blackgold: @chattels what does all this mean for us and the reinstatement of the value of the Iraqi dinar
blackgold: Maybe if the Speaker of the House spent more time working on US problems we all might have affordable healthcare
chattels: @blackgold To answer your question definitively I would have to know the conditions precedent and attendant to an increase in the value of the dinar.
chattels: @blackgold I do not know.
chattels: @blackgold However, if our lirquidity event is affected by the status of security and stability in the region then my guess is that the news posted hereinabove is not favorable to our event.
chattels: Saving the KRG Is Vital to U.S. and Iraqi Interests Bilal Wahab October 25, 2017 http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/saving-the-krg-is-vital-to-u.s.-and-iraqi-interests
chattels: Finally, the KRG's survival is a necessary U.S. fallback if Abadi loses his reelection bid next year against empowered pro-Iran rivals. In that scenario, anti-American voices in Iraq would likely intensify, and the KRG could become the only reliable U.S. partner in moderating national politics, maintaining the country's independence, and undercutting the Islamic State's reemergence.
To avoid such outcomes in 2018, Washington needs to restrain Abadi today, asking him to avoid pushing beyond the KRG's constitutionally protected 2003 borders.
chattels: " ................ avoid pushing beyond the KRG's constitutionally protected 2003 borders."
chattels: US Speaker Ryan to Iraq: Heed Secretary Tillerson about Iran-backed militias By Rudaw 1 hour ago http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/2510201711
chattels: "Baghdad should accept this offer and enter into meaningful discussions that address long-term Kurdish concerns about autonomy, share of the national budget, and oil revenues," said Rep. Ryan in a statement on Wednesday. The statement was co-signed by the chairmen of the House's intelligence, foreign affairs, and armed services committees. "The bloodshed must stop immediately," read the statement.
chattels: Official: Iraqi parties smuggle billions of dollars of oil, gov’t powerless By Rudaw http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/251020171
chattels: David M. Witty @DavidMWitty1 Iraqi forces temporarily halt advance on Fishkhabor border crossing in Dahok province, Emergency Response Division. http://mobp.as/V3KSj
chattels: Intel Guru Frank26 IMO...OUR DAYS TOGETHER IN THE MR [Monetary Reform] STUDY ARE BUT FEW. HOW DOES ONE INTRODUCE A CESSATION? [...in Hawaii... to introduce a Cessation...would one not say..."Aloha"?] In this Cessation...We say all three of Aloha's meanings...I Love You and...Greetings as we say...Goodbye.
chattels: @blackgold Good, while my posting may not be helpful, i do hope that it is not injurious to life and living :)
blackgold: @chattels the post was great i was just wondering if and how it pertained to us
blackgold: @chattels there will be time enough to sleep in the grave
chattels: @blackgold I wish to high heaven that I really knew something. I read alot and post some of what seems germane to me.
blackgold: @chattels B Franklin said that i believe
chattels: @blackgold “There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave” ― William Shakespeare, according to the internet
blackgold: @chattels At this point thats all you can do and hope we get something out of it, keeps us busy
blackgold: @chattels oh ok, b Franklin must have quoted him
chattels: @blackgold Yes, just staying busy and hoping to learn something in the process, eh ?
blackgold: @chattels yep
blackgold: @chattels without you and spectra many would be in the dark
blackgold: @chattels subjected to only guru junk
chattels: @blackgold There are many who try to report with integrity and without pretense I think.
chattels: @blackgold The danger is not what we know, but what we think that we know at times.
blackgold: guilty as charged
chattels: @blackgold " Mea culpa " here as well
sandyf: @xyz: @sandyf age of supercomputer is yesterday. - Try and stay in context. The problems in this venture lie at grass roots level, not cyberspace. One should be careful not to lose sight of reality. When wages and prices have changed it will be time to smile.
blackgold: @sandyf I believe it is just beginning and if these idiots finally learn to mix a human with a maxhine we will have a beast ,if we don't already have one
blackgold: @sandyf Emerson,Lake and Palmer's Album--Brain salad Surgury
blackgold: @sandyf But we gave you life --WHATELSE COULD YOU DO==to do what was right---I"M PERFECT ARE YOU
Hennessy: @chattels I only post when you aren't around lol
blackgold: shame on you
Hennessy: I'm sure your knowledge on economics and politics are superior to mines, you can at least explain everything you find, I just post whatever I see relevant, updated and reliable to me
chattels: @Hennessy :)
Hennessy: I rather search in the dark for truths than to follow guru news
chattels: @Hennessy I can remember posting with great trepidation early on myself :)
chattels: @Hennessy I am a macroeconomiic idiot and I have recently been wrong about the politics for sure.
