Showing posts with label vivendi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vivendi. Show all posts

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Eric Garcetti Announces He's Running For Mayor & MORE L.A. CITY CORRUPTION (Zuma Dogg Tweets on AFTERMATH of FBI City Hall Probe AND NEW ZD MATERIAL!)

[PICTURED: Zuma Dogg thinks the word, "RICO" will be used in the next full page article about City Council chambers in L.A. Times. He thinks this investigation has been goin' on MANY YEARS LONGER, involving MUCH MORE than what has been reported in L.A. Times. How does ZD know? WRONG QUESTION! (And I've already told you how, anyway....a MILLION times. But you chose ignore Steve Perry and didn't even START believin'.)]

WOW! Yesterday, was a ZUMA DOGG TWEET FRENZY, on ALL NEW MATERIAL, from an energy force, like a runaway locomotive, I couldn't slam the brakes on. A FRICKIN' CORRUPTION BLOODBATH! TAKE A LOOK, ANTONIO, CITY COUNCIL and the KINGPINS who back them...YOU HAD NO IDEA ZUMA DOGG COULD CHANGE UP THE BEAT, AND TAKE THE SONG IN ANY DIRECTION, LIKE JOHN BONHAM ON DRUMS! YOU'RE GONNA FLIP!!! GET READY TO HEAR THE SCREAMS OUT OF CITY HALL OFFICES...

NOW!:

