I have gone back and tagged most of my posts on pension fraud. I have about 800 posts and didn't read them; but, lots of dots. Be well.
CIM Group, who are these people? CIM, it is said, is the third largest property owner in Hollywood. It was started by three people, Mr. Richard Ressler, Mr. Shaul Kuba and Mr. Avi Shemesh.
As for Mr. Ressler, he had previously worked for Drexel Burnham Lambert and founded Orchard Capital Corporation. You might remember Drexel Burnham Lambert because one of their employees, Michael Milken was known as the junk bond king, he was sentenced to 10 years in jail and is one of the 500 wealthiest people in the world. Mr. Ressler's brother, Tony Ressler, is the managing partner of Ares Management. Tony was also a founder of Apollo Management. Tony was also the Senior Vice President in the High Yield Bond Department of Drexel Burnham Lambert.
In regards to Mr. Shaul Kuba we know practically nothing. He had previously founded Dekel Development is all his bio says at CIM's website. Mr. Avi Shemesh, his bio is about identical. An article from Y Net Money, "Tshuva's rescuers: Avi Shemesh, Shaul Kuba".
An article in the Los Angeles Business Journal (found here on allbusiness.com) states the following:
"By 1994, Ressler, by then semi-retired, had started private equity firm Orchard Capital Corp. He was overseeing work on his Westside home when he, Kuba and Shemesh, who had built commercial real estate and landscaping businesses, met to talk about his lawn.
The trio hit it off, and bought a building on Third Street."
CIM Group has almost a billion dollars in assets and has received investments of hundreds of millions of dollars from CalPers, Lacers and other Public Pension Funds. Now when CIM Group first sought investments from CalPers, they hired Alfred Villalobos to lobby for them, we will get back to him. The president of CalPers, at the time, was Sean Harringan, we'll get back to him too.
So how do a couple of Israeli ex-soldiers become so powerful so quick and how did they manage to get so much money from public pensions? Better yet, how come we know practically nothing about these people? Do you buy the story that a couple of landscapers met a retired investment manager and started this company while discussing his lawn?
Lets get back to Alfred Villalobos. Here is a story about Mr. Villalobos' son, he was just convicted on extortion charges. The story is from the Sacramento Bee. Now Mr. Alfred Villalobos is currently being sued by the state for allegedly paying bribes to former CalPERS Chief Executive Federico Buenrostro Jr.
What is interesting is how many of these people have a connection to the City of Los Angeles, it's politicians and it's retirement funds. Seems like one big happy family. I forgot to mention Mr. Ari Swiller. Mr. Swiller, as I mentioned in previous posts, partnered with CIM Group to buy land that LADWP was trying to buy. Mr. Swiller had worked for Ralphs and Mr. Harrigan was a regional director of the United Food and Commercial Workers union. I wonder if they ever met?
Here is a nice article on Mr. Harrigan from the L.A. Times. It is about when he had to resign from the Los Angeles Police and Fire Pension Board. The article also mentions another man, Elliot Broidy, he was the one convicted of bribing members of the New York Pension board in order to get investments.
CIM Group bought a famous Hollywood landmark from a man named Eddie Nash. The L.A. Times reported this in 2007. You might want to read up on him. Mr. Nash who had owned the building for decades said that they had "wore him down". Now, that would be quite an achievement.
I do hope you are enjoying my little story. I forgot to mention that CIM Group, funded by public pensions, bought the Lady Luck Hotel and Casino according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Now if CIM Group planned on opening the casino again, they would have to tell a lot about themselves to the Nevada Gaming Commission. Maybe that is why it is still not open.
Maybe it is just me; but, I would like to know more about Mr. Kuba and Mr. Shemesh seeing as how lots of tax dollars have gone into making them very wealthy. I would like to know what it took to wear down Mr. Nash. I forgot something, New York.
CIM Group has been buying properties in New York, they have partnered with a Mr. Macklowe.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Excuse Me Kids
Zuma Dogg himself addressed me. Wow. Mr. Zuma Dogg, I will address you in person, soon. You have come here, read my blog and know me first. You are not an idiot and neither am I. Let us know each other. Read my stuff and tell me when you wish to meet.
