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What do you mean when this is over? The perps mentioned in the memo have all left the FBI. Only one who remains is Rosenstein and they are already calling for his head. Perps done walked.

Let's face it, all babies when born are fugly. The only thing cuter is wrinkly ole grandma holding the wrinkly ole newborn baby. Then babies get cute until their diapers begin to smell. It's all downhill from there because they come with a no return policy. Mum gives birth to giant 13lb 14oz baby without ANY pain relief The 42-year-old Russian woman required absolutely no medical assistance as she gave birth to her fifth child By Rachel Bishop 18:11, 29 JAN 2018 UPDATED19:36, 29 JAN 2018 NEWS The baby girl was her mum's fifth child (Image: CEN) by Taboola Sponsored Links Feel Years Younger By Boosting Your Stem Cells At Home (LCR Health Supplements) The Crew Just Kept Staring At This Outfit Ginger Wore On Gilligan's Island (KiwiReport) Get Daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe A mum has given birth to a huge baby weighing 13lbs14 without ANY pain relief. The 42-year-old woman had no medical assistance as she gave birth to her baby daughter in the town of Dagestanskiye Ogni, in south-western Russia's Republic of Dagestan. The woman, who is remaining anonymous, was reportedly surprised by the size of her daughter, who is her fifth child. Local health watch dogs released details of the birth and confirmed that both mother and daughter were doing well. But a spokesman added: "Of course this is overweight, this is pathology. According to the medical team, the baby has problems with hearing. The woman's family didn't release any details about the woman or child except for the baby's weight(Image: CEN) READ MORE 'I never imagined he'd be so large': Mum's surprise at giant baby born weighing 14.1 pounds and measuring 55cm long "Other problems may occur in the future," a member of the team added. As the story spread on local media, people expressed their shock online. Sofia Goncharova commented: "Poor woman!", while Diana added: "Usually kids can get so heavy in cases when their mother has diabetes. Sometimes it can be the first stage of diabetes." CLICK TO PLAY AUSSIE COUPLE GIVE BIRTH TO ENORMOUS BABY TWICE THE SIZE OF AVERAGE NEWBORN READ MORE Mum gives birth to baby boy weighing more than 13lbs - DOUBLE the average newborn And another online commentator, going under the name of Vlad Zubov, said: "This is crazy." The average birth weight for babies of European heritage is 3.5 kilogrammes (7 lbs 11 ounces), with all but five percent of newborns weighing between 2.5 kilogrammes (5 lbs 8 ounces) and 5 kilogrammes (11 lbs). According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 10.2 kilogrammes (22 lbs 8 ounces) who was born in the city of Aversa, Italy, in September 1955.

Interpretation: Atari says ET phone home. This predates the blue screen of death.

God already did, 2000+ years ago.

