http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=salinas Sat, 25 May 2013 16:17:43 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=salinas Wed, 15 May 2013 21:54:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=73e_1368668019 DanyTM93 Luis Donald Colosio was killed on March 23, 1994 in Tijuana, Baja California. He was a candidate for the PRI and did his post grad studies in the University of Pennsylvania. He was shot by a Mario Aburto Martinez who was born in 71 and after the shooting, sentenced to 42 years in prison. The official story states that he acted alone but conspiracies abound. If you ask a Mexican of the assassination, you'll get everything from a narco-political conspiracy to a state execution. Former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has denied allegations that he ordered the killing because Colosio was breaking ranks with the party's old guard. There are those who say that Aburto was framed and the real gunman was murdered by the same men who supposedly contracted him. Colosio swore to end any and all forms of corruption in Mexico and investigate and punish politicians, officers, and others in power severely if they were caught. His last visit was to a poor neighborhood called Lomas Taurinas in Tijuana. He was shot three times. At 0:35, Aburto pulls out a .38 revolver and shoots Colosio in the head. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=73e_1368668019 DanyTM93 The Assassination of Colosio(Mexican presidential candidate) Politics, Tijuana, Mexico, Colosio, Gortari, Narco, Cartel, Assassination, Conspiracy, Corruption, President Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:34:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c9_1363519534 Tazu F1 2013 - Red Bull Racing - Daniel Ricciardo worth his Salt in Salinas Grandes http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c9_1363519534 Tazu F1 2013 - Red Bull Racing - Daniel Ricciardo worth his Salt in <span class="highlight">Salinas</span> Grandes F1, 2013, Red, Bull, Racing, Daniel, Ricciardo, worth, his, Salt, Salinas, Grandes Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:13:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a0_1365779383 absu69 In October 2005, at the height of the speculative financial bubble that eventually cost taxpayers trillions of dollars and devastated millions of lives, Citigroup Equity Strategy analysts Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod and Narendra Singh published their provocative, though accurate portrayal of bourgeois amorality, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances . According to these worthies, the egregious economic disparities between the filthy ruling rich and the rest of us revolve around the salient fact that the "world is dividing into two blocs--the plutonomies where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few," and the great mass of proletarians who need to sit down, shut up and worship at the feet of their masters. To whit, their evocation of "disruptive technology-driven productivity gains, creative financial innovation, capitalist-friendly cooperative governments . . . overseas conquests invigorating wealth creation" as the engines driving capitalism's criminogenic "wealth waves . . . exploited best by the rich and educated," recalled Orwell's dystopian vision of a future which imagined "a boot stamping on a human face--forever." In a follow-up piece published in March 2006, Citi claimed that "so long as the rich continue to get richer, the likelihood of these conundrums resolving themselves through traditionally disruptive means (currency collapses, consumer recessions etc) looks low." Indeed, "While we have concerns about the spending power of the middle-income consumer in the US in the event of a housing slowdown, the richest 10% are less exposed to a housing slowdown, as their wealth is more diversified." In other words, while Citi's "plutonomic" clients were gobbling up an ever greater share of the world's wealth, hyperinflating the real estate bubble and peddling fraudulent "investment instruments" that still threaten to drive the global economy into the abyss, "we believe that the rich are going to keep getting richer in coming years, as capitalists (the rich) get an even bigger share of GDP as a result, principally, of globalization." "We expect the global pool of labor in developing economies to keep wage inflation in check," they opined, "and profit margins rising--good for the wealth of capitalists, relatively bad for developed market unskilled/outsource-able labor." If you're an average worker, even one with an advanced degree and mountains of student debt, well, too bad suckers! What could go wrong with this rosy picture? "Beyond war, inflation, the end of the technology/productivity wave, and financial collapse, we think the most potent and short-term threat would be societies demanding a more 'equitable' share of wealth ." (emphasis added) Worry not dear plutonomes, there's an app for that too in the form of militarized police deploying the latest in "less than lethal" technologies--pepper spray, tear gas, tasers and the like to keep those uppity proles at bay! Lost amidst their prattle about the merits of investing in firms which cater to the rich ("do I buy Bulgari, Burberry and Coach or do I limit my options to Hermes and Toll Brothers?" The consensus opinion: "Buy them all!"), was any discussion of the social costs of these massive frauds, bloody imperialist wars of conquest or the hyperinflation of bank balance sheets with veritable "wealth waves" generated by the global drug trade and organized crime, some "3.6 percent of GDP (2.3-5.5 percent) or around US$2.1 trillion in 2009," according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC ). There you have it, "market wisdom" in all its glory from an insolvent, bailed out bank! Handed some $45 billion (lb29.78bn) in TARP funds, the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve secretly backstopped more than $300 billion (lb197.31bn) in toxic assets on their books in addition to the "$2.5 trillion of support from the American taxpayer through capital infusions, asset guarantees and low-cost loans," as financial analyst Pam Martens pointed out in Wall Street on Parade . 