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Who Is Raping California?

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. — Leesburg, Virginia — September 3, 2003

On Sept. 5, LaRouche in 2004, the campaign committee of Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., issued a special White Paper for intervention in the California recall campaign, dedicated to exposing the fact that the political forces behind the recall, are the very same ones who looted California with deregulation.

This week's editorial is the introduction to that White Paper, which calls on Californians to wake up, think, and defeat the recall, for the sake of themselves and the nation.

The same message is appropriate for all Americans. The LaRouche in 2004 Committee has released the White Paper as a pamphlet, in 300,000 copies in English, with 100,000 copies in Spanish planned for next week. The full pamphlet can be found on the candidate's website, www:larouchein2004.com.

Don't be a sucker again!

The fact is, if the California "recall" were to succeed, there would not be much left to hang on the state's Christmas trees come the end of the year. The recall scam has been brought to the voters of California by the same people who had already used the deregulation scam to rob the state and its people of tens of billions of dollars, especially since Dick Cheney became Vice President of the nation. These same scamsters have destroyed what had been a reliable system of production and distribution of power, which used to be delivered at a fair and predictable price, until the deregulation swindle was pushed through.

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this week in history

September 8-14, 1922

We go this week to Sept. 8, 1922, the date of birth of EIR's founder and America's leading statesman, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Lyndon LaRouche's role in scientific discoveries and statecraft over the past 81 years, make it appropriate for us to focus on his life in our column this week.

LaRouche was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, and spent much time in his teen years studying epistemology and philosophy, during which time he adopted a Leibnizian outlook in science. He served in the U.S. Army between 1944 and 1946 in the China-India-Burma theatre, during which experience he developed a commitment to the urgency of affording what have sometimes been termed "Third World" nations their full rights to perfect natinal sovereignty, and access to the improvement of their educational system and economies through employment of the most advanced scientific and technological progress.

When he returned to the United States, he delved into studies of Bernhard Riemann, Georg Cantor, and Gottfried Leibniz, with a passion to disprove the cybernetics theories which were then becoming popular. His discoveries of physical principle in the period of 1948-52, led to his introducing axiomatically non-linear notions of individual human cognition, explicitly, to the field of economics. His own work located the determining, non-linear function in the increase of society's potential relative population density, in the relations exemplified by the role of the machine-tool principle in the productive processes.

Concomitant with this breakthrough, was LaRouche's development of abilities as a long-term economic forecaster, and it is these forecasts which have, to a great extent, brought him international political prominence, and the ability to shape economic policy proposals for nations caught in the current bankrupt world economic systems.

In the late 1960s, LaRouche began to establish his own political association, as the result of his interventions, through economics classes, on university campuses. With the dramatic vindication of his first long-range economic forecast, with the developments of Aug. 15, 1971, LaRouche's political association grew, and he himself became an increasingly prominent and controversial political figure, not only in the U.S., but internationally.

From 1971 on, LaRouche's political influence was such that it is impossible to honestly account for the flow of historical events, without taking him and his political movement into account. Leading elements of this influence include:

*His campaign for "strategic defense" against nuclear weapons, as part of a science-driver program for "new physical principles." This thrust was picked up by President Ronald Reagan in the form of the Strategic Defense Initiative—which, although that program came to be subverted by Kissingerians and neo-cons in the Reagan Administration, played a world historical role in relation to the demise of the Soviet Union.

*His campaign for a "new just world economic order," which has been picked up in many forms around the world, has influenced the outcome of such events as the 1976 Colombo Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, the 1982 Latin American debt crisis, and the current worldwide moves toward a New Bretton Woods monetary system, and the associated worldwide economic reconstruction program, called the "Eurasian Land-Bridge."

*The campaign which LaRouche inspired, to "save the Presidency" in 1998, from the unconstitutional effort to impeach President Clinton. LaRouche provided the impetus for a nationwide movement which would expose the neo-con cabal behind the impeachment drive.

*His campaign for reviving Classical culture, both in terms of a negative war on drugs (stressing the need to close down the financial underpinnings of that trade), and in terms of promoting Classical music, drama, and science—the first being best identified with LaRouche's drive to lower the concert pitch to C=256.

