Wow. Now that's incredible. And expensive.

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.

Looks like new years night in my hown town

#2 do the research

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#(removed comment) 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!!

#2, It's the oil. As long as they're sitting on black gold, they have 0% taxes and thus wealthy businesses

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#7 nope its not becoz of oil.....m a business & economics student...according to my studies..its becoz of trade and business!

well hell !
instead of everybody coming to the US oe Europe maybe we should all go there; seems like the perfect place...

lol wow

#2 a mod wrong LOL!! *priceless*!!! D:

anyone know the name of the music played?
I recognise the first one a track from layer cake (or at least was in layercake)

anyone know what the other two were?

#(removed comment), #4, #7, #12. 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!

now thats what i call a firework display.

I already book the pent house for my bday yahoo

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

forget the debate about the nation ...LETS ENJOY THE FIREWORKS SHOW!!

what was the name of that song at the end?

WOW!!! They went all out for this grand opening??

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?

What a waste of resources.

what a waste

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...

Should it not be called Lemura, vs Atlantis!