An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)
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Re: An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)
#2Amazing story!
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#3NPR's Planet Money also did an excellent segment on Farouk Al-Kasim, back in 2011. Text article and audio below:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/09/06/140110346/how-...
Re: An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)
#4Related, a recent video from PolyMatter titled Why Oil Doesn't Corrupt Norway:
Re: An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)
#5Related, a recent video from PolyMatter titled Why Oil Doesn't Corrupt Norway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu8ClwrTpbA
Canada, US, China
Three of the six largest oil producers. Norway's lack of suffering from the so called resource curse isn't that special. What's special about Norway is their privilege to control so much oil with such a small population, quite similar to the sheiks of the Middle East (who have often made their people quite wealthy compared to their less oil fortunate neighbors, as in the case of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or UAE). No coincidence Norway is also still a backwards monarchy that installs a king as head of state after a thousand years.
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#6As a citizen of resource rich Australia this story of foresight and self-determination in a nation just about makes me weep.
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#7How could al-Kasim be so sure that Norway would find oil?
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#8How could al-Kasim be so sure that Norway would find oil?
He was not sure. They moved for family reasons, as described in one of the first few paragraphs of the article.
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#9As a citizen of resource rich Australia this story of foresight and self-determination in a nation just about makes me weep.
“ But imagine how large our stock pile of toilet paper could be!”
Re: An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)
#10As a citizen of resource rich Australia this story of foresight and self-determination in a nation just about makes me weep.
What is this comment even meant to convey?
The post is about a person who has foresignt and self-determination, what is Australia meant to do about it?
Further, Australia is a lot more isolated than Norway.
(Australian BTW)