Perhaps like me, you have seen the annual US car show, either in person or on the TV. Each year the best and the brightest of the auto industry get together with some off duty strippers in short skirts and preview the best Detroit has to offer.

These same designers also show us some of the coolest ‘concept cars’. They all have sleek designs and if you are at the car show in person, you have to see these models before leaving the building.

We all stare at the possible futuristic cars and wonder what the world will be like when that ‘concept car’ pulls up next to me at a stop light.

Well, the “Amero” is a concept currency. It’s not out yet, but some day it might work its way off the drawing board and into your pocket.

Today, we look up and wonder what will the world be like when the woman next to you at the supermarket pays with her new Amero Coins. (its possible stop smiling:-)

What is the Amero?

In plain language? It is a really dumb idea created by a really goofy bunch of politicians from Mexico, Canada and the United States. However, unlike many of Detroit’s concept car designers these wacky politicians might be able to successfullymove the Amero from a drawing board into the real world.

The “Amero,” is an idea much like the Euro and would replace the US Dollar to become the currency of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

So be careful!!! There are two things American’s can’t get enough of….Britney Spears and shopping. With enough sizzle the new Amero currency might just have the ‘get-up-and-go’ for the public to buy it. Remember the “Pet Rock”? Wrap it in colored paper then call it fashionable and everyone may just want it.

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Remember, Remember The 9th of November The Gold, Silver and Debt….

Wait a minute, this is not V for Vendetta and nothing gets blown up.

This is the Liberty Dollar and Bernard driving around the country trying to enlighten people to the serious problems created by the overprinted and overburdened US Dollar.

This situation does not call for the government to raid, seize and one can only assume indict the group. What’s going on?

Last week when I first read about the Liberty Dollar being raided along with all the valuables seized, I was pretty outraged at this action taken by the government. However, I’ve now cooled down and throughly read the warrants, affidavits and press reports.

The government can go ahead and try to make that case stick in court but it seems a stretch to claim that one little man and his office staff were going to derail the entire US monetary system or were even attempting to do that!

I was pretty shocked to learn that the FBI had UCE (Under Cover Employees) working for over two years at NORFED then again at Liberty Services….. WTF is wrong with America?

Bernard had sued the US Mint many months back if they had a problem it should have been hashed out in court, as I suppose it now will be…. the only difference NOW, is that the ’soon to be defendants’ have no money or resources to fight even a speeding ticket much less the Federal Government.

God Bless the USA, but in the case of the U.S. vs the Liberty Dollar:

Unfair, unfair and I’ll say it again, unfair. Read more

This is a radio interview from RonPaulradio.com that took place on November 15 one day after the FBI and USSS raid on the Liberty Dollar National Sales office in Evansville, Indiana. Bernard was not present in Indiana at the time of the raid on the 14th. Bernard was reportedly in Florida on business.

Exclusive for RonPaulradio.com .

Jerry: Bernard, what went on today? I guess the FBI and ah Secret Service I guess has ah Secret Service has raided your operation?

Bernard: Actually yesterday morning Jerry, 12 federal agents from the FBI and Secret Service raided the Liberty Dollar national sales offices in Evansville, Indiana and took confiscated all the gold all the silver all the platinum and about ah I don’t know a ton and a half of the copper Ron Paul Dollars,

Jerry: No doubt

Bernard: All the computers and all the money.

Jerry: Ok, did they give any of the reasons why? What was the reasons why they gave you or what the criminal charges were or anything like that?

Bernard: I talked to the agent in charge from the FBI and he told me it was because the US Mint has deemed our activity to be illegal and they are responding to the DOJ.

Jerry: Ok, and what is your next step, what are you doing now?

Bernard: Well I think basically what happened here is that the government did not like our lawsuit basically Jerry, so our next step now is next step now is to start a class action law suit, for everybody who has Liberty Dollars and wants to redeem them obviously if you have silver there is no action necessary but anybody that has paper and wants to redeem them or have digital dollars and wants to redeem them should go to our website www.libertydollar.org and click on FBI Raids Liberty Dollar and sign up to be a part of our class action lawsuit so that we do not allow government to seal our money, that’s what they are trying to do, they are trying to steal the Liberty Dollar.

Jerry: Ok very good is there anything at all else you want to say to the people at Ron Paul Radio.

Bernard: That’s it, don’t let the government steal your money, stand up for value and go to our website and sign up for our class action lawsuit.

