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  1. 7 hours ago, yota691 said:

    The information/translation…
    A report by the American Los Angeles Times newspaper confirmed, on Tuesday, that US President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to the Israeli entity and Saudi Arabia will be in pursuit of oil and hegemony in the Middle East and dealing with the Saudi regime, after he promised in his election campaign to make it a pariah.
    Biden's trip to the region will be the most complex and controversial during his presidency, as Biden's willingness to suspend his condemnation of Saudi leaders and mend relations is widely seen as a product of his need to confront high energy prices at home. The price of a gallon of gas, on average, has risen to just under $4.70 this week and inflation has soared to a record high, so concerns about inflation and the economy are high on the minds of voters heading into November's midterm elections, which forecasts are going to be devastating. for the Democrats.”
    For his part, the senior State Department official for Middle East affairs in the Trump administration, David Schenker, said, “What Biden will do is a victory for pragmatism over the principles of the president, as he is exposed to loss with the rise in oil prices, and a recession is looming on the horizon.”
    The report added that Biden, US diplomats, lawmakers and human rights advocates are particularly critical of Saudi Arabia for its role in the 2018 killing of US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. US intelligence agencies have concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, issued the order. By killing him, he is also behind some of Saudi Arabia's most controversial authoritarian policies, including the prosecution of the brutal war in Yemen that has led to bombings and starvation of tens of thousands of civilians, the kidnapping and torture of Lebanon's prime minister to make him obey the Saudi line and the imprisonment of thousands of opponents including minorities. religious and activist.
    He continued, "Biden's decision to meet bin Salman during the Saudi phase of his trip sparked protests from members of Congress from political parties, press associations, human rights defenders and Saudi opponents."
    And he continued, “Both Israel and Saudi Arabia, which do not officially have diplomatic relations and oppose US efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal, will use their meetings with Biden to pressure him to abandon efforts to revive the deal.” Talks with Iran, led by the other signatories to the agreement, including the European Union, China and Russia, have not yet reached a conclusion.
    Khaled El-Gendy, head of the Israeli-Palestinian Affairs Program at the Middle East Institute, said, “Iran will loom very large about this visit, and thus it will allow Biden to work towards a better integration of Israel into the security structure of the region, as most countries did not recognize the existence of this entity until recently.” finished/ 25 z

    Well I sure hope he brings enough staffers to help him up from kneeling and kissing the ring of the Saudi prince. His Obama approach of kissing the Saudis a$$ to get more oil might be at this point his only option besides start drilling in the USA….

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  2. 6 hours ago, Shelley said:

    You are 100% correct …. That was the toss up between Malaki and Allawi and Obama placed Malaki in the thrown in 2010 

    Shelley, the US military and coalition installed Maliki to the transitional government in 2006. He was later voted in as the new Prime Minister of Iraq. 
    I’m surely not an Obama fan but Maliki was in office years before Barack was president…lol 

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  3. 13 hours ago, Rochester said:

    I find this, quite odd. The Republicans are not in power. Yet America sends a Republican Senator, to speak for the United States? And one who has been particularly close to past President Donald Trump? Odd. Very odd.

    I find it as normal as Nancy Pelosi flying to Ukraine for a photo shoot. Lindsey Graham is a US Senator that happens to be on the appropriation committee, budget committee, the judiciary committee to name a few. 
    These committees deal with where the USA spends and sends its money. The party affiliation is irrelevant if your on one of these committees. Lindsey Graham has worked and been close to several presidents. 
    I would guess he wanted to assure the Iraqis that America would continue to stand by them unlike the circus America did in Afghanistan…

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  4. 3 hours ago, HowieC said:

    I've  gotta be delusional at this point. Haven't they been reforming the banking sector for like over 10 years? 

    They’ve been trying to get their banking system caught up to the 21st century for many years but until they reform what the IMF and World Bank has proposed they still have a ways to go. 
    I’m on my cell phone so can’t direct you to any links but I know doing away with their multiple currency and reorganize the two government banks into public owned is two things that needs to be addressed.The doing away with the auctions could be another…

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  5. Good Morning yota and happy 4th of July to you…

    It appears Al-Sadr is starting to form the troops. 
    In previous articles you posted I see Al-Abadi could be the next to pull out of this so called government circus they’ve formed. 

    When Al-Maliki gets his unconstitutional PM position is when I’m thinking all hell will break loose over there and by that time Al-Sadr will have his army put together for this mass coup that will once and for all rid Iraq of the corruption that Al-Sadr speaks of. 
     

    That’s the only end game I can see for the decision Al-Sadr and the rest of these political parties withdrawing from the government….just my thoughts 

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  6. Well I guess with the billions flowing into Iraq the crooked Kurds will wait until they are broke to settle this oil and gas law. 
    These foreign oil companies are not gonna risk being black balled by Baghdad to continue to go against their Supreme Court decision. 
    A person would think a Kurdish politician with half a brain would stay in Baghdad until a HCL was in place…..

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  7. Theseus, totally agree an have been screaming this point for the past two weeks. 
    What part of the US Supreme Court doesn’t make laws does the ignorant liberals not understand. 
    I don’t have an issue with the liberals not agreeing with the decision but their reasoning and intelligence levels come into to play when they are clueless about what they disagree with. 
    Until the liberal mindset is voted out of power we will continue to see the ignorance not only in the USA but abroad, what an embarrassment Joe Biden is to America talking down democracy….

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  8. It appears to me that they are referring to an alternative trading platform to buy an sell stocks. In the USA they call it penny stocks, this is a platform with little to no oversight or regulations with it.

