Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Hide Us From the Wrath of the Lamb

 

"What I said was this: Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people.  If you follow all the ways that I command you, then you will prosper.

They did not obey or pay heed to my words.  They persisted in following their own evil inclinations with stubborn hearts and turned not their faces but their backs to me.   From the day your ancestors left Egypt until now I unfailingly sent my servants the prophets to them.  Yet they have not listened, but stiffened their necks and proved to be worse than their fathers.

When you speak these words to them, they will not listen. When you call to them, they will not answer. Then you are to say: This is the nation that did not obey the Lord, their God, or accept correction. Truth has perished. It no longer issues forth from their mouths."

Jeremiah 7:23-28

"Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me divides. Amen I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven."

Matthew 12:30-31

"From the day it was built this city has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove it from my sight. The people of Israel and Judah have provoked me by all the evil they have done. Their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem have turned their backs and not looked to me. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to my commandments. They set up vile images in the house that bears my Name, and defiled it. They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fires to Moloch."

Jeremiah 32:31-35

"God has a way of standing before the nations with judgement, and it seems that I can hear God saying to America 'You are too arrogant!  If you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power!  And I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name.  Be still, and know that I am God.'"

Martin Luther King, Why I Am Opposed to the War, 1967

"Wonderful providence indeed which is so silent, yet so efficacious, so constant, so unerring.  This is what baffles the power of Satan.  He cannot discern the Hand of God in what goes on; and though he would fain meet it and encounter it, in his mad and blasphemous rebellion against heaven, he cannot find it.

Crafty and penetrating as he is, yet his thousand eyes and his many instruments avail him nothing against the majestic serene silence, the holy imperturbable calm which reigns through the providences of God. He makes a guess here, or does a bold act there, but all in the dark.  If even devils, sagacious as they are, spirits by nature and experienced in evil, cannot detect His hand while He works, how can we hope to see it except by that way which the devils cannot take, by loving faith.

Let us ever bear in mind this divine truth, — the more secret God's hand is, the more powerful — the more silent, the more awful"

John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol 4,17

 

Stocks managed to slip the props being deployed by Bessent and crew, and ended the day down, going out on the lows.

The wiseguys are far from done, but cold reality is beginning to penetrate into the halls of the power elite.

VIX rose.  It has been setting higher lows for a little while now, a sign of the building tension on the tape.

The Dollar rose, giving gold and silver the usual rough time.

When the 'flight to safety' actually hits in earnest, it's action could be rather dynamic.

But for now, we are existing in the fog of war lies and myths.  

Donnie and Pete has little sense for strategic and tactical planning.  They are both performative and hardly practical and effective.  And the same could be said about the GOP and Democratic leadership in Congress, and the Robert's Court majority.   The mainstream media in the West should be ashamed.

The problem is the US cannot simply walk away from this mistaken military action.  Well, technically they can, but then Tel Aviv is going to end up looking like Gaza.  And the adjustments in the global balance of power would be hard for the neo-cons to accept.

The same might be said of the warhawk cheerleaders advice to resort to even greater damage to the population centers in Iran.

It may be ironic that the bravado, tough guy posturing of the Trump Administration might bring it to an end well in advance of the end of his second term.

Have a pleasant evening.