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OOTW: FOR A REFRESHER HERE'S THE TITLE FOR A REFERENCE ARTICLE, BROUGHT IN EARLIER TODAY BY CHATTELS.. OOTW: Deputy for the National: F16 to enter the Iraqi service will resolve quickly the battle with terrorists PLEASE SEE ARTICLE HERE: sczin11: LETS BRING IN CHATTELS COMMENTS FROM THIS MORNING AGAIN.. THEY WERE GREAT.. COMMENTS FROM CHATTELS: QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE:" MP Ibtisam Hilali confirmed for the National Alliance that the entry of F16 aircraft to service, it "will resolve quickly the battle with the terrorists " what are these National Alliance people smoking ? "the U.S. and the coalition have flown hundreds of sorties thus far .... and Daesh is very much with them - what difference are another 1/2 dozen F-16's going to make flown by inexperienced pilots ?" OOTW: SO WHY IS IT NOW SUCH A BIG DEAL THAT WE HAVE THESE F-16'S? IN IRAQ? sczin11: HOW MANY SORTIES HAVE BEEN FLOWN BY THE COALITION OVER THE LAST YEAR PLUS, WITH OVER 60 COUNTRIES INVOLVED? OOTW: AND ONLY A FEW ARE MAKING A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO THE FIGHT AGAINST DA'ASH? OOTW: SO MUCH ADO ABOUT LITTLE OVER THE ADDITION OF THESE FEW F-16'S sczin11: MANY PEOPLE SUGGESTED A GROUND ATTACK WOULD BE NECESSARY disciple7: ground attack is 1000% necessary OOTW: SO WHY ARE WE BRINGING UP THE MILITARY - WE CAN SEE TODAY, THE IRAQI MILITARY (AND COALITION FORCES, THE CROWD AND SUNNI MILITIA) ARE BOMBARDING DA'ASH FROM ALL FOUR SIDES OOTW: THE BORDER'S ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT SAFE WITH THE RELEASE OF "BORDER CONTROL" ANNOUNCEMENTS - A COUPLE DAYS AGO WE SAW OOTW: .... OOTW: SAFWAN PORT CLOSED AND THEY REPORTS SAID IT WAS DUE TO RESTRICT TRADE -SEE THREAD HERE OOTW: IN ACTUALLY ALL THE TRADE WAS DIVERTED TO THE KUWAITI PORT IN BASRA WHICH WE NOW SEE IS GOING TO BE OPEN 24 HOURS PER DAY FOR COMMERCIAL TRADE VEHICLES - WITH THE BANKS OPEN AS WELL TO COLLECT - WHAT BANKS DO AT A BORDER.... OOTW: [image: smile.png] sczin11: ‹@OOTW› AND FOLKSD, WHAT DO BANKS DO AT BORDER CROSSINGS? sczin11: THIS IS CLEARLY A NO BRAINER sczin11: THEY ARE THERE TO COLLECT TAXES OOTW: ALSO WE SAW THE TREBIL BORDER CLOSED AS WELL (JORDAN) sczin11: THAT WAS RELEASED TODAY... sczin11: SO LET'S EXAMINE THIS A LITTLE FURTHER sczin11: WE HAVE ISIS CONTROLLED BORDERS BEING CLOSED WITH ALL TRAFFIC DIVERTED TO AREAS AWAY FROM THEM sczin11: AND AT THE SAME TIME WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PM ABADI..... OOTW: HERE IS THE PRESS RELEASE FROM THE MINISTRY OF CUSTOMS (DIRECT) Maj. Gen. Jassim Al Hakim Jassam: The first of August will be the date for the application of the customs tariff law Director General of the General Authority for Customs Directorate Comerk visiting the southern region As part of the ongoing field tours Major General Jassem Al Hakim Jassam, Director General of the General Administration of Customs visited Wednesday, 07.01.2015 Directorate Comerk the southern region which stressed the customs tariff law will take its way to the application as from 1.8.2015, and the face of sovereignty, director of the southern region of the need Comerk placing ads in all border posts showing the date of the application of the customs tariff. He also attended a meeting of the provincial council in Basra, which was held in the building of the province for the obstacles to work at border crossing points, He referred to "the need for coordination with the bodies located in the port so as to ensure smooth flow of work and non-interference by the security authorities in the work of customs, because such interventions can be reflected negatively on the movement of trade " The visit also included a field tour to do with a number of members