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23 hours ago, Hotcurl said:
For me as a consumer, every time I fill the tank on my vehicles at the pump, the cheaper the better and I think that is pretty good.
It leaves more $$$ in my pocket for other things.
Well alrighty! You have a choice then, a rollout of the RV that ends with pockets overflowing with cash and a chaffeur and sipping mai tais in Waikiki.... OR lower gas prices to drive yourself around with the kiddies in a 9 to 5 life living paycheck-to-paycheck? (I assume nothing of your circumstances AND hope the chaffeur is not also sipping mai tais in Waikiki).
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4 hours ago, blueskyline said:
Vietnam Dong is a polymer type money about the thickness of other notes . Avoids moisture damage
Does it avoid the cocaine residue too?
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Production of additional oil in an oversupplied market only brings the price down. Heck they might as well throw the oil into the wind as much money they are leaving on the table. Oil has been in a downward overall trend since the highs in January. It has its peaks but if the oversupplied market is not allowed to reduce its supply, the price will fall below 45 a barrel.
In other words, this is not as good as people think it is.
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1 hour ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:
That's a very interesting .02 dinars worth ! ! !
Some people would take the .02 dinars above the current now.
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So much for the "stroke" Maliki had. Or maybe it made him delusional. Nah he was always that way. He figured it worked for the dems to call out their opponents for what the dems did and put it on the the pubs.
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Happy Summer everyone!
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Ah so after the majority of fighting is done, NATO sweeps in and claims victory. Yep just like the libtards to lay claim to something they did not do. Remember zero's, to successful companies, "you did not build that, although you did all of the hard work and spent many many late night hours on building it up, the government built it". NATO is going to say well we joined and see what we did, we destroyed Daesh for you. No need for thanks but give us lots of money so our leaders can get even fatter on the backs of the people.
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The hopium for now is for EID they announce the RV - June 25. Sit back relax put some barbie dolls on the bbq and make all the girls cry. Because what is summer without a little fun here and there? They should have never made fireworks legal here... things that make you go hmmm!
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On 5/24/2017 at 10:03 AM, King Bean said:
I'm worried for Maliki. I mean, if he has a small clot there's a chance of recovery.
I'm hoping he has one the size of a watermelon. This same thing was reported
back in 2013 and again in 2014. He's got more lives than a cat meme from SnoGlobe.
Maliki has a small clot all right it's called his brain. It needs to be unclotted.
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On 5/25/2017 at 8:40 AM, copper13 said:
Tmills... I really have no clue about this stuff, I leave to smarter people than me to figure it all out. I just liked those words coming from the Central Bank. 👍
Copper all you need to know is 1) become a VIP and 2) wait for Adam's text. The rest of the time just ride the ride and have fun. You don't have to keep your hands inside the ride the entire time. Go out and enjoy life and when it happens there will be a ding on your phone one moment and the next it be as if the pennies all fell from heaven at once. Until then, trust but verify.
Or as someone once said, "Boys, wait until you see the white in their eyes!"
Whenever I go to a strip club I always bring coins, they hurt more.
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On 5/23/2017 at 1:03 PM, Synopsis said:
The article starts out saying, "The United States has asked Iraq to suspend the work of 785 officers in the ministries of defense and interior who are following the Iranian agendas, Secretary General of the European Department for Security and Information, Haissam Bou Said said on Tuesday."
Looks like the key word here is "asked" then "suspend". Jared Kushner apparently made this "request" when he was in Iraq some time ago and this "request" is fairly far along in it's actual implementation. With the Mosul operations imminently reaching completion and the IMIS atrocities being committed at an alarming rate, I suspect the actual language to the Iraqis and Iranians is quite a bit more than simply "asked" and "suspend". My opinion is this "request' will have a whole lot more bone breaking teeth and earnestness in implementation in the very short term. Getting the Iranian influences out of the Iraqi defense, interior, army, security forces, and key departments appears to be more of "one fell swoop" with dealing with the Iranian influences in Iraq especially through Major General Qassem Soleimani (Iranian) and Nouri al-Maliki (Iranian puppet and Iraqi traitor).
The reason I think Iran will be dealt a decisive and complete blow in Iraq is Iraq really can not have any Iranian influences disrupting Iraq's international investment potential and will resolve a significant amount of Iraqi corruption necessary to buoy Iraq's major credit ratings so that Iraq can really be a Sovereign State - and truly act like a Sovereign State completely different from the Saddam Hussein era composition.
We haven't heard much, if any, about the American B-52s in the area not to mention all the "US Advisers" in Iraq and surrounding areas that we know about (collecting intelligence, too, maybe???!!!). There could be a whole lot more "US Advisers" in the area than in the news media - and the Iranians know it. I suspect the B-52s and "US Advisers" are still there and Iran probably knows what is coming if the "ask nicely and carry a big stick" isn't responded to appropriately and immediately.
