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Caught On Tape: China Builds A Bridge In Just 43 Hours
When you have a billion people willing to work instead of expecting free "stuff", anything's possible... Earlier this year, a Chinese construction company had erected a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days. This time the Chinese have built an overpass in mere 43 hours!
Workers took apart the old structure of Beijing's Sanyuan Bridge in a few hours. Then they brought an entire piece of concrete to bridge the gap and paved it over, reports Citylab.com.
To build the bridge, over 1300 tonnes of new surfacing material was used which save months of commotion and traffic woes. For the first time in Chinese workers tried out a new 'integrated replacement method.'
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Sooo, ummm, we can surmise no union labor was used? ;-)
No, may be a few political dissidents but otherwise all legit.
Miffed;-)
lol...well, I suppose the world should be pleased that they didn't incorporate the bones of the workers into the wall...errr, bridge.
Now thats progress! ;-)
no one from operating engineers local 3 was there
Just don't drop a lit cigarette
Where's my Obama phone?
Wait and see the "bridge" they build between cultures.
The chinese are such good experts
http://goo.gl/LfakZr
The coming Chinese century is going to be epic beyond belief.
The Chinese will expose the West for the savages they are.
My takeaway from this was not the 43 hours, but that it wasn't a bridge to nowhere. Imagine, manufacturing something in need. Huh.
The Chinese building a bridge? It won't take long for that thing to fall down. That's the land of screw-ups and fascists.
I think you're getting your "ists" screwed up.
Not your fault though....it's all designed to blow your mind.
I'm calling bullshit twice in one morning. So the PCC for the abutments all set up in 43 hours did it?
Is this site now owned by the jew dominated media? Holy Shit it is!!! ZH/ABC Jews!!!
Fucking sellouts.
you're a douche Ron
How do you say douche in Yiddish?
I think it's pronounced "Yellen."
I wonder how long it to build this building? (And all the others like it)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a0e_1428850339
Although that's something the Chinese have over us, they fix their bridges before they collapse.
Sure they set set up but with all the bodies that had to be desposed in the pourings I expect to see reports of massive failures very soon.
The construction is based on a proven architecture used by army ants which draws upon resources readily available within the general population.
"No union workers were harmed in the making of this film."
They learned it from SinCity 2000.
Nashville has been doing something similar for several months now. They close an interchange for a weekend and replace it by Monday.
Yep - up here in the frozen north they've been doing that for years.
The new bridge is on the side - with moving equipment - the old bridge/overpass is taken down - they move in the new and voila - new overpass
Close the road on Friday Night - re-open Sunday Night.
stop posting porn
What is wrong with you? Trying to drive traffic to such a site within such this platform?
SO, either you are:
A. You are person who has given away to despotisim to the point where you are trying to crap the bed because you feel justified.
OR
B. You are a true gov't troll trying to direct people to a honey pot along with trying to push process of tainting in what "ZH" is really about.
Either way, sorry about your luck.
Cm'on nmewn you know rebar is expensive and bones cheap. Shove a little melamine in them and you got first class building materials. All you need is some amorality, ingenuity, avarice, and a dash of psychopathy and the world is your playground.
Miffed;-)
If I were in the Chi-Com politburo I'd be wanting to keep over two billion hands busy doing "something" too.
I mean aside from having those hands wrapped around my throat ;-)
Hence why they are used for building materials.;-)
Pets or Meat? The line is delicate and the transition not pleasant.
Miffed;-)
Sowyent Gween.
The problem with Sowyent Gween is that an hour later you're hungry again.
Lovely to see you back:-)
missed your commenting
That's the new rebar substitute. The dissidents are quieter in concrete.
You kidding.
Why did you think corporate America moved there?
I don't own antything i-crap-Apple, what the hell are you talking about? One minute corporate America is running the entire world and the next they've all moved it all to China?
Well, ok, GE did move their overpriced curly lightbulb manufacturing plant from Wisconsin to China too but that was under your fellow socialist traveler Obama to "save the fucking planet"...or sumpin.
Happy now? ;-)
State power and corporate America worst enemy is its domestic population. So labor needs to be destroyed.
Also, starting in 1971, US was no longer energy sufficient. Not enough energy is a death sentence for manufacturing.
So, we were left with financialization. Then, debt.
Now looks like 2015 will be for financialization and debt what 1971 was for manufacturing and energy.
