Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Stubborn Pride and Willful Blindness

 

"Go and learn the meaning of the words, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’"

Matthew 9:13

"The great event on Calvary signifies more than a meaningless drama that took place on the stage of history.  It is a telescope through which we look out into the long vista of eternity and see the love of God breaking forth into time.   It is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos."

Martin Luther King, St. Paul’s Letter to the American Churches, November 4, 1956

"For your love for me disappears as quickly as a morning mist; it is like the dew, that melts away early in the day.  That is why I have sent my prophets with messages of judgment and destruction, to strike them with the words of My mouth.  My judgment illuminates them like lightning.  For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and their faithful knowledge of my ways, more than their burnt offerings."

Hosea 6:4-6

"This is how we know who are the children of God and who are the children of the Satan: anyone who does not do what is good is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their neighbor."

1 John 3:10

"What is surprising is not that we are called to do so much, but rather, so little. And so often we grudgingly fail to do even that, or do something else in the way that we please and call it a sacrifice.

Love and be grateful to God, treat people as you would like to be treated with respect, kindness, mercy and forgiveness. And when we fail through weakness, we are readily forgiven if we are but genuinely repentant for our misdeeds by action or omission.

But all too often we bargain away our souls, one piece at a time, rebelling from even these small and reasonable requests to goodness— and for relatively little in return.  And we may hold on to that poisonous bargain out of stiff-necked, stubborn pride and a willful blindness, refusing to repent and admit our errors, until we fall into the abyss.  Misery loves company, and the sinful insulate themselves from a recognition of the foulness of their hearts by attempting to convert those around them to the same wickedness."

Jesse, Willing Blindness and the Gradual Seduction of Evil, 30 June 2017

Stocks were off a bit today, still digesting their recent rally higher.

Gold and silver rallied.  Gold is flirting with a breakout.

There will be a Comex Precious Metals December contract options expiration on Monday the 27th.

VIX continues to wallow at the recent lows.

NVIDIA beat estimates after the bell, but the stock price was slightly lower based on forward guidance.

This is a relatively quiet holiday shortened trading week in the US.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Dark Silence

 

"I've seen something wondrous peering through my joy in the beautiful, a sense of its creator.   Only people can be truly ugly, because they have free will to separate themselves from this song of praise.  It often seems they will drown out this hymn with cannon thunder, curses, and blasphemy.   But I have realized they will not succeed.  And so I want to throw myself on the side of the victor.”

Sophie Scholl

“During the Cold War 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.”

Thomas Merton, Cold War Letters, 1968

"What is unrecognized about JFK's presidency, which then makes his assas­sination a false mystery, is that he was locked in a struggle with his national security state. That state had higher values than obedience to the orders of a president who wanted peace.

There is nothing so threatening to systemic evil as those willing to stand against it regardless of the consequences. It’s unbelievable— or we’re supposed to think it is— that a president was murdered by our own government agencies because he was seeking a more stable peace than relying on nuclear weapons.  It’s unspeakable. 

Our collective denial of the obvious, in the setting up of Oswald and his transparent silencing by Ruby, made possible the Dallas cover-up.  The success of the cover-up was the indispensable foundation for the subsequent murders of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy by the same forces at work in our government—and in ourselves.  The unspeakable is not far away."

James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable

"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

"Those who dared to break the conspiracy of silence risked consequences more severe than the assassination of one’s character.  Dr. Crenshaw said he 'reasoned that anyone who would go so far as to eliminate the President of the United States would surely not hesitate to kill a doctor.'”

Charles A. Crenshaw, with Hansen and Shaw, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, 1992


What, indeed, would they not be willing to do, how many innocents would they not be willing to sacrifice, what hapless and gullible nations would they not be willing to seduce and plunder, given the heady opiates of power and money and winning, in their Faustian bargain with the rulers of darkness of this world?  

And when they stand before the risen Christ, and He shows them the blood of His lambs,  and His own holy wounds, will they say, 'It was nothing personal.  We did what had to be done. Everyone was doing it. It was strictly business.'

Stocks managed to rise again in complacent holiday week trading.

VIX declined.

The Dollar declined.

Gold and silver struggled but in the end showed only a small decline.

The US markets will be closed on Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday.

They will be nominally open for a half day on Friday, with all the adults on holiday.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - And Yet the Will of God Prevails

 

"A very small group of extremely wealthy and politically powerful men has now successfully concentrated into their own hands almost complete control over other people’s property; over other people’s money; over other people’s labor; over other people’s lives.  For too many of us, our lives are no longer truly free.  Our liberty is no longer real.  For we are no longer truly free to pursue our own happiness in the face of these men’s economic tyranny."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech at the Democratic National Convention, June 27, 1936

"Progress is a nice word.  But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.”

Robert F. Kennedy

"The overwhelming majority of our people have met the demands of this war with magnificent courage and understanding. They have accepted inconveniences; they have accepted hardships; they have accepted tragic sacrifices.  However, while the majority goes on about its great work without complaint, a noisy minority maintains an uproar of demands for special favors for special groups.  There are pests who swarm through the lobbies of the Congress and the cocktail bars of Washington, representing these special groups as opposed to the basic interests of the Nation as a whole.  They have come to look upon the war primarily as a chance to make profits for themselves at the expense of their neighbors."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union, January 11, 1944

“There are two ways to be fooled.  One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

Søren Kierkegaard

"If history is what is recorded, then deep history is the sum of events which tend to be officially obscured or even suppressed in traditional books and media.  Important recent deep events include the political assassinations of the 1960s, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and now 9/11.  All these deep events have involved what I call the deep state, that part of the state which is not publicly accountable, and pursues its goals by means which will not be approved by a public examination."

Peter Dale Scott, 9/11, JFK, and War: Recurring Patterns

"The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.   In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party — and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.  I am almost ready to say that this is probably true — that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet.  By his mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest.  Yet the contest began. And, having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day.

Yet the contest proceeds."

Abraham Lincoln, Washington D.C., September, 1862

It was relatively quiet, a minor stock option monthly expiration.

The Comex metals option expirations are coming at the end of November for the big December futures contracts.

Stocks rallied, and then finished unchanged to slightly lower.

Gold and silver rallied, and then finished slightly lower.

VIX declined again.

The Dollar fell.

The markets seemed dull and lackluster overall, as if they were tired and uncertain.

Let's see what transpires over the weekend.

As you know the 60th anniversary of the public execution of John F. Kennedy will be on next Wednesday, November 22^nd.

I have been watching a number of videos and reading things, to see what progress has been made in uncovering what really happened, and why.  As with so many of our generation, I remember it well.

And have witnessed, over time, the slow unraveling of the misinformation and coverup.

For what does it profit a man, even those who esteem themselves mighty and powerful as gods?

And yet the will of God prevails.

Have a pleasant weekend.