Romney does the math on his tax rate (?closer to 15 percent?) and his jobs record at Bain (The Ticket)

Romney in Florence, S.C. (Charles Dharapak/AP)

FLORENCE, S.C.?For half an hour, they delayed, but the crowd didn't get bigger.

Just over 100 people turned up for an 8:30 a.m. rally here for Mitt Romney, a decision that may have influenced the campaign's decision to abort a grand entrance for the candidate and his wife, Ann, that involved driving the campaign bus into the building.

Taking the stage, Romney eyed the smaller than usual crowd, which had already been documented by the dozens of reporters on the scene with photos posted to their Twitter feeds, and seemed to offer an explanation for the news media.

"What is time is it here? 9:00 a.m. in the morning?" Romney said, eying his watch. "Gosh, this is a work day right?"

After a 15-minute stump speech, that included a heavy focus on social issues, Romney shook every hand in the crowd before heading outside to take questions from the assembled press corps. Ann Romney, who had been chatting with reporters, jokingly raised her hand and got the first question: "What happened to your skinny jeans?" she asked.

Romney, who was wearing a baggy pair of Tommy Bahamas, grinned but didn't answer. He wore the same smile as he underwent intense questioning from reporters from everything from his ties to a super PAC that is spending millions to promote his bid for the Republican nomination to what his estimated tax rate is.

As his aides tried to end the presser?"LAST QUESTION!" one staffer shouted?Romney lingered and offered perhaps the most revealing answers yet about two issues that have dogged him on the campaign trail?his wealth and his record as a jobs creator.

While he again demurred on questions about why he has not released his tax returns, Romney offered a hint of what will be the biggest headline when he eventually (presumably) does disclose them. He told reporters that his "effective tax rate" is "closer to 15 percent"?far less than what most middle income families around the country pay. He explained that most of his income today comes from "investments I've made in the past" and from book sales.

As staffers again tried to usher him on his bus, Romney paused to offer a testy response to an NBC reporter's question about how he came up with a figure he often touts about the number of jobs created by companies he invested in while head of Bain Capital. At Monday night's debate, he said 120,000 jobs generated by companies Bain backed.

Asked about the figure by NBC's Peter Alexander as he walked to his bus, Romney stopped dead in his tracks.

"Let's get the math, alright?" he declared. "Four companies created 120,000 jobs. It's very simple. Four companies created 120,000: Staples, Bright Horizons, Steel Dynamics, and, uhhh, which one am I missing? Sports Authority ? ?If you look up their 10ks today, you'll find that they have 120,000 jobs.

When a reporter interrupted to say that total did not include jobs lost during that period?a figure the Romney campaign has downplayed?the candidate got a bit snippy, responding, "Gotta listen to the very end, alright?"

"Those four created about 120,000 jobs. And then all of those businesses that had been well-documented by various people over the years, when I ran in '94, when I ran last time, when I ran for governor, those that have lost jobs, they end up being a little less than 10,000, those that were losers," he explained. "So if you took the ones that were losers, and compare with the ones that were -- those four, at least -- why you end up with something over 100,000."

It looked as though Romney wanted to continue talking, but his body man interrupted.

"Governor, we've gotta go," he told the candidate.

Romney smiled. "Thanks everybody," he said, as he rushed to board his bus to catch a plane to New York, where he's set to appear at campaign fundraisers today.

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Rupert Murdoch turns to Twitter to attack Obama (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Media baron Rupert Murdoch used his new Twitter account this weekend to attack the Obama Administration's opposition to parts of proposed legislation designed to combat Internet piracy.

"So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery," News Corp's chairman and chief executive officer posted on his personal Twitter account Saturday.

Murdoch, whose media empire includes Fox TV, The Wall Street Journal, Fox Studios and the Sun newspaper in Britain, continued with several tweets, attacking Google as the "Piracy leader" for streaming movies free. In later tweets he called Google a "great company."

Google said it did not appreciate Murdoch's comment even after he back-peddled with a compliment.

"This is just nonsense," Samantha Smith, a Google spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.

