AMERICAN JOBS LOST TO AIPAC

Hey American farmers, Israel has plans for your future. Hope you don't have any outstanding lands on that farm of yours, or those nice John Deere tractors you just bought last year. Soon your crops will be worth nothing at all. Welcome to the poor house.AIPAC Bill will Destroy More American Jobs

Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, R-Ill (official sponsor of the new AIPAC bill) with Israeli leader Ehud Olmert. Kirk is the 2008 top recipient of Israel stealth PAC contributions according to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. He received $91,200 in the 2008 election cycle and more than $221,000 over his career. A US court is still debating whether to regulate AIPAC as a political action committee after it was shown secretly directing such funding in violation of US campaign finance laws in the 1990s.

AIPAC legislated restrictions on US businesses and workers already cost 100,000 American jobs per year. New AIPAC legislation targeting Iran could lead to further jobs loss.

An AIPAC effort on Tuesday seeks to cut off U.S. loans to some American companies doing business with India and Iran. US exports to Iran have boomed in recent years as grain and other foodstuffs find eager buyers

.(note, whilst Americans would loose money selling to Iran, jsut imagine for one minute the huge amount of trade the US has with India, kiss your jobs goodbye folks.)

But AIPAC sponsored amendments to the draft fiscal 2010 State and foreign operations appropriations bill will give members their first chance to vote on binding Iran policy since that country’s presidential election June 12.

Rep. Mark Steven Kirk , R-Ill., said the AIPAC amendment targeted Reliance Industries, a large energy company based in India that reportedly has provided Iran with as much as a third of its refined petroleum. Kirk will offer the measure when the House Appropriations Committee takes up the draft bill on Tuesday. Kirk is the 2008 top recipient of Israel stealth PAC contributions according to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. He received $91,200 in the 2008 election cycle and more than $221,000 over his career. A US court is still debating whether to regulate AIPAC as a political action committee after it was shown secretly directing such funding in violation of US campaign finance laws in the 1990s.

“This will be the first vote on a substantive issue with regard to Iran since the election imploded,” Kirk said.

(What he really means is since the US covert intervention into the Iranian election failed miserably)

Kirk aims to block the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) from providing loan guarantees to companies supplying gasoline to Iran. Although Iran is a large exporter of unrefined crude oil, it lacks capacity to produce gasoline and imports 40 percent of its gasoline, a situation the Israel lobby has long sought to exploit.

The EXIM encourages firms to buy U.S. goods and services by providing loan guarantees for companies overseas. The Ex-Im has provided Reliance with loan guarantees totaling $900 million, including a half billion to build the world’s sixth-largest refinery in Jamnagar, India. Project equipment, supplies and expertise are source from the US.

Kirk stated the company’s role in exporting a large share of producing to Iran’s refined petroleum makes it an AIPAC target. “We think it would be good for Reliance just to choose not to do business with Iran.”

Potential Job Impact

US firms Bechtel Corp. and Dow Global Technologies are involved in the refinery’s construction and contracting US equipment and services for the venture.

“It struck me as a little strange that we’re going to hamstring American companies in the middle of the worst recession in decades,” said Patrick Disney, legislative director at the National Iranian American Council.

Although the funds for the Jamnagar project have already been disbursed, if the amendment is made retroactive it could apply to the project and other past transactions targeted by AIPAC. Experts say the move would also undermine confidence in the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) and add to US unemployment in high paying fields such as engineering services. The EXIM bank said that the new refinery would not provide gasoline to Iran, but Kirk replied that he thought "nuances like that fall on deaf ears as the situation has come apart in Iran,” he said.

Kirk was frank about the true backers of his plan: “Our amendment is a go because AIPAC supports it.” Kirk referred to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a domestically registered lobby created and led by a former employee of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Isaiah L. Kenen after its predecessor was forced by the Department of Justice to register as a foreign agent.

Grant Smith, the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) was critical of Kirk's move and the legislation's sponsor. "AIPAC has a history of pushing policies that ultimately harm US workers and the American economy. The flawed US-Israel bilateral trade agreement has cost the US 100,000 jobs per year over the last decade. Other legislative initiatives pushed by the Israel lobby have negatively impacted the US share in the Arab market, which dropped from 12.77% in 1997 to 8.55% in 2008. American workers don't want to become innocent victims of AIPAC's trade and foreign policy adventures."
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British Find "NEW" Way of Dealing with CROOKED BANKERS

My Caveat= Now, I’m not condoning violence, but I must admit this article below did make me laugh.

Heads up America, England/Scotland, has created a new way of dealing with crooked bankers and people like Bernie Madoff who caused the financial melt down.

This is an “off topic” post, but I just thought I’d offer it up to all those Americans who lost money in the Bank scams in the USA, or who lost their jobs, homes and livelihood, whilst the bankers all got richer and took huge bonuses for causing the financial melt down worldwide. CHEER UP you poor downtrodden sods, you can get your aggression out by reading this article below.

England has it’s own filthy rich bankers, one, Sir Fred Goodwin, who helped create the British banking meltdown AND then gave himself a huge Pension bonus and took early retirement, just like the American ones did. Ah, but the great British public was having none of that. A new group has been formed, they (You’re gonna love this name) call themselves “ Bank Bosses Are Criminals” (Ok, I think we can all agree on the name being true!) they broke out the windows of Sir Fred’s Million pound Mansion Home (see video below post) and also the windows of his lovely expensive and special Mercedes Benz car. They then phoned in a statement to the local press which said: (You’re also gonna love this as well LOL) the statement said:

"We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless. "This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning."

So, in England,( like in America,) the filthy Bankers were not jailed, but it appears that sad fact is not going down too well with the British public.

Sir Fred Goodwin's home attacked

The Edinburgh home of former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin has been attacked by vandals.

Windows were smashed and a Mercedes S600 car parked in the driveway was vandalised.
A group angry at bank executives' pay contacted a newspaper claiming to be behind the early morning attack.

There has been widespread public and political anger over a pension payout worth about £700,000 a year to the 50-year-old former chief executive.

Sir Fred took early retirement from RBS last year after the bank needed a £20bn bailout from the government.
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When Sir Fred stepped down from the post in October, he rejected government pressure to accept a reduction in his package, insisting that changes to the early retirement deal he had negotiated were "not warranted".

The payout was described as "obscene" and "grotesque" by MPs and "unjustifiable and unacceptable" by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

However, earlier this month it emerged that the bank was paying about £290 per month for security, which included CCTV monitoring of the house and security staff for Sir Fred.

Three smashed ground-floor windows of the stone villa were clearly visible. In the driveway, the rear window of a dark-coloured Mercedes saloon was smashed, as well as the nearside rear passenger window.

A statement was issued to Edinburgh's Evening News newspaper on Wednesday morning by a group which claimed it was behind the attack.

It said: "We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless.

"This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning."

"Our inquiries are at an early stage and we are appealing for anyone with information about this incident to contact us," he said.

(Somehow I don’t think anyone will be talking, as in the news report I saw on television, little old ladies were out walking down the street and being interviewed and wondered why it hadn’t happened already LOL)

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Now I bet you are all wishing Madoff lived in Scotland...........