Yesterday Michael Paul forwarded us a 43 trillion dollar racketeering lawsuit filed in New York State. In that attached lawsuit it appears that Judicial Council Watcher and those affiliated with us are alleged to have been placed on the “Nixonian enemies list of the Obama Administration” . (page 34)
Say What?
One of our people mentioned the “I’m somebody” skit in Steve Martin’s movie “The Jerk” with a little quip about JCW being somebody because we were identified as being maintained on an enemy of the state list in a 43 trillion dollar racketeering lawsuit. Luckily it does not appear TSA has taken this list seriously yet and we haven’t yet made the no-fly list……
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Other interesting tidbits in the lawsuit: An allegation on page 36 regarding a Tony West / Kamala Harris Syndicate that stole over 590 million from you and a Holder – George syndicate (Yes, that George) that stole at least 500 million from you.
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Meanwhile back at the ranch, our Chief Justice started our last JC meeting by telling people that if someone brings a problem in the branch to the attention of the judicial council that they’re obligated to resolve it.
Uh-huh.
When pigs fly.
They’re obligated to resolve it if it is actually a problem but through OGC machinations, problems tend to become policy. That’s about the time when OGA and communications (fondly referred to as California’s Ministry of Truth and Enlightenment) goes out and sells that trash to legislators and to the public and tries to sell it to the rest of the branch.
Regrettably this time around we did not sit in or listen to this months JC meeting due to resource conflicts but we hear that there is now a new street term for not speaking with one voice.
“I’m going to go all Westley on you “
Let’s hope the term doesn’t catch on.
Much like most of you, we’ve also been tracking the Prop 30 and Prop 38 debacle. Standing on one shoulder is the “employee and public advocacy” angel that is whispering in our ear that we sincerely hope Prop 30 passes because the resultant cuts will shut down our justice system if they materialize. That angel tells us that our branch and our individual courts need more funding.
On the other shoulder is that sharp-tailed fellow with horns that tells us that our taxes currently put us at number 4 in the nation for taxation. That people pay a court reporter fee with every civil filing but are not entitled to a court reporter even though they paid the fee. Then we have the AOC’s ghost fleet of enterprise rent-a-cars that is used primarily by OCCM. We have over 500 boards and commissions where former politicians man cushy appointed positions after they leave office. Some become judges and justices in that legislative horse trade. And we need 246 more of those types of appointments to accommodate future appointees. We build some of the world’s most expensive public buildings. Deferred maintenance by the state under the AOC is far worse than deferred maintenance ever got under county control and is currently weighing in at an estimated 2.5 billion dollars. But the JC has much larger priorities like CCMS.
We have Caltrans who recently was forced to sell over 1,600 vehicles that has gone out and replaced those vehicles with rentals at a substantially higher cost than Caltrans fleet vehicles. We have the CCMS debacle which was a colossal waste of public funds. We have Mr. Kelso pension-spiking himself via the AOC. We let Vickrey and Overholt retire and keep their pensions when they should have been indicted and we are currently watching the death star engage in an eighteen month delay at reforms after a previous eighteen month delay under the auspices of studying the issues. We all know in the end that seventeen months from now, the AOC will be much larger than it is today, there will be more employees, managers and supervisors and a myriad of other unfunded divisions and positions justified because Sacramento changed some law. The Governor confiscated about a third of the cellphones in this state only to watch other state employees erase that savings with government funded i-pads and data plans.
Basically our state overspending brings us to a fiscal cliff year after year. California government does nothing to ferret out fraud, waste and abuse and prosecute it. Corruption and a tremendous amount of self-dealing appears to be the latest of entitlement programs. And that little sharp tailed character with horns wants us to tell the state to clean up their own house before you reach into my pocket, knowing the only way to get the job done is to turn off the money spigot to Sacramento – and to the Judicial Council in San Francisco.
Related articles
- Taxes and the lack of accountability quandry (judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com)
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From Wikipedia:
The Ministry of Truth is involved with news media, entertainment, the fine arts and educational books. Its purpose is to rewrite history and change the facts to fit Party doctrine for propaganda effect. For example, if Big Brother (or in this case the Judicial Council or the AOC) makes a prediction that turns out to be wrong, the employees of the Ministry of Truth go back and rewrite the prediction so that any prediction Big Brother previously made is accurate. This is the “how” of the Ministry of Truth’s existence.
