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Hoosier...... Hoosier ....... Hoosier? Please give us some news.

Thank you, that's my first plus GI Jane, were you in the military? I was in the Army for awhile, hoooah.

I disagree. This article, to me, suggests that Kuwait was holding out for more concessions because it knew it was in the driver's seet on sanctions and that the US and England had to come in and squeez them until they agreed to form some committees and let Iraq go free from Ch. VII. The article also reads, to me, that Kuwait finally did let go, that the parties have agreed, and that Iraq will get out of Ch. VII shortly. That is how I read it, but I get that it's been frustrating and that lots of Ch. VII articles really don't say much that is either significant or new.

Sorry if my links aren't working. Just google "EU 85/2013" and the amendment will come up (second entry down).

So sorry, I am new here and my linking skills clearly need work. But, if you google "EU 85/2013" it will come right up and is the second entry down. I just tried it and pulled it right up again. My apologies.

My two cents on the HCL -- I don't think that the HCL has actually been passed. Last I read, the parties were still fighting over which draft of the HCL they wanted to fight over. HOWEVER, from reading the Iraq oil news articles in recent weeks (especially the ones that reference Exxon), it became clear to me that since the various factions in Iraq can't agree on a draft of the HCL, the oil ministers (or whoever is in charge of negotiating and signing the oil contracts with the Iraqi government) and the big petroleum companies are simply putting HCL-like provisions into these various contracts and enforcing it that way. This means that Iraq (and its people) will be getting the benefit of the terms of the HCL without having to actually pass that law. That is, the parties are doing by contract what they could not succeed in doing legislatively. So, in a sense, the HCL is no longer an issue (or has been resolved), even though the law itself may not have been passed. I do think it's a non-issue right now. Anyway, that's my inference as to what is happening.

I love the Mystery Lady.

The amendment to the EU sanctions became effective today and is contained in document 85/2013. I will post a link below and encourage the folks her to analyze it as I am not a financial person. Here is a direct cite to the amendment -- http://www.cssf.lu/e...-measures/iraq/ Here is a cite to the underlying sanctions with a link to the recent amendment -- http://eur-lex.europ...001:0004:EN:PDF Read more:

Just read an article from Iraq suggesting that the US and Britain forced Iraq and Kuwait to get their acts together and that release from Chapter VII looks imminent. Seems like good news (if the article is accurate). MP assures international, UN's attempts to release Iraq from 7th Chapter Friday, 01 February 2013 11:10 | | | Baghdad (AIN) –MP, Emad Yohana, of the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee stated "There are some international attempts and others by the United Nations to release Iraq from the Seventh Chapter of the UN's Charter." He stated to All Iraq News Agency (AIN) "There are some attempts by the UN and the Security Council to release Iraq from the Seventh Chapter," noting that "The UN and the members of the Security Council such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America interfered in this issue to bring the various views closer with the Kuwaiti side because it represents the only obstacle in this issue." "Some files were discussed with the Kuwaiti side and it is approved forming committees and releasing Iraq from the Seventh Chapter will happen soon," he concluded. /End/ http://www.alliraqnews.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27673:mp-assures-international-uns-attempts-to-release-iraq-from-7th-chapter&catid=35:political&Itemid=2

The amendment to the EU sanctions became effective today and is contained in document 85/2013. I will post a link below and encourage the folks her to analyze it as I am not a financial person. Here is a direct cite to the amendment -- http://www.cssf.lu/en/amlctf-financial-sanctions/international-financial-sanctions/other-prohibitions-and-restrictive-measures/iraq/ Here is a cite to the underlying sanctions with a link to the recent amendment -- http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:032:0001:0004:EN:PDF

God bless you, Hoosier, and all the other DVers here. We are going to be able to change the world. Really cool.

Hi, I saw your question and joined this board just to a newer it. I asked Clif, from halfpasthuman.com, via email if his web bots had ever made any dinar predictions. He replied that they had not, but that he wouldn't have expected them to since his algorithms only troll the MSM and dinar just isn't featured there. Hope this answers your question. He did promise, however, to add the dinar to his searches and let me know if anything ever came up. Nice guy. Love his work.