The difference between the German and American responses to the two incidents is striking. On May 3, over 100,000 Germans, mostly from the eastern region near the scene of the school carnage, gathered in Erfurt for a memorial service. President Rau and Chancellor Schroeder both addressed the crowd, and delivered frank assessments of the deep cultural crisis that the killing incident had revealed and spotlighted. Earlier in the week, the Interior Minister of Germany had issued a preliminary report on the incident, which warned that as many as 170,000 German youth were so deeply involved in the same culture of videogame violence and pornography, that any one of them could repeat the Erfurt incident. ...more
Joe Lieberman's Dirty Little Secret The "Breaking News" segment of this week's Electronic Intelligence Weekly is devoted to the seismic cultural shift now underway in Germany, in the aftermath of the April 26 school massacre in Erfurt, in which a 19-year old boy, Robert Steinhaeuser, killed 16 teachers and students, before taking his own life. The young killer was addicted to the same kind of violent point-and-shoot video games as the Columbine High School killers in the United States, who staged a similar premeditated mass-killing spree in April 1999. Dozens of similar incidents have occurred throughout the United States in recent years, fuelled by Hollywood's mass entertainment industry outpouring of movies, music, and videogames that literally program America's youth into "natural-born killers."

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ECONOMICS NEWS DIGEST

Time To Wake Up on the Economy: No 'Dracula' Recovery

London Times: 'Is America's Ascendancy on the Wane?'

EIR: GDP Growth Is a Pitiful Coverup

FAZ: Even Foreign Capital Inflow Can't Stem U.S. Deficit

Financial Times: Financiers Don't Know Anything About Economics

New York Financial Reporters Criticize 5.8% GDP Data

New Farm Bill Passes House of Representatives

Cheerleaders for the Boom: Treasury Secretary O'Neill

The 'Recovery' Continues: U.S. To Step Up Borrowing

Biggest U.S. Bank Lending Collapse in 30 Years

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Projects To Be Halted

Children's Diseases Return with Global Economic Breakdown

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IBERO-AMERICAN NEWS DIGEST

Argentine Government's Days Are Numbered

UNCTAD Secretary-General Attacks IMF Policy Toward Argentina

Billionaire Cisneros at Center of Venezuelan Machinations

Brazilians Warn of United States' 'Oppressive Unilateralism'

Top FARC Officials Now Wanted by U.S. and Interpol

European Union Exempted FARC From its Terror List

Mexican Supreme Court Rules a Fox Privatization Scheme Unconstitutional

SPECIAL REPORT:

LaRouche's History-Making May 1 Statement: - - The Middle East Blow-Back Effect

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The following is an edited transcript of Lyndon LaRouche's opening remarks to a Washington, D.C. seminar and international webcast on May 1, 2002.

My subject today is focussed on the question of the horror show, in the danger to civilization, which is expressed in the Middle East crisis. And also, to indicate the possibilities of solution for that crisis. However, the Middle East crisis is not a crisis of the Middle East; nor was it created in the Middle East; nor is it the creation of protagonists in the Middle East. This is a world crisis, which, for various strategic reasons, has exploded in the Middle East, threatens to spread out throughout that region, and threatens, under present circumstances, to bring an end, for generations to come, to civilization, worldwide, as we have known it. ...more

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MIDDLE-EAST NEWS DIGEST

Arafat: Rabin 'Was Killed by These Fanatic Groups Who Are Now in Power in Israel'

War Crimes Detailed by Palestinian Emissary to U.S.

Israeli Military Operation Far From Success

Israeli Reservists Call for Pulling Out of Occupied Territories

'Israel Will Likely Kill Arafat'

Options for Implementing 'Jordan Is Palestine' Expulsion Underway

'U.S. Envisions Blueprint on Iraq, Including Big Invasion Next Year'

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WESTERN EUROPEAN NEWS DIGEST

EXTRA: AFTERMATH OF ERFURT

Zepp LaRouche Calls for International Protocol Banning Violent Videos

Erfurt Massacre: Humanity Cannot Afford Killer Games

'Modern Reforms' of Education

Media Violence Gives Children 'The Skill and the Will To Kill'

May 6-May 12, 1933

With this edition of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, we return to the period of the 1930s Great Depression, during that crucial turning point of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first months in office. Roosevelt's leadership in putting forward policies consistent with the American System of Economics, reasserted the Constitutional principle of the General Welfare, and saved our republic from a move into disintegration and fascism. A revival of this institutional reflex is long overdue today.

On May 7, 1933, eight weeks after his inauguration, President Roosevelt gave his second Fireside Chat, a conversation with the American people about the measures which he, and the Congress, had taken so far. In addition to outlining the specific measures which were enacted, or in the process of going through the Congress, the President underscored the fact that they had been taken in the best tradition of American history, and in the interest of literally saving the accomplishments of modern civilization.

He put it this way: ...more

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