ZUMA "SHOCK & AWE" TWEETS ON L.A. CITY HALL CORRUPTION: ALL NEW MATERIAL, JUST TO LET YA KNOW, I KNOW...and just have been lazy, cause I THOUGHT I was out of the gadfly game.
  • People know what media has reported on regarding FBI probe of City Hall. (Bldg/Safety, Housing, DOT) SHOCKER will be EXTENT OF RICO CHARGES! 25 minutes ago
  • THE SLOGAN MAYOR: Here we go. Mr. Man-Boy, Eric Garcetti, running for mayor and will be reading off all his empty slogans like Obama did. about 2 hours ago
  • ERIC GARCETTI FOR LOS ANGELES MAYOR - OFFICIAL QUOTE FROM ERIC GARCETTI http://t.co/XIJnRnk about 2 hours ago
  • O.K., FINE: Man-boy Eric Garcetti says he's running for Mayor, today. I'm more focused on how FBI investigation will shape the election. about 2 hours ago
  • I tweeted over weekend that Garcetti would be announcing his mayoral run after holiday weekend. WHY WOULD YOU TWEET ME that he's running? about 2 hours ago
  • DAMN! Either HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT, or people waking up & reading on EAST COAST/D.C., but SURE WERE A LOT of people reading my blog in 2am hour. about 9 hours ago
  • WONDER IF SCHWARZENEGGER READS MY BLOG? Saw him face to face, leaving office, today. He gave me WORST LOOK, EVER! GLAD HE WAS IN CAR! YIKES! I think he lost his soul and is MISERABLE! Call Tony Robbins, Arnold, for a chat. (You need a "re-frame" for the future.) about 9 hours ago
  • OVER WEEKEND, said time for ALL NEW SCUMBAGS under the bus. Had OTHER plans, but Wendy's Durkee popped up, so THIS!: http://t.co/SFlcO4w about 9 hours ago
  • OVER WEEKEND, said TIME TO DUMP ALL NEW MATERIAL: That means finishing up on OLD, Adelman cover-up/CIM/lofts/asbestos/pension fraud/Swiller. about 9 hours ago
  • OVER weekend, said time to start pissing off BIG FISH/VIVENDI. THAT means going after DWP. And that means TILLMAN WATER PIPE BURST COVER UP! about 9 hours ago
  • The HISTORY of Zuma Dogg. (And it IS history...L.A. & U.S. history!) http://t.co/EB81lCg. (When I won FED ruling on 1st Amend, became U.S.!) about 9 hours ago
  • MARCH 2006: LAPD, under City Attorney/Council orders, to ZD: "If you are still here, w/ZD shirts, when we get back, you will be arrested." about 9 hours ago
  • MARCH 2006: CD 11 Chief of Staff to ZD: "We KNOW your ZD shirts are ok to sell, but if we allow those, others MAY sell commercial shirts." about 9 hours ago
  • HA! U THOUGHT YOU WERE SO SMART/SO MUCH ABOVE IT! NOW LOOK! YOU'RE ALL SCARED AND PANICKED, TODAY IS THE DAY! YOUR $$$ IS WORTHLESS, NOW! about 9 hours ago
  • CAUSE IT'S ALL I CAN DO! U MADE ME DISABLED! (SEE SSI DIAGNOSIS!) I'M STUCK INSIDE/BROKE after 5 YRS OF ILLEGAL LA CITY FEDERAL VIOLATIONS! about 9 hours ago
  • IT'S NOT ABOUT ECONOMIC FUTURE, as bad as it is. ABOUT WAVE OF SUITS vs LAHD/REAP once FEDS bust City for program. BIG MONEY x1000s PEOPLE! about 9 hours ago
  • WHAT DO I MEAN City Hall will shut down after FED busts? More City Hall officials/staff will be unavailable than u expect. Not enough folks. about 9 hours ago
  • TOP HEADLINE: L.A. prophet Zuma Dogg feels residents need to brace for City Hall SHUT-DOWN as FED'S probe was DEEPER & WIDER than expected! about 9 hours ago
  • SINCE ZD feels all previously blogged material has been picked dry by investigators/they've investigated all I offered=ALL NEW ZD MATERIAL! about 9 hours ago
  • 1st WEEK OF ZD PUBLIC COMMENT: "ZD is 2 or 3 steps ahead of you, and you KNOW that." NOW, ZD feels FBI is DONE investigating/REPORT WRITING MODE! about 10 hours ago
  • We hear about stuff FBI is investigating/think we know EVERYTHING that's being probed. GONNA BE WAY WIDER/MORE PEOPLE/TOTAL CITY SHUT DOWN! about 10 hours ago
  • DON'T JUDGE LA's FUTURE, even by pessimistic economic standards. Will be about CRIPPLING WAVE OF LAWSUITS/NO OFFICIALS LEFT, POST FED BUSTS! about 10 hours ago
  • I'M VERY SERIOUS WHEN I SAY activists need to be concerned after FEDS bust City Hall, WON'T BE ENOUGH OFFICIALS/lawsuits will b-rupt L.A.!!! about 10 hours ago
  • BUDGET/REDUCED CITY STAFF=PROBLEMS, NOW: Wait till MASSIVE suits over LAHD/REAP & Bldg&Safety bribes, once busted. PLUS, no officials left. about 10 hours ago
  • NOT ENOUGH has been reported on DWP/Tillman Water Reclamation Treatment Plant PIPE BURST: DWP COVER UP? http://t.co/5v01JdK (DETAILS?) about 10 hours ago
  • VILLARAIOGOSA/CITY HALL: I TOLD YOU I AM SUPERIOR/SOMETHING YOU'VE NEVER SEEN & AM PROVING CAN GO ANYWHERE/ANYTIME, LIKE JOHN BONHAM'S BEAT! about 10 hours ago
  • VILLARAIGOSA: With City Hall INCREASING money given to gang members, HOW MANY WILL MANDATED ON CITY JOBS? Will they be used on FED projects? about 10 hours ago
  • MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA: RUNNING AROUND THE ROOM WITH HIS HANDS CLASPED TO HIS HEAD, SCREAMING, wonder how/why this is happening? SORRY, Brutha! about 10 hours ago
  • "Building & Safety's Adelman=set up over CIM asbestos loft conversions" keeps coming up in ZD Magic 8 ball when I say "pension fraud?" DOTS? about 10 hours ago
