... is worth a thousand words...

[Silent_Bob]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/journey-through-vogelsang-once-ussrs-massive-east-german-nuclear-military-base-and-now-ghost-to

And now for something completely different. Instead of scary tales of horrifying Math 101 (soon to be banned in one of the many upcoming Eurosummits), which confirms that no matter how it is spun, the global reality is ugly and getting worse (and ever more diluted in paper format), courtesy of Spiegel we present a photographic journey through Vogelsang: formerly one of the biggest Soviet military garrisons housing nuclear weapons and numerous nuclear launch pads, home of the 25th tank division protecting the USSR's most prized external asset, located in the forest near Berlin and housing over 15,000 people. It is now a surreal ghost town, and as haunted as any of the "cities" one can find deep in China.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/07/captured-the-ruins-of-detroit/2672/

Up and down Detroit's streets, buildings stand abandoned and in ruin. French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decline of an American city. Their book "The Ruins of Detroit", a document of decaying buildings frozen in time, was published in December 2010.

[Kat Kanning]

Sad.

[Russell Kanning]

wow