Wednesday, June 5, 2013

WILL GOP PUSH BACK OBAMA'S AMNEST for more LEGALIZED LA RAZA LOOTING? Rep. Labrador abandons House immigration bill over healthcare - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com

Rep. Labrador abandons House immigration bill over healthcare - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com


Giving Illegals Access to Welfare ‘An Assault on the U.S. Taxpayer,’ Researcher Says

May 29, 2013

Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation



OBAMA'S AMNESTY - Mexico's Biggest Bailout in History - America's Biggest Looting in History

THE AMNESTY THAT CREATED 40 MILLION NEW DEM VOTERS and DESTROYED THE GOP…was supported by GOP senators!


GOP WAR ON HISPANICS....??? or la raza supremacy fascism we're talking about???

VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? IT IS WHAT THE DEMS DO NATIONWIDE… THEN HAND US THE TAX BILLS FOR MEXICO’S LOOTING, WELFARE STATE AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE.

 THE ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS = NEW DEMS & 18 YEARS OF GRINGO WELFARE!

“Through love of having children, we are going to take over.” AUGUSTIN CEBADA, BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA
FASCIST PARTY

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/01/heather-mac-donald-la-raza-fascist.html

THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY WELFARE STATE of MEXIFORNIA:

You are cordially invited to jump our borders, jobs and voting booths!

VIVA LA RAZA from the Democrat Party – Expanding Mexico’s Welfare state to all 49 other Mexifornias!

LA RAZA-OCCUPIED CALIFORNIA - Another Mexican Gang Rape today


NEXT TO DRUGS, MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORT IS CRIMINALS.

CA HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON SYSTEM IN THE NATION. NEARLY HALF THE INMATES ARE MEXICANS.

ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS, HERSELF A LA RAZA DEM, NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS.

IT IS UNKNOWN IF THIS MEXICAN THUG JOSE MONTANO IS AN ILLEGAL, LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY, OR AN AMERICAN BY RIGHT OF BIRTH. WHAT IS KNOW IS THAT MEXICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT CULTURE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

EVERY DAY IN AMERICA THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED AND 8 CHILDREN MOLESTED!

REALLY WANT THE OBAMA, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, PELOSI AMNESTY or continued non-enforcement?

After she refused sex with her attackers, authorities say she was raped, robbed and beaten unconscious in a sustained sexual assault that some investigators called the worst they had ever seen. Though as many as two dozen people stood and watched, the attack ended when a woman in the neighborhood heard what was happening and called 911.


Attacker in brutal California gang rape taunted me, alleged victim’s father says

Published June 05, 2013

The father of an alleged gang-rape victim says he "buckled" when his daughter's alleged attacker called him from her cellphone, as testimony begins in the trial of two of the suspects.

It was 10:52 p.m. on Oct. 24, 2009, and the father of the16-year-old girl was waiting by his phone in case his daughter called him to pick her up from the Richmond High School’s homecoming dance.

His phone rang. The call was from his daughter's cell phone. He answered. It was a man's voice who said, in vulgar terms, that his daughter was great at sex, the father told a jury Tuesday at the trial of his daughter's alleged gang-rape, The Mercury News Reported.

The teen's father was the first witness called to the stand in the trial of Jose Montano, 22, and Marcelles Peter, 20, who both face life in prison if convicted in the gang-rape, the report said.

The father, who was identified as John Doe, described the anxiety he felt after the disturbing call when he called and texted messaged his girl and she did not answer. He also recalled the feeling he had when he saw police cars and when an officer called him by name. 

"When he addressed me, I started to buckle because I had not given my name," he told the jurors, the paper reported. He recalled his daughter appearing badly bruised, her face swollen He remembered telling her that she was loved and to "hold on," the paper reported.

Meanwhile, a prosecutor says the two men charged in the gang rape helped others participate in the horrific assault.

The Contra Costa County prosecutor told jurors the two were part of a larger group of men who punched, dragged, robbed and urinated on the heavily intoxicated teen two years ago outside Richmond High School.

Montano's attorney Jane Elliot countered during the second day of trial that there are too many conflicting statements about her client's involvement to convict him. Elliot acknowledged Montano's DNA was on a condom wrapper and a can of alcohol at the scene but maintained it was not found on the girl.

The victim, 5-foot, 2 inches tall and weighing 100 pounds, was lured to a dark courtyard outside Richmond High School, where police say she drank a large amount of brandy. After she refused sex with her attackers, authorities say she was raped, robbed and beaten unconscious in a sustained sexual assault that some investigators called the worst they had ever seen. Though as many as two dozen people stood and watched, the attack ended when a woman in the neighborhood heard what was happening and called 911.

The girl, who some bystanders thought was dead, was found unresponsive under a picnic table and air-lifted to a hospital in critical condition. The victim recovered and is expected to testify at the trial.

Gordon Brown, Peter's attorney, told jurors Monday that wind from the helicopter could have compromised evidence at the scene and carried Peter's DNA from a beer can to a broken used condom found in the courtyard, according to the Contra Costa Times. Brown was not immediately available for comment when contacted Tuesday by FoxNews.com.  


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WIKILEAKS EXPOSES OBAMA’S AGENDA OF
ASSAULTING OUR BORDERS, AMERICANS IN JOBS HE
WANTS TO FILL WITH ILLEGALS


 

THERE IS A REASON WHY THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATE IN MORE THAN 2,500 AMERICAN CITIES, INCLUDING OBAMA’S CHICAGO!


 
OBAMA’S AGENDA OF OPEN and UNDEFENDED BORDERS and the MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS SWARMING OUR BORDERS.


MEXICO TODAY... AMERICA TOMORROW!

Inside Mexico's drug war: Heart wrenching images of poverty and violence capture true misery of country ravaged by cartels

CLASHING CULTURES – THE REALITY OF THE MEXICAN OCCUPIERS:

LOS ANGELES: ALVARO ROSAS IS AN ILLEGAL. HE IS ALSO A DISTRIBUTOR OF CHILD PORN!


WHO ARE AMERICA’S OCCUPIERS?

THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” INVADERS:

AMERICA vs MEXICO: CLASHING CULTURES

By Frosty Wooldridge


Illegals cheat, distribute drugs, lie, forge documents, steal and kill as if it’s a normal way of life. For them, it is. Mexico’s civilization stands diametrically opposed to America’s culture.

The legal age of sexual consent in Mexico is 12 years old. Sex with children at this age and younger is socially acceptable in Mexico. For example: A Mexican Lopez-Mendez pleaded guilty to sexual assault on a 10 year old girl in West Virginia.

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EVERYDAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED and EIGHT CHILDREN MOLESTED BY ILLEGALS FROM MEXICO. WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?

RE mexican & his child porn



 

THERE IS A REASON WHY THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATE IN MORE THAN 2,500 AMERICAN CITIES, INCLUDING OBAMA’S CHICAGO!


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EVERYDAY THERE ARE 8 CHILDREN MOLESTED BY ILLEGAL MEXICANS AND 12 AMERICANS MURDERED…. they also steal jobs, loot, breed anchor babies at our expense and VOTE DEM!


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OBAMA and his SAUDIS CRONIES - U.S. Gives Saudi Airlines ‘Unrestricted’ Access to American Skies | CNS News

U.S. Gives Saudi Airlines ‘Unrestricted’ Access to American Skies | CNS News


 

JUST AS OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS TO BUILD HIS LA RAZA SUPREMACY PARTY of ILLEGALS, SO HAS HE TURNED A BLIND EYE TO THE CRIMES OF THE SAUDIS 9-11 INVADERS.

OBAMA IS UP THEIR ASS BIG TIME. HE PROBABLY LIKES THE SMELL OF ALL THE DIRTY SAUDIS LOOT THAT THESE FREAKS HANDED OVER TO HILLARY AND BILLARY AND THEN BUSH TO BUILD PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARYS.


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IS BARACK OBAMA UP THE ARSES OF AMERICAN’S 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS?

DOES HE SMELL THE KIND OF $$$ LOOT $$$ THE FILTHY SAUDIS HAVE HANDED OVER TO HILLARY/BILLARY FOR THE BILLARY LIBRARY?

 

IS BARACK OBAMA UP THE ARSES OF AMERICAN’S 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS?

DOES HE SMELL THE KIND OF $$$ LOOT $$$ THE FILTHY SAUDIS HAVE HANDED OVER TO HILLARY/BILLARY FOR THE BILLARY LIBRARY?


 

RED CHINA DECLARES SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN THEIR FIRST AGENT IN THE U.S. SENATE - Will Feinstein accept asylum in China to avoid American prison?


SHE RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

THE STAGGERING DEGREE OF HER CORRUPTION IS SIMPLY EMBLEMATIC OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

 

A COMMENT ABOUT THE WHITE COLLAR CRIME DUAL OF SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND RICHARD C. BLUM, MAJOR OBAMA DONORS:

 

This system is best characterized as a plutocratic kleptocracy, completely lacking in authentic democracy, operated by and for corporate racketeers, in short, a dictatorship of big capital, the top 1% of wealth holders, which makes up a ruling class."

THE WHITE HOUSE: President Obama has awarded Sen. Dianne Feinstein AMERICA'S BIGGEST CORRUPT SLUT in the U.S. SENATE AWARD - Feinstein says she will treasure the recognition her corruption so justly deserves


SHE RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

THE STAGGERING DEGREE OF HER CORRUPTION IS SIMPLY EMBLEMATIC OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

 

A COMMENT ABOUT THE WHITE COLLAR CRIME DUAL OF SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND RICHARD C. BLUM, MAJOR OBAMA DONORS:

 

This system is best characterized as a plutocratic kleptocracy, completely lacking in authentic democracy, operated by and for corporate racketeers, in short, a dictatorship of big capital, the top 1% of wealth holders, which makes up a ruling class."

CORRUPTION in the U.S. SENATE: How Senator Barbara Boxer made a vast fortune servicing Sen. Feinstein and her husband, Ricard C. Blum


SHE RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

THE STAGGERING DEGREE OF HER CORRUPTION IS SIMPLY EMBLEMATIC OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE.


A COMMENT ABOUT THE WHITE COLLAR CRIME DUAL OF SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND RICHARD C. BLUM, MAJOR OBAMA DONORS:


This system is best characterized as a plutocratic kleptocracy, completely lacking in authentic democracy, operated by and for corporate racketeers, in short, a dictatorship of big capital, the top 1% of wealth holders, which makes up a ruling class."

The Looting of America by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Husband Richard C. Blum, Major Obama Donors


SHE RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

THE STAGGERING DEGREE OF HER CORRUPTION IS SIMPLY EMBLEMATIC OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

 A COMMENT ABOUT THE WHITE COLLAR CRIME DUAL OF SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND RICHARD C. BLUM, MAJOR OBAMA DONORS:

 
This system is best characterized as a plutocratic kleptocracy, completely lacking in authentic democracy, operated by and for corporate racketeers, in short, a dictatorship of big capital, the top 1% of wealth holders, which makes up a ruling class."

Sen. Dianne Feinstein - America's Most Corrupt


SHE RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

THE STAGGERING DEGREE OF HER CORRUPTION IS SIMPLY EMBLEMATIC OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

A COMMENT ABOUT THE WHITE COLLAR CRIME DUAL OF SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND RICHARD C. BLUM, MAJOR OBAMA DONORS:
 

This system is best characterized as a plutocratic kleptocracy, completely lacking in authentic democracy, operated by and for corporate racketeers, in short, a dictatorship of big capital, the top 1% of wealth holders, which makes up a ruling class."

60% Think Most Members of Congress Are Willing to Sell Their Vote - 99% Think Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the Most Corrupt Senator in American History. Obama Salutes Feinstein for this! Rasmussen Reports™

60% Think Most Members of Congress Are Willing to Sell Their Vote - Rasmussen Reports™


A COMMENT ABOUT THE WHITE COLLAR CRIME DUAL OF SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND RICHARD C. BLUM, MAJOR OBAMA DONORS:

This system is best characterized as a plutocratic kleptocracy, completely lacking in authentic democracy, operated by and for corporate racketeers, in short, a dictatorship of big capital, the top 1% of wealth holders, which makes up a ruling class."

SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, WHOM RALPH NADER HAS APTLY CHARACTERIZED AS A "CLOSET REPUBLICAN" (LIKE OBAMA), HAS TURNED CALIFORNIA INTO A MEXICAN LOOTED WELFARE STATE.

FEINSTEIN HAS REFERRED TO AMERICANS OBJECTING TO HER LA RAZA SUPREMACY, OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY AS "STUPID".

2007 – CA NOW PUTS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR FOR ILLEGALS, AND HALF THE MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS. COUNTIES PAYOUT EVEN MORE WITH MEX-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES COUNTY PAY OUT $600 MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY MEXICAN ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS (A NEW GENERATION OF "CHEAP" LABOR HAMBURGER TURNERS).

Another liberal, Sen. Diane Feinstein of California, said the American people are too stupid to understand the opening the nation's borders to anyone who wants to come in is good for them. Feinstein said amnesty opponents "don't understand the bill." Feinstein urged her colleagues to vote for cloture because "if we miss this opportunity, there is not likely to be another opportunity in the next few years to fix this." Tony Phyrillas

 
BUT THEN FEINSTEIN HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER S.F. HOTEL, ONLY A FEW MILES FROM HER $16 MILLION DOLLAR WAR PROFITEER MANSION.

HER LA RAZA SISTER PELOSI HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER NAPA WINERY AND HER LA RAZA SISTER BOXER WAS REELECTED ON A PLATFORM OF LA RAZA  SUPREMACY, OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY = NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!

ANY TIME THERE IS EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF CLEANING UP THE  ETHICS OF THE U.S. SEWER SENATE, FEINSTEIN AND BOXER ARE RIGHT THERE TO VOTE IT DOWN! OBVIOUSLY ANY ETHICS INVESTIGATIONS WOULD LEAD RIGHT TO FEINSTEIN AND PUT HER IN PRISON, ALONG WITH HER WHITE COLLAR PIMP BLUM. NO OTHER WESTERN DEMOCRACY TOLERATES THE BRAZEN, ALBEIT INSTITUTIONALIZED CORRUPTION THAT WE SEE YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR, DEAL AFTER DEAL AFTER DEAL BY FEINSTEIN AND HER PIMP HUSBAND, RICHARD C. BLUM.

FEINSTEIN WAS BOXER'S REELECTION CHAIRMAN. FEINSTEIN'S HUSBAND, RICHARD C. BLUM HAS ALWAYS PUMPED BIG BRIBES INTO BOXER'S ORGANIZED CRIME SO SHE VOTES FOR ANYTHING THAT WILL BENEFIT FEINSTEIN AND BLUM. BOXER HAS NEVER IN HER CAREER GOT A BILL MADE INTO LAW. IN FACT, DURING HER LAST TERM SHE WAS OFF ON A TWENTY-TWO CITY BOOK SIGNING TOUR FOR HER BULLSHIT NOVEL ON D.C. (SEE AMAZON).

WHILE BOXER STARTED HER POLITICAL CAREER WITH NOT A POT TO PISS IN, SHE NOW HAS MILLIONS AND MILLIONS... ALL BRIBES SHE'S COLLECTED SERVING THE SPECIAL INTERESTS AND LAUNDERED BY HER SON, OAKLAND LAWYER DOUGLAS BOXER AS "CONSULTANT FEES".

WHEN THERE WAS AN EFFORT TO STOP THIS BRAZEN THIRD WORLD-TYPE CORRUPTION, FEINSTEIN STATED THAT SHE SAW NO CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. SHE AND BOXER VOTED AGAINST ENDING "CONSULTANT FEES" BRIBES. FEINSTEIN'S LA RAZA SISTER PELOSI HAS LAUNDERED SOME BIG BUCKS FOR HER HUSBAND, A "CONSULTANT" AS WELL.

"I see no evidence of anything improper in this body," said Senate Rules and Administration Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D‑Calif.) during the floor debate.

ONE CANNOT SEPARATE CALIFORNIA'S MELTDOWN FROM THE STAGGERING CORRUPTION OF FEINSTEIN, BOXER and PELOSI!

YOU WILL NOT FIND EVEN ONE EXAMPLE OF THESE THREE OPENING THEIR OTHERWISE BIG MOUTHS ABOUT THE LOOTING OF CA BY FEINSTEIN'S PAYMASTERS BANK of AMERICA and WELLS FARGO, THE FORECLOSURE CRISIS WHICH HIT CA THE HARDEST, CAUSED PRIMARILY BY THESE BANKS. IN FACT, FEINSTEIN'S PIMP HUSBAND RICHARD BLUM IS NOW PROFITEERING ON THE WHOLESALE SALES OF FORECLOSED PROPERTIES CAUSED BY FEINSTEIN'S BANK PAYMASTERS. NOR WILL THEIR BIG MOUTHS OPEN UP ABOUT THE STAGGERING UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS, AFTER ALL, ILLEGALS IN CA HAVE NO PROBLEM FINDING A JOB SO LONG AS THEY HAVE FOUND A STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER  FIRST!

FOR POLITICIANS AND WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS IT'S ALWAYS A GAME OF BUCK$ AND INCEST AND THERE IS NO WHORE BIGGER THAN FEINSTEIN. 

FEINSTEIN'S PIMP HUSBAND, RICHARD C. BLUM IS A MAJOR DONOR TO OBAMA. YOU SAW THE CRIME DUAL AT OBAMA'S FIRST INAUGURATION WHERE FEINSTEIN GAVE THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS WHILE PIMP BLUM SAT BEHIND OBAMA HOOTIN' AND HOLLERIN’ ABOUT ALL THE DEALS HE COULD ALREADY SMELL THAT FEINSTEIN WOULD PUSH IN THE SENATE. FEINSTEIN HAS VOTED FOR ANY AND ALL WARS AND OBAMA KNOWS HOW TO SQUANDER BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF CORRUPT MUSLIM DICTATORS EVEN HAS HE SABOTAGED AMERICAN HOMELAND SECURITY TO BUILD HIS LA RAZA DEM PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS.

RICHARD C. BLUM HAS HANDED OUT BRIBES TO NUMEROUS DEMS SO THEY KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT ABOUT FEINSTEIN'S STAGGERING CORRUPTION. THESE HAVE INCLUDED NOT ONLY OBAMA AND BOXER, BUT OF COURSE HILARY CLINTON, KERRY, AND THE OTHER WAR MONGER, JOE LIEBERMAN.

FEINSTEIN'S AMERICA! "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."  ---Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico

Immigrating America Into a Colony of Mexico


We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico. With 9.2 million Mexicans now living in America, their goal of colonizing our country back into Mexico moves forward. A more sobering reality stems from the evidence that it’s Mexican-American citizens in the forefront of this disintegration of our country.

CRIMINAL BANKSTERS  BANK of AMERICA and WELLS FARGO are two of criminal Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s paymasters. She voted for each and every banksters bailout that came along and did nothing about these banks crime tidal wave the destroyed billions of dollars of property value held by the people of California where she lives in a $16 million dollar war profiteers mansion in San Francisco.

Feinstein is a major donor to the OBAMANATION and supports his amnesty hoax, open borders, no E-VERIFY and any policy that aids the looting of this nation by Obama’s BIG BANKSTER DONORS!

FEINSTEIN'S PAYMASTERS, BANKSTERS BANK of AMERICA and WELLS FARGO

BANK of AMERICA – A MAJOR CAUSE OF MILLIONS OF FORECLOSURES, A MAJOR DONOR to the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA and  a MAJOR MONEY LAUNDERER for the MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. Seen that American flag flying over their executive offices???

BUILDING THE OBAMA DICTATORSHIP: BANKSTERS, LA RAZA FASCIST and the MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS… business is good for them under the Obamanation!

 “Not one banker was prosecuted for illegal involvement in the drugs trade.”


BANK of AMERICA – A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO MEXICAN FASCSIM AND DRUG CARTELS


SENS. FEINSTEIN and BOXER and NANCY PELOSI VOW TO BUILD AMERICAN’S BIGGEST GRINGO-PAID “FREE” LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY FACTORY.


 
OBAMANOMICS: BANK PROFITS and CRIMES SOAR UNDER OBAMA… so do foreclosures!

FORECLOSED ON AMERICA: HOW BARACK OBAMA and HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTERS LOOTED A NATION AND THEN PROFITEERED OFF THEIR CRIMES


Sen. Feinstein's Husband Cashes In on Crisis Ethical? Ethnics never enter into a deal Feinstein is pushing in Congress! FEINSTEIN IS A MAJOR OBAMA DONOR. SHE MAKES SIGNIFICATN "CONTRIBUTIONS" TO DEMS ALL OVER THE NATION SO THEY KEEP THEIR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT HER LOOTING OFF ELECTED OFFICE.

On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms, the Washington Times reported on Tuesday.

Mrs. Feinstein's intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn't a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars.

 
unfortunately this is only one of the many “DEALS” Feinstein and her husband, Richard C. Blum have looted off of.


TWO OF FEINSTEIN’S BIGGEST DONORS ARE CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA. SHE FRONTS FOR THESE BANKS IN THE SENATE LIKE SHE DOES RED CHINA! BOTH BANKS ARE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST FOR THE FORECLOSURE DEBACLE THEY ARE NOW PROFITEERING FROM. 


CA PUTS OUT $22 BILLION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE. Not one American voted to be looted by MEXICO. Not one American will vote for OBAMA’S AMNESTY HOAX.

Here’s what Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Boxer have done to the looted Mexican colony of CA… Obama’s vision of America is 49 more Mexifornias.


THE AMNESTY HOAX AND MEXICO’ LOOTING: HOW THE DEMS BUILT THE LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS, THE MEX WELFARE STATE in CA and DESTROYED THE GOP WITH 40 MILLION NEW “UNREGISTERED DEMS” HANDED AMNESTY FOR MORE LOOTING.

SENS. FEINSTEIN and BOXER, TWO OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAVE THREE (3) TIMES ATTEMPTED A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR 1.5 MILLION ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS DESPITE THE FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF ALL FARM WORKERS END UP ON WELFARE.

THEY DO SO ON BEHALF OF THEIR GREEDY BIG AG BIZ DONORS!



Jose Herria emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker. He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8 -- all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" -- an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently.
 

the sad reality is, barack Obama is merely DIANNE FEINSTEIN in drag!


FEINSTEIN BOUGHT ANOTHER TERM AS AMERICA'S BIGGEST LOOTING HO WITH $9 MILLION IN SPEICAIL INTERESTS MONEY FROM BIG LAWYERS, BIG BANKS, BIG PG&E MONOPOLIES AND ANYONE THAT NEEDS A $2 BUCK HO IN THE SENATE!

MEANWHILE... CA IS IN MELTDOWN FROM THE CORRUPTION OF FEINSTEIN, BOXER and PELOSI!
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CONGRESS: Wall Street’s Great HoHouse… or Sen. Dianne Feinstein and husband Richard C. Blum’s HoHouse?


OBAMA'S LA RAZA PARTNERS for AMNESTY: SENS. BARBARA BOXER and DIANNE FEINSTEIN - THEIR BRIBES, LOOTING and STAGGERING CORRUPTION


FIENSTEIN AMERICA'S BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER

 "Why hasn't she expressed outrage about some of the potential conflicts with people in or close to the Bush administration?" Lewis said. "Could it be that she (Feinstein) herself has some entanglements?"


BARACK OBAMA HAS SQUANDERED BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS WHILE HE SABOTAGES HOMELAND SECURITY AND AMERICAN BORDERS TO BUILD THE LA RAZA DEMS’ PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS.

ONE OF HIS MAJOR DONORS IS WAR PROFITEER DIANNE FEINSTEIN!

