Hey all,
I'ts a looonnng story, but here is a brief overview: I requested a copy of the oath of office for my state senator, Senate Pro-Tempore Toni Atkins and her deputy, Jason Weisz. The oaths came back with all signatures redacted, which indicates to me that one or both of the oaths was never fully executed. But they didn't redact the dates, and both oaths had already expired, which means both Atkins and Weisz are currently working unlawfully.
I filed a bond complaint against both Atkins and Weisz and against the two FOIA people who improperly redacted the documents. No word back on that and Atkins is still working.
I have contacted a bunch of republican organizations, who I thought would be eager to get Atkins arrested for violating Government Code sections 1360, 1362-1369 and Section 3 of Article XX of the Constitution of California, which per Title 18 U.S.C. § 912, includes fines and/or three years imprisonment. Also, all the work she's done since the expiration has to be voided (and if she never signed that oath, everything she's ever done has to be voided). Not a peep from any of them, which makes me think that maybe some republicans are working without proper oaths, too.
Curious about who else didn't have properly executed oaths, I made a request for 22 more oaths, including Scott Weiner's. They have a 2-week turn time. It has now been 7-weeks, and the Senate Committee has made it clear that this request will be "in process" indefinitely and never be fulfilled. I complained to his HR about the FOIA people violating the laws by not providing the documents, and HR didn't do anything
Toni Atkins and Scott Weiner are at the forefront of creating and pushing laws to destroy families and transition children behind parents backs. I feel like there are other groups who will run with this information and get them ousted. Do you guys have any suggestions on who I should contact/what other steps I should take?
I've posted on here several times over the last few years with prayer requests. I have caught California's income tax agency, The Franchise Tax Board, running eight bona fide criminal schemes to overcharge taxpayers. Summary: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=611
I first became aware that there was a legit embezzlement/racketeering scheme going on in late 2016. I knew at that moment that it was my calling from God to put a stop to it. I have been fighting them ever since... and the more evidence I've collected, the more and more crimes I've documented.
A couple of years ago, I realized that the system is rigged to protect the schemes and the people who masterminded the schemes. I realized that the most likely way to stop the unlawful schemes is to get the staff to decide to refuse to comply with unlawful and unethical behavior any more.
It's a long story, but I think today may be the "Come to Jesus" moment for the staff. If not today, I think it'll happen soon. I am asking for prayers for the staff to be emboldened to stand up to management and refuse to comply any longer. Once the staff refuses to comply, things will turn around quickly to improve the system for everyone in California.
Link to article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/silicon-valley-elites-buy-800m-land-new-city
Text:
Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buys 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California
After weeks of local speculation, the purchaser of 55,000 acres (22,000 hectares) of northern California land has been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m (£635m) worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Its goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy.
Edgar Jamie, 48, the owner of Black Sheep Farms, leases 25 acres of land, which is directly across the biggest Amazon warehouse in the world in Ontario, California. James walks along his farm as the Amazon warehouse looms from the distance. “We only have about two to three more years here—this land is already marked for housing,” James said. “It’s sad that we have rich soil and they [the developers] choose to build warehouses instead of farming.” Pablo Unzueta/The Guardian ‘Monstrosities in the farmland’: how giant warehouses transformed a California town Read more The project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported.
Though Flannery has been purchasing farmland and empty plots over the past five years, it has only recently started interacting with local officials and residents, according to the Times and local reports.
Flannery has purchased land from farmers for several times more than the market value and become the biggest landowner in Solano county, an area 60 miles (97km) north-east of San Francisco. The land bought by the firm encircles Travis air force base in Fairfield, a city of about 120,000 residents and home to the Anheuser-Busch Co brewery and the Jelly Belly jelly bean factory.
Recently, Flannery has been meeting with local officials and representatives, according to the Times. It has also been sending out opinion polls to local residents to gauge their feelings on an initiative that could appear on Solano county voter’s ballots, according to the newspaper SF Gate.
“This project would include a new city with tens of thousands of new homes, a large solar energy farm, orchards with over a million new trees, and over ten thousand acres of new parks and open space,” a screenshot of the survey obtained by the newspaper reads.
