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jd says():Does anyone have a guess as to how much in reserves that the CBI may have if the RV process is held off until 2017??
magnetlady says():jd sorry I have no idea, but just cannot imagine that it will go that far out to 2017
magnetlady says():Lets be positive and think about the current news that our researchers have been bringing in.
rcookie says to jd():QUESTIONS CONTINUE TO BE INSULTING,…THE RESERVE STATUS AS PROGRAMMED BY IMF THROUGH 2018 HAVE BEEN POSTED AND WHERE TO SEE RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF TIMES..,..
THERE IS NO GUESSING OR SPECULATION …IT IS FACT…THE AUCTION PROCES…PURPOSE…HISTORY…AND WORKING AND FAILURES AS WELL…,
rcookie says to jd():REASON WHY SOME ARE ABOUT TO WALK AWAY…AND NOT BOTHER BRINGING AND EXPLAINING NEWS…
HALF PEOPLE TELLING EVERYONE NEWS IS POINTLESS AND IRAQI NEVER DO WHAT THEY SAY…..BLAH….BLAH…OTHERS CHALLENGE VALIDITY AND SOURCING…..WHY BOTHER…
rcookie says):WOW!!!…READING CHAT LOGS JUST REAFFIRMS.,,PEOPLE LIKE XXXXXX WHO MAKE SNIDE COMMNENTS LIKE “DONT YOU BELIEVE THE ARTICLES”…HA HA…
I BROUGHT THAT NAJIB ARTICLE ESPECIALLY FOR HIM AND SOME OF THE OTHER DOOM & GLOOMERS….SHOULD HAVE BEEN ECSTATIC…QUITE FUNNY …
READ COMMENTS FROM SOME STATING THE IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCHERS WORK AND NOT BEING NEGATIVE…WHEN THEY ARE AMONGST THE BIGGEST OFFENDERS….UNBELIEVABLE…
ESPECIALLY FROM BIG PERSONALITIES AND COMMENTATORS TELLING PEOPLE NEWS IS A WASTE OF TIME OR CHALLENGING VALIDITY AND ACCURACY OF SOURCES…
jd says():Im not clear on the auction process but, it would appear that it is somehow bleeding their reserves.That auction really needs to stop soon.IMO
jd says():They really need a single currency system to stop a lot of curruption.IMO
magnetlady says():I believe the single currency system is one of the requirements that they are working toward.
larrykn says():’Respect the law’, Iraqi prime minister tells protesters    Date of publication: 6 May, 2016
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called Thursday for those who want reforms to “respect the law” after protesters broke into the fortified Green Zone and stormed parliament last week.
Another demonstration is planned for Friday and protesters may attempt to enter the Green Zone again, but Abadi has warned that security forces may take a harder line if they do so.
“Those who want reform must respect the law,” Abadi said in televised remarks.
“Plans have been put in place to protect the constitutional institutions and prevent what happened recently from being repeated.”
The premier’s speech came a day after he sacked Staff Lieutenant General Mohammed Ridha, the commander of Special Forces in the Green Zone.
Ridha had kissed the hand of protest-organising cleric Muqtada al-Sadr when he entered the Green Zone during a sit-in in March.
The removal of Ridha may be a sign that security forces that stood by as demonstrators broke into the Green Zone, which is home to Iraq’s main government institutions as well as various embassies, will take action against them if they attempt to do so again.
Angry protesters broke into the area on April 30 after lawmakers again failed to approve new ministers proposed by Abadi.
Abadi has called for the current cabinet of party-affiliated ministers to be replaced by a government of technocrats.
