Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 483

From Rule Britannia To Decrepit Old Bulldog

Britain’s flagship aircraft carrier breaks down before it has even fired a shot. If ever there was a fitting image for its modern true state, this is it.

British rulers think they can start a war against Russia. They can’t even contain Yemeni fighters in the Red Sea. And its top-notch aircraft carrier just got towed away before it even saw action.

Delusions about “Great Britain” and its military power are laughable. Britain is nothing but a rogue state whose arrogance and delusions are – like it...

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

“Big Brother is Watching You.”―George Orwell, 1984

2024 is the new 1984.

Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state.

Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power—the rise of the security industrial complex—this watershed moment sounds a death knell for our privacy rights.

An unofficial fourth branch of government, the Surveillance State came into being without any ele...

The EU Wants Reparations For Ukraine Paid By Russia

The EU is desperately looking for ways to finance the rebuilding of Ukraine as Soros becomes more and more angry with the failed war, failed peace, and a lost trafficking hub.   Money.   Using frozen Russian assets the Powers want to use the assets valued at $200 billion as collateral for a loan.   The security for their ultimate transfer would hinge on Russia failing to pay Ukraine reparations after the war.   Parlez vous … Deja Vu.

In 2022, the United Nations held a vote wherein a new resoluti...

Who Owns the gold?

An overlooked aspect of geopolitics is the defensive action taken by Asian hegemons and their close allies against a collapse of the Western currency system.

Unlike our economists who are overwhelmingly Keynesian, the economic tradition from Soviet and communist China was that the West’s capitalist system would collapse. Admittedly, China’s economists have increasingly studied in the West and picked up Keynesian concepts, but they remain acutely aware of the weaknesses of our capitalist system.

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One of These Things Is Not Like the Others

The government, federal or otherwise, has no business model because it is not a business.  We know this at the outset because government does not compete on the market for people’s money, as every other business must do.  As a monopoly of violence it seizes the money it needs through taxes and monetary inflation.  As long as the government doesn’t get carried away by taxing and inflating too much, most people, many of whom call themselves libertarians, regard this setup as necessary.

In America ...

FBI Raids of Safe Deposit Boxes

International Man: Recently, the FBI raided 700 safe deposit boxes in Beverly Hills.

They opened and searched through the content of every single box, regardless of whether there was any probable cause that individual box owners had committed any crime.

The FBI then attempted to confiscate anything worth more than $5,000 through civil asset forfeiture proceedings. Again, this was regardless of whether there was any evidence of wrongdoing by the individual box owners.

What do you make of this sto...

Why I’m Interviewing Vladimir Putin.

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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 6, 2024

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America 2.0: Taxation Without Representation

Our Founders never envisioned that those selected to represent the interests of the people would be career politicians. They pictured statesmen, who were interested in public service, not lining their pockets. They never thought of writing term limits into the Constitution. Those enjoying the free ride surely aren’t going to implement them.

In 1944, John T. Flynn, best remembered as the “cancelled” head of the New York chapter of the America First Committee trying to prevent our entrance into Wo...

What Is a Culture?

These days, I dread, under certain circumstances, getting into New York City taxis. Cultures around the world vary of course. (That should not be a taboo sentence.) And there are some cultures in this world which women have no voice at all, and are treated with complete disrespect. I don’t wish to name that culture, as generalizations can indeed be racist or xenophobic.

I’ve lived for two decades in New York City, and usually my interactions with cab drivers are lovely.

But the new reality is in...

The Great Reset Is Dead, Long Live the Great Reset

“The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.
It failed.”
– Susan Ivanova, Season 3 Opening Sequence, Babylon 5

When the World Economic Forum rolled out their advertising campaign for The Great Reset it was supposed to be the victory lap for Globalism. Coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent global financial crisis unleashed a flood of government funny money that was supposed to buy our way to their perpetual prosperity.

It failed.

Don’t take my word for it. Take the word of...