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The Death and Decay of Detroit, As Seen From The Streets
Zero Hedge ^ | June 9, 2014 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 06/09/2014 7:05:00 PM PDT by House Atreides

Detroit, has been bankrupt for nearly a year. But out of mind doesn't mean out of sight, especially now that Google has launched its street view Time Machine, which provides for 7 years worth of street images, showing the time shift of the tumultuous period period starting in 2007. One blogger who decided to take this time lapse data and apply it to the city of Detroit is GooBing Detroit who, as the following time-lapse photos demonstrate, has captured Detoit's unprecedented slow-motion collapse into death and decay in what is the closest we have to "real time."

Perhaps what is most stunning about the following series of photos is not the ultimate fate of the bankrupt city, but how quickly a once vibrant metropolis has succumbed to blight and sheer desperation.

Hopefully not coming to a street near you.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


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This REALLY brings home how quickly Detroit is decaying and does so on a basis which makes it real--down to the single family home level.
1 posted on 06/09/2014 7:05:00 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

The people in Haiti are even more civilized than democrats.


2 posted on 06/09/2014 7:09:11 PM PDT by boycott
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To: House Atreides

Chicago, especially the south and west sides are next.


3 posted on 06/09/2014 7:13:04 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: House Atreides

3rd world America.


4 posted on 06/09/2014 7:15:52 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Be a part of the American freedom migration: freestateproject.org)
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To: House Atreides

Part of it is a change in firefighting policy. The Detroit Fire Department was losing people fighting fires in vacant homes.

The current policy is to allow vacant homes without squatters to burn to the ground so they don’t have to fight another fire in that building. They do work to save lives, just not abandoned property.

If you can, watch the movie Burn, which documents the lives of Detroit firefighters.


5 posted on 06/09/2014 7:16:42 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: House Atreides; All
built by the Auto Companies (Free Trade)
Ruled by Marxists; Destroyed by Marxists
pretty soon ..tent cities only.

6 posted on 06/09/2014 7:18:17 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: House Atreides

Soon to be called “New China”.


7 posted on 06/09/2014 7:18:23 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: House Atreides

The lesson is clear - don’t let BING take pictures in your neighborhood.


8 posted on 06/09/2014 7:22:09 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: headstamp 2

Pick any one of those streets in Detroit, put a couple Chinese restaurants and stores on it, and invite Chinese in. Within a few years it will be bustling with business and people. Where ever they go, the business climate gets crazy.


9 posted on 06/09/2014 7:22:16 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: House Atreides

Looks like Detroit is quickly becoming a carbon sink, a rising star in the obama green movement.


10 posted on 06/09/2014 7:24:55 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: House Atreides

This is physical evidence that Progressivism is an EPIC failure.

But if you show this urban decay to a Progressive their response will be…

“But George Bush! … He’s a War Criminal!”

We are dealing with psychotics.


11 posted on 06/09/2014 7:29:56 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: headstamp 2

Hasn’t the Chinese Peoples Republic been buying up Northern Michigan for the past few years?


12 posted on 06/09/2014 7:30:54 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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I seem to remember an article here a few weeks back on that at fire sale prices.


13 posted on 06/09/2014 7:32:18 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: House Atreides

Nature could not destroy as fast as some of these pics. That’s feral folks feasting on the remnants of civilization.


14 posted on 06/09/2014 7:39:49 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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“But if you show this urban decay to a Progressive their response will be…”

In all seriousness a Progressive would tell you this blight has been caused by Republicans depriving Detroit of needed funds. If the Federal Government had just dumped a little more money into the city it would still be thriving and prosperous.

Incidentally this Republican-caused lack of funds also explains why the war on Poverty has destroyed the black family structure.


15 posted on 06/09/2014 7:42:00 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: House Atreides

Libnukes were dropped on Detroit!


16 posted on 06/09/2014 7:43:35 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: House Atreides

This is so muck like Starnesville in Atlas Shrugged it is spooky.


17 posted on 06/09/2014 7:50:44 PM PDT by DManA
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To: House Atreides

And if you say anything, anything at all, you’re a racist.


18 posted on 06/09/2014 7:54:22 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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Nature could not destroy as fast as some of these pics. That’s feral folks feasting on the remnants of civilization.

You are right. If you look closely you will see many of the homes in intermediate stages of ruin have had their aluminum siding stripped off to be sold for scrap, leaving the buildings open to the elements and vulnerable to decay.

19 posted on 06/09/2014 7:56:10 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: House Atreides

Note the systematic removal of doors and windows. I bet that that’s not the Chinese stealing them to resell. I wonder who is stealing that stuff?


20 posted on 06/09/2014 8:01:44 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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