Extravagant Dubai island project sinks under weight of the credit crunch

Bwahaha.

There go my plans to own Luxembourg!

a not-so-clever- ploy, and less-than-clever engineering.....

One of those "almost wonders of the world?"

Can' imagine the work that went into that.

Ahhh, the horror ... of self-importance.

I watched an expose' on this project on some DishTV
satelite network channel. I would have continued surfing the channels had I not tuned in as a Dutch engineering company's spokeperson was commenting on their work. The Dutch have hundreds of years of experience in keeping the sea out. And since I mean to be a Dutch national after I emigrate there, I spent a little while to see what they had to say. And then I watched the Dubai Big Oil corporate bean counter emotionaly concerned that Billions of dollars were at stake as though he were some humanitarian talking about Billions of lives being at stake. As soon as I saw that I shook my head and came to the conclusion that only monkeys could come up with the lame idea of buring fossil fuels in the first place instead of financialy sustainable recyclable electrical energy. That only monkeys could consider it perfectly OK to allow a world wide Big Oil Monopoly to continue for 150 years, bankrupting many of the industrialized nations in the world as Nicolas Tesla forcast would occur in 1900. And that only monkeys could presume the effects of their oil sale wealth would not be disolved like sand castles washing away with the tide as world wide water levels rose from ice melt. Want to end the bad habit those Dubai idiot shits have of burning your money to light their cigars with ? Then refuse to buy anything but an all electric vehicle. When you continue to support that vicious cycle of patronizing auto makers whom Big Oil has in their pocket you may as well give a monkey matches and let him loose in a dry forrest. The people of California know what the effects of climate imbalance are. They have to watch as their forrests burn. Ironicaly, it's the trees producing CO2 that are nature's only way of restoring the balance. So when you give no thought to the consequences of fueling up
you're mindlessly helping to drown someone's grandchildren. Electric cars are due out this year.
Even better ones are due out next year. It's human to think ahead. The more you develop yourself to be able to, the more homo sapiens you are. Better than monkey see, monkey do huh ? As for the "World Islands" shrinking under the weight of the credit crunch,.. Trust me. That's nothing compared to how heavy water is. Waste not, want not.

I had planned to own several islands in Antarctica, found the nation of Anticia (Pronounced "Ann-Tie-Cia"), build my army and naval forces, and then invade Australia.

MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

We could play I giant sized game of Risk!

There was always something ugly and perverse about that project. The utter waste of manpower, energy and resources was hubris, and an empty and shallow vanity.

I hope they fix it....to spite many.

thats the problem with rich people.................................
LOTS OF DOLLARS BUT NO SENSE...............

"Risk" would kind of make it come alive for me as well,...hmmmmmmm; perhaps giant square balloons in primary colors holding "territories and continents"? Sort of a "fun with jihad" sort of thing, should go over well.

Dubai is doing just fine. Take a look at their holdings. Not too shabby. Maybe the fake everything just died because it had no soul and was just conspicuously disgusting. I would think any place that is so wealthy and has so little pity for it's nearby impoverished brethren just melts away in it's own flash. Hell, it made Las Vegas look like the Vatican on Holy Week. Although well funded it was so much cheezier than LV could ever hope to be. I just wanted to see it succeed so I could see it get tacky and then have people wearing SHIT HAPPENS tee shirts with flip flops in the big hotel lobbies. That's gonna bug me.

So much hate for people with money.

And what are you people doing with your money? Helping the poor with it? Don't suggest something you're not doing yourself.

I really feel bad for the rich.Kinda hard to care about this if you are wondering were your next meal is coming from. Karma is a Bitch .. OIL PROFITS = WEATLH + PRIVATE ISLAND + GLOBAL WARMING / Sinking Island

Kind of hard for the rich to care about the poor when they don't have worries.....

rich and poor are not that much different. Just like Democrat and Republican.

But it's cute people try to create this massive canyon. It's entertaining.

Maybe they can feed the empty islands to hungry children instead.

All construction has stopped in UAE

The irony that is less work for US and EU

Who couldn't see this coming? Can't say it breaks my heart.

I told 'em it would never work.

Hmm. Sure the money these guys have spent and will spend will fix the problem. They won't give up.
Too, bad they get money selling resources to us that we're sitting on.
Like letting your crop rot but pay a premium price to buy the same crop from a foriegn country getting filthy rich on the crop. That's another reason they think we Americans are crazy.....

dubai will do better in the future though since most its services are luxury oriented of course most people would avoid it during recession when the economy starts showing growth tourism will increase and dubai will become the most important financial center in the middle east. it was wise to spend their money like this or they'd have nothing when oil runs out. i dont know why current hates rich people so much if you have money you spend it and that alone helps poor people. i guess you dont think about the fact that building and maintaining these projects creates jobs that are filled up by the "poor" who in turn spends their money to create more jobs.

Still like the "Risk" idea. Just allow the Somali pirates free reign in the surrounding waters, that will liven up the game! Cant move your "pieces" if the pirates take-em! Now HOW FUN is that! Move the "chitsnmarkers" with fully loaded super-tankers for excitement,.....and with all the blood and oil in the water, break out the "optional rules"! (Say,..........whose got a match.) GOD you have to love the game of capitalism/nationalism/egoism/fanaticism/play-the-game ism.

Great idea, terrible timing

Dibs on Cuba

Well maybe you can get a good deal on your own Island. providen you want to buy a peice of property that you can never live on. Oh yea! I want to buy canada.