Bye, Bye Iran, Soleimani, al-Maliki, and all you Iraqi traitors!!!
Just my opinion and
Go Moola Nova!
B-52's are on the tarmacs in the continental US. They can be over Iraq in about 18.5 hours. They are always fueled and raring to go. US advisors on the other hand....
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Crude oil was flirting with 52 per barrel before the meeting and ended below 50 per barrel at the close of NYMEX today. Not a good indicator of things to come. Iraq's budget is for 45 a barrel. Anything over that can be considered good for Iraq. However, Iraq needs to average about 54 to break even without a deficit for the entire year.
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I'm hungry, let's eat!
Please sir, may I have s'more?
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6 hours ago, yota691 said:25 minutes agoLast updated02:25 PMBAGHDAD / Tomorrow Press:
Iraqi Central Bank announced on Thursday the launch of Contractors bonds after the completion of the audit, while issued an order to ban financial and commercial dealing with three Arab figures.
Acer said the Information Office of the Director of Jabbar, told the "Tomorrow 's Press," that " the central bank 's bond exchange for contractors resumed after the completion of a review of transactions by the Board of Supreme Audit, according to the lists received by the Ministry of Finance."
Among Jabbar we "can know the names launched their bonds by visiting the website of the Central Bank and see them."
In another context, he stressed the source within the Central Bank of Iraq's "Tomorrow 's Press," that "Foreign Assets Control Office (OFAC), issued a new list of banned from the deal they both (Ali benign Safrani Libyan national, Abdul Hadi zircon / Libyan nationality, Hama Hamana / Algerian nationality). "
The source indicated that the bank face of all banks and financial institutions , non - bank ban dealing with them in any financial or commercial transactions.Hamamana humanah, Ralphie boy! Pow! Straight to the moon!
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1 hour ago, keylime said:
"Hey Kuwait. You guys need to be subject to this 9 month oil reduction extension."
"Oh. No problem. Are you guys subject to the extension Iraq?"
"Heck no! What do you take us for? Sand bagging idiots/! But it will be good for you guys."
"Ok. Sure why not. You haven't passed the HCL yet agreeing to divvy up the proceeds between our two countries, but what the hecko's. We'll reduce our oil supply, make less money, and hope and pray to Allah you all live up to paying us our quarterly stipend that up to this point you haven't been able to do. Or rather shirk doing."
"Well, do this one thing and we promise we will pay you as soon as we can. Anyway. Soon as we get back from our month long vaca, we promise to jump right on that hydro carbon law thingy."
(Iraq whispers to the other smirking OPECers..."not"!)
If Kuwait accused Iraq of shirk, not good and it would be the death of everyone in Iraq. Muslims don't use theword shirk unless they really really mean it. The Wahabi's accused others of committing shirk and near conquered the Ottoman Empire.
On another note, Iraq has been trying to figure out a way to export more oil beyond the reduction cut set by OPEC. Not including Kurdistan in the cuts could be the loophole is looking for. However, the whole point is to burn the excess on the market up. Until that is done, there will not be an HCL which puts the HCL off into 2018 and the RV until after May/June 2019.
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12 minutes ago, eburt said:
Is this what we looking for? i hope this is good news for us
We shall see. CL trading session for NY is in a couple of hours would be interesting to see where the price point starts and goes.
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OPEC to Extend Oil Cuts for Nine Months to End Global Glut
byGrant Smith,Angelina Rascouet, andWael MahdiMay 25, 2017, 6:11 AM EDT May 25, 2017, 6:55 AM EDT-
Keeping curbs through March will ‘do the trick,’ Al-Falih says
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Brent crude falls on lack of additional action from group
0:120:15OPEC Said to Extend Oil Production Cuts for Nine MonthsOPEC Said to Extend Oil Production Cuts for Nine Months
OPEC extended oil production cuts for nine more months after last year’s landmark agreement failed to eliminate the global oversupply or achieve a sustained price recovery.
Members of the organization agreed to prolong their accord through March, said two delegates familiar with the decision, asking not to be identified before an official announcement is made. Ministers are scheduled to discuss the extension with non-member producers later on Thursday.
Six months after forming an unprecedented coalition of 24 nations and delivering output reductions that exceeded expectations, resurgent production from U.S. shale fields has meant oil inventories remain well above targeted levels. While supplies are shrinking, ministers acknowledged that the surplus built up during three years of overproduction won’t clear until at least the end of 2017.
Khalid Al-Falih at the OPEC meeting on May 25.
Photographer: Akos Stiller/BloombergMaintaining the same production cuts through March “is a very safe and almost certain option to do the trick,” Saudi Oil Minister Khalid Al-Falih said at the opening session of the group’s meeting in Vienna. “It’s likely we’ll be balanced earlier than later.”
