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Program Summaries: 2000
440 - 488

Updated August 17, 2007


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Program No. 440
LaRouche Address to New York Town Meeting

On Dec. 7, 1941, that which most Americans believed must not and could not happen, happened: the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. A fundamental change swept through the country.

Today, we are again on the verge of such a mass emotional-psychological-political experience, as the world’s financial system approaches total collapse.

Addressing a New York audience on Dec. 4, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche said that at such a moment, it is possible to do the "impossible," to suddenly reawaken in people the power to think, to suddenly think and talk about serious issues, and act on them in a serious way. And, in so doing, win back this nation, and save it from self-destruction.

Release date: Jan. 7, 2000

Program No. 441
Real Economics vs. Virtual Reality

Lyndon LaRouche, in his keynote address to the Labor Day conference of the Schiller Institute on Sept. 4, 1999, laid out the reasons that the world’s financial system is presently in the final phase of disintegration, a collapse set into motion in August 1971, when President Nixon took the dollar off the gold-reserve standard. "That year," LaRouche said, "was the point at which Hell began to break loose."

Proceeding from the conceptual standpoint provided by LaRouche, Executive Intelligence Review magazine’s economics staff presented a panel on "Real Economics vs. Virtual Reality." In it, they documented how the present crisis--whose very existence, to this day, many people will not admit!--came about.

The first presentation of the panel was by Richard Freeman, who discussed what makes for a real economic recovery. He focused his remarks on the machine-tool principle.

Mr. Freeman then gave a short report on Malaysia, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the national interest, protectionist controls on speculative activity imposed by that government on Sept. 1, 1988, against the wishes of the International Monetary Fund, and "free traders."

Release Date: Jan. 19, 2000

Program No. 442
Manifest Destiny

This week’s edition features a major foreign policy address by Lyndon LaRouche, entitled “The Issue of Manifest Destiny.” In his speech, delivered to an audience in Billerica, Massachusetts on January 14, and webcast live in video and audio, Mr. LaRouche takes us back in history to the establishment of this country on the foundations of the Greek and Italian Golden Renaissance, and how the fight to create a continental republic which would collaborate, ecumenically, in the spreading economic development of other nations, was waged into the 20th century.

“The fundamental identity of this nation,” said LaRouche, “is to foster the emergence of governments which correspond to the principle of the General Welfare, which is the foundation of law in the Preamble of our Constitution, and of our constitutional law. And to make that commitment the definition of our being a Temple of Liberty and a Beacon of Hope, as we reach out to other nations.”

Release Date: Jan. 27, 2000

Program No. 443
Return to F.D.R.'s Concept of Bretton Woods

This week’s edition features a speech by Lyndon LaRouche, entitled “Return to F.D.R.’s Concept of Bretton Woods.” In his speech, delivered to an audience in Boston, Massachusetts on January 11, and webcast live on the internet in video and audio, Mr. LaRouche focused on the reality of the world-wide economic crisis, and the need for a New Bretton Woods style monetary system.

“Today,” said LaRouche, ``the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference is the most important issue which should be on the agenda of any candidate for President of the United States at this time. Any candidate who does not have the vision of Bretton Woods on his mind, and on his lips, is not serious about politics. He may be serious about being elected, but not in doing any good for the country and the world.”

Release Date: Feb. 1, 2000

Program No. 444
LaRouche Address to Los Angeles Town Meeting

While Establishment institutions were giving Democratic Presidential pre-candidates Bill Bradley and Al Gore media opportunities to trade barbs on hot-button issues, the third candidate, Lyndon LaRouche, was taking his campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination to the citizens who have been, by and large, excluded from the game.

On Dec. 11, 1999, LaRouche held a satellite town meeting in Los Angeles, hitting hard on the fact that the majority of Americans, which represent largely the lower 80% of family income brackets, are being squeezed out of politics, or any real influence in politics, especially at the top, and are being replaced by a dominant role controlled from Wall Street, whose influence is exerted largely through those parts of the population whose family incomes occupy the top 20% of family income brackets.

