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CNN. Broadcasting While Working On My 2nd Million Dollars ! I Gave Up On The First ..... 8-10-2012 Newshound Guru Kaperoni “Saleh made the comments following reports that many Iraqis had started losing confidence in the local currency by exchanging their savings into dollars.”...Well, well, want to collect 3-zero dinar? What better way than to instill a bit of fear?...I don’t know about you, but if this is a final push before to remove even more 3-zero dinars from the streets, I am convinced! 8-10-2012 Newshound Guru Kaperoni [article] "on Tuesday that the Central Bank of Iraq sent a letter to the financial and economic committees in the House of representatives expressed its readiness to apply the draft three zeros from the currency be deleted during the next year and contains a detailed explanation of the project and implementation phases for the purpose of discussion in the House of representatives and a ceiling to be applied.”...So here we see again that the CBI is ready. And this time they gave “detailed explanation of the project and implementation phases." This is clearly progress! And, IMO, tells us we are much closer to the RV than they are letting us believe. This kind of information must be well guarded. It is the plan! The CBI knows there are loose lips throughout the GOI.

8-11-2012 SWFloridaGuy: Major political reform is the direction the GOI is headed (ever so slowly). Talabani is calling for leaders to unify their positions and according to reports they have reached an agreement on 80% of the reform paper which is a great sign and potentially may lead to the end of the political crisis. Each side will claim victory I'm sure, but what is important is reconciliation. The adoption of the applicable reforms may be the political stability the CBI is looking for. Does political stability mean Iraq must revalue their currency? Of course not. However, if you truly believe economic reforms are also on the horizon for Iraq (as I do), then it's only logical to assume that political stability is necessary to ensure the success of the economic project. If you don't believe Iraq will revalue their currency, then of course this does not apply to you and I'm surprised you're taking the time to read my post. I have no proof Iraq will revalue their currency and I do recognize that it's not a given. However, I choose to believe this is a solid investment. Iraq is a very unique situation that shows promise and I do think there is a great basis for that. This is just my opinion. Now that I've thrown in my disclaimer for the Lopsters, I'll get back to the political situation. I think it's pretty clear by now that the move to unseat Maliki was a bluff to force him to follow-through with implementing the formerly agreed upon legislature. After all, it would only inflame the crisis, not solve it. Iraqiya and SLC struck an agreement where they will benefit from maintaining the “surplus” seats. If the Shia alliance voted to oust Maliki it would be fractionalized. If a good part of Maliki’s alliance were to defect then the National Alliance would no longer be the biggest bloc in Parliament and would not have the right to appoint the next Prime Minister. Iraqiya has only 85 deputies and would be reduced to at least 75 if they moved against Maliki. Iraqiya would have had to form a bloc with the Kurds and agree on a leader to avoid Maliki’s bloc getting hold of the nomination of the next PM which is in conflict with article 76 of the Iraqi constitution on the nomination procedure (which Iraqiya in 2010 saw as belonging to the biggest electoral list). All of this points to a bluff; a bluff that apparently has worked and that's because the flip side of that coin is that Maliki has some very good reasons to avoid being questioned before Parliament. A recent decision by the Iraqi Supreme Court says that under article 61-7c of the Iraq constitution, to question the Prime Minister there has to be specific criminal charges or constitutional infractions and whoever that minister in question may be, if adjudicated guilty, will be held accountable. So, this is no small matter for Maliki because he could be brought up on a lot of charges including corruption, crimes against humanity and of course refusing to provide even basic services for the Iraqi people. Maliki's opposition has done what they needed to do (bluff or not), to ensure that parts of Erbil will be implemented, permanent ministers and Strategic Council announced as well bringing the Justice, General Amnesty, Federal Court and Judicial Council laws to the table for adoption. Iraq never moves at our speed but for reasons I formerly mentioned, I do believe this new reform compromise is real and we may see a National Meeting in the near future. I have been wrong many times about the timing of this National Meeting and it's left me a bit gun-shy when it comes to trying to pin down a time-frame. So, I'm just going to let this play out and hope for the best. These are just my opinions, which may or may not be correct.

The way I see it, It is Romney/Ryan versus 4 mores years of Obama. I personally will choose the former hands down over the latter choice.

