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'Winning the Future': Another Chinese Infrastructure Fail
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| November 24,2011
| Erika Johnsen
Posted on 11/24/2011 5:38:27 PM PST by Hojczyk
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:38:30 PM PST
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Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
That is pretty funny, especially as the Usurper got all googly-eyed at China's futuristic airports! That's what happens when you import the idiot from some African village to be your president.
To: Hojczyk
You can be sure that, when it does fall apart, the Chinese leadership will be gone with the goods.
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:43:14 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
To: Hojczyk
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:46:39 PM PST
by
ex91B10
(We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; one box left.)
To: Hojczyk
"all their subsidizing and central planning is going to catch up with them eventually; their upcoming financial problems are going to make the United States' fiscal fiasco look amateurish."Unless the our Messiah, The One, the one we've been waiting for gets a second term, then all bets are off!
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:48:36 PM PST
by
ArchAngel1983
(Arch Angel- on guard / The democrat party "Can Go Straight To Hell".)
To: Hojczyk
I don’t know if the design or the materials were inferior. I think there’s a reason we don’t make the roofs of American airport terminals out of Styrofoam, however....
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:50:47 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(bloodwashed not whitewashed)
To: Hojczyk
and how much foreign aid money does the US give to China??
and why??
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:00:04 PM PST
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: Hojczyk
BEIJING | Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:47am EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Hu Xiao says his job as one of China’s executioners is usually not very complicated, except for the time when a prisoner he was about to kill stood up and ran toward his loaded rifle.
The rare glimpse into the ranks of China’s executioners appeared in the Beijing Evening News newspaper Monday.
Hu, a veteran judicial police officer, described the routine of shooting prisoners convicted of murder and other capital crimes in China, which rights groups say carries out more judicial killings each year than anywhere else in the world.
“In fact, it’s not as complicated as outsiders think. We all use rifles, stand about four meters from the condemned prisoner with a barrel one meter-long, take aim, press the trigger, and that’s that,” Hu told the newspaper.
Most prisoners taken for execution are so terrified they collapse on the ground and cannot stand, Hu said. The exception was an ex-soldier convicted of homicide, he said.
“At the time of execution, the criminals kneel on the ground, but this former soldier actually stood up and ran forward. The result was a moving target that was taken down,” said Hu, himself a former soldier who has worked as a police officer for 19 years.
“These people all deserved what they got for their crimes.”
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:01:42 PM PST
by
Calusa
(The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
To: Hojczyk
Something else is falling in China, home values are down 20% to 40%. Realtors are going out of business. We sold our apartment there last year. Wild profit. Family said we were crazy to sell then. We, however, had the crystal ball of having seen the same pattern happen in the U.S.
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:02:52 PM PST
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: hinckley buzzard
China like Japan before them will overcome their QC problems.
We had best be ready.
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:10:41 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
(The best is the enemy of the good!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Not so long as the nation is a fascist state where much of the industry is a SOE or something quite close to one.
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:20:36 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Hojczyk
One of the architects behind Beijing Terminal 3, which opened in time for the 2008 Olympics, told the Associated Press that inadequate materials or installation not design flaws were to blame for Tuesday's structural failure. I'm no fan of "Chinese infrastructure" -- or what passes for it -- but what do you expect the architect to say, "Yeah, I knew I should have spec'd more fasteners...oh well!"
To: DUMBGRUNT
China like Japan before them will overcome their QC problems. Oh, I don't know. China's more like Russia, and Russia's never overcome theirs.
To: Hojczyk
No no no you’re seeing this all wrong! That’s not failure - that’s future work for Chinese construction workers! Just like when Khrushchev had to point out how inferior our highly-automated factories were, in contrast to Russian ones that created many more jobs!
In fact, shouldn’t government be looking at ways to make things fail sooner, so as to put more people to work?
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:38:45 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: gunsequalfreedom
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posted on
11/24/2011 7:21:05 PM PST
by
federal__reserve
(Only Herman Cain could break up the 95% black voting block down to 75-80%.)
To: federal__reserve
Thanks. I don’t usually watch a whole video at a recommended link but I watched all of that one.
These cities they featured are in areas outside the main population centers. It looks from the report that people have invested in these properties and their investments will be lost.
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11/24/2011 7:51:25 PM PST
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: Hojczyk
Our President really needs to get over his "we should be more like China" kick. The CCP is all about keeping up appearances, and they don't care how much deception they have to use to do it. Much of China's infrastructure, just like pretty much everything the CCP organizes, is a farce--I've heard first-hand accounts of the many facades that were put over buildings before the 2008 Olympics, I spent a lot of time working in China during the boom, China IS a facade, crappy construction covered over with a gleaming coat of fine plaster. It's all about appearance, no substance, must be a leftest thing. Wanna $25 dollar copy Rolex ? ... or would you rather know what time it was !
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posted on
11/24/2011 8:01:15 PM PST
by
JMJJR
( Newspeak is the official language of Oceania)
To: the invisib1e hand
Exactly...
Japanese way: ![](http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r96/jfallows/IMG_4476A.jpg)
Chinese way: ![](http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r96/jfallows/IMG_0969.jpg)
source: Fallows
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posted on
11/24/2011 8:15:30 PM PST
by
delapaz
To: DUMBGRUNT
China like Japan before them will overcome their QC problems.
We had best be ready.
I don't think China has time. The one child policy has created a demographic time bomb. They have less than a generation (about 25 years) before 50% of their population will be elderly. A couple will theoretically be supporting one child, four parents and eight grandparents. A social dependency theoretically of 80% without a social safety net except for the family unit. The one child policy is coming back to haunt them as the curse it should of been.
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posted on
11/24/2011 8:37:00 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Hojczyk.
...given [Zero]'s relentless penchant for heralding China as the world leader in infrastructure... I'm having a rather hearty laugh at the President's expense right now. Substandard construction work was blamed Thursday after wind blew parts of the roof off a $2.8 billion terminal at the world's second-busiest airport.
sidebars:
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posted on
11/24/2011 8:46:46 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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