 FEINSTEIN FARM LABOR - EXPLOITING "CHEAP" LABOR MEXICANS FOR HER BIG AG BIZ DONORS! STUPID AMERICANS GET THE TAX BILLS FOR THE REAL COST OF ALL THIS "CHEAP" LABOR!

SENS. FEINSTEIN and BOXER, TWO OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAVE THREE (3) TIMES ATTEMPTED A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR 1.5 MILLION ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS DESPITE THE FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF ALL FARM WORKERS END UP ON WELFARE.

THEY DO SO ON BEHALF OF THEIR GREEDY BIG AG
BIZ DONORS!


CASE STUDY OF HOW MEXICO EXPORTS POVERTY TO AMERICAN AND HOW WELL THE MEXICANS LOOT US.


Jose Herria emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker. He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8 -- all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" -- an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently.

Lou Dobbs Tonight Friday, May 16, 2008

(FEINSTEIN IS THE BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER IN AMERICAN HISTORY. SHE HAS VOTED FOR ANY AND ALL WARS SHE COULD)

Some in Congress are once again trying to push piecemeal immigration reform through the back door. Sen. Diane Feinstein of California attached a farm worker program to the multibillion dollar Iraq war funding bill yesterday which would grant temporary amnesty to 1.3 million farm workers and their families over the next five years.

 
KRUGMAN

CALIFORNIA – MEXICO’S $22 BILLION DOLLAR WELFARE STATE


CALIFORNIA IS A LOOTED COLONY OF MEXICO. THE LA RAZA-CONTROLLED STATE LEGISALTURE PASSES LAW AFTER LAW THAT BENEFITS ILLEGALS AND ENCOURAGES MORE OF THEM TO HOP OUR BORDERS.

Most Illegal Immigrant Families Collect Welfare… ALL GET AMERICAN JOBS???

April 05, 2011

Surprise, surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most U.S. families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their American-born anchor babies.


SENS. FEINSTEIN and BOXER and NANCY PELOSI VOW TO BUILD AMERICAN’S BIGGEST GRINGO-PAID “FREE” LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY FACTORY.


 ILLEGALS IN MEXICO

 WHILE MEXICO RANTS, INVADES, LOOTS AND BANKRUPTS AMERICA, IT’S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT STORY FOR ILLEGALS DOWN THERE!


“Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care.”

IN MEXIFORNIA IT IS A DIFFERENT STORY. MEX CONSULATES OPERATE TO HELP LA RAZA LOOT THE STUPID GRINGOS!

OBAMA and MEXICO LOOT PRIVATE ENTERPRISE HOSPITALS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR “FREE” HEALTHCARE FOR LA RAZA MEXICANS… What’s left for Americans (Legals)???

 

FEINSTEIN, AN OBAMA DONOR, HAS ALWAYS CLAIMED SHE NEVER DISCUSSES THE COUNTLESS DEALS SHE HUSTLES FOR HER PIMP HUSBAND AND THEN VOTES ON UNTIL THE DROP A BIG WAD OF LOOT IN HER POCKET.


 THIS OLD WHORE IS ONE OF THE MOST GREEDY AND DISHONEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

ONE REALLY GETS THE IDEA OF HOW STAGGERING CORRUPT THESE POLITICIANS ARE THAT LOOT LIKE FEINSTEIN, OR PULL IN THE BRIBES FEINSTEIN’S HUSBAND DOLES OUT TO DEMS SO THEY KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT ABOUT FEINSTEIN AND HER PIM HUSBAND!

Semator passes oppportunity to her husand. (Feinstein ! ! ! !)

Coincidence? Oh yeah!

The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56 buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government has decided it no longer needs these buildings, many of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country.

The sale of these properties will fetch billions of dollars and a handsome 6% commission to the company handling the sales. That company belongs to a man named Richard Blum. Who is Richard Blum you ask? Why the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, that's who.

Senator Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, stand to make a fortune. His firm, C.R. I., is the sole real estate company offering these properties for sale. Of course, C.R.I. will be making a 6% commission on the sale of each and every one of these postal properties.

All of these properties that are being sold are all fully paid for. They were purchased with U.S. taxpayers dollars, and they are allowed free and clear by the U.S.P.S. The only cost to keep them is the cost to actually keep the doors open and the heat and lights on. The United States Postal Service doesn't even have to pay property taxes on these subject properties. Would you sell your house just because you couldn't afford to pay the electric bill?

Well, the Post Office is.

How does a powerful U.S. Senator from San Francisco manage to get away with such a sweet deal?

A powerful United States Senator's husband is standing by, all ready to make millions from a U.S. taxpayer funded enterprise.

 
BUSH WAR PROFITEER SEN. DIANNE FIENSTEIN SUPPORTS OBAMA'S ENDLESS WARS FOR MUSLIM DICTATORS!


BARACK OBAMA IS NOTHING BUT BUSH’S THIRD TERM ON STEROIDS!

WAR, WAR, WAR, ENDLESS WAR TO PROTECT THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS WHILE OUR OWN BORDERS ARE LEFT WIDE OPEN TO THE NARCOMEX DRUG CARTELS AND MEXICAN INVADERS!

CA ALONE PUTS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!

WHAT WOULD $51 BILLION HAVE DONE IF SPEND ON EDUCATION GRANTS TO LEGALS IN OUR BORDERS???????

WHO BENEFITS FROM THE OBAMA WAR MACHINE?

TRY OBAMA DONOR, SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN! ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN HISTORY! AS BUSH’S WAR PROFITEER SHE RAKED IN MILLIONS AND WENT OUT AND BOUGHT HERSELF ANOTHER MANSION, HER $16 MILLION S.F. PLACE ONLY MILES FROM HER S.F. HOTEL WHERE SHE HIRES ILLEGALS BECAUSE THEY WORK “CHEAP” COMPARED TO A LEGAL!

WE CAN’T FIX OUR NATION UNTIL WE RID OURSELVES OF THESE CORRUPT POLITICIANS!

Auditors say billions likely wasted in Iraq work

by ROBERT BURNS | Associated Press – 6 hrs ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of following the paper trail of $51 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars provided to rebuild a broken Iraq, the U.S. government can say with certainty that too much was wasted. But it can't say how much.

In what it called its final audit report, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Funds on Friday spelled out a range of accounting weaknesses that put "billions of American taxpayer dollars at risk of waste and misappropriation" in the largest reconstruction project of its kind in U.S. history.

"The precise amount lost to fraud and waste can never be known," the report said.

The auditors found huge problems accounting for the huge sums, but one small example of failure stood out: A contractor got away with charging $80 for a pipe fitting that its competitor was selling for $1.41. Why? The company's billing documents were reviewed sloppily by U.S. contracting officers or were not reviewed at all.

With dry understatement, the inspector general said that while he couldn't pinpoint the amount wasted, it "could be substantial."

Asked why the exact amount squandered can never be determined, the inspector general's office referred The Associated Press to a report it did in February 2009 titled "Hard Lessons," in which it said the auditors — much like the reconstruction managers themselves — faced personnel shortages and other hazards.

"Given the vicissitudes of the reconstruction effort — which was dogged from the start by persistent violence, shifting goals, constantly changing contracting practices and undermined by a lack of unity of effort — a complete accounting of all reconstruction expenditures is impossible to achieve," the report concluded.

In that same report, the inspector general, Stuart Bowen, recalled what then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asked when they met shortly after Bowen started in January 2004: "Why did you take this job? It's an impossible task."

By law, Bowen's office reports to both the secretary of defense and the secretary of state. It goes out of business in 2013.

Bowen's office has spent more than $200 million tracking the reconstruction funds, and in addition to producing numerous reports, his office has investigated criminal fraud that has resulted in 87 indictments, 71 convictions and $176 million in fines and other penalties. These include civilians and military members accused of kickbacks, bribery, bid-rigging, fraud, embezzlement and outright theft of government property and funds.

Much, however, apparently got overlooked. Example: A $35 million Pentagon project was started in December 2006 to establish the Baghdad airport as an international economic gateway, and the inspector general found that by the end of 2010 about half the money was "at risk of being wasted" unless someone else completed the work.

Of the $51 billion that Congress approved for Iraq reconstruction, about $20 billion was for rebuilding Iraqi security forces and about $20 billion was for rebuilding the country's basic infrastructure. The programs were run mainly by the Defense Department, the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

A key weakness found by Bowen's inspectors was inadequate reviewing of contractors' invoices.

In some cases invoices were checked months after they had been paid because there were too few government contracting officers. Bowen found a case in which the State Department had only one contracting officer in Iraq to validate more than $2.5 billion in spending on a DynCorp contract for Iraqi police training.

"As a result, invoices were not properly reviewed, and the $2.5 billion in U.S. funds were vulnerable to fraud and waste," the report said. "We found this lack of control to be especially disturbing since earlier reviews of the DynCorp contract had found similar weaknesses."

In that case, the State Department eventually reconciled all of the old invoices and as of July 2009 had recovered more than $60 million.

The report touched on a problem that cropped up in virtually every major aspect of the U.S. war effort in Iraq, namely, the consequences of fighting an insurgency that proved more resilient than the Pentagon had foreseen. That not only made reconstruction more difficult, dangerous and costly, but also left the U.S. military unprepared for the grind of multiple troop deployments, the tactics of an adaptable insurgency and the complexity of battlefield wounds. It also left the U.S. government short of the expertise it needed to monitor contractors.

Although the audit was labeled as final, a spokesman for Bowen's office, Christopher M. Griffith, said several more will be done to provide additional details on what the U.S. got for its reconstruction dollars and what was wasted.


BARACK OBAMA IS NOTHING BUT BUSH’S THIRD TERM ON STEROIDS!

WAR, WAR, WAR, ENDLESS WAR TO PROTECT THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS WHILE OUR OWN BORDERS ARE LEFT WIDE OPEN TO THE NARCOMEX DRUG CARTELS AND MEXICAN INVADERS!

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most

Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007

4.  Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA):  As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on military construction, Feinstein reviewed military construction government contracts, some of which were ultimately awarded to URS Corporation and Perini, companies then owned by Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum. While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military Construction's approval carries weight. Sen. Feinstein, therefore, likely had influence over the decision making process.  Senator Feinstein also attempted to undermine ethics reform in 2007, arguing in favor of a perk that allows members of Congress to book multiple airline flights and then cancel them without financial penalty.  Judicial Watch’s investigation into this matter is ongoing. 

 “WHY HASN’T SHE EXPRESSED OUTRAGE ABOUT SOME OF THE POTENTIAL CONFLICTS WITH PEOPLE IN OR CLOSE TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION?... COULD IT BE THAT SHE HERSELF HAS SOME ENTANGLEMENTS?”

 "Why hasn't she expressed outrage about some of the potential conflicts with people in or close to the Bush administration?" Lewis said. "Could it be that she herself has some entanglements?"

Blum's firms win multimillion-dollar defense contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross Sunday, April 27, 2003 When it comes to scoring mega-military-related contracts, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's multimillionaire husband, Richard Blum, is right in the thick of things.

