"'I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ No, father Abraham,’ the rich man said, ‘but if someone from the dead appears to them, they will repent.’ And Abraham said, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not change and repent, even if someone were to rise from the dead.’” Luke 16:27-31
"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved."
Henry Adams
"For the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars."
Upton Sinclair
"Precious metals are financial assets like currencies, T-Bills and T-bonds. They trade in the multiples of a hundred times the underlying physical, and so people buying them are voting and giving an economic view of the world or a view of the economic world..."
Jeff Christian in testimony to the CFTC
"It's [price manipulation] because gold is a powerful competitive international currency that, if allowed to function in a free market, will determine the value of other currencies, the level of interest rates, and the value of government bonds.
Gold's performance is usually the opposite of the performance of government currencies and bonds. Hence central banks fight gold to defend their currencies and bonds.
The problem is that central bank tactics in this fight affect more than gold; they affect markets generally and eventually destroy markets generally. This destruction of markets now has a name, a name used even by former members of the Federal Reserve Board. That name is 'financial repression.'"
Chris Powell