Don't let your failed debate with Stryker get you upset!! http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2011/06/29/iraq-gets-control-of-its-development-fund-dfi/ Yeah Keepm, if you look at this article it is dated June 29th 2011 and states that they will get control on the next day June 30th; wait, that was also the date that Chapter VII was to be released, you don't think that had anything to do with them not getting the funds do you? On June 19, 2011 Shabibi came out of a meeting with Maliki and Shabibi said he had the tools to "delete the zeros from the new currency too" did that happen.....NO On June 22, 2011 Shabibi announced they were ready to start on June 30th, did that happen ... NO Oh, isn't June 30th 2011 when Chapter VII was to be released....."YES"...did it happen...."NO" BUT YOU FEEL THEY ARE IN CONTROL..........no they're not but you believe what you want too and I'll believe that this will happen when they are out of Chapter VII

Yes, but how long are you going to take the two cards givin. According to the constitution, we the people are in charge. So who is this card player that is giving the people the two choices? Why are the people that are in charge listening to them and playing there game?

See, choosing the lessor of two evils is still choosing evil. When will america finely get it.

Someone who does not support the global elite and support the people and the constitution.

If the dipstick had chosen Thug as his VP not only would he be a shoo-in but the countries woes would have ended in a fartnight...oops! I meant fortnight!! :blink:

Carlin has it completely bass-akwards....As much as I like him, he is wrong about a lot of things. I think most of his stand-up is sarcastic opposition to whatever he perceives as institutional.....It was funny for awhile, but I've grown up now....Those bits are very old, and do not apply to today's world. If a person does not vote, they have absolutely no reason to complain. By voluntarily not participating, they are consenting to whatever form of Govt is chosen by those that do. People will vote.....It will happen....That is reality. Now, if more Liberals vote, a Lib form of Govt is what a non voter has chosen by nature of not being counted....No reason to complain, its what you chose. If Libs stay home....as I suspect a lot will this year, and the vast majority of Conservatives get out there....How can any non-participant be surprised?....By virtue of not engaging, they have tacitaly agreed to whoever is chosen. Its not a funny comic standup, but it is reality.

Paul Ryan voted for the auto bailouts and TARP. seems he is part of the problem that he is fighting against, no?

Keepm, why is it that you have been telling everyone here that Iraq has been in control of the DFI funds and that they have all their money under their control, I know this because you debated Stryker on it all the way back in December 2011 where he proved you wrong then. This article that Butifldrn brought in here states that you have been wrong so how can we believed in anything you say. Here is a question, what different ways of reducing the money supply are you referring too and that would mean you believe that they have been reducing the money supply but you don't think it has worked. I ask this because of the way you made the above statement. BTW, do you really think that they are going to let all of the real big currency speculators know how much IQD has been sucked in to the CBI and how much Iraq is really worth in their DFI funds? I know your standard answer is it is true because that is what is on their financials, but Keepm that would mean you believe that banks tell us the truth all the time. Watch the news here and that proves that is not true, bankers dropping like flies because they have lied or banks have fabricated their worth to the stockholders. Give me a break on that transparency BS.

my question....what god is he referring to....don't think it is the same GOD many would like to believe...rather than god bless us as he said it seems more appropriate to say GOD help us...if you disagree...that's your priviledge (thanks to the blood of many American heros who gave all so you can voice your opinion like I am) but it's also your problem...cheers I meant to leave his god in lower case as it ain't the same GOD I believe in....it's a can of worms but it is what it is...tally ho!

8-11-2012 Erbil: Iraq now second-largest oil producer. Iraq produced 3 million barrels of oil a day in the last month, which moved the country from third to second place in terms of oil output. Iraq overtook the second-largest OPEC oil producer Iran for the fist time since 1980. Iran’s oil production reduced to below 3 million barrels of oil per day due to the impact of US and Western sanctions on Tehran and the stable recovery of Baghdad’s oil production. Iran last month produced 2.9 million barrels of oil a day, reported the Financial Times. Oil analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies Manouchehr Takin said: “The different production paths show the huge impact of politics in oil and the Middle East.” Iran produced 1 million barrels a day fewer in comparison with five months ago due to increasing sanctions such as the combined impact of US sanctions against Tehran, a full EU embargo on the country’s crude exports and a de facto global ban on maritime insurance for Iranian oil supertankers. Iraq signed many contracts in the last four years and it is the country’s policy to sign more oil contracts with foreign giants like Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, France’s Total, Russia’s Lukoil and China’s CNPC to develop oil infrastructure and to reach targets. Iraq’s new target is to produce 12 million barrels a day by 2017. http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/2/321268/

Well second off dog, if the shoe fits wear it.

