Zig’s Place Chatroom News Wednesday Afternoon 12-8-21

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Butterfly   The Central Bank decided to ban dealing with the Director of the National Bank of Iraq, Khaled Ahmed Al-Shawaqfeh.\    https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=943617\

butterfly   Economist to / Nina /: Oil prices will rise to $100 .. and the 2022 budget must be a qualitative budget that matches the expected high revenues

Wednesday 08 December 2021 The economic expert, Raad Twij, suggested that oil prices would rise to $100 in the coming weeks.

Twig said in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA /: The declines in oil prices are still not sharp, vibratory and temporary, due to the weak effect of the mutated micron from Corona.

The international community has lowered its forecast for global economic growth in a simple way that does not exceed 0.1 as a result of the small impact of the micron mutator on the world’s economies.”

He pointed out that the expectations of growth rates for the Iraqi economy will jump from 3.6% in 2021 to 10.5% in 2022, so it must be a budget 2022 A qualitative budget that matches the expected high revenues.” https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=943583

butterfly   The stability of the dollar exchange rates on the main stock exchange

Wednesday 08 December 2021 The exchange rates of the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar stabilized, today, Wednesday, on the main stock exchange.

Al-Kifah and Al-Harithiya Central Stock Exchange in Baghdad recorded this morning 148,050 Iraqi dinars, compared to 100 US dollars, which are the same prices recorded on Tuesday morning.

And the buying and selling prices were stable in banking shops in the local markets in Baghdad, where the selling price amounted to 148,500 Iraqi dinars per 100 US dollars, while the purchase prices amounted to 147,500 Iraqi dinars per 100 US dollars, which are the same prices recorded yesterday morning, Tuesday. https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=943568

butterfly   Official: Schulz wins German chancellorship

Wednesday 08, December 2021 Social Democratic Party representative Olaf Scholz won the German chancellorship in a parliamentary vote today, Wednesday, replacing Angela Merkel, after she spent 16 years in this position.

And Bundestag President Barbel Bass announced that Scholz, 63, who served as Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister in the outgoing Merkel government, won a clear majority of 395 votes from lawmakers in the German parliament.

Schulz received a warm welcome from lawmakers, and parliamentary leaders presented him with bouquets of flowers.

After being formally nominated by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the presidential residence, Schulz will return to Parliament to be sworn in before the deputies, and in the afternoon, Merkel will hand over the Chancellery to the new leader.

Schulz will lead an unprecedented three-way coalition at the federal level with the Greens and the Liberal Democrats in a political alliance that would have been difficult to imagine in the past.

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butterfly   The Turkish president announces his country's readiness to reduce the tension between Russia and Ukraine

Wednesday 08 December 2021 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his country's readiness to play the role of mediator in order to reduce the tension between Russia and Ukraine.

Erdogan said in a press statement that Ankara is closely following the repercussions of the tension between Russia and Ukraine, and we hope that the escalation between the two sides will be reduced as soon as possible.

He added, "We are ready to provide the necessary support to reduce the tension between Russia and Ukraine, which has escalated in recent weeks, and to open a channel of dialogue between the two parties, and that Ankara will do what it is responsible for in order to establish security and stability in the region." https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=943624

butterfly   Biden in a message to Congress: There will be no American combat forces in Iraq at the end of 2021

Posted, 2021-12-08 20:40   Biden in a message to Congress - There will be no American combat forces in Iraq at the end of 2021Shafaq News/ US President Joe Biden said that there will be no US forces carrying out combat missions in Iraq after December 31, 2021.

Biden said, in a letter he sent to the US Congress, that the United States continues to work with partners in the fight against terrorism, alluding to the deployment of military forces in the Middle East to support allies in the fight against terrorism.

He added that a small number of American soldiers have been deployed to Yemen to carry out operations against al-Qaeda and ISIS.

And he added in his message, “We have forces in Saudi Arabia to protect our interests in the region from any hostile acts by Iran.”

He continued, “America is working closely with the Yemeni government and its regional partners to undermine the influence of terrorist groups.”   shafaq.com

butterfly   An Iraqi faction postpones operations targeting Americans until further notice

2021-12-08 04:59   An Iraqi faction postpones operations targeting Americans until further noticeShafaq News/ The Sayyid al-Shuhada Brigades decided, on Wednesday, to postpone the military operations against the American forces in Iraq that were scheduled to start early next year, until further notice, according to what the Secretary-General of the “Babylon” movement, Rayan al-Kildani, reported.

Al-Kildani said, in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency, that he met the leader of the Sayyid al-Shuhada Brigades, Abu Ala’ al-Walaei, against the background of opening the door to volunteering for Iraqi youth to take up arms against the American forces in the event that they did not abide by the agreement between Baghdad and Washington with the withdrawal of the American army from Iraq on 31 This December.

Al-Kildani indicated that he asked the governor to postpone the date of the military operations because it coincided with the festive season of the New Year and the birth of the Prophet Jesus among the Christians, stressing that the latter agreed to postpone the military operations and escalation until further notice.

Al-Kaldani hoped that this would be a “message of peace inside and outside the Iraqis, as they cross into the new year with determination, will and determination for the future.”

The commander of the “Sayyid al-Shuhada” Brigades, Abu Ala’ al-Wala’i, had announced earlier that the door for Iraqis to volunteer to take up arms against the American forces and carry out military operations against them, starting from midnight on December 31, after “the resistance factions felt the administration’s lack of seriousness.” According to the commanders and leaders of a number of those factions, on several occasions, according to their forces from Iraq.    shafaq.com

Butterfly   I have a brain freeze and perhaps someone out there can help me remember the dates. I know that all international banks close the month of January and can't remember those dates.

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