*And finally, LaRouche's campaigns for the Presidency, which have occurred every four years since 1976, with all but the first being Democratic Party campaigns.

LaRouche's success on the SDI, on the world debt crisis, and in electoral politics, led his high-level political enemies, who had been watching him (or worse) since the late 1960s, to target him for elimination from the political scene, either by legal assault or assassination. Convicted and jailed in 1988-89, LaRouche came out of prison in 1994 as a statesman, with renewed credibility internationally, and within civil rights layers, and others, in the United States.

That credibility has dramatically increased over the past nine years, and LaRouche has been an increasingly prominent interlocutor, on economic policy, in Russia, Italy, China, and elsewhere. In the U.S., LaRouche—and his now-burgeoning LaRouche Youth Movement—has come to the fore, again, as a spokesman for reviving the approach to economic policy represented by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. LaRouche is acting now to pull together the forces to kick out Vice President Dick Cheney, guide the Bush Administration on a safe, non-war path for the rest of its term, and become President in January 2005.

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Feature:

The Role of Young People In Building a New World Order
A speech by Dr. Chandrajit Yadav, chairman of the Centre for Social Justice in New Delhi. "Youth must have a very high vision, a great desire. You should have the courage, and you should have the desire to climb the Everest--the highest mountain peak of the world! You should not fear, that while I'm going to climb, there are too many dangers--there will be a snowstorm; there will be avalanches; there will be so many problems. No! You nurture those feelings of fear--then you can't do great things."


Economics:

To Fix the Shuttle: Change American Culture
by Marcia Freeman
The report by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board shows that flaws in "NASA's culture" are actually a reflection of the broader cultural paradigm shift from the values of the early 1960s to today. As Lyndon LaRouche said at the time of the tragic accident, "Blame the bookkeeper mentality."

Will Germany Revive Nuclear Power?
by Rainer Apel
The power blackouts in the United States, Britain, and Italy, plus the effects of Europe's recent heat wave, are making Germans question the foolish ban on nuclear energy.

Heat Wave: Is French Health-Care System Falling Back to Middle Ages?
by Agnès Farkas

Forget the media hype about beautiful women, perfumes, silk scarves and lovers drifting over bridges on the Seine. This is a country of 60 million people, where 10% of the labor force is officially unemployed, while 50% of those who do have a job, earn less than 1,500 euros a month, gross.


International:

LaRouche Defends the Zayed Center with Background: Why the Zayed Center was Shut Down
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
It is my information, which I have received through channels which I know to be responsible and reliable, that the closing of the Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up (ZCCF) inAbuDhabi, where the U.S.A.'s James Baker III once spoke, as I had done, occurred under heavy pressure from elements within the U.S. Bush Administration. Such action by the United States is another piece of idiocy, like the continuing U.S. war in Iraq, which is directly contrary to the current and long-term security interests of my republic, the U.S.A.

Late-Summer Nightmares Shattering Blair Regime
by Mark Burdman

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has taken such a political battering, during the usually quiescent British Summer, that serious observers are asking who and what can replace him? Blair has suffered a number of severe shocks.

Russia Reacts To Cheney Nuke-War Policy Threat
by Jonathan Tennenbaum

The strategic insanity of Dick Cheney's Bush Administration, including the new U.S. doctrine of 'pre-emptive' use of nuclear weapons, has triggered a far-reaching shift in military planning on the part of Russia, China, India, and other nations, that can have very nasty consequences for the United States and the world. Most explicit has been the response from Russia.

Afghan Opium Wave Ready To Drown the Region
by Ramtanu Maitra
The Afghan opium harvest this spring is now getting converted into heroin and has begun to move to Europe via Central Asia and Russia. This year's harvest, close to 3,500 metric tons, will not only serve the masses, but may help feed many war parties now in action in the region. The massive opium and heroin outflow from Afghanistan has rattled Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia in particular.

