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I do not think the people of Iraq will not stand for this.

We start the next ride Vietnamese currency. Could be fun?

Thanks for the post

I wouldn't want my personal to know what i had, they like to talk. When it RVS i will be at a different bank, VIP will help, or two to three hours away from home.

bamagirl gave you -1 was to be a +1 sorry, some one will cover my -1 i would take .85 and thank God.

A good friend calls Dinar Trade all the time. He was told that Ali was warned to leave hie house and remove anything worth value. They told him he was a target of a gang to be robed. True or not some thing to think about do you need to change you profile or your settings. Adam has made this a great site and has procted us here.

Will Adam be in chat and send us all a text message and see who pipes up and what they will say?

My friend tells me when this happens that God does't just want us old people with him. Sorry for your lose. Will pray for your family.

Diamond4me Hope Viper is on track. Monday works for me. Thanks for the post

Thanks HEAVYDUTY053

Two farmers tell a story about the tractors they bought at same time and same unit. One tell he uses 4 gallons a hour, the other tell he uses 6 gallon in a hour. The farmer that uses 4 gallons a hour had problems with his unit, when they pulled the pump off his unit it was marked for a different country and was replaced, He know uses 6 gallon a hour. This is a story told by a local farmer. Has any member of DV have stories about gas milage in cars, trucks, tractors that have got great gas milage that they know are true? I have asked if this story is true and haved been told it is. But it is just a story and i have no way to track down if it is true.

OK Are we there yet. NO

Just think some day one rumor will be on track and we will RV/RI.

coldwavet gave-1 hit wrong one, wanted to +1 sorry. Type to slow.

Do not wait for the perfect moment....instead, make the moment perfect! A guy is 72 years old and loves to fish. He was sitting in his boat the other day when he heard a voice say, 'Pick me up.' He looked around and couldn't see anyone. He thought he was dreaming when he heard the voice say again,'Pick me up.' He looked in the water and there, floating on the top, was a frog. The man said, 'Are you talking to me?' The frog said, 'Yes, I'm talking to you.' Pick me up then, kiss me and I'll turn into the most beautiful woman you have ever seen. I'll make sure that all your friends are envious and jealous because I will be your bride!' The man looked at the frog for a short time, reached over, picked it up carefully, and placed it in his front pocket. The frog said, 'What, are you nuts? Didn't you hear what I said? I said kiss me and I will be your beautiful bride.' He opened his pocket, looked at the frog and said, 'Nah, at my age I'd rather have a talking frog.' With age comes wisdom.

> > > Subject:: Anxious to see how you handle this email > > > > > > > > This is excellent and gives one reason to pause and think of the potential > consequences of our actions. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _____ > > > > > > Let's see if you send it back. We all know or knew someone like this!! > > > > > > One day, when I was a freshman in high school, > > > I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. > > > His name was Kyle. > > > > > > It looked like he was carrying all of his books. > > > > > > I thought to myself, 'Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? > > > > > > He must really be a nerd.' > > > > > > I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends > tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on. > > > > > > As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him. > > > > > > They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so > he landed in the dirt. > > > > > > His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet > from him... > > > > > > He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes . > > > > > > My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he crawled around > looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye. > > > > > > As I handed him his glasses, I said, 'Those guys are jerks.' > > > > > > > > > > > They really should get lives. > > > > > > ' He looked at me and said, 'Hey thanks!' > > > > > > There was a big smile on his face. > > > > > > It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude. > > > > > > I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. > > > > > > As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had never seen him > before. > > > > > > He said he had gone to private school before now. > > > > > > I would have never hung out with a private school kid before. > > > > > > We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books. > > > > > > He turned out to be a pretty cool kid. > > > > > > I asked him if he wanted to play a little football > with my friends . > > > > > > He said yes. > > > > > > We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked > him, and my friends thought the same of him. > > > > > > Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the huge stack of books again. > > > > > > I stopped him and said, 'Boy, you are gonna really build some serious > muscles with this pile of books everyday! > > > > > > ' He just laughed and handed me half the books. > > > > > > Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends. > > > > > > When we were seniors we began to think about college. > > > > > > Kyle decided on Georgetown and I was going to Duke. > > > > > > I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never > be a problem. > > > > > > He was going to be a doctor and I was going for business on a football > scholarship. > > > > > > Kyle was valedictorian of our class. > > > > > > I teased him all the time about being a nerd. > > > > > > He had to prepare a speech for graduation. > > > > > > I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and speak . > > > > > > Graduation day, I saw Kyle. > > > > > > He looked great. > > > > > > He was one of those guys that really found himself during high school. > > > > > > He filled out and actually looked good in glasses. > > > > > He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him. > > > > > > Boy, sometimes I was jealous! > > > > > Today was one of those days. > > > > > > I could see that he was nervous about his speech. > > > > > > So, I smacked him on the back and said, 'Hey, big guy, you'll be great!' > > > > > > He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and > smiled.... > > > > > > ' Thanks,' he said. > > > > > > As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began ... > > > > > > 'Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those > tough years. > > > > > > Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly your > friends.... > > > > > > I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift > you can give them. > > > > > > I am going to tell you a story.' > > > > > > I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the first day we met. > > > > > > He had planned to kill himself over the weekend. > > > > > > He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to > do it later and was carrying his stuff home. > > > > > > He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile. > > > > > > 'Thankfully, I was saved. > > > > > > My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable.' > > > > > > I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular boy told us > all about his weakest moment. > > > > > > I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile. > > > > > > Not until that moment did I realize it's depth. > > > > > > Never underestimate the power of your actions. > > > > > > With one small gesture you can change a person's life. > > > > > > For better or for worse. > > > > > > God puts us all in each others lives to impact one another in some way. > > > > > > Look for God in others. > > > > > > You now have two choices, you can: > > > > > > 1) Pass this on to your friends or > > > > > > 2) Delete it and act like it didn't touch your heart. > > > > > > As you can see, I took choice number 1. > > > > > 'Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble > remembering how to fly.' > > > > > > There is no beginning or end.. Yesterday is history. > > > > > > Tomorrow is a mystery. > > > > > > Today is a gift. > > > > > > It's National Friendship Week. Show your friends how much you care. Send > this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. > > > > > > If it comes back to you, then you'll know you have a circle of friends. > > > > > > WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS LETTER, YOU'RE REQUESTED TO SEND IT TO AT LEAST 10 > PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE PERSON WHO > SENT IT TO YOU.

