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To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (520565)	1/6/2004 7:07:15 PM
From: DizzyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Agree... However, I really can't OPEC deciding to stop taking US dollars. The US is OPEC's LARGEST customer. What would happen to OPEC if the US stopped buying oil from them and bought exclusively from Russia? No, I think a threat from OPEC is a non-issue. Diz- PS: On a side note, why aren't we drilling in ANWR? Seems to me that the US could eliminate OPEC's hold by finding our own source for oil. Maybe the idiots in the Senate will pass the next energy bill, eh?

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (520565)	1/7/2004 3:32:58 AM
From: Rick McDougall	Respond to of 769667

None of them are rational, the worst being Bushy & Oil Slick Dick.

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (520565)	1/7/2004 9:32:28 AM
From: D.Austin	Respond to of 769667

Can radical Islam convince Muslims to use the Gold Dinar instead of the U.S. dollar? You better believe it! Look: If bin Laden can convince desperate people to strap on DYNAMITE and blow themselves to bits in the name of Allah, you can be ABSOLUTELY certain radical Islam can convince people to trade in U.S. paper dollars for real gold! Why? It's pretty simple... The Muslim World Is ANGRY at the United States -- And It's Not Just the Terrorists! Many Muslims believe that the United States is responsible for the enormous devastation suffered by hundreds of millions of Muslims during the Asian Currency Crisis of 1997. This ANGER will provide a powerful incentive for Muslims to get even with the United States by selling dollars and buying Islamic Gold Dinars. Just take a look at this quote from the Islamic Mint Web site: "... he heard the Messenger of Allah say: "'A time is certainly coming over mankind in which there will be nothing [left] which will be of use save a dinar...'" -- Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal I think it's obvious. These folks don't just want the dollar to drop, they want the U.S. dollar to disappear . Permanently! And just listen to what Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed had to say: "If we want to avoid being short-changed we must have a currency that has intrinsic value... If we want to protect ourselves we must evolve our own payment system, our own trading currency." Let me read between the lines for you: Mohammed believes that the U.S. financial system is responsible for the Asian Currency Crisis of 1997. And he is urging Muslims to drop the dollar and use the Gold Dinar. Radical Best Seller List There is a book by a radical Muslim, Umar Ibrahim Vadillo, called The Return of the Gold Dinar. According to Wired magazine, author Vadillo explains via e-mail. "You want to be radical? "You don't need to blow up the bank, just burn your bank account. And for that you are going to need an alternative. What is the alternative? Dinar." What is Vadillo saying? I think it's very clear. He's telling his readers that if they want to hurt America, they don't need to blow up a bank or carry out a suicide attack. They simply need to drop the U.S. dollar... in favor of the Gold Dinar. The 92-page paperback is practically flying off the bookshelves in the Muslim world, and it's also getting worldwide exposure via the Internet. Momentum is growing behind the push for the Gold Dinar. And there's something else driving the Dinar. Something very powerful indeed. The Koran Says: "Buy Gold!" One of the main pillars of the Islamic faith is the observance of Zakat, which dictates that Muslims must give at least 2 1/2 % of their income to the poor. And get this: Zakat can only be paid with REAL MONEY! That means that Zakat cannot be paid with a PROMISE to pay, which is what a U.S. Dollar is! Let me repeat that: The U.S. Dollar is NOT a tangible asset. Rather, it is a promise to pay -- an IOU -- backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. But, as a promise to pay, it cannot fulfill one of the main pillars of the Islamic faith! The Gold Dinar meets a religious need in Islam! The dollar does not! Religious leaders are now pushing Muslims to use the gold dinar. As you can imagine, religious pressure can be extremely persuasive. And this one single fact could drive Muslims to drop dollars and buy Gold Dinars. 1.5 Billion Muslims...Dumping Dollars for Gold Let's consider the effects on gold -- and the broader financial markets -- as Muslims start to unload their U.S. dollar reserves to buy Gold Dinars. There are approximately 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide. AND there is a limited supply of gold in the world. So, as the demand for gold increases, and as the available supply starts to dwindle... the price of gold will soar! And we're already seeing this happen. Listen to this: Gold hit about $850 per ounce back in 1980. It then entered a 19-year bear market... and the price of gold dropped to about $250 per ounce... BUT: Since the launch of the Gold Dinar on Nov. 7, 2001, the price of gold has SOARED to an 8-year record high of over $410 per ounce... while the U.S. dollar has dropped to a record low against the euro! Islam was founded around A.D.700. And from the very beginning, Muslims used a gold coin called a Gold Dinar as their form of money. The Gold Dinar remained the official Islamic currency until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1924... when it disappeared for 77 years. But on Nov. 7, 2001 -- less than two months after the TERROR STRIKES of Sept. 11 -- the Islamic Dinar was officially re-launched by the Islamic Mint in West Malaysia and is now available to the public. Intelligence data, extracted through aggressive interrogation of al Qaeda operatives at Guantamano Bay Military Base, confirms a massive economic terror attack by radical Islam is under way. And while the cold-blooded atrocities of Sept.11 were horrific, al Qaeda's new plot could send the U.S. economy into an absolute death spiral! But this increase is just the beginning! **************** This article is from an e-mail newsletter to purchase gold and the Dinar,so its content is biased.