The poll also asks if residents would support the project if it was placed in an area with “bad soil that only contributes 5% of the county’s agricultural production,” according to a Facebook post from Catherine Moy, the mayor of Fairfield, the closest city to Flannery’s purchases.
Despite the lofty goals set forth by Flannery, the group faces an uphill battle that will affect each step of the process of creating a new city from scratch. The firm has sued land owners who sold their land over what it describes as an “illegal price-fixing conspiracy”. Flannery would have to get the blessing of officials at the local and state levels and residents. It will also have to navigate environmental and zoning roadblocks, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Here is the link to the story: https://www.reviewjournal.com/investigations/nye-county-sheriffs-captain-indicted-on-federal-charges-2890178/
A powerful Nye County sheriff’s captain, whose questionable conduct was exposed in a Las Vegas Review-Journal investigation last year, was arrested Friday and later pleaded not guilty to federal charges of wire fraud, perjury and civil rights violations. Capt. David Boruchowitz, 42, stands accused of using his position to falsely arrest the former CEO of Valley Electric Association, Angela Evans.
He also is accused of committing wire fraud by issuing multiple press releases falsely stating that Evans’ arrest was the result of a court-authorized process, when she was actually arrested “under false and fraudulent pretenses and without probable cause,” according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office.
“The indictment further alleges that the false arrest was part of a larger scheme to defraud the former CEO of her job by falsely alleging in various court documents that the CEO embezzled services from the VEA,” the U.S. attorney’s office said. Boruchowitz appeared briefly in court on Friday, when U.S. Magistrate Judge Brenda Weksler ordered him released from custody. He pleaded not guilty to charges of deprivation of rights under color of law, perjury and four counts of wire fraud. “I’m not going to talk to you,” he said when asked for comment outside the federal courthouse in Las Vegas.
The indictment, filed Wednesday and unsealed Friday, alleges that Boruchowitz helped orchestrate a scheme in 2019 to falsely accuse Evans of criminal conduct while concealing the “nature and extent of his personal interests” in the utility company. A Feb. 12, 2022, Review-Journal story raised questions about Boruchowitz’s criminal investigation of Evans around the same time he helped to form a group that was trying to unseat the utility’s leadership and considered running for a paid position on its board.
Boruchowitz alleged that Evans had used about $80,000 in association resources to move an electrical pole on her property, but county property records showed that she had not purchased the property before the pole was moved. Then-Nye County District Attorney Chris Arabia refused to file charges. Depositions in Evans’ civil case against the county showed that then-Sheriff Sharon Wehrly knew about Boruchowitz’s actions in the Evans case but did not see a problem with Boruchowitz’s potential conflict.
The indictment alleges that Boruchowitz lied while under oath during a deposition in a federal lawsuit filed by Evans against Boruchowitz and Nye County. Prosecutors allege in the document that Boruchowitz lied about knowing that the first search warrant executed against the utility company was the result of a tip from someone identified in the indictment as “K.J.” He also is accused of lying when he claimed he did not know of “K.J’s bias against Evans,” and that he did not know “K.J. had demanded the resignation of the VEA Board.”
‘Danger to the community’
During Friday’s hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bianca Pucci asked for the judge to impose release conditions on Boruchowitz that included preventing him from posting to social media about possible victims or witnesses in the criminal case. “We do believe that there is a danger to the community with threatening and endangerment of witnesses,” Pucci said.
The judge granted the restriction, also ruling that Boruchowitz cannot possess a firearm or work as an active duty police officer with the power to detain or search people. He was not required to post bond.
Assistant Federal Public Defender Joanne Diamond told the judge that Boruchowitz is still employed by the Sheriff’s Office, though he is on administrative leave, and that he is attempting to retire early. Boruchowitz signed a financial affidavit to qualify for the appointment of a public defender, but the judge asked for more information on his financial status to be filed under seal.
History of investigations
The newspaper investigation also detailed Boruchowitz’s history, including prior investigations by state officials and the FBI that found questionable actions. In both cases, those were turned over to Wehrly, but she only imposed light, if any, discipline. In 2013, Nevada Department of Safety investigators found that Boruchowitz was using videos of adult Nye County residents having sex to hold porn matinees at work. The videos had been seized in a child porn investigation.
