The LaRouche Connection

Program Summaries: 2005
656-676

Updated August 17, 2007

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Program No. 656
"Vote Ohio: What Went Wrong?"

"What happened on Nov. 2 was not an election, but a not-so-cold coup d’Etat against the United States Constitution," former Democratic presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche declared in a Nov. 9, 2004 international webcast. And those in the Bush-Cheney campaign and the Republican Party who engaged in a widespread campaign of vote-suppression are guilty of violating the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Constitution (14^th Amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote), sufficient to send the guilty to jail. The theft of the election through massive suppression of votes of minority voters, most flagrant in Ohio and Florida, but also prevalent in many other states, by targeting people in the lower 80% of income brackets, is part of an effort to consolidate a policy of perpetual war and brutal economic austerity.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features excerpts from an extraordinary, unofficial, Judiciary Committee Democratic Forum of the U.S. House of Representatives, entitled "Preserving Democracy--What Went Wrong in Ohio?" convened and chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on Dec. 8. Interspersed with testimony from the hearing, is election day footage from Columbus, Ohio, provided by Election Protection 2004, a non-partisan coalition of civil rights and civic organizations, showing firsthand the crimes of Republican officials who demonstrably denied thousands of citizens their Constitutional right to vote. The program is introduced by Nancy Spannaus, editor-in-in chief of The New Federalist, the nationally-circulated newspaper of the LaRouche movement. Mrs. Spannaus's remarks were taped in studio on Dec. 21.

The Conyers hearing was unofficial in that Judiciary Committee Republicans declined to attend; it was extraordinary, in part, because it was attended by nine Congressmen, more representatives than most official hearings draw. It was extraordinary also in the scope of evidence presented, which included a written statement by Lyndon LaRouche’s official spokeswoman, Debra Freeman. Two members of the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM), Neil Martin and Jason Ross, called upon in the discussion session, urged "the creation of a national record of voter intimidation, harassment, and suppression as a case for not certifying the electors for President Bush on January 6^th, and for sending people to prison from the highest levels inside the [Republican] campaign."

By the conclusion of the hearing, it was clear that a movement was underway, which did in fact lead to the result which should have happened in January 2001, after Bush’s first fraudulent election: evidence gathered by this hearing, and a follow-up one in Columbus, OH was presented to Congress when it met in Joint Session on January 6 challenging the electoral votes submitted by the states.

Release Date: Jan. 4, 2005

Program No. 657
"The Deadly Crisis in International Relations," Part 1

On January 5, as the world began to grapple with the effects of the greatest international catastrophe in modern history--the Indian Ocean tsunami--Lyndon LaRouche, former candidate for the 2004 Democratic Party's Presidential nomination, and founder of the LaRouche Political Action Committee, which aggressively campaigned for the election of John Kerry and John Edwards on November 2, addressed a Washington, DC audience via video teleconference from Germany.

Among the approximately 180 guests in the audience were five embassies and several foreign journalists, along with some seventy members of the LaRouche Youth Movement and their guests. The event, moderated by LaRouche PAC spokeswoman Debra Freeman, was webcast live internationally via the Internet.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection begins with Mr. LaRouche reading the opening paragraph to a paper he had just completed, entitled "Toward a Second Treaty of Westphalia: the Coming Eurasian World," in which, almost prophetically, he had characterized President George Bush as a caricature of King Canute, who shrieks in futile rage and denial against "those thunderous winds of chaos which are already hurling themselves against the increasingly bankrupt national financial systems of the world."

Referring then to a previous crucial moment in history, a century of religious warfare in Europe which was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia, establishing modern international law and civilized behavior among nations, Mr. LaRouche suggested we celebrate in a manner and spirit similar to the way Germany did then, rejoicing in the form of a hymn, Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), later re-set by Johann Sebastian Bach in his famous motet, in memory of the victims of the modern great natural catastrophe.

Thirty members of the LaRouche Youth Movement, bolstered by a few seasoned older voices from the Leesburg, Virginia national headquarters, under the direction of John Sigerson, then beautifully performed, a cappella, all 11 parts of the motet.