I know this is a 2016 article but puts a good historical perspective on Iraq's banking system: The reality of the banking system in Iraq By Editor - December 24, 2016 - In Releases 537 Comments Off The Iraqi banking system to pass through several stages started from 1867, and the oldest were the Ottoman Bank , Bank of the Shah of Iran , eastern British Bank, and then the Iraqi national banking stage was started in 1935 , which saw the creation of the agro – industrial bank that became after 1940 two banks: the Agricultural Bank , industrial Bank. In 1941 , Rafidain Bank was established as a single commercial government bank and commercial single, then the Central Bank of Iraq in 1947, the Real Estate Bank has been established in 1948 , Cooperative Bank and the Bank of mortgages, and many of the Iraqi private banks as Al-Itimad Bank and United Bank and Rasheed Bank, in addition to branches of foreign banks , which exceeded the 15 bank , mostly belonging to the Lebanese banks, and Jordan. At the present time the Iraqi banking system consists of 54 banks , including 7 – governmental organization, and one newly established Islamic bank , and 23 special commercial banks , 9 Islamic banks and 15 branches of foreign banks. As well as a representative office of one foreign bank . There are many institutions that do some banking, of which 34 money transfer company, and about 2,000 exchange company affiliated to banks , with the loan guarantee company and the company for financing of small and medium enterprises, and the two companies for electronic banking services and smart card, in addition to about 800 branch belonging to the banks and spread over All of Iraq ‘s provinces. To understand the work of banking system deeply , it is required to identify the fiscal and monetary policy and the functions of the Central Bank, The functions of the bank are coined and printed the national currency and to support the national currency and the consolidation and install the internal and external value, in addition to strengthening the cash cover, and the management of State’s reserves of foreign cash and set up and administration of the monetary policy to preserve the stability of prices and the prices of exchange and encouraging the financial system growth and ensure its safety and keep an eye on commercial banking and banks and workers with currencies exchange works. Fiscal policy is the approach made of the government in its expenditure and revenue planning. As monetary policy is the process by which the government can control the supply of money, often targeting the rate of inflation, and interest rates to ensure price stability and public confidence in the currency, which contribute to economic growth, reduce unemployment and maintain the exchange rates that could to predict with other currencies. It can be noted that monetary policy is an expansionary or deflationary process; as the expansion increases the overall policy listings of money in the economy which is greater than the usual fast, and regarding the deflationary is expanding the money supply more slowly than usual; that it is shrinking, although expansionary used to combat unemployment in the recession by reducing the interest rates in the hope that the ease of access to loans will entice companies to expand, The monetary policy owns executive decisions in the hands of authority such as the fees of the currency coin , and determine the price of gold and silver, the price of the local currency against foreign currencies. After the Iraqi Central Bank Law No. 56 of 2004 and the Banking Act No. 94 of 2004, according to the approach of the market economy , the interest rate was Liberalized , and the abolition of credit plans, opening the door to work for foreign banks either through participation in local banks, without putting any limits on the participation rate or open branches in Iraq, without specifying the capital, in addition to the possibility of opening offices to represent them, and the launch of freedom of foreign exchange and the abolition of restrictions on the transfer of money, except for the requirements of the law of anti – money laundering and terrorism financing , and ensure that all banks, including specialized banks to one law that take care for the commercial banking activity only. After April 2003 the Iraqi economy collapsed and the banking system is underdeveloped in all administrative, financial and service areas, because of the wars , economic blockade and the militarization of production, and the involvement of government banks in external and internal financial ‘s relationships that are complex and confusing to it , in addition to Iraq disruption and its economic activities for global developments in all intellectual, scientific and material fields . Which led to the weakness of international confidence in Iraqi banks, and the weakness of the Iraqi role in the economic activity and development activity. Hence the need to reconsider the status of the banking system in Iraq, and the laws organizing its work , and improve its performance, and activates its role in the economic and development activity and the strengthening of international relations. Since mid-2014 , Iraq is going through an suffocating economic and financial crisis that began to escalate and worsen for objective and subjective reasons , including financial mismanagement and financial corruption in the country’s economic institutions and random and non-planned manner for oil revenues achieved in previous years and the lack of government reserves and falling of oil prices in the global market by 65% from the prices and the costs and requirements of the war on terror and the occupation of Daesh in the range of 40% of the area of Iraq and the lack of clear aproach or strategy to the Iraqi economy and the lack of clear visibility and coordination between fiscal and monetary policies and rely entirely and exclusively on oil resources and the failure of successive governments to develop plans and programs to diversify resources and encourage other economic sectors , such as agriculture , industry , tourism and other sectors . And not to apply the strategies drawn up by the committees and bodies of advisers in the Cabinet and in collaboration with the UN and international organizations, of