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BondLady& Tlm724 News & Comments 5-9-16 Part 2 of 3
Bondlady: this just goes to show u how big soccer an sports are to these people , competing and they need financing to represent Iraq in the international world, and also fifa will not lift sanctions off them until Iraq has become a stable country and can an will protect visiting people from all different countries of the world on a international level.
[tlm724] Thank you BondLady, disappointing on so many levels, this crisis has touched ever aspect of Iraq !
Baghdad without parliamentary or governmental sessions since the storming of the "green"
[BondLady] (from the other art) For its part, the United Nations warned of a worsening of the crisis in Iraq. Said Jan Kubis, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN in Iraq, in a speech before the UN Security Council, "The nation is now paralyzed and disabled in the work of the government and the parliament because of the deep political crisis."
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BondLady& Tlm724 News & Comments 5-9-16 Part 2 of 3
Bondlady: this just goes to show u how big soccer an sports are to these people , competing and they need financing to represent Iraq in the international world, and also fifa will not lift sanctions off them until Iraq has become a stable country and can an will protect visiting people from all different countries of the world on a international level.
[tlm724] Thank you BondLady, disappointing on so many levels, this crisis has touched ever aspect of Iraq !
Baghdad without parliamentary or governmental sessions since the storming of the "green"
[BondLady] (from the other art) For its part, the United Nations warned of a worsening of the crisis in Iraq. Said Jan Kubis, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN in Iraq, in a speech before the UN Security Council, "The nation is now paralyzed and disabled in the work of the government and the parliament because of the deep political crisis."
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He added that "the deep crisis has swept Baghdad and the country in general"; stressing that the political crisis in Iraq portend complications complex, as well as the country also faces security, humanitarian and economic challenges, and in the human rights file.
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Health and environmental stresses concerted efforts for the inclusion of the marshes Regulation UNESCO
History of edits:: 9/5/2016 12:17 {Baghdad: Euphrates News} stressed the Ministry of Health and the Environment, on the need for concerted official and popular efforts for the success of the marshes insert a file within the World Heritage List of UNESCO {}.
According to a ministry statement, received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it, it was "carried out a major media campaign and awareness aims to mobilize local and international public opinion to support the annexation of the marshes and the effects of Iraq to the World Heritage List {UNESCO},"
bent on "national campaign launched by the local government in Dhi Qar province in collaboration with the environmental departments and relevant departments to promote in order to support the inclusion of the marshes and monuments in the province within the World Heritage list of UNESCO scheduled to vote in next July , the Turkish capital 's file. "
He pointed out that" local Dhi Qar government initiative comes in response to demands announced by the the national committee in charge of the inclusion of the Iraqi marshlands file within the World Heritage list , "noting that" the campaign require the coming together of all official and popular efforts for the success of the private national's inclusion of the Iraqi marshlands and raised within the list scheduled for next July the World Heritage. "
the local government in the province of Dhi Qar launched last week, in cooperation with the departments of environmental official and popular campaign of solidarity with the national file that raising the UNESCO for inclusion of the marshes of Iraq and its effects within the list of heritage Alaalmi.anthy
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Bondlady: this is such an important project not only Iraq which in reality, Iraq is so old in history imo most of Iraq should be saved as a historical protected place, the marshlands, the cradle of civilization,
it has animal, fowl and plant life some of which are so rare an borderline extinct, or can only grow or reproduce there in iraqs marsh lands or it will be gone from this planet for ever
Sad and when Iraq finally does FINALLY get its crap together, then the world can see and visit this preserved rare place of the world. the world will protect it from harm world heritage.
stuff like saddam pulled to hurt the poor marsh people ...dry up there sacred marsh lands and almost succeeded an it still suffers greatly even today because of those actions. BL
[tlm724] I would love to see the marshes !
[cstacy] yes but will wait lol
[Shredd] they've come so far
[tlm724] and by the grace of God I may someday
[Shredd] nice to see these back
[tlm724] you bet
[Shredd] a big part of them returning to their prior glory
[tlm724] prior glory on all levels would be amazing
[cstacy] tlm724 AMEN to that
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Iraq unravels – The ungovernable country – Iraq is in desperate need of responsible leaders
EVEN before America sealed it off with blast walls and razor wire, the area now known as the Green Zone in central Baghdad was viewed with a mixture of fear and loathing. Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s brutal late dictator, adorned his palaces with monuments to himself.
After toppling him, the American-led coalition moved into one of these—the Republican Palace—and the Green Zone developed around it. The fortifications were meant to be temporary; a response to an insurgency outside. But as the Americans withdrew, Iraq’s new leaders replaced them in the citadel—and as the main target of an angry public.
