On Christmas eve, in Piedras Negras, the border city of Coahuila, three decapitated bodies appeared, with their heads discovered in various public places of the city...

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3 decapitated bodies discovered in Piedras Negras  Posted: 27 Dec 2015 10:41 AM PST Lucio R. Borderland Beat Material from BB archives and El Rancherita On Christmas eve, in Piedras Negras, the border city of Coahuila, three decapitated bodies appeared, with their heads discovered in various public places of the city. According to Mayor Fernando Puron, this is another sign that the “monster is lurking”, and “organized crime is not gone from the city”.  Piedras shares a border with Eagle Pass Texas. There are indications that the three victims were not involved with organized crime and may be innocents killed as props to generate fear and panic among the residents, who have become less fearful in the past year, the mayor agrees that this was the motive for the killings.  Using innocents as props is a practice used by cartels to send a message. It is also possible the killings were retaliation for working with police, while there is no proof to support that,  it is possible since the message could be read that way.  It is unusual however, to send a message of a specific threat without signing the message. The consensus is however, that the killings were a scare tactic to create terror at a time the population has become relaxed and confident in security. It is not unusual that a Coahuila narco message warms against trusting or relying on GATES. Victims are identified as; Cristian Alfred Ramos Moreno, 17 years old, resident of Colonia San Joaquin, Eliseo Ruiz Santos de 33, resident of colonia Doctores, Claudia Hernández Cárdenas  37, of  colonia Valle del Norte. The body of Eliseo had tattoos, one reading “Mexican” and another “Made in Mexico”. The headless bodies were thrown on the grounds of Víctor M. Rueda sports park in colonia la Malvinas, the heads were found in the grounds of  Plaza de las Culturas,  and the baseball fields “Campos de Beisbol” of the macro plaza,  as well as the HEB shopping parking center. A cartulina message was left with the victims, which roughly translates to: “Continue believing in GATES, and this will happen to all that support them.  Think about things, before believing in them” GATES, is the controversial Coahuila state  police group, created by former governor Humberto Moreira.  Rumors in Coahuila surfaced shortly after the group was created that instead of combating organized crime, they were protecting interests of Zetas and Moreira.  Moreira has long been chased by reports of being in collusion with Zetas and corruption.  He was forced to resign as federal chief of the PRI party.  His brother Ruben “Pelon” Moreira became governor after Humberto. GATES has been accused by citizens of extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, extortions and citizens have forwarded proof to back up claims.  Ruben Moreira, the current governor of Coahuila, created an additional tactical group, Policia Estatal Acreditable, or simply “Aceditables”.  The group seemed to be successful for toning down violence in key cities along the border, but also has been accused of abuses against citizens, and side stepping laws and constitutional rights of people, including innocents.

The progressive socialist democrats continue to place students and teachers at risk of a mass shooting by prohibiting concealed firearms on school property. Unless there is an armed guard present, when and where needed, the progressive legislators have doomed you or your child to potential death or injury. ...