'Dark Alliance' 2.0 Although journalists and researchers have spent decades documenting the links between secret state intelligence agencies like the CIA and organized crime conglomerates who butter their bread through global narcotics rackets, the role of major financial institutions in the grisly trade continues to be relegated by corporate media to the realm of "conspiracy theory." But in the wake of rising public anger over the Obama administration's collusion with Wall Street drug banks, we were informed by The New York Times that the "Federal Reserve hit Citigroup with an enforcement action on Tuesday over breakdowns in money laundering controls that threatened to allow tainted money to move through the United States." According to the Times , the Federal Reserve "took aim at Citigroup and its subsidiary Banamex USA over failure to monitor cash transactions for potentially suspicious activity." The Fed's Consent Order charged that Citigroup and Banamex USA "lacked effective systems of governance and internal controls to adequately oversee the activities of the Banks with respect to legal, compliance, and reputational risk related to the Banks' respective BSA/AML compliance programs." An unnamed bank spokeswoman told the Times , "Citi has made substantial progress in a comprehensive manner across products, business lines and geographies," and will continue "to take the appropriate steps to address remaining requirements and build a strong and sustainable program." Nothing to see here, right? Tellingly however, neither Citigroup nor Banamex USA admitted wrongdoing. In what is standard boilerplate in such agreements, the Fed meekly submitted that their "enforcement action" was issued "without this Order constituting an admission or denial by Citigroup of any allegation made or implied by the Board of Governors." Nor did the Fed "give specific examples of problems" at either bank, Reuters reported. During Senate Banking Committee hearings last month, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) grilled federal banking regulators over their non-prosecution of Wall Street drug banks. Referencing penalties levied against HSBC after the British banking giant was caught red-handed laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, Warren demanded: "What does it take? How many billions of dollars do you have to launder for drug lords" before a criminal prosecution? Judging by the actions of Obama's Justice Department, apparently the sky's the limit. But if history is any guide to current Citigroup "lapses," you can bet that the bank's balance sheet is awash with dirty money. As a prelude to the Federal Reserve's Consent Order, last April the Office of the Currency (OCC) issued a cease-and-desist order charging Citigroup with "deficiencies in its BSA/AML compliance program." OCC regulators stated that the bank had "failed to adopt and implement a compliance program that adequately covers the required BSA/AML program elements due to an inadequate system of internal controls and ineffective independent testing." According to OCC, Citigroup "did not develop adequate due diligence on foreign correspondent bank customers and failed to file Suspicious Activity Reports ('SARs') related to its remote deposit capture/international cash letter instrument activity in a timely manner." In their infinite wisdom, the Federal Reserve did not include fines against the bank, but the Board of Governors hastened to assure Citigroup's masters (their future employers?) that the Consent Order was issued "solely for the purpose of settling this matter without a formal proceeding being filed and without the necessity for protracted or extended hearings or testimony." You bet it was! Citigroup and Banamex: The Salinas Affair If all this sounds familiar, it should. One of the more infamous cases involving taxpayer bailed-out Citigroup's ties to money laundering drug cartels emerged in the late 1990s when Ra'ul Salinas de Gortari, the brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas, was arrested after his wife, Paulina Casta~n'on, attempted to withdraw $84 million from a Swiss account controlled by Ra'ul under an alias. Salinas, who spent ten years in prison over the murder of his brother-in-law, political rival Jos'e Francisco Ruiz, was released in 2005 when a Mexican appeals court overturned that conviction. After nearly 13 years of legal proceedings into the origins of the Salinas fortune, SwissInfo reported that "Switzerland will hand over $74 million (SFr77.3 million) to Mexico from bank accounts linked to the brother of a former Mexican president." "The funds--more than $110 million in bank accounts linked to Ra'ul Salinas--were originally frozen after the Swiss authorities initiated criminal proceedings against Salinas in 1995 for money laundering." But as Narco News investigative journalist Al Giordano reported back in 2000, "The Chief Operating Officers of drug trafficking are not Mexicans, nor Colombians: they are US and European bankers, those who launder the illicit proceeds of drug trafficking. Institutions like Citibank of New York--as this report documents--are the true beneficiaries of the prohibition on drugs and its illegal profits." Indeed, "some of these men," Giordano asserted, "like Banamex CEO Roberto Hern'andez Ram'irez--are rags-to-riches stories. Hern'andez, according to Forbes magazine, could not afford to finance an American Express credit card in 1980. Today he earns the largest annual salary in Mexico--reported as $29 million dollars--and is a billionaire presiding over Mexico's top banking institution." According to Narco News , when former President Carlos Salinas initiated bank privatization during the 1990s at the urging of the Bush and Clinton administrations, "the single biggest winner" was none other than his old pal Roberto Hern'andez. And Hern'andez, according to investigative journalist Mario R. Men'endez Rodr'iguez, the editor of Por Esto! , was "the financial engineer of the Gulf Cartel, launched in the 1980s by Juan N. Guerra and based in the Texas border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas." Reprising their earlier investigations, Giordano reported that "Hern'andez had been accused--publicly and via a criminal complaint--by the daily newspaper Por Esto! of trafficking tons of Colombian cocaine through his Caribbean costa properties on that peninsula since 1997." "The newspaper," Narco News averred, "published photos of the drugs, the smuggling boats, the Colombian garbage strewn upon the shores, the airfield and small airplanes that, witnesses testified, brought the cocaine north to the United States, with confirmation from sources as diverse as local fishermen and high officials of the Mexican Armed Forces." For their investigative efforts both Giordano and Men'endez were sued for libel by Banamex and Hern'andez in 2000, a case summarily dismissed by the New York Supreme Court, which "established, for the first time, First Amendment protections for Internet journalists in the United States." Banamex was bought by Citigroup in 2001 for the then princely sum of $12.5 billion (lb8.21bn). As El