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 World’s Tallest Tower Opens in DubaiPosted on Jan 4, 2010
It was going to be known as the Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower), but given Dubai’s recent economic woes and given that its UAE neighbor, Abu Dhabi, came to the rescue with $10 billion last month, it’s both a fitting tribute and a sign of the times that the world’s tallest building is now called the Burj Khalifa in honor of Abu Dhabi’s leader. The colossal building officially opened Monday with a fireworks show and a big reveal in the form of official confirmation of the Burj Khalifa’s height: 2,716 feet. —KA
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By abu hail, January 9, 2010 at 4:22 am Link to this comment
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I am really enjoyed by this post.Dubai is going ahead in tourism industry,even during recession times.
Report thisBy knobcreekfarmer, January 4, 2010 at 7:38 pm Link to this comment
it is to be noted that civilizations tend to erect their largest, gaudiest and most
unrealistic monuments to themselves just at the point they collapse. Ask the
Romans…
Damn, I hate to be right
Report thisBy montanawildhack, January 4, 2010 at 4:15 pm Link to this comment
Good for them…. Enjoy your tower….
The Freedom Towers are now being built where the World Trade Towers used to be…. They are gonna be 1776 feet tall…. Get it-1776.. That’s the year our Founding Terrorists signed the Declaration of Independence…. It was a document whose purpose was to make all future acts of Terrorism against the British Empire nice and legal….
I’d like to know who’s gonna rent space in that f*&ker;???? I bet Uncle Sucker is gonna rent all unrented space… How much ya wanna bet??????
*Uncle Sucker is you and I by the way…
Report thisBy Arabian Sinbad, January 4, 2010 at 1:22 pm Link to this comment
May this prove to be the tallest bullshit tower built on sandy foundations when it collapses hopefully sooner than later! What are those stupid, oily-greased Sheiks trying to prove with this cement-civilization when millions of their Arab-Muslim brethren are suffering from poverty, ignorance and foreign occupation?!
As I feel ashamed now to be a naturalized American for what the American political-military establishment has been doing in my name and with my taxpayer money, I do feel more ashamed that I share with those stupid oil-rich Gulf people both Arabism and Islam!
In few years, when oil becomes obsolete in the face of other alternative fuel sources, those stupid folks will not have the little money needed for the upkeep and maintenance of this stupidly-conceived monument of cement-civilization!
Report thisBy samosamo, January 4, 2010 at 12:58 pm Link to this comment
Another fucking tower of babel.
Maybe dubai should contract fred silverstein, marvin bush(w’s
younger brother), w & dick and that fantastic crew that was
able and enabled to set the wtc towers 1 & 2 and wtc building
7 to demolition and, VIOLA, your problems are solved when
another white elephant is cashed in as just another terrorist
attack.
Let me see, wasn’t ole freddy boy able to cash in
Report this$8,000,000,000.00 from an original investment of just
$14,000,000.00 on the wtc buildiings?