But his efforts have been opposed by powerful political parties that rely on control of ministries for patronage and funds.
tman23 says():IMO…… When Biden showed up it was because things were going in the wrong direction….. When Rubio showed up it is because things are going in the wrong direction………… When Sadr said Bidens visit was concerning, his concern IMO is the splitting of Iraq which has been in Bidens plan as the most likely alternative…..
so Sadr heads off to Tehran……. Kurd independence is a big issue for Turkey and Iran as their countries have vast territory occupied by Kurdish people who are demanding more rights… (remember up to 18 months ago it was illegal to speak Kurdish in Turkey)……
The KRG interest is to keep a position in the GOI until article 140 is agreed (demarcation of borders) which Kirkut is the golden nugget……… While the chaos and tensions in Baghdad continue, the Kurds are house cleaning and making arrests…….The UN moved its office out of Baghdad and to Erbil…….
The Kurds are getting 2 billion grant money from the world bank NOW with more to come……Weapons and ammunition are in direct route to Kurdistan bypassing Baghdad NOW…….. There have been 3 more consulates annoucing opening in Kurdistan in the past 8 days……I believe the list tops 38 consulates now……
Nato has said the intentions of 3 military bases in the Kurd region…… And a few private foreign investment companies have started to deposit money……one announced 378 million dollars invesment DEPOSIT
tman23 says():When Trump speaks of doing away with Nato……. ending trade agreements or renegotiating them…….AND McCain makes comment that a Trump presidency will be the end of the Middle East……..
When Paul Ryan says he can not back Trump until they sit and talk and get some issues straight……. You have to evaluate and take into consideration all these scenarios and statements before we think change in value of currency…..
This is NOT JUST IRAQ’s DECISION……. International has to accept this currency (IQD) and if there is a chance of TOXIC or QUESTIONABLE ALLIANCE to protect the currency in baskets holding IQD, then one can see an understanding of future Presidential candidates would have to be informed and committed before that acceptance takes place………
larrykn says to tman23():I will still go by what the IMF as stated in the IMF LOI, I also read the the US is backing the Adibi govenment. what that said , I feel what is going on with the elections as little affect of what we are waiting on, due to we will see this in the first half of 2016
tman23 says():Thursday, that the fires were still burning in two oil wells west of Kirkuk, and while noting handle explosive devices in two other wells, confirmed to douse the flames within three weeks.
The source said in an interview with (long-Presse), “The fire is still burning in the two wells 18 and 33, which were hit by sabotage on Wednesday, detonating explosives near Baker Field (30 West km of Kirkuk),” noting that he “was handled IEDs other without loss in wells No. 39 and No. 3 in the oil field. ”
larrykn says to da58():another attemp that will fail imo
da58 says to larrykn():yeah – he really has no reason to stop – otherwise, his a$$ is cooked
da58 says():Masum stresses the need to develop a plan for the resumption of parliamentary sessions
Friday 6 May 2016 | 9:41 BAGHDAD / .. The President of the Republic Fuad Masum, Friday the importance of making rapid progress in resolving the problems facing the political process, as agreed with the oil minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on a plan succeed the return of the House of Representatives to resume its meeting at the earliest.
According to a presidential statement received “eye Iraq News,” a copy of it, “said President Masum met with Abdul-Mahdi, and discussed with him political developments in Iraq and ways to succeed in overcoming the current economic crisis.”
He infallible during the meeting on “the importance of making rapid progress in resolving the problems facing the political process, as agreed with Abdul-Mahdi, the need to deepen and intensify the dialogue between the political actors with the aim of understanding to develop a plan succeed the return of the House of Representatives to resume its meeting at the earliest as the institution Bandaj costly and adoption of appropriate solutions to all the problems facing the country at all times. ”
​The statement added that “a convergence of views on the need for frank and intensive dialogue as a way to reach solutions and consensus guarantor to resolve the current problems.”
He praised the infallible to “strengthen Iraq’s position among the oil-producing countries and rising oil production rates during the recent period,” calling to “meet the needs of the Ministry of Electricity of oil during the next summer.”
For his part, Abdul-Mahdi, a comprehensive presentation on the future plans of the ministry’s efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in the oil industry, pointing to gains reduced import of oil derivatives from abroad rates.
http://aynaliraqnews.com/index.php?aa=news&id22=56719
tman23 says():REPLACE ABADI……….. THEY CAN’T GET AN AGREEMENT OR VOTE TO REPLACE SIMPLE MINISTERS……….