 First up: a contract announced last week between the Army and URS Corp., the San Francisco planning and engineering company that specializes in defense work -- and that happens to be partly owned by Blum's investment firm. The contract -- which could grow to $600 million -- is to help with troop mobilization, weapons systems training and anti-terrorism methods. That's on top of a $3.1 billion Army contract that URS snared back in February for weapons systems and homeland defense. Next up: Perini Corp., which qualified earlier this month for as much as $100 million of defense work in Iraq and elsewhere. The Massachusetts-based company is already busy building barracks and other facilities for the new Afghan army -- a separate contract worth $28 million. Blum's investment firm controls about 20 percent of Perini's shares, with the majority held by a group of investors led by company chairman Ron Tutor. Some of Perini's stock is also held by Tutor's West Coast construction company, Tutor-Saliba -- the firm that built the Los Angeles subway system, rebuilt the Oakland Coliseum and put BART into San Francisco International Airport. Tutor-Saliba also oversaw construction of SFO's new international terminal - - work that is under investigation by the city attorney's office for alleged overbilling. But it's Blum's ties to URS -- in which he controls about a quarter of the stock -- that are certain to raise the most questions. In July, URS acquired defense contractor EG&G (the technical services branch that won the $600 million contract) from the Carlyle Group investment firm. That's the outfit that boasts ex-President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State James Baker and ex-British Prime Minister John Major as advisers. In exchange, Carlyle received cash and a chunk of URS stock worth a total of $500 million. What's more, a top Carlyle manager now sits alongside Blum on URS' board of directors. Celia Wexler, research director for Common Cause in Washington, D.C., says all the defense and homeland security deals involving Blum-connected companies raise concern of political hanky-panky -- especially with talk of the United States spending $100 billion to rebuild Iraq. "You don't want this process to be tainted by the possibility that there is any favoritism involved -- whether it's to the husband of a powerful Democratic senator or someone close to the Bush administration," Wexler said. "In the end, you want a process that is competitive, accountable and open. It's the only way there will be confidence the process is not larded by cronyism or inside deals." Both Blum and Feinstein -- along with representatives of both URS and Perini -- said all the deals have been on the up and up. "Sen. Feinstein has no say or involvement whatsoever in how (Defense Department) contracts are awarded," said Blum spokesman Owen Blicksilver. He added that URS -- with 27,000 employees worldwide -- is "a big public company that bids on dozens of public contracts . . . and as a matter of policy, the board of directors -- of which Mr. Blum is a member -- is never told what the company is bidding on." As for Blum's Perini involvement, Blicksilver said that Blum doesn't serve on the board and that the company represents less than 1 percent of his overall investments. "So his benefit from any contract to Perini is (minuscule)," Blicksilver said. Feinstein spokesman Howard Gantman similarly dismissed any ethics concerns, saying none of the contracts is voted on by the Senate. "We have checked with the Ethics Committee to make sure there is no conflict of interest, and have been told there are no conflicts," Gantman said. By the way, we questioned the office of Rep. Henry Waxman, the Los Angeles Democrat and House Government Reform Committee member whose protest recently halted the awarding of a defense contract to Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton. "That's a fundamentally different situation," said Waxman's chief of staff, Phil Schiliro. His boss objected to a Halliburton subsidiary being awarded a no-bid contract to repair Iraqi oil fields because the firm had just paid $2 million to settle a claim that it had overcharged the government on an earlier contract, Schiliro said. "The government didn't allow any other bidders to compete for the contract, and gave Kellogg Brown & Root (the Halliburton subsidiary) the kind of contract it had just abused," Schiliro said. Charles Lewis, executive of the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity watchdog group in Washington, says that "regardless of whether there is a direct conflict of interest, it's useful to know that the spouse of a sitting senator is getting richer because of what's going on in the world."

“WHY HASN’T SHE EXPRESSED OUTRAGE ABOUT SOME OF THE POTENTIAL CONFLICTS WITH PEOPLE IN OR CLOSE TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION?... COULD IT BE THAT SHE HERSELF HAS SOME ENTANGLEMENTS?” "Why hasn't she expressed outrage about some of the potential conflicts with people in or close to the Bush administration?" Lewis said. "Could it be that she herself has some entanglements?"

March 1, 2006 The Democrats' Daddy Warbucks  Richard C.  Blum

Feinstein family war profits, part II

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, could well be called the Democrats' Daddy Warbucks. He's scored bundles from war contracts. He has recently purchased a $16.5 million crib in San Francisco and along with his wife has handed hundreds of thousands of dollars over to fellow Democrats. Since the 2000 election cycle, Blum has contributed over $75,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Committee, and thousands more to individual Democrats, including John Kerry, Robert Byrd, Joe Lieberman, Ted Kennedy, and Barbara Boxer. Richard Blum's history as an entrepreneur began at the ripe age of 23 when he began to work for the San Francisco brokerage firm Sutro & Company. Blum quickly climbed the ranks and became a partner by the age of 30. According the San Francisco Chronicle, "Blum proved that he had an eye for fixer-upper properties when he led a partnership that acquired the struggling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for $8 million – then sold it to Mattel Inc. four years later for $40 million." In 1975, Blum went out on his own and formed a brokerage agency. Today, Blum's lofty firm, Blum Capital, holds positions in more than 20 companies, including real estate giants, credit bureaus, and yes, even military contractors. Blum sees himself as an altruistic capitalist, claims one of his ex-employees: "He likes to go after companies that are down and out, and bring their stock back to life. He thinks he's doing good." Blum shares a large stake in Perini, a civil construction company that is happily employed in Iraq and Afghanistan. But not all of Blum's war profits come from Perini. In 1975, his venture capital firm went after fledging construction and design company URS when the business was about to be bought out by another corporation. Since then, Blum has increased his stock in URS, capitalizing on its recent military contracts. Unlike Blum's dabbling with Barnum & Bailey, his current profits aren't so safe for child consumption. Here are the basics to date: Blum currently holds over 111,000 shares of stock in URS Corporation, which is now one of the top defense contractors in the United States. Blum is an acting director of URS, which bought EG&G, a leading provider of technical services and management to the U.S. military, from The Carlyle Group in 2002. Carlyle's trusty advisers, past and present, include former President George H.W. Bush, James Baker, and ex-SEC Commissioner Arthur Levitt, among other prominent neoconservatives and Washington power brokers. URS and Blum have since banked on the Iraq war, scoring a phat $600 million contract through EG&G. As a result, URS has seen its stock price more than triple since the war began in March 2003. Blum has cashed in over $2 million on this venture alone and another $100 million for his investment firm. "As part of EG&G's sale price," reports the San Francisco Chronicle, "Carlyle acquired a 21.74 percent stake in URS – second only to the 23.7 percent of shares controlled by Blum Capital." The Carlyle Group has long been accused of exploiting its political connections to turn a profit. And if Carlyle can come under the microscope for its government ties and war profiteering, as it did in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, than surely Blum's URS ought to be subject to the same scrutiny.

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The Byrne Report Hawk Tale By Peter Byrne ON JAN. 18,

California senator Dianne Feinstein introduced Dr. Condoleezza Rice at a Senate nomination hearing for Secretary of State in terms so saccharine that molasses seemed to ooze out of her mouth. She was a precocious child, Feinstein purred. She has skill, judgment and poise. She loves football. Bush loves her. "The problems we face abroad are complex and sizable. If Dr. Rice's past performance is any indication, though, we can rest easy." That very same day, Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, took advantage of a spike in the price of his URS Corporation stock. He sold a third of his holdings in the defense contractor for $57 million, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. With Rice confirmed, the business of death and occupation looks rosy as hell for Feinstein, who--let's get real--benefits tremendously from sharing community property with Blum. URS' largest customer is the U.S. Army, which accounted for 17 percent ($587 million) of its cash revenue in 2004. In 2001, URS enjoyed a mere $169 million in defense contracts. Now, its war contracts total more than $2 billion. According to its annual report, the San Francisco based URS anticipates that profits will rocket up in 2005, because "operations in the Middle East are expected to generate increased work related to the development of weapons systems, the training of military pilots and the maintenance, upgrade and repair of military vehicles."
 Provided, of course, that our hawkish leadership remains as poised and lovable as the new Secretary of State. Feinstein, who sits on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, is an advocate of first-strike warfare, even though it flouts international law and the standards of common decency. Interestingly, her Financial Disclosure Report for 2003 was more than three times the size of her 2002 disclosure (Feinstein's 2003 disclosure numbers 133 pages, compared to Sen. Barbara Boxer's six-page report). The Feinstein-Blum portfolio is crammed with multimillion dollar investments in the military-industrial-financial complex and corporations that heavily exploit Third World peoples.
"I smell the sweet stench of war profits!" Sen. Dianne Feinstein


The senator has a lot to lose should the neoconservative war Machine falter. Hubby holds a controlling interest in another engineering firm, Perini Corporation of Framingham, Mass. Perini ranks No. 6 by dollar amount in war-related government contracts in the Middle East. According to its annual report, "Perini proudly supports the U.S. government with global rapid response capabilities for defense, reconstruction and security." Perini builds military facilities and roads in Afghanistan, electrical infrastructure in Iraq and U.S. embassies around the world. After the Senate, Feinstein included, approved Bush's war plans in 2002, Perini's defense contract awards soared from negligible to $2.52 billion. But, as with many of the sole-source, open-ended contracts awarded to politically connected firms, there are problems with accountability. Last summer, Department of Defense auditors determined that Perini could not adequately justify its costs in Iraq as fair and reasonable. That's government-speak for: They're gouging the #!$% out of us. Perini is heavily engaged in military and municipal public works projects inside the United States; at least two are also under investigation for contract fraud. For example, the city of San Francisco has sued general contractor Perini--which was in a joint venture with the Tutor-Saliba construction firm--for $100 million in cost overruns at a San Francisco International Airport project. The lawsuit alleges that the joint venture engaged in "a sophisticated pattern of fraud," including inflating costs, fabricating delays and setting up minority front companies to exploit affirmative-action preferences. The attorney general of Massachusetts is looking into alleged false claims made by a Perini joint venture in the "Big Dig" urban highway construction boondoggle in Boston. Ron Tutor, owner of Tutor-Saliba and CEO of Perini, bought into the latter company, along with Blum, as it teetered on the edge of solvency in the mid- 1990s due to a bad real estate investment. It rebounded, thanks to the firm's sudden ability to obtain lucrative U.S. military and government contracts, which, of course, had nothing to do with the fact that Blum's powerful wife has her hands on the military's purse strings. Remarkably, Perini grossed $1.37 billion in 2003, up 27 percent from the previous year, before the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Perini attributes its rocketing profits to "increased volume of work in Iraq and Afghanistan." As a risk factor, the firm notes that continued demand for its military services depends upon "the political situation in Iraq," which, logically, means that it desires the bloody war and useless occupation to continue indefinitely--a wish that hawktails with the foreign policy positions of Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld and Feinstein. I almost forgot: Perini Corp.
is the nation's most active builder of Indian-fronted casinos. That explains a few things about Sen. Feinstein and the politics of gambling, soon to be revealed in greater detail in this space.

THE HYPOCRISY OF FEINSTEIN....................AND YOU WONDERED WHY FEINSTEIN WAS INVITED INTO THE BUSH’S FAMILY’S CARLYLE GROUP!
 
THE CLOSET REPUBLICAN
 
Codifying Riches Above Honor
 
J.G. Schwam - November 2, 2003
The GOP will stop at nothing to prevent its crony capitalist partners from getting as rich as possible. As the allegations of over payments and price gouging by US government contractors operating in Iraq surfaces, there sits an entire party in the capital that took direct action to codify their desire to look the other instead of decrying potential frauds against the American taxpayer.
Today the office of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) distributed a press release that points out that, despite the repeated efforts of its member Democrats the Senate Appropriations Committee refused to allow the insertion of a provision putting the teeth of Federal prosecution against those would seek to profiteer from their Iraqi War and reconstruction contracts into the bill authorizing Bush’s $87 billon Iraq war appropriations request.
Leahy said; "We are about to spend a lot of money in Iraq, quickly and with few real controls on how it is spent," said Feinstein.
 
FEINSTEIN QUOTE: (PRIOR TO BUSH INVITING HER TO PROFITEER OFF HIS WARS TO PROTECT SAUDIS INTERESTS)

 
“THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS PREVENT PRIVATE COMPANIES FROM TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, ITS PEOPLE, AND THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES EVERY DAY TO MAKE IRAQ, AND THE WORLD A BETTER, SAFER PLACE TO LIVE.”
 

GUESS THIS DIDN’T APPLY TO HER HUSBAND, WHITE COLLAR CORPORATE CRIMINAL, RICHARD C.  BLUM.

 "The least we can do is prevent private companies from taking advantage of the American Government, its people, and the men and women who are risking their lives every day to make Iraq, and the world, a better, safer place to live. It was a mistake to strip the anti-profiteering provision from the conference report, and restoring it through this bill would send a clear signal that this kind of activity will not be tolerated."