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CALIFORNIA LAW: IT'S NOT FOR THE CHILDREN Posted: 27 Dec 2015 11:54 AM PST The progressive socialist democrats continue to place students and teachers at risk of a mass shooting by prohibiting concealed firearms on school property. Unless there is an armed guard present, when and where needed, the progressive legislators have doomed you or your child to potential death or injury. It is almost as if they want to create larger victim pools in schools so as to pursue their anti-Second Amendment gun control agenda … SB 707, Wolk. Firearms: gun-free school zone.  Existing law, the Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1995, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from possessing a firearm in a place that the person knows, or reasonably should know, is a school zone, unless with the written permission of certain school district officials.     Existing law defines a school zone as an area on the grounds of a school providing instruction in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or within a distance of 1,000 feet of that school.    Existing law prohibits a person from bringing or possessing a firearm upon the grounds of a campus of a public or private university or college, or buildings owned or operated for student housing, teaching, research, or administration by a public or private university or college, that are contiguous or are clearly marked university property, as specified, unless with the written permission of specified university or college officials. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a felony, or, under specified circumstances, a misdemeanor.      Under existing law, certain persons are exempt from both the school zone and the university prohibitions, including, among others, a person holding a valid license to carry a concealed firearm and a retired peace officer authorized to carry a concealed or loaded firearm.    This bill would recast the provisions relating to a person holding a valid license to carry a concealed firearm to allow that person to carry a firearm in an area that is within 1,000 feet of, but not on the grounds of, a public or private school providing instruction in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive.    The bill would also delete the exemption that allows a person holding a valid license to carry a concealed firearm to bring or possess a firearm on the campus of a university or college.    The bill would create an additional exemption from those prohibitions for certain appointed peace officers who are authorized to carry a firearm by their appointing agency, and an exemption for certain retired reserve peace officers who are authorized to carry a concealed or loaded firearm.  By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.  Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits carrying ammunition or reloaded ammunition onto school grounds unless it is with the written permission of the school district superintendent, the superintendent's designee, or equivalent school authority.    This bill would reorganize those exceptions.    The bill would delete the exemption that allows a person to carry ammunition or reloaded ammunition onto school grounds if the person is licensed to carry a concealed firearm.    The bill would also create an additional exception to that prohibition by authorizing a person to carry ammunition or reloaded ammunition onto school grounds if it is in a motor vehicle at all times and is within a locked container or within the locked trunk of the vehicle. Effective January 1, 2016 Bottom line … We know criminals and crazies, especially students who have been treated with psychotropic drugs, have little or no respect for the law, so why do we believe that anyone bent of harming teachers, students, or school staff would obey posted signs. And, we have seen what crazed teachers and administrators with zero commonsense have done to little children who either drew something that looked like a gun or nibbled on a Pop-Tart until it looked like a gun.  Even making “finger guns” can get you expelled – while throwing gang signs appears to be a free speech issue. Unbelievable. We need to remove the progressive socialist democrats from our critical institutions where they implement nonsensical laws that real criminals and crazies do not obey. Ditto for the progressives who continue to indoctrinate, instead of educate, our children. -- steve

Dumb Idea of the Year Award, Does the U.S. Need the Minuteman? ...

In this mailing: Douglas Murray: Dumb Idea of the Year Award Peter Huessy: Does the U.S. Need the Minuteman? Dumb Idea of the Year Award by Douglas Murray  •  December 28, 2015 at 5:00 am Vadim Nikitim is the genius who last week proposed not only that we treat ISIS as a state, but that we grant ISIS diplomatic recognition. Rather than realizing that the Soviet Union collapsed because of its economic system, Nikitim seems to think it fell apart because countries such as the US and UK recognized it diplomatically -- demonstrating that there is no better way to get the present wrong than by getting the past wrong. The case of Saudi prince Saud bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir might give the impression that you can rape and kill a manservant in a London hotel and get away with only the lightest of sentences. Ambassadors from ISIS, on the other hand, will need to prove themselves somewhat, and first funnel many lucrative contracts our way before behaviour like this becomes acceptable. Of course, there is always that pesky problem: What if militant Islam (or Iran) does not want to "forge a long (or short) peace" with us? Is there a Plan B? It is that Dumb Idea of the Year Award time again, and among the many stellar contenders, one in particular stands out. The diplomatic convention in Great Britain is that new ambassadors present themselves at the Court of St James. There they meet representatives of the monarch and are officially recognized as representing their state in the UK. So it would be interesting to consider even just the earliest ramifications of the British Independent newspaper contributor Vadim Nikitim getting his way. This is the genius who last week bypassed all those tedious arguments over whether or not ISIS constitutes a state, and proposed not only that we treat it as such but that it is also time to grant ISIS diplomatic recognition. Continue Reading Article  Does the U.S. Need the Minuteman? by Peter Huessy  •  December 28, 2015 at 4:00 am It seems that the U.S., without a Minuteman missile force, would make it easy -- in fact tempting -- for an adversary such as Russia to take out the entire U.S. strategic nuclear force in one or a series of very limited first strikes. Under Secretary Perry's proposal, the U.S. "target set" of nuclear submarines and bombers would consist of five military bases: three for bombers and two for submarines, and a handful of submarines at sea. From over 500 targets today, to fewer than 10. It would be as if the U.S. declared to its enemies, "Come and get us." The elimination of the Minuteman missile force, recommended by Dr. Perry, would leave Russia with an alarming ratio -- nearly 200:1 -- of Russian warheads to American nuclear assets. This disparity could push the strategic nuclear balance toward heightened instabilities. Another way to look at it is that the Minuteman would cost only 1/3 of 1% of the total current budget of the Department of Defense. The U.S. nuclear "Triad" consists of nuclear warheads mounted on platforms based at sea, in the air and on land. Former Secretary of Defense William Perry calls for the nuclear land based force of 450 Minuteman missiles to be eliminated. He says that the United States does not need the missiles for nuclear deterrence. He also says that, because of Russia's current reckless and cavalier attitude about the early use of Russian nuclear weapons, he worries that in a crisis, an American President might launch Minuteman missiles out of fear that Russia might preemptively launch a first strike against America's "vulnerable" missile silos. Although the former Secretary of Defense is to be admired for his previous work on stealth technology, now part of the backbone of America's strategic nuclear bomber force[1], his recommendation on land-based missiles is, in fact, dangerous, wrong-headed and will lead to the very destabilizing relations with Russia he is hoping to avert. There are five key reasons why his proposal makes little sense. Continue Reading Article

