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Wealthwatch Monday Evening Chat 10-05-15 Part 1 of 2
OOTW: IN READING THE NEWS TODAY, I AM SEEING A TREND, IN THAT THE GOVT PRESS RELEASES ARE NO LONGER CONVEYING AS STRONGLY AS IN THE PAST, THAT THE IRAQI'S WILL SEE SWEEPING REFORMS..
THE GOVT IS TREADING LIGHTLY - PERHAPS THEY'VE GOTTEN THE MESSAGE THAT THEY NEED TO SHOW ACTIONS AND TO BE CAREFUL WITH THEIR WORDS..THE ANNOUNCEMENTS, OVERALL, SEEM MORE CAUTIOUS TO ME
chattels: ERBIL, Kurdistan – Ten-year-old Khalid Mohammad studies his family members intently before strapping a fanny pack to his tiny waist and joining them in the street. He wasn’t headed to school. It was his first day on the job. Mohammad is one of 700,000 children who, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), missed the entire 2014-215 school year.
The organization estimates that 3 million children will be out of school this year. Mohammad and his family are refugees from Mosul, the stronghold of the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, that has been occupied by the terror group since last year.
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Wealthwatch Monday Evening Chat 10-05-15 Part 1 of 2
OOTW: IN READING THE NEWS TODAY, I AM SEEING A TREND, IN THAT THE GOVT PRESS RELEASES ARE NO LONGER CONVEYING AS STRONGLY AS IN THE PAST, THAT THE IRAQI'S WILL SEE SWEEPING REFORMS..
THE GOVT IS TREADING LIGHTLY - PERHAPS THEY'VE GOTTEN THE MESSAGE THAT THEY NEED TO SHOW ACTIONS AND TO BE CAREFUL WITH THEIR WORDS..THE ANNOUNCEMENTS, OVERALL, SEEM MORE CAUTIOUS TO ME
chattels: ERBIL, Kurdistan – Ten-year-old Khalid Mohammad studies his family members intently before strapping a fanny pack to his tiny waist and joining them in the street. He wasn’t headed to school. It was his first day on the job. Mohammad is one of 700,000 children who, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), missed the entire 2014-215 school year.
The organization estimates that 3 million children will be out of school this year. Mohammad and his family are refugees from Mosul, the stronghold of the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, that has been occupied by the terror group since last year.
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They are part of the nearly 2 million displaced people who have arrived in the Kurdistan region since ISIS began its onslaught more than a year ago. The influx has exacerbated economic and political woes in the region, stretching already thin public services past capacity. For refugees like Mohammad, school is a luxury he can hardly afford.
chattels: “In Iraq, up to 1.5 million kids have difficulty accessing education services consistently. If they miss out on one or two years of education, this decreases the chance they will ever go back to school,” said Jeffrey Bates, chief of communications for UNICEF in Iraq.
chattels: “The scale of the crisis, the way in which it expands and changes every day is daunting, but we are optimistic we can work for a brighter future for children in Iraq,” Elkorany said.
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Tootsie: In Line with the above article re: warning of bankruptcy ~~ Finance warns of resorting to external borrowing budget next year 2015/10/05 17:46 Date: 05/10/2015 17:46 [Image: 2015-9-1-17-54-45.jpg] Information / special / ..
He warned in the Parliamentary Finance Committee member, on Monday, of resorting to external borrowing in the budget next year,
pointing out that the size of the deficit is still large and did not put the government has the appropriate remedies in the draft bill.
Said committee member Mohammad Omar told / information /, that "the budget next year contains a large fiscal deficit ratios that can not be addressed only external borrowing, as happened in the current year budget," noting that "the government has not developed appropriate solutions and treatments on the deficit in the blackish project the budget law for next year 2016 ".
He added that "the government this year resorted to internal and external borrowing, which form a significant burden on the Iraqi economy," stressing that he "can not allow the government to resort to such a step in the next year because the backlog of loans will double up its effects on to subsequent generations with interest rates great. "
The Ministry of Finance estimated the price of oil rate within the budget in 2016 to 45 dollars and the export of 3.6 million barrels per day, noting that the budget revenues will amount to more than 84 Trliuna and 73 billion dinars.
He called on House Speaker Saleem al-Jubouri, on Monday, to find a plan that "exempt" from the collapse of Iraq, pointing out that the financial inventories for less than what Iraq needs, while stressing the importance of launching strategy to combat plan Alvesad.anthy wealthwatch.world/showthr...
