Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 334

Into the Weird!

“What we are witnessing is nothing less than the failure of the greatest propaganda apparatus in history.” — Mattias Desmet

Have you noticed yet? — the weird thing about Veep Kamala Harris is how weirdly brisk her transfiguration was from a sit-com character to Wonder Woman, overnight in the reality-optional news media. In a party burdened with complex ideology, she was known only for tautology: “The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time,” she repeat...

The ‘October Revolution’ Was a Coup, Not a Revolution

A key function of propaganda has always been to demoralize the opposition. From the perspective of the propagandists, it is important to always give the impression that their side is the side of the majority, and the most popular. We have witnessed this in action in recent years with the rise of censorship designed to “combat misinformation.” By suppressing dissident viewpoints, the regime lessens access to “unorthodox” ideas, but there is an important secondary function: suppressing dissenting ...

Jacek and the Socialist Economist

Jacek was back in Poland because he was afraid of the progressive slot machine gig. He had only been rousted once, and that was just by the casino security guards. He said he didn’t understand why it freaked him out because he was pretty much FEARLESS, he thought.

He told me about the time he was washed out to sea by a strong rip tide and he was so far out he couldn’t see shore anymore. And he thought to himself, “Well, I can either give up or I can keep swimming.” He kept swimming and made it b...

This Precarious Life

In the wake of the near assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally, a large number of Americans have wondered if he survived solely “by the grace of God.” Indeed, many believe that the Almighty Himself must have altered the direction of the assassin’s bullet so that it grazed Mr. Trump’s ear instead of hitting his head.

But if we accept this and are logically consistent, do we not also have to believe that God guided the assassin’s bullet that killed the devoted father sh...

How the Bible Explains Modern American Politics

It’s been said that conservatives view leftists as people with bad ideas, while leftists view conservatives as bad people, period. My personal experiences on social media reinforce this. Any attempt to engage a leftist in a dialogue is futile. There is no bridging the chasm. Not only are leftists unable to construct arguments, they fail to even grasp what an argument is. Logic and facts escape them. It’s not that they have bad ideas–they don’t have ideas at all.

Significant insight into the left...

Indispensable Nation Meme

The Indispensable Nation meme originates not in the universal condition of mankind and the nation-states into which it has been partitioned. Instead, it stems from an erroneous take on the one-time, flukish and historically aberrant circumstances of the 20th century that gave rise to giant totalitarian states in Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia, and the resulting mass murder and oppressions which resulted there from.

What we mean is that Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany were not coded into ...

Best Water Sources for SHTF Scenarios

Picture this. Communication lines are down, buildings are toppled over, roads are blocked, and crazed folks are looting supermarkets in your neighborhood.

At home, the power’s out, your stomach’s growling, and your thirst is gnawing at you like a pitbull on a chew toy.

Suppose you still have some food to ration over the next few days, but what about H2O? What happens after you down your last bottle of water?

In SHTF scenarios, finding safe water sources can mean life or death. You’ll need a suff...

In Gaza, the Casualty Rate Is a Mere Fraction of the Death Rate

As planned, the people of Gaza are now dying in much larger numbers from starvation and disease than from Israeli weaponry. For all practical purposes, no food or medical supplies are getting into Gaza. Even the handcarried supplies that outside medical personnel used to carry in are now prohibited and confiscated. The relief agencies now warehouse their supplies outside Gaza, waiting in vain for permission to enter.

How much of the population of Gaza has died from the weaponization of food, wat...

The Green Revolution and the Covid Response

If, as on Family Feud, you asked a hundred people who know me to identify one of my characteristics, most might say that I talk too much about the Scamdemic. But 53 months ago, the thing that—sadly—may have been at the top of the list is that I eat a lot of food and that much of it is weird.

I won’t deny that I have a large appetite. But I don’t agree that Cheese Doodles and Dr. Pepper should be considered normal and collards and chia weird.

I’ve never watched more than ten seconds of a cooking ...

Illusion and Insight – A Journey Thru the Matrix

I Fear I should Preface what I am about to say so that its context can be taken in the light from which it is created.   Not as a testament, but as a possible Reality as espoused by various writers for literally hundreds of years – which was altered, sometime beginning around the 12th century AD to create an illusion.   An illusion so powerful that all of mankind would bow to its Lies.  Some call it The Matrix.

What a trough of information that just passed across my desktop!  In my world, I view...