Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2217

Plotting the New World Order

The secretive Bilderberg Group gathers for its annual meeting next week, which this year takes place in Turin, Italy.

A collective of elite North American and European politicians, business leaders, financiers and academics, the group has attracted a good deal of suspicion over the last half-century, with conspiracy theorists confidently asserting that its members are plotting the New World Order and are hell-bent on global domination.

Protesters who believe the Bilderbergers represent a “sha...

Do You Know Chronically Unhappy People?

Happiness comes in so many different forms that it can be hard to define. Unhappiness, on the other hand, is easy to identify; you know it when you see it, and you definitely know when it’s taken ahold of you.

Unhappiness is lethal to everyone around you, just like second-hand smoke. The famous Terman Study from Stanford followed subjects for eight decades and found that being around unhappy people is linked to poorer health and a shorter life span.

Happiness has much less to do with life cir...

No Subject Has Spawned a Greater Amount of Nonsense

A review of Division and Reunion: America, 1848-1877, by Ludwell H. Johnson, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1978. 301 pages; and The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement, by Otto Scott, New York: Times Books, 1979, 375 pages.

It was Flannery O’Connor who remarked, in one of her short essays, that people will believe anything about the South as long as it is strange enough. She was speaking of the obstacles to acquiring a proper understanding of fiction with a Southern setting,...

Protect Your Property and Family by Any Means Necessary

Step by step. Each are of concern addressed clearly and gives you something to think about. From what you’ll need to think about should the worst happen. Covers food and how to stash it. How to protect your family from those that would do them harm. Dogs and which breed would fit your needs based on YOU and your family. Weapons, hand to hand, set up radios to keep in touch with those you wish to keep in close contact with. Set up a watch schedule, how to set up early detection devises, so you...

Persistent Inflation and the Everything Bubble

Here’s another example of how the Everything Bubble, the persistent inflation of all risk assets, has simply been the result of Fed money printing.

Here is the non-recovery. While banks use endless fiat loans to drive stock prices higher, a greater proportion of middle-class Americans find themselves unable to afford what most consider to be an entry-level middle-class lifestyle.

At a time of rock-bottom joblessness, high corporate profits and a booming stock market, more than 40% of U.S. hou...

Democracy Is Fighting To Survive

The European peoples whose governments were paid to sell out the sovereignty of their nations to the EU are experiencing great difficulties in being permitted to govern themselves.

As the result of Italians’ frustration with the self-serving elite who have ruled Italy for decades, the recent democratic elections in Italy brought to power two anti-establishment political parties, Five-Star and Lega (League), that have solid majorities in both houses. However, the Italian president, an operativ...

I Buy on the Dips

Jim Rogers Buying Gold Bullion On Dips

Jim Rogers accumulating gold bullion on dips “Get prepared” as “we’re going ‘to have the worst economic problems we’ve had in your lifetime or my lifetime’ Warns that Trump and his team are “very, very keen to have trade wars with China and other people” History shows trade wars lead to real wars Cashless Society – Cash-less means Freedom-less Cashless societies are about governments “looking out for themselves first” Gold and silver may head lower but...

The Conservative Drug War Creed

If there is one thing that most conservatives have in common it is their support for the federal government’s war on drugs. Although conservatives claim to believe in certain principles that libertarians would likewise hold to, their support of the drug war shows that they don’t really believe in them at all.

Here is the conservative drug war creed.

I believe in the Constitution, but I also believe in the unconstitutional federal war on drugs. I believe in a smaller federal government, but s...

A Nation That Doesn’t Know War

Wednesday, May 30th, was Memorial Day in the United States. The commemoration began in 1868 shortly after the American Civil War, when townsmen in several communities came together to decorate the graves of the fallen on the last Monday in May. The practice began in the northern states but soon spread to the south and the annual remembrance ceremony soon took on the name Decoration Day. As wars proliferated in the twentieth century the commemoration eventually lost its association with the Ci...

America’s Racial Divide Is Permanent

For Roseanne Barr, star of ABC’s hit show “Roseanne,” there would be no appeal. When her tweet hit, she was gone.

“Roseanne’s Twitter statement, is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” declaimed Channing Dungey, the black president of ABC Entertainment.

Targeting Valerie Jarrett, a confidante and aide of President Barack Obama, Roseanne had tweeted: If the “muslim brotherhood & the planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”

Offensive, juvenil...