Posted on 08/30/2015 5:50:24 AM PDT by Libloather
ISIS release pictures of their new gold coins they say will 'break capitalist enslavement' - so why are they still paying their deranged gunmen in US dollars?
ISIS have released a new hour long video, showing off their latest propaganda tool - their very own coin currency.
The video, which includes a dreary and distorted history of world economics, shows the smelting of gold, silver and copper coins.
Dramatised by clips from Hollywood war films, the film accuses the US of 'confiscating Americans real wealth through an executive decree' with the introduction of the Gold Reserve Act in 1934.
Yet despite their glorification of their new currency, ISIS have no other means to pay their band of jihadis except through the use of US dollars.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The most important part of the ability to mint gold coins, is the acquisition of gold. It seems to me that the ISIS business model is sorely lacking on this part of it.
“Due to ISIS being a terrorist group, it will not be able to use the coins to trade outside its territory.”
Possibly not entirely true. They could try selling to the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop, though Rick Harrison is know to be a tough cookie. I can see it all now:
Rick: Have you got some paperwork on these,they’re faked all the time. And besides, some of these are scratched, which greatly reduces their value; condition is everything you know.
“What’s in YOUR warchest?”
Of course nothing is quite so beautiful as Walking Liberty. I have one of those in my pocket right now. ;)
/johnny
Because they want to keep the real money for themselves?
I hate to say it, but ISIS may have a point, though, about the confiscation of American’s wealth, via systematic, intentional debasement of the currency, following Roosevelt’s nationalization of gold.
A LOT of our present day problems can be traced back to him.
Whew! That was *close*!!!
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