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Thu, 23 May 2013 20:44:09 -0700

class-struggle-anarchism: You know, this murder in Woolwich is only the second successful piece of...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:24:26 -0700

You know, this murder in Woolwich is only the second successful piece of jihadist terrorism in London ever.

That’s two incidents.

The Angry Brigade alone successfully bombed 25 different targets in the early seventies. The IRA pulled off much more, over decades.

It’s like this tiny speck in a great sea of terrorist attacks by white people.

EUREKA THE BUTCHER - “Heavy Programming” From Music...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:18:13 -0700

EUREKA THE BUTCHER - “Heavy Programming”

From Music For Mothers via Sargent House

mesopotamianblues: captainfabfro: I just want to travel the world, watch football and get paid to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:39 -0700

mesopotamianblues:

captainfabfro:

I just want to travel the world, watch football and get paid to run a blog about it…

You mean you want to live the life of Al-Jazeera commentators. They earn 7 figures a year, watch all the games, meet all the players,give their opinions, and do nothing else.

Hello.

Roll up to the club with my vuvuzela in tow.

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:00:39 -0700

Roll up to the club with my vuvuzela in tow.

vicemag: In 1974, the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:01:00 -0700

vicemag:

In 1974, the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky set about turning the classic sci-fi novelDune into a major motion picture. He recruited Orson Welles, Pink Floyd, H. R. Giger, David Carradine, Salvador Dali, and Mick Jagger to the project, completed 3,000 pieces of story art, and spent millions of dollars preparing for production. Investors balked when he asked for more—and when they realized the script would account for a meandering 14-hour film—and it was ultimately shelved.

Read about it here

Cosmica Artists & Records: PINATA PROTEST

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:01:01 -0700

Cosmica Artists & Records: PINATA PROTEST:

cosmicaartists:

PRESS RELEASE
TUESDAY, MAY 21 2013

Contact/Contacto:
Heather West
Western Publicity
Ph: 773.301.5767
E-Mail: westernpublicity@gmail.com

Gil Gastelum

Cosmica Records

Ph: 323.515.5070

E-Mail: gil@cosmica-artists.com

the new sound movimiento»>

Piñata Protest

new album

El Valiente

OUT NOW

new video for punk rock of
the classic song “la cucaracha”
premieres on remezcla

“That’s the ultimate lesson of El Valiente: that the combination of accordions and punk represents an organic expression of the bicultural life lived by millions across this country.”

                                  Felix Contreras, NPR






[click on album cover or iTunes download badge]

“Piñata Protest is proof that you can be as punk as the best of them with an accordion strapped to your chest.”-

Afroxander (Remezcla)

[click on video still to view “la cucaracha”]

Shot and directed by award winning filmmaker Jim Mendiola, the video packs over 1,000 still photographs and 144 rubber roaches into a warp speed tour through the streets of the band’s West Side San Antonioneighborhood in one minute flat.



Touring all summer in the U.S. (dates below):



May/Mayo
24     San Antonio, TX     White Rabbit

June/Junio (opening for Girl In A Coma)
06     El Paso, TX               Tricky Falls

08     Los Angeles, CA    The Satellite (headline show)

09     Riverside, CA         Pixels (headline show)
10     Oakland, CA          The New Parish
11     Sacramento, CA    Harlow’s
12     Santa Barbara, CA Velvet Jones
13     Scottsdale, AZ         Pub Rock
15     Tucson, AZ               Club Congress
16     Albuquerque, NM   Launchpad

August/Agosto (opening for Rev. Horton Heat)
09 Fort Worth, TX             The Live Oak

10Austin, TX                      Antone’s

11Helotes, TX                    Floore’s Country Store



PINATA PROTEST WEBSITE



WESTERN PUBLICITY OFFICIAL WEBSITE

SAUSTEX MEDIA OFFICIAL WEBSITE

COSMICA OFFICIAL WEBSITE

Look at me Ma, I’m in another press release!

Robert Scheer: Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:52 -0700

Robert Scheer: Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You:

Tumblr shunned advertising and earned the trust of its users, but Yahoo undoubtedly has other plans.

nprradiopictures: When Harry Gamboa Jr. saw Chicanos in the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:45 -0700

nprradiopictures:

When Harry Gamboa Jr. saw Chicanos in the mainstream media, he didn’t see himself, or the people he knew. And he wanted to change that.

Growing up during the 1960s Chicano movement, the Los Angeles-based artist resented how Chicanos were often portrayed, he says. His photo series Chicano Male Unbonded was his response.

“What was used in the media was this idea of creating inferiority or guiltiness,” he says. “But these [Chicano] men had contributed to and saved my life.”