  • ZD'S GUESS: Shallman caught in net for bigger fish. Durkee=cash-strapped, needed Shallman $50K bailout to be available for Wendy's campaign. about 10 hours ago
  • KNDEE DURKEE/SHADY CLIENTS SHE REPRESENTS: She is probably good at covering up THEIR SHADY MESSES, is on the team (keeps it in the family), about 10 hours ago
  • SORRY VILLARAIGOSA, GREUEL, GARCETTI, PERRY: Just when u think it's all about ONE thing; ZUMA DOGG EXPOSES WHAT YOU HOPE WOULDN'T COME OUT! about 10 hours ago
  • VILLAR: If I had to guess, Adelman was gonna blow whistle on loft conversion, w/asbestos removal, w/out permit and would be problem for CIM. about 10 hours ago
  • MAGIC 8 BALL=CONFUSING ZD: Said=CIM PENSION SCAM: "Andrew Adelman was set up/fits in with all of it/see loft conversions/asbestos" appeared! about 10 hours ago
  • CITY HALL has tried shady tricks on ZD in past. But, NOW, they're gonna be REALLY desperate. You can see, I've been fine, lately. STILL AM! about 11 hours ago
  • VILLAR ICELAND VACATION: Did mayor flip pension money in similar bogus/belly-up projects in Iceland, as in LA, then fly to negotiate losses? about 11 hours ago
  • As ZD tries to PURGE all TOP EXCLUSIVE INFO: Insider told me, Villaraigosa Iceland VACATION, was attempt to negotiate pension losses w/Govt. about 11 hours ago
  • There goes last legs of old Broad/Riordan/Wetherly machine. Wetherly fundraisers BUSTED/SHUT DOWN. Riordan jumps to Beutner. Greuel is OVER! about 11 hours ago
  • VILLARAIGOSA: Think Wendy is gonna roll on you? She's controller, but you're mayor and you tie to SUPER BIG SMELLY CORRUPT FISH. SHE'S DONE! about 11 hours ago
  • HERB WESSON: ZD=SO CRANKY from hunger and my disability city hall caused. Have your deputy take me to dinner and walk check, like he does. about 11 hours ago
  • I'm so HOT over my SSI diagnosed disability caused by LA City Hall, Jan Perry needs to take me on a pub crawl to loosen me up like Adlelman! about 11 hours ago
  • L.A. CITY HALL HAS A REAL FUCKING PROBLEM!!! I HOT AS FUCK, AND I DON'T FLIP OUT ON STREET TO GET ARRESTED, LIKE YOU HOPE...I TWEET & BLOG! about 11 hours ago
  • SO FUCKING SAD, I'M SICK TO STOMACH: YOU are sick over my blogging/I'm sick my life is still wrapped up w/City Hall. U TURNED ME INTO JOKER! about 11 hours ago
  • I DO wish my damages had been settled, to mitigate my disability, already. I HATE this gadfly energy. I AM STUCK/CAN"T BREAK ENERGY PATTERN! about 11 hours ago
  • OH HELL YEAH! If you read the tweets & posts on my blog and don't realize it's "ZD looks over his shoulder, again," era, you're small stuff. about 11 hours ago
  • SO THERE'S NO CONFUSION: Cause NOW is when City Hall may resort to shady tricks: U SEE I've been fine, recently. NO MELTDOWN WARNING SIGNS! about 11 hours ago
  • NOT MUCH MEAT LEFT ON BONE: Look for indictments to fall on City Hall, soon. NOT just 1 person. Too many building/housing supes interviewed! about 11 hours ago
  • THE BIG QUESTION RESIDENTS OF L.A. City WILL be facing, soon: HOW DO WE REBUILD CITY HALL, ITSELF, once Feds swoop in. WILL BE HUGE VOID! about 11 hours ago
  • FUTURE DOTS: DWP/Tillman Water Reclamation (Waste water) Treatment Plant/PIPE BURST: Like EVERYTHING (cont) http://t.co/5v01JdK about 11 hours ago
  • Notice how Greuel released Aldelman's name in Gold Card scandal/not others? LETS OTHER CITY HALL FOLK know, DON'T MENTION SHE USED IT, TOO! about 12 hours ago
  • CITY HALL'S REAL DAILY RISK: With ZD having over 5 yrs DEEP INVESTIGATIVE/BLOGGING/NETWORKING HISTORY, I hear ONE thing, I remember another. about 14 hours ago
  • LOOK WHAT JUST HAPPENED! I was supposed to be SETTLED LONG time ago. I hear Durkee story/Shalman name: BAM! GREUEL HIRED PR FIRM POST, NOW! about 14 hours ago
  • READ FBI REPORT on Kindee Durkee (L.A. Mayoral Canidate Wendy Greuel's CURRENT Campaign… http://t.co/6DY4gD8 about 14 hours ago
  • If you do search for news articles on CalPERS (CA Pensions) fraud being investigated by FEDS/SEC, you'll see ZD EXPOSED EVERY NAME in '09! about 15 hours ago
  • RISK CITY HALL KEEPS TAKING: ZD blogs about shady Koreatown project/bribes=Dec '10. NOW, INVESTIGATION INTO K-TOWN Building & Safety bribes! about 15 hours ago
  • CITY HALL NIGHTMARE: Zuma Dogg makes a call about LAHD bribes/corruption, and investigators stumble into semi-related Bldg & Safety issue. about 15 hours ago
  • ZUMA DOGG REVEALS: Here's how it happens: You call D Goldstein/CBS2 about LAHD REAP, and he stumbles into HACLA housing stuff on same blog. about 15 hours ago
  • #LACityHall: For every BIG CRA project/there's another one attached and for every ZD post INVESTIGATORS stumble upon/they find ANOTHER ONE! about 15 hours ago
  • WELCOME TO http://t.co/z3UjGUX: ZumaDogg blogged about Wetherly/Broidy LA/CA pension fraud & LAHD RENT ESCROW, BEFORE IT WAS INVESTIGATED! about 15 hours ago