which there were up to 16 strategy which have not been put into practice as they are not supported at the days of financial abundance of oil revenues, and not to go towards building and secure infrastructure and sponsoring and supporting institutions to the Iraqi economy and Iraq enter into agreements and contracts for the long – term with an aim of developing the oil industry, but the reality of the situation confirms the great damage they would have by these contracts, for example licensing rounds contracts , they are service contracts ? How to be service contracts its duration of 20 years? And how the oil – producing fields , one of the most important fields of Iraq , are given to foreign companies? And why Iraq has signed contracts and originally does not suffer at the time from the funding restriction ? Is Iraq really can produce of what was guessed for it in the 2017 budget? And if Iraq was able to produce this amount , could export it ? If Iraq managed to export it , would it affect the price of oil? What The impact of these contracts on OPEC? Could Iraq reach the required level of production or not , and The Central Bank’s insistence on the use of the mechanisms and methods previously adopted in the monetary policy applications, including the continuation of the auction of foreign currency sale and sell up to $ 200 million a day. Central Bank of Iraq authorized the establishment of non-solid banks and the granting of licenses for the shareholders and owners’ capital do not understand something about the economy and the banking as important for the bank’s capital to have not less than 250 billion Iraqi dinars, and a large part from currency traders and money changers were turned to be the heads of the boards and directors and members of the boards and they brought commissioners managers and incompetent banking leaderships and started from the concept that the bank is to implement their own business and have forgotten that there are rights of shareholders and specific economic objectives to the banking business and is contributing to the gross domestic product and thus be for the banks an important and essential role in sustainable economic development and provide the best of modern and technical services to customers and the development of a culture of saving among the public which the statistics and indicators in 2015. confirm the savings rate reached 23% and the proportion of compactness reached 77%. this indicates a lack of public confidence in the banking sector of Iraq . And maintaining the application of laws that do not fit with the reality of the Iraqi economy, which was brought by US civil administrator Paul Bremer in 2004, including 94 Banking Act of 2004 and the Central Bank Law 56 of 2004 and the law of Iraq Stock Exchange 74 for the year 2004. These laws are governing the banking and economic work in Iraq in addition to the illegal investment and money laundering laws, which had been making modifications to them, and that the banking sector (financial sector and investment), which should play the desired role in the economic development is weak and is threatened with the collapse of the Iraqi economy, especially as the price of oil does not exceed $ 30 a barrel while the budget for the year 2016, adopted a price of $ 45 a barrel, so we think it should be on the Council of Ministers and the Committee of Central Bank of Iraq to stop and review, analyze, and diagnose the causes. The Iraqi market characterized of a lack of the number of citizens who have a bank account, which allows the banks a substantial margin to attract thousands of customers who are looking for an integrated banking service, and despite the diversity of Arab and foreign banks operating in the country, but most of them do not have much capital and work is limited to speculation in the currency auction to achieve quick profits which will reflect negatively on the reality of the local market which have been recorded cases of smuggling Of capital outside the country in the civil and foreign banks by dealing at the central bank auction, which should set strict economic laws to the work of banks, Central Bank pointed out of the most prominent problems of the Iraqi banking sector by the decline of the banking bloc, which is supposed to be a bank for every 10,000 people , but the existed one are much less, where there is a bank for every 32,000 people and this is little compared to international standards, and the absence of active banking strategies and annual detailed plans for the majority of banks provided for by the banks law Article 26 , and banking services do not fit with the requirements and directions of the Iraqi economy to a market economy, where the number of services of the banking Act Article 27, amounted more than 50 banking service either actually made the 20 service, in addition to the weakness of banking technologies means ( Home banking services, for example) to see a customer revealed remittances account, pay bills for gas, electricity, phone, Who is at home and this service was first used in Britain in 1983 while in Iraq ,it has only used in a very narrow range. And the administrative structure suffers in many banks, especially government ones from sagging banks, in addition to the government’s policy of discrimination in dealing with private banks, which is to prevent the state departments and companies from the deposit of their money in those banks and non-acceptance of certified and regular instruments and letters of guarantee issued by it, but within certain limits, nor allow competition with other banks, and the absence chock institutions such as the deposit insurance Corporation and the insurance on loans and study the market risk, traditional routines procedures adopted by the office of Registrar of companies and the delay of ratification on the decisions taken by the General Administration of banks, including the increase of capital, holding its general assembly meetings, delaying the re traded of the private banks shares on the current trading sessions in the Iraq market for Stock Exchange, which causes damage and losses to shareholders and investors, and the government banks and some private banks are delayed in the acquisition of comprehensive banking systems or networks to link their branches