​THE REPLACEMENT OF ABADI WOULD BE AN IMPOSSIBLE FEAT AT THIS POINT…….UNLESS THEY PLAN ON MOVING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AGAIN…….. BUT BEING IRAQ……ANYTHING BECOMES POSSIBLE
da58 says():Director of Sadr’s office: Friday demonstrations will be set up in places of prayer and the millions at the parliament session
06/05/2016 00:13   Tomorrow Press / Baghdad:  The director of the Martyr Sadr’s office in Baghdad, and a member of the Coordinating Committee for the demonstrations Ibrahim al-Jabri, Thursday, Friday that the demonstrations will be set up in places of prayer, noting that millions will be demonstrations at the parliament session.
Jabri said in a statement received “Tomorrow Press”, “The demonstrations on Friday will be in the accommodation Friday prayers.”
He added that he “will determine the place and time of the demonstrations millions at the time of the parliamentary session.”
It is said that the security forces imposed, on Thursday evening, under tight security, around the perimeter of the Green Zone in central Baghdad, and closed bridges in Sinak Republic Almadian it, reinforced their presence at the entrances and roads leading to them.
da58 says():SO – at the mosque’s as well…. imagine us setting up protests at our churches.. oh brother..
tman23 says():ERBIL — Chancellor of Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) Masrour Barzani insists that Iraq is a conceptual failure where people, with little in common, are compelled to share an uncertain future. Barzani says in an op-ed published by the Washington Post, “it is time to acknowledge that the experiment has not worked.
Iraq is a failed state, and our continous presence within it condemns us all to an unending conflict and enmity. Compulsory coexistence has not worked. And that is why the Kurdistan Region of Iraq will hold a referendum to establish a sovereign state, which would formalize a divorce from Baghdad and secure the area we now control as a homeland for the Kurdish people,” Barzani says.
“Whoever has held the seat of power in Baghdad has reneged on promises and ignored obligations, many of them constitutional. Even if a leader emerged who was better disposed toward us, his goodwill could never overcome a system geared toward siphoning away our rights. We are subjects, not citizens. There is simply no trust between us and the central government. The relationship is irreconcilable.”……..
THERE IT IS……….THE PRIME MINISTER OF KURDISTAN………..THE RELATIONSHIP IS IRRECONCILABLE !!
_firefly_ says():Sadr enjoys widespread popularity among Shiites and hails from a religious family with great influence among the populace — a family that lost two great religious leaders killed by Saddam Hussein’s regime, namely Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (1935-1980) and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr (1943-1999).
His lineage thus afforded him great social legitimacy, allowing him to wield extensive power that changed existing political equations in unexpected fashion, as he imposed his will on the overall political process.
Thanks to this legitimacy — and as a result of his political and social influence — Sadr skirted a 2003 arrest warrant issued in his regard by a judge in the Najaf court on charges of being involved in the assassination of prominent Shiite leader Sayyid Abdul-Majid al-Khoei on April 10, 2003.
He also managed to avoid arrest by US occupation forces following his involvement in the killing of a number of troops belonging to these forces, following attacks by the armed resistance movement, Jaish al-Mahdi. US forces were unable to capture him, given his popularity in the Shiite street. He then moved to Iran and stayed there until 2011.
_firefly_ says():In addition, the Sadrist movement cast the winning vote in Nouri al-Maliki assuming the country’s premiership for two terms in 2006-2014, as Sadr supported Maliki against the candidates of other blocs of the Iraqi National Coalition, which was then tasked with nominating a prime minister. Later, Sadr played a leading role in preventing Maliki’s ascension to power for a third term in 2014.
In mid-2015, as the tempo of popular demonstrations rose in Shiite cities against state corruption and mismanagement, Sadr stood with demonstrators to call on the Iraqi government to reform. Meanwhile, the Sadrist movement that he leads had 34 lawmakers in Iraq’s 328 seat parliament, 43 seats out of a total of 440 local council seats, and three key professional and service portfolios in the current Cabinet, including the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Municipalities, and the Ministry of Construction and Housing.
