hmmm

They just really don't liked to be rushed do they?

ok so do it then. raise the value a little or a lot, i don't care. CBI needs to light a fire under the buttcheeks of those iraqi politicians. the CBI might be autonomus but it cant raie the value till the country is safe and a viable player in the oil indusrty( or until they can learn to divid it up evenly amongst themselves.) i have faith but the ball must get rolling.

so they are done with it and waiting to implement the irbil agreement? or is this just the same old stuff. hard to tell.

could be interesting.

interesting to say the least.

mmm basra light, but i really perfer the original basra much fuller flavor.

i think that when people hit the red button they should also recieve a negative cause i mean really who's the negative one. as if everything on here isnt speculation. dingleberries for president!

told ya. but in your defense how awesome would that be if you came on a hit the mark on the first try. glad to have you join us in the dinar express.

prepare yourself .not for an rv but the red glow on the bottom right of your screen. some people here dont take to kindly to newbie material. on a lighter note glad to see your hopeful.

i t appears as though this means they are pressuring one another to participate in order to get things done and moving in the right direction. just my opinion.

we shall see. sounds good but i think we haer that a lot. we can hope.

good news for seating a goi finally. ofcourse delays are soon to be reported but one can hope.

Excellent!

I have a good friend that told me once , peoples last gift to us on earth is that they bring the whole family together again. find solice in your family and remember the gift. prayers and peaceful energy towards you and yours.

although i am sure he is sympathetic to your situtaiton i promise he will say that you can't. other wise every person on here would join then and there wouldn't much V inthe V.I.P. trying to help not be condesending. best wishes and youll get paid no matter what.

Check out Polyface farms. this guy is amazing and is very inspiring. really sets up how we should focus and treat our food. also you should read omnivores dilemma, great read, very eye oening. in my opinion the answer is in getting back to real agriculture. i could go on forever about it but just check these sources out and they,ll explain. the power is in our hands we just have to choose how to use it.

well before today my understanding was just one. but that one has taken some time to fill. this is why i ask.

The only thing that throws me off here is she mentions dimes and nickles and wanting to assimilate to our currency. with everyhting going on right now i dont think an gov. will want to imitate the dollar. plus the already operate on dinars and and phils( their small coin currency at least in kuwait. otherwise it makess some sense about as much as anything else on here.

I guess what im asking is if there is another seat open now because of this and the GOI needs to be in place in order for an RV then .......?

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN updated 2 hours 17 minutes ago Font: BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister has fired his electricity minister, who is under investigation for allegations that he failed to follow government guidelines in the signing of $1.7 billion in deals with two foreign companies to build power stations. The sacked minister, Raad Shalal, is a political rival of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, raising questions about whether his firing late Saturday night and the allegations of financial misconduct are politically motivated. Shalal signed the deals in question with the Canadian Alliance for Power Generation Equipment and German firm Maschinebau Halberstadt. The Canadian company was awarded a $1.2 billion contract in July to build 10 power stations with a total capacity of 1,000 megawatts while the German firm won a $500 million contract. Iraq's deputy prime minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, said the deals violated government guidelines because the two companies do not meet the financial and technical capabilities to qualify as manufacturers for this type of project. He claimed the two companies presented false documents about their financial status and technical capabilities and the contracts were annulled on Thursday. Shalal and the two companies could not immediately be reached for comment. Shalal is an independent, but was nominated by the Sunni Muslim-backed Iraqiya bloc led by al-Maliki's rival, Ayad Allawi. The prime minister and Allawi have been at loggerheads since the March 2010 elections over which of their blocs had the right to form the government. Maysoun al-Damlouji, a spokeswoman for Iraqiya, said the bloc "is awaiting the results of the investigation, and it is still committed to hold its ministers accountable for any corruption charges." The political overtones of the firing could spook foreign investors by drawing attention to the pitfalls of doing business in a country still in deep political turmoil. That is something Iraq can ill afford as it struggles to rebuild from decades of war and international sanctions. Shalal's firing must still be approved by parliament and a spokesman for the ministry said the minister attended work as usual on Sunday and that the office had not received an official notice from the prime minister's office on the firing. The electricity ministry spokesman, Musab al-Mudaris, said under the terms of the deals, the government does not pay any money to the companies until after the power plants are installed and operational. "In reality, the Iraqi government paid not even a cent to these companies and there is no loss for Iraq," he said. "We do not know the reason behind this clamor because we did not pay these companies any money." A Cabinet official said al-Maliki's decree was issued late Saturday and an investigation is under way to determine whether there was any criminal wrongdoing. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media on the details. Al-Maliki is under intense pressure to show that he is trying to address the country's electricity shortages and tackle corruption. Iraq sits atop the world's fourth largest proven reserves of crude oil and has some of the largest gas reserves. But the government has failed to meet demand for electricity since the start of the 2003 U.S.-led war to topple Saddam Hussein. The ensuing daily power outages have enraged Iraqis, with many arguing that the country's oil wealth is being siphoned into the pockets of corrupt officials. Former Electricity Minister Ayham al-Samarraie was jailed in a corruption investigation but escaped in December 2006 and fled to the United States, where he also holds citizenship. Last summer, Electricity Minister Karim Waheed stepped down after demonstrations by citizens complaining about the few hours of electricity they received a day turned deadly and two people were killed. Since then, the government has been rushing to award contracts to build new power plants. Link: http://www.msnbc.msn...deast_n_africa/

