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This program was on the BBC last night and for those involved in horse racing or who like going to Dubai it is a bit of an eye opener:

Escape from Dubai: The mystery of the missing Princess

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... g-princess

In February 2018, the 32-year-old daughter of the ruler of Dubai boarded a boat and set sail for India with a plan to start a new life in America. But within days her boat was stormed by Indian commandos - she was captured and presumably returned to Dubai. No one has heard from her since. But Princess Latifa had made a video in case she was caught and entrusted it to a lawyer in America. Days later it was released on YouTube.

This programme pieces together Princess Latifa's life and reveals how she had been planning the escape for more than seven years. Far from living the charmed life of a princess, she was watched and restricted by her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The princess claims she had been imprisoned and tortured for a previous attempt to leave. The programme investigates the mystery of her older sister Shamsa, who disappeared from the streets of Cambridge in 2000 after fleeing the family's British mansion in Surrey. And it asks if the image of Dubai we are sold - of winter sunshine and luxury hotels, is actually hiding a brutal dictatorship of human rights abuses - where surveillance, imprisonment and torture are systematic and where tourists can easily be imprisoned for the slightest infringements of their ultra conservative laws
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PDC wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:55 am
This program was on the BBC last night and for those involved in horse racing or who like going to Dubai it is a bit of an eye opener:

Escape from Dubai: The mystery of the missing Princess

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... g-princess
sounds like a good watch, will add to iplayer..
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Not sure if this has been posted here, but it was on another thread and was an interesting watch: -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQJNeQDDHA
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PDC wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:55 am
This program was on the BBC last night and for those involved in horse racing or who like going to Dubai it is a bit of an eye opener:

Escape from Dubai: The mystery of the missing Princess

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... g-princess

In February 2018, the 32-year-old daughter of the ruler of Dubai boarded a boat and set sail for India with a plan to start a new life in America. But within days her boat was stormed by Indian commandos - she was captured and presumably returned to Dubai. No one has heard from her since. But Princess Latifa had made a video in case she was caught and entrusted it to a lawyer in America. Days later it was released on YouTube.

This programme pieces together Princess Latifa's life and reveals how she had been planning the escape for more than seven years. Far from living the charmed life of a princess, she was watched and restricted by her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The princess claims she had been imprisoned and tortured for a previous attempt to leave. The programme investigates the mystery of her older sister Shamsa, who disappeared from the streets of Cambridge in 2000 after fleeing the family's British mansion in Surrey. And it asks if the image of Dubai we are sold - of winter sunshine and luxury hotels, is actually hiding a brutal dictatorship of human rights abuses - where surveillance, imprisonment and torture are systematic and where tourists can easily be imprisoned for the slightest infringements of their ultra conservative laws

Talking to locals immigrants, who work there (by choice), its not a nice place.

Not all members of the Royal family are nice people.
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Euler wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:43 pm
Not sure if this has been posted here, but it was on another thread and was an interesting watch: -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQJNeQDDHA
Really interesting on a lot of different levels. It seems the NYSE and 2 other exchanges were fined $14m after the SEC investigation.. not much of a deterent :?
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Most of my fellow procrastinators will be able to relate to this and have a giggle at the same time, from about 11:00 is very relevant to me! :oops:

https://youtu.be/arj7oStGLkU
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... as is this!!

https://youtu.be/8iEB8bfP7wE

should be xmas #1 if there's any *taste* left - lol
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Evil Genius - Netflix.

Absorbing 4 part doc about bank heist in USA.
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Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWZAL64E0DI
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Not about trading but parallels to learning to trade:

Cringe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B5q5ZyOy7c
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Could be an interesting series

When English Clubs rules Europe - Ep1 Starts at 22:45 ITV
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Play this if you have had a bad trading session, it will cheer you up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0
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