Humiliation for Saudi Barbaria: Utopian NEOM The Line is DOOMED to Fail

🫠 Humiliation for Saudi Arabia as it's 'forced to scale back $1.5trillion plans for 106-mile-long city The Line to just 1.5miles with workers already being laid off at desert construction site'

☆ A Prestigious Project With a Dark Side
☆ Saudi Arabia’s notorious kafala (sponsorship) system remained substantially intact in 2024, with migrant workers and domestic workers in particular continuing to suffer routine abuse. The Saudi authorities ramped up their crackdown on Ethiopian migrants, with mass killings at the Saudi-Yemen border.
☆ Today, around a third of the total population in Saudi Arabia are migrant workers mainly from African countries like Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Asian countries like Bangladesh and the Philippines.
☆ Ancient Saudi tribe in danger of ‘disappearing off face of the earth: Part of the site is the home of the Huwaitat tribe (descendants of Fatima, daughter of the false prophet Mohammad) who have spanned Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Sinai peninsula for generations, tracing their lineage back before the founding of the Saudi state. At least 20,000 members of the tribe now face eviction due to the project, with no information about where they will live in the future.
☆ A 'deathtrap' For Billions Of Migrating Birds
Conservationists have sounded the alarm over $1tn project that will stretch across vast area of Saudi desert
☆ They warn that it could impact birds including nightingales and larks migrating between Europe and Africa.

End of The Line? Plan for Saudi NEOM megacity 'involves technology that doesn't exist' and was 'untethered to reality', insiders say as officials admit long delays with 106-mile metropolis 'reduced to just 1.5 miles with 2030 deadline'

The revelation that Saudi Arabia's megacity project 'The Line' has been scaled back is the latest sign that the kingdom's audacious state-building enterprise is not going according to plan.