Who Wants Civil and Religious War in Iraq?
by Hussein Askary
The August 29 car-bomb attack on the Shrine of Imam Ali in the holy city of Al-Najaf, claiming the lives of more than a hundred mosque-goers including the leader of the Shi'ite Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, was a terrorist crime unprecdented in the modern history of Iraq. Although the real perpetrators of this crime are not yet known, the clear purpose of the attack was to shift the attention from the growing recognition of the total failure of the U.S.-British neo-cons' war and occupation policy for Iraq.

An Israeli Hero Calls for Justice
by Michele Steinberg

On Aug. 29, a powerful statement of conscience from Avraham Burg, an Israeli Labor Party Knesset (parliament) member who had served as Speaker of the Knesset (1999-2003), was published on the front page of The Forward, the national Jewish newspaper in the United States. The article is entitled 'A Failed Israeli Society Collapses While Its Leaders Remain Silent.'

Sharon's Time Bombs in the 'Jewish Underground'
by Dean Andromidas

Israel's Shin Bet domestic security service has arrested nine Jewish settlers in July and August who were planning terror attacks on Palestinians. At arrest, the network members were in the possession of 5 kilos of military explosives, testimony that they had massacre on their minds. The network constitutes part of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's 'infrastructure of terror' when brutal provocations are needed.

Neo-Cons' Allies Out in the Philippines
by Mike Billington

Within days of the July 27 mutiny by dozens of young Philippine military officers, demanding the resignation of Defense Minister Gen. Angelo Reyes and the head of military intelligence Gen. Victor Corpus. ... The young officers had put their careers on the line, charging Reyes and Corpus with complicity in arms sales to insurgents, and for the direct instigation of terrorist acts, aimed at facilitating U.S. support for the Philippine military ... despite explicit constitutional restrictions against such foreign military operations on Philippine soil.

Australia Dossier: Synarchists Under Fire.
by Robert Barwick

A political bombshell exploded in Canberra on Aug. 22, when a former top Australian spy, Andrew Wilkie, testified that the Australian Government deliberately lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, in order to 'stay in step with Washington.'


Culture:

Sophism: Ideology That Destroys Societies and Nations
A speech by Michael Liebig to the Schiller Institute Summer Academy in Frankfurt, Germany. "The political battle for Athens was lost; but the war, in world historical terms, was won by Socrates and Plato. Because, the 'youth movement' that Socrates had built up over more than three decades of teaching, developed an intellectual strength which drove the Sophist ideology onto the defensive and soon discredited it completely."


National:

LaRouche Says: Bush Must Purge Neo-Cons Now!
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The fiasco in Administration foreign policy has led to a growing chorus of calls for the entire Iraq effort to be turned over to the United Nations. But without ousting the Cheney-led "war party," the President will be unable to effect these urgently needed policy changes.

'Ahnuld' Is Dick Cheney's Overpriced Geek Act
by Scott Thompson and Jeffrey Steinberg

California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger is the poster-boy for the policies being peddled by the Vice President and his neo-conservative allies.

LaRouche National Conference Aims To Take Sacramento and Washington
Meeting simultaneously in northern Virginia and California over the Labor Day weekend, 1,100 organizers and activists of Lyndon LaRouche's campaign in the United States were told by the Presidential candidate that defeating the California recall, and forcing Dick Cheney out of office, are the crucial immediate steps to save the country from fascism and win the White House.

  • Dymally: Revitalize Democrats
    Former Congressman and current California Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally offered these remarks to the Schiller Institute conference on Sept. 2, speaking from Burbank, Calif.

Cheney's Carpetbaggers: Looking for the Loot at the End of the Tunnel
by Edward Spannaus
Going into the Iraq War, Vice President Dick Cheney and his cronies were not only telling Congress and the American people that the invading U.S. troops would be welcomed in the streets as 'liberators' by the Iraqi people, but that those streets would be paved with gold. ... Privately, they were cooking up fanciful schemes to loot Iraq's oil resources as soon as the war was over, as a by-product of their imperial dreams of dominating and remaking the the Gulf region and the Middle East.


Interview:

The Phantom Rulers
An interview with Denis Labayle.

Dr. Labayle of Paris is a medical doctor, and author of The Life Before Us: An Investigation of Retirement Homes (1995); and Tempest Over the Hospital (2002).

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