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Oh dang!😂

Starting to remind me of Maliki’s days in office. One article came out, and the other one immediately followed contradicting the initial article. Sometimes it took a day to contradict it. Thanks y’all! 👍🏻👍🏻

😂😂 History repeats itself in Iraq. 😂 Seriously, this is good news. Adam proved to be correct. Waiting on HCL.

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Parliament hasn’t returned from recess yet. When they do, they will have to receive the draft. Once the receive the draft, they will have to work it into their discombobulated schedule. Once they work it into their schedule, they will have to form a committee to break it down. This will involve all the different religious sects. They will argue over who’s going to be on the committee, and who has more relevance to the outcome based on their region. Once they do this, it’ll take at least 30 days to 60 days to come up with a solution to submit to the rest of the parliamentarians for a vote. They will talk about in the coming days for about 30 days to place the vote. And if, and after they approve the vote, they will have to prepare a final draft to go to the president of parliament to get drawn up so they can go to the president for approval. He will fly around 20 more countries, shaking hands, and once he returns, hopefully he can approve it within a week. I hope there’s a good outcome to this. It’s been a long ride and I truly appreciate all the news posters because that’s a lot of work.

They may show a huge deficit, but getting that country going will print money.

Protesters better hit the sack. We know how you are when you get cranky.

Good job Sweden. Tell-em to pound sand.

Iraqi protesters. If you’re short on gasoline and matches we have plenty for you. come and get them. we’re tired of it to.

Mornin. 😊

Sorry, I put this in the wrong section.

Sudanese airspace to remain closed to all traffic until July 10 International +A -A INA-sources Sudan's Civil Aviation Authority has issued a statement on Friday extending the closure of Sudanese airspace until July 10, to all air traffic with the exception of humanitarian aid flights. Sudanese airspace was closed to regular traffic after a military conflict erupted between the country's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in mid-April. Source: Reuters Yesterday, 11:33 https://ina.iq/eng/27340-sudanese-airspace-to-remain-closed-to-all-traffic-until-july-10.html

In the toilet

I’m not excited. Very disappointed to say the least. Parliament needs to get to work.

Well it ain’t raining money

Here hope for late July. Thanks.

As the Muslims burn American flags daily. One bunch of confused individuals… I should burn a kur’an and wait in my driveway to see which dumb azz gets shot first. Just sayin.

Creating supply & demand for diapers. He finally did something to help the economy.

Show caption Hajj Thousands suffer heat stress on hajj pilgrimage as temperatures reach 48C People struggling in the swelter was a common sight, especially after day-long outdoor prayers at Mount Arafat Agence France-Presse Thu 29 Jun 2023 19.24 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email More than 2,000 people suffered heat stress during the hajj pilgrimage, Saudi officials said on Thursday, after temperatures soared to 48C (118F). Over 1.8 million Muslim worshippers performed the days-long hajj, mostly held outdoors at the height of the Saudi desert summer. Many elderly were among the pilgrims after a Covid-era maximum age limit was scrapped. Saudi officials said about 1,700 heat stress cases were recorded on Thursday – as huge numbers of pilgrims remain at the holy sites one day after the main rituals finished – added to the 287 reported earlier. Muslim pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia – in pictures “The number of heat stress cases since the beginning of this day has reached 1,721,” the Saudi health ministry said, urging people to stay out of the sun and drink plenty of water. Officials did not provide a death toll but at least 230 people – many from Indonesia – died during the pilgrimage, according to numbers announced by various countries which did not list causes of death. According to the consul general of Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, at least 209 Indonesians died during the hajj. “It is inaccurate to say that a lot of Indonesian pilgrims died because of heatstrokes,” said Eko Hartono, adding that causes of death were mostly due to heart and respiratory ailments. But he did acknowledge that some pilgrims had “fainted” during the days-long pilgrimage “because of the heat”. Iran’s oldest pilgrim this year, aged 114, died of a heart attack, the semi-official Fars news agency said, reporting 10 Iranian deaths. Eight Algerians and four Moroccans died, officials said, while an Egyptian pro-government media outlet said eight pilgrims from the country had died. Hundreds of people were treated for heart problems, including one 78-year-old Filipino man who had successful open-heart surgery in Mecca, the health ministry said. The real figure for heat stress – which includes heatstroke, exhaustion, cramps and rashes – is probably far higher, as many sufferers were not admitted to hospitals or clinics. People struggling in the heat was a common sight, especially after the daylong outdoor prayers at Mount Arafat, where overheating phones shut down and shade was hard to find. The hajj has a history of deadly catastrophes including crowd crushes and militant attacks, but this year’s main challenge came from the extreme temperatures. The kingdom dispatched thousands of paramedics and set up field hospitals to help contain the risks. It was the biggest hajj since 2.5 million visitors came in pre-Covid 2019. The Gulf climate is so harsh that in 2021, the United Nations’ intergovernmental panel on climate change warned that parts of it could become uninhabitable by the end of the century due to global warming. Maximum summer temperatures of 50C (122F) could become an annual occurrence by the end of the century, experts say. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/thousands-suffer-heat-stress-on-hajj-pilgrimage-as-temperatures-reach-48c

