By BILL KACZOR 20 Sept 2007
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s public employee retirement fund will divest nearly $1.3 billion invested with 21 companies doing business in Iran or Sudan, an action state officials hope will be imitated across the nation.
The State Board of Administration authorized the divestiture Wednesday.
“You will be telling every one of these companies that from this day forward we won’t invest another dollar, Florida’s public dollars, in those companies,” state Sen. Ted Deutch, the law’s sponsor, told the board.
At least six other states have similar bans on investing in companies doing business in Sudan but Florida is the first to pass such a law applying to Iran, Deutch said.
The law bars investing pension money in any company doing business in Sudan or in Iran’s energy sector because both countries are on the State Department’s list of terror-sponsoring nations.
Iran is suspected of trying to develop nuclear weapons and Sudan for genocide in its Darfur region.
The 21 companies are among 57 the state has listed as off-limits. Florida does not currently have investments with the other 36 companies. Several other companies remain under investigation and could be added later.
Deutch said opponents have argued it would be too difficult to identify companies — possibly hundreds — doing business in the two countries. The number is not nearly so large and Florida already has identified them, he said.
The state relied mainly on research and findings by four outside organizations — the Sudan Divestment Task Force, Institute Shareholder Services, KLD Research & Analytics and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
None of the 57 companies listed are based in the United States. The state’s largest investment — $303 million — is with Royal Dutch Shell PLC, headquartered in London, which operates in Iran but not Sudan.
Shell spokeswoman Darci Sinclair said the company is monitoring Florida’s law and similar proposals in other states and Congress to assess their potential affect on the company’s operations.
“Royal Dutch Shell does have a presence in Iran (although currently only limited interests) and, like other energy companies, takes a long-term view of its operations,” Sinclair said in an e-mail.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
Good point. And what do you think of, for example, Shoher’s attitude like here http://samsonblinded.org/blog/reverse-darfur.htm ?