It has been 13 years since the fall of Saddam, but many Iraqis are still struggling to get by. Successive governments, detached from the people, have produced little more than staggering levels of corruption and incompetence. Idle officials sit in air-conditioned offices even as the population lacks basic services.
Progress seemed possible last year, when Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister, introduced a reform agenda, ostensibly backed by the entire parliament. But MPs’ swift reversion to bickering merely fuelled public outrage, which boiled over on April 30th, when hundreds of Iraqis stormed the Green Zone.
After smashing some furniture in parliament, and beating one of its members, the protesters quickly retreated. But their actions deepened Iraq’s worst political crisis since the fall of Saddam in 2003.
The proximate cause is a dispute over cabinet posts, which are divvied up between political blocs based on sect and ethnicity. The blocs have mostly plundered the ministries under their control. Mr Abadi has tried to shrink the cabinet from 22 ministers to 16 (he previously cut 11 posts), and to replace the political appointees with technocrats who might actually do their jobs.
His efforts are backed by America, Iran and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Shia Islam’s chief religious authority. He also has the support of Muqtada al-Sadr, a mercurial Shia cleric whose followers dominate the protest movement.
Sadr and sadder
Still, nearly all of Iraq’s political parties cling to the old system, which guarantees them a share of power and its spoils. So even before Mr Abadi’s five least-contentious nominees were confirmed on April 26th, some lawmakers had already hurled water bottles and left the assembly. Days later, a vote on several new nominees was postponed for lack of a quorum.
Forming another will be tough: Kurdish members have returned to their autonomous region, where the crisis is encouraging more talk of independence, and Mr Sadr is off visiting Iran. The speaker says he will try to hold a new session of parliament on May 10th.
But some fear it hardly matters and that the country is so divided and corruption so entrenched that it has become ungovernable. Although the prime minister can keep paying salaries, and continue the war against Islamic State (IS), with or without the legislature, there is little anyone can do to fix the Iraqi state.
Mr Abadi had hoped to repair some of the damage wrought by his sectarian predecessor, Nuri al-Maliki. But it may be too late. Tensions are growing between communities, and within them. Shia groups such as the Badr organisation, backed by Iran, and the Sadrist movement battle for influence, while Mr Maliki plots a comeback. In the north the Kurds squabble among themselves.
And the jihadists of IS kill more of their fellow Sunnis than anyone else. Emma Sky, a former adviser to the American military in Iraq, suggests viewing the conflicts as “a struggle for power and resources in a collapsing state. A Hobbesian world of all against all.”
Ms Sky says that some Iraqis are reminded of the last days of the monarchy in 1958 when another elite refused to reform, and was overthrown. Mr Sadr has fomented insurrection. “I’m waiting for the great popular uprising and the great revolution to stop the march of corrupted officials,” he has said.
More protests are set for May 6th. But the Sadrists may not actually want to topple the government. “They have used their anti-establishment appeal to strengthen their position in the establishment,” says Maria Fantappie of the International Crisis Group, a think-tank.
The economy, meanwhile, is unravelling. The government gets most of its money from oil sales, but the price of the stuff has collapsed. Parliament passed a budget of 107 trillion dinars ($100 billion) for 2016—and projects a deficit of 24 trillion dinars. Officials are hoping for loans from the IMF and World Bank, but the political crisis threatens those, too.
More than 70% of public spending will go to the salaries and pensions of 7m public employees, up from 1m under Saddam. Many sit at empty desks. Mr Abadi has cut the pay of some public employees. But others have been given raises, and politicians will not let him lay anyone off.
Iraq’s war with IS costs millions of dollars each year, and illustrates how the country’s problems compound each other. “If the government was not so messed up, they would have kicked these guys out a year ago,” says Kirk Sowell of Inside Iraqi Politics, a newsletter. During past incidents of unrest, Mr Abadi has withdrawn army units from Anbar province, where IS is strong, in order to secure Baghdad.
The fight to recapture the city of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest, began on March 24th. On May 3rd jihadists counterattacked, breaking through Kurdish defences, killing an American. The eventual liberation of Mosul would damage IS, yet, as Ms Sky notes: “the main lesson of the Iraq surge of 2007-09…was that if the politics do not come together, tactical successes are not sustainable, and things fall apart.”
Source: The Economist . From the print edition: Middle East and Africa, May 7th, 2016
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Health and environmental stresses concerted efforts for the inclusion of the marshes Regulation UNESCO
History of edits:: 9/5/2016 12:17 {Baghdad: Euphrates News} stressed the Ministry of Health and the Environment, on the need for concerted official and popular efforts for the success of the marshes insert a file within the World Heritage List of UNESCO {}.