Universal Gr'afico journalist Jos'e Mart'inez reported at the time of the Citibank-Banamex buy out, "One of the mechanisms utilized by Mexican investors is the opening of secret accounts in foreign banks that have business in this country. There, the exclusive Citibank, for decades, has been the preferred bank of the elite of wealthy and powerful people involved in the middle of scandal. In recent years this financial institution has been involved in innumerable cases connected to the management of dirty money." According to Mart'inez, "Citibank has been linked to the political scandals derived from the diversion of funds by part of the Mexican elite, among them some narco-traffickers." And as Mexico City's Milenio newspaper columnist Jorge Fern'andez Men'endez detailed in his 1999 book Narcotr'afico y Poder in reference to Ra'ul Salinas: The relation of of Ra'ul Salinas with the Gulf Cartel presumably surged at the end of the 1980s and began with Juan N. Guerra, who since the middle of the decade had led this organization dedicated to drug trafficking (above all, marijuana) and contraband. In 1989, Guerra made various investments in construction projects, mainly in Villahermosa, with Ra'ul Salinas. But, already an old man with grave health problems, with a limited vision of his activity, Juan N. Guerra was not the ideal individual to head the project that would be settled by the strong growth of the Cali Cartel: the change from marijuana to cocaine. Fern'andez noted that when the Gulf Cartel was taken over by Juan Garc'ia Abrego, "...as the person responsible for the operation of the cartel, Ra'ul Salinas de Gortari as the presumed chief of political relations and power of the same." Never mind that before his arrest on money laundering charges, Ra'ul only earned an annual salary of $190,000 as a "public servant," Swiss and US investigators uncovered an illicit cash horde to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Where did Salinas' money come from? In addition to the outright theft of funds from the Treasury as alleged by federal prosecutors in Mexico, according to a 1995 Los Angeles Times report, Salinas "amassed at least $100 million in suspected drug money." Switzerland's top prosecutor at the time, Carla del Ponte, "launched the investigation after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supplied information that led Swiss agents to the accounts in Geneva, where they arrested Ra'ul Salinas' wife and her brother on Nov. 15 as the pair attempted to withdraw more than $83 million." Del Ponte told the Los Angeles Times that after observing Salinas' interrogation by Mexican federal prosecutors the sums found in those accounts were "suspected to be from the laundering of money related to narcotics trafficking." In 1998, when Swiss prosecutors completed their Salinas investigation, The New York Times disclosed that "Swiss police investigators have concluded that a brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari played a central role in Mexico's cocaine trade, raking in huge bribes to protect the flow of drugs into the United States." That Swiss report stated, "When Carlos Salinas de Gortari became President of Mexico in 1988, Ra'ul Salinas de Gortari assumed control over practically all drug shipments through Mexico. Through his influence and bribes paid with drug money, officials of the army and the police supported and protected the flourishing drug business." Leveraging "a low-profile position in the administration's food-distribution agency," Swiss investigators revealed that "Ra'ul Salinas commandeered Government trucks and railroad cars to haul cocaine north, skimming payoffs that the Swiss estimate at upwards of $500 million. On what some of his reputed former associates referred to as 'green light days,' he arranged for drug loads to transit Mexico without concern that they might be checked by the army, the coast guard or the federal police." But without the complicity of major banks, amassing and then hiding, that much loot would be impossible. Enter Citibank's "Private Banking" division. A 1998 report by the General Accounting Office ( GAO ) pointed a finger directly at Citibank. Investigators revealed that "Mr. Salinas was able to transfer $90 million to $100 million between 1992 and 1994 by using a private banking relationship formed by Citibank New York in 1992. The funds were transferred through Citibank Mexico and Citibank New York to private banking investment accounts in Citibank London and Citibank Switzerland." With the connivance of bank officials, in 1992 Salinas was able to "effectively disguise" the source of those funds and their destination. Indeed, with hefty fees secured from assisting their well-connected client Salinas, Citibank "set up an offshore private investment company named Trocca, to hold Mr. Salinas's assets, through Cititrust (Cayman) and investment accounts in Citibank London and Citibank Switzerland." Forget due diligence or "know your customer" (KYC) rules firmly in place under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Citibank "waived bank references for Mr. Salinas and did not prepare a financial profile on him or request a waiver for the profile, as required by then Citibank know your customer policy" and "facilitated Mrs. Salinas's use of another name to initiate fund transfers in Mexico." This should have triggered alarm bells over at OCC, but like today's banking scandals involving Wachovia, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase, US "regulators" sat on their hands and did nothing. Eager to extract those fees from a dodgy client, Citibank's Vice President for Legal Affairs was forced to admit to GAO investigators that the bank "only" violated one aspect of their KYC policy, their failure to prepare a financial profile of Salinas. However, a 1999 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report on "Private Banking and Money Laundering" revealed that "a culture of secrecy pervades the private banking industry." "For example," Senate investigators disclosed, "in the case of Raul Salinas . . . the private bank hid Mr. Salinas' ownership of Trocca by omitting his name from the Trocca incorporation papers and naming still other shell companies as the shareholders, directors, and officers. Citibank consistently referred to Mr. Salinas in internal bank communications by the code name 'Confidential Client Number 2' or 'CC-2.' The private bank's Swiss office opened a special name account for him under the name of 'Bonaparte'." And despite the fact, as Senate staff averred, "Federal Reserve examiners stated in internal documents that the Citibank private bank lagged behind other private banks they had reviewed," and