Within the novel Orwell elaborates that the deeper reason for its existence is to maintain the illusion that the Party is absolute. It cannot ever seem to change its mind (if, for instance, they perform one of their constant changes regarding enemies during war) or make a mistake (firing an official or making a grossly misjudged supply prediction), for that would imply weakness and to maintain power the Party must seem eternally right and strong.
Sound familiar?
unionman575
October 27, 2012
Wendy Darling
October 27, 2012
“When pigs fly.” And hell freezes over.
At the same time.
Long live the ACJ.
wearyant
October 27, 2012
JCW, you have mail.
wearyant
October 28, 2012
From BeforeIt’sNews dot com:
http://beforeitsnews.com/banksters/2012/10/this-is-huge-the-cabal-is-going-down-banksters-targets-of-spire-law-group-llps-racketeering-and-money-laundering-lawsuit-seeking-return-of-43-trillion-to-the-us-treasury-2432110.html
wearyant
October 28, 2012
Really weird. It’s very silent of late. The quiet is deafening. This story keeps getting removed from some news outlets …
http://theintelhub.com/2012/10/27/cnbc-execs-children-murdered-1-day-after-cnbc-reports-43-trillion-bankster-lawsuit/
Been There
October 28, 2012
“CNBC Exec’s Children Mudered 1 Day After CNBC Reports Bankster Lawsuit” — The murder of anyone, especially children, is always a tremendous tragedy. But I do not see any connection to the lawsuit.
If evil intel forces were at play, the logical target IMHO would be the principals of the Spire Law Group, its investigators and witnesses. I think this is a tragic coincidence.
Michael Paul
October 29, 2012
The story was released over prnewswire by the spire group directly. Some outlets are going to publish it, some will publish and retract, others will look at the source and choose not to publish.
Then again, what does 43 trillion dollars worth of ill-gotten gains buy you? Anything you want, including media outlets. I personally question the 43 trillion dollar amount myself and don’t think the cnbc exec story has any ties because every media outlet got this news story.
I’m having a hard time with the 43 trillion dollar figure myself. It doesn’t add up.
Alan Ernesto Phillips
October 29, 2012
I am compelled to agree, Michael…
Curious
October 29, 2012
The Gross National Product of the entire world is 44 trillion dollars.
Wendy Darling
October 29, 2012
Published today, Monday, October 29, from Courthouse News Service, by Maria Dinzeo:
Court Construction Projects Cut Back
By MARIA DINZEO
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – After canceling construction projects at seven courthouses in California Friday, a Judicial Council committee will be looking this week to make cuts to the remaining work in the hope saving one of axed projects.
The decision to cut seven projects from a roster of 31 was made last month by the council’s construction committee. After 22 hours of public hearings, the committee approved 23 projects.
Construction was dropped for Kern County, Los Angeles, Monterey, Placer County and Plumas County. Those that survived include a new courthouse in San Diego, and smaller projects in Willows, Inyo, Nevada City, El Centro, Ukiah, Yreka, Los Banos, Red Bluff, Redding, Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara, Modesto and others.
Committee chair Justice Brad Hill remarked Friday that his committee’s deliberations had been excruciating. “We’ve had courts who have worked on these projects for five to ten years, given a lot of themselves and their court’s time and effort and the community’s time and effort. And yet we had to tell them and are now telling them and other courts that we simply can’t proceed given the new fiscal realities.”
Hill told the council, “I hope that one time, just once, I can come bearing good news of some type. I’ve been here about three times over the past year, each and every time delivering news that none of us wanted to deliver, news that really was crippling to the court construction program, and news that was dismaying to all courts around the state who have crumbling facilities, facilities that are unsafe, not secure, not ADA compliant, and seismically, very, very dangerous. But the fiscal realities are such that we have to deliver this news.”
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said word of the emotionally charged meetings last month reached the Supreme Court while in the middle of oral argument.