According to a ministry statement, received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it, it was "carried out a major media campaign and awareness aims to mobilize local and international public opinion to support the annexation of the marshes and the effects of Iraq to the World Heritage List {UNESCO},"
bent on "national campaign launched by the local government in Dhi Qar province in collaboration with the environmental departments and relevant departments to promote in order to support the inclusion of the marshes and monuments in the province within the World Heritage list of UNESCO scheduled to vote in next July , the Turkish capital 's file. "
He pointed out that" local Dhi Qar government initiative comes in response to demands announced by the the national committee in charge of the inclusion of the Iraqi marshlands file within the World Heritage list , "noting that" the campaign require the coming together of all official and popular efforts for the success of the private national's inclusion of the Iraqi marshlands and raised within the list scheduled for next July the World Heritage. "
the local government in the province of Dhi Qar launched last week, in cooperation with the departments of environmental official and popular campaign of solidarity with the national file that raising the UNESCO for inclusion of the marshes of Iraq and its effects within the list of heritage Alaalmi.anthy
http://ift.tt/1SZozte
Bondlady: this is such an important project not only Iraq which in reality, Iraq is so old in history imo most of Iraq should be saved as a historical protected place, the marshlands, the cradle of civilization,
it has animal, fowl and plant life some of which are so rare an borderline extinct, or can only grow or reproduce there in iraqs marsh lands or it will be gone from this planet for ever
Sad and when Iraq finally does FINALLY get its crap together, then the world can see and visit this preserved rare place of the world. the world will protect it from harm world heritage.
stuff like saddam pulled to hurt the poor marsh people ...dry up there sacred marsh lands and almost succeeded an it still suffers greatly even today because of those actions. BL
[tlm724] I would love to see the marshes !
[cstacy] yes but will wait lol
[Shredd] they've come so far
[tlm724] and by the grace of God I may someday
[Shredd] nice to see these back
[tlm724] you bet
[Shredd] a big part of them returning to their prior glory
[tlm724] prior glory on all levels would be amazing
[cstacy] tlm724 AMEN to that
http://ift.tt/1T7vM9p
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Iraq unravels – The ungovernable country – Iraq is in desperate need of responsible leaders
EVEN before America sealed it off with blast walls and razor wire, the area now known as the Green Zone in central Baghdad was viewed with a mixture of fear and loathing. Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s brutal late dictator, adorned his palaces with monuments to himself.
After toppling him, the American-led coalition moved into one of these—the Republican Palace—and the Green Zone developed around it. The fortifications were meant to be temporary; a response to an insurgency outside. But as the Americans withdrew, Iraq’s new leaders replaced them in the citadel—and as the main target of an angry public.
It has been 13 years since the fall of Saddam, but many Iraqis are still struggling to get by. Successive governments, detached from the people, have produced little more than staggering levels of corruption and incompetence. Idle officials sit in air-conditioned offices even as the population lacks basic services.
Progress seemed possible last year, when Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister, introduced a reform agenda, ostensibly backed by the entire parliament. But MPs’ swift reversion to bickering merely fuelled public outrage, which boiled over on April 30th, when hundreds of Iraqis stormed the Green Zone.
After smashing some furniture in parliament, and beating one of its members, the protesters quickly retreated. But their actions deepened Iraq’s worst political crisis since the fall of Saddam in 2003.
The proximate cause is a dispute over cabinet posts, which are divvied up between political blocs based on sect and ethnicity. The blocs have mostly plundered the ministries under their control. Mr Abadi has tried to shrink the cabinet from 22 ministers to 16 (he previously cut 11 posts), and to replace the political appointees with technocrats who might actually do their jobs.
His efforts are backed by America, Iran and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Shia Islam’s chief religious authority. He also has the support of Muqtada al-Sadr, a mercurial Shia cleric whose followers dominate the protest movement.
Sadr and sadder
Still, nearly all of Iraq’s political parties cling to the old system, which guarantees them a share of power and its spoils. So even before Mr Abadi’s five least-contentious nominees were confirmed on April 26th, some lawmakers had already hurled water bottles and left the assembly. Days later, a vote on several new nominees was postponed for lack of a quorum.
Forming another will be tough: Kurdish members have returned to their autonomous region, where the crisis is encouraging more talk of independence, and Mr Sadr is off visiting Iran. The speaker says he will try to hold a new session of parliament on May 10th.
But some fear it hardly matters and that the country is so divided and corruption so entrenched that it has become ungovernable. Although the prime minister can keep paying salaries, and continue the war against Islamic State (IS), with or without the legislature, there is little anyone can do to fix the Iraqi state.
Mr Abadi had hoped to repair some of the damage wrought by his sectarian predecessor, Nuri al-Maliki. But it may be too late. Tensions are growing between communities, and within them. Shia groups such as the Badr organisation, backed by Iran, and the Sadrist movement battle for influence, while Mr Maliki plots a comeback. In the north the Kurds squabble among themselves.