Getting back to the main business of his remarks, Mr. LaRouche addressed three issues, under the umbrella of Classical tragedy of humanity and the factor of the Sublime: the monetary-financial crisis, in which the current system is going down; President Bush’s mad attempt to destroy Franklin Roosevelt’s Social Security System, using as a model for privatization, that of Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet; and the stealing of the November election by means of vote suppression. Of course, there’s also the issue of the Iraq war and the drive for empire, pushed by the likes of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Release Date: Jan. 17, 2005

Program No. 658
"The Deadly Crisis in International Relations," Pt. 2

Among the approximately 180 guests in the audience were five embassies and several foreign journalists, along with some seventy members of the LaRouche Youth Movement and their guests. The event was webcast live internationally via the Internet. [For a complete transcript, go to www.larouchepub.com/. Click on Speeches, and select the speech from Jan. 5, 2005.]

Concluding its coverage of this event, this edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, and the first three questions from the discussion session, moderated by LaRouche PAC spokeswoman Debra Freeman.

Composite question from a number of e-mails received: Concerning the expected debate to take place the following day (Jan. 6) on the certification of the electoral college votes for the Presidency, when does tenacity become fixation? How to conduct ourselves during the debate tomorrow?

E-mail from a biochemist previously affiliated with the World Health Organization, now with the Centers for Disease Control in Florida: On the possibility of a biological holocaust resulting from the recent Indian Ocean tsunami and its aftermath.

E-mail from the American Association for Retired Persons’ principal lobbyist: Regarding the changes to the Social Security system being proposed, is it coming from a desire to dismantle the Social Security system by the neo-cons and others in both parties, i.e., take down the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt, or is it a matter of simple looting?

Release Date: February 3, 2005

Program No. 659
"The Great Crash of 2005," Part 1

As preparation for the Presidents’ Day weekend conference of the Schiller Institute, Lyndon LaRouche composed five "keystone papers" to those participating, either directly or otherwise. These documents, together with his keynote address on February 20, cover the gamut of human experience, all brought into an integrated whole. What was the "Franklin Roosevelt miracle"? How did FDR mobilize a prostrate nation, economically devastated, threatened by the march of fascism at home and abroad, to achieve victory and the greatest industrial mobilization ever seen on the planet? How can we go beyond the lessons of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, to achieve peace and mutually advantageous economic cooperation, among warring peoples who are much more religiously and ethnically diverse than those who slaughtered one another during Europe’s 30 Years’ War? What would be the result for humanity, if the current dollar-based global financial system were to undergo a tsunami-type collapse? How can we invoke the experience of Roosevelt’s Bretton Woods system to prevent such a catastrophic result today? And finally, most essentially, what does it mean to be human? How do we achieve immortality--even before we die?

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of Mr. LaRouche’s keynote address, heard by over 900 attendees, mostly youth, assembled on both East and West coasts, as well as countless others internationally listening and watching via the internet.

LaRouche: "Some people wonder why, at my not-really-venerable age, I sometimes do the things I do, which they suggest might be left to younger people. And the rude answer I give to that, is, younger people are not qualified to do what I have to do." "We are at the last chance to save civilization from Hell, a last chance which I have been forecasting with accuracy over several decades, and most emphatically, since the period 1968-71…. The system is finished. The United States saved the world, under Roosevelt--otherwise we'd been in Hell a long time ago."

Mr. LaRouche discusses the political and economic measures taken by Roosevelt, which ended the Depression, defeated Nazism abroad, and stymied the international bankers fascist policies at home for a while, and how the present political character of the U.S. government is already a fascist regime, and "unless defeated before it consolidates its position and role in the world, the world will go into a fascist spiral, worse than Nazism, from which civilized humanity would not emerge for generations yet to come. No part of this planet could survive--including China, including India--could survive a collapse of the United States under present conditions. And I had to stop it. I had to be the equivalent of Franklin Roosevelt. Because there was nobody else in a leading position in the United States, or otherwise, to was qualified to do what I had to do."

