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Butterfly   The Council of Ministers approves the entry of National Oil as a funded partner with Total in its giant project in Basra / Expanded

Tuesday 05 October 2021 18:28 Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul - Jabbar, the Cabinet approval of the National Oil Company Login financier as a partner with Total in its giant Basra ..  said Abdul Jabbar in a press statement: "The Council of Ministers approved in its meeting on Tuesday, a group of decisions The mission that supports the efforts of the Ministry and the National Oil Company in implementing their plans to maximize national production of oil and gas, and to achieve financial revenues that support the public budget and the national economy.

He added, "The Cabinet decided to approve the National Oil Company to enter as a financing partner with Total International in its giant project in Basra, to expand the company's commercial and financial activity with the aim of achieving economic returns and building solid partnerships with well-known international companies."

He explained: "The Council of Ministers agreed to support the National Oil Company's practice of "commercial activity" that aims to maximize the revenues and financial returns of the company and the general budget. It also decided to ratify the decisions and procedures of the National Oil Company to maximize Iraq's capabilities to produce oil and gas." https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=930995

butterfly  Report: Deaths of American spies are increasing... and the Central Intelligence is mobilizing its officers

Tuesday 05 October 2021 21:40 The Central Intelligence Agency has warned its officers working abroad that alarming numbers of informants who have been recruited to spy for the United States are being arrested or killed.

The agency said in a report that the agency's Counterintelligence Center had looked at dozens of cases in recent years involving foreign informants who were killed, arrested, or likely infiltrated, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

"In recent years, hostile intelligence services in countries such as Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have been hunting down CIA sources and in some cases turning them into double agents," the report added.

He continued, "The large number of hacked informants in recent years has shown the increasing ingenuity of other countries in employing innovations such as biometric scanning, facial recognition, artificial intelligence and hacking tools, to track the movements of CIA officers in order to discover their sources."

The report quoted unnamed people: "The warning was directed primarily to front-line officers, who are the people directly involved in recruiting and examining sources." https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=931053

butterfly   Iraqi Dinar/US Dollar auction results 10-5-2021  United States DollarThe results of the foreign currency sale window, Tuesday 10/5/2021, and executed today   Announcement No. (4499)

Sale date – Tuesday 10/5/2021 and executed today  the details   the amount

Total sale for the purposes of strengthening balances abroad (remittances, credits)  151,614,000

Total cash sale  7,120,000   Total total sales  158,734,000

Note that: The selling price of the amounts transferred to bank accounts abroad is ( 1460 ) dinars per dollar.

The cash sale price is ( 1460 ) dinars per dollar.   cbi.iq/currency_auction/view/1116

butterfly   Nechirvan Barzani: Opponents of the application of Article 140 of the Constitution are against the will of 80% of Iraqis

2021-10-05 02:11   Nechirvan Barzani - Opponents of the application of Article 140 of the Constitution are against the will of 80 percent of IraqisShafaq News/ The President of Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani considered on Tuesday that those opposed to the application of Article 140 of the Constitution are against the will of 80 percent of Iraqis who voted for the country’s permanent constitution in 2005.

Barzani, the deputy head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, said at an electoral festival for the people of Kirkuk in Erbil, “Oh, Kirkuk people, your lands are subject to Arabization, and being Kurdish and Kirkuk is very difficult.”

He addressed the people of Kirkuk by saying: We are all with you, and we are of mind, thought and feelings. We are all Kirkuk, adding that Kirkuk’s wealth should be used to provide job opportunities, and to reconstruct Kirkuk, not to be a subject of greed, and to change the demography of the province.

He added that our war was on the national identity of Kirkuk and its historical geography, as well as the rest of the areas cut off from the Kurdistan region, and we were never against any component, indicating that our demands were not for Kirkuk’s oil, but rather our demands on the identity of Kirkuk.

