Here are some more footnotes for your topographical curiosity, with a little bibliograph tracking global warming's shifting footprints, and some news-mapping of the earth's permanently-altered epidermal complexion. I'll let you make the connections, at the border...




How the U.S. Military Wants to Own the Weather | US Weapons of Meteorological Mass Destruction | Army Secret Surfaces: Deadly Chemicals at Sea | Mustard gas ordnance from off New Jersey shore is a mystery | Chemical Weapons In The Sea | Rocket-Fueled Bacteria Clean Up Waste | Chinese team says GM plants can clean up heavy metals rel: Heavy Metal Bioremediation (by Jamais Cascio) [prev: Agricultural De-Radiation in Chernobyl] | Future nanotech tools made from clay

The future of Atlantic tsunamis
Amazon 'stealth' logging exposed




When is the Arctic no longer the Arctic? | The Arctic's new gold rush | No Escape: Thaw Gains Momentum

Mapping damage to African lakes



Oil from sand a booming commodity | Oil from Ancient Peat Beds Could Fuel the Future | Oil poster

Legalised opium production urged for Afghanistan

The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor



BLDGBLOG: Uranium tailings and oil fields


BORDERzone



Sandia National Laboratories has developed software that is supposed to help agency decision-makers deal with the problem of border entrypoints. The experimental software, dubbed "Borders Grand Challenge," simulates the movement of goods, vehicles and people through different ports of entry, including airports and seaports. It is a $6m simulation software system that predicts potential threats as they are monitored by any number of surveillance tactics, and then calculates a variable set of resource allocations for responding to these potential threats based on the response set-up and its position at the time. Read

United States projects record 4,000 immigrants from so-called "high risk" countries in the Middle East and Asia, will be arrested trying to enter the country illegally this year. | New border security program arrives in Inland Northwest



Check out the Bamiyan Afghanistan Laser Project | related: Unique Buddha Statue will appear in Russia

Reworking 'The Simpsons' for the Arab world



US inspector general for Iraq paints 'grim' picture of reconstruction effort | Funds Fade, Deaths Rise as Iraq Rebuilding Lags
Israel approves Gaza border deal | Jaba’ pays with its land to build a new checkpoint “terminal”


SURVEILLAtopia

How Tools of War On Terror Ensnare Wanted Citizens
Metal shields and encryption for US passports
Infrared Detects Sniper Gunfire
US spy agency’s patents under security scrutiny
Secret code tracks laser jet documents
Surveillance and Privacy Map
Navy, Marines Block Commercial Email Sites
Bombers face detection by breathalyser



Korean Society Slips Into Age of Surveillance


MILIT_URB



The Art of Ramming: How to Lose Friends With Anti-Terrorist Driving Techniques

Defense Dept. Seeks More Aid Capability, or justification for pushing military unilaterlism.
Bombing range landscapes of Utah via Pruned via Polar Inertia
Where Maoists Still Matter
How the Governator solicits the absentee voter in war zones abroad
Sir, the Gamers Are Revolting!
Paris suburb hit by days of rioting
Cops & Students Battle at QC National Assembly
BEWARE: Northcom Negs New Powers



Keeping watch at the White House

Nuclear Winter Averted
Report offers figures for Iraqis killed by militants, but omits number of those killed by U.S.-led forces
Colombia captures cocaine boss in commando raid | Navy swoop nets £200m of cocaine
Death of a Drug Dealer
Inside look at the gritty street wars of military recruiting in NYC



Pruned: Cellular Infrastructure

Are Boeing's Big Jets Safe? | Boeing Whistleblowers Say Planes Must Be Grounded



WM$NA: Tool for armchair activists

Crowd Control Laser Rifle Temporarily Blinds
The Baghdad Bomb Squad Buried roadside Buried roadside explosives. Armor-piercing shrapnel. Rooftop gunfire. Just another 29-hour day at the office for Team Mayhem and its army of little claw-tipped robots.
A New Weapon for Wal-Mart: A War Room