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For someone who was involved in Iraq finances since the beginning this author shows an astounding lack of knowledge. In 2003 when the new IQD was introduced the value was 4000 IQD equals $1.00. It has risen in value several times over the years. This is not the forum to air anyone's religious values or beliefs, it is a place to share news or opinions about the Iraqi Dinar. http://www.edinarfinancial.net/history.php

I too served my country in the military. I was drafted in 1970 and went from making $120 per week to $90 per month. I served a tour in Viet Nam where I was wounded, but the grenade fragment in my belly might have come from an American grenade, so I was denied a purple heart, or any other considerations of a wounded vet. I owe this country nothing, they owe me for the years I served, and the amount of money I have paid to the IRS. As for the banks, they made many illegal, immoral, and just plain unwise loans to people and institutions. Why should I now help them to recoup their losses? If the banks want to exchange my dinar for a flat fee I will do business with them, but any exchange I make will be what is best for me. I would advise everyone to adopt this same philosophy.

The point I was trying to make with this article is that these were tax experts, including a retired IRS agent. If you have any doubts about what your tax people are doing with your account, don't hesitate to get a second opinion, including an opinion from the IRS.

http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=187277,00.html

Former IRS Official Sentenced for Tax Fraud as a Leader of Renaissance 'Tax Dream Team' On August 26, 2009, in Topeka, Kan., Jesse Ayala Cota, of Vista, Calif., was sentenced to 24 months in prison. Cota, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) District Director, pleaded guilty in April 2007 to one count of conspiracy to defraud the IRS. In his plea, Cota admitted advising taxpayers how to defraud the U.S. government using methods devised by a Topeka-based company called Renaissance, the Tax People, Inc. According to court documents, after retiring from the IRS, Cota went to work in July 1999 for Renaissance, a company that sold tax services. Through the filing of false tax returns by Renaissance members, Cota defrauded the U.S. government of more than $1.3 million and earned more than $300,000 while working for Renaissance. Court documents further explain that owners of home-based businesses who paid to become members of Renaissance received services including tax preparation, tax advice and socalled “audit protection.” The so-called “Tax Advantage System” offered by Renaissance was based on fraudulent claims that business owners could legally reduce the taxes they paid by converting personal expenses to business deductions. Cota and other defendants falsely assured Renaissance clients that the tax reduction methods were legal. In fact, tax returns filed using Renaissance’s methods were based on providing false and fraudulent information to the IRS. Three co-defendants, Michael Craig Cooper, founder of Renaissance, the Tax People; Todd Eugene Strand, vice president of Renaissance, the Tax People; and Daniel Joel Gleason, a tax return preparer, are all awaiting sentencing. Five other co-defendants have already been sentenced to terms of 46 months in prison to 24 months probation. http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=187277,00.html

I have done a web search and can find nothing about an Obama speech about Operation New Dawn. He is in Nevada so an 8 AM speech EST would be 5 AM there. The only reference I find to the operation is a press release; Iraq War gets a new name By Eric Zimmermann - 02/18/10 07:43 PM ET The Iraq War is getting a new name, according to ABC News. Previously known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, the mission will now be called Operation New Dawn. In a memo to Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the new name is meant to correspond with the withdrawal of American troops from the country. It will take effect in September 2010. The new label is "a strong signal that Operation IRAQI FREEDOM has ended and our forces are operating under a new mission," Gates wrote. This isn't the first time "New Dawn" has been used by the U.S. military in Iraq, however. As ABC notes, "Operation New Dawn was the name for the bloody and grueling 2004 battle for Fallujah."

This is in off topic posts, things not related to the dinar.

I fixed the link.

Great post, the real Michelle is showing through.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read: 1) You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 2) What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3) The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4) When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. 5) You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Several years ago a guy in Thailand was actually married to a man for several weeks before he discovered he was married to a man. Pay attention to the details.

This is kind of old, but still really funny. ABOUT THE WRITER Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald. Colonoscopy Journal: I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis. Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!' I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America 's enemies. I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons). Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture ofgoat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon. The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose, watery bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground. MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but, have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet. After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough. At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.. Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house. When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' had to be the least appropriate. 'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me. 'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like. I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling 'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ. On the subject of Colonoscopies... Colonoscopies are no joke, but these comments during the exam were quite humorous..... A physician claimed that the following are actual comments made by his patients (predominately male) while he was performing their colonoscopies: 1. 'Take it easy, Doc. You're boldly going where no man has gone before!' 2. 'Find Amelia Earhart yet?' 3. 'Can you hear me NOW?' 4. 'Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?' 5. 'You know, in Arkansas , we're now legally married..' 6. 'Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?' 7. 'You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out...' 8. 'Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!' 9. 'If your hand doesn't fit, you must quit!' 10. 'Hey Doc, let me know if you find my dignity.' 11. 'You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?' 12. 'God, now I know why I am not ***.' And the best one of all: 13. 'Could you write a note for my wife saying that my head is not up there?'