of the provincial council of the port Safwan border through which the face of sovereignty and the need to increase efforts to raise the pace of work, also met sovereignty number of employees and agents output. SEE PRESS CUSTOMS PRESS RELEASE HERE : sczin11: SO LOOK AT THE TIMING HERE FOLKS OOTW: THIS IS AN ARTICLE I BROUGHT TO YOU IN YESTERDAY'S CHAT - WITH WHAT WE'RE SEEING TODAY RE THE CLOSURE OF THE JORDANIAN BORDER, IT'S AN IMPORTANT REMINDER IMHO OOTW: THEY'RE RECONFIRMING THAT THE TARIFFS WILL GO INTO EFFECT AUG 1 2015 sczin11: IF YOU REMEMBER WHEN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WAS ORIGINALLY MADE BY THE COM, PM ABADI STATED THE TARIFFS WOULD BE IMPOSED sczin11: "ACROSS ALL BORDERS" sczin11: THE BIG QUESTION IS AND WAS... HOW CAN TARIFFS BE COLLECTED ON BORDERS CONTROLLED BY ISIS? TxBrand: how much will that effect the people ? sczin11: WELL FOLKS, IF THEY ARE CLOSING THOSE BORDERS, THEN GUESS WHAT? sczin11: THEY CAN IMPOSE TARIFFS ACROSS ALL BORDERS...THAT ARE OPEN! sczin11: OPEN! sczin11: ‹@TxBrand› WHAT, THE IMPOSING OF THE TARIFFS? TxBrand: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez is that guys name that killed 4 today. TxBrand: ‹@sczin11› yes sczin11: ‹@TxBrand› WELL GOOD QUESTION, AND ONE WE HOPE THEY HAVE TAKEN CARE OF, IN THEIR PLAN TxBrand: so it could be make or break time ? sczin11: OBVIOUSLY THE POVERTY STRICKEN COUNTRY, CANT AFFORD THE GOODS NOW, THEY CERTAINLY WONT BE ABLE TO AFFORD THEM WITH HIGHER COSTS sczin11: HOWEVER, WITH AN INCREASED PURCHASING POWER, AND THE LAUNCHING OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR...WELLL ... sczin11: ‹@TxBrand› SMILE TxBrand: hubby is kinda rolling his eyes at F-16s... that's just about the oldest planes we have OOTW: HERE'S THE OFFICIAL INK FROM THE CABINET SITE OOTW: Fulfillment of customs tariffs in all border crossing points, without exception, 4/6/2015 9:38 Council of Ministers decided to approve the fulfillment of customs tariffs in all border crossing points, without exception, as well as taxes, including sales tax on Kartat mobilize the mobile phone and the purchase of cars of all kinds in accordance with the provisions of article 33 of the federal budget for the 2015 law, starting from the first of August 2015 and that the necessities of the process and artistic, and the continuation of the work currently in accordance with previous mechanisms until the said date. PLEASE SEE THIS CABINET PRESS RELEASE HERE: TxBrand: I guess they can do damage OOTW: BREAK OOTW: " Fulfillment of customs tariffs in all border crossing points, without exception" sczin11: THANK YOU OOTW sczin11: ONCE AGAIN, WITHOUT EXCEPTION.... IF A BORDER IS CLOSED I HOPE THAT ELIMINATES COUNTING THEM IN TxBrand: sounds logical to me sczin11: NOW, THERE IS MORE ..... WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE BUDGET DEFICIT FOR A LONG TIME...SINCE JAN 29, 2015 WHEN IT WAS VOTED ON OOTW: PLEASE SEE THIS LAW REFERENCE FROM THE PARLIAMENT SITE OOTW: The ratification of the Convention on the promotion and protection of investment between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Law November 30, 2014 Name of the people Presidency Based on Maagherh the House of Representatives and approved by the President of the Republic and based on the provisions of subsection (I) of Article (61) and item (iii) of Article 73 of the Constitution President of the Republic decided on: 21/01/2015 Issued the following law: No. (1) for the year 2015 The ratification of the Convention on the promotion and protection of investment between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Law Article 1 of the Republic of Iraq to ratify the Convention on the promotion and protection of investment between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan signed in Baghdad on 12/25/2013. Article 2 of this law shall be the date of its publication in the Official Gazette Reasons In order to ratify the Convention on the promotion and protection agreements signed between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, signed in Baghdad on 12/25/2013 investment Initiated this law This law was published in the newspaper facts number (4353) dated 02/23/2015 http://parliament.iq/details.aspx?LawIDF=4641 sczin11: AND WHEN THE CRISIS CELLS WERE MEETING, AND THE COMMITTEES CONTINUED TO MEET, AND THE COMMITTEES FORMED SUB COMMITTEES TO MEET, ALL IN THE HOPES OF FINDING BUDGET DEFICIT "MECHANISMS"... ANOTHER KEY WORD WE SEE OFTEN sczin11: ONE OF THE MECHANISMS DISCUSSED, FOR THE UMTEENTH TIME IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS WERE THE TARIFFS IMPLEMENTATION sczin11: AND EVERYONE WENT OH MY, NOT AGAIN?! sczin11: HOWEVER, THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT.... WE HAVE NEVER SEEN THE COM GET INVOLVED IN MAKING STATEMENTS AS ABOVE WAS MADE... OOTW: THE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH JORDAN IS DEFINITELY PASSED - I MENTION THIS BECAUSE IRAQ HAS ESTABLISHED AN IMPROVED RELATIONSHIP WITH JORDAN - SO, THIS ACTION WOULD HAVE BEEN AMENABLE TO JORDAN AS WELL - JUST A SIDE NOTE OOTW: http://parliament.iq/details.aspx?LawIDF=4641 sczin11: " Fulfillment of customs tariffs in all border crossing points, without exception" sczin11: AND NOW , IS IT A COINCIDENCE, THE TIMING, IN THE LAST FEW DAYS, 2 BORDERS ARE CLOSED BY THE GOVERNEMENT, THAT ARE CONTROLLED BY ISIS? OOTW: SO EITHER THIS IS A MILITARY OFFENSIVE APPROACH, BECAUSE TODAY THE OFFENSIVE IS SAID TO BE ATTACKING DA'ASH FROM ALL SIDES...OR...THIS IS A COMBINATION OF A MILITARY PLAN AND AN ECONOMIC PLAN OOTW: THEY WANT TO CONTROL NOT ONLY DA'ASH'S MOVEMENTS, BUT ALSO CAPITAL FLOWS sczin11: HOW ABOUT MONETARY REFORM PLAN OOTW sczin11: ? Abraham: Tariffs would be a condition to loan agreements with the IMF and World Bank. It is one of the initial actions in a market economy OOTW: REMEMBER DURING THE KOBER INSTITUTE INTERVIEW WHEREIN ABADI WAS INTERVIEWED, THE INTERVIEWER ASKED HIM,"WHY SHOULD INVESTORS COME INTO IRAQ WITH THE PRESENCE OF ISIL?" OOTW: ABADI ANSWERED...PARAPHRASING.."WE ARE GOING TO COMMIT TO A MILITARY INTERVENTION IN ANBAR PROVINCE IN JULY AND WE EXPECT TO HAVE PREDOMINANTLY ADDRESSED DA'ASH BY JANUARY AT THE LATEST OOTW: THEN...ABADI ADDRESSED HOW THEY WERE GOING TO TACKLE IRAQ'S LARGE BUDGET DEFICIT AND HE, IN PART, RESPONDED BY SAYING THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS, IRAQ WAS GOING TO NOW BE IMPLEMENTING TAXES AND TARIFFS TO GENERATE REVENUE OOTW: SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW THE PRIVATE SECTOR LINKS TO THIS INFORMATION Abraham: ‹@OOTW› yes. The key being generate revenue OOTW: WE KNOW THAT THEY STARTED ISSUING THE LOANS FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR OOTW: YES ABRAHAM Abraham: Then they will introduce a licensing system to protect manufacturers in Iraq OOTW: AND THEY'RE GOING TO SOON BE PASSING SHARIAH BANKING LAWS, WITH THE ISLAMIC BANKING ACT AS WELL AS THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK OF IRAQ Abraham: Tariffs are also used to protect not only to generate income but to protect local manufacturing OOTW: TO INSTITUTE SHARIAH BANKING LAW FOR GOVERNMENT LOANS/PROJECTS OOTW: YES ABRAHAM VERY GOOD POINT OOTW: THE ISLAMIC BANKING LAWS ARE NEXT UP ON THE AGENDA, WITH THE ISLAMIC BANKING ACT NEEDING ONE MORE READING TO BECOME LAW OOTW: OKAY, SO ONTO THE NEXT CONNECTION OOTW: HERE'S A QUOTE FROM THIS ARTICLE OOTW: and there was supposed to be other revenues such as taxes and customs, as well as investment and the private sector revenues." OOTW: HERE'S THE THREAD LINK TO THIS OOTW: LINK TO THIS ARTICLE OOTW: THIS IS ANOTHER CONFIRMATION THAT THE GOI IS EXPECTING TARIFFS TO HELP FUND THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR sczin11: AND FOR THIS YEAR TOO Abraham: a developing country like Iraq will use tariffs and exercise custom duties to protect manufactures from external dumping of products. This also encourages foreign investors and develops the country's manufacturing sector OOTW: SO....HOW CAN THEY ADDRESS THEIR BUDGET DEFICIT IF THEY DON'T START COLLECTING MONIES FROM THE TARIFFS VERY SOON? OOTW: PLEASE SEE THIS EXCERPT OOTW: of this year, there will be a deficit in the budget by a large margin. He added that in all cases there will be a deficit, but if oil prices exceeded the threshold of $ 60, as it expected it would be deficit less, explaining that the deficit ratio projected remain large and exceed 30%, under any circumstances not to put plans and precautions in light of fluctuating oil prices. The MP pointed out that the Parliament in this matter can not be resolved shortly, and there was supposed to be other revenues such as taxes and customs, as well as investment and the private sector revenues. sczin11: other revenues such as taxes and customs, as well as investment and the private sector revenues. sczin11: other revenues such as taxes and customs, as well as investment and the private sector revenues. sczin11: THE ABOVE ITEMS WERE SUPPOSED TO HELP REDUCE THE BUDGET DEFICIT OOTW: THIS PRESS RELEASE FROM AN MP QUOTING ABADI, DERIVES FROM THE MINISTRY OF PLANNINGS PRESS RELEASE FROM YESTERDAY, ADDRESSING THE BUDGET DEFICIT FOR 2016'S BUDGET OOTW: TITLE "It focused on financing on credit and reducing its plan to 30 per cent and the Ministry of Planning and end of the investment budget projects for the year 2016 discussions Websites 15 July, 2015 " OOTW: LINK TO THIS MINISTRY OF PLANNING PRESS RELEASE OOTW: ‹@Abraham› ABSOLUTELY AND WE KNOW THAT "DUMPING" IS ADDRESSED IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN IN OUR FORUM OOTW: THIS WAS PUBLISHED UNDER THE ABADI GOVERNMENT sczin11: SO THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT PLANNING FOR 2016, AND YET HAVENT EVEN IMPLEMENTED NOR FUNDED THE 2015 BUDGET, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE CUSTOMS AND TARIFFS IN PLAY...TO HELP WITH THE SHORT FALL OOTW: SEE THE PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN HERE: sczin11: SO, MY BEST GUEST IS THEY HAVE A DATE sczin11: IS IT AUGUST 1 OOTW: HERE'S THIS STRAIGHT FROM THE GOVERNMENT'S FAIRLY NEW PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN sczin11: CAN THEY GET THE CONTROLLED BORDERS BY ISIS, CLOSED DOWN, SO THERE WILL BE UNITY ACROSS ALL BORDERS THAT ARE OPEN? OOTW: SECTION: "The second pillar: improving the business environment in Iraq" OOTW: "3.6. Target in the first stage of economic reform federal laws, investment, public partnerships - Private, land system, general supplies, sinks, work, Companies, public companies, competition, consumer protection, trade, Arbitration, taxes and tariffs" Abraham: if you want the private sector to invest in manufacturing tariffs and customs duties not only protect the local manufacturers but allow them to compete on an even playing field. No foreign will invest in the manufacturing sector unless their products can be competive as well as allowing them a return on investment. This is why tariffs are essential and vital to a developing country sczin11: WILL IRAQ OPEN THEIR BORDERS TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, AND JOIN WORLD ECONOMIES ACROSS THE WORLD, AT AN EXCHANGE RATE OF 1166 DINAR TO 1 US DOLLAR sczin11: ARE THERE ENOUGH DINAR NOTES IN CIRCULATION TO PAY THE CUSTOMS AND TARIFFS ON A CONTAINER OF GENERATORS? disciple7: