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Same as last year Coorslite. It just went to parliament. If they do come to an agreement and pass this budget it will late February at the earliest. I have never seen a budget passed any sooner than this have you?

I don't think we will see a budget again this year. They are no longer functional. Not without the bribes anyway

How many people did God kill in the Bible? The loving and merciful god of the bible left a fair amount of documentation about how many people he personally killed. Some of it must be intuited as the accounts don't give specific figures since the known amount of the people killed during the Flood will never or ever be known. However, someone provided a figure using rough estimates and a fair breakdown and arrived at a figure of 33,041,220 people. This is a high estimate and others estimate a much lower figure of 2.8 million. How many people did Satan kill in the bible? It appears that Satan only killed 10 people: the seven sons and three daughters of Job. And he only does this because god allowed it as part of a bet!. Technically the blood is on god's hands for these as well. These are some pretty big numbers of people slaughtered by God. This includes the Egyptians first born sons. ( those innocent children did not even get the chance to become Christians) I really can see why people fear God! I would have to say that Satan is not the villain in this story.

But He loves You! And he needs Money!

And I don't believe in Fairy tales. And that is why I do not fear Death like so many religious people do. There is always that question lingering in there head. Will I make it to heaven? To me death is just a dirt Nap

So Another question. When the Bible was written ( by men ) it references the 4 corners of the Earth many times. Correct?? That's because they thought the Earth was Flat when it was written. Correct? How could the author ( God ) not know that the Earth was round?

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. (1 Timothy 6:10, NIV) Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless. (Ecclesiastes 5:10, NIV) Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. (Proverbs 10:4, NIV) …for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. (2 Peter 2:19) Finally, gambling provides a sense of false hope. Participants place their hope in winning, often against astronomical odds, instead of placing their hope in God. Throughout the Bible, we are constantly reminded that our hope is in God alone, not money, power, or position: Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. (Psalm 62:5, NIV) I guess as long as all of you dinar holders confess your sins you will all be Ok Your God laughs at people? That seems evil to me

And Tex like i said before you are not stupid. You know the score. You know how many dinar are in existence and why there is no way this is or could ever be possible. Just not sure why you keep hanging out with the cheerleaders upstairs.

And the dinar holders who have to applaud themselves . God knows the rest of the world is laughing at them

One says I bet I can pee in that jar on the other end of the bar without getting a drop on the bar. The other lobster takes that bet and they both put $100 down on the table. The 1st lopster stands up and starts to pee. He barely gets any in the jar and gets pee everywhere. The second lopster takes the money and smiles. Meanwhile the bartender starts laughing as he cleans up the bar. The 1st lopster has another drink and is noticeably happy. The second lopster asks him whats so funny? You just lost a $100. He smiles and says I just bet the bartender the same bet also and thats why he is laughing while cleaning it up. But I also bet the other 10 dinar holders in the bar $100.00 each that I could pee all over the bar and the Bartender (who just happens to own millions of dinar) would laugh while he cleaned it up.

Good luck Antietam. 5 years is a long time . Alot can happen . Maybe,.... and that's a big maybe they can increase the value a percent or two. But No way in Hades they will ever increase the value 100,000 % Nope. Never gonna happen. Ever!