with communications networks with its Public management and non-application of the electronic banking. a number of Iraqi parliament members specialists in the economic sphere pointed out that “the failure of local banks made the Iraqi market in need of investment for foreign banks, and the reason for their decline in the country is the failure of the Iraqi banking sector, the fact that the foreign investor is looking for a safe and advanced banking environment to facilitate his work and keeps his money.” . They stressed the need of the Iraqi market to the global banks with an investment character that help to attract investment companies and transfer of expertise to local banks, and the advancement of the process of investment through the granting of loans and money transfers, and the use of modern banking techniques that to facilitate the works and speed up the completion of transactions. Member of the Committee on Economy and Investment MP / National white bloc / Aziz Mayahi, said, Iraq needs foreign banks with investment character to support the investment process in the country, adding that local banks lacked not extend technologies that work with the Universal, and that investment needs to be a solid legal environment and the political and security stability and developed banking sector, to enable companies to come to invest, because they are looking for a safe environment in which the rule of law and modern systems. He explained that the Iraqi environment need sophisticated foreign banks with high capital with an investment nature for the support of the investment process and economic development in the country, plus they will be able to create a competitive atmosphere between them and the local banks , and therefore will develop the banking sector. He added: There is the difficulty of handling the banking due to the fact that the Iraqi banking sector lags behind and is working with old systems and legislation that do not keep pace with the world ‘s development, noting that most of the Iraqi banks limited their work to deposit the money and selling foreign currency, so they need to issue letters of guarantee to attract investors. MP / coalition of Kurdish blocs / Sheriff Soliman, called to encourage solid international banks to open branches in Iraq to attract foreign investment and to support the reality of investment in the country. Sulaiman said that one of the most important obstacles to the process of investment in the country is the lack of a sophisticated banking system, where Iraq has economic elements and international companies have the desire to invest, but they are surprised by a lot of obstacles when they came to Iraq. He added that the process of the advancement of the investment requires the presence of sober and sophisticated international banks , and the development of foreign relations, and the enactment of laws for working to meet the need for companies and push forward the wheel of investment. And banking expert Mohsen Ali stressed , on new legislation for banks that the applied law is not conducive to the development of the banking sector and does not attract international banks to operate in the country. He explained that the local banks are not able to fulfill the requirements of the investment process in the country due to lack of their capital, and that the government and private banks do not meet the investment and the requirements of economic development process such as grant loans due to the limited physical potential and technology .. In spite of the Investment Law No. 13 of 2006 had excluded the investment in the banking sector from its provisions , but that the investment in the banking sector takes legal framework based on the legal central bank No. 56 of 2004, banks No. 94 of 2004, and the banking expert Muwaffaq Hassan Mahmoud, attributed reasons for the failure of Iraqi banking sector with its current structure , to many factors , including the “weakness and confusion in a number of the instructions not few issued by the Central Bank of Iraq between now and then, and withdrawn or modified days later. The decline in bank supervision efficiency and professionalism , but lack of seriousness. ” He said that the supervisory methods on banks have not kept pace with the evolution of central banks in developed countries and in neighboring countries, including preventive controls, in addition to the lack of the banking system to the corporate governance rules needed to monitor the performance of boards of directors and, and validation of the commitment of the laws, regulations and instructions, and the lack of sector of the culture of banking risks and ways evaluation and management and ways to mitigate or reduce them. Also it included reasons, according to Mahmoud the emergence of the boards of management and banking managements which are non – professional that have no experience nor knowledge of banking work, and lack of qualifications and only had a sudden financial fortunes that suspicions hovering about their sources. He pointed to another problem facing the banking sector «The faintly funds of capitals that do not meet the needs of develop ment , as well as other sources of financing». And economist Ahmed Alobreha saw , that “a manifestation of failure in Iraq is the inability of the government to enforce the law, as the central bank is unable alone to impose censorship and evaluate the banking performance level.” Financial Advisor to the Prime Minister , Mudher Mohammed Saleh emphasized , the banking market «is homogeneous under the attraction of State – banks to capital and deposits , which had owned 90% of them, to keep 10% for the special ones . He explained that ” the government banks are backward and the private ones operate according to the nineteenth century systems.” And he declared that «adults who get a credit of 12 percent, and with each failure there is a banking transaction and due to the tripping 32 transactions were withdrawn since the private banks are very conservative and the government one are on the contrary, and that it is evident from the large size of loans granted by the government. Salih said the currency auction file is «important and necessary» , and asked « could they create a bank to the private sector that its duty will be the opening credits