HER CORRUPTNESS, DIANNE FEINSTEIN'S BIGGEST BRIBSTER IS CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE PACIFIC, GAS & ELECTRIC
REALITY:
PACIFIC, GAS & ELECTRIC has always been a criminal enterprise and is WAR PROFITEER DIANNE FEINSTEIN'S biggest bribster!
YEARS ago PG&E went to the state and demanded $200 million for tree trimming to prevent fires.
They were handed this fortune the next day.
The day after that the $200 "disappeared" and NO TREES WERE TRIMMED.
NO PROBLEMS if you own the state legislature!
PG&E then went to the State and demanded $300 million.Yes, we're now talking HALF BILLION.
That wad also "disappeared" and the trees were NOT TRIMMED which contributed to the massive fire that cost the people of Mexifornia lives and billions in damage.
NOW PG&E is working out their massive welfare bailout like the dems worked out for their criminal banksters!
things never change in this country!
REALITY:
PACIFIC, GAS & ELECTRIC has always been a criminal enterprise and is WAR PROFITEER DIANNE FEINSTEIN'S biggest bribster!
YEARS ago PG&E went to the state and demanded $200 million for tree trimming to prevent fires.
They were handed this fortune the next day.
The day after that the $200 "disappeared" and NO TREES WERE TRIMMED.
NO PROBLEMS if you own the state legislature!
PG&E then went to the State and demanded $300 million.Yes, we're now talking HALF BILLION.
That wad also "disappeared" and the trees were NOT TRIMMED which contributed to the massive fire that cost the people of Mexifornia lives and billions in damage.
NOW PG&E is working out their massive welfare bailout like the dems worked out for their criminal banksters!
things never change in this country!
Cali wildfire bailout results in electric rates 70% higher than national average
California’s proposed $26 billion bailout of bankrupt PG&E’s wildfire liability will push the state’s average residential electric rates to 70 percent higher than national average.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on July 18 that supposedly will share equally between Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) shareholders and its customer the estimated $21 billion liability for 2017 and 2018 wildfire losses. The deal is also contingent on PG&E and the state’s other two investor-owned utilities, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas, contribute another $5 billion to cover losses.
According to the latest U.S. Energy Information Agency report, California’s residential electric rates currently average 18.05 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh) versus a national average for the other states of 13.16 cents / kwh. Despite already being 37 percent higher than the national average, the bailout will push rates up to about 22.22 cents / kwh, or almost 70 percent higher than the national average.
PG&E is the seventh largest U.S. electric utility. The company has 106,681 circuit miles of electric distribution lines, 18,466 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines, and 24,000 employees to service 5.4 million customer accounts for 16 million residents.
The State of California has implemented a series of disastrous policies since the 1990s to slash utility profit margins, demand conversion to much more expensive sustainable electricity generation, and shriveled spending money on forest management.
The California Public Utilities Commission slashed investor-owned utilities’ return on shareholder equity from 13 percent in 1990 to about 9.45 percent since 2016. The very low return on equity clearly encouraged PG&E to cut back on maintenance spending.
California also passed a power deregulation plan in 1998 that gave bureaucrats the authority to purchase wholesale electricity. Rather than paying slightly higher prices for long term fixed-rate electricity generated in the state, the regulators made “cheaper” purchases of short-term electricity from out-of-state producers.
But when short-term rates went up by 500 percent, PG&E suffered a $12 billion loss and was forced into a 2001 bankruptcy that lasted for the next three years. The weakened company has never recovered from the devastating losses from its first bankruptcy.
A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that PG&E delayed repairs to older transmission lines by ranking the upgrades as low priority compared to other work like substation upgrades, according to a review of federal regulatory filings. The Journal found that PG&E in 2017 identified the need for new steel towers and transmission line repairs to prevent “structure failure resulting [in] conductor on ground causing fire.”
PG&E issued a statement pledging to continue “working with the new California Public Utilities Commission President, the governor, and all stakeholders on shared solutions to California’s ever-growing risk of wildfire,” while “keeping customer rates and bills as low as possible.”
Gov. Newsom’s bailout plan requires San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison must approve their willingness to participate. The bailout plan also requires PG&E must exit bankruptcy by next June and meet a series of safety requirements, despite providing a long-term funding mechanism for up to $20 billion in repairs.
Although it was assumed the other utilities would participate, Southern California Edison is now requesting that California approve a spike in the return on equity to above 17 percent to "compensate investors for the higher risks associated with uncertain state policies for utility cost recovery and liability resulting from California's devastating wildfires."
FEINSTEIN SAYS ILLEGALS STEAL JOBS FROM
AMERICANS.... So keep them coming!
California’s proposed $26 billion bailout of bankrupt PG&E’s wildfire liability will push the state’s average residential electric rates to 70 percent higher than national average.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on July 18 that supposedly will share equally between Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) shareholders and its customer the estimated $21 billion liability for 2017 and 2018 wildfire losses. The deal is also contingent on PG&E and the state’s other two investor-owned utilities, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas, contribute another $5 billion to cover losses.
According to the latest U.S. Energy Information Agency report, California’s residential electric rates currently average 18.05 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh) versus a national average for the other states of 13.16 cents / kwh. Despite already being 37 percent higher than the national average, the bailout will push rates up to about 22.22 cents / kwh, or almost 70 percent higher than the national average.
PG&E is the seventh largest U.S. electric utility. The company has 106,681 circuit miles of electric distribution lines, 18,466 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines, and 24,000 employees to service 5.4 million customer accounts for 16 million residents.
The State of California has implemented a series of disastrous policies since the 1990s to slash utility profit margins, demand conversion to much more expensive sustainable electricity generation, and shriveled spending money on forest management.
The California Public Utilities Commission slashed investor-owned utilities’ return on shareholder equity from 13 percent in 1990 to about 9.45 percent since 2016. The very low return on equity clearly encouraged PG&E to cut back on maintenance spending.
California also passed a power deregulation plan in 1998 that gave bureaucrats the authority to purchase wholesale electricity. Rather than paying slightly higher prices for long term fixed-rate electricity generated in the state, the regulators made “cheaper” purchases of short-term electricity from out-of-state producers.
But when short-term rates went up by 500 percent, PG&E suffered a $12 billion loss and was forced into a 2001 bankruptcy that lasted for the next three years. The weakened company has never recovered from the devastating losses from its first bankruptcy.
A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that PG&E delayed repairs to older transmission lines by ranking the upgrades as low priority compared to other work like substation upgrades, according to a review of federal regulatory filings. The Journal found that PG&E in 2017 identified the need for new steel towers and transmission line repairs to prevent “structure failure resulting [in] conductor on ground causing fire.”
PG&E issued a statement pledging to continue “working with the new California Public Utilities Commission President, the governor, and all stakeholders on shared solutions to California’s ever-growing risk of wildfire,” while “keeping customer rates and bills as low as possible.”
Gov. Newsom’s bailout plan requires San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison must approve their willingness to participate. The bailout plan also requires PG&E must exit bankruptcy by next June and meet a series of safety requirements, despite providing a long-term funding mechanism for up to $20 billion in repairs.
Although it was assumed the other utilities would participate, Southern California Edison is now requesting that California approve a spike in the return on equity to above 17 percent to "compensate investors for the higher risks associated with uncertain state policies for utility cost recovery and liability resulting from California's devastating wildfires."
FEINSTEIN SAYS ILLEGALS STEAL JOBS FROM
AMERICANS.... So keep them coming!
“Senator
Dianne Feinstein warned, at the time, they had to solve this crisis now—of
immigrants coming in illegally and getting these jobs.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/senator-dianne-feinstein-looking-to-buy.html
“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase
what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was
the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE
MAGAZINE
WAR PROFITEER and
her DADDY WARBUCKS
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT
HER ENTIRE POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALL OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT
HAVE PUT MILLIONS IN HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM’S BOTTOMLESS POCKETS!
IN
THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform.
And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne
Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior
of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own
ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.
“All in all, it was an
incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red
China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
$ERVANT OF RED
CHINA FOR RAW CA$H, $ENATOR FEIN$TEIN’S DRIVER IS A $PY FOR HER CHINE$E PAYMA$TER$!
“All in all, it was an
incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red
China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
WAR PROFITEERS!
SENATOR DIANNE
FEINSTEIN AND PARASITE HUSBAND RICHARD “BRIBSTERS” BLUM
Blum has long
handed out bribes in the form of “campaign contributions” to other corrupt
Democrat politicians so they keep their mouths shut about the staggering
corruption that has profitably followed Feinstein from day one!
