More News, Rumors and Opinions Friday Night 8-21-2020
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Samson: The Iraqi Parliament announces the "deadline" for the government reform paper
20th August, 2020
The Parliamentary Finance Committee warned, on Thursday, that employees’ salaries will be secured for only three months, while it indicated that August 24 is the last date for the government reform paper.
Committee member Jamal Cougar told Shafaq News, "When the parliament voted on the domestic and foreign borrowing law to bridge the fiscal deficit for the year 2020, it gave the government 60 days to present the government reform paper during this period to Parliament."
He added that "local borrowing gave the government the ability to secure the salaries of employees for three months only," noting that "the government's ability to pay employees' salaries for the coming months is linked to the recovery of oil prices, especially after the price of a barrel became $ 45."
"The government has promised the House of Representatives that it will send the government reform paper to Parliament within the specified period," Couger said, stressing that "the current August 24 is the last date for the government to send the reform paper to Parliament."
It is noteworthy that the Iraqi Council of Representatives (Parliament) approved, on June 24, 2020, a bill that allows the government to borrow internally and externally to fill the financial deficit in the country.
MilitiaMan: The reform papers are thought to expose the rate at which the country will be in the future. The contracts that were signed Wednesday and Thursday. Possibly more even today. Contracts and not just MOUs imo. Those contracts were outside of Parliament as noted by Harb the legal authority for the matter. The rate may have had to be exposed for the large entities to sign. The would want the contracts out side of an MCP.. imo ~ MM.
"According to official sources, Thursday morning will witness a series of meetings that will focus on the economic side, including a meeting with a number of major companies and economic institutions regarding the reconstruction of Iraq. Officials in the delegation said: “Contracts will be signed regarding gas, oil and electricity.”
Ryan1216: Thank you MM I'm just praying this is the end and we cross the finish line now
JJimmyJJ: These contracts would certainly need to deal with the exchange rate and being paid in hard currency, one way or another.
On the one hand, GE has been working in Iraq for a long time now with Article 8 hidden from the public. Presumably, after all this time, they aren't working with IOU'S. I guess they could use the same mechanism GE is getting paid with for these other contracts worth $10B.
On the other hand, from my admittedly uninformed viewpoint, any payment mechanism other than the CBI exchanging dinar for dollars to pay international contracts (which would appear to be impossible, given the amount of the contracts and the inefficiency of this system) would likely be, at best, extra- legal.
So, IMO, in regards to paying companies under these new contracts, you're talking about a very expensive and inefficient legal system, an extra- legal grey area payment system, or they can bypass all the headaches by releasing the rate.
I hope they pick the third option.
Courtesy of Dinar Guru
Footforward [...I guess this could go on for years...] ...This shouldn't go on for years in my opt...what I see is that Iran's entire network is absolutely being dismantled. That alone is a huge deal and something that shifts things in Iraq and the middle east...And so so so much is coming together right now...Very suddenly the RV will just happen.
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AG Barr says feds have made nearly 1,500 arrests in ‘Operation Legend’
By Steven Nelson August 19, 2020 | 1:43pm
Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday that federal agents helped make 1,485 arrests as part of the nine-city anti-violent-crime Operation Legend.
Barr said 1,000 state fugitives were arrested during the operation and 200 people face federal charges, many of them for illegal guns.
The attorney general detailed the figures at a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri, where the namesake of the operation, 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, was shot dead while sleeping in his bed on June 29.
The anti-crime initiative deploys federal help to bolster local officers fighting a spike in violent crime, especially after anti-police brutality protests over the Minnesota police killing of George Floyd in May.
President Trump ordered federal agents into Chicago and Albuquerque in July to address a surge in murders. Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot initially vowed to resist the effort, but ultimately acquiesced.
The operation coincided with anti-riot deployments to Portland, Ore., but Barr did not offer details on arrests there.
Operation Legend was expanded to Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee on July 29, to St. Louis, Mo., and Memphis, Tenn., on Aug. 6, and to Indianapolis on Aug. 14.
The most federal charges are in Chicago, with 61 cases. In Albuquerque there are 32 federal cases, in Cleveland there are 32, in Detroit there are 22 and in St. Louis there are 15.
Barr said federal charges can put away violent criminals for longer periods of time. He slammed what he said are often soft penalties in local cases.
“In far too many states, the sentences are too lenient and do not incapacitate these violent criminals long enough and do not provide a deterrent,” Barr said. “Criminals know that. They know that the federal system means business and we’re putting them out of business.”
Barr distinguished between tough enforcement of laws against small-scale drug dealing and those against violent crime.
“I think what people refer to as mass incarceration really refers to the harsh long sentences for minor drug distribution or small amounts of drug distribution, which led to a very substantial increase in the prison population,” he said. “I’m not talking about that now. I’m talking about getting shooters off the street.”
Barr, who also was attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, said, “What’s happening these days in the country is we’re going back to some of the old practices we followed in the ’60s and ’70s, where there’s revolving-door justice and people are not being held, they’re not being held before trial when they’re dangerous. They’re not being sentenced to prison even though they’re violent.”
https://nypost.com/2020/08/19/ag-barr-feds-have-made-1485-arrests-in-operation-legend/
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