Labor Day
Lets talk about jobs. The President plans on unveiling his plan on Wednesday. He says he will be focused on infrastructure and roads. They want to put one million people back to work in construction. In Detroit the Mayor is planning of giving houses to police officers. At the same time Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are afraid to drop almost a half a million houses on the market because it will further deflate prices.
By the way, I feel much better today. Back to jobs. As I had told people, the stimulus failed, it was intended to fail. The jobs had to be shovel ready which meant that projects that were designed; but, were not funded (because they weren't good projects) were what was used. Most of the work was contracted out which meant that no permanent or long term jobs were created. Finally, lots of profit for private companies meant low paying, temp jobs. The worst part was that the infrastructure that needed repairs was not addressed much. We need to repair what we have more than make more infrastructure.
The biggest problem we are facing is not jobs and it is not housing, it is the lack of cooperation. We have to want to make things work again, we have to think about all of us rather than just ourselves. We need jobs that will bring us together, a sense of community, a sense that we are all in this together.
We need to have a top down fix. That means putting people in charge who actually care about the work and the workers. We also need workers to think that they are part of a team. How would you organize people to achieve these goals. We need new heroes, not the lazy and privileged, people who actually work for the common goal.
Millions of people have had two years off, two years without work, are they ready to go back to work? What about taking pride in the work we do, are people ready to do that again?
By the way, I feel much better today. Back to jobs. As I had told people, the stimulus failed, it was intended to fail. The jobs had to be shovel ready which meant that projects that were designed; but, were not funded (because they weren't good projects) were what was used. Most of the work was contracted out which meant that no permanent or long term jobs were created. Finally, lots of profit for private companies meant low paying, temp jobs. The worst part was that the infrastructure that needed repairs was not addressed much. We need to repair what we have more than make more infrastructure.
The biggest problem we are facing is not jobs and it is not housing, it is the lack of cooperation. We have to want to make things work again, we have to think about all of us rather than just ourselves. We need jobs that will bring us together, a sense of community, a sense that we are all in this together.
We need to have a top down fix. That means putting people in charge who actually care about the work and the workers. We also need workers to think that they are part of a team. How would you organize people to achieve these goals. We need new heroes, not the lazy and privileged, people who actually work for the common goal.
Millions of people have had two years off, two years without work, are they ready to go back to work? What about taking pride in the work we do, are people ready to do that again?
Sunday, September 4, 2011
My Stomach is Bothering Me
I have a sensitive stomach and sometimes it acts up, like today. Nothing serious. It just makes it hard for me to concentrate on writing. There isn't much in the news worthy of writing about anyways.
For those who are interested in the great pension fraud, here is a nice post by Zuma Dogg. I recommend that you listen to the radio posts.
If you listen to the show, you will hear the speaker talking about a company called Vivendi. Vivendi is into privatizing water companies. Hmmm. Isn't it strange how LADWP seems to be intentionally doing things to upset the residents of Los Angeles? Lets not forget about the CIM Group, remember when they bought that land in Kern County that LADWP wanted to buy; but, after it came out they sold it to the City of Vernon; but, kept the water rights. That deal was never about a solar or wind farm, it was always about the water.
Something I found interesting was that David Martin, Vice President of CIM Group from 1999 to 2009, has just become the Director of Planning for the City of Santa Monica. My guess is that his old job paid better.
Lets follow a trail. Mr. Ari Swiller was a principal in the Yucaipa Private Equity Funds and managed their Board of Advisors with included Bill Clinton and Henry Cisneros. Our friend Zuma Dogg needs to follow the Ari Swiller trail. Mr. Swiller also was a Vice President of Ralphs. Now that is interesting. Now Mr. Swiller was a friend and adviser to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and was a partner in a company with David Freeman who became the General Manager of DWP. Oh yeah, Mr. Swiller also worked for Ron Burkle along with Mr. Villaraigosa, Mr. Burkle, he owns a lot of stock in Ralphs Supermarkets.
