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On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that
Providence has bestowed on their beloved country.

A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to
understand the awesome truth of how “God helps those who help themselves” applies to the
Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America’s birth.

This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on the Left are incapable – for it would
mean celebrating the capitalist freedom that made that original Thanksgiving possible. That made
America possible.

This no liberal, no Democrat, no leftie can do. Thus they must distort history instead.

The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe of your kid's school play
portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves. So let’s drop
the curtain on the distortion and watch the real thing. Here it is.

The real history of the Mayflower Pilgrims was recounted by their leader, William Bradford
(1590-1657) in his book Of Plymouth Plantation, completed in 1647. It is from Bradford that we
learn of Squanto, who did indeed show the Pilgrims how to "set" or plant corn (a new unfamiliar
crop for them).

Then we learn that the Pilgrims taught the Indians how to grow more corn than they ever had
before:

"The Indeans used to have nothing so much corne as they have since the English have
stored them with their hoes, and seene their industrie in breaking up new grounds therwith."

Reading the real history of the Pilgrims is so revelatory that I want you to see it at length. The
Pilgrims landed in December 1620, suffered a horrible winter, figured out how to fish and hunt that
spring and summer so that there may have been some sort of feast with friendly Indians in the fall
of 1621 - although Bradford doesn't recount the incident.

But by 1622 they were starving. There was no "Thanksgiving" that year. There was the next - for
1623 saw the Pilgrims in well-fed abundance, and thus was the year of the real First Thanksgiving.

What made the difference? Here are Bradford's own words (albeit with modern spelling like "been"
instead of "bene" - the original spelling is in the link above; the parentheses are his, the explanatory
brackets are mine), describing Anno Dom.1623:

“It may be thought strange that these people should fall to these extremities in so short a
time, being left competently provided when the ship [the Mayflower] left them, and had an
addition by that moyetie [portion] of corn that was got by trade, besides much they got of
the Indians where they lived, by one means and other.

It must needs be their great disorder, for they spent excessively whilst they had, or could
get it. And after they began to come into wants, many sold away their clothes and bed
coverings; others (so base were they) became servants to the Indians, and would cut them
wood and fetch them water for a cap full of corn; others fell to plain stealing, both night and
day, from the Indians, of which they grievously complained. In the end, they came to that
misery that some starved and died with cold and hunger...

All this while no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expect any. So
they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better
crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery.

At length, after much debate of things, the Governor [Bradford] (with the advise of the
chiefest amongst them) gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular
[plant corn on his own private land], and in that regard trust to them selves; in all other
things to go on in the general way as before.

And so [there was] assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of
their number for that end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance), and
ranged all boys and youth under some family. This had very good success; for it made all
hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted then other wise would have
been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of
trouble, and gave far better content.

The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little-ones with them to set corn,
which before they would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would
have been thought great tyranny and oppression.

The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years, and
that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and
other ancients applauded by some of later times -- that the taking away of property, and
bringing in communities into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing, as
if they were wiser than God.

For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent,
and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For the
young-men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine [complain] that they
should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children, with out
any recompense.

The strong, or man of parts, had no more in division [in amount] of victails [food] and
clothes, than he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could; this was
thought injustice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalized in labors, and
victails, clothes, etc., with the meaner and younger sort, thought it some indignity and
disrespect unto them.

And for men's wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat,
washing their clothes, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could many husbands
well brook it.

Upon the point all being to have alike, and all to do alike, they thought them selves in the
like condition, and have as good as another; and so, if it did not cut off those relations that
God hath set amongst men, yet it did at least much diminish and take of the mutual
respects that should be preserved amongst them.

And would have been worse if they had been men of another condition. Let none object this
is men's corruption, and nothing to the course itself. I answer, seeing all men have this
corruption in them, God in his wisdom saw another course fitter for them...

By the time harvest was come [fall 1623], instead of famine, now God gave them plenty,
and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they
blessed God. And the effect of their particular planting was well seen, for all had, one way
and other, pretty well to bring the year about, and some of the abler sort and more
industrious had to spare, and sell to others, so as any general want or famine hath not been
amongst them since to this day [1647].”

That is as effective a refutation of socialism and affirmation of capitalism as there has ever been.
The Pilgrims were starving, stealing and begging from the Indians under a no private
property/everybody work for the common good economy. They switch to a private
property/everybody work for themselves economy, and within one season there is abundance for
all.

But how can Lefties and Democrats be thankful for this? They cannot and are not. Their goal is
not abundance. Their goal is deprivation - for where there is deprivation there must be victims,
victims who can be manipulated to acquire power.

Bradford's history - the real history of Thanksgiving - is there in plain black and white, undeniable
and irrefutable for anyone to see. It is the history that should be taught to our schoolchildren but is
not. It is ignored and denied. It could be the very first time you yourself have ever seen Bradford's
words.