of the centrality and shift gradually to cover imports?». The banking expert Samir Nasiri warned against the “collapse of the banking system in Iraq soon in the event of problems faced during this year did not address.” He stressed that its collapse means the collapse of the economy. He pointed out that research and studies and the results of indicators do not receive the attention evidenced by the decline in deposits recorded by the five largest banks in Iraq, as well as the low liquidity and operational, credit and capital investment and profits, without losing sight of the impairment of assets. He stressed that these indicators are dangerous. The MP Mehdi al – Hafez described the control which is supposed to be exercised by the central bank for the weak and confused, and announced that the sale of dollar by the central bank process represents a sensitive issue for the citizen, it is assumed that the process of converting amounts to be ordinary and easy as they are in other countries. He stressed the lack of separation between what exists in the transactions of the banking sector and the central bank , and the corruption that exists in the state. The tax policy: The government should take advantage of the taxes and customs duties imposed Since all countries of the world imposed it and regards it as a way to achieve a number of economic, developmental, financial and social objectives and to protect local products from foreign competition and the expansion of domestic production and development of export , as well as the creation of the financial resources of the public budget to cover government expenditures as well as facilitate the task of monitoring and controlling the volume of imports for processing trade balance problems. In countries that do not have , for example the important natural resources such as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , they rely almost entirely on taxes and fees to finance public expenditures and budget. In Iraq, the lack of development vision and the appropriate economic policies and the rampant financial and administrative corruption in all aspects of the state has deprived the country to take advantage of this important resource and that such a big problem for the Iraqi economy. The impact of this has clearly emerged after falling world oil prices , as happened since mid – 2014 and so far , which led to the confusion of the government ‘s accounts and the difficulty in securing staff and retirees ‘ salaries and cover the war against the terrorist al Daesh and work on the growing budget deficit caused very largely by the low cover expenses of oil export earnings . To face these consequences the government was forced to apply a number of ways to address the situation, including reducing the number of ministries and the reduction of the three presidencies salaries, deputies and senior staff, as well as deducting a percentage of salaries of employees, retirees and some other actions , lending from the International Monetary Fund and the imposition of taxes and customs duties and increase some of the other ones as well impose or increase fees for certain services provided by the State to the citizens who do not have to afford the taxes and fees or its increase at a time the state is still spending huge amounts of money to remuneration and deputations and incidentals on the ministers and MPs and senior grades as if there is no state of austerity suffered by junior staff and the lower classes of the people. One of the problems facing the application of taxes and fees that they lead to higher prices for imported goods subject to taxes and fees in the local market , and this to burden on citizens, including the lack of efficiency and fairness of the administrative body responsible for guessing and the collection as the money collected from these taxes do not all go back to the public budget and even go into the pockets of some parties and individuals and corrupt mafias in various departments and state agencies noting that there are in the the tax collection devices some estimators haggling citizens to pay a certain amount in exchange for reducing the amount of tax dramatically and tempting , which encourages citizens to bow to this demand and lead to the public treasury deprived of a lot of this money. There are a lot of doubts about the fate of the money collected from the border outlets and citizens, including a trillion and two hundred billion dinars that had been collected from citizens in the past year as a result of the rampant corruption in the state apparatus .therefore, to achieve the goal behind taxation of citizens requires that be coupled with the means to ensure ruling out the impact of corruption on this process and making sure of its collection accurately and deliver it to the competent financial authorities . Regarding the extent of corruption at border crossing points, the central bank governor stressed that the border crossing points for a country that imports everything under the current circumstances is assumed that this process should be the highest degree of organization, competence and integrity, not only for financial reasons , but also for environmental and health reasons and safety of citizens. The materials reach and penetrate the border crossing points and the enter our cities which lacked the specifications or forged or date of its expire was changed , referring to the border crossing points remain , however in the hands of the corrupt , and in the hands of those who are dominant on it, and that the custom brokers of goods in the border areas and some workers are getting more than the state. The bottom of the above, the economic reforms are necessary to minimize the suffering of the Iraqi people of all groups and its components resulting from the lack of honorable living and poor services , unemployment and poverty, which are a reflection of the poor economic conditions and on the forefront the corruption of banking sector , where the unemployment rate has risen to more than 25% between youth groups and graduates who are able to act as the poverty rate rose , according to the official data of the ministry of planning and development cooperation and the ministry of Labor and social Affairs . Shatha Khalil Translated by : Mudhaffar Alkusairi

