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The ghost towns of China

The ghost towns of China: Amazing satellite images show cities meant to be home to millions lying deserted


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339536/Ghost-towns-China-Satellite-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html#ixzz18XsSskXa

Found the a really good read, Some great photos too.

Breand new building unsued.

goes on to say.
Zhengzhou New District residential towers: Soaring property prices in China and high levels of investment has fuelled the construction of up several new cities. Experts fear a subsequent property crash could damage the global economy
:jYou can have everything you wont in lfe, If you only help enough other people to get what they wont.:j
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  • The tin-foil hat brigade already made it to the comments section, Asheron would be proud:
    The cities were built with the money printed by the Federal Reserve ( a Rothschild Company ) and they were meant as survival and New places to live after WW3 .
    Indeed , the Chinese understand that the Bilderbergs will start a nuclear war with North Korea which will drag in China and even Russia and Europe .
    So the Chinese are preparing : buying tremendous amounts of gold and ... building empty cities ( hence not worth nuking in the WW3 ) to be populated at the end of the war ( gwad knows they have tonnes of people to 'spare' ) .

    This is another proof that the Elite is not too bright , but never the less , you and me will still be cannon fodder !
  • Generali
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    Degenerate wrote: »
    The tin-foil hat brigade already made it to the comments section, Asheron would be proud:
    The cities were built with the money printed by the Federal Reserve ( a Rothschild Company ) and they were meant as survival and New places to live after WW3 .
    Indeed , the Chinese understand that the Bilderbergs will start a nuclear war with North Korea which will drag in China and even Russia and Europe .
    So the Chinese are preparing : buying tremendous amounts of gold and ... building empty cities ( hence not worth nuking in the WW3 ) to be populated at the end of the war ( gwad knows they have tonnes of people to 'spare' ) .

    This is another proof that the Elite is not too bright , but never the less , you and me will still be cannon fodder !

    It's such an excellent quote.

    You've got this global elite that is preparing plans that must involve thousands if not millions of people in their planning and preparing their own deaths that has been kept completely secret except from a few people with cheap websites.

    And what is more these people are 'not too bright'.

    I used to work with a bloke that reckoned the moon was hollow and made out of pyramids and also that you could keep a tomato fresh under a pyramid for months or years. I brought a tomato into work and suggested he made a pyramid out of paper or some other substance of his choice. He decided against.
  • Cleaver
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    The following photo has this comment:

    Property bubble: Zhengzhou New District features vast public buildings that have never been used
    article-1339536-0C8593D5000005DC-997_634x475.jpg

    It's an interesting article and everything, but you can clearly see lots of cars in car parks and hundreds of people milling around.

    And on this one:
    In most neighbourhoods of Dantu, there are no cars, no signs of life

    article-1339536-0C85970E000005DC-170_634x536.jpg

    I can clearly see loads of cars on the road. These are cars aren't they?



  • amcluesent
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    edited 19 December 2010 pm31 12:28PM
    All Command Economies produce nonsensical outcomes. Stalin's Russia was awash with left-shoes while millions starved.

    NB This does, of course, highlight the insanity of Chris Huhne's madcap scheme to return Britain the the dark ages, quite literally, by bankrupting ourselves building 'green' windmills all the while the Chinese complete a coal/nuclear power station every few weeks.
  • Generali
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    amcluesent wrote: »
    All Command Economies produce nonsensical outcomes. Stalin's Russia was awash with left-shoes while millions starved.

    NB This does, of course, highlight the insanity of Chris Huhne's madcap scheme to return Britain the the dark ages, quite literally, by bankrupting ourselves building 'green' windmills all the while the Chinese complete a coal/nuclear power station every few weeks.

    Interesting piece on the Cuban biotech industry last week on 'Thinking Aloud' presented by a (former?) revolutionary communist.

    I wonder if the market system in Cuba would be pushing resources towards biotech or food production?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_Cuba#Standard_rations
  • AHAR
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    Generali wrote: »
    Interesting piece on the Cuban biotech industry last week on 'Thinking Aloud'

    Thinking Allowed
  • Cleaver wrote: »
    The following photo has this comment:

    article-1339536-0C8593D5000005DC-997_634x475.jpg

    It's an interesting article and everything, but you can clearly see lots of cars in car parks and hundreds of people milling around.

    And on this one:



    article-1339536-0C85970E000005DC-170_634x536.jpg

    I can clearly see loads of cars on the road. These are cars aren't they?





    Lots of cars about doesn't mean a thing. ;)

    I can't see one person :rotfl:
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  • Cleaver
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    I can't see one person :rotfl:

    Well, there's a speedboat racing around the lake on the first picture and hundreds of cars in all the car parks and driving along the road in the second picture. So there's either people operating these things or the Chinese have automated robot boats.

    There's also lots of people walking round the lake, at least I'm sure that's what they are.
  • Cleaver wrote: »
    Well, there's a speedboat racing around the lake on the first picture and hundreds of cars in all the car parks and driving along the road in the second picture. So there's either people operating these things or the Chinese have automated robot boats.

    There's also lots of people walking round the lake, at least I'm sure that's what they are.


    Inflated. Just liked we did in WWII to fool the Nazis. :rotfl:
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  • PasturesNew
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    If the East have got our jobs, can't we send them our !!!!less and useless? They could fill these cities and the Govt could send out money to pay for it, cheaper than our housing/feeding.... could have another Jail City too :)
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