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Published: Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004
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Volume 3, Issue Number 32
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The LaRouche PAC released this document, excerpted here, on Aug. 3, 2004. The complete text can be found www.larouchepac.com, or in the Aug. 13 EIR.
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The fact that there are some rather large loopholes in the present organization of the U.S.A.'s intelligence-security system, is no excuse for the current tendency to plunge, stupidly and recklessly, into rushed efforts to create an intelligence "czar." Idiot! Get your fat foot off that gas pedal! There is no need to rush into surrendering the powers of government to some alleged superman. The U.S. does not need a Heinrich Himmler.
In fact, our nation does not have any need for the re-election of that pathetic George W. Bush who proposes that, he, now, shall create the Great Golem of national security, the man of mud, to save us all. One Mussolini, one Hitler, one Francisco Franco, one Iron Guard, were each already much too much. In fact, Golem or no Golem, the slide into national bankruptcy under one term of George W. Bush, was itself already much too much.
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Lyndon LaRouche appeared as the guest of the LaRouche Show on Aug. 7, and was interviewed by LaRouche campaign West Coast spokesman Harley Schlanger.
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This Week in History
August 9-15, 1935
FDR Signs the Social Security Act into Law
On Aug. 14, 1935, Franklin Roosevelt put his signature to a piece of legislation which he considered to be the crowning achievement of that Congress. He had worked for more than a year to ensure some measure of economic protection for the American people, and led the fight for its passage on the basis of widely-shared principles, not allowing discussion to degenerate into wrangling over technical details.
Although there were earlier bits and pieces of legislation which tended in the same direction, the history of Roosevelt's efforts toward comprehensive Federal Social Security legislation began with his Message to Congress on June 8, 1934. There, he told the Congress that, "I place the security of the men, women, and children of the Nation first. This security for the individual and for the family concerns itself primarily with three factors. People want decent homes to live in; they want to locate them where they can engage in productive work; and they want some safeguard against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours."...
"The third factor," continued the President, "relates to security against the hazards and vicissitudes of life. Fear and worry based on unknown danger contribute to social unrest and economic demoralization. If, as our Constitution tells us, our Federal Government was established among other things 'to promote the general welfare,' it is our plain duty to provide for that security upon which welfare depends. Next winter we may well undertake the great task of furthering the security of the citizen and his family though social insurance."
Having notified Congress of his intention, Roosevelt used his first Fireside Chat of 1934, broadcast on June 28, to tell the American people that "I have pointed out to the Congress that we are seeking to find the way once more to well-known, long-established, but to some degree forgotten ideals and values. We seek the security of the men, women, and children of the Nation." One of the goals, he said, "is to use the agencies of government to assist in the establishment of means to provide sound and adequate protection against the vicissitudes of modern lifein other words, social insurance. Later in the year I hope to talk with you more fully about these plans."
Roosevelt then stated that, "A few timid people, who fear progress, will try to give you new and strange names for what we are doing. Sometimes they will call it "Fascism," sometimes "Communism," sometimes "Regimentation," sometimes "Socialism." But, in so doing, they are trying to make very complex and theoretical something that is really very simple and very practical."
As had happened during the first "Hundred Days" of legislation to save the American people and economy, Roosevelt now faced some strident opposition to the principle of Federal Social Security. He frequently said that these were many of the same people and same institutions that had opposed his fight for Old Age Pensions when he was Governor of New York. In his Fireside Chat of Sept. 30, he took them head on: "I believe with Abraham Lincoln, that 'The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot do so well for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.' I am not for a return to that definition of liberty under which for many years a free people were being gradually regimented into the service of the privileged few. I prefer, and I am sure you prefer, that broader definition of liberty under which we are moving forward to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of America."
The day after his first Fireside Chat, on June 29, President Roosevelt signed an Executive Order called "The Initiation of Studies To Achieve a Program of National Social and Economic Security." It established the Committee on Economic Security, chaired by the Secretary of Labor, and included the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Federal Emergency Relief Administrator. The order also set up an Advisory Council on Economic Security, the original members of which were appointed by the President, and additional members of which could be appointed by the Committee. In order to facilitate its work, the Committee eventually appointed a number of advisory groups, including a committee on actuarial consultants, a medical advisory board, and advisory committees on dentistry, hospitals, public health, child welfare, and employment relief.
The Advisory Council consisted of representatives of industry, labor, and social welfare, and its chairman was the President of the University of North Carolina. It met at the White House on Nov. 14, 1934, and was addressed by the President, who told them that, "At this time, we are deciding on long-term objectives. We are developing a plan of administration into which can be fitted the various parts of the security program when it is timely to do so. We cannot work miracles or solve all our problems at once. What we can do is to lay a sound foundation on which we can build a structure to give a greater measure of safety and happiness to the individual than any we have ever known. In this task you can greatly help."