Chicano Males Stare Down Stereotypes

Photo Credit: Harry Gamboa, Jr.

Bottom right: Rudy Acuña

Why Has The Italian Mafia Returned to Colombia? - InSight Crime | Organized Crime in the Americas

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:01:10 -0700

Why Has The Italian Mafia Returned to Colombia? - InSight Crime | Organized Crime in the Americas:

A spate of recent arrests suggests the Italian mafia may be making a comeback in Colombia, where the fractured criminal landscape makes it easier for them to exert control over the drug trafficking process.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 20:00:28 -0700

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Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:44 -0700

A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:32 -0700

A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood:

sinidentidades:

Nek Muhammad knew he was being followed.

On a hot day in June 2004, the Pashtun tribesman was lounging inside a mud compound in South Waziristan, speaking by satellite phone to one of the many reporters who regularly interviewed him on how he had fought and humbled Pakistan’s army in the country’s western mountains. He asked one of his followers about the strange, metallic bird hovering above him.

Less than 24 hours later, a missile tore through the compound, severing Mr. Muhammad’s left leg and killing him and several others, including two boys, ages 10 and 16. A Pakistani military spokesman was quick to claim responsibility for the attack, saying that Pakistani forces had fired at the compound.

That was a lie.

Mr. Muhammad and his followers had been killed by the C.I.A., the first time it had deployed a Predator drone in Pakistan to carry out a “targeted killing.” The target was not a top operative of Al Qaeda, but a Pakistani ally of the Taliban who led a tribal rebellion and was marked by Pakistan as an enemy of the state. In a secret deal, the C.I.A. had agreed to kill him in exchange for access to airspace it had long sought so it could use drones to hunt down its own enemies.

That back-room bargain, described in detail for the first time in interviews with more than a dozen officials in Pakistan and the United States, is critical to understanding the origins of a covert drone war that began under the Bush administration, was embraced and expanded by President Obama, and is now the subject of fierce debate. The deal, a month after a blistering internal report about abuses in the C.I.A.’s network of secret prisons, paved the way for the C.I.A. to change its focus from capturing terrorists to killing them, and helped transform an agency that began as a cold war espionage service into a paramilitary organization.

The C.I.A. has since conducted hundreds of drone strikes in Pakistan that have killed thousands of people, Pakistanis and Arabs, militants and civilians alike. While it was not the first country where the United States used drones, it became the laboratory for the targeted killing operations that have come to define a new American way of fighting, blurring the line between soldiers and spies and short-circuiting the normal mechanisms by which the United States as a nation goes to war.

Neither American nor Pakistani officials have ever publicly acknowledged what really happened to Mr. Muhammad — details of the strike that killed him, along with those of other secret strikes, are still hidden in classified government databases. But in recent months, calls for transparency from members of Congress and critics on both the right and left have put pressure on Mr. Obama and his new C.I.A. director, John O. Brennan, to offer a fuller explanation of the goals and operation of the drone program, and of the agency’s role.

Mr. Brennan, who began his career at the C.I.A. and over the past four years oversaw an escalation of drone strikes from his office at the White House, has signaled that he hopes to return the agency to its traditional role of intelligence collection and analysis. But with a generation of C.I.A. officers now fully engaged in a new mission, it is an effort that could take years.

Today, even some of the people who were present at the creation of the drone program think the agency should have long given up targeted killings.

Ross Newland, who was a senior official at the C.I.A.’s headquarters in Langley, Va., when the agency was given the authority to kill Qaeda operatives, says he thinks that the agency had grown too comfortable with remote-control killing, and that drones have turned the C.I.A. into the villain in countries like Pakistan, where it should be nurturing relationships in order to gather intelligence.

As he puts it, “This is just not an intelligence mission.”

atd-i: Our fourth anniversary is coming up this summer and we...

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:01:22 -0700

atd-i:

Our fourth anniversary is coming up this summer and we would love to thank all the followers who have been following this website for all these years. We will be issuing prizes in early June. Stay tune to learn about the rules next weekend. Prizes include Relationship of Command RSD - LP, Original stickers from the Relationship of Command CD release, atd-i patches, and non-official pins.

Is this the one with the different mix?

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Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:49 -0700

anitaherrera: felicidades a mi gran amiga, “la tira”...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:45:18 -0700

anitaherrera:

felicidades a mi gran amiga, “la tira” @titacgarcia for throwing a great event…#NY to #LA to #MIA #remezcla

Hahaha, you can see me standing downstairs right above Tita’s head! And yes it was a great event (despite my day-long hangover)!

