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Well April Fools Day is in 2 weeks. Just tell her you were early

Here you go https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/14/brady-trump-tax-cuts-414589

His style is not very endearing, and I dislike most of his tweets, but he is getting many things accomplished that I like.

Here you go. http://en.economiciraq.com/2018/03/15/the-value-of-the-iraqi-dinar-rose-against-the-dollar-by-0-20/

If we are a country of laws then they need to enforced. LHU!!

I read a lot of articles on Iraq. I’m not sure this is the correct one but it’s from this webpage http://en.economiciraq.com/2018/03/15/jabbar-al-allaibi-national-oil-company-will-open-oil-horizons-for-iraq/

There will be NO trade war.

It really doesn't mean a thing. New election in November. Let's see what happens in Nov.

I have to have my posts monitored because I didn't post on the correct boards. Good news is I think I have it figured out now so maybe I will be free again. PC is just another form of censorship.

You are so right on Synopsis

The dinar rose .20% against the dollar today The value of the dinar rose 0.20% against the dollar on Thursday, after the central bank sold more than $ 181 million to cover the private sector’s dollar needs to import and meet the requirements of travelers for tourism, treatment and work. The exchange rate of the dollar in the capital Baghdad: The sale price of the dollar = 121.750 dinars The price of buying the dollar = 120.750 dinars The dollar exchange rates were recorded in the northern governorates: The sale price of the dollar = 122.250 dinars The price of buying the dollar = 121.250 dinars The dollar exchange rates were recorded in the southern governorates: The sale price of the dollar = 122,000 dinars The purchase price of the dollar = 121,000 dinars

Iran: We are ready to trade Iraqi oil By rami - March 15, 2018 Iran’s oil minister, Bijan Zangana, has declared his country’s willingness to trade Iraqi oil. “The operational and logistic activities and the provision of trucks to exchange oil for northern Iraq (Kirkuk) through Iran are currently underway and once they declare their readiness, we are ready,” Zankana was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying on Wednesday. As well. ” As to how to transfer the two sums related to the agreement with Russia, he said, there is no problem with the transfer of funds related to the agreement where the external party undertakes the transport itself. He explained that alongside Russian companies, we are in talks with other companies to develop oil fields in the country. “Iran has not agreed to cut oil for the whole year and Opec can change its view, but I do not think this change is going to happen,” said Iran’s oil minister. Iraq had announced on the ninth of last December to sign an agreement with Iran to export oil from the fields of Kirkuk at the rate of 30 to 60 thousand barrels per day using trucks temporarily until the implementation of an oil pipeline linking the two countries in the northern region of Iraq. The pipeline could replace the existing export route from Kirkuk through Turkey and the Mediterranean. Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said that under the agreement, “about 30 thousand barrels per day of crude will be transported by truck to the Iranian refinery Kermanshah at the start of export.” The agreement included Iraq and Iran to swap up to 60 thousand barrels per day of crude produced from Kirkuk with Iranian oil for delivery through the ports of southern Iraq “the same amount and the same specifications.” The sale of Kirkuk crude has been suspended since the security forces imposed the federal authority on the province and its oil fields on 16 of last October. The field of Kirkuk is one of the important oil fields in Iraq. It is estimated that the field reserves amount to about 10 billion barrels of oil of good quality, and the maximum capacity of production field is one million barrels per day, but the average production during the past few years fell significantly until it dropped to about 150 A barrel a day only. The current production capacity of Iraq is about 4.8 million barrels per day, while actual production to about 4.4 million barrels per day in line with the agreement of the OPEC countries to reduce production in order to support prices.