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chattels: "The Council began the second reading of the first draft amendment to the law to compensate those affected by the military operations and the mistakes of military and terrorist operations Law No. 20 of 2009" . chattels: http://ift.tt/1LEwWYk...
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chattels: Remember that the Iraqi constitution requires that the victims of terrorism be compensated which is another drain upon the reserves.
Tootsie: certainly is ~
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OOTW: IN READING THE NEWS TODAY, I AM SEEING A TREND, IN THAT THE GOVT PRESS RELEASES ARE NO LONGER CONVEYING AS STRONGLY AS IN THE PAST, THAT THE IRAQI'S WILL SEE SWEEPING REFORMS..
THE GOVT IS TREADING LIGHTLY - PERHAPS THEY'VE GOTTEN THE MESSAGE THAT THEY NEED TO SHOW ACTIONS AND TO BE CAREFUL WITH THEIR WORDS..THE ANNOUNCEMENTS, OVERALL, SEEM MORE CAUTIOUS TO ME
OOTW: WELL THE INTEGRITY SITE'S DOWN..I WONDER WHAT THAT MEANS.. LOL
OOTW: OKAY IT'S BACK UP NOW OOTW: LOL
chattels: It is the imposition of reality upon rhetoric, IMO. There were constitutional limitations and necessary enabling legislation from the outset to accomplish the reforms. Many knowledegable commentators said as much. It is the dinar pundits who appropriated the reforms as the next / newest basis to sensationalize the prospects of the IQD.
chattels: Recent example is the opening of the green zone. It is mostly show and little substance. Many / most of the security limitations remain in effect.
chattels: DEASH, corruption, devastatingly low oil prices, 3 million internally displaced, legislative gridlock, the judicary, etc., all of these things are relatively unchanged.
chattels: One can put lipstick on the pig, but it is still a pig, IMO
chattels: Democracy in Iraq is threatened from within and without. I pray that the hope of it will survive politically, economically and socially.
chattels: People crowd Daash repels the attack in Baiji, killing a large number of elements 04/10/2015 14:29 BAGHDAD / National Iraqi News Agency / nina / media-Harbi team announced the popular crowd killed a large number of terrorists Daash in Baiji. The team said in a statement today that "the Imam Ali Brigades repulsed to Daash attack on the military district of Baiji, and his liver a large loss of life and captured a number of mechanisms ".
chattels: Good news, they are holding the line in Baiji.
chattels: (IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A security source in Anbar province said on Saturday, that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has replaced the foreign and Arab leaders in Ramadi by Iraqi leaders from the residents of the city.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “intelligence information received by the security forces in Anbar revealed that the leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi decided to replace all foreign and Arab leaders in Ramadi by others from the sons of the city.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “the replacement decision came for fear of al-Baghdadi on those leaders to be surrounded and killed in the city, after the progress of the security forces in surrounding the city from the northern and southern axes.
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chattels: (IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Chief of the Syrian Antiquities Authority, Maamoun Abdul Karim, announced that ISIS militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra.
Abdulkarim told Reuters that sources in Palmyra had confirmed that the Arch of Triumph, a jewel in the exquisite collection of ruins in the oasis city, had been blown up. Syrian officials stated previously that the ISIS organization has blown up several temples at the Roman-era UNESCO World Heritage site. chattels: http://ift.tt/1Jyr96b...
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chattels: How sad - what a irreplaceable loss.
chattels: (IraqiNews.com) The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, that the Russian air campaign in Syria is “a big mistake” that is unacceptable to Ankara.
The Turkish newspaper “Hurriyet” quoted Erdogan during a news conference at the airport before his departure to Belgium as saying: “At the present moment, Russia is making a big mistake, and this may be an indicator of taking a step in the isolation of Russia in this region.”
Erdogan’s comments went in the same direction as British Prime Minister David Cameron who described in earlier statements the Russian military action in Syria as a “fatal mistake.”
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chattels: Why would the US pick Turkey over the Kurds? By Paul Davis Kurdish Peshmerga at a graduation ceremony in Erbil, April 2015 Photo: AFP Kurdish Peshmerga at a graduation ceremony in Erbil, April 2015 Photo: AFP There is an increasing distance between US interest and that of Turkey as well as between the EU and Turkey.
Once the stalwart of NATO’s eastern defense the breakup of the Soviet Union and the subsequent removal of the Warsaw Pact nations as a threat, in fact many becoming NATO members, reduced the strategic leverage Turkey offered.
