Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 448

Help! Save Haiti From Itself

Miami – Haiti, today the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, was once the richest back in 1800.  How did this happen?

In those long distant days, the West indies was the equivalent of today’s Mideast – a vast treasure trove of resources. The western powers – Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and Holland – battled to control the islands that produced tobacco, sugar, peppers, potatoes, slaves, rum, cloves, nutmeg, and bananas. 

Customers in Europe’s coffee houses got high and talkative over ...

John Grisham Finds Justice Not in the System, but in the System’s Defeat

A while back I wrote about British female authors of mystery novels during 1920-1940, such as Agatha Christy, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Elspeth Huxley, the last two being colonial British. I noted at the time that even in the case of murder in the novels, those decades as portrayed in the novels were a highly civilized period in England. Readers have let me know that they, also, have found relief from our woeful times in the civilized recent past described in British mystery novels.

As an...

Mobility Medicine — How to Maintain Neck Flexibility

An astonishing 68% of adults have damage in their discs, or cushions, between their cervical vertebrae. This is referred to as cervical disk degeneration. If you don’t have it now, you will likely get it unless you are involved in a neck mobility program. An early sign of this might be noticing a popping or cracking sound, known as crepitus, when you rotate your neck.

This noise can occur due to the movement of joints, ligaments and tendons in the neck area. Some people might feel a grinding sen...

Covid-19 Caste System — Coming to a Set Near You?

How is life on a Hollywood set post COVID-19? In light of Tom Cruise’s recent freak out on a shoot for Mission: Impossible 7, I decided to find out.

Cruise, 58, made headlines on Tuesday, December 15, when The Sun published a recording of him screaming at the film’s crew for not following COVID-19 protocols.

“They’re back there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us,” he reportedly said in the audio clip. “I’m on the phone with every f—king studio at night, insurance companies, produ...

Russia Has Spoken… And the Elitist West Grumbles

The Russian people just provided Blinken and the rest of the world an object lesson in democracy and resisting disinformation.

The Russian Federation conducted an impressive presidential election with civility and efficiency despite a concerted attempt by the Western powers to sabotage it.

A nation of 143 million people and 112 million voters covering a vast geographic territory encompassing 11 time zones (out of the Earth’s total of 24 zones) went to the polls over a three-day period (March 15-...

A Thousand Years of Prison Time Over a 6-Hour Delay of Congress

Yes you read that correctly.  Every student of the First Amendment knows about the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids of World War I, the railroading of the Chicago 7, crackdowns on anti-war movements, and the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO abuses and surveillance of Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers.

But the single greatest mass infringement on fundamental First Amendment freedoms is happening right now. But the civil liberties establishment, which rakes in millions annually ...

Gags and Jibes

“My law firm is currently in court fighting for free and fair elections in 52 cases across 19 states.” — Marc Elias, DNC Lawfare Ninja, punking voters

Have you noticed how quickly our Ukraine problem went away, vanished, phhhhttttt? At least from the top of US news media websites. The original idea, as cooked-up by departed State Department strategist Victoria Nuland, was to make Ukraine a problem for Russia, but instead we made it a problem for everybody else, especially ourselves in the USA, s...

The Inflation Genie Is Out of the Bottle

In this episode, Peter reacts to a hotter-than-expected CPI report, big trades in Bitcoin, and the federal bill that would ban the popular social media app TikTok. He also notes silver’s historically low price, which is nearly 50% of its 2011 high.

Prior to this week’s CPI numbers, the market was under the impression that inflation was coming down. Even if this were true, rate cuts are still a bad idea:

“The conventional wisdom is that the Fed has won the inflation war. That its rate hikes have ...

German Democracy Researchers Publish Ominous Report

I’ve written before about what a wonderful privilege it is to dwell within the extremely liberal and forward-thinking polity known as the Federal Republic of Germany. Here citizens like myself enjoy unusual and expansive freedoms. Our politicians positively welcome criticism, which is a good thing for me, or I might have to be an anonymous poster on the internet. As we saw yesterday, undemocratic hellholes like the DDR used to persecute their own people for the completely alien crime of “defamin...

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs and the JFK Assassination

Although the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy was surely one of the most famous events of the twentieth century, its sixtieth anniversary passed a few months ago with relatively little attention, probably overshadowed by the looming defeat of Ukraine in its war with Russia and also the enormous civilian casualties following the sudden outbreak of the Israel/Gaza conflict. But many individuals of an older generation probably remembered that tragic date, and I think tha...