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Thanks for the post! I think we just have to exercise patience and wait for the "algorithms" to work their way through the system!

WOW USDIQD 12/19/11 07:05 - 01/19/12 08:14 EST Recent: USD/IQD Majors: EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD USD/CHF EUR/GBP EUR/JPY EUR/CHF AUD/USD USD/CAD NZD/USD Popular: AUD/CAD AUD/JPY AUD/NZD CHF/JPY EUR/AUD EUR/CAD GBP/CHF GBP/JPY Other/Select GMTESTMSTPSTCSTBETEETBST1 Min5 Min1 Hr1 Day Time: 01/09/12 11:05 EST Open: 1166.0000 High: 1166.0000 Low: 1166.0000 Close: 1166.0000 Time: 01/04/12 07:00 EST Open: 1143.9000 High: 1143.9000 Low: 1143.9000 Close: 1143.9000 Thanks for the heads up yota!! http://www.forex.tradingcharts.com/chart/US%20Dollar_Iraqi%20Dinar.html

Thanks for the post billiebot! Hmm...under $200M for the first time in a while...

hmmm...are these songs your version of the "Fat Lady Singing"? And, no, I didn't think u were a girl.... Thanks for the post!

Let's DO THIS!!!

Well at least you have good taste in music! You're aok in my book! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnKjYGzhmp4 Look forward to your vindication! As Thug said, "You go girl!"

‎"Our entire currency system is imaginary. It doesn't really exist. It's just that we're all dreaming the same dream. If anybody chooses to wake up it's over with." Mike Maloney

""Ours is a delegate strategy," said Benton. "We want to win the 1,100 delegates. If [former Massachusetts Gov.]Mitt Romney has secured 1,150 delegates, then it is game over. But we are going to contest that until the very end, and again we have a goal. We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't think we can win 1,150 delegates... He remains committed to a numerical-based operation premised on finding value where others don't. It's the Money Ball of campaign strategies and it's rooted in, of all places, Obama's 2008 campaign." I like that - "Money Ball" campaign strategy! Hey if it worked for Obama why not for Paul? Ron Paul 2012!!!! Thanks for the post TPS!

With all the news regarding Iran and how sanctions are affecting that country and indirectly Iraq's USD reserves, I thought this article might be of interest: West's Pressure On Iran As tensions heat up between Iran and the West, the prospect of a big spike in oil prices to as high as $200 a barrel suddenly looms over the U.S. economy, threatening to overshadow what have been promising signs of gathering strength.U.S. consumers have proved highly sensitive to the price of fuel, which shot up recently after Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz - the only exit from the oil-rich Persian Gulf for one-fifth of the world’s oil exports. At about $3.28 a gallon at the pump, regular gasoline prices are at record levels for this time of year and are likely to go up as demand rises in the months ahead. The renewed pressure on gas prices could prompt consumers who opened their wallets during the critical Christmas shopping season to pull back on spending, imperiling the economy as they did last year when high oil prices sent gasoline to uncomfortable levels close to $4 per gallon and nearly snuffed out economic growth. Analysts generally think Iran is bluffing and is unlikely to risk a military confrontation with the U.S. by blocking the critical passageway for oil shipments - including those vital to Iran’s economy - but no one can rule out the possibility that Iran’s deeply anti-American rulers will make good on their threats. “Closure would do far more damage to Iran in economic terms than the sanctions” the West is preparing to impose on Iran for refusing to abandon its nuclear ambitions, said Frank A. Verrastro, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. By all accounts, Iran’s economy al ready is suffering greatly in anticipation of a round of sanctions that are the broadest ever to be imposed on Tehran. With the nation’s currency plummeting and causing financial and economic turmoil, Iran’s leaders have been casting about for ways to strike back at the West. “Desperate nations driven to the brink sometimes do desperate and unpredictable things,” Mr. Verrastro said. “Even if short-lived, disruption to shipping in the Gulf would undoubtedly wreak havoc in oil markets.” Energy analysts say premium crude prices would quickly double to $200 per barrel or higher if a military clash were to erupt in the Gulf. Such stultifyingly high prices, in turn, would deal a potentially devastating blow to the fragile economic recovery in the U.S. and likely throw Europe into a deep recession. The U.S. economy nearly came to a standstill in the wake of a much smaller oil shock last year caused by the Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East. “If the Straits of Hormuz close, oil will rise above $200 per barrel,” said Chris Faulkner, chief executive officer of Breitling Oil and Gas. “It’s the one bottleneck that allows Iran to choke the West’s oil supply.” Other analysts point out that Iran has frequently threatened to hold the West hostage by closing the strait, without following through. “This is the umpteenth time” Iran has made such a threat and it should be taken with a grain of salt once again, said Foreign Policy magazine columnist Michael A. Cohen. As in past episodes, the U.S. military is more than capable of overwhelming any attempts by Iran to follow through, he said. “Iran is at best a second-rate power, with an outdated and not terribly advanced conventional military force that is barely able to project power outside its borders,” he said. Nevertheless, as Iran’s leaders are well aware, often the mere threat of a blockade suffices to drive up oil prices to threatening levels. Analysts estimate that the current price of oil includes a “risk premium” of $20 to $40 a barrel because of the recurring instability in the Middle East. Iran’s threat is credible enough that the International Energy Agency has made contingency plans to release millions of barrels of oil from storage wells in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The Obama administration last year joined in a small release of oil from the strategic reserves to counter shortfalls of Libyan oil in world markets. Iran exports 2.4 million barrels a day. Iran’s strenuous efforts to strike back at the U.S. are the result of the ratcheting up of economic sanctions this year to a point where they are now causing serious pain for Iran’s economy and citizens, analysts say. For the first time, the U.S. is threatening to impose sanctions on companies that do business with Iran’s central bank, deploying the broadest and most potent tool available to hobble Iran’s economy. The mere threat of such sanctions have thrown Iran’s markets into turmoil. Moreover, the European Union is cooperating with the latest round of sanctions - potentially cutting off as much as one-fifth of Iran’s oil sales in what would be a stunning blow to Iran’s economy. Reports on Thursday that the EU will delay its embargo of Iranian oil sales by six months to allow European nations more time to find alternative sources of crude caused oil prices to fall below $100 a barrel for the first time this year, a sign of how sensitive market prices are to the latest political twists and turns. The U.S. has encouraged other nations to find new suppliers of oil in a bid to make the sanctions stick. In addition, to prevent Iran from diverting sales of oil from Europe to Asia, which currently consumes about 60 percent of Iran’s exports, the U.S. has appealed to big Asian oil importers such as Japan and China to cooperate. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner made a round of visits in Asian capitals this week to try to persuade nations to come on board. While China continues to resist curbing its oil trade with Iran, insisting that such commercial matters should not be caught up in the debate over Iran’s nuclear programs, the U.S. is likely to get broader cooperation with the sanctions this time around because alternative oil supplies are being made available by Saudi Arabia, which has grades of crude that are comparable to those exported by Iran, said Jeffrey J. Schott, an analyst with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is set to begin his own five-day tour of the Middle East this weekend, bypassing Iran to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The trip comes as Saudi Arabian Oil Co. and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. sign an agreement for a proposed refinery on the Red Sea coast - Beijing’s first direct investment in a Saudi oil facility. The increased flexibility for U.S. allies to get crude from Saudi Arabia combines with the greater effectiveness of broad sanctions on the financial sector to pose a potent threat to the Iranian government, which depends on oil sales for most of its revenue, Mr. Schott said. “This really is a big ratcheting-up of the pressure on Iran, and it could lead to big political backlash from Iran,” he said. Tehran could try using military or covert operations against the West in retaliation as well as threatening to block the straits, he said. “We have to be prepared for that type of reaction.” Because of the danger to the U.S. and world economies from a huge spike in oil prices, the law gives President Obama the flexibility to waive or postpone the sanctions later this year if he determines they would endanger U.S. economic growth, Mr. Schott said. “If he thinks sanctions would cause a major spike in oil prices, he wouldn’t do it,” the analyst predicted.