Boruchowitz told investigators that he showed the videos to “a lot of people” — not because they were evidence or part of an investigation but for “coping” and “comedy relief,” according to the report reviewed by the Review-Journal. In 2015, the FBI found Boruchowitz was having an “inappropriate relationship” with a probationer, and agents turned their findings over to Wehrly. She gave Boruchowitz a 10-hour suspension, records show.
Wehrly also repeatedly promoted Boruchowitz throughout her tenure after he endorsed her for sheriff.
Leslie Peeler, who was commander of the state Department of Public Safety’s office of professional responsibility when it investigated Boruchowitz, was surprised to hear that Boruchowitz was promoted.
“We have fired people for not nearly that bad of conduct,” Peeler, who retired in 2018, told the Review-Journal in 2022. “It bothers me as a professional.” Six months after the Review-Journal story ran, the FBI raided the sheriff’s headquarters, but Boruchowitz at the time said he was not the focus of that investigation.
On July 6, Nye County Sheriff Joe McGill placed Boruchowitz on administrative leave after it became clear that there was a federal grand jury formed to look into his conduct. McGill beat Wehrly by a wide margin after the Review-Journal stories exposed that she failed to rein in Boruchowitz’s conduct or significantly discipline other officers who released an impaired driver hours before he killed three people in a head-on crash.
My child needs to have some teeth pulled. The dentist is going to sedate him with valium. The disclosure form says that once the child is sedated, parents are not allowed to be in the room with him. Is this normal or should I find a new dentist?
Mods, if this is not an appropriate post, feel free to take it down. I just figure there are enough "awake" parents on this group to identify is this is normal or a red flag.
TLDR: Video surveillance showed the man had assaulted a pregnant woman. She lit him on fire in self-defense. This is from June, so it's kind of old, but it is another example of the denial of reality that we're all seeing around us.
His version of the story: https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/gay-man-set-on-fire-in-hate-filled-attack-in-hillcrest
San Diego Police's version: https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-news/man-set-on-fire-by-pregnant-woman-he-assaulted-sdpd-says
Song: https://soundcloud.com/howard-jones-official/nothing-to-fear
Lyrics:
What freezes love in your eyes What steals the force from your life What holds us ransom tonight What stops you seeing yourself? Only fear can stand On potential's hands
This is the greatest day of your life If you make it And the old spells you know They can be broken Nothing to fear Nothing to fear
The greatest faults can be beaten The grandest problems defeated Impossible choices completed Infinite pain will be treated Only fear can stand On potential's hands
This is the greatest day of your life And we made it And the old spells you know 'Cause they can be broken Nothing to fear Nothing to fear
This is the greatest day of your life And we've made it Break the old spells Oh, let them be broken Nothing to fear No, nothing to fear
This is the greatest day Break the old spells and throw them away Break the old spells Don't y'know they can be broken No, Nothing to fear Nothing to fear Nothing to fear Nothing to fear
Here is the first part of the article... "Cash App founder Bob Lee allegedly frequented underground sex and drug parties for San Francisco’s elite with the sister of his accused killer after an argument about her.
Lee’s death was initially believed to be a case of random violence in a city where crime is soaring, but his friends suggested it was instead a result of the Cash App founder’s indulgent lifestyle among the upper echelon of Bay Area society where cocaine and swingers were common, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Known in wealthy circles as “The Lifestyle,” Lee, 43,a father of two, allegedly enjoyed the city’s underground party scene, as did Khazar Momeni, wife of a prominent plastic surgeon and sister of Nima Momeni.
People familiar with the group said Lee and Khazar, 37, were sleeping together, and many feared he’d fallen into a dangerous lifestyle, surrounding himself with the wrong group of people.
Lee was allegedly confronted by Nima about the hard-partying and his sister’s involvement in an argument erupting in the early hours of April 4 when Lee was stabbed multiple times, prosecutors said.
Lee reportedly stumbled around begging for help before collapsing near the Bay Bridge — just 16 minutes from Khazar’s apartment.
According to a friend, Lee was passionate about his tech industry work developing the popular Venmo competitor following his career as a Google programmer.
But in his spare time, Lee allegedly was involved in casual drug use and partying, taking ketamine and cocaine and traveling to raves around the world, his friends told the news outlet."