  • NEW ZUMA DOGG READERS: When Zuma Dogg asks a question, it is ALWAYS-ALWAYS because SOMEONE TOLD ME, who knows/is involved. NEVER, OTHERWISE! about 15 hours ago
  • RENT ESCROW CORRUPTION in CD 13?: Once landlord is placed in LAHD REAP in CD 13, is it IMPOSSIBLE to be REMOVED, once compliant/fines paid? about 15 hours ago
  • ARE SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS (about $8 mil) MISSING/UN-ACCOUNTED FOR on LAHD's Rent Escrow account books? That's INSIDE info. VERY INSIDE! about 15 hours ago
  • All the inside info sitting in my email inbox, unread, becomes like FINE WINE. The longer it sits, the more vintage and valuable it becomes. about 16 hours ago
  • PROBLEM for L.A. City Hall, STILL having ZD as UNSETTLED gadfly: Look how I thought of stuff from years ago, and made it RELEVANT, TODAY! about 16 hours ago
  • I told City Hall, I NEEDED to be settled/moved to Westlake Village, EARLIER THIS YEAR! NEED SETTLEMENT $ TO MITIGATE MY DISABILITY/MOVE ON! about 16 hours ago
  • ZD CAN NEVER WAIT TILL TOMORROW. Here's Thurs' post on ANDREW ADELMAN MATTER/LOFTS/ASBESTOS/WHEREABOUTS?: How (cont) http://t.co/QG2mQji about 16 hours ago
  • With L.A. City Hall, LAHD (Housing) & Pension Fraud being investigated, have to go back and read old emails, to find NEW PROBES TO TRIGGER! about 17 hours ago
  • ZD: Spent past 5 yrs uncovering every corrupt stone @LACityHall: Now spending next (?) yrs, blogging added info to current investigations. about 17 hours ago
  • Every now & then, ZD's blog pops up on radars of ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE (or WRONG people, if you are corrupt) and the HIGH LEVEL posts rise! about 17 hours ago
  • MAKES SENSE: When u have HIGH LEVEL INSIDERS reading your blog, HIGH LEVEL POST pop up "most read." http://t.co/IBYcv3V SEE LINKS, MAYOR! about 17 hours ago
  • It SICKENS me LA councilmembers/political insiders are poppin' champagne corks over ZD's post on Greuel. Not enough to NOT post it, though. about 17 hours ago
  • REMEMBER OVER WEEKEND, said I had PILES of inside mole emails to read/would post ALL NEW MATERIAL, this week. Today=Greuel. Thurs: Adelman about 17 hours ago
  • AFTER A HARD DAY OF MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION BUSTING, Zuma Dogg is gonna take the night off and stun the upscale crowd in Malibu w/some singing! about 17 hours ago
  • 5 yrs may not SEEM long, but it's when a HELL OF A LOT OF CITY HALL CORRUPTION WENT DOWN. And ZD has historic perspective=dots connecting! about 17 hours ago
  • Speaking of asbestos (as in the stuff pulled out of a certain loft, without a permit), you need asbestos glasses to read this blog! WARNING! about 17 hours ago
  • ZD gets BORED, easily. Now that I am done with PENSION FRAUD, LAHD/REAP & Wendy Greuel; time to move to unanswered Aldelman questions. B&S! about 17 hours ago
  • VILLAR: Question on COMPLETE LOFT CONVERSION (See Adelman): Why were walls/ceilings removed when asbestos removal permits weren't taken out? about 17 hours ago
  • WE NEED ANDREW ADELMAN/BLGD & SAFETY UPDATE: Why was he never charged & allowed to retire without any disciplinary action? Where is he now? about 17 hours ago
  • PLANES ON A RUNWAY, VILLARAIGOSA: Next up: Andrew Adelman/Bldg&Safety. Which CM sent him on pub crawl? Living in WHOSE loft? WHAT Asbestos? about 17 hours ago
  • @MayorSam: OH NO! ZD has been referring to Greuel's mayoral campaign in past tense, in tweets. Is that what prophets do when ahead of curve? about 18 hours ago
  • Wendy Greuel wasn't gonna win, anyway. So now that she just got knocked outta the box, we can focus REAL DEBATE on candidates with a chance! about 18 hours ago
  • Wendy knows it's over. Controller 4 more yrs, or will just serve one term, cause she wanted to mayor, not controller, and NOW she WON'T BE! about 18 hours ago
  • "Gonna be a twister to blow everything down. They ain't got the faith to stand their ground." ZD about ZD and corrupt elected officials. about 18 hours ago
  • ZumaDogg=just face to face with Schwarzenegger as he was driving out of his lot. I said, "Hi!" HE TRIED TO KILL ME W/INSANE TERMINATOR LOOK! about 18 hours ago
  • ZD's post, today, will go down in history as shaping the L.A. Mayoral election/maybe more. Just a prophet's hunch. We'll see. LACityNews.com about 18 hours ago
  • Just saw Schwarzenegger getting into his Bently. He didn't look too happy. about 19 hours ago
  • LA City News Keyword Search: "Mitch Englander Statement of Economic Interest" [OH NO! Someone wanted ZD to see that! I'm sure it's nothing!] about 20 hours ago
  • CIM/PENSION FRAUD: ZD's new blogging crony sent this good, detailed history of "CIM PENSION FRAUD": WHO ARE (cont) http://t.co/w86FhAT about 20 hours ago
  • EXCLUSIVE: DID L.A. MAYORAL CANDIDATE WENDY GREUEL HIRE A PR FIRM TO RUN ANTI-HOME DEPOT… http://t.co/SFlcO4w about 21 hours ago
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Friday, October 30, 2009

