Arizona Border: A safe heaven for illegal immigrants to US

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/CISORG

“Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns, and 850 Illegal Aliens” is the Center for Immigration Studies’ second web-based film on the impact of illegal alien activity in Arizona. The Center’s first video on the subject, “Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border: Coyotes, Bears, and Trails,” has received over 50,000 views to date. This new 10-minute mini-documentary raises the bar, featuring footage of both illegal-alien entry as well as gun- and drug-smuggling. At minimum, the inescapable conclusion is that hidden cameras reveal a reality that illegal-alien activity is escalating.

The hidden camera footage, acquired from a variety of sources, indicates that there is an unfortunate lack of federal law enforcement presence on Arizona’s federal land on the border in Nogales, in the Coronado National Forest (15 miles inside the border), and the Casa Grande Sector (80 miles inside the border). Also significant to the story are responses received as part of Freedom of Information Act requests made by Janice Kephart, the Center’s Director of National Security Studies, in August 2009. Featured in the film is a 2004 federal government PowerPoint showing the near-complete devastation of a borderland national park due to illegal-alien activity, highlighting the disconnect between the situation on the ground in Arizona and Washington rhetoric.

Short Threads: July

1.
Eyes-on: Peter Molyneux’s Virtual Human Milo

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-07/13/peter-molyneux-milo-and-kate-xbox-kinect-preview

Watch The Demo: <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/puzzle/miloworkingtitle/video/6210718
“>http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/puzzle/miloworkingtitle/video/6210718

2.
Planck spacecraft helps explain formation of the Universe.:

http://space.gs/10/05-jul-1.html

3.
The Case for Colonizing Mars by Robert Zubrin:

Interesting

http://www.nss.org/settlement/mars/zubrin-colonize.html

4.
An Internet 100 times as fast: A new network design ( Optical Flow Switching ) could boost capacity:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33724235/Optical-Flow-Switching-Paper-By-Chan-Muriel-Medard

http://www.physorg.com/news196940134.html

5.
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1

6.
The biggest bangs in history :
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/biggest-bangs

7.
Bit older research report but, we all need it . Eating less may extend lifespan

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070502143834.htm

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=77925

8.
Apollo-Soyuz: An Orbital Partnership Begins

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/astp_35.html

9.
Bye-Bye Batteries: Radio Waves as a Low-Power Source

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/business/18novel.html

More coming up …..

We Live In A Nation

I got following lines from www and the source is anonymous.

It really makes you wonder and is a slap on our society. It is something we all should learn and introspect.
Lets learn from these lines.

We live in a nation :

Where Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance or police,
Where you get car loan @ 8% and education loan @ 12%,
Where rice is Rs 40/- per kg but sim card is free,
Where a millionaire can buy a cricket team instead of donating the money to any charity,
Where the footwear, we wear, are sold in AC showrooms, but vegetables, that we eat, are sold on the footpath,
Where everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to follow the path to be famous,
Where we make lemon juices with artificial flavors and dish wash liquids with real lemon.
Where people are standing at tea stalls reading an article about child labor from a newspaper and say,
“Yaar bachhon se kaam karvane wale ko to phansi par chadha dena chahiye”
and then they shout “Oye chhotu 2 chaii laao…..”

Source: Anonymous