Name: The Secret Architecture of America’s $1BN Fortress
Uploaded: 2023-12-11
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Posted on 11/12/2023

The Secret Architecture of America’s $1BN Fortress

This is how the US built its most hi-tech and controversial embassy.
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Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown (2022) https://thelondonspy.com/blog/a-deal-trump-couldnt-have-bettered/
https://www.ft.com/content/aece06c6-f793-11e7-8715-e94187b3017e
https://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/fortress-london-the-new-us-embassy-and-the-rise-of-counter-terror-urbanism/
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2006/aug/07/features11.g2
https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/regeneration-projects/vauxhall-nine-elms-battersea-vneb-regeneration
https://uk.usembassy.gov/new-embassy-design-concept/

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0:00 Intro
1:25 London Embassies
3:44 Little America
5:41 Masterworks
6:58 Sarf London
9:21 The Secret Fortress
11:49 Outro

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Posted on 30/08/2023

The Unknown Infrastructure that Powers our World

This is how the Internet backbone is built.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7218008.stm
https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2022/03/17/microsoft-announces-intent-to-build-a-new-datacenter-region-in-finland-accelerating-sustainable-digital-transformation-and-enabling-large-scale-carbon-free-district-heating/
https://c2e2.unepccc.org/kms_object/global-growth-potential-of-energy-efficient-data-centres/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/underwater-sea-cables-beaches-uk/
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Posted on 13/07/2022

The US Government Wants to Destroy These Towers

These historic Chicago buildings are slated for demolition.
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