“We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
Stephen Miller, CNN Interview, 6 January 2026
"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater."
Alvin Smith, George Washington Carver: Man of God, 1961
"Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. Hell is a nothingness
which has the pretension and the illusion of
being. A mere
chance can strip us of our possessions — except the
power to say ‘I’. That is what we have to give to
God — in other words, to sacrifice. There is
no other free act which is given us to
accomplish — only the surrender of the ‘I’"
Simone Weil, La pesanteur et la grâce, 1947
"In dark and pathological times, when the better part of the human spirit are on the wane and love grows cold, many lust after power. Power becomes the standard of value, the coin of the realm, in a deeply fallen world. And in such a world the only virtue is greed.
How much is enough? The will to power is a pathological sickness, that becomes insatiable and all consuming. It anoints its own angels of death. Do not be among those who will be taken during the dark times, when the love of many grows cold. Stand humbly and firmly to the end. And you will have your greatness."
Jesse, Preserving Sanctity in Times of Darkness, 6 July 2017
"His instruments are poor and despised; the world hardly knows their names. They are busied about what the world thinks petty, and no one minds them. They are apparently set on no great works; nothing is seen to come of what they do: they seem to fail.
But there is an unseen connection in the kingdom of God. Such is the rule of our warfare. We rise by falling; we inherit the earth through meekness; we gain comfort through mourning; we earn glory by penitence and prayer. Heaven and earth shall sooner fall than this rule be reversed; it is the law of Christ's kingdom, and nothing can reverse it but sin."
John Henry Newman
Stocks rallied today in response to the big, beautiful State of the Union speech by Trumpolini last night.
What a surprise.
Gold and silver were rallying a bit but in the last hour were hit hard by program selling on higher volumes.
What a surprise.
Gold and silver owe no allegiance to anyone, any counterparty, and that is why those obsessed with a lust for power hate them.
VIX fell. What are the risks for the masters of the universe?
The dollar slipped after a mid-day push.
The Dollar, once the bastion of imperial overreach, is becoming the weakest link.
Bitcoin managed to rally quite nicely, but is still within a lackluster trading range.
The Trump boys are crypto-kids. But they are only concerned with Bitcoin to the extent that it might reflect badly on their own crypto corner.
There are some very broken people, broken and sick at heart, who lust for power to have their revenge on innocence and the love they think they have been denied. They need to fill their emptiness with things and people, and their obsessions often take a turn to the darkness. They have no goodness in them, consumed by daemonic madness.
We are certainly seeing this now with the Epstein revelations, and government's policies towards the weak and the disadvantaged that are marked by needless brutality, and too often malevolent cruelty. This is not 'normal.' This is not righteousness.
This is as old as Babylon, and evil as sin.
If people will turn a blind eye to wars of aggression, murder on the high seas, and open genocide, what limits could their 'inner morality' possibly place to contain their lawlessness? They give themselves over to madness, to escape the pain of being broken creatures, lashing out in a cycle of self-inflicted pain.
Do not be among those who will be taken by the darkness, when the love of many will grow cold. Stand humbly and firmly to the end. And you will find your salvation, and abundant life.
Have a pleasant evening.