• Hear the actual radio interview here.
• US Mint - Paper is legal (pdf)
• Search Warrent (pdf)
• Seizure Warrent (pdf)
• Agent Information (pdf)

(its worth noting here that the seizure warrant issued by the United States District Court to an FBI agent was issued by the Western District of North Carolina and mentions a money laundering item and a mail fraud item. Its apparent that some activity took place in North Carolina that relates to the raid in Indiana. The signing US Magistrate Judge, The Honorable Dennis L. Howell, was located in Ashville, North Carolina and the document was signed on last Friady, November 9th)

The following is a letter from Bernard von NotHaus dated today:

I sincerely regret to inform you that about 8:00 this morning a dozen FBI and Secret Service agents raided the Liberty Dollar office in Evansville.

For approximately six hours they took all the gold, all the silver, all the platinum and almost two tons of Ron Paul Dollars that where just delivered last Friday. They also took all the files, all the computers and froze our bank accounts.

We have no money. We have no products. We have no records to even know what was ordered or what you are owed. We have nothing but the will to push forward and overcome this massive assault on our liberty and our right to have real money as defined by the US Constitution. We should not to be defrauded by the fake government money.

But to make matters worse, all the gold and silver that backs up the paper certificates and digital currency held in the vault at Sunshine Mint has also been confiscated. Even the dies for mint the Gold and Silver Libertys have been taken.

This in spite of the fact that Edmond C. Moy, the Director of the Mint, acknowledged in a letter to a US Senator that the paper certificates did not violate Section 486 and were not illegal. But the FBI and Services took all the paper currency too.

The possibility of such action was the reason the Liberty Dollar was designed so that the vast majority of the money was in specie form and in the people’s hands. Of the $20 million Liberty Dollars, only about a million is in paper or digital form.

I regret that if you are due an order. It may be some time until it will be filled… if ever… it now all depends on our actions.

Everyone who has an unfulfilled order or has digital or paper currency should band together for a class action suit and demand redemption. We cannot allow the government to steal our money! Please don’t let this happen!!! Many of you read the articles quoting the government and Federal Reserve officials that the Liberty Dollar was legal. You did nothing wrong. You are legally entitled to your property. Let us use this terrible act to band together and further our goal – to return America to a value based currency.

Please forward this important Alert… so everyone who possess or use the Liberty Dollar is aware of the situation.

Please click HERE to sign up for the class action lawsuit and get your property back!

If the above link does not work you can access the page by copying the following into your web browser. http://www.libertydollar.org/classaction/index.php

Thanks again for your support at this darkest time as the damn government and their dollar sinks to a new low.

Bernard von NotHaus

Monetary Architect

Jeffrey Tucker over on the Mises.org Blog (Gold and the Dollar, Nov.7) posted this great chart comparison. The Mises Blog belongs to the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics.

The two charts compare the weakening US Dollar right above surging Gold prices for the past 6 months.  Where do you keep your savings?

To find out more about the most convenient and cost efficient ways to buy and sell gold online, please visit any of these webs. Crowne Gold, GoldMoney, Bullionvault, Pecunix, Webmoney (WMG), e-Bullion, Commerce Gold, e-Dinar.

Reference: blog.mises.org

What does financial freedom mean to you?

Financial freedom means being able to control the destiny of my wealth.

Do you invest your own money in gold or silver bullion?

Well, I’m basically a pauper. There are some assets that I have been asked to manage. Whatever ready money I have access to is stored in gold or silver, except for extremely current cash to pay actual bills now due.

Why?

Simply put, I don’t trust the governments that put their full faith and credit behind paper money. I believe the history of governments is such that only a fool would ever trust them.

If I gave you one full page ad, in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post….for one full weekend (Fri, Sat, Sun editions), what would you say to those millions of readers?

If there were only one idea to convey, it would be the tremendous difficulty faced by people who have poor crypto. Look at Japan and Germany in World War Two. They had the very best mechanical cryptography systems, and they were utterly defeated by the USA and Britain, which had the very best digital crypto. Now, it happens that I’m working with a company in Houston, LightSpeed Systems, which offers encrypted root desktops and Rayservers brand encrypted root laptops. I think that secure data systems are very, very important. If you visit golightspeed.com you would get a glimpse of what we are doing. So, in terms of consumer products, that’s where I am. I really think selling gold and silver coins to the masses is going to be very easy in the next few years.

I am not a fan of credit cards. I recognize that last year was the first time since the great depression that the US population had a negative rate of savings, people actually had to dip into their savings just to get by, yet credit card debt continues to rise per US household. Open your wallet or briefcase and tell us, do you have a wallet full of plastic credit cards? Why?

