A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction. We can join Bill McKibben on Oct. 24 in nationwide protests over rising carbon emissions.
We can cut our consumption of fossil fuels. We can use less water. We can banish plastic bags. We can install compact fluorescent light bulbs. Tunnelizing Migration 1: The Border Tunnel Capital of North Amer. [Image: Nogales, Arizona.
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde January 30, 2007.] As you may or may not know Nogales, Arizona has quickly become the border tunnel capital of North America, as in illegal cross-border tunnel, at least as far as the U.S. government can tell. The latest numbers according to a NORTHCOM Task Force briefing that was apparently secretly leaked over the web just weeks ago, indicate between 1990 and November 2008, 93 cross-border tunnels were discovered, 35 of which were in California, 57 in Arizona, and 1 in Washington State.I’ve been watching this incessantly, tunnels breaching the US-Mexico border have been percolating in the news for the last couple years sometimes at nearly a new story every week – or, a new discovery, rather.
[Image: From US NORTHCOM Task Force Briefing, 2008/09.] Looks like the multi-billion dollar border fence aint working so well after all – what a surprise. Setting hedges. In Arizona Desert, Indian Trackers vs. Smugglers - New York Time.