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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by luckylion on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:09AM (#26512345)
> So Saudi Arabia, UAE, Canada and Saudi Arabia are 'stuck' selling natural resources?

Canada maybe not so much, but Saudi Arabia and the UAE? Yeah, and I think they understand that as well. If we have a fusion breakthrough next year, what will Saudi Arabia export besides Wahhabism?

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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by m12k on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:15AM (#26512382)
The Saudi royal family is busy buying as much of Silicon Valley as they can, to ensure they can still live atop a mountain of cash once the oil runs out. As for the rest of the country - yeah, they are royally fucked (pun intended) since no other industry than oil was ever developed.
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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by arethuza on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:28AM (#26512486)
They seem to be trying to develop their tourist industry - I keep getting adverts for holidays there!
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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by andrepd on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:41AM (#26512590)
It's possibly one of countries in the world I'm least interested in visiting.
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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by nasmorn on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:35AM (#26513798)
Where else to go to a good oldfashioned lashing?
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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by arethuza on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:46PM (#26515519)
Saudi Arabia apparently has stopped using flogging:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/saudi-arabia-t...

However, plenty places still use corporal punishment, including Singapore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment

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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by I-M-S on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:45PM (#26519710)
Public beheading then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deera_Square)
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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by TeMPOraL on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:16AM (#26512383)
Or more likely, what happens when the oil wells eventually run dry? Or even, what happens in the years before, when those wells start producing less and less oil?
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