2016 will be an interesting year. And that is just the beginning.
Hope I am wrong.
No you don't. Stop bullshitting.
Yes, I do because I am not 86 year old.
Johnson & Johnson moved there too long time ago
They make money by working hard, we just print it.
I was in China a few weeks ago - compared to Beijing airport, the DC Reagan looks like a shithole
Angry airline passengers in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaD0PZ_ptWY
Everything in DC is a shithole.
While this is not Cambodia, Holiday in Cambodia by the Dead Kennedys said it well:
It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son:.
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Good to upvote the Dead Kennedys' quotes. Todays cry bullies look like a bunch of babies compared to the Thammasat U students this song is based upon.
Not quite sure what you mean. Unions are superfluous when the laborers get paid adequately and promptly and aren't forced into accepting 12 hours shifts (or some such like). If the labrorers' contracts were fair and balanced, there would have been no need for a union. Maybe the snooping community can enlighten us what kind of contracts the loborers had for this project.
You’re right,.
Here in Detroit, Union Central, cars and trucks are falling through the Rouge river I-75 bridge.
The fatty insulin junkies, Union Labor, will begin repairs sometime 2017.
Of course union labor was used. It's the communist utopia, where all workers are in heaven!
Knowing a little about Chinese infrastructure, if it lasts 43 days...
I have heard that the idea of 'plumb' is alien to their building codes.
China is one "big one" earth quake away from eating each other. Again.
"When you have a billion people willing to work instead of expecting free "stuff", anything's possible"
Nice trolling from Sino-Durden....
Pretty impressive actually
Agree. USSA will soon be learning from the Chinese. It's a great culture. No negro ball and chains around their ankles so they learn quick and apply that knowledge even quicker.
Love your handle.
Don't be too enamored, God's a prick. He subcontracted Goldman Sachs.
Nice prefab bridge slides in place. Completed in 43 hours and guaranteed to last 43 days.
ed: I see QE was on same wavelength.
I wouldnt want to stand too long underneath it. Its Chinese after all.
Wow, prefab bridges.
Not allowed in the US. Have to use union labor to so much as fill a pothole. Simply wouldn't do to have these things be easy, fast, and cheap.
Laughing...'fill a pothole', are you shitting me? It's so much cheaper to simply paint over them.
Shit you not, that's basically what California's doing all over the State.
They obviously didn't build it in 43 hours, they assembled it from parts built off site, I saw the same thing right here in the US, a bridge for route 95 was replaced overnight. I have driven over it but would be afraid to drive over the chinese bridge. They have built a lot of poor quality bridges in Cambodia.
The Chinese high speed train network is an epic disaster in waiting.
I guess San Francisco doesn’t appeal to you. Bridges and earthquakes.
I don't think anything appeals to normal Americans about San Francisco.
Hell, i'm from California and I wouldn't ever want to live there.
Sadly I must admit to you I was born in San Fran but I escaped unscathed.
I remember walking through Golden Gate park at five watching the hippies having sex. " What are they doing Mommy?" " They're expressing themselves." Seemed to be her answer to everything when we lived there.
Miffed;-)
Who would live in the city except for a job? It takes a lot of money to move and set up in another state. Those hippies were the children of rich people who made being a bum fashionable. SF is a beautiful city to visit. Restaurants and tourist sights, beautiful hotels, the ocean which my mother did not see until she was in her 50s. Why do you people expect so much from your country while it is being shaped into a huge ball of confusion while the bleeding continues? Stand up for it because it is all you've got. Move to the fucking middle of a mountain in the middle of fucking nowhere, alone. Live there for 40 years and expect to die peacefully while hundreds of millions of people are sent into a state of destitution. Go ahead. JUST DO IT. But, when your last breath is taken, hold a mirror and kiss it because you've just kissed the ass of the last stupid person alive. We have an OBLIGATION goddam it. Oh yes, flee. FLEE. You will be hunted down like a nazi criminal if you owe taxes. But first, name another country which doesn't have an area where the losers congregate. A country not being intentionally bankrupted. TRY PARIS. ROME. ATHENS. USA is fucking paradise. 911 is your chance on a Silver Platter to return your nation to normal and you IGNORE IT. Just wave the white flag and move to the side.
Bunny, I think it's time to put away the cooking sherry. You may burst a temple vein.
