G-8 leaders receive books on Canova & "imaginary future world currency" gold coins
G-8 leaders to receive books on Canova, gold coins
By MARTA FALCONI, Associated Press Writer Marta Falconi, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 8, 10:15 am ET
ROME – World leaders attending the Group of Eight summit opening Wednesday in Italy will each be presented with a gift from the past and one for the future.
Handmade books portraying works by Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, as well as gold coins representing an imaginary future world currency will be given to the participants at the opening of the three-day summit.
There are 10 copies of the book, commissioned by Italy's Premier Silvio Berlusconi from the Bologna-based art publishing house Fondazione Marilena Ferrari, each with a personalized dedication for the leader who receives it.
The 28-inch by 17.5-inch (71-centimeter by 44.5-centimeter) Canova books were crafted at no cost by 23 Italian craftsmen using traditional techniques, the publishing house said. Each weighs 53 pounds (24 kilograms).
The books' covers are decorated with white marble bas-reliefs and the volumes are bound with silk and gold thread. They include etchings and dozens of black and white photographs of Canova's artworks, including artistic close-ups of his statues.
The coins, made by Belgian Luc Luycx, who designed one side of the Euro coins, are called "eurodollars," in a symbolic call for a common currency to unite Europe and the United States.
They have a value of euro2,800 ($3,900) and were produced by the United Future World Currency, a group pushing the idea of a global currency.
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Well
I would rather a worldwide gold standard emerged from the actions of a free market instead of a government body because we see what has been done here in the good ole US over the years. Clearly no government can be trusted to protect the standard and especially not a global body which surely would be the most bloated, Orwellian, uncontrollable force on the planet until it inflated itself to death and then ultimately collapsed.
"Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.", www.mises.org
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I will take it!
I would take a world gold currency, anyday, over the rip-off fiat trash that we have.
Too bad the article's first 10 paragraphs raved about the art and the gold currency only demanded the last sentence.
United Future World Currency Web Site
With pictures...
http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Default.asp
I pray that this revolution
I pray that this revolution is a peaceful one. But they seem hellbent on provoking some "nutjob" to force us into global martial law. I call. I write. I talk to everyone I know, and I don't see us gaining ground. I know today was a good day. We are up to 250 HR 1207 cosponsors. We need 290. Then we have the even more corrupt incompetent senate to focus on. And we know what they think of our opinions.
You Judge A Tree By It's Fruit, NOT its Flower
Question...
...how much do the coins weigh???
www.goldmoney.com
www.bullionvault.com
End the Fed! Fight the NWO!
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"I think it would be a good idea"
Mahatma Gandhi,
when asked what he thought of Western civilization
I threw up a little in my mouth...
while reading this garbage.
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elroc:I know the feeling.
Pure evil, pure disease.
I think we need a little...
fiber in this government diet, just to help flush out the crap that's been hanginh around. Some good old moral fiber to be exact.
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