Bruce: Welcome Everybody to the Big Call tonight. What I am getting is really amazing because where we are right now is interesting. We got people that are under gag orders. We got people that we normally hear from that we are not really hearing from as much, but we are still getting information here and there that is coming through that is allowing us to draw a picture where we think we are. To be completely honest with you which I am, we were looking for this to occur this week eitherTuesday….(muffled). The fact that we have not received that yet is just an indication that when we thought we would have this and everybody was prepared for it we thought, it just didn’t happen yet. We don’t know exactly. People ask me who is holding it up. Why hasn’t it gone? Who is holding it up? It is hard to define that specifically as a person or an agency that is holding it up. So I try not to go there. Realistically it is hard to pin that down anyway. We do hear time from time certain things occurred that happened, but to be completely frank it is difficult to narrow it down to know what is exactly happening.
Bruce: When we talk about Iraq, we talk about have they moved forward. Have they put their rate out in the CBI that kind of thing. I do know one thing we got the owner of the Central Bank of Iraq working in conjunction with Dr. Shabi. DR Shabi has made a comeback to oversee I think to be part of this whole process for the Central Bank. Abadi is working with those two and who knows who else in conjunction with bringing everything forward.
Bruce: We know a lot of amazing things that we were looking for happen already. We were looking for today a number of agencies inside of Iraq to be paid today. We were looking for that. I have not been able to confirm whether they got paid or not. It is sort of something that we haven’t been able to narrow down yet. There was a group of everyone you can think of that needed to be paid to be caught up and paid at the new rates.
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