Zig’s Place Chat and News Late Monday PM 5-31-21
Zig’s Place Chat and News Late Monday PM 5-31-21
Zig: Welcome to zig's place, a chat room for dinar speculators and others....discuss any topic that you wish here
butterfly However, the negotiations between the poles of the Kurdish political movement were suspended due to the absence of U.S. mediators during the transit of the U.S. administration from Trump to Biden.
The grounds for a third round of the negotiations is cautiously being laid amid increasingly strained ties between both parties when the security forces of the Autonomous Administration apprehended activists and members of the ENKS and the "Revolutionary Youth" affiliated with the PYD sabotaged and attacked headquarters of their rivals in several Northeastern Syrian cities.
Sparky ... give me a second to read ...
butterfly A call for an investigation of the rise in the dollar’s price despite the increase in oil revenues
05/31/2021 08:24:19 A call for an investigation of the rise in the dollars price despite the increase in oil revenuesA member of the Oil, Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Parliament, Ghalib Muhammad Ali, called for an investigation into the continuous rise in the exchange rates of the dollar, despite the increase in oil revenues.
Muhammad Ali said in a press interview, that Iraq sold its crude oil during the month of May for $ 62, and achieved revenues of about $ 5.5 billion, which is the highest since the end of 2019, noting that these revenues amounted to 8 trillion dinars after being converted into the Iraqi dinar, and non-oil revenues were added to it. A trillion dinars worth.
He added, “All those revenues, which amount to 9 trillion dinars, were entered into the central bank during the current month,” noting that “despite the recovery of those revenues, we see that the economy is unstable and there is a continuous rise in the exchange rates of the dollar in the markets, which negatively affected the market. And thus in the life of the Iraqi family. ”
Muhammad Ali expressed his surprise at the inability of the Central Bank to control the price of the dollar, pointing out that the continuous rise in the price of the foreign currency calls for the opening of an investigation by the government to solve the problem of the imbalance in monetary policy.
The exchange rate of the dollar rose to reach 1492.5 dinars per dollar, despite the fact that the government decision for the exchange rate, which is fixed in the budget, is 1450 dinars. alforatnews.com
butterfly A slight rise in the dollar and the central bank sells 195 million
05/31/2021 11:23:39 A slight rise in the dollar and the central bank sells 195 millionThe exchange rate of the dollar in local markets rose slightly on Monday.
The exchange rate on the Baghdad Stock Exchange this morning reached 1493 dinars per dollar, or 149 thousand and 300 dinars per hundred dollars.
While it rose on the Basra Stock Exchange to 1494 dinars, and in Erbil, 1492 dinars.
As for the auction sales of the operation in the Central Bank of Iraq, it reached today, Monday, 195 million and 50 thousand and 387 dollars, of which the total sale was for the purposes of strengthening the assets abroad {remittances, credits} 162 thousand, 650 thousand and 387 dollars, while the total cash sale was 32 million and 400 one thousand dollars. alforatnews.com
butterfly Barzani: Iraq has an opportunity to be one of the most advanced countries in the region, on condition
05/31/2021 14:05:01 Barzani - Iraq has an opportunity to be one of the most advanced countries in the region on conditionKurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said today, Monday, that “Iraq is a country rich in human and natural resources, and it has an opportunity to be one of the most advanced countries in the region if there is good governance and good management.”
During his meeting today with Basra Governor Asaad Al-Eidani in his office in Erbil, Barzani expressed “the full readiness of the Kurdistan Region for cooperation and coordination with Basra Governorate and all other Iraqi provinces.”
For his part, Al-Eidani said during the meeting, which was attended by Aras Habib Karim, a member of Parliament, that “Basra has benefited a lot from the successful experience that the Kurdistan Region enjoys in the reconstruction and provision of services,” adding that “the allegations accusing the region of developing itself at the expense of Basra and other governorates are not true.” According to the statement.
The Governor of Basra stressed the need for the Iraqi government to be federal and not central, and stressed the importance of genuine participation of the region and other Iraqi governorates in the management of power and the decision-making process, and said, “Iraq cannot be centrally governed.” alforatnews.com
butterfly Despite sanctions, America imported Iranian oil for the first time in 30 years
Monday May 31, 2021 | 09:42 AM Despite sanctions America imported Iranian oil for the first time in 30 yearsReuters revealed, on Monday, that the United States of America will import Iranian oil during the year 2021, despite the sanctions imposed on Tehran, noting that this is the first time in 30 years .