By Jan. 17, 1935, the recommendations of the Committee and Council were ready, and were submitted to Congress along with a message from the President, entitled "A Greater Future Economic Security of the American People." In it, Roosevelt recommended legislation to provide unemployment compensation, old-age benefits, Federal aid to dependent children, and additional Federal aid to state and local public-health agencies and the strengthening of the Federal Public Health Service. The Social Security Act, as passed, also dealt with maternal and child-welfare services, aid to the blind, and vocational rehabilitation.
Upon signing the legislation on Aug. 14, President Roosevelt made the following statement: "Today a hope of many years' standing is in large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last.
"This Social Security measure gives at least some protection to 30 millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions, and through increased services for the protection of children, and the prevention of ill health.
"We can never insure 100% of the population against 100% of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.
"This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built, but is by no means complete. It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions. It will act as a protection to future Administrations against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy. The law will flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation. It is, in short, a law that will take care of human needs, and at the same time, provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.
"I congratulate all of you ladies and gentlemen, all of you in the Congress, in the executive departments, and all of you who come from private life, and I thank you for your splendid efforts in behalf of this sound, needed and patriotic legislation.
"If the Senate and the House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time."
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Strategic Studies:
A G.W. Bush Intelligence Czar Is Obviously an Oxymoron
by Lyndon H. LaRouche,Jr.
Released by LaRouche PAC on Aug. 3, 2004.
The fact that there are some rather large loopholes in the present organization of the U.S.A.'s intelligence-security system, is no excuse for the current tendency to plunge, stupidly and recklessly, into rushed efforts to create an intelligence 'czar.' Idiot! Get your fat foot off that gas pedal! There is no need to rush into surrendering the powers of government to some alleged superman. The U.S. does not need a Heinrich Himmler.
History:
The Scientific Roots Of the American System
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Released by LaRouche PAC on Aug. 3, 2004.
The attached report on the scientific influence of Gottfried Leibniz in shaping the American System of political-economy, should be received as a timely contribution toward continuing the great work of our recently deceased collaborator, professional historian H. Graham Lowry's How the Nation Was Won.
- The Leibniz Revolution in America, 1727-1752
by Philip Valenti
What Lyndon LaRouche terms 'the pagan worship of Isaac Newton,' was established as the official cult doctrine of the budding British Empire by no later than 1727. The death of the decrepit 85-year-old Newton that year was followed by a ritual deification, with the republication of his holy writ in the third edition of the Principia Mathematica, complete with an absurdly flattering portrait of the author on the frontispiece.
Western Drought Provoking More Than Water Wars
by Franklin Bell
What the U.S. Geological Survey has identified as the worst western drought in 500 years, is propelling the whole western region of the North American continent toward conditions for which financial oligarchs' anti-infrastructure advocates pine: drastic de-population of the North American West, within this decade.
Fascist Bankers Order Colombia Be Gutted
by Maximiliano Londoño Penilla
Max Londoño is President of the Lyndon LaRouche Association of Colombia.
At a July 15 seminar with the title, 'Colombia in Wall Street's Eyes,' held in Bogota´ under the joint sponsorship of the National Association of Financial Institutes (ANIF), the Fedesarrollo think-tank, and the New York Council of the Americas, there was a general consensus among both foreign and national bankers in attendance. It was that President Alvaro Uribe's current high level of popularity needed to be more effectively exploited, in order to carry out the most brutal structural reforms of public finances in the name of 'definitively closing the fiscal deficit.'
Bolivia Survives Oil Referendum, But Barely
by Gretchen Small
Foreign financier interests out to carve up the nation of Bolivia will have to wait a bit longer. Efforts to use Bolivia's July 18 referendum, on the future of its gas and oil reserves, to blow up the country were defeated when the vote came off peacefully, with results largely favorable to the government. While that is something to celebrate, the results of the referendum settled nothing fundamental, but simply bought the country more time. To survive to fight another battle is not a minor thing, however, in these times of global systemic crisis.
When Will Maastricht Rules Be Abandoned?
by Rainer Apel
The European Union's austerity-oriented budget-balancing rules which were put in place by the Maastricht Treaty, are coming under increasing attack by the very nations which originally approved them.
International:
The Case of the Scarlett Leader
by Katharine Kanter
John MacLeod Scarlett, the man behind Britain's 'sexed-up' report to justify the war on Iraq, stepped down as Chairman of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) on July 30, only to be straightaway reincarnated as Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), better known as MI6. Scarlett's appointment was announced by Prime Minister Tony Blair amid public outcry, and it raised a storm of unprecedented, open protest from figures at the highest levels of British intelligence...