I believe you guys are taking his statement out of context. There was never any reference to any military, the topic was politics and statement was in reference to ignorant citizens/voters. IMO it was obvious.

Thats kinda over the top scrum. You insult our fine fighting men. No sir this most definitly is NOT the land of the cowards NOR home of the slaves. We simply disagree with you. So you call us names? WTF is that. So really whats your plan to get us out of this. Besides Ron Paul cause he lost and is no longer part of the plan. I mean that issue is resolved ron paul will not be president. So whats your plan. Us slaves and cowards would really like to know. Share your friggin knowledge Scrum . Sorry man but what you said really pi$$ed me off.

. “Officer’s Oath: Why My Vow to Defend the Constitution Demanded That I Sacrifice My Career” is Lt. Col. Terry Lakin’s moving first-hand account of faith and patriotism that led to court-martial, imprisonment and the stripping of all military rank and privileges, including his Army pension. Lakin, an Army flight surgeon, was court-martialed because he refused to obey deployment orders, arguing Barack Obama had not documented his eligibility for the presidency under Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution. “What I do not understand and still don’t,” Lakin writes, “is why Obama did not just come forward with his key documents and be done with it. Instead, he ordered all of his important records to be kept under seal.” Lt. Col. Terry Lakin’s “Officer’s Oath: Why My Vow to Defend the Constitution Demanded That I Sacrifice My Career” is available now at WND’s Superstore Addressing both the short-form and the long-form birth certificates released by the White House, Lakin notes they are digital scans of purportedly official documents, neither of which would be acceptable as evidence in a court proceeding. “So tell me: Who has something to hide?” he asks. “It would seem to be President Obama, and sooner or later the voters of this country are going to make it clear that his stonewalling cannot continue.” Lakin has explained that he was compelled by his officer’s oath to uphold and defend the Constitution when he was ordered to deploy to Afghanistan. Along with questions about the authenticity of the Obama birth documents, some constitutional scholars argue Obama is not a natural born citizen because his father was not an American citizen. Ironically, Lakin’s deployment orders required him to bring five copies of his birth certificate. “I had read the orders several times and had glossed over a detail that had previously seemed routine, but this time I felt like Wile E. Coyote getting smacked by an anvil,” he writes. “I needed a birth certificate to deploy, but the president did not need one to order my deployment. This was nuts.” Lakin’s day of decision was April 12, 2010. That day he packed his car as though he were going to be on Flight 1123 out of Baltimore/Washington International Airport at 8:20 a.m. He expected to check into Fort Campbell, Ky., no later that 3 p.m. that afternoon. Instead, he headed to the Pentagon, where he took a photo of himself with his bags to prove he was still willing to deploy if Obama’s eligibility could be validated. That’s when Lakin’s nightmare began. When he was court-martialed for refusing to obey orders, he found himself looking at the paintings on the wall behind the jury members. He writes: As fate would have it, these were portraits of various Founding Fathers, and I wondered what they would be thinking. I strongly suspected they would be seeking the truth, about Obama’s citizenship status, about his Connecticut Social Security number (there is no reason why Obama would have a Connecticut number), about the multitude of unanswered questions surrounding this man. Here, however, to emphasize the real issues would likely have resulted in a reprimand from the judge and a harsher sentence from the jury. How, I wondered, had our country descended to this level of apathy? Lakin writes an equally emotional passage about his final moments of freedom with his family. What does one say to a wife and children before leaving for prison? I tried to instill in my seven-year-old the conviction that he was now the man of the house and needed to take care of the family. I told my eleven-year-old daughter to be the best help to her mom she could be. All the while I was holding back the tears lest I set off my little one and turn this into an emotional free-for-all. Lakin contends Congress should have demanded Obama show his birth credentials when he declared he was a presidential candidate in Springfield, Ill., on Feb. 10, 2007. The officer’s downfall was his determination to seek the truth about Obama’s eligibility when the establishment media showed no interest in it. Supporters say that by prosecuting Lakin, the United States military abandoned the principles articulated by the Nuremburg Trial at the end of World War II asserting the Nazi military and government officials had a responsibility of conscience to adhere to a higher order of morality than simply follow orders. Lakin proclaimed his loyalty to the higher order of the oath he took as an officer, choosing on moral grounds to disobey the orders he was issued by a commander-in-chief who refused to allow the Hawaii Department of Health to open the vault and show the world Obama’s original 1961 birth records, if any truly exist.

