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The big picture
Shots of Awe
The first photograph taken of earth, from space, occasioned a profound shift in our understanding of ourselves -- an ontological awakening.Join Jason Silva a...
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Why country borders are a good thing
TestTube
Check us out on iTunes! http://dne.ws/1NixUdsPlease Subscribe! http://testu.be/1FjtHn5Borders increase security, protect the members inside, and much more. H...
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Meanwhile in the future: One agency controls all border crossings
Gizmodo
Every time you go from one country to the next, you cross a border. And that usually means dealing with some kind of border agency that enforces each country’s idiosyncratic rules and regulations. But what if the whole process were standardized and run by a single organization?
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Borders in a borderless world
Stratfor
Twenty-seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 25 years after the adoption of the Schengen Agreement and 26 years after the publication of Kenichi Ohmae's The Borderless World, borders are back. Why did so many think that borders are going away? And why should we be surprised that they have never left? The answer has to do with how we thought about and misunderstood the consequences of glob
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Borders come and go, but geography remains
Stratfor
Once human beings began to settle rather than wander -- about 10,000 years ago -- our attachment to place transformed. We could grow food. We could build homes, cities and walls. We could set sail from Peru to Polynesia and return to Norway. And we could fight to keep what we had created.
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Ahead in polls, Dutch far-right party vows to close mosques, ban Quran
Times of Israel
Geert Wilders' Freedom Party, set to double its seats in elections next year, wants to close borders, reverse 'Islamization'
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What customs and border officials can and can’t do
Pacific Standard Magazine
By Patrick G. Lee Travelers arrive at the international terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport on March 6th, 2017, in New York City. (Photo: Drew
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City of Exiles
California Sunday
Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.
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Enforce the border—humanely
The Atlantic
Countering Trump’s extremism with still more extremism will do no good for any principle of freedom.
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The economic case for open borders
Quartz
Around the world, politicians are clamoring to shut down their borders and tighten control in a wave immigration reform. But the tiny island of Singapore—a r...
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If liberals won’t enforce borders, fascists will
The Atlantic
We need to make hard decisions now about what will truly benefit current and future Americans.
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The “smarter” wall: How drones, sensors, and AI are patrolling the border
Vox
Here’s what a so-called "smart wall" of technology at the US-Mexico border looks like.
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People have trouble with Obama wanting secure borders
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Taken from JRE #1337 w/Dan Crenshaw:https://youtu.be/MIWrmgPNUqQ
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China's home invasion: The hunger for global real estate
Aljazeera
Cashed up and determined to buy, Jennifer Tao is a real estate agent's dream.The Shanghai native owns five houses in California and has a property portfolio ...