Here is something that piqued my interest from the bottom of the article: "Krista Lee, Lee’s ex-wife, denied her former husband was a “party boy” and claimed she never heard the term, “The Lifestyle,” before.
I had a small win today and wanted to share it to give others hope that their similar efforts will pay off. I'd gone to a local coffee place and left when I found out they don't take cash. I sent a letter to the company complaining about the no cash policy. They responded that, thanks to numerous complaints, they are going to start accepting cash!
Here is a copy/text of what they wrote:
"Thank you for choosing to visit our Morena Blvd cafe. We appreciate you letting us know about your most recent experience at one of our favorite Bird Rock cafes, and your feedback is always appreciated.
You are not alone. We have heard the message from a few others and completely understand your preference to pay for your coffee in cash.
Our team is actively working on accepting cash at all of our cafes. Currently, only our Liberty Station and Encinitas cafes will gladly accept cash.
Please be patient with this process. With seven other cafes, we genuinely want to ensure good systems are in place to make this transition as smooth and seamless as possible for our guests. We are working on the logistics of bank runs, deposits, etc.
I hope you have a wonderful day, and we hope you will visit our cash-accepting cafes. Thank you!
Cheers,
Alexis Bean Representative"
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN5rSyXBbOU
Lyrics:
People cryin' out for some peace There's a lot of people listening Time for us to sit down and talk Try to build an understanding What we feel can be altered in the moment We decide, between the light and the dark side.
So take a stand, in this place, Cos' we're building our own future, Just one by one, Day by day, Free to choose a life that's better for all of us.
Putting people's lives at the top is the first consideration Changes in the heart of just one will affect entire nations Don't give it up to the fates and force around us, We decide between the in and the outside
So take a stand, in this place, Cos' we're building our own future, Just one by one, day by day, Free to choose a life that's better for all of us. Sons and daughters, Mothers and fathers, Sister's and brothers, Friends around the earth.
All deserve to live in a world that welcomes every single birth.
So take a stand, in this place, Cos' we're building our own future, Just one by one, day by day, Free to choose a life that's better for all of us.
At the board meeting on March 28, 2023, California's income tax agency, the Franchise Tax Board, is going to ask for $25.23 million more dollars so they can hire more customer service agents and give raises to existing agents:https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/meetings/board-meetings/2023/march-2023/5.2_budget_change_proposal_customer_service_resources_cover_sheet.pdf.
To justify this request, FTB just released the following data:
54% of live chats go unanswered (page 3)
Correspondence sent via USPS is processed within 4 - 5 months (page 3)
Correspondence sent via MyFTB is processed within 30-days (page 8)
Only 40% of calls are answered (page 12)
FTB also disclosed that they have very high attrition rates for people who work in customer service. They attribute it to low pay and it being a stressful job (page 11).
In the document FTB admits that people were having penalties falsely imposed due to lack of customer service. The document doesn’t admit that they falsely impose wage garnishments, levies and liens, but it is implied with words such as “moved into involuntary collections.”
FTB is asking for $25.23 million more dollars so they can hire more staff to improve these numbers and give raises to existing staff to keep them from quitting. Their goals are: 75% of calls and live chats answered, 10-day turn time for correspondence sent via MyFTB and 30-day turn time for correspondence sent via fax.
The problem is that, even if FTB gets all the money they are asking for, the customer service levels will still be poor and thus false penalties will be imposed, along with false wage garnishment, levies and liens.
I have been fighting corruption at the Franchise Tax Board since 2016. I have caught them running 8-unlawful schemes to overcharge taxpayers: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=611.
I have documented that part of the way FTB gets away with these schemes is via making “mistakes” then making impossible to correct those mistakes. Even at 75% of calls answered, people will have difficulty getting through to an agent to straighten out issues. With 30-day turn times on processing mail, protests and disputes don’t get processed until after it is too late: the penalties and “involuntary collections” have already been imposed.
Needless to say, these difficulties in “customer service” disproportionately affect people of lower socioeconomic status... the people who can't call in many times until they get through to an agent, the people who can't afford to fed-ex correspondence and have to send it via USPS... yet the same administrators are not practicing what they preach when it comes to "equity."