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s address, go to www.larouchepub.com and click on Conference Keynote.]

Release Date: March 3, 2005

Program No. 660
"The Great Crash of 2005," Pt. 2

As preparation for the Presidents’ Day weekend conference of the Schiller Institute, Lyndon LaRouche composed five "keystone papers" to those participating, either directly or otherwise. These documents, together with his keynote address on February 20, cover the gamut of human experience, all brought into an integrated whole. What was the "Franklin Roosevelt miracle"? How did FDR mobilize a prostrate nation, economically devastated, threatened by the march of fascism at home and abroad, to achieve victory and the greatest industrial mobilization ever seen on the planet? How can we go beyond the lessons of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, to achieve peace and mutually advantageous economic cooperation, among warring peoples who are much more religiously and ethnically diverse than those who slaughtered one another during Europe’s 30 Years’ War? What would be the result for humanity, if the current dollar-based global financial system were to undergo a tsunami-type collapse? How can we invoke the experience of Roosevelt’s Bretton Woods system to prevent such a catastrophic result today? And finally, most essentially, what does it mean to be human? How do we achieve immortality--even before we die?

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s keynote address of February 20, and the first seven questions from the discussion session, moderated by Debra Freeman, immediately following. Questions were taken from both conference locations on the East and West coasts.

Randy Kim (LaRouche Youth Movement, East coast): What is the Subjunctive?

Cody Jones (LaRouche Youth Movement, Los Angeles): How do you know the truth in history?

E-Mail from a leading Democrat: How to unite Democrats on foreign policy?

Cal Smith (Leesburg, VA): What shall we do with military figures today who were opposed to the Iraq war, but who are not acting for "reasons of State," similar to those officers who gave that excuse for not opposing Hitler?

Jeff Onchetta (LaRouche Youth Movement, Los Angeles): On organizing and the communication of ideas: how do we break the cycle of potency and slipping back to opportunistic habits?

Joe Towns, Jr. (State Rep. 84^th District, TN): How do we take out the "girly-man" in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger?

E-Mail from Bruno (LaRouche Youth Movement in France): How could you say that Hitler and Bush were in the same tradition of the Grand Inquisitor, Torquemada, when Bush was attacking Muslims and Hitler Jews?

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s address, go to www.larouchepub.com, click on LaRouche Writings, and select "The Great Crash of 2005."]

Release Date: March 26, 2005

Program No. 661
"A New Bretton Woods," Pt. 1

On April 7, 2005, Lyndon LaRouche delivered a major policy address to an event in Washington, DC sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee. The event was webcast live into the annex building of the Argentine Congress, among other international locations.

Mr. LaRouche’s remarks focused on the urgent necessity of reversing the destruction of the U.S. economy. LaRouche: "There are many today who are willing to concede, that the present disaster, a disintegration of the present world monetary system, began in 2001, with the inauguration of President George W. Bush. But, they’re not willing to admit, yet, that what Bush has done, is merely to continue a process of destruction of the U.S. economy, by its government, and by the and by the consent--willing or silent--of the majority of our people."

Before introducing Mr. LaRouche, moderator Debra Freeman announced the exciting news of the historic vote in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in favor of a motion to convoke a new Bretton Woods conference to reform the international financial-monetary system--a proposal which Mr. LaRouche, in collaboration with his friends in Italy, had crafted.

Mr. LaRouche begins his remarks with the flat out truth that the world needs a new financial architecture to replace that of the present International Monetary Fund system, and that his role is to set forth the issue in such a form that the discussion might be "structured rather than chaotic." Aided by a number of charts, he then leads his audience through some history, beginning with President Franklin’s programs which organized the recovery from the last depression; the collapse of the U.S. physical economy since then; the cultural paradigm shift from a producer to a consumer economy; and the imminent danger of a shut-down of the machine tool sector, with a threatened bankruptcy of General Motors Corporation.

