Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2172

Judyth Vary Baker’s Incredible Credentials

In her book Me and Lee (TrineDay Publishing, 2010) Judyth Vary Baker tells a very detailed, fascinating account of her life story, including how she had used her widely-publicized reputation as a very gifted student-prodigy who managed to attract the attention of famed doctors and other luminaries, including Florida Senator George Smathers.

It had started with news articles in the local Bradenton, Florida newspaper which were distributed through the Associated Press to numerous other states’...

US Preparing For War Against Iran

President Donald Trump and his neocon advisors have been trying to provoke a war with Iran and Syria for many months.

The neocons are echoing Cato the Elder’s cry, ‘delenda est Carthago!’.  Iran must be destroyed.

So far, Tehran and its ally Damascus have refused to respond to US naval and air incursions or Israel’s growing air attacks in Syria. But the war of words between the US and Iran has now reached a critical phase.

Last week, Trump, who evaded military service during the Vietnam War,...

Clarence Manion, Ike, and the Court

The noise of the universe surrounding the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to take the seat of retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy calls to mind an earlier nomination – less contentious, but profoundly consequential.

It all began on April 6, 1953, my father, Clarence Manion, confronted Eisenhower’s Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, in testimony given before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The issue was the Bricker Amendment, designed by Ohio Senator John Bricker to forbid t...

The Power Grid Could Buckle During an Extreme Heat Wave

The power grid in the US is old and tenuous, and with the current “heat dome” that has settled over the southwestern part of the country, the risk of demand outstripping supply is very real. High-temperature records were set in several states yesterday:

Death Valley, CA: 127 Las Vegas, NV: 112 Palm Springs, CA: 121 Phoenix, AZ: 116

California utility companies have asked citizens to reduce power usage as much as possible or face rotating power outages to manage the strain on the grid.

The...

Scientists Discover That Trees Have a ‘Heartbeat,’ Too

It seems everyday more and more information is being uncovered about trees and the many mysteries within them. We know that they are alive, but it seems they are even more alive than we may have thought. Trees are interconnected underground, we also now know that trees can communicate with one another, but recently scientists have discovered that trees actually have a sort of heartbeat, it is just so slow that they’ve never noticed before.

Up until recently scientists had thought that water...

The Six Most Overrated Cocktails

Sipping a Piňa Colada in the evening sun while on holiday, you may think you look like the perfect picture of sophistication and elegance.

However, are you actually enjoying the taste of the white rum, pineapple juice and coconut cream combo? Or are you drinking it simply because you think you should?

According to expert mixologist Tristan Stephenson, the creamy concoction is one of several cocktails that are highly overrated, despite its popularity.

Stephenson, who’s a cocktail consultant at...

When Long-Brewing Instability

Keep an eye on the system’s buffers. They look fine until they suddenly collapse.

The doom-and-gloomers among us who have been predicting the unraveling of an inherently unstable financial system appear to have been disproved by the reflation of yet another credit-asset bubble. But inherently unstable/imbalanced systems can stumble onward for years or even decades, making fools of all who warn of an eventual reset.

Destabilizing systems can cling on for decades, as the inevitable crisis doesn...

The Danger of Dirty Dems

As stupid as they may at times seem, I often wonder if the Dirty Dems will ever become rational enough to realize that the underlying theme of their message — the fundamental transformation of America — will never again get them voted into power.  Too many people who were taken in by the hype that gave us Barack Obama now realize that it was a carefully orchestrated scam.

After being lulled into a white-guilt slumber by the exciting idea of electing America’s first “black” president, millions...

I Hope Russia Wins

I’m not talking about the World Cup here, but Russia’s challenge, along with six other countries, to Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs. The Russians will be discussing those tariffs with the Trump administration, the first step in challenging them before the World Trade Organization. Those tariffs are bad for Americans because they raise the prices of steel and aluminum, which makes products made of steel and aluminum more expensive for American consumers.

Tariffs impose harm on both the imp...

The CIA/FBI/DOJ Plot To Overthrow

On July 21, I posted on my website a report on the discovery by John Solomon of The Hill magazine that Lisa Page testified to a congressional committee to the effect that the Russiagate probe conducted by Robert Mueller is a cover-up operation to obscure the criminal use of counterintelligence capabilities to spy on Trump’s presidential campaign and then to sabotage Trump’s presidency.

The evidence is overwhelming that CIA director John Brennan, FBI director James Comey, Robert Mueller, James...