JUST POSTED: New MUST LISTEN "ZumaSHOW" with ZD's PensionGATE Insider (on GLOBAL POLITICS AND ECONOMY)....A COMPELLING, MUST LISTEN!

[Pictured: Zuma Dogg and Gary ZD's "PensionGATE" Insider who BLOWS THE WORLD WIDE OPEN in the ZumaShow link below.]

One of the things I wanted to do with this new BlogTalkRadio "ZumaSHOW" is be able to let everyone listen in on the types of conversations I am privileged to that I try and re-cap on my blog. But some of it falls outside the narrow focus of L.A. Politics, focusing on L.A. City Hall and agenda items, and it goes to overall background in ZD's mind that goes into everything I keep in the back of my mind as a gadfly and blogger. SO HERE IS A VERY COMPELLING HOUR SHOW THAT ALLOWS GARY TO RE-CAP THE BIG PICTURE STUFF ZUMA DOGG HAS BEEN HEARING ABOUT THAT EXPANDED MY MIND AND ELEVATED MY WRITING, ACCORDING TO SOME, JUST BASED ON MY READING OF GARY'S STUFF AND TAKING ON HIS STYLE AT TIMES. Here's the podcast:
Click here, or just see BlogTalkRadio widget on this blog. (The Wetherly PensionGATE podcast is directly below this new show.)

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Zuma's PENSIONGATE Wetherly Captial/Vivendi Entertainment BACK IN THE NEWS?

Remember the good old days from last May/June when Zuma Dogg bumped into an Insider Source who worked with the Wetherly Captial crew on retainer and goes way back with CRA's Chairman William H. Jackson, who is/was also Wetherly Captial's big time attorney. Well, there was a story in this week's news headlines that is a follow up to this past spring's PensionGate blogging. So for those of you who followed that, here's some new stuff from Zuma's Source:

Here is what I blogged this week in response to some new headlines on PensionGate:

From:
Zuma Dogg <zumadogg@gmail.com>
Date: October 23, 2009 7:09:54 AM PDT
Subject: Zuma Report : CalPERS Pensiongate Update: HOW AND THE HELL DOES ONE PERSON END UP WITH $53 MILLION OF STATE PENSION MONEY?

Did Zuma Dogg NOT Warn You About Apollo?: http://ladailyblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/calpers-pensiongate-update-how-and-hell.html


AND HERE IS THE NEW FOLLOW UP FROM "MR. SOURCE" THAT HE SENT OUT TO HIS OWN MASSIVE EMAIL DATABASE. VERY COMPELLING AND INTERESTING IF YOU CAN FOLLOW IT. KINDA INSIDE. MOST OF YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP TO THE NEXT POST:

Look at how clean and precise is Zuma Dogg's blog; and equally important he, who lives on the streets of LA, continues to follow the biggest story which I was the first to tell the world about back in late 2001 when Wetherly Capital Group, who had me on retainer, organized two meetings with California Governor Gray Davis on December 28th, 2001, the first involving the top officials of Vivendi here on US soil and the second, ten minutes later, Davis met with my close colleague Dr. Rod Smith Phd

Not to mention what the "RULE OF LAW" means when you have a lawyer like Professor Joe Grunfest Esq., when presented with the opportunity to see the irrefutable "smoking gun proof" of voter fraud, has the arrogance to write me back, "Could I stop you?" - click HERE; to mention little of Grundfest who was most familiar with my ability to flush out corruption at the highest levels, was a former commissioner of the totally fraudulent Securities and Exchange Commission that is no different to the US Federal Reserve who understand perfectly well how my former employer, De Beers gets to see each and every Wall Street deal before it is shown to the likes of big name investment firms like Goldman Sachs who then flog their crap to the unsuspecting masses.

Again, once I got wind of the "greasing of the wheels" I made Vicky Schiff, the co-managing director of Wetherly Capital Group, aware that I would not stand idly by as they committed voter fraud in the upcoming California Gubernatorial elections, which resulted in Vivendi's stock beginning, on January 3rd, 2002, the day I had Marie get her very carefully crafted will witnessed by an attorney neighbor, a precipitous collapse; Vivendi and its 63% owned sister corporation, Vivendi Environmental losing US$ 63 billion in market value over a continuous period of 280 days; and no surprise that Ms. Schiff and I jointly owned a safety box at Union Bank on 15th Street in downtown Del Mar, whose box number was 280, and the contents included the original agreement between herself and me before Wetherly Capital Group put me on retainer.

A great many people have seen the original documents that talk to this massive voter fraud involving the top government official of the State of California in what was back then the 5th largest economy in the world, and again the only question is when did the media become corrupt; i.e. when did the democracy here in the US start; and the answer of course is that democracy has never existed in the US and more importantly, the US has been the greatest exporter of tyranny in the history of the world.

For those who want to know what Ms. Schiff as well as the entire California State Government with of course inextricably close ties to the US Federal Government are thinking, why not communicate directly with Ms. Schiff -- and start out by having her share her best recollections of this safety box.

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ALSO: Which just 2 weeks after those two most important meetings [December 28th, 2001] that were 10 minutes apart, Vicky Schiff, Dan Weinstein and Joe Campos who set up both meetings Governor Davis journeyed to the desert to meet with the CEO of Vivendi Environmental, Andy Seidel and the General Counsel Staneck who attended along with Joe Campos the first meeting with Gray Davis; and immediately after this November 11th meeting which Rod Smith and I protested against, Seidel headed to Paris for a board meeting of Vivendi whose CEO Jean-Marie Messier knew they were already in big trouble without having to hear from Seidel that it was just a matter of time before the world would know of how desperate was Vivendi that they would risk getting caught "red handed".

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

You Should Look At This Flyer That May Tie In With CADIZ, Inc WATER PROJECT

LOS ANGELES, CA Political Contributions by IndividualsMark A Liggett (Cadiz Inc./Geologist), (Zip code: 90026) $2000 to JIM COSTA ..... JULIO JR RAMIREZ (WETHERLY CAPITAL GROUP), (Zip code: 90025) $2000 to JOHN ... More to come, but would it surprise you to find that Wetherly Captial gang would be involved in Cadiz, Inc. water project with Brackpool?

Do you remember over the past month I have been screaming about a "pay to play" meeting between US Filter (now Vivendi) and then CA Governor Gray Davis, arranged by Wetherly Capital. The "pay" part of "to play" was 40,000 acres of the Imperial Irrigation District.

LOOK AT WHAT THIS FLIER WAS ABOUT that I may as well show you at this time:
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ANYWAY, now this Cadiz, Inc project is in the news again and their stock was the biggest gainer on the NASDAQ on Friday, and there are ties to Anotnio Villaraigosa. But this is bigger than the mayor. Anyway, here is some interesting reading, and there is no way I can sit here and explain the whole deal, I'll try sometime soon in the near future, but meanwhile, read this:

Public Citizen | Energy Program | Energy Program - California ...

Cadiz has proposed storing Colorado River water in an aquifer that .... US Filter, a subsidiary of French Vivendi, a mammoth conglomerate that also owns ...
www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/us/bulksales/cadiz/articles.cfm?ID=7231 -

The Colorado River

The Colorado River, which provides water to seven states and Mexico, is a critical source for California. The state has been allowed to draw more than its allotment from the Colorado River because other states were not using their full quotas. However, as the demand from other states increased, California came under pressure to reduce its take.

A recent agreement among Colorado water users requires California to reduce its take from 5.5 million acre-feet per year to 4.4 million, putting the state in another tough position: having to look elsewhere to make up the difference. The "4.4 Plan" will hit Southern California especially hard because it is the region s primary source.

The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD or the "Met") are the two biggest users of Colorado River water, receiving 70 percent and 12 percent, respectively.

As the largest wholesale water supplier in the country with 17 million customers, the Met is in a perpetual search for new sources, especially after agreeing to the 4.4 Plan. Among its initiatives is a controversial deal with Cadiz Inc., a Santa Monica-based agriculture corporation that owns land in the Mojave Desert. Cadiz has proposed storing Colorado River water in an aquifer that underlies both the Cadiz and federal lands during wet years and then extract it, together with native groundwater, for sale to the MWD in the dry years.

