US Stimulus Bills! Thank you for So much WASTE!!

The below list of funded items within the Stimulus Bill was forwarded to us by Dick Anderson of http://anderson4theconstitution.com/ ; we were able to confirm 80% of the items listed in government reports.  With a population of 330,483,530 Americans, and an expenditure of $2,000,000,000,0000 to fund the Stimulus Bill, the cost for every American, regardless of age, to fund the Stimulus Bill was $6,051.74.

Where some of your tax dollars went, that the left of center liberal media establishment refused to report on.

$350,000,000 for Migrant and Refugee Assistance pg 147

$43,700,000 per person for student loan bailout

$11,000,000 Drug Access.

$5,000,000,000 Community Development Programs Block Grants

$75,000,000 to the Endowment for the Arts / because Pelosi demanded it

$300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities

$400,000,000 for Election Assistance, including expanding voting by mail.

$25,700,000,000 for the Department of Education stabilization fund/ for Teacher Union.

 

$5,300,000,000 Child Care Centers

$100,000,000 Legal Services Corporation

$300,000,000 to Public Broadcasting / NPR has nothing to do with the Corona Virus.

$12,000,0000,000  Aid for Dependent Housing.

 

$25,000,000,000 Food Stamps

 

$8,800,000,000 Child Nutrition

 

$5,300,000,000 Family Programs.

$25,000,000 for “Cleaning Supplies” for the Capitol Building on page 136.

$35,000,000 to the JFK Center for performing Arts? Pelosi?? She will get millions of it somehow.

$25,000,000 for additional salaries for House of Representatives

$324,000,000 for State Department Diplomatic Programs-----what programs----how is this affecting the Corona Virus?

$95,000,000 for the Agency of International Development-----is this for the Corona Virus abatement in Foreign countries?

$258,000,000 for International Disaster Assistance

$88,000,000 for the Peace Corp pg 148---is this so they can deal with the Corona Virus in Foreign countries?

$13,000,000 to Howard University pg 121---this has nothing to do with the Corona Virus.

$25,000,000,000 Passenger Airlines

 

$5,000,000,000 Cargo Airlines

 

$32,000,000,000 Airline Wages

$450,000,000 Emergency Food Assistance

$25,000,000 to the FAA for administrative costs pg 165

$492,000,000 to National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) pg 167

$25,000,000,000 for Transit Infrastructure pg 169

$3,000,000 Maritime Administration pg 172

$5,000,000 Salaries and Expenses for the Office of the Inspector General pg 172

$2,500,000 Public and Indian Housing pg 175

 

$100,000,000 Food Distribution to American Indians

 

$200,000,000 Food Distribution to Puerto Rico

$5,000,000 Community Planning and Development pg 175

 

The above listed expenditures should be shared with every American taxpayer, so they would be able to understand what items Pelosi required that the Senate fund, in order to pass the Stimulus Bill in the House.  Unfortunately, the left of center liberal media establishment will continue to coverup the above listed expenditures.

 

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Anbang No More. In February, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) Owns Anbang’s other properties under the control of Beijing.

China is sending the tycoon who bought the Waldorf Astoria to prison for nearly 20 years

May 9, 2018

By Josh Horwitz

Asia Correspondent

 A once high-flying Chinese mogul has fallen hard.

A court in Shanghai has sentenced Anbang Insurance Group chairman Wu Xiaohui, known for high-profile overseas acquisitions including the Waldorf Astoria, to 18 years in prison for financial fraud and related crimes. His punishment comes months after the Chinese government abruptly seized control of the conglomerate over fears of insolvency in a move that illustrated how quickly Beijing can take down corporate giants that run afoul of the party.

According to Chinese state media outlet Xinhua (link in Chinese), Wu pleaded guilty to charges of illegal fund-raising and embezzlement. In addition to the prison sentence, the government will also confiscate 10.5 billion yuan ($1.65 billion) from Wu. Representatives for Anbang Insurance did not reply immediately to Quartz’s request for comment.

Under Wu, Anbang Insurance was one of China’s most aggressive buyers of overseas businesses, most notably luxury properties. In 2014, the company purchased the Waldorf Astoria for $1.95 billion. Over a year later it purchased Strategic Hotels & Resorts from Blackstone, which gave it control over 16 hotels including the JW Marriott Essex House in Manhattan. Its life insurance business was weighing an initial public offering and the group was recruiting at Harvard, telling students, “We must win the first battle and every battle thereafter as we are representing Chinese enterprises going global.”

