The Importance of Gold and Jewelry

Living in Canada, I have been subject to all sorts of creative commercials coercing the general populace to cash in their gold and precious jewels for immediate money. Everyone is on the rampage to get rid of their family valuables, of those rings they always hated, the earrings that you can’t wear because of you lack of piercings and all sorts of broken knickknacks that can bring in a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.

People are like sheep. Where the shepherd leads them, they instinctively follow, without questioning the motives behind it. The psychology that currently resounds is an extremely naive trust in society and a terrible affliction of selfishness. What people do not realize is that by not buying new jewels and getting rid of the old ones, they are in fact sealing their own fate. When currencies fall and depression hits, the most reliable currency is the physical gold. Both gold and silver prices have hit sky high and new products are double to triple their former prices. The smart ones buy as the prices start climbing and those who have no grasp of the economics of this world sell the most important assets they carry. Jewelry is an investment that cannot be underestimated.

President of Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan has the right thought in encouraging the development of quality jewelry from within the country. Armenians have long been known as master craftsmen, especially in the jewelry trade. Such an endeavor proves promising for the economical development of the independent state.

“According to the Central Department of Information of the NKR President’s apparatus, ‘special attention was paid to the establishment of a jewelry school in Artsakh, which is one of the primary preconditions for the development of the sphere.'” Such a school will allow for the newer generation to be trained at a craft that, with the right amount of clever wit and determinism and a small dose of luck, will open doors to multiple grand opportunities. The mining of raw materials in the land itself and neighboring Armenia means that it would add an immense new market for export and trade.

article source: http://www.a1plus.am/en/official/2011/12/20/bako?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Change the Government- One Bully at a Time

 

Lately it has come to the attention of the general populace that Suren Khachatryan, Syunik region’s governor, has been blatantly mistreating his villagers and blatantly abusing women who dare to speak against him. The first incident that caused a major uproar was his slapping businesswoman Silva Hambartzumyan in Yerevan’s Mariott hotel. The second that has Armenians demanding his removal from office was the threat against environmental activist Mariam Soukhoutyan, demanding that she shut up or else something really bad would happen to her. The argument between the villagers and the governor was placed on the web, showing a very dispassionate official interested not in the welfare of the people but his own pocket. His blatant lies were countered by proof by the villagers on how their cemeteries are getting blown up in favour of the mining industries doing their business on Armenian lands. The people refuse to sign a waver that hands the land to the German bronze mining company, knowing it’s a forced immigration to another area. The people have lived there for many generations and refuse to give up what Karekin Njteh had given all to protect and liberate.

What really delights me is that the common people are standing up and fighting for what they believe is right. Help bring justice to our land, by eliminating one useless bully at a time.

Sign the petition to remove Suren Khachatryan from his office: https://www.change.org/petitions/-117

Armenian Wine and Beer

Strabo mentions that in the Hellenic period, the country stretching sea to sea called Armenia was covered in grapevines. Herodotes describes the wine being brought down the Tigris river on cowhide rafts to be sold in Assyria. Xenophon recounts the fragrant wines and the outlandish barley drinks that were so strong they had to be sipped through straws. He was referring to the Armenian beer that had been developed 400 years before Xenophon’s visit. The wines were known to the Urartians as the “drink of the kings” alongside the beer, as attested to by cuneiform inscriptions. Viticulture and wine making were a major source of income and trade for the Armenians all throughout the Middle ages. Wine was associated with victory, love and eternal life