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Chat Room News Excerpts & Highlights Early Thursday 2-8-18 Part 2 of 2
blackgold: @Clay not much happening out there but Iraq is looking really good even in the war torn areas, they are building fast
Clay: @blackgold seems so
Clay: @blackgold maybe this will finally happen
blackgold: @Clay I'm praying
Clay: @blackgold me too
Tebow: War-torn Mosul struggles to rise from the rubble by ASSOCIATED PRESS. For nearly two-and-a-half miles along the western bank of the Tigris River, hardly a single building is intact. The warren of narrow streets of Mosul's Old City is a crumpled landscape of broken concrete and metal. Every acre is weighed down by more than 3,000 tons of rubble, much of it laced with explosives and unexploded ordnance.
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Post From IQDCalls Chat Room
Chat Room News Excerpts & Highlights Early Thursday 2-8-18 Part 1 of 2
Xbruster69: Holding the Presidency of the Republic, on Thursday, missed meeting Vice President Iyad Allawi.
According to a statement by the Office of the Vice President Osama trimming each agency receives Iraq [where] a copy of it, "the President Fouad Massoum, held Thursday a meeting with Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi Vice Osama to discuss four files are the budget and the dialogue between Baghdad and Erbil, the provincial elections, In addition to the possibility of legislation to Parliament a number of acts in the period ahead. "
Xbruster69: The President met Fuad Massoum, Thursday, at the Peace Palace in Baghdad with Vice President Nouri al-Maliki, and Iraq, and discussed political developments and a number of national issues.
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Jester’s Place:
[JESTER] HELLO AND HAPPY TUESDAY EVERYONE...
[caro] JESTER Jim Wiley says China is going to asset back their currency with oil, not going to use the petro dollar, where is China getting the oil?
[JESTER] caro THAT IS NOT EXACTLY CORRECT... THEY ARE BUYING OIL WITH GOLD BACKED YUAN OIL FUTURES CONTRACTS......
[JESTER] THEY ARE ALREADY TRADING WITH RUSSIA IN YUAN... SO THAT WAS THE START OF THE PETROYUAN..
[caro] Jester oh misunderstood it thanks for correcting me, and explaing that
[JESTER] BEEN TELLING YOU THE DOLLAR DECLINE WAS COMING... THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING.... STUDY UP.... HAHAHAH
[truth] JESTER guess we should be thinking multiple currencies ....
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China's Yuan Toppled From Two-Year High as Trade Data Surprises
February 8, 2018,
Surge in imports reduced surplus, showing drop in yuan demand
There have been signs officials may act to stymie appreciation
China’s yuan sank the most since the aftermath of its shock 2015 devaluation, after data showed the country’s trade surplus more than halved last month, and investors speculated controls on outward cash flows will be eased.
The yuan weakened as much as 1.2 percent in Shanghai, touching as low as 6.3550 per dollar on Thursday. The slump marks a reversal for the managed currency, which acts as an anchor for the wider Asian region and has been rallying amid the dollar’s retreat.
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Yuan Nears Strongest Level Since 2015 Devaluation
Bloomberg Helen Sun February 7, 2018
China’s yuan advanced toward the strongest level since before its devaluation in 2015, shrugging off central bank signals that appreciation should slow.
The onshore yuan rose 0.4 percent to 6.2550 per dollar as of 1:24 p.m. local time, its third day of gains. The currency is at its strongest since Aug. 11, 2015.
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TNT:
Timth2lman: So i guess its been pretty quiet this morning. Not much being reported
Fullsail: Days may 'seem long long' if one is watching the clock. The last 5 days went pretty quick for me(btw-where did January go, where already approaching mid Feb), this time next week we will again wonder where the time went. 24hrs a day, thats all anyone gets last I checked, choose how we spend our time wisely my friends. Blessings to all
MountainMole: This has been the longest roller coaster ride ever. We have climbed to the highest heights only to be disappointed again and again. Now we are climbing perhaps the highest of them all. One thing for sure, if this doesn't happen Monday, the 12th, well I'm not getting off the ride. One day it will be the one.
Fullsail: mmole.... one thing for sure, this ride has not been boring. looking forward to the end where the coaster has a long drop right into the pool of cool water splash, and everyone goes Aaaahhhhhhhhh,
Fullsail: remember to keep your arms and legs inside the coaster car at all times til the ride stops.
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KTFA:
Samson: Deputy reveals Abadi sent a draft "modified budget" to parliament
10:36 - 08/02/2018
The deputy of the Union of Forces Raad Dahlaki, on Thursday, the sending of Prime Minister Haider Abadi draft "modified budget" to the House of Representatives, noting that Abadi promised to resolve all the problems between the government and political blocs equally.
"The government sent today an amended draft of the budget law for the year 2017 to the House of Representatives," noting that "the political blocs will evaluate the draft during the coming hours and looked at the most prominent amendments made by the government on the revised draft."
Al-Dahlaki added that "the meeting of the Union of Forces with Prime Minister Haider Abadi was very positive as he promised Abadi to increase the allocations of liberated provinces and work to return the displaced to their areas and resolve all the problems with the political blocs objecting," stressing that "we are waiting for the implementation of those promises to legal legislation."
The head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan bloc MP Arieh Abdullah revealed in a statement to (Information) / on Wednesday, the existence of government pressure to pass the budget in its current form.
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