Borrowing Money For Israel: Annual Interest Alone Exceeds $3 Billion

Borrowing Money For Israel: Annual Interest Alone Exceeds $3 Billion
By Frank Collins
The double dip recession has now become so grave that the American people are demanding that President George Bush direct his attention to the sorry state of the domestic economy. Foreign aid, notoriously unpopular with the US public in recent years, has become doubly so in this period of economic distress.
Even if Congress fails to react to the disquiet about foreign aid, it is likely that the bloated US grants to Israel in particular will no longer be exempt from public scrutiny and that they will be looked upon as a bad congressional choice between responding to domestic fiscal needs and yielding to AIPAC, the Israeli lobby.
Part of the taxpayers' resentment against the practices of the federal government has been sparked by the manner in which Congress appropriates money, particularly foreign aid. Foreign aid generally is allocated through "continuing resolutions," without a ''yes" or ''no" vote on particulars. Key committee members then allocate 40 percent of the worldwide total of US bilateral foreign aid to Israel and Egypt. Aid to Egypt climbed to roughly two-thirds of that to Israel as a result of the US-brokered peace agreement between the two countries.
Grants for foreign aid are especially noteworthy because they amount to giving away borrowed money. The case of Israel over the last 40 years is the most astonishing. Every dollar given to Israel has been money borrowed by the US Treasury from private lenders, domestic and foreign. As the Treasury debts are interest-bearing, the Treasury has' had to borrow more money year by year to pay the interest on the outstanding debts incurred by the grants to Israel, plus interest on the earlier interest.
By the end of the fiscal year 1990, such US borrowings, starting with a modest grant to Israel of $ 100,000 in 1951, totaled $32.111 billion for the grants themselves, and an additional $21.351 billion in accumulated interest, for a total of $59.565 billion.
In FY 1991, annual interest alone on that $59.565 billion cost $3.246 billion at the average Treasury rate of 5.45 percent. Thus the grants made to Israel for FY 1991, officially reported as $5.256 billion, actually cost US taxpayers $8.502 billion in FY 1991, when the $3.246 billion in interest is included.
This lopsided situation will continue in FY 1992, when $3.491 billion in interest will be added to the cost of the FY 1992 grant of $3 billion, which already has been paid to Israel in the first month of the fiscal year. This FY 1992 outlay, general details of which are summarized in the table below, does not include any part of the $10 billion in US loan guarantees requested by Israel, consideration of which was deferred for 120 days at the request of President Bush last September.
If the deficit financing of subsidies to Israel were to continue for 10 more years at the $3 billion minimum rate per year and at five percent interest, the total debt undertaken by the United States would be $155 billion and the annual interest payment after 10 years would be $10.7 billion, more than three times the annual grant of $3 billion. This is an annual total of almost $14 billion, or more than $3,000 per year per Israeli. With this prospect, it is clear that borrowing ever-increasing amounts of money to give to Israel on an annual basis for the indefinite future will be unacceptable to the American public.
Frank Collins is a free-lance journalist specializing in the Middle East.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's Foreign Ministry says the country's ambassador to Iraq has resigned. why?

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's Foreign Ministry says the country's ambassador to Iraq has resigned. why?

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's Foreign Ministry says the country's ambassador to Iraq has resigned due to health problems resulting from injuries sustained in a 2007 ambush in Baghdad.Foreign Ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski said Tuesday that Gen. Edward Pietrzyk stepped down after doctors advised him that the «climate and medical care» in Baghdad

Poland's loyalty to US a one-way street? Today, Poles can feel a little disappointed when thinking of their American allied.
Poland's loyalty to US a one-way street? Today, Poles can feel a little disappointed when thinking of their American allied.
Bush Administration did offer to Poland 20 Millions
This is a joke ( it will build 5 miles of the road on today Poland?

Who is advancing president Bush?

Is President Bush he out of touch with he situation in Poland! This time to view Poland as a poor former Soviet country is long time gone.

And where is the Secretary of State. Oh ye, she did graduate international studies in Stanford. So what did she learned there?


Poles are not coming to US to work for $12.00 per hour
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«did not permit a full rehabilitation» from wounds suffered in the October 2007 attack.The 58-year-old Pietrzyk sustained severe burns when his three-car convoy was ambushed by roadside bombs near the Polish embassy. The ambassador's bodyguard and two Iraqis died in the attack.Paszkowski says Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski accepted Pietrzyk's resignation. Pietrzyk held the post since April 2007. No successor has been named.

