Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - God Without the Justice of Love and the Cross

 

"Hitler did not believe in a personal god. He believed only in the bond of blood between succeeding generations and in a vague conception of fate or providence. Nor did he believe in a life after death. In this connection he often quoted a sentence from the Edda, that remarkable collection of ancient Icelandic literature, which to him represented the profoundest Nordic wisdom: “All things will pass away, nothing will remain but death and the glory of deeds.”

Walter Schellenberg, SS Officer of Counter-Intelligence, The Schellenberg Memoirs, 1956

Gottgläubigkeit: (German for belief in God) was the term for a Nazi-sanctioned, non-denominational belief system for people who had formally left the Christian church but still professed a belief in a 'higher power.'  The purpose of Gottgläubigkeit was to separate German citizens from institutional Christianity and promote a form of piety and morality aligned with Nazi ideology.  According to a 1936 decree, this was the official term for people who had left the church but were not without faith.  Belief in God was a form of deism and fit with the National Socialist idea of a 'natural piety' of the German character."

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"We will have to deal with Christianity in a tougher way than hitherto.  We must settle accounts with this Christianity, this greatest of plagues that could have happened to us in our history, which has weakened us in every conflict.  If our generation does not do it then it would I think drag on for a long time.  We must overcome it within ourselves.

Today at Heydrich's funeral I intentionally expressed in my oration from my deepest conviction a belief in God, a belief in fate, in the ancient one as I called him—that is the old Germanic word: Wralda.  We shall once again have to find a new scale of values for our people: the scale of the macrocosm and the microcosm, the starry sky above us and the world in us, the world that we see in the microscope.  The essence of these megalomaniacs, these Christians who talk of men ruling this world, must stop and be put back in its proper proportion.  Man is nothing special at all.  He is an insignificant part of this earth.  He must once again look with deep reverence into this world. Then he will acquire the right sense of proportion about what is above us, about how we are woven into this cycle.

If we do not secure this moral foundation which is the deepest and best because the most natural, we will not be able to overcome Christianity on this plane and create the Germanic Reich which will be a blessing for the earth.  That is our mission as a nation on this earth.  For thousands of years it has been the mission of this blond race to rule the earth and again and again to bring it happiness and culture."

Heinreich Himmler, Speech to the Oberabschnittsführer and Hauptamtschefs, Haus der Flieger Berlin, 9 June 1942


If you cannot see the parallels between the deistic, politically subservient Christianity of the Nazis, and the co-opting of God as a benign figurehead for land, power, money, and nationalism today, you may wish to take a closer look.   

They do not serve God.  God serves them, or remains obediently quiet.  They replace His bloody crown of thorns, the symbol of His suffering for the sake of love, with a red cap of greatness and power. 

Why would God become man, suffer and lay down His life for his sheep?   What was in it for Him? They don't get it.   And they certainly do not want anything to do with the Cross.  God serves them.

And so they steal and murder en masse, in a perversion of His promise.  For the sake of their own pride and prosperity. 

This is the abomination that brings desolation, the raising of idols and calling them God. 

Serve whom you will, but know whom it is that you serve.

Stocks were trading weakly again today, buoyed in the morning by the surprise low number for the PPI. 

But alas, they faded in the afternoon.

Gold and silver were able to rally in what looked like a mild risk off sentiment.

The Dollar rallied.     

VIX ticked up a bit.

Feel the power, the intoxication of winning.

"Be not deceived, for God is not mocked.  As a man sows, so shall he reap." 

Dancing on a volcano.  

Have a pleasant evening. 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Marching Defiantly Into Their Complacent Demise

 

"Nazism and Communism imagine themselves as exact opposites.  They are at each other’s throats wherever they exist all over the world.  They actually breed each other; for the reaction against Communism is Nazism, and beneath Nazism or Fascism Communism stirs convulsively.  Yet they are similar in all essentials. 

There are, of course, differences between the dictatorships.  Yet they are largely discounted by one significant fact.  It is easy to imagine Mussolini or Hitler as head of a Communist State or Stalin as Fascist Duce or Führer.  Nothing in Communism or Fascism, as we know them, or in the characters and records of these three men, makes such a situation incredible."

Winston Churchill, The Infernal Twins, Colliers, 3 July 1937

"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, An Ambitious Man, 1896

"However combinations or associations of the above description [lobbies and special interests] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. "

George Washington, Farewell Address, September 17, 1796

"Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people.  From these great staffs, both of the old parties have turned aside.  Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them in martialling to serve their selfish purposes.  Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.  To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."

