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  1. I think you have hit it DEAD ON. That way speculators will also be BUYING Dinars as we are selling ours.

    That way, there's no huge difference and people just cashing in and leaving. While we will be cashing in,

    others will be buying in because they were on the fence about all of this.

    We just happen to in on the ground floor. If it starts at .10 - .20 I'll hold mine for a couple of weeks to try and see a trend.

    buds

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  2. Please explain how my bank in Ohio will replace my 25K bill that they had to order?

    That's where I'm getting lost. If the RV hasn't happened yet, but they call in all 25K notes would I have to sell back to the bank and rebuy?

    OR..... would all of this happen AFTER the RV? And would be possible to do it unless the currency was revalued?

    Thanks

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  3. I can't help but think about the one poster who read the 'intel' right after the Chap 7 was lifted and wrote a post saying he was going to do a 30 day reserve on 5 million Dinar.

    He said he doesn't have the 5 grand to buy it if it doesn't RV in those 30 days, but he was willing to pony up 500 bucks on the rumor.

    I wonder how may people did that about 2-3 weeks ago and are now wondering how to pay for their purchases.

    Sad,

  4. If you know how to write and format a press release you can just about anything you want on PR Web.

    It's a free press release service. I have used them many times to pump an event I was going to be part of and it looks like real 'news'.

    Some smaller blog sites grab keywords from PR Web's feed and run the stories.

    Heck, anyone can do it. You announce you son's birthday as long as you make it sound like news.

    "Honor Student Reaches Milestone"

    'Eight years in the making'

    LOL

  5. snee2... Great way of looking at it. i always thought the Babel story was kind of like people TRIED to reach heaven, but were stuck without a way to communicate. Maybe I look too 'definite' into it. I always considered the 'tower' as a true structure like a pyramid or a tower like the Washington monument and God scrambling their language to end it because they should going forth instead of going up.

    Imagine recreating the hanging gardens? Wouldn't that be a tourist destination.

    buds

    chuck

    PS: great discussion. Going to bed. I'll check back in tomorrow

  6. I'm getting a better grip on it now. I never knew that Babylon, Mesopotamia and Iraq were all 3 the same place.

    So, from my reading (I'm no theologian either.) That Babylon will come back to being a very rich and fruitful place now that they are free and have all of the wonderful resources the land has always had.

    The great city will be rebuilt and a new 'Tower of Babel" will also be rebuilt. (I am guessing that would be like a tall monument or great high rise like they built in Dubai.)

    That is what starts the last days in motion?

    AND, if that's on the mark then wouldn't something about everyone's money being the same (people thought the Euro was this when it came out).

    Also, (now I'm going off of memories from years ago) if all of this comes to pass the shouldn't the anti-Christ come out of all of this also? Or do i have my wires crossed?

    Fascinating discussion and lessons. Thank you all.

    Great link Dogmatic1 Thanks

    chuck

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  7. OK, I kid around a lot, but I'm serious about this question. I keep reading in different post about all of this has been prophitized (sp) in the Bible about all of this happening.

    Is this true? I know that Iraq is the place where the garden of Eden was suppose to be. Mesopotamia I think it was called.

    Someone explain to me the connection between Iraq's independence and the end of the world or where it's written in Revelations.

    I'm very curious.

    Thanks in advance

    Chuck

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  8. Pumpers!! I hate pumpers!!!

    I'm just glad we invested in the Dinar instead of the Vietnam Dong.

    Then we would be screaming "Those pumpers of the Dongs!"

    Dong pumpers!!! "Go ahead mister, pump that Dong and see if I buy it!"

    "The Dong pumpers are really out in force today mate!"

    LOL

    Sorry, I'm not mentally stable.

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  9. smee2 - great post. I was like everyone else. Just wasting a little time. Thanks for understanding.

    Now seriously for a second. I got into this after extensive reading, studying and checking history. In my true humble opinion I think Iraq's currency HAS TO RISE. I really don't see how it can't. Saddam took everything the country made for his own when he ruled and just think for a minute all of the palaces and cars and things he had.

    Now, all of that belongs to the people. I'm guessing here but Iraq's population is around 32,200,000 people. So, if they are producing 2.5 million barrels of oil a day, even at $50 a barrel that's 125 MILLION dollars a DAY the country is bringing in. 4 dollars for every person in the country PER DAY. Just in oil.

    That's pretty darn fruitful if you ask me. I just think he population has been under thumb for so long that it has become routine.

    I think very very soon the population of Iraq is going to realize how wonderful a democracy can be and you'll be seeing wonderful economy, beautiful building, art museums and citizen's with pride in what they have built.