Liberals, Democrats, and members of America's Fascist Left may very well be enjoying this day -
enjoying good food, good wine, good friends and family. Let's hope they are. We should not
begrudge them this moment of good cheer.

But what is impossible, or at least difficult for them is to enjoy being American, being thankful for

America, to celebrate the abundance of America, the abundance of its material and spiritual well-
being thanks to the private property capitalism that made the first Thanksgiving and all those that 
followed possible.
Any celebration of theirs is always a yes...but thankfulness. "Yes, we have much to be thankful for
on this day, but we must never forget what we did to the Indians and the slaves, that there is still
too much poverty and racism in America, blah, blah, blah..."

The purpose of Thanksgiving is to be thankful for being American. This is the day to celebrate the
goodness of our country - the moral goodness, the moral decency of American institutions,
American history, and the character of the American people. Without any buts.

It's easy for conservatives to do this - it comes natural to us. It's the opposite for liberals, who
relish and revel in incessant guilt-mongering - and can't celebrate a Thanksgiving with no buts.
So this day, we can relish and revel in the capitalist freedom and abundance that Providence
enabled the Pilgrims to choose, and create America thereby.

As never before.

Little more than three years ago, our freedom and abundance was threatened as never before by a
Fascist Left determined to destroy it.

And then, on November 8th, 2016, the wisdom of Winston Churchill proved true yet again:
“You can always trust Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”

With Donald Trump, Americans chose the embodiment of capitalist abundance over being
impoverished wards of The State.

Churchill defined Marxism, be it Socialism or Fascism, as “the gospel of envy.” It is the gospel that
​Obama, Hillary, the Enemedia, and all Democrats preach. It takes extreme moral courage to reject
it. For as Churchill observed:

“Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be
milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.”

Yet that moral courage is exactly what a majority of American voters demonstrated in November
2016. Only American voters could be so envy-free to elect so opulent a capitalist businessman
who proudly flaunts his earned wealth rather than apologizing for it.

One year from now, Americans will be called upon to demonstrate that same moral courage
against the fascist gospel of envy. Now more than ever is the time to focus anew on all that we
love about our country, to know that Providence has always smiled upon it - for we, like the
Pilgrims have chosen capitalist freedom over socialist slavery.

With that choice, the original Americans created a civilization out of the wilderness. With that
choice, we Americans of today can rescue our civilization from the wilderness of the Fascist
Democrat Left.

That choice liberates us from their power-lust and make us impervious to the poison of anti-
America hate that eats at all liberal souls. That is why we are what they are not: grateful for our
country, for the very existence of America, for the priceless privilege of being an American.
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The future is now ours. Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

I am indebted to Dr, Fraser Murrell, a follower of the mechanics of the gold market from Australia, for the following piece of theorising.  Dr Murrell has a Ph.D. in maths and well understands option pricing. He is now working on what the "physical premium" attached to the COMEX price should be, given expectations on the probability and date of a COMEX cash settlement but would be interested in contributions from other like-minded gold theoreticians in this work.

I am not certain I agree with his hypothesis but it is certainly not outside the bounds of possibility given the huge volumes of paper gold traded on the COMEX.  This certainly currently acts as a price control mechanism on the physical metal, so what happens if such control is removed?

Dr. Murrell’s hypothesis is set out virtually in full below, and no doubt will be of strong interest to academics and others who are involved in researching the mechanics of gold pricing - and of other metals too where the futures markets are instrumental in defining ultimate pricing.
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To read his argument and the rest of this article, click here.

"America’s tariffs against China are already showing signs of undermining the global economy and will create a funding crisis for the Federal Government when it leads to foreigners no longer buying US Treasury debt and selling down their existing dollar holdings. A subversive attempt by America to divert global portfolio investment from China by destabilising Hong Kong will force China into a Plan B to fund its infrastructure plans, which could involve actively selling down her dollar reserves and hastening the introduction of a new crypto-based trade settlement currency.

The US budget deficit will then be financed entirely by monetary inflation. Furthermore, the turn of the credit cycle, made more destructive by trade tariffs, is driving the global and US economy into a slump, further accelerating all indebted governments’ dependency on inflationary financing. The end result is America’s trade policies have been instrumental in hastening the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, ultimately leading to its destruction.”

Click here to continue.

"Why is Hong Kong’s special status most likely permanently over, in the eyes of preeminent China scholar Arthur Waldron?

What key mistakes have US leaders, such as Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, made in regards to China over the past five decades? Why does Waldron believe the Chinese communist regime is entering a phase of disintegration? And how does the situation parallel that of the Soviet Union? This is American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸, and I’m Jan Jekielek.  
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Today we sit down with historian and University of Pennsylvania professor Arthur Waldron. He was a founding member of the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and is a board member of the Jamestown Foundation."