Blockchain: Instead of Why, Ask Why Not?

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Trump's executive order: Amateur hour at the White House? - BBC News

Trump's executive order: Amateur hour at the White House? - BBC News

Theresa May stands firm on Trump's state visit as thousands protest | US news | The Guardian

Theresa May stands firm on Trump's state visit as thousands protest | US news | The Guardian

Crazy Conceptual Design for Biomimetic Eco-Village in Belgium

Crazy Conceptual Design for Biomimetic Eco-Village in Belgium

Belgian ecological designer Vincent Callebaut is a master of green sustainable architecture. With his new conceptual project, he creates yet another environmentally sensitive fantasy land, this time transforming Brussels’ historic Tour & Taxis. The resulting concept is a sleek, futuristic eco-village that any young professional would love to call home.

As a former industrial site, Tour & Taxis was once a symbol of the golden age of Industrialization, and its approximately 100 acres (40 hectares) is currently undergoing a renewal. So, it’s only fitting that the native architect turn his incredibly imaginative creative force toward imagining the space as only he can.

Callebaut’s concept is a mixed-use eco-village based on principles of biomimetic design. Located along the Brussels canal, the entire neighborhood is energy efficient. In fact, it will generate more energy than needed due to the abundance of provisions incorporated into the design. Passive design, renewable wind and solar energy, evapotranspiration gardens, and geothermal stations are just some of Callebaut’s energy efficient projections.

In Miami, They're Turning Part Of A Major Road Into A Park | Co.Exist | ideas impact

In Miami, They're Turning Part Of A Major Road Into A Park | Co.Exist | ideas impact

The project is only temporary, but it shows how the spaces streets take up might be better used for things besides cars.

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The goal of the three-week experiment: to prove to residents in a car-centric city that it makes sense to permanently redesign Biscayne Boulevard.
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The temporary intervention replaced three blocks of parking, covering parking spots with mulch, paint, and turf to turn it into a promenade.
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During the three-week experiment, two lanes of southbound traffic will temporarily replace some of that parking and serve as a dedicated bus lane.
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Over the past 15 years, the population in the downtown area has grown nearly 150%.
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Many of the new residents are millennials who value public space, but little public space exists.
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The city wants to build support for a much larger project called Biscayne Green.
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That would convert two lanes of traffic each way into bike lanes and transit-only lanes.

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In the middle of a busy eight-lane street in downtown Miami, a new pop-up park is now temporarily home to a fire pit, exercise stations, a dog park, bike-share bikes, and movie screenings with free empanadas.

The goal of the three-week experiment: to prove to residents in a car-centric city that it makes sense to permanently redesign Biscayne Boulevard to become more pedestrian-friendly.

"I think that it's a much-needed change that people didn't know they needed," says Miami Downtown Development Authority chairman Ken Russell. "This goes against some of the traditional parts of the auto-centric mindset, and we're trying to shift that paradigm."

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'The swamp is Goldman Sachs': how the bank is rewarded for putting profits over people | Business | The Guardian

In a persistent drizzle on 17 January, a group of protesters swathed in green ponchos unfurled tarps and sleeping bags on the sidewalk in front of Goldman Sachs’ high-rise building on the West Side highway in New York City. A few of them wore handmade swamp creature masks; others bore signs with the swamp creatures on them. A light-board sign declared the bank “Government Sachs”.

The protest was the beginning of a multi-day camp-out aiming to stay on the sidewalk outside the investment bank until the inauguration of Donald Trump, and to bring people affected by the bank’s policies to the doorstep of some of the world’s richest people – some of whom will belong to the Trump administration.

“It’s about highlighting the lie that was told to millions of people in this country, the lie that Trump was draining the swamp. If we really want the swamp to be drained, we have to do it ourselves and we’re doing it by going to Goldman Sachs,” says Nelini Stamp of the Working Families party.

'Government Sachs': Protesters Dressed as Swamp Creatures Launch Sit-In at Goldman HQ | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

'Government Sachs': Protesters Dressed as Swamp Creatures Launch Sit-In at Goldman HQ | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

"Join the resistance to drain the swamp." (Photo: Y/Twitter)

Over 50 people, some dressed as swamp creatures, have launched a days-long sit-in at Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York City to protest President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of former Goldman executives to his cabinet.

"It's about highlighting the lie that was told to millions of people in this country, the lie that Trump was draining the swamp. If we really want the swamp to be drained, we have to do it ourselves and we're doing it by going to Goldman Sachs," Nelini Stamp of the Working Families party told Sarah Jaffe, writing at the Guardian.

Trump has nominated former partner Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary, not to mention Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn for the top economic post at the White House.

Steve Bannon, Trump's top advisor, also once worked for the firm (before he worked to fuel white supremacist views via far-right website Breitbart) and current Goldman executive Dina Powell "was named a senior adviser," Bloomberg reports.

"Steven Mnuchin was called 'Mr. Foreclosure' at OneWest and Goldman Sachs," pointed out protest participant Jean Sassine, who lost his job in the 2008 recession, in an interview with Jaffe. "Do you want Mr. Foreclosure to be secretary of the treasury?”

About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online.

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About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online.

The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate programme, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists.

The move came after lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the CIA.

The full archive is made up of almost 800,000 files.

They had previously only been accessible at the National Archives in Maryland. 

The trove includes the papers of Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as several hundred thousand pages of intelligence analysis and science research and development.

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200-year-old prophecy by an old Cree woman named Eyes of Fire (WOVOCA.com - Earth Mother Crying!)

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Warriors of the Rainbow

There would come a time when the earth would be ravaged of it's resources, the sea blackened, the streams poisoned, the deer dropping dead in their tracks. Just before it was too late, the Indian would regain his spirit and teach the white man reverence for the earth, banding together with him to become Warriors of the Rainbow. 

There was an old lady, from the "Cree" tribe, named "Eyes of Fire", who prophesied that one day, because of the white mans' or Yo-ne-gis' greed, there would come a time, when the fish would die in the streams, the birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, and the trees would no longer be, mankind as we would know it would all but cease to exist.

There would come a time when the "keepers of the legend, stories, culture rituals, and myths, and all the Ancient Tribal Customs" would be needed to restore us to health. They would be mankinds’ key to survival, they were the "Warriors of the Rainbow". There would come a day of awakening when all the peoples of all the tribes would form a New World of Justice, Peace, Freedom and recognition of the Great Spirit.

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