If you’ve ever wondered how nobs like this peasant-farmer-turned-billionaire-drug-lord can exist, read The Cartel: A novel by Don Winslow .
Though it’s getting great reviews, I found it too long. Too violent. The ending not believable.
The rights holders want Leonardo DiCaprio to play the role of Keller, the (so called) good guy of the story.
related – ‘Cartel’ Author Don Winslow Responds To Sean Penn: “Call It Anything You Want – Except Journalism”
Is your skin color holding you back? Are you tired of systemic prejudice ruining your day?”
Call the “White Squad”. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Mashable)
I unexpectedly found myself in transit in downtown Seattle. I stayed at City Hostel since the Green Tortoise was full.
Caught the @QuickShuttle bus to Vancouver, Canada. Not the cheapest option at US$43 one way. But more convenient. Free WiFi. Good service. I’d take it again.
Late Friday night and early Saturday morning I wandered the streets. It’s appealingly unrefined for a major city. Homeless, intoxicated and deranged citizens are everywhere. One decided to punch me with his garbage bag of old clothes. He does that to everyone, I assume. I didn’t take it personally. 🙂
There are missions and homeless shelters. People still on the street don’t like the rules.
Traffic congestion worldwide must be getting worse.
Istanbul, Mexico City and Rio are three of the most congested.
I don’t own a car. Love public transport. And cycle commute as much as I can.
Sadly, our world promotes motor vehicles. Not bicycles. 😦
Bikes vs Cars depicts a global crisis that we all deep down know we need to talk about: climate, earth’s resources, cities where the entire surface is consumed by the car. An ever-growing, dirty, noisy traffic chaos.
The bike is a great tool for change, but the powerful interests who gain from the private car invest billions each year on lobbying and advertising to protect their business. In the film we meet activists and thinkers who are fighting for better cities, who refuse to stop riding despite the increasing number killed in traffic.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
Former Toronto mayor / crackhead Rob Ford is one of the bad guys. 😦
(via Treehugger)
Begin airing Christmas day 2015.
NBA stars Steph Curry, Carmelo Anthony and more take anti-gun violence stand
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
… directed by Spike Lee, whose new film “Chi-raq” tackles the epidemic of gun violence in the city of Chicago.
Racism is in decline but still a problem in the USA. The relationship between African Americans and some police departments truly is toxic.
Here’s an excellent 2015 wrap-up.
President Barack Obama walk across Edmund Pettus Bridge, March 7, 2015, in Selma, Alabama, alongside civil rights leaders, members of Congress and former President George W. Bush.
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How Black Lives Matter forced America to confront racism once more
As Bill Gates keeps telling us, the World is actually getting better. Overall. 🙂
6.7 million fewer kids under the age of five are dying each year compared to 1990.
Click through to read the long article by Charles Kenney in The Atlantic.
Rick McCharles 