Anyways, Ari Swiller and CIM Group partnered together to buy the land in Kern County for the wind farm that LADWP was going to buy. Mr. Villaraigosa said that he had never discussed any of what DWP was doing, nobody ever asked Mr. Freedman. Well that land got sold to the City of Vernon. Recently, John Perez (the Mayor's cousin and speaker of the assembly) attempted to get Vernon decertified as a city; but, just couldn't get the votes. I wonder how serious he was or why anyone would have voted to not decertify Vernon.
Water, unions, Democrats, Redevelopment Agencies, Public Pensions, the Clintons, why do they all keep crossing paths? Did you ever get the feeling that there is an in crowd and that you are not part of it? There is a lady named, Mercedes Marquez, in 2009 she was appointed as Assistant Secretary for HUD's Community Planning and Development. She had previously been the General Manager of the City of Los Angeles' Housing Department. This is the same Housing Department that is under an FBI investigation that has been going on for quite a while.
For those who are interested in the great pension fraud, here is a nice post by Zuma Dogg. I recommend that you listen to the radio posts.
If you listen to the show, you will hear the speaker talking about a company called Vivendi. Vivendi is into privatizing water companies. Hmmm. Isn't it strange how LADWP seems to be intentionally doing things to upset the residents of Los Angeles? Lets not forget about the CIM Group, remember when they bought that land in Kern County that LADWP wanted to buy; but, after it came out they sold it to the City of Vernon; but, kept the water rights. That deal was never about a solar or wind farm, it was always about the water.
Something I found interesting was that David Martin, Vice President of CIM Group from 1999 to 2009, has just become the Director of Planning for the City of Santa Monica. My guess is that his old job paid better.
Lets follow a trail. Mr. Ari Swiller was a principal in the Yucaipa Private Equity Funds and managed their Board of Advisors with included Bill Clinton and Henry Cisneros. Our friend Zuma Dogg needs to follow the Ari Swiller trail. Mr. Swiller also was a Vice President of Ralphs. Now that is interesting. Now Mr. Swiller was a friend and adviser to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and was a partner in a company with David Freeman who became the General Manager of DWP. Oh yeah, Mr. Swiller also worked for Ron Burkle along with Mr. Villaraigosa, Mr. Burkle, he owns a lot of stock in Ralphs Supermarkets.
Anyways, Ari Swiller and CIM Group partnered together to buy the land in Kern County for the wind farm that LADWP was going to buy. Mr. Villaraigosa said that he had never discussed any of what DWP was doing, nobody ever asked Mr. Freedman. Well that land got sold to the City of Vernon. Recently, John Perez (the Mayor's cousin and speaker of the assembly) attempted to get Vernon decertified as a city; but, just couldn't get the votes. I wonder how serious he was or why anyone would have voted to not decertify Vernon.
Water, unions, Democrats, Redevelopment Agencies, Public Pensions, the Clintons, why do they all keep crossing paths? Did you ever get the feeling that there is an in crowd and that you are not part of it? There is a lady named, Mercedes Marquez, in 2009 she was appointed as Assistant Secretary for HUD's Community Planning and Development. She had previously been the General Manager of the City of Los Angeles' Housing Department. This is the same Housing Department that is under an FBI investigation that has been going on for quite a while.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Almost Had a Thought
So what defines us the most? What makes us, us? Emotions, choices, control over both or either? What do you treasure, is it things or being you? Would you trade being you, free will, for absolute pleasure?
If you will not trade pleasure for being you, then how much pain can you take to be you? I mean, how much pain are you willing to take to be you?
Heaven is reached when you have met your limits, when you know who you are. When you define yourself and have faced all of your fears, proven yourself to be you, then you experience your heaven. If you choose X over Y then you have chosen your destination.
If you will not trade pleasure for being you, then how much pain can you take to be you? I mean, how much pain are you willing to take to be you?
Heaven is reached when you have met your limits, when you know who you are. When you define yourself and have faced all of your fears, proven yourself to be you, then you experience your heaven. If you choose X over Y then you have chosen your destination.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Transhumanism and the Bible
I was reading some articles and came across one on transhumanism. I have written about it and the singularity a few times on this blog.