Point understood, however given the two cards we have been dealt, I will choose (as you say) the lesser of the two evils.

Nice....now find a different way to reduce the money supply and we are in business.....

Obama so badly wants to give his Muslim faith a leg up in America...he seems to want to act as if Jefferson so liked the muslim faith he owned a Koran to prove it...but... The reason Jefferson needed that copy of the Koran was because he was desperate to learn something about Islam from that religion’s written de facto standard of all things Muslim. Why? Because the United States was going to war in the early 1800s against conservative, Wahhabi-type, radical Muslims. As only the third president of the United States, Jefferson had no CIA to feed intelligence data to him. He had to know something about the enemy, before going to war with them.

I was born christian. I now am almost agnostic as I believe religious freedom is a right as long as you dont preach hate. Any of you ever read the Koran? I have and it is not a "do unto others ect." book. Also....is this not the same president that canceled the day of prayer at the white house because he didnt want to offend anyone, but had a day of prayer for 50,000 (yep) muslims in D.C. Glad I live where I do, but would do anything legal to stop what is happening in the states. STAND UP for your rights people!!!

And so do his supporters. That's why they support him. They may be American by birth, but they don't have and American heart and soul. That's why they support Obama's vision of "change". They are either brainwashed or brain dead, 'cause I honestly don't see how any real American could vote for this Kenyan idiot that still no one knows who or what he really is.

"Forget about cancer killing you because chemotherapy will do a much better job in the long term." My thoughts completely when I was diagnosed. I researched and researched and got 2nd and 3rd opinions. I chose to opt out of the chemo treatment and chose surgery. I'm taking a low dose of a medication for 5yrs. I do watch my diet. I have a high fiber diet, stay away from red meats, sugars and keep my weight down and do a lot of walking. I have one more year before I hit the 5 yr. mark. And I have the best team player on my sided.....GOD. Jonjon thank for the thread.

From what I've seen / experienced over the past 35 years in the construction industry---20+ years in the Houston area, 10+ years in the Texas Hill Country---there are three groups or types of people in regard to work. A very small percentage is made up of people who I label "self-starters." These are the ones I hire, train, put to work and they set the world on fire. Most of them work 24/7 and end up owning their own business. A larger percentage is made up of "good workers." These are the employees who like (some love) their job and work hard to produce. Then the last group is the group I detest---they are the ones who claim they are self-starters, claim they love to work, but when it comes time to actually do something the best they can do is make up excuses as to why they can't do anything. This is the group who figures out how to scam their employer, scam unemployment and/or disability, etc. They are the parasites who give the legitimate people needing a hand up a bad name. As for this thread, I don't believe Americans hate success...I believe Americans are fed up with Congress and fed up with blatant corporate greed. Their anger is misdirected (and in some part manipulated by politicians) toward those who are successful (business wise). And again, the parasites I described above attach themselves to this misdirected anger which inflames the entire process. I sure wish we could figure out how to stamp out the lazy bums from our political scene so cooler heads would prevail and lead this country back to prosperity.

