Tidbits
From Frank26 and KTFA Members Tuesday 7-22-14
07/22/2014
Frank26: WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE THIS PRESSURE COOKER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KTFA !!! Frank
(See Article Below)
Aggiedad77: Family this is BIG NEWS IMO..........it proves the Kurds have actually taken control of the money....the revenue that has been generated from the sale of their oil earlier in May and June......if they are paying in USD from what was in the Turkish banks.....once again they thumb their noses at the Baghdad government....specifically to Maliki's government. Randy
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I LOVE THIS PRESSURE COOKER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KTFA !!! Frank
(See Article Below)
Aggiedad77: Family this is BIG NEWS IMO..........it proves the Kurds have actually taken control of the money....the revenue that has been generated from the sale of their oil earlier in May and June......if they are paying in USD from what was in the Turkish banks.....once again they thumb their noses at the Baghdad government....specifically to Maliki's government. Randy
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walkingstick » July 22nd, 2014, Tuesday, July 22, 2014 12:11
The province decides to pay the salaries of its employees in U.S. dollars instead of the dinar
BAGHDAD / News .. Baghdadi announced head of the list of green in the Kurdistan Parliament Picard Dilshad Talabani, on Tuesday, that the Kurdistan Regional Government decided to spent the salaries of its employees to the U.S. dollar instead of the Iraqi dinar.
Talabani said in an interview I followed / Baghdadi News / "The heads of the lists in the Kurdistan parliament gathered today with the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Barzani to discuss and debate the budget and salaries of employees of the region."
She added: "We asked the Prime Minister in the province Bbbzl all efforts for the distribution of salaries of all employees of the region ahead of the Eid al-Fitr," adding, that "Barzani said during a meeting that does not have financial problems now but they are in dollars and converted to the local currency requires time so We decided to pay the salaries of the staff of the region in U.S. dollars instead of the dinar as of next month. "
The provincial government is witnessing a sharp dispute with the government in Baghdad as a result of the recent cut the salaries of employees in the region, but the Kurdistan oil exported and sold to European countries in order to pay the salaries of its employees. Ended 21 /
http://www.albaghdadianews.com/economy/item/56147-AkAjknL-njEE-ZHEJ-ENAbB-LNzJnm-BAkDNkAE-AkaLEnKn-BDkAً-Ll-AkDnlAE.html
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Manu68 :Hi Frank, is the key article from last night's cc re the payment in usd? If so, is this a good thing or bad thing or smoke from what you shared last night. So sorry i wasn’t able to listen to the cc. Manuia
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Winlady: Hi Manu68,
Hopefully the answers and comments made this morning have helped you realize this is most likely a good thing! Also, you can listen to the recorded CC and hear all that was said. Blessings! FYI..no..I am not Frank, just thought I would help!
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Sager » July 22nd, 2014, Per Reidar Visser - tweet at around 9am EST -
On press conference right now, newly elected #Iraq parliament speaker Jibouri indicates he wants to go ahead with election of president Wed.
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KTFA Monday Night Conference Call. Approx : 133 Minutes Long. The first part of the call is Business opportunities and the second part is Dinar/Iraq Intel.
https://www.freeconferencecallhd.com/playback.html?n=OTQCw/jW74D
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walkingstick » July 22nd, 2014,
As Islamic Militants Destroy Iraq Heritage, a Stunning Find in Kurdistan
By Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti 22 minutes ago
At the temple, the columns are made of green basalt, and some with sandstone, limestone and marble.
BARCELONA, Spain – While the history of civilization is being demolished by war and religious zealots in the rest of Iraq, in the Kurdistan Region archeologists are marveling at a stunning discovery: the remains of a long-lost temple from the biblical kingdom of Urartu, dating back to the 9th century BC.
Kurdish archaeologist Dlshad Marf Zamua, who has studied the columns and other artifacts at the find, told Rudaw these were unearthed piecemeal over the past four decades by villagers going about their lives, digging for cultivation or construction.
But only recently, after the discovery of life-size human statues and the unearthed columns, Zamua realized that the villagers had stumbled upon the temple of Haldi. That was one of the most important gods of Urartu, an Iron-Age kingdom around Lake Van in the Armenian highlands.
The temple was found in the village of Mdjeser, in the district of Bradost-Sidekan, the most northeastern corner of Iraq and bordering Iran and Turkey.
“The temple was recorded very well in the Assyrian and Urartian inscriptions,” explained Zamua, a doctoral student at Leiden University in the Netherlands who also teaches at Salahaddin University in Erbil.
“One of the reliefs depicts the plunder of the temple by the Assyrian King Sargon II in 714 BC,” said the researcher, who spent from 2005 to 2012 working on the site.
According to historical evidence and the recently uncovered sites, the ancient city of Musasir, located where Mdjeser is today, was home to Haldi’s temple.
Mdjeser was one of more than 4,000 villages destroyed during the Anfal campaign of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, which especially targeted the Kurds and is gaining international recognition as an act of genocide.
Even now some villagers will not return to rebuild their homes because of the troubles in Iraq, which have made things worse in this border region.