Obraźliwa dla Polaków Ekspozycja w Muzeum Emigrantów w Halifaksie, Kanada

Obraźliwa dla Polaków Ekspozycja w Muzeum Emigrantów w Halifaksie, Kanada
Obraźliwa dla Polaków Ekspozycja w Muzeum Emigrantów w Halifaksie, Kanada
Opublikował/a redakcjawp w dniu 2008-07-22
List do Redakcji
Halifax, Kanada , 21 lipiec 2008


Każdy kto zwiedza wschodnie prowincje Kanady a zwłaszcza Nowa Szkocje, winien odwiedzić w Halifaksie Muzeum Emigrantów mieszczące się w portowym budynku, przy molu zwanym Pier 21. Przez ten budynek w ciągu 50 lat od czasu pierwszej wojny światowej przewinęło się około miliona europejskich emigrantów do Kanady.
Zwiedzający maja możliwość obejrzeć film „dokumentarny” albo raczej artystyczna ilustracje tego co się kiedyś w tym budynku działo, w czasie kiedy emigranci lądowali w Halifaksie.
Jednym z takich symbolicznych emigrantów w pokazanym w tym filmie była mała, 10 letnia, chyba, polska Żydówka, która opowiadała pielęgniarce, że uciekła z Getta i ukrywała się w chrześcijańskiej rodzinie, która ciągle ja straszyła, że jak nie będzie grzeczna to ją oddadzą w ręce „władz”. Widz odnosi wrażenie, że te „władze” są władzami polskimi i to one są odpowiedzialne za tego dziecka tragedię i śmierć jej rodziców. Na zakończenie pielęgniarka uspokaja dziecko, że teraz nie musi się niczego bać i już nigdy jej nie wyślą z powrotem do Polski. Nigdzie w tym filmie nie jest wspomniane o Niemcach albo nawet Nazistach, którzy ostatnio są modnym zastępstwem dla niemieckich zbrodniarzy z okresu wojny. Film ten mocno nas zbulwersował i za namową mej amerykańskiej żony napisałem list protestacyjny do Muzeum Pier 21 jak i prasy kanadyjskiej i odnośnych ambasad, polskiej w Ottawie i kanadyjskiej w Warszawie. Moja reakcja była podyktowana faktem, ze rodzice dwojga moich bliskich przyjaciół z narażeniem własnego i swych dzieci życia, wykradli z Getta i ocalili, dwie miale Żydówki w podobnym wieku do dziewczynki pokazanej we wspomnianym obraźliwym filmie.
Szkalowanie Polski i Polaków ciągle jest w toku na amerykańskim kontynencie i można je znaleźć w najmniej spodziewanych miejscach i okolicznościach, nawet w wydawałoby się w przyjaznej Polakom Kanadzie.
Jeśli ktoś chciałby zasięgnąć więcej informacji z samego źródła, oto jest adres tego Muzeum: Pier 21 Society1055 Marginal RoadHalifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4P6Canada
Telephone Switchboard: (902) 425-7770 Fax: (902) 423-4045Email: info@pier21.ca Dr.inz. Jan Czekajewski
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Członek Polskiego Instytutu Naukowego (PIASA) w NY
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The Next Big Wave is Breaking

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Historyk IPN o infiltracji Polonii Amerykanskiej

Historyk IPN o infiltracji Polonii Amerykanskiej
Slawomir Cenckiewicz,
(dokument mp3, 29 MB)
IPN historian Slawomir Cenckiewicz talks about Polonia IPN historian about Polonia infiltraded by communist agents - interview by Lucja Sliwa with Slawomir Cenckiewicz:http://poloniasf.org/polish/cenckiewicz2007.mp3 Po Polsku:Historyk IPN o infiltracji Polonii Amerykanskiej - Lucja Sliwa i jej gosc Slawomir Cenckiewicz:http://poloniasf.org/polish/cenckiewicz2007.mp3
d Prąd, odc. 26 - Sławomir Cenckiewicz

Russia cuts Czech oil supplies after radar deal with US

Russia cuts Czech oil supplies after radar deal with US
(DPA)

Czy mamy plan B jesli Rosja to samo zrobi dla Polski?
Czy mamy Amerykanskie zabezpieczenia na dostawy energii, ropy, gazu na koszt Amerykanow dla Polski?
A co wspawie kakiet z Krolewca ? 1/2 minuty do Polski?

13 July 2008 Print E-mail
Prague/Moscow - Russia slashed oil supplies to the Czech Republic immediately after last week's signing of a Czech-US missile defence agreement, Czech officials confirmed Sunday.