Data from the US Energy Information Administration showed that “the United States imported a rare shipment of 1.033 million barrels of Iranian crude last March, despite the sanctions imposed on the Iranian energy sector .”
And the energy data pointed out that “the shipment represents the second import of oil by the states from Iran since late 1991 .
The United States of America imposes sanctions targeting the oil sector in Iran by placing entities and individuals on the US sanctions list, including Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, claiming that they support the Iranian Revolutionary Guards .
In September 2019, the United States announced its intention to impose sanctions on any country that deals with Iran or buys oil from it, after the Trump administration withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran. aynaliraqnews.com
Sparky ... " revolentunary youths " ... meaning those young folks who will stand up ...... please continue, but I have a hard time reading posts, and trying to digest them ... slow your roll, please ...... or not ...
Dave Sparky Hard to digest on a full stomach?
Sparky ... I took Evelyn Wood's class ...... got fat during covid ,,,
Dave Sparky EXXON left recently now may re enter now.....Talabani...140/HCL...not done! Barzani Says WHAT!
Sparky ... not meaning to offend ...... Exxon is going green ...
Dave and a Port instead of a lil pier.......
Dave Sparky Sparky Sparky Their oil machine grade costs a few bucks to refine,,,,,,,Our stuff 28-30 bucks a barrel.......huge carbon foot print
Sparky ... Barzani is on the Maliki payroll ...
Dave They all are!....
Sparky Dave ... yup, maybe even al-Sistani ... I don't care either way, I just came to make money ...
Dave postpone elections or risk assassination......kinda of obvious with that........
Sparky ... that may help ... or a circle jerk with AR's ...
Dave high heel shoes with spikes......
Sparky ... no blanks ...... don't forget the orange make up BS ...
Sparky ... I'm a movie star, staring on the presidential stage ... how many folks are watching me steal ...?
Dave on that note time to get back to work.....
Sparky ... you are dedicated ... it's Memorial Day here in the good ol' USA ...
Dave No holiday here....
Sparky ... most have the day off with pay ...
Dave Rest of the Worlds memorial day Nov11?
Sparky ... https://youtu.be/ND6jfaYE42U?t=2714 ...
Sparky Dave ... my birthday ...
Sparky ... https://youtu.be/ND6jfaYE42U?t=2714 ...
Sparky ... humble Pie ... 30 dayz in the hole ... https://youtu.be/ND6jfaYE42U?t=2714 ...
Zig "Barzani - Iraq has an opportunity to be one of the most advanced countries in the region on condition Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said today, Monday, that “Iraq is a country rich in human and natural resources, and it has an opportunity to be one of the most advanced countries in the region if there is good governance and good management.”
Sparky ... bbl Zig ... deeds, not words ...... Barzani is as corrupt as Maliki and Talibani ..... of course they could be the breadbasket again ... 'cept the corrupt Pols' steal all the GDP ...... I've aready lost money ... one more devalue and my attention will be elsewhere ...
Supreme leader dinard Sparky I keep buying gold and silver coins. More money the govt prints the more valuable gold is - Little here and a little there. Nothing too crazy
Sheila Supreme leader dinard that's what I plan to do once again... metals and land
butterfly 2021-05-31 02:36 Shafaq News/ A scoop at The Washington Post by John Hudson and Louisa Loveluck revealed that Iranian-backed militias were able to target a “secret CIA hangar” using a drone in April. This attack hit a hangar in Erbil in the autonomous Kurdistan region.
This is a major escalation and shows careful planning and complex know-how by the Iranian regime and its militias in Iraq. It means that Iran was able to transfer the drone itself to Iraq and gather the intelligence on the apparent location of this secret site, which is inside a known US facility, and precisely set the drone to strike it.
This kind of kamikaze drone is similar to the technology Iran used to target Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq and similar to the kind of drones the Iran-backed Houthis use to attack Saudi Arabia and drones that Hamas unveiled in recent attempts to attack Israel.
Iran has thus transferred its drone threats all over the region.
