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Manila is the capital of the Philippines and the largest city in the 7,641-island country.
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What commuting in Manila is like [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtuA-_BiItQ
Urban Renewal Study https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331633998_Urban_Renewal_of_the_City_of_Manila_and_its_Impact_to_Environment_and_Physical_Design
Exploring Manila (BBC doc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGZIHZtQlms
https://www.britannica.com/place/Manila
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Manila
WW2 Footage of Manila https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ok97Q98l4
A trip through Manila 1931 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7ng17Yy50
Parts Unknown, Manila https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZroEePqEAwQ
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Manila
0:40 Geography of the capital
0:57 Spanish Manila
1:23 Philippine independence movement
2:08 War with the United States
3:22 American design
4:00 Manila in WW2
4:42 Modern Manila's challenges
6:06 Transportation system
6:30 A six-hour roundtrip commute
7:00 Metro Manila Subway
7:22 Most vulnerable city to natural disasters
7:55 Government moving to New Clark City
8:15 Bonifacio Global City
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Manila, the Philippines' MEGACITY: History of an Island Capital
Manila, the Philippines' MEGACITY: Capital of 7,641 Islands
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Potomac Basin https://potomacdwspp.org/resources/about-the-potomac-basin/
Flood proofing Federal Triangle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goFC7H8DN5o
CBS: Rising Waters in Tidal Basin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPLedIobHRw
New Flood Wall https://youtu.be/XMFcJ_ttSZI?si=1clHozSB2nlmKnV4&t=62
DC Water's Clean Rivers PDF https://www.dcwater.com/sites/default/files/project/2016-12/presentations/2024-04-10%20WABA%20%28WPP%29%20Briefing%20Presentation.pdf
DC Clean Rivers video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCOXuWgPnXw
Lady Bird Tunnel Boring Machine https://youtu.be/J5oEqtpB1go?si=1LgeBHozH_k9x1_u&t=69
Tour of Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant https://youtu.be/Rm_iyxwAx94?si=NCL1T0C_B-RLsOCY
That nightmare scenario haunted the team excavating the 75 foot-deep site for the National Museum of African American History and Culture after they accidentally hit the aquifer under the National Mall. If too much water gushed into their giant pit, they could destabilize their neighbor, the great structure just a few hundred feet away, causing it to shift or even fall over.
So they acted quickly to pump water back in to stabilize it. When their instruments showed the ground pressure holding firm, they plugged up the leak and focused on modifying the museum’s design to mitigate this new risk.
To maximize its exhibit space, while limiting its above ground footprint, the museum’s first four levels are underground. To keep them dry, visitors safe, and the 91,000-ton monument next door standing tall, they encased the subterranean levels in two walls, with eight feet of porous stone fill in between, to catch and hold any water that might penetrate the foundation.
It was an ingenious solution, but for builders in the federal District of Columbia, dealing with a shallow water table is nothing new.
When President George Washington chose this idyllic spot to be the national capital, it was a land of farms and woods, rich with surface water. Small brooks trickled into streams, like Rock Creek. Marshes and tidal flats swelled and receded as the 14,700 square-mile Potomac basin drained through the District and mixed with the tidal flow of the Chesapeake Bay–the largest estuary in the United States. But as the city's boulevards and grand buildings were constructed over the past two-and-a-half centuries, 70% of these natural streams have disappeared: diverted into sewers, culverts, or filled in and paved over.
Tiber Creek flowed through what has become the National Mall. First, it was converted into a canal, and then piped into sewers buried beneath Federal Triangle. Today, this group of large neoclassical buildings - between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues - is home to numerous large government agencies. It’s also the lowest point in downtown.
In 2006 it rained heavily for an entire week, leaving the Triangle submerged, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage and disrupting government operations.
It wasn’t the first time this has happened here.
Experts fear the most extreme storm would put the American History Museum under 16 feet of water.
Engineers have taken steps to protect the buildings, like installing temporary barriers, retractable gates, and raising core utilities out of their basements.
There’s even now a temporary levee that’s trucked over and dropped in along the Mall for added protection ahead of big storms.
But throughout the rest of DC, an estimated 16,000 homes and businesses have had little protection from flooding when it rains.
Some residents have water gush in from the street, others confront it bubbling up from their toilets when old sewers overflow and long-buried “zombie” streams gurgle back to life.