The ancient capital was known as Musasir by the Assyrians and as Ardini by the Urartians themselves. It was among the lands that formed a string of buffer states between the two powers of the time, Assyria and Urartu.
Zamua also studied eleven human-size statues unearthed in the same area, which he believes are from the Scythian state of the 7th-6th century BC. They were originally erected above the graves of chieftains and warrior leaders.
“Most of the uncovered statues at Mdjeser and the neighboring Topzawa Valley have also a typical Scythian iconography,” Zamua said, explaining the figures were shown in real-life situations, such as holding a cup, strapping on a dagger or holding a hatchet, the preferred Scythian weapon.
At the temple, the columns are made of green basalt, and some with sandstone, limestone and marble.
“The importance of my research is that is the first time on the base of archaeological and textual data that we can show the penetration of the Scythians into Kurdistan during the 8th -7th centuries BC,” Zamua said.
“Kurdistan is one of the richest areas in the world in archaeology. There are thousands of archaeological sites -- caves, settlements, cities, citadels, castles, rock reliefs, bridges -- covering almost all the history and the lives of humans on earth from the stone ages to modern times.”
Luckily, the archaeological sites in Brodost-Sidekan are far from the rebellion and war raging across Iraq for more than a month.
Still, being an archeologist in Kurdistan is not easy, Zamua said, listing the dangers to include tens of thousands of unexploded land mines, especially from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
Other hazards are Iranian shelling of the area, Zamua said, which happened last in June. Turkish jets also have bombed the area several times in the past.
As an archaeologist, Zamua worries about the impact of war and the Islamic State (IS) on sites that are some of the earliest records of civilization.
IS fighters have been destroying historical sites during their military conquests, especially targeting Shiite shrines.
“In this chaotic situation they may loot ancient objects and sell them in the international black market to fund these groups,” Zamua said, voicing a growing concern.
He said that in this regard Kurdistan was acting very responsibly.
“Kurdistan is protecting its borders very well and the directorates of antiquities actively are trying to look at the archaeological sites to protect them,” he said.
He applauded the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for allowing foreign archeologists to work on sites. But he complained that, “there is no special fund for local archaeologists to start big projects.”
http://rudaw.net/english/culture/22072014
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jdtolle » July 22nd, 2014, Be more
You can be more than you’ve been. You can be more than you’ve even hoped or dreamed or imagined.
You can learn more, do more, achieve more, give more, experience more, laugh more, love more and live more. You’re fully capable of all that, and more.
No matter where you’ve been or what you’ve already done, you can ask more of yourself. Then, you can truly enjoy the experience of making it happen.
By raising your own expectations, you put yourself on track to lift up the whole world. And the world will always welcome some more positive goodness and substance.
Ask more of yourself, of your life, of your skills, resources and time, and then deliver it. Seek to live in a permanent state of growth and improvement, and you will live well indeed
walkingstick » July 22nd, 2014, Tuesday, July 22, 2014 12:11
The province decides to pay the salaries of its employees in U.S. dollars instead of the dinar
BAGHDAD / News .. Baghdadi announced head of the list of green in the Kurdistan Parliament Picard Dilshad Talabani, on Tuesday, that the Kurdistan Regional Government decided to spent the salaries of its employees to the U.S. dollar instead of the Iraqi dinar.
Talabani said in an interview I followed / Baghdadi News / "The heads of the lists in the Kurdistan parliament gathered today with the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Barzani to discuss and debate the budget and salaries of employees of the region."
She added: "We asked the Prime Minister in the province Bbbzl all efforts for the distribution of salaries of all employees of the region ahead of the Eid al-Fitr," adding, that "Barzani said during a meeting that does not have financial problems now but they are in dollars and converted to the local currency requires time so We decided to pay the salaries of the staff of the region in U.S. dollars instead of the dinar as of next month. "
The provincial government is witnessing a sharp dispute with the government in Baghdad as a result of the recent cut the salaries of employees in the region, but the Kurdistan oil exported and sold to European countries in order to pay the salaries of its employees. Ended 21 /
http://www.albaghdadianews.com/economy/item/56147-AkAjknL-njEE-ZHEJ-ENAbB-LNzJnm-BAkDNkAE-AkaLEnKn-BDkAً-Ll-AkDnlAE.html
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Manu68 :Hi Frank, is the key article from last night's cc re the payment in usd? If so, is this a good thing or bad thing or smoke from what you shared last night. So sorry i wasn’t able to listen to the cc. Manuia
**********
Winlady: Hi Manu68,
Hopefully the answers and comments made this morning have helped you realize this is most likely a good thing! Also, you can listen to the recorded CC and hear all that was said. Blessings! FYI..no..I am not Frank, just thought I would help!
**********
Sager » July 22nd, 2014, Per Reidar Visser - tweet at around 9am EST -
On press conference right now, newly elected #Iraq parliament speaker Jibouri indicates he wants to go ahead with election of president Wed.