    Thats why in the article they give a disclaimer to the investor that warns them they are trading on a undisclosed platform. 
    These listed companies are not trading on the ISX and just giving the potential investor a heads up to what their buying….

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  9. 12 hours ago, yota691 said:
    Barzani's headquarters comments on Al-Sadr's tweet against the President of the Republic
     

    Baghdad - people  

    The official in charge of the Iraqi file at Barzani's headquarters, Arafat Karam, commented, on Tuesday, on the tweet of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, against the President of the Republic, Barham Salih.  

      

     

      

    Karam wrote, in a tweet on "Twitter" followed by "Nas" (June 28, 2022): "Finally, Barham bid farewell to the last."    

      

    A member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Mahmoud Khoshnaw, said earlier that the tweet of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, about the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, was "surprising" and "cruel."   

    In an interview with our colleague, "Adnan Al-Tai", followed by "Nass" (June 28, 2022), Khoshnaw said: "We were surprised by Al-Sadr's tweet, and we believe that Al-Sayed was harsh with this tweet, and the content of the tweet does not match the visions of Barham Salih. Saleh's position is clear on the Palestinian issue." Arabic and patriotism are not reduced to law.”     

    He added, "If President Barham had any reservations about the law, he would have returned the law to the House of Representatives, but his silence on the law is a sign of satisfaction, and he implicitly endorsed the law through the Office of the Presidency of the Republic."     

      

    The Presidency of the Republic responded, on Tuesday, to the tweet of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, in which he accused the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, of not signing the law “criminalizing normalization with Israel.”     

    The spokesperson for the Presidency of the Republic stated in a statement, of which “Nass” received a copy, (June 28, 2022), that “the Presidency of the Republic had previously received a draft law (criminalizing normalization with the Zionist entity) sent by the House of Representatives for the purpose of completing the procedures for its issuance and ratification and in accordance with the mechanisms The legal and constitutional principles that are followed by the Presidency of the Republic for the laws enacted by the House of Representatives.       

    The statement added, "The President of the Republic, Barham Salih, had directed to deal with this law in the form sent by the House of Representatives without any notice, and it was published in the Iraqi Gazette on June 20, 2022 to enter into force."       

    In this regard, the statement affirmed that “the position of the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, as is well known, is a firm and supportive position for the Palestinian cause, the attainment of the full legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, and the liberation of their homeland from the occupation of the Zionist entity, and his sovereignty affirmed this repeatedly on international and national forums and in the Assembly’s meetings. General Assembly of the United Nations".  

      

    Earlier today, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, attacked the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, for not signing the law "criminalizing normalization with Israel".   

      

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    I usually don’t agree with anything the crooked Kurds have to say but I’m all in with this thief. 

    What Al-Sadr needs to understand now is, he is nothing more than the average Joe in Iraq. One of his followers needs to remind him that he and the Sadrist movement no longer exists. He gave up any of his power or influence last week.

    He needs to go back to Iran and just chill for a few years…

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  10. 35 minutes ago, utah rock said:

    It’s all regurgitation, you, me all of it. I apologize for using such an abrasive term, I was having an off morning and picked your response to go off on, that is my fault and problem and I do apologize for even appearing to attack your understanding and knowledge of the situation. 
    This investment is more enjoyable to me spectating and some day, hopefully soon, cashing out. I could care less about politics, theirs, the ones here at home, could care less. 
    Sorry once again, god bless and may this investment be spectacular for everyone 

    Totally agree, thanks for the reply…

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  11. LMAO!!! What in my post would you be referring to that I’m regurgitating? Could it be the decision of the Federal Courts? Or the corruption of the region…either one is a true fact. I think you may need a refresher course on Kurdistan if you think the USA has always been loved by the Kurds. Ask the old timers there about the American Abandonment but that’s for another lesson. 
    When the revaluation of the Iraqi Dinar finally occurs it certainly won’t be of any support from the crooked Kurds…

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  12. Maybe Kurdistan needs someone to have an indebted meeting with them to explain that their oil and gas law is unconstitutional according to their Supreme Federal Court. 
    They can amend it a 100 times and it will still be unconstitutional. 
    It’s a shame their sitting on a resource that could bring them out of the dark ages and into another Dubai but would rather stall and prolong because of the corruption and greed is shameful.

    Their just not smart enough to figure out that the world is slowly turning off the need for fossil fuel and what they are arguing about will become worthless….

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  13. 47 minutes ago, yota691 said:

    Best case scenario

     

     

    The framework hints at dissolving Parliament and leaving negotiations in the event of no response

     

     

    474 Policy 2022/06/28 16:11 Baghdad today -

    Baghdad Today, Tuesday, the coordination framework confirmed that it would resort to dissolving the House of Representatives in the event that some blocs continued to adhere to their positions and did not reach an agreement on forming a government. The leader in the framework, Mahmoud Al-Hayani, said in an interview with (Baghdad Today) that "the stubbornness of some political blocs not to proceed with forming the next government will push us to demand the dissolution of Parliament." He added, "We want everyone to participate in the government and go through a national dialogue, but if two-thirds are not achieved in the upcoming parliament sessions for the purpose of passing the president of the republic and then assigning the prime minister, the best option would be to dissolve parliament, although our efforts go towards forming a consensual government in which all the political blocs are."

    That’s exactly what they should do but not sure what new elections would gain.

    The same people would get voted in and now your back to square one. 
    I’m still of the belief that Al-Sadr has a plan, maybe it’s resurrecting his followers to burn down the city but hard to believe he just handed over the keys to Iran….

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