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and
Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with
third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by
its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com
WAR ON THE AMERICA
WORKER: FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, OBAMA, and the CLINTON CRIME DUAL
“Senator
Dianne Feinstein warned, at the time, they had to solve this crisis now—of
immigrants coming in illegally and getting these jobs.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/senator-dianne-feinstein-looking-to-buy.html
“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase
what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was
the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE
MAGAZINE
BLOG: FEINSTEIN IS AN ADVOCATE OF AMNESTY, OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED. THERE ARE 15 MILLION LOOTING MEXICANS IN HER STATE OF CA.
The Kavanaugh Hearing Revisited
Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino is a powerful book, whatever a person’s political affiliation. This story reads more like a novel than a fact-filled book. It explains the historical context of the court nomination system and how political and cultural trends change the shape of the institution over time. Readers can grasp how the nominating process works and get a behind-the-scenes look at what really happened during the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court Justice. The authors provide an objective account in talking with American Thinker as they point out how the book reflects a respect for the rule of law and the presumption of innocence.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is a senior editor at the Federalist, a Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College, and a Fox News contributor who always provides clarity and is a voice for common sense. Carrie Severino, a graduate of Harvard Law School, is chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network. In that capacity she has testified before Congress on assorted constitutional issues and briefed senators on judicial nominations. She has also been extensively quoted in the media and regularly appears on diverse networks such as CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. Both authors are highly regarded political analysts.
They emphasize in the book that from the moment Justice Anthony Kennedy, considered to be a “swing vote” justice, announced his retirement in June 2018, the drama began, even before Brett Kavanaugh was selected. Because the Democrats and media did not want a conservative appointed to replace Kennedy, they planned from the start to oppose whoever President Trump nominated. What resulted was the nasty politics of character assassination that have plagued the confirmation process
The Democrats began their campaign on July 9th, 2018 after President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for a position on the Supreme Court. Even before the confirmation hearing many Democrats including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and some Democrats on the committee had already announced their intention to vote against Kavanaugh. Thus, began the campaign to destroy Brett Kavanaugh by any means possible, including unverified and nonsensical accusations of sexual assault.
“But a lack of evidence never seemed to keep them from being taken seriously.” Severino noted, “It was disconcerting to see that even when outlandish allegations came out, they were taken seriously by the Democrats and the media. A man’s reputation was dragged thought the mud publicly with lifelong consequences. There is a need for some kind of evidence to substantiate the accusations. We talk in the book about an understanding in our society that accusations cannot be acted upon without any evidence.”
Hemingway felt, “There is an inherent contradiction to some people’s reaction to the #MeTooMovement. There is the good of holding powerful men responsible in the sexual exploitation of women. Yet, not everyone’s allegation must be believed without evidence to support them. It is the standard of believing people without evidence that leads to situations. Remember Swetnick accused people of gang rape of underage women. All the Democrats responded by saying Kavanaugh should resign. Senator Diane Feinstein even read that accusation into the congressional record. It made a farce of the confirmation process by not handling all the accusations with confidentiality instead of the media circus.”
Although no hint of sexual misconduct had ever attached to Kavanaugh in his previous confirmation hearings or FBI background checks, on July 30, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford wrote U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein a letter, asking for confidentiality, that accused Kavanaugh of having sexually assaulted her in the 1980s. Feinstein held on to it and did not refer the allegation to the FBI until September 14, 2018, after the Judiciary Committee had completed its hearings on Kavanaugh's nomination. Then there were the allegations by Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of his, who recounted how he and others exposed themselves at a party. Not to be outdone, Michael Avenatti found a witness, Julie Swetnick, with tales of drug-fueled rape gangs led by Kavanaugh and his high-school peers. Justice prevailed even with these unsubstantiated accusations, and Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed on October 6th, 2018 by a 50-48 vote.
As with any story there are protagonists and antagonists. The protagonists are Brett Kavanaugh’s family, who had to endure these public claims. Also on the hero’s list is Senator Susan Collins who found the Democratic obstruction outrageous and had to withstand hangers sent to all her offices, obscene and threatening voicemails, being accosted by someone shining a flashlight in her eyes, had a female staffer told by a caller that they hoped she would be raped. Senator Collins had to have a hazardous material team sent to her home after an anthrax/ricin letter scare. Anyone watching her reasons for voting yes on his confirmation would understand how she is evenhanded, thoughtful, and reasonable.
The book quotes Collins as to what should have happened, “This process in my opinion should be about qualifications, about your character, about your approach to judging.”
Hemingway commented directly, “We learned from Senator Collins how a senator does take their role very seriously. She analyzed the nominee’s judicial record and philosophy intensely. In fact, she hired many additional staff to go through his record, and conducted a thorough interview when he met with her.”
Severino also added, “Senator Collins was a real heroine in this process. She had courage and a commitment to treating this process fairly from the very first moment. Yet, she was attacked and bullied. We learned this is not the way to make progress with Susan Collins. She does not run in the face of intimidation and bullying. In fact, it made her more careful and meticulous in her drawing of conclusions as she evaluated his record and the evidence against him.”
Senator Lindsey Graham also stepped up to the plate pointing out that he had voted for President Obama’s nominees Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. He denounced the proceedings as the “most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics… This has been about delay and destruction. And if we reward this, it is the end of good people wanting to be judges. It is the end of any concept of the rule of law.” The antagonists were the Democrats that made a mockery of the confirmation hearings and those women with outrageous claims.
Other protagonists are Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who said in September 2018 that the confirmation hearings used to be bipartisan and pointed out how she was confirmed by a 96 –3 vote and for Anthony Scalia the vote was unanimous. “That’s the way it should be, instead of what it’s become, which is a highly partisan show… I wish I could wave a magic wand and have it go back.” Justice Sotomayor reminded Kavanaugh that “we’re family here,” while Justice Kagan made a point of talking to him during the bar admission ceremony, calling them “a team of nine.”
Having gone through something similar in 1991, Justice Clarence Thomas also provided support to Kavanaugh. It seems the Democrats did not learn anything then. Hemingway cited, “By a 2 to 1 margin Americans believed Clarence Thomas immediately after the hearings. Decades of stories, the press given out awards to themselves, and shaded documentaries, seem like people have forgotten about the actual facts. Today, the Me-Too Movement is damaged by the weaponization for political ends. It was an unfortunate use of a movement that was bringing accountability to powerful men. The Democrats also had it backfire in the Senate when Republicans picked up three seats in 2018. A couple of the “blue Democrats” who lost do feel the Democratic tactics with Kavanaugh are part of what hurt their electoral situation. I also think the media lost more credibility.”
Unlike most politicians, Donald Trump stood by his nominee. Severino toldAmerican Thinker, “His legacy is going to be the excellent justices he put on the court. He and his counsel Don McGhan did great work on the front end. They picked justices with clear records. We talked to a lot of people who said with any other Republican president they probably would not have stood by their nominee given the same circumstances. There is something special about having Donald Trump at the helm. Many other politicians would have bowed to the public pressure in the force of such little evidence.”
The authors are hoping that “there is a real appetite for people to understand what happened. They don’t feel a sense of closure just because Kavanaugh is on the court. So many things went wrong with this process and there has not been much accountability. I think Americans are interested in finding out the facts and are still concerned with what happened. It will definitely carry into 2020.”
So what about the next confirmation hearing? According to Severino, “Just looking at the trajectory of history I fear that the Democrats will get worse, although it is hard to comprehend how. We have never seen them dial it back. It is not about the nominee, but the stakes of the seat being fought over. I think if there is a situation where Donald Trump will be replacing a liberal justice on the court the Democrats will be even more vicious, if that is even possible. Hopefully the check on that will be the American people who were fed up with the political games played.”
In reading this book people will get a grasp of the dysfunctional process of confirming a Supreme Court justice. Whether liberal or conservative, after reading this, it will hopefully give people pause about the fairness and politicization of the process. The Kavanaugh confirmation process was a truly embarrassing and disgraceful moment in American history.
The author writes for American Thinker. She has done book reviews, author interviews, and has written a number of national security, political, and foreign policy articles.
"In fact, the destruction has
again exposed the criminal indifference and negligence of the ruling class and
both its political parties, Democrat and Republican. Social infrastructure,
including fire departments, have been starved of funds for decades as trillions
of dollars have been funneled into the bank accounts of the rich."
"In
fact, the destruction has again exposed the criminal indifference and
negligence of the ruling class and both its political parties, Democrat and
Republican. Social infrastructure, including fire departments, have been
starved of funds for decades as trillions of dollars have been funneled into
the bank accounts of the rich."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/07/john-binder-californias-surrender-to.html
In 2013,
California lawmakers passed legislation that allowed illegal aliens to obtain
driver’s licenses if they can prove to the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV)
their identity and state residency. The plan was one of the largest victories
to date by the open borders lobby.… JOHN BINDER –
BREITBART.com
*
(TOP CALIFORNIA)
STEALING AMERICA!