Sinaloa: Mexican Navy helicopter shot down...

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Sinaloa: Mexican Navy helicopter shot down Posted: 26 Dec 2015 05:51 PM PST Lucio R. Borderland Beat material from Reforma and RioDoce While conducting patrols, Troops of the Ministry of the Navy of Mexico (Semar) who traveled by land and air were attacked by a group of armed men in the state of Sinaloa. During the operation, in which they claimed four tons and a half of marijuana in bags and packaged ready for transport, the feds called in air support which resulted in a Navy helicopter (Marina/Semar) coming under attack and shot down. The elements fired back in self-defense during the events and two assailants were killed, reported Semar. The federal agency said the incident occurred yesterday near the ranchería Saco de Agua, Sinaloa.   "The naval elements develop their operations in compliance with procedures established by the ‘Use of Force, Common Application to the Three Forces’,  and strict respect for human rights" said Semar. During these actions "in the vicinity of the settlement" Six rifles, magazines and ammunition for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces " were found and seized. Also, "about 4.5 tons of marijuana packed in bags and ready for transport", which was "destroyed on site by incineration".

The Real Threat to Palestinian Christians: Radical Islam ...ISIS Slaughtering Christians "In Their Beds"...

In this mailing: Bassam Tawil: The Real Threat to Palestinian Christians: Radical Islam Raymond Ibrahim: ISIS Slaughtering Christians "In Their Beds" The Real Threat to Palestinian Christians: Radical Islam by Bassam Tawil  •  December 27, 2015 at 5:00 am The Christians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are no different from their brothers in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya, who face a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing at the hands Islamist groups. Yet Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders want the world to blame only Israel for the predicament of Christians. The PA's decision to cancel Christmas celebrations had nothing to do with Israel or the "intifada." It came after threats by Muslim extremists to target Christians and their holy sites. On Christmas Day, Muslim Palestinians hurled stones at the car taking the head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land to Bethlehem. It would not surprise anyone if next year the PA decides to cancel Christmas celebrations for "security reasons." If, in the media and the international community, this strategy of turning a blind eye to the Muslim persecution of Christians continues, next year's Christmas in Bethlehem is sure to be an even less happy one. Muslim Palestinians in the Bethlehem area, among them men dressed in Santa Claus costumes, hurl stones at Israeli soldiers while yelling "Allahu Akbar," on Dec. 18, 2015. (Image source: Anadolu Agency videoscreenshot) This was not a happy Christmas for our Palestinian brothers in the West Bank who happen to be Christian. The Palestinian Christians have now become a tiny minority in Bethlehem. This year, they were just lucky that Christmas passed without a major terrorist attack or serious outbreaks of violence. On Christmas day, Muslim Palestinians hurled stones at the car taking the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, to Bethlehem. Twal, head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, was fortunately not hurt in the attack. The stone-throwers, local residents said, were from a refugee camp near Bethlehem. They had apparently said they were opposed to holding any form of celebrations in Bethlehem -- on the pretext that there is no reason to celebrate while Palestinians are being killed by Israelis -- who, by the way, have merely been trying to stop Palestinians from killing them. Continue Reading Article  ISIS Slaughtering Christians "In Their Beds" Muslim Persecution of Christians, October 2015 by Raymond Ibrahim  •  December 27, 2015 at 4:00 am "People are even killed inside the camps, and the refugees are afraid to say if they saw somebody get killed. ... they're buying and selling ladies and even girls."— Former ISIS operative. "We will not stop hunting Christians and burning churches. Christians are Allah's enemies!" — Extremist Islamic leaders, Indonesia. "My family members and I have been marked for death, and everyone in the community denied ever knowing my family or me..." — A convert to Christianity, Nigeria. "In Bangladesh, Christians are a weak minority and this is why Muslims are attacking us." — Nirmal Rozario, general secretary of the Bangladesh Christian Association. Islamic State jihadists execute three Assyrian Christian men in Syria, on September 23, 2015. Teams of trained killers disguised as refugees were sent by the Islamic State (IS) into U.N. refugee camps to kill Christians, including "in their beds," and to kidnap young girls to sell or use as slaves. This was revealed on October 24, according to a report, soon after an IS operative "got cold feet and renounced jihad after witnessing Christians helping out other refugees within the camp. He then revealed that he had been sent with an Islamist hit squad to eliminate Christians as part of the hate group's ideological drive to wipe the religion off the map." The report also quoted an aid worker saying: Continue Reading Article

