🇺🇸 Nearly one in three Americans say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against the government

🔵 A majority of Americans say the U.S. government is corrupt and almost a third say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
Two-thirds of Republicans and independents say the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me,” according to the poll, compared to 51 percent of liberal voters.

🔵 Twenty-eight percent of all voters, including 37 percent of gun owners, agreed “it may be necessary at some point soon for citizens to take up arms against the government,” a view held by around 35 percent of Republicans and around 35 percent of Independents. One in five Democrats concurred.

🔵 The findings come after a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol wrapped up its final hearing for the summer, seeking to place former President Trump at the heart of efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

🔵 The panel also said Trump readily accepted and even encouraged the attack from his supporters, watching violence play out on television for nearly three hours before finally making a statement telling them to go home.

🔵 The division between conservatives and liberals across the country is only growing, the poll shows, and a quarter of Americans say they have lost friends over politics.

https://thehill.com/homenews/3572278-nearly-one-in-three-americans-say-it-may-soon-be-necessary-to-take-up-arms-against-the-government/

🇺🇸 🇱🇰 Johnstone: Our Entire Civilization Is Structured Around Keeping Us From Realizing We Can Do This

Thousands of protesters outraged by the deteriorating material conditions of the nation’s economic meltdown have stormed the presidential palace of Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and I guarantee you the aerial footage as they poured into the building en masse has made every government leader and plutocrat a little uncomfortable today.

Just look at that. Look at all those people flooding in there. That is some truly awe-inspiring power. Imagine how terrifying it would be to find yourself on the receiving end of it.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/johnstone-our-entire-civilization-structured-around-keeping-us-realizing-we-can-do

🇧🇦 The next two days may be the most consequential in Bosnia's post-war history. 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1551416507229343745.html

https://archive.ph/B1XB9

🇸🇦 75-mile-long mirror skyscrapers will be reportedly built in Neom city of Saudi Arabia - The Line is designed to be taller than the Empire State Building.

⚪ Last year, the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, announced his grand vision to build The Line, a linear city with skyscrapers that run for miles and house millions of people. The Wall Street Journal has now viewed plans and documents to make this happen and published details of what the project might actually look like. 

⚪ The largest exporter of crude oil, Saudi Arabia, is looking to diversify its source of income, given that the world is moving away from fossil fuels. Among its plans to do so, is building an economic hub at the "crossroads of the world" where more than 40 percent of the world's population can reach by a flight that's just a few hours. 

⚪ The ambitious plan to build a new city in the middle of nowhere to attract people and investors from around the world is expected to cost the Kingdom's treasury a trillion dollars. However, the finances may not be the biggest hurdles facing the project.

⚪ Employees at Neom are concerned that after the coronavirus pandemic, people are not very keen on staying in high-rises, while the sheer scale of the project will alter the groundwater flow in the area. 

⚪ The high-rise buildings also pose a hurdle in the path of millions of migratory birds that use the corridors every year, while the project will also displace tribal people living in the area, which are being forcibly removed to make way for the project, WSJ reported previously. 

⚪ Last year, an impact assessment report stated that the project could be completed in five decades. However, the visionary of the plan, the Crown Prince, wants it to be completed by 2030. 

https://interestingengineering.com/75-mile-long-skyscrapers-saudi-arabia

♻️ One of the great ironies of our time is just about how often virtually all green & environmentalist projects today cause more damage to the environment than anything else.

🇸🇦 The Line, along with Oxagon are considered part of Saudi Arabia's NEOM project. On the periphery of this is the Red Sea Development Company.

They're both part of the Saudi Vision 2030 strategic framework.

NEOM and the BRI

https://www.oboreurope.com/en/neom-and-the-bri/

Oxagon is to sit at the edge of Neom, a newly-created region set to be 33 times the size of New York City located in the kingdom's northwest.

— NEOM is a topic not very well known by the general public, but it is something really 'interesting' to be analyzed and followed.

tl;dr

NEOM, basically, is the final goal for two certain agendas:
— Smart cities and Internet of things

NEOM will be a Semi-Autonomous City-State of 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦. however, instead the Religious Arab kingdom, this city will be a Cosmopolitan artificial place in the centre of Tabuk Desert (Northern Arabian Peninsula, on the Sinai side of Saudi Arabia)

As much as such a place is not in a sacred place for the Islamic World as a whole, this certainly, even if vague, makes one ponder the following idea:
— What if, in the near future, an Islamist rebellion (Like the Ikhwani revolt of the late 1920s), whether due to NEOM's Cosmopolitanism or not (Since even without NEOM, a growing discontent, especially from the most conservative / traditionalist sectors of Saudi society, can be seen between the lines) occur in the Saudi Kingdom (again, a near future)?

This is an interesting scenario to be analyzed by geopolitical enthusiasts if Turkey + Qatar + MB wins the Sunni Cold War of MENA against the 'Gulf Axis'

🇺🇸 Business Insider | Everything we know about Neom, a 'mega-city' project in Saudi Arabia with plans for flying cars and robot dinosaurs | 23-09-19
— "Saudi Arabia is building a futuristic mega-city 33 times the size of New York City from scratch.

Saudi officials describe it as "the world's most ambitious project."
It's called Neom, a planned 16-borough city on the Red Sea coast in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk.

Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman told Bloomberg in October 2018 that Neom will be completed in 2025, and phase one is nearing completion."

http://archive.is/y3tQH

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🇦🇿 Caspian Report | Why Arab-Israeli ties are normalizing | 18-12-20
— "Two initiatives, the Tracks for Regional Peace and Neom city, seek to physically connect Israel to the Arab world, and in the process normalize those ties."

https://youtu.be/PdKNlQexafE

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🇦🇿 Caspian Report | Geoeconomics of Saudi Arabia’s NEOM project | 19-02-18
— "Saudi Arabia announced plans to construct a new megacity in the northwestern corner of the country by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. The ambitious project will cost about 500 billion USD and seeks to link to neighbouring Egypt and Jordan.

Besides its economic feasibility, the proximity of the project could lead to Saudi Arabia’s recognition of Israel. Suffice to say, a project of this magnitude is not without its geo-economic challenges."
https://youtu.be/FE63syd6OSI

🇸🇦🐪🌐💰 — The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced today that will invest 6.4 Billion USD into "Advanced Technologies", like Metaverse & Blockchains as a push towards "Digital Economy".

This also includes $1 billion investment in the NEOM Tech & Digital Company, named after the Smart City-State that the Kingdom is building up on its northern territories, which plans to make its own Metaverse.

Coral Bloom designs at the Red Sea | Red Sea Development Company

🇸🇦 🇮🇱 Future of Tourism in Saudi and the Red Sea Project | Red Sea Development Company