GO BACK TO KIKEISTAN AND LEAVE MY REPUBLIC BE!!!
Judan has been outsmarting goy for hundreds of years.
Eat your heart out Lando Calrizzian!
Maybe they should ask the laborers who built Dubai what they think. Being promised the sky to go work, and finding defacto slavery once you arrive may put a damper on the next generation of construction workers.
Nope, they gotta go. Zero economic choice. Slavery by another name imo.
How dare the Saudis build something that we consider superfluous -- right? They ought to live paycheck to paycheck, meaningless lives as we do -- right?
Hah! I happen to think that pyramids enrichen the world. Large towers the same. Millions of content people who produce nothing but shit via their meaningless existence? Now that is ugly! What a superfluous waste of life and energy. Put those lazy slaves to work.
Your enrichening of the world makes me feel... embiggened.
The word you are searching for is Engorged.
Is it Dancing Mossad proof?
The banksters need to repay us.
CH1/SMG just gave you the downvote double whammy. Ask CH1 about the dancing israelis. He denies it ever happened.
Do fire hoses go up to the 250th floor?
Naw. Bungee cords.
I pity the fool with the apartment on the 182nd floor when fire drill day comes around.
Apart from the oil... the place is shithole. No amount of bling will change that fact.
That's why the princes spend most of their time in Monaco on the 150 ft yachts or take their jets there
moar sky scrapers and greeed
moar poverty for everyone else
Kingdom trumps Freedom every time, doesn't it seem?
Don't tell me that Trump is involved in this RE development