DinarThug Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 CNN. Broadcasting An 8 Minute Long Interview With Abadi In English ! LINK Video: Abadi speaks to a number of foreign newspapers 27th October GO TO LINK TO WATCH 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new york kevin Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 Well this man is very intelligent. He has a plan and is determined to work the plan. I clicked on the link and i clicked on the translate button. Now he may have spoken english during this interview, IDK, but it shows his brain power. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synopsis Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 Abadi makes references to the economy from nominally the 2:05 to 3:55 mark. The remarks were high level from what I could perceive so I did not see anything new either supporting or contrary to our speculative investment. Go Moola Nova! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laid Back Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 He's letting the world know what Iraq has accomplished during his mandate and the plan for the near future. This will help to bring more investment into the country. Go Abadi Go Success 1 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigergorzow Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 DT Thanks, DV, PM Abadi is the real deal and history will show his "Outstanding & Courageous Leadership" during difficult times & terror against the world. Lastly, In the end to bring all Iraqis together in a Unified Iraq will be a success in the region as a whole..... "More Purchasing Power To Its Former Glory" GO Abadi GO HCL GO RV / RI 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synopsis Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 9 minutes ago, Laid Back said: He's letting the world know what Iraq has accomplished during his mandate and the plan for the near future. This will help to bring more investment into the country. Go Abadi Go Success I agree Bother Laid Back! Abadi's talk seemed to indicate Iraqi is ready for their very own Sovereign State Iraqish Quinceanera! Hey, it has been about fifteen years since the US and Coalition forces entered Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein and a new Democracy (of sorts) was born in the Middle East! Maybe after the Iraqi Quinceanera, Iraq will stop acting like an adolescent, quit misbehaving, and get the reconstruction and economic development rocketing along with our IQD value! Go Moola Nova! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiljor Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 Thanks Thugs Good morning Gents, I agree with each of you, Abadi is on a mission, press conferences, traveling, meetings etc... He is spreading the word, Iraq is a global contender, ready and open for business. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEPatriotsFan1 Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 Getting ready for the "Big Reveal" Love all your thoughts! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laid Back Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Synopsis said: I agree Bother Laid Back! Abadi's talk seemed to indicate Iraqi is ready for their very own Sovereign State Iraqish Quinceanera! Hey, it has been about fifteen years since the US and Coalition forces entered Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein and a new Democracy (of sorts) was born in the Middle East! Maybe after the Iraqi Quinceanera, Iraq will stop acting like an adolescent, quit misbehaving, and get the reconstruction and economic development rocketing along with our IQD value! Go Moola Nova! Totally agree brother Synopsis, iraq is on the brink of economic growth. Go dinar Go RV Go economic growth 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synopsis Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 40 minutes ago, Laid Back said: Totally agree brother Synopsis, iraq is on the brink of economic growth. Go dinar Go RV Go economic growth Oh, Yeah, Brother Laid Back! I wonder who the "man of honor" is that will present the debutante to the world during the Quinceanera Celebration???!!! In a traditional Mexican quinceañera, young women and men have roles as formal damas and chambelanes, who perform special dances at the celebration, along with the Quinceañera herself. There is also a "man of honor" who accompanies the young woman. Potential suitors present gifts to her family to make up a dowry or bridal wealth. Prior to her being given away, the women of the community participate by instructing the Quinceañera in her duties and responsibilities, urging her to follow the correct path, by remaining true to her people and their traditions throughout her life.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinceañera With Abadi whirling around foreign countries like there is no tomorrow with some stressful in country last moment preparations, looks like the Quinceanera Celebration is about to begin!!! Go Moola Nova! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedomwish Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 2 hours ago, NEPatriotsFan1 said: Getting ready for the "Big Reveal" Love all your thoughts! ............... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laid Back Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Synopsis said: Oh, Yeah, Brother Laid Back! I wonder who the "man of honor" is that will present the debutante to the world during the Quinceanera Celebration???!!! In a traditional Mexican quinceañera, young women and men have roles as formal damas and chambelanes, who perform special dances at the celebration, along with the Quinceañera herself. There is also a "man of honor" who accompanies the young woman. Potential suitors present gifts to her family to make up a dowry or bridal wealth. Prior to her being given away, the women of the community participate by instructing the Quinceañera in her duties and responsibilities, urging her to follow the correct path, by remaining true to her people and their traditions throughout her life.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinceañera With Abadi whirling around foreign countries like there is no tomorrow with some stressful in country last moment preparations, looks like the Quinceanera Celebration is about to begin!!! Go Moola Nova! I think Abadi will be the man of honor.! I like your interest in Mexican Culture Go Moola Nova Go RV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synopsis Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 14 minutes ago, Laid Back said: I think Abadi will be the man of honor.! I like your interest in Mexican Culture Go Moola Nova Go RV Laid Back and The Best Of Your Weekend To You and All DV! Go Moola Nova! