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Chicago Boys' Bloody Hand Behind Cheney Campus Gestapo

by Anton Chaitkin

Strategists for a Nazi takeover of America's colleges met at the Harvard Faculty Club on Oct. 6. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), Mrs. Lynne Cheney's own squad, convened to plan the next step in their attempt to crush campus opposition to the Bush-Cheney regime.

As this report will show, Lynne Cheney's ACTA strategists are a gang bred at the University of Chicago around Leo Strauss, a project far deadlier than the street-variety Mafia killers that blackened Chicago's reputation.

- The War Is On -

The Harvard ACTA event occurred just as EIR was assembling its Oct. 13 special issue, headlined "John Train's Press Sewer: Is Goebbels on Your Campus?" EIR x-rayed the wildly anti-constitutional unified apparatus of government, private financiers, and rightist publishing units with ACTA, the David Horowitz/Daniel Pipes "Campus Watch," and other fronts.

This single apparatus is pushing for Federal and state laws for witch-hunts against dissident teachers, circulating lists of teachers to be purged, seeking to impose universally a fascist "core curriculum," and putting out campus newspapers promoting war and police-state policies.

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October 17—23, 1785

Henry Shreve Establishes Steamboat Transportation in the Mississippi Valley

On Oct. 21, 1785, Henry Shreve was born in New Jersey, the son of a Continental Army colonel who would soon move his family to the frontier of Western Pennsylvania. Colonel Shreve died when Henry was only 13, and the boy soon took a job loading cargo for the keelboats, flatboats, and barges which took westward-bound pioneers down the Ohio River. In 1806, the year that Henry turned 21, the Lewis and Clark Expedition returned by way of the Missouri River from its mission to the Pacific Coast.

Inspired by a newspaper account of the just-completed journey, Henry built a 35-ton keelboat and took it down the Ohio and up the Mississippi—a very difficult task against the river's strong current—to the small village of St. Louis. There, he traded for fur pelts from the upper Missouri and brought them back by water to Pittsburgh and then by land to Philadelphia.

The profits from this venture enabled him to build more boats and to bring the manufactured goods of Pittsburgh down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Shreve was also able to edge out the British traders up the Mississippi in Wisconsin, who were offering whiskey and rum to the Sac Indians for the lead from their mines. The Indians, however, soon rejected their British-designed role as simple primitives and preferred to trade for manufactured goods.

As Henry Shreve and his crew were coming back up the Ohio River late in 1811, they saw the first steamboat on the Western waters, the New Orleans piloted by Nicholas Roosevelt, waiting at Louisville for the water level to rise in order to run the Falls of the Ohio. Shreve had checked on the steamboat when it was being built at Pittsburgh, but he doubted that its low-pressure engine would be a match for the Mississippi, especially coming upstream. In the years to come, Shreve would adopt the theories of inventor Oliver Evans, who brought his experience at the Philadelphia Mars Works to bear on manufacturing high-pressure steam engines in Pittsburgh.

But in these early days of steamboating, Shreve joined with a group which included inventor Daniel French to build three low-pressure steamboats. When the War of 1812 broke out, Shreve piloted one of the steamboats, the Enterprise, to New Orleans, loaded with ordnance for the defense of the city against the British. Gen. Andrew Jackson pressed him into further service, and he evacuated women and children upstream, ferried supplies to Fort St. Philip below New Orleans, and returned in time to be on the breastworks when the British were defeated.

That same year—1815—Shreve had piloted the Enterprise northward up the Mississippi and eastward on the Ohio, reaching Louisville in 25 days. Nine days later, he was in Pittsburgh, having brought a steamboat up both rivers against the current for the first time. But this action ran up against the Livingston-Fulton monopoly on steamboat travel in Louisiana. Edward Livingston, the lawyer brother of Robert Livingston, is reported to have told Shreve: "You deserve well of your country, young man, but we shall be compelled to beat you in the courts if we can." After a long legal battle, the District Court of Louisiana declared in 1819, that the steamboat monopoly was illegal, thus freeing Shreve and others to design steamboats and run them on the Mississippi as well as its tributaries.

Shreve was convinced that the design of the successful Eastern steamboats, built for deep water, would not work on the Western rivers. His design involved mounting a powerful, but light, steam engine on a shallow hull and building the boat up to several stories. The first boat built on this design was the Washington, named by Henry for his father's friend, which made the trip from New Orleans to Louisville in 21 days, less than a quarter of the time taken by barges or keelboats. Almost immediately, the steamboats cut the keelboat rate from $5 per hundred pounds to $2 per hundred, and established a reliable two-way trade between the Midwest and the East. By 1824, one of Shreve's steamboats, the President, made the New Orleans-Louisville run in only ten days.

This breakthrough in transportation for people and goods brought in more settlers, and, in turn, farms multiplied and support industries grew up along the rivers. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Wheeling, and Louisville became industrial areas, producing not only steamboats, but rolling mills, foundries, engine shops, boiler works, cotton mills, glass factories, and farm implement plants.

Once the New Orleans-Louisville route had been successfully established, steamboats began to explore the tributaries of the Mississippi. After the Battle of New Orleans, Captain Shreve took the Enterprise a hundred miles up the Red River. In 1819, the steamboat Independence went up the Missouri, and its observations were used the next year by the steamboats of the U.S. government's Yellowstone expedition.

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How Not To Play Chess

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

October 9, 2006

Out of the lesser true-to-life legends from the U.S.A. of World War II, came the story of the security guards at a war-time defense plant, who were perplexed by their failed attempts to discover what might be buried in that sand conveyed out through the plant gate by employees regularly pushing relevant wheelbarrows through the exit check-points.

