Mexican Newspaper Asks Cartels What They Can and Cannot Print

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From MSNBC via the Infidel Blogger’s Alliance:

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The biggest newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city is to restrict drug war coverage after the killing of its second journalist in less than two years, just as international press representatives will urge the government to make security for journalists a national priority.

In a front-page editorial Sunday, El Diario de Juarez asked drug cartels warring in this city across from El Paso, Texas, to say what they want from the newspaper, so it can continue its work without further death, injury or intimidation of its staff.

“Leaders of the different organizations that are fighting for control of Ciudad Juarez: The loss of two reporters from this publishing house in less than two years represents an irreparable sorrow for all of us who work here, and, in particular, for their families,” the editorial said.

“We ask you to explain what you want from us, what we should try to publish or not publish, so we know what to expect,” it added.

The cartel’s control over the media now just solidifies their legitimate claim to being a parallel authority in Northern Mexico. The Mexican state has failed.

h/t Damien

Christine O’Donnell’s “Satanic Altar” and Why it Matters

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Vote Christine!

This afternoon I watched the former head of the South Carolina Democratic Party claim that Christine O’Donnell was a fringe character because she “was a Witch,” which he screamed as if it was synonymous with pedophile. The left, returning to their Satanic Panic roots, has been trying hard to smear O’Donnell as insane because of her supposed association with Satanism or Wicca or Witchcraft or some combination of the three.

O’Donnell herself responded to the flap by not only doubling down on her highly dubious story, but implying that one of her critics on the right, Karl Rove, was himself a Satanist. Both sides of the political spectrum seems to take for granted that O’Donnell’s story of picnicking on a “Satanic altar” as part of her “dabbling” in Witchcraft to be true.

It isn’t. For the record, this is a real Satanic altar:

A Real Satanic Altar

Yes, my friends, that’s a naked woman. A naked woman has historically been the “altar” of any Satanic group even before Anton LaVey formed his Church of Satan. References to this in literature, the works of Huysmans come to mind, had solidified this in occult circles for many years and Inquisitorial accounts of Satanism and The Black Mass are explicit about the need for a nude woman for these rites. While nowadays there are many non-LaVeyian Satanists, in the time frame O’Donnell’s supposed picnic happened one would have been hard pressed to find any Satanist other than LaVeyian, and if there’s not a naked woman involved it ain’t the Church of Satan!

Further, you’d also be hard pressed to find Satanists and Wiccans who associated with each other at that time. The Church of Satan is explicit in its denouncement of Wicca, even working in their disdain for Wiccans in their official rituals. With good reason it turns out, since Wiccans sided with Christians during the Satanic Panic to claim Satanists were indeed part of a world wide network of conspirators who committed horrible crimes. This forerunner to the 9/11 Truth movement, the so called Satanic Ritual Abuse movement, is still popular on the Internet, especially among the left and paleo-con falangists. O’Donnell claims that she was affiliated with Witches but had no idea Witchcraft, Wicca and Satanism were three different things?

Which all is just a quick way to point out that Christine O’Donnell’s whole story about dabbling in Witchcraft and Satanism and picnicking on altars and the rest  is a tall tale woven by a person who has no idea what she’s talking about.

But everyone is taking her seriously, and that’s the problem.

O’Donnell’s narrative is stolen from books like Michelle Remembers and is the same stance the right attacked Martha Coakley for having when she kept an innocent man in jail for years. People forget that the Satanic Panic destroyed lives, not of Satanists but of anyone accused by someone of being one. Most were innocent, as are the people O’Donnell’s smearing now, who were no doubt a couple of goths she hung around. If they existed at all.

Right now there is a growing number of right leaning Pagans, one was elected to office recently in Queens and is serving with distinction. O’Donnell is doing what leftist Wiccans have claimed the right does for years, falsely accusing Pagans in general of being Satanists and implying that Satanists are involved in criminality. The latter has been debunked by the F.B.I. and the former is not an example of center right thought, love of the Constitution and Freedom or strong moral fiber. Pagans on the right deserve to be as welcome in the Tea Party as everyone else, and O’Donnell, perhaps unwittingly, is undermining their ability to unite with fellow conservatives.

