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  • #46
    I'd imagine that seeing as how oil is only 6% of the economy of Dubai that they do have other local industries .

    Especially the financial and banking center that is Dubai. Also the free zones are booming.
    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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    • #47
      Originally posted by Bosh

      And look at how that ended...
      I would hazard a guess that the vast majority of buildings put up in the Roaring 20s made a healthy profit. I think the Empire State didn't do too well, but that was an exception (leaving aside the fact that it was started and finished soon after the end of the roaring).
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #48
        bah
        Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

        When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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        • #49
          Dubai's own economy doesn't seem to be important in this boom, it's mostly foreign money and it is petrodollars. Saudi, UAE and other Arab money. Also, some online references say that the Iranians have invested over $200 billion.

          The city doesn't seem self-sustainable to me, but it can do nicely as the hub of Arab luxury.

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          • #50
            it's easy to see what is going on here

            our universe has some sort of dimensional rift... someone is actually playing a game of Simcity, but this dimensional rift is causing the buildings and stuff to be built in our universe, in Dubai, rather than in the game...

            clearly, that is what is going on here...
            To us, it is the BEAST.

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            • #51
              Originally posted by BeBro
              So when will the west unite against this threat? US and EU should spend much more of their budget on cranes!

              We have to win the crane race!
              I hear they even have Cranes of Mass Construction.

              They clearly should be carpet bombed and cluster ****ed!

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              • #52
                Dubi.. Vegas of the Middle East

                Even with cheap near slave labor its the Building materials which are going through the roof now a days. The folks behind all this stuff shure think BIG thats for shure.
                Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks - those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. - Thus spoke Zarathustra, Fredrick Nietzsche

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                • #53
                  [q=Sir Ralph]I hear they even have Cranes of Mass Construction.[/q]

                  “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                  - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                  • #54
                    Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft, erm, crane gap!
                    "You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran

                    Eschewing silly games since December 4, 2005

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                    • #55
                      at sir ralph
                      "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                      • #56
                        whats a crane?
                        I need a foot massage

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                        • #57
                          "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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                          • #58
                            This reminds me of illustrations of babylon in its prime with the walls and gardens etc from history books
                            I need a foot massage

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                            • #59
                              why cant saudi arabia be like this?
                              I need a foot massage

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by molly bloom
                                They need to put a cap on that Dutch dredging.


                                Nothing quite says nouveau vulgarity like a suite of artificial islands shaped like the world's landmasses.

                                I hear that some of the Dubai island developments are being snapped up by footballers.


                                How appropriate.
                                you say vulgarity like it's a bad thing.

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