Rapture Ready - John McTernan - Singularity and The Image of the Beast
Here is a video on the subject. Infiltrated Nation: Pandemonium's Engine.
Now, if you wish, ignore the religious aspects; but, do not ignore what is going on and where science is headed, this is scary stuff. I strongly urge my readers to watch the whole video and if you are a believer then I recommend the article.
43 minutes into the video the speaker mentions a congressman, Mr. Brad Sherman. He is the same person who changed when daylight savings time begins and is also the congressman who stated that some congressman had been told that if the TARP bill had not been passed that we would have had Marshall law.
After reading what Mr. McTernan wrote, I decided to go back and read parts of Revelations. In Revelations it says that Satan is thrown down from heaven and only has a little bit of time. It seems that Satan was going back and forth between earth and heaven and then is not allowed back up; but, that is how he knows his time is limited. Lets look at what it says he does.
Revelations 12:13 says that once Satan understood that he was not going back up to heaven he went after the woman who had given birth to the child. This child is someone special. What is interesting is that rather than go after the child, Satan goes after the woman that gave birth to him. Perhaps the child is protected as he grows; but, why go after the woman at all? Perhaps to upset the child or effect his upbringing. The next thing that happens is that the woman is flown into the desert and Satan unleashes a river of water to kill her; but, it fails. Satan then goes after her other children who are Christians.
After all that a beast comes out of the ocean, many believe this to be a form of government and it is usually assumed to be the European Union. "The Beast", this supposed government is given great authority and Satan's throne. Now we know that Satan is the prince of this world therefore it appears that Satan allows this organization to run the earth, why would he do that? Maybe to show that we are incapable of managing ourselves?
In Revelations 13:3 we are told that one of the heads of the beast (some country maybe) was dealt a fatal wound; but, was able to heal itself and it amazed the world. Given the current economic situation it is easy to see a country go completely bankrupt, find a solution to the problem and become the wealthiest of all. That would be something that would cause other nations to follow in it's footsteps.
The beast is given 3 1/2 years to speak arrogant and blasphemous things. This beast is given authority over all the world and the right to make war against believers. In Revelations 13:11 we are told a second beast will come out of the earth. Beast one comes from the sea (an Island Nation) and beast two comes from the land. Beast two appears friendly enough; but, speaks like Satan. This probably refers to the fact that the second nation will be all about doing what you want.
It is possible that these beasts are the leaders of nations rather than nations themselves. Please remember that Revelations is the hardest of all the books to understand and is very much filled with imagery. It says the second beast will make everybody worship the first beast. This second beast does miraculous things including making fire come down from heaven in front of people.
Revelations 13:14 says something odd. It says, "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." Now I couldn't have said what I am going to say thirty years ago; but, I can now.
An image is a representation of something. Currently computers are being programmed to imitate human thinking, the algorithms of the internet are images of human thinking. As we continually allow the internet to do our thinking for us we become more controlled by it. You see the singularity is already here, it is the algorithms of the internet. You need to get scared at this point.
The new leader tells the people that they must make an image of the beast. Think of it this way, a brilliant leaders is duplicated as the logic and thinking of the internet, the gatekeeper to what you are able to read and see and interact with over the internet. Yes, this is already possible and I have written about it before.
The second beast gives the image breath, the power of life. This new being requires all to worship it and any who refuse are allowed to be killed. Now, this is when all are required to have a mark in order to buy or sell. That is when the bad stuff happens.
Now I could be completely off, this is a hypothetical. Lets think about it though. Artificial intelligence is getting better and better. Think about the video games that you play. Some of you may remember an article I wrote a long time ago about how the U.S. Air Force had put a whole bunch of Playstations together to create a super computer.
Now if all that I have said sounds crazy (and personally I think what we are doing is) then wait till you follow this link.
Cornell Creative Machines Lab - AI vs, AI: Two chatbots talking to each other. As you can see, the intent is to use bots to learn how we think and then fool us into believing we are dealing with humans when in fact we are dealing with artificial intelligence. Your children may well be taught by artificial intelligence rather than real humans. At that point, he who controls the artificial intelligence controls what humans learn.