While the storage aspect has arguably beneficial features, pumping groundwater at unsustainable levels and profiting from overdrafts is not among them. Numerous environmental and public interest groups have argued that the extraction levels proposed by Cadiz exceed recharge levels, and that the desert ecosystem, which includes the federally protected desert tortoise, would suffer as a result. Even the U.S. Geological Survey says Cadiz s recharge estimates are 5 to 25 higher than reality.

Sustainable Water Resource Management

Plain and simple, conservation and efficiency are key to ensuring that California does not run out of water. Saving water can often eliminate the need for expensive and environmentally damaging water infrastructure, such as dams, reservoirs and canals, while freeing up additional water to meet the state s needs. Low-flow toilets, for example, reduce the amount of water used per flush by over two-thirds. Some cities have provided incentives to replace the old models with the newer ones, and they have seen reductions in per-capita use. More communities should follow suit. Similarly, technology can significantly reduce industrial water demand. Treatment and reuse of municipal water also carries a great potential to help conserve California's water.

Over the last decade, the idea of agricultural-to-urban water transfers has become increasingly popular particularly in California, due to the state s large agricultural sector. Transferring water from one public agency to another poses fewer risks than does purchasing water from a private water right holder.

Farmers often purchase water at lower prices than do cities. For instance, Southern California s MWD sells treated water to urban users for $431 per acre-foot, a price representing capital, conveyance, treatment, and conservation costs. The IID, however, charges only $15 per acre-foot, a figure that does not include many expenses like treatment, but is, nevertheless, much cheaper than untreated water from many other sources.

Thus, it makes sense for the IID to sell "surplus" water to cities. In return, the cities pick up the cost of conservation measures that make this additional water available. The idea is attractive to urban users, because buying water allows them to increase or stabilize supplies without substantially increasing rates.

An agreement between the IID and San Diego County Water Authority provides for such water transfers for 45 years. San Diego will give Imperial Valley farmers incentives to conserve while paying for the conservation measures. Because San Diego believes the Met s water transportation charges are too high, San Diego may build its own pipeline, however, neither the costs nor the environmental impacts have yet been assessed.

Another solution is fallowing marginal agricultural land. This would make additional water available and help remedy the devastating environmental problems caused by farm runoff. Replacing water-intensive crops with crops that depend on less water would also reduce agricultural demand.

Taking water to market

The practice of selling water for profit is taking root in California. Over the past 25 years, there have been efforts to change California water law to promote the creation of water markets. Three major changes in California water law have been pursued over the past twenty-five years: (1) making it easier for water right holders as well as those who use large quantities of water (e.g., farms or industries) to sell, lease, or transfer their water entitlements to another on a long-term basis; (2) allowing transferors access to the unused capacity of existing conveyance facilities in order to move water around the state, commonly referred to as wheeling ; (3) promoting water transfers that would result in groundwater mining by overlying property owners.

Most of the recent legislative activity has focused on wheeling , attempting to more precisely define the circumstances under which the owner of a conveyance facility can deny access to a transferor; and to spell out how to calculate fair compensation which is to be paid by the transferor for the use of the conveyance facilities in those cases when access cannot be lawfully denied.

If California water law in all three areas described above is changed to promote water transfers and markets, privateers will be able to make handsome profits by acquiring water entitlements that were established by, and stored within, taxpayer-funded infrastructure. Furthermore, these privateers would also move these water entitlements around the state through taxpayer-funded conveyance facilities.

A farmer who starts selling surface water may turn to groundwater to satisfy his irrigation needs, instead of stepping up conservation or fallowing the land. Because aquifers usually extend beyond a single farmer s property, lower levels could force other farmers to pay more to pump groundwater, or even make water unavailable altogether. Lower levels could also dry out springs that support flora and fauna.

Over the past eight years, California has enjoyed high levels of precipitation. In 2001, however, these levels decreased, leading to concerns about another drought. Another major drought likely would make it even easier to market water, creating a favorable environment for private companies and individuals to profit from selling the resource. In fact, the Water Bank, California s first large-scale system to facilitate water transfers, was created in 1991 in response to the drought.

Going Private

Private companies view California's limited water resources as a profit opportunity. Several corporations have made overtures to acquire water rights and develop water resources. Azurix wants to mine water from an aquifer underlying its landholdings in Madera County. Feasibility studies are currently underway. Azurix, a former subsidiary of Enron, has been bought by U.S. market leader American Water Works, which itself is being acquired by German energy giant RWE parent of the British water giant Thames Water.

