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used to be largest mosque.
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Just north of Dubai.
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Pretty liberal.
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Mosque built by huge personal donation from King of Saudi Arabia. Did it because the (at the time) Emir of Sharjah made a deal with King of SA that alcohol would never be allowed in Sharjah.
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| Containing facility in Straight of Hormuz |
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- belongs to UAE emirate Fujairah.
- in order to divert from Iran's control if they want to take over the straight.
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Lives off money from gas
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1960s independence
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Sultan- head of royal family
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Economics- good economy. Exporting a lot of LNG- but not like Qatar. Have very good agriculture and excellent irrigation. Date palms…
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Has a little bit of oil, not a member of OPEC. Follow their own quota.
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Current sultan of Oman
Most feel that if they had an open election, he would win 80% of vote.
In early 1970s had a palace coup. Qaboos’ dad was bad manager of money and horded the gas money. When Qaboos took over, 6 paved roads, 2 hospitals, no school for girls and only boys schools were religious schools. When he took over, he started to distribute money that his dad had horded and used for improvements in these areas.
His dad was scared of him. So dad put him on house arrest in south of country. British set up the Coup and ran dad out. Immediately started to use the money to improve country.
Had military training at Sandhurst.- British
Main problem is that with his lifestyle, he does not have children to take over after him.
Committed one month a year to travel country and allow citizens to talk to him about any problems and have access to him
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| instead of coffee break or siesta they take a break for chewing qat. Has narcotic in the leaf and when you chew it, you get a rush.. has fuck it syndrome. Everything shuts down because people are high. |
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Saudi Ar.am co (1989) (Arabian American Company). In Dahran.
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| President of Saudi Aram Co |
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- Ali Naimi-
- most powerful oil man in the world.
- Current SA minister of oil.
- Represents SA in OPEC meetings.
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King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud. Nick name- Ibm Saud- united kingdom in 1932. found oil in 1938. |
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| Well #8. they found it and it is still pumping (1938-2008) over 70 years. |
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“big player”
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If not for oil, would not matter economically to the world.
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Has about a quarter of all oil in the world. Minimum 310 Billion barrels of oil in reserves.
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1932 became official country. Fairly new country.
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Number one in world for oil.
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1985-1986 could have sold oil for 1.80 a barrel.
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| Where is oil in Saudi Arabia? |
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| Desalination and Saudi Arabia |
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A lot of oil and gas used in desalination.
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all over SA coasts.
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Had 38 desalination plants
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Burn energy to produce steam to create electricity.
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Makes 2 products. 1. electricity 2. fresh water.
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Saudis most advanced in desalination in the world.
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still a nomadic type of agriculture
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- subsistence migratory agricultures
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Raise goats and farms.
- Most have moved to cities. It was a hard life, camping in desert, no electricity, no water… etc.
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| Subsistence vs Migratory farming |
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Subsistence- use what they have
Migratory- move
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Saudis LOVE lamb. Don’t eat pork.
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Christians only ones that eat pork.
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Judaism and Islam don’t eat pork.
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- parasite that gets into flesh of pork and lays eggs.
- If you don’t cook it well, and eggs not killed, the egg will hatch in your stomach and become larva.
- Leads to maggots exiting at every “hole” in your body.
- He thinks that this along with scriptural reasons is why they don’t eat pork.
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| How do Arabs eat their steaks? |
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| Well done. No pink or blood. EVER |
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prefer female camels because they are faster.
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Adults do desert races.
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Children race around tracks.
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Inside the tracks is a metal guard rail that the camel cant get out. And on other side of rail is a road that the owners drive on to cheer on the camels.
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They cant gamble, but they can get really good prizes, like a 100,000 Mercedes.
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Kids are usually under 12. they want small young light children to start these camels out.
They buy the children from morocco, Algeria, Libya, etc., and then pay families remittances.
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Oliver North persuaded Israelis to sell their American weapons for cash, we got gold, and bought weapons for Contra.
1979- overthrew shah of iran
Peacock thrown- pro American
2nd stongest military in the ME. #1 isreal.
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1990- Sadam invades Kuwait.
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Reasons 1. Sadam says that historically Kuwait was part of Iraq’s history.
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2. Kuwaitis were doing horizontal drilling into Iraqi oil pool.
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French and British responsible for this mess. They redrew border of the middle east. 60% shitte. 20% sunni. 18% kurds.
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