The amendment cosponsored by Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) would create new laws making it a federal crime to engage in war profiteering or overcharge taxpayers for any good or service with the specific intent to excessively profit from the war or reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The bill would also prohibit perpetrating fraud or making false statements in any form involving a contract or the provisioning of goods or services in Iraq.

True on Snopes:


Sen. Feinstein's Husband Cashes In on Crisis (ethical? You decide)....WHAT? ANOTHER ONE??? THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH MONEY FOR THIS OLD WHORE AND HER PIMP!
 

Sen. Feinstein's Husband Cashes In on Crisis
By Washington Times

Published April 21, 2009
FoxNews.com

On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms, the Washington Times reported on Tuesday.

Mrs. Feinstein's intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn't a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars.

 
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/04/feinsteins-looting-are-housing.html


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/21/sen-feinsteins-husband-cashes-crisis/#ixzz28BwHuQMm

(Some ethics analysts question whether Mrs. Feinstein ran afoul of the latter provision, creating the appearance that she was rewarding the agency that had just hired her husband's firm.)

Richard C. Blum and Dianne Feinstein: The Power Couple of California


"They remain at the pinnacle of power today, he as a billionaire financier, speculator, real estate executive and deal maker; she as the senior Senator (California's highest federal official), from the largest and most powerful state in the United States. They exemplify power as it is now wielded in the higher circles of the class system of the U.S. today, and illustrate well the dismal results of this system. This system is best characterized as a plutocratic kleptocracy, completely lacking in authentic democracy, operated by and for corporate racketeers, in short, a dictatorship of big capital, the top 1% of wealth holders, which makes up a ruling class."
Democrats want to tax the rich... That's Rich!!

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Richard_C._Blum_and_Dianne_Feinstein:_The_Power_Couple_of_California

"I see no evidence of anything improper in this body," said Senate Rules and Administration Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D‑Calif.) during the floor debate.

Senators Diverting Campaign Funds to Kin

Loophole in Ethics Rules Is One That the Senate Did Not Close Last Year

By Shailagh Murray

Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, February 24, 2008; A04

Under long‑standing congressional ethics rules, corporations, unions and other large organizations cannot directly pay senators stipends. But their contributions to senators' election campaigns can be paid without limit to the children, spouses, in‑laws and other relatives of the lawmakers, in a practice that has aroused controversy but is fully legal.

Since 2000, at least 20 members of the Senate dipped into their campaign contributions and wrote more than half a million dollars in checks to their own relatives, typically as payment for fundraising and other campaign work, according to a new report by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D‑Calif.), for example, paid her son Douglas $320,409.17 in campaign donations through his company Douglas Boxer and Associates from 2001 to 2006, CREW found. Douglas Boxer is a lawyer and a 10‑year veteran of her political team, a Boxer spokesman said.

Sen. Mike Enzi (R‑Wyo.) paid his daughter‑in‑law Danielle Enzi $306,718.18 from his campaign accounts over the same period, according to the report. She was a fundraiser before she married into the Enzi family, an Enzi spokesman said. Sen. Jim Bunning (R‑Ky.) paid his daughter Amy Towles $138,933.37 over six years, CREW found. Bunning's office said it was for campaign accounting.

"It is an area that's ripe for abuse, for someone who wants to turn campaign funds into personal use," said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the nonprofit group Public Citizen. Although most lawmakers do not abuse the practice, he said, "those campaign funds always come from special interests, and those special interests are always looking for something in return."

Information about the practice is not easy to find, because senators are required to disclose such payments only in the minutiae of their periodic public statements of campaign finance expenditure and do not flag the recipients as relatives. CREW staff compiled the data over nine months by looking at microfiche and electronic records for the 2002, 2004 and 2006 election cycles, and by tracing names.

None of these arrangements appears to violate federal election law (THESE FUCKERS MAKE THE LAWS!), noted Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director. Although lawmakers are barred from hiring relatives as staffers in their legislative offices, family members may perform campaign work, as long as the pay is reasonable and the individuals are qualified.

Yet some lawmakers are seeking to restrict payments to some family members as part of a broader effort to eliminate opportunities for conflicts and improprieties ‑‑ an effort urged by watchdog groups such as CREW after ethics scandals over the past two years, including several cases involving lawmakers' family members on political payrolls who may or may not have performed much work.

The senators' family payments were relatively small, compared with the $5.1 million that 72 House members paid from campaign funds to relatives or to relatives' companies or employers during the same period, according to CREW. "We found much worse stuff in the House," Sloan said.

Yet the Senate has become a roadblock to changing the rules on family employment. The House, in contrast, approved legislation last July to ban payments from campaign or leadership funds to candidates' spouses and to require the disclosure of campaign payments to other immediate family members. The bill was sent to the Senate, where it has stalled indefinitely.

The House acted after disclosures that former lobbyist Jack Abramoff organized campaign contributions or other payments that wound up in the hands of several lawmakers' relatives. Rep. John T. Doolittle (R‑Calif.), who announced his retirement from the House last month, is under federal investigation along with his wife, Julie, in part related to employment for her provided by Abramoff and other lobbyists.

BOXER VOTES AGAINST STOPPING BRIBES SIPHONED THROUGH RELATIVES!

Senators took up the issue before passing the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act on Jan. 18, 2007. The law tightened rules on accepting meals, private plane rides and other perks from lobbyists. But an amendment to ban the practice of paying relatives for their campaign work was rejected 54 to 41, with Boxer voting "present."

Even senators with no relatives listed in the CREW report criticized the measure, offered by Sen. David Vitter (R‑La.), as overly harsh. "I see no evidence of anything improper in this body," said Senate Rules and Administration Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D‑Calif.) during the floor debate.


LA RAZA DEMS LIKE OBAMA, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, PELOSI and REID, A WHO’S-WHO OF CORRUPTION, HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY ADVANCING THE INTERESTS OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA. TO THESE LA RAZA DEMS, KEEPING OUR BORDERS WIDE OPEN KEEPS WAGES DEPRESSED AND PUTS MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS.

YOU CAN NOT SEPARATE THE CORRUPTION OF THESE POLITICIANS, THE LA RAZA OCCUPATION, AND THE LOOTING OF THE NATION BY THEIR BANKSTER DONORS!

MEXICAN DRUG DEALER OPERATES IN OUR BORDERS

THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATE IN 2,500 AMERICAN CITIES AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY ENDORSE OBAMA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS AGENDA.



“Oropeza, 48, was arrested May 31, 2007, by police in Saraland, Ala., who stopped him on a traffic violation. Checking his record, they learned of the investigation in Texas.

They searched the van and discovered 185 pounds of cocaine hidden under a false floor. That allowed federal agents to freeze Oropeza's bank accounts and search his marble-floored home in Brownsville, Robinette says.”

The government, like the banks, had a vested interest in shutting down the investigation, as the results of any genuine inquiry would have exposed negligence and collusion on the part of the regulators as well as gross violations of law by the banks that would have made it more difficult for the Obama administration to avoid criminal prosecutions.

The Times also reported that such “independent investigators” played a key role in the HSBC money laundering scandal, helping cover up the extent of the British-based bank’s money laundering operation for Mexican drug cartels.
 

Firms make billions as middlemen in government cover-up of Wall Street crimes

By Andre Damon
7 February 2013

In the network of corrupt and incestuous relations between government financial regulatory agencies and the banks they nominally police, a growing role is played by private, for-profit “consulting” firms that serve as middlemen in the government cover-up of corporate crime.

The New York Times in a front-page article last week called attention to this lesser-known mechanism used by the government to protect Wall Street from being held to account for the fraudulent and illegal practices in which it engages on a daily basis.

The Times wrote: "Federal authorities are scrutinizing private consultants hired to clean up financial misdeeds like money laundering and foreclosure abuses, taking aim at an industry that is paid billions of dollars by the same banks it is expected to police."

The firms in question operate in essentially the same way as the credit rating agencies that facilitated the subprime meltdown. Just as Standard& Poor’s Rating Services and Moody’s Investors Service are paid by the banks whose securities they rate, the consulting firms tasked with investigating banks are chosen and paid by the very institutions they are investigating. This arrangement is based on a howling conflict of interest. Consulting firms that want to keep old clients and add new ones, and increase their profits, are obviously under pressure to cover up the misdeeds of their banking paymasters.

Moreover, the same revolving door by which individuals move seamlessly between Wall Street and the regulatory agencies exists between the consulting firms and the banks and regulatory bodies.

Last month's $8.5 billion foreclosure fraud settlement with major US lenders lifted the lid on bank regulators' increasing use of these “independent investigators.” Tasked with finding the extent of fraud and illegality in the processing of home foreclosures, these companies helped the banks cover up their fraudulent activities and ensure that the extent of their wrongdoing was not brought to light.

The settlement between ten major mortgage lenders and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a branch of the Treasury Department, related to widespread fraud committed by the banks in their rush to foreclose on as many homes as possible in 2009 and 2010. To expedite the foreclosure process, the banks had employees or contractors sign off on thousands of mortgage documents every month, swearing that they had intimate knowledge of their contents when, in reality, they had not even read them.

This resulted in the improper expulsion of an unknown number of families—probably in the hundreds of thousands—from their homes.

In April of 2011, the OCC, the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ordered individual reviews of foreclosures carried out between 2009 and 2010 by fourteen mortgage lenders, including Bank of America, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

The investigation was intended to individually review all cases in which homeowners claimed that they were improperly foreclosed on, so that each victimized household could receive a cash payout. The findings of such an investigation would have undoubtedly shown that foreclosure fraud was far more prevalent than had been previously known, and laid the basis for further lawsuits against the lenders.

Instead of reviewing the foreclosures themselves, regulators had the banks hire so-called independent investigators, who, while receiving $2 billion in fees from the lenders, dragged their feet in reviewing the foreclosure cases.

Last month, government regulators closed down the review on the grounds that it was too time-consuming and too expensive for the banks and came up with a sweetheart settlement that cost the banks a relative pittance.

Instead of payouts to individuals who were harmed by the banks' wrongdoing, the lenders agreed to split a $3.3 billion cash payout among 4.2 million foreclosed homeowners, without "determination of harm." As a result, homeowners will receive a check of under $1,000 even if they were illegally thrown out of their homes.

The government, like the banks, had a vested interest in shutting down the investigation, as the results of any genuine inquiry would have exposed negligence and collusion on the part of the regulators as well as gross violations of law by the banks that would have made it more difficult for the Obama administration to avoid criminal prosecutions.

 

 

THE CHINA FEINSTEIN DEALS


NO WONDER FEINSTEIN IS A GENEROUS DONOR TO OBAMA! 

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION 

"There is no doubt in my mind that, if Dianne Feinstein had a pattern of taking positions on U.S.China policy that Chinese officials disliked, Mr. Blum would have a great deal more difficulty doing business in China and probably would find it impossible to do." Senator Is Warned of China Overtures Already, federal investigators have detected that the Chinese government might attempt to seek favor with Feinstein”

 NEW YORK TIMES

 
March 29, 2009

Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries


TORONTO — A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded.

In a report to be issued this weekend, the researchers said that the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, but that they could not say conclusively that the Chinese government was involved.

The researchers, who are based at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto, had been asked by the office of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader whom China regularly denounces, to examine its computers for signs of malicious software, or malware.

Their sleuthing opened a window into a broader operation that, in less than two years, has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries, including many belonging to embassies, foreign ministries and other government offices, as well as the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan exile centers in India, Brussels, London and New York.

 

Reports Wikipedia: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Critics have frequently accused Blum and Sen. Feinstein of political corruption and conflicts of interest arising from his business interests and his contributions to his wife's Senate campaigns. In 1992, Feinstein was fined $190,000 for failing to disclose that Blum had guaranteed nearly $3 million in loans to fund her 1990 bid for California governor. In 1997, a Los Angeles Times article revealed that while Feinstein was campaigning in the Senate for a lifting of trade sanctions against the People's Republic of China, Blum was managing millions of dollars of investments in Chinese businesses through his firm Newbridge Capital. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LA Times Article  March 28, 1997

Feinstein, Husband Hold Strong China Connections Asia: Senator, Blum insist a solid 'firewall' separates her foreign policy role, his growing business interests there.

SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN – RED CHINA’S WHORE IN THE U.S. SENATE!

 On Capitol Hill, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (DCalif.) has emerged as one of the staunchest proponents of closer U.S. relations with China, fighting for permanent most-favored-nation trading status for Beijing. At the same time, far from the spotlight, Feinstein's husband. Richard C. Blum, has expanded his private business interests in China to the point that his firm is now a prominent investor inside the communist nation. For years, Feinstein and Blum have insisted that they maintained a solid "firewall" between her role as an influential foreign policy player and his career as a private in VP But such closely coinciding interests are highly unusual for major figures in public life in Washington. And now, as controversy heats up over improper foreign influence in t.he U.S. political process. the effectiveness of the firewall between those interests could be called into question.

On Thursday, after he was interviewed by The Times about his China business, Blum announced that he will donate future profits from his personal investments there to his nonprofit foundation to help Tibetan refugees. "This should remove any perception that I am in anyway, shape or form benefit from or influence my wife's position on China as a U.S. senator,'

 In 1992, when Feinstein entered the Senate, Blum's interests in China amounted to one project worth less than $500,000, according to her financial disclosure reports. But since then, his financial activities in the country have increased. In the last year, a Blum investment firm paid $23 million for a stake in a Chinese government owned steel enterprise and acquired sizable interests in the leading producers of soybean milk and candy in China. Blum's firm, Newbridge Capital Ltd., received an important boost from a $10-million investment by the International Finance Corp., an arm of the World Bank. Experts said that IFC backing typically confers legitimacy and can help attract other investors. "It seems to be going quite well," Rashad Kaldany—who in 1994 managed the IFC's capital markets investments in Asia—said of the project. He added: "There also was some comfort in that Mr. Blum had some contacts with the Chinese." Feinstein's Growing China Policy Role Meanwhile, Feinstein's role on U.S. policy toward China has expanded. In January 1995, she became a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, giving her a prominent platform for her efforts to support China's trade privileges. Blum’s position could strictly insulate his interests when he is so prominently involved in the China market, is visibly associated with the leading friend of China in the Senate and has access to inner circles that other entrepreneurs do not. In China, "everything is personal," said Arthur Waldron, professor of strategy at the Since 1995, Feinstein has made three visits to confer with senior government officials in Beijing. Blum has accompanied her each time at his own expense and has attended many of her meetings with President Jiang Zemin and other top Chinese leaders—an unusual degree of access for a private businessman. On their trip to China in January of last year, Blum accompanied Feinstein to dinner with Jiang in the exclusive leaders' enclave, Zhongnanhai.


THIS WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO PUKE. FEINSTEIN ROLLING AROUND IN MAO TSE-TUNGS OWN WHORE'S BED!

"We had dinner in Zhongnanhai in Mao Tse-tung's old residence in the room where he died. We were told that we were the first foreigners to see his bedroom and the swimming pool. It was a very historic moment to see some of these things," Feinstein told a Times reporter later. Feinstein said this week that her Senate position in no way has affected her husband's business. She said that Blum has never sought to exploit her influence or access to increase his opportunities in China. "My husband has never discussed business with Jiang Zemin. never would, never has," she said. Said Blum: "Somebody will have to explain just how I have been benefited because my wife goes over to China.'  THIS IS HILARIOUS. WHO WAS THIS SHIT BLUM BEFORE HE AND HIS WIFE STARTED PULLING IN MILLIONS OF FEINSTEIN’S CONNECTION IN CONGRESS? Ross H. Munro, co-author of the recent China policy book "The Coming Conflict with China," said: "There is no doubt in my mind that, if Dianne Feinstein had a pattern of taking positions on U.S.China policy that Chinese officials disliked, Mr. Blum would have a great deal more difficulty doing business in China and probably would find it impossible to do." Senator Is Warned of China Overtures Already, federal investigators have detected that the!!!!!!!!!!!! Chinese government might attempt to seek favor with Feinstein. Last year, she was one of six members of Congress who received warnings from the FBI that China might try to improperly influence them through illegal campaign contributions. The inquiries into allegedly improper Chinese political efforts in, the United States have increased the sensitivity of Blum's associations there. Investigators are looking at the activities of dual business-government entities, including China International Trade and Investment Corp. (CITIC), a $20-billion, state-owned conglomerate that is the most influential financial enterprise in China. Newbridge Capital, the Blum business venture, has two investments with partners originally from CITIC, said Peter Kwok managing director of the Hong Kong fund. Kwok also serves as a consultant to a unit of China Ocean Shipping Co. That state-owned company won rights to build a $200-million cargo terminal at the closed Long Beach Naval Station. Blum called any purported link between China Ocean Shipping and his firm "ridiculous." BUT PROFITABLE! Feinstein said, "I had absolutely no knowledge" of any of this. SUCH A CHEAP ACTRESS. SHE DOESN’T KNOW HOW SHE’S ENDED UP ACQUIRING 40 MILLION IN MANSIONS ON A SENATOR’S SALARY WHILE IN ELECTED OFFICE EITHER! In separate telephone interviews Wednesday, Feinstein and Blum emphasized that they share a deep, personal interest in China dating back two decades. Blum won permission from the Chinese in 1981 to lead the first attempt in modern times to climb the east face of Mt. Everest. He describes himself as a "close personal friend" of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan religious leader—a friendship, he notes, that would not win favor with the Beijing government. FEINSTEIN: Senator, Husband Say 'Firewall' Divides Their China Ties As a pro-business mayor of San Francisco in the 1980s, Feinstein worked intently to expand economic ties in the Pacific Rim, especially in China. She set out early in her tenure to establish sister city relations between San Francisco and Shanghai. Feinstein and her counterpart in Shanghai at the time, Jiang Zemin, who is now China's president, agreed in 1986 to designate various corporate entities to foster trade and other business relations. One was named Shanghai Pacific Partners- Blum served as a director. PIMPING HIS WIFE AND HER TRUSTED ELECTED OFFICEBlum traveled with Feinstein to China in August 1995, and January and November 1996. Jiang Zemin personally invited Feinstein to make the first visit.

Feinstein's support of China in Congress has been so outspoken that she occasionally has drawn criticism. In a recent speech, she called for creation of a commission that would study the evolution of human rights in both the United States and China. The panel "would point out the success and failures [of] both Tiananmen Square and Kent State," she said in a remark denounced by some human rights advocates. Hundreds of demonstrators were killed in the 1989 assault by the Chinese military. Four students were killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire in the 1970 antiwar demonstration. IN CHINA.... WHORE TRAITOR FEINSTEIN WOULD HAVE BEEN TRIED AND EXECUTED

Chinese Spy 'Slept' In U.S. for 2 Decades Espionage Network Said to Be Growing

By Joby Warrick and Carrie Johnson


Washington Post Staff WritersThursday, April 3, 2008; A01
Prosecutors called Chi Mak the "perfect sleeper agent," though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with promotions and a security clearance. Colleagues remembered him as a hard worker who often took paperwork home at night.

Eventually, Mak's job gave him access to sensitive plans for Navy ships, submarines and weapons. These he secretly copied and sent via courier to China -- fulfilling a mission that U.S. officials say he had been planning since the 1970s.

Mak was sentenced last week to 24 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge who described the lengthy term as a warning to China not to "send agents here to steal America's military secrets." But it may already be too late: According to U.S. intelligence and Justice Department officials, the Mak case represents only a small facet of an intelligence-gathering operation that has long been in place and is growing in size and sophistication.

The Chinese government, in an enterprise that one senior official likened to an "intellectual vacuum cleaner," has deployed a diverse network of professional spies, students, scientists and others to systematically collect U.S. know-how, the officials said. Some are trained in modern electronic techniques for snooping on wireless computer transactions. Others, such as Mak, are technical experts who have been in place for years and have blended into their communities.

The cases are among at least a dozen investigations of Chinese espionage that have yielded criminal charges or guilty pleas in the past year. Since 2000, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have launched more than 540 investigations of illegal technology exports to China.

The FBI recently heightened its counterintelligence operations against Chinese activities in the United States after Director Robert S. Mueller III cited "substantial concern" about aggressive attempts to use students, scientists and "front companies" to acquire military secrets.

Recent prosecutions indicate that Chinese agents have infiltrated sensitive military programs pertaining to nuclear missiles, submarine propulsion technology, night-vision capabilities and fighter pilot training -- all of which could help China modernize its programs while developing countermeasures against advanced weapons systems used by the United States and its allies.

"The intelligence services of the People's Republic of China pose a significant threat both to the national security and to the compromise of U.S. critical national assets," said William Carter, an FBI spokesman. "The PRC will remain a significant threat for a long time as they attempt to develop their military capabilities and to develop their economy in order to compete in today's world economy."

While military technology appears to be the top prize, the Chinese effort is also aimed at commercial and industrial technologies, which often are poorly protected, several officials said. "Espionage used to be a problem for the FBI, CIA and military, but now it's a problem for corporations," Brenner said. "It's no longer a cloak-and-dagger thing. It's about computer architecture and the soundness of electronic systems."

But U.S. intelligence and defense officials say China has been able to use technology of U.S. origin in a new generation of advanced naval destroyers and quiet-running, stealthy submarines.

Chinese espionage has become one of the most pervasive US counterintelligence problems, officials say.

Husband's investments entangle Feinstein
 
LATEST FLAP OVER MEDICARE PAYMENT DENIALS
 
By David WhitneyMcClatchy NewspapersSan Jose Mercury News
 
05/19/2007  


WASHINGTON - California lawmakers are questioning whether an auditing company in which San Francisco investor Richard Blum, the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has a major financial stake is rejecting Medicare claims at California rehabilitation hospitals in order to reap millions of dollars in profits at the expense of patient care.
The company, PRG-Schultz International, has a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the overseer of the Medicare program, to check payments in California for mistakes. Its only pay is a bounty of up to 30 percent on the "overcharges" it identifies.
The California Hospital Association first raised concerns in November that PRG-Schultz was targeting rehabilitation hospitals that cared for Medicare patients after knee or hip replacement surgery. The hospital association said PRG-Schultz has reviewed thousands of cases dating as far back as 2002 and has rejected nearly all as medically unnecessary. Melinda Staveley, president of the 38-bed Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara, said more than 100 such cases from her non-profit institution had been rejected. The facility could face having to repay more than $2 million.
 
Elderly patients
 
As difficult as that would be financially for a small hospital with a $12 million annual budget, she said the bigger concern is future patient care. The frail and elderly surgery patients with compound medical problems no longer will have access to rehabilitation hospitals and will have to rely on home or outpatient services.
"This is devastating," Staveley said of the audits.
Her husband's business interests in PRG-Schultz have proved awkward for Feinstein, the state's Democratic senior senator, as the hospital association turns to Congress for relief.
This is not the first time Blum's business interests have collided with his wife's job. Blum Capital Partners is a major investor in Northwest Airlines, which in 1995 won the first contract by an American air carrier to fly to Beijing. Feinstein had been friends with a former Chinese political leader since she was mayor of San Francisco.
More recently, concerns have been raised in Republican circles about some of Blum's investments benefiting from defense contracts at a time when the senator was serving on the Senate military construction appropriations committee.
Feinstein's press aide, Scott Gerber, said the senator played no role in the legislation creating the auditing program and did not intervene with program administrators to help PRG-Schultz get the three-year contract in 2005.
 