US Filter, a subsidiary of French Vivendi, a mammoth conglomerate that also owns Vivendi Universal, recently bought 43,000 acres of farmland and owns extensive water rights in the Imperial Valley.

Cadiz, Inc. wants to sell groundwater from an aquifer underlying its Mojave Desert landholdings as well as under federal lands, to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The proposal also calls for storing "surplus" Colorado water in the aquifer. Cadiz, whose debt-to-equity ratio puts into question its financial stability, stands to bring in up to $1 billion if the deal goes through. (Cadiz s CEO Keith Brackpool, a British investment banker, is a significant and regular contributor to Governor Gray Davis and advises the governor on water issues, including making water policy speeches as Davis substitute.)

The storage component has arguably beneficial features. However, Cadiz s proposal to sell up to 60,000 acre-feet of native groundwater per year an amount that scientists and environmentalists believe would devastate groundwater resources is controversial. Overdrafts of this magnitude may dry out springs and wells fed by the aquifer, jeopardizing animal and plant species already on the brink of extinction. Building a 35-mile pipeline and an elaborate infrastructure to support the system may damage the habitat of these imperiled species, including the desert tortoise. Finally, lowered groundwater levels may result in massive dust storms, potentially turning the region into another Owens Valley.

Under its contract with MWD, Cadiz would also be allowed to sell a significant amount of groundwater directly to willing third-party buyers. Cadiz would reap handsome profits from this provision, under which MWD would permit Cadiz to use its infrastructure, built with taxpayer money, to convey this water.

Conclusion

Although high water demand projections have been challenged and are currently under review, it is clear that California must either develop more water sources or find better ways to manage its existing resources, or do both. California must focus its attention on sustainable solutions. By any standard, building more dams and exhausting aquifers is not sustainable.

Conservation is. It would prevent wasteful spending of taxpayer money and eliminate the need for more dams and diversions, while making more water available for municipal, industrial and agricultural uses and leaving more water for animal and plant life. Conservation should be a joint effort of both Southern and Northern California. It should be a priority not only for dry Los Angeles but for rainy San Francisco as well.

Conservation has many different faces. Older toilets and showerheads can be replaced with low-flow models. Water-efficient irrigation techniques can be introduced. Leaky water infrastructure can be fixed or upgraded. Water can be reused. Ascending block rate structures can be phased in. Water-efficient landscaping can be encouraged. And crops requiring less water can be planted in lieu of water-intensive varieties.

At the same time, California should not allow private water interests to convert a public good into a commodity for sale to the highest bidder. If water trading for profit flourishes, environmental consequences could be dire and groundwater resources would suffer most. Lowered groundwater levels mean higher pumping costs and sometimes new equipment. Many farmers, heavily reliant on groundwater, could not afford these measures.

A community that becomes dependent on water from a private entity may face the same risks that many of California s communities faced as a result of energy deregulation: higher rates and volatile service. As we saw in the electricity sector, privatization or deregulation means there is no incentive to conserve the resource. In order to maximize profit, private companies encourage consumption.

The State Constitution declares that water belongs to all Californians and is, in effect, free, in the sense that people pay only the cost of treatment and delivery. Allowing private companies to profit from this public resource would stand California s Constitution on its head.

Wisdom, patience and frugality should guide water resource management. Anything less will put California s environment at further risk, as well as its economy, its farming sector, and its rural population. Californians must demand that water remains a public trust under democratic control and should oppose turning water into just another commodity.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Zuma Dogg's Del Mar Retreat...HELLO WETHERLY CAPITAL AND RACKETEERING CRONIES!

Welp, it's been nearly half a day, but I STILL haven't heard that long-time Wetherly Capital attorney, William H. Jackson has stepped down as Chairman of the CRA (Community Robbing A-holes), yet, even though it IS Saturday.

And although that's no excuse, Zuma Dogg decided to take a vacation until Monday, since it looks like he probably won't be resigning over the weekend, so here is a postcard from the ocean front art gallery studio I booked for my retreat.

But unfortunatley, corruption and racketeering never takes a vacation, so neither can Zuma Dogg. So instead, I'll just be uploading a lot of documents from my roomate's computer (pictured), who a few of you inside billionaires may recognize.

Ah yes, Felix and Oscar it is, indeed. Yes...take a good look at him, you international movers and shakers! There he is! He looks GOOD after all these years, doesn't he? (And, NO, that is NOT Harvey Levin.)

Anyway, HEY ANOTNIO...you want to take this all the way, don't you! LOSE THE WETHERLY GUY!