Barclays Says Iraq Oil Production at RiskMais Al-Amouri and Claudia Carpenter | 28-09-2015, 10:44 AM | Iraq | In a report, Barclays said disruptions in winter could pose problems for output Iraq’s oil production is at risk for winter when “loading problems” have historically reduced output by 300,000 to 500,000 barrels of crude a day, Barclays said. Loading facilities and the nation’s single-point mooring systems are “insufficient for the winter season,” Michael Cohen, a Barclays analyst in New York, said in a 25 September report. It wasn’t clear from the report what causes the disruptions during winter. Shipments from Basra in the south are sometimes slowed by strong winds during the first part of the year. In April, a four-mile (6.4-kilometer) line of supertankers was waiting to load the nation’s crude. OPEC’s second-largest crude producer has increased output this year as supplies from the south expanded even as Islamic State fighters occupied parts of the north. Iraq needs to keep increasing production because lower oil prices have curbed government revenue. Crude output will increase by about 500,000 barrels a day to reach 4.5 million barrels a day by 2020, or 1.5 million barrels below the oil ministry’s target of 6 million barrels, according to Barclays. Production was 4.3 million barrels a day in August, the most in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries after Saudi Arabia, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Iraqi oil exports will rise to 3.7 million barrels a day in 2016 from 3.5 million this year, Barclays said. Shipments were 3.19 million barrels in June, a fourth consecutive monthly record, according to the International Energy Agency. Bloomberg News - See more at: http://www.businessweekme.com/Bloomberg/newsmid/190/newsid/1188/Barclays-Says-Iraq-Oil-Production-at-Risk#sthash.LSyJXsyU.dpuf

I am not an economist Botzwana but i can not see any way that Iraq can RV. No way no how. No LOP they are to broke for that!! You are kidding Right Tex. I have followed you for a while and you are a smart person! And PT Barnum said? And they are not even close laid back You have to know that.. No BS Right. All those 1000s of hours spent . Wow! I guess you got nothing better to do eh Yota1

Is Iraqi Kurdistan splitting apart ... again? On a recent episode of the popular Iraqi Kurdish talk show "With Ranj" produced in Sulaimaniyah, the four participants — all members of diverse political parties — debated the Kurdistan Region’s political and financial crises. The discussion was most notable for its tone and substance. Instead of talking about the need for an independent Kurdistan, a topic that has preoccupied mainstream media and analysts inside the Beltway, it focused on just the opposite: political and economic trends that are chipping away at the region’s autonomy and stability. These concerns are resonating throughout the Kurdistan Region, where local populations are criticizing the Kurdistan Regional Government’s opaque oil exports, endemic corruption and failure to pay civil servant salaries, and questioning the legitimacy of Masoud Barzani’s presidency. They are further deepening political and geographic divides that if left unchecked could split the region administratively and/or create civil unrest. Summary⎙ Print Political and economic tensions are chipping away at the autonomy, stability and unity of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region as diverse local populations are calling for political reforms and an end to corruption. Author Denise Natali Posted September 25, 2015 Iraqi Kurdistan’s current tensions reflect the legacies of the Kurdish civil war (1994-1998), which divided the region into "yellow" and "green" zones representing the territorial influence of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), respectively. After the war ended, the two parties ran their own administrations in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah for eight years until they "re-unified" in 2006 in the effort to enhance Kurdish leverage in a federal Iraqi state. The merge created a single KRG in Erbil and a Kurdish block in Baghdad, but it never resolved internal disputes over authority, revenues and resources. As the balance of power shifted in the region, Kurdish power struggles have resurfaced. The two main Kurdish parties are now making distinct claims on resources as a means of affirming provincial leverage. Competitions for access to Kirkuk’s oil have also emerged, not only between the KDP and PUK, but also with other claimants such as Iraqi populations and Baghdad and Kirkuk officials. Even then, the KRG’s current crisis extends beyond traditional party rivalries over revenues and resources. It represents a popular movement driven by a combination of opposition groups, independents and parties in the Kurdish government who are all demanding greater decentralization, financial transparency, democratic institutions and the rule of law. The movement has gained traction in the presidency crisis, creating a clear division between those who regard Barzani’s authority as legitimate and those who do not, particularly since his term expired on Aug. 19. The region’s ongoing financial crisis is reinforcing these political divides. Whereas most local populations initially blamed Baghdad for cutting the KRG budget last year, many now fault leading KRG officials. One Kurdish resident in Erbil argued that by “placing all of the KRG’s eggs in the Turkish basket, the KRG has not only undermined necessary relations with Baghdad, but has left the region dependent on Turkey and more financially vulnerable than ever before.” Fueling these claims is the opaque Kurdish oil sector. Officials on the oil and gas committee in the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament affirm that “No one knows where the KRG’s oil revenues are actually going.” Although the KRG has about 16 bank accounts into which revenues from its oil sales are supposedly deposited, the KRG minister of finance has access to one Turkish Halkbank account — which has only $14 million in deposits — while the minister of natural resources and Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani control all other bank accounts. Indeed, when it comes to existential threats to the Kurdistan Region, the Kurds remain generally united. They are committed to Kurdish identity, territory and resources. They proudly identify with their peshmerga forces, who are courageously defending Kurdish borders against the Islamic State. Most Kurds also are aware that Baghdad currently has little to offer and that the Kurdistan Region has to find an alternative means to financially sustain itself, at least for the time being. Still, political divisions are being encouraged in the hyper-fragmented Iraqi state and fight against IS as local groups seek to gain power, resources and recognition. The result has been an inadvertent enhancing of Barzani’s power through coalition military support, stronger reactions by those seeking political reform and deepening distrust between groups. Since the presidency crisis commenced, the KDP has added three checkpoints along the road from Sulaimaniyah to Erbil. It also prevented some officials from the Goran movement, a former opposition group now in the parliament, from entering Erbil a few weeks ago. These trends have strengthened the role of political hard-liners who are unwilling to compromise. Despite numerous meetings between the four Kurdish political parties and the KRG — otherwise known as the P4+1 — to resolve the presidency crisis, no full solution is in sight. Many argue that the issue could continue until the next election in 2017, which, according to one Kurdish official, will be “neck-breaking.” At the moment, a formal split between regions or a mass mobilization is unlikely, given the war against IS, deep party patronage networks and no clear alternative offered by opposition groups. Yet as the financial crisis deepens, corruption continues, political legitimacy is ignored and calls for de-centralization go unheeded, the KRG may have an administrative break-up, even in de-facto form. At worst, these issues will continue to fester through open and silent resistance that may further stifle the stability and economic development of the Kurdistan Region. Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/iraq-kurdistan-region-splitting-apart.html#ixzz3mnuJ26A0

