Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 327

Pirates, Dictators, and Longing for Security

Whenever I’m in the Mediterranean I’m reminded of the rich lore of piracy. In the popular imagination, piracy is associated with the Golden Age of Piracy in the New World between about 1650-1726. The genesis of the public’s fascination with pirates was the 1883 publication of Treasure Island, by Robert Lewis Stevenson, which has inspired dozens of books and films, most recently the Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow may explain why, in a recent survey, wome...

Yucky UK

There’s a funny internet meme that uses a still frame from a British sketch comedy show in which two naïve Nazis wonder aloud, “Are we the baddies?”  The conservative humor site Twitchy is fond of referencing that joke whenever the U.K. government treats George Orwell’s 1984 as an instruction manual instead of a warning.  These days, the joke is everywhere because the world is watching Britain nosedive into abject tyranny.

U.K. officials do not like dissent.  They do not like free speech.  And t...

The Forever Wars Go Full War of Terror

Both the Axis of Resistance and Christian Orthodox Russia need to step up the game. Radically.

This is a very simple demonstration. Please allow me to present only two Exhibits, A and B.

Exhibit A

The stunning confirmation came directly from Russian Deputy FM Ryabkov, during a quite revealing interview on Rossiya TV. Ryabkov, extremely competent, is also the leading Russian sherpa for BRICS+, preparing the summit next October in Kazan.

Essentially, Russian intel discovered that Kiev intel was se...

Renowned Jewish Rabbi Says Trump Is Anointed As God’s Non-Jewish Messiah To Serve Israel

His name is Rabbi Isser Zalman Weisberg. He writes and lectures widely on Biblical prophecies and Jewish Eschatology. He lives in Toronto, Canada. He is an author, lecturer and columnist at Chabad.org. He unabashedly proclaims that Donald Trump is anointed as God’s non-Jewish Messiah to serve Israel.

Before I delve further into the rabbi’s blasphemies, I want to remind readers of the encomiums that were heaped upon Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance by the members of the Jewish Tzedek Association i...

How Not To Run Against Vice President Harris

All Hell is breaking loose.

The Dow Jones tanked 1000 points, by 2.15 %, and the Japanese stock market is down by 12%. Markets globally are shuddering. The Southern border is open – this is after Vice President Harris went to the nations South of the border to get at the “root causes” of illegal immigration – and 18-30 million people of fighting and reproductive ages, who have had no vetting at all, including hundreds of whom have proven ties to terrorist groups or nations, have poured into the ...

Taking Back Economics Education

am excited to announce our next major project here at the Mises Institute, the Lessons for the Young Economist video series. This will be designed for homeschoolers and young people. It will be something they will actually want to watch! And with the Mises Institute’s name on it, parents, grandparents, and educators will know they can trust the content.

The latest estimates reveal that nearly 2.7 million students have exited government public schools. These students’ families have rejected the s...

America’s Beginning: Everything Is Different Yet Everything Is the Same

The US is demanding that Israel investigate itself over rape and sodomy video’s emerging from their torture cells.  But the government already investigated itself and declared that torture was a justifiable Kabballah means of drawing the most pain and suffering so as to achieve a prolonged death.  Historically, torture was used by the Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and Persians as a means of dehumanizing the soul.

The modern world is no different than its parallel history.  The barbaric put on suits, ...

Kursk Campaign Designed To Keep War Going

The (former) President of Ukraine Vlodomir Zelenski recently made some ambivalent remarks about potential peace talks:

Volodymyr Zelensky told the newspaper “Le Monde” that he does not rule out holding a referendum on the future of Ukrainian territories to end the war, but “it requires the will of the Ukrainian people.”
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According to the president of the country, Ukraine should not liberate all its territories by “force and weapons,” because this option “costs us a lot of time and human lives.”...

Israel and the Nullification of the Constitution

An article posted yesterday on the website Responsible Statecraft states “According to a survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, only 41% of Americans support the idea of U.S. troops defending Israel, even if its neighbors attacked it.”

If that statement were made in a U.S. District Court, one of the federal attorneys would undoubtedly stand up and object by declaring, “Irrelevant and immaterial, your honor!” There is no doubt that the presiding judge would sustain the objection. It doe...

There’s Just One Problem: AI Isn’t Intelligent, and That’s a Systemic Risk

Mimicry of intelligence isn’t intelligence, and so while AI mimicry is a powerful tool, it isn’t intelligent.

The mythology of Technology has a special altar for AI, artificial intelligence, which is reverently worshiped as the source of astonishing cost reductions (as human labor is replaced by AI) and the limitless expansion of consumption and profits. AI is the blissful perfection of technology’s natural advance to ever greater powers.

The consensus holds that the advance of AI will lead to a...