Posted on 02/10/2011 5:06:58 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Well, at least the cemetary is a going concern...
Force the farmers who have come to the city to move to new cities where China needs people to hold onto the territory. In the Western desert where Urgyurs are, in the dry areas with mineral wealth, nothing says "ours" like 100,000 residents in a modern city. But to get the residents to stay there instead of the dense Eastern coastal cities, it needs to be as big, as gleaming and with all the infrastructure.
Build the city, then move all the wanna-be city dwellers there.
But but but wouldn’t that mean we’d have to kill them all?
where is borley rectory? not familiar with that one.
Then there is the state mental hospital in weston WV in which ghosts attack people and hunters hear bloodcurdling screams in the middle of the day and no one is there.
I still cant decide if the bricks and the 2x4s in the basement really did fly across the room and almost hit them. I know it was on video.
Replacement cities for those that are eventually nuked.
Perhaps they believe that in a nuclear exchange, their occupied cities would be annhilated, and these cities are the back-ups.
Here's some amazing satellite imagery: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339536/Ghost-towns-China-Satellite-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html
Even these ghost cities have Detroit beat...
Some of these "cities" work only because they are all but empty. There is nothing like the infrastructure to needed to provide water, gas, electricity, and sewage to the citizens, even by Chinese standards, if the apartments are ever actually occupied. Its not some brilliant, long term scheme, its insanity. If the Chicom Government could stop it, without a crash that would threaten its existence, it would. But it can't, so it allows it to continue.
I wasn't commenting on how they should get where they belong.
That’s my guess too, why do we assume dictators and fanatics will not plan a nuclear exchange and have cities ready in reserve?
Except that in most circumstances one expects the old cties to be rebuilt. And you would have lost most of the useful city population, unless you relocate them just before the attack.
I heard rumor these ‘ghost cities’ are a Discovery-MythBusters experiment...they’re trying bust the History Channels- Life After People.
The Chinese thought it a fantastic venture to back, after all they know a good investment when they see it—they buy our debt. They also suspect they can resolve the North Korean nuke problem by giving Kim Jong-il a starring role.
We’ll know in 150 years if History Channel got it right, though Mythbusters is worried they may be canceled by Discovery before this myth can be cracked.
http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people/videos#capitol-records
It is better they spend it on this than their military or terrorism support. I felt the same about the UAE and their crazy islands and sky scrappers.
or 'infidels"
Rural Chinese can be very primitive. It'll be worse than the Beverly Hillbillies.
Nope. Infidels are for menial slave work, paying the jizyah and beheading when there of no further use.
Sounds like China is following the UN’s Agenda 21 plan for community development. If people are forced to move there, then we’ll know.
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