The head of the region said: We do not want to wage a national war against the people of Kirkuk at all. On the contrary to all the previous regimes that followed the rule of Iraq, we want to provide services and establish stability, security, and achieve true coexistence among the components that live in this province, stressing that ” We do not want, through the fighting, to resolve the fate of Kirkuk, but through Article 140 of the constitution, and this is a legitimate and natural right because the Iraqi people, in 2005, voted on this article.”

butterfly   Barzani renewed his demand for the application of this constitutional article, saying: Those who oppose its application are against peace, against the constitution, against Iraq’s stability, and against coexistence, adding that “those opposed to its application are against the free will of 80 percent of the Iraqi people who voted for the constitution.”

Kirkuk is one of the disputed areas between Erbil and Baghdad covered by Article 140 of the Constitution, and was under joint authority between the Kurdistan Region and the Federal Government before the independence referendum that the region held in September of 2017.

Article 140 provides for the removal of demographic policies conducted by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the disputed areas in favor of the Arabs at the expense of the Kurds, and then census the population before the last step, which is to hold a referendum according to which the population determines whether they wish to join the Kurdistan Region or remain under the administration of Baghdad.

It was scheduled to complete the implementation stages of the article until the end of 2007, but security and political problems prevented that.

The Federal Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that Article (140) of the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq should remain in force, stressing that this will continue until its requirements are implemented and the objective of its legislation is achieved.   shafaq.com

butterfly   The Ministry of Finance issues an important notice regarding the dollar exchange rate

TUESDAY, 05-10-2021,PM 1:12  USD-Iraqi dinarToday, Tuesday, the Ministry of Finance confirmed that the change in the exchange rate contributed to increasing the foreign reserves of the Central Bank of Iraq to 60 billion dollars in April 2021, after it was 54 billion dollars in December 2020.

The ministry said in a statement received by Noon News Agency, that it “continually followed up the indications of devaluation of the currency against the dollar and over the past nine months, and the indications showed that the change in the exchange rate contributed to increasing the foreign reserves of the Central Bank of Iraq to 60 billion dollars in the month of April 2021, After it was $54 billion in December 2020, this came after implementing reform measures.

She added, “The change in the exchange rate also helped reduce the demand for foreign currency, which was positively reflected in the decrease in imports and the increase in domestic production.”

And the ministry continued, “The indicators showed a clear improvement in commercial activity in the past nine months of the current year 2021 in light of the crisis of the spread of the COVID-19 virus. It also helped to stop the penetration of the Iraqi market and flood it with cheap goods that curb attempts to upgrade local production.”

butterfly  She pointed out that “the ministry is working to reinvest the generated revenues with the aim of building a targeted production base outside the oil sector, and relying on other sectors, which will contribute to a decrease in demand for the dollar as a result of compensating some of the goods produced, which made the proportion of imports to local consumption decline.”

She pointed out that, “since the formation of the current government, the ministry has adopted plans and mechanisms to work on reforming Iraq’s fiscal policy, and culminated in the adoption of the reform paper, the white paper that outlined future economic and financial policy steps to advance local production and reduce imports for the country.

This procedure also contributed to improving the situation of the public budget and reducing imports.” Orientation towards encouraging local product and providing job opportunities.   non14.net

UNEEK   "OPINION is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding." Plato

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments -- Emmons

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions -- F W Robertson

Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions of things which ruin us -- Marcus Antonimus

UNEEK   The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it --Mad. Roland

Facts are to the mind, what food is to the body -- On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other -- The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts -- Burke

Every day of my life makes me feel more and more how seldom a fact is accurately stated; how almost invariably when a story has passed through the mind of the third person it becomes, so far as regards the impression it makes in further repetitions, little better than a falsehood; and this, too, though the narrator be the most truth-seeking person in existence -- Hawthorne

UNEEK  There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric; pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver – Byron

Opinions are stronger than armies -- If they are founded in truth and justice, they will, in the end, prevail against the bayonets of infantry, the fire of artillery, and the charges of cavalry -- Lord Palmerston

He than never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today -- Tryon Edwards

Change of opinion is often only the progress of sound thought and growing knowledge; and though sometimes regarded as an inconsistency, it is but the noble inconsistency natural to a mind ever ready for growth and expansion of thought, and that never fears to follow where truth and duty may lead the way -- Tryon Edwarads

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality – Joubert

UNEEK   Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress, as pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless -- J G Holland

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you -- It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago -- Horace Mann

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