Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 267

Time To Overwhelm Them With Thought Crimes

“Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you”. – Orwell’s 1984

“They do not even need evidence to condemn someone they believe is guilty”. – Orwell’s 1984

Many people have joked that Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual, but now it’s not a joke. Orwell’s cautionary warning about authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and the suppression of free speech thr...

Are We That Civilized?

If outrage, grief, and concern were the civilized world’s reaction to the killing of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, total indifference by the same types seems to be the response to the death of more than 41,000 Gazans, most of them women and children. Here in New York the headline is one and the same, “Israel Under Attack,” never mind the bodies of innocents piling up both in Gaza and now Lebanon.

I know, I know, Hamas started it and Hezbollah deserves it, but we are supposedly civilized peo...

Argentine Scientists Identified 55 Chemical Elements — Not Listed on Package Inserts

A group of Argentine scientists identified 55 chemical elements — not listed on package inserts — in the Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, CanSino, Sinopharm and Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines, according to a study published last week in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.

The chemical elements include 11 heavy metals — such as chromium, arsenic, nickel, aluminum, cobalt and copper — which scientists consider systemic toxicants known to be carcinogenic and to induce org...

News Flash: Trump Is Uncle Sam!

To understand what’s unfolding in this election year, we need to view Trump not only as a candidate, and not merely as a man, but as a symbol—as if he were the personification of Uncle Sam brought to life in an attempt to save America from a passel of formidable enemies, both foreign and domestic, that seek to destroy her.

Simply put: this election is between a return to the America we loved and lost in the Color Revolution of 2020, and the last phase of a Communist takeover of our nation, as pr...

AI and Abortion: Uncovering a Surprising Truth

AI has captivated our collective imagination, with many marveling at its capabilities. As a teacher of philosophy, specializing in knowledge and logic, my focus has been less on what AI can do and more on how AI thinks. With this in mind, I embarked on an interview with AI, treating it as a conversational partner, exploring 25 randomly chosen topics related to politics, religion, philosophy, and social issues. My objective was to understand AI’s thought process and to discover whether its respon...

Is Russia Finally Acknowledging Reality?

“Awareness is descending on Russia that the existence of Ukraine as an independent country is an existential threat to Russia.  The liberation of Donbas does not demilitarize and deNazify Ukraine or replace Ukraine’s puppet government with an independent one.

Will the Russian public and the Russian General Staff permit Putin to agree to end the war simply on the basis of the liberation of Donbas, or will  the Russian public and the General Staff  insist  that Ukraine’s existence is an existentia...

Ukraine – Threat of North Korean Soldiers Is Based on U.S. Info Campaign

Earlier this week I pointed to a Ukrainian (South Korean, U.S.’) propaganda campaign which claims that thousands of North Korean soldiers will soon fight with on the Russian side against Ukraine:

To have North Koreans fighting in Russia against the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk would make little sense. That incursion is for one already mostly defeated.

Besides that the language and cultural problems would make the integration of such forces into Russian military operations nearly impossible. I am...

Kamala Harris’s Economic Ignorance and the Housing Affordability Crisis

The Misdiagnosed Cause of Unaffordable Home Prices

In her recent interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said that she would solve the housing affordability crisis by lowering home prices, which she proposes to do by increasing the supply of houses.

That alone reveals her economic ignorance. The reason housing costs are so high is not a lack of supply. There are plenty of houses. They are just unaffordable.

In fact, there is a housing surplus remain...

The Ultimate Con of a Government “Rules-Based System”

The US puppet in Ukraine is feeling hot and sweaty.  Europe has lost interest, his UkroNats have lost patience, and Russia is plodding steadily to Kiev and Odessa.  The solution?  Zelensky wants “his” nukes back from Russia, and if he keeps this up, perhaps he will get them, pointy end first.

Meanwhile, the moral high ground always claimed by US government – whether in Ukraine or the Middle East or Taiwan or Central America or the flyover states – has collapsed like the I-40 in North Carolina.

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No Compromise With the Fed!

Some people argue like this: Although the Fed as it now exists is very bad, a nation needs a central bank to regulate its money supply, and the Fed is better than nothing. That being so, we should try to urge the Fed to adopt a non-expansionary monetary policy. In this view, calls to “End the Fed” are mistaken. I’m sure most of my readers already know what I’m about to say, but, just to be clear, that view is disastrously wrong. We do not need a central bank, and to argue in the way indicated is...