Thursday, October 31, 2019
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
New Aztec Empire
Sure would be nice to have some extra security between us and the New Aztec Empire, but I'm probably racist for thinking that.
MEXICO CITY, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Police found more than 40 skulls, dozens of bones and a fetus in a glass jar next to an altar in the den of suspected drug traffickers in Mexico City during a raid this week, authorities said on Sunday.
Four of the skulls were built into the altar in the central Tepito neighborhood, where police arrested 31 people on Tuesday on suspicion of drug cartel activity, the city government said in a statement. A judge ordered 27 of the suspects released.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Clowns Me You Jokers (Cleavage Megapost)
Clearing an overflowing folder, much more pleasant places to be stuck below the break.
Sunday, October 27, 2019
The Failed State Right Next Door
A really good look at some very under-reported major news.
It’s an absolutely extraordinary episode even by the grim and bizarre annals of what we mistakenly call the post-2006 Mexican Drug War. The Battle of Culiacán stands on a level above, say, the Ayotzinapa massacre, or the Zetas’ expulsion of the entire population of Ciudad Mier. Killing scores of innocents and brutalizing small towns is one thing: seizing regional capital cities and crushing the national armed forces in open fighting in broad daylight is something else.It is worth your time to go read the whole thing. Would be nice if we had some real security between us and how much nastier this will get.
“Drug War” is a misnomer for reasons the Culiacán battle lays bare. This is not a mafia-type problem, nor one comprehensible within the framework of law enforcement and crime. This is something very much like an insurgency now—think of the eruption of armed resistance in Culiacán in 2019 as something like that in Sadr City in 2004—and also something completely like state collapse. The cartels may be the proximate drivers but they are symptoms. Underlying them is a miasma of official corruption, popular alienation, and localist resentments—and underlying all that is a low-trust civil society stripped of the mediating mechanisms that make peaceable democracy both feasible and attractive.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Legging it
Friday, October 25, 2019
BeCos(play) It's Friday
More not safe for trick-or-treating below the break, and as always bonus nerd points if you recognize characters.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Monday, October 21, 2019
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Lulling Other Countries Into a False Sense of Security Since 1810
Friday, October 18, 2019
BeCos(play) It's Friday
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Monday, October 14, 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Friday, October 11, 2019
BeCos(play) It's Friday
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Tuesday: Tap, Rack, and Bang (Ultra-Mega Post)
Monday, October 7, 2019
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
BeCos(play) It's Friday
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
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