David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard: the Rise of America's Secret Government, 2015
“The Dulles brothers were not intimidated by mere presidents. When President Franklin Roosevelt pushed through New Deal legislation to restrain the rampant greed and speculation that had brought the country to economic ruin, John Foster Dulles simply gathered his corporate clients in his Wall Street law office and urged them to defy the president. 'Do not comply,' he told them. 'Resist the law with all your might, and soon everything will be all right.'
Dulles undermined or betrayed every president he served in high office.”
David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard: the Rise of America's Secret Government, 2015
“During the Eisenhower administration, the Dulles brothers would finally be given full license to exercise their power in the global arena. In the name of defending the free world from Communist tyranny, they would impose an American reign on the world enforced by nuclear terror and cloak-and-dagger brutality.”
David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard: the Rise of America's Secret Government, 2015
“What he confessed was this. He had not been serving God, after all, when he followed Allen Dulles. He had been on a satanic quest. These were some of James Jesus Angleton’s dying words. He delivered them between fits of calamitous coughing—lung-scraping seizures that still failed to break him of his cigarette habit—and soothing sips of tea.
'The better you lied and the more you betrayed, the more likely you would be promoted.. . . Outside of their duplicity, the only thing they had in common was a desire for absolute power. 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: the Rise of America's Secret Government, 2015
“The opposite of love is not hate, he said. It’s power. Relationships fueled by a drive for power, where one person seeks dominance over the other, are incapable of producing love.”
David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard: the Rise of America's Secret Government, 2015
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
The Non-Farm Payrolls report came in light today.
And stocks and risk assets were cheered by this, and a sustained rally ensued.
Gold and silver were softer as safe havens were tossed aside, but managed to recoup most of their losses.
VIX plummeted as one might expect.
And so we go into the weekend, dancing on a volcano.
If you have never read David Talbot's book you may wish to have a look, or at least watch one of his talks on the subject of the darker corners of the world, where the servants of the unspeakable act in secret.
You will only remain standing in what is coming with His love. For those who abide in love abide in God, and God in them.
Have a pleasant weekend.