Miffed;-)
Fuck you. I am working tonight and the ER is slow. I am working with no overtime, no benefits, no paid time off. I have not taken a vacation since 2006. And I have taken 2 sick days off in that time as well. You are a fool.
Cat fight!
LTER, Both women have legitimate arguments and issues.
I appreciate the fact that they take care of our worthless warmongering asses.
I don't see you as an instigator?
I was just trying to give them something to agree about (that I'm an asshole).
I'll let you in on a fact that we have in common no matter what our political, economic leanings are.
http://pikdit.com/i/you-were-nothing-but-an-asshole/
Happy thanksgiving to a fellow fecal orifice.
Miffed;-)
No wonder Catholics are so against abortion!*
*I was raised Catholic, so I get a pass on being anti-Catholite.
Happy Thanksgiving. I enjoyed your story earlier today about raising turkeys for your neighbors. My wife and I spent the day with my mom who has dementia. It's a bit trying and reminds me that life is short, even when life is long.
Sounds like somebody should consider looking for a new job.
What do you suggest. Our jobs in Information are being sent to India. I have done this since 18 and I am 57. What would you like me to do? Give blow jobs to some ugly rich guy so I can wear nice clothes and live in a nice house? Go back to school? For WHAT? Investment banking?
Cat fights don't apply unless gossip, betrayal accusations are being made. I only debate when I know I am right. A debate between this person (I have no idea if this is Ms Miffed or Mr. Miffed but WhatTheFuckEver) and me is none of your business. Lay down and die if you want, but encouraging everyone else to do the same is the suspicious message I am reading. Why would you do this? Vote for Trump and reorganize debt, sell off Florida, gain your independence perhaps. It would be the obvious thing to do in this country.
I've had my disagreements with Mrs. Miffed, but she's pretty cool. You and her actually agree on a lot. She has the libertarian bootstrap disease, not recognizing that she's walking with those boots on publicly funded roads. But she is clearly a good person.
Yes, she is "onto them." I guess I could be considered a luddite.
I spent the day today with my mom who has very advanced dementia (stage 7c) and two of her nurses. One was complaining about the 7 day shift while she was holding my mom's hand. Hats off to what you do, even if you don't do exactly that.
Not to get in the middle of your argument, because I like both bunnyswanson and Miffed - women I think close to my age that actually think about things that matter - but I do like the idea of selling off Florida.
There are lots of people I know in that state (mostly relatives) that I could easily do without. Who could the purchaser be? Venezuela? Mexico? George Soros?
And your point to your diatribe? How is your life any of my fault? Go to Calcutta and see some real poverty. Instead you moan and groan on line while at work. Seems pretty pathetic and pointless to me.
Miffed
I work at home and am paid by production. So when I sit here waiting for work, I am unpaid. And in fact, I volunteered to work so another could take off and be with her family. Your attempt to make me feel grateful to live in USA is wasted on me. I know this is the best country in the world, or it had the potential to be before THE BANKERS gained control after putting bullets into the heads of your Presidents. Pathetic and pointless is what the one man was called who tried to warn the Jewish people that prison camps were being constructed and arrests were being made. They LAUGHED AT HIM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmKT43j4Tc
I am a Canadian and I will return to my country if I have to but not before I do everything I can to stop this. Without America, the standard of living, which Unions/strikers gave us, will send us into a Working Class, Mangement/Security Class, and the Elite. I take it you have no children.
You are judging me and putting motivations on me without facts. The idea I'm " attempting to make you feel grateful" is ludicrous. Why would I bother? I don't give a damn about your feelings no matter what they are. They are yours to feel and only you are in charge of them. In reality, no one can make another feel anything.
And if you volunteered to work today for another and yet seem so bitter about it, I don't get the rationality of your decision to do so.
I have two daughters, 22 and 25 so, yes I do have skin in the game.
Miffed
"I should go to Calcutta" ... I don't need to go to Calcutta. I have seen half the world, and talked to many people during that time. In America, pre-911, citizens were left alone, live and let live. China towns is just one instance. America Towns in other countries amount to gated community of retireees. America gave people with gifted abilities who would have gone unnoticed to be discovered and recognized for their achievements.
I am not bitter. I am terrified.
Being terrified is not a good state. It tends to cause reactivity rather than responsiveness. Terror is unbalanced fear and it makes you more malleable for those who wish to harm you. I respectfully recommend you avoid this for your own wellbeing.