OK for how many times?

22 Feb 2011 Life on the margin: Iraqis grapple with poverty Text size By Prashant Rao BAGHDAD, Feb 22, 2011 (AFP) - Faleha Hassan lives in a tiny house in central Baghdad with 11 other family members and, like thousands of protesters across Iraq, does not believe her leaders have done anything to make her life better. "The politicians and the officials and the leadership, they don't care about us -- they have a lot of money but they don't think about others," laments the 67-year-old, surrounded by her grandchildren, sitting on the floor of the home in which she has lived for decades. "No one thinks about us. Not the officials." Hassan, her children and her grandchildren suffer from what has proved a persistent problem in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein: poverty. The elderly woman's only surviving son, Wissam, sells food to visitors entering the nearby Abdul Qader al-Gailani shrine in the centre of the capital, but usually earns a meagre 5,000 Iraqi dinars a day, or about $4. An Iraqi MP, by contrast, makes more than 80 times as much. Her husband has become too frail to continue helping Wissam, and another son, Mohammed, was killed in a suicide bombing at the shrine in January 2007. A ration programme, that during the Saddam-era included so many goods that Hassan said the family would sell the excess, has since been dramatically reduced. That puts the family firmly below the government-defined poverty line of $2.2 per person per day, along with more than a fifth of all Iraqis, an estimated seven million people, a number that would rise were it not for the ration programme received by about six million families. And while ministers have ambitious plans to slash that figure in the coming years, experts and, crucially, the people affected, are unconvinced. "Poverty in Iraq is shallow," Deputy Planning Minister Mehdi al-Alak says during an interview in his office on the banks of the Tigris river. "Most people are close to the poverty line ... so if policies and procedures are followed, the rate will decline." "It is not very difficult (to reduce poverty) in Iraq." On paper, he would seem to be correct: the country's vast energy stores -- Iraq has the fourth-highest level of proven oil reserves in the world -- all but guarantee it will have a steady and increasing source of income for decades to come. The country was not always grappling with such a problem. A UN report released at the beginning of the year notes that, "In the past, Iraq was regarded as one of the most developed countries in the Middle East," but the organisation's Arab Human Development Report rated Iraq 17th out of 21 regional countries in terms of human development in 2005. "Wars and sanctions have contributed to a marked deterioration in Iraqis' standard of living in recent years," this year's UN report noted. But experts lament that Iraq still has glaring problems that make it difficult to envision poverty levels declining at the rate the government hopes, from 22 percent now to 16 percent by 2015. "Even though it is shallow and a wide segment of the population could be brought out of the poverty margin, unless there are sustainable measures, they will easily fall back," says Khalid Muhammed Khalid, an Amman-based Iraq programme analyst with the United Nations Development Programme. Khalid notes widespread graft -- Transparency International rates Iraq as the world's fourth-most corrupt country -- and insufficient expertise among officials, especially at local and provincial levels, mean poverty alleviation could take longer than expected. He adds that wider reforms will be needed rather than simply increasing people's incomes to better combat poverty. "If you do not provide proper health, education and infrastructure services, then what is the meaning of more money?" he asks. The UN's Iraq Briefing Book, for its part, calls for greater economic diversification, noting that the oil sector accounts for 65 percent of the economy, but just one percent of jobs. Iraq has made some progress, with the government adopting a "National Strategy for Poverty Reduction" in late 2009, though Alak concedes that the plan pays scant attention to budgetary issues, and ministries are responsible for implementing recommendations, with little oversight yet carried out. That plan outlines six key goals, from raising incomes by creating jobs for the needy, to reducing inequality between men and women, and improving health and education levels. Alak says it is unclear if the recommendations have been adopted by officials in other ministries or not, but a preliminary report on the plan's effectiveness due in May will provide insight. The issue has been brought to the fore by protests in recent weeks across the country against high levels of unemployment and poor basic services such as clean water and electricity. In response, the government has pledged to delay the implementation of a law that would raise tariffs on imports, and thereby increase prices of goods at markets, while MPs have cut politicians' pay and upped funding for the ration card programme by $1 billion, a 25 percent increase. Like Hassan, however, few of Baghdad's poor are convinced by government assurances that it is tackling the issue. "We don't have hope," says Sabiha Umm Ali, or Sabiha mother of Ali, who lives in a make-shift house in the middle of a waste dump in Zafaraniyah, east Baghdad. "I don't have hope." "It has been like this for many years. There is no water, no electricity, no schools. I don't have confidence (in the government), it is impossible to trust them -- they care only for themselves, they live in their houses and villas, and forget about us." As she speaks, another woman, Nehad Shalah begins to accost an Iraqi soldier assigned to guard the refuse site. "Why don't you help us?" she shouts at him. "Why don't you help us? Look at me! Am I a dog?" Sabiha, a 60-year-old mother of eight children, only one of whom has a job, adds: "Don't we live in a country of oil and of wealth? Why, then, do we live like this?" psr/dsg/bpz © Copyright AFP 2011. If posted remove.