Cris, thank you for the article. Most interesting, and it does prove my point. According to your article dated 2010, Saddam Hussein looked to Khan to obtain nuclear weapons and a delivery system in 1990. In 2002, Hans Blix and the United Nations did not find any evidence of nuclear weapons in Iraq, so Khan's plan was never gotten, not to say Saddam did not pay him for the paper being offered. Your article is dated 2010, and our conversation started regarding who and what got us into the war in 2003, so this article would not apply to what we have been debating. I include further information on the status of decisions to go to war by retired General Colin Powell, former Secretary of State at the time of invasion, and a life long Republican: Colin Powell with vial he said could contain anthrax, at the United Nations in 2003. WASHINGTON -- In his new book, former Secretary of State Colin Powell provides what may be the most authoritative confirmation yet that there was never a considered debate in the George W. Bush White House about whether going to war in Iraq was really a good idea. In a chapter discussing what he calls his “infamous” February 2003 speech to the United Nations where he authoritatively presented what was later exposed as gross misinformation about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Powell notes that by that time, war “was approaching.” “By then, the President did not think war could be avoided,” Powell writes. “He had crossed the line in his own mind, even though the NSC [National Security Council] had never met -- and never would meet -- to discuss the decision.” The National Security Council, which was at the time led by Condoleezza Rice, is the president’s foremost advisory body for national security and foreign policy. The book, “It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership,” which will be released May 22, is largely a series of leadership parables from Powell, who now spends a lot of time on the lecture circuit. The Huffington Post obtained an advance copy. Bush insisted in his own 2010 memoir, "Decision Points," that the invasion was something he came to support only reluctantly and after a long period of reflection. During his book tour, he even cast himself as “a dissenting voice” in the run-up to war. “I didn't wanna use force,” he said. But Powell supports the increasingly well-documented conclusion that there was actually no decision-making point -- or decision-making process -- during the events between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, which had nothing to do with those attacks. Former CIA Director George Tenet made an admission similar to Powell’s in his own 2007 memoir. "There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat," he wrote. Nor "was there ever a significant discussion" about the possibility of containing Iraq without an invasion. Indeed, history shows that Bush had long wanted to strike out at Saddam Hussein and was trying to link Iraq to 9/11 within a day of the terrorist attacks. The first concrete evidence was the Downing Street Memos first published in 2005, which documented the conclusions of British officials after high-level talks in Washington in July 2002 that “[m]ilitary action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” An analysis of the historical record by the National Security Archives in 2010 concluded that, “In contrast to an extensive record of planning for actual military operations, there is no record that President George W. Bush ever made a considered decision for war. All of the numerous White House and Pentagon meetings concerned moving the project forward, not whether a march into conflict was a proper course for the United States and its allies. Deliberations were instrumental to furthering the war project, not considerations of the basic course.” The war, which President Barack Obama officially brought to an end Dec. 31, cost the U.S. government around $3 trilllion, left 4,487 U.S. servicemembers dead and killed more than 100,000 Iraqis. The Pentagon counts 32,226 U.S. servicemembers wounded, but the toll, including cumulative psychological and physiological damage, may be as high as half a million. In Powell’s explanation of how he came to provide the misleading and inaccurate account of Iraq’s WMD capability at the UN, the former secretary of state points an incriminating finger at Vice President **** Cheney’s office -- confirming previous reports such as the one by Karen DeYoung, in her Powell biography. In the new book, Powell describes his reaction to the initial “WMD case” from the White House. “It was a disaster. It was incoherent,” he writes. “I learned later that Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, had authored the unusable presentation, not the NSC staff. And several years after that, I learned from Dr. Rice that the idea of using Libby had come from the Vice President, who had persuaded the President to have Libby, a lawyer, write the ‘case’ as a lawyer's brief and not as an intelligence assessment.” Powell gives himself credit for rejecting continued appeals from Cheney to add “assertions that had been rejected months earlier to links between Iraq and 9/11 and other terrorist acts.” All in all, Powell acknowledges that the speech was “one of my most momentous failures, the one with the widest-ranging impact.” But he also concludes that “every senior U.S. official would have made the exact same case,” He adds: “I get mad when bloggers accuse me of lying -- of knowing the information was false. I didn’t.” The lesson of all this, Powell writes, is to follow these guidelines: “Always try to get over failure quickly. Learn from it. Study how you contributed to it. If you are responsible for it, own up to it.” But Powell didn’t exactly own up to this for years. His former chief of staff, Col. Larry Wilkerson, first went public in 2005 with details of a secret cabal led by the vice president which hijacked U.S. foreign policy and hoodwinked the president. Wilkerson also argued for years that there was never a formal decision to go to war. Powell conspicuously failed to back him up at the time. So what does Wilkerson make of Powell’s conclusory lessons? “Powell’s rules are for everyone else,” he told HuffPost on Wednesday.

