Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, September 13, 2010

Knowledge dissemination in Mexico

By Dave Anderson:

The Mexican military and police disabled a car bomb in Juarez earlier this week.  That is good news, and it is bad news as well.  Reuters has some details:

Local police responding to a call late on Friday
that a person had been executed in an industrial sector of Ciudad Juarez
discovered a car full of explosives near the body, federal police said
in a statement....

There were two more small-scale attacks in August
that investigators said likely used commercial explosives and were
detonated remotely.

For the past few years, most explosive attacks in Mexico have been with manufactured explosives.  Hand grenades, and rifle grenades have been used in both combat and as part of drive-by bombings.  However, it seems that car bomb and IED building knowledge is disseminating across several cartels and other criminal groups in Mexico.  Mexico is awash in commercial and military grade plastic explosives, so once the knowledge and the willingness to use IEDs is present, the ability to make effective IEDs will not be a hard constraint on their use. 



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