Jihad: "All the Fault of the West!" by Lars Hedegaard  •  December 26, 2015 at 5:00 am As long as we in the West are not prepared to take Muslims at their word when they claim to be waging bloody jihad because it is their religious obligation, we have no chance of repelling the current onslaught on the West. First to go will be the welfare states. Shrinking native populations cannot generate enough taxes to accommodate masses of immigrants with so few skills as to be effectively unemployable, or who do not want to contribute to "infidel" societies. Well before mid-century, the number of Muslims in Denmark will be large enough irreversibly to have changed the composition and character of the country. In the United States, a House of Representatives bill, H. Res. 569, has been sponsored that would censor one of the few countries left with freedom of speech. The bill, in accordance with the 10-year plan of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), would criminalize all criticism of Islam, worldwide. Will Muslim non-integration spell the end of the secular state as we have known it? Probably. Religion – or more accurately, Islamic ideology, which knows no distinction between religion and politics – is on the ascendant. Thousands of migrants cross illegally into Slovenia on foot, in this screenshot from YouTube video filmed in October 2015. It was not supposed to have happened this way. In 1995 a number of EU member states signed the Schengen Agreement, integrated into European Union law in 1999. The signatory powers promised to abandon their internal border protection in exchange for a promise by the EU authorities that they would police Europe's external borders. Then the EU authorities, while demanding that the Schengen states keep their borders open, spectacularly failed to honor their part of the agreement. There can be little doubt that the EU packed up, walked out and left its populations to their own devices. Continue Reading Article

Monterrey: 300 kilos of cocaine seized, likely belonging to Cartel del Norte (Zetas) ...

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Monterrey: 300 kilos of cocaine seized, likely belonging to Cartel del Norte (Zetas) Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:54 PM PST Lucio R. Borderland Beat material from Reporte Indigo The Coming Storm: After the seizure of more than 300 kilos of cocaine last weekend, clouds of violence loom ahead. Authorities do not rule out, that this blow to the cartel will provoke retaliation Last weekend in a joint operation, elements of BOM, seized  330 kilograms of cocaine in a warehouse located in the Colonia New Morelos, Monterrey. The blow to the cartel who lost the drug cache, could open the door to a new phase of violence in the city. Each of the 279 packages seized drug is traded on the black market for apx $20,000, (dollars)  so it is estimated that the cargo would be worth  $ 5.5 million. The million dollar loss for the cartel could cause a storm of retaliation. So the authorities do not rule out "uprisings" and executions of members of the same organization or rivals who leaked information of the drug location  to the authorities. A federal source revealed that those who could pay for the loss of the cargo, would be those responsible for caring for the drug, the spies (Halcones) assigned to monitor the area. "Maybe not immediately,  but people will turn up dead,  this is a huge hit which was lost," said an informant. "Someone will have to pay". In the seizure, held through a joint operation between the Department of Defense personnel, PGR, the Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) and the Attorney General of the State of Nuevo Leon, also seized at the warehouse,  rifles, handguns ; over 600 cartridges of various calibers; 23 magazines and four vehicles. The state prosecutor, Roberto Flores, said at a press conference that among the weapons was a grenade launcher. Meanwhile, a source of “high military rank”, revealed that because of  the area where the drug was seized it could be linked to the Cartel del Norte (Los Zetas). "What is known is that Los Zetas no longer identify as such, now they call themselves  Cártel del Norte, and operate throughout northern Monterrey," the military informant. Last weekend’s seizure is the second greatest in Nuevo Leon  history.  The largest seizure of cocaine in N.L. was on April 2, 1999, when federal agents confiscated 1,072 kilos in Galeana.