chattels: @Hennessy I encourage all to engage. It is the stuff of community, life and living.
blackgold: trepidation ? I'm Protestant
chattels: @blackgold I am Anglican :)
blackgold: lol
blackgold: let me see your wings
blackgold: @chattels http://bestanimations.com/Holidays/Christmas/angels/angel-animated-gif-4.gif
chattels: @blackgold
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVr0IRfFZoi8AnC4PxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=weeping+angel+statute&fr=yhs-iba-bleengo&hspart=iba&hsimp=yhs-bleengo#id=85&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.c.photoshelter.com%2Fimg-get2%2FI0000Ojl5WPzrmB4%2Ffit%3D1000x750%2F042110-friendship-cemetery-angel-Columbus-013.jpg&action=click
blackgold: @chattels nice
blackgold: @chattels You know whats funny, the bible never show or spoke of an Angel being female but we see alot of them
blackgold: People say we are close in this investment, Maybe we are, but don't buy anymore
chattels: @blackgold It does not show God or Jesus as a white male, but .......................
chattels: @blackgold My hope is that when I am face to face and in His presence that such things, race and gender, will not matter, eh ?
Hennessy: @blackgold you wouldn't suggest we buy anymore dinars?
Boomer: @blackgold Why not?
chattels: Depends upon how much you have already and/or one's tolerance for risk in investment I would think.
Boomer: In other words that was for us without any measurable degree of intelligence, I'm so thankful people are around like that because I'm so damn STUPID I would have gone out and bought another Truckload of that paper, and I thought they were coupons.
blackgold: @Boomer keep funding them and they won't rv
Hennessy: 26/10/2017 - 11:42 ERBIL — Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militias and Iraqi forces attacked on Thursday the Peshmerga positions in Pirde town, 45 km to the south-east of Erbil. Kamal Kirkuki, a Peshmerga commander on the frontline, told BasNews that the militias of Hashd al-Shaabi launched on Thursday an offensive against the Peshmerga forces near Pirde town.
The Peshmerga forces responded to their attack, killing nine militias and foiling their offensive. Meanwhile, the Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias of Hashd al-Shaabi launched an unprovoked offensive on the Peshmerga positions in northwest of Mosul on Thursday. http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/kurdistan/388336
Hennessy: Thu Oct 26, 2017 08:35AM - Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called for the total annulment of the recent Kurdish secession referendum in northern Iraq, apparently rejecting the Kurdish leader’s recent decision to merely freeze the results of the unconstitutional vote. - “
We will accept nothing but the annulment of the referendum and respect for the constitution,” Abadi’s office in Baghdad said in a Thursday statement. http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/10/26/539916/Iraq-kurd-independence
Hennessy: DENICE NATALI - OCTOBER 26, 2017 - DEBUNKING MYTHS ABOUT THE KURDS, IRAQ, AND IRAN https://warontherocks.com/2017/10/debunking-myths-about-the-kurds-iraq-and-iran/?singlepage=1
Hennessy: OCTOBER 26, 2017 / 2:28 AM / UPDATED 26 MINUTES AGO - Iran's Khamenei tells Iraq's Abadi not to trust U.S.: TV - ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Thursday said Iraq should not rely on the United States in its fight against Islamic State, state TV reported. “Unity was the most important factor in your gains against terrorists and their supporters ... Don’t Trust America ... It will harm you in the future,” Khamenei told a visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-iran/irans-khamenei-tells-iraqs-abadi-not-to-trust-u-s-tv-idUSKBN1CV14G?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29&&rpc=401
chattels: Peshmerga respond to, push back Iraqi militia attack near Zummar By Rudaw http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/2510201710
chattels: oel Wing Retweeted Alex Mello @AlexMello02 3h3 hours ago Replying to @AlexMello02 fed ISF past the 2003 Green Line and inside the “core KRG”- Habur is just a few kms from Zakho. We’ll see what happens in the next few days.
