MilitiaMan and KTFA Members Friday AM 11-15-19

KTFA:

MilitiaMan:  F26 Quote:  "Listen carefully, but first of all, Donald Trump had to establish the financial war with Iran and they are very close to suffocating and dying right now...it was successful. While that was going on the CBI was still having meetings and auctions. The MR was still being talked about 8 times by Alak on Iraqi T.V. Sometimes we got to see 1 or 2 of those articles. They didn't print that material. Nothing has suffered during this time. The schools and universities are still going...except for those that were burned down. Nothing economically was damaged." ~ Frank26

That quote above from last night has my interest. The financial war with Iran. We saw 0 cash sales today in the auction.. Nothing was economically was damaged. Well, Iran's siphoning from the auction spigot has been.. lol imo ~ MM

I have a stronger feeling now that the pattern that changed in respect to the auction's is far more supportive to me, than thought earlier.. imo ! ~  MM  

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MilitiaMan:  Last night YT, it is full of data that has implications and potential time frames to our study.  The actions and speed of things clearly in the news today supports that what was in the video last night, has merit and should be absorbed and well thought about. The CBI is being guarded by the USA? Now why would there be red laser precision in the GZ? I'll bet the foes now from Mosul past know that Daddy has tools in his quiver and is not afraid to use them. The word is out.. imo.. ! ~ MM

Frank26:  11-13-19......IMPEACH THIS

THE UB2B IS SOLELY IN FRANK'S OPINION

Now the Iraqis want to impeach Mahdi…..

Tonight is Q&A     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkGIyxi9xv0

Don961:  Demonstrators in Iraq: We will not leave even if the protests last 40 years   link

MilitiaMan:  The level of intent is very telling. Those that don't listen now will fall. IMO.. They have to hurry if they want to live. Once the sand box gets to many kitties in it, it starts to stink and then that is when the box will get cleaned.. May not be a pretty sight.. nor smell nice.. but, clean it will get.. imo

Easiest way to clean it? Is to finish the reforms with fairness and quickly.. imo ~ MM

Iobey777:  hey MM..I was thinking with the delivery of the receipt of the Article 140 yesterday and seeing everyone shake hands on it..(IMO,per the YT)that would be a great incentive to go ahead with the RI..also..I'm thinking if the CBI "talks" to them Sunday..and "maybe" gives them the RI..it will go a long way to settling the protesters!! IMO..they can see that the GOI is being "worked" on because Mahdi within less than an hour yesterday changed his stance and said that there were new members put in place that were Not affiliated with any blocks..i.e. new blood in the pen..IMO.. and then today to see a 0 on the auctions...it all sounds really good to me for a possible showing of S&S (security and stability) for the RI!

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Samson:  Deputy from Fatah: Law "Where did you get this?" Hastily brought to parliament and objections   LINK

MilitiaMan:  "The public pressure today on the government and parliament has become a real motive to calm the street and pass laws in a way that suits the aspirations of the demonstrators."

Kinda think they may be on a roll now.. imo Think of the cash they can claw back? Talk of the tune of $450 billion to a TRILLION imo.. ~ MM

Samson:  IBBC hosts Major Iraqi Business Delegation in London

14th November, 2019
IBBC hosts largest ever delegation of Iraqi business people at London Business Forum

In a wide-ranging business event over 230 Iraqi business-people and 70 British gathered to meet and discuss Business relations, trade, investment and engagement with the UK’s Business community.

Delegates from all regions of Iraq through the chambers of commerce gathered to hear from representatives of trade associations, IBBC members, chambers of commerce and investors.

Baroness Nicholson, President of IBBC, welcomed the new Iraqi Ambassador, H.E. Mr Mohammad Jaafar Al- Sadr, who gave a keynote address at the conference. The Ambassador speech was followed by an address of H.E Mr Karwan Jamal, High Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Of note were the panel from Iraqi business people, headed by Dr Dara Jalel Al-Khayat, Chairman of Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Kurdistan, and representatives from Babil, Baghdad and Basra Chambers, as well as the chair of the Importers and exporters association in Kurdistan.

From the British side, a panel consisting of Rod Dowler of the Industry Forum, Alan Rides MD of Hounslow Chamber of Commerce, Brigadier James Ellery of Turnkey LLC and Mr Peter Hunt of HWH Associates and Raed Hanna, MD of MFL Finance, all spoke positively of their experiences in Iraq, but tempered with advice on improvements to the Iraqi experience. Finally, Jessica Hao of Crossboundary associates spoke of opportunities to invest in start-ups and SMEs in Iraq with support of USAID.

Key messages included the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis are keen for British Investment into numerous sectors in Iraq, especially Agriculture, Petro Chemicals, Food Processing, Housing and Consumer goods.

