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AustinMom

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  1. Carrello, I am soooo ready to exact some justice. We need to go rather quickly, though. I'm headed back to Kabul this month. I was hoping this RV/RI/RD would "pop" before I had to go back across the pond. Just a few more weeks left. Maybe that is what the hold up is. Waiting for me, and my lovely dinar, to be parted....
  2. Perfectly put, JonJon. pluses to you (if we could).
  3. Markinsa: I am from Austin. Born and raised. You are 100 % correct.
  4. Bored: I'm with you on the 15th. It is my daughter's birthday, as well. She will be 24.... and wants a silver Camaro.
  5. All I can tell you is that I didn't provide the SSN. The place I purchased has a favorable BBB standing, and sent a certificate of authencity with my purchase. Maybe they overlooked the SSN requirement, I don't know. I am justing saying to be very cautious where, and with whom you buy dinar. This is already a bumpy ride for investors. Too many articles about scammers selling dinar. Just be careful.
  6. I purchased my Dinar (a couple of thousand USD) from a different dealer. They did not require my SSN. I would have shopped elsewhere if they had. Protect what is yours. I would suggest using a different place to purchase you dinar.
  7. I read this entire article. Some things I wanted to fast forward through, but without reading it, I would not have known where to pick up my reading, again. I absolutely do not believe that the US Gov't is going to exterminate people, as this article references. Maybe in the worst case scenario, the gov't will shuttle people to FEMA camps. I am from Texas, and have a 400 acre family farm. I do not believe in all the racist comments put forward in this post. Really ???? I see (and have many friends) who bust the rear ends every day farming. They are white, latino, black, etc... And, the posting entity is right.... I, as a Texan, would welcome any city people onto my land as long as they pitched in on the farm. Again, I don't care what race they would be. To simply insinuate that white people are all middle class, shopping people is racist in itself. I work hard every day. And, I am WHITE. To the poster of this article: You lost a lot of credibility when you went the racist route. It added nothing to your research, but took a great amount away from the article. Just my Thoughts. Have a better day
  8. I would like to amend the "SW" part of my post. I was thinking about SWFloridaguy. I really do have directional knowledge, even though the first post didn't show it ...My amendment: Also to all my SE friends. What the heck.... EVERYONE BE SAFE !!!!
  9. To all who reside in Florida and the SW: Please stay safe. I wish some rain would come to Texas, but not the big storm. Right now, we have some welcomed cloud cover and a slight breeze, but that is all. Please stay safe. You, and your families are in my prayers.
  10. I must have missed something. What happened to the VND. Are you saying they are no longer in the basket of currencies with the Dinar? Sorry, I really missed an article somewhere
  11. Is anyone else curious that our there are a lot of "important" people headed to Iraq at the end of this month? Could it be for a photo op? Just a thought. Everyone have a good day.
  12. Flexible Ninja team member---- reporting in and ready to go !!!! If my memory serves me right (which it may not ) when the US military goes into other countries as a Police Action, the requesting country pays for ALL costs. The US taxpayers pay costs for US invasions/battles/wars. Hope they don't pay us in toilet paper, unless there is a RV associated with it !!
  13. Thank you bto everyone for your help. I knew this was too good to be true, but I did learn a bit from all of you. Thank you again.
  14. This has been copied from another web site. Will someone with more FOREX intelligence, than I have, help me decipher this article. Does this mean that people COULD fly across the pond and actually cash in some of their dinar? What do you think? Again, this is copied from another web site... Don't throw stones at me. -------------------------------- Thursday at roughly 5:00 PM Eastern, the IQD showed up on FOREX at the Frankfurt Exchange, and shortly thereafter on the Paris Exchange. For reasons explained otherwise, it did not appear on Citibank’s FOREX site in the U.S., and that may be because the USD was not referenced in this announcement. The actual exchange looked like this: EUR/IQD (EUR-IQD.F)-Frankfurt 0.16 1,555.5270 (99.9900%) Jul 12 Add to Portfolio. Prev Close: 1,474.7684 Open: N/A Bid: N/A Ask: N/A Day's Range: N/A - N/A 52wk Range: 1,436.6387 - 1,678.8651 ..Compare Brokers EUR-IQD.F EUR/IQD 0.16 Currencies FRA EURIQD=X EUR/IQD 1,418.05 Currencies CCY As you can see, the IQD was referenced to the Euro. The Euro was equal (in this posting) to .16 IQD. That would make the IQD worth Eu6.25. Take the current value of the Euro against the US Dollar and we have a valuation of the IQD against the USD equal to $7.62. Thursday night’s appearance on both the Frankfurt and Paris exchanges did more than raise some eyebrows. Delta’s first reaction was that this was a glitch in the FOREX computers, but the rate continued to display for some seven hours. (Update: The rate was still there, by the way, as of noon Friday.) We’ve seen glitches before, but they generally last for a few minutes, and maybe an hour at the absolute outside. There was, however, a fascinating coincidence to the appearance of this item on FOREX (and if you believe that it was a coincidence, I've got a bridge for sale! GRIN!). On