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The Mexican Drug Cartel’s Hand-​​Made Tanks: "El Mon­struo 2011 is a home­made armored tank, the lat­est weapons inno­va­tion from Los Zetas, one of Mexico’s largest and most bru­tal drug traf­fick­ing organizations.

El Blog del Narco reports that the Mex­i­can army cap­tured the vehi­cle last week in Ciu­dad Meir, a bor­der town that has been the site of a bloody turf bat­tle between Los Zetas and their for­mer bosses, the pow­er­ful Gulf Cartel.

Army offi­cials say the new model is an upgrade from pre­vi­ous armed vehi­cles used by the cartels:


El Mon­struo 2011 has a top speed of 68 mph and could hold up to 12 peo­ple. Now author­i­ties have taken another off the street — one that shows how every iter­a­tion gets tougher.









This one, dubbed the «com­pacto» ver­sion of El Mon­struo 2010, appears to be a 2011 Ford Super­Duty truck chas­sis armored all over and given a bay for fer­ry­ing up to 10 gun­men. Cap­tured in Jalisco, this ver­sion also came with its own enter­tain­ment sys­tem via speak­ers built into the back hatch, along with 'satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tions equip­ment'. And unlike the El Mon­struo ’11, the builders were smart enough to pro­tect the truck’s wheels from stray bullets.









Source: blogdelnarco, businessinsider

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My darling girlfriend hates cats, thinking about coming home like this:


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New Signal Process: "Harness iOS music-making potential with new interface pedals
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New Signal Process made a splash in the digital music scene last year with their BreakOut pedal, allowing musicians to interface their instruments directly with the plethora of iPad and iPhone apps. This week they dropped two new pedals which deliver even more options to digital music masters.



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The BreakOut Stomp was birthed in response to guitarists and bassists badgering NSP with product suggestions. Fusing the concept for the original device with a classic stompbox, the new model incorporates an easily foot-toggled switch which allows it to seamlessly integrate with a pedal board. Indistinguishable from any high-grade audio pedal from your local music shop, the difference is the ability to access innumerable effects—limited only by how comprehensive of an app collection you have.



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The second edition to the line, the BreakOut Stereo, was created with masters of digital harmony in mind, specifically DJs and producers. Two separate stereo outputs make it easily adaptable to almost any situation, providing the most possibilities for interfacing with systems on the road or in an at home studio. Interfacing with Apple devices gives you access to all the features bundled up in your mobile-friendly synth and drum machine apps, essentially giving you limitless music making potential on the go.



Both pedals sell from the New Signal Process store; the Stereo runs $135 and the Stomp $155.





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Can Radical Art Be Taught in the Classroom?

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Artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña didn’t always take a shine to academia. But he agrees with the creators of “South Park” who maintain that “politicians have hijacked our imagination and replaced it with fear.” He sees this as a particular problem for young artists, so the self-proclaimed “Border Brujo,” who is currently a visiting artist at UCLA, is turning over a new leaf.


“The students I’m teaching have grown up in a post 9-11 era,” he told LA>FWD. “I have to teach them how to reclaim their voice and become part of the international community again.”


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From LA TACO

Luchador Moto Protestor ~ Mexico City: "


In the above photograph, a member or sympathizer of SME (Mexico’s banned electrical union) confronts riot police at a protest in Mexico City. The workers have been protesting since 2009 after their jobs and union were taken away by Presidential decree. Some background from Wikipedia:


On 12 October 2009, President Felipe Calderón issued a decree dissolving the state-owned company Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LFC, also rendered on logo as “LyF”), which served customers in Mexico City, as well as most of the State of Mexico and some communities in the states of Morelos, Hidalgo and Puebla. LFC was, perhaps, an anachronism within in the Mexican energy sector because it was meant to be dissolved when President Adolfo López Mateos nationalized the private electric companies in September 1960, but the process was never carried out. Pressure from LFC workers, whose value as political force for the PRI regime was considerable, may have played a role in the company’s continued existence. From then on, CFE went on to control the national electric system and expand its operations nationwide, while the smaller LFC kept a low profile, maintaining its operations in the central region of Mexico.



LFC provided electricity to several states where, by virtue of a federal law, CFE had no operations (a 1985 agreement between CFE and LFC increased the areas served by the former). The company was often regarded as an inefficient, corrupt company which could not be reformed, and its image was always negative. Some people even coined the term “Luz y A Fuerzas” (roughly translated as “Barely Light and Power”), because the obsolete equipment and networks LFC used, as well as the rampant corruption within the company.


The presidential decree became the center of legal controversies because it was believed that the President was not legally entitled to dissolve a state company. The Mexican constitution, however, grants presidents the power to dissolve such companies, as pointed out by renowned legal experts, without needing to inform or even request permission from the Congress. As of March 2010, LFC’s operations have been fully absorbed by CFE, and plans to modernize and expand the old LFC network have been drafted, waiting for approval. CFE employees replaced LFC’s staff, which sparked protests from SME members (SME was the labor union grouping LFC employees), who demand to be hired by CFE (CFE workers are members of SUTERM, SME’s rival).


Another source of tensions is the frequent protests and aggressions against CFE employees by SME members. Acts of sabotage have ocurred since LFC’s incorporation into CFE, but SME has denied any involvement. SME claims that CFE staff is unexperienced and poorly organized, and that damages in LFC systems cannot be repaired by CFE. However, these allegations are baseless, since CFE has the control of high-scale projects across the country (operating high voltage lines, power plants, substations, etc), whereas LFC does not.

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Kolam is a form of sand painting that is drawn using rice powder by female members of the family in front of their home. It is widely practiced by Hindus in South India. A kolam is a sort of painted prayer - a line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. Kolams are thought to bestow prosperity to homes. 


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This Blog Used To Have Art On It, And Now....

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Photo nicked from The Opening Hours.

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