that Citi's Swiss headquarters had received the "worst possible audit rating" in 1995, and that Citibank's "poor audit score were 'not taken seriously' within the private bank," no regulatory action was taken. Two years later, a Federal Reserve examiner wrote: "The auditors are a key asset of . The problem is that for years audit has been identifying problems and nothing has been done about it. In 1992 66% favorable audits in 1997 the percentage of favorable audits was 62%. ... It appears that there are no consequences for bad audits as long as meets their financial goals." Bingo! As Time Magazine investigative journalist S.C. Gwynne reported at the time, Citibank and the soon-to-be-merged with Travelers behemoth now known as Citigroup (that 1998 merger was illegal under Glass-Steagall, but that's another story, one which directly correlates to the Act's 1999 repeal by the Clinton crime family and their Republican co-conspirators in Congress), private banking for upscale clients with the means to invest at $1 million "is now the crown jewel in the financial giant's strategy for growth." "That strategy," Gwynne wrote, "calls for Citibank and its parent, Citigroup, to reduce their reliance on cyclical corporate and real estate lending, which tends to be high risk and relatively low profit. It will emphasize the lower-risk, higher-margin business of consumer banking--and especially one-stop financial shopping for the world's booming population of the newly rich." Keep in mind, Gwynne was writing in 1998 before the real estate bubble was inflated and Wall Street banksters dove head first into the dubious "residential mortgage" marketing machine that nearly sunk, and still threatens to sink, the capitalist economy under endless waves of fraud and corruption. "At Citigroup and like-minded institutions around the world," Gwynne noted, "folks with six- and seven-figure portfolios can find not only traditional banking services like checking and savings accounts but also strategic financial advice; introduction to high-yield investment vehicles like hedge funds; tax advice and accounting; estate planning and all manner of insurance. They can also get help in protecting their assets from potential claimants like creditors and ex-spouses, which can involve moving money discreetly from country to country." Indeed, private banking funds were "part of a $17 trillion global pool of money belonging to what bankers euphemistically call 'high-net-worth individuals'--a pool that generates more than $150 billion a year in banking revenue." Hidey holes in the Cayman Islands and other destinations used for squirreling-away illicit cash, such as the world's largest financial black holes, the US State of Delaware and the City of London, remain convenient resting places for loot amassed by various global narcotics combines. Limited at the time by an "ongoing Department of Justice investigation," a lawyerly dodge that prevents corporate criminality from ever coming to light, GAO investigators "could not determine whether Citibank's actions violated law or regulation." The Federal Reserve were also less than forthcoming and "did not comment on whether Citibank's actions were violations because information available to it at the time we inquired was insufficient for it to make a determination." According to asleep at the wheel regulators at OCC, Citibank's "actions did not violate civil aspects of the Bank Secrecy Act" since under rules then in place "private banking's know your customer policies are voluntary and not governed by law or regulation." But as the Mexican weekly news magazine Proceso reported in 2001 during the Salinas affair, "Citibank of New York was transferring Ju'arez drug cartel money to Uruguay and Argentina, where Mexican drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes and his associates went calmly about their business, with help from local politicians and businessmen. Not long after, investigations would reveal that in 1998-99, more than $300 million belonging to Mexican drug traffickers went through Citibank." As El Universal Gr'afico noted, when the self-described "Lord of the Heavens" sought refuge in South America, he "had account # 36111386 in Citibank of New York. From this place, the financial operators of the narco-trafficker passed large sums in millions of dollars to ghost banks like MA Bank of the fiscal paradise of the Cayman Islands." In late 2000, when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations again began looking into drug money laundering allegations against Citibank, they received information from Argentine legislators who claimed there was "a gigantic political-financial conspiracy involving even Citibank President John Reed." Years later, those suspicions were corroborated when a US investigation, Operation Casablanca, "revealed that the Ju'arez cartel entered Argentina through two Citibank accounts and others in shell banks in the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas." Juan Miguel Ponce, the head of Mexico's Interpol branch, "took advantage of Operation Casablanca to explore the vein of Ju'arez cartel allies in Argentina. He claims to have discovered documents in Mexico proving that large contributions were made by the cartel to 1999 campaign in Argentina of Peronist presidential and vice presidential candidates Eduardo Duhalde and Ramon 'Palito' Ortega," Proceso disclosed As James Petras reported in 2001, when Salinas was arrested "and his large-scale theft of government funds was exposed, his private bank manager at Citibank, Amy Elliott, said in a phone conversation with colleagues (the transcript of which was made available to Congressional investigators) that 'this goes in the very, very top of the corporation, this was known ... on the very top. We are little pawns in this whole thing'." Fast forward twelve years: More than 120,000 Mexican citizens have paid with their lives as a result of the grisly trade and the American people are still the pawns of "plutonomic" banksters whose "wealth waves" come from the perverse influence bought by oceans of drug money flowing through a thoroughly corrupt capitalist system. http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2013/04/toothless-federal-reserve-enforcement.