“Political decisions helped to create the super-elite in the first place, and as the economic might of the super-elite class grows, so does its political muscle.”
Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats
"Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant."
John Henry Newman
"I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. I do not mean that they may not wish to come out of hell, but they certainly do not will even the first preliminary stages of that self-abandonment through which alone the soul can reach any good."
C. S. Lewis
"If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World
“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, or even a duty. Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction."
Simone Weil
"True opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, that we are not going to be judged.”
Czeslaw Milosz, The Discreet Charm of Nihilism
Gold and silver were visibly slammed today for the April contract option expiration on the Comex.
What a surprise.
Stocks were trading weakly, but managed to rally strongly in the quiet afternoon trade.
It never gets old.
There will be a Non-farm Payrolls report on Friday.
“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,
The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned...
Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The wrath of God. What a quaint concept.
Winning....
Have a pleasant evening.