"Last year we took down 5 million infringing Web pages from our search results and invested more than $60 million in the fight against bad ads. Like many other tech companies, we believe that there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking U.S. companies to censor the Internet."

At issue are the concerns White House officials raised on Saturday about elements in the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) pending in Congress. Google and Facebook already have decried them as heavy-handed and Hollywood studios and music labels say the legislation is needed to save U.S. jobs.

In a blog posting, three advisers to President Barack Obama said they believed the act and similar bills could make businesses on the Internet vulnerable to litigation and harm legal activity and free speech.

"Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small," said the officials, including White House cyber-security czar Howard Schmidt.

The House of Representatives' SOPA bill aims to crack down on online sales of pirated American movies, music or other goods by forcing Internet companies to block access to foreign sites offering material that violates U.S. copyright laws.

U.S. advertising networks could also be required to stop online ads and search engines would be barred from directly linking to websites found to be distributing pirated goods.

Those who support stricter piracy rules reacted strongly to Saturday's White House statement, which darkened prospects for legislation already expected to struggle to clear Congress in an election year.

Schmidt and the other advisers said the Obama administration was ready to work with lawmakers on a narrower, more targeted approach to online piracy to ensure that legitimate businesses -- including start-up companies -- would not be harmed.

Murdoch, who opened his Twitter account this year, has used it to colorfully opine on a number of topics. Tweeting last week, Murdoch praised New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest proposal to overhaul the city's public schools, but referred to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo as "chicken Cuomo."

He also admitted in a post to his company's mishandling of social network MySpace, which News Corp bought in 2005 for $580 million. Today the site is nearly irrelevant.

"...we screwed up in every way possible.." Murdoch posted last week.

(Reporting By Ilaina Jonas, with additional reporting by Caren Bohan in Washington; Editing by Maureen Bavdek)

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JURIST - Paper Chase: Two business groups challenge Obama's ...





Two business groups challenge Obama's recess appointments
Julia Zebley at 11:28 AM ET

[JURIST] Two business advocacy groups filed motions [press release] in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Friday, contesting the constitutionality of US President Barack Obama's [official website] recent recess appointments [JURIST report]. The National Right to Work Foundation (NRWF) and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) [advocacy websites] contend that the recess appointments are not constitutional as the Senate was technically in a pro forma session, thus providing no recess during which Obama could make appointments. The motions were filed in relation to the groups' ongoing suit challenging the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) [official website] mandate that rights to unionize [JURIST report] be posted in all workplaces. In a press release, the NFIB also stated that they have amended their complaint [text] to include new charges that the NLRB cannot function to enforce new rules, in part due to Obama's recess appointments:
The President's action was a surprise and terrible disappointment to small-business owners throughout the country who have suffered under the unabashedly pro-union rule-makings handed down by the NLRB. These alleged recess appointments are a brazen circumvention of the Congressional appointment process and raise serious legal concerns that cannot be ignored. The outrage amongst members of the small-business community is severe, and NFIB takes this action today to ensure that its members are protected from unconstitutional acts that exacerbate the NLRB's devolution from a neutral arbiter between labor and employers to a pro-union government agency.
Earlier this month, Obama used recess appointments to install Richard Cordray [WP backgrounder] as director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau [official website] and appointed [press release] Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn and Richard F. Griffin as new board members for the NLRB.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] defended the use of recess appointments [CRS backgrounder, PDF] by Obama immediately after his announcement. The Recess Appointment Clause [Constitution, Article II, ? 2 text] gives the president the "power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate." The DOJ's memo argues that although the Senate met between January 3 and 23, the sessions were not sufficient to constitute an interruption of a recess under the Recess Appointment Clause because they were only pro forma sessions that lasted less than a minute and there was no intent to conduct any business. Some experts argue that recess appointments have regularly been used by presidents [JURIST op-ed] since George Washington. It is only a relatively recent practice that obstructionists have begun holding perfunctory pro forma sessions every three days while the Senate is on recess in order to block recess appointments.




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Kid Rock apologizes after cigar complaint (AP)

WARREN, Mich. ? Kid Rock has apologized after a man complained that the musician smoked a cigar at a nonsmoking venue in the Detroit area.

