Ghost towns
Burlington is the name of the city as a secret bunker, which the British built in the Cold War to house staff of the central government in the event of a nuclear attack. In Tehrani spoke of it not long ago, rescuing these data:
- We planned in the'50s and was built from 1957
- It was designed as a shelter, emergency center and headquarters in the event of nuclear conflict
- Its existence was kept secret until 2005
- Occupied about 34 acres (14 hectares ~)
- He was about 100 miles of tunnels on the inside
- More than 6,000 people could live there for 90 days
- It was divided into 24 functional areas, including a hospital, studio recording of the BBC, five communication centers, kitchens, bedrooms, filters of radioactivity, stores, laundry, offices and other
- 12 deposits of about 100,000 liters of fuel each provide the energy source for plants
- An underground lake and a treatment plant ensured water supply
- Air conditioning kept the temperature around 20 degrees
- The telephone exchange was the second largest in Britain in his time
- A network of tubes allowed to send compressed air capsules with messages for his interior
- We performed maintenance of the facilities until the end of the 80s
- Since then, only four people were commissioned Site
- The facilities were withdrawn / dismantled in 2005
- Never used
The BBC did a story on her, with pictures and everything, that you can see here.
Speaking to BBC and ghost towns, this weekend they came to write about Seseña, that project sponsored by the humble pocero and what we read this weekend: Seseña: BBC discovers' ghost town '.
"The idea was to create a dream home, but now works stand and this is a ghost town." So portrays Hugh Pym, a journalist with the BBC, the desolate landscape of Seseña, the macrourbanización designed by the builder Francisco Hernando 'The Pocero'. It is the example chosen in the UK chain to describe the break that the real estate business has suffered in Spain, which has gone from "boom to the urban ghost towns."
It is what happens to us, in times of hysteria that we are building like crazy, either underground cities that never will use as outlying towns than ever need.
The truth is that the poor real estate sector will come cakes everywhere, is a clear example that we saw yesterday, Colonial that if we look at its share price is worth zero Euros, which translated into pesetas are also zero: Colonial worth less on the stock exchange that 15% who owns FCC and its listed buildings' zero '.
Inmobiliaria Colonial true 'zero' euros. Or at least that values the stock market your business after its price tumble in the past two years. Its stock market capitalization has fallen below 600 million euros, 50 million less than it is worth their participation in the construction company FCC, which reaches 15% of the capital and two seats on the board of directors since early 2007. It is not something new, as the group's own debt finally swallowed its value, as this newspaper reported in January. Matches temporary, since he made this investment, in December 2006, Colonial has been steadily falling on the stock. The then-powerful Inmocaral Colonial Luis Portillo gave the bell to buy the Acciona of Entrecanales 15% stake in FCC by 1,500 million euros.
So normal that in this rarefied atmosphere as one in three thinks investors to sell real estate by the credit crisis. This is at least what it tells us the report "Breaking the mold: a question of personality", produced in partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which emphasize the following point:
The study indicates that the Internet has become an important source of information for investors with high net worth, and that 75% of respondents said that using the Web to investigate and gather business information and financial.
Without doubt, an excellent news, the big estates begin to take a more pluralistic than that of their manager.
Today we have to know the details of the strike and while we await the Minister of Labor is preparing us: Corbacho recognizes that the strike "will probably increase" in August *. Sure, blame the consumer because we have to exaggerate the gravity of the crisis.
"The indices of consumer confidence tend to sobrerreaccionar in the stages of expansion and recession, in some cases for better and for worse in the other," says Jose Carlos Diez, chief economist of Intermoney. For this reason, considers that the minimum that is setting the rate of economic perception of Spanish citizens is "perfectly normal for the economic cycle in which we find ourselves."
Interesting debate. Are we exaggerating the economic situation? Will we spend too much when things go well and too little when they go wrong?
* Update: Unemployment rises to 103,100 persons in August to 2,530,001 unemployed.
Written by Carlos Lopez on September 2, 2008 with 230 points.
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# 1, fyahball
Data unemployment?
ZP but did not say that we were going towards full employment ...
Well, we stayed at the full shamelessness ...
I remember posts from the beginning of the year where I and many avisábamos that the strike was going to be dramatic, this is "yalodeciayoismo," but it's well ...
Now begins the road that dajará the country "on Mondays in the sun" ... in the unemployment ...
LAST MINUTE: 103,000 or so ... and this is not BURN DEM ALL ??????