Mexican Criminals Tap Texas for Guns in Drug Wars

Mexican criminals are turning to U.S. border states for firepower in their drug wars. Mexican police have seized more than 60,000 U.S. guns at crime scenes in the past four years. Most of the guns, including assault rifles and armor-piercing .50 caliber weapons, were sold by dealers in Texas, Arizona, and California.http://www.newsmax.com/US/Texas-Guns-Find-Mexico/2010/12/13/id/379759?s=al&promo_code=B48F-1

Off with their heads!

Chilling video released by the AP shows a violent, blood thirsty mob attacking a car carrying Prince Charles. The supposedly bullet proof car ended up badly beaten, and you can see in some of the still pictures the fear in their eyes as they are surrounded by the angry mob of students and others protesting a proposed hike in tuition rates.https://mail.google.com/mail/h/uz5ohgkvq73x/?v=c&th=12cd2036f82a0aba
Bailey: This is a good example of young adults in our society. What a bunch of morons and idiots parents have raised up in this world!  If  the brat doesn't  get a free ride on anything they want and get it right away, they want to go out and riot or kill somebody.  Just goes to show you what kind of parents they were brought up by.

Rum Punch: Reid Adds Sweeteners to Tax Bill to Placate Dems

Tax cut bill introduced by the Senate majority leader is chock-full of sweeteners — which cover everything from the Hollywood industry to rum producers — to serve as a legislative pacifier for Dems upset over the concessions the president has handed Republicans. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/10/obama-predicts-tax-passage-senate-presses-ahead/
Bailey: It looks to me like Reid and the Dems are trying to do as much can to finish screwing up our economy before we vote the rest of them out in 2012. It sure looks to me like we also need to vote out some more republicans.

WikiLeaks' Assange Threatens to Go 'Nuclear' With New Leaks

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is threatening to go “nuclear” if he is killed or arrested, releasing a “poison pill” of secret documents even more devastating than the ones that already have sparked diplomatic chaos around the globe, according to the British tabloid The Daily Mail.

Assange’s British attorney, Mark Stephens, called the documents a “thermo-nuclear device” intended as an insurance policy to guarantee Assange’s safety.

Stephens noted that several conservative American politicians, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, have called for Assange to be executed. In addition, GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called Assange a “high-tech terrorist” on "Meet the Press" Sunday.

“We've seen a number of suggestions that he should be assassinated, again from credible sources around the world,” Stephens told the Daily Mail. “This is all about a man who is a journalist. He received, unbidden, an electronic brown envelope that journalists receive.”

Those attacking Assange are “criminalizing journalistic activity,” Stephens said. And he described the revelations as “a thermo-nuclear device in the information age.”

Interpol, the international police organization, has issued a warrant for the arrest of Assange, an Australian thought to be in hiding in Britain.

The warrant stems from encounters that Assange had with two women in Sweden in August. Stephens has denounced the charges as “political theater.” Assange is subject to arrest at any time.

Assange’s “poison pill” is thought to include embarrassing revelations about the BP oil spill, aerial video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that caused civilian casualties, sensitive information on Bank of America, and secret documents that discuss the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, according to the Daily Mail,.

Thousands of the site’s supporters have downloaded the “nuclear bomb” from the WikiLeaks website, Stephens claims.

However, the documents can be opened only with a 256-digit key or password that is thought to be virtually impossible to hack.

If anything happens to Assange or the website, Stephens says, the digital password will be distributed automatically, and the documents will be released.

Other revelations continued to bleed out Monday from the 250,000 sensitive State Department cables that have already been posted to the site. Among the latest leaks:

• A document was exposed that lists in detail a host of sites around the world that U.S. officials worry could be vulnerable to terrorist attack.
• Evidence a senior Chinese political figure directed the hacking of Google, which led to the company's leaving China.
• Iran is dismissing cables that indicate Arab countries are terrified that the Shiite Islamic nation may develop nuclear weapons. Iranian presidential adviser Esfandiar Rahim Mashai told Spiegel Online that U.S. authorities leaked the documents themselves to pit governments in the Middle East against each other.
• A leaked note from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton charges that Saudi Arabia is the No. 1 bankroller of terrorist activity. In a secret memorandum, Clinton wrote that the Saudi kingdom remains “the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide" and that "it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority,” according to The Daily Telegraph.

PayPal cuts WikiLeaks from money flow

BERLIN – Online payment service provider PayPal says in a company blog it has cut off the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations.

The company said in a blog posting the move was prompted by a violation of its policy, "which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity."

The short notice was dated Friday, and a spokeswoman for PayPal Germany on Saturday declined to elaborate and referred to the official blog posting.

Donating money to WikiLeaks via PayPal on Saturday was not possible anymore, generating an error message saying "this recipient is currently unable to receive money."

PayPal is one of several ways WikiLeaks collects donations. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101204/ap_on_re_us/wikileaks_donations

City Workers To Get Raises on Taxpayer Dime

City Manager Rashad Young let the City Council know last week that he planned to give 155 city employees raises on Jan. 1, 2011.

This week President Barack Hussein Obama declared a moratorium on raises for civilian federal employees and is being asked by some Democratic leaders to include military employees. State employees didn't get a raise last year and have almost no chance of getting a raise this year.

In the private sector companies continue to lay off employees and use tricks like requiring employees to take furlough days – where employees cannot come to work but, unlike vacation, are not paid for those days. Being furloughed one day a month results in about a 5 percent pay cut.

The city, instead of looking at pay cuts, is giving raises and has plans to give a lot more.

The raises are preliminary to a compensation study that the City Council, by a 7-to-2 vote, approved when it authorized the 2010-2011 budget in June. The budget was primarily the work of Mayor Bill Knight and Councilmember Danny Thompson. Councilmembers Trudy Wade and Mary Rakestraw voted against the budget because of the water rate increase – which they said was unnecessary and has now been cut in half – and other items, including the $250,000 compensation study and the $200,000 diversity study. http://greensboro.rhinotimes.com/Articles-c-2010-12-01-206635.112113-City-Workers-To-Get-Raises-on-Taxpayer-Dime.html

Bailey: If you think that this crap is only happening in someone else's city, try checking out the city where you live. This is happening everywhere in the country!

Federal Employees Continue to Prosper

Posted by Tad DeHaven

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released its annual data on compensation levels by industry. The data show that the pay advantage enjoyed by federal civilian workers over private-sector workers continues to expand. This state of affairs is a thumb in the eye of the private sector, which continues to struggle with high unemployment. Many private sector employees have been forced to take pay and benefit cuts while continuing to fund generous federal employee compensation with their taxes.

Figure 1 looks at average wages. In 2009, the average wage for 1.95 million federal civilian workers was $81,258, which compared to an average $50,462 for the nation’s 101 million private sector workers (measured in full-time equivalents). The figure shows that the federal pay advantage (the gap between the lines) continued its steady increase over the past decade.http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/federal-employees-continue-to-prosper/

King: WikiLeaks Should Be Declared Terrorists

WikiLeaks, the group that released the sensitive documents on U.S. military, intelligence and diplomatic policy, may end up causing the deaths of Americans and our allies through its actions. So it stands to reason that the government must do something to punish the organization. Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee calls for a strong response, The Hill reports. 

"I am calling on the attorney general and supporting his efforts to fully prosecute WikiLeaks and its founder for violating the Espionage Act. And I'm also calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to declare WikiLeaks a foreign terrorist organization," King told 1010 WINS radio in New York.

"By doing that, we will be able to seize their funds and go after anyone who provides them help or contributions or assistance whatsoever," King explains. "To me, they are a clear and present danger to America."