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I was impressed.

That's because he's not a real HOT LOOKIN' pilot like some of us. 'OlSarge'sGals gotta huge crush! Absolutely !!!

{Basra: Euphrates News} used for the first time in the province of Basra smart card fuel experience in Algeria typical station; to maintain the oil derivatives loss of wealth and service to the citizen. The artistic director of the company Oknd trade control devices on gas stations that carried out the project Ashraf Nazmi told {Euphrates News} Today, the smart card fuel system in place in all developed countries, and as an experiment first we will implement it in Basra and the rest of the provinces province after it has been applied in Arbil. He added that the citizen can obtain gasoline, kerosene and oil product according to what exists in the card without spin, and can share installment of fuel. He said the per capita is determined by the government and processed by the central calculator charge card once can pay at the bank or the station itself. He pointed out that the individual that can receive the same card several oil products at any time. http://www.alforatnews.com/

Love it Shabbs That's because he's not a real pilot like some of us.

Now he wants to be a team player. Fat chance.

Guess what yota? They are all involved. In a country that was failing once again with Maliki at the helm, everyone felt the need to take from the monies that were so graciously given to them and then cry about how the project failed. How many projects actually went over budget or weren't completed at all? Not to mention they liquidated the bases, equipment and funds left behind by our military and others. With billions being sent to Iraq for the wars on Saddam, ISIS, Daash, they are still crying. Makes me sick.

Just watch the movie Valkyrie last night. Hope they get the last scene right. Valkyrie (2008) - IMDb

Exactly

Talk about a boring day in Parliament.

Seems as though they are dancing around all the laws (HCL), banking, Investing etc. Now they are off until Thursday? Hedley Lamarr: Meeting adjourned. Oh, I am sorry, sir, I didn't mean to overstep my bounds. You say that. Governor William J. Le Petomane: What? Hedley Lamarr: "Meeting is adjourned". Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is? Hedley Lamarr: No, you *say* that, Governor. Governor William J. Le Petomane: What? Hedley Lamarr: "Meeting is adjourned". Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is? Hedley Lamarr: [sighs, then gives the governor a paddleball] Here, sir, play with this. This is like watching a soap opera. Tune in again next week, nothing much will have changed by then. Governor William J. Lepetomane - Blazing Saddles "We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen!"

Gagged again? and again? and again? what BS.

Amen

Thank you Trinity for the explanation.

Ok Tony, I'll sell you all of my Dinar for 1.00 USD / 1 IQD Monday morning. What a deal!

I wish TerryK would just shut up already. He makes himself out to be something he isn't. If he ever had some sort of inside track, then why has he always been consistently wrong in his analysis of events pertaining to this investment?

Sure sure... How about the bank presidents filling their own pockets and then unlocking the door to everyone else to take some. Doesn't seem like there was a whole lot of resistance there to me.

Ha Ha Ha Ha

Agreed Captl1 " The statement stressed that "everything that is published is not the media office is not considered an official statement." Perhaps a better way to word it would be... "The statement stressed the fact that "not everything the press reports is considered an official statement." or "Don't believe everything you read."

