We’re near the end of the month, and gold is still above $2,000. Fingers crossed! I’ll write about that more in tomorrow’s Monthly Asset Class Report.

Also, if you haven’t watched my packed interview with Rick Rule, watch it here. And thank you for the over 10,000 subscribers to Paradigm Press’ YouTube Channel. Your time, kindness, and comments have genuinely overwhelmed us.

In the meantime, I came across a spectacular piece of correspondence. I’ll leave it to you to read.

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Dear Grim Reaper,

It’s nearly year-end and almost time for your job review. But after yesterday’s news, I thought I’d bring yours forward so we can celebrate the “silly season” properly.

First, I must offer my wholehearted and unreserved congratulations on finally nabbing Henry Kissinger after a century’s chase.

It hasn’t been this hot down here since John McCain checked in. Even a loss like Dianne Feinstein didn’t get the devils dancing the way they used to.

No man since Napoleon has given less of a shit about the men who were serving under him, let alone the victims of his numerous war crimes.

I’m aware that “only the good die young.” But let’s face it, this assignment took way too long. We must prevent other war criminals like Kissinger from reaching the century mark.

Seriously, memes like the above give us a bad name.

Let’s review why Kissinger needed to be down here and not up there.

Vietnam

In 1968, Kissinger was working as an expert on Vietnam for the US negotiation team during the Paris peace talks.

During the talks, the late, great essayist and author Christopher Hitchens alleges Kissinger was feeding Republican Presidential hopeful Richard Nixon inside information on the progress of the deals, even though he was working for President Lyndon Johnson.

Kissinger hoped that, if the talks failed, Nixon would stand a strong chance of winning the next election.

Although Kissinger was guaranteed a job in the next Democratic administration - Johnson wouldn’t seek re-election - he thought he could get a better position in a Nixon administration.

As a result, the war raged on for many more years.

Then, as National Security Advisor, Kissinger was involved in Operation Speedy Express and Operation Menu.

Operation Speedy Express deliberately targeted civilians, making it a war crime.

Operation Menu bombarded targets in Cambodia and Laos, two countries with which the US wasn’t at war. This breached international law and, hence, should also be considered a war crime.

Nearly 1 million people died in Cambodia and Laos due to Operation Menu.

China

In The Hundred Year Marathon, author Michael Pillsbury alleges that Nixon didn’t go to China as much as China duped Kissinger into gifting the Chinese loads of tech in exchange for an alliance with the Soviet Union.

China would probably still be decades behind the US if Henry Kissinger didn’t give him a 50-year leap forward, thanks to the tech he passed them on behalf of the American people.

Kissinger did this ostensibly because he wanted to get China away from the Soviet Union to split the Maoists and the Marxists.

Fast forward to 2020. You can see just how well that strategy worked.

Hitchens alleges (at the time of his book’s publication) that helping American companies to get a hold of China’s market is one of Kissinger Associates' primary sources of income.

That’s because the Chinese revere Kissinger for bringing them so far forward.

Kissinger Associates

Kissinger Associates, Inc. is a New York City-based international geopolitical consulting firm founded and run by Henry Kissinger in 1982.

The firm advises clients on government relations.

If you work for Kissinger, you’re never allowed to divulge clients' names.

And if you’re one of Kissinger’s clients, you’re never allowed to acknowledge the relationship.

This secrecy forced Kissinger to step down from his position as chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission).

Congressional Democrats insisted that Kissinger disclose the names of clients.

Kissinger and President Bush claimed that such disclosures were unnecessary, but Kissinger stepped down anyway, citing conflicts of interest.

It’s frightening that his conflicts prohibited him from looking into terrorist attacks on his home turf.

East Timor, Argentina, Chile and Bangladesh

Kissinger’s approval of government “actions” in these countries cost over 3 million lives (mainly in Bangladesh).

In Summation

Reaper, my job is to tempt people. Their job is to resist.

But I didn’t even have to tempt Kissinger. He wrought all this havoc on his own.

However, given the genuinely grotesque nature of Kissinger’s resolve, I’ll give you a pass.

See, even the Internet is happy:

Here’s how you’ll make this up to me.

Kissinger’s prize student at Harvard is still at large. Your mission, and you better accept it, is to bring him to me as quickly as possible.

It won’t be hard to find him. He lives in Davos, Switzerland, and runs the planet’s most evil organization, the World Economic Forum.

His name is Klaus Schwab. Go get him.

Good hunting,

Lucifer

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Truly amazing, folks. Even the devil lets slip his dirty laundry.

I’ll be back tomorrow with some charts that will make us very happy, provided the “bastards” don’t hammer gold on today’s close.