Here’s how California surrendered to Mexico… OR WAS HANDED TO
MEXICO BY NANCY PELOSI, DIANNE FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, JERRY BROWN and GAVIN
NEWSOM!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/california-under-mex-occupation-do-not.html
THIS IS WHAT THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY OF CORRUPTION AND OPEN BORDERS HAS DONE TO ONE CITY!
SANCTUARY CITY SAN FRANSISCO
AMERICA’S DUMPSTER CITY OF FILTH AND DRUG DEALERS
HOME TO SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN, SENATOR KAMALA
HARRIS, REP. NANCY PELOSI and GAVEN NEWSOM
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/monica-showalter-sanctuary-city-san.html
It is my contention that this grand
unearth-and-destroy spectacle was planned, coordinated and facilitated by (Sen.
Dianne Feinstein) Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats and their staffers.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/michelle-malkin-witches-of-kavanaugh.html
Feinstein’s Ties to China Extend
Beyond Chinese Spy
https://www.theepochtimes.com/feinsteins-ties-to-china-extend-beyond-chinese-spy_2616284.html
Conciliatory to Communists
Bridges to Communist China
Human Rights
Senator Feinstein's War
Profiteering - by Joshua Frank - Antiwar.com
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Unacceptable! Senator Profits from War and Post Office
Shortly after San
Francisco's then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein married private equity financier
Richard C. Blum in 1980, those who knew them called theirs "a marriage of
the public and private sectors."
Although Feinstein lost a gubernatorial bid to Republican Pete Wilson, she soon took his seat in the U.S. Senate. Working across the aisle, her power rapidly grew along with her husband's diversified investments and their mutual wealth.1
• As Chair and ranking member of the Military Construction and Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Feinstein appears to have steered contracts to companies controlled by her husband.2 Blum has profited handsomely from military contracts.3
• In 2009, Senator Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $25 billion in taxpayer money to the FDIC after it gave Blum's CBRE real estate company a contract to sell foreclosed properties at unusually high rates.4
• As a Regent of the University of California, Blum appears to have profited from contracts with the UC-run nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos.5
• In the summer of 2012, the U.S. Postal Service awarded Blum's CBRE company the exclusive contract to sell its portfolio of public properties. Feinstein's office denies any influence in the awarding of the contract.6
richard blum huckstered and
voted in the senate for any
and all that would benefit red
china and richard blum,
america's war profiteers!
Steven Mosher on Trade Deficit: China ‘Might as Well Have Carpet
Bombed the American Heartland’
Richard
Nixon had “created a monster” by opening America and the West to China, said
bestselling author and Asia expert Steven Mosher in a Wednesday interview on
SiriusXM’s Breitbart News
Tonight with Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.
PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S
BIGGEST BRIBSTERS, HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CRIME TIDAL WAVE AND HAVE COST NORTHERN
CALIFORNIANS MUCH MORE THAN $30 BILLION!!!
"PG&E
is the subject of enormous litigation and liabilities estimated which
could reach as high as $30 billion,
analysts who studied the 2018 California wildfires say."
DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S FIRES:
This is what crony capitalism gives you!
"In fact, the destruction has
again exposed the criminal indifference and negligence of the ruling class and
both its political parties, Democrat and Republican. Social infrastructure,
including fire departments, have been starved of funds for decades as trillions
of dollars have been funneled into the bank accounts of the rich."
WHY DID THE FIRST LADY OF CORRUPTION and AMERICA’S
GREATEST WAR PROFITEER SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN and her cronies
PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC BURN DOWN MEXIFORNIA?
CALIFORNIA
BURNS …. Again!
The Mexican
welfare state under the weight of corruption and staggering cost of the LA RAZA
welfare state on their legals’ backs!
"In
fact, the destruction has again exposed the criminal indifference and
negligence of the ruling class and both its political parties, Democrat and
Republican. Social infrastructure, including fire departments, have been
starved of funds for decades as trillions of dollars have been funneled into
the bank accounts of the rich."
PROFITEER
DIANNE FEINSTEIN, HITLERMAL KAMALA HARRIS, MAD MAXINE WATERS and HISPANDERING GAVIN
NEWSOM….
MOVES
CLOSER TO FINAL ANNEXATION BY MEXICO
DE
FACTO CITIZENSHIP PER LA RAZA:
NO
TEST, NO BACKGROUND CHECKS ON CRIMINALITY, NO BACK TAXES, NO
FINES....
JUST JUMP STRAIGHT TO VOTING BOOTHS! AND VOTE OFTEN!!!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/07/john-binder-californias-surrender-to.html
In 2013,
California lawmakers passed legislation that allowed illegal aliens to obtain
driver’s licenses if they can prove to the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV)
their identity and state residency. The plan was one of the largest victories
to date by the open borders lobby.… JOHN BINDER –
BREITBART.com
(KATE)
MEX MURDERS MOTHER IN PELOSI, FEINSTEIN, KAMALA
HARRIS, GAVIN NEWSOM'S ! SANCTUARY ! CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO!
*
Steinle’s
murderer, Jose Zarate and been deported 5xs!
*
"While walking with her father on a pier
in San Francisco in 2015, Steinle was shot by the illegal alien. Steinle
pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed in her father’s
arms."
*
In
the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal
records, including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 s ex
crimes, and 4,000 violent k illings. Over the years, thousands of Americans
have been brutally k illed by those who illegally entered our country, and
thousands more lives will be lost if we don't act right now.
(TOP CALIFORNIA)
STEALING AMERICA!
Here’s how California surrendered to Mexico… OR WAS HANDED TO
MEXICO BY NANCY PELOSI, DIANNE FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, JERRY BROWN and GAVIN
NEWSOM!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/california-under-mex-occupation-do-not.html
THIS IS WHAT THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY OF CORRUPTION AND OPEN BORDERS HAS DONE TO ONE CITY!
SANCTUARY CITY SAN FRANSISCO
AMERICA’S DUMPSTER CITY OF FILTH AND DRUG DEALERS
HOME TO SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN, SENATOR KAMALA
HARRIS, REP. NANCY PELOSI and GAVEN NEWSOM
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/monica-showalter-sanctuary-city-san.html
“It’s almost impossible
to get convicted in this city,” said [Sgt. Kevin] Healy, who works in the
Police Department’s narcotics division. “The message needs to be sent that
it’s not OK to be selling drugs. It’s not allowed anywhere else. Where else can
you walk up to someone you don’t know and purchase crack and heroin?
Is there such a place?”…
Police say drug dealers
from the East Bay ride BART into San Francisco every day to prey on the
addicts slumped on our sidewalks, and yet the city that claims to
so desperately want to help those addicts often looks the other way.
Steinle’s
murderer, Jose Zarate and been deported 5xs!
"While walking with her father on a pier
in San Francisco in 2015, Steinle was shot by the illegal alien. Steinle
pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed in her father’s
arms."
MICHELLE
MALKIN
THE
CORRUPT AND EVIIL DEMOCRAT PARTY’S WRECKING MACHINE.
FEINSTEIN,
BRIBES BOXER, KAMALA HARRIS, MAXINE WATERS, ELIZABETH WARREN, NANCY PELOSI ……SHOULD
THESE WITCHES OF KAVANAUGH BE BURNED AT THE STAKE AND THEN BOILED IN GREASE?
It is my contention that this grand
unearth-and-destroy spectacle was planned, coordinated and facilitated by (Sen.
Dianne Feinstein) Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats and their staffers.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/michelle-malkin-witches-of-kavanaugh.html
BUT
WHAT DID WE EVER HEAR FROM THEIR MASSIVE FOUL AND CORRUPT MOUTHS ABOUT THE
CRIMES OF OBOMB AND THE CLINTON CRIME DUAL???
"But
what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of
the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power,
use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and
venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear
to every person on the planet by now."
---- Patricia McCarthy -
AMERICANTHINKER.com
Feinstein’s Ties to China Extend
Beyond Chinese Spy
https://www.theepochtimes.com/feinsteins-ties-to-china-extend-beyond-chinese-spy_2616284.html
August 6,
2018 Last Updated: August 7, 2018
Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein speaks during a
Committee hearing on Cambridge Analytica and data privacy in the Dirksen Senate
Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on May 16, 2018. (MANDEL
NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
News Analysis
Last week’s revelations that a Chinese spy served on the staff
of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for almost 20 years, should be shocking no one.
The unidentified agent, who was in place as recently as five
years ago, was Feinstein’s driver. He also served as a “gofer” in her Bay Area
office and a “liaison to the Asian-American community.” He sometimes attended
functions at the Chinese consulate, as a stand-in for the senator.