Nope [image: smile.png] OOTW: THIS AMENDMENT TO THIS LAW IS PASSED, AND IN PART, ADDRESSES REQUIREMENTS FOR NATIONAL COMPANIES The competent Committee First reading Second reading Date of vote Law No. Publishing the facts | Committee of Economy and Investment 07/05/2015 05/26/2015 01/07/2015 (THIRD READING ON JULY 1, 2015) 1 - the fifth amendment to the Law on Public Companies Act http://parliament.iq/details.aspx?LawIDF=14699 OOTW: The Fifth Amendment to the Law on Public Companies Act July 1, 2015 Name of the people Presidency Based on what passed the House of Representatives and approved by the President of the Republic and based on the provisions of subsection (I) of Article (61) and item (iii) of Article 73 of the Constitution Issued the following law: No. () for the year 2015 Law Fifth Amendment to the Law on Public Enterprises No. (22) for the year 1997 Article 1 The text of item (iii) of Article (15) of the General Companies Law No. (22) for the year 1997 and replaced by Mayati: Third, the company's right to participate with the Iraqi, Arab and foreign companies sober for the implementation of the objectives of the relevant company within Iraq 0 Article 2 of this law shall be the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. The reasons For the purpose of granting public companies the right to participate with Iraqi companies, Initiated this law TxBrand: do they have to pay with dinar ? OOTW: RIGHT NOW TXBRAND, IRAQ IS OPERATING UNDER MULTIPLE CURRENCY PRACTICES TxBrand: ok OOTW: THAT'S WHY THEY DEAL IN DOLLAR AND DINAR AND THIS IS ONE OF THE ASPECTS THAT THE IMF "RECOMMENDS" HAS TO BE ADDRESSED FOR THEM TO MOVE TO ARTICLE 8 OOTW: AND THEY ARE WORKING ON THIS NOW...NOW WE SEE THE CBI SELL RATE VS THE STREET SELL RATE COMING CLOSER IN LINE OOTW: REMEMBER WITHIN THE PAST MONTH KEYWORDS AND SALEH BOTH SAID THEY ARE WORKING TO MOVE TOWARDS ADDRESSING ARTICLE 8 COMPLIANCE; PLEASE SEE THIS THREAD FOR ARTICLE AND IMF DOCUMENT OOTW: REMEMBER..IT'S IRAQ'S DECISION TO MOVE TO ARTICLE 8 sczin11: AND WHAT DO WE NEED FOR ARTICLE 8 OOTW? Abraham: ‹@OOTW› Amen must be addressed. And no drawn down on loans until it is addressed. OOTW: THEY CHOOSE THE REGIME..THEY INFORM THE IMF, AND THE IMF REVIEWS THEIR MONETARY POLICY, PRACTICES AND CONDITIONS AND "ADVISES" THEM TOWARDS STABILIZING THEIR MONETARY PRACTICES OOTW: ONCE IRAQ MOVES TO ARTICLE 8 THEY WILL THEN HAVE COMPLETELY INITIATED VISIBLE BANKING/TRANSPARENCY AND WILL THEN BE WORKING UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF THE IMF TO SHOW THAT CORRUPTION IS UNDER CONTROL WELL ENOUGH TO VALIDATE THIS MOVE TO ARTICLE 8 OOTW: REMEMBER THEY'RE WORKING ON DEALING WITH CORRUPTION, COUNTERFEITING, LAUNDERING ETC RIGHT NOW OOTW: WE'RE CLOSER AND CLOSER Abraham: In my opinion this is why the budget was not opened OOTW: WELL, THAT'S ONE WAY TO LOOK AT IT ABRAHAM, BUT THEY ARE IN FACT SPENDING MONIES FROM THE BUDGET sczin11: ARTICLE 8 MEANS TO ME... THEY HAVE AN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNIZED AND TRADED CURRENCY OOTW: HERE'S THIS FROM THE IMF PDF RECOMMENDATIONS TO A COUNTRY TO MOVE TO ARTICLE 8 OOTW: " 37. In support of this effort, it is important to ensure that the Fund has complete and up-to-date information on members’ exchange systems. Under Article VIII, Section 5, members are required to provide the Fund with information on their exchange controls and official clearing arrangements." OOTW: 35. A consistent and sustained effort is needed on the part of the Fund to encourage the continued liberalization of exchange measures by Fund members and to ensure that the provisions of Article VIII are observed. This focus is dictated by the concerns identified above with regard to the reliance by some members on the transitional arrangements of Article XIV for extended periods, the imposition by some members of exchange measures without Fund approval, and the need to ensure that all security-related restrictions are reported to the Fund on a timely basis. 