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 for tomorrow.

Hajj Date (2023) Evening of Mon, Jun 26, 2023 – Sat, Jul 1, 2023

Iraq's 1920 Revolution By Fred Lawson A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary of the 1920 revolution. For many months in 1920, people all across Iraq rose up to fight the British military administration that had seized control of the country during the First World War. The popular uprising brought together Sunnis and Shi'is, elites and commoners, city dwellers and tribespeople. It caught the British by surprise, and changed the trajectory of modern Iraqi history. Armed revolt broke out in the fertile plains south of Baghdad, as bands of tribespeople swept in from the desert to attack isolated British military outposts and destroy vital railway lines. These incursions continue to shape public memory of the uprising. For Iraqis and outsiders alike, the image of unexpected, violent resistance to European rule on the part of heroic mounted warriors epitomizes the 1920 "revolution." Yet the foundation for the revolt had been laid by liberal and radical nationalists based in the cities. Together they forged a unified platform out of an assortment of patriotic and religious grievances. British officials had declared that they came as liberators from foreign oppression when they marched into Baghdad in March 1917, but three years later showed no sign of tolerating Iraqi self-government. Nationalist leaders watched with increasing alarm as British officials tightened their grip on the country's irrigation system, food distribution network, labor conscription mechanisms, and tax collecting apparatus, making these institutions more efficient but skewing their operation to the advantage of local allies of the imperial authorities. British troops lead a victory parade in Baghdad on 16 November 1918 to to celebrate the conclusion of World War I. Towns and villages that resisted the imposition of the new order found themselves subjected to brutal punishment, most notably from the most advanced weapons technology of the day: bombs dropped from airplanes. Popular anger at the indiscriminate use of aerial bombardment in the restive agricultural districts between Baghdad and the southern port city of Basra convinced nationalists in the capital that the moment was ripe for revolt. Oblivious to the seething rage in the southern provinces, British warplanes carried out a bombing campaign against one of the region's most influential clans in late May 1920. Map of Iraq showing major areas of rebellion in 1920. In the Shi'i theological and pilgrimage centers of Najaf and Karbala, senior religious scholars ('ulama) challenged the consolidation of British rule in the name of constitutionalism. Prominent figures in these two cities had supported the 1906 revolution in Iran, which had compelled the ruler to authorize elections for a constituent assembly to draft a constitution. The collapse of Iran's experiment in constitutional government motivated Iranian-born religious leaders in Najaf and Karbala to continue the campaign in post-Ottoman Iraq. Nationalist organizations in Baghdad and Basra meanwhile stepped up their own demands that the British set up an elected representative assembly. These calls were echoed by influential Shi'i figures in the capital’s poorer neighborhoods, particularly the impoverished district outside the Kadhimiyyah shrine. Sayyid Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi. Encouraged by the positive response from Baghdadi Shi'is, a delegation of radical nationalists traveled to Najaf and Karbala to link up with proponents of constitutionalism in the country's Shi'i hierarchy. The most respected scholar in Najaf, Sayyid Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi, issued a doctrinal edict (fatwa) calling on all Muslims to join the struggle against foreign domination. Tribal chieftains in the region surrounding Najaf and Karbala who had recently adopted the Shi'i way of Islam immediately rallied to the call and drove British-led Indian troops out of several strategically situated southern towns. Captured soldiers were treated leniently, even as retreating British forces routinely set fire to the settlements they passed through and butchered the inhabitants. By late July, Iraqi fighters had taken charge of most of the territory between Baghdad and Basra, aside from the pivotal city of