E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World, 2008
"Because of your hard and unrepentant hearts you store up wrath for the Day when God's righteous judgement will be revealed, who will render to each according to what they have done."
Romans 2:5-6
"Whoever today still doubts the reality, the existence of demonic powers, has failed by a wide margin to understand the metaphysical background of this war. Behind the concrete, the visible events, behind all objective, logical considerations, we find the irrational element: the struggle against the demon, against the servants of the Antichrist."
The White Rose, Fourth Leaflet, Munich, 1942
"We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.”
Hilaire Belloc
"But if not, I will not bow, and God grant that we will never bow, before the gods of evil."
Martin Luther King, But If Not, Ebenezer Baptist Church, 5 November 1967
Having tired of blowing bubbles, the boys of Wall Street have left for their havens in the Hamptons.
Stocks finished at all time highs.
Gold and silver were hit and then recovered a bit. Silver itself was impressive.
The Dollar edged higher. As the epitome of world power, how could it not?
VIX is sending out quiet SOS signals.
Bitcoin closed unchanged from yesterday after the usual sturm und drang of the insubstantial.
It appears as though the GOP's signature 'Big, Beautiful Bill' will be passed.
The masks keep falling away as the boldness of the darkness gathers and grows.
And the day of reckoning draws nearer.
Have a pleasant holiday weekend.