Original Article: http://dinarvets.com/forums/index.php?/topic/194162-dispute-over-tankers-kurdish-oil-continues-in-houston/?hl=tanker July - In Houston Courts Dispute over tanker's Kurdish oil continues in Houston courtBy Collin Eaton January 8, 2015 Photo: U.S. Coast Guard A photo taken from a U.S. Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane shows the tanker United Kalavryta underway in the Gulf of Mexico on July 25, 2014, before it anchored off Galveston with a load of oil from Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of Iraq. The Iraqi government alleged the oil was smuggled from Iraq, and the legal dispute went to U.S. courts. Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government are still trying to resolve a dispute that for six months has kept a tanker full of Kurdish oil off Galveston and figures in the broader question of Kurdistan's right to sell oil overseas. Iraqi and Kurdish officials struck an interim, temporary deal late last year allowing exports of oil produced in semiautonomous Kurdistan if it went through Iraq's state oil company. But that agreement didn't cover the tanker United Kalavryta, anchored 60 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico since July, or other broader political and legal issues that could define Kurdistan's independence. Those issues, which include an interpretation of Iraq's constitution, also are now at play in a lawsuit in a Houston federal court involving the United Kalavryta U.S. District Judge Gray Miller of Houston this week denied several of Kurdistan's procedural arguments seeking to dismiss Iraq's lawsuit over the anchored oil tanker, including a bid to deny Iraq a hearing on whether the vessel's million-barrel cargo can be seized if it reaches U.S. waters. The judge denied Kurdistan's motion to dismiss one mechanism for seizing property under state law, but granted a motion to deny Iraq the same mechanism under maritime law. Effectively, Iraq could call for a hearing on the matter if the tanker crossed into U.S. waters. The suit, filed in July, alleges Kurdistan illegally transported oil drilled from Kurdish fields through a pipeline that ran from Iraq to Turkey. The oil, the suit says, was loaded aboard the United Kalavryta for transport to an unidentified buyer in the United States. The tanker last reported its position in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday afternoon, according to the ship tracking site Vesselfinder.com. The oil on the United Kalavryta would have fetched more than $100 million last summer. Now the cargo is worth less than half as much because of the collapse in oil prices since July. Jim Loftis, a partner at Vinson & Elkins in Houston who represents the Iraqi government in the Houston lawsuit, said in an interview Thursday that the parties "are still working on the broader settlement of the political and legal issues that remain." Miller on Wednesday ordered lawyers for Iraq's Ministry of Oil and the Kurdistan Regional Government to provide the court an update on the status of settlement negotiations in 10 days. The lawsuit and Kurdistan's motions to dismiss it, Miller said, seek an interpretation of the Iraqi constitution. Kurdistan has said the U.S. court shouldn't take sides "in a political and constitutional impasse over Iraq's most critical resource." But under the law, a court can't shirk its responsibility to decide a case because it may have significant political overtones, "no matter how desirable it may be to avoid deciding a case like this one," Miller said, rebutting one of Kurdistan's arguments to dismiss the case. If the case goes forward without a settlement, the remaining issues will be decided by interpretation of Iraqi law, said Phillip Dye, another Vinson & Elkins partner representing Iraq. The lawsuit has evolved from a commercial dispute over whether Kurdistan could sell the oil outside of Iraqi channels to much broader questions of Kurdistan's sovereignty - and that's probably while the Houston lawsuit has drawn out, said Michael Wray, a partner at Legge, Farrow, Kimmitt, McGrath & Brown in Houston who has followed the case but isn't involved. "Maybe they can air those issues out in U.S. court," Wray said. "That's probably why the judge wants it to settle. I was surprised they were still at it." Iraq Allowed to Sue Kurds Over Texas Oil Tanker in U.S. By Laurel Brubaker Calkins Jan 8, 2015 8:42 PM ET - Iraq’s oil ministry can sue the Kurdistan regional government for possession of 1 million barrels of crude that have waited in a tanker circling off the Texas coast for more than five months, a U.S. judge said. U.S. District Judge Gray Miller in Houston rejected the Kurds’ claims of sovereign immunity and said the regional government’s plans to sell its crude in the U.S. gave him authority to hear the lawsuit. Miller had previously ruled he had no authority to hear Iraq’s dispute because the alleged misappropriation of the oil took place in Kurdistan, outside the jurisdiction of U.S. courts. After the Iraqis reworked their claim, Miller agreed the Kurds’ involvement in the U.S. oil market triggered a legal exception that properly placed the dispute over the cargo in his court. “The activity complained of is the taking of Iraqi oil for sale, there are specific allegations that it has been sold in the U.S., and the sale of oil in the U.S. creates a direct effect in the U.S.,” Miller said in a ruling yesterday. In December, the Iraqi central government and the Kurdistan regional government reached a production-sharing accord that let the Kurds export up to 550,000 barrels of oil a day from northern Iraq, with 250,000 barrels of that amount placed under the control of the central government. That accord in Baghdad didn’t address ownership of Kurdish shipments previously exported, according to court papers, leaving unresolved the dispute over the tanker off the Texas coast. Seizure BidMiller said he wasn’t making a final determination on ownership of the cargo. He also said he won’t consider Iraq’s bid to seize the oil or hold proceeds from its sale under court supervision “unless and until the cargo is brought into U.S. waters.” He said Iraq could make its request when that happens. The two governments have been sparring over the tanker since late July, when Iraq persuaded a federal magistrate judge in Houston to issue a warrant letting federal agents seize the crude and store it ashore at Iraqi expense if the ship entered U.S. territorial waters. The tanker has been circling a navigational buoy about 60 miles off Galveston, Texas, since then and was still there as of 4:35 a.m. local time today, according to Bloomberg tracking data. The price of oil has fallen by almost half during the time the ship has waited offshore. The Kurds had initially hoped to sell the cargo for about $100 million. Property LawMiller said he’ll apply Texas state laws covering stolen property to the case, which will also require him to interpret Iraq’s constitution and related case law. “The heart of this dispute is to whom the text of the Iraqi Constitution grants the right to export oil, and whether the KRG converted the oil here,” Miller explained. “U.S. courts regularly interpret other countries’ laws, including constitutions.” Hal Watson, the Kurds’ Houston attorney, didn’t immediately respond to phone and e-mail messages seeking comment on the judge’s ruling. Jim Loftis, the lead Houston lawyer for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, declined to comment on the ruling beyond confirming that Miller has agreed to let the lawsuit proceed for now. The case is Ministry of Oil of The Republic of Iraq v. 1,032,212 Barrels of Crude Oil, 3:14-00249, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (Galveston). To contact the reporter on this story: Laurel Brubaker Calkins in Houston at laurel@calkins.us.com To contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net Douglas Wong Read more: http://dinarvets.com/forums/index.php?/topic/194162-dispute-over-tankers-kurdish-oil-continues-in-houston/#ixzz3Swgk6tUm So this tanker has been floating around for 8 months before it delivered it's load to Israel? Must be a super slow super tanker.

All well and good for the people holding 50s in Iraq but what about the rest of us Steve and Tlar?

You know this makes sense if and only if all the 50 notes reside within the boarders of Iraq or if you have dinars within a bank in Iraq. Unfortunately, that is not the case. I sure Dinar Trade was blasted with phone calls all day long.

Thanks brims

I see now that Dinar Trade will exchange these notes. What rate? Who will pay the shipping and handling fees? Guess I should give them a call. I hope they RV before the end of April. Just thinking of our members who hold 50s. Seems like this is a prelude to an RV for all of us. If it isn't, then it is certainly an aggravation to some of our members.

It's not great news for those who hold 50s unless you are in Iraq. If your here and your not electronic, hence hard currency in 50s, you now have to contact a broker and pay a spread and receive the current market rate.