Hilla where British commanders prepared to make a last stand on the road to the capital. In an attempt to persuade tribespeople around Hilla to refrain from joining the revolt, British-led Indian troops launched raids into the countryside south of the city, which culminated in a counterattack to relieve the besieged garrison at the city of Kufa. The column's advance was stopped at the village of Raranjiya, where it suffered a costly defeat. Revolt then spread to the northern farmlands around Baquba and Samarra. Anti-British fighters captured warehouses belonging to wealthy landowners, alienating the elite nationalists whose fortunes derived from estates in that region. Class-based tensions started to divide the liberal and radical wings of the independence movement. RAF plane taking part in the British campaigns in Iraq. At the same time, long-standing rivalries among tribal clans, a general reluctance to join the uprising on the part of residents of Baghdad, Basra and the northern city of Mosul, and British technological superiority sapped the momentum of the revolt. By late October the uprising had been crushed. British officials reacted to the revolt by setting up an advisory council, thereby modifying the type of direct rule they had practiced earlier. Council members consisted almost entirely of well-to-do Sunnis drawn from the larger cities, leaving the Shi'i community unrepresented in deliberations over policy. Whatever administrative autonomy Najaf and Karbala had enjoyed was squelched. Faisal I, the first king of Iraq. More important, the British invited a senior member of the Hashimi family of Mecca to become king of Iraq. Shi'i scholars had issued a similar invitation on behalf of the nationalist movement, but overt British patronage aligned the interests of the monarchy with those of the imperial authorities. Over the ensuing century, the events of 1920 have been reshaped to suit shifting political purposes. Sunni-led regimes, most notably those of the Ba’ath Party era, erased the contributions of Shi'i leaders and gave credit for initiating the uprising to a secondary Sunni chieftain. Raranjiya was renamed Rustumiya, and, in the history, decisive battles were relocated away from predominantly Shi'i areas to such Sunni districts as Fallujah. The autonomous administrations that were set up in Najaf, Karbala, Diwaniya and Baquba have been forgotten. The activities of radical nationalists in Baghdad, Basra, and Samarra remain obscure, while the exertions of local activists in the countryside go unrecognized. Echoes of the revolt nevertheless reverberate in present-day Iraq. A radical militia that challenges the legitimacy of the post-Ba'athi order calls itself the 1920 Revolution Brigades. Widespread resentment against the permanent presence of foreign troops on Iraqi soil simmers beneath the surface. Protests in 2019 and 2020 have called for the removal of foreign troops from Iraq. Political alliances that span the Sunni-Shi'i divide persist, despite the U.S.-designed electoral system that rewards mobilization along sectarian lines. The legacy of the 1920 revolution points toward an Iraq that transcends external constraints and internal divisions, and emerges truly independent and united at last. Want to Learn More? Eli Amarilyo, "History, Memory and Commemoration: The Iraqi Revolution of 1920 and the Process of Nation Building in Iraq," Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 51, no. 1 (2015). An analysis of ideological legacy of the revolt. Aylmar Haldane, The Insurrection in Mesopotamia, 1920 (London: Blackwood, 1922). The Classic account of British military operations. Abbas Kadhim, Reclaiming Iraq: The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012). A recent synthesis that highlights neglected Shi'i participants. Ian Rutledge, Enemy on the Euphrates(London: Saqi Books, 2014). A readable survey based on archival material. Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq, third edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). A comprehensive, authoritative overview. Amal Vinogradov, "The 1920 Revolt in Iraq Reconsidered: The Role of Tribes in National Politics," International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (1972). An early revision of accepted interpretations. July, 2020 https://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/iraq-1920-revolution-revolt?language_content_entity=en