"The only way we’re going to fix the problem," said LaRouche, "is to create a set of coalitions among those who represent the lower 80% of family income brackets. Our objective should be to take over the Democratic Party during 2000, to determine who the Democratic Party’s leading candidates shall be, and to influence the Republican side in a similar manner. By doing this, we can revive the kind of response to crisis which many of us remember, either directly or by reputation, from what Franklin Roosevelt did in response to great crisis of the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II. Our objectives should be to bring back into government a leadership which has the same view in general, of the responsibility of the government of our Republic, to meet the demands of the General Welfare for ourselves and our coming generations: that same outlook which characterized the Franklin Roosevelt administration."

Release Date: February 8, 2000

Program No. 445
Manifest Destiny

This week’s edition features a major foreign policy address by Lyndon LaRouche, entitled “The Issue of Manifest Destiny.” In his speech, delivered to an audience in Billerica, Massachusetts on January 14, and video webcast live, Mr. LaRouche takes us back in history to the establishment of this country on the foundations of the Greek and Italian Golden Renaissance, and how the fight to create a continental republic which would collaborate, ecumenically, in the spreading economic development of other nations, was waged into the 20th century.

“The fundamental identity of this nation,” said LaRouche, “is to foster the emergence of governments which correspond to the principle of the General Welfare, which is the foundation of law in the Preamble of our Constitution, and of our constitutional law. And to make that commitment the definition of our being a Temple of Liberty and a Beacon of Hope, as we reach out to other nations.”

Release Date: Feb. 15, 2000

 

Program No. 486
Now Comes the Aftermath

How do you induce the American people to reflect upon the present election crisis, and to use the specified, constitutional process to ensure that this nation has leadership, committed to the principle of the General Welfare, and competent to deal with the onrushing global economic and financial crisis, after January 20—the date on which a new, or acting, President is to take place?

Speaking by video teleconference from Germany, former Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche addressed the first of three scheduled Washington, DC seminars being sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review to answer this question. The November 14 proceedings were webcast live in English and Spanish. to an international audience.

"The campaign, as run, has no relevance whatsoever, in what it discussed, to the situation which is faced by the world, and the United States in particular, beginning now, and especially as we go into the early part of the year 2001. The candidates did speak about what they call "issues," but this was in the nature of slaves lining up at the back door of the mansion to beg for a few handouts."

"The campaign was, therefore corrupt in every sense, both in vote-stealing, in racketeering, in greatest amount of money ever spent for a campaign, and in the conduct of the national news media. Nothing was real. It was something like a Nuremberg-Hitler really, without substance, but much pomp, and much money, and not much in the way of public speakers. The problem was not the election; the problem was the election campaign. There was nothing worth voting for."

LaRouche recommends that the problem be passed over to the legal, constitutional process called the Electoral College, so no matter if the "popular" vote is bad, the Electoral College can still decide the choice of President and Vice President. And if the Electoral College has not made a decision as of Jan. 5 or 6 when it is to report to Congress, then the Congress has procedures, as specified by law, to select who shall be the next President. Only if Congress cannot decide by Jan. 20 will we then have a national constitutional emergency.

LaRouche further recommends, therefore, that the American people not worry about all this too much, but think about it. Think about the fact that, most voters who voted for either Bush or Gore, were just voting against what they thought was the greater evil. And, in choosing between the lesser of two evils, they elected evil.

The second seminar in the series, entitled "Election Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias," which occurred on Dec. 12, and a third, scheduled for Jan. 3, 2001, will be the subject of future LaRouche Connection programs.

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, and selections from the question and answer session, see EIR magazine, Nov. 24, p.48-67.]

Re-Released: Dec. 13, 2000

Program No. 487
Election Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias, Part 1

Speaking by video teleconference from Germany, former Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche addressed the second of three scheduled Washington, DC seminars being sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review to address the political crisis now enmiring the country. The December 12th proceedings were webcast live in English and Spanish on www.larouchepub.com to an international audience.