"People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan." Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1931

Thanks Rdy! “Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” Edmund Burke, 1729-97

Hmm....that explains why I'm still single...I gotta get married to get a girlfriend! Okay!

Maybe this bad or worse?

ha ha good catch Krome! shoulda been the other way around - either way I just want this done! I'll take either rate at this point! Thanks for the post Thug!

That's not the half of it, Shabibi was in the driver's seat!

Love me some Pink Floyd! Thanks Umbertino! Here's one for ya buddy! Purists might not like the fact that Gilmour isn't in on this but you gotta love those female vocals: Ciao! Here's another one for ya: Can't do this one without DG!

I remember reading it too, so I kooked for the piece and located the link: Thorough Commentary Thanks for the post 20MD!! Good stuff!

Thanks Umbertino! Always like me some Van Morrison: a lil' "honey" for ya....

Nice JN! what kind is that, and what's it cost?

Welcome to the Platinum side Rudolph!

Amen to that R.W.! Happy New Year to you and I pray a PROSPEROUS one!!

With all these positive vibes, I can definitely feel it coming soon, if not "tonight"! Keep the faith!

REALLY Appreciate you're getting back on this! Very stand up! Well, I'm glad it wasn't November 2010! Man all this news/intel especially from people previously skeptical of anything happening soon is pretty exciting! Like fnbplanet says, all we need now is Keep to chime in with some positive intel! That would send us off the edge! lol GO RV!! oh and enjoy the game!!

Thanks buddy!! You have a good Friday! Look forward to your answer!

”The world is filled with violence.Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.” ~James Earl Jones ”As a card-carrying member of the liberal media, producing this piece was an eye opening experience. I have to admit that I saw guns as inherently evil, violence begets violence, and so on. I have learned, however, that in trained hands, just the presence of a gun can be a real “man stopper.” I am sorry that women have had to resort to this, but wishing it wasn’t so won’t make it any safer out there.” ~Jill Fieldstein ”I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can’t agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolishguns that we don’t wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.” ~Hugh Downs ”The Constitutionshall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who arepeaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” ~Samuel Adams, 1722-1803 “Good people do not needlaws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” ~Plato, 429–347 B.C "Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum _est" ("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands") Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the younger" ca. (4 BC - 65 AD) "There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice; not by instruction but by natural intuition: I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right." MarcusTullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) "...the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Gen.6:5