Theodore Roosevelt, The Progressive Covenant with the People, August 6, 1912


Stocks did a little wash and rinse today, moving lower initially and then rallying back in the quiet of the afternoon, with a fade into the close.

There was a whopping downward revision to the BLS Jobs numbers from last year.  Makes sense, since the Trumpeters can pin that on Biden, and hopefully add some back once Donnie gets his rate cuts.

Gold and silver popped initially with gold cracking up through its intermediate measuring objective at 3710, but then fell back into the afternoon.

I find it almost amazing how boldly Trump's cabinet members lie to the people.  Yes, all politicians lie, but generally it is the exception and not the rule.  And there is always an element of 'shame' to it.  

Not anymore.  Lying is now a duty to the Commander, even when it doesn't matter, or is counter-productive.

And the manner in which the mask has fallen away from the madness of governments is stunning, even moreso for the lengths to which some will bend their minds and hearts to excuse obvious sadism, dishonesty, injustice, and murder. 

This helps to explain the moves of investors and other nations into the safe havens of gold and silver.   If you own it, it doesn't lie.  It has no counterparty risks.  It is without time limits and expiration.

“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.”

J. P. Morgan, Testimony to the US Congress, 1912

In comparison crypto, although popular, is fragile, untested by time, and subject to the whims of a wealthy and powerful few who operate largely in secret.

Maybe I am wrong, and time will prove it so.   But it remains to be seen, and I'll believe it when I see it. 

"Gold has worked down from Alexander's time. When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory."

Bernard Baruch

Politicians lie, but gold and silver do not.  And therein lies a potential safe haven for many.

Have a pleasant evening. 

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Insatiable Greed that Devours Common Sense

 

"With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made ‘legal.’ Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.”

Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer, April 2010

"They abhor sunlight and love darkness.  They deal in innuendo and character assassination, and planted stories, the incomplete thought and sentence.  They burn and shred files if caught, they commit perjury, and when caught they have guaranteed sinecures with large US corporations.  If you let them, they will take over not only the CIA but the entire government and the world, cutting off dissent, free speech, a free media, and they will cut a deal with anyone, from the Mafia to Saddam Hussein, if it means more power and money.  They are ripping off America at a rate never before seen in history.  They ruin their detractors and they fear the truth.  If they can, they will blackmail you.  Sex, drugs, deals, whatever it takes.”

Bruce Hemmings, CIA Officer, as quoted by Whitney Webb, One Nation Under Blackmail, 2022

“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”

E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly


Stocks just meandered around, with a slight bias to the upside.

Gold and silver continued to move higher.  

Their recent rallies are powerful.  Just look at the charts.

The Dollar continued to drift lower.

VIX is still quiescent.

I enjoy listening to Whitney Webb.  It is refreshing to hear someone who is well-informed and scrupulous about saying what is true and what is not, and all the in-between.

You certainly won't find that in the mainstream media, which are most often active enablers or at best, stenographers to power.

People are routinely accepting things today that would have had them outraged in the 1990s. 

It will get worse before it gets better.  

As Hermann Hesse said, 'As the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.' 

I hope I am still around to see that turning of events.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Decline and Fall of the Malignant Few

 

"The truly savage and frenetic part of New York, the terrible, cold, cruel part, is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it.  There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present.

And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills this street believes that the world will always be the same, that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several billion dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.  Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness.

I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings."

Federico Garcia Lorca, A Poet In New York, October 1929

"Whoever acquits the wicked, whoever condemns the just, are all an abomination to the Lord."

Proverbs 17:15

“The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over.  Provided too that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to.  The grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed.  The mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake.”

Alexandre Koyré, Réflexions sur le Mensonge, March 1943

"And Abraham said, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not reform and repent, even if someone rises from the dead.’”

Luke 16:31


As you probably heard by now the Jobs Report came in shockingly low.  Stunningly bad.

Treasury yields on the short end plummeted, and took the dollar with them.

Gold and silver rallied to the upside.

Initially stocks rallied on the expectations of a rate cut at the next Fed meeting later this month.

But then the wiseguys thought about it and decided to sell, sell, sell.

I mean, what good are rate cuts if the economy is imploding, which is what such a low reading implied.

And so we had some wide ranging highs and lows in several of the markets.

I believe that Donnie and his Merry Pranksters are going to crash the economy, among other things, including the ruin of many poor souls.  

Try not to become one of them in your pride and your blindness. 

Its like watching drunk grandpa driving the car while he shakes his fist, yelling at the other drivers, pedestrians, dogs, cats, and mailboxes.

But that is something for another day.   

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

Welcome to September.

Have a pleasant evening.