chattels: David M. Witty @DavidMWitty1 4h4 hours ago Iraqi PM responds to Kurdish proposal to freeze referendum results: we will only accept its cancellation. http://mobp.as/cDgTj
chattels: This time the Iraqi advance was initiated with blatant disregard for days of strong and explicit warnings delivered by CJTF partner nations
chattels: This is a damned shame. At stake is continued partnership with a 70+ nation coalition that includes almost all the world's key economies
chattels: In the same manner that the US and other nations imposed consequences on KRG for spurning all advice, the same may follow here with Iraq.
chattels: We'll see what the day's events bring, but this is entirely against US & CJTF advice & requests, and there will be consequences.
chattels: US advice did not prevent the referendum no-matter how explicit it was: same here apparently. The effects came after: same here probably.
chattels: A lot of folks think the US is so invested in the main ally, Iraq, that it can't deploy its leverage. We'll see. This is the test.
chattels: When an ally is determined on a course of action that you oppose, sometimes you can't shift them off it. The expected benefits r too great.
chattels: Success at influencing Iraq next time is totally dependent on how we (CJTF) react immediately and how we follow up this influence failure.
chattels: If Iraqi gov is confident & strong enough to make these decisions - it is - then is is strong enough to receive feedback without kid gloves
chattels: I'm a dedicated supporter of ISF, I wish ISF best luck in their anti-IS ops, but this will make long-term security cooperation less likely.
chattels: If Iraqi gov is really this determined to rely on Rev Guard & Hezbollah clones rather than 70+of the world's strongest econ & mil powers ...
chattels: Frankly, that would be as ill-advised as KRG holding the referendum this year. Baghdad puts itself in the same corner of alienating friends.
chattels: https://twitter.com/Mikeknightsiraq?lang=en
chattels: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that they will not accept anything from the Kurdish government less than cancelling the Kurdish independence referendum that was held on September 25, despite the Baghdad opposition. His remark comes a day after the Kurdish authorities offered to freeze the outcome of the independence vote. “We do not accept but cancelling the referendum, and adherence to the [Iraqi] constitution,” PM Abadi said while meeting the Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri in Tehran. http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/26102017
chattels: I was hoping for at least a semantical compromise between Baghdad and Erbil. A " freeze " is not a " cancellation ", but .................. this referendum was only a statement of intention and not the act of independence. It seems to me that Baghdad is making too much of this and pushing beyond certain limits, semantically and on the ground.
chattels: Florian Neuhof @FlorianNeuhof 59m59 minutes ago You are literally getting the polar opposite info from Twitter fans of opposing sides in #Iraq right now. Online propaganda war is in full swing. #KRG #Kurds
chattels: Florian Neuhof @FlorianNeuhof 2h2 hours ago More Florian Neuhof Retweeted Wladimir #Peshmerga and #Iraq|i forces clash at Zummar near #Syria|n & #Turkey border. Iraqi vehicles have been knocked out; further use of German Milan missiles by #Kurds? This could turn into a prolonged, bloody fight.
chattels: Florian Neuhof @FlorianNeuhof 4h4 hours ago More Florian Neuhof Retweeted Patrick Osgood I would imagine that the #Peshmerga will put up quite a bit of resistance here. #Iraq #KRG
chattels: Florian Neuhof @FlorianNeuhof 4h4 hours ago #Iraq forces assault last #ISIS bastion, advance on #Kurds https://sg.news.yahoo.com/iraq-forces-assault-last-bastion-advance-kurds-061427976.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw … via @yahoosg
chattels: Iraqi forces have retaken more than 90 percent of the territory IS seized in the country in 2014, with the jihadists now confined to a small stretch of the valley adjoining some of the last areas they still hold in Syria. "The heroic legions are advancing into the last den of terrorism in Iraq to liberate Al-Qaim, Rawa and the surrounding villages and hamlets," Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said in a statement from neighbouring Iran where he is on a state visit. "They will all return to the arms of the motherland thanks to the determination and endurance of our fighting heroes," he added. "The people of IS have no choice but to die or surrender."
chattels: Nationalistic talk and verbiage like the " arms of the motherland " sound like Nazi Germany, eh ?
chattels: David M. Witty @DavidMWitty1 2h2 hours ago Iraqi forces advance toward K1 Base S of Qaim. http://mobp.as/ILmTj
chattels: David M. Witty @DavidMWitty1 1h1 hour ago Iraqi 7th Div & Tribal PMU liberate Rawah crossroads 5 kilos W of Anah, W Anbar province. http://mobp.as/QUmTj
chattels: David M. Witty @DavidMWitty1 31s31 seconds ago Iraq PMU denies report that PMU leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was killed during advance on Fishkhabor crossing. http://mobp.as/gjqTj
chattels: David M. Witty @DavidMWitty1 36s37 seconds ago Replying to @DavidMWitty1 Adds that Iraq Army & PMU continue advance on Fishkhabor border crossing, currently controlled by Peshmerga.