From what hear they have big screen set up, i personal would use them to start talking to the people about rv and spending money on people and get moving.The clock has started.

I POSTED IT WRONG THIS IS A GOOGLE ALERT I RECIVED AT 8:40 TODAY

News 1 new result for iraqi dinar rates Is Maliki's new government a true 'national partnership' or a ... Al-Arabiya There are basically thousands of people in Iraq today who believe that they ... the rate of inflation and a 'big increase' in the value of the Iraqi dinar! ... Al-Arabiya WILL GET FULL ARTICLE UP. THANKS Hamid Alkifaey One of the prominent features of Noori Almaliki’s new government is that it is based on reassuring participating political forces that what happened in the past, such as marginalization, crackdown on, and elimination of, political opponents, won’t be repeated in the future. That’s why Maliki had to increase the number of ministers from 37 in the last government, to 42 in the new one. This number is almost double the number of ministries in China, whose population is 1.2 billion people (actual number of Chinese ministries is 24). The number of vice presidents and deputy prime minsters has also been increased from two to thee each. If the last government was inflated, what can we call the new government? Expanded? Greedily covetous? Or is it necessary, in order to avoid power struggle? But, can’t also be a recipe for more conflict? Maliki should have sought to form a government that is balanced but effective – that is, one able to govern and ditch the legacy of the past, not simply satisfy the ambitions of some of those working in politics. There are basically thousands of people in Iraq today who believe that they are qualified to become ministers, senior officials and leaders – either because they have opposed the previous regime, and thereby acquired ‘freedom fighter’s legitimacy’ (especially those incarcerated); or because they possess advanced degrees, which of course entitles them to ‘knowledge legitimacy’! Or, because they are tribal sheikhs or clergymen, which gives them ‘historical’ or ‘religious’ legitimacy. Or, because they have appointed themselves as leaders of ethnic groups, sects, orders or regions, and this ‘legitimizes’ their demands to be in government. Most important for many is to be in the government, even if it’s only in name. What has encouraged the spread of this phenomenon in Iraq is that some unsuitable and unqualified people have made it to becoming ministers and senior officials in the last three governments. This has enticed others to let their imaginations loose and seek high office, even if they are not qualified. Secondly, the financial and moral perks which people can get when becoming ministers, officials, or even advisors or managers, are enormous: huge salaries that they draw from the state, and the high social status they acquire out of joining the government, induce many to seek, painstakingly, to secure a governmental position, using whatever means are available to them. The pension that they get afterwards is also very tempting: 80% of final salary, for everyone who reaches the grade of an advisor and above, even if they worked for a week! There are very many youthful pensioners nowadays in Iraq, many having worked briefly as members of parliament or for provincial governing councils, or as aides or advisors for this official or that official – this is in addition to those forced to retire by the De-Baathification law, who run into tens of thousands. The Iraqi Retirement Act made Iraq a country of young pensioners. This policy will certainly inflict more and more harm on the Iraqi economy, for two reasons at least. First, it has frozen the energies and expertise of many people who are able to work. Second, it obliges the state to spend on people who could otherwise be productive taxpayers. The state also pays for the guards of some retired officials whose numbers run into hundreds, in addition paying their living, transport and office management expenses. One of those participating in the government revealed to me that one retired official had 800 guards, all paid for by the state, while he lives in the fortified Green Zone! The other feature of the Maliki government is the shrinking representation of women – who occupied almost one fifth of ministerial positions in past governments – despite the increase in the number of ministries. Navin Dakhail Saeed, a female member of parliament, refused to take the position of Minster for Women in protest at the absence of women in the new government. Ms Dakhil Saeed deserves to be saluted for this principled position, so