PITTSBURGH — Conor Lamb weathered $10 million in attack ads cartoonishly calling the Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania’s special election a member of Nancy Pelosi’s liberal “flock.” Now other Democratic hopefuls are looking to adopt Lamb’s strategy — he repeatedly and bluntly disavowed the Democratic leader — in their own competitive races. It raises the prospect of a slate of Democratic hopefuls running against the party’s House leader as they try to neutralize one of the GOP’s go-to attacks — a pillar of Republicans’ plan to keep the House majority in November. A half-dozen Democratic House members and candidates told POLITICO in interviews that they had been closely monitoring how Lamb handled the Pelosi attack. In one notable ad, the 33-year-old Marine faced the camera and called the claim that he’s a clone of the Democratic leader “a big lie. I’ve already said on the front page of the newspaper that I don’t support Nancy Pelosi.” Lamb, who faced Republican Rick Saccone on Tuesday, currently leads in a district that President Donald Trump won by 20 points in 2016, though the race hasn't officially been called. Even moderate success in other Trump strongholds would likely flip the House to Democrats. “If we’re going to take the majority, it’s going to be because we win districts like that,” said Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas), a vocal critic of current leadership. “Running against Nancy Pelosi is going to help you a lot more than running with her.”“I think everyone’s watching what Conor Lamb’s doing, and I hope they’re taking notes,” said Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.). So far, House Democrats’ campaign arm hasn’t punished candidates for snubbing Pelosi. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which Pelosi oversees, ran television and digital ads on Lamb’s behalf, quietly sent more than $400,000 to the state Democratic Party and celebrated Lamb’s apparent victory. With Lamb expected to prevail narrowly, Democrats are predicting that others will parrot Lamb’s tactics and run against the party’s leader in the House. A campaign manager for a Democratic candidate in a Republican-held district, granted anonymity to candidly discuss party strategy, said there’s a “100 percent chance that we’ll see more rejection of Pelosi from [Democratic] candidates going forward.” “Two things will happen: More Democrats are going to say they don’t support Pelosi, and Republicans will keep airing these Pelosi TV ads,” predicted another Democratic strategist who works on House races. “The ads are unavoidable, but the question is, do they work anymore?” Democrats on Capitol Hill said they’re already hearing from other candidates seeking counsel about whether they should take the same tack as Lamb. “If you say you’re not going to vote for her, it actually helps you because you look independent, which is very powerful in this environment,” said a Democratic lawmaker who has advised other candidates to employ the same strategy. Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, said the outcome in Pennsylvania showed how stale and ineffective the Republican attack has become. “The idea that an entire midterm will be about who serves as minority leader is preposterous,” he said. “This midterm will be about this president and his party." Other supporters of Pelosi have said they’re confident she’ll have the votes to become speaker if Democrats win the House this year, regardless of how candidates in tough races position themselves. Lamb clings to tiny lead with all precincts reporting Republicans, however, argue that Pelosi’s toxicity will still weigh on the party. National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Jesse Hunt said Lamb was “forced to go up on air, attacking” Pelosi, “so if that’s not proof of how toxic she will be for Democrats this cycle, I don’t know what is.” It’s unclear whether other candidates will have the liberty that Lamb enjoyed to disavow the Democratic leader. Unlike other candidates who have to win Democratic primaries — and risk antagonizing base voters if they campaign as centrists — Lamb was selected to run by party committees. Still, other Democratic candidates are following Lamb’s lead. Danny O’Connor, who is running in a special election this summer to replace former Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio), told POLITICO in an interview this past weekend that he won’t support Pelosi because he believes “we need changes in leadership on both sides of the aisle.” Like Lamb, O’Connor is running in a GOP-tinted district — Trump carried the central Ohio district by 11 points in 2016 — and is using questions about Pelosi to rail against leadership in both parties. Paul Davis, another Democrat seeking a GOP-held open seat in Kansas, has been running this playbook from the start of his campaign. He launched his bid for Congress last August by promising not to support Pelosi, calling for “new leadership in both parties.” In an interview before the election in Pennsylvania, Davis said a Lamb victory “could certainly get more candidates thinking” about distancing themselves from Pelosi. “Candidates have to size up their districts and what they’re hearing from people before they make that decision, but it’s possible there’s more” who rebuff Pelosi, Davis said. Several members of the House Democratic Caucus said Lamb’s apparent triumph in the deep-red district showed the anti-Pelosi tack won’t work. “It lacked the power they assumed it would have, both in terms of Nancy Pelosi and the tax cut scheme,” said Gerry Connolly (D-Va.). “Going into the general [election], they thought those two issues were killers.” For those Democrats, the more candidates that come out against Pelosi — and win their races — the better chances they have of forcing the California Democrat, who has led the caucus for 15 years, to step down. “The horse is out of the barn now. It’s already happening,” said one House Democrat. Not every candidate is ready to declare they’re opposed to Pelosi — but it’s clearly a topic on their minds. Jason Rittereiser, an attorney who’s running in a GOP-held district in Washington state that Hillarious Clinton carried, said it’s “too early” for him to rule out voting against the Democratic leader. But he said he thinks there’s a “void in the Democratic Party.” “It’s clear from the results out of Pennsylvania that voters are ready for a new generation of leadership in Congress,” Rittereiser said. “If I had the honor to go to Congress, I’ll vote for a leader who can best build coalitions and lead our party towards making progress again.” “Right now,” Rittereiser added, “I don’t know who that is.”