At the time the spy was discovered by the FBI, Feinstein was
chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee. Feinstein says she forced the
agent into retirement, but no other staff were informed of the circumstances
behind his exit, and no charges were filed.
Feinstein had been warned two decades ago that she might be
targeted by Chinese intelligence.
The senator issued a statement on March 10, 1997, that the FBI
had warned her and five other senators that the Chinese government might try to
“funnel illegal contributions to her campaign and other Congressional
campaigns, but she said the information had not influenced her position or her
vote on any issue,” according to The New York Times.
“[Feinstein] said that while ‘the information was vague and
nonspecific,’ she had concluded that she should ‘be very cautious’ in dealing
with Asian-American contributors,” the NY Times report stated.
Feinstein would obviously be of interest to Chinese intelligence
for the classified information she might possess through her position on the
intelligence committee.
She might also be the target of “influence operations”—a subtler
approach, by which Chinese operatives would try to steer Feinstein into
promoting policies that might benefit the Chinese regime.
According to the article, “For many years, Ms. Feinstein has
tried to promote friendship and trade with China, and she has countered critics
of the Chinese human-rights record by emphasizing what she described in a
Senate speech last year as ‘major improvements in human rights’ there.”
Conciliatory to Communists
Feinstein’s conciliatory approach to communist governments began
in the mid-1950s, when she served in the Stanford University student
government.
Before her senior year, Dianne Goldman, as she was then known,
traveled to Europe on a student trip led by Stanford political science
professor, James T. Watkins. The agenda included a possible meeting with
Yugoslav communist revolutionary Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
In January 1955, a vigorous debate erupted on the Stanford
student executive, over whether to support a proposed visit of seven Soviet
journalists to the United States.
According to Stanford Daily reports of the time, executive
member Sam Palmer asserted that “nothing can be lost in allowing them to come
over.”
He was supported by both Goldman and Don Peck, who claimed that
it was important to show “Russia that the United States is not an Iron Curtain
country—that we are willing to let Communists enter.”
The ayes won, and Goldman went on to personally host the
delegation from the Soviet Writers Union when they toured Stanford’s campus
later that year.
Thirty years later, while serving as mayor of San Francisco,
Feinstein issued an official city proclamation in support of that year’s World
Festival of Youth and Students, held in Moscow.
This international propaganda event was organized by the
Soviet-controlled World Federation of Democratic Youth and was supported in the
United States by the Communist Party USA and similar groups.
Feinstein traveled to Moscow in December of that year as part of
a trade delegation of 450 U.S. businessmen and public officials.
A little over a year later, on Jan. 27, 1987, Soviet Consul
General Valentin Kamenev presented Feinstein with a Soviet streetcar: “A
streetcar named desire.” Also present at the ceremony was Viktor Zhelezny,
deputy chief of public transport for the Russian Republic.
Bridges to Communist China
Building bridges to the People’s Republic of China, however,
seems to have been an even higher priority for Feinstein.
One of Feinstein’s first acts on becoming mayor of San Francisco
in January 1979, was to visit Shanghai to establish sister-city relations.
The next apparent priority was re-establishing passenger airline
service between China and the United States. Service was restored on Jan. 8,
1981, after a “32-year hiatus when a Boeing 747 with 139 Chinese passengers
arrived exactly on time at San Francisco International Airport,” according to
The New York Times.
Feinstein and Chinese Consul General Hu Ding-yi held a
ribbon-cutting ceremony, “which included a cake, decorated with ‘CAAC [Civil
Aviation Administration of China] Welcome to San Francisco,’ and two bottles of
champagne.” Feinstein described the landing as “an historic and exciting
occasion.”
Feinstein went on to visit Shanghai several times in her
official capacity and built a close personal relationship with then-Mayor Jiang
Zemin.
According to the San Jose Mercury: “He [Jiang] once invited her
and her husband to see Mao Tse-tung’s bedroom in his old residence, the first
foreigners to do so. Feinstein had entertained Jiang in San Francisco, dancing
with him as he sang ‘When We Were Young.'”
This relationship proved fruitful in 1999, when President Bill
Clinton was pushing to bring China into the World Trade Organization.
A visit to Washington that year by Chinese Prime Minister Zhu
Rongji, which many had hoped would seal the deal, produced nothing. Relations
got even worse after U.S. bombers accidentally destroyed the Chinese Embassy in
Belgrade that May.
Feinstein, stepped in to offer assistance to the administration.
She volunteered to use her personal relationship with now-Chinese regime leader
Jiang, to get negotiations back on track.
In August 1999, the White House dispatched Feinstein to China,
with a hand-written note to Jiang from President Clinton, urging a resumption
of talks.
“Senator Feinstein played a critical role in paving the way for
this critical trade agreement,” White House press officer Elizabeth Newman
said.
Feinstein and Jiang met Aug. 16 in the Chinese coastal city of
Dalian, where the senator handed over President Clinton’s letter.
In an interview with the San Jose Mercury in November 1999,
Feinstein said, that she felt the only way China would enter into WTO
negotiations again was with the backing of Jiang.
Feinstein said, in offering her services as an intermediary to
Clinton and national security adviser Sandy Berger, “I said I’d be prepared to
do it if they felt it would be helpful, and they said they did think it would
be helpful and please do it.”
Jiang was “receptive and particularly pleased that Clinton had
taken the time to personally write a note to him,’’ Feinstein said.
“I think he listened, and we had substantial discussions on the
subject. … I was successful in getting the Chinese interested in beginning to
resume negotiations on the subject,” Feinstein said in the November 1999
interview.
Human Rights
Significantly, Feinstein said she expected approval of the new
trade status, which would remove the “annual congressional review that many
believe continues to put pressure on China to reform its economy and
human-rights record.”
In other words, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would get the
trade status it coveted, without having to do anything of significance to
improve its abysmal human-rights record.
China was admitted to the World Trade Organization and has used
that trade access to build the world’s second-strongest economy, and a
world-class military.
If anything, the CCP’s human-rights record is worse today.
Certainly, their repressive technologies are far more powerful.
At the time, Feinstein’s colleague, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
expressed grave concerns about the deal.
“Once they get permanent (normal trade relations status), all
leverage from the US on behalf of business is over because they have what they
want permanently,” Pelosi said, in the San Jose Mercury article. “They have
violated their agreements in terms of proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, they have violated their agreements in terms of trade, they have
violated their agreements on international covenants on human rights. Why is that
we think they are then going to honor their commitments they make for WTO?”
All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese
government.
Feinstein has done more for the CCP than other any serving U.S.
politician.
Correction: A previous version
of this article misstated who led Dianne Feinstein’s student trip to Europe.
The trip was led by Stanford political science professor, James T. Watkins. The
Epoch Times regrets the error.
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Senator Feinstein's War Profiteering
Senator
Feinstein's War Profiteering
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by Joshua Frank
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It happens all the time. If the antiwar movement
takes on the Democrats for their bitter shortcomings, a few liberals are
bound to criticize us for not hounding Bush instead. It doesn't even have to
be an election year to get the progressives fired up. They just don't seem to
get it. "How can you attack the Democrats when we have such a
bulletproof administration ruling the roost in Washington?" somebody
recently e-mailed me. "Don't you have something better to do than write
this trash?!"
Well, not really. It's too cold in
upstate New York right now to do anything other than fume over the liberal
villains in Washington. "Why do I write about the putrid Democratic
Party?" I responded, "I'll tell you, there's a reason this Republican
administration is so damn bulletproof – nobody from the opposition party is
taking aim and pulling the trigger."
And that's why the Dems are just as
culpable in all that has transpired since Bush took office in 2000. They
aren't just a part of the problem – the Democrats are the
problem.
I mean, who is really all that
surprised Bush and his boys wanted to conquer the Middle East? Not me. That's just what unreasonable neocons do: they stomp
out the little guy, kill off the weak, and suffocate the voiceless. They only
care about the girth of their wallets and the number of scalps they can tack
above their mantles.
The Democrats aren't just letting
the Republicans get away with murder, however: some of them are also reaping
the benefits of the Bush wars. We constantly hear about Dick Cheney's ties to
Halliburton and how his ex-company is making bundles off U.S. contracts in
Iraq. But what we don't hear about is how Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein
and her husband are also making tons of money off the "war on terror."
The wishy-washy senator now claims
Bush misled her prior to the invasion of Iraq. I don't think she's being
honest with us, though. There may have been other reasons she helped sell
Bush's lies. According to the Center for Public Integrity, Feinstein's husband Richard Blum
has racked in millions of dollars from Perini, a civil infrastructure
construction company, of which the billionaire investor wields a 75 percent
voting share.
