Billionaire Carves Name in Island, Visible From Space
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(Image Source: Google Earth) BY MEGAN NOE You’re watching multisource world video news analysis from Newsy. Talk about making a name for yourself. A billionaire Arab sheikh has had his name carved into the sand of his private island — so big, it’s visible from space. These pictures from Google Earth satellites show the name workmen carved at the request of Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family. It’s located on the island Al Futaisi in the United Arab Emirates. The Sun broke the story, explaining just how huge the graffiti is. “The name is two miles across — with letters a kilometre high. It is so huge that the ‘H’, the first ‘A’ and part of the ‘M’ have been made into waterways.” So who has the funds to blow on such extravagance? The Atlantic Wire offers some hints. “The 63-year-old Hamad, it turns out, seems to live by the motto ‘go big or go home.’…Hamad’s Emirates National Auto Museum features a ‘custom-built globe-shaped motor home said to be one-millionth the size of the Earth itself’ and a pyramid housing his vast car collection. And the man nicknamed “Rainbow Sheikh”for his many-colored cars has one more larger-than-life title– he’s built the world’s largest truck. A Forbes blogger offers an answer to the question on everyone’s minds: why? “Why not? Think of it as economic stimulus. It took a lot of imported laborers from the likes of Pakistan and Bangladesh to dig those canals. And for all we know, this could be part of a …
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clearly anyone with that amount of money is part of the illumanati (muslim brotherhood branch).