"Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful."
Charles Ferguson, Predator Nation
“There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits [clickbait] and consumption is good for the political establishment.”
Noam Chomsky
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
Garry Kasparov
“The official philosophies of the totalitarian regimes unanimously brand as nonsensical the idea that there exists a single objective truth valid for everybody. the official philosophies of the totalitarian regimes deny the inherent value of thought. For them thought is not a light but a weapon: its function, they say, is not to discover reality as it is, but to change and transform it with the purpose of leading us towards what is not.”
Alexandre Koyré
As previously noted there will be a significant stock market option expiration tomorrow.
The Dollar rallied, and gold and silver were slugged. I wonder how much of that was due to the punters and assorted small specs crowding into mining company calls, and the quadruple stock expiration tomorrow.
Stocks failed to penetrate overhead resistance and gave some of their recent gains back into the close.
Shenanigans are the custom, in a nation whose primary business is fraud.
Have a pleasant evening.