20th Revolution.. An icon from which the Iraqis were inspired by the glow of victory Articles +A -A Baghdad-INA More than 100 years have passed since the 20th Revolution, and the voices of the songs are still playing on the strings of the nation, the melodies of values and courage, and their values are still simulating the descendants of that great revolution, a revolution that was not erased by the vicissitudes of history, but rather remained present in the conscience of the nation. A century ago, the name of Shaalan and his comrades flirted with minds, and (Magwara), steadfast in the face of the rampage of tanks and the barrels of cannons, remained stuck in the memory of men and women, and the land of Al-Rumaitha still burns with flames every June that passes, as if calling the conscience and evoking in the hearts of Iraqis their national history that rejects the invaders in every province And an Iraqi city. That revolution was not a fleeting moment that reflected the nation's anger at the occupation. Rather, it was the inevitability of the Iraqi destiny that has been languishing for centuries under the weight of repeated occupations, to reflect the human and spiritual interdependence between religious references that nourish rejection and authentic clans throughout the country that respond to the call and mobilize their forces indifferent to the difference in military standards, to line A revolution that exhausted the occupation and forced it to retreat and declare the desired Iraqi state. And that revolution remained the engine of the nation’s voice over decades, to be manifested in the popular uprising of the descendants of Shaalan against the exterminated Saddamist Baathist regime, which tried in vain to obliterate that revolution and distort its historical path after it remained a headache shaking the pillars of his rule, and after the occupation of Mosul, Anbar and Salah al-Din by the terrorist gangs of ISIS. The threads of history were intertwined once again after the people of the homeland responded to the call of the reference, and the revolution of the twentieth mobilized its grandchildren, who responded to the cry of the homeland. Today, on the (103rd) years anniversary of the great Iraqi revolution, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) recalls that epic that marked the historical path of the struggle of Iraqis against tyrants and sheds light on the vision of the contemporary generation of that revolution. In this regard, Prime Minister Muhammad al-Shayaa al-Sudani said today, Friday, that the revolution of the twenties charted the path to freedom and the constitution, indicating that it was a living embodiment and a realistic expression of the Iraqis' pride in their freedom. Al-Sudani said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "With great pride, we remember today the 20th Revolution, which represents one of the most important revolutions in Iraq in the modern era.". He added: "The revolution of the twentieth century was a living embodiment and a realistic expression of the Iraqis' pride in their freedom and sovereignty. It was achieved thanks to the steadfastness of our Iraqi people, who at that time inspired many Arab peoples to seek liberation from foreign domination. And the Prime Minister continued: "Today, as we recall the (103rd) anniversary of the 20th Revolution, we draw inspiration from it all the great meanings that represented the story of a people without history at its highest stations and the highest status." Yesterday, 16:42 https://ina.iq/eng/27336-al-mandalawi20th-revolution-was-a-major-turning-point-that-bore-the-imprints-of-our-society-from-the-various-components-of-our-modern-history.html

Al-Mandalawi:20th Revolution was a major turning point that bore the imprints of our society from the various components of our modern history politics +A -A Baghdad-INA First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, confirmed today, Friday, that 20th Revolution is a major turning point that bore the imprints of our society from the various components in our modern history. The media office of the Deputy Speaker of Parliament stated, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "Al-Mandalawi is here with the Iraqi people on the one hundred and third anniversary of the launch of the Iraqi revolution against the British occupation.". Al-Mandalawi stressed, according to the statement, that "The 20th Revolution, which was launched from the womb of Iraqi society, its clans, and clerics, was not a fleeting revolution like the rest of the revolutions that history spoke of. Noting that "this revolution carried the fingerprints of our society, starting from the middle and southern Euphrates, all the way to Baghdad, Ramadi and the far north, where their blood was mixed, and its repercussions in the unification of Iraqi society still exist to this day.". He concluded by saying, "We must unite to build our country in all fields and work on its progress and renaissance." Yesterday, 22:01 https://ina.iq/eng/27336-al-mandalawi20th-revolution-was-a-major-turning-point-that-bore-the-imprints-of-our-society-from-the-various-components-of-our-modern-history.html

Al-Sudani: 20th Revolution paved the way for freedom and the constitution politics +A -A Baghdad-INA Prime Minister Muhammad Al-Shayaa Al-Sudani affirmed that the twentieth revolution drew the path to freedom and the constitution, indicating that it was a living embodiment and a realistic expression of the Iraqis' pride in their freedom. Al-Sudani said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "With great pride, we remember today the revolution of the twenties, which represents one of the most important revolutions in Iraq in the modern era." He added: "The revolution of the twentieth century was a living embodiment and a realistic expression of the Iraqis' pride in their freedom and sovereignty. It was achieved thanks to the steadfastness of our Iraqi people, who at that time inspired many Arab peoples to seek liberation from foreign domination. The Prime Minister continued: "Today, as we recall the (103rd) anniversary of the 20th Revolution, we draw inspiration from it all the great meanings that represented the story of a people without history at its highest stations and the highest status." Yesterday, 15:49 https://ina.iq/eng/27329-al-sudani-20th-revolution-paved-the-way-for-freedom-and-the-constitution.html