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dannan14 wrote:a recent study (last 2-3 years) that showed that more people who are kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery are brought to the US than to any other country.

Sure, but the reason for that is – as usual – money, not sex!

Put baldly that ignores the fact that the US has a large population, the US is not the only 'offender', most European countries are also listed. The difference with the US and Europe is that the offenders can end up doing some serious jail time, in many other countries the law simply isn't enforced with any vigour.
An English woman was recently raped in Saudi by a Saudi national and reported it to the police, she was arrested and charged with having sex outside of marriage. The authorites apparantly gave her a choice of pleading guilty and being deported or going through the courts and facing jail time.
The Saudi national apparently faced no charges.

Roy.

Hey, now.

Those are our good friends.

Only till the oil runs out Min, then nobody will want to know them. They ain't even popular in the Middle East!

Roy.

I don't know....those two look like Brokeback Bush in that photo.

Digit wrote:Only till the oil runs out Min, then nobody will want to know them. They ain't even popular in the Middle East!

Roy.

the Saudi people don't even like the House of Saud. No oil means the storming of the Bastille by angry, zealous peasants.

dannan14 wrote:

Digit wrote:Only till the oil runs out Min, then nobody will want to know them. They ain't even popular in the Middle East!

the Saudi people don't even like the House of Saud. No oil means the storming of the Bastille by angry, zealous peasants.

Peasants? That would be a novelty in Saudi Arabia. Where would they farm in that sandbox?
Besides: peasants work for a living. No Saudi man works for a living. None!

Did you know that the entire Saud tribe, a.k.a. 'the house of Saud', is supposed to be 'royalty'? They've got something like 4,800 'princes'...

Talk about inflation!

Surprisingly RS SA claims to be over 80 per cent self sufficient in food, then again they import millions of tonnes of food a year as well. Figures of course can be fiddled, NO!
For example, SA claims nearly 90 employment, that is males only when you check, and they don't specify the jobs either!
The UN lists unemployment as 92 per cent!
SA has a large steel, plastics processing and chemical industry.
What they don't tell you of course is that all this is largely supported by external labour and foreign investment.
The idea of SA blackmailing the West over oil is the worlds largest joke! We might have problems but their country would grind to a halt fairly quickly if left to the Sauds.
They have vast areas under cultivation, reclaimed from the deasert and supported entirely by irrigation, this has lead to the impoverishment of the the subteranean aquifers and is now supplement by the de-salinisation of sea water.
Nearly everything is based on, or supported by western technology!

Roy.