    With all of that comes a healthy, growing economy and prestige on the world's stage. we have to remember (and it's easy to forget) that they are starting from scratch.Just like us at the end of the great depression.

    Bless them all. AND US TOO because we had the faith and belief that they could and would do it. For that ALL of us will be rewarded.

    Buds

    chuck

    PS: BobbyBuns, Oh yes. I get speaking parts all the time now. You can see a trailer of my next movie 'The Mitchell tapes' at my web site. PLUS, I am proudly a member of a cult classic and what some call the worse movie ever made 'ThanksKilling' LOL

  10. I think many of us think alike. We would like to recoup and then roll the dice for the big money or in poker "Go all in" and hope it goes through the roof.

    BobbyBuns, I never was on Ellen, but like her show. I did TODAY 3 times and many other talk shows. If you Google Dead Guy and Chuck I'm easy to find or Dead Body Guy.

    Both will show you how I'm making my dreams come true. I'm like whoever said I don't want to die saying "What if" or "If I would've only"

    That's (I think) is like many of us on here. we are taking the chance, rolling the dice, going all in for a shot at our dream life. Some of us get serious where people like me try to smile my way through it.

    DAMN! I get goose bumps thinking of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    buds

    chuck

  11. Thanks bruh;

    I was just making small talk since we are all waiting for the big news. Someone said I think of things as 'glass half empty'.

    I say to him that he should go read my website about me. I started as a full blown NOBODY and had a dream and an idea that I wanted to be in TV shows or movies. Even though I lived over 2000 miles from L.A. I never quit trying to live my dream.

    And I DID IT TOO! BIG TIME! I am living out my dream. I didn't just sit around and wished. This week alone I have been in the news in the UK, Ireland, Venezuela, Macedonia, Japan, Bosnia And HAVE links to prove it.

    Guys, I believe in this adventure as much as anyone, but always have a 'plan B'. heck in my case I had a B - C and D

    I hope we are all sunning our selves in southern skies and waters soon.

    But don't take all of this too personal or serious. There's nothing we can really do as a group until we hear the news.

    Let's try to be buddies and kind to each other until we are rich and can afford to be snobs.

    buds

    chuck

    PS: BobbyBuns, My nephew is Joe Thomas the body builder and spokesperson www.idssports DOT COM (with the corn rows)

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  12. Before anyone starts grinding my testies into hamburger any more. I did this thread for FUN!

    You don't HAVE to answer and I don't care which way you go.

    So, if I have bothered you in any way then sorry man.

    it was all in fun.

    YOU GUYS FRIGGIN' GAVE ME TWO MINUSES FOR ASKING A FUN QUESTION IN THE FUN FORUM?

    I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THIS THING RV'S SO I CAN WATCH SOME OF YOU COMPLAIN NO MATTER WHAT IT BRINGS.

    SELFISH FOOLS

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  13. What about a nickel? A dime I would take it all and run, so I'm changing it to a nickel.

    OK, I'm just curious. If we get a RV 'bump' and all of the sudden the Dinar raises to 0.05 FIVE cents on the dollar. That makes our million dinars "if we have that many" worth 50 GRAND from a 1000 dollar investment.

    So, my question is "would you take your profit and run?" There's a GOOD possibility that it will continue to rise just like a stock and top out at over $3.00 like we have all read.

    Then again, the country might go into civil war and the money be useless again also in the blink of an eye.

    Here is what I would do. I would probably cash a portion in. Say maybe 200,000 worth. Pocket my 10 Grand ($6500 after taxes -- $5500 after initial investment) Doesn't sound like much when you put it that way huh?

    Then I would wait a couple of weeks to watch the trend to see what it's doing. As soon as it started to drop, I'd cash all in and run.

    No bashing in this forum because it's all bullcrap and talk off the top of our heads anyway.

    Your turn

    buds

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  14. How Cheap Is an Iraqi Life?

    The thorny debate over compensation payments and why it matters to the U.S. war effort.

    By Will OremusPosted Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, at 10:28 AM ET

    Afghan mourners prepare to bury victims during a funeral in Kunduz. Click image to expand.A funeral in AfghanistanIn 2007, an Iraqi civilian from Baghdad filed a claim for damages against the U.S. Army. In the paperwork he completed, he explained that his son Wa'ad had been driving a taxi one February morning and was on his way home to refuel when a passenger flagged him down. Moments later, a U.S. tank stationed half a mile away opened fire, hitting the taxi with two missiles. Wa'ad was found burned to death inside.

    The Iraqi asked the United States for $10,000 in compensation: $5,000 for his son's death, and $5,000 for the ruined taxi.