Back in the fall at the start of deer season in South Texas a friend of mine who works for the King Ranch gave me a call. He was helping some hunters who had been invited down for some deer hunting. (In case you don't know it, regular peons like me are not invited to the King Ranch to hunt, maybe to dig a few ditches, but not hunt.) The hunters were with a big oil company (maybe DH's people, I don't know) and they were talking amongst themselves about the Iraqi Dinar. He was a Desert Storm vet and asked them what they were talking about. They explained to him about how the Iraqi dinar was going to revalue and greatly increase in value. These people were not pumpers, just business men explaining what they were talking about. My friend was impressed by their sincerity and gave me a call. I did a little research and decided that it was worth the risk. I had the money in my 401K literally melting away, so I decided it was worth the chance. Worst case scenario I would still get back most of my money. So here I am today hoping and praying for an RV above .10, but knowing whatever happens if I hadn't taken the shot I would have regretted it the rest of my life.

I also avoid Mel Gibson movies since he announced to the world that all non Catholics were going to hel*. Yes he was sober.

If you are not happy with what your bank is offering, go to a different bank.. Most of us are depositing enough that banks will bend over backwards to get our business. If you know people living near you with dinar go as a group to a bank. You will still have separate accounts, but if the bank manager knows it is all none he will treat everyone much better. Remember, its your money, you are in charge and can make the rules. If your bank tells you six to eight weeks, tell them no thanks. There are a lot of banks that want your business. Remember CDAR accounts so you are insured over $250K.

Ayoon Wa Azan (Today, There Are...Well, I Better Not Say) Sun, 31 January 2010 Jihad el-Khazen I shall pick up today where I left off yesterday, in my commentary regarding corruption in Iraq. This corruption is rampant everywhere, starting with the Prime Minister

Kuwait did an RI and they used a new printed currency. It was still called Kuwati dinar just like Iraq's is still called the Iraqi dinar. The UN sanctions said Iraq could reinstate their currency.

George Carlin's Views on Aging Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions. 'How old are you?' 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. 'How old are you?' 'I'm gonna be 16!' You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life! You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony. YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!! But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed? You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50, and your dreams are gone... But! wait!! ! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would! So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50, and make it to 60. You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that, it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! You get into your 80's, and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; 'I Was JUST 92.' Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. 'I'm 100 and a half!' May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!! HOW TO STAY YOUNG 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.. 2.. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. 3.Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever, even ham radio. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's family name is Alzheimer's. 4. Enjoy the simple things. 5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. 6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves Be ALIVE while you are alive. 7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is. 10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. AND, ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Any kind of banking information is privileged, they are not going to tell strangers who has their machines or what they are capable of. They print the Iraqi dinar, making the adapters to count and verify it is not a big deal. De La Rue offers hardware training in the US Located in Irving, Texas, the Knowledge Support department of De La Rue North America, Inc. provides in-depth, customised training courses to clients worldwide. Our in-house training strengthens the mechanical and technical knowledge base of clients to ensure they are able to maximise De La Rue hardware products to their fullest potential. Our goal is to educate our clients and to maintain excellent customer satisfaction. Our trainers have taught over 1,000 people in nearly 35 countries around the world. To understand our training programme please read more. Get Acrobat Reader To access the PDF documents you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded from the Adobe website . Back to top http://www.delarue.com/ProductsSolutions/CashProcessingSolu/HardwareSolutions/

It said that Zebari handed messages to the ambassadors explaining progress made by Iraq in this concern. Perhaps each message contained a brick of 25K dinar. lol

MasterLard

Sunday, January 24, 2010 17 Ships Arrive at Iraqi Ports January 24, 2010 BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: Seventeen cargo ships from different countries have arrived at Iraqi ports, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said on Sunday. The Shiite province of Basra, 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has five commercial ports and two oil ports: al-Maaqal, established in 1916 by the British forces and handed over to Iraqi authorities in 1937; and Faw, a small port on the al-Faw Peninsula near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf. In the early 1970s, Umm al-Qasr port was built, and in 1974, Khour al-Zubeir and Abu Falous ports were established on the Shatt al-Arab. Basra is the cradle of the first civilization of Sumer. It has the seven main Iraqi ports. The first built in Islam 14 A.H. (After Hegira), the city played an important role in early Islamic history. The area surrounding Basra has substantial petroleum resources and many oil wells. The city

I think a lot more people need to watch these videos, they tell you the best ways to make use of the power of prayer. Very interesting, very deep.

This is a blog with one persons opinion, no links to back anything he says. No different than Medic, Phoenix, or Frank.

Anybody else recognize mkerr's writing here? He has told a very similar story before under one of his other names.