"We are the government. We are accountable for the conditions which we create or allow to be imposed upon our people. We are responsible under modern civilization, to uphold the common good, the general welfare, of not only our own nations, but to work in concert with other nations for the common good of humanity. We face a condition of ruin, which is avoidable. We could create, immediately, the instruments of credit, by which to pull the world economy out of the present mess. The financial system that controls us, is now bankrupt. Only the fact that it is able to use the power of government, imposed upon government, to keep itself from being foreclosed upon, is the only reason it still exists. [The financial system] is a private enterprise. It is the responsibility of government to arrange to have the private enterprise which is bankrupt, put through bankruptcy reorganization. We use the terms of terms of bankruptcy reorganization to take the bankrupt entity, i.e., the economy, which is suffering from this financial bankruptcy, to put it into shape, so it begins to grow [again]."

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s address, go to www.larouchepub.com, click on LaRouche Writings, and select "A New Bretton Woods: Time to Reverse Schultz’s Destruction of Exchange Controls."]

Release Date: April 16, 2005

Program No. 662
"A New Bretton Woods," Pt. 2

On April 7, 2005, Lyndon LaRouche delivered a major policy address to an event in Washington, DC sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee, marking a new phase of an intensifying global debate on the framework for organizing a U.S. and worldwide economic recovery, and for a new international financial architecture.

The significance of Mr. LaRouche’s address, which focused on the need for a new financial-monetary system oriented to industrial growth, to replace the system put in place by fascist George Schultz in 1971, was underscored by two singular events. First, approximately 24 hours before the webcast, the Italian Chamber of Deputies had passed a resolution, crafted in collaboration with Mr. LaRouche, calling for precisely such a new system. Second, among the numerous locations where Mr. LaRouche was being audited around the world, was an annex building of the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires, which had been the scene of a direct confrontation between the murderous IMF system, and the Argentine nation.

Moreover, many of the questions directed to Mr. LaRouche came from senior Democratic Party and Congressional (Senate and House) staff, asking for direction and specific steps to be taken to get the recovery underway in the United States.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, plus the first three questions from the discussion session which followed, moderated by Debra Freeman.

E-mail from Bishop Elias El Hayek (Lebanon): How does a crucial principle influence history? For example, the Peace of Westphalia, or "dialogue among civilizations," "Development is the new name for Peace," and your New Bretton Woods.

From a Democratic consultant who has been heavily involved in the fight to save Social Security (Washington, DC): "How do you proceed with a Presidency, that is so hostile to the [New Bretton Woods] principle you’re expounding?"

Young Teng (journalist with People’s Daily, China): "the American government often claims here are no political prisoners in this land, but as far as I know, you yourself was once a political prisoner. How do you think of the human rights record of this government, who often attack other governments in the world, including China, for their human rights record?"

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening address, go to www.larouchepub.com, click on LaRouche Writings, and select "A New Bretton Woods: Time to Reverse Schultz’s Destruction of Exchange Controls."]

Release Date: April 30, 2005

Program No. 663
"Let’s Create A Beautiful Mankind!" Part 1

The annual Presidents’ Day weekend conference of the Schiller Institute opened Saturday, Feb. 19, under the banner theme of "A New World Agenda: Stop the Genocide!" Convening in two locations--Reston, Virginia and Pasadena, California connected via video teleconference--the presentations and discussions were webcast live over the internet in both English and Spanish to a worldwide audience.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the keynote address of Helga Zepp LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, founder and leader of the German BueSo Party, and wife of Lyndon LaRouche. She was introduced by civil rights heroine Amelia Boynton Robinson, vice-president of the Schiller Institute in the United States, who turned the podium over to LaRouche Youth Movement activist Erin Smith.

