Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Café at the End of the World

 

"While some of the crowd were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and offerings, he said,  'All that you see here, the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.'  Then they asked him, 'Teacher, when will this happen?   And what sign will there be when all these things are about to happen?'  And He said to them, 'Where death is, there a gathering of vultures will be.'”

Luke 21:5-7, 37

"Beauty is but a flower,
   That wrinkles will devour.
Brightness falls from the air;
   Queens have died, young and fair.
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
   I am sick, I must die.
   Lord have mercy on us."

Thomas Nashe, A Litany in Time of Plague

"Et Jehanne, la bonne Lorraine,
   Qu'Anglois bruslerent à Rouen;
Où sont-ilz, Vierge souveraine?
   Mais où sont les neiges d'antan."

François Villon, Ballade des dames du temps jadis

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Percy Shelley, Ozymandias

"¿Qué fue entonces del rico y de su poderío
   de la vanaglorïa, de su orgulloso brío?
Todo ya es pasado y corrió como río;
   de todo su pensar fincó él mucho frío.
¿Dó son los muchos años que habemos durado
en este mundo malo, mezquino e lastrado?"

Pedro López de Ayala, Ubi sunt

"Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem."

John Henry Newman, Epitaph


Stocks tried to extend their rally today once again, and failed.

Gold and silver had the correction which we had expected to see.

The wash and rinse must be served.

VIX rose from its recent low.

The Dollar rallied a bit, taking back 108.

It will be interesting to see if the shroud of secrecy that remains over the deaths of America's thought leaders in the 1960's will finally be lifted.

Or if the need to hide the moral indifference that infests our elites will override the search for the truth.

Rather than reveal the deepest secrets, their shills and grifters will gladly distort and destroy them.

It's just business.

Have a pleasant weekend.

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Truth Will Be Known By Our Works

 

"Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease.
He makes a solitude, and calls it— peace."

George Gordon Lord Byron, The Bride of Abydos

“In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste but its effect, not how it makes people feel at the moment but how it makes them feel and moves them to act in the long run. Criticism may embarrass the country’s leaders in the short run but strengthen their hand in the long run; it may destroy a consensus on policy while expressing a consensus of values. There is, or ought to be, such a thing as being too confident to conform, too strong to be silent in the face of apparent error.

Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism, a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals of national adulation. Throughout our history two strands have coexisted uneasily; a dominant strand of democratic humanism and a lesser but durable strand of intolerant Puritanism. There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable. But when some event or leader of opinion has aroused the people to a state of high emotion, our Puritan spirit has tended to break through, leading us to look at the world through the distorting prism of a harsh and angry moralism.”

J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power

“What shall I say about this generation? John the Baptist did not drink wine, and often went without food, and you called him mad. And I, the Messiah, both eat and drink, and you say that I am a glutton and a drunk, and am friends with the worst sort of sinners. The truth will be known by your works.*

Matthew 11:16-19


Stocks attempted to extend their post FOMC rally today, but were primarily successful in the morning, with the bright optimism of better things ahead fading into the close.

The Dollar weakened.

Gold and silver both rallied impressively, breaking through overhead resistance with authority.

Again, the vault reports from Hong Kong contain little additional information except that bullion levels remain rather low.

Perhaps this is some effect from the Lunar New Year.

My son is in Asia with his bride, and celebrating with her in Singapore.   The food they are having has me very envious, the hot and incredibly humid weather, not so much.

Need little, want less, love more.   For those who abide in God abide in love, and love in them.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Unrighteous and Boldly Unrepentant in the Darkness

 

“If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.”

James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable

"Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all. The never ending alarms, the never ending phrases, the never ending hanging out of flags, now in triumph, now in mourning—it all produces apathy. There is so much lethargy in the German people, and so much immorality, and above all so much stupidity. I must make notes even now, I must, no matter how dangerous it is. That is my professional courage."

Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years

"An ordinary human being, with a personal conscience, personally answering for something to somebody and personally and directly taking responsibility, seems to be receding farther and farther from the realm of politics. Politicians seem to turn into puppets that only look human and move in a giant, rather inhuman theatre; they appear to become merely cogs in a huge machine, objects of a major civilizational automatism which has gotten out of control and for which nobody is responsible."

Vaclav Havel, 24 May 1993

"At first, the love of money, and then that of power began to prevail, and these became, as it were, the sources of every evil.   For avarice subverted honesty, integrity and other honorable principles and, in their stead, inculcated pride, inhumanity, contempt of religion and general venality.  Ambition prompted many to become deceitful; to keep one thing concealed in the breast and another ready on the tongue; to estimate friendships and enmities, not by their worth, but according to interest; and to carry rather a specious countenance than an honest heart.   These vices first advanced but slowly, and were sometimes restrained by correction; but afterward, when their infection had spread like a pestilence, the state was entirely changed, and the government, from being the most equitable and praiseworthy, became the most rapacious and insupportable."

Sallust, Conspiracy of Cataline

"In spite of all this they have fallen away, and it is not possible to bring them back again to repentance.  For to their shame they are crucifying the Son of God once again, and are holding him up to public humiliation."

Hebrews 6:6

The FOMC decision today was a big nothing, and that was reinforced in his press conference by Jerome Powell.

But the wash and rinse must be served.

Let's see how the rest of the week goes, and try to look for the reality behind the nonsense.

The word is that the Covid virus was indeed man-made in the laboratory, but it wasp only tested in Wuhan, but actually crafted here in the states, possibly at the University of North Carolina according to Jeffrey Sachs.

Let's how the monstrous revelations on this proceed.  The information is being concealed may prove to be enlightening. 

There are many now who are serving evil without consciously realizing it in their convenient delusion.

But they will be held responsible for every thing that they do, and every word that they say.

You do not want to be among them when judgement comes.

Have a pleasant evening.