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a0_1365779383 absu69 Toothless Federal Reserve 'Enforcement Action' Hands Citigroup/Banamex a Pass Over Drug Money Laundering(Long Read) federal,reserve,money,laundering Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:07:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45e_1348448967 NightCrawler Today (September 23, 2012) concluded this year's California International Airshow in Salinas. The airshow spans two days and had an exciting line up this time around. I attend annually and always have a blast. I left my DSLR at home, my apologies, so all of the photos have been taken with my iPhone 4. I'll do my best to annotate each image, but I cannot remember the names of all of the planes (perhaps some of you can help me out). I hope you all enjoy the images (I skipped the monster trucks and planes landing on school buses, because they are common and have only been seen 400 times.) More information can be found here: http://www.salinasairshow.com/index.htm (Not advertising the site) Again, sorry about the poor picture quality; enjoy: After 30 minutes of parking troubles, the main "gate" is in sight; as well as the C-17 Globemaster. A quick peek inside the C-17; it amazes me that a bigger plane can exist. C-17 Ramp C-17 Wheel fairings. Several C-130s from the Air National Guard, and an MH60S Propellor of a C-130J Super Hercules Refueling Hose of a KC-130 Sensor Package Landing Lights C-130 Propellor Better view of the C-130s lined up. Canadian F/A-18 Patriots Jet Team lined up L-39 Albatross; interesting seeing it up close, and not on fire over Syria T-6 Texan (Thanks to Nepean109) E-4 Hawkeye (Thanks to Aariss); saw this guy take off while I was driving back home. MH60S C-130J HH-60 Pavehawk Upgraded (and expensive as hell!) Hummer H1, sponsoring World of Tanks and World of War games. Had Razer Blade gaming laptops and Razer Naga mice. Visit: http://na.wargaming.net/ http://www.razerzone.com/ T-6 Texan (Thanks to Nepean109) A-4 Skyhawk (Thanks to Aariss) "Bambi Bucket" used for water-drops from a helicopter. Looks small in videos, but it was nearly bigger than me Never too old for a jumbo-snowcone http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45e_1348448967 NightCrawler California International Airshow 2012 | <span class="highlight">Salinas</span>, California salinas, california, international, airshow, 2012 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:50:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ff_1309642608 VicRoque By Deena on September 21, 2010 Shadowscope's Sick Crimes Officer Lance M. Mosher SALINAS, CA - Pacific Grove Police have arrested Lance Mosher, 44, a Salinas Police Officer on charges of child molestation. Mosher who lives in Pebble Beach was arrested Tuesday Sept. 14, but has been released on a $200,000 bond. The incident happened in 2007, according to the victim. Mosher has been charged with 1 count of lewd acts with a minor and 1 count of penetration with a foreign object. Mosher has been on administrative leave, since the allegations came up last spring. The Pacific Grove and Salinas Polices Departments launched 2 seperate investigations. Source: http://www.sickcrimes.us **UPDATE** Posted: 07/01/2011 01:49:22 AM PDT Ex-Salinas officer pleads no contest in molest case Lance Mosher seeks felony probation in plea deal By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY Herald Salinas Bureau A former Salinas police officer has pleaded no contest to molesting a 12-year-old girl. Lance Mosher, 45, entered the plea late Wednesday on the condition he be sentenced to felony probation, which can carry up to one year in jail. Judge Russell Scott agreed he would offer no opinion on the issue of Mosher serving any jail time on home confinement. He will be sentenced Sept. 23. Mosher worked at the Salinas Police Department from 2004 until he was placed on paid administrative leave following his arrest in September. According to testimony at his preliminary hearing, the girl reluctantly told District Attorney Investigator Christina Gunter in September that Mosher had once touched her sexually, and made her touch him, sometime between late 2005 and spring 2006. On two subsequent occasions, she told Gunter, Mosher kissed her in a way that "made her uncomfortable." Marina police Sgt. Jeff Carr testified that an emotional Mosher had confessed to a family member that he inappropriately touched the girl. Source: http://www.montereyherald.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ff_1309642608 VicRoque <span class="highlight">Salinas</span>, CA Police Officer arrested for Child Molestation Home / Child Molesters, Crime, Police and Law Enforcement, Sex Crimes / Salinas, CA Police Officer arrested for Child Molestation Salinas, CA Police Officer arrested for Child Molestation Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:30:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d5a_1315322780 yorba The recent announcement that California's unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent-second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada-should have come as a surprise but frankly did not. From the beginning of the recession, the Golden State has been stuck bringing up a humbled nation's rear and seems mired in that less-than-illustrious position.What has happened to my adopted home state of over last decade is a tragedy, both for Californians and for America. For most of the past century, California has been "golden" not only in name but in every kind of superlative-a global leader in agriculture, energy, entertainment, technology, and most important of all, human aspiration.In its modern origins California was paean to progress in the best sense of the word. In 1872, the second president of the University of California, Daniel Coit Gilman, said science was "the mother of California." Today, California may worship at the altar of science, but increasingly in the most regressive, hysterical, and reactionary way.California's dominant ruling class-consisting of public-employee unions, green jihadis, and Democratic machine politicians-has no real use for science as Gilman saw it: as a way to create prosperity for its citizens. Instead, the prevailing credo of the state has been how to do everything possible to return to its pre-settlement condition, with little regard for what that means to the average Californian.Nowhere was California's old technological ethos more pronounced than in agriculture, where great Californians such as William Mulholland, creator of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and Pat Brown, who forged the state water project, created the greatest water-delivery system since the Roman Empire. Their effort brought water from the ice-bound Sierra Nevada mountains down to the state's dry but fertile valleys and to the great desert metropolis of Southern California. Now, largely at the behest of greens, California agriculture is being systematically cut down by regulation. In an attempt to protect a small fish called the Delta smelt, upward of 200,000 acres of prime farmland have been idled, according