Speaking on the theme "Its Time to Put out the Flames of the Thirty Years’ War: Let’s Create a Beautiful Mankind!," Mrs. Zepp LaRouche opened her presentation with a detailed tour d’horizon of the world strategic crisis, reviewing the principle hot spots:

The Middle East, where the Iraq war rages, and the U.S. is threatening Iran and Syria;
Russia, and the CIS, now feeling encircled by the U.S. military presence in Central Asian CIS nations;
East Asia, where North Korea can reach only one conclusion from U.S. behavior: that it is about to get the Saddam Hussein treatment, and where America’s alliances with South Korea and Japan are being eroded by the crisis over North Korea;
The international financial system, in which a crash--the crash--could occur at any moment.

"So, I think if you look at this picture, Lyndon LaRouche is absolutely right when he says the Thirty Years War has already begun. This is much worse than the Thirty Years’ War, because the Thirty Years War was limited to Europe, to a part of Europe. But this is already engulfing the entire globe. The world is already sitting on a powderkeg, and the name of this powderkeg is World War III. The fuse has already been lit, at five, six, seven, eight points. To deal with this, we have to look at history like tragedy. And we have to learn from Classical tragedy, how to uplift ourselves, how to uplift the population in order to find a way out."

Mrs. Zepp LaRouche turned to the Thirty Years War itself (1618-48), to the historical writings on the period by Friedrich Schiller. "The real struggle of mankind to increase the spiritual, intellectual, cognitive side, is what the Wallenstein trilogy is all about," and the desperate attempt to find an end to a terrible war. "That must be the lesson for us today: War must stop during the war. The world urgently needs, today, a new Peace of Westphalia--the treaty that ended the Thirty Years War, based on the concept of the advantage of the other.”

"And that is very obvious, why we need today a Franklin D. Roosevelt approach for the reconstruction of the torn areas of the war. It is why we need the proposal by Lyndon LaRouche to have a New Bretton Woods [international monetary conference]; a Eurasian Land-Bridge [development corridor plan] as the basis for a reconstruction of the world economy, which is based on the interest of the other. America, predominantly, has to make this decision--and I'm calling upon you, and the Americans in general, to not have the world turn into barbarians, and turn the world into a global nuclear rubble-field, a Dark Age."

[For a complete transcript of Mrs. Zepp LaRouche’s speech, see EIR magazine, March 11, 2005, pp. 64-79.]

Program No. 664
"Stafford, Texas Town Meeting: Retire Tom DeLay!"

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features a Town Meeting in Stafford Texas, from April 28, hosted by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), in which a devastatingly powerful case was made to the members of a sixty person audience, and to the conscience of all responsible Texans, for the "early retirement" of notorious U.S. Rep. Tom "formerly-dubbed-the-Hammer-now-headed-for-the-Slammer" DeLay. Stafford is in Mr. DeLay's own 22^nd Congressional District.

Because of the consistent leadership taken by the LaRouche movement, it looks like Mr. DeLay may have to "find Jesus" a couple dozen more times in order to retain his frighteningly powerful position as House Majority Leader.

The two-hour event was introduced by a "proud member of the ever increasingly influential faction of the Democrat Party," Timothy Vance, who welcomed the audience and encouraged a festive and victorious mood for the night’s discussion, by posing to the people of Texas "whether societies of men and women are really capable or not of forming good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend upon accident and brute force for their ruling governments." [Federalist Paper, No. 1]

To help give the audience the tools of thoughtfulness and beauty necessary for answering that question, the Houston-based LaRouche Youth Movement sang quality renditions of a parody of Mozart’s {Trinkkannon} ("Tom DeLay, you are a stinker") and a powerful "Oh, Freedom!"

Harley Schlanger, Western States Spokesman for Lyndon LaRouche, in the main presentation of the evening, in going after the neo-conservative ideology, would not let the audience for a second lose sight of the larger political revolutions now underway in government, and that although Texas and the Congress must be cleaned up "without DeLay," everyone must focus on the larger agenda at hand: the pressing economic collapse, and the grave responsibility of all of us for saving the U.S. and thereby the world.

By elaborating on the ongoing collapse of General Motors and other crises, Mr. Schlanger made it clear how a bi-partisan Congressional coalition is urgently needed, which Mr. DeLay has partly been given the duty of preventing. Mr. Schlanger reminded his audience how much easier it is to be upset over Mr. DeLay’s personal corruption and agree publicly "Yes, this guy’s corrupt," while avoiding the much more difficult and necessary anger and opposition that should really be directed at the entire corrupt system, of which he is only an integral part.