On the southernmost edge of the district, along the Potomac, another major flooding threat looms. Over the past century, the waterline has effectively risen four feet, a combination of sea level rise and the land sinking under the weight of development.
I’ve definitely noticed the water getting a little higher every year. The area where the water is is actually a portion of the seawall that has settled over the years.
During high tide, when the ocean pushes the Chesapeake Bay further up the Potomac, 250 million gallons of river water enter the Tidal Basin. But it was constructed in 1897, it can no longer contain the river at high tide, causing the walking paths around the monuments and iconic cherry trees to flood twice a day like clockwork.
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,1,The story of how Dublin and Ireland has transformed from one of Europe's poorest countries to one of its wealthiest--an improbable rise in just 30 years.
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Ireland GDP Growth https://rb.gy/kzop2h
Dublin stories w/ Prof David Dickson https://t.ly/_WBWK
Partition https://rb.gy/95oufv
Dublin wikipedia https://t.ly/p93Hr
Why Dublin became a tech hub https://bit.ly/4cnBpOl
Ireland wiki https://t.ly/ap4_4
The Troubles https://t.ly/rvdfA
What's weird about Ireland's GDP https://linkye.net/pk8m
Ireland Corp Tax rates https://rb.gy/hfz7jv
Healthcare system overhaul https://rb.gy/dh6zia
Budget surplus https://rb.gy/dorxl5
Ireland's wind export potential https://rebrand.ly/7qfbjge
European wind generation by country https://rebrand.ly/5pubvqq
Demographics of Ireland (Population and Immigration) https://rebrand.ly/pvxnt7z
Americans with Irish descent https://t.ly/VLNXe
Welcome to Dublin 0:00
Geography of Dublin 0:36
Vikings settle Ireland 0:53
English take control 1:04
Irish Rebellion 1:30
Partition of Ireland 2:19
Troubles 2:36
Good Friday Agreement 3:10
Economic Boom 3:27
Brexit bonus 4:12
Tax Haven 4:22
US Corporations 5:01
High living standards 5:22
Wind energy potential 6:10
Guinness 6:54
Loses 1/2 population 7:05
31.5 Million Irish Americans 7:22
Immigrants in Ireland 7:37
Script:
The capital of the only native English-speaking country in the European Union is considered one of the most liveable and richest places in the world, but this success is a very recent phenomenon. For a millennium this rocky island was occupied by Vikings, then the English. Independence only came a century ago, and peace less than 25 years ago after the end of a decades-long low-level war with its neighbor to the north.
This is Dublin, Ireland.
On a bay where the River Liffey flows into the sea lies Ireland’s prime city, with a metropolitan population of 1.26 million, four times as large as Cork, the country’s second-largest metro area, 215 kilometers to the southwest.
In 841 seafaring Vikings established a fortified base that grew into a substantial port and commercial center. In 1169 the Anglo-Normans invaded Ireland and for the next 750 years English Kings and Queens controlled the island. Dublin Castle, first founded in 1204, was the nerve center of the crown’s power here.
Under the Protestant English the Catholic Irish were oppressed. Their land rights and ability to self-govern were stripped away. Influenced by the American and French Revolutions, Ireland’s push for independence began in earnest in the spring of 1798 when rebel leader Wolfe Tone led peasants against the highly trained redcoats in a prolonged campaign of battles throughout the island. Although it was ultimately snuffed out, for the next 125 years it inspired a series of agitations and uprisings against the British that extracted more and more rights for the Irish. A group of Irish rebels declared Independence in 1916, withstood six years of violent struggle with the empire by riding a growing wave of nationalist support, and ultimately won the right to self-government.
But the island’s 6 northernmost counties with a Protestant majority chose to remain in the United Kingdom as a separate country called Northern Ireland. This was unacceptable to the Catholic majority in the South who wanted the entire island to be a unified free Republic. So a force calling themselves the Irish Republican Army launched a guerilla campaign of armed resistance against the British and the North focused on its capital, Belfast. This period, known as The Troubles, lasted for three decades, with violence spilling south into parts of the Republic and even across the sea in England.
Finally, everyone had had enough, and peace was achieved with the Good Friday agreement.