36. A key aspect of this effort relates to monitoring members’ compliance with their Article VIII obligations and pressing for the removal of unapproved exchange measures. In the context of the Fund’s regular (PARTIAL DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLE IV) Article IV consultations with members, staff will continue to monitor the introduction of exchange measures subject to Fund jurisdiction, regardless of whether they have been introduced for balance of payments, security, or other reasons. On the basis of the most recently issued Article IV staff reports, there are 29 members that presently impose exchange measures without Fund approval in a manner that is inconsistent with their Article VIII obligations. 26 Hence, the Fund must continue to press for compliance by all members with their obligations under the Articles. Moreover, it is important to ensure that any changes which members make to their exchange control regimes are consistent with Article VIII. In particular, members should consult with Fund staff before 26 This number comprises 18 members that have previously notified the Fund of their acceptance of the Article VIII obligations and 11 members that continue to avail themselves of the transitional arrangements of Article XIV, section 2, while maintaining exchange measures which are subject to approval under Article VIII. OOTW: THERE'S TONS OF INFO IN OUR IMF THREAD Doug_W: BUT we like ur cliff notes better OO OOTW: HERE'S THE LINK, AS ALWAYS, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO REVIEW THIS THREAD AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF Doug_W: and 11 too OOTW sczin11: SO FOLKS, I KNOW WE ALL TRY HARD TO PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER, AND WE KNOW LOGIC RARELY PREVAILS IN IRAQ, AND WE DONT KNOW WHAT WE DONT KNOW, AND ,...WELLL...... IS THIS ALL TIMING? IS THIS ALL A COINCIDENCE? I WOULD SAY THE PLAN IS CLEARLY IN THE WORKS, AND THE CONFIRMATIONS IN ALL SECTORS OF GOVT KEEP COMING OUT... OOTW: YES, AND ABRAHAM I WANT TO SAY, "OPENING" THE BUDGET..MEANING SPENDING THE SPECIFIC MONIES ALLOCATED FOR THE BUDGET'S PROJECTS..HAS TYPICALLY BEEN KEPT UNDER WRAPS sczin11: WILL THE TARIFFS FINALLY BE IMPOSED? THE TOUGHT TO SLEEP WITH FOR THE NEXT 15 DAYS? OOTW: ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? Donnie: TY for bringing this all together in a concise manner here. OOTW: THANKS DONNIE Abraham: ‹@OOTW› because tariffs is a condition of the IMF and it has an income line in the budget OOTW: I GUESS THERE'S NO QUESTIONS....PERHAPS THIS IS BECAUSE I'VE DONE MY JOB? LOL...HUGS EVERYONE AND HAVE A GREAT DAY Abraham: ‹@OOTW› thanks so much for all you do OOTW: NO THANK YOU ABRAHAM I LOVE YOUR QUESTIONS OOTW: VERY INTELLIGENT AND MAKES THESE TALKS VERY EXCITING Abraham: ‹@OOTW› thank you OOTW: [image: grin.png] rollonjohn: ‹@Donnie› ‹@OOTW› ‹@sczin11› Thank you all for all you do! TxBrand: sounds good .. crossing fingers that we will finally see something EdoBini: OOTW. Thank you so much. These are rally educational trips for a lot of folks OOTW: THANKS EDOBINI AND ROLLONJOHN AND TXBRAND OOTW: DID EVERYONE HERE GET THE MASS EMAIL I SENT OUT YESTERDAY TO OUR MEMBERS, WITH A LINK TO YESTERDAY'S CHAT? rollonjohn: ‹@OOTW› Yes, thank you. OOTW: OKAY GOOD SWEETIE..SOME PEOPLE ARE TELLING ME THEY'RE NOT RECEIVING THEM Abraham: ‹@OOTW› I received the email. Thanks Sassy: ‹@OOTW› Yes I recieved mine OOTW: THANK YOU Sassy: ‹@OOTW› ‹@sczin11› thank you so much Sassy: Great chat OOTW: TY SASSY THANK YOU WEALTH WATCH . WORLD