Whitelions: Back in 2004, President George W. Bush put a law into effect allowing anyone to invest in the Iraqi currency, known as Dinars. When the US went to war with Iraq, the Iraqi Dinar, their currency was taken off the World Monetary Exchange until their sovereignty would be given back to the Iraqi’s. Home Security.......... Parliamentary Security: the liberation of Al-Qaim and Rawa will restore Iraq's sovereignty over all its territory
chattels: Whether traveling by aircraft, vehicle, or on foot, the Anbar Governorate is vast. During a time when mining roads became a strategy of choice for insurgents, the need to patrol and travel throughout the province became one of the Marine Corps’ greatest challenges. The threat of insurgent activity, when combined with the challenges that long-distance travel, choking dust, and stifling heat created, made the Anbar Province a difficult area of operation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Anbar_Governorate
chattels: The name of the governorate in Persian language means "warehouse" or "silo", from the verb, anbâshtan (to store, to warehouse). This was the last stop/warehouses on the old Silk Road toward Syria. The name is pre-Islamic. The name of the Governorate is taken over from a historic city that was originally located on its territory and whose ruins can still be seen 5 km northwest of Fallujah near the city of Saqlawiyah today.
This city of Anbār (Persian: Peruz Shapur) was founded in the 3rd century by the Muntherids, and was before the Arab conquest in 634, the second largest city of Iraq. It was abandoned after the Mongol invasion in the 14th century.
chattels: Al-Qaim and Rawa have populations of about 180,000 and 30,000 respectively.
chattels: These two cities and other smaller towns are located along the Euphrates River.
chattels: Al Anbar is Iraq's largest and westernmost province. It comprises 32 percent of the country's total land mass, nearly 53,208 square miles (137,810 km2), almost exactly the size of North Carolina in the United States and slightly larger than Greece.
chattels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_in_Anbar_Province
chattels: Alex Mello @AlexMello02 Following Following @AlexMello02 What happens if the first push fails? Iraq starts using airpower? Attempts to pressure KRG on other fronts? Turkey steps in?
chattels: Kirk H. Sowell @UticaRisk 3h3 hours ago More Kirk H. Sowell Retweeted Alex Mello It is when political leaders are most confident that they make the biggest mistakes. We'll see how this turns out.
chattels: Kirk H. Sowell @UticaRisk 3h3 hours ago Readers of #InsideIraqiPolitics, we did a profile back in Sept 2014, when Abadi took office, reviewing his record as an MP.
chattels: Kirk H. Sowell @UticaRisk 3h3 hours ago Replying to @UticaRisk Our profile showed Abadi to be an ideological centralist. As chairman of the Finance Comm, he'd strongly supported Maliki on KRG oil policy.
chattels: Kirk H. Sowell @UticaRisk 3h3 hours ago Replying to @UticaRisk In interview after interview, Abadi was consistent. But as committee chairman, he didn't control an army & have a popular wave at his back.
chattels: Abadi is no " choir boy ". He has a past and that past was Dawa / State of Law Coalition, which are Maliki political constructs or controlled.
chattels: It appears that Abadi and Co. may be intent upon abject subjugation of the Kurds which is, some believe, an over reach by Abadi that will backfire.
chattels: Sadly, the end result of all of this may be the reduction/weakening of the Kurds without an Abadi " victory " in the May elections.
chattels: Or Abadi may turn out to be just another Maliki, Iran proxy or despot in his own right.
Whitelions: No Abadi is not a "Choir Boy" but he has owned up to everything he did while working under Maliki and his record since he has Taken office speaks for it's self Iraq would still be under a dictatorship and none of what Abadi has done to bring Iraq in to the world stage would be done and the Dinar we hold would never have the chance to become what it will become in the near future.
chattels: We shall see.
chattels: Frankly, I am increasingly comfortable with the notion of flushing my dinar as toilet paper rather than see another American life lost or the hope of liberty extinguished in the Kurdish nation.
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