You focus on things you are in no power to change. Had I the power to destroy all TPTB I would gladly do so in a heartbeat. And if they come for me, I will defend myself, friends and loved ones. Hopefully my death won't be completely meaningless but if it is, so be it. There is no point to fear it.
The best approach for me is helping those I can locally. Forming a connection to them and listening to their perceptions and opinions. Most of my friends have had an active military career. Their advice and experiences have been priceless to me. You'd be surprised how so many are willing to teach when presented with one so anxious to learn. Though always a Lady, my heart is a Warrior.
Bunny, I have no issues with you. In reality this is just a blog where we all come to fight, grumble, commiserate and share opinions. If you have a specific issue to debate I'm up for that but personal attacks and shit flinging are just pointless to me. I'd rather battle on something more substantive.
Miffed
Altruism is the death of Liberty. March yourself off to war or the camps Commie.
They're expressing themselves."
looooolLet see if this bridge lasts as long as those in San Fran. I had been on the Golden Gate during an earthquake and it was an experience not to forget. All I could think about was studying resonance in physics and praying I wasn't going to experience it first hand.
Miffed
I stayed in a hotel that made some noise, so I called downstairs wondering about it. The front desk told me that we were having strong winds so the noise I was hearing was the building moving. They offer to move me to a lower floor and that should help with the noise. I told them not, because I would rather die on the fall them remain buried alive on lower floors. San Francisco is an interesting city. But I prefer the east.
The only thing I find appealing about San Francisco is the hope that the next megaquake puts a brick so far in Nancy Pelosi's head that her brain is actually found extruded out of her ass, and the whole fucking city absolutely turns upside down in seconds.
Take out that California shithole and take out LA, and suddenly California is the most conservative state in the union.
Willing to hire is what you should say. The HELP WANTED ADS do not seem to be asking for help so what do you fucking suggest? We go out into the streets and work for free? Highways have been given funding due to Oblamo, and since 2008 I have watched 5 men on major highways, standing there looking lost, waiting for equipment, broken down equipment. One lane at a time, no alternative route so "rush" hour traffic was nightmare and accidents were daily, some fatal.
BAD MANAGEMENT is in charge and if that is not evident, you are too busy wiping the ass of the maestroes who WANT us to be in a state of STOCKHOLME SYNDROME. WTF - I have never talked with a man who did not made a reference to his job, his past job, or the job he wants to have. We are defined by our jobs.
With bruised fingertips, I will fucking say this ONE MORE TIME. The Amerian people are in a hostage situation. THE NEW WORLD ORDER does not include the MIDDLE FUCKING CLASS and the wealth being pumped into CHINA AND DEVELOPING NATIONS was once ours, extracted out of our system methodically in an INVESTOR FUCKING PROTECTIONISM economy.
And for god's sake, IF YOU ARE A GODDAM MAN WHO DOES NOT SEE THIS, SIT DOWN, GET OUT OF THE WAY OF THOSE WHO DO. You are fucking sending several hundred million people to their grave but not before they suffer the misery designed to be so severe and humiliating, it will be unreported. THIS IS A FUCKING WAR.
The problem is exactly that Americans define themselves by their jobs. Very few give a shit anymore about bigger issues. The vast majority of Americans who have not already given up are on the hamster wheel, in debt up their eyeballs but still buying more shit to keep up with the Joneses. Meanwhile, young people fancy themselves future celebrities or sports stars.
What is truly depressing to me is that a site like ZH ran several stories today that basically said America is defined by an economic model -- capitalism. This country was once great because it meant something much more than any economic model.
Spot on LTER - that is EXACTLY what is wrong with Westerners today - they get their identity from their jobs - what peons we have become. Our sense of selves should come to us as members of the WESTERN CULTURE - not what type of slave brand we bear.
If it did we would not have put up with even 1/10th of the bullshit that has been swallowed - with an ever greater appetite for more.
Our people are slaves now, and used to it. Same death that Rome had - liberty robbed from the Citizenry and mass barbarian immigration pushed by the "Senate".
I used to believe it could be overthrown, now I think that war was lost in 1945.
Too much would need to be done to "save us". End the Fed, retire the alphabet agencies, drive out the barbarians, etc, etc, etc.