The story runs: years later a former guard asked one of those employees: "Tell me, between you and me, what were you guys stealing?

"The answer came: "Wheelbarrows."

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How Not To Play Chess
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

October 9, 2006
Out of the lesser true-to-life legends from the U.S.A. of World War II, came the story of the security guards at a war-time defense plant, who were perplexed by their failed attempts to discover what might be buried in that sand conveyed out through the plant gate by employees regularly pushing relevant wheelbarrows through the exit check-points. The story runs: years later a former guard asked one of those employees: 'Tell me, between you and me, what were you guys stealing?' The answer came: 'Wheelbarrows.'
De´ja` vu!


Investigation:

Chicago Boys' Bloody Hand Behind Cheney Campus Gestapo
by Anton Chaitkin
Strategists for a Nazi takeover of America's colleges met at the Harvard Faculty Club on Oct. 6. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), Mrs. Lynne Cheney's own squad, convened to plan the next step in their attempt to crush campus opposition to the Bush-Cheney regime.* As this report will show, Lynne Cheney's ACTA strategists are a gang bred at the University of Chicago around Leo Strauss, a project far deadlier than the street-variety Mafia killers that blackened Chicago's reputation.

  • The British Pedigree Of Lynne Cheney
    The following article appeared in LaRouche PAC's pamphlet, 'Is Joseph Goebbels on Your Campus? John Train and the Bankers' Secret Government.'

From Train to Trash, Top Down & Dirty
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The following is the introduction to a pamphlet by the LaRouche Political Action Committee, titled 'Is Joseph Goebbels on Your Campus? John Train and the Bankers' Secret Government.' Information on the full pamphlet can be found at www.larouchepac.com.

College Papers Controlled by the Buckley/Cheney/Straussian 'Collegiate Network'
The Collegiate Network describes itself as 'The Home of Conservative College Journalism Since 1979.' As 'independent' newspapers, these are not officially affiliated with the colleges named.

  • Appendix
    ...David Horowitz' book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, profiles the following college and university professors. EIR is not judging any of these people, who are quite diverse. They all share, in one way or another, opposition to Bush-Cheney policies.

International:

Russians See 'Permanent War' Escalation as Aimed at Them
by Rachel Douglas

Upon being informed that Russia's state-owned Gazprom firm had dropped U.S. interests from its giant Shtokman offshore natural gas project, both as potential co-developers and as future customers, Lyndon LaRouche observed on Oct. 10, 'Russia is not reacting to the targetting of Iran or North Korea, but to the targetting of Russia—and China.

Can Genocide in Iraq Be Stopped?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

When President Bush was confronted with the results of a study showing that 655,000 Iraqis had died since the war began in 2003, he went into characteristic denial, insisting that 'only' 30,000 had died. U.S. Commander in Iraq Gen. George Casey seconded him, saying, 'I have not seen a number higher than 50,000, and so I don't give it that much credibility at all.'


Economics:

Globalization's Policy of Famine: Wheat Supplies Plunge
by Marcia Merry Baker

Each year, the October world harvest report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides an occasion to review the crop-by-crop status of global production, stocks, trade, and consumption. This year, alarm bells are ringing. The statistics in the Oct. 12 USDA's 'World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates' show that the 2006 world production level for what's called, 'total grains'—wheat and all other grains combined—is below the average annual level of world grain consumption, for the sixth year, out of the last seven.

IMF/World Bank-Imposed Globalization Leading Bangladesh Further Into Hell
by Ramtanu Maitra

On Oct. 10, several thousand angry textile workers in Bangladesh torched a factory in Dhaka and attacked several other factories with stones. The outburst of anger by the textile workers has been building over months. It finally spilled over when the Bangladesh government's minimum wage board commission fixed the minimum monthly wage at 1662.50 taka (the equivalent of U.S. $25) after four months of protracted negotiations.

Putin Offers Germany Industrial Cooperation
by Rainer Apel

On Oct. 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had their fifth meeting this year, this time in the context of the 'Petersburg Dialogue' in Dresden. The Dialogue's meetings alternate between Germany and Russia, with a focus on culture, science, and 'civil society'; but discussion also increasingly deals with questions of economic and technological cooperation.

Reality Bursts Mortgage Bubble And Greenspan's Fantasies
by Richard Freeman

On Oct. 6, U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke warned that the U.S. housing market was presently undergoing a 'substantial correction,' which would be 'going into next year as well.' This minuscule acknowledgement of the slightest glimmer of reality was too much for certain financial circles.


National:

Bipartisan Briefing Focuses on Cheney's October Surprise
by Carl Osgood

On Oct. 11, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) left the campaign trail to return to Washington to do something which the U.S. Congress has so far refused to do, that is, conduct oversight of Vice President Dick Cheney's planned 'October Surprise' attack on Iran. The five witnesses gathered by Kucinich largely agreed that Iran is not a threat, that it is the Bush Administration that is making moves towards war, and that the war danger is aggravated, not by Iran, but by the Administration's own policy.


Science and Technology:

Fusion Torch Can Create New Raw Materials
The fusion torch can create new mineral resources from ordinary dirt and rock, and get rid of waste by reducing it to its constituent elements. Marjorie Mazel Hecht reports.


Editorial:

Whose War Is This?
Those who are sitting on the sidelines, nervously waiting for war to break out in North Korea or Iran, or hoping that it will not and Democrats will win the November elections, are sorely, perhaps disastrously, missing the point. As Lyndon LaRouche stressed in amemorandum issued Oct. 12, the war is already on. And unless the forces behind the puppet-Vice-President Cheney are defeated now, through efforts before the elections, there will soon be no civilization on this planet, for a rather long time to come.


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