No problem.....since Conservatives want to reduce taxes, and cut spending, they could simply make that part of whatever the final bill looks like. Also...Im sure the legislation could be worked to only raise taxes on Democrats. That would be a proper use of Congessional power Lower taxes result in growth....Higher taxes limit growth, so a higher rate to the Libs makes perfect sense....They are the ones crying for people to pay more anyway.

That looks completely like a bunch of pumper BS, I wouldn't believe that if I were you Nortec. As far as the US not passing a budget for 3 years that's an easy one. Obama and the rest of his clowns are idiots, they have no idea what they are doing, and certainly don't want to try for a budget now with an election coming up to throw even more egg on their faces. Our budget has nothing to do with the RV. The RV has nothing to do with a global reset. Gold is going to take it in the shorts and will be basically worthless shortly. Welcome to the forums.

JPMorgan Chase Libor Subpoenas Coming From Everybody In The World Pretty much everybody in the world with subpoena power has hit JPMorgan Chase with requests for information in the Libor-rigging scandal. The biggest U.S. bank revealed the extent of its involvement in the probe in a filing Thursday morning with the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying regulators in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Switzerland and more had asked it for information: JPMorgan Chase has received subpoenas and requests for documents and, in some cases, interviews, from the DOJ, CFTC, SEC, European Commission, UK Financial Services Authority, Canadian Competition Bureau, Swiss Competition Commission and other regulatory authorities and banking associations around the world. That's a whole lot of subpoenas. For the uninitiated, "DOJ, CFTC, SEC" refer to the Justice Department, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission. "Libor" stands for "London Interbank Offered Rate," a short-term interest rate that affects borrowing costs for homeowners, companies and borrowers throughout the world, along with about $350 trillion in credit derivatives. Despite its importance, the rate has apparently been manipulated constantly for years, in what may be the biggest financial scandal of all time. JPMorgan -- which said it was cooperating with the investigations -- has also received requests for information about its involvement in setting Euribor and Tibor, the European and Japanese versions of Libor, respectively. The bank made a similar disclosure in its previous quarterly filing in May. JPMorgan has been identified as one of 16 banks in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe under investigation for manipulating Libor. Barclays has already agreed to pay $450 million in fines in the case, admitting its traders pushed Libor higher and lower to either gain advantage in derivatives trades or make the bank look healthier. Other banks will likely soon follow, and regulators are building criminal cases against individual traders and maybe banks, too. Previously, Bank of America and Citigroup have said that they, too, have gotten subpoenas in the Libor case, though they mentioned fewer regulatory agencies than JPMorgan did. JPMorgan also said it was the subject of a large and growing number of lawsuits coming out of the Libor mess. State and local governments, for example, are suing banks for keeping Libor too low, hurting the value of interest-rate swaps they bought to protect against rising rates.

Central Bank announces the rise of foreign exchange reserves to $ 67 billion Author: HM Editor: SS Saturday 11 August 2012 07:29 GMT The appearance of Mohammed Saleh Sumerian Enoz / Baghdad Central Bank of Iraq, Saturday, the high reserves of hard currency to $ 67 billion, confirming that these reserves are the largest in the history of Iraq, pointing out that these reserves is one of the monetary policy to reduce inflation in Iraq. Deputy Governor of the Bank appearance of the central Mohammed Saleh in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Central Bank of Iraq's reserves of hard currency rose to $ 67 billion, up from $ 63 billion the end of last May," noting that these "reserves are the largest in the history of Iraq." Saleh added that "this increase will increase confidence in local currency and will increase stability," stressing that "the Iraqi dinar has become covered by these reserves to 1.3 in the foreign currency." Salih stressed that "the Iraqi currency has become strong due to high bank reserves, in spite of fluctuations Last in the exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar due to outflows of foreign currency, "pointing out that" these oscillations are treatable, but they need time to cure the problem. " Saleh pointed out that the "high bank reserves would be a monetary policy that could reduce inflation in Iraq Through use to influence the levels of liquidity local, to absorb the demand surplus by providing a display of foreign currency. " The Central Bank of Iraq announced, on 27 January, a rise in foreign currency reserves to $ 63 billion, after recording in the sixth of January 2012 bank reserves $ 60 billion, up from $ 50 billion year-end 2010. The central bank held the Iraqi daily sessions for buying and selling foreign currencies with Iraqi banks, except for public holidays on which depends the World Bank for these auctions, and the sales either in cash, or in the form of money orders sold out for a commission of certain. http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/3/45990/news-details-.html