Randy Snell says Kid Rock lit the cigar while attending country singer Travis Tritt's show Friday at Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren.

Spokesman Nick Stern told The Detroit News ( http://bit.ly/x6Z4Co) that Kid Rock offered his "most sincere apologies" to patrons he may have offended. He said he had been drinking alcohol.

Fifty-eight-year-old Randy Snell, of Trenton, has asthma and says he plans to file a health department complaint. Michigan law prohibits smoking at workplaces including bars and restaurants.

Kid Rock was born Robert Ritchie. He grew up in and lives in suburban Detroit.

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Report: Suspect in serial killings 'sick' after Iraq

By msnbc.com staff

Family members?of a man held in the killing of four homeless people say he is an Iraq War veteran who was distraught after combat, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.

An uncle said?Itzcoatl Ocampo of Yorba Linda had been telling relatives that he was seeing and hearing things, the Times said.

"When he came back from Iraq, he was sick," the uncle, Ifrain Gonzalez, told the Times.

Ocampo, 23,?was detained Friday night after a fourth homeless man was found slain in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant. The Times said bystanders had chased down?Ocampo about a quarter mile from the scene of the slaying.

Three other homeless men have been found stabbed to death in north Orange County since mid-December, and a task force of police officers, sheriff's deputies and FBI agents had been looking for the single suspect they believed was responsible for all three.

Brian Doyle, a friend from high school, told the Times that Ocampo told him he had been kicked out of the military. The Times said it could not confirm that.?

The Times reported that Gonzalez said Ocampo was born in Mexico and moved to California with his family when he was 1.

On?Saturday, mourners wept and placed flowers at the scene of death of the latest stabbing victim, who was described by friends as a Vietnam War veteran in his 60s named John.

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Weekly Ketchup: Tim Burton to Film Pinocchio Adaptation Minus Johnny Depp?

This week's Ketchup includes news of a new live action Pinocchio, adaptations of the musicals Jersey Boys and Into the Woods, and new movies for George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr, James Franco and Kate Winslet.


This Week's Top Story

TIM BURTON MAY REMAKE PINOCCHIO WITHOUT JOHNNY DEPP

With this year's Dark Shadows being the fifth film in a row that director Tim Burton has made with his frequent star Johnny Depp, it might seem impossible to remember a time when most of Burton's films didn't feature Depp at all. Perhaps Burton is getting nostalgic, because the director is now considering an actor for one of his future movies, and his name doesn't rhyme with schlepp. Burton is currently negotiating with Warner Bros to direct their planned adaptation of the Italian children's book Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It is Robert Downey Jr. that Tim Burton hopes the studio can sign to star as the woodcarver Geppetto. Robert Downey Jr. recently wrapped filming of Oz the Great and Powerful for Walt Disney Pictures, and it's possible that that movie is partly why Downey is now being eyed for the sort of movies that Johnny Depp used to specialize in. This newest adaptation of the classic tale about the wooden puppet who wanted to be a real boy was written by Bryan Fuller, the creator of the TV show Pushing Daisies. Tim Burton is also eyeing other projects as his next, such as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (at 20th Century Fox), but Pinocchio has a good chance of becoming his next if Robert Downey Jr. signs on. One fairy tale adaptation that Tim Burton is no longer going to be directing is Walt Disney Pictures' Maleficent, a reimagining of Sleeping Beauty that focuses on the villain from Disney's animated version, to be played by Angelina Jolie. With Tim Burton now out, Disney has instead offered the job to two time Academy Award winning art director Robert Stromberg (for Avatar and Alice in Wonderland), for whom Maleficent would be his directorial debut.