to the state's Department of Conservation. Even in the current "wet" cycle, California's agricultural industry, which exports roughly $14 billion annually, is slowly being decimated. Unemployment in some Central Valley towns tops 30 percent, and in cases even 40 percent.And now, notes my friend, Salinas Mayor Dennis Donohue, green regulators are imposing new groundwater regulations that may force the shutdown of production even in areas like his that have their own ample water supplies.Salinas was the home town of John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath and great chronicler of Depression-era California. Today for many in hardscrabble, majority-Latino Salinas, home to 150,000 people, The Grapes of Wrath is less lyrical than real. "California," notes Donohue, a lifelong Democrat, "remains intent on job destruction and continued hyper-regulation."California's pain is not restricted to farming towns. The state's regulatory vigilantes have erected a labyrinth of rules that increasingly makes doing almost anything that might contribute to increased carbon emissions-manufacturing, conventional energy, home construction-extraordinarily onerous. Not surprisingly, the state has not gained middle-skilled jobs (those requiring two years of college or more) for a decade, while the nation boosted them by 5 percent and archrival Texas by a stunning 16 percent over the same time period.There is little chance that the jobs lost in these fields will ever be recovered under the current regime. As decent blue-collar and midlevel jobs disappear, California has gone from a rate of inequality about the national average in 1970, to among the most unequal in terms of income. The supposed solution to this-Gov. Jerry Brown's promise of 500,000 "green jobs"-is being shown for what it really is, the kind of fantasy you tell young children so they will go to sleep.Many Californians who aren't slumbering are moving out of the state-and not only the pathetic remains of the old Reaganite majority. According to the most recent census, those leaving the state include old boomers, middle-aged families, and increasingly, many Latinos as well. Outmigration rates from places like Los Angeles and the Bay Area now rival those of such cities as Detroit. In the last decade, California's population grew only 10 percent, about the national average, largely due to immigrants and their offspring. Population increases in the Bay Area were less than half that rate, while the City of Los Angeles gained fewer new residents-less than 100,000-than in any decade since the turn of the last century!Increasingly, California no longer beckons ambitious newcomers, except for a handful of the most affluent, best educated, and well connected. Through the 1980s and even through the late '90s, the aspirational classes came to California. Now they head to other, more opportunity-friendly places like Austin, Houston, Dallas, Raleigh-Durham, even former "dust bowl" burghs like Des Moines, Omaha, and Oklahoma City. Meanwhile, Golden California, particularly its expensive, ultragreen coast, gets older and older. Marin County, the onetime home of the Grateful Dead and countless former hippies, is now one of the grayest urban counties in the country, with a median age of 44.Of course, the self-described "progressive" mafia that runs California will point to Silicon Valley and its impressive array of startups. But for the most part, firms like Google, Twitter, and Facebook employ only a small cadre of highly educated workers. Overall, during the past decade the state's high-tech employment fell by almost 4 percent, while Texas's science-based employment grew by a healthy 11 percent. The sad reality is that turning T-shirt-wearing kids like Mark Zuckerberg into multibillionaires doesn't do much to reduce unemployment, which even in San Jose-the largely blue-collar "capital" of Silicon Valley-now hovers around 10 percent.Magazine cover stories and movies cannot obscure the fact that entrepreneurial growth-the state's most critical economic asset-has now stalled. In fact, according to a study by Economic Modeling Specialists Inc., last year the Golden State ranked 50th among the states in creating new businesses.California remains rich in promise, home to spectacular scenery; a great Pacific location; leading firms like Apple and Disney; and a still-impressive residue of talented, diverse, entrepreneurial, and ingenious people. But the state will never return until the success of the current crop of puerile billionaires can be extended to enrich the wider citizenry. Until the current regime is toppled, California's decline-in moral as well as economic terms-will continue, to the consternation of those of us who embraced it as our home for so many years. http://www.newgeography.com/content/002415-the-golden-state-is-crumbling http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d5a_1315322780 yorba The Golden State is Crumbling california, economic disarray, green jihadists, progressives, Democrats, salinas, farming, Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:25:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fc8_1301984437 SSstormtr00per No flying,just parking the jets. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fc8_1301984437 SSstormtr00per Canadian Forces Hornets visit <span class="highlight">Salinas</span> California-One with cool NORAD paint job on the tail RCAF,Canadian Air Force,CF-18 Hornet,NORAD Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:09:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a93_1277593552 marinemom Looks like he wasn't too popular in jail. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a93_1277593552 marinemom Jail Inmates Beat Father Who Attempted To Sell His Baby For $25 patrick fousek, jail, beating, beaten, sell baby for $25, salinas, CA Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:38:49 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d6d_1358523347 absu69 As a sop to outraged public opinion over Wall Street's looting of the real economy, criminal banksters are coming under increased scrutiny by federal regulators. Scrutiny however, is not the same thing as enforcement of laws such as the Bank Secrecy Act and other regulatory measures meant to stop the flow of dirty money from organized crime into the financial system. And never mind that President Obama and his hand-picked coterie of insiders from Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo (all of whom figured prominently in recent narcotics scandals) are moving to impose Eurozone-style austerity measures that threaten to ravage the social safety net, the American people are spoon-fed a pack of lies that this cabal