I don't believe America is a secular nation as the Liberal professors are teaching in colleges today. First it cannot ever become a secular nation. If it did, it would no longer be the USA. Our entire system of governance is based on the "truthes" that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. So, our rights come from God and exist whether there is a government or not. They do not come from any government of man. A secular government would not recognize the moral absolute authority of God. That would destroy the relationship between government and governed. Here in the USA, the power to govern goes to each and every individual person. We only lend that power to government officials in limited measure and for limited duration at regularly scheduled elections. In a secular government, there can be no God given power to govern. So, any rights we have could not come from God; only from Government. Can't be allowed to ever happen in America.

I'm starting to understand what made Ronald Reagan such a great president . Happiest, like Cincinnatus, on his simple farmstead At the weekend, I fulfilled a long-standing ambition and visited Ronald Reagan’s ranch, now held in trust by the wonderful Young America’s Foundation. It was here that the Gipper would withdraw whenever he could, to ride around the estate with Nancy. “The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse”, he used to say. In other politicians’ homes, you find constant reminders of status: photographs with popes and monarchs, gifts from visiting statesmen, piles of books by famous contemporaries, cases of trophies and awards. But Reagan’s one-bedroom bolt-hole couldn’t be simpler. He painted and furnished it with his own hands, and enclosed it with a fence which he sawed from old telegraph poles. The casual visitor wouldn’t guess that this had been the home of the leader of the free world, this the table where the greatest tax cut in America’s history was signed into law, this the telephone used to call the families of fallen American soldiers. Other than one or two historical works among the cowboy novels, the only political touch is the shower-head, which is in the shape of the Liberty Bell. Here, plainly, lived a man who was bien dans sa peau; a man who, unlike so many politicians, had nothing to prove. Mikhail Gorbachev, visiting the ranch, was distressed by how basic it was; Margaret Thatcher, by contrast, loved it, intuiting that it reflected the character of its inhabitant. Karl Marx described Abraham Lincoln as “one of the few men to have become great without ceasing to be good”. It was one of the truest things he wrote, and the observation applies as aptly to the fortieth American president as to the sixteenth. To give just one example, Reagan had begun a correspondence in the 1960s with a young woman who had written to a number of Hollywood stars. Reagan happened to be the one who replied, and he continued to write to her regularly until Alzheimer’s overtook him, describing the great moments of his presidency with easy familiarity. He was, for want of a better phrase, an almost unbelievably nice man. Even his fiercest critics generally allowed that he was good-hearted. Indeed, they caricatured him as an amiable dunce, an actor who needed someone else to write his lines, a simpleton. The notion that Reagan was unintelligent was comprehensively refuted when the Hoover Institute published Reagan In His Own Hand, a compilation of the texts for a series of radio broadcasts he had given in the 1970s, complete with his own annotations in pen. Here, plainly, was no simpleton. Reagan did, however, have an unaffected simplicity. He was a straightforward patriot, who refused to get distracted from his two big ideas: tax cuts at home, and the defeat of the USSR abroad. He succeeded on both counts, giving his country its longest period of sustained growth, and liberating hundreds of millions from Communist tyranny. To grasp the magnitude of Reagan’s impact on American politics, look at two things. First, the speech he made in 1964, in support of Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. America’s voters were not yet ready for this sort of language, and Goldwater went down to one of the worst defeats in US history.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY&feature=player_embedded Now look at the result when Reagan himself stood, twenty years later, on an almost identical platform. The Republicans took every state except Walter Mondale’s Minnesota: the greatest triumph conservative America has ever secured. Like all true patriots, Reagan tried to do the right thing by his allies, putting logistical and intelligence resources at Britain’s disposal when we fought to recover the Falkland Islands from the Galtieri dictatorship. How different, alas, is the attitude of the current US administration. Reagan, more than any modern American leader, approximated the Founders’ ideal: a citizen president, who never allowed the magnitude of his office to turn his head and who, when his work was done, retired gratefully to the countryside, as Cincinnatus to his plough. A Left-wing journalist once interviewed Reagan at his ranch and, surprised to find so Spartan a home, asked what the attraction was. Reagan pointed artlessly to the surrounding heights and quoted Psalm 121: “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.”