************
KTFA Monday Night Conference Call. Approx : 133 Minutes Long. The first part of the call is Business opportunities and the second part is Dinar/Iraq Intel.
https://www.freeconferencecallhd.com/playback.html?n=OTQCw/jW74D
************
walkingstick » July 22nd, 2014,
As Islamic Militants Destroy Iraq Heritage, a Stunning Find in Kurdistan
By Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti 22 minutes ago
At the temple, the columns are made of green basalt, and some with sandstone, limestone and marble.
BARCELONA, Spain – While the history of civilization is being demolished by war and religious zealots in the rest of Iraq, in the Kurdistan Region archeologists are marveling at a stunning discovery: the remains of a long-lost temple from the biblical kingdom of Urartu, dating back to the 9th century BC.
Kurdish archaeologist Dlshad Marf Zamua, who has studied the columns and other artifacts at the find, told Rudaw these were unearthed piecemeal over the past four decades by villagers going about their lives, digging for cultivation or construction.
But only recently, after the discovery of life-size human statues and the unearthed columns, Zamua realized that the villagers had stumbled upon the temple of Haldi. That was one of the most important gods of Urartu, an Iron-Age kingdom around Lake Van in the Armenian highlands.
The temple was found in the village of Mdjeser, in the district of Bradost-Sidekan, the most northeastern corner of Iraq and bordering Iran and Turkey.
“The temple was recorded very well in the Assyrian and Urartian inscriptions,” explained Zamua, a doctoral student at Leiden University in the Netherlands who also teaches at Salahaddin University in Erbil.
“One of the reliefs depicts the plunder of the temple by the Assyrian King Sargon II in 714 BC,” said the researcher, who spent from 2005 to 2012 working on the site.
According to historical evidence and the recently uncovered sites, the ancient city of Musasir, located where Mdjeser is today, was home to Haldi’s temple.
Mdjeser was one of more than 4,000 villages destroyed during the Anfal campaign of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, which especially targeted the Kurds and is gaining international recognition as an act of genocide.
Even now some villagers will not return to rebuild their homes because of the troubles in Iraq, which have made things worse in this border region.
The ancient capital was known as Musasir by the Assyrians and as Ardini by the Urartians themselves. It was among the lands that formed a string of buffer states between the two powers of the time, Assyria and Urartu.
Zamua also studied eleven human-size statues unearthed in the same area, which he believes are from the Scythian state of the 7th-6th century BC. They were originally erected above the graves of chieftains and warrior leaders.
“Most of the uncovered statues at Mdjeser and the neighboring Topzawa Valley have also a typical Scythian iconography,” Zamua said, explaining the figures were shown in real-life situations, such as holding a cup, strapping on a dagger or holding a hatchet, the preferred Scythian weapon.
At the temple, the columns are made of green basalt, and some with sandstone, limestone and marble.
“The importance of my research is that is the first time on the base of archaeological and textual data that we can show the penetration of the Scythians into Kurdistan during the 8th -7th centuries BC,” Zamua said.
“Kurdistan is one of the richest areas in the world in archaeology. There are thousands of archaeological sites -- caves, settlements, cities, citadels, castles, rock reliefs, bridges -- covering almost all the history and the lives of humans on earth from the stone ages to modern times.”
Luckily, the archaeological sites in Brodost-Sidekan are far from the rebellion and war raging across Iraq for more than a month.
Still, being an archeologist in Kurdistan is not easy, Zamua said, listing the dangers to include tens of thousands of unexploded land mines, especially from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
Other hazards are Iranian shelling of the area, Zamua said, which happened last in June. Turkish jets also have bombed the area several times in the past.
As an archaeologist, Zamua worries about the impact of war and the Islamic State (IS) on sites that are some of the earliest records of civilization.
IS fighters have been destroying historical sites during their military conquests, especially targeting Shiite shrines.
“In this chaotic situation they may loot ancient objects and sell them in the international black market to fund these groups,” Zamua said, voicing a growing concern.
He said that in this regard Kurdistan was acting very responsibly.
“Kurdistan is protecting its borders very well and the directorates of antiquities actively are trying to look at the archaeological sites to protect them,” he said.
He applauded the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for allowing foreign archeologists to work on sites. But he complained that, “there is no special fund for local archaeologists to start big projects.”
http://rudaw.net/english/culture/22072014
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jdtolle » July 22nd, 2014, Be more
You can be more than you’ve been. You can be more than you’ve even hoped or dreamed or imagined.
You can learn more, do more, achieve more, give more, experience more, laugh more, love more and live more. You’re fully capable of all that, and more.
No matter where you’ve been or what you’ve already done, you can ask more of yourself. Then, you can truly enjoy the experience of making it happen.
By raising your own expectations, you put yourself on track to lift up the whole world. And the world will always welcome some more positive goodness and substance.
Ask more of yourself, of your life, of your skills, resources and time, and then deliver it. Seek to live in a permanent state of growth and improvement, and you will live well indeed
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You can always be more, and do more, and add more to the
miracle that is life.
Be more, and feel your growing positive energy as it fills your world. — Ralph Marston Wishing All a safe and blessed day |
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