The idea of joint ventures with British know how and expertise and Iraqi partners are also suggested as ways to overcome perceptions of risk in the country. However, many delegates all supported the notion that despite the present legitimate protests in many parts of the country overall peace and stability has returned to Iraq following the defeat of DAESH and that the business environment is getting more favourable. Nevertheless, much needs to be done to free up and boost the private sector, an essential step to meet the demands for real jobs and futures of the ever-increasing young Iraqi population.

Following the formal event, the delegates networked extensively with each other and the British contacts in the room.

The group move onto Northampton University, Ardley high tech waste centre, and High-tech leather innovation centre in Northampton University before returning to Iraq.  LINK

MilitiaMan:   They didn't have a Baghdad Fair? Really? The venue just may have changed location.. On schedule (hiccup)... lol ~ MM

"many delegates all supported the notion that despite the present legitimate protests in many parts of the country overall peace and stability has returned to Iraq following the defeat of DAESH and that the business environment is getting more favourable. "

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Don961:  Iraqi women correct the course of the uprising

- 14 Hours Have Passed

By coming out of silence, Muqtada al-Sadr proved that he lives in another world. A magician has lost his ingenuity. Just old tricks, just like the wooden language he used .. Even the shape is out of date to suit the requirements of the presentation.

Sadr found only a consuming phrase to use, linking what is happening today in the Iraqi street, and the "forces of global arrogance."

The Iraqi street is rising today because of this language, a language that smells of loyalty to the mullahs of Iran.

Unlike Sadr, Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani said he feared the protests would reach the holy city of Najaf.

While Sadr rushed to question the popular uprising, and hint at the existence of an imperial conspiracy behind him, Sistani refused to ask the demonstrators to withdraw from the yards of protest.

The Iraqi government is making every effort to break up the sit-ins, end the uprising, and empty the Tahrir Square in central Baghdad.

Pro-Iranian parties may succeed in breaking up protests. But it will not succeed in removing the reasons that led to the uprising of the Iraqi street. The formal concessions it seeks to make, and the change of ministers' faces with new faces, will not be accepted by the protesters.

The Iraqis rose up against Iranian control over their country, specifically, and against Iran's proxies in Iraq, the clergy and politics. What Iraqis want now, after tired of the sectarian game played by the clerics, is to return Iraqis as they were, first. Iraqis will no longer accept to be humiliated in Mesopotamia and to live in a country with no authority to law, the country that enacted the first law known to mankind.

Third, the form of the exit of Iraqi women, to participate in the protests men, added the intifada gained another dimension. The demands of women are not limited to the rejection of the political class, the power of traditional parties, the quota system, and corruption.

The women's uprising is against "religious tribalism," which promotes ideas about women's role in society.

The Iraq represented by Moqtada al-Sadr is not the one that the Iraqi women aspire to today. What the Iraqi women aspire to is Hammurabi Iraq, which singled out women with 30 legal articles in their law. Iraq in which the country was ruled by queens such as Queen Sha'bad, Semiramis, and Copapa.

Does Sadr, and others like him, believe that three decades are enough to erase a civilization spanning four thousand years? Despite its ugliness, the 20th or 30th years will not forget us, the Nazik Angels of Iraq, Mary Nerma, Polina Hassoun, Leila Attar, Zaha Hadid and Asia Kamal.

Sistani and Sadr, along with parties loyal to the mullahs of Tehran, may be able to quell the protests for a while, but they will certainly not last.

What is happening in Iraq today is an extension of what is happening in Syria, in Lebanon, in Libya, and in Yemen. And what happened in Sudan, in Egypt, and in Tunisia .. It is an uprising on the internal and external tutelage.

Sadr and Sistani should have kept silent, and since they chose to speak, they would now be better prepared to leave.

The Arabs    link

MilitiaMan:  This is a powerful message! There is now twice the power behind it too. The silent are now AWOKE! Good deal! Sounds like SADR and SISTANI are now on notice that the warehouse full of money was an eye opener, and the lack of attention to the citizens needs (including female) of late has been duly noted. They clearly see that Terhan's influence was not lost on blind eye's. Sadr's recent trips to Iran were public..  Today the auction for cash was 0.. Very interesting... imo ~ MM

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Don961:  The Minister of Defense blows up a big surprise: the equipment used to kill the victims of the demonstrations we did not import - watch the video   (video link)        link

MilitiaMan:  So now the tide is turning on not just where did you get this money, but where did these weapons come from that were fired at innocent demonstrators, and by whom?

Sadr and Sistani are being called out by the good women and men of Iraq now.. Loyalty to Iran may not be a good venue, let alone being found out to be complicit in the outcome of the dead from said weapons.. ~ imo ~ MM