Here is the link: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-silicon-valley-bank-coverup-and
"...California Governor Gavin Newsom, through a nonprofit organization his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom founded, the California Partners Project, has very close ties to the bank.
In 2021, SVB gave $100,000 in corporate gifts to the Newsom nonprofit. These gifts are so intertwined with the Newsom’s that they are listed as a matter of California ethics law on a state government website, California Fair Political Practices Commission.
All nonprofit donors are listed on the state website if they are “behested” gifts. The term “behested” means “at the request, suggestion, or solicitation of, or made in cooperation, consultation, coordination or concert with the public official.”
In this case, it’s the governor who behested the Silicon Valley Bank $100,000 gift. It’s the governor who requested, suggested, solicitated or cooperated, coordinated or acted in concert to procure the gift. However, the mandatory-state-disclosed conflict-of-interest listing also names his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. That’s because, Mrs. Newsom is also a public official, the first ever “First Partner.”
Siebel Newsom’s public duties including running the Office of First Partner which was created by the governor shortly after inauguration. Since 2019, the governor allocated nine staffers and nearly $5 million in taxpayer funds for his wife’s office.
However, that’s only part of the story.
Silicon Valley Bank and its executives played a major role in the Newsom nonprofit, the California Partners Project, since its founding. The President of Silicon Valley Capital – the investment banking arm of the bank – is John China. Mr. China is a 27-year SVB veteran. He’s also a founding board member of the Newsom nonprofit. Even today, China is still listed as a director on the nonprofit’s website...
...California Partners Project (CPP) was founded in 2020 in part to support California’s gender quota law for corporate boards, a goal which SVB supported through a $100,000 gift...
Summary:
"The California Partners Project was founded to push Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s “First Partner” public policy agenda. As a founding member, the Silicon Valley Bank played a major role. Their executive, John China was on the founding board and the bank gave a $100,000 gift...
...In the absence of federal or state regulatory action, The California Partners Project should return their $100,000 gift to the bank, its startup entrepreneurs, and its depositors.
Article: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/newsom-inc
This scheme where they personally profit on the corruption our children -- on the taxpayer's dime -- makes me so mad! From the article cited:
"...Gavin Newsom created The Office of First Partner so his wife could promote her policy agenda using taxpayer money. Since 2019, Siebel Newsom’s been armed with nearly $5 million and nine staffers within her subdivision of the governor’s office...
...Loretta Whitson, Director of the California Association of School Counsellors, a trade association representing 3,000 California school counselors, was quoted:
'While the governor’s recent investment will add additional school counselors to the workforce, there will be an even greater need to access films and curriculum support material such as Siebel Newsom’s documentary series. (We) would love to work with her and support her efforts.' (Source: EdSource)"
What films is she taking about? Please see the article about Siebel Newsom's pornographic films that are being shown to middle-schoolers around the country: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/newsom-twosome-siebel-newsoms-films
Hello Everyone,
Thank you for the prayers in the past. I am grateful for the support and prayer coverage that you all have provided to me for each of my "battle-evil" days.
On Thursday, December 8, at around 10:00ish PST, I will be giving a speech to legislators at a public meeting where I will be calling out government corruption. Meeting: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/meetings/board-meetings/2022/december-2022/notice.html. Topics I will address in my speech: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=1191
Specific prayers: That I have a clear cell-phone connection That the legislators allow me to speak -- since I will be calling in, they can just pretend I haven't called. That I speak clearly and persuasively. That I am allowed to finish the speech (they have cut me off in other meetings). That the legislators take action to correct the corruption issues. That the people who hear the speech start looking into these corruption issues and also demand they be stopped. I want to get an army of people pressuring them. That no one retaliates against me (they've done some nasty retaliation already).
Thank you all! Love you guys!
“The people of this State do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.” §54950.5, Cal. Civ. Code, Brown Act.
I follow an astronomer named Ben Davidson who runs a site called Suspicious Observers. He frequently comments that on days where there is increased solar radiation (caused by events such as solar flares) there is an increase in health problems, including heart attacks and psychological issues. In this short video, he goes into detail about the psychological issues that can be caused and how to mitigate the effects on your own body: