Edward W. Said, Orientalism: Preface, 2003
"Despite knowing of God, they refused to honor him as God, or to give Him thanks. And so they became proud in their thinking, and their foolish hearts became hardened."
Romans 1:21
"For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. There is one who restrains it, until he is taken away. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the words of his mouth, and render him powerless with the wonders of his coming.
The coming of the lawless one is from the power of Satan, with false signs and wonders, and in every wicked deception for those who are perishing, for those who did not accept the love of truth to be saved. God will send them a powerful delusion so that they may believe the lie, so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in lawlessness."
2 Thessalonians 2:7-12
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have life.”
Léon Bloy, The Pilgrim of the Absolute
"If heaven is seeing and in turn being seen, transformed and made new by the beatific face of pure love in resplendent glory, then hell must be seeing, at last and forever after, their own dark and miserable soul, as it really is, alone."
Jesse, Death By Overdose, 24 February 2015
The Non-Farm Payrolls report came in a little better than expected.
It was an essentially meaningless number.
But it did provide an excuse for Donald and His Merry Banksters to run the bubble in equity markets back up again.
Donnie sees this as validation of his economic policies.
Wall Street sees it as just another leg of the highly profitable transfer of wealth by inflating financial assets.
Gold and silver were slammed, but the miners even moreso.
I suspect this phase of the precious metals price manipulation is nearing its end, as we often see with the Non-Farm Payrolls event.
VIX is now down to a high likelihood of a risk correction.
The reports from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and other places where the US and its enablers and clients are operating are rather grim.
The media is highly complicit in turning a blind eye to this.
Money and power are all that matter to the elites in the West, drunk with the opiate of exceptionalism.
They live out their days in prosperity, and slide peacefully down into hell."
Job 21:13
They think they are neutral, taking no sides, just going along to get along.
The wealthy man was damned not because he abused the beggar Lazarus, but because he did not even condescend to notice him, and the suffering on his doorstep.
Moses and prophets could make him see the truth, not even a man who had risen from the dead. Their wisdom did not fit with his biases and ideology of selfishness and pride.
The careless rich man was a self-absorbed intimate of Mammon— and an adversary of the living God.
Have a pleasant weekend.