Fresh Developments This Week

#1 GEORGE CLOONEY RETURNS TO WORLD WAR II WITH THE MONUMENTS MEN

It was revealed last month that George Clooney is developing a Smothers Brothers biopic called Dangerously Funny that he plans on producing and directing. However, it was learned this week that there's another project based on a non-fiction book that Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov plan on producing next. The Monuments Men was the name of a 2009 book by Robert Edsel about the 11 civilian art experts that landed at Normandy during World War II on a secret mission to find the great works of art that Adolph Hitler had the Nazis hide throughout Europe. In addition to the war adventure aspects of this true story, The Monuments Men will also have a romance subplot involving Rose Valland, a member of the French Resistance who helped find (and hide) some of the stolen art. Sony Pictures will be distributing The Monuments Men, which George Clooney will be costarring in, and which will be Clooney's fifth film as director (after Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night and Good Luck, Leatherheads and The Ides of March). The Monuments Men will be George Clooney's second movie set during World War II, after the 1998 drama The Thin Red Line, in which Clooney had a small supporting role (The Good German was technically set while WWII was still going on in the Pacific, but after the war was over in Germany).


#2 HOLLYWOOD CAN'T TAKE THEIR EYES OFF OF JERSEY BOYS

GK Films (Edge of Darkness, The Town) has hired screenwriter John Logan, whose recent films included Hugo and Rango (also produced by GK Films), to adapt the Tony winning musical play Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. Based on the true story of how four young working class guys became pop stars in the 1950s, Jersey Boys has been eyed as the basis for a potential feature film pretty much since the musical debuted in 2005. Columbia Pictures is also expected to sign onto the adaptation, handling worldwide distribution for the GK Films project. Just like the Broadway musical, this adaptation of Jersey Boys is expected to use several of the quartet's most famous songs, such as "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," "Oh, What a Night," "Rag Doll," and "Sherry."


#3 KATE WINSLET TO INVESTIGATE THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY

Kate Winslet has signed to star in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of the best selling novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. That novel was the first and last written by Mary Ann Shaffer, as it was published posthumously in 2008. Kate Winslet will play British writer Juliet Ashton who, in the months after World War II, receives strange letters from the island of Guernsey describing the events that took place there during German occupation. This will be the second movie that Kate Winslet and Kenneth Branagh make together, following Branagh's 1996 adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which Winslet played Ophelia. Comic book fans will also know this project as the movie that Kenneth Branagh is making instead of directing Thor 2. Filming of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is scheduled to start in March in the United Kingdom.


#4 JAMES FRANCO IS A MYSTERY IN THE GAME

There's something mildly ironic about the efforts to adapt the 2005 Neil Strauss book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists into a movie. That book about men obsessed with the "art" of picking up women has itself been passed along all over town, starting with Columbia Pictures, then Spyglass, then Lionsgate, then Fox Searchlight, and now MGM is the studio to finally move forward with the adaptation. James Franco is now in negotiations to star in The Game as "Mystery," one of the "sargers" who all lived together in a mansion on the Sunset Strip (as seen in the VH1 reality show The Pickup Artist). The Game was written and will be directed by the team of Brian Koppelman and David Levien, whose previous two films as directors were Knockaround Knockaround Guys and 2009's Solitary Man. Guys and 2009's Solitary Man. Coincidentally, that second film starred Michael Douglas, who also was the star of the David Fincher film called... The Game. This is one of the week's Fresh Developments mostly because of the impressive RT Tomatometer scores for the previous films written by Koppelman and Levien.


#5 PARTY DOWN HEADS UP TO THE BIG SCREEN

Party Down was a comedy TV series about a Hollywood catering company that aired on the Starz channel for 20 episodes from 2009 to 2010. Low ratings, as well as the departure of costars Jane Lynch and Adam Scott to star in Glee and Parks and Recreation, respectively, were all partially credited with the series' end. Party Down was created by Rob Thomas, who also created Veronica Mars, and just like that show (though those plans eventually fell apart), there is now talk of a Party Down movie. This week, actress Megan Mullally confirmed that a Party Down movie is indeed being written, with plans for most of the show's cast to reunite later this year. What is unclear is whether or not this Party Down movie will indeed get a theatrical release, or whether it will just premiere on Starz or go otherwise drect-to-video.