“As much laser focused as we are during oral argument, we couldn’t help but hear about the hearings and how they were going,” she said. “This was a very difficult process, I know, having to see eye to eye to your peers and question them about their projects. Desperately needed projects, all of them. And then having to make the hard, difficult decision of reduction and prioritizing these needy projects. I knew it was emotional, I knew it was dramatic. I knew all of it. We heard it.”
Cantil-Sakauye said that while painful, the cuts are necessary, “It is about branch management and branch overview and the prudent use of public funds, frankly.”
While the council voted unanimously to approve the committee’s decision, Hill noted that this may not the end of the road for the seven canceled courthouses. “Hope springs eternal,” he said. “And we do hope that it will be able to either obtain the funding or find enough in terms of cost savings to be able to move those court projects forward.”
A sub-committee headed by Justice Jeffrey Johnson is set to examine the 23 remaining courthouses in a series of closed meetings this week. “We expect to be able to report additional budget reductions for the next set of projects,” he told the council.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/10/29/51785.htm
Long live the ACJ.
Michael Paul
October 29, 2012
All of the projects should be mothballed until a funding stream to operate all courthouses can be identified. Otherwise you’re running the majority of your real estate portfolio into the ground while building new buildings you can’t maintain any better than the old ones.
Wendy Darling
October 29, 2012
Oh, Michael Paul, you attribute a capacity for common sense to 455 Golden Gate Avenue that disappeared into the rear view mirror a long, long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Management of the “real estate portfolio” of the California Judicial Branch is best described as the administrative equivalent of “If you build it, the money will come.”
Long live the ACJ.
Michael Paul
October 29, 2012
Common sense gets you fired. 🙂
And Courtflea: Check out the Milgram Experiment
https://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/the-aoc-enron-and-stanley-milgram/
courtflea
October 29, 2012
I happen to be watching the movie Judgement at Nuremberg this evening and the Germans defense was not knowing what happened all around them in Nazi Germany; the concentration camps etc. Made me think of some of the shit that goes on at the AOC and with the JC. I.e. didn’t know or i was made to do it. Disgusting.
unionman575
October 29, 2012
unionman575
October 29, 2012
http://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Judicial%20Need%20Report.pdf
unionman575
October 30, 2012
http://www.modbee.com/2012/10/29/2434357/state-to-begin-courthouse-land.html
Monday, Oct. 29, 2012
State to begin courthouse land negotiations in Modesto
By J.N. Sbranti
jnsbranti@modbee.com
MODESTO — California court officials have given the go-ahead to purchase land in Modesto for a new Stanislaus County courthouse.
Alan Ernesto Phillips
October 30, 2012
Voltaire, also had a way with words,
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
Jon Wintermeyer
October 30, 2012
Michael, remember all the SPECIFIC FAMILY LAW COURTROOM revisions that CEO Kiri Yorre and PJ Mary Ann O’Malley requested at the 11th hour in the fall of 2009 on the Arnason Justice Center in Pittsburg. It raised the price the cost per square foot for that room, and there was already a new Family Law Center completed in Martinez of 2003.
Well you and all the JCW readers will be happy to know that all the East Contra Costa County Family Law cases are all going back in Martinez and that new expensive “State of the Art Courtroom” is NOT IN USE.
Been There
October 30, 2012
Sadly, Jon, none of us are surprised at one more example of mismanagement.
Gadsden Gurl
December 2, 2012
Um Mudock? It’s Rupert Murdoch!
Gadsden Gurl
December 2, 2012
Congressman Allen West and the Tea Party???? Allen West is not tea party. How can anyone take this complaint seriously with all the misspellings and incorrect information on it?
Judicial Council Watcher
December 2, 2012
The only reason we covered it is because we were named in it. As an organization we make no secret about our progressive leanings. We were amused by being attached to a Nixonian enemies list of the Obama administration – and the balance of the suit and thought you might be amused 😉
With that being said, make no mistake that this fight for a sound judicial system is non-partisan. About half of our readers and those involved in this fight are conservatives and they’re hollering about things just as loud as we are.