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Ghost Cities Explained
WHTC ^ | February 8, 2011 | Red Kingman

Posted on 02/10/2011 5:06:58 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: ransacked

Even Detroit wasn’t built seemingly for the hell of it.


41 posted on 02/10/2011 6:45:24 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

People the man in charge told everyone a few years ago, if you have billions of uneducated people and you fail to keep them working for food they will turn on you and kill you. Look to egypt. This is not nuclear science it is common sense.


42 posted on 02/10/2011 6:46:51 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Moonman62

Don’t some of them still live in the rustic lifestyle of Eighteenth Century Squalor (or Twenty-First Century Haitian)?


43 posted on 02/10/2011 6:48:59 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: Moonman62

In one part of rural china they chop up their dead and feed them to the buzzards.


44 posted on 02/10/2011 6:49:03 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Publius6961

Sort of like the Chinese are like the Hive?


45 posted on 02/10/2011 7:02:23 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

[ unless China someday controls so much of the world’s wealth the cost of living in these cities becomes affordable only to them ]

Ding Ding Ding Ding, We have a winner!


46 posted on 02/10/2011 7:17:02 PM PST by GraceG
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To: PBinTX

[ Keep in mind China’s one-child policy. Under this program, each generation is 50% as large as the previous. They won’t have a billion people for long if they keep it up. ]

Well when china starts buying large chunks of Africa and other Asian counties they will have a new policy. You can have more than one child, not only that but you can have as MANY children as you want, provided you have them off Chinese soil in our “colonies” ie. foreign investments..... When you are done raising your family there you can retire to Chinese retirement city we are building now.

The once they retire their children will be taxed to pay for honorable parents by staying in their “resource countries” having more kids and overrunning the native populations there.

Learn to speak Mandarin.


47 posted on 02/10/2011 7:25:30 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Here’s the problem with China. While there are lots and lots of wealthy people, the other 800,000,000 or so is still very poor.

It used to be that the labor of those poor people was needed...as it always is in truly poor countries. But China is extremely efficient when it comes to producing things and building stuff (they use western hardware and methods). They simply don’t need the labor of these 800M people...but must employ them in something, to prevent uprisings. Hence the ghost cities. Makes sense to me, given their situation.


48 posted on 02/10/2011 7:35:23 PM PST by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There’s a reason the annual flu usually originates in China. People there live with their livestock.


49 posted on 02/10/2011 7:38:19 PM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
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To: Publius6961

“Suffice to say that China and its culture always plans, and acts long term. The reasons and purpose are secondary.”

Why do you think they call their rockets the “Long March”?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March
The Long March began the ascent to power of Mao Zedong, whose leadership during the retreat gained him the support of the members of the party. The bitter struggles of the Long March, which was completed by only one-tenth of the force that left Jiangxi, would come to represent a significant episode in the history of the Communist Party of China, and would seal the personal prestige of Mao and his supporters as the new leaders of the party in the following decades.


50 posted on 02/10/2011 7:57:41 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How close are these to undeveloped mineral resources?


51 posted on 02/10/2011 8:48:50 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

My company has a sister plant in China. Lots of high rises, but the workers either live in the dorm or out in the country. No one can afford to live in the condos.


52 posted on 02/11/2011 5:26:20 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Armedanddangerous
Borley Rectory in Essex was the subject of a series of English newspaper stories that billed it as the "most haunted house in England". It was something of a byword for years. Burned down right before WWII.

It may or may not have been haunted, as many allegations of fakery surround it. There are also similar allegations regarding Goldfield.

53 posted on 02/11/2011 11:37:18 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

I actually know someone who was an inmate at Moundsville state prison in West Virginia. He said the ghosts there were well-known to the prisoners right up to the time the prison locked the door in 1994


54 posted on 02/11/2011 12:22:25 PM PST by Armedanddangerous
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To: Armedanddangerous

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit. I bet there are some ghosts around Parchman in Mississippi too.


55 posted on 02/11/2011 3:39:41 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Armedanddangerous
Seems that they're doing "Paranormal Tours" at Moundsville now -- the "Moundsville Economic Development Council" is involved.

I guess ya gotta play the hand you're dealt.

56 posted on 02/11/2011 3:41:26 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: PBinTX
Keep in mind China’s one-child policy. Under this program, each generation is 50% as large as the previous. They won’t have a billion people for long if they keep it up.

If you account for the one child being mostly male, the shrinkage will be quicker.

57 posted on 02/12/2011 6:01:13 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Conservative States of America has a nice ring to it.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; GladesGuru; Avoiding_Sulla; hiredhand; Squantos; calcowgirl; george76; ...
Pics in original. These people are insane.

No, they're not, at least in the short run. They're taking the lead from the UN and implementing Agenda21 Sustainable Development. Haven't you noticed that they're still building similar developments in American cities, despite tens of millions of unoccupied units elsewhere? They're doing here in Silicon Valley. The difference is, China's existing cities are a mess. It's easier just to start over, with a twist.

China has a long history of violent insurrections. It's easy to control people in cities compared to the countryside: cut off the food, the water, and the power, and see how long they last. So, build them where cutting those utilities has real teeth. N'est ce pas?

That's what they're doing. It's risky, but it's real.

In fact, it is amusing to see Americans speculate about this because our rural cleansing process has gone on for so long voluntarily that we can't see it. Pooling capital buys tools. Tools mean fewer touch laborers. That means you need a way to use the people or they go bonkers. Sports, entertainment, gaming, cosmetic surgery, "sex workers," traders, bureaucrats, lawyers, accountants... NONE of these people physically produce what the customer actually wants. What they "produce" is ways for people to want more products built by those tools. Just print more money and away it goes.

The bankers gin up more so that the world needs the capital. The process continues until they have what they want: tools for control and practical immortality. The middle class will build it for them for a paycheck. Once that is done and they have robots instead of people and factories to make them, they won't need so many people. Hence the population controls they've instituted. They want you working, not breeding.

Once the power freaks of this world have what they want, they want the rest of us to die. These idiots see other people as a threat to their playground. There's just one thing they miss.

Depopulated farmland dies. Wildlife gets out of control. Forests get overcrowded and burn. Pests take over. The system crashes.

Look around you. This is how things are going, worldwide.

Over 3,000 years ago, the Children of Israel were offered a fix along with prophecies that predict the symptoms of these mechanics exactly. The people never did it. It's unpleasant. It's inconvenient. It's expensive. They lost their country, as promised. Thereafter they were never ALLOWED to do it. All understanding of how it worked was lost. It has recently been rediscovered.

58 posted on 02/12/2011 8:08:05 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Thanks Carry_Okie. Re:
59 posted on 02/12/2011 8:17:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Rebelbase

Bingo. I didn’t want to be the one to say it.


60 posted on 02/12/2011 10:05:08 AM PST by PastorBooks
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