    The claim was more or less typical of the thousands filed by Iraqis against the United States under the Foreign Claims Act since the war there began in 2003. Many were denied, often based on technicalities. But this man was among the luckier ones: The United States paid him $2,800 for son and taxi combined.

    Military officials acknowledge that such "condolence payments" don't capture the full value of a lost civilian life. They are intended, according to a 2007 report to Congress by the Government Accountability Office, as "expressions of sympathy." They are by no means to be taken as an admission of legal liability or fault, the report notes.

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    But in an era of counterinsurgency, in which civilian "hearts and minds" have become high-value targets, fair compensation has begun to matter more. That has raised an awkward question for U.S. military leaders: Just how much is an Iraqi or Afghan life worth?

    Attaching a monetary value to human life might seem offensive to some. But it's routine in many nonmilitary contexts. Economists and actuaries have developed sophisticated metrics for assessing the price of a life. Some are based on an individual's projected lifetime earnings. Others extrapolate a figure based on a person's own financial valuation of the risk of death. For instance, if an employee requires $700 in hazard pay to assume a 1-in-10,000 risk of death on the job, she is valuing her own life at $7 million.

    In fact, $7 million is roughly the "statistical value of life" used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in formulating regulatory policy. Other U.S. agencies use similar numbers. Yet compensation payments for those who die tend to be much lower in the United States and elsewhere. Especially elsewhere. U.S. soldiers killed in battle merit a "death benefit" of $500,000. In contrast, most condolence payments to Iraqi and Afghan families are capped at $2,500. Still, if that seems like a stingy response to the combustion of one's son, it's actually pretty generous compared with pre-2003 practices by the United States and other countries. The fact that Washington is offering such payments at all represents a break with hundreds of years of military history.

    Under international law, the killing of civilians is not a war crime, as long as they are not the object of the attack—and as long as the expected civilian death toll is not "excessive" compared with the value of the legitimate military target. So for decades, the families of civilian war victims got nothing at all. As novelist Kurt Vonnegut wrote in Slaughterhouse-Five, a reflection on the Allied fire-bombings of Dresden in World War II, "So it goes."

    Not only was such "collateral damage" considered permissible, it may have even been used for strategic purposes in some cases. In 1943, two years before the deadly Dresden bombings, Allied military leaders issued the Casablanca Directive, establishing as a major priority, "the undermining of the morale of the German people to a point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened."

    More recently, the United States has treated civilian casualties as something ideally to be avoided, though not at the cost of major military objectives.

    Marc Garlasco was chief of "high-value targeting" in the Pentagon in the run-up to the Iraq War. He says his superiors would tolerate collateral damage up to a point: 30 deaths, to be exact.

    In analyzing which targets the United States could strike in its opening "shock and awe" campaign, Garlasco says he was instructed to authorize anything that could reasonably be expected to kill fewer than 30 civilians. Any more than that, and the attack would require a personal sign-off from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld or President George W. Bush.

    "I don't know why 30 was considered the high," Garlasco says. "I don't know why they picked 30 and not 20, or 40, or 100."

    Yet even that standard has been tightening as the United States comes to grips with the unique challenges of counterinsurgency operations. Leaders have recognized that success in Iraq and Afghanistan requires winning over the civilian population, not bombing it into submission.

    In Afghanistan, especially, limiting civilian casualties has emerged as a major priority in coalition forces' long-term battle for influence. In a working paper issued in July, the National Bureau of Economic Research found "strong evidence that local exposure to civilian casualties caused by international forces leads to increased insurgent violence over the long-run, what [the researchers] term the 'revenge' effect."

    In other words, if coalition forces treat noncombatants too callously, some of them will actually become combatants.

    "There's a learning curve," says Garlasco, who worked as a senior military analyst for Human Rights Watch after leaving his Pentagon post in 2003. "Let's face facts, the U.S. Army was literally built to fight the Soviet Union, and thank God that never happened. But it had lost its focus on other types of warfare."

    Many experts believe that focus returned with the publication of a new Counterinsurgency Field Manual in 2006. One of its precepts was "first, do no harm"—a maxim more commonly associated with medical ethics than military operations. The goal of a counterinsurgency campaign, it noted, was not only to subdue the enemy but to secure the environment for local civilians.

    Garlasco was part of the team that reviewed the manual before its publication. And he wasn't the only one from outside the military establishment. "Guys like Petraeus hooked up with Sarah Sewell from the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard," he says. "The Red Cross was there, Human Rights Watch was there."

    The new approach has increased pressure on militaries to attach a higher value to civilian lives. Exactly what that value should be remains in dispute.

