4 Jan 2010: Dubai's date with destiny.
 

Greetings Fellow PPruners,

It's 1pm in Dubai. For the next 11 hours or so, the entire world will be watching, as this tiny city state will unveil the tallest structure ever created in the history of humanity.

For this brief moment in time, Sheikh Mohammed will have the world as his audience. It will up to him to say or do something to restore the confidence of the global community in this place we know as Dubai.

Whatever issues you have with this place, please put them aside for just a little while, and objectively answer one simple question-

Can he do it?

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Can he do it?

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:}Quoting one of his wife from last night with me "NO"...

What do you mean with - " the entire wold will be watching"....!!?? Its just an opening of a real estate project. A tall one, but never the less not something that will capture the worlds attention.

Let me put it this way. Were you watching when they opened the last "tallest Building in the world"?

NOTHING can be said that will change investor sentiment. Investor sentiment is changed by positive constructive action

The worlds media is there waiting
 

This is the perfect moment to open the UAE's books, warts and all.

To show the tallest not yet finished building, and to show the world the "correct" way to resolve the problems.......

Will it happen, I honestly dont know...we might all be surprised....but I am not holding my breath.

glf

Didn't even know about it until I read it hear.

I guess Orstrailya doesn't count as part of the whole world.

He needs all the free advertising he can get. :)

Only for a day, but on a slow news day it should be a very big deal around the world. Check out every news or financial website. They could use a healthy dose of positive news.

Burj Kalifa
 

8pm in UAE, watching Dubai one ...

Burj renamed........I wonder why......in honour of the new VC funding....!!!!!

standing by for the fireworks



glf

Burj Khalifa!

How very embrassing!

NO Rain today......
 

The seeding a few days ago worked......
someone was praying very hard......

MO did not look happy..........

great show.....

glf

Burj Khalifa represents 828 m of glass and steel directly inserted in the butt of some Dubai VIPs. The ultimate humiliation comes from the fact that Khalifa didn't even bother to attend the inauguration of the monument he just "bought".

Humph...shows how much you know about "Face" doesn't it?:rolleyes:

Burj K
 

Gee, you guys are quick not to miss that irony.:ok:.... gotta agree - renaming the largest phallic symbol in the UAE after the guy that paid for it really doesnt get lost on most of us I guess... have not seen or heard such a bunch of choc nosed crawly bum lickers talking ( on DXB one ) since I was in primary school..

I am offloading my DXB real estate so I for one hope :ugh:that maybe the usual economic down falls that envelop most nations that build the biggest towers is over and things improve... next biggest tower is in Saudi for next year ...lets see how that turns out..

WJA

Have to agree ! wonder what else abu dhabi got for their 10 billion ! .. bound to be the next big thing probably announced .... let me think ! ..... off the top of my head 10/10/10 seems like a good date !!

Nevertheless, hats off .. an cracking firework display !

Spent all bloody day sat at More Cafe right in front of Burj Dubai, oops Khalifa, just to get a ring side seat and lost sight of the building half way through the fireworks display because of all the dam smoke!!!!:ugh:

Could have lasted a bit longer I thought. Still good to watch. :D

Have to agree on two counts. What a low budget kiss off on Dubai one, and how embarrassing; Burj Dubai had a nice ring to it...no ring in that name change. :O

Burj Abu Dhabi????

OH thats great... arabian style politics, but then eh, if AD flipped the bill why not rename it to what they see fit...

Im just wondering, will china rename the USA as USA (SAR) :}

I'm slipping in Australia at the moment and it made the news channels down here. The overall sentiment of the report was that it is an excess when Dubai is such a basket case. They did highlight that it was built by lowly paid Indian workers though!

There's nothing like presenting the worlds newest and greatest phallic symbol, to restore ones ego. :rolleyes:

I think that a far more acceptable presentation to the world, by any Arab nation, would be a presentation of their desire to show the world that they can do more with their unlimited wealth than spend it on vast amounts of real-estate development, high rise, and excesses such as indoor snowfields.

I think the 3rd world workers, who built all this stuff, and who are treated like $h!t by Arab nations, would appreciate the Arabs spending more of their unbelievable wealth on assisting those 3rd world nations into better govt, better health regimes, and generally compassionate aid.
I may be speaking out of turn - they may already do so - but it's not something we hear about.