In April 2003, the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers gave $500 million to Perini to provide services for Iraq's
Central Command. A month earlier in March 2003, Perini was
awarded $25 million to design and construct a facility to support the Afghan
National Army near Kabul. And in March 2004, Perini was awarded a hefty
contract worth up to $500 million for "electrical power distribution and
transmission" in southern Iraq.
Feinstein, who sits on
the Senate
Appropriations
Committee as well as the
Select
Committee on Intelligence, is reaping
the benefits of
her husband's investments.
The Democratic
royal family recently
flush Pacific
Heights neighborhood of San
Francisco. It's
a disgusting display of war
profiteering, and
just like Cheney, the leading
Democrat should
be called out for her
offense.
And that's exactly
why the Bush
administration
is so darn bulletproof.
The Democratic
leadership in
Washington is just as
crooked and just
as callous.
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A war
profiteer is any person or organization that profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war.
The term can have strong, negative connotations. General profiteering may
also occur in peace time. An example of war profiteers were the "shoddy"
millionaires who
allegedly sold recycled wool and cardboard shoes to soldiers during the American
Civil War. The ten
highest war profiteers are Lockheed Martin, Boeing, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, European Aeronautic Defense and Space
Company EADS, Finmeccanica, L-3 Communications, and United
Technologies.[1] These corporations are all directly
connected with production of weapons, machinery, vehicles, aircraft,
electronics and artillery(including missiles) and as such have significant
political influence given their lobbying efforts and campaign contributions to
members of the United States Congress in the promotion of war efforts. In 2010,
the defense industry spent $144 million on lobbying and donated over $22.6
million to congressional candidates.[2]
In the United States[edit]
Companies
such as Halliburton have been criticized in the context
of the Iraq War for their perceived war profiteering.[24]
Steven Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank, has accused former CIA Director James
Woolseyof
both profiting from and promoting the Iraq War.[25]
The Center
for Public Integrity has reported that US Senator Dianne Feinstein, who voted in favor of the Iraq Resolution, and her husband, Richard Blum, are making millions of dollars from Iraq
and Afghanistan contracts through his company, Tutor
Perini Corporation.[26][27]
Indicted
defense contractor Brent R. Wilkes was reported to be ecstatic when
hearing that the United States was going to go to war with Iraq. "He and
some of his top executives were really gung-ho about the war," said a
former employee. "Brent said this would create new opportunities for the
company. He was really excited about doing business in the Middle East."[28]
The War
Profiteering Prevention Act of 2007 intended to create criminal
penalties for war profiteers and others who exploit taxpayer-funded efforts in
Iraq and elsewhere around the world.[29] This act was introduced first on
April 25, 2007, but was never enacted into law.[30] War profiteering cases are often
brought under the Civil False
Claims Act,
which was enacted in 1863 to combat war profiteering during the Civil War.[31]
Major
General Smedley Butler, USMC, criticized war profiteering of US
companies during World War I in War Is a Racket. He wrote about how some companies and
corporations increase their earnings and profits by up to 1,700 percent and how
many companies willingly sold equipment and supplies to the US that had no
relevant use in the war effort. In the book, Butler stated that "It has
been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war
cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended
in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits."[32]
In
the American Civil War, concerns about war profiteering were not limited to the
activities of a few "shoddy" millionaires in the North. In the Confederacy, where supplies were severely limited, and hardships common, the mere
suggestion of profiteering was considered a scurrilous charge. Georgia
Quartermaster General Ira Roe Foster attempted to increase the supply of
material to the troops by urging the women of his state to knit 50,000 pairs of
socks. Foster's sock campaign stimulated the supply of the much needed item,
but it also met with a certain amount of suspicion and backlash. Either the result of a Union disinformation campaign, or the work of suspicious
minds, rumors, which Foster denied as a "malicious
falsehood!",[33] began to spread that Foster and
others were profiteering from the socks.[33] It was alleged that contributed socks
were being sold, rather than given freely to the troops. The charge was not
without precedent. The historian Jeanie Attie notes that in 1861, an
"especially damaging rumor" (later found to be true) had circulated
in the North, alleging that the Union Army had purchased 5,000 pairs of socks
which had been donated, and intended for the troops, from a private relief
agency, the United States Sanitary Commission.[34] As the Sanitary Commission had done
in the North, Foster undertook a propaganda campaign in Georgia newspapers to
combat the damaging rumors and to encourage the continued contribution of
socks.[35] He offered $1,000.00 to any
"citizen or soldier who will come forward and prove that he ever bought a
sock from this Department that was either knit by the ladies or purchased for
issue to said troops."[33]
Unacceptable! Senator Profits from War and Post Office
Although Feinstein lost a gubernatorial bid to Republican Pete Wilson, she soon took his seat in the U.S. Senate. Working across the aisle, her power rapidly grew along with her husband's diversified investments and their mutual wealth.1
• As Chair and ranking member of the Military Construction and Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Feinstein appears to have steered contracts to companies controlled by her husband.2 Blum has profited handsomely from military contracts.3
• In 2009, Senator Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $25 billion in taxpayer money to the FDIC after it gave Blum's CBRE real estate company a contract to sell foreclosed properties at unusually high rates.4
• As a Regent of the University of California, Blum appears to have profited from contracts with the UC-run nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos.5
• In the summer of 2012, the U.S. Postal Service awarded Blum's CBRE company the exclusive contract to sell its portfolio of public properties. Feinstein's office denies any influence in the awarding of the contract.6
Ask your Senators to
request an Ethics Committee investigation of Senator Dianne Feinstein now.
Background:
1. MetroActive: Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict
Z Magazine: The Power Couple of California
2. Bohemian: Senator Warbucks
3. San Francisco Chronicle: War Brings Business to Feinstein Spouse
San Francisco Chronicle: SF Firm Awarded Contract in Iraq
4.Washington Times: Senator's Husband's Firm Cashes in on Crisis
5. San Francisco Chronicle: Amid Loud Dissent, Panels Urge Los Alamos Bid
Santa Cruz Indymedia: Conflict of Interest for Vice Chair of the UC Regents, Richard C. Blum?
6. San Francisco Chronicle: Grim Outlook for Post Office Buildings
LaJolla Light: Berkeley Preservationists Question Senator's Ties to Post Office Sales
Truthout: The USPS Media #FAIL
Z Magazine: The Power Couple of California
2. Bohemian: Senator Warbucks
3. San Francisco Chronicle: War Brings Business to Feinstein Spouse
San Francisco Chronicle: SF Firm Awarded Contract in Iraq
4.Washington Times: Senator's Husband's Firm Cashes in on Crisis
5. San Francisco Chronicle: Amid Loud Dissent, Panels Urge Los Alamos Bid
Santa Cruz Indymedia: Conflict of Interest for Vice Chair of the UC Regents, Richard C. Blum?
6. San Francisco Chronicle: Grim Outlook for Post Office Buildings
LaJolla Light: Berkeley Preservationists Question Senator's Ties to Post Office Sales
Truthout: The USPS Media #FAIL
richard blum huckstered and
voted in the senate for any
and all that would benefit red
china and richard blum,
america's war profiteers!
Steven Mosher on Trade Deficit: China ‘Might as Well Have Carpet
Bombed the American Heartland’
Joshua Lott/Getty Images
Richard
Nixon had “created a monster” by opening America and the West to China, said
bestselling author and Asia expert Steven Mosher in a Wednesday interview on
SiriusXM’s Breitbart News
Tonight with Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.
“I think allowing China into
the World Trade Organization must rank as one of the greatest strategic
blunders made by any great power in human history,” said Mosher, framing the
37th president’s policy towards China as sowing the seeds of a rival state’s geopolitical
ascendance.
Mosher, the author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to WorldOrder, explained that the Chinese
state does not operate in good faith in trade arrangements.
“[China] had no intention of playing
by the rules,” said Mosher. “The Chinese communist party thinks that rules are
for fools and that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. It’s basically a matter of our power politics. They pretended
to be a weak developing country in order to get favorable terms in the World
Trade Organization, and when they joined, they broke all the rules and have
been behaving in a predatory fashion ever since.”
Chinese theft of intellectual
property amounts to $600 billion per year in value, said Mosher: “Everyone is
getting sick of the fact that China cheats, that China signs agreements
only to violate them, that China steals $600 billion — according to the FBI —
in intellectual property every year.”
Decades of trade with China
have decimated America’s manufacturing base, said Mosher.
“China’s been committing economic hate crimes against the
American people for a long time,” said Mosher. “By stealing technology and so
forth, they might as well have carpet bombed the industrial heartland of
America into rubble. The end result has been the same. You need a defense industrial base. You need hard industry. There
are only four countries that really make things, in any number and that is the
united States, Japan, Germany, and China. We need to make things. Manufacturing
is still the basis of a strong economy. How would we be able to be
the arsenal of democracy if we allow our steel factories to be shuttered by
Chinese steel dumping on our markets?”
