The Real Truth About Your Investments May ALARM You!

As of July 31st, 2009 over 500 U.S. and foreign publicly traded companies are presently doing business in terrorist sponsoring states representing tens of billions of dollars in revenue to these countries.

Your investments may be supporting companies that do business with State sponsors of Terrorism.

Did you know MANY publicly traded companies legally do business or have commercial ties in terrorist-sponsoring states?

• - One of the world's largest global banks based in Germany was part of a consortium of banks negotiating with Iran in May of 2006 for a line of credit which helped to finance Iran's expansion of its port facilities and merchant fleet.
• - In 2002, prominent French and German banks led a multi-staged sovereign bond offering that was Iran's first since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. This financial support of the Iranian regime set a new standard for international cooperation with one of the West's most vocal adversaries.

NEWSFLASH: WASHINGTON 06/26/2009 -- Lawmakers are seeking to crack down on foreign companies that provide spy technology to Iran with a bipartisan bill that would bar firms that provide sensitive technologies to Iran from doing business with the U.S. government. Both Iran and Syria utilize Hezbollah, a terrorist group based in Lebanon, as a proxy to further their regional objectives. Support has included financing, training and weaponry.

The U.S. State Department characterizes the human rights situation in Sudan as genocide. North Korea has defiantly developed an active long-range missile program and maintains confirmed nuclear weapons capabilities. In addition, Iran successfully conducted a satellite launch in February of 2008. Most experts agreed that this launch essentially served as a test of that country's ballistic missile technology.

Companies that have decided to do business with these countries are not in the U.S. capital markets by accident. They are interested in the financing that U.S. investors can provide. It is important to understand that the governments of Iran, Syria and other terrorist-sponsoring states look to foreign investment from these same companies to provide capital, technology, goods, equipment and expertise that is essential to economic growth rates that these countries require to maintain their hold on power and to fund their range of activities, including the sponsorship of terrorism and the development of weapons of mass destruction. These regimes would be effectively isolated without access to financial institutions, trading partners, infrastructure, energy development firms, and other companies held in the investment and retirement portfolios of investors around the world. In turn, the strength of the economies of these countries plays a clear role in propping up their philosophies.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad's vulnerability in the recent elections was due primarily to the faltering domestic economy, rather than his foreign policy. Without the willingness of these foreign companies to develop the economies of Iran, Sudan, Syria and North Korea, government revenues would plummet and growth rates would not remotely keep up with the needs of urban, youthful populations. Ultimately, economic issues could breed change in leadership and a state's behavioral patterns.

Many Americans are Asking: What can we do?

BE PART OF THE SOLUTION.

Empower yourself with knowledge! Refuse to invest in these companies! Sanitize your portfolios!

Terror-Free investing is an ethically responsible investing movement. The strategy focuses on excluding investment in companies whose business practices support our nation's adversaries. We exclude investment in stocks and bonds of companies that do business with countries deemed to be state sponsors of terrorism by the U.S. State Department. Our philosophy is that if you share certain key values on this topic and if you want results, we all need to do something. We cannot wait for the government to do it all, they can't, they need our help!

You have a choice! Make your investment decisions according to your discerning high standards. Does your investment portfolio reflect your values, ethics, principles and beliefs?

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