Blog: California Dems kill plan to forensically audit Janet Napolitano's $175-million scandal at the University of California

Blog: California Dems kill plan to forensically audit Janet Napolitano's $175-million scandal at the University of California:
"Janet Napolitano got caught by a state auditor hiding $175 million in discretionary funds in the Office of the President of the University of California, while pleading poverty and asking for tuition hikes.  Even worse, she tried to rig the audit.

There is enough smoke there to conceal a substantial fire.

It would seem merely prudent to send in the forensic auditors – people skilled at tracing funds that got squirreled away through accounting maneuvers.  
Of course, this presupposes that the people in charge care about whether or not money was stolen, misappropriated, or wasted when an executive took pains to hide it.

A Republican in the California State Assembly, Dante Acosta of Santa Clarita, sought to launch an examination of how those funds were used.  
And not a single Democrat supported the effort to pierce the darkness (where democracy dies, according to the Washington Post) with a genuine forensic investigation.

Patrick McGreevy reports in the Los Angeles Times:

Two months after a state audit found mismanagement at the University of California, Democratic state lawmakers on Wednesday blocked a Republican legislator's proposal to have auditors go back in and look deeper at spending, this time with an eye for possible criminal activity.

....However, no Democratic lawmakers on the Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted to authorize a new audit[.]..."

You ought to know!

'Obamaphone' program riddled with fraud: Audit - Washington Times

'Obamaphone' program riddled with fraud: Audit - Washington Times:

"The controversial “Obamaphone” program, which pays for cellphones for the poor, is rife with fraud, according to a new government report released Thursday that found more than a third of enrollees may not even be qualified.
Known officially as the Lifeline Program, the phone giveaway became a symbol of government waste in the previous administration. Now a new report from the Government Accountability Office bears out those concerns."

Protecting the world!-----Carrier Strike Group 5

Photo: Carrier Strike Group 5:

Posted 6/30/2017

PACIFIC OCEAN (June 29, 2017) Ships assigned to Carrier Strike Group 5 sail in formation during a live-fire gunnery exercise. 
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) is the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, providing a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. 
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathan Burke)

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History for July 2

History for July 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Hermann Hesse 1877 - German poet, novelist, painter, Thurgood Marshall 1908 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Ken Curtis 1916 - Actor, known for his role as Festus Haggen in the TV series "Gunsmoke"



Medgar Evers 1925 - Civil rights activist from Mississippi, Dave Thomas 1932 - Founder for Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, Richard Petty 1937 - Auto racer
 

1776 - Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" was adopted by the Continental Congress.

1881 - Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield in Washington, DC.


1926 - The U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps.


1937 - American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator.


1947 - An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.


1962 - Wal-Mart Discount City opened in Rogers, Arkansas. It was the first Walmart store.


1982 - Larry Walters ("Lawnchair Larry") took flight in his homeade airship that consisted of a lawnchair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it. He stayed in flight for about an hour.


1998 - Cable News Network (CNN) retracted a story that alleged that U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the Vietnam War.

First Muslim Governor About To Take Over This State - Here's The Terrifying Changes He Plans To Make Immediately ⋆ Freedom Daily

First Muslim Governor About To Take Over This State - Here's The Terrifying Changes He Plans To Make Immediately ⋆ Freedom Daily:

"This would be a massive victory for the Muslim Brotherhood who are rapidly getting their talons into every facet of American society. In a recent raid conducted at a Muslim’s house in Annandale, Virginia, federal agents discovered a dusty bundle of documents in the basement outlining the Muslim Brotherhoods’ secret 5-phase plan for taking down America. This was a closely-guarded secret until the FBI got their hands on this blueprint for taking down our country, authored by Muslim Brotherhood ringleader Yusuf al-Qaradwai."

The way we were-----DUELING BANJOS ~ Guitar & Banjo Song ~ Deliverance

Europe: "Big Business" Colludes with Islamism

Europe: "Big Business" Colludes with Islamism:

• For "Big Business," the more things that are declared "forbidden" in the name of Islam, the more products declared "permitted" must be produced for "good Muslims" to buy.
• In the 1970s, Iran and Saudi Arabia, which were engaged in a competition to spread their vision of Islam worldwide, found help from multinationals such as Nestlé, which had in mind the creation of the large global halal food market.
• The next stage is that if most Muslims consider a veil and halal food an Islamic obligation, they will soon ask for sharia law and Islamic courts -- as in Great Britain.

When there is a profit to be made, capitalism has no political spirit and can collude with any ideology -- from democracies to totalitarian tyrannies. 
This view was most recently set forth by the French anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler in her book, "Le marché halal ou l'invention d'une tradition" ("The Halal Market or the Invention of a Tradition").

Bergeaud-Blackler claims in her book that "halal" food (food that, in Islam, is religiously permitted) was "recently invented" as a label and as a potential commercial market, in a collusion between Iranian fundamentalists and multinational agrifood businesses. 
In an interview with the French daily newspaper, Liberation, she said:

"I speak of invention of the 'halal market' in the sense that we are not dealing with an ancient tradition imported from Muslim countries. The halal market never existed in the Muslim world until food 'big business' created it and exported it. The halal convention was born in the 70s and 80s. At this time, two ideologies triumphed on the international scene: on the one hand, Muslim fundamentalism, including the proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, and, on the other hand, neo-liberalism, with Thatcher and Reagan. This convergence, unscheduled and unexpected, would allow these two ideologies to work together to establish a halal food industrial protocol"..."

Read on! 

Smart Kids Live Longer - The New York Times

Smart Kids Live Longer - The New York Times:
"Intelligent children tend to live longer than their less gifted peers, a new study suggests.
Scottish researchers began their study with 75,252 men and women born in 1936 — 94 percent of the Scottish population born that year — who had taken standardized intelligence tests in 1947.
By 2015, they were able to confirm a cause of death for 25,979 of them; 30,464 were still living in Britain.
After controlling for many health, socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics, they found that lower scores on the childhood intelligence test were associated with death from heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease, lung cancer and stomach cancer..."

Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno awarded $190,000 in San Francisco sanctuary policy - Washington Times

Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno awarded $190,000 in San Francisco sanctuary policy - Washington Times:

"SAN FRANCISCO – A man from El Salvador in the U.S. illegally who sued San Francisco after police turned him over to immigration authorities in violation of the city’s sanctuary law is set to be awarded $190,000, his attorney said Thursday."

Sadiq Khan ROASTED over anti-terror strategy during LBC panel debate | UK | News | Express.co.uk

Sadiq Khan ROASTED over anti-terror strategy during LBC panel debate | UK | News | Express.co.uk
"SADIQ KHAN was left floundering during a grilling on his stance on counter-terrorism and the Government’s Prevent strategy.
Taking questions from a live audience as part of an LBC event, the Mayor of London was quizzed on what he was doing to tackle terrorism.
His response, along with the response of Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime Sophie Linden, received a cold reception from host James O’Brien, who quipped:
“You haven't told us anything that you're actually going to do.”
The slap down comes after Mr Khan was asked:
“As the Mayor of London, what are you going to do to counteract radicalisation and extremism? What's your view on the Government's Prevent policy, which is often seen as vilifying innocent Muslims?”
The Labour party politician responded by saying “these are unprecedented times” and that “we need to understand the facts”.