The attack in Iraq is particularly interesting because US bases are supposed to have some sort of defenses against this known and rising threat. US CENTCOM head Kenneth McKenzie has warned for a year about the rising threats of drones in the region. He warned in March 2020, and again in February 2021.
butterfly We've spent billions of dollars in the Department of Defense on counter drone systems. I'm concerned that we're still under grave threat from them. But I'm also encouraged to see that your command has been experimenting with so many new and more effective counter drone systems,” he told the US Senate in March 2020.
The US has sent Patriot missiles, C-RAM and other defenses to Iraq to stop ballistic missiles and rocket threats. The US army has also acquired two Iron Dome batteries which can be used against drones, although this is not linked to the current threat in Iraq.
The drone attack alarmed the US according to the report. It has led to questions about the warehouse and whether Iran knew specifically who was running the building. Remains of the drone were recovered after the attacks. The article says that the drone was used a new method after years in which pro-Iran militias used rockets, such as the 107mm.
The “evolving drone threat” is a major concern in Iraq. “The drone’s flight was tracked to within 10 miles of the site, but its path was then as it moved into a civilian flight path, the coalition official said,” according to the report. “Preliminary analysis suggested it was made in Iran.”
butterfly The White House was unnerved. The facility was covert and the attack was sophisticated. The April 14 attack was the first major drone attack by the pro-Iran militias in Iraq. However, they have provided Kataib Hezbollah with drones in the past to strike at Saudi Arabia in May 2019 and again in January 2021. Another drone was used to target Al-Asad base in May 2021.
The type of kamikaze drone used in Iraq is not known. It could be like an Ababil or Qasef what Hamas calls its Shehab drone. This is a drone about the size of a person with a warhead and guidance up front and two sets of small wings. It is launched from a catapult. However, Iran has a plethora of other types of kamikaze drones.
According to the Twitter handle Alex Almeida, the drone attack may have targeted a hangar housing one of the CIA or Special Operation Command’s contractor-operated turboprop aircraft that fly from the base and which are used for reconnaissance and intel gathering missions. The US has its own drones at the base, according to Joseph Trevithick at The Drive.
He wrote in May that a Long Endurance Aircraft Program drone crashed in July 2020. This kind of drone is basically a small prop plane that looks no different than a civilian two-seater aircraft but has had everything removed and flies autonomously now as a UAV. According to online sleuths who use OSINT to find information, a hangar was damaged by the April drone attack on Erbil airport.
According to the image showing the damage, the location is a hangar in the central eastern part of the base near an area where chinook helicopters are parked. This is a huge, sprawling base that has expanded with the war on ISIS and also likely expanded as the US reduced forces in other facilities. How one would determine to attack that specific hangar, out of dozens of other locations and hundreds of buildings, is unclear. The particular complex is unique for having four buildings with red-colored roofs.
butterfly f an Iranian-backed militia used a drone to target a hangar where drones fly from, this could be one of the few instances of drone versus drone combat, using drones to take out other drones.
Targeting US drones in Iraq using Iranian drones may be a sort of new drone "world order", so to speak, taking place in the Middle East, especially if Iran knew this hangar was used for surveillance droned that might one day be used against its own forces in Iraq. The region, as it were, is now rapidly approaching a kind of cross between The Terminator, Robocop and Skynet, as machines are doing the fighting and people are just watching computer screens – though we may not be there quite yet.
At the very least the US needs to be concerned that Iran is collecting intelligence on its covert and secure sites, its hangars and other systems in Iraq, and that Iran’s vastly expanding precision missile and drone technology could be used more in the future.
The drones give Iran some plausible deniability because they can be launched by Iranian proxies. However, the gyroscopes and other systems on the drones link them to Iran, at least in the past.
It should be noted that a drone mysteriously entered Israeli airspace on May 18 and was shot down by Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later said it came from Syria or Iraq. A drone damaged a hangar in Asad base in Iraq on May 8. The Erbil attack was on April 14. These attacks may all be linked and have an address in Iran. Source: Jerusalem Post
Sparky ... Iranian ... who'd a thought ...... Idinergard (sp) openly spoke of wiping Israel off the face of the earth
Zig If you access this chat via https://my.cbox.ws/ZIGPLACE You can make the box much bigger by clicking this link ZIGPLACE - Cbox