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By: Londinium News » Blog Archive » Anti War Radio: Scott Horton Interviews Lew Rockwell

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:51:31 +0000

[...] Anti War Radio: Scott Horton Interviews Lew Rockwell For those new to the blog and for those new to the inherently anti-war Austrian school of Economics. I listened to this radio show recently and it is the best Lew Rockwell interview ever. He is the chair of the his website which, incidentally, Ron Paul claims to read each morning! Lew goes right through the crisis from the beginning to the end in a seamless 1hr interview, with absolute clarity. Scott Horton, as ever, provides a fantastically digestible deliver with insightful questions. If you enjoy this, ensure that you subscribe to http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/”>Lew Rockwell’s podcast. [...]

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:31:55 +0000

Under the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, we are not only cursed by the fact that we have a privately-owned and privately-managed Federal Reserve Bank which prints more and more money, which drastically devalues our currency, which in turn drastically increases prices, which in turn drastically hurts an individual’s purchasing power in the United States.

We are also cursed under that act by the fact that we now have a fractional-reserve banking system in which the banks are required to only keep 10% of all financial deposits on reserve while they are allowed and encouraged to loan the remaining 90% of all deposits, at interest, to individuals for a variety of reasons. The banks are printing more money and loaning it, at interest, to their clients.

What this country needs is to abolish the Federal Reserve Bank and replace the current banking system with a full-reserve banking system in which all financial deposits are kept in reserve at all times, unless the individuals who made their deposits to make withdrawals. In addition, our country needs one official interest-free currency (either backed by nothing, backed by silver, or backed by gold) or competing currencies, as Ron Paul had suggested. The competing currencies would have to be interest-free currencies, backed by nothing, backed by silver, and backed by gold. In this competing currencies system, we cannot have any interest-based currencies as we have right now.

By: swans

swans — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:36:05 +0000

Thanks to Scott for his factual answer to William. and for all the energy and care he puts into his interviews, getting his subjects to be comfortable and to feel respected enough to, at least seem to, share their deepest convictions. I do miss Charles Goyette, though, for a change, for an alternative approach that was just as good.

By: Attack the System » Blog Archive » Updated News Digest September 7, 2008

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:58:02 +0000

[...] Smash the Warfare State Lew Rockwell interviewed by Scott Horton [...]

By: Scott Horton

Scott Horton — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:07:21 +0000

William,

First of all thanks very much. It appears you’re right about the death list http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp (though, I’m not so sure about a few of those : )), but I hardly think Lew’s mistake on this in indicative of any larger flaw in his thinking much more than the single mispronunciation cited above.

Just read the man’s archives for yourself.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/rockwell-arch.html

By the way, Clinton sent the Army’s Combat Applications Group (Delta Force) to slaughter the Branch Davidians, he murdered hundreds of thousands of Iraqis through blockade and bombing – including those murdered in “Operation Desert Fox,” which he named after Rommel the Nazi and initiated on the very day the House was to begin debating the articles of impeachment against him, condemned thousands of Africans to death from easily treatable diseases by bombing the largest antibiotics factory in Africa, slaughtered thousands of Serbs in an aggressive war against a nation which never attacked us and was no threat to us in the name of stopping a genocide that never existed, helped John McCain give millions of your dollars to Ahmad Chalabi and the INC, helped coverup the FBI and ATF’s prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City Bombing and bit that lady Juanita Brodderik on her face as her raped her. And that’s far worse than anything on Falwell’s list.

By: William Eff

William Eff — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:37:31 +0000

You’re a great man, Scott Horton–you really do some great stuff. Your interview skills are superbly effective in part perhaps because they’re more instinctual than learned. I love your passion for libertarianism even though I can’t join in. I want a libertarian constitution which nevertheless permits what I think we need–an equalitarian policy. But I’m writing to complain about Lew’s gratituitous repeat of Falwell’s publicized allegations about the Clintons. One poor soul writing in says ‘I never knew [they] were killers’. She doesn’t KNOW any such thing now, but she thinks she does. Slander is a crime among libertarians, however free their speech vis a vis the government. You need to balance this, especially since it was the one sentence that left me wondering if Lew was right about anything else.

By: AnneS

AnneS — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:45:48 +0000

I personally think Reed is a truther, Scott’s dissed him and now he’s MAD.

I don’t read the lefty Marxist types antiwar.com features because that would make me reach for the vomit bag.

What sort of a total loser are you to go someplace you don’t like and start complaining it doesn’t suit you?

Clearly you would prefer it if the right stays war-crazy rather than interview them. Yep, thought so.

By: Henry Clemens

Henry Clemens — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:02:51 +0000

To 8Ball: you’re wrong about AW readers not knowing that we’re “pawns in the game.” We know it, and all too well I’m afraid. It is Americans who don’t read AW and Lew R. that don’t realize that they’re “pawns in the game” and are being played for a bunch of suckers. There is obviously a lot of work left to be done in order to educate people as to the evil motivations and evil goals that drive our ruling oligarchy. However, I believe that one day, when enough Americans finally realize how they’ve been lied to, have been robbed of their wealth and future prosperity, and have been cheated of their precious liberties; they will rise up in mass with a fiery righteous anger that will cause the ground to shake from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They will demand that our criminal ruling class be brought to justice and stand trial for all of the horrendous crimes they have committed against Americans and the whole of humanity. When that day finally arrives, and you can be assured it will, I almost feel sorry for them.

By: Ryan Dawson anti-neocons

Ryan Dawson anti-neocons — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:50:09 +0000

I love Lew.

One thing you can do to smash the warfare state is stop going to church. Churches finance war industries with investments even more than the government.
I agree with Raimondo Biden is Obama’s Cheney.

Biden is an open Christian Zionists. Since GW the first the OVP has been the real central office of power for the US’s imperialism and covert war, war propaganda, and war profiteering.

By: Henry Clemens

Henry Clemens — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:19:09 +0000

There are so many evil men in this world that, at times, it is enough to make one despair of being part of the human race. But, then, along comes a man like Lew Rockwell and one has renewed hope that the world can become a much better place. Thanks Lew, for all you do. I pray that God will bless you with excellent health so that you will have many, many more productive years. You are an inspiration to all of us who believe in truth, real freedom, real prosperity and the liberation of the human spirit.