"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."
James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable, 2008
"It's a small group with a lot of power. A lot of wealth. They don't necessarily - they're not necessarily always the names, the household names that spring to mind, in this kind of context. But they are the people who could pull the strings. Who have the influence. Who call the shots."
Simon Johnson, Bill Moyers Journal, February 13, 2009
"We live in a world where love itself is condemned. People call it weakness, something to grow out of. Some are saying: 'Love is of no importance, we should rather develop our strength. Let each one become as strong as he can, and let the weak perish.' They say that the Christian religion with its preaching about love is a thing of the past. This neo-paganism may well cast-off love but, in spite of everything, history teaches us that we shall be the victors over this. We shall not forsake love. We are here in a dark tunnel, but we have to go on. At the end, an eternal light is shining for us. Lord, thy will be done."
Titus Brandsma, Dutch priest, executed at Dachau, 26 July 1942
"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."
Aaron Bushnell, Last words, 26 February 2024
"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
"Day by day the money-masters of America become more aware of their danger, they draw together, they grow more class-conscious, more aggressive. The war has taught them the possibilities of propaganda ; it has accustomed them to the idea of enormous campaigns which sway the minds of millions and make them pliable to any purpose.
American political corruption was the buying up of legislatures and assemblies to keep them from doing the people's will and protecting the people's interests; it was the exploiter entrenching himself in power, it was financial autocracy undermining and destroying political democracy. By the blindness and greed of ruling classes the people have been plunged into infinite misery."
Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check, 1919
"They will not see. They will not listen. Blindly they follow their seducers into ruin."
White Rose, Leaflet of the Resistance, January 1943
It was a risk on day, as stocks and the Dollar rose, and the VIX fell.
Gold and silver were under a bit of pressure. No surprise there.
There will be a BRICS Summit meeting in Kazan, Russia on October 22-24. It may be worth to watch for any statements they make on the precious metals and alternative currency and payment systems.
One may receive the impression that the conmen on Wall Street are working overtime to sell this market.
Many myths and illusions are being actively promoted by the courtiers to the oligarchs in advance of the November elections.
And then the denouement may finally come.
Have a pleasant evening.