Between 1995 and 2000 growth averaged an astounding 9.4%, and stayed strong at 5.9% per year until 2008. This dramatic rise meant Irish incomes surged past every other European Country except tiny Luxembourg
But the biggest key to Dublin’s turnaround may be its ridiculously low headline corporate tax rate that stood - as of 2023 - at 12.5%, compared to 29.9% in Germany, 25.8% in France and the Netherlands, and 25% in Spain and Turkey.
But for lawmakers in Dublin, transforming into one of the world's largest tax havens was a brilliant move at the end of The Troubles, with U.S.–controlled multinationals now making up twenty-five of the top 50 businesses in Ireland, including the EU headquarters of giants Pfizer, Microsoft, Google, and Apple.
For example, every Irish has access to low-cost public healthcare, and leaders from every major political party are united in undertaking an ambitious transition to a universal system - Sláintecare.
wind power, which now makes up 36% of Ireland’s electricity generation, the second-highest ratio in Europe. A new electricity interconnector with France is coming online in 2026
,1,Chicago has always been on the cutting edge of industries. Today, it is the epicenter of quantum technology research, the country’s leading nuclear energy producer, the logistics hub of the United States, the capital of Black America, and the forefront of the battle against rising coastlines and urban flooding.
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Nuclear Industry of Illinois
https://apnews.com/article/illinois-nuclear-moratorium-modular-reactors-solar-wind-225d14cefb03793e08f0802745df4e02
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Illinois
Demographics of Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Chicago
Timuel Black Interview on The Great Migration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqn5OmF23HY&pp=ygUUY2hpY2FnbyB0aW11ZWwgYmxhY2s%3D
Create Rail Improvement Projects https://www.createprogram.org/projects/
Renovating Union Station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2veYdpjEk
Chicago is America’s Rail Hub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYfxo2otxCw&t=6s&pp=ygUld2FsbCBzdHJlZXQgam91cm5hbCBjaGljYWdvcyByYWlsIGh1Yg%3D%3D
Chicago by L https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXB8htl3Zo&t=381s&pp=ygUMY2hpY2FnbyBieSBs
City at War: Chicago’s Steel Industry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMvSoMkT1iQ&t=1416s&pp=ygUTY2l0eSBhdCB3YXIgY2hpY2Fnbw%3D%3D
NYT: A Battle Between a Great Lake and a Great City https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/07/climate/chicago-river-lake-michigan.html
Metro Water Reclamation Department Virtual Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__yXMrBYek4&pp=ygURbXdyZCB2aXJ0dWFsIHRvdXI%3D
NBC: How Chicago drains its river during flooding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVSvoIQjin4&pp=ygUXbmJjIHJpdmVyIGxha2UgbWljaGlnYW4%3D
Air temperature increase https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/national/202313
Hydrologist Drew Gronewold on Lake Michigan’s High Water Level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBCA209dWOk&t=1s&pp=ygUOZHJldyBncm9uZXdvbGQ%3D
True to its innovative spirit, the Chicago area is home to several cutting-edge industries, like the emerging field of quantum technology.
Fermilab is America’s premier particle physics research facility, Argonne National Laboratory, connected by a fiber-optic cable to the University of Chicago. Scientists there are trying to apply atomic principles to improve communications and computing.
Four of the ten quantum labs in the United States are located in Illinois, which receives roughly four of every 10 dollars the federal government invests.
Illinois also produces far more nuclear power than anywhere else in America. 75% of Chicago’s electricity needs are now met by the state’s 11 reactors.
Chicago was where the dawn of the Nuclear Age happened, as America’s Manhattan Project raced the Germans during World War 2.
It did just that on December 2, 1942, when Enrico Fermi’s team achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in a facility hidden underground on campus.
Waves of European immigrants during the 1800s made the city’s population 98.1% white in 1900. But over the next 60 years, in a period known as The Great Migration, six million African Americans left the South to settle in Chicago and other cities in the North.
By the 1990s, Chicago's South Side and its adjoining suburbs had become the largest African American majority region in the country, fostering all sorts of talent, from academics, activists, and rappers, to global icons like Michael Jordan (arguably the most successful American pro athlete), Oprah Winfrey (the richest African American of the 20th century), and the Obamas.
Create projects. 70 rail improvement projects are in various stages of completion, with more than two dozen already finished. Renovating Union Station.
