Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2386

How To Be Famous

Brush up on these tips and you may be well on your way to being chiseled in marble.

Write a theory of economics that glorifies state plunder. The state-run universities will then buy your book and make it required reading.  Grammar and logical foundation do not matter. Learn to scare people. Start a War and kill a million people. Put your picture on money. Put a bunch of people in prison. The reason doesn’t matter.  It can be for ethnic reasons, speaking out of turn, operating a business, or...

The Phony Islamic State

The so-called Islamic State organization was primarily a bogeyman encouraged by the western powers.  I’ve been saying this for the last four years.

I asserted, as a former soldier and war correspondent, that IS would collapse like a wet paper bag if proper western ground forces attacked their strongholds in Syria and Iraq.  This week, the western powers and their local satraps finally took action and stormed the last IS stronghold at Raqqa.  To no surprise, IS put up almost no resistance and...

Is Your City in the Running?

For the past several months, cities all across the country have been competing for the opportunity to host Amazon’s second headquarters which promises $5 billion in capital investment and 50,000 new jobs over a period of time.  And now that the bids are in, we have the opportunity to review some of the staggering tax subsidies offered to one of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies.

New Jersey apparently ‘wins’ the prize for ‘biggest tax cuts’ after offering $7 billion in state and city tax cred...

In a World of Lies

The dollar is dead but the world doesn’t know it.

It has been a slow death and the final stages will be very painful for the US and for the rest of the world. The US empire is finished financially and militarily.

NIXON WAS CONVICTED FOR THE WRONG CRIME

It all started with the establishment of the Fed in 1913 and escalated with Nixon. For anyone old enough to still remember him, they will think about the Watergate scandal. This was corruption and bribery at the highest level in the Nixon admin...

How To Get Started

Fishing with a rod and line, and an artificial lightweight lure made to imitate fish prey — that is, fly fishing — was first recorded around the year 200. And while modern innovation has improved the quality and durability of the materials, the basics of the sport and pastime have remained largely the same. Attach a lure (or “fly”) to a line, cast it in the water, and see what happens.

Growing up, I fished in a boat with my uncle every now and then, but didn’t take it up on my own beyond that...

Banana Republic

Judicial Watch Director of Investigations, Chris Farrell, appeared on Fox News to discuss with Lou Dobbs the entrenched and all-powerful Deep State, which is working daily to bury the United States in never-ending scandals, and reverse the nation-statism movement ushered in by Trump’s Presidential victory over their preferred globalist candidate, Hillary Clinton.

Via The Gateway Pundit…

Chris Farrell: It’s really a giant Socialist organ operating that protests itself. Offense after offense a...

Who Decided What Time It Is?

You may have heard that time is a social construct, but that doesn’t stop it from having consequences in the real world. If you show up to a party 10 minutes before it’s scheduled to start, you’ll likely be the first one there, and if you arrive to an interview 10 minutes late, you likely won’t get the job. But how did humanity agree on when and how to observe certain times of day?

In their new video, the It’s Okay to Be Smart team explains how humans “invented” the modern concept of time. Th...

Politically Correct Craziness

For almost thirty years I called on military installations all over the United States as a health care marketer.  Something I learned in that time is that each of the services has its own culture, with the Army being the most relaxed and receptive to new ideas, the Navy being somewhere in the middle, and the United States Air Force acting as if it had a permanent stick up its derrière.  These last were sticklers for operating strictly by the rules and regs and resistant to change, even though...

Forgetting I Have MS

Sometimes my clients, readers, friends, and even family “forget” that I have Multiple Sclerosis. I intentionally focus on how much I’ve recovered, and the things I do to minimize symptoms. I rarely talk about, or focus on, the symptoms that I experience. But, I do experience symptoms sometimes.

Most times my MS symptoms are a result of an immune response to something I’ve eaten. If I’m honest with myself I can usually find some food item eaten in the previous two days that I knew at the time...

The Case Against Gold

What I’m about to write here, I have believed for close to 40 years. I wrote about it decades ago in Remnant Review. I’m not going to look through all of the published issues to find when I wrote it.

What good is gold in the vaults of any central bank? I understand why it’s a good idea to have bullion gold coins in your “vault.” I don’t understand why it’s a good idea for central bankers to put gold bullion bars in their vaults.

Central banks buy gold from the general public. They also buy go...