'I know there is a God – and I see a storm coming. If he has a place for me, I believe that I am ready.'”
James Douglass, JFK's Rendezvous with Death, Dallas Coalition On Political Assassinations, November 2009
“In actual fact it would seem that during the Cold War, if not during World War II, this country has become frankly a warfare state built on affluence, a power structure in which the interests of big business, the obsessions of the military, and the phobias of political extremists both dominate and dictate our national policy. It also seems that the people of the country are by and large reduced to passivity, confusion, resentment, frustration, thoughtlessness and ignorance, so that they blindly follow any line that is unraveled for them by the mass media.
Our weapons dictate what we are to do. They force us into awful corners. They give us our living, they sustain our economy, they bolster up our politicians, they sell our mass media, in short we live by them. But if they continue to rule us we will also most surely die by them.”
Thomas Merton, Cold War Letters, 1968
"It should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite 'rules' at its whim."
Aaron Good, American Exception, 2022
"The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, and justice nothing."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture for Literature, 1970
“Certainly our basic need is for truth, and not for ‘images’ and slogans that ‘engineer consent.’ We are living in a dream world. We do not know ourselves or our adversaries. We are myths to ourselves and they are myths to us. And we are secretly persuaded that we can shoot it out like the sheriffs on TV. This is not reality."
James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable, 2008
Stocks managed to rally today, broadly ignoring geopolitical and economic risks.
Gold and silver were hammered, in the usual post-Fed boogie woogie.
The Dollar rallied back to the top of the 100 handle.
VIX is now at the level where we will start looking for a correction.
Bitcoin rallied back over 100k and posted a big gain.
As you know I have a bias in general against most modern politicians.
American domestic politics are a disaster for the people.
What is discouraging is that so much of the West is following this trend towards the worship of money and power.
It is sickening.
Have a pleasant evening.
