Tacitus, Agricola, circa 98 AD
"The Press of the United States? Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it. I know nothing that I may say can influence you. You have no souls to be influenced. You are spineless, flaccid things. You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. There is no Republican Party. There is no Democratic Party. You are lick-spittles and panderers, the creatures of the Plutocracy.”
Jack London, The Iron Heel, 1907
"Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
John Harrington, Epigrams: Of Treason, 1618
"These were some of James Jesus Angleton’s dying words. He had not been serving God, after all, when he followed Allen Dulles. He had been on a satanic quest:
'I did things that, in looking back on my life, I regret. But I was part of it and loved being in it.' He invoked the names of the high eminences who had run the CIA in his day—Dulles, Helms, Wisner. These men were 'the grand masters,' he said. 'If you were in a room with them, you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell.' Angleton took another slow sip from his steaming cup. 'I guess I will see them there soon.'
David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard, 2015
"The coming of the lawless will be the work of Satan made manifest in all power and false signs and wonders, and in every wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to accept the love of the truth to be saved. For this reason, God allows them to have a powerful delusion to believe their own lies, that all those who deny the truth and instead take pleasure in lawlessness will be condemned."
2 Thessalonians 2:7-12
“Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation: a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.”
Czeslaw Milosz, Discreet Charm of Nihilism, NYRB November 19, 1998
It was a decline to cover those gaps in the equity charts, with risk coming off the table.
Gold and silver were sold lower.
The Dollar took back the 100 handle.
VIX came in higher, but declined into the close.
This seems more like a correction and profit-taking, moreso than some other significant event.
But as I remind, we are one trigger event away from a meltdown.
Dick Cheney, practitioner of deceit and war crimes, has passed onto judgement.
As shall they all.
Have a pleasant evening.
