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Years ago when I was in New York City, I was raped. When released, I went to the Bellevue Hospital. While there, the doctor assumed I had no family memeber who would miss me, and so he planned to send me to Central Islip Institution. "For evaluation". I immediately called my mother, who verbally trashed the doctor. I was released within 15 minutes. Since then, I have wondered how many others with no one to call, are rotting away in Central Islip. Is it women, minorities or just the have-nots? Strange how we see this on TV, yet it is actually happening in our own country, the supposedly most human land in the world. The only broke superpower...own sold pieces of itself to China who is steady buying up what is left. Which reminds me of when I was working as a temp in a corporation in the accounts receivable department. One of the six workers was a twenty-something Chinese. Our supervisor was a 60 year-old, white American. After about two weeks I saw the real deal. The young Chinese girl obviously had friends in high places, because she talked to the old supervisor like he was a dog. Here was this old American,in his own country, in a place where he worked, being dissed by a foreigner - and could do nothing about it. As a black, American Indian, Jewish woman, I wanted to vomit. And that was before this RECESSION. So many Americans will soon be taking orders from foreigners - IF - they can get a job in their own country. This is the reason I had left United States in 1993, it had become too corporate. Americans were forced to speak Spanish to get a job working in their own country. Their tax dollars were training foreigners to speak english so they could work in United States. And another job bit the dust. At one time when living in California, I called long distance to New York, to Bellevue Hospital, but cound not afford to sit on the phone and listen the the operator rattle on in Spanish all the different extensions. At some point, the American government will have to look out for its people´s interrests and stop worrying about getting the foreigners vote, come election day. That brings me to Israel. Americans live in United States not Israel. What has Israel done for United States other than drag her down with it through many foreign conflicts all because Israel wants to dog and eliminate a group of people. You´d think that if a group of people had been beat and killed, they´d show gragiousness to others. But instead they run around saying "remember what happened to us" while they try to eliminate their neighbor, and wonder why their neighbor sends rockets. What hypocrites.

The Bank

By Kathleen - Nov 4th, 2009 at 3:03 am EST

Also listed in: Americans Abroad for Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59AxxLc9WSw

This is a true story that takes place in Germany, Lübeck area. In 1993, Kathleen, an American, was denied a Citibank account because she did not have a 9 to 5. In 2006 she applied and was told the same thing. In 2008 she was told the same thing, but this time she wrote Comptroller of the Currency (CCO) located in Texas. The customer service, overlooking national banks. All Americans are entitled to a bank account. Germany has the same law.

Kathleen was given an account, but being a foreigner and "whistle blower", payback was on the horizon. Regarding cashier´s checks, she now needs a drink just to deal with Citi´s German-branch.

The facts:

February 9, 2009, she mailed a letter to the local Citi branch, requesting two cashier´s checks in US dollars. Her account # and address were included. A week or so later was told that she needed to re-send the order because they don´t know where it is. She refused, so someone from headquarters in Duisberg got the info and put in the order. Weeks later the checks arrived.

April 14, 2009...she sent in another order, and the same thing happened: The order was lost so someone from the Duisberg office put it throuh, checks arrived weeks later.

In May, she phoned the Banking Online to order. They sent one check in euros, and the other in US dollars, the currency she had requested. The next time, the person correctly processed the and it arrived, weeks later. Again Kathleen phoned Banking Online, but was told "we don´t do that," and was told to call or go to her local branch. Meaning no online banking service.

July 24, 2009: Kathleen received a letter from Duisberg, instructing her to send orders for cashiers checks to their office -- considering she refused to send orders to the local branch where her personal info is floating around somewhere and they don´t know where... So on the end of July and August 11, Kathleen mailed her next orders to Duisberg.

Beginning of September, she still has still not recieved those checks -- and phoned Duisberg ... couldn´t talk to no one except the phone-girl who gave another telephone # to call. The person at the other # said the charges for those cashier´s checks were listed on her account August 13th.

Come September 8th, when her bank statement arrived, she noticed there were no charges for those checks...at all. She called the local branch and was told by Christine, the order for those checks did not arrive until end of August/beginning September. Which means that order sat in Duisberg from end of July to September. But Christine said the order has been sent.

Beginning of October. Kathleen noticed that the charge for the cashiers check was also not on the October statement. She called the local branch...a trainee answered the phone. No one else would come to the phone. The trainee said to wait until Christine came back from her weekend, this was Wednesday.

The following Monday, Kathleen spoke to Christine ---Christine said she would call her back. Kathleen said, "Today." But Christine didn´t call back until the next afternoon and said: For Kathleen to cancel the order and put it through again, because although they had ordered the checks, they don´t know where they are.

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