John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, 2004
“In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows. Although people usually know what they have sown, our national experience of blowback is seldom imagined in such terms because so much of what the managers of the American empire have sown has been kept secret.”
Chalmers Johnson, Blowback, 2004
"Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Death By Government, 1994
"There is a certain madness in crowds. But the genesis of the madness is in those who assemble the crowds, give them weapons, and walk among them whispering&madness; madness."
Jesse, Housing Madness, 15 April 2008
"Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, so that in the days to come it may be a witness to them, for ever and ever. For these are a rebellious people, deceitful children, unwilling to listen to the instructions of the Lord.
They say to their seers, ‘Do not see!’ and to the prophets, ‘Say nothing of what is right! Tell us only things that please us, prophesy illusions.'"
Isaiah 30:8-10
"Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot bear to hear my words. You are from your father, the devil, and you choose to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he does not abide by the truth, for there is no truth in him.
When he lies,
he speaks in accord with his own nature,
for he is a liar
and the father of lies. But because I speak the truth, you refuse to believe me."
John 8:43-45
There are some who love money and power, and serve their gods with lies, theft, and murder.
They are desolate in the eyes of the Lord.
Their lawlessness will not stand.
Stocks were soaring overnight, as a judge struck down the legitimacy of the Trump tariffs declared 'in a state of emergency.'
Gold and silver were smashed.
But like so many things these days, none of this was real.
Don't blame them, they say. Hate the game, not the players. Who run the game.
Stocks finished unchanged to lower.
Gold and silver came back from fairly impressive losses overnight to finish in the green.
Another opportunity to gather more for themselves.
But the VIX is still mispricing the risks of a recession, which now almost looks to be inevitable.
Who could have seen it coming?
Do not be taken by their harvest of sorrows, and the wine press of God's wrath.
Have a pleasant evening.
