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Our Future Is (Literally) Crumbling Before Our Eyes
zero hedge ^ | 7-7-16 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 07/06/2016 4:27:17 PM PDT by vannrox

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To: Sequoyah101
"I am a civil engineer and know this very well. But it is not the disaster he makes it out to be."

What kind of disaster is it then? Local public officials continue to invent more regulations and fees while directing more revenues to their salaries. Needed infrastructure repairs and improvements are increasingly neglected, while regulatory officials spend more time on implementing and enforcing the various putsches of Agenda 21 against private property development. In other words, the heinies, bringing Europe with them, sit on their heinies and make nothing much more than trouble.

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Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

...and pensioners from the same.

"The biggest waste is the stupid windmills. Not only that, they are a blight on the land."

That's an interesting word choice (blight: definition).


21 posted on 07/06/2016 7:29:08 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The rate that we are producing it is much faster than the rate it is being formed. It must migrate one drop at a time into a trap. If the author’s premise was correct, then currently formed traps would be recharged. That has never been known to occur.


22 posted on 07/06/2016 7:51:40 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: vannrox

The real cause of the problems:

The Nature of a Psychopath and the Global Elite ~ Jay Weidner - Thomas Sheridan - James Corbett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqfvXw8qu6Q


23 posted on 07/06/2016 7:53:55 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Iron Munro

It has a 3-ton weight limit on it for vehicles, however.


24 posted on 07/06/2016 8:07:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Where is the oxygen coming from to drive the oxidation (i.e. rust) process. From the concrete itself?

Some minute air bubbles are trapped in the concrete when it is mixed and poured. (air-entrained concrete)

Entrained air bubbles are very small - just a fraction of a millimeter.

Additionally, much of the water in the wet concrete mix dries out as the concrete sets. When the water molecule evaporates it leaves behind a void that is filled with air.

Furthermore, some of the remaining water is entrapped in the concrete as just minute water droplets. Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen with most of the atomic mass being oxygen.

The amount of entrained air, entrapped air and entrapped water varies with the type of concrete mix and the way it is mixed and cured.

So in general, the necessary components to feed the deterioration of steel reinforced concrete are in the concrete to one degree or another from the moment it is poured.


25 posted on 07/06/2016 8:11:14 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Sequoyah101
"he biggest waste is the stupid windmills. Not only that, they are a blight on the land."

driving home from Portland Oregone we drove thru the beautiful Columbia Gorge....sadly, there are hundreds of windmills there now and its very upsetting and ridiculous...

26 posted on 07/06/2016 8:16:09 PM PDT by cherry
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To: kearnyirish2

we could afford the materials but we absolutely can not afford the workers....here in Washington, there is a law that only union workers can do most construction....you know what that means....$$$$$$$


27 posted on 07/06/2016 8:21:28 PM PDT by cherry
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To: kearnyirish2

we could afford the materials but we absolutely can not afford the workers....here in Washington, there is a law that only union workers can do most construction....you know what that means....$$$$$$$


28 posted on 07/06/2016 8:21:29 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

The fields of amber grain look like a huge parking lot full of light poles.


29 posted on 07/06/2016 10:06:36 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: cherry

Should have had them painted woodland camo, just blend in and such.


30 posted on 07/06/2016 10:15:15 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: vannrox

Part of the aspect of inspecting reinforced concrete construction includes tolerances for how much concrete must cover reinforcing steel when the face is exposed to soil, air, interior etc... where you see the rotting bar and or spalling concrete the tolerances at some point were missed, or the concrete was substandard, or the mix wasn’t designed for the environmental conditions.

I’ve had concrete hammered out of places that was over 75 years old and it was like granite and the bar was fine.


31 posted on 07/06/2016 10:36:05 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: DH

Base...


32 posted on 07/06/2016 10:36:58 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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I believe we’re enduring the finality of corrupt, dying royalty.


33 posted on 07/06/2016 10:39:24 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: cherry

That is usually the problem; the inefficient union workers cost too much. The funding for these projects eventually drives off those squeezed to provide it (companies, taxpayers). Here in NJ road projects are being delayed because Governor Christie won’t raise the gasoline tax; we are taxed so much already, it would just chase more taxpaying Americans (and their employers) to greener pastures.


34 posted on 07/07/2016 3:36:17 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

>>One very big issue already facing many areas in the US is the fact that there is nobody to raise the money to fix these things; as the “makers” dwindle in number the “takers” certainly have no interest in contributing towards infrastructure improvements (or anything else related to a common good). Even if we don’t “owe” money to aliens, we certainly have nothing but IOUs left to repair this stuff.

We are sliding into a new Dark Age. The infrastructure will continue to crumble. It only gets worse from here because everyone is locked into the old economic paradigms. One day, the power and water will stop flowing 24/7 and it will get.....interesting.


35 posted on 07/07/2016 3:46:27 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Bryanw92

It happens in steps; streets fall into disrepair, nature reclaims abandoned properties, etc.

I don’t see a situation where power and water are shut off, but the coaxing of citizens into urban hives will certainly continue.


36 posted on 07/07/2016 3:57:28 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

>>I don’t see a situation where power and water are shut off, but the coaxing of citizens into urban hives will certainly continue.

I work in the utility industry. It won’t be shut off. It will fail. Nobody sees the massive infrastructure that delivers power and water and takes the sewage away. But it’s there, crumbling to dust, as the money goes away a little bit each year.


37 posted on 07/07/2016 4:00:13 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Bryanw92

Here in the northeast we have an aging infrastructure that occasionally leads to power outages or water restrictions; they are always addressed because BUSINESS can’t deal with unpredictable services - and when businesses leave there really is nothing left.


38 posted on 07/07/2016 4:03:59 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Captain7seas

“unsustainable addiction to fossil fuels,”

“I stopped reading right there.”

At that point, it began sounding like an edict from the EPA or the Department of Energy.

IMHO


39 posted on 07/07/2016 5:05:01 AM PDT by ripley
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To: kearnyirish2

>>Here in the northeast we have an aging infrastructure that occasionally leads to power outages or water restrictions; they are always addressed because BUSINESS can’t deal with unpredictable services - and when businesses leave there really is nothing left.

That’s right. Many residential areas are on a separate circuit for just that reason.


40 posted on 07/07/2016 7:21:03 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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