the day following the appearance of this rate with both Frankfurt and Paris FOREX exchanges, we learn that the Iraqi Minister of Finance as well as other representatives from the GOI were in Frankfurt and Paris to open up embassies. Makes you go, HMMMMMMMM.... In a previous post, I’ve noted that there has been some ongoing discussion regarding an effort by the U.S. Fed to push the USD to some specific target value against the so-called “basket of currencies” (by which the USD is measured). There’s been a fair amount of speculation among our analysts as to just what that target might be. Because the IQD (at the program rate of 1166/Dollar) has generally been valued at $.000855 (or thereabouts), the speculation has been that the target value of the USD against the basket of currencies was likely about $.86. The Dollar has for many months ranged between $.79 and $.82, hitting a high roughly a year ago of $.8250. At the close of the exchanges Thursday night, the USD was at $.8378 against the basket of currencies – the highest we’ve seen in years. Friday morning, the following headline appeared on Citibank’s New York FOREX exchange under a byline by Michael Boutros: US Dollar Index Reaches 10,070 Objective- Consolidation Ahead. Because we’ve been using the traditional basket of currencies against which the USD’s value is established worldwide, it never occurred to us that the Fed’s objective (along with all of the other central banks) was predicated on a measurement of a much larger (worldwide?) basket. What this headline (and the attendant article) is telling us is that the target valuation for the USD has been reached – a rate which currencies worldwide can use as a baseline, and a rate which makes the upcoming IQD RV (as well as a group of other currency revaluations) desirable. Now, let me go back to the posting which appeared Thursday night on Frankfurt’s FOREX exchange. You will see the following notation: EUR-IQD.F EUR/IQD 0.16 Currencies FRA. Here’s where things get interesting. The FRA notation has a double meaning. The first is “Fixed Rate Adjustment.” The second is “Forward Rate Agreement.” In short, a forward rate agreement (FRA) is an over-the-counter financial futures contract on short-term deposits. Both of these uses of the FRA notation indicate an increase in value and advise currency traders and businesses/nations engaged in contract negotiations with Iraq that the IQD is about to revalue and that future contracts will need to incorporate the new rate. This would seem to indicate that the target rate for the IQD is $7.62. (I would highly caution all of you to consider this figure with a lot of question marks. For all practical purposes it doubles Frank's $3.86 projection.) Does that mean that Dr. Shabibi will make his announcement with the IQD coming out all at once at this 7.62 rate? For those of us who have analyzed this piece of information, it would seem like that would cause a shock in many economies, and that a gradual increase over a six-to-twelve month (or even an 18-month) span in 90-day increments, the first being at Ernst & Young’s suggested $1.30 rate being the more logical and probable. I don’t have that answer – YET! What I do know is that the wheels are turning and Shabibi’s announcement is imminent. If we get anything like $7.62 at the outset, you’ll have to cover your ears to protect your hearing from the deafening roar of excitement! Lastly, there’s been more than a little scuttle about both Shabibi and Maliki (the PM) awaiting the return of Talabani, Iraq’s President, and affording him the honor of making the announcement. Friday’s news indicates that Talabani will be back in one week, and that he has been recuperating from back surgery. Frank's mention of July 23rd as a highly possible date sits well with all of us. -------------------------- End of the posting (from another site)
  15. CaptJohn, I certainly hope it is. I keep waiting for someone to come say..... Look this was posted 2 years ago. It is a repeat article..... Come on now, somebody make my day :lol:
  16. Skrappy.... I hope that you get some of the rain that is coming through the Austin area. It has cooled the temps down quite a bit. Plus, I don't need to water the lawn for a while
  17. My understanding of this article is that there was a pipeline constructed, which runs through Saudi from the fields of Iraq. The Saudi's have said that Iraq may not use this pipeline during crisis. Iraq is saying that the Saudi's cannot take ownership of the pipeline and refuse to let oil flow through during a crisis (i.e. Iran shutting down the Strait of Hormuz). Iraq is saying that it is illegal. At least that is what I get from the article.
  18. Doctor Robbins, I have been trying to find a specific article that is popping into my head, to no avail. I remember reading the article the reading the posts and "breakdown" on the article. That news release was about Talibani going to speak in Mexico (I think). It spoke of how the other countries' representatives were anxious to hear about the Iraq CBI progress (due to their investments). Sorry, I can't find the article and thread which followed. Maybe, I developed my "conclusions" from the thread, and not the actual article. I wish I could find it, though. I feel like a dry sponge, absorbing a lot of information. So much that I can't find what I am looking for. I believe myself to be analytical and it frustrates me that I cannot find the article/thread. Many speak of the smoke and mirrors coming out of the Iraq press.... well, there is a lot of smoke and mirrors here as well. I will keep looking, though. Sorry to waste your time. Have a good night.
