"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994
"Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God. Those who are at present so eager to be reconciled with the world at any price must take care not to be reconciled with it under this particular aspect: as the nest of The Unspeakable. This is what too few are willing to see."
Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable
"As everything in what used to be called creation becomes a commodity, human beings begin to look at one another, and at themselves, in a funny way, and they see price tags. There was a time when people spoke, at least occasionally, of 'inherent worth'— if not of things, then at least of persons."
Harvey Cox, The Market as God
“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, or even a duty."
Simone Weil
“There is nothing so threatening to systemic evil as those willing to stand against it regardless of the consequences.”
James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be with the coming of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given away in marriage, up until the very day that Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came, and swept them all away...
And they said to him, 'Where will this happen, Lord?' And He said to them, 'Where death is, there will be a gathering of vultures.'”
Luke 17:26-27, 37
Stocks seem to be locked in a bipolar mania.
The administration will have to do a much better job of propping up the financial asset markets.
Gold and silver were sold once again. Some of this could be asset liquidation to cover margin calls in other holdings.
Or it could just be more of the same old from the Banks who are heavily short, and who wish to pick up miners on the cheap for the next leg up in the gold bull market.
"A narcissist paints a picture of themselves as being the victim or innocent in all aspects. They will be offended by the truth. But what is done in the dark will come to light.”
Karla Grimes
“In the days following the crash, an axiom as old as the Republic came into play once more. In good times Wall Street wanted Washington to leave it alone. In bad times it wanted Washington to act.”
Haynes Johnson
"It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident."
Charles H. Ferguson
"Everyone knows that plagues have a way of recurring throughout history, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in the ones that crash down on us out of the sky. There have always been plagues and wars, yet they always take us by surprise. When war breaks out people say it's stupid and won't last long. Stupidity has a knack of getting in the way, which we would see if not wrapped up in ourselves. In this our townsfolk were like everybody else— they did not believe in plagues."
Albert Camus, The Plague
"Nemesis, the goddess of retribution and vengeance, the punisher of pride and hubris, waits impatiently for her meeting with us."
Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis, the Last Days of the American Republic
The financiers of Wall Street, buoyed by the enormous funds of the Treasury, carried the day. And there was rejoicing in New York and Washington alike, and among grifters everywhere.
Stocks rebounded sharply, and vacillated much of the day in a whipsaw manner, before climbing to their highs in the last hour of trading.
Gold was hit hard and repeatedly during the trading session in New York, and was finally smacked down to the low into the close. Silver followed a similar pattern.
Narcissists and high functioning sociopaths are an interesting lot. They think that they are superior, perfect, not in some incidental way, but at the very core of their being.
Therefore, imagine their surprise if anyone should find a fault with them, in anything that they have done.
Since they are perfect, always, what could cause someone to find a fault in anything that they have done, anything that is an extension of their perfect being?
Obviously then, that person must hate them, be out to get them for some ulterior motive. With malign intent they wish to undermine the private castle of perfection.
Even the most incidental remark, the slightest criticism, may be met with a visceral and overblown attack on that person. They must be belittled and discredited, so that the psyche of the narcissist can remain intact.
And so they do not learn. For they cannot ever admit to a mistake.
This is not going to end well for the creatures of the trading pits, with the power of paper money and the shameless confidence game triumphant.
It's not even going to be an open casket.
This generation no longer believes in plagues, or in anything else that can overwhelm them, that is more powerful. Particularly despised is innocence, and kindness, as weakness.
God is not mocked. His love for us is relentless, overwhelming.
Let us pray for those whose hearts are hardened against His grace and loving kindness by greed, fear, and pride, and the seductive illusion and crushing isolation of evil.
We pray that we all may experience the three great gifts of our Lord's suffering and triumph: repentance, forgiveness, and thankfulness. And in so doing, may we obtain abundant life, and with it the peace that surpasses all understanding.
It is available for your use at no cost, but with attribution and a link to the original posting.
I make every attempt to respect the rights of others. If you feel that something here has infringed your work please let me know and I will correct it immediately. It is not always easy to determine the status of material posted to the Internet with regard to fair use and public domain.