And the jihadists of IS kill more of their fellow Sunnis than anyone else. Emma Sky, a former adviser to the American military in Iraq, suggests viewing the conflicts as “a struggle for power and resources in a collapsing state. A Hobbesian world of all against all.”
Ms Sky says that some Iraqis are reminded of the last days of the monarchy in 1958 when another elite refused to reform, and was overthrown. Mr Sadr has fomented insurrection. “I’m waiting for the great popular uprising and the great revolution to stop the march of corrupted officials,” he has said.
More protests are set for May 6th. But the Sadrists may not actually want to topple the government. “They have used their anti-establishment appeal to strengthen their position in the establishment,” says Maria Fantappie of the International Crisis Group, a think-tank.
The economy, meanwhile, is unravelling. The government gets most of its money from oil sales, but the price of the stuff has collapsed. Parliament passed a budget of 107 trillion dinars ($100 billion) for 2016—and projects a deficit of 24 trillion dinars. Officials are hoping for loans from the IMF and World Bank, but the political crisis threatens those, too.
More than 70% of public spending will go to the salaries and pensions of 7m public employees, up from 1m under Saddam. Many sit at empty desks. Mr Abadi has cut the pay of some public employees. But others have been given raises, and politicians will not let him lay anyone off.
Iraq’s war with IS costs millions of dollars each year, and illustrates how the country’s problems compound each other. “If the government was not so messed up, they would have kicked these guys out a year ago,” says Kirk Sowell of Inside Iraqi Politics, a newsletter. During past incidents of unrest, Mr Abadi has withdrawn army units from Anbar province, where IS is strong, in order to secure Baghdad.
The fight to recapture the city of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest, began on March 24th. On May 3rd jihadists counterattacked, breaking through Kurdish defences, killing an American. The eventual liberation of Mosul would damage IS, yet, as Ms Sky notes: “the main lesson of the Iraq surge of 2007-09…was that if the politics do not come together, tactical successes are not sustainable, and things fall apart.”
Source: The Economist . From the print edition: Middle East and Africa, May 7th, 2016
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[tlm724] It has been 13 years since the fall of Saddam, but many Iraqis are still struggling to get by.
[tlm724] prime minister, introduced a reform agenda, ostensibly backed by the entire parliament. But MPs’ swift reversion to bickering merely fuelled public outrage
[tlm724] bickering Evil or Very Mad
[tlm724] Still, nearly all of Iraq’s political parties cling to the old system, which guarantees them a share of power and its spoils. So even before Mr Abadi’s five least-contentious nominees were confirmed on April 26th, some lawmakers had already hurled water bottles and left the assembly. Days later, a vote on several new nominees was postponed for lack of a quorum.
[tlm724] nearly all of Iraq’s political parties cling to the old system *slap*
The economy, meanwhile, is unravelling. The government gets most of its money from oil sales, but the price of the stuff has collapsed. Parliament passed a budget of 107 trillion dinars ($100 billion) for 2016—and projects a deficit of 24 trillion dinars. Officials are hoping for loans from the IMF and World Bank, but the political crisis threatens those, too.
[tlm724] Officials are hoping for loans from the IMF and World Bank, but the political crisis threatens those, too
[tlm724] as I always say money talks BS walks
[tlm724] Iraq has the chance to save its self here and it's economy
[tlm724] pray they do !
[cstacy] yes
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[tlm724] It has been 13 years since the fall of Saddam, but many Iraqis are still struggling to get by.
[tlm724] prime minister, introduced a reform agenda, ostensibly backed by the entire parliament. But MPs’ swift reversion to bickering merely fuelled public outrage
[tlm724] bickering Evil or Very Mad
[tlm724] Still, nearly all of Iraq’s political parties cling to the old system, which guarantees them a share of power and its spoils. So even before Mr Abadi’s five least-contentious nominees were confirmed on April 26th, some lawmakers had already hurled water bottles and left the assembly. Days later, a vote on several new nominees was postponed for lack of a quorum.
[tlm724] nearly all of Iraq’s political parties cling to the old system *slap*
The economy, meanwhile, is unravelling. The government gets most of its money from oil sales, but the price of the stuff has collapsed. Parliament passed a budget of 107 trillion dinars ($100 billion) for 2016—and projects a deficit of 24 trillion dinars. Officials are hoping for loans from the IMF and World Bank, but the political crisis threatens those, too.
[tlm724] Officials are hoping for loans from the IMF and World Bank, but the political crisis threatens those, too
[tlm724] as I always say money talks BS walks
[tlm724] Iraq has the chance to save its self here and it's economy
[tlm724] pray they do !
[cstacy] yes
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