The Trump administration on Thursday accused Russian government hackers of carrying out a deliberate, ongoing operation to penetrate vital U.S. industries, including the energy grid — a major ratcheting up of tensions between the two countries over cybersecurity. It says the hackers penetrated targeted companies to a surprising degree, including copying information that could be used to gain access to the computer systems that control power plants. The alert came eight months after leaked documents revealed that federal authorities had found evidence of foreign hackers breaching computer networks in U.S. power companies, including the operator of the Wolf Creek nuclear plant in Kansas. "Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors ... targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors," according to Thursday's joint alert, issued by the Homeland Security Department and the FBI. While the reveal isn’t a surprise to cyber watchers — researchers have been noting such digital espionage for years — it’s rare for the U.S. government to be so blunt about a foreign adversary’s cyber spying. Because the U.S. conducts its own similar online espionage campaigns around the world, intelligence officials have traditionally been loath to openly point fingers at other governments for doing the same thing. After the alert, Energy Secretary Rick Perry warned members of a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that he's "not confident" the federal government has an adequate strategy in place to address the "hundreds of thousands" of cybersecurity attacks directed at the U.S. every day. Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state, the top Democrat on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said Thursday's alert followed a long series of unanswered warnings about the danger that hackers could trigger economically devastating blackouts. "A year ago yesterday, I called for a Russian cyber threat assessment to our grid," Cantwell said in a statement. "I’ve repeatedly asked President [Donald] Trump to tackle this urgent task and have been met with deafening silence. I hope today’s belated response is the first step in a robust and aggressive strategy to protect our critical infrastructure."

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/14/brady-trump-tax-cuts-414589 Trump and Brady say more tax cuts coming By BRIAN FALER | 03/14/2018 08:27 PM EDT President Donald Trump and the House’s top tax writer said separately Wednesday that Republicans are working on a second round of tax cuts. House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) declined to discuss many details of what Republicans have in a mind, but said a proposal would be unveiled sometime this year. “We think even more can be done,” he said in an interview with Fox Business Network. “We want to make sure we’re encouraging innovation in America, we want to help families save for the long term.” Later in the day, Trump said there would be a "phase two" for tax cuts, though he didn't provide any details either. “It’s going to be something very special. Kevin Brady’s working on it with me,” Trump said at a round table discussion in St. Louis with business executives, workers and educators. Brady suggested the plan would call for extending the slate of tax cuts for individuals now due to expire at the end of 2025. “While the tax cuts for families were long term, they’re not yet permanent, so we’re going to address issues like that," he said. The plan would be separate from any effort to fix glitches in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, H.R. 1 (115), Brady added. The idea may be to give Republicans more fodder for their campaigns, ahead of what’s certain to be a difficult midterm election contest, rather than actually trying to enact more tax changes this year. Republicans appear poised to lose a special House election in a pro-Trump area of Pennsylvania, where they unexpectedly abandoned their tax-cut message in the waning weeks of the race. A second tax-cut proposal would also give Republicans a chance to revive a number of ideas they were forced to drop during consideration of their tax-code rewrite, such as a long sought cut in the capital gains tax rate. Any sincere effort to move another round of tax cuts through Congress this year would face long odds It would surely draw objections over its cost, after the recent tax law added $1.5 trillion to the government’s already huge deficits. And Senate Democrats could easily block legislation because Republicans plan to skip writing a budget this year, which means they won’t be able to tap the fast-track “reconciliation” process used to enact the recent tax changes. When asked last week about the Republicans’ upcoming tax agenda, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, “I don’t think there’s going to be any big changes coming through.” Republicans do not have a timetable for producing the plan, Brady said, beyond releasing it this year. He also ruled out some ideas, saying Republicans won't undo a $10,000 cap on a deduction for state and local taxes, nor abandon plans to kill, beginning next year, a long-standing break for alimony payments.

Rafidain Bank announced on Thursday the launch of an advance of three million dinars for retired workers and insured. “In cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, it is decided to launch an advance of three million dinars for retired and secured workers,” the bank’s press office said in a press release. He added that “the number of retired workers covered by the advance is about 17 thousand retirees and the number of secured workers covered by the advance of 250 thousand workers,” explaining that “the grant of the advance be through the electronic card and without a sponsor.”