"Black lights" (as they are called) actually appear blue in color. So it is not beyond the realm of possibilities he is calling for a black light when he is describing it as blue. Some even appear purple.

The argument for replacing the current currency begins. "This currency we can't use, give us new ones. While you are at it remove those gawd awful zeros which only conflate the problem. Give us better more secure currency in which we can trade with Iraqi pride as an Iraqi citizen...." and on and on it goes.

Answer: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/12/28/2017-28023/iraq-stabilization-and-insurgency-sanctions-regulations

Interesting this was originally published in the May 29, 2014 Federal Register under Presidential Documents. Why did it not take effect three years ago? According to OFAC this amendment took effect once published in the Federal Register which would have an effective date of May 29, 2014 not December 27, 2017 due to it being published previously. The two published documents are identical with no changes.

The E.O. 13668 was a done deal 7 months ago and now he is just telling people about this? E.O. 13668 published in Federal Register May 29, 2017. I, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, have determined that the situation that gave rise to the actions taken in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, to protect the Development Fund for Iraq and certain other property in which the Government of Iraq has an interest has been significantly altered. Recognizing the changed circumstances in Iraq, including the Government of Iraq''s progress in resolving and managing the risk associated with outstanding debts and claims arising from actions of the previous regime, I hereby terminate the prohibitions contained in section 1 of Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, as amended by Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004, on any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process with respect to the Development Fund for Iraq and Iraqi petroleum, petroleum products, and interests therein, and the accounts, assets, investments, and other property owned by, belonging to, or held by, in the name of, on behalf of, or otherwise for, the Central Bank of Iraq. This action is not intended otherwise to affect the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, as expanded in scope by Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, which shall remain in place. This action is also not intended to affect immunities enjoyed by the Government of Iraq and its property under otherwise applicable law. I hereby order: Section 1. The prohibitions set forth in section 1 of Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, as amended by Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004, are hereby terminated. Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA and the UNPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their statutory authority to carry out the provisions of this order. Sec. 3. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. Sec. 4. This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register.

Oil posts strongest year opening since 2014 as Iran unrest pushes up crude Henning Gloystein 3 MIN READ SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices posted their strongest opening to a year since 2014 on Tuesday, with crude rising to mid-2015 highs amid large anti-government rallies in Iran and ongoing supply cuts led by OPEC and Russia. PHOTO: A view shows the French oil giant Total refinery in Donges, France, November 21, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were at $60.63 a barrel at 0747 GMT, up 21 cents, or 0.4 percent, after hitting $60.74 earlier in the day, the highest since June 2015. Brent crude futures LCOc1, the international benchmark, were at $67.18 a barrel, up 31 cents, or 0.5 percent, after hitting a May 2015 high of $67.29 a barrel earlier in the day. It was the first time since January 2014 that the two crude oil benchmarks opened the year above $60 per barrel. “Growing unrest in Iran set the table for a bullish start to 2018,” the U.S.-based Schork Report said in a note to clients on Tuesday. Anti-government protesters demonstrated in Iran on Sunday in defiance of a warning by authorities of a crackdown, extending for a fourth day one of the most audacious challenges to the clerical leadership since pro-reform unrest in 2009. Even without the unrest in Iran, which is a major oil exporter, market sentiment was bullish. “Falling inventories globally and strong economic growth offset the restart of the Forties pipeline and the resumption of production following a pipeline outage in Libya,” said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at futures brokerage Oanda in Singapore. The 450,000 barrels per day (bpd) capacity Forties pipeline system in the North Sea returned to full operations on Dec. 30 after an unplanned shutdown. Oil markets have been supported by a year of production cuts led by the Middle East-dominated Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia. The cuts started in January 2017 and are scheduled to cover all of 2018. U.S. commercial crude oil inventories have fallen by almost 20 percent from their historic highs last March, to 431.9 million barrels. Strong demand growth, especially from China, has also been supporting crude. Only rising U.S. production, which is on the verge of breaking through 10 million bpd, is somewhat hampering the outlook into 2018. “We think U.S. tight oil production growth warrants close monitoring as it could spoil OPEC’s market-balancing efforts, pushing the market into surplus in 2018,” Barclays bank said on Tuesday. U.S. oil production C-OUT-T-EIA, driven largely by onshore tight shale oil fields, has risen by almost 16 percent since mid-2016, to 9.75 million bpd at the end of last year. Consultancy Rystad Energy said “U.S. crude oil production capacity has reached 10 million barrels per day.” Reporting by Henning Gloystein; editing by Richard Pullin Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

