Worth a Look: Books on Mexico and the United States — DHS, NAFTA, Border, Immigration, Merged Cultures & Bandit Zones

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2015 A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”

The “War Against Drugs”: who started it, and why? What are its consequences in real terms, not mere statistics, for the people most affected by it? One hundred thousand deaths later-with the vast majority of those killed innocent citizens, such as the 43 teachers college students murdered in Guerrero-the solution to peace requires a radical rethinking of how America, and its neighbors, approach the illegal drug trade.

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CounterPunch: The Perfect Earth Storm

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counterpunch goodThe Perfectly Nasty Ocean Storm

The oceans of the world are currently experiencing a ā€œperfect stormā€ that is nasty, real nasty with too much warming, too much acidification, too much CO2, too much fishing, too many chemicals, too much Ag runoff, too much radiation (Fukushima), and too little ice (Arctic Ocean) bringing on too much methane (CH4). Whew!

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Event: 19 Sep San Francisco: United We Stand

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The United We Stand Festival 2015 is confirmed to take place at the Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, California on Saturday, September 19th, 2015. The event will take place from 5-10 pm PST and will be broadcast worldwide via freeandequal.org. The Belasco Theater has asked the United We Stand Festival (UWSF) to return after hosting the UWSF ā€˜14. The Belasco Theater is an official co-host for this historic event, which will kick-off a series of 2016 open presidential debates hosted by the Free and Equal Elections Foundation.

Yoda: Dubai – City of Gold in Four Dimensions?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
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Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Possibilities, we see.

Dubai to become first ā€˜four-dimensional city’ in the world

A group of technology companies in the UAE have launched a project to make Dubai the world’s first four dimension city, according to Al Arabiya News channel. The project, called ā€œD4D” or Dubai 4 Dimension, will create a digital replica of the city in the shape of three-dimensional imagery and will allow users anywhere in the world to roam through the city in real time using tablets such as iPads.

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Michel Bauwens: CultureShift – I Am What I Save

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Climate Change, Values Change, Social Change (1): Art and Energy

In the coal energy culture – a culture of workers and production – you are your job. ā€œI am what I make.ā€ In an oil and gas energy culture – a culture of consumption – you are your possessions. ā€œI am what I buy.ā€ But in a renewable energy culture, you are what you conserve. ā€œI am what I save and protect.ā€ We aren’t used to thinking like this, because we can’t see where the money will come from. But in a culture of renewables, money will not be the only measure of wealth