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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"Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."<br> John 8:43-44http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jesse)Blogger10581125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3658442388131489318Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:09:33 +00002026-08-14T16:13:01.372-04:00&nbsp; "The foolish ask nothing better than not to have to understand anything, and they even used to get together and try not to understand, because the last thing of which a person is capable is to be malicious and foolish all by themselves.&nbsp; Without understanding, they form spontaneously into herds, not according to any particular affinities but in obedience to the petty ideology.&http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_02003453101.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3125592526675979737Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:23:10 +00002026-08-13T22:57:45.482-04:00&nbsp; "He puts an end to wars all over the earth;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; he breaks the bow and snaps the spear,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and he burns the shields with flames. 'Be still and know that I am God,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; exalted among the nations,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; exalted on the earth.'" Psalm 46:10-11 "Son of man, you are living among a lawless people.&nbsp; They have eyes to see, but theyhttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-hide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4149044207675792846Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:34:38 +00002026-08-12T17:04:14.546-04:00&nbsp; "And he exhorted them with many words and argument saying, 'Save yourselves from this perverse and wicked generation.'" Acts 2:40 "We are coming apart as a society, and inequality is right at the core of that. When the 90 percent are getting worse off and they’re trying to figure out what happened, they’re not people like me who get to spend four or five hours a day studying these http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-gates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4397425534366725346Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:25:51 +00002026-08-11T16:28:14.305-04:00&nbsp; "Very few people ever state properly the strong argument in favour of marrying for love or against marrying for money.&nbsp; The argument is not that all lovers are heroes and heroines, nor is it that all dukes are profligates or all millionaires cads.&nbsp; The argument is this, that the differences between a man and a woman are at the best so obstinate and exasperating that they http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8795934511228826003Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:41:28 +00002026-08-10T18:03:43.165-04:00&nbsp; "And Jesus said, 'Where death is, there a gathering of vultures will be.'” Luke 17:37 "We need these parables to remind us how dangerous it is to speak the truth generally, and the Christian truth in particular: I mean dangerous for the one who speaks it.&nbsp; Kierkegaard never stopped repeating this in all his works: if you want to be Christians, well and good, but know the price.&http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0772541929.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-8288289312211984186Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:19:00 +00002026-08-07T16:21:04.130-04:00&nbsp; "It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing.&nbsp; Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one— the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1942&nbsp; "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-so.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2891200403400006499Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:29:40 +00002026-08-06T17:48:22.840-04:00&nbsp; "Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.&nbsp;&nbsp;War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it." George Orwell, http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-347041534444013956Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:21:54 +00002026-08-05T17:29:25.103-04:00&nbsp; "Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, delivered one of his starkest warnings yet on the current market environment arguing AI enthusiasm has pushed markets into bubble territory reminiscent of 1929 and 2000.&nbsp; His warning arrives just as the market prepares to test his thesis in real time: SpaceX has already gone public in the largest IPO ever, and Anthropic http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-hard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4124198039790719747Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:34:28 +00002026-08-04T16:36:53.357-04:00&nbsp; "Narcissistic personalities care only for themselves, their needs, and their priorities.&nbsp; While you and I appreciate attention, the narcissist craves it and manipulates people and situations to get it.&nbsp; While you and I work hard to be successful, the narcissistic personality connives to succeed and may cheat, lie, embellish the truth, or scheme to get ahead, uncaring of how http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-iron.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4062523341686211801Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:27:22 +00002026-08-03T18:09:10.901-04:00&nbsp; "Do not be afraid little flock, for your Father delights to welcome you into His kingdom." Luke 12:32 "Why do you fight and argue among yourselves?&nbsp; Isn’t it because of your sinful desires?&nbsp; They fight within you.&nbsp; You want something, but you don’t have it.&nbsp; So you kill.&nbsp; You want what others have, but you can’t get what you want.&nbsp; So you argue and fight.&http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2656999299117204025Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:35:21 +00002026-07-31T20:25:06.194-04:00&nbsp; "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."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp; We do not understand that His call is a thing http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-in_0771404492.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-859384408236634041Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:30:45 +00002026-07-31T01:31:01.660-04:00&nbsp; "The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revival, but finally giving up in the final collapse." Charles Kindleberger, Manias, Panics, and Crashes, 1978 "It has been more profitable for us to bind http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0251803657.