The elections are rigged, the regime is firmly entrenched. The finance, weaponry and propaganda industries all lie in their hands. Just no challenging that peacefully - look at JFK.
Only way to even begin finding a way out is a massive civil war.
Until then, on a personal level the only way out now is to break with the system - ironically one of the very things that helped kill Rome altogether.
God dammit, LTER, fuck you. I agree with you on this.
Job identity is a form of sniffing the tail. But in reality there's no odor to put any sort of supremacy in place. It's all made up titles and shit. We're not looking out over the whole field to see what really matters. We've been trained to focus on a particular spot, not survey the land.
That 'Capitalism' myth has got to be put down so we can start considering what the Crony Oligarch system REALLY means. The problem is we'll have be defining Oligarch to a hell of a lot of people, then rub their nose in what a Crony means.
LTER, you argue some things I don't agree with, and I usually don't comment on it because you're free to make your point.
But on this, you're absolutely correct.
LTER and bunny, I agree that people are defined (or self-defined) by their jobs, rather than by their morality, ethics, lifestyle, etc. "I'm a plumber, I'm a teacher, I'm a ________."
So tired of this. How about, I'm a libertarian. I'm an American.
Anyhow, ZH is failing in its mission of providing financial news. Why was there ZERO mention of these two stories, which I found through GATA:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/26/us-interestrateswaps-lawsuit-i...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/25/us-citigroup-pimco-lawsuit-idU...
Two huge lawsuits against the banks and no mention here? FAIL ZH, EPIC FAIL.
Let's get back to things that matter, like freeing ourselves from the debt-slavery system of the FED.
Thank you for your indignation and rage. I'll help pay for your new keyboard, if you need one. :)
WalMarts got a wireless keyboard and mouse for around $12. Bleeding finger bandaids are something like $4 or so. You could probably tend to the physical injuries for less than $20. The emotional, cry-bully, pussy shit will cost trillions in real terms.
Well fucking put. The world sucks
While parking the Enterprise in the SF Bay, I noticed a fine structure being bulit. They called it the new bay bridge, upon further review it was built by the Chinese. I just read a report it's crumbling. Dang, Chinese fortune cookies always break.
Beam me up Scotty, she's coming apart.
Confucius say:
'You get what you pay for'. Low bid means less embedded steel and more sand/less Portland.
Fuckin' Great.
And China's building our WonderRail System from Fresno to Bakersfield.
Hop Sing, is cooking for the Ponderosa. lol
I am old enough to remember when it was America doing the impossible miracles. The best bridges,,, tallest buildings,,, best aircraft,,, best cars,,, fastest cars, airplanes,,, serious space program,,, you name it. Then we got sold out, and the selling still continues. The only thing left is the military and the dollar. Since we no longer can impress the worlds people with our economic prowess we slap them around with the military hoping for some respect. What we don't realize is the same thing that happened to our economy, infrastructure and creativity will eventually take out both the dollar then the military.
One can see the jealousy emanating from some of the posts but jealousy doesn't build things,,, doesn't create and doesn't produce skills. We are a nation of supposed smart phones built by others and not so smart people.
tick tock...
You did not sell out. Your heroes were murdered and replaced by agents for the NWO.
It was mostly prefab and floated in.
So. move to china , if this is so great. Saw a vid. on how China tosses it seniors out like trash. Disgusting.
Vids on that?
It is kinda ironic the ZH website doesnt really build anything and has been wrong with
their continual pessimism porn.
Doesnt ZH have some sort of gold conspiracy to follow up on? or Ackman bashing ,That seems to thrill the
ZH staff
You should read what many of the Gen X and Millennials post concerning ameriKa's seniors. (lol)
Chinese people Do Not Trust their government which has over the centuries sent them into 3 famines and while in the state of lack of ample food, created a law which made ~talking~ about their plight against the law. They were manipulated into complaining and then shot in the head or beaten. When one prison slave escapes, all slaves are killed. To move the Agenda 21 forward, confiscation of land from families is being done at the end of gun. One man was imprisoned, forced to eat salted food, refused water until he signed the papers.
There is nothing honorable about China. Corruption is thriving in this nation. The million man army is there to protect the govt from the people who have had no hope for more. One child policy has been lifted by thanks to it, there is a WORKER SHORTAGE. The new young are Little Emperors and Princesses who quit working the first day due to frustration. China needs workers and they new slave labor, where a 2 week notice before quitting is replaced by jumping off a roof to escape tedious, repetitive nonstop conveyor belt of products rushing to meet a deadline.
