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meanrevolutionrevolving creditrule of our warfaresafest bankssaudi arabiaschwarzmansecond coming Yeatssecond liensecuritizationselfish indifferenceservitudeship of foolssilver fundsilver importssilver price trendsilver standardsilver wheatonskewslwsnaressnarky cartoonssocietal panicsorows of empirespokesmodelsstarość nie radośćstate downgradestock returnssufferingsuicide squeezesurvivalismswap linesswap spreadstakers and makerstaxestech valuationstechnical tradetender merciestension tapethe big skimthe irresponsiblesthe lawthree stoogestitus brandsmatombstone mentalitytrading rulestrading systemstrading tipstragic falltrend following beta monkeystriple digit oiltwilight of the godsunderclassunholy Trinityunrestrained capitalismus consumeruseful idiotsvolumevon Moltkewarwar crimeswash tradeswe become what we hateweekend viewingwhat we servewhore of babylonwhy it matterswindow dressingworst yearswristslap finesÜbermensch "Even the holy Name of God is being dragged into discourses of death. A world with one heavenly Father vanishes, as in a nightmare. We are met by threats, rather than the invitation to listen and come together. Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the God, turning themselves and their power into an idol to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the world bends its knee." Leo XIVhttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jesse)Blogger10512125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3828422006459702455Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:40:00 +00002026-04-10T16:43:30.124-04:00  "Far-called, our navies melt away;     On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday     Is one with Nineveh and Tyre.Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget!" Rudyard Kipling, Recessional, 1897 "During the Roman Triumph, when a great hero was recognized by a procession through the city, a slave was kept behind http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-ashes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3756746037477785942Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:16:00 +00002026-04-09T16:16:38.225-04:00  "Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle.  But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its 'inevitability,' want it in order to shift the locus of their problems." C. Wright Mills, The Causes of World War III, 1960 "If at the start this cancerous growth in the nation washttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-hide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7070797586965683116Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:33:00 +00002026-04-08T17:03:08.530-04:00  "'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean.' `The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.' `The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `to be the master — that's all.'" Lewis Carroll "The current trend in the United States economy is not sustainable.  This is a realization http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_8.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-6098120123666328384Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:45:00 +00002026-04-07T18:34:09.518-04:00  "'These prophets tell you lies in my name,' the Lord said to me. 'I did not send them. I gave them no command, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy lying visions, foolish divination, idolatries and deceptions from their own imagination.'" Jeremiah 14:14 "Some people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-quiet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8232523043882268382Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:41:00 +00002026-04-06T16:56:42.253-04:00  "They have become twisted in their reasoning, and their foolish hearts are darkened." Romans 1:21 "Early on in the gospel traditions the power elite in Jesus’ society, who were colluding with the Roman Empire, recognized him as a threat and began to conspire to kill him.  Jesus became a reference point for much of the hostility and resistance to the power of the empire because he http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-finer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-9048281060804731441Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:47:00 +00002026-04-05T14:02:37.111-04:00  "Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and she saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, 'They have taken our Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they put him. So Peter and the other disciple set out for the tomb. The http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/truly-he-is-risen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2050573695119607340Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:08:00 +00002026-04-04T16:41:29.157-04:00  "What is happening?  Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps; the earth was in terror and was still, because God slept in the flesh and raised up those who were sleeping from the ages.  God has died in the flesh, and the underworld has trembled. Truly he goes to seek out our first parent like a lost http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/holy-saturday-harrowing-of-hell-arise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-822216128755649673Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:11:00 +00002026-04-03T11:13:49.378-04:00  "For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 8:7 "So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm." Joseph Addison, The Campaign, 14 December 1705 "Yon starshttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4153097209689900035Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:02:07 +00002026-04-02T12:55:12.215-04:00  “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat.  But I have prayed that your own faith may not fail.  And once you have returned to the faith, you must stand firm and strengthen your brothers.'  And Peter replied, 'Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.'  And Jesus said, 'Amen I say to you, before the cock crows, you will deny http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-mediation-for-good-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7485541734993398270Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:59:00 +00002026-04-01T19:14:56.062-04:00 Just charts.  I wanted to post them for the 'before' Trump's address at 9 PM.I don't expect anything remarkable.   He is expected to lay out a path towards withdrawing from Iran.He will most likely not tell the truth.I will be watching what Israel and the US do next, especially over the three day weekend when the US markets are closed.Have a pleasant evening. http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/04/no-updates-tonight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-6432605574490089184Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:32:00 +00002026-03-31T19:00:53.541-04:00  "Christianity is not stoicism. The Cross does not sanctify us by destroying human feeling. Detachment is not insensibility." Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude, 1958 “Addiction might be the best word to explain the lostness that so deeply permeates society.  Our addiction make us cling to what the world proclaims as the keys to self-fulfillment: accumulation of wealth and power; http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_31.