Rotten Ideas of the Week

#4 DISNEY GOES INTO THE WOODS

Considering Hollywood's current love affair with fairy tales (and the TV success of Once Upon a Time on ABC, owned by Disney), this story shouldn't really surprise anyone. Walt Disney Pictures has hired director Rob Marshall (Nine, Memoirs of a Geisha) to adapt the 1987 Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical Into the Woods for the big screen. That play was very much ahead of its time, as its plot combined characters from various fairy tales such as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel. It also makes a lot of sense that it would be Disney that adapts that musical into a movie. However, Into the Woods is one of the week's Rotten Ideas not for any of those reasons, but because of the RT Tomatometer scores for the last three movies directed by Rob Marshall, all three of which were Rotten, with only his first film, Chicago, receiving a Fresh score.


#3 THE CHRONICLES OF STARBUCK: KATEE SACKHOFF JOINS RIDDICK

After years in development hell, Vin Diesel's third movie starring his science fiction persona, Riddick, is finally filming in Montreal, and so this week, two of Diesel's costars were announced. First up was Katee Sackhoff, who most fans will know as Starbuck from the 2000s reboot of Battlestar Galactica (she was the blonde with the really big... cigars). And then there is Spanish actor Jordi Molla (who was also recently mentioned as being up for the villain role in the Star Trek sequel, before it went to Benedict Cumberbatch). Both Katee Sackhoff and Jordi Molla will be playing mercenaries, with Sackhoff described as "Nordic" and Molla's character Santa being described as the leader of a group of mercenaries, but it is unclear if that means that Sackhoff is with Molla's group or not. In Riddick, Vin Diesel's character will find himself left for dead on a dangerous planet where he is soon found by bounty hunters, but what they don't know is that something has happened on the planet that makes Riddick more dangerous than ever. Riddick is being directed by David Twohy, who in addition to the first two movies (Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick) also directed Timescape, The Arrival, Below and A Perfect Getaway. The casting of Riddick is one of the week's Rotten Ideas because of the "Rotten" scores that the two previous movies received on the RT Tomatometer (55% for Pitch Black and 29% for The Chronicles of Riddick).


#2 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS GETS LOST IN THE WOODS FOR 10 MONTHS

Normally, the Weekly Ketchup focuses on movie development news, which mostly involves movies before they start filming. That's because most news involving films before they come out actually happens before cameras roll. Every once in a while, though, that's not the case, such as with this story. Paramount Pictures has decided to yank Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters from its former release date of March 2, 2012 and shift the film back, way back, all the way until January 11, 2013. As the title suggests, this 3D supernatural action thriller depicts the Brothers Grimm characters as adults who survived the incident at the Gingerbread House, and now travel around Europe, hunting down evil witches. Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) directed Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, and Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton played the title characters. And that right there might just be why Paramount decided to wait another 10 months before releasing the film (besides the obvious notion that January is often when troubled movies are released). Someone at Paramount may have made the decision that a movie starring Jeremy Renner might do better at the box office after the release of The Avengers and The Bourne Legacy this year than it would if Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters was released a couple of months before those movies. Or maybe it really just is an awful movie. Either way, this move feels like a Rotten Idea.


#1 THIS WEEK IN FOUND FOOTAGE MOVIES: TWO MORE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEVIL INSIDE

Although Hollywood's love affair with remakes and fairy tales gets more press, a continuing emerging trend is the recent success of cheaply made "found footage" horror films like Paranormal Activity 3 and this past weekend's The Devil Inside, all produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. William Brent Bell, the cowriter and director of The Devil Inside, is not resting on whatever laurels a $33.7 million opening weekend might be perceived as. In April, Bell is going to Romania to film an untitled found footage horror film that references "another classic horror mythology." Given that Romania is also where Transylvania is, one has to wonder if Bell is planning on doing a vampire story. That project does not yet have a distributor. Meanwhile, over at Warner Bros, William Brent Bell has sold his pitch for The Vatican, a found footage horror movie that presumably has something to do with the Catholic Church. Finally, the director of The Devil Inside wasn't the only one making "found footage" deals this week. Steven Quale, who made his fiction debut this year with Final Destination has made a deal with New Line Cinema for Category Six, about a group of high schoolers "documenting" a hurricane superstorm (the current scale only goes to Category Five). The two William Brent Bell found footage movies are this week's Most Rotten Ideas based mostly on the truly abysmal 6% that The Devil Inside scored on the RT Tomatometer.