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinarThug Posted October 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 Iraq may be coming to the end of 40 years of war as the government wins two big victories They must not overplay their hand, making sure that all communities in Iraq get a reasonable cut of the national cake in terms of power, money and jobs Patrick Cockburn Baghdad Friday 27 October 2017 12:15 BS An Iraqi forces member takes down Kurdish flags as they advance towards the centre of Kirkuk during an operation against Kurdish fighters Getty There is a growing mood of self-confidence in Baghdad which I have not seen here since I first visited Iraq in 1977. The country seemed then to be heading for a peaceful and prosperous future thanks to rising oil revenues. It only became clear several years later that Saddam Hussein was a monster of cruelty with a disastrous tendency to start unwinnable wars. At the time, I was able to drive safely all around Iraq, visiting cities from Mosul to Basra which became lethally dangerous over the next 40 years. The streets of the capital are packed with people shopping and eating in restaurants far into the night. Looking out my hotel window, I can see people for the first time in many years building things which are not military fortifications. There are no sinister smudges of black smoke on the horizon marking where bombs have gone off. Most importantly, there is a popular feeling that the twin victories of the Iraqi security forces in recapturing Mosul in July and Kirkuk on 16 October have permanently shifted the balance of power back towards stability. The Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, once criticised as weak and vacillating, is today almost universally praised for being calm, determined and successful in battling Isis and confronting the Kurds. “I detect a certain jauntiness in Baghdad that I have not seen before,” says the Iraqi historian and former minister Ali Allawi. “Al-Abadi has hardly put a foot wrong since the start of the crisis over Kirkuk.” A recently retired senior Iraqi security official adds that “it was bit of luck for all Iraqis, that [Kurdish President Masoud] Barzani brought on a confrontation when he did”. People in the capital are beginning to sound more like victors rather than victims. Life in Baghdad is abnormal by the standard of any other city: it remains full of blast walls made out of concrete slabs that always remind me of giant grave stones. Numerous checkpoints exacerbate appalling traffic jams. Bombings by Isis are far less frequent than they used to be, but there are memories of past atrocities, such as the truck bomb in Karada district on 3 July 2016 that killed 323 people and injured hundreds more. “Many of them were burned to death in buildings with plastic cladding on the outside that caught fire like Grenfell Tower,” observed an Iraqi observer as we drove past the site of the blast. Violence will not entirely end: the Shia majority are about to celebrate the Arbaeen festival on 10 November when millions of pilgrims walk on foot to the shrine city of Kerbala to mourn the death of Imam Hussein in a battle in 680 AD. The road between Kerbala and the shrine city of Najaf, is already decorated with thousands of black mourning flags, interspersed with occasional green and red, ones, and there are thousands of improvised tents where the pilgrims can rest and eat. The vast numbers involved makes it impossible to protect them all, so Isis may well bomb the vast multitude of pilgrims in a bid to show that it has not been totally eliminated. Despite this the long-expected defeat of Isis is very real, but the greatest boost to public morale comes from the unexpected crumbling, with little resistance and in a short space of time, of the Kurdish quasi-state in northern Iraq that had ruled a quarter of the country. Iraqi history over the last 40 years has been full of what were misleadingly billed as “turning points” for the better, but which turned out to be only ushering in a new phase in Iraq’s multi-phase civil wars that have been going on since the Americans overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003. All sides have become, at different periods, the proxies of foreign backers, but this period may now be coming to an end primarily because the wars have produced winners and losers. Communal politics are not the only determining feature in the Iraqi political landscape, but the Shia, Sunni and Kurdish communities are its main building blocks. The Sunni, a fifth of the population, have lost comprehensively because Isis became their main vehicle for opposition to the central government. Justly or unjustly, they share in its defeat. Their great cities like Mosul and Ramadi are in ruins. Sunni villages that line the main roads have often been levelled because they were seen as the home bases of local guerrillas planting IEDS. IDP camps are full of displaced Sunnis. Shia-Kurdish cooperation was born in opposition to Saddam Hussein and was the basis for the post-Saddam power-sharing governments. But both sides felt that they were being short-changed by the other and Baghdad and Erbil came to see each other as the hostile capitals of separate states. Great though their differences were, they might not have over-boiled for a few years had Barzani and his Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) not had the astonishingly bad idea of holding a Kurdish referendum on independence on 25 September. It was one of the great miscalculates of Iraqi, if not Middle East, history: the KDP now complains that it was the victim of Iranian machinations, but its real mistake was to confront the Iraqi government when it was politically and militarily much stronger than it had been after recapturing Mosul from Isis. Regardless of which Kurdish leader did or did not betray the cause, their Peshmerga would have lost the war. Ironically, the Iraqi Kurds are now likely to lose a large measure of the independence they enjoyed before the referendum. They have lost not only the oil province of Kirkuk, but may also lose control of the borders of their three core provinces. Iraqi regular forces are pressing towards the crucial border town of Fishkhabour between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey. Al-Abadi last week turned down a Kurdish offer “to freeze” the referendum result, demanding its complete negation, though