The current ruling party in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been moving Turkey farther from its pro-western secular founding principles and closer to a single party dictatorship. The AKP has not however been able to totally subordinate the democratic system and there has been sufficient push back to hold somewhat to the rule of law and maintain an opposition, however tenuous those positons may be.
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chattels: " With a reemerging Russia the strategic and tactical relevance of Turkey for NATO is reestablished."
chattels: The foregoing is am example of how Iraq and Syria become fodder in the mill of international issues, IMO
OOTW: FROM THE MINISTRY OF INTEGRITY "October 4 2015 under the auspices of Dr. Haider Abadi, the prime minister maintains the board of the National Integrity festive week of the sixth -gda Monday at exactly eleven am on the mole at the assembly hall .. Suspension Bridge near the laundry Zora at exactly ten in the morning Thank you for accepting our invitation 04/10/2015 Readers Number: 84" .
chattels: said the board member of the Presidency of the Council of Representatives Hamoudi, on Monday, that the reform process is everyone's responsibility, not an individual matter.
A statement by his office received by the agency all of Iraq [where] a copy of which was that "we have to be loyal both responded to the advisory opinion of the Supreme reference of volunteers and the crowd and the Peshmerga and the tribes,"
noting that "the process of reform is everyone's responsibility, not an individual community has an active and influential role as an administrator and media roles effective another, especially in the follow up the implementation procedures and laws. chattels: http://ift.tt/1LEwWYk...
http://ift.tt/1LvyvJd
chattels: " ............. the follow up the implementation procedures and laws.
chattels: “In Iraq, up to 1.5 million kids have difficulty accessing education services consistently. If they miss out on one or two years of education, this decreases the chance they will ever go back to school,” said Jeffrey Bates, chief of communications for UNICEF in Iraq.
chattels: “The scale of the crisis, the way in which it expands and changes every day is daunting, but we are optimistic we can work for a brighter future for children in Iraq,” Elkorany said.
chattels: http://ift.tt/1hohh2e;http://ift.tt/1GrExDb
TxBrand: Iraq Live Update @IraqLiveUpdate · 4h4 hours ago Ameri: 3 red lines for US coalit'n 1.No US bases in Iraq 2.No more ground forces 3.No arms without Iraq gov approval
TxBrand: http://twitter.com/IraqLiveUpdat...
https://twitter.com/IraqLiveUpdate/status/651001695275761664
Tootsie: In Line with the above article re: warning of bankruptcy ~~ Finance warns of resorting to external borrowing budget next year 2015/10/05 17:46 Date: 05/10/2015 17:46 [Image: 2015-9-1-17-54-45.jpg] Information / special / ..
He warned in the Parliamentary Finance Committee member, on Monday, of resorting to external borrowing in the budget next year,
pointing out that the size of the deficit is still large and did not put the government has the appropriate remedies in the draft bill.
Said committee member Mohammad Omar told / information /, that "the budget next year contains a large fiscal deficit ratios that can not be addressed only external borrowing, as happened in the current year budget," noting that "the government has not developed appropriate solutions and treatments on the deficit in the blackish project the budget law for next year 2016 ".
He added that "the government this year resorted to internal and external borrowing, which form a significant burden on the Iraqi economy," stressing that he "can not allow the government to resort to such a step in the next year because the backlog of loans will double up its effects on to subsequent generations with interest rates great. "
The Ministry of Finance estimated the price of oil rate within the budget in 2016 to 45 dollars and the export of 3.6 million barrels per day, noting that the budget revenues will amount to more than 84 Trliuna and 73 billion dinars.
He called on House Speaker Saleem al-Jubouri, on Monday, to find a plan that "exempt" from the collapse of Iraq, pointing out that the financial inventories for less than what Iraq needs, while stressing the importance of launching strategy to combat plan Alvesad.anthy wealthwatch.world/showthr...
http://ift.tt/1LtZfK8
chattels: "The Council began the second reading of the first draft amendment to the law to compensate those affected by the military operations and the mistakes of military and terrorist operations Law No. 20 of 2009" . chattels: http://ift.tt/1LEwWYk...
http://ift.tt/1LvytRs
chattels: Remember that the Iraqi constitution requires that the victims of terrorism be compensated which is another drain upon the reserves.