With 8 lines, the amount of metal required to build the L turbo-charged Chicago’s steelmaking industry. During World War 2, it nimbly shifted to producing bombs, jeeps, tanks, and planes, and was a vital contributor to the Allied cause, producing more tons of the super-strong metal than the entire United Kingdom every year from 1939 to 1945, and all of Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945.
The city has transformed itself into the Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics leader of the world’s largest consumer economy. Vast warehouses are clustered all along the canal and river, around its many large railyards, and to the west of O’Hare–the world’s second-busiest airport in terms of aircraft movements per day.
Since the 1970’s it has been adding massive tunnels, cavernous holding chambers, and gigantic lagoons like this one–a repurposed old mine. When this latest round of extreme engineering capacity to store 20 billion gallons
Lower Wacker Drive to flood and key buildings like Willis Tower to lose power.
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,1,Part 2 of Building Modern Chicago: The Great Fire to the World's Fair.
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Special thanks to Paul Durica and the Chicago History Museum
https://www.chicagohistory.org/
Source for archival images: https://artic.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/mqc
WTTW PBS Chicago: https://www.youtube.com/@UC0H7JADShpxWDjGQ4WhXPtQ
The Current War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHbyksLnFwA&pp=ygUbdGhlIGN1cnJlbnQgd2FyIGZhaXIgc2NlbmUg
,1,Chicago is the crown jewel of the post-industrial United States with a metropolitan population of 9.5 million. Its economy is considered the most balanced and resilient on earth. America's railroad hub also has the world's most orderly grid. This is the making of modern Chicago, the crossroads of America.
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This futuristic urban river canyon reflects a staggering amount of resources, capital, and innovation. It’s also America’s railroad hub and the central node in America’s extensive system of navigable freshwater ways. Its roads lead to most corners of the continent, and its runways send direct flights to over 200 destinations–all of this supports one of the planet’s most productive regions for growing crops and extracting raw materials. The opportunities available in and around this prairie boomtown have attracted hungry young workers for nearly two centuries. In fact, so many arrived daily that it sustained the highest population growth rate on earth for several consecutive decades in the late 1800s.
Its story began when a Haitian-born fur trader [Jean Baptiste DeSalle] and his wife [Kitihawa], a member of the local indigenous Potawatomi tribe, established an outpost here in 1779.
It remained a sleepy frontier village for decades until Chicago’s first locomotive, the Pioneer, made its inaugural trip out to nearby Des Plaines in 1848.
I learned about this pivotal moment firsthand when I visited the Chicago History Museum for a trip back in time with Paul Durica.
These products were listed in mail order catalogs, an industry invented and based in Chicago. The conveniences of online shopping can be traced directly back to Montgomery Ward and Sears–businesses that were only possible because the railroad reliably delivered.
By the beginning of the 20th century. Chicago had close to 40 different railroad lines running through it. Most cities today will have like maybe one Union Station or a central terminal–but by the early 1900s, Chicago had six different ones.
Chicago was also responsible for the rapid growth of the vast prairies that stretched westward to the Rocky Mountains. A Chicagoan had invented the mechanical reaper, freeing wheat farmers from the backbreaking, inefficient work of harvesting their crops by hand. And when they shipped their wheat into the city, 12 massive grain elevators stored it before it was sent across the lake to Buffalo, or downriver and onto oceanliners waiting in New Orleans.
But even with this bounty, prairie farmers couldn’t build much of anything, because their lands had few trees to harvest. Good thing there were expansive forests in Wisconsin and Michigan north of Chicago, and soon it became the world’s largest lumber market.
“The Union Stockyard in many ways is the kind of natural culmination of how the city's been growing and developing because it's all about centralization and expanding markets.
Hundreds of millions of calories were passing through the processing plants and storage facilities of Chicago every single day, feeding the ravenous Union Army in its hardfought victory in the Civil War.
“Chicago is situated magnificently for trade, but it’s a pestilential swamp–it’s a horrible place for a city. It’s an absolute hellhole… Children were playing with maggots as if they were little pets.”
Before long, Cholera had crept up the Mississippi to kill 60 Chicagoans a day during the warm summer months.