Cantera Dreams: Americans Underground in Mexico

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:00:54 -0700

Cantera Dreams: Americans Underground in Mexico:

Daniel Olea is just one of many Mexican-American kids who have travelled south in recent years, hoping for a professional career in Mexico. A list that users of the website BigSoccer.com maintain is striking for its size (they counted 85 players eligible for the U.S. national team at the start of the 2011-2012 Mexican league season) as well as the difficulty they have in keeping it up to date. Players travel from the United States to Mexico, especially at the youth level, with amazing regularity. Why are Mexican clubs today recruiting Mexican-American players so heavily? A confluence of events, sporting and geopolitical, has led to this situation.

In the United States, the second half of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st have seen two relevant trends: the concurrent growth of youth soccer and the Latino population in the United States. From 1970, when soccer was in its infancy in the United States, the sport has grown to nearly 14 million players today, according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association. Meanwhile, the Latino population of the United States grew from 9.6 million in 1970 (4.7 percent of the total population at the time) to 50.5 million in 2010 (16 percent of the total), according to Princeton scholars Douglas Massey and Karen Pren. A majority of the Latino population in the United States today has family roots in Mexico, and they form the population among which Mexican clubs are finding success recruiting young players.

penamerican: Welcome to Mexico’s ‘Zones of Silence’, where the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:00:50 -0700

penamerican:

Welcome to Mexico’s ‘Zones of Silence’, where the free press has been murdered

Mexico is easily the most dangerous place in the Western Hemisphere for reporters to ply their trade. Dozens of journalists have been killed or disappeared. Nearly every month, a newspaper or a radio or TV station is firebombed, attacked with explosives or raked with gunfire, targeted by the country’s rising criminal gangs who use violence to discourage reporting the gangsters don’t like.

01 DJ ALIAS - San Francisco Bay (feat Benson) 02 RARE EARTH - I...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:00:50 -0700

01 DJ ALIAS - San Francisco Bay (feat Benson)

02 RARE EARTH - I Just Want To Celebrate (Stickybuds Remix)

03 KILL PARIS - I Do Love You (WBBL Edit)

04 FATHER FUNK - Hell Yeah

05 JIMI NEEDLES & WBBL - Crash The Party

06 SECOND HAND AUDIO - Got It Like That ft. Dizzy Dustin (Featurecast Remix)

07 WHITE STRIPES - Fell In Love With A Girl (Lewd Behaviour Remix)

08 WBBL - Run along

09 DANNY BYRD - Red MIst (Featurecast Remix)

10 SUN - On My Radio (Stickybuds & Mr. Bill Remix)

11 ROLLOMATIK - Frying Pan

12 KOTCH -Funk Out

13 BEZWUN - Satisfy

14 THE FUNK HUNTERS & SKIITOUR - The Plan

15 NEON STEVE - Kill ‘Em With The Vibes (feat MC Zulu)

16 FEATURECAST - Jump (feat. Dynamic) (B-Side Remix)

17 THE CAPTAIN - Club Band

18 PYRAMYTH - Cowbell Rock

19 VOLATILE PSYCLE - Gramophone

20 CMC & SILENTA - This Is How We Rollin feat. Ragga Twins

21 TONIC - The Funky Fish

22 KJS - Broken

23 KID PANEL - R U Ready

24 FREEFALL COLLECTIVE - Renegade

25 FREEFALL COLLECTIVE - Ganjaman (Deeklines Swagger Jackin VIP Mix Feat. Rubi Dan)

26 BENNY PAGE & ZERO G - Raggamuffin

27 KING YOOF VS DJ GOLD - Call The Undertaker

28 DEEKLINE & ED SOLO -Bad Boyz

29 THE FREESTYLERS FEAT PENDULUM - Painkiller (Lewd Behavior Remix)

30 RHYTHM BEATER - What goes around

31 THE FUNK HUNTERS & SKIITOUR - Whole Lotta Drop

32 SERGIO MENDES - Mas Que Nada (Slynk Remix)

historiamexico: “…El progreso moral de la humanidad será mayor...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:01:00 -0700

historiamexico:

“…El progreso moral de la humanidad será mayor cuanto mayor sea la armonía entre todos los pueblos. La paz es el sumo ideal moral. Pero la paz, como la democracia, sólo puede dar todos sus frutos donde todos la respetan y aman. Mientras haya un solo país que tenga ambiciones sobre los demás y se arme con miras a la conquista, el verdadero pacifismo consiste en crear alianzas y armarse para evitar semejantes delitos internacionales…”

Alfonso Reyes, Cartilla Moral