Tootsie: certainly is ~
chattels: raise the House of Representatives today to its regular Tuesday http://ift.tt/1LEwWYk...
http://ift.tt/1FSiOJt
TxBrand: http://ift.tt/1enmb8j... ISIS Destroys Another Ancient Landmark: 'We’re Going to Lose Palmyra,' Syrian Director Says
http://ift.tt/1Ofnqe1
OOTW: IN READING THE NEWS TODAY, I AM SEEING A TREND, IN THAT THE GOVT PRESS RELEASES ARE NO LONGER CONVEYING AS STRONGLY AS IN THE PAST, THAT THE IRAQI'S WILL SEE SWEEPING REFORMS..
THE GOVT IS TREADING LIGHTLY - PERHAPS THEY'VE GOTTEN THE MESSAGE THAT THEY NEED TO SHOW ACTIONS AND TO BE CAREFUL WITH THEIR WORDS..THE ANNOUNCEMENTS, OVERALL, SEEM MORE CAUTIOUS TO ME
OOTW: WELL THE INTEGRITY SITE'S DOWN..I WONDER WHAT THAT MEANS.. LOL
OOTW: OKAY IT'S BACK UP NOW OOTW: LOL
chattels: It is the imposition of reality upon rhetoric, IMO. There were constitutional limitations and necessary enabling legislation from the outset to accomplish the reforms. Many knowledegable commentators said as much. It is the dinar pundits who appropriated the reforms as the next / newest basis to sensationalize the prospects of the IQD.
chattels: Recent example is the opening of the green zone. It is mostly show and little substance. Many / most of the security limitations remain in effect.
chattels: DEASH, corruption, devastatingly low oil prices, 3 million internally displaced, legislative gridlock, the judicary, etc., all of these things are relatively unchanged.
chattels: One can put lipstick on the pig, but it is still a pig, IMO
chattels: Democracy in Iraq is threatened from within and without. I pray that the hope of it will survive politically, economically and socially.
chattels: People crowd Daash repels the attack in Baiji, killing a large number of elements 04/10/2015 14:29 BAGHDAD / National Iraqi News Agency / nina / media-Harbi team announced the popular crowd killed a large number of terrorists Daash in Baiji. The team said in a statement today that "the Imam Ali Brigades repulsed to Daash attack on the military district of Baiji, and his liver a large loss of life and captured a number of mechanisms ".
chattels: Good news, they are holding the line in Baiji.
chattels: (IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A security source in Anbar province said on Saturday, that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has replaced the foreign and Arab leaders in Ramadi by Iraqi leaders from the residents of the city.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “intelligence information received by the security forces in Anbar revealed that the leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi decided to replace all foreign and Arab leaders in Ramadi by others from the sons of the city.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “the replacement decision came for fear of al-Baghdadi on those leaders to be surrounded and killed in the city, after the progress of the security forces in surrounding the city from the northern and southern axes.
chattels: http://ift.tt/1gmvlbZ...
http://ift.tt/1hoheUh
chattels: (IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Chief of the Syrian Antiquities Authority, Maamoun Abdul Karim, announced that ISIS militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra.
Abdulkarim told Reuters that sources in Palmyra had confirmed that the Arch of Triumph, a jewel in the exquisite collection of ruins in the oasis city, had been blown up. Syrian officials stated previously that the ISIS organization has blown up several temples at the Roman-era UNESCO World Heritage site. chattels: http://ift.tt/1Jyr96b...
http://ift.tt/1hoheUi
chattels: How sad - what a irreplaceable loss.
chattels: (IraqiNews.com) The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, that the Russian air campaign in Syria is “a big mistake” that is unacceptable to Ankara.
The Turkish newspaper “Hurriyet” quoted Erdogan during a news conference at the airport before his departure to Belgium as saying: “At the present moment, Russia is making a big mistake, and this may be an indicator of taking a step in the isolation of Russia in this region.”
Erdogan’s comments went in the same direction as British Prime Minister David Cameron who described in earlier statements the Russian military action in Syria as a “fatal mistake.”
chattels: http://ift.tt/1Jyr96b
http://ift.tt/1LvyvJa
chattels: Why would the US pick Turkey over the Kurds? By Paul Davis Kurdish Peshmerga at a graduation ceremony in Erbil, April 2015 Photo: AFP Kurdish Peshmerga at a graduation ceremony in Erbil, April 2015 Photo: AFP There is an increasing distance between US interest and that of Turkey as well as between the EU and Turkey.
Once the stalwart of NATO’s eastern defense the breakup of the Soviet Union and the subsequent removal of the Warsaw Pact nations as a threat, in fact many becoming NATO members, reduced the strategic leverage Turkey offered.