Rapture Ready - John McTernan - Singularity and The Image of the Beast
Here is a video on the subject. Infiltrated Nation: Pandemonium's Engine.
Now, if you wish, ignore the religious aspects; but, do not ignore what is going on and where science is headed, this is scary stuff. I strongly urge my readers to watch the whole video and if you are a believer then I recommend the article.
43 minutes into the video the speaker mentions a congressman, Mr. Brad Sherman. He is the same person who changed when daylight savings time begins and is also the congressman who stated that some congressman had been told that if the TARP bill had not been passed that we would have had Marshall law.
After reading what Mr. McTernan wrote, I decided to go back and read parts of Revelations. In Revelations it says that Satan is thrown down from heaven and only has a little bit of time. It seems that Satan was going back and forth between earth and heaven and then is not allowed back up; but, that is how he knows his time is limited. Lets look at what it says he does.
Revelations 12:13 says that once Satan understood that he was not going back up to heaven he went after the woman who had given birth to the child. This child is someone special. What is interesting is that rather than go after the child, Satan goes after the woman that gave birth to him. Perhaps the child is protected as he grows; but, why go after the woman at all? Perhaps to upset the child or effect his upbringing. The next thing that happens is that the woman is flown into the desert and Satan unleashes a river of water to kill her; but, it fails. Satan then goes after her other children who are Christians.
After all that a beast comes out of the ocean, many believe this to be a form of government and it is usually assumed to be the European Union. "The Beast", this supposed government is given great authority and Satan's throne. Now we know that Satan is the prince of this world therefore it appears that Satan allows this organization to run the earth, why would he do that? Maybe to show that we are incapable of managing ourselves?
In Revelations 13:3 we are told that one of the heads of the beast (some country maybe) was dealt a fatal wound; but, was able to heal itself and it amazed the world. Given the current economic situation it is easy to see a country go completely bankrupt, find a solution to the problem and become the wealthiest of all. That would be something that would cause other nations to follow in it's footsteps.
The beast is given 3 1/2 years to speak arrogant and blasphemous things. This beast is given authority over all the world and the right to make war against believers. In Revelations 13:11 we are told a second beast will come out of the earth. Beast one comes from the sea (an Island Nation) and beast two comes from the land. Beast two appears friendly enough; but, speaks like Satan. This probably refers to the fact that the second nation will be all about doing what you want.
It is possible that these beasts are the leaders of nations rather than nations themselves. Please remember that Revelations is the hardest of all the books to understand and is very much filled with imagery. It says the second beast will make everybody worship the first beast. This second beast does miraculous things including making fire come down from heaven in front of people.
Revelations 13:14 says something odd. It says, "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." Now I couldn't have said what I am going to say thirty years ago; but, I can now.
An image is a representation of something. Currently computers are being programmed to imitate human thinking, the algorithms of the internet are images of human thinking. As we continually allow the internet to do our thinking for us we become more controlled by it. You see the singularity is already here, it is the algorithms of the internet. You need to get scared at this point.
The new leader tells the people that they must make an image of the beast. Think of it this way, a brilliant leaders is duplicated as the logic and thinking of the internet, the gatekeeper to what you are able to read and see and interact with over the internet. Yes, this is already possible and I have written about it before.
The second beast gives the image breath, the power of life. This new being requires all to worship it and any who refuse are allowed to be killed. Now, this is when all are required to have a mark in order to buy or sell. That is when the bad stuff happens.
Now I could be completely off, this is a hypothetical. Lets think about it though. Artificial intelligence is getting better and better. Think about the video games that you play. Some of you may remember an article I wrote a long time ago about how the U.S. Air Force had put a whole bunch of Playstations together to create a super computer.
Now if all that I have said sounds crazy (and personally I think what we are doing is) then wait till you follow this link.
Cornell Creative Machines Lab - AI vs, AI: Two chatbots talking to each other. As you can see, the intent is to use bots to learn how we think and then fool us into believing we are dealing with humans when in fact we are dealing with artificial intelligence. Your children may well be taught by artificial intelligence rather than real humans. At that point, he who controls the artificial intelligence controls what humans learn.
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