"China needs workers and they new slave labor"
I disagree with that. They have 8M new university graduates each year and god knows how many others who go from school directly into the workforce. They can't find jobs for most of those people because they're automating factories.
University graduates will not be working on the production line. They will be management. My friend's son is in USC and according to him, most students are Asian. And they drive very nice cars, have no worries and are loving the ability to live in an infrastructure which took 3 generations of Americans to construct. Complete with the freedom to pray freely to whomever they wish, should they chose.
Workers are needed to get the produce off the trees/out of the fields before weather change (freeze/rain) or it rots, feeding cattle/chickens/hogs need fed, culled, weighed, medicated - hands on.
Contracts have deadlines that need to be met. For instance, An immediate need for 3000 people to work nonstop for 3 months and have the final product ready to ship or the competition gets the next deal and someone loses their job.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=china+factory+town+shoe+sock - Page of Ytube with 3200 vidoes of China's factories and their workers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzlzlPjseao - China's largest factory in the world - An entire town of nothing but factories. Living on premises, schools on ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEVt1ElQZRA - Sweater factory.
In early 1940s, my mother as an 8 year old orphan was sent alone on a train from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to Niagara Falls, NY, sent across border, lied and said she was 18, where she was picked up and sent to a clothing factory for 4 months to meet this deadline. Her border crossing was on 12/31, New Years Eve. She was alone. I see she came back exactly 4 months later. She never spoke a word of it to me. I had to find out from a relative. She could sew because of it. She also insisted on mopping floor on her knees even after mops were available. She did laundry as an orphan. Orphans were the free labor in orphanages. She looked after the young children. And if you want to see a picture of her so you may be convinced as this sounds outlandish, here is it:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=133452130350486&set=a.1334521470...
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010570999489 (hopefully one of these will work, she is in last row, far right, tallest in line at 5 foot, St. Patrick's Catholic Orphange.
Slaves after wealth confiscation is seen throughout our past. It is cyclical and it is time for another wash and dry. This is their business plan. It is cruel and highly unusual yet accepted as normal because it is not discussed via MSM, the topic is not one that society will allow to be openly debated because the obvious reason is - they need free labor and the wealth of these people The Rich Stay Rich by Stealing from the poor.
Bunny, you need to watch this movie - one of the best I have ever seen, about an orphaned brother and sister in WW2 Japan. It's incredibly sad. I watched it with my mother.
Studio Ghibli - Grave of the Fireflies.
Best Regards.
If abortion were legal in 1930, my mother and brother and I would not be here and the world would be a better place, make no mistake.
Your mom is/was a tough old broad. I say that very respectfully, I know tough, old broads. I have a mom that is a tough old broad. She actually DID wear combat boots. Was one of the first Nurse Practitioners in the World, had the first clinic run by a Nurse Practitioner, has her own Supreme Court Decision, may have another in 2016, SrCMsgt USAF, LA County Deputy Sheriff (1970's), can put a round in your ass at two miles, can knock you unconcious with a flip-flop with a backhanded throw from a 1958 Rambler. Tough broad. Your mom was this sort of bad-ass.
My grandfather was orphaned in the late 1890's. He ran from the orpahanage at 8. Took a job at a newspaper as a sweeper (basically he used a broom) for a couple penny's a day. In his teens he wrote his first bit of reportage. It was published, and they misspelled his name in the byline, Comer became Conner. He adopted the new name and went on to spawn a West Burlington, Iowa newspaper and seven children who all knew their name as Conner.
To this day, my mom, surviving aunts and uncles, and their progeny are still trying to figure out what the hell to make out of it all.
One guy, in hard times, doing what he had to do to survive....
My surname, however, is a direct line from the first Irish King (certavi et vici)...with a mash of black, mexican, french, english and scot thrown in. (We'll fuck anything.)
I too mop the floor with a rag while kneeling. It is more efficient than standing and using a handled mop.
Carpet and vinyl installers would beg to disagree. Habits die hard.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-fluoride-deception/ - Fluoride Deception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dZPOJ4p1DM Hitler and Flouride
Lived rural, drank well water, kids called me Rusty in junior high.