Does not take a rocket scientist to see that things are really bad in Iraq. No doubts at all. BTW this is from the UN Not a western news source I have to admit I have dumped most of my dinars. My friends are doing the same before its to late. No conspiracy going on here. RV Yah right. Think about it and you know the answer. Things are bad and people are going to lose their money! period! I am not talking LOP. So dont call me a lopster .They do not have the money to print new currency! ‘Many people have reached the end on the line in Iraq,’ warns senior UN relief official Families fleeing ongoing violence in Ramadi, Anbar province, walk across Bzebiz Bridge into Baghdad province in Iraq. Photo: UNICEF/ Wathiq Khuzaie 25 September 2015 – Ten million Iraqis, or a quarter of the population, are going to need humanitarian aid by year’s end amid “dramatically” worsening conditions that are forcing many people to leave their homeland because they no longer see a future inside their country, a senior UN relief official said today. “We are seeing a gradual increase in departures from Iraq,” Dominique Bartsch, the UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, told reporters in Geneva. “Many people have reached the end on the line. They no longer have the possibility to support themselves. Many will say that the only future is outside of Iraq.” Meanwhile, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that its partners and local authorities have opened two new camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Baghdad province, providing shelter to close to 3,500 Iraqis who have fled Anbar province due to recent fighting. “The humanitarian situation is worsening dramatically as the crisis in Iraq has accelerated since last year, when militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL] took over large portions of Iraq," Mr. Bartsch said. Since January 2014, 3.2 million people in Iraq have fled their homes in multiple waves of internal displacement and already now, as estimated 8.6 million need humanitarian support. Mr. Bartsch said an anticipated 10 million Iraqis would need some sort of humanitarian assistance by the end of the year, representing more than a quarter of the population. The UN refugee agency was anticipating a much larger flow of internally displaced persons in Iraq, as Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, had been taken by ISIL and more fighting was expected. The humanitarian official warned that most basic services had to be reduced because of lack of funding, and that children had now been out of school for more than a year, leading families to leave for Europe. In addition, he also feared that a recently declared cholera outbreak could very quickly spread under the current conditions in Iraq. “Preventing further displacement out of Iraq will require a combination of minimum humanitarian assistance, but also more sustained support to, for example education and rebuilding livelihoods,” Mr. Bartsch said. Mr. Bartsch also called attention to the situation of more than one million Kurdish internally displaced persons in Iraq who had no perspective and inadequate humanitarian support. The Humanitarian Response Plan requesting some $500 million is only 40 per cent funded. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=51971#.VgXxSZd-41c

