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  1. http://tinyurl.com/bezecvf Tens of thousands of protesters rallied across Iraq on Friday, charging that Sunni Muslims had been disenfranchised under the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and pressing for detainees to be freed. Protests have raged for weeks and continued even after the Iraqi justice ministry freed nearly a dozen female prisoners and said it would transfer others to jails closer to their homes. The unrest has spread from Anbar province, where infuriated protesters have blocked a key highway, to other Sunni strongholds across northern and western Iraq. "How much longer will our children stay in prisons for no other reason than being Sunni," a man who gave his name as Abu Abdullah told Agence France-Presse at one demonstration in Baghdad, where protesters hoisted banners calling for anti-terror laws to be repealed. Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, one of Maliki's chief opponents, called for him to step down in a statement read on Iraqi television, Bloomberg reported Friday. The push against Maliki has also been bolstered by powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr, who reached out to the protesters Friday by joining in prayer at a Sunni mosque, according to the Associated Press. Maliki and his government have their “last chance for reconciliation,” Alaa Makki, who leads the Sunni Iraqiya bloc in parliament, told Al Jazeera. Protesters “are waiting for the government to send somebody there, representing the governmental concerns." The prime minister appears to be trying to head off clashes that could escalate the situation. In a statement Friday (link in Arabic), Maliki called on the armed forces and police to “exercise the utmost restraint” in dealing with protesters. He also asked demonstrators to stop “sectarian and terrorist groups" from infiltrating and sowing sectarian strife, “which if returned, God forbid, it will burn us all.” Kurdish and Sunni sources told Reuters that Sunni Islamists are driving the protests in the hopes of creating their own semi-autonomous region akin to Kurdistan, emboldened by the belief that the ongoing uprising in Syria will ultimately tip the regional balance of power toward Sunnis. The unrest comes ahead of elections slated for this spring. Sadr is believed to be making gestures to the Sunni protesters and religious minorities in order to style himself as a unifying figure ahead of the provincial vote.
  2. WOW so many negs for just bringing the story over. A "+" for you and what is an obvious April Fools joke. Take a chill pill everyone geesh.
  3. http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/unsc_dailyprogramme.html Here is the link.
  4. Adam if the RV does come in low i.e. $.10 and the lower bills come out around the same time, is there anything that would stop any of us from just cashing in our 25k notes for the smaller notes and waiting for a higher rate? BTW I would love to see my Niners and your Packers in an NFC Championship...any thoughts?
  5. Allawi’s assignment as NCSP’s Chairman would restore balancing inside al-Iraqiya Coalition, MP says 8/7/2011 11:11 AM BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The assignment of the post of Chairman of the National Council of Strategic Policies (NCSP) for al-Iraqiya Coalition’s Leader, Iyad Allawi, would restore balancing inside the Coalition, its Member, Shaker Kattab said on Sunday. Kattab told Aswat al-Iraq news agency that Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, had been assigned to present the draft-law on the NCSP for voting by the Parliament within the forthcoming 3 days. “It is decided that the President would present the NCSP’s draft-law to the Parliament for voting, and we are optimistic that the Parliament would pass the law,” Kattab said, adding that “Dr. Allawi is the sole candidate to chair the NCSP and there are no other names competing him to occupy the post, thing that would restore balance inside al-Iraqiya Coalition.” The Leaders of Iraq’s Political Blocs have agreed in a meeting on Tuesday night, Aug 2, 2011, at the residence of President Jalal Talabani on several points, including the presentation of the NCSP’s draft-law to the Parliament for its approval, along with the agreement to name new candidates for the Defense and Interior Ministers’ posts, within a period not to exceed two weeks, to end this dossier. As regards to his nomination for the Defense Minister’s post, Kattab said that his name had been discussed inside his Coalition, but “the issue had not been settled till now, and that his name had been one of the names, nominated inside his Coalition to occupy the post,” adding that “this issue shall remain to be in the hands of the Prime Minister and the Parliament to agree upon.” Iraq had witnessed a number of political crisis since March 2010 nationwide elections, in the background of mistrust between the two largest Parliament blocs and partners in the government, the State of Law, led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and al-Iraqiya Coalition, led by Iyad Allawi. Al-Iraqiya is demanding the acceleration of implementing the Arbil Agreement, presented by Iraq’s Kurdistan President, Massoud Barzani, which had paved the way for the formation of the current government on 21/12/2010, including the distribution of the security Cabinet posts and the NCSP’s formation, warning that it would take decisive decisions to withdraw trust from the government and call for early elections, in the event of the State of Law’s non-implementation of the said decisions. On its part, the State of Law had announced that the largest part of the agreements between both sides had been implemented and the remaining differences could be settled through talks, aimed at bringing close joint viewpoints and achieving final settlements. SKH (FT) http://en.aswataliraq.info/Default.aspx?page=article_page&c=slideshow&id=144159
  6. Whether intentional or unintentional, your wording falls in line with this article.
  7. http://www.taxalmanac.org/index.php/Internal_Revenue_Code:Sec._988._Treatment_of_certain_foreign_currency_transactions Just in case nobody has posted this yet. It looks as though it is as Mark put it: TAXED AS INCOME.
  8. Correction: was a fictional planet, and who the heck picks dantooine...it's too remote.
  9. I love it, i love it, i love it!!!!
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    RV Tonight

    Loving both of the pics, thanks for the laugh!!!
  11. Please don't hate me folk, just passing the info. As stamp pointed out there were no auctions on the 1st and 2nd of January for the past couple of years. http://www.cbi.iq/documents/CBI_FOREIGN_EXCHANGE_AUCTIONS.pdf BUT MAYBE WE ARE WRONG AND THIS POPS TOMORROW!!!!
  12. This could possibly be the link too: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/IRFFI/Resources/IRFFITORRevisedOct2007.pdf
  13. Ah screw it, we only have a few more days left (hopefully). ha. Also I am not new to this site, I created a new account so I could log on and allowed my dad to keep my old account [butters213, signed up 11/09], so that we could both see the chats. Thanks anyways for the post guys. GOOOOOOOO!!!!! RVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV!!!!!!!!!!!!
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