For more Weekly Ketchup columns by Greg Dean Schmitz, check out the WK archive, and you can contact GDS via Facebook or a RT forum message.

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98% Le Havre

All Critics (59) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (1)

"Le Havre" is a passing fancy of a film, but it passes quite nicely indeed.

'Tis the season, so the saying goes. And when it comes to Aki Kaurism?ki, it holds true. The Finnish writer-director arrives bearing a gift wrapped in a contemporary immigration fable.

If the bummers and ambiguity of some of this season's movies are getting you down - or, hey, just the bummers and ambiguities of life - make your way to Le Havre. You won't be sorry.

The Finnish director's sense of humor is dry and dark as pitch, as he consistently finds moments of absurdity in the midst of strife and tragedy.

Kaurism?ki wrote the script, I think, with secret credit from Mother Goose and some fabric softener.

"Le Havre" is a small bit of movie magic, a story that plays more as a fable even as it deals with something as topical as immigration.

A charming film that celebrates humanity.

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The latest work by Finnish cult director Aki Kaurismaki is is his strongst in a decade--and one of 2011 best foreign pictures.

The movie never wears out its welcome with an efficient 93-minute running time. Besides the four principal characters, the supporting cast makes an impression playing a grocer, a baker, a tavern owner and Marcel's best buddy from Vietnam. It also...

While the film never reaches any hugely profound revelations with its parable-styled stories of compassion and community, and occasionally feels a little slight, it's also enormously enjoyable and gorgeous to watch.

It's a puzzle, and an intriguing one.

In two stories of evolving trust and secrets, Le Havre reflects the essential simplicity of the moral choices made in its simple-seeming camera set-ups.

Kaurismaki's movie about a shoeshine man and an illegal immigrant is nothing less than a joy

A wonderfully concise, unfussy movie; it is "easy" by the director's standards, which is to say that it doesn't leave any significant ellipses in the narrative up until the aggressively darling ending.

...an upbeat little tome that leaves a good feeling to the spirit.

Kaurism?ki can almost restore your hope in humanity.

Kaurismaki dives into French film culture in 'Le Havre'

You almost become a citizen of Le Havre, watching this film and rejoicing at the end as two newfound, unexpected friends share a drink.

It's a straightforward yet completely artificial scenario, with welcome overtones of Italian Neo-Realism.

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U.S. sanctions China's Zhuhai Zhenrong for Iran trade (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The State Department on Thursday slapped sanctions on three overseas based energy companies for dealing with Iran, including China's state-run Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp which it said was the largest supplier of refined petroleum products to Iran.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also imposed sanctions on Singapore's Kuo Oil Pte Ltd and FAL Oil Company Ltd, an independent energy trader based in the United Arab Emirates, the State Department said in a notice.

"Under the sanctions imposed today, all three companies are barred from receiving U.S. export licenses, U.S. Export Import Bank financing, and loans over $10 million from U.S. financial institutions," the State Department said.

"These sanctions apply only to the sanctioned companies, and not to their governments or countries."

The move marked a tough new step to enforce U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program and are aimed at squeezing Tehran's government finances and oil sector.

The State Department said the United States had determined that Zhuhai Zhenrong - one of four dominant Chinese state oil traders - brokered the delivery of over $500 million in gasoline to Iran between July 2010 and January 2011.

It said Kuo Oil, a Singapore-based energy trader, had provided over $25 million in refined petroleum to Iran between late 2010 and early 2011 while FAL provided over $70 million in refined petroleum to Iran over multiple shipments in late 2010.

In all cases, individual deliveries were worth significantly more than the $1 million threshold under U.S. law and the total value of the transactions was well above the $5 million threshold for sanctionable activities within a 12-month period, the State Department said.

Clinton imposed the sanctions in line with the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Disability Act, which bars certain financial transactions and prohibits the provision of refined petroleum products to Iran.

"The result of these actions has been an unprecedented international sanctions effort aimed at convincing Iran to change its behavior," the State Department statement said.

"The sanctions announced today are an important step toward that goal, as they target the individual companies that help Iran evade these efforts."

(Reporting By Andrew Quinn; Editing by Sandra Maler and Vicki Allen)

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