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-1323493866304597234Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:26:00 +00002026-03-30T16:26:39.407-04:00  “Christianity is not stoicism.  The Cross does not sanctify us by destroying human feeling.  Detachment is not insensibility.  Too many ascetics fail to become great saints precisely because their rules and ascetic practices have merely deadened their humanity instead of setting it free to develop richly, in all its capacities, under the influence of grace.” Thomas Merton,http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4406036978777974922Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:15:00 +00002026-03-29T12:19:36.798-04:00  “He became what we are, that we might become what he is.” Athanasius of Alexandria, The Incarnation of the Word http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/palm-sunday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7988406988002241010Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:13:00 +00002026-03-27T16:13:55.067-04:00  “People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.  They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.” C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite, April http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_27.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3010723733945953673Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:52:00 +00002026-03-27T11:53:36.503-04:00financial corruptionfinancial reformmoral hazardpolitical corruption Here is a reprint of one of the earliest entries on this platform from March 2008.Widely ignored at the time, looking back now perhaps we will see the truth in it, and have a mind to breaking the cycle of recklessness and pillaging.   How many financial institutions have we bailed out since 2008?  Has wealth become more or less concentrated in fewer hands.  Has rampant http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/retrospective-moral-hazard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4042693782192056486Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:31:00 +00002026-03-26T16:31:53.287-04:00  "Thus the elements are in place: a weak legislative body, a legal system that is both compliant and repressive, a party system in which one party, whether in opposition or in the majority, is bent upon reconstituting the existing system so as to permanently favor a ruling class of the wealthy, the well-connected and the corporate, while leaving the poorer citizens with a sense of http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-into.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7158022508453041848Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:12:00 +00002026-03-25T17:32:31.987-04:00  "Such unsustainable arrangements are backed by force and fraud.  And as the fraud loses its power over time, force must increase, until there is an end in genuine reform, or eventual self-destruction." Jesse, Credibility Trap, 24 August 2012 "Those who have force on loan from fate count on it too much and are destroyed.  But at the time their own destruction seems impossible tohttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7401297185741281315Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:29:00 +00002026-03-24T16:32:00.190-04:00  "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 http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-dead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8194350512954860611Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:13:00 +00002026-03-23T19:52:09.532-04:00 "Serve the Lord and be at peace with him, so his goodness will flourish in you. Hear the words from his mouth, and keep his wisdom deep in your heart."  Job 22:21-22 “We are slow to master the great truth that even now Christ is, as it were, walking among us, and by His hand, or eye, or voice, bidding us to follow Him. We do not understand that His call is a thing that takes placehttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/listen-and-i-will-tell-you-mystery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-1400044482630105328Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:26:00 +00002026-03-23T16:31:16.545-04:00  "Our future could be one in which continued tumult feeds the looting of the financial system, and we talk more and more about exactly how our oligarchs became bandits and how the economy just can’t seem to get into gear." Simon Johnson, The Quiet Coup, May 2009 "Financial predators are usually narcissistic and audacious criminals.  They regularly have an extreme sense of http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3638761734990306788Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:21:12 +00002026-03-20T16:27:30.273-04:00  "When we are the victims of an illusion we do not feel it to be an illusion but a reality.  It is the same perhaps with evil.  Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.  As soon as we do evil, the evil appears as a sort of duty.  Once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-and_0562145343.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3735196899971597859Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:09:05 +00002026-03-19T16:34:58.630-04:00  "Always struggle with Christian methods and Christian weapons.  Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter.  As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.  Always avoid violence.  If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8700841149045424690Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:36:05 +00002026-03-18T16:41:30.084-04:00  "Hear this, you foolish and heartless people, who have eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear." Jeremiah 5:21 "The illusions of extremists, of both the right and the left, are dangerous things, for the very reason that they often incline themselves to sacrifice the individual, and even surprisingly large groups of individuals and segments of society, for the 'greater good' of http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8234350070382328615Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:50:17 +00002026-03-17T16:50:17.739-04:00  “Among my people lurk the wicked, who like fowlers they set traps, but they are snares to catch people. Their homes are filled with treachery, like a cage filled with birds, and they have grown rich and powerful, fat and sleek.  There is no limit to their lawlessness.  They do not give justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.  'Should I not punish them for this?' http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0502159272.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3154564694113964100Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:24:00 +00002026-03-16T16:24:34.295-04:00  "If at the start this cancerous growth in the nation was not particularly noticeable, it was only because there were still enough forces at work that operated for the good, so that it was kept under control.  As it grew larger, however, and finally in an ultimate spurt of growth attained ruling power, the tumor broke open, as it were, and infected the whole body." The White Rose, http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/03/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-dark.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)