  19. Doctor Robbins, Thank you for your comment. I have come to my belief about the other countries invested interest in Iraq through reading the articles that are coming out of Iraq. I speak only for myself. Maybe I am wrong, but in reading these articles (at least one every third day) they speak about the other countries having reserves. I (maybe by mistake) understood this to mean that they were in possession of IQDs. I have not been misled by other's, this is strictly my understanding. Maybe, this is the quid pro quo that I have let myself believe. Aaahhhh squash, I know what I am trying to say, I just am not saying it right. But, why would Iraq media (I know to take their articles with a grain of salt, but there are sooo many articles refering to the reserves of other countries) write about these reserves in the same articles when defining the LOP/RD/RV? Again, I am just trying to understand. I, of course, have no proof that other countries possess IQDs, much less ours. But, I also cannot imagine other countries who were owed monies from the Saddam era, just saying, in essence, don't worry about paying me. The world wide economy, at that time, was really bad. These countries (IMO) could not all say that they were going to wipe the slate clean. I would think that they had to have been given something in return for the forgiveness of debt. Honestly asking, what else could Iraq offer to these countries other than IQDs to RV in the future?
  20. Thank you to everyone for the insightful posts. I now understand that the LOP/RD is not necessarily a loss in profit if followed by a RV. Just not a big bang that I thought it would be. Yep, I got into this investment 2 years ago by reading some pumpers (as I believe many people did, and are still doing). I do not believe it is a bad investment. I have time on my side, and I did not over-invest. Personally, I can afford to lose what I invested. The news articles which I have read seem to lean towards a 2 years time frame in which to convert the IQD to US dollars. If the first step is a LOP/RD, then a RV, I guess I will hold my dinar until the end of that 2 year cash in time, knowing that I must remove the 3 zeros in my mind. Is this correct? Thank you again for the feedback.
  21. I am on the fence with my opinions on the LOP/RD/RV of the Dinar. Most of the information I get about this process, I read on DV. I read other people's posts and try to educate myself. With that being said, I need help figuring out an aspect of this adventure.... Under Saddam, Iraq ended up owing many countries. My understanding is that many of these countries forgave Iraq's debts in exchange for dinar and/or oil credits. Iraq is trying to get to the point that they are able to be international players. From what I have seen in videos, Iraq is building malls, wanting vehicles, etc... I am just going to give this a term of getting "Westernized." Now, the problem that I see, if Iraq LOPs, does this action not throw mud in the faces of the many countries (US included) who forgave a great portion of the Iraq debt? How can Iraq be viewed as an international trading country, when they treat the prospective investors like this? Who will trust them and do business with them in the future? I just feel that making the LOP move will endanger Iraq's standing in the international community. I know they have oil, but I am more thinking about the McDonald's, Ford, Johnson and Johnson, etc..., not just the Exxon's. I don't want this to turn into a pro-LOP - vs - pro-RV thread. I have read plenty of those. Please, someone help me to understand how Iraq could survive as an international player if they do LOP. Again, I don't really want arguing, just help me understand the process. Thank you in advance.
  22. Flip Flops in one hand, peace maker in the other.... I'm ready to meet the Gulf Stream... Where are we meeting?
  23. I knew ppl were going to trip over my post !!! This is what I was saying..... It doesn't matter how you voted (Gore or Bush)... It doesn't matter about hanging chads, Supreme Court, etc... The fact is that you (hopefully) voted. Papa Bush did not name his son to replace him when he left office. Clinton was our President (again, it doesn't matter how you personally voted.) Then,son Bush was our President (and again, it doesn't matter how you voted). To compare Talibani/Castro to the Bush Presidencies is in error. And, I agree... The Clinton years were great. The fact is that we, as Americans, were given the right to vote. The outgoing President(s) did not hand over their presidency to their BFF, or family. In November, we get the chance to vote. Please exercise your rights that so many have sacraficed for.
  24. Appreciate the light tip-toe.... But, no similarity between Castro and Bush family. Like it or not, both papa and son Bush were elected. Papa Bush did not hand over the presidency to son. There were years of Clinton in between. Just sayin'... bad comparison IMO.
  25. Isn't this the pot calling the kettle "black"!!!! Maliki has been in office for years, and still has a problem finishing anything.... while he sits in A/C. Contractors are actually in the heat. Maybe the same "monitors" should go to parliment when they finish monitoring the contraactors.... Gee. Really...
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