Charles de Gaulle, President of France, to Alain Peyrefitte, 1963
“What is unrecognized about JFK's presidency, which then makes his assassination a false mystery, is that he was locked in a struggle with his national security state. That state had higher values than obedience to the orders of a president who wanted peace. It’s unbelievable—or we’re supposed to think it is—that a president was murdered by our own government agencies because he was seeking a more stable peace than relying on nuclear weapons. It’s unspeakable. For the sake of a nation that must always be preparing for war, that story must not be told. If it were, we might learn that peace is possible without making war.
When we become more deeply human, as Merton understood the process, the wellspring of our compassion moves us to confront the Unspeakable. There is nothing so threatening to systemic evil as those willing to stand against it regardless of the consequences."
James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, 2008
"It is so important to understand that one of the primary means of immobilizing the American people politically today is to hold them in a state of confusion in which anything can be believed but nothing can be known, nothing of significance that is.
And the American people are more than willing to be held in this state because to know the truth - as opposed to only believe the truth - is to face an awful terror and to be no longer able to evade responsibility."
E. Martin Schotz, History Will Not Absolve Us, 1996
There will be a stock option expiration for December on Friday.
President Trump has announced that he will be making an announcement to the nation this evening at 9 PM EST.
Speculation on what this will be about is all over the board, but much of it centers on the Administration's provocative confrontation with Venezuela.
It's difficult to forecast what will happen, because we are dealing with a group of people who live in an alternative reality of lies and purposeful imaginings designed to manipulate public opinion, and the outsized looting of the nation by wealthy, willful sociopaths.
Whatever happens, let us not overlook or excuse the terrible responsibility that is being laid upon those who watch all this unfolding and ask, 'What is truth?', and then cynically turn away from it.
May they never rest.
Gold and silver are moving higher in a flight to safety, with silver showing a particularly powerful bullishness driven it seems by a short squeeze on physical supply.
All the things we have been saying about this ongoing fraudulent manipulation of silver, and gold, seems to be harder to dismiss now. Not that the usual suspects will not try. Fraud discovered has no resort but audacity.
VIX ticked higher.
The Dollar is hanging on the 98 handle, helped by the peculiarly outdated composition of the DXY index.
Remember, in this time of adverse weather and troubled conditions, to feed and care for the birds and animals of His creation, and the innocent souls among us, the little ones, the least of these.
"The blessed John the Evangelist lived in Ephesus until extreme old age. His disciples could barely carry him to church and he could not muster the voice to speak many words. During individual gatherings he usually said nothing but, 'Little children, love one another.' The disciples and brothers in attendance, annoyed because they always heard the same words, finally said, 'Teacher, why do you always say this?' He replied with a line worthy of John: 'Because it is the Lord's commandment, and if it alone is kept, it is sufficient.'"
Jerome, Commentary on Galatians, 4th century
And this includes caring for the state of your own soul, with faith and prayer and acts of kindness, because that is what this is all about.
Have a pleasant evening.