Release Date: June 11, 2005

Program No. 665
"Let’s Create A Beautiful Mankind!" Part 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Helga Zepp LaRouche’s keynote address, delivered February 19. Mrs. Zepp LaRouche is the founder of the Schiller Institute, founder and leader of the German BueSo Party, and wife of Lyndon LaRouche.

Speaking on the theme "Its Time to Put out the Flames of the Thirty Years’ War: Let’s Create a Beautiful Mankind!," Mrs. Zepp LaRouche provided her audience with a detailed tour d’horizon of the world strategic crisis, reviewing the principle hot spots:

The Middle East, where the Iraq war rages, and the U.S. is threatening Iran and Syria;
Russia, and the CIS, now feeling encircled by the U.S. military presence in Central Asian CIS nations;
East Asia, where North Korea can reach only one conclusion from U.S. behavior: that it is about to get the Saddam Hussein treatment, and where America’s alliances with South Korea and Japan are being eroded by the crisis over North Korea;
The international financial system, in which a crash--the crash--could occur at any moment.

"So, I think if you look at this picture, Lyndon LaRouche is absolutely right when he says the Thirty Years War has already begun. This is much worse than the Thirty Years War, because the Thirty Years War was limited to Europe, to a part of Europe. But this is already engulfing the entire globe. The world is already sitting on a powderkeg, and the name of this powderkeg is World War III. The fuse has already been lit, at five, six, seven, eight points. To deal with this, we have to look at history like tragedy. And we have to learn from Classical tragedy, how to uplift ourselves, how to uplift the population in order to find a way out."

"And that is very obvious, why we need today a Franklin D. Roosevelt approach for the reconstruction of the torn areas of the war. It is why we need the proposal by Lyndon LaRouche to have a New Bretton Woods [international monetary conference]; a Eurasian Land-Bridge [development corridor plan] as the basis for a reconstruction of the world economy, which is based on the interest of the other…. America, predominantly, has to make this decision--and I'm calling upon you, and the Americans in general, to not have the world turn into barbarians, and turn the world into a global nuclear rubble-field, a Dark Age."

[For a complete transcript of Mrs. Zepp LaRouche’s speech, see EIR magazine, March 11, 2005, pp. 64-79.]

Release Date: June 20, 2005

Program No. 666
"LaRouche’s Historic June 16, 2005 Webcast," Pt.1

As of the beginning of June, dramatic events on both sides of the Atlantic had set the stage for a long-overdue fundamental change in world economic and monetary policy. On May 23, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators delivered a significant defeat to the Bush Administration, by defeating the so-called "nuclear option" against judicial filibusters--an act that would have destroyed the institution of the U.S. Senate. This placed the Bush-Cheney White House in near lame duck status. On May 29, French voters overwhelmingly defeated the new proposed European Constitution--an action largely driven by citizens' disgust with the economic disasters brought about by the Maastricht Treaty's Stability Pact and the loss of jobs under globalization. A week earlier, the electoral defeat suffered by the German Social Democratic Party in crucial state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, were attributed to the failed economic policies of the Schroeder government there.

It is in this conjuncture of events, that on June 16, 2005, American political economist Lyndon LaRouche presented the keynote address to a Washington, DC town meeting, sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC). The meeting was moderated by Debra Freeman. Mr. LaRouche spoke from Germany via video teleconference. The meeting was broadcast live over the internet, in English and Spanish, to an international audience.

In his opening remarks, Mr. LaRouche identified these political shocks and the accelerating disintegration of the global monetary system, as a moment of opportunity to return to sanity in trans-Atlantic economic policy. Beginning with a discussion of the approximate 40% collapse in the value of hedge-fund holdings during the recent period, the magnitude is so large, that they cannot be bailed out as a whole. The world’s major commercial banks are now attