kox Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Thanks Chief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texxas777 Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Thanks Chief be safe bud! Thanks for serving! Texx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegleg Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Thank you Chief. Truly appreciate your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicheleJ Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Thanks Chief!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linduh2 Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 thanks chief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC460 Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Thanks for the info chief and I pray you stay safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainJack Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 That's the same info I'm getting from my friend, a Lt. Col. serving as an Advisor to the Iraqi Military in Baghdad. Thanks Chief! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techie Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Thanks Chief. Please keep safe and come home soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stargazer55 Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Thanks Chief. Be safe & thank you for your service! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikkibomber Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Thanks much, I eagerly await your future posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcjr2161 Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks for the info and your service to our country.God Bless You Chief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earnit3 Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thank you for info and your service for our country. GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL OF OUR TROOPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camishe Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks for your service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauser Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thank you ChiefV... I worked with the mayor's cell for two years 07-09 in NE Iraq.... and I also know you can get great info from the terps and locals that are hired from the mil.... keep up the good work, stay off the skyline and keep them in the X-ring... Semper Fi... or whooooyaaaaa.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barboza Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks, Chief V! Please, keep us posted! We really need every bit of news that you have for all of us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamf1414 Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 thank you friend and god bless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtrstringer Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks for the heads up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief V Posted March 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 I'd like to say thank you to everyone who thanked me and for the well wishes as well. What happened to the thanks button?...lolAlong with what ArtistsnWriters I'd like to say there are a few more hurdles over here, I've posted a few things in reference that in the past, some of them quite a long read and boring, so it's definitely nicer to keep them short n sweet. I posted some blunders that were repeat blurps and really not very good finds as I didn't do my due diligence on them. I will say this in regards to a couple hurdles, I have a post about the HCL, The Banking System Training that really to me are some of the major issues in my eyes. The antiquated policies and technology of the banking system are quickly being updated as the Bankers all went to training Feb 3rd in Beirut, but the technological infrastructure is not yet in place. If you read the CR1072 that K98 posted today you'll see that again what was in my previous post is that the streamlining of data and funds to the CBI has not yet been established (1-Hurdle).This is not going to be complete until approx. Oct. 2010The Hydrocarbon Law (HCL) has yet to be officially cemented into place, the KRG or Kurdistan Regional Government has their own policy, they also sit on a wealth of oil in the Kirkuk area and really don't want to share the profits. Read the news reports about that area and they're flourishing, probably ahead of the rest of the country and even with some still very old equipment running things, Barzani is doing a good job up there. Their Policy or Constitution is different from that of Baghdad's so that is troublesome (Hurdle 2), common ground in all 18 Provinces and 3 Regions has to be established. Understand these are descendants of Tribes, Tribal People with Imam's or religious representatives from each Province and Region who have major influence over the people. Until all these folks can get on the same sheet of music there will always be instability in this country, but that doesn't mean it's going to stop it from progressing into the future internationally, it's just going to take some time. Things are progressing quickly though......stay vigilant and patient!! Vthanks again everybody, didn't expect to see 5 pages of thanks and well wishes....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsandWriters Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks much, I eagerly await your future postsHi, Nikkibomber,I had a little trouble with my ISP last night, but fixed it. Okay, here's No. 2 and now for the "Gnomes of Zurich" side to this question.First, the Swiss boys and girls are far too smart to involve themselves with the rest of the world's currency participants, here. I only call them the "Gnomes", because of both their mysterious nature and their singular erudition above Thomas Hardy's Madding Crowd. First, go into Wikipedia and look up both "Bretton Woods Conference of 1944" and "International Monetary Fund". As a direct result of this wartime conference in New Hampshire and the creatures it created; i.e., the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development), the World Bank's "soft-loan window", and of which the governance of all major currencies north of the Equator is brought to bear.Twenty-five years later in 1969, the geometric growth of the world's nations and their new currencies caused the IMF to hold a special meeting of the industrialized countries' major players. What they decided upon at the Rio de Janeiro conference was to create a separate class of the most important, developed nations' currencies and give them what were known as "Special Drawing Rights". This, in turn, evolved into having the more minor nations' currencies, indexing their values to the SDR partners vis- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbharley Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks Chief and A&R.....This is communication of value. I do not write much here because the posts are most always all over the place. Thank you both for your time and energy to educate as well as inform.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsandWriters Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Jbharley:Thanks for the moral support; I almost believe that I am in my own self-created, cyber-wildnerness out there sometimes.What we all must do is to self-educate ourselves to the realities of how the M1 world monetary systems actually operate. Were it solely up to both the Finance Ministry and the CBI, there would have been effected a substantive RV not too long after Saddam Hussein availed himself of the long-drop. It was not. Other forces out there, and far beyond the pale of Iraq's singular influence, are the puppet masters. The individuals comprising the Iraqi government are merely the jumping jacks—the IMF calling the tune and then giving them permission to dance. Our joint and several American investors have yet to come to grips with this rather sobering truth of the matter, but, and of necessity, we must. We must begin THINKING correctly if we are going to weather this emotional storm; we must begin thinking out of the snake charmer's basket.Look no longer to Baghdad, but to Washington. Whatever pronouncements made by Maliki on any given Wednesday about an RV will have been determined the Tuesday before by the IMF's own Board of Governors. Of this much you can rest assured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shannybelle27 Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thank you Chief! Just shows we are still on track! I can't believe how fast these months have flown by which just means a day closer to this finally being over. We are 2 weeks away from march being over! It would make perfect sense to have an rv come around right after elections...sonny1 mentioned that as well. With all the articles coming out from shabibi, maliki and the imf all of sudden something must be close! It's due season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fln8ive Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 From a retired chief, thanks for all you do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kox Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks Chief for information, KOX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenneth Posted March 19, 2010 Report Share Posted March 19, 2010 Thanks Chief, my brother served in the first gulf war and suffers gulf war syndrome; I'm glad to see it wasn't all for nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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