The Great Security State
Reality Cuts to the Chase Good, Bad, and Ugly in Belize
The difference between coming to Belize with money, and living here without money, is substantial. Belize has staggering statistics. It has the highest incidence of HIV in Central America. It has twenty to thirty percent unemployment. The doctor per...
School day San Pedro Roman Catholic Primary School
Kids go to school to learn, all over the world. This Monday morning is a new week at a local primary school. Some kids, I observe, are smiling while others are not overjoyed, but most children all over the world go to school where they grow up and are...
Passport Travel Essential
This passport takes me to 2021, well past end of the world forecasts. Closing in on Belize, an airline steward passes out forms to be completed in ink for Customs and Immigration Officers in Belize City. These days all travelers need a Passport and are...
Belize Bound Unsecurity
Sunday morning the Albuquerque, New Mexico International Sun port is a grocery cart rolling down a hill. Jets jockey to gates as ticket agents fire up their computers, troubleshoot, load passengers and baggage. This time through security there is a...
Roswell UFO Museum Little Green Men
When local rancher Mack Brazell found extraterrestrial debris on his ranch and reported it to the local Sheriff a Pandora's box was opened. The local Sheriff called the local Air Force Base and a whirlwind of misinformation, disinformation, cover up was...
Albuquerque Uptown Apple at night
ABQ Marketplace on Louisiana has eclipsed Winrock Center, the original Albuquerque Mall. While Winrock is now huge piles of dirt, exposed steel, jack hammered asphalt, chain link fences and construction signs, ABQ Marketplace is stocked with big name...
Fourth of July Celebration at Richard and Maria's
The fourth of July is the official birthday of the United States. The American fight for Independence was hatched in Boston pubs and undertaken by a cadre of locals. Over taxed and under represented was the big beef and secretive plotting led to a...
Tram talk Going Up
The Sandia Peak Tram has been with us fifty years. According to our tram operator there are 600,000 patrons each year and the only time the tram shuts down is when the wind blows over fifty miles per hour or threatening lightning storms are close. The...
CCC – Civilian Conservation Corp 1936 Rock House Sandia Crest
On top of Sandia Peak is a rock house built in the 1930's by the Civilian Conservation Corp. Coming out of a government prolonged Depression, the CCC was created to provide relief to unemployed men by the U.S. Congress and F.D.R. During a short decade,...
Northern Arizona University Graduation – 2015 Ready for real life
The N.A.U. auditorium is filled with parents, friends, graduates, speakers, security, and interested observers. The event is graduation for the 2015 class of NAU Lumberjacks who have spent their last several years sharpening axes, learning to identify...
Breaking Bad Albuquerque's Claim to Fame
Los Angeles has Forest Lawn and Beverly Hills. Memphis has Graceland. Florida has Cape Canaveral. Texas has the Alamo. Albuquerque has the hit television series " Breaking Bad. " This television show is a crime drama and crime and Albuquerque have...
New Mexico Vistas Albuquerque Museum
The Albuquerque Museum is in Albuquerque's Old Town. Old Town is not far from the Rio Grande river and train tracks that spurred growth in western communities in the nineteen hundreds. Old Town is a part of Albuquerque that is older than the city itself,...
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