Yet Anbang’s more recent acquisitions failed, in part due to growing concerns about the conglomerate’s shareholding structure, a key focus of his trial (link in Chinese). In the midst of Anbang’s overseas acquisition spree, while company documents listed many of Wu’s family members as Anbang shareholders, Wu himself was not (paywall).

The lack of clarity about the company’s shareholding structure was one of the reasons why Anbang’s bid to purchase Starwood Hotels and Resorts fell apart in 2016. Another deal to invest $400 million in a property owned by the family of Jared Kushner also fell through. In its report on the sentencing, Xinhua adds that Wu deliberately concealed his shares in Anbang’s various entities.

Yet Wu’s true downfall has occurred in the span of roughly one year, as Chinese regulators grew increasingly concerned about systemic financial risk and capital outflows. In July 2017, Wu was abruptly detained by Chinese authorities. His capture followed reports in Chinese media outlet Caixin that noted the low market share of its insurance products and questioned the origins of its cash pools. At the time of their publication, Anbang called Caixin’s reports “libelous.“

In February, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) announced that a government-led work group had seized control of Anbang’s assets for one year—effectively placing the Waldorf Astoria and all of Anbang’s other properties under the control of Beijing. In a March hearing, the court accused Wu of using falsified financial statements to raise money for investment and debt repayment.

Wu’s sentencing and the government takeover of Anbang will likely heighten Washington’s scrutiny towards acquisitions involving overseas Chinese buyers—even as capital outflow controls in China might slow the pace of such deals. Last week, SkyBridge Capital, the hedge fund owned by former Trump administration spokesman Anthony Scaramucci, announced it would terminate its planned sale to HNA, another Chinese company with an opaque ownership structure and large roster of overseas assets

https://qz.com/1274303/china-is-imprisoning-anbang-chairman-wu-xiaohui-tycoon-who-bought-waldorf-astoria-for-18-yers/

Will The Chinese Gets the BAIL OUT from our US Government.

Waldorf Astoria New York

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"Waldorf Astoria" redirects here. For the original hotel on Fifth Avenue near 34th Street, see Waldorf–Astoria (1893–1929). For the German football club, see FC Astoria Walldorf. For other uses, see Waldorf–Astoria (disambiguation).

Owner	Anbang Insurance Group

Anbang Insurance Group, a well-connected Chinese conglomerate, has agreed to pay $6.5 billion for a portfolio of Four Seasons and other luxury hotels owned by the Blackstone Group, according to numerous recent reports—and is gunning to take control of Starwood’s Westin, Sheraton, and W Hotels as well. Many of the properties potentially changing hands include longtime deal-making locations for US business men, tech titans and Hollywood.

Neither deal has been officially announced yet, but the buyout of Blackstone’s Strategic Hotels & Resorts 16 properties is the more immediate and likely of the two (Anbang is competing with Marriott International for Starwood).

The Blackstone deal includes the Four Seasons hotels in Washington DC, Jackson Hole, and Silicon Valley to New York City’s Central Park-facing Essex House and the Ritz Carlton south of San Francisco. Overall, it could net Anbang more than 7,500 of the US’s most expensive hotel rooms—common sites for sensitive business negotiations, diplomatic glad-handing, closed-door conferences, and maybe even the occasional illicit affair. And that should be terrifying to their long-time guests.

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Anbang has deep connections to China’s Communist Party—Chairman Wu Xiaohui was married to the granddaughter of Deng Xiaoping, while Chen Xiaolu, the son of a prominent People’s Liberation Army official is on the board of directors.

It’s a party that US officials and privacy experts believe is behind numerous hacks of US government and corporate information technology systems, sometimes for “theft of intellectual property and trade secrets,” as data security company CloudStrike said last October, sometimes to pick up personal employee data, and other times to “download files ranging from emails to contracts.” 

As the US and other companies and governments fret over China’s rapid expansion beyond its borders, everything from deal terms to IT “back doors” to the South China sea is being discussed, sometimes in the very rooms that will now be owned by Anbang, and across the very Wi-Fi systems the company will now control.

Neither Blackstone or the Four Seasons in Washington, which traditionally hosts numerous diplomatic meetings, replied to questions from Quartz. A US Treasury spokesman said she could not comment on whether the committee that reviews foreign investments was looking at the Anbang/Blackstone deal.

Electronic communications are closely monitored in China, sometimes even in citizens’ and visitors’ homes, and harvested information can emerge when it benefits the government. In 2014, when Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline chief in China was being investigated for a bribery scandal, a video of him having sex with a woman who was not his wife was made public. The video was filmed at his Shanghai apartment.

