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Or, meta meta meta.

I present to you Paradise Lost -- LOLCAT SLASH OMFGWTFBBQ!!!1!!1

NB: like those creepy books about the cat aliens and their fondness for humans (the Sholan books), this squicked me mightily, but it's still a crack-up.

No sympathy whatsoever

So, it seems like the wheels are coming off the pram when it comes to Aussies cashing in on the building boom in Dubai. The local govt has locked up two Australians for corruption, and it seems that they're no longer feeling quite so arrogant about making deals with corrupt and rapacious governments and organisations. While the idea of anyone in the UAE locking up anyone for corruption is laughable, so too for those who seemed not understand that if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas (and that goes for both sides of this dispute).

If you deal with people who think it's fine to pay labourers slave wages, perhaps they aren't going to have much regard for your sensitivies either when the shit hits the fan. Time to start conducting your business in an ethical way, perhaps, with other parties who also have a regard for simple ethics? What a notion.