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-1770563260696132552Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:52:01 +00002026-07-29T19:03:28.082-04:00&nbsp; “Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort.&nbsp; And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0264004999.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-4195824520705299333Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:40:47 +00002026-07-28T19:48:06.006-04:00&nbsp; "In a dark and pathological times, when the better parts of the human spirit are on the wane and love grows cold, everyone wants to have power.&nbsp; Power becomes the standard of value, the coin of the realm in a deeply fallen world.&nbsp; And in such a perverse world the only virtue is greed.&nbsp; Those who serve the world want to be tough guys, unafraid, quick and intemperate on the http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2193238719608578627Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:20:25 +00002026-07-27T17:20:43.405-04:00&nbsp; "There is a certain madness in crowds. But the genesis of the madness is in those who assemble the crowds, give them weapons, and walk among them whispering: madness,&nbsp;madness!" Jesse, Housing Madness, 15 April 2008 "If history is what is recorded, then deep history is the sum of events which tend to be officially obscured or even suppressed in traditional books and media.&nbsp; http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_01201815382.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2846874948269966130Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:45:19 +00002026-07-25T03:28:11.367-04:00&nbsp; “There have been men who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist.&nbsp; There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. Hell is a state of mind.&nbsp; And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0431861782.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3033739253832149302Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:19:32 +00002026-07-23T17:19:12.711-04:00&nbsp; "What is hell? I maintain that it is the inability to love." Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880 "Dictatorship is characterized by having absolute sole power over people, and this power is often used in a cruel way.&nbsp; A dictator disrespects basic, political, socioeconomic, and cultural human rights. The glorification of a dictator has been called the cult of personality.&http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_026039455.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-7044551756081585508Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:16:26 +00002026-07-22T18:19:42.040-04:00&nbsp; "And the historians will ask the question, Why did we, scholars and writers in America, in this time, we who had been warned of our danger not only by explicit threats but by explicit action, why did we not fight this danger while the weapons we used best — the weapons of ideas and words — could still be used against it?" Archibald Macleish, The Irresponsibles, 1940 "At what point http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0726570622.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3583663537664044835Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:49:20 +00002026-07-21T17:16:52.301-04:00&nbsp; "If they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves.&nbsp; Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor." Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, Paris, 16 http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_01915035172.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-1540249197823169092Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:18:50 +00002026-07-20T16:51:26.879-04:00&nbsp; “One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.” John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times, 1981 "Legitimate power always includes attentiveness to justice, When power is not attentive to justice it cannot endure.&nbsp; Thishttp://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0186666910.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-2691851595898537743Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:56:44 +00002026-07-17T20:40:05.049-04:00&nbsp; "They do not see the image of Almighty God before them, and ask themselves what He wishes. And, for the same reason that they do not please Him, they succeed in pleasing themselves. Hence, they become both self-satisfied and self-sufficient; – they think they know just what they ought to do, and that they do it all; and in consequence they are very well content with themselves, and rate http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0518773861.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-3359257494907237721Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:08:44 +00002026-07-16T21:56:36.558-04:00&nbsp; “It is better to be a child of God than the king of the whole world.” Virgil Cepari, Vita del Beato Luigi Gonzaga, 1606 "Granted that the easygoing optimism of yesterday is impossible.&nbsp; Granted that those who pioneer in the struggle for peace and freedom will still face uncomfortable jail terms, painful threats of death; they will still be battered by the storms of persecution, http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-god.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-5028853596822942152Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:23:13 +00002026-07-16T08:35:23.780-04:00&nbsp; "Pride is the beginning of all sin. Every sin is a contempt of God, and every contempt of God is pride. It is pride which brought down the angel into devil. It is the origin of sin when with malice and envy the devil pursued man, who was yet standing in his natural innocence. It subverted him in the same way in which he himself fell. For the serpent sought for the door of pride through http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-among.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-1397408989575532232Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:21:17 +00002026-07-14T19:56:21.776-04:00&nbsp; “He speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6418112515382102078.post-5699860031791883377Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:37:57 +00002026-07-13T16:57:21.274-04:00&nbsp; “To live in truth is to be in harmony with one’s conscience.&nbsp; Truth always unites and bonds people.&nbsp; The greatness of truth terrifies and exposes the lies of small, fearful people.&nbsp; For centuries, an unbroken struggle against truth has been waged.&nbsp; Yet truth is immortal, while a lie dies a quick death. To master the technique of systematic lying many people are needed.http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2026/07/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts_0129580029.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)