Mr. LaRouche called for the implementation of the established Constitutional procedures of the Electoral College, with the Congress following up, as the only viable direction available to be taken to get a new President. Mr. LaRouche singled out the philosophy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as a major threat to the U.S. Constitutional order. To follow Justice Scalia, he said, would be to turn an electoral crisis, into a Constitutional crisis.

Mr. LaRouche’s speech laid out the stark implications of such a Supreme Court intrusion into the electoral process. Coming as it does, in the midst of the worst financial crisis in centuries, Mr. LaRouche said, such a political action sets up a situation for a "crisis-management" government, imposing austerity and de facto dictatorship on this United States with devastating implications for the entire world. All necessary action should be taken to try to prevent such a travesty, Mr. LaRouche said.

Within hours of Mr. LaRouche’s warning, the U.S. Supreme Court unfortunately did follow Scalia’s policy direction, in a 5 to 4 ruling which fixed the election for George W. Bush.

The first seminar in the series, entitled "Now Comes the Aftermath," which took place on Nov. 14, is featured on The LaRouche Connection Program No. 483. The third seminar, entitled "Now The Incoming President: The Third But Not Final Report by Lyndon LaRouche on the Next Presidency," scheduled for Jan. 3, 2001, will be the subject of a future LaRouche Connection program.

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, and selections from the question and answer session from the Nov. 14 seminar, see EIR magazine, Nov. 24, p.48-67.]

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Dec. 12 seminar, see EIR magazine, Dec. 22, p. 46-58.]

Released: Dec. 20, 2000

Program No. 488
Election Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias, Pt. 2

Speaking by video teleconference from Germany, former Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche addressed the second of three scheduled Washington, DC seminars being sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review to address the political crisis now enmiring the country. The December 12th proceedings were webcast live in English and Spanish on www.larouchepub.com.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s speech, and some excerpts from the extensive question-and-answer session which followed.

Responding to Brazilian journalist Carlos Changes, who asked about George Bush's statement that the poor and indebted countries of the world must pay their debts with their forests, Mr. LaRouche answered, it was British colonialism. The policy Bush reflects, is the resource grab, the stealing, which is the same thing the British East India Company did in India.

Dr. Frederick Seymour, from Washington, DC General Hospital, then asked what could be done to provide assured health coverage for our citizens, considering that other hospitals are being closed, and the HMOs are putting pressure on the common welfare, which especially affects the poor. Mr. LaRouche proposed returning to the approach characterized by the 1946 Hill-Burton legislation, to mobilize the resources necessary to defend life.

When Rep. Erik Fleming, Mississippi House of Representatives, asked for an elaboration on the so-called Southern Strategy--its history, and how to defeat it, Mr. LaRouche began with a history of slavery in America from the inception of the country, coming up to 1966, with Richard Nixon’s strategy to defeat Lyndon Johnson; former DNC Chairman Don Fowler’s anti-Negro writings; the Nashville Agrarians; U.S. State Dept. population policy; Global 2000; and Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance. The only way to defeat all this, is to have the guts to stand up and not compromise on these things, to have a sterling quality of moral leadership, to keep people from betraying themselves.

Two Congressional offices indicated they were under pressure not to pursue allegations of fraud, due to alleged considerations of international standing, and even "the markets." Mr. LaRouche responded with "First, our responsibility lies to the truth. The truth." He then called for the formation of a special Congressional Committee to investigate two issues which have been raised in the course of the Florida Presidential vote; and secondly, to look into whether the kind of ballot confusion, generated by the many types of ballot designs and methods used in Florida, is an impairment of the elections, and should it not be required that some standard of ballot, and voting be provided?

The first seminar in the series, "Now Comes the Aftermath," from Nov. 14, is featured on Program 483. LaRouche’s opening remarks to the Dec. 12 seminar is featured on Program 487. The third seminar, entitled "Now The Incoming President: The Third But Not Final Report by Lyndon LaRouche on the Next Presidency," scheduled for Jan. 3, 2001, will be the subject of a future program.

[For a transcript of LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Dec. 12 seminar, see EIR, Dec. 22, p. 46-58.]

Released: Dec. 27, 2000


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