The Trump administration leveled new sanctions Thursday on five institutions and 19 individuals tied to Russia's government, citing Moscow's 2016 election interference and the recent nerve gas attack in Salisbury, England among a laundry list of reasons. 'These sanctions target a wide range of Russia's destabilizing activities, including interference in the 2016 U.S. election,' a senior national security official told reporters. 'We continue to be very focused ... on pressuring Russia for its continued efforts to destabilize Ukraine, occupy Crimea, meddle in elections, as well as for its endemic corruption and human rights abuses.' And 'the recent use of a military grade nerve agent in an attempt to murder two United Kingdom citizens further demonstrates the reckless and irresponsible conduct of its government,' the official said. ADVERTISING The administration also accused Vladimir Putin's government of long-term systemic cyber-intrusions into America's electric power grid. Russian President Vladimir Putin has new headaches courtesy of the U.S. Treasury Department, which announced sanctions Thursday against his intelligence services and a raft of other malicious Russian cyber-criminals The White House joined France, Germany and the UK in a statement Thursday morning, squarely placing blame for the March 4 Salisbury attack on Putin's shoulders. 'This use of a military-grade nerve agent, of a type developed by Russia, constitutes the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War,' the four governments said. 'It is an assault on the United Kingdom's sovereignty and any such use by a state party is a clear violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and a breach of international law. It threatens the security of us all.' 'We call on Russia to address all questions related to the attack in Salisbury,' they demanded. 'Russia should, in particular, provide full and complete disclosure of the Novichok program to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).' The FSB – the successor to Russia's infamous KGB – and the GRU, both top-tier intelligence agencies, are also targeted, meaning that the Treasury Department will forbid them from accessing assets in the U.S. or using America's banking system. It's unclear what assets Putin's spy agencies might have here. The FSB was sanctioned for using malicious tools to target journalists, the political opposition, U.S. government officials in cyber-attacks. The GRU, officials said, 'was directly involved in interfering in the 2016 U.S. election through cyber-enabled activities.' And the Internet Research Agency, an online troll factory controlled by a Russian oligarch, was sanctioned for interfering the the 2016 U.S. election by trying to manipulate Americans' opinions through fake ads and social media postings. Thirteen individuals tied to that organization were also targeted. They already face criminal indictments arising from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's invesgtigation.

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In Texas we just call them a man hater. Ha, had to look that one up NY Kevin. The sad thing is I've met her and Bill 25 years ago and I found them to be very interesting and charming. I guess anyone can fool me once.

Thanks Floridian, keep digging, you're doing great.

Let's see what happens the end of this quarter. I'm expecting some big things worldwide.

Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Tariq Qabil said that the economic relations between Egypt and Jordan are witnessing a remarkable development in the rates of intra-trade and joint investments, pointing out that his country is considering establishing an Egyptian-Jordanian logistic center for the reconstruction of Iraq. “The discussions dealt with the establishment of an Egyptian-Jordanian joint logistic center to contribute to the reconstruction efforts of Iraq during the next phase,” Qabeel was quoted as saying during the talks held by Jordanian Minister of Commerce and Industry Yabar al-Qudah. Cain stressed the importance of joint efforts to support and develop economic relations between Egypt and Jordan in all fields, based on the comparative advantage of countries and the potential of natural and human and economic large, which include the ease of movement of raw materials and manufactured goods, services and individuals, stressing the need to benefit from the region Greater Arab free trade in increasing trade exchange between the two countries. “The meeting dealt with the importance of coordination between the Egyptian and Jordanian sides to facilitate trade exchange and joint investments between the two countries,” the minister added, pointing out the importance of activating the mutual recognition agreement signed between the two countries to facilitate trade exchange between Egypt and Jordan.

The exchange rate of the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar fell on the stock market and domestic markets on Wednesday (March 14, 2018). Kifah Stock Exchange – Baghdad 121.500 dinars, while the prices on Tuesday was 1200 dinars. Selling and buying prices in banking The sale price of the dollar = 122,000 dinars. The purchase price of the dollar = 121,000 dinars.

Iraq has cut the official sale price of Basra light crude to Asia for April to $ 0.35 to a discount of $ 0.75 a barrel from the average prices offered to Oman and Dubai compared to the previous month, the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) said on Tuesday. “The price of heavy Basra crude to Asia for the same month was priced at a discount of $ 4.50 a barrel from the Oman and Dubai branches,” a company statement said. The official sale price of Basrah Light crude in shipments to North American and South American markets was set at $ 0.55 a barrel without the Argos index for high sulfur crude, up from the previous month. The price of selling Kirkuk crude to the US rose to $ 0.60 per barrel above the same index. For shipments to Europe, the price of Basrah Light for April was set at $ 1.10 per barrel, less than $ 5.20 per barrel. The official sale price for Kirkuk crude in April was set to fall below $ 3.65 for Brent.

I would like our board Democrat to explain the Racist and Gender bigoted, intolerant remarks she made yesterday about “white women”. Is that the person you really wanted in the WH. She is a unhinged, deranged, deplorable, unpatriotic, devisive, LOSER!!!!!!!!! Explain to me how you could possibly support this creature and don’t even respond with anything about the current President. Answer my my simple question. Do you support this kind of behavior??? I will not respond to whatever you write because I know it will be garbage