“We’ve not only lost our jobs to
them and built a middle class in China while we decimated our own, we have also
lost all sorts of technological know-how,” said Mansour. “We no longer
manufacture, here. It’s horrifying how we have crippled ourselves to this.”
The Chinese government seeks to
displace America as the world’s primary superpower through economic designs
across Eurasia, said Mosher.
“China is already becoming the
dominant power in East Asia, and now it’s reaching with its One Belt One Road [project] across the Eurasian continent,” said Mosher. “Its purpose is
quite clear. It wants to draw the economy of all Asian and European countries
into China’s orbit. It wants to reorient the world’s economy around China, and
with that economic dominance will come strategic dominance.”
“If they come to dominate
Eurasia with four billion people and sixty percent of the world’s economy, I
think it’s game over,” warned Mosher.
Following the Cold War, China
became America’s primary adversary, said Mosher.
“China declared war on us in 1991,
and has been at war with us in cyberspace, stealing intellectual property, on
trade by devaluing its currency, on espionage of all kinds, and by making great
territorial claims in the South China Sea,” said Mosher.
America’s “generous American spirit”
is taken advantage of by bad faith negotiations on China’s part, with the
latter deploying realpolitik.
“If your enemy says you’re at war,
you’re probably are war whether you want to be or not,” said Mosher.
China’s political ascendance will
expand illiberalism, as the authoritarian state seeks to “replicate” its system
abroad, said Mosher.
“I have seen China’s growing
economic and military might, and I know they’re going to use it not for good
purposes, not to promote democracy and freedom, they’re going to use it for
illiberal purposes, to destroy democracy, to destroy freedom around the world,
to replicate themselves and of course what they are is a one-party dictatorship
dominated now by the new red emperor Xi Jinping,” said Mosher.
“As China grows more powerful, it
will seek to replicate itself,” he continued. “But the countries that replicate
themselves after China will come to resemble Cambodia, Zimbabwe, and North
Korea, because China will move in, will give them low interest rate loans, will
extract their resources, will corrupt their governments, and will leave strong
men in place over a countries whose economies have been gutted. So you’re not
going to see the rise of China contribute to the rise of other countries,
you’re going to see it contribute to the colonization of other countries, the
extraction of their resources, the devastation of their political systems, and
disrespect for human rights. They will spread their mistakes around the world.”
“Gary Cohn is not interested in
putting tariffs on China or in any way curbing China’s appetites when it comes
to trade,” said Mosher of President Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser.
Peter Navarro, the
president’s assistant on matters of trade an industrial policy, shares
Trump’s desire to “get tough on trade with China,” said Mosher.
Mosher is the president of
the Population Research Institute and an internationally acclaimed expert on China. In 1979,
he was the first American social scientist to visit and conduct research in
mainland China, where he he witnessed firsthand the communist regime’s human
rights violations vis-à-vis the forced abortions under their “one-child
policy.” His latest book is Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.
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JUDICIAL WATCH RANKS SEN. DIANNE
FEINSTEIN ONE OF THE 10 MOST CORRUPT.
SHE HAS AMASSED A HUGE FORTUNE FROM
DEALS SHE HAS PUSHED IN THE SENATE THAT ULTIMATELY PUT MILLIONS INTO HER
HUSBAND’S POCKETS.
SHE LIVES IN A $16 MILLION DOLLAR
MANSION IN SAN FRANCISCO ONLY MILES FROM HER S.F. HOTEL WHERE SHE HIRES
ILLEGALS.
HER BIGGEST (LEGAL) DONORS ARE
UTILITIES MONOPOLY PACIFIC, GAS & ELECTRIC AND CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS
FARGO and BANK of AMERICA.
SHE VOTES FOR ANYTHING THAT WOULD
BENEFIT RED CHINA, AND RED CHINA THANKS HER BY CUTTING DEALS WITH HER HUSBAND
RICHARD BLUM.
FEINSTEIN IS THE BIGGEST WAR
PROFITEER IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
FEINSTEIN IS AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN
BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO ENGLISH ONLY, AND NO ID REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS VOTING.
FEINSTEIN, ALONG WITH HER
SISTERS-IN-CORRUPTION, PELOSI AND BOXER, ARE A MAJOR CAUSE FOR THE MELTDOWN AND
COLONIZATION OF CA BY MEXICO!
Feinstein’s net worth
is partially explained by her marriage to investment banker Richard Blum, who
also sits on the University of California’s Board of Regents. Blum has been a
strong supporter of privatization and fee hikes. Feinstein also reported owning
homes in the Lake Tahoe area, the Coachella Valley, the Hawaiian Island of
Kauai, and San Francisco.
House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ranks as the thirteenth wealthiest member of Congress, with
a net worth of $26.4 million. Much of Pelosi’s fortune comes from her husband Paul
Pelosi, a land developer. Pelosi’s fortune actually declined since 2010, but
this can largely be explained by $6 million in mortgages on two properties in
Washington, D.C. and San Francisco that are now counted as liabilities.
US “Fifty Wealthiest Lawmakers” list:
A Congress of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich
By Eric London
27 August 2012
27 August 2012
Last week’s report by Washington,
D.C. political blog The Hill details the vast wealth of the
nation’s legislative representatives and serves as an indictment of the
anti-democratic nature of the American political system. The “50 Wealthiest
Lawmakers” list shows that dozens of congressional politicians have amassed
huge fortunes while simultaneously slashing the wages, benefits and social
services of the American people.
In other words, not only are these
members of Congress overseeing a massive transfer of wealth from the working
class to the ruling class; they are also profiting from this transfer.
The report reveals the bipartisan composition
of the extremely wealthy in congress. Seven of the top 10 richest members of
congress are Democrats; overall, Republicans make up 60 percent of the list.
According to The Hill, 17
members of Congress have amassed fortunes of over $20 million, and a total of
35 members of Congress have a net worth valued at over $10 million.
These numbers are slightly skewed
compared with past surveys. Due to the passage of the STOCK Act, members of
Congress now are legally required to report mortgages as liabilities. The STOCK
Act was passed after revelations were made regarding banks giving members of
Congress and their staffs “friendly” deals on their personal mortgages in
return for favorable legislation.
The list also sheds light on the
nature of wealth accumulation amongst the super-rich in America. Among the
elite today, wealth accumulation has less to do with productive work than it
does with parasitism, inheritance, and family ties.
Rep. Michael McCaul (Republican of
Texas) tops the list with a total fortune of $290.5 million. McCaul’s wealth
comes in part from his marriage to the daughter of Lowry Mays, the founder of
radio giant Clear Channel Communications. Belying the claim that these fortunes
come from productive hard work, McCaul’s 2011 financial report explained that
“certain assets owned by spouse were acquired via gift from spouse’s parents.”
Democratic Party leadership is
featured prominently at the top of the list.
Sen. John Kerry (Democrat of
Massachusetts), the party’s nominee for president in 2004, is second, with a
net worth of $198.8 million. Like McCaul, much of this wealth comes from
family. His wife Theresa Heinz’s “numerous family trusts” have helped push
Kerry’s fortune up $5 million in the last year.
Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller
(West Virginia), Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut), and Dianne Feinstein
(California) are also featured in the top 10. The respective fortunes of these
three senators ($83.1 million, $80.1 million, and $47.2 million) come in large
part from family inheritances and trusts.
Feinstein’s net worth is partially
explained by her marriage to investment banker Richard Blum, who also sits on
the University of California’s Board of Regents. Blum has been a strong
supporter of privatization and fee hikes. Feinstein also reported owning homes
in the Lake Tahoe area, the Coachella Valley, the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, and
San Francisco.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-CA) ranks as the thirteenth wealthiest member of Congress, with a net worth
of $26.4 million. Much of Pelosi’s fortune comes from her husband Paul Pelosi,
a land developer. Pelosi’s fortune actually declined since 2010, but this can
largely be explained by $6 million in mortgages on two properties in
Washington, D.C. and San Francisco that are now counted as liabilities.
Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner
of Wisconsin reported a net worth of $10.2 million. Among other reported
assets, “his prized stamp collection … is now worth at least $150,000.”
Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, a
Republican, ranks 35th on the list. A portion of her $9 million fortune comes
from investments in Education Management Corporation, a for-profit
post-secondary education company. Snowe’s husband, former Maine governor John
McKernan Jr., sits on the company’s board of directors.
All of the Congressional members on
the list amassed their vast sums of money on the backs of the working people
they purport to represent.