I believe more of this to come: Widow of Kentucky State Rep. Dan Johnson says she'll pursue his seat By Elizabeth Zwirz | Fox News Rebecca Johnson, right, the widow of Kentucky State Rep. Dan Johnson, announced she will be running for his seat. The lawmaker committed suicide Wednesday following sexual assault allegations from Maranda Richmond, left. (Facebook/Screengrab) The wife of Kentucky State Rep. Dan Johnson, who killed himself on Wednesday amid a bombshell report's accusations of sexual assault, announced Thursday that she would pursue her husband’s seat, saying “his fight will go on.” Dan Johnson, a preacher and a Republican, committed suicide Wednesday on a bridge in Mt. Washington, according to Bullitt County Sheriff Donnie Tinnell. The coroner confirmed that Johnson died of a single gunshot wound to the head, and the weapon was found near the 57-year-old's body. The statement from Johnson’s widow, Rebecca, said she was running for the position because “these high-tech lynchings based on lies and half-truths can’t be allowed to win the day.” “Dan is gone but the story of his life is far from over,” she said. His death occurred just days after the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting published a detailed set of allegations from a woman who claimed that Johnson sexually assaulted her when she was 17. KENTUCKY STATE REP. DAN JOHNSON COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER SEXUAL ASSAULT ACCUSATIONS EMERGE, OFFICIALS SAY Maranda Richmond accused Kentucky State Rep. Dan Johnson of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. (Facebook) The lawmaker denied the accusations on Tuesday, calling them “totally false.” He said they were part of a nationwide strategy for defeating conservative Republicans, referencing claims also made against Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. But the next day, Johnson posted an ominous message on his Facebook page, part of which prompted his family to report him missing, the sheriff said Thursday. In the post, he asked for people to take care of his wife and wrote that post-traumatic stress disorder “is a sickness that will take my life, I cannot handle it any longer. It has won this life, BUT HEAVEN IS MY HOME.” The post appears to have been removed. KENTUCKY LAWMAKER’S DEATH STUNS STATEHOUSE ALREADY BESET BY SEX SCANDAL The woman who made the accusations against Dan Johnson, Maranda Richmond, said she attended a New Year’s Eve party at his house in 2012. She reportedly fell asleep on the couch, and in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2013, claimed she woke up to him kneeling over her and alleged he assaulted her. Richmond said that she reported the episode but Louisville police closed the case without charges. The case has since been reopened. Johnson was elected to the State Legislature in 2016, part of a wave of Republican victories that gave the GOP control of the Kentucky House of Representatives for the first time in nearly 100 years. The pastor of Heart of Fire church in Louisville, Johnson sponsored a number of bills involving religious liberty and teaching the Bible in public schools. But he was mostly out of the spotlight until the investigative story broke. A potential opponent for Rebecca Johnson could be former State Rep. Linda Belcher, a Democrat, who hinted at a possible run for the seat in 2018, WHAS 11 reported. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

This is Duke, Rolling Stones and others like it all over again. A woman must be heard and an investigation must be ensued but until there is viable and incontrovertible proof, men's livelihoods should not be denigrated. All one has to do now is just claim sexual harassment against a man and his career is over. This is lynching in the 21st century. All one has to do to have their career destroyed is get accused of sexual harassment. Like the Duke case and the rolling Stone case, the students were expelled from campus. They were not suspended but kicked off of campus from a mere accusation which when investigated couldn't hold water in a bucket it had so many holes in it. I agree with some that the Dems are throwing their own people under the bus to get rid of trump. Conyers was easy Franken not so much and he still hasn't resigned. His resignation was nothing more than a paper tiger. The others that were caught up in this mess aside from Weinstein are collateral damage. To be honest, they were looking to get rid of Lauer after Couric left. Couric and Lauer were reportedly at odds with one another and did not get along off the camera. Maybe why she has not said too much about the situation. The Russia Collusion is prosecuting those for other crimes not related to the Russia investigation. Mueller's team is bias politically and Mueller himself should have never been appointed. Rosenstien should be ousted from his job as soon as this is all over as he too his against the current President. Fire Mueller. Fire Rosenstien, if Sessions won't go after Hitlary, fire him to and put someone in with the cajones to do the job.

On that I do not know. But this would by my best guess. For more info https://edinarcoin.com/

I can neither vouch for the coin because one I didn't invest in it, and second below is a news article on when it was released. Lastly, I remember a time when people thought as much as bitcoin as well. Notice the quote above gives a quote in bitcoin. E-dinar is the Islamic version of bitcoin so it would not be beyond Iraq to get into the Cryptocurrency game like some others are doing. EconomyEditor's choice 07.09.2016 - 2,895 views 4.3 (11 votes) ISLAMIC CRYPTOCURRENCY E-DINAR COIN RELEASED 74 12 4 Share0 0 96 Donate A new Islamic cryptocurrency, E-Dinar Coin, was released on August 15. E-Dinar Coin states that 7% of its financial assets will be spent on charity. The system has won foundation that supports ecological projects in Asia. This approach reminds a Zakat (giving charity to the poor) part of the Sharia law. The E-Dinar Coin cryptocurrency most likely has a wide horizons in the modern world. Allcoinsnews reports: E-Dinar international p2p exchange platform has announced the launch of its new E-Dinar Coin cryptocurrency following a community analysis of the cryptocurrency market which studied the successful cases along with the drawbacks of existing projects. E-Dinar Coin works with proof-of-stake technology. Proof-of-stake is a method of the cryptocurrency protection based on the need of the proof of keeping a certain amount of funds in the account. When using this method the cryptocurrency algorithm is more likely to choose an account with a larger amount of funds for the confirmation of another block in the chain. Using the E-Dinar Coin algorithm the performance of the transaction must be confirmed ten times; each of the computers, confirming the transaction, receives remuneration that is calculated using the age and number of the coins that are stored in the user’s account and interest rate (up to 0.65% per day). E-Dinar stated it chose proof-of-stake partly as it does not require any costs for saving energy and storing a huge database and mining farms, but also because it has a strong resistance to attacks and there is no choice of hashes for mining. Some key features of E-Dinar Coin include: Mining prestart: August 15, 2016 Fee for transfers between wallets: EDR 0,1 Block Time: ~ 5 sec Number of coins (max.): 999.000.000.000.000 (999 trillion) – to be released within 33 years Pre-mining total number of coins: 2.500.000.000 (2.5 billion) Hashing Type: X11 Besides developing and promoting of blockchain technology, E-Dinar also supports financial independence from the central and commercial banks and other financial institutions and general freedom from international and national control E-Dinar Coin is also introducing measures to fight air and water pollution, deforestation investing part of its income in the development of new urban projects that are aimed at providing cities with clean water and fresh air as well as at reducing the heat island effect in urban areas, the level of pollution and climate change in general on the planet

