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desert_traveller
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 Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:53 am Post subject: saudis - the real winners of the arab spring ??? |
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posh
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:25 am Post subject: |
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They are also the real winners of war in Iraq: oil going from a steady pre-2003 price of $28 all the way up to $140 then steadying out at about $85, although that is going up again now.
The irony is incredible - most of the 9/11 terrorists came from the Kingdom; Bush (I'm sure he read the map wrong) attacks Iraq; that war pretty much bankrupts the USA; the Saudis sit there doing nothing and rake in a titanic profit.
And don't forget who found Saudi oil in the first place, got it out of the ground, refined it, set up Aramco and then BOUGHT it ... you guessed it: The USA.  |
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AnneCO
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Good topic DT. What a crazy world we live in!
What is a haia officer? And is an 'average abdulrahman' like a Joe Blow? |
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scot47
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Haia is the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Also called the Religious Police or the Mutawaeen.
I suspect that the winners are not the Saudis but those on the West side of the River Jordan ! |
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CamTam
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| As far as I can see, and information is not very transparent in Saudi Arabia, there is no real effect here. Many of the countries in the GCC are increasing wages for their nationals. There is still high unemployment among the youth here. As far as I can see, no winners. |
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johnslat
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Well, so far, I guess the Royals are still winning - but then, so was Charlie Sheen.
Regards,
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nomad soul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| As far as I can see, and information is not very transparent in Saudi Arabia, there is no real effect here. Many of the countries in the GCC are increasing wages for their nationals. There is still high unemployment among the youth here. As far as I can see, no winners. |
Jobless cost SR5.5bn yearly
By ARAB NEWS | March 28, 2012
(Source: http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article599359.ece )
JEDDAH: A senior Labor Ministry official yesterday estimated the number of unemployed young Saudi men and women at more than a million and said unemployment was costing the government SR5.5 billion annually.
Mahmoud Awad, manager of Liqaat employment program, also pointed out that about 50 percent of private companies in the Kingdom are in the red category of the Nitaqat Saudization system. Addressing a meeting at Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Awad said the Liqaat program was introduced to supply qualified Saudi job seekers to private sector employers. �We are now in the process of scanning about 100,000 curriculum vitaes of job seekers. We�ll select 15,000 of them for a personal interview after checking their professional qualifications,� he said.
Awad said the program would contribute to preventing Saudi employees dropping out from private companies. �The dropouts happened when Saudis were employed in positions that do not match their capabilities.� He said the ministry implemented the Liqaat program in Riyadh and interviewed 12,786 job seekers including 6,946 women,� he said.
Awad disclosed plans to hold a job fair in Jeddah for five days from April 15 and another in Dammam on July 6-11. He requested private companies to participate in the fairs, adding that the ministry would meet 65 percent of its expenditures.
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desert_traveller
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posh
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The Saudi king whizzed back from his American ranch toute de freaking suite when it started kicking off last year and immediately gave us a day off! Then he dished out a load of money to all government employees (Saudis only) and announced a groundbreaking initiative in the form of unemployment benefits. Local media dubbed him 'The King of Humanity'.
The unemployed get 2000SR a month, but bear in mind that an average Asian 'guest' worker will get about 500SR for 10 hours a day of backbreaking labour, more often than not outside, with barely a day off in a month.
Where I live Saudis spent their day off driving around waving flags and shouting long live the king.
Not long after, the unemployed began complaining that 2000SR was nowhere near enough to doss about with and demanded 4000.
My boss renovated his house, realised he'd overdone it and went around complaining about the lack of funds. He got about 52,000SR in the first place.
If they did have a revolution, they'd get the Indians to do it.
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2buckets
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More like, the average Abdulrahman would like ************
How true.
I hope I live long enough to see it all collapse.
Now with new oil discoveries everywhere outside the Gulf, it may happen sooner rather than later.
How sweet it will be, in-sha-allah! |
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