The current ruling party in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been moving Turkey farther from its pro-western secular founding principles and closer to a single party dictatorship. The AKP has not however been able to totally subordinate the democratic system and there has been sufficient push back to hold somewhat to the rule of law and maintain an opposition, however tenuous those positons may be.
chattels: http://ift.tt/1Ny5Ort... Error 503 backend read error
http://ift.tt/1LrZNAe Error 503 backend read error
chattels: " With a reemerging Russia the strategic and tactical relevance of Turkey for NATO is reestablished."
chattels: The foregoing is am example of how Iraq and Syria become fodder in the mill of international issues, IMO
OOTW: FROM THE MINISTRY OF INTEGRITY "October 4 2015 under the auspices of Dr. Haider Abadi, the prime minister maintains the board of the National Integrity festive week of the sixth -gda Monday at exactly eleven am on the mole at the assembly hall .. Suspension Bridge near the laundry Zora at exactly ten in the morning Thank you for accepting our invitation 04/10/2015 Readers Number: 84" .
chattels: said the board member of the Presidency of the Council of Representatives Hamoudi, on Monday, that the reform process is everyone's responsibility, not an individual matter.
A statement by his office received by the agency all of Iraq [where] a copy of which was that "we have to be loyal both responded to the advisory opinion of the Supreme reference of volunteers and the crowd and the Peshmerga and the tribes,"
noting that "the process of reform is everyone's responsibility, not an individual community has an active and influential role as an administrator and media roles effective another, especially in the follow up the implementation procedures and laws. chattels: http://ift.tt/1LEwWYk...
http://ift.tt/1LvyvJd
chattels: " ............. the follow up the implementation procedures and laws.
chattels: A rare bombing in Basra : Death toll from the bombing of Basra to six martyrs and 10 wounded
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chattels: the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region said on Monday that oil exports from the region rose in September to an average of 600 and 463 thousand barrels per day.
This average represents an increase of about 127 thousand barrels per day for the production of August, which were damaged during which exports because of repeated acts of sabotage of the pipeline, which carries crude to the Turkish port of Ceyhan from Kirkuk fields in the region.
The increased exports through the vector pipeline to Turkey line on a regular basis this year, but the Kurds have reduced allocations Federal oil marketing company SOMO] since June in order to increase the independent territory sales of crude.
canceled the de facto agreement reached late last year approved the Kurds under which the transfer of 550 thousand barrels per day on average to sumo in 2015 in exchange for rebalancing of payments Baghdad fully.
The Iraqi Oil Ministry last week that the province transferred 22 thousand barrels per day only for Sumo in September compared to 50 thousand and 935 barrels per day in August.
The ministry said "the Kurdistan Regional Government continued in September to increase direct sales of oil at Ceyhan to compensate the region for the lack of budget by the federal government in Baghdad.
"The oil, which is pumped through the pipeline in the foundation of the fields in the Kurdistan region, which pumped 448 thousand and 340 barrels per day in September, while the remaining quantity of the disputed Kirkuk fields, which holds the North Oil Company of government-owned management came but under Kurdish control.
The Federal Ministry of Oil said in a statement last week that the bulk of Iraq's oil exports is produced and shipped from the southern regions, where production amounted size of those areas 3.03 million barrels per day in Oilol. chattels: http://ift.tt/1LEwWYk...
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chattels: At 600,000 plus barrels per day there may be hope for the 2015 budget allocations between Baghdad and the KRG.
chattels: Parliamentary open the door to legal accounting Maliki because of corruption charges: Without the "immunity"!
chattels: 04/10/2015 Said a member of the parliamentary legal committee Saman opener, Sunday, legal accounting of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki if to prove the corruption charges against him. The opener for / scales News / that "al-Maliki is a current employee of the State, and if it were to prove corruption charges by the legal means it will be punished as the rest of the other staff," stressing that "there is no on-Maliki" immunity "offline."
He said a member of the parliamentary legal committee that he "could be the former prime minister accountable for the mistakes of the previous phase, which said her current Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi," adding, "it was to stop the vice presidents' salaries now."
chattels: The "high-level source speaking on condition of anonymity, stressed that the decisions of the prime minister Haider al-Abadi last represented a blow to a coalition of state law, and especially the Secretary General of the Islamic Dawa Party Nuri al-Maliki on the one hand, on the other hand, longer and strike painful also the Sunni community," he said. " Parliament now will find himself in the face of a serious challenge to pass the reforms. "
chattels: Courtesy of Bondlady
chattels: This article seems to be a curious " mix " of old and new ! ?
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