The US State Department seems to be taking all possible security concerns seriously: After Anbang took over the the midtown New York Waldorf Astoria in late 2014, president Barack Obama bucked decades of tradition and chose to stay elsewhere during the 2015 United Nations General Assembly meetings. The State Department also said after the Anbang takeover it is reviewing whether the Waldorf should still be the permanent home of the US ambassador to the UN, as it has been since 1947.

“There are a range of considerations that influence where the president will stay when he’s not at the White House,” the White House spokesman said at the time. “Those considerations include everything from available space to cost and to security.” An unnamed State Department official was more direct with The New York Times (paywall) about security concerns, saying “Why else would you not stay at the Waldorf?”

https://qz.com/639274/chinas-6-5-billion-blackstone-hotel-deal-could-ruin-the-secret-meetings-of-the-us-elite/

 

Bill Gate's video from his presentation at TedTalks, March, 2015

The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates

In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers -- plus,
frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now's the time,
Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training.
As he says, "There's no need to panic ... but we need to get going."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI&t=1s

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Walls From Around The World.

 Why India Is Building The Longest Border Wall In The World - Seeker

https://www.seeker.com/why-india-is-building-the-longest-border-wall-in-the-world-1...

Jan 11, 2019 - India is currently in the process of building the world's longest border wall along their 2,500 mile border with Bangladesh. The wall is made of double-fence barbed wire and requires a police force of 70,000 to guard it. The main point of these intense security measures is to keep Bangladeshi immigrants out of India.               

Bangladesh to erect barbed wire fence on border with India

DG of BGB, Major General Ahmed said that his government has already approved a project to have a 282 km road along the border it shares with India and Myanmar.

Updated: Jul 12, 2018, 08.13 PM IST                                                                         

Ahmed said as India has already raised fence along 79 per cent of the Indo-Bangla border, it "indirectly helps" his country in checking cross-border crimes.

                                https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/bangladesh-to-erect-barbed-wire-fence-on-border-with-india/articleshow/54508281.cms                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Other notable examples: Other notable examples: 

• Morocco: A 1,700-mile sand wall fortified and surrounded by millions of land mines was built by Morocco in 1975 along disputed, ungoverned territory on its border with Western Sahara.

Melilla sits on the north coast of Africa, surrounded by the waters and territory of Morocco. For the ceaseless tide of African and Asian migrants working their way northwards, it has a compulsive attraction: by accident of military conquest more than 500 years ago, this city which is geographically African is legally part of Spain. As the migrants reach the Mediterranean, where so many of their predecessors have died, Melilla offers them a safe bridge into Europe – if they can smuggle themselves across its barricaded perimeter.                                                                                                                   The Ceuta-Morocco border fence, as seen from Ceuta.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/17/melilla-migrants-eu-spain-morocco                                               

• Spain: More than two decades ago, the Spanish government built 20-foot concrete barriers to wall off Melilla and Ceuta, Spanish-administered enclaves in Morocco since the 15th century, to increase border security against African migrants.

Spain built fences 20 years ago to keep migrants away. Here's how that worked out                         

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/migrants-spain-melilla-morocco-europe-1.4835930
    
 Turkey:  A buffer zone splits the island of Cyprus and its capital Nicosia between Turkey and Greece. Nicosia is arguably the last city in the world physically separated by a wall.                                              

                                                               Syria-Turkey border wall completed

The partition was built to tighten security and combat illegal crossings and smuggling                                                                                                                     https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/syria-turkey-border-wall-completed-1.738637T                                                                                                                                                                        Turkey completes first phase of 900km                              

France: The mile-long wall at Calais was funded by the United Kingdom to prevent migrants from accessing the Channel Tunnel that connects Britain to continental Europe.

 As Migrants Reach U.K. by Boat, Numbers Are Small but Worry Is Big                https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/742979/great-wall-of-calais-completed-concrete-barrier-british-funded-france                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Finland: About 450 miles of barbed wire fencing prevent reindeer from wandering across the border into Russia.

Saudi Arabia: In 2014, Saudi Arabia built a 550-mile-long wall with Iraq, a response to the rise of the Islamic State militants sweeping across parts of that country.

Saudi Arabia Is Building A 600-Mile 'Great Wall' To Shield Itself From ISIS

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-is-building-a-600-mile-great-wall-to-shi...