You had an identification in your question? Man you are being racist now! How dare you include identification in your quote! /s

This was talked about a while back first in the rumors section and people didn't believe it: E-Dinar Coin (EDR) $0.017323 USD (29.27%) 0.00000098 BTC (24.91%) Market Cap $15,351,850 USD 868 BTC Volume (24h) $730,787 USD 41.33 BTC Circulating Supply 886,211,988 EDR Total Supply 1,011,211,988 EDR Max Supply 999,999,999,999,999 EDR https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/e-dinar-coin/

It wasn't too long ago that a European country began using their mobile phones to pay for purchases. Then Apple hopped on board with Apple pay. Visa followed and now Mastercard with Masterpay. Most people who affirm this verse in the Bible believe a chip will be implanted in the human body. It will be through this chip that will be scanned for payment. However, everyone, well almost everyone, has a chip in their "right hand" its called a mobile phone. The mobile phone has a chip in it. Each mobile phone has a telephone number and each person who has a smart phone has a user id associated with their account, typically in the form of an email address. Merchants have been slow to adopt this form of payment, but they are adopting it nonetheless. With this said, each of us already has a mark, the cellphone, to which it won't be long before this becomes the preferred preference to buy and sell goods and services. Those who have a mobile telephone has a number that identifies them as the number is associated with the account holder's name. This is verse from Revelation is here, now, and everyone has already bought into it. The verse will be complete when the mobile phone becomes the primary resource to buy and sell goods and services and that is well under way. Crypto currency will eventually replace the currency of the world as it will not take much to change the code in the software. The reason for this will be because the digital transaction won't matter what currency is being used to conduct the transaction as people will become blind to the label of the currency (e.g. USD, IQD). All they will know is they x amount of currency to be able to purchase y amount of goods or services. The currency behind digital transaction will become ambiguous at best; as long as, the person has enough to make the purchase will be all that matters. Last fact, the forehead clause, think of Google glasses or even think about wearables.

Actually you are wrong, on Trump trying to close the investigation. While Trump has said things about the investigation he has never said or even remotely came close to ending this farce of an investigation.

Gillibrand was a nobody before she took over the office for Hitlary's Senate seat in NY. And that is why she is a lightweight.

There was a study done. And in that study it was determined that people translated words on discussion threads and in chat rooms on how the person reading the text felt at that moment. If they felt mad, the text was read angrily etc. In addition, the emotion was amplified as it was processed internally and what would have been a normal response was now ratcheted up at least 10 times and on average more than that. The study was conducted on individuals who fell in love over the internet and had long distance relationships and was stated to be transposed over to those in friendly discussion rooms.

I think you need to read the conversation in full before commenting. My retort was to the above statement. I don't debate Christianity which is why I answered the response as I did.

Okay first, the definition for word "recognize" taken from the second definition thereof: acknowledge the existence, validity, or legality of. Second, what person thinks Israel does not already have a capital for their country and thinks it is anything but Jerusalem? Guess you thought it was like Tel Aviv, eh? Congress has already recognized the capital of Israel, the State Department is just now getting around to it. Also, please do some research on the Middle East because all them there countries' borders were created by the UN, which is made up of what? yep countries! Looks like a whole lotta countries had not only their borders created but their capitals officially recognized as well. The US recognizing the capital of Israel as Jerusalem gives validity to it. Muslims are angry because they think every bit of land is theirs and Jerusalem is their according to the Quran and their so called god Baal Allah.