But Czech government commissioner Vaclav Bartuska denied the move was in retaliation for Prague allowing Washington to base a radar system on its soil as part of a missile shield programme opposed by Moscow.

Speaking to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, Bartuska ruled out a technical problem, citing the uninterrupted flow of Russian oil to neighbouring countries such as Poland.

He also said a retaliatory move was unlikely because his country could easily obtain oil via another pipeline running through Germany.

But he declined to comment on reports from Moscow that the reduction might be linked to an internal Russian conflict over oil export rights in the wake of the handover of power in the Kremlin.

The Czech government has asked Moscow to explain the reason for the reduction, which began on July 4, but increased markedly after US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg signed the radar deal on July 8.

The business magazine Euro said cutback in supplies via the Drushba pipeline could go down from the agreed 500,000 tons in July to 300,000 tons.

Russia has in the past reduced energy supplies to the West for both political and economic reasons. Oil concern Lukoil has cut deliveries to Germany twice in recent months because it was unhappy at the price being paid.

Supplies to the Baltic nation of Lithuania via a northern branch of the Drushba pipeline have been cut for two years, because of what Moscow calls a technical defect. EU and NATO leaders believe political motives are the reason.

In 2006, Russia's Gazprom cut gas supplies to Ukraine in a pricing dispute and accused the country of siphoning off supplies meant for other countries.

Ukraine and its Western allies saw the move as a political warning to the country's pro-Western leadership, something which Moscow denied.

Poland's loyalty to US a one-way street? Today, Poles can feel a little disappointed when thinking of their American allied.

Poland's loyalty to US a one-way street? Today, Poles can feel a little disappointed when thinking of their American allied.
Bush Administration did offer to Poland 20 Millions
This is a joke ( it will build 5 miles of the road on today Poland?

Who is advancing p-resident Bush?

Is President Bush he out of touch with he situation in Poland! This time to view Poland as a poor former Soviet country is long time gone.

And where is the Secretary of State. Oh ye, she did graduate international studies in Stanford. So what did she learned there?


Poles are not coming to US to work for $12.00 per hour
Live rates at 2008.07.10 15:04:36 UTC
12.00 USD = 24.8735 PLN
United States Dollars Poland Zlotych
1 USD = 2.07279 PLN 1 PLN = 0.482441 USD

10.07.2008
Lech Alex Bajan
Polish American Polish American from DC



Polish Pilots of the World War II



The Poles feel that their country is not perceived as an equal partner by the Americans in terms of politics, which translates to waning enthusiasm for the United States.

By Aleksander Kropiwnicki

Do Poles still love America? According to some publicists, their attitude to the US is definitely getting less enthusiastic. Warsaw still wants to see America as its partner but not a Big Brother. Poland has never been rewarded for its assistance in Iraq. Washington is reluctant to help significantly in modernizing the Polish army, even though it’s keen to situate its anti-missile shield in Poland.

At the same time, the American economy has been weakened while the Polish one is flourishing. Unlike in the past, it doesn’t make sense to leave Poland and look for jobs in America, as nowadays Polish zloty is more expensive and US dollar cheaper than ever in the past. On the other hand, Poles still have to apply for visas if they want to travel to the United States.

Poles can love America or not. However, they now realize that America has never loved Poland. It’s time, moreover, to learn that the membership of the European Union, not the alliance with the United States, is the future of this country. And that’s exactly what the vast majority of Poles is likely to answer, if asked.

Such is the Polish mood in the recent months. Has it changed for forever? In 1945, Poles probably felt much worse bitterness about the then pro-Soviet attitude of the United Kingdom and the United States, two superpower states which had sold Poland in Yalta. However, next decades changed this attitude. The Soviet oppression was so annoying, that the Polish feelings about America, Britain, France or even West Germany could be nothing but friendly. In 1980s, the humanitarian and political assistance of the West, particularly America, became an important factor in the nation’s life.

Finally, the collapse of communism was caused mainly by the assertive policy of the United States governed by two consecutive Republican presidents. One of them was father of the current one. George H. W. Bush is still alive and he hasn’t been forgotten in Poland.

Times change. Today, Poles can feel a little disappointed when thinking of their American allies. Sometimes the Americans behave as if they have never heard about Poland. Even if they have, they don’t care, such is the impression. In the future, though, there is place for the Polish-American friendship. The recovery of both American economy and political common sense is possible, so that giving up this relationship would be naïve. Poland can still play more than one piano.