Yep. It is pointless Caz. Makes no difference at all. Never did and never will. Someday they will do something Good or bad. Hopefully good ! But either way its been fun!

I have NEVER seen you post an article for the community. EVER!!! Only lies

Great song and so true!!

I agre DRJ. Its hard enough to figure out whats going on with Guyz like TLAR spreading misinformation Here is a quote of his Governor of the Central Bank: 2016 will see a new Asaddarviat of paper curren... posted by tlars brother on 31 May 2015 - 05:13 PM "I never say anything that I don't know to be a fact. Now that may sound incredibly arrogant. I hate gurus and dislike misinformation. I know the lowers are in the banks and the 100k notes were printed when the notes you have were printed. All this talk is just that ...talk. Shabibi is truly running the CBi , not this clown Keywords or Alain" SO if you are credible TLAR HCL is done. There are no Bonds and Iraq has not gotten any loans. WRONG!!!!

WOW! HCL is done. I wonder how we missed that

Wrong again!!. Why are you spreading false information?

Now if only they could generate enough electricity.

Hahaha what a moran. Whats a Moran?

Thank the scholars of Baghdad’s House of Wisdom before you thank Steve Jobs for your iPhone - See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/brain-dead-iraq-1677093516#sthash.f4Vzk4z4.dpuf In the late 20th century, Iraq’s academics and intelligentsia were renowned throughout the world. Even after the calamitous events of the 1990-1991 Gulf War and the subsequent crippling sanctions imposed upon the Iraqi people, Iraqi academics were in demand and readily accepted by international institutions. This tradition of intellectual excellence stretches far back into the history of the lands associated with modern-day Iraq. Trailblazing philosophers, scientists, mathematicians and jurists have long flourished in "The Land of the Two Rivers," as Iraqis affectionately call their country. Who can forget such intellectual giants such as the ninth-century polymath al-Kindi, and the mathematical genius of al-Khwarizmi to which innovations in algorithms modern technology are indebted. Thank the scholars of Baghdad’s House of Wisdom before you thank Steve Jobs for your iPhone. For all of his other faults, not least of which pertain to political persecution, torture and disastrous military misadventure in the 1990 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein improved education in Iraq considerably. Saddam made education compulsory for all Iraqi children, all but eradicated illiteracy and made university education not only free (for all Arabs, not just Iraqis), but paid generous scholarships for gifted academics to study at the world’s leading institutions. These academics would then return to their homelands and enrich their own educational institutions to increase their capabilities and research output and to educate the next generation of Iraqi youth. Saddam’s plans to make a great power out of Iraq had factored in that military capability could only be fully deployed and engaged when sharp minds were pulling the trigger. This goes some way into explaining why Iraqi university students were drafted in enormous numbers into the Iraqi Republican Guard in the closing years of the Iran-Iraq War. Recognising this rich intellectual heritage is arguably crucial for the revitalisation of Iraq following George Bush and Tony Blair’s crusade to destroy the country in 2003. However, the current generation of Iraqi academics and researchers are facing an uphill battle. The invasion burned through what was left of the infrastructure, security and economy that is necessary for an education system to flourish. Indeed, it became a grim and recognised feature of the Iraqi education environment for academics to expect to be targeted for assassination and kidnapped by gangsters with guns and badges. It is unsurprising that aspiring academics would thus seek to study in universities abroad where their professors could be relied upon to turn up in class, not in the local newspaper’s obituary. People should not be fooled by stories of economic growth either. That “growth” was pocketed by Iraq’s corrupt political elite, whilst the working and middle classes saw no such benefit. The anti-corruption protests still ongoing in Iraq are a testament to how much the normal Iraqi citizen is being