Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

Saudi Arabia to cut Oil exports to Asia and US in November

OPEC is cutting production by 5% and crude prices will raise.

Originally Posted by Adster

Interesting.........bit of luck Bush will tell him his days are numbered unless he revals!!

From what I understand the meeting lasted nearly an hour. More symbolic than anything. Maliki knew the attack two days ago on Sadr' city was going to happen. Maliki is the guy that will stay in charge through this whole process. I hope all will keep in mind the tightrope he has to walk each day in order to take the steps needed to put the broken egg back together again. He has a huge target painted on his back as do all the Iraqi politicians. Not exactly the easiest job to do.

Originally Posted by MunnyBaggs

From what I understand the meeting lasted nearly an hour. More symbolic than anything. Maliki knew the attack two days ago on Sadr' city was going to happen. Maliki is the guy that will stay in charge through this whole process. I hope all will keep in mind the tightrope he has to walk each day in order to take the steps needed to put the broken egg back together again. He has a huge target painted on his back as do all the Iraqi politicians. Not exactly the easiest job to do.

Thanks MunnyBaggs, and welcome to rolclub, we look forward to your input, have fun, enjoy the rest of the ride, AND get your bananas dancing

Originally Posted by doublescorpio

Okay I have looked thru the last ten pages of posts and I am still confused, HAS the FIL been enacted?

Passed yes and steps are now being taken to enact the new rules. Another good bit of news is the Iraqi Oil Minister stated they have a goal of passing the Hydrocarbon Laws in December. The FIL is a great step forward but what we should be anticipating is the HCL and oil futures. That's when the wealth of Iraq will begin to be revealed to the World.

Originally Posted by CharmedPiper

Rationing card : fun and fortune in the fact.

Any Iraqi to obtain Award Program (ration card) without any trouble or spending any amount, It is the privilege, as expected Alshabh viewers every Saturday to find that the figures Battaqethm Supply is profitable or not , and every Iraqi family ration card to get through their monthly food, and this is the identity card like a family and individuals in their daily transactions, but in this program source adversity and win, The draw prizes as the eight provinces session.

Rotate to the struggle to Hassun, Salah spring Lena Bakhtiar The others share in the future . Wrote texts Majid al-Samarra'i, He believes a journey to search for the winner where in Iraq by nomads program Salah spring.

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An old article from 2005 but very relevant to the current situation:
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http://www.russianeconomy.org/comments/121505.html

December 15, 2005

The Other Way to Win Iraq

by Michael S. Bernstam

It's economic policy. The new Iraqi government will be well positioned to implement it. Replace food rations with prepaid debit cards. Under the sanctions imposed in 1990, some 97 percent of the Iraqi population subsisted on free food rations. Since the onset of the Oil-for-Food program in 1996, food rations relied on imports. Invasion past and the sanctions lifted in May 2003, 96 percent of the Iraqi people still subsist on food rations. According to the U.N., World Bank, and World Food Program estimates, some 50 to 60 percent of the population critically depend on food rations lest they starve. Free, universal food rations make Iraq a veritable commune in life essentials, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers and protected by the U.S. and coalition military. This species of Communism is more ubiquitous than the Soviet Union, Mao's China, and even North Korea.

Yet, minor adjustments can significantly, even if not completely, neutralize these problems. Recall prepaid debit cards. They do not require a sophisticated banking system with universal household accounts. Only merchants and vendors need to hold business accounts at local bank branches. When an individual swipes his prepaid debit card through a merchant's machine, cash is credited from the government account to this merchant's account at the bank. All merchants, even small-time vendors, will be interested to honor prepaid debit cards. Incentives will render it unnecessary to make honoring prepaid debit cards obligatory. These incentives invite widespread participation of big and small producers and purveyors and minimize supply disruptions.

Disbursement of prepaid debit cards can be made directly to families at places of employment for workers, tax offices for small businessmen, and the social assistance agencies for the unemployed and other dependents. The amount will be assessed as the free market value of the food ration per month per person or per family of four weighted by the number of family members and their age. Food rations, public distribution, state procurement, and state import can be phased-out as the new system is phased-in across the country. Food supplies and transactions can be relegated to competitive wholesale traders and importers, initially as concessions on a tender basis, and additional supplies will flow through farm markets and retail. Food will be traded at free market prices for both producers and consumers.

Well , Well Well , Looks Who's Here !

Originally Posted by jessemac

Well , Well Well , Looks Who's Here !

I hear ya. I just hope we don't have to see that munny model.

Voices of Iraq: Sulaymaniya-Hewramis
Posted by: nadioshka on Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 12:04 AM

Sulaymaniya-Hewramis
Kurdistan Hewramis press for rights in Kurdistan constitution
By Amanj Khalil
Sulaymaniya, Oct 28, (VOI) – The Hewramis Society in Iraqi region of Kurdistan has been collecting thousands of signatures to demand preserving the cultural rights of Hewramis in the draft Kurdish constitution, the society spokesman said on Saturday.
“We are trying to enlist the support of public opinion to get our cultural rights preserved in the region’s constitution,” Abdul Rahman Balkhi told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Hewrami is one of the oldest and main Kurdish dialects along with Badini and Sorani dialects. Prayers are still recited by Hewrami throughout this region of Kurdistan.
“The hewramis demand that their dialect is used the curriculum of primary and secondary schools in Hewraman area,” Balkhi said.
More than 500,000 Kurds in the autonmous region of Kurdistan and specially in Hewraman area (100 km east of Sulaymaniya) speak Hewrami.

Sulaymaniya-Hewramis :: Aswat al Iraq :: Aswat al Iraq

Iraq hopes to complete the first round of the award of contracts for the development of oil fields

The oil minister Hussein Shahrastani, "Iraq hopes to complete the first round of the award of contracts for the development of oil fields by the end of next year." He said Shahrastani, who is now in Australia, in a press statement that "many oil companies expressed willingness to begin to discuss possible ways of cooperation even before the new investment law." He pointed out that "the regional balance of the development of oil fields in the matter, because the government wants the oil to be a factor for unification of the whole country."

(9:03 Baghdad time)

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Alyan : everyone commitment document Mecca

Deputy Iraqi Accord Front Khalaf Al-Alyan, Syria is ايمكنها to play an influential role in reshaping postwar Iraq with Iran does not want a stable Iraq, but wants southward belongs. " Alyan added in a press statement that the "document Mecca to outlaw Iraqi blood is a corporate ethics based on religious basis, and that all abide by them." He pointed out that "all those who contribute to the bloodshed Iraqi knows that this issue is taboo However, there are points of Atnzar to the legitimate and national interests are tearing apart Iraq."

(9:03 Baghdad time)

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