The web site OpenSecrets.org reports
that land speculation is the industry in which members of Congress make the
most money. Financial speculation, securities and investments, oil and gas
production, and commercial banking are also featured in the top 10 profitable
industries for members of Congress.
The report from The Hill underlines
what was already clear about American politics: the vast majority of Americans
are given no representation in government. Their “elected” representatives are
chosen from the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
The lives of these members of
Congress compare starkly with the realities that their constituents face on a
day-to-day basis. In the years following the financial crisis, the average
American family has lost 40 percent of its net worth. Half of America lives
either under the poverty line or one paycheck away from it. In some states, a
quarter of the population struggles to afford food. Meanwhile, Congress cuts
unemployment benefits, funding for health care, education, and housing. Both
parties have agreed that slashing pensions and food stamps are next on the agenda.
For the richest members of Congress,
these cuts will result, as they evidently have already, in an increase in net
worth. For their working class constituents, the cuts pose a more urgent
threat: hunger, disease, poverty, and a loss of life.
I love the way FEINSTEIN’S office,
mostly a group of politician white collar criminals servicing BLUM-FEINSTEIN’S
interest above our own state’s...... keep denying that FEINSTEIN is the biggest
war profiteer in history....
SO HOW THE HELL DID SHE ACQUIRE 40
MILLION IN MANSIONS? Even that phony tax supported used computer school scam
she and Blum worked up only made them about 10 million in ill gotten profits
extracted from the tax payer’s pockets.
Now FEINSTEIN-BLUM are the biggest
profiteers in AMERICAN HISTORY off BUSH’S WAR. Unfortunately that’s only a drop
in the bucket of money she’s made off her husband’s pimp of her.
Ever hear of FEINSTEIN speaking out
on the WAR? But if you want a laugh, google Feinstein’s comment on awful WAR
PROFITEERS! Reminds me of her comment “Illegals are good citizens!”
The only thing you will ever hear
FEINSTEIN speaking out on is something that will put money in her filthy
pockets.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS THE MOST CORRUPT
SELF-SERVING POLITICIAN IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
SHE SHOULD SPEND THE REST OF HER LIFE
IN PRISON.................................
Google:
FEINSTEIN, BLUM AND CHINA
FEINSTEIN, BLUM WAR PROFITEER
FEINSTEIN, BLUM AND 17
MILLION DOLLAR MANSION, only one of a dozen.
FEINSTEIN AND WELLS FARGO and the
BANKRUPTCY BILL
FEINSTEIN, BLUM AND
MEDICARE billing profits
FEINSTEIN – BLUM AND TARP CORRUPTION
FEINSTEIN – BLUM AND BOARD OF REGENTS
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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.
More home views: Speaking of home,
Sen. Feinstein was undoubtedly feeling heat from the West Coast before
announcing Friday that she would support a floor filibuster against Supreme
Court nominee Samuel Alito after all.
Just a couple of weeks back,
Feinstein said she probably wouldn't support a move to block the nomination,
unless Alito turned out to be guilty of some "moral turpitude” LIKE BEING
A BUSH WAR WHORE OR SELLING OUT HIS COUNTRY TO RED CHINA, OR DENYING MEDICARE
BENEFITS TO SICK AND DISABLED FOR PROFITS a la BLUM. That kind of crap that has
made Feinstein filthy rich!
But by Friday, Feinstein apparently
had heard the message loud and clear from constituents urging her to support
the filibuster.
"It was very strong
in terms of Californians contacting us in support of the filibuster,''
Feinstein spokesman Howard Gantman told us.
SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN,
AND HER LAP BITCH BARBARA BOXER, HAVE VOTED FOR ANY AND ALL WARS FOR MUSLIM
DICTATORS, WHILE THEY DEMAND THAT OUR OWN BORDERS BE LEFT OPEN AND UNDEFENDED
AGAINST NARCOMEX.
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT
ABOUT MY WAR PROFITEERING WHORE WIFE’S MANSIONS! HERE’S A BRIBE TO DO SO!
“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.”
March 1, 2006 The
Democrats' Daddy Warbucks
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. Owen Blicksilver, Blum's
spokesman, claims his boss and Sen. Feinstein have never talked shop at home in
their gated mansion: "Mr. Blum and Sen. Feinstein have never had any
discussions about outsourcing, government contracts, or URS." If this were
a Republican senator's spouse scoring bundles off the spoils of war and passing
it along to fellow Republicans, the liberals would be up in arms. But since
Dianne Feinstein is a leading Democrat, mum's the word. Partisanship trumps
ethics. 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
FranciscoÐbased 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. 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.
Husband's investments entangle
Feinstein
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LATEST FLAP OVER MEDICARE PAYMENT
DENIALS
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By David WhitneyMcClatchy
NewspapersSan Jose Mercury News
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Article Launched:05/19/2007
01:36:54 AM PDT
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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
“FEINSTEIN SENT A LETTER
EXPRESSING HER CONCERNS....”
THIS IS TYPICAL WHORE FEINSTEIN.
SHE LIES THROUGH BOTH SIDES OF HER MOUTH AND STILL COUNTS HER DIRTY MONEY.
THE OLD WHORE HAS BEEN SENDING OUT
THE SAME OLD FORM LETTER FOR A DECADES EXPRESSING HER “CONCERN” OVER THE
INVASION BY MEXICO. ALL THE WHILE SHE’S IN THE BACK ROOM WORKING OUT NEW BIT
BY BIT AMNESTY WITH HER LA RAZA WHORES, PELOSI. BOXER, WAXMAN, ESHOO,
LOFGREN, HARMAN, FARR, SANCHEZ, ET AL.
THE OLD WHORE HAS PUBLICALLY MADE
COMMENTS ABOUT EVIL WAR PROFITEERS AND THEN WENT TO TOWN SERVICING BUSH WITH
HER !NO! IMPEACHMENT, FOR WAR PROFITS. ENOUGH TO BUY HERSELF ANOTHER MANSION,
THE 17 MILLION SAN FRANCISCO PLACE.IT’S TIME FEINSTEIN WENT TO PRISON!
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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THERE ARE THREE MAJOR
REASON FOR THE FALL OF CALIFORNIA INTO A BANKRUPTED, MEXICAN LOOTED DUMPSTER.
THESE ARE 1.) DIANNE FEINSTEIN, 2.) BARBARA BOXER, 3.) NANCY PELOSI!
ALL THREE ARE AS CORRUPT
AS THE DAY IS LONG. ALL HAVE GOTTEN FILTHY RICH OFF ELECTED OFFICE. ALL THREE
WORK FOR ANY SPECIAL INTEREST THAT WILL TUCK A BUCK INTO THEIR POCKETS. ALL
THREE VOTE HELL NO ON ANY ETHICS REFORM, AND LOVE THE SMELL OF A BRIBE!
FEINSTEIN’S BIGGEST
DONORS ARE RED CHINA, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO & BANK of AMERICA,
UTILITIES MONSTER P.G.&E., AND BIG AG DONORS THAT WANT HORDES MORE
ILLEGALS.
THE VERY SMELL OF MONEY
GETS FEINSTEIN HIGH AS A KITE!
Voters less enthused
about Sen. Dianne Feinstein's re-election
Published Tuesday, Jun.
21, 2011
Democratic Sen. Dianne
Feinstein's public approval rating remains positive, but enthusiasm for re-electing
her is far less than in previous years, according to a Field Poll released
today.
As Feinstein prepares to
run for re-election next year, California voters are inclined to support her,
43 percent to 39 percent, according to the poll.
That four-point margin –
the same as Feinstein posted in a Field Poll earlier this year – is her
smallest ever in a pre-election year. First elected to the Senate in 1992, her
margins of pre-election year support ranged from 19 percentage points to 29
percentage points before, the poll said.
Yet Feinstein's public
approval rating remains favorable, with 46 percent of voters approving of the
job she is doing, according to the poll. Thirty-one percent disapprove, and 23
percent have no opinion.
"Her job ratings
are still holding up, so it's not something that she's actually done that's
angered the voting public," Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo said.
"I just think they're in the mood for some change."
The poor economy has
dimmed the electorate's view of many incumbents, and Bill Carrick, Feinstein's
longtime political consultant, said Feinstein's numbers may reflect that
frustration. But he said her still-high public approval rating is an indication
of her continued popularity.
"It's tough
economic times," Carrick said. "In this environment, I think it's
good that so many people express more positive feelings about her than
negative."
Feinstein's softening
support may be inconsequential. It is unclear if she will face any serious
opposition next year.
Enthusiasm about a
Feinstein re-election divided along partisan lines. Sixty-six percent of
Democrats are inclined to support Feinstein's re-election, while 70 percent of
Republicans are not inclined to do so, according to the poll.