The bacteria turned my blond hair red.
They have 8M new university graduates each year and god knows how many others who go from school directly into the workforce. They can't find jobs for most of those people because they're automating factories.
I disagree with that. The Chinese looked around Asia in the 80s and saw the Asian Tiger economies, remember those? Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan... they saw the pathetic state of their own commie-run shit economy and decided, why do things the hard way? They copied the Asian Neo Mercantalist model, heavy protectionism at home, overreliance on industrial scale export-lead economic growth; concentrated power in the hands of a few large industrial darlings.
It's also not a coincidence the commies embarked on massive land snatches from rural peasants and the housing boom that started around 2000. Leading Hong Kong industrialists were lending their brand of "expertise" to the commies, and all the Hong Kong land monopolists know is stealing land, then building cement block towers and putting them on the market at exhorbitant prices.
20 years later this is the economic model China is stuck with. Export-lead economy and infrastructure building. All copied from every other economic model in Asia. The 8-million annual graduates you are talking about are graduating into a non-existant service sector. What you're talking about is how the marginally employed migrant work force will soon be permanently unemployed. OOPS. Another little bump in the road for the commies. They've printed their way to prosperity leveraging paper yuan against slave labor, now they have to build an actual economy. Just as the labor force demographics start plunging. OOPS. Didn't quite see that one coming, those Mandarin geniuses with their 1000-year foresight.
I love it how all the "experts" on Asia fetishize everything Asian from their barkaloungers back in North America. On this side of the great Pacific divide China is a toxic waste dump with 1.3 billion peasants all trying to buy the same shit to look more prosperous to the neighbors. The skies are grey, the water is brown and corruption is endemic. The markets sell plastic rice, cardboard dumplings and anything else you can conceivably fake, from college degrees to auto parts. Let's not forget the melanin-laced milk powder. But keep fetishizing about the Chinese miracle.
There is some good news though. Eventually I estimate a Chinese diaspora of anywhere from 200-300 million people. And they're bringing their 17th century fucktarded belief systems, cronyism, nepotism and culture of authority worshipping with them to a MacMansion near you. And do you really think the Chinese kleptocracy is gonna cut you in on the action? I've got some news for you. In about 60~100 years, whatever pieces of North America are leftover after the various wars are going to be run by the Chinese. You're voting to become a second class citizen in your own country. Don't believe me do you. Google Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Phillipinnes. All run by cliques of Chinese from the diaspora. You people have no fucking idea what you're doing.
Good luck with that fetish. Hope you like playing master and servant.
I thought we were all going to be Muslim or die for resisting.
What are the Chinese offering to negate that?
Chinese, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. (Would be interesting to see what they do to glorigy coolie towns here in the west.)
Muslims, looking forward to it. "Cowboy and Muslims" time seems pretty close. I'm a geezer, but I could probably take out a dozen or so bullets while you younger assholes fire away.
Wow , lots of tin foilers moving to china,eh?. Buhhhh bye.
ZH open an office there and bash the China leaders like you do here. (which Im ok with BTW)
Send me a postcard from Re-education camp 13456760AA Sector G.
Cloned 'river pig" carcases make great foundations. WTF?
China ‘cloning factory’ to produce cattle, racehorses and pets - Telegraph
lmfao.China Unveils Biggest Army Overhaul in Decades to Project Power - Bloomberg Business
I guess China is going to train "Unicorns" on it's sand castles?
I believe their 'one child' policy generated an unprecidented number of 'fairy princesses' to, not train, but guide, those unicorns on those sand castles.
Why do 2 nuclear warheads from WW2 show up at the 39 second mark in the lower left? They are there for about 4 seconds, which is about hour hours in chinese dog years.
Cement trucks.
Did the Chinese build the Pyramids??
Yep, in two weeks
Yes, they bult the pyramids to store grain and fortune cookies.
They have used more concrete in 10 - 20 years than America has in the intire 20th century. i think they might know what there doing.
You're damned right.
They needed all those ghost cities for 'the children'.
Did you notice that the traffic next to the bridge during the whole operation seemed to be virtually unaffected? Makes you wonder how fast they're building their military.
Now, that is a "shovel ready" job ?
While the USA can't build a wall along the Mexican border in the last thirty years!! Money grubbing politicians!! Men without balls!!!