I’ve been reducing. I managed to get one card company from a credit union to let me pay off the balances on two others. I plan to reduce further. But, yes, I have debit and credit cards. They are very handy for day to day transactions.

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When building a larger and stronger online digital gold economy, which comes first the merchants or the users?

The merchants come first. But, the users are easy to bring. The reason e-gold became the leading digital gold currency is very simple: they had a referral program. Their referral program split the revenues from the payment receive fee between the person referring the spender and the person referring the recipient. It worked. And the leading merchants were the ones who did the most to promote e-gold.

As long as I have been online and touting the benefits of digital gold currency, not too many people have put away their plastic and replaced it with e-gold or Pecunix.

I wouldn’t expect all forms of plastic to go away. Fiat money is actually in circulation rather than gold and silver because of Gresham’s law. So, it is well to have systems that inter-operate between gold and fiat. One of the projects I’ve been asked to consult on is a digital gold card where the balance is held in gold but the payments are in local currencies. Even with all the CC fraud, high rip off interest rates people still use their plastic when shopping online. About 90% of all US online transactions are paid with plastic.

What’s it going to take to get people to change?

The same thing it always takes, Mark. It is going to take a collapse of the world’s reserve currency. Fiat money inflation in France lasted seven years or so. The fiat money in Weimar Germany lasted four years. The experience in Yugoslavia was something like five quadrillion percent inflation in one and a half years. The Republic of China had hyperinflation for sixteen years while they fought the Japanese and then Mao. The United States dollar untied from gold in 1971, or 36 years ago. There have been amazing things in those three dozen years, that have kept the currency alive.

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This is an interview with Jim Davidson of Vertoro.

Jim has been an ever present force in the digital currency world for almost a decade. He shares with me his ideas on free market money, precious metals and digital currency. I appreciate Jim taking time to answer my questions.

Where does the name Vertoro come from?

Vertoro is a combination of the French word “vert” meaning green, and the Italian word “oro” meaning gold.

So the name implies your motto, going from green American dollars to gold money?

Yes, that’s the idea. We think that it is vital for businesses and individuals to make that move from green to gold.

What are your reasons for urging people to do so?

The ones we tend to emphasize are going global with gold, hedging against inflation with gold and silver, and using free market currency to avoid anti-market forces.

Gold is a world currency and certainly one of the two oldest currencies. Gold and silver are both mentioned in the Old Testament, they were used in coins thousands of years ago, and they are widely accepted. In my own travels, I’ve been able to convert gold and silver coins to local currency in every country I’ve visited in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America.

Inflation is a tax on wealth. If you hold your wealth as dollars, you get hit with that tax. The guys who make dollars, both at the printing press and in the banks, generate more dollars all the time. Since dollars are not in fixed supply, the value of the dollars changes. Generally, over time, monetary policy has been inflationary.

Gold and silver also expand in supply, as more of these metals are discovered. But, they expand at a much more consistent rate over the long run than paper money.

Finally, gold and silver are market-chosen money. The free market principles which I believe are the best economic policy should be practiced not only at the national level, but more importantly at the local level. Individuals and businesses should use free market money - money with value derived from its acceptability in the market rather than any edict or decree.

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Crowne Gold does not make the front page of the HYIP gazettes, and for a good reason….Crowne Gold is one of the most experienced digital gold operators in the industry (its a no scam zone).

For persons wanting to buy and sell gold bullion and digital gold, this operation is one of your best chance at happiness.

Who Is Crowne Gold and what is the Crowne Mint?

Why should all gold investors need to learn more about this digital gold company?

Well….

1. They fought the IRS allegation of being a tax evasion scheme and won

2. Fought the US Federal governments allegation of being an illegal money transmitter, and won

3. Been issued a full compliance on the operational side of issuing a currency secured by gold in the USA

4. Own a mint that will send one troy ounce gold medallions for Crowne Mint to clients who request their physical gold holdings

5. Provides secure server placement in friendly jurisdictions

6. Provides 100% of the business of brokering gold and silver as well as issuance of a digital gold medium of exchange

7. Own the Precious metal seat on the Panama commodity exchange

8. Client gold is subject to monthly audit by both U.S. certified public accountants and internationally certified accountants.

Crowne is an amazing success story and they have build their operation on solid granite, so this one is not likely to crumble like so many other digital operations.

In Crowne We Trust.

New York spot gold closed today at $804.50 up over $14 per ounce. Thank you Ben Bernanke for circulating all that fresh new US currency and pushing the value of gold even higher! God bless America.

Where was gold just 60 days ago?

Check out this chart, the price was $130+ per ounce cheaper.