SixFlagsOhio said:
They finnished that buliding
Nope, they didn't. Those pictures were taken in early September. Pictures from late October show absolutely no difference. Since then, no progress has been made on site. I follow construction of such buildings quite closely. You can too, here:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthrea ... 54&page=50
the only reason the middle-east is having there minorty problem is because Iran and not letting peole leave and the border fights Turkey and Isreal start and the fact there are people going to United Areb Emerites are fleaing from there country is because there is lots of work and Somlian pireats
Umm... what? Dubai is practically built by cheap foreign labour, mostly from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and the Palestinian authority. Those work for little money on harsh contracts, but are free to leave whenever that contract expires. Migrant labourers account for 80% of the residents in the Emirates, and 90% of the work force.
On the account of Iran, it's not exactly holding the region at gun point, even though media likes to portray it that way (if you angle it like that, stories sell a lot better). The much-discussed Hormuz strait might be close by, but traffic through it goes on as usual. The Iranian government employ the much-used tactic on making threats of war to increase tension, such that the Iranian residents are distracted from the internal problems in their own country. Just like North Korea has done for the past fifty years or so. The UAE, however, aren't badly affected. If anyhting, they benefit from increased oil prices due to the tension.
Somalian pirates mostly affect the sea trade going through the Indian Ocean. Those are ships from all over the world.
But all in all, the Middle East is a melting pot of various cultures and problems. You have the stirring between India and Pakistan, revolts in Syria, Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen, the Israeli border dispute, fighting tribes and chaos in Afghanistan, the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, etc etc. And on top of this, the financial crisis. The UAE is a relatively stable place, but they overestimated the potential for tourism and invested too much in the risky luxury business. It might get back up some time, but the park isn't likely to come any time soon.
On another note, the correlation between skyscrapers and fiscal crises have been brought up for decades. The explaination is quite simple: Those giants take some time to build. The companies behind them usually got very rich very fast, and booming economies tend to fall as quickly as they rose. The building is planned and construction started in good times, but the conjunctures turn before they are finished. Also, lots of skyscrapers were finished outside of recessions. For most of the twentieth century, there have been some supertall buildings under construction or being finished somewhere in the world. Of course the completion of some of them will coincide with economic downturns.