    There is a growing sentiment, however, that a $2,500 condolence payment is too low. A June report by CIVIC, the nonprofit Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, argued that the current system may insult more people than it mollifies. That's not just a money issue; it's also the result of opaque procedures and inconsistent implementation, the report found. Many people file under the Foreign Claims Act only to find that it doesn't cover combat-related damages. Those are handled under the more informal condolence payment system, in which unit commanders have broad discretion to grant or withhold compensation.

    It likely doesn't help when Iraqis hear about things like the recent settlement between their government and American citizens who were abused by Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War. According to reports, Iraq agreed to pay $400 million to the several hundred Americans who had filed claims alleging torture and psychological trauma.

    At first blush, any substantial increase in the payments to families of civilian casualties in Iraq and elsewhere might seem prohibitively expensive. The Defense Department reported spending more than $30 million on condolence payments in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2006. Raise the cap to $10,000, and it's conceivable the United States could have been on the hook for upward of $100 million. That's a large amount by most measures—though it pales next to the $1.12 trillion the United States has spent on the war effort as a whole.

    Yet even CIVIC isn't advocating spending that much. In a recent phone interview, Executive Director Sarah Holewinski said just standardizing and simplifying the claims process could make a big difference. She bases that on her experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan talking to residents who have lost loved ones to stray coalition fire.

    "Obviously they're incredibly upset, and if they don't receive any sort of apology as to why their family has been harmed, then they get angry, too," Holewinski says. "The best thing you can do is apologize, investigate what happened, give some sort of explanation"—and then offer compensation. It doesn't have to capture the person's full economic value, she adds. Often it's the thought that counts.

    Not everyone in the military establishment is ready to concede that hearts and minds have become more important than blood and guts. In a Washington Post op-ed last month, retired Air Force Gen. Charles Dunlap wrote that reducing airstrikes in Afghanistan to spare civilians was counterproductive.

    "[D]on't believe the claim that civilian deaths automatically generate more enemies," he wrote. "The Taliban itself has disproved that theory. Although insurgents caused almost 76 percent of civilian deaths, according to a U.N. report published in August, Taliban strength is reportedly nevertheless increasing."

    If he's right, then perhaps the United States wasted the $2,800 it awarded to Wa'ad's father. After all, this was a man who saw his son reduced to rubble by U.S. forces and responded by dutifully filling out some forms. Asked to list in detail what property damage he had suffered, he wrote: "I lost my son without any reason. He was my helper in these hard circumstances." It's possible he wouldn't have held a grudge even if the United States had paid him nothing. Then again, if Wa'ad's life isn't worth anything, some might question why American troops are still in Iraq at all.

    http://www.slate.com/id/2278387/pagenum/all/#p2

  15. I like to cover all of my bases so here's my question.

    If they are going to mess with the larger notes how large will they go? Probably down to the 1000 right?

    Where can we buy bricks of 50 Dinar notes besides ebay? I'd like to get about 200K of 50s just i case they mess with the big bills. Plus it would look cool have a 'brick" or two of 50s.

    Thanks

    chuck

  16. From Who Is.... they changed something on the registration Dec 18th as you can see.

    they might just be moving servers, or could be anything. The domain is set to expire in 17 days or so.

    domain: dinarbanker.com

    created: 10-Jan-2007

    last-changed: 18-Dec-2010

    registration-expiration: 10-Jan-2011

    status: CLIENT-TRANSFER-PROHIBITED

    registrant-firstname: Oneandone

    registrant-lastname: Private Registration

    registrant-organization: 1&1 Internet, Inc. - http://1and1.com/contact

    registrant-street1: 701 Lee Road, Suite 300

    registrant-street2: ATTN: dinarbanker.com

    registrant-pcode: 19087

    registrant-state: PA

    registrant-city: Chesterbrook

    registrant-ccode: US

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  17. Don't worry Nathan 11. i was in your shoes a couple of weeks ago when my good friend and teller at 5/3 told me they were going to stop selling Dinars the next Monday. (This was Friday). So, trying to help any little way I can I posted it on the board telling what my good friend told me. Of course, you know what was said.

    B.S., show me a memo, thanks newbie, blah, blah, blah and some other not so nice things because I didn't actually have a SCAN of the note her boss gave her about stopping the sale of Dinars.

    Well, they did stop selling them that Monday and MY BRANCH are through selling them as are many other 5/3 branches. Some are still,but many branches say it's just too much trouble.

    What I learned from that experience is sometimes it's just better to read than to write.

    Thanks for your service bro

    buds

    chuck

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