To find a solution, Chicago brought in Ellis Chesbrough, one of America’s brightest sanitation engineers. He designed gravity-fed sewers to flush the waste into the river, and then deepened the river by dredging it and using the fill to raise Chicago’s ground level 10 feet. Lifting all the existing buildings safely required widespread adoption of a new system: George Pullman’s jack.
“So, how could you reverse the flow? Well, you must realize that the land form drops off. You get down to the city of Joliet and you’re 40 feet below Lake Michigan. The idea was to link up the south branch of the Chicago River with the Des Plaines river and to break through that subcontinental divide.
When they had finally finished the Chicago Shipping and Sanitation Canal, and were ready to let the water in, they still weren’t positive it would even work. After a few tense moments, amazingly, the water began to flow slowly downhill.
0:00 Welcome to Chicago
1:20 A Sleepy Frontier Town
2:04 Railroads Help Industry Takes Off
3:10 Prarie Boomtown
5:00 Union Stockyards
6:24 The Battle Against Cholera
7:10 Chicago's Innovative Water System
9:02 Reversing the River
11:12 Outro: Part 1 of 4
,1,Chinese coast guard sailors were seen with long knives and machetes, swarming Philippine vessels on a resupply mission.
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Manila is the capital of the Philippines and the largest city in the 7,641-island country.
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Key sources and videos quoted:
What commuting in Manila is like [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtuA-_BiItQ
Urban Renewal Study https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331633998_Urban_Renewal_of_the_City_of_Manila_and_its_Impact_to_Environment_and_Physical_Design
Exploring Manila (BBC doc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGZIHZtQlms
https://www.britannica.com/place/Manila
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Manila
WW2 Footage of Manila https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ok97Q98l4
A trip through Manila 1931 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7ng17Yy50
Parts Unknown, Manila https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZroEePqEAwQ
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Manila
0:40 Geography of the capital
0:57 Spanish Manila
1:23 Philippine independence movement
2:08 War with the United States
3:22 American design
4:00 Manila in WW2
4:42 Modern Manila's challenges
6:06 Transportation system
6:30 A six-hour roundtrip commute
7:00 Metro Manila Subway
7:22 Most vulnerable city to natural disasters
7:55 Government moving to New Clark City
8:15 Bonifacio Global City
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Buenos Aires, Argentina: The World's Southernmost MEGACITY
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Jakarta, Indonesia's MEGACITY - World's Second Largest City https://youtu.be/h8-fwBMo6bc
Los Angeles, California's Megacity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QropkR9iasY
AFRICA'S MEGACITY: Kinshasa, DRC (CONGO)
https://youtu.be/bgljcixHvAU
TOKYO: Earth's Model MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SL9KRvzVmo
PARIS: Europe's MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdObzSwVAw4
SAO PAULO: South America's MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEeY_gXFBc
DHAKA: Fastest Growing MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGITvyWMH0
CAIRO: Middle East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tKphKvodLQ
DELHI: India's Capital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUPTGDrXDy4
SHANGHAI: China's Largest MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6XZekbQ0SE
MEXICO CITY: Largest MEGACITY in the Americas https://youtu.be/8dEKLuZXrUc
Obama Makes Baby Stop Crying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhzWlqN3uc
President Obama's Anger Translator at White House Correspondent's Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6NfRMv-4OY
Greatest Recorded Speeches in American History (1933-2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVwvPpdFeY
Bill Nye Destroys Noah's Ark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OhXQTMOEc
President Obama Walks The Streets of Washington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEtBVPiI44
Trump Destroyed by Comedian Hasan Minhaj at 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLRj1LaPiQ
Seth Rogen Testifies Before Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvdbHSGWAgs
President Obama's Anger Translator: Behind The Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xThj8BJIjUg
Manila, the Philippines' MEGACITY: History of an Island Capital
Manila, the Philippines' MEGACITY: Capital of 7,641 Islands
,1,Judith Raanan and Natalie Raanan are now in the custody of the Red Cross after nearly two weeks in captivity.
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,1,Hamas de facto seized Gaza — also known as the Gaza Strip, one of the two major Palestinian territories — following election wins there in 2006 and a violent conflict with the competing Fatah political group in 2007. Since then, Fatah has continued to govern in the West Bank territory to the northeast.
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,1,The efforts to rescue any hostages in Gaza becomes dire as a ground invasion from Israel appears imminent.
