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Visualizing The Global Rush To Build Skyscrapers

Visualizing The Global Rush To Build Skyscrapers

As the creator of today’s visualization, Alberto Lucas López, points out, “the world’s tallest buildings have acted as barometers”.

Another way of putting it? Our biggest architectural accomplishments are highly visible symbols of what society values most, and those values have changed over time.

Today, the paramount belief system in many parts of the world is in capitalism, and there is no more potent marker of the economic might than fantastically tall commercial skyscrapers.

Paul Craig Roberts Rages At America's Collapsing Prestige

Paul Craig Roberts Rages At America's Collapsing Prestige

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

The Nikki Haley moron appointed as US ambassador to the UN by Trump to destroy America’s reputation in the world...

...is today sucking her thumb.

All her threats to cut off US money to countries that voted against Trump’s illegal and unilateral action of establishing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital had no effect.

The world gave Nikki and Trump the bird, voting 129 to 9 against the rogue governments of the US and Israel.

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