Jan 14, 2015 - 14, 2015, 3:46 PM ... The Saudis are building a 600-mile-long "Great Wall" — a combined fence and ditch — to separate ... Plans for the 600-mile wall and ditch Saudi Arabia will build with Iraq in an effort to insulate itself from ISIS.                                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPZ0eif9NQw  

A Good Man & A Good Groups Of People

From duct-taped shoes to $11M: Man leaves surprise donations

Posted: Dec 27, 2018 10:57 PM PST

Updated: Dec 28, 2018 6:28 PM PST

SEATTLE (AP) - Alan Naiman was known for an unabashed thriftiness that veered into comical, but even those closest to him had no inkling of the fortune that he quietly amassed and the last act that he had long planned.

The Washington state social worker died of cancer this year at age 63, leaving most of a surprising $11 million estate to children's charities that help the poor, sick, disabled and abandoned. The amount baffled the beneficiaries and his best friends, who are lauding Naiman as the anniversary of his death approaches in January.

That's because the Seattle man patched up his shoes with duct tape, sought deals at the grocery store deli at closing time and took his best friends out to lunch at fast-food joints.

Naiman, who died unmarried and childless, loved kids but also was intensely private, scrimping, investing and working extra jobs to stockpile money that he rarely spent on himself after seeing how unfair life could be for the most vulnerable children, his friends say.

They believe a lifelong devotion to his older brother who had a developmental disability influenced Naiman, though he rarely spoke of it. The brother died in 2013, the same year Naiman splurged on a sports car - a modestly priced Scion FR-S.

"Growing up as a kid with an older, disabled brother kind of colored the way he looked at things," close friend Susan Madsen said.

A former banker, Naiman worked the past two decades at the state Department of Social and Health Services, handling after-hours calls. He earned $67,234 and also took on side gigs, sometimes working as many as three jobs. He saved and invested enough to make several millions of dollars and also inherited millions more from his parents, said Shashi Karan, a friend from his banking days.

Thrilled when he finally qualified for senior discounts, Naiman bought his clothes from the grocery store. He loved cars, but for the most of his life, drove beat-up vehicles and seemed to enjoy the solitude and savings of solo road trips, friends say.

After Naiman's death, Karan realized how little he knew of the other aspects of his longtime friend's life.

"I don't know if he was lonely. I think he was a loner," Karan said.

Many of the organizations benefiting from Naiman's gifts said they didn't know him, though they had crossed paths.

He left $2.5 million to the Pediatric Interim Care Center, a private organization in Washington state that cares for babies born to mothers who abused drugs and helps the children wean off their dependence. The group used some of what was its largest donation ever to pay off a mortgage and buy a new vehicle to transport the 200 babies it accepts from hospitals each year.

Naiman had called the center about a newborn while working for the state more than a decade ago, and its founder, Barbara Drennen, showed up in the middle of the night to get the baby.

"We would never dream that something like this would happen to us. I wish very much that I could have met him. I would have loved to have had him see the babies he's protecting," Drennen said.

Naiman gave $900,000 to the Treehouse foster care organization, telling them that he was a foster parent years ago and had brought kids in his care to the group's popular warehouse, where wards of the state can choose toys and necessities for free.

Treehouse is using Naiman's money to expand its college and career counseling statewide.

"The frugality that he lived through, that he committed to in his life, was for this," said Jessica Ross, Treehouse's chief development officer. "It's really a gift to all of us to see that pure demonstration of philanthropy and love."

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(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren). In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, photo, from left, Rebecca Schaechter, Nicole Herron and Rachel Herron fold and sort donated clothes at Treehouse, a nonprofit organization in Seattle that serves the needs of children in the foster care...(Shashi Karan via AP). In this Dec. 14, 2013, photo provided by Shashi Karan, Alan Naiman poses with his new car, an unusual extravagance for him, in Seattle. When Naiman, a Washington state social worker, died this year of cancer at the age of 63, the...
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren). In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, photo, Maddi Heim folds and sorts donated clothes at Treehouse, a nonprofit organization in Seattle that serves the needs of children in the foster-care system. The charity was one of several tha...(Susan E. Madsen via AP). In this 2013 photo provided by Susan E. Madsen, Alan Naiman poses for a photo at his work at Children's Administration (DSHS) Child Protective Services, in Seattle. When Naiman, a Washington state social worker, died this year...(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren). In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, photo, Chris Meyer, left, and Maddi Heim, fold and sort donated clothes at Treehouse, a nonprofit organization in Seattle that serves the needs of children in the foster-care system. The charity ...

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