Afghan Election May Be Undoing U.S. Policy
by Ramtanu Maitra
A new level of insecurity has descended all over Afghanistan since mid-July.Anumber of factors have converged to create this highly volatile situation; the U.S. policy put in place in the Winter of 2001 is now up for a crucial test.
Warsaw Uprising Commemoration:
Germany, Poland Seek Reconciliation
by Elizabeth Hellenbroich
Ceremonies commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising were held in Warsaw, Aug. 1, with the participation of thousands of veterans from the Polish Homeland Army (which had tried unsuccessfully to break the Nazi occupation of the city in 1944), in addition to representatives of the Polish government and foreign dignitaries. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, and, most significantly, German Chancellor Gerhard Schro¨der, were among the foreign guests speaking at the ceremony. (It is noteworthy that no high-level French or Russian government representative spoke there.)
National:
LaRouche Will Lead Dems To November Landslide Win
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Michele Steinberg
You'd never know what happened at the Democratic Party National Convention held in Boston, July 26-July 30, from the national media, the Internet, or even by being there as a delegate. Despite every effort of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and its chairman, Terry McAuliffe, to ban any attacks on the fascist policies of the Dick Cheney-George W. Bush Administration, the distribution of more than 50,000 copies of Lyndon LaRouche's 'Real Democratic Platform for November, 2004,' by a unique political force, the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM), catalyzed a dramatic change in Boston.
Byrd: 'History Will Tell Us How to Judge'
On July 28, in the hall of the historic First Parish Unitarian Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sen. Robert Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, threw down the gauntlet, defining the 2004 election as one of the most important in his lifetime. Byrd, an octogenarian, who has served more than four decades in the Senate, has been the conscience of the U.S. Senate during the Bush regime, guarding against police state excesses, and opposing the Iraq War.
American Vets Take Center Stage at Boston
by William Jones
The impressive array of flag officers gathered on the stage of the Fleet Center on the evening of July 28, the third night of the the Democratic National Convention, was undoubtedly unprecedented in the history of American political conventions. But, contrary to the ads issued by the Republican 'attack dogs' who were carefully monitoring every word of the convention, this was far from a political 'gimmick' by the convention organizers.
Iraq Contracting Scandals Mushroom
by Carl Osgood
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has again put a spotlight on the hypocrisy of Congressional Republicans who are refusing to conduct oversight of the activities of the Bush Administration, especially when it comes to contracting in Iraq.
Cheney Dodges a Bullet
by Edward Spannaus
Just as the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission was letting Vice President Dick Cheney off the hook on one investigation, other investigations, involving the SEC, the Justice Department, and foreign law-enforcement agencies, are expanding, and the Valerie Plame investigation is nearing a conclusionall of which increases the likelihood that Bush's puppetmaster could be indicted in the period running up to the November elections.
Book Reviews:
Malaysia's Challenge to IMF: Lesson on 'Method'
by Michael Billington
The Tragedy That Didn't Happen: Malaysia's Crisis Management and Capital Controls
by Dr. Marie-Aimée Tourres
Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS Malaysia), 2003
338 pages, hardback, $23.50; paperback, $13.00
This book, to be officially released on Aug. 25, is the only comprehensive review of the extraordinary confrontation between the Government of Malaysia under the leadership of former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the nest of speculators in the Western banks and hedge funds, and the institutions of the Washington Consensus, during and after the 1997-98 financial crisis in Asia.
A Man Who Didn't 'Go Along To Get Along'
by Allen Douglas
Axis of Deceit: The Story of the Intelligence Officer Who Risked All To Tell the Truth About WMD and Iraq
by Andrew Wilkie
Melbourne: Black Inc. Agenda, 2004
200 pages, paperback, $A29.95
This is an usual, riveting book. It provides a rare glimpse into intelligence processes and policymaking at the top of the 'Four Eyes' intelligence alliance of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. It further chronicles the story of one man's courage to defy his country's Establishment, to expose the farrago of lies concocted by the Cheney- dominated Bush Administration, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Australia's Prime Minister John Howard, to justify a baseless war against Iraq.
A Leftist Whitewash Of Fascist Jabotinsky
by Paolo Raimondi and Steven Meyer
La destra sionista: Biografía di Vladimir Jabotinsky (The Zionist Right: A Biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky)
by Paolo di Motoli
Milan: M&B Publishing House, 2001
153 pages, paperback EU 12.39
The main goal of Paolo di Motoli's book, published in 2001, was to re-establish, from the left, a certain credibility for the so-called 'Revisionist Zionism' of the late Vladimir Jabotinsky, which supports the creation of an ultra-nationalist state of Israel continuously at war with its neighbors.
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