Archive for September, 2011

This a’int America is it?

It sure is. Watch this video of people exercising their Constitutional right to dissent. Pay close attention to the women behind the orange police barricade. They are armed with nothing but their presence and their words. Yet they are the ones sprayed with mace/pepper spray by the police. For what?

Here’s a quote from the YouTube Channel that posts this video:

While on a peaceful march near Union Square in downtown Manhattan, multiple female protestors were penned up in the street by orange mesh baricade, then maliciously maced.

The women were peaceful and unarmed. They were secured by barricade with an overwhelming police presence. And they were then sprayed directly in the face with pressurized mace…

WeAreTheOther99 continues to peacefully occupy Lower Manhattan to begin a dialogue with the Top 1% with the goal of a peaceful transition of power back to the People.

This can no longer be stopped. But be advised, this will not be televised…

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t see this on the news.

This is only the beginning folks… Combine a failing economic system, with a very small cadre of beneficiaries, with a pervasive entitlement mentality, in an election year… and you get a mess.

Most people know something is wrong. They… no, we… feel it in our gut.

Unfortunately, though, most of us are distracted, so we tend not to see it. And when we do see it, if we don’t understand it, we tend to move to something that is easy to understand… something emotionally easier to handle. It’s easier to blame them. It’s easier to have a scapegoat or to look to someone who is far worse off than ourselves. Rather than trying to understand what is happening.

Watch this video about what is happening to the fabric of American society.

The Arab Spring, the riots in London and Greece, the bailouts of governments by the European Central Bank, the wars in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the countless other places we have invaded have nothing to do with al-Qaeda or Muslim extremists or loose immigration laws or any other convenient “other”. These things have to do with our financial system and the control of resources. Until you wake up to that fact, you will continue to feel that dull ache in your belly. When you get a moment of stillness, you will quietly wonder what is happening, until something comes along and distracts you yet again.

“Gold is in a bull market but central bankers do not want the public to buy physical gold and silver to hedge against inflation and deflation or hyperinflation.”

Here are some sources I trust:

• Gold Money – overseas vault storage and allows you to withdraw in other currencies
• APMEX Gold and Silver
• Golden Eagle Coins – or any local coin collector, really
• Gold Silver – a good source of info and you can buy precious metals (but it’s a tad pricier)
• Again, I would NOT touch ETFs like GLD at all. Stay far, far away.

Although some Brothers and Sisters expressed concern about GoldMoney.com citing fatawa (Jazakum Allahu khairun to all of you), but there is a big misunderstanding. GoldMoney.com does not allow you to pay now and actually get the gold later. Instead, you are transferring money into your account. It lives in your account much like your (fake, fiat) dollars live in a bank account now. Once the dollars are in your GoldMoney account, you can then buy gold, silver, palladium, or platinum with it. The moment you buy it, it is yours. Granted, you are not touching it when you buy it, but there is no time delay.

Here is the fatwa cited: http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/65919/gold

And here is one of the comments (from an anonymous reader): “My friend, be careful when dealing with these gold websites. I am not in a position to say this because I do not know any fatwas related to this but from my knowledge when trading in gold the transaction must happen immediately, the money payed and the gold received, otherwise it is not lawful. Please look further into this because I don’t know whether ETF’s are halal or haram.”

Again, jazakAllahu khairun for your comments. I advise all of you to consider owning gold, but to look into the Islamic rules regarding the proper way of doing so. Allah knows best.