"Christmas Present" - Sat. PM TNT Thoughts/News Links 12/22/18

by **Ssmith** Sun Dec 23, 2018 8:48 am

TNT

JCNoble:
CBI could still release this today so RV can still happen before Christmas.

RVAlready:
Will Allaq push the bottom today? Inquiring minds want to know. Smile

Sunny:
Good Morning. Ever heard of "Don't open till Christmas Day"

Annie68:
Maybe that's when we all get to open our present from Iraq??

Sunny:
maybe our Christmas present from the UST

TheeyeGuy:
They need to pull the trigger, hit the button, turn it loose.

JCNoble:
We need for whoever is holding it up to let it go!

Chevy:
JCNOBLE - IT MAY NOT BE WHO IS HOLDING IT UP BUT MORE LIKELY WHAT IS HOLDING IT UP AND APPARENTLY THAT MAY BE MORE COMPLICATED?

Sunny:
IMO this is a huge chess game. Move, countermove. More is being negotiated, worked out than we are privy too and probably could not imagine. What we get to see that is reported may have nothing to do with what's going on in the background. Much more at stake than our getting to go by Christmas.

Chevy:
ONE OF MY FAVORITE WINSTON QUOTES - THIS IS THE MOST COMPLEX FINANCIAL TRANSACTION IN THE HISTORY OF MAN

Kman:
The most complex financial transaction in the history of man. Hmmmm. You'd think after 14 years they would have figured it out. I think there's a lot more to the story than we're aware of. JMHO.

RVAlready:
Many years ago, I heard from someone who had read "the plan". Then, it was 9000 pages of legal documents. So, yes, way bigger than you or me. This included the framework for all baskets.

KMan:
Well, with nine days left to the end of the year, lets hope someone gets their act together and moves this along.

Briona:
One thing positive is that they are having meetings daily, and not pushing it a week away like in the past.

Annie68:
Finding it a little hard to believe that everything is done, since they keep stalling.

RVAlready:
Annie, hate to say it, but I think the target has been 1 Jan 2019 for quite a while. They just kick the can from one target date to another. This time, everything actually looks ready to go.

Buckeyefan:
question for the room, are we facing another big delay with the latest from Washington? Just curious not being negative or positive just curious others thoughts.

Yada:
do not see the issues with the shut down effecting the RV,,,,just another issue that involves government affairs but not related…. But, what the RV process has done for all of use, or at least most of us, is made people aware of the affairs of governments where as before, we stayed in our little corners of the world

Briona:
The longest government shutdown in history was during the Clinton administration and that one was only 3 weeks.

Buckeyefan:
Yada, not shut down per se the removing troops from Syria, opening up flood gates for the nut jobs as a reason to revoke or rescind stability/security a new uprising.

Yada:
What the news is not telling you is we are not removing our contingency forces,,,,that would be a grave error as we've experieced with Iraq and ISIS,,

Buckeyefan:
Yada, so true about staying in corners and not paying attention to the government, so true!!! people continue to say that's not my concern, oh oh but it has a long reach…… Just like the gov shut down, its terrible for those impacted but it's not all the people we think but it sounds so harsh when in fact it's not as many people as one may think.

Yada:
Im of the mind there is more going on that will launch this RV and may not be the issue of the cabinet members. yes, stalling for a targeted date with banks ready to move in Iraq as well as here,,,plus we've been told it not the government affairs that delay it,,,

Luvwulfs:
Agreed and I think that date is very close.

Harambe:
Reuters: Iraqi PM discusses U.S. withdrawal from Syria with Pompeo
https://reut.rs/2Lx2MKy

Reuters: Syrian rebels say U.S. troops remain in key garrison near Iraq
https://reut.rs/2rRX1ya

The Washington Post: Retreating ISIS army smuggled a fortune in cash and gold out of Iraq and Syria
https://wapo.st/2EFtf7p?

Reuters: U.S. State Department says special envoy McGurk resigns
https://reut.rs/2EK7iEO

AP News: US envoy (McGurk) to anti-IS coalition quits over Trump's Syria move
https://apnews.com/a6be8c68c6b147549083da125d118446

DesertDawg:
Disappointing stories reveal what it's really like to win the lottery
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/disappointing-stories-reveal-what-its-really-like-to-win-the-lottery/ar-BBRgG96?li=BBnb7Kz