Ironically, the Sadrist movement was a main participant in corruption and a contributor in the failures that Sadr’s followers were demonstrating against with other protesters — he was part of the government while concurrently opposing said government.
But his adoption of the protest movement and the provision of political and security support therefore have overshadowed all of that. This situation afforded him larger popular support as a leader who opposes the government and garners respect from the Iraqi people regardless of their orientation, including secularists.
Consequently, the civic protest movement was transformed into a Sadrist protest movement due to his support.
As the demands of protests matured and evolved, Sadr moved from calling for anti-corruption measures and the provisioning of services, to demanding the formation of a technocratic government. He thus relocated the protests to the gates of the Green Zone and personally led them, pitching a tent for himself among the throng of demonstrators on March 27.
In a symbolic move to express their loyalty, security forces tasked with protecting the Green Zone — including Gen. Mohammad Reza, the commander of the Green Zone Protection Brigade — headed to Sadr’s tent to pledge their loyalty. Sadr and his supporters’ sit-ins continued until Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi acquiesced and submitted a technocratic Cabinet formation for adoption by parliament on March 31.
As parliament delayed voting on Abadi’s proposed Cabinet, Sadr called on his MPs to organize a sit-in inside parliament on April 12. In an attempt to circumvent Sadr’s move, lawmakers from the Maliki-led State of Law Coalition joined the protests, leading to their demands mutating to dismissing Speaker Salim al-Jabouri and demanding the sacking of the president and prime minister instead of backing Abadi’s efforts to push for the adoption of a technocratic Cabinet.
Subsequently, Sadr sabotaged Maliki’s attempts to order the withdrawal of his parliament members from the sit-in on April 20 and offered his support to the speaker, thus allowing Jabouri to resume his duties and continue deliberating Abadi’s proposed Cabinet.
Sadr was not satisfied with the partial April 26 parliamentary vote on a technocratic Cabinet of only six ministers, and he called on his supporters to storm the Green Zone and demonstrate inside parliament in order to pressure the government and parliament to vote on a complete Cabinet of technocrats. The protesters were met with open gates and warm welcomes from some of the forces tasked with protecting the Green Zone, where protesters remained for two days.
_firefly_ says():Yet despite the peaceful atmosphere that accompanied the storming of the Green Zone, a number of parliamentarians were beaten and cursed while Sadrist movement lawmakers were embraced and carried on the shoulders of protesters who raised slogans that included chants against the United States and Iran such as “Death to America” and “Iran out of Iraq,” calling on them to stop meddling in Iraqi affairs. The incident shocked Iraqi politicians, leading some analysts to characterize the event as “a de-facto coup.”
Sadr’s latest behavior seems to reflect the ambiguity and volatility of his political demands. The man mutated from a religious militia leader demanding the establishment of an Islamic rule to a reformist calling for a government of independent technocrats unaffiliated with any religious parties. In addition, his political conduct and the internal and external alliances that he entered into saw a great deal of change, for he went from allying himself with Maliki to deposing him and from a man exiled to Iran and backed by Tehran to a nationalistic leader who opposed Iran’s influence in Iraq.
In this sense, Sadr represents a great challenge to other influential political and religious forces in Iraq — justifying the description espoused by analysts in his regard as “the most dangerous man in Iraq” — due to his falling out with the traditional religious authority in Najaf, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who contented himself with issuing general guidelines on Feb. 5, 2016, while refraining from directly interfering in political affairs.
The criticism against Sadr was also due to his animosity toward the United States because of its capacity as the most influential foreign force in Iraq, as well as his opposition to Iran as the most influential regional force in Iraq.
Yet at the same time Sadr represents an opportunity for Abadi to effectuate balance with other political forces by exploiting Sadr’s popular protest movements, calling for the adoption of an independent Cabinet of technocrats that would lead to Abadi’s emancipation from the dominance of parties over his government through their ministers.