rare in today’s Iraq. Maliki blamed other political blocs for not fielding women candidates as minsters, but he admitted that one of the blocs did in fact do so, for one ministerial position at least – but he rejected her. It’s not a secret that the political list that fielded the woman candidate was ‘Iraqia’, the woman candidate was Maysoon Aldamluji, and the ministry was that of Culture. The question is why did Maliki reject Miss Aldamluji as minister for Culture? Was it because she had no experience? Certainly not, since she was the deputy minister for culture between 2003 and 2006. According to those who worked with her, she was one of the most able deputy ministers at the time. Was it for her lack of political skills? Of course not: Aldamluji is a well-known politician and women’s activist, who has devoted all her time to political and cultural work. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Noon Magazine which specialises in women’s issues. She is also the spokeswomen of the Iraqia List and a member of parliament for four years. Was it for her lack of academic qualifications? Impossible: She holds a BSc and MSc in architecture from the University of London. This is in addition to her membership of many prestigious professional associations. She is also from a well-known family noted for its scientific and political credentials. Her uncle is Abdulla Aldamluji, the founder of Iraqi diplomacy and the first Iraqi foreign minster. Her parents were the late Drs Salim Aldamluji and Lama’an Amin Zaki, the medical professors at the University of Baghdad, who graduated hundreds of Iraqi doctors. More important than all of this is that she is very popular in the political and cultural media. Therefore, Maliki’s refusal to appoint her as Minister of Culture has nothing to do with the lack of expertise, qualifications or suitability, which he always talks about. It’s probably because she is a secular woman who has the potential to succeed, which will be recorded in favour of his political opponents. He may have listened to advice from advisors who do not wish to see any worthy change at the Ministry of Culture. Maliki’s position against Maysoon Aldamluji has in fact harmed him politically and put him in direct conflict with the women’s movement and the cultural community. But, it seems that he is not really concerned with any critical views. Maliki’s government’s 43-point programme didn’t contain one single specific point, but instead, talked about a ‘big decrease’ in the rate of inflation and a ‘big increase’ in the value of the Iraqi dinar! It talked about support for the economy, media, women, and improving services, living standards and security, but without mentioning any numbers or specific proposals. If the Prime Minster doesn’t know how much the rate of inflation has fallen and how much the value of the dinar has gone up, who should? Maliki’s programme has made no mention of the restrictions on personal freedoms which members of his party in provincial governing councils have imposed on people. These restrictions are illegal and unconstitutional, and are inspired by religious persuasions which are harmful to the interests of the Iraqi people and country at large. They do not respect people’s choices in life. Will Maliki’s partners try to remedy this situation? Are they really able to? And, does the issue of personal and people’s freedoms really matter to current political forces? Questions that no one has answers for, so far. Some of the strong points of the Maliki government is that it has important and strong personalities who will contribute to the success of the government if they are persuaded by the correctness of the government path, and believe in the sincerity of its direction. Many Iraqis wished to see more changes in faces and positions, but this has hardly happened. The prevailing culture in today’s Iraq is for incumbents to hold onto their positions at any cost, and never give up a position under any circumstances, since they are regarded as personal sinecures. But renewal will always remain a basic popular demand regarding all positions, be they political, cultural or business.SORRY POSTED WRONG PLACE PLEASE MOVE.

BANK THAT CASHED IN AT.35 WAS THIS A TEST FOR IRAQ?? WOULD PEOPLE CASH IN AND HOW MANY? COULD WE SEE A LOWER RATE BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLR THAT SHOWED UP?

Phoenix thanks glad to see a post.

Great to see a post like this thank you.

Could we see a split revalue .08-.86 this rang on three zeros bills and small bills 3.22 - 3.86 or higher less say 1,5,10,25,50,100,250,500? Just one more out come.