will protect their interests and enforce the law when it comes to drug money laundering. Late last week, Reuters reported that "U.S. regulators are expected to order JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co to correct lapses in how it polices suspect money flows ... in the latest move by officials to force banks to tighten their anti money-laundering systems." In December, the Department of Justice cobbled together a widely criticized deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Europe's largest bank, HSBC, over charges that the institution, founded in 1865 by British drug lords when the British Crown seized Hong Kong from China in the wake of the First Opium War, knowingly laundered billions of dollars in drug and terrorist money for some of the most violent gangsters on earth. Despite the fact that DOJ imposed a $1.9 billion (lb1.2bn) fine which included $655 million (lb408m) in civil penalties, not a single senior officer at HSBC was criminally charged with enabling Mexican drug cartels and Al Qaeda terrorists to illegally move money through its American subsidiaries. More outrageously, even when stiff fines are levied against criminal banks and corporations, as likely as not "some or all of these payments will probably be tax-deductible. The banks can claim them as business expenses. Taxpayers, therefore, will likely lighten the banks' loads," The New York Times disclosed. "The action against JPMorgan," Reuters reported, "would be in the form of a cease-and-desist order, which regulators use to force banks to improve compliance weaknesses, the sources said. JPMorgan will probably not have to pay a monetary penalty, one of the sources said." Read that sentence again. America's largest bank, responsible for some of the worst depredations of the housing crisis which tossed millions of citizens out of their homes and fined $7.3 billion (lb4.53bn) for doing so, will not be fined nor will their officers be criminally charged for presumably washing black money for organized crime. Despite the recklessness of senior officials at JPMorgan, including CEO Jamie Dimon, former CFO Doug Braunstein and former CIO Ina Drew over the bank's massive losses in the credit derivatives market last year, Bloomberg News reported that the board will only "consider" whether to release a report on the fiasco which wiped out close to $51 billion in shareholder value at this "too big to fail" bank. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), severely criticized by the US Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in their 335-page report into HSBC, along with the Federal Reserve are expected to issue the cease-and-desist order as early as this week. Last April however, when OCC issued a cease-and-desist order against Citigroup for alleged "gaps" in their oversight of cash transactions similar to those of drug-tainted HSBC and Wells-owned Wachovia, which laundered hundreds of billions of dollars for narcotics traffickers through dodgy cash exchange houses in Mexico, no monetary penalties were attached. A "person close" to Citigroup "attributed part of the problem to an accident when a computer was unplugged from anti-money-laundering systems," according to The New York Times . While such bald-faced misrepresentations may pass muster with America's "newspaper of record," Citigroup's sorry history when it comes to facilitating criminal money flows is not so easily swept under the rug. Late last year investigative journalist Bill Conroy reported in Narco News : "In the 1990s, Raul Salinas de Gortari, the brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas, tapped US-based Citibank to help transfer up to $100 million out of Mexico and into Swiss bank accounts. Although US authorities investigated the suspicious money movements, ultimately no charges were brought against Raul Salinas or Citibank--a Citigroup Inc. subsidiary." "Again," Conroy reported, "in January 2010, Citigroup popped up on banking regulators' radar, this time in Mexico, when a Mexican judge accused a half dozen casa de cambios (money transmitters) of laundering drug funds through various banks, including Citigroup's Mexican subsidiary. In that case, Citigroup again was not accused of violating any laws." However, despite that fact that the OCC's cease-and-desist order against Citigroup accused the bank of systemic "internal control weaknesses" that opened the institution up to shady transactions by "high-risk customers," presumably including flush-with-cash narcotics traffickers, the bank was not indicted for criminal violations under the Bank Secrecy Act and did not admit wrongdoing, instead promising to "institute reforms." As with Wachovia and HSBC, OCC charged that Citigroup's "lapses" included "the incomplete identification of high risk customers in multiple areas of the bank, inability to assess and monitor client relationships on a bank-wide basis, inadequate scope of periodic reviews of customers, weaknesses in the scope and documentation of the validation and optimization process applied to the automated transaction monitoring system, and inadequate customer due diligence." Additionally, Citigroup "failed to adequately conduct customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence on its foreign correspondent customers, its retail banking customers, and its international personal banking customers and did not properly obtain and analyze information to ascertain the risk and expected activity of particular customers." According to OCC auditors, Citigroup "self-reported" that "from 2006 through 2010, the Bank failed to adequately monitor its remote deposit capture/international cash letter instrument processing in connection with foreign correspondent banking." As I have pointed out, correspondent and private banking are gateways for laundering drug and other criminal money flows. In other words, replicating patterns employed for decades by the world's leading financial institutions, organized criminals and terrorist financiers were enabled, with a wink-and-a-nod by the US government, above all by US secret state agencies which siphoned off part of the loot for covert operations, to wash black cash through the system as a whole. Already stung by billions of dollars in losses due to risky trades in credit derivatives as noted above, MoneyWatch reported "CEO Jamie Dimon can't blame this on a 'flawed, complex, poorly reviewed, poorly executed and poorly monitored' strategy, like he did when the bank lost $6.2 billion on the so-called 'London Whale' trade." "In many ways," reporter Jill Schlesinger wrote, "the current potential regulatory action is worse than any trading loss, because it indicates a systemic lapse in