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed in November to cut output by about 1.2 million barrels a day. Eleven non-members including Russia joined the deal in December, bringing the total supply reduction to about 1.8 million. The curbs were intended to last six months from January, but confidence in the deal, which boosted prices as much as 20 percent, waned as inventories remained stubbornly high and U.S. output surged.
Cuts Working
Al-Falih insisted the cuts are working, saying stockpile reductions will accelerate in the third quarter and inventory levels will come down to the five-year average in the first quarter of next year. While he expects a “healthy return” for U.S. shale, that won’t derail OPEC’s goals, he said.
Libya and Nigeria will remain exempt from the output curbs as they restore lost production, according to Al-Falih. Nigerian Oil Minister Emmanuel Kachikwu said earlier in an interview that extending the deal would bring price stability, suggesting a “$50 floor” for oil if producers stick to their cuts.
Kachikwu: Members 'Largely' on Board With ExtensionKachikwu talks to Bloomberg TV. (Scroll to 2:20 for his comments on oil prices.)Source: BloombergBenchmark Brent crude traded at $53.08 a barrel as of 11:54 a.m. in London, down 1.6 percent. Some investors are disappointed after speculating OPEC might announce some additional action, said Giovanni Staunovo, an analyst at UBS Group AG.
The oil market is also looking for clues as to what OPEC may do in 2018, a year when U.S. shale output growth is expected to match an increase in demand. There’s concern that OPEC could return to the free-for-all production that caused prices to slump from 2014 to 2016, though Al-Falih has insisted the organization will maintain control.
“We have said we will do whatever it takes,” the minister said.
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1 hour ago, 235snack said:
This is good news, but he needs to die on the operating table(if the report is true), as long as he is alive, he is trouble.
There will be no "operating table" for Maliki because the stroke is like him, a phony. Maliki used it to get himself out of the country. A well-placed drone strike should really give him a stroke of all strokes, grand mal seizure. Giving many Iraqis la petit de Morte.
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If, as pointed out in another article, the Kurds will be seceding from Iraq to form its own nation, then let Erbil take on the fiduciary responsibility of the reconstruction. If the GOI takes on the responsibility and the Kurds do secede, Iraq will be left hanging with the bill. Iraq will then have to pay the bill or jeopardize the work Abadi has done to this point with the credit rating, trust, and confidence of Iraq being able to pay off her debt.
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45 minutes ago, DWS112 said:
He should add: "OH, by the way, Chapter VII release too"
He can add all he wants, but if its all talk and no action then he can keep calling for pennies from heaven and it still will do no good until it is put into motion. I find it interesting since Daesh is about to exit stage left, the sudden calls for the activation of the monetary policy now by unknowns. In a way, a person might get the idea the calls for activation is done because those who are calling for it are looking to escape the proverbial hangman's noose or the physical noose, all together. Especially since Daesh stole so much money and it has been unaccounted for at this juncture.
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Sorry I meant 1974. I was living near Xenia, Ohio at the time. Here is the article:
https://www.weather.gov/iln/19740403
And everyone thinks they should worry about Oklahoma and Kansas for killer tornadoes.
The Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974
Observations | Local/National Analysis | Aerial Damage Photos | Ground Damage Photos
The April 3-4, 1974 Super Outbreak affected 13 states across the eastern United States, from the Great Lakes region all the way to the Deep South. In all, 148 tornadoes were documented from this event, of which 95 were rated F2 or stronger on the Fujita scale and 30 were F4 or F5. Aside from all the castastrophic damage they left behind, the tornadoes resulted in335 deaths and more than 6000 injuries.
Detailed Super Outbreak tornado path and intensity analysis, hand drawn by Dr. T. Theodore Fujita of University of Chicago. (click for high-res version)
Some of the strongest tornadoes from this outbreak occurred right here in the Ohio Valley. Dozens of tornadoes struck Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, resulting in 159 deaths, over 4000 injuries, and hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage. Two violent F5 tornadoes destroyed much of Xenia and Sayler Park (a western suburb of Cincinnati) in Ohio. Resulting in 34 deaths, the Xenia tornado was the deadliest of all tornadoes from this outbreak and remains among the top 10 costliest U.S. tornadoes on record (approximately $250 million in 1974). Several other strong F2 to F4 tornadoes also touched down during the Super Outbreak across southeast Indiana, northern Kentucky, and southwest Ohio, an area that today encompasses NWS Wilmington, Ohio's warning area.