All of the foregoing demonstrates the existence of a high level of pragmatism in Sadr’s political conduct, allowing him to reinvent himself as a populist political and religious leader possessing an enormous level of political dynamism. This is while he continues to exploit the current protest movement to expand his sphere of influence, leading to him to becoming the undisputed leader on the Iraqi political scene.
Ali Mamouri    Columnist
Ali Mamouri is a columnist for Al-Monitor’s Iraq Pulse, a researcher and writer who specializes in religion. He is a former teacher in Iranian universities and seminaries in Iran and Iraq. He has published several articles related to religious affairs in the two countries and societal transformations and sectarianism in the Middle East.
Follow @AlMonitor    Original Al-Monitor Translations
da58 says():The arrival of a Swiss equipment for the printing of currency to Iraq
Date: 06/05/2016 12:19
Paper-cash-category -50 000-dinar  Information / Baghdad ..
A commission of economy and investment representative, on Friday, announced the arrival of Swiss devices for the printing of currency to Iraq, noting that all Iraqi currency being printed in Switzerland.
A member of the committee MP Abdul Salam al-Maliki told / information /, said that “all Iraqi currency, which is treated as printed in Switzerland reinforce Iraq’s stock of gold and the dollar.”
Maliki referred to “access devices Soerih to Iraq for the printing of the currency.”
The central bank announced (April 11, 2016), that the Iraqi dinar Bmoasfath current and techniques ahead of many European countries, indicating that the bank is development and the search for the best technologies in the issuance of paper or change continuously.Finished / 25 p.
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arrykn says to _firefly_():you know I have a hard time figuring out what is Sadr is all about
_firefly_ says to larrykn():Sadr is for the people of Iraq, the citizens! He is well known for destroying political carers
_firefly_ says to larrykn():He wants the people to have back what was taken from them
_firefly_ says to larrykn():Electricity, water, etc
larrykn says to _firefly_():well I felt that but if he is destroying politial careers I just pray its the bad guys
_firefly_ says to larrykn():Only the bad guys. He is pushing HARD for the reforms and even signedan agreement with Abadi 2 weeks ago
_firefly_ says to larrykn():MAY should be a VERY VERY VERY telling month
da58 says():Security forces shut down Baghdad to prevent Green Zone protests
A supporter of Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr raises his hand as he shouts amongst other people during Friday prayers in Baghdad’s Sadr City May 6, 2016.
REUTERS/AHMED SAAD
Iraqi security forces ramped up their presence across Baghdad on Friday, blocking most major roads and bridges to keep followers of Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr from reaching the government district they stormed a week earlier.
A Sadr representative meanwhile called on supporters to rally outside local mosques following afternoon prayers, rather than gathering near the heavily fortified Green Zone, a move which could reduce the risk of clashes.
The demonstrations are aimed at pressuring Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to follow through on months-old promises to replace party-affiliated ministers with independent technocrats as part of an anti-corruption drive.
da58 says():Iraq has endured months of wrangling over the proposal, with a divided parliament withholding approval amid scuffles and protests. Deep frustration among Iraqis over the deadlock culminated on Sunday in the unprecedented breach of the Green Zone, which houses parliament, government offices and many foreign embassies.
Security officials said three regiments from an elite police division that has battled Islamic State militants were deployed in and around the Green Zone.
On one bridge stretching over the Tigris River, dozens of counter-terrorism forces manned Humvees mounted with machine guns. They stood behind two consecutive barriers made of 12-foot (3.6 meter) blast walls spanning the bridge.
The head of Sadr’s political office said large-scale demonstrations had been postponed until Tuesday, when tens of thousands of protesters would be mobilized to rally outside an expected parliament session.
At least four soldiers were killed and seven others wounded on Friday when a suicide car bomber attacked an army checkpoint in the western part of the capital, police sources said. Two bombs in nearby Abu Ghraib killed three people and wounded 13. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts.
(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed and Kareem Raheem; Writing by Stephen Kalin)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-politics-idUSKCN0XX185
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