Blum Capital Partners L P

isn’t he involved in a conflict of interest with many issues? has increased his wealth from 25million to 600 million in just 8 years. VOTE that FEEENdedfrankenSteen off; she is also exhibiting slight signs of alzheimers and dementia on local contribututors and just opening doors to high flying biggiewhiggiemoneybaggers!
oh well, his tax write-​off foundation is helping the himalayan, global warning… lhe appareantly likes crock S_​_​_​_​, as appetizers
Kate Flanagan, a first-​year economics major at UC Santa Cruz, presented her study showing that Blum is vice chair of URS Corp., a San Francisco corporation, that will be enriched «by $ 25 million per year» in a five-​year contract at Los Alamos for «design and construction services.»
Blum acknowledged the business relationship but, in an initial interview with The Chronicle, said the accusation of a conflict of interest is a «crock of s – .»
Richard C. Blum, Vice Chair of the Regents’ Committee on Oversight of Department of Energy Laboratories, is married to Senator Dianne Feinstein. He is also vice chair of URS Corporation, which holds a five-​year, $ 125-​million contract to perform «design and construction services» at Los Alamos lab.
Blum is part of a long line of UC leaders who have endorsed the ongoing development of nuclear weapons, through UC’s decades-​long management of the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, where UC employees designed every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal. Two months ago they voted nearly unanimously to compete for continued management of Los Alamos lab, the very place these first weapons of mass destruction were designed. They have chosen to partner with Bechtel, a notorious human rights abuser and war profiteer, in another example of the increasing corporatization of the university.
Bechtel’s engineering expertise will make it easier for the Department of Energy to dramatically increase the number of plutonium pits produced there, allowing the lab scientists to design new nuclear weapons. This is scary because today the risk of the use of nuclear weapons is climbing toward levels not reached since the darkest days of the Cold War. This May, the U.S. derailed the world’s effort to strengthen the Nuclear Non-​Proliferation Treaty; again, I know because I was there as a Non-​Governmental Organization observer. While pointing fingers at North Korea and Iran, the U.S. refused to own up to its violation of the central bargain of the treaty, which is that nuclear weapons states would pursue disarmament in exchange for non-​nuclear weapons states forsaking the bomb.
Without a good faith effort toward disarmament by the United States, nuclear proliferation will continue around the world, as states who feel threatened by U.S. aggression pursue deterrence capabilities. The «Modern Pit Facility» planned for Los Alamos, concealed under the UC’s guise of academic respectability, contributes to the kind of vertical proliferation that undermines the world’s security.
Just as the US ignored the voices of the vast majority of the world’s countries at the Non-​Proliferation Treaty review conference, so too have the regents ignored the voices of UC students. The numerous checks we make out to the regents every semester show that we are a part of this university, and they are accountable to us-let’s hold them to it!
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