it now has only a symbolic value. Iraqis in Baghdad are rightly wary of predictions of a return to normal life after 40 years of permanent crisis. There have been false dawns before, but this time round the prospects for peace are much better than before. The biggest risk is a collision between the US and Iran in which Iraq would be the political – and possibly the military – battlefield. Barzani and the KDP are promoting the idea of Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi Shia paramilitaries being at the forefront of every battle, though in fact Kirkuk was taken by two regiments from Baghdad’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service and the 9th Armoured Division. The success of the Iraqi regular forces is such that one danger is that they and the Baghdad government will become overconfident and overplay their hand, not making sure that all communities in Iraq get a reasonable cut of the national cake in terms of power, money and jobs. A golden rule of Iraqi politics is that none of the three main communities can be permanently marginalised or crushed, as Saddam Hussein discovered to his cost. The end of the era of wars in Iraq would not just be good news for Iraqis, but the rest of the world as well. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iraq-sunni-kurds-isis-may-have-won-but-to-achieve-peace-they-need-to-listen-a8023211.html 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1lucdog Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 Great Interview ...Thanks Thugs! His English is great ... better than many folks living here...and I didn't even have to push #1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinarThug Posted October 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Laid Back said: I like your interest in Mexican Culture It's Friday - Bring On The Dinargaritas ! 3 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10 YEARS LATER Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 19 minutes ago, DinarThug said: It's Friday - Bring On The Dinargaritas ! Who would have thought MEXICO had such a Sophisticated Space Program - WOWZERS ! ! ! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinarThug Posted October 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 Al-Jaafari: World countries want to invest in Iraq 28/10/2017 12:00 am Baghdad / Al-Sabah Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari stressed that Iraq needs a qualitative difference in the field of investment, and the countries of the world wish to invest in the country, pointing out that the Moscow visit resulted in discussing the economic and security files, education and education. He said after the meeting of the Iraqi- Moscow, according to a statement issued by the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that "Iraq today reflects in the movement of the components of the Iraqi people as a whole, and there are no differences of community, or forces of conflict, but all the Iraqi national forces are moving towards building the country as achieved Iraq, and completed a joint victory. " Jaafari noted that" Iraq, after the end of the issue of disposal of terrorist outposts, and the decisive confrontation was naturally to pour all his attention on reconstruction and reconstruction, "noting that Iraq is ready to step towards The meeting of the joint Iraqi-Russian committee in the capital, Moscow, was characterized by a state of harmony and openness to various files, including economic files, security, education, education and all sectors. Iraq proposed the establishment of the investment forum between Baghdad and Moscow Jaafari revealed: "We need to achieve a qualitative difference in the field of investment; because Iraq was delayed a few years because of the preoccupation with confronting terrorism," noting that the countries of the world want to invest in Iraq; because he has Economic power.link 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigergorzow Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 DT Thanks, Come on Iraq lets get this "Party" started right now. GO RV / RI 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasMike1958 Posted October 28, 2017 Report Share Posted October 28, 2017 To me all of this means diddley squat until the Iraqi Parliament is willing to meet AND act on the HCL. Until then, all of this is window dressing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8th ID Posted October 28, 2017 Report Share Posted October 28, 2017 6 hours ago, Synopsis said: Oh, Yeah, Brother Laid Back! I wonder who the "man of honor" is that will present the debutante to the world during the Quinceanera Celebration???!!! In a traditional Mexican quinceañera, young women and men have roles as formal damas and chambelanes, who perform special dances at the celebration, along with the Quinceañera herself. There is also a "man of honor" who accompanies the young woman. Potential suitors present gifts to her family to make up a dowry or bridal wealth. Prior to her being given away, the women of the community participate by instructing the Quinceañera in her duties and responsibilities, urging her to follow the correct path, by remaining true to her people and their traditions throughout her life.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinceañera With Abadi whirling around foreign countries like there is no tomorrow with some stressful in country last moment preparations, looks like the Quinceanera Celebration is about to begin!!! Go Moola Nova! I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s time for a good little Quinceañera! Lots of partying going on at one! and I am ready for one big shindig like that! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10 YEARS LATER Posted October 28, 2017 Report Share Posted October 28, 2017 1 hour ago, TexasMike1958 said: To me all of this means diddley squat until the Iraqi Parliament is willing to meet AND act on the HCL. Until then, all of this is window dressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laid Back Posted October 28, 2017 Report Share Posted October 28, 2017 4 hours ago, DinarThug said: It's Friday - Bring On The Dinargaritas ! That's awesome.!, Thanks DT 👍🏼 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinarThug Posted October 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2017 The full meeting of Dr. Haider Abadi with the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times Media Office of the Prime Minister Published on Oct 27, 2017 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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