Absolutly ignorant.

where is wednesday? typo or is that what they are trying to point out.

1.) The legal drinking age should be moved to 18. if you can vote , drive a car or die for you country you should be able to drink. 2.) It is rediculous that marajuna is not legal. not as a pothead but as a realist. i mean viagra...really! I think i would be happier knowing my grandpa got high more than an erection. 3.0 people take this stuff to seriously. i mean there is such a slim chance that we could loose all our money and so really there is nothing to be so uptight about. just makes me laugh at all the comments then retorts then comments on the retorts. you dont even know these people. anyways funny stuff. 4.) does anyone else have their chest hair meeting up with their beard. 5.)farming is where its at man. i think we should all be in touch with our roots( both metaphorically and literally). I hope you enjoy your day i know i do. remember saftey first then team work. and ELE ( everyone loves everyone).

As long as we are fighingt each other behind things like democrat or republican and conservative or liberal, the truth will not be understood. Money is not the issue it is power. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley. And by the way this as put under genral topics it was your CHOICE to come in here and read. Per haps we should ban anything that doesn't make us feel warm and tingly.WAKE UP.

BAGHDAD — Iraq has run out of money to pay for widows' benefits, farm crops and other programs for the poor, the parliament leader on Sunday told lawmakers who have collected nearly $180,000 so far this year in one of the world's most oil-rich nations. In only their fourth session since being elected in March, members of Iraq's parliament demanded to know what happened to the estimated $1 billion allocated for welfare funding by the Finance Ministry for 2010. "We should ask the government where these allocations for widows' aid have gone," demanded Sadrist lawmaker Maha Adouri of Baghdad, one of the women who make up a quarter of the legislature's 325 members. "There are thousands of widows who did not receive financial aid for months." .Another legislator said farmers have not been paid for wheat and other crops they supplied the government. Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi promised that parliament would push the Iraqi government for answers on where the money went. But he said new funding for the nation's social care programs will have to come out of the 2011 budget, which he said would be sent to parliament within days. "We will ask the government about this — if there is any carelessness or delaying these payments," said al-Nujaifi, a Sunni member of the Iraqiya political alliance. Iraq sits on top of some of the world's largest oil reserves, although production has been stagnant for years due to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent reluctance by private investors to mine the vast petroleum fields. .The lawmakers appeared to be taking up an issue dear to their constituents — and perhaps reverse public scorn for their own lavish paychecks. Even though parliament has hardly met during the eight-month-old deadlock over forming a new government, the 325 lawmakers have continued to pull in salaries and allowances that reach $22,500 a month — as well a one-time $90,000 stipend and perks like free nights in Baghdad's finest hotel. ___ Associated Press Writer Hamid Ahmed contributed to this report