squeezed. That said, those lucky enough to get scholarships for postgraduate studies abroad were given stipends of $20,300 a year (as a point of comparison, British PhD students normally receive approximately £14,000 - $21,600 - a year). This was supplemented with additional annual income if the student was married and had children, with a spouse attracting approximately $14,000 and up to $6,600 for two children (any additional children would be at the student’s own expense). For a small family of four, that would effectively mean an annual income of some $40,000 - a tidy sum, as I am certain any student would agree. http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/brain-dead-iraq-1677093516 However, since the beginning of the Iraqi government’s war against the so-called Islamic State (IS), academic and intellectual advancement are expendable once more. The war is not going well for the Iraqi government and its allied Shia Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), and is clearly costing them a lot of money. To save money, the Iraqi government, in a show of absolute sectarianism, has on several occasions failed to pay government-aligned Sunni fighters for months. Further cuts have been made that have specifically hit students since the election of Haidar al-Abadi to the country’s most powerful position, and his appointment of Hussein al-Shahristani to the position of Minister of Higher Education. In contrast with the previous figures detailed above, since late 2014 all allowances granted for children have been axed along with a third of the allowance granted for spouses. Moreover, Iraqi government rules for postgraduate students have changed, even for current students. Before, students were entitled to study for four years, with an understanding that any time spent on scholarships will have to be “paid back” to the government by serving in an Iraqi university as a lecturer for a period equalling double whatever time spent abroad. As such, four years on a scholarship will therefore equal eight years of service and so forth. However, now the Iraqi government has capped the years spent abroad on a scholarship to three years only, with any additional years being entirely at the student’s expense. As previously stated, this rule has been applied to all students, even current ones. These actions by the Iraqi government have led to student demonstrations outside the Iraqi Embassy in London (poorly covered by international media). The students have protested twice this year alone, first in March and most recently just last month when 200 Iraqis demonstrated for two hours before the Iraqi Educational Attaché agreed to deliver a list of demands to restore the students’ stipends to the Iraqi government. Speaking to me privately, several Iraqi students in Britain have told me of their woes. Ayad (a pseudonym), studying for a PhD in engineering, told me that he had to now rush through his thesis. “The Iraqi government told us that we had to finish our work in three years, irrespective of when we started,” he said. “How am I supposed to finish over a year’s work in a few months?” Another student, Aziz (also a pseudonym), told me that the shortage of funds had made his life extremely difficult. “I have a wife and three kids. I was already paying for one completely on my own, and now my expenses have increased threefold.” Aziz was essentially forced to take a £7,500 pay cut suddenly, with no grace period offered. Needless to say, the only thing that all this achieves is to discourage Iraq’s best and brightest from even bothering to pursue academic studies that will eventually enrich and strengthen the country, and perhaps go some way in healing the rifts that have surfaced since 2003. Rather than al-Abadi focusing on cleaning the corruption that is rife within the Iraqi state institutions and is pervasive throughout all government ministries (who can forget Iraq’s “ghost soldiers”, after all?), al-Abadi is instead trying to scrape together the cash to fill his war chest by targeting those who lack the power to seriously challenge him. Iraq’s hyper-sectarianism, corruption and deadly insecurity are creating a very hostile environment that precludes the production of any future al-Kindi or al-Khwarizmi, and is inducing a horrific brain drain. Indeed, the future of Iraq is likely to be a brain dead one if the current trends continue.