Serious concerns
 
 
On Thursday, after questions from McClatchy Newspapers, Feinstein sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that called the hospital association's concerns "potentially serious." She asked program administrators to investigate, saying the concerns are spreading beyond its determinations on rehabilitation hospitals to other aspects of Medicare-financed hospitalizations for the elderly, including short-stay hospital admissions.
Feinstein made no mention of her husband's interest in PRG-Schultz, which she lists in her annual financial disclosure reports. According to PRG-Schultz, Blum's investment companies own 10.5 percent of its outstanding common stock, 53 percent of its outstanding preferred stock and 28 percent of its notes and securities.
California House members soon will follow with a joint letter of their own asking for an investigation.
Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, is taking the lead among Democrats. Her press aide, Emily Kryder, said 15 members - more than a quarter of the state's congressional delegation - have agreed to sign the letter so far.
"The review and collection practices of PRG-Schultz threaten access to rehabilitation services in California," the letter said. "We urge you to examine the actions taken by PRG-Schultz International, Inc."
The auditing program was set up as a demonstration project initially focusing on the three highest-cost Medicare states - California, New York and Florida. Separate contractors are used for each state. PRG-Schultz is the only for-profit contractor among them, and Medicare administrators believe it has been the most controversial because it alone has been zeroing in on rehabilitation hospitals.
Highly lucrative
On the brink of financial collapse when it won the contract two years ago, PRG-Schultz has found the job to be enormously lucrative. Government figures indicate that it had rejected $105 million in California Medicare overcharges as of Sept. 30, the end of the 2006 fiscal year.
Medicare managers said they could not release figures for how much PRG-Schultz was claiming as commissions for finding the alleged overcharges, saying the information was proprietary. But based on bounties of 28 percent that were used in establishing the program, PRG-Schultz's entitlement could be as much as $29 million.
The California Hospital Association said in a letter to Medicare administrators in November that PRG-Schultz should be suspended for improperly applying Medicare rules and using unqualified personnel.
PRG-Schultz declined to comment. But officials of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services steadfastly defended PRG-Schultz, saying it's applying rules on medically necessary admissions that probably have been ignored in California for years.
PRG-Schultz "coming to town is probably the first real look at these hospitals in many, many years," said Melanie Combs, senior technical adviser for the federal program.
"These rules have been on the books since 1985," Combs said. "Maybe it's possible some have been overlooking them. Maybe there have been consultants out there helping hospitals to, quote, maximize reimbursements. And maybe perhaps some of that has entailed looking the other way."  A call to Blum Capital Partners - of which Blum is board chairman - asking for comment was not returned.
PRG-Schultz reported a first-quarter profit this year of $1.5 million, compared to a $10 million loss for the same period in 2006.
 
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RICHARD BLUM PAYS BRIBES TO GET CLOSER TO THE DEALS SEN. FEINSTEIN WILL PUSH FOR HIM
WHILE LA RAZA DEM FEINSTEIN HAS VOTED FOR ANYTHING THAT BENEFITED ILLEGALS, INCLUDING DREAM ACT DISCOUNTS, HER HUSBAND, RICHARD C. BLUM IS FUCKING OVER THE UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA FOR EVERY DROP OF BLOOD HE CAN SUCK OFF.
Smart Money
The University of California invests $53 million in two diploma mills controlled by UC Regents chairman Richard C. Blum
June 30, 2010 - by Peter Byrne
Photograph by Curtis Cartier
A YEAR ago, Richard C. Blum, then the chairman of the Regents of the University of California, spoke at the Milken Institute's Global Conference 2009, held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. The corporate confab was hosted by Michael Milken, the "junk bond king" who went to prison in the aftermath of the savings and loan fiasco in the 1980s.
Milken, who is barred from securities trading for life by federal regulators, has since re-created himself as a proponent of investing in for-profit educational corporations, an industry that regularly comes under government and media scrutiny in response to complaints of fraud made by dissatisfied students.
At the conference, Blum, who is the husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a professional Wall Street speculator, sat on a panel called "The New University and Its Role in the Economy," alongside the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Arizona State University. The panel focused on how universities can best serve the corporate jones for tech-savvy employees by recruiting smart freshmen with scientific talent. One panel member urged treating universities as "laboratories of business ideas and products."
As someone who oversees investment policy decisions for the University of California's $63 billion portfolio, and as the largest shareholder in two for-profit corporate-run universities (in which UC invests), Blum had a unique perspective to share at the conference. He advised public universities to attract business-oriented students with clever advertisements as vocational schools do.
"It's like anything else," he said. "It's how you market it."
Marketing strategy aside, Blum has taken on two seemingly disparate roles—one as an advocate for a nonprofit university, and the other as an owner of two for-profit educational corporations. However, as a regent, Blum has taken actions that, intentionally or not, have enhanced the value of his vocational schools. Are his loyalties conflicted?
For several years, Blum's firm, Blum Capital Partners, has been the dominant shareholder in two of the nation's largest for-profit universities, Career Education Corporation and ITT Educational Services Inc. The San Francisco–based firm's combined holdings in the two chain schools is currently $923 million. As Blum's ownership stake enlarged, UC investment managers shadowed him, ultimately investing $53 million of public money into the two educational corporations.
The Regents' conflict-of-interest policy requires them to "avoid the potential for and the appearance of conflicts of interest with respect to the selection of individual investments," and says "public officials shall not make, participate in making, or influence a governmental decision in which the official has a conflict of interest." And the California Political Reform Act of 1974 provides civil and criminal penalties for officials who ignore conflicts of interest—as UC makes clear in ethics training presentations specifically created for university officials.
The Board of Regents, however, is self-policing and tolerates situations that cause others concern. John M. Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization based in Santa Monica, says that's wrong.
"It is hugely inappropriate for the University of California to invest in for-profit colleges when it should be promoting public education," Simpson says. "And something stinks when university investments end up in companies largely controlled by a regent.
"To the average fellow on the street, this would seem to be a conflict of interest. It is up to Mr. Blum and the UC treasurer to explain how it could not be a conflict of interest."
THE BUSINESS OF EDUCATION: While UC students were protesting budget cuts last spring (far right), the firm owned by UC Regent Richard Blum (right) was enjoying record dividends from its investment in for-profit colleges. Photograph by Jim Block
Disaster Capitalism
Due to serial tuition hikes by the UC Regents, their gutting of many classes and educational programs, and the imposition of a 15 percent reduction of in-state admissions to the university, the gateway to higher learning in California has seriously narrowed. As a UC regent, Blum voted in favor of all of these measures—and such actions have indirectly benefited his corporate colleges. But his schools are not the only ones profiting from the financial disaster that besets many public universities.

WITH VIEWS TO DIE FOR.... Feinstein’s war profits mansion
 
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her mega-millionaire husband, Richard Blum, are pulling up stakes on their quiet Presidio Terrace home and moving uptown to a Pacific Heights mansion -- with views to die for.

The $16.5 million mansion -- which sits at the foot of Vallejo Street, between the Presidio and some of the city's most hoity-toity addresses -- offers a sweeping view of the bay.
It's right off what Herb Caen christened the "Gold Rush" -- the final two blocks of upper, upper Broadway, where the residents include Ann and Gordon Getty, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and Mimi Haas -- as in the Levi Strauss Haases.
"And everyone is extending a warm welcome,'' said former Mayor Willie Brown, who hangs with the hill crowd. "They figure it will mean better homeland security."
The very hush-hush house sale, we're told, was finalized within the past three weeks. Workers are busy fixing up the place and installing new recessed lighting before Feinstein and Blum move in.
For the past two decades, San Francisco's top power couple has lived in the shadow of Temple Emanu-El -- on the very private and swank Presidio Terrace, just off Arguello Boulevard -- where they've hosted everyone from reporters to presidents.
The house, which has yet to go on the market, comes complete with a flagpole.
So why the big move?
"We've never had a view, and this was an opportunity to get one,'' Feinstein said Friday. "We also have an expanding family -- five grandchildren and soon to be a sixth -- and we needed some more space.''
Their new, 9,500-square-foot mansion -- once owned by the former wife of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and featured as the 1995 San Francisco Decorator's Showcase -- offers much more than just picture-postcard vistas.
The four-story abode, which has sat empty for the past couple of years, has five bedrooms (including two master suites), three fireplaces, an elevator, a wine cellar and an in-law apartment.
"It's a very gorgeous, gorgeous property -- a very special home,'' says Sotheby's agent Pattie Lawton, who represented the sellers, a couple she declined to name.
The sellers never actually lived in the house, which they bought in 2004. The price then wasn't disclosed, but real estate industry sources said they believe it was close to its appraised value of $12 million.
One big curiosity is the garden just off the front entrance that is actually part of the Lyon Street steps, a favorite of joggers, walkers and camera clickers.
At night, the 332 steps are also a popular hangout for teenagers to sneak a drink or two.
This is hardly Blum and Feinstein's only real estate undertaking in recent years. Five years ago, they traded in their five-story townhouse in Washington, D.C., for a nearly $6 million, French Renaissance-style estate in the Spring Valley neighborhood, just down the street from American University.
A couple of years earlier, they built themselves a $7.4 million ski retreat on 30 acres in Aspen, Colo., just down the road from the 15-bedroom pleasure palace of a Saudi prince.
No word yet on if -- or where -- the flagpole will go up on the new digs.
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Feinstein says campaign may be 'wiped out' by Durkee
Senator employed treasurer accused on fraud charges, but her office is unable to access accounts to see how much might be missing. Rep. Davis calls suspect 'the Bernie Madoff of campaign treasurers.'
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
10:38 PM PDT, September 12, 2011
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said her campaign is among those that may have been "wiped out" by a Burbank-based Democratic campaign treasurer who was arrested on federal fraud charges earlier this month.

Kinde Durkee
is accused of taking thousands of dollars from the campaigns of several elected officials, including Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), Rep. Susan A. Davis (D-San Diego) and Assemblyman Jose Solorio (D-Santa Ana). The Los Angeles County Democratic Party reported that more than $200,000 had been taken from its fund.

Durkee, head of Durkee & Associates,
was arrested by the FBI on Sept. 2. A federal affidavit said she admitted misappropriating clients' funds for years and filing false federal campaign forms.

Durkee, who has not entered a plea on federal mail fraud charges, was released Friday on $200,000 bond.

Feinstein said Monday that Durkee had struck her campaign in addition to Sanchez's. According to her staff, Feinstein said she "was wiped out, too, but we don't know how much."

Durkee managed Feinstein's campaign finances in 1992, 1994, 2000 and 2006, and during her failed 1990 gubernatorial campaign.

Feinstein and other lawmakers have said Durkee's alleged actions came as a surprise, but investigators had been reviewing her work for years. When the FBI launched its investigation in January, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office and the state Fair Political Practices Commission were already investigating Durkee. During the last decade,
she had amassed $185,860 in fines from the Fair Political Practices Commission in eight separate cases.
 