controls." According to MoneyWatch , regulators "appear to have found a company-wide lapse in procedures and oversight connected to anti-money-laundering (AML) surveillance and risk management. AML controls are intended to deter and detect the misuse of legitimate financial channels for the funding of money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal acts." But there's the rub; federal regulators are loathe to police, let alone hold to account those responsible for such illicit transactions precisely because the infusion of dirty money into the system is a splendid means to keep failed capitalist financial institutions afloat, a process which Global Research political analyst Michel Chossudovsky has termed "the criminalization of the state." In fact, as former London Metropolitan Police financial crimes specialist Rowan Bosworth-Davies recently wrote on his website : "These institutions exist ... to handle and facilitate the through-put of the staggering volume of criminal and dirty money which daily flows through the financial sector, because the profits there from are just so incredibly valuable." "The biggest problem for these banks," Bosworth-Davies observed, "is that by far the greatest amount of this money is illegal to handle under international money laundering laws. All banking institutions are now effectively subject to international laws which prohibit the handling or the facilitation of criminally-acquired money from whatever source, and that money includes the proceeds of drug trafficking, all other criminal activities (including tax evasion), and the proceeds of terrorism." Indeed, "The money they were moving was so huge ... that it became very easy to persuade Governments to turn a blind eye, while regulators were encouraged to look the other way, when the banks began engaging in a series of wholesale criminal activities." Until OCC reveals the content of its cease-and-desist order pending against JPMorgan Chase we do not know the extent of the bank's potential criminal "lapses" under the Bank Secrecy Act. However, as Reuters reported although "no immediate action is expected from US prosecutors," it is a near certainty that the federal government and complicit media will disappear whatever dirty secrets eventually emerge down the proverbial memory hole. http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d6d_1358523347 absu69 Will JPMorgan Chase Be Held to Account for Money Laundering 'Lapses' by US Regulators? jpmorgan,jp,morgan,money,laundering Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:29:37 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=555_1352838145 Bob_Lablaw The study found that 225,000 California residents are leaving the state per year, and most of the "destination states favored by Californians have lower taxes." California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday said California would start a tax-increase wave across the nation, but recent history suggests California's tax increases will only accelerate the number of people who will leave California to other states with better tax climates. When asked whether California was going to start a "tax-increase sweep" across the nation on CNN's "State of the Union," Brown agreed. He said more people nationally will have to "share" more of the wealth they "extracted" to fund "collective" government. But a Manhattan Institute study released in September found excessive regulations and high taxes forced business and California residents to flee the state en masse since 1990 to more economically friendly states like Texas. The study found that 225,000 California residents are leaving the state per year, and most of the "destination states favored by Californians have lower taxes." Last Tuesday, Californians approved Proposition 30, which was Brown's plan to raise rates on incomes above $250,000, with those making over $1 million having to pay a top marginal state income tax rate of 13.3%, which is the highest such rate of any state. Voters also approved of a statewide sales-tax increase. Democrats also now have a supermajority in the state legislature , which means they can pass more tax increases. Proposition 13 amended the state Constitution to require a two-thirds majority in both houses of the state legislature for any increase in taxes. There was more. Many of California's municipalities voted for additional tax increases , on top of the statewide tax increases. Voters in Carmel-by-the-Sea, where Clint Eastwood served as mayor, voted to increase the sales tax by one- cent for 10 years, which will be used to fund pensions and capital projects like maintaining streets. Voters in Healdsburg and Santa Clara County approved of half-cent sales-tax increases. Other municipalities whose residents voted for sales-tax increases include: Fresno, Marin, Napa, and Santa Clara counties and the cities of Albany, Capitola, Culver City, Moraga, Orinda, Salinas, Vacaville and Williams. When more people who actually pay taxes in California begin leaving the state at a faster rate, California and its municipalities will have trouble finding enough people to tax and attracting business and entrepreneurs to the state. http://tinyurl.com/a2valw3 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=555_1352838145 Bob_Lablaw More Californians Will Flee State After Recent Tax Increases economy,taxes,california,galt Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:21:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=18d_1351898317 dingledd salinas california Rodeo Horse, Leg Broken, Forced to Run , http://rodeocruelty.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=18d_1351898317 dingledd California Rodeo Horse, Leg Broken, Forced to Run rodeo , horse , cruelty , california , Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:53:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0e1_1348613197 Ripper727 "While both candidates for president appeared in separate Univision forums in Florida this week, Republican candidate Mitt Romney secured himself several advantages over President Obama, according to a report by Buzzfeed's McKay Coppins. Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas told Buzzfeed that while both candidates had agreed to distribute their share of tickets mainly to students, Romney's campaign reneged at the last minute, demanding to bus in activists to fill the seats. Salinas also said Romney forced Univision to re-shoot his introduction by refusing to come onstage until they relented...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0e1_1348613197 Ripper727 Univision Anchor: Mitt Romney Demanded Favorable Crowd Univision,Mitt Romney,Obama,2012,Tea Party,The Young Turks,Cenk Uygur