“Lawlessness has come out of Babylon, that is, from the elders who were to govern the people as judges. They perverted their thinking; they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, and did not keep in mind just judgments. How you have grown evil with age. Now have your past sins come to term, passing unjust sentences, condemning the innocent, and freeing the guilty."
Daniel 13:5,9,52-53
"A kleptocracy is sucking the life out of working men and women by force and fraud. A group of sociopaths, who have committed one of the great crimes in history, not only blithely walk away with their loot unpunished, but come back to rob their victims once again, to finish the job.
Those fallen into wickedness bear the fruits of hate, deceit, greed, fear, pride, and anger. They forsake love by washing their hands of it, and eventually come to condemn it, and persecute it— and thereby condemn themselves."
Jesse, September 2012
“I think that the depth of Satan's pride is difficult for humans to understand, and therefore it is easy to fall into this error and partake of it, thinking, all the while, that we are instead doing something great and beautiful...
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Woe to you, you hypocrites. You scrupulously observe the details, but neglect the more important spirit of His commandments – justice, mercy and faithfulness. Woe to you, you hypocrites. You carefully perform the rituals, but inside you are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Woe to you, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. On the outside you appear righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. You snakes, you brood of vipers."
Matthew 23: 23-33
“He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider, but it was a very corrupting business.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
"For the oppression of the poor, for the groans of the much abused, now will I arise, says the Lord. I will set them in safety from those that sneer at them. The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace purified seven times. You shall keep them safe, O Lord, you shall preserve them from this generation of vipers forever, where the wicked prowl on every side, where vile men are exalted."
Psalm 12:5-8
Stocks were weak overnight and in the opening today, but gained a footing and then took to the upside.
Tech was buoyed by the news that Elon Musk bought a 9.2% passive position in Twitter.
Has Elon ever been passive for long in anything?
Gold moved a little higher, silver a little lower.
The Dollar moved higher, just short of taking back the 99 handle.
I suppose today would be called 'risk on' despite the upside in gold.
Have a pleasant evening.