US is still leading the world. Chinese use too many people to complete low cost projects. We, US needed only a tiny frction of human labour to build our Trillion USD F-35.
We build new regimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya etc. The Chinese built nothing abroad. Maybe sand castles?
We have killed the most people directly or indirectly with our weapons. ISIS are pleased with our stuff. Even their head chopping swords are of American steel.
Dump the Chinese - no where close to our standard
+1.
Millions of Middle Easterners have fled to Europe in fear of US bombs, drones, and troops. How many troops? Fewer than Chinese workers at the contruction site. Now that's good leverage.
Don't forget new made-by-America regimes in Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Japan, Colombia, ...
>>>US is still leading the world. Chinese use too many people to complete low cost projects. We, US needed only a tiny fraction of human labour to build our Trillion USD F-35.
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...that get tossed in the garbage as unreliable and useless....TRILLIONS of 'other peoples money' down the drain
The F-35 started in 1997, nearly 20 years to design and build a plane.
Oh yeh, sorry, you said they did not have many people.
Nice video, regardless.
.. and when it comes to bridges, China has 4 of the 5 longest (Thailand has the other) so their engineering ain't so bad.
Sadly, it seems good enough for my UK Government to "need" them to build our next nuclear power station.
Like Galadriel, we, in the West, Diminish.
"The F-35 started in 1997, nearly 20 years to design and build a plane."
To be fair, our goobermint first had to reimagine a pencil, then design a prototype, then define the specs, then, after years of study and crony pay-offs, issue a Purchase Order, end result chalkstick.
Then our esteemed goobermint had to reimagine paper, realize that it decimated all the renewable trees, design regulations that killed paper mills and moved them onto the other side of the border, put in laws designed to ultimately ban paper, and, end result, slate.
Chalk and slate work as designed for a year, then the realization was made that both chalk and slate were derived from extrative industries that had no means of recycling, no matter that recyling was an active industry, so mining was encouraged to move to the other side of the border.
Finally, research developed the concept of email, where no paper is ever expended The government then prints the entire chain of replies, in depth on paper for the Federal Record.
Then they start thinking about the carbon footprint of email....
US is still leading the world.
into the abyss.
There I finished it for you!
US is still leading the world" In debt and shake down muscle for the big corps.(some call it the military)
REAL DEBT of the USA is 220 TRILLION. Prof. L. Kotlikoff/ Boston U.
BTW , Lets just say the fantasy of 20T that the govt admits, is "true"
EXACTLY what is the plan for paying that off?
Any promises on how long it will last?
When you have a billion people willing to work instead of expecting free "stuff", anything's possible...
I think you mean, "When you live in a totalitarian dictatorship that can hold a gun to your head and direct you to do anything, anything is what you do...."
overused rhetoric
Not "overused", but over-abused.
Any promises on how long it will last?
Lots of talk of Cambodia in these posts (Not sure why) Angkor Wat is 800 years old and still standing, I've been twice, nice place, you can get lost in the forests and myriad of other temples in the huge area that contains it all (Especially with a few pre-rollers in your pocket) Anyway, I digress, I was just wondering about those 800 year old U.S. buildings/constructions ? Oh, wait, err, how about 400 year old U.S. buildings...no..err, 300..?? No!
Oh well, never mind.
Ohio Mounds, Canyon de Chelly.
That's a beautiful area, I've been once before, but you can hardly attribute it to the United States of Americas, as in built by the peoples of said country. I think it's about a 1000 years old, right? Built by the indigenous population of North America.
Whoopee! Logistics, materials, equipment, manpower. The way things really get done. And so what if it lasts 20 years. They'll just do it again. What did it cost? Got any answers on that?
What do we do?
We in the USA, however, let civil engineers place electronic devices attatched to old bridges, to measure deterioration, to let us know how soon they will fail. So the Polotic knows when to ask for money from the Federal Highway Fund. How much is in that fund BTW????
What a way to run a fucking railroad. You all must be really asleep!!!!!
The Old Man
just wait till the war production goes into effect
What sort of Waranty ?
Actually a good article...soo much gloom and doom in so many news media...nice to see hard working people...hey..they are done building ghost cities..got to do something with all the unemployed construction workers..
I demand to know where the EPA stands on all this. (Just kidding folks)
Rise asia rise
and let the west go down to dust, the evil worldlooters
Global warming....worry about the global warming.