Independent and
minor-party voters are a tossup, with 38 percent inclined to vote for Feinstein
and 37 percent inclined not to, according to the poll.
Among Democratic voters
who do not plan to support Feinstein next year is Jessie Guardado, 52, of
Bakersfield, who said she is disturbed by reports of politicians' excesses,
though not about anything Feinstein specifically has done.
Guardado said she is
"looking for positive changes" in Washington.
Wayland Jackson, 80, of
Fresno, is keeping his support behind Feinstein. "I just like her
personally," said Jackson, a Democrat. "I think she's a good
leader."
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IN THE November 2006
election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly
appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But
for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of
interest, say congressional ethics experts.
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AMERICANS SEE &
SPEAK ON THE STAGGERING CORRUPTION OF SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, ONE OF OBAMA’S
BIGGEST DONORS!
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http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/21/3715389/voters-less-enthused-abou-sen.html#ixzz1PvDmAkhu
Multitude of reasons
Feinstein should be a retired professional politician. She's been on public
payroll in one political office or another since early 1960s. If she gets yet
another term in US Senate she would be 85 years old by the time she's done.
Like Pelosi, her over $100 million net worth has increased substantially over
past few year with corrupt, secretive, slimy deals an endless devious calling
card. On the day latest Congress convened, Feinstein introduced legislation to
route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just
awarded her husband Richard Blum's real estate firm a lucrative contract to
sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry
norms. During recent fellow Jewish-American Rep. Anthony Weiner fiasco she
provided no leadership in ever calling once for the lying pervert to resign
when asked about it on TV. Mostly silent or obstructing 2nd Amendment rights,
Feinstein is a pathetic hypocrite, since she packs personal heat with her own
CCW permit. FEINSTEIN MUST BE RETIRED - FINALLY!
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Diane Feinstein is
CORRUPT! She advocates for legislation that makes her husband, Richard Blum
benefit and get RICH!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...
HERE'S A LINK TO ALL THE
CORRUPTION:
http://www.uhuh.com/1calfraud/...
http://engforum.pravda.ru/show...
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/21/3715389/voters-less-enthused-abou-sen.html#ixzz1PvCtXnjk
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Our two Senators have
been almost worthless along with the rest of the California congressional
delegation.
Senator Boxer has
written and lead the passage of exactly zero point
zero critical pieces of
legislation. As the junior Senator she has
accomplished less than
any other Senator that has served as long. Quite
a distinction of
futility from the largest and should be most powerful
state in the Congress.
California receives
approximately $.15 for every federal dollar in tax
paid by our citizens.
That dismal work is squarely on the heads of all
Members of Congress from
the state. Senator Feinstein has not fared
much better, never
reaching the upper levels of Senate leadership
besides having tenure
that should have positioned her for even majority
leader at one point. We
never saw that from Feinstein, instead wiling
to take whatever
committee seats are passed out by the real leaders.
Our two Senators have collectively
been in those seats for nearly 40
years and all the while
conditions in California have dramatically
worsened, the expense we
pay for providing services to illegals due to a
leaky border have grown
exponentially, the economic climate in the
state has deteriorated
and neither Senator has done nearly enough to
right the ship and
improve our state.
Both should be retired
along with all of our Congresspeople. Simply,
until a California
delegation can succeed in bringing federal funds into
our state that match
what we pay into the federal government, they have
failed the people they
represent.
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When Pat Leahy
introduced a bill to impose some very mild and inadequate safeguards on Patriot
Act powers (some of which the DOJ has voluntarily accepted), those efforts were
thwarted by the Democrats' Senate Intelligence Committee Chair, Dianne
Feinstein -- easily one of the most implacable enemies of civil liberties in
the Congress and one of the most loyal servants of the National Security State
which enriches her husband; just as she did last year, Feinstein has demanded a
full extension of the Patriot Act with no reforms of any kind.
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Hilarious statement.
Your Lt. Guv you just elected couldn't keep off his best friend's wife(for
months) - no problem as he's been elected. Your Attorney General had a whopping
58% conviction rate for murderers, but won the statewide election. Your guv was
a unon hack, again purchased by your union hacks.
Please. Feinstein was
voting on the pentagon appropriatons committee while her husband has been
raking in millions on contract awards. Oh we found out about it? Where's
Feinstein been? Hidden away by the Dems and ignored by the liberal media, just
like the ignore the 2 illegal wars, the fleecing of Boeing, etc.
Forget it, you Dems will
vote D no matter what. Extremeists? Go look in a mirror. Like Carly who ran HP
- that kind of extremist? Please. Your party is extremist central.
*For the record, she
will be 78 tomorrow. Time to step down.
Feinstein has always
courted the image ofthe thoughtful, reserved, moderate Senator as a
counterbalance to the hot headed, hard left-winger and dim-witted junior
Senator Barbara Botoxer.
In fact as her voting
record shows she votes hard left on every big issue every time whether it is
Obamacare, illegal immigration or second amendment rights.
Just another liberal,
big spender. She will be remembered as ruining the country by supporting
unchecked illegal and legal immigration, enriching herself and her hack husband
and all the while stealing our childrens futures while bankrupting the nation
with her votes on spending.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/obama-his-culture-of-dem-corruption-war.html
WHO HAS PUSHED FOR WAR
MORE THAN OBAMA, FEINSTEIN, BOXER and CLINTON? EVER WONDER WHY?
FEINSTEIN IS THE BIGGEST
WAR PROFITEER IN HISTORY. SOME OF THOSE WAR PROFITS WENT TO BUY HER $16 MILLION
MANSION IN S.F. …. SOME WENT TO BUY CROOKED DEMS, SO THEY KEEP THEIR FAT MOUTHS
SHUT ABOUT FEINSTEIN’S CORRUPTION, WAR PROFITEERING AND PUSH TO EXPAND THE
HORDES OF ILLEGALS FOR MUCHO CHEAP LABOR. FEINSTEIN HAS BOUGHT OBAMA, BOXER,
CLINTON, KERRY, AND THE OTHER WAR , JOE LIEBERMAN.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/barack-obama-arms-his-muslim-dictator.html
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/sen-dianne-feinstein-top-10-most.html
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/ca-sens-feinstein-boxer-fight-against.html
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/obama-donor-sen-dianne-feinstein-war.html
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT
OBAMA TENDS TO LIKE THE MOST CORRUPT OF BUSH’S ADMINISTRATION, OR THAT OF
HILLARY BILLARY’S?
IN THE November 2006
election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly
appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But
for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of
interest, say congressional ethics experts.
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/sen-dianne-feinstein-her-daddywarbucks.html
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/sen-dianne-feinsteins-staggeringly.html
February 21-27, 2007
The Byrne Report
Blum's Plums
By Peter Byrne
I have reported recently
in these pages the history of United States senator Dianne Feinstein's
2001-2005 conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's former
stake in two war contractors, URS and Perini corporations. Unfortunately, the
senator is not the only one in her family with an ethics problem. In March
2002, Gov. Gray Davis appointed Blum to a 12-year term as a regent of the
University of California. For the next three years, both URS and Perini
benefited from construction contracts awarded by the Regents.
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/sen-dianne-fensteins-medicare-billing.html
Husband's investments
entangle Feinstein
LATEST FLAP OVER
MEDICARE PAYMENT DENIALS
By David Whitney
McClatchy Newspapers San
Jose Mercury News
Article Launched:05/19/2007
01:36:54 AM PDT
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.
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/sen-dianne-feinstein-war-profiteer.html
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/sen-dianne-feinstein-war-profiteer.html
January 24-30, 2007
Senator Feinstein's Iraq
Conflict FIGHTING ETHICS FOR HER DIRTY WAR PROFITS
As a member of the
Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for
appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms.
By Peter Byrne
IN THE November 2006
election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly
appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But
for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of
interest, say congressional ethics experts.
As chairperson and
ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee
(MILCON) from 2001 through the end of 2005, Feinstein supervised the
appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction
projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by
her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by
Feinstein as leader of this powerful subcommittee.
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DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S LONG
PUSH TO EXPAND THE LA RAZA OCCUPATION
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/sen-dianne-feinstein-expands-la-raza.html
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DID FEINSTEIN PROMISE
BUSH 2 (BOXER’S) NO VOTES ON IMPEACHMENT FOR ACCESS TO PROFITEERING OFF BUSH’S
WAR TO PROTECT SAUDIS – BUSH – CARLYLE GROUP INTERESTS?
FOLLOW THE MONEY:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/did-sen-dianne-feinstein-trade-war.html
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WHY BIG AG BIZ ARE SO
GENEROUS TO FEINSTEIN & BOXER – IT’S THEIR OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, NO
E-VERIFY, LA RAZA AGENDA!
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Friday, May 16, 2008
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.
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