MORE ON FEINSTEIN SERVICING HER BIGGEST PAYMASTER, PACIFIC, GAS & ELECTRIC:
OPENSECRETS.org reports that FEINSTEIN’S biggest corporate paymasters, even bigger than BIG BANKS that FEINSTEIN works so hard for, is the CA utilities monopoly, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC. PGE has long been a criminal corporate rape and pillage crime wave. The pillage PGE performed would be later used as the paradigm the BIG BANKERS’ utilized in their massive rape that brought down a global economy.
“The new bill is a product of talks between Feinstein, PG&E Corp. Chairman and CEO Peter Darbee and other members of the Clean Energy Group, including Calpine, Exelon, Entergy, Florida Power & Light and the Public Service Enterprise Group. The group, which supplies power to 18 percent of U.S. households, is heavily invested in natural gas, nuclear power and other low-carbon sources, and has backed efforts to curb greenhouse gases.”
The paradigm is simple; first buy an easily bought whore like FEINSTEIN. One that has no compunctions about selling out her state and country when the money looks good. Then have the whore work to deregulate so the monopoly can more easily roll the pillage along. FEINSTEIN has been characterized by Ralph Nader as a “closet republican” already. During the 16 years of the HILLARY, BILLARY, BUSH CORPORATE RAPE, the banks, and utilities were all DEREGULATED so the nation’s economy could be more easily be transferred to the CORPORATE CLASS. We know how hard old Bush worked for BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL, his family having started two (2) wars to protect our 9-11 invaders from SADDAM, as well as Bush’s sell out of our nation, environment, institutions, and economy to WALL ST. And right there, as always, was FEINSTEIN, voting for anything that put money in pimp BLUM’S pockets or repaid her corporate paymasters. FEINSTEIN fell in love with BUSH from day one! The smell of money was just too enticing not to!
After deregulation of the utilities monopoly PGE, came BUSH’S ENRON that kicked PGE’s ass across town. Things backfired on the monster utility, but that’s never a problem in this country when you have a bought whore like FEINSTEIN. The corporate losses are simply socialized. The people of CA will be subsidizing PGE’S demand for deregulation, and damages from BUSH ENRON RAPE, for years to come. But there’s always a few tricks to rape consumers more.
One of my fave PGE rapes was when they went to the elected whores in Sacramento and demanded $200 million for “tree trimming”. Sacramento put the money out immediately. Probably no legislator in SAC isn’t paid off by this monopoly. Then the $200 million “disappeared”. So PGE went back for more, and the whores in SAC paid out $300 million for “tree trimming”. Last I read was on this was the $300 million had also “disappeared”. There’s a half-billion of pillage that disappeared.
The old whore FEINSTEIN has many devices to pay back her corporate paymasters. In this instance, she sent her senior staffer SUSAN P KENNEDY over to head up the so-called PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, which in theory is supposed to protect consumers from CA’s utility/phone monopoly. Of course, the PUC’s real job is to protect the MONOPOLIES so there is NO REGULATION and rate increases are rubber stamped “approved” instantly.
HOW FEINSTEIN SENT HER CORRUPT STAFFER SUSAN KENNEDY OVER TO SERVICE HER BIGGEST BRIBSTER PG&E
The day FEINSTEIN staffer KENNEDY started at the PUC, the Los Angeles Times, in a front-page article, characterized her as a “closet republican”. Kennedy made it clear whom she worked for when she admitted her vision of her job (at taxpayers’ expense) was to RUBBER STAMP PGE’s rate increases. CA pays the highest rates for utilities in the country, and it is not surprising that WHORE FEINSTEIN will work hard to assure the monopolies pillage will roll on, and on, and on!  This is the whore that fronted for the so called BANKERS’ BANKRUPTCY REFORM on behalf of her paymasters WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA , to prevent victims of these banks’ mortgage devices from obtaining impartial help in the courts EVEN AFTER WELLS FARGO HAD their CA MORTGAGE LICENSE REVOKED FOR FRAUD AND CORRUPTION, and then voted over and over again for NO STRINGS BANKERS’ WELFARE . There is NO amount of corporate rape and pillage that would possibly prevent WHORE FEINSTEIN from taking money from her corporate paymasters, or working their crimes in Congress. None! Susan P Kenney then went on to work for the Austrian steroid freak, ARNO who has cut more than a few back room deals just like FEINSTEIN’S PIMP-HUSBAND, BLUM.
So, you ask…..
Why would this old whore care about a swath of desert and a few wind power projects at the time we’re at the mercy of BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL???? It’s because WHORE FEINSTEIN is doing the bidding of PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC! This monopoly has long be successful in preventing any competition. It’s no more difficult for PGE than buying a whore like FEINSTEIN, or running over to SAC and demanding a half-billion ransom!
From the Los Angeles Times
Feinstein wants desert swath off-limits to solar, wind projects HER PAYMASTERS AT PG&E TOLD HER TO!
In a move that could pit environmentalists and alternative energy industries against each other, the senator wants hundreds of thousands of acres in California designated as a national monument.
By Richard Simon

March 25, 2009

Reporting from Washington — While President Obama has made development of cleaner energy sources a priority, an effort is underway to close off a large swath of the Southern California desert to solar and wind energy projects.

In a move that could pit usual allies -- environmentalists and the solar and wind industries -- against each other, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is preparing legislation that would permanently put hundreds of thousands of acres of desert land off limits to energy projects. The territory would be designated California's newest national monument.

The move has triggered cries of NIMBY-ism on Capitol Hill.

"If there is such strong support for renewable energy, then why are they moving to block renewable energy production in their own state?" said Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington state, the top Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee.

Myron Ebell, an energy expert with the pro-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, called Feinstein's effort "just the first example of how hard it is going to be to realize President Obama's dream of a green-energy economy."

Feinstein disputed that she is engaged in a not-in-my-backyard campaign. "I'm a strong supporter of renewable energy and clean technology -- but it is critical that these projects are built on suitable lands," she said. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HOW MUCH FEINSTEIN WILL LIE FOR A BUCK!

The area of concern to Feinstein is between the Mojave National Preserve and Joshua Tree National Park, off old Route 66 between Ludlow and Needles. The area includes desert tortoise habitat, wildlife corridors, cactus gardens and the Amboy Crater -- an inactive volcanic crater where portions of the 1959 movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth" were filmed.

"That section of the road is as pristine as it was when travelers came across it in the 1920s and '30s," said James Conkle, chairman of the Route 66 Alliance.

Boundaries for the proposed monument have yet to be drawn up. But David Myers, executive director the Wildlands Conservancy, said it probably would be in excess of 800,000 acres. Feinstein said in a Capitol Hill interview Tuesday that she was sending her staff to the desert -- and would probably visit the area herself next month -- to consider what areas should be made off limits to green-energy projects and where they should be permitted.
Feinstein, who regards the 1994 California Desert Protection Act as one of her proudest achievements, noted that the Wildlands Conservancy spent more than $40 million buying the former railroad land in the desert and turning it over to the government in one of the largest land purchases in California history, with the intent of protecting it. "I feel very strongly that the federal government must honor that commitment," she said.

The Bureau of Land Management is reviewing 130 applications for solar and wind energy development in the California desert, covering more than 1 million acres of public land, according to Feinstein, who recently discussed her concerns with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. At least 19 projects have been suggested in the area where the monument has been proposed, Myers said.

Salazar said in a letter to Feinstein that projects in the desert would be "carefully considered" before any decisions were made and that "every effort will be made to avoid the most environmentally sensitive and valuable areas." But he also noted that developing cleaner energy sources was a priority.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a speech last year at a Yale University climate-change conference: "If we cannot put solar power plants in the Mojave Desert, I don't know where the hell we can put it."

In November, Schwarzenegger signed an executive order that a third of the state's electricity come from renewable sources by 2020. A major boost in solar and wind power is an essential component of the state's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions under its
landmark global warming law. About 12% now comes from renewable sources, excluding large hydropower plants.

His administration, however, has signaled that it will work with Feinstein. A number of companies pursuing solar or energy projects said they hoped to work with Feinstein to fashion legislation that would satisfy her, environmentalists and the industry. THE ONLY THING FEINSTEIN WORKS FOR IS HER BRIBES FROM PG&E… AND OF COURSE HER WAR PROFITEERING, BRIBES FROM RED CHINA FOR BEING THEIR ADVOCATE IN CONGRESS! (OPENSECRETS.ORG)


Feinstein holds a position of influence: She chairs the Senate appropriations subcommittee that writes the Interior Department's budget.
Power players warm to Feinstein bill....THE PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC MONOPOLY IS FEINSTEIN'S BIGGEST BRIBESTER!
 (01-18) 04:00 PST Washington -- California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, joined by top executives from PG&E Corp. and other energy firms, introduced an aggressive plan Wednesday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by electric utilities that is backed by some powerful players in the industry.
The move came the same day news leaked that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will create a new Select Committee on Global Warming to ratchet up pressure in the Democratic-controlled House to pass climate change legislation this year.
The moves by Pelosi and Feinstein suggest that California's top lawmakers -- including Sen. Barbara Boxer, the new chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- plan to take the state's aggressive approach on global warming to the national level.
Feinstein's legislation is part of a blitz of new climate change bills introduced in recent weeks to capitalize on the shift in power in Congress. Her bill also reflects that lawmakers and industry leaders increasingly believe new federal limits on carbon dioxide are inevitable.
There are rumors in the capital that President Bush may announce a shift in climate change policy during his State of the Union speech scheduled next Tuesday. White House spokesman Tony Snow has been noncommittal about any new plans, but said Wednesday that strict limits on emissions are "not something we're talking about."
But Feinstein said a Democratic Congress could pass legislation later this year that would force Bush's hand.
"This administration has not been in the vanguard of action," she said. "It does not mean we should remain dormant. We have an obligation to the people we represent that when we know something is happening and we know there is a way to change it, that we produce legislation. Then the responsibility is with the president whether he wants to sign or veto it."
Feinstein's bill is a "cap-and-trade" measure similar to the law adopted by California last year, except it applies strictly to the electricity sector, which accounts for one-third of America's greenhouse gas emissions.
The bill would cap emissions at 2006 levels starting in 2011, which would represent a 6 percent reduction. In 2015, the cap would drop to 2001 levels, forcing a 16 percent reduction in emissions. Power suppliers would have to further cut emissions by 1 percent a year between 2016 and 2019.
Overall, greenhouse gases would drop 25 percent from today's levels by 2020. The bill also would give the Environmental Protection Agency the power to order further cuts.
Feinstein said it was the first of five global warming bills she will propose this year: One would create a similar cap-and-trade system for the rest of the industrial sector; another would raise fuel economy standards by 10 miles per gallon over a decade. Others would promote biodiesel and E-85 fuels, and apply California's energy efficiency standards to the nation as a whole.
"If we act now and act with purpose, the most serious consequences can be averted. Global warming can be contained to 1 to 2 degrees, and therefore it is manageable," she said Wednesday. "But if we don't act and the temperature spikes by 5 degrees or more, the world around us will change forever. It will be catastrophic, and there is no going back."
The new bill is a product of talks between Feinstein, PG&E Corp. Chairman and CEO Peter Darbee and other members of the Clean Energy Group, including Calpine, Exelon, Entergy, Florida Power & Light and the Public Service Enterprise Group. The group, which supplies power to 18 percent of U.S. households, is heavily invested in natural gas, nuclear power and other low-carbon sources, and has backed efforts to curb greenhouse gases.
Darbee, who attended Feinstein's news conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill, said his industry has a responsibility to address climate change.
"The utility sector is the single largest source of emissions in the U.S.," Darbee said. "This bill will significantly reduce emissions from this sector, and it will do so by leveraging the innovation and efficiency of the market."
Darbee acknowledged that other utilities will likely oppose the new approach. PG&E's low-carbon power cost its California customers about 8 cents per kilowatt hour, while heavy-carbon emitting coal-fired plants can provide power for about 3 to 4 cents per kilowatt hour.
Feinstein is seeking to alter that calculus by requiring utilities to buy "carbon credits" if they exceed the CO{-2} emissions allowed under law -- making it more costly to emit greenhouse gases. Utilities could also buy "offset credits" that pay for restoring wetlands and forests or setting farm land aside to cut emissions. Proceeds from auctioning the credits would fund new low-carbon technologies and help address the effects of warming.
Boxer, whose panel has jurisdiction over the legislation, plans to hold her first hearing Jan. 30 on climate change to allow senators to talk about their proposals. She hopes to move one or more climate bills to the Senate floor later this year.
"I am very pleased that my colleagues are putting forward their best ideas," Boxer said. "Progress will depend upon where my colleagues come down, which is why we are holding this unprecedented hearing to get the perspective of all senators who have bills on global warming."


OBAMA-CLINTONomics: the never end war on the American middle-class. But we still get the tax bills for the looting of their Wall Street cronies and their bailouts and billions for Mexico’s welfare state in our borders.

While the wealth of the rich is growing at a breakneck pace, there is a stratification of growth within the super wealthy, skewed towards the very top.


In 2014, those with over $100 million in private wealth saw their wealth increase 11 percent in one year alone. Collectively, these households owned $10 trillion in 2014, 6 percent of the world’s private wealth. According to the report, “This top segment is expected to be the fastest growing, in both the number of households and total wealth.” They are expected to see 12 percent compound growth on their wealth in the next five years.
In 2014 the Russell Sage Foundation found that between 2003 and 2013, the median household net worth of those in the United States fell from $87,992 to $56,335—a drop of 36 percent. While the rich also saw their wealth drop during the recession, they are more than making that money back. Between 2009 and 2012, 95 percent of all the income gains in the US went to the top 1 percent. This is the most distorted post-recession income gain on record.