Ryan is a great pick, thanks for the post. Unfortunately the RP'rs are still drinking dirty bong water thinking he has a chance. So instead of looking for the good things he's done and at how sharp he is, they continue the campaign to help Obama get back into office, still living in a drug induced daze. Romney/Ryan 2012. If people were really that big in to RP he wouldn't have gotten beaten by almost every single other candidate in every single other state. The others though did the right thing and dropped out instead of dividing the country even further. RP/Obama 2012 or Romney/Ryan! ROFLMAO the choice is an easy one.

See that is where you are confused. It is not about having a better chance. It is about the people, just because someone has a better chance does not mean they are going to do the right thing.

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Hi rockfl9 It wasn't meant to support anything more than my curiosity as to which currency exchange rate regime Iraq was listed under, at the time the data was gathered. Iraq is also famous for reneging, so even if it does show that they are listed as a country that supports a crawling peg regime, even that means nothing in the large scheme of things.

Guarded--Hah ! ... The only thing I am guarding in this ride is my Dinar!!!! RVVVVVVV---Now!!

Texas1...I rented it but by the time it was over I forgot what it was about...reminded me of Friday night on Dinar Rumors! think I'll have abeer even though I don't drank the stuf, never hadd, nor did it (hic).geez who moved the wall facin...dang cat shoulda gotten outta der way...tripped and fell in the bath tub agin...er waz it the commode...havin truble breathin agin...more beer...or less...geez ...can't seem to focus my eyeballs...lookin in the mirroer...I think I got 4 ...or more...dang dinars anyhow!!! dang Obamer and Malikiliki or whosever...tink I may have dinar delusions

To put those deaths in perspective, in 2010, there were 14,748 murders in the US - dividing that by 365 days gives us approximately 40 deaths per day.

I have found that people's belief for/against chemotherapy changes when they actually develop cancer and have to make the choice. Two days ago a high school friend died of "complications" to colon cancer. "Complications" being another word for chemo. Another friend is currently undergoing chemo due to a "sudden" onslaught of cancer---she had breast cancer five years ago...had surgery coupled with chemo and was announced to be "cancer free" after suffering through it all. And finally, another friend endured chemo last year and as of today is cancer free. My point being, all three people did not like or want chemo---and didn't necessarily believe that it works---yet when they were diagnosed with cancer they took the treatment. They would rather take a chance with chemo in hopes of being cured than not do anything. Life has a strong appeal to it! Personally I believe drug company's truly try to cure cancer and their current treatments (chemo) is the best they have been able to come up with to date. It is a terrible treatment...but the disease is even worse.

As you can see....I said maintained.... There is a great deal of new un-needed construction here, partially funded by Fed dollars....We dont need that, and cutting that entirely from the Tax dollars spent by all Americans should happen immediately.

Excellent post. I agree. I'm well aware of the millions of children that roam this planet living in poverty with zero opportunity and the hope for a decent future. It's rather sad. To think that God would wish them such a miserable life for "his purpose" is beyond my realm of thinking. I have two kids of my own. My daughter is 25. She graduated from college and landed a nice job and is now making 44k a year. That's pretty good for a 25 year old kid, in my opinion. Also, I have a 15 year old son that lives with me full time. He's extremely bright and going to college post graduation from high school. Procreating in the name of God is one thing. Being an involved and supportive parent is another story. Don't create children that you are unable to care for.