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,1,Jakarta, the world's second-largest city and the capital of Indonesia, is sinking into the sea. This is the effort to save it.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:11 Welcome to Jakarta
2:55 'Urban planning gone horribly wrong'
3:09 History of Jakarta
3:56 Suharto comes to power
4:30 Land subsidence explained
4:56 Sinking 3x faster
5:29 Historic flooding
6:32 Raising their homes
7:15 The problems with channelization
8:34 Floodplain development
9:15 Kampungs resettlement
10:55 The rising sea
11:47 Great Garuda Sea Wall Megaproject
12:48 A New Capital: Nusantara
14:11 Questions surrounding Nusantara
15:19 A City worth saving
16:21 Piped water for all
16:58 Creating more greenspace
17:30 Building an aquatic metropolis
18:07 Floodproof homes
19:12 Tiny homes on stilts
19:44 How Kampung Tongkal was saved
Key sources and videos quoted:
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown https://bit.ly/3Kmn4oj
Jakarta is Sinking! https://youtu.be/qOSwBIstZUs
Jakarta is the World's Fastest Sinking City https://youtu.be/dNE5aptbGyY
Asia's Sinking Cities: Jakarta https://youtu.be/M3M9KGPMkoo
Jakarta Kota Air (Part 1) https://youtu.be/UR_jL-x4W3M
Jakarta Unfair (Full Version) https://youtu.be/wCjbxuXv92U
Why Jakarta is sinking https://youtu.be/Z9cJQN6lw3w
Indonesia Pollution: Jakarta tries to clean world's filthiest river https://youtu.be/QpKr2qaxXto
Let It Flood: Ciliwung Delta by Bindi Purnama https://bit.ly/3PKERqB
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All other research links:
Indonesia's new capital https://youtu.be/HvQJiVTeDoc
34 million urban area population http://demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf
Demographics, economy of Indonesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia
Employment shift to services from agriculture https://bit.ly/3PQMTxZ
World's second-longest coastline https://bit.ly/2T66SfJ
Jakarta growth from space 1990-2019 https://go.nasa.gov/3An8994
Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company (Batavia) https://youtu.be/zPIhMJGWiM8
Indonesian Independence 1945 https://youtu.be/G2ZTwL9-KPY
Fewer than 1 million have access to piped water https://bit.ly/3ct5mmy
Sinking 3 times faster than a few years earlier https://bit.ly/3ALgLYs
Talking trash in Jakarta https://youtu.be/M5N0NMpKp3A
$40 on Great Garuda Sea Wall (Guardian) https://bit.ly/3TgSocj
Indonesia's giant capital city is sinking (Nat Geo) https://on.natgeo.com/3pIqF6K
Why Indonesia is moving its capital (Real Life Lore) https://youtu.be/t9p1bS1ThwY
Nusantara construction begins [video] https://youtu.be/eordUP_VGCo
Indonesia passes law to relocate capital to Borneo https://youtu.be/g3SSXBOlDgY
Indonesia picks winning design for its new capital https://youtu.be/7-B-jTss5WA
Why do countries move their capital cities? https://econ.st/3PP9kns
Softbank’s exit from Indonesia’s new capital project https://bit.ly/3wweBcE
Jokowi is considering extending his term https://econ.st/3wrQV95
TransJakarta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransJakarta
Megacity Episodes:
Megacities of the World (Season 2 Complete)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb6w1rDa2jc
Los Angeles, California's Megacity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QropkR9iasY
AFRICA'S MEGACITY: Kinshasa, DRC (CONGO)
https://youtu.be/bgljcixHvAU
Megacities of the World (Season 1 - Complete) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULzxD3w_c8
TOKYO: Earth's Model MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SL9KRvzVmo
PARIS: Europe's MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdObzSwVAw4
SAO PAULO: South America's MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEeY_gXFBc
DHAKA: Fastest Growing MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGITvyWMH0
CAIRO: Middle East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tKphKvodLQ
DELHI: India's Capital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUPTGDrXDy4
SHANGHAI: China's Largest MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6XZekbQ0SE
MEXICO CITY: Largest MEGACITY in the Americas https://youtu.be/8dEKLuZXrUc
Obama Makes Baby Stop Crying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhzWlqN3uc
President Obama's Anger Translator at White House Correspondent's Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6NfRMv-4OY
Greatest Recorded Speeches in American History (1933-2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVwvPpdFeY
Bill Nye Destroys Noah's Ark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OhXQTMOEc
President Obama Walks The Streets of Washington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEtBVPiI44
Trump Destroyed by Comedian Hasan Minhaj at 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLRj1LaPiQ
Seth Rogen Testifies Before Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvdbHSGWAgs
President Obama's Anger Translator: Behind The Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xThj8BJIjUg
,1,The questions must again be asked has this surge in excess deaths any causal connection with Covid-19 vaccinations?
