"Atlantis, The Palm" hotel opening
The opening ceremony of the hotel Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai, including the most expensive fireworks show in history.
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2 Posted 364 days ago by most_uniQue (moderator)
Well when country doesn't give any money to their people it gets rich.
That's why Dubai has all of it's "breathtaking" structures.
3 Posted 364 days ago by USAnumber1
#2 It looks to me as if you are mistaken about the income of the citizens of Dubai from what I know and have read.
Natives in the seven-state confederation of the United Arab Emirates earn an "average" of nearly US$30,000, among the world's highest annual income. Dubai is second on the list, after Abu Dhabi, where annual income was estimated by one bank to average a staggering US$128,000. Plus there is no sales tax or income tax,you get to keep what you earn.
7 Posted 364 days ago by Araniko
#3 i agree becoz i live in dubai but m a student here!...Atlantis is near from my house..it takes maximum 15 mins to reach there but damn i dint went bcoz of exams 
it was awesome opening!
they spent 20 million $ in openin (this) ceremony!
and there were hollywood celebrities like OPRAH WINFREY,DENZEL WASHINGTON and many more where there too!!
8 Posted 364 days ago by USAnumber1
#7 My brother who lives in Las Vegas was friends with the pilot for the Sheik of Abu Dhabi and they would hang-out/party with friends while the Sheik partied and gambled at the casinos. He learned a lot about life in the UAE and how nice it is to live there. 
9 Posted 364 days ago by barf
#2, It's the oil. As long as they're sitting on black gold, they have 0% taxes and thus wealthy businesses
12 Posted 364 days ago by Araniko
#9 nope its not becoz of oil.....m a business & economics student...according to my studies..its becoz of trade and business!
13 Posted 364 days ago by kissmybackbone
well hell !
instead of everybody coming to the US oe Europe maybe we should all go there; seems like the perfect place...
16 Posted 364 days ago by most_uniQue (moderator)
#3, #5, #9, #14. Well you're kind of right. Because there are two sides at this.
80% of the people living in Dubai are foreign workers.
Many of these people are from western countries and work somewhere like for example Nokia Siemens Networks and other places where they have high income.
But many people are from countries like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. These migrant workers earn approximately 120 euros per month and have no civil rights and human rights groups have criticized their living conditions.
So Dubai has two kind of people working there. The ones who are there just to stop by and fly back home every weekend to their families (ok, not everyone) and the ones who live in "criticized conditions".
So by "their people" i mean people who work for Dubai, NOT the people who work for non-dubai companies. These Nokia workers don't get their money from Dudai so they don't count. But these struction workers do!
Dubai uses cheap foreign workers who have no clue how much they should actually earn to build their city. And as the first article of United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." And in Dubai rich people get richer and poor people get kicked.
But maybe i was just thinking for the little people. Because some people do!
18 Posted 364 days ago by Oldfart
@#16 I believe we were all talking about the "native" citizens of Dubai,not the foreign workers. The native residents have a high level of earnings and the foreign workers from Germany,the Netherlands,the US and other industrialized countries that are there performing the construction are making astronomical wages. Even the lower paid "laborers" from third world countries are making wages unheard of in their home countries.
When residents of Dubai move to foreign countries they still get payments from the Dubai government because they are entitled to them.
20 Posted 364 days ago by LeonPSP
lol when they started shooting fireworks, i was like : "what the hell that's it ?" and then the music kicked in and the sky view ... awesomeness !
As for Nr.2 /16, i don't think they treat their workers that bad
21 Posted 363 days ago by Araniko
forget the debate about the nation 
...LETS ENJOY THE FIREWORKS SHOW!! 
22 Posted 363 days ago by Oldfart
It must have taken an army of fireworks technicians to creat such an elaborate and far-flung display. It looked to cover acres around the complex and out on the palm islands.
25 Posted 362 days ago by sirval
Now imagine, if some of the fireworks did not blow up, by some I mean half or more. In my opinion the engineers etc. would have been killed an hour later, right?
28 Posted 355 days ago by evilatif
OK nice i Saw it ...Cuz i live in Dubai...
And As Far for the taxez.....Its started....And its not fairly done....
Wages =====Bad for people workin as labour...and others....
They are takin taxes but arnt givin shit bout people....
The rent are high rise....
There are not any conrtol on comodoties...
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1 Posted 364 days ago by KristofferAG
Wow. Now that's incredible. And expensive.