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Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. The whole bought media, party in-power, the opposition are against the protests and are trying to downplay them. Source: I live there. It's very easy to tell if you do.

I'll take your word for it! But I reflexively add "... at this price" to such statements.

What do the locals have from a higher price?

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. The whole bought media, party in-power, the opposition are against the protests and are trying to downplay them. Source: I live there. It's very easy to tell if you do.

I'll take your word for it! But I reflexively add "... at this price" to such statements.

Protests by the masses and business negotiations are very different.

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. The whole bought media, party in-power, the opposition are against the protests and are trying to downplay them. Source: I live there. It's very easy to tell if you do.

I'll take your word for it! But I reflexively add "... at this price" to such statements.

Very hard for the general public to gain things though.

It's too luxury, most likely will pay no taxes for years, you can import workers from elsewhere, etc etc.

It's not the first time this kind of thing happens in Albania and we've already seen results.

Normal people will just never be able to go there again. People in power will either get millions or 1+ free apartment/villa, or heavily discounted price (depends on how much power you have).

I was literally kitesurfing when they came and added fences to the road to block access to the beach.

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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post #4

This island was a Russian naval base in the cold war with hundreds of underground nuclear bunkers. Kushner apparently wants to build a billionaire resort with the protections required to insulate billionaires from their actions. Maybe UAE is too dangerous now. Here is another article. Try not to be put off by the Rothchild connections, they are mostly irrelevant and based on Kushner's own statements: https://tomselli…

If things ever get bad enough that the wealthy need underground nuclear bunkers, the underground nuclear bunkers aren't going to be enough to protect them. The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.

> The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.

Governments around the world already keep many locations/facilities secret and hidden from the public.

They will simply arrest you, or worse, just kill you.

What’s your solution to that?

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

#28
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. The whole bought media, party in-power, the opposition are against the protests and are trying to downplay them. Source: I live there. It's very easy to tell if you do.

I'll take your word for it! But I reflexively add "... at this price" to such statements.

People really don't get the idea of intangible cultural heritage and irreplaceable wetlands, do they? Not everything and everyone is for sale.

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

#29
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. The whole bought media, party in-power, the opposition are against the protests and are trying to downplay them. Source: I live there. It's very easy to tell if you do.

I'll take your word for it! But I reflexively add "... at this price" to such statements.

This isn't the Albanian people's first rodeo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Albanian_civil_unrest

Re: Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

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This is off topic and I understand we’re not supposed to comment on such things, but was anyone else mystified by the decisions that went into the scroll progress bar up top (on mobile)? It seems to be two part, where part of it would accurately reflect your scroll state, while the other had some weird latency associated with it. And then it ended up hidden behind the top of page blur unless you scrolled very aggressively, to the point where the blur could not keep up.
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