And how many of the Excess Deaths had been Covid-19 vaccinated?
,1,China and the EU agreed to start talks on the planned imposition of tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles being imported into Europe.
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,1,Even with an endorsement from former speaker Kevin McCarthy, Jordan failed to sway holdouts in the Republican conference.
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,1,Joe Biden's shaky performance against Republican rival Donald Trump at the first 2024 US presidential debate rattled Democrats, as the 81-year-old president failed to quell concerns that he is too old to serve a second four-year term.
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,1,The investment would improve travel times in the Northeast and create more union jobs, the president said.
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,1,Full episode here: https://youtu.be/5-kmuzGDtdY
Metro Manila sits below sea level and is sinking. Up to half of its land can be submerged now during heavy rains. In fact, Manila is threatened by more types of natural disasters than any other city on earth [animate chart from UN study]--according to the UN it is the only metropolis with serious vulnerabilities to all six classifications.
Because of this, just like in Jakarta, the capital may be relocated to higher, less crowded ground. Unlike Jakarta’s Nusantara though, the main candidate site - New Clark City - is on the same island as Manila, rising about 100 kilometers to the north.
,1,UK 26th October AFTER Sunset . . .
Nero - Promises
Nibiru, Planet X, Hercolubus, Nemesis, Red Planet, Red Dragon, Winged Planet, Wormwood, Annunaki, are just some of the names related to the system with it’s inhabitants that are here and the “signs in the sky “ as various revelation and prophecy is fulfilled. Mainstream Media will rarely talk of it and when they do they strongly deny its existence or nearby proximity.
(Operation Paperclip Liars at) NASA will sometimes speak of the system as Planet 9 although this is full of disinformation to avoid a national security threat and mass panic. If the truth was out there in the “mainstream” and became public knowledge people wouldn’t pay taxes, the system would stop and they would begin to prepare.
The cover up involves: Royal Institute on International Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations, Club of Rome, United Nations, EU, Military Industrial Intelligence Complex, Institute for Economic Affairs, NOAA, EPA, NASA, CERN, ESA, Space Agencies, Royal Meteorological Society, World Meteorological Organization, Met Office, All Mainstream News, Media and Weather (Operation Mockingbird), Extinction Rebellion, IPCC, Vatican Intelligence, FBI, DHS, DOJ, DOD, FEMA, CIA, NSA, MOD, MI5, MI6 (SIS), GCHQ, JTRIG, Secret Societies, High-Degree Freemasons, 322 Skull & Bones, Bohemian Grove, Bilderberg Group, Knights Templar, Royal Family, Rothschild & Central Banks, Universities and Mainstream Science, Health / Healthcare and Pharmaceutical System. And also involves: Chemtrails (GeoEngineering), HAARP, Weaponized Frequencies & 5G Smart Grid Surveillance with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Millimetre Wave (mmWave) Technology capable of Active Denial System (ADS).
Vatican has released the eRosary Bracelet that tracks your prayer and health. Companies are implanting RFID Microchips in the hands of workers so that they can use services at work easier. This is “Mark of the Beast” Surveillance / Spying technology and relates to UN Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, & Georgia Guidestones Depopulation / “New World Order”.
People are waking up and the false systems & negative timelines will fail and cease to exist. That is why the Governments have set up the systems in place, they know they are falling and are clinging on to any power because people no longer believe the lies and the mind control isn’t working how they want it too. Wake up, free your mind!
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,1,Britain's next prime minister, Keir Starmer, promised change as the Conservatives' Rishi Sunak conceded defeat, with Starmer's center-left Labour Party winning a huge majority in the country's parliamentary elections.
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,1,Small business owners along the streets of Pingjiang County in China's Hunan Province woke up to devastating losses after the area was pounded by heavy rainfall and floods.
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