National Weather Service office boundaries and technology were quite different back in 1974. The Weather Service Office (WSO) in Cincinnati served the greater Cincinnati Tri-State area while WSO Dayton was responsible for the Miami Valley and west-central Ohio. In those days, not every NWS office was equipped with a radar. A WSR-57 (Weather Surveillance Radar - 1957) was installed at WSO Cincinnati in 1960, giving NWS meteorologists coarse reflectivity data but no velocity data, which made it extremely difficult to detect tornadoes. Storms on the radar screen were traced onto thin paper maps, and meteorologists heavily relied on the manifestation of hook echoes as well as spotter reports when issuing tornado warnings. WSO Dayton did not have a radar of its own but utilized a facsimile machine tied into Cincinnati's WSR-57 (also known by its identifier, CVG) display.
When the CVG radar displayed hook echoes and other impressive storm features outside WSO Cincinnati's warning area on April 3, meteorologists there made calls to the appropriate neighboring offices. At one point, the CVG radar screen displayed five distinct hook echoes--more thanmeteorologists there had ever seen before. Shortly after 4:30 PM, a call was made by WSO Cincinnati to WSO Dayton to ensure they had seen the hook echoes, of which one was quickly approching Xenia. In fact, the National Weather Service in Dayton had already issued a tornado warning for Montgomery and Greene counties around 4:10 PM (in effect until 5:00 PM), based on radar indication of a possible tornado 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati moving northeastward. The tornado touched down about 4:33 PM near Lower Bellbrook Road, flattened much of the Windsor Park and Arrowhead subdivisions minutes later, and then roared into central Xenia around 4:40 PM. In the following months, careful analysis of all the damage led Dr. Fujita and other experts to determine that the Xenia tornado was in fact the worst of all the 148 Super Outbreak tornadoes.
A massive F5 tornado bears down on Xenia. Photo taken from the Greene Memorial Hospital by Fred Stewart.
About an hour after the Xenia tornado, another violent F5 tornado took aim at the western suburbs of Cincinnati. The only tri-state twister of the Super Outbreak, this tornado originated near Rising Sun in Indiana around 5:30 PM, passed through Kentucky, and then crossed the Ohio Riverto inflict severe damage in Sayler Park and other neighborhoods west of Cincinnati. This tornado was witnessed by many, including by those at the Greater Cincinnati International Airport and WSO Cincinnati, which had issued a tornado warning at 4:45 PM (in effect until 5:45 PM). Then at 5:40 PM, the power went out at WSO Cincinnati, resulting in a loss of radar, teletype, and most means of communication. While the power was out for the next three hours, the NWS in Cincinnati had some backup radar imagery available from the Air Force and FAA and had the NWS in Cleveland issue warnings for them. Fortunately, most of the worst tornadoes had already occurred before the power went down, but the need for emergency power backup at National Weather Service offices was recognized following this event.
A view of the Sayler Park tornado as it moved through the Bridgetown area. Photo taken by Frank Altenau.
In the aftermath of this horrific event, many lessons were learned that have since been applied by various government agencies to mitigate hazards in subsequent severe weather outbreaks. Improvements in communications, warning systems, emergency preparedness, and forecast techniques and equipment have been implemented since the Super Outbreak, with the end result being increased lead times for warnings, more accurate forecasts of events, greater public awareness, and more reliable communications.
The Cincinnati Post
April 4, 1974; Front Page
The Cincinnati Post
April 4, 1974; Page 15
The Kentucky Post
April 4, 1974; Front Page
The Cincinnati Post
April 6, 1974; Page 41
Letter from Dr. T. Fujita to
the MIC of WSO Cincinnati
Preliminary Super Outbreak
map hand drawn by Fujita
Super Outbreak tornado
stats compiled by Fujita
Fujita's Super Outbreak
questionnaire form
Weather observer's brush
with the Sayler Park tornado
Total area covered by
watches on April 3-4, 1974
April 3-4, 1974 tornado
warnings by county
Comparison of Fujita Scale
and Enhanced Fujita Scale
Plaque honoring those
killed in the Xenia tornado
(photo by Brian Coniglio)A 1978 documentary of the Super Outbreak, showing actual footage of tornadoes as they
struck Xenia, Cincinnati, and Louisville, causing massive damage and numerous deaths.
US report: Iraqi approach to extend an oil pipeline towards Syria
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Posted · Edited by Theseus
I am offended by your offense to being offending of me. I asked you what everyone on here has accused me of... I did so through logic. You said you like low gas prices to fill up your car. To do that the price of oil per barrel needs to DECREASE in price. Iraq needs oil to INCREASE in price. So if you want oil to DECREASE in price you are working against what Iraq want - INCREASE in price of oil and an RV. This is logic versus emotion as you displayed. You dream of sugar plums dancing in your head. Hence, the very reason why emotion is bad when you invest! Have said this for a very long time here. Thanks for illustrating the concept. Have a great day! Point. Set. Match.