I was at the first (and second) Tea Party in Greenville, South Carolina. I am a supporter of many conservative groups, a proud Republican and a Pagan. O’Donnell and her supporters seem to take the same dim view Leftists do off my existence, which bothers me and should bother all people on the right.

At this point people have little choice but to support O’Donnell or accept a Marxist who has even been attacked by far left activists as too authoritarian. But the Tea Party could have, and should have, done better. In the next election they must because O’Donnell is not a lover of freedom or America, but a kook who disseminates Alex Jonesian fabrications designed to smear a significant number of Americans.

Is that what the Tea Party stands for?

New York State Cash Balance has Been Negative Since September 3rd

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It looks like the exodus of tax payers from New York is taking its toll on the state’s budget and ability to stay solvent. Tax and fee hikes to fund lavish social programs are the number one reason people have been leaving New York for greener pastures for years (myself included) and now the Empire State has reached the point where they have more people and projects collecting revenue than paying it in.

Since September 3rd, New York has been out of money:

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state’s general fund has had a negative cash balance every day since September 3, a problem that “underscores the tremendous amount of risk” in the state’s budget, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said on Thursday.

Though New York ended August with a nearly $528 million of cash in the general fund, which counts state tax and fee revenue but excludes federal dollars, it was forced to delay paying billions of dollars of bills that were due last month.

“Restoring the General Fund to a positive balance will depend on whether the state brings in enough revenue in the second half of the month,” said DiNapoli in a statement.

Which won’t happen as more and more Northeasterners flee to the south looking for tax relief and lower costs of living.

Reuters doesn’t see it that way though, claiming that New York is flush with money. Surprisingly (to some) the left leaning reporters blame the state’s whole financial problem on one thing – Medicaid:

The general fund paid out $20.9 billion — about 5.4 percent more than a year-ago, mainly because of an extra billion dollars needed for Medicaid. The state-federal health plan for the poor cost more this fiscal year because claims rose, a payment was delayed from the previous budget and claims climbed.

Still, there were declines in spending on health and the environment, which dropped $463 million, and other social services, which fell $335 million.

Unspoken in this of course is the MSM’s unshaken belief that Obamacare will lower these costs. That’s of course non-sense but they’ll find that out soon enough.

The real issue here is two-fold. Firstly New York has been warned that they were going to hit this wall for years and continued, under the leadership of both Democrats and Republicans and (with assists by the Green Party, Conservative party and the Libertarians) to build a massive entitlement state that is teetering on collapse. This will lead to civil unrest as up to 50-60% of that states population is completely reliant on some government subsidy to maintain their lifestyles.

The second issue is that the media sat on this information, which they knew as soon as it happened, for weeks. Why?

Civil unrest. It’s coming and the catalyst for riots in the big cities will be welfare recipients getting cut off. The government is desperately trying to hang on until the “recovery” fixes things, but that’s not going to happen. The complicit media is trying to keep the remaining New Yorkers, most of whom are the people whose care and feeding drove the productive out, from learning the bitter truth – it’s over.

But they can only hide that fact for so long. When the general public realizes that the golden years of government giving non-workers middle class lifestyles are over all hell will break loose.

Mexican Cartel Spotter Arrested in Arizona Desert

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Via Friends of Ours who summed up this story this way:

The Mexican drug cartels employ so-called “spotters” with high tech surveillance equipment such as night vision goggles who provide counter-intelligence on law enforcement movements along the smuggling corridor running through Pinal County, AZ, and yesterday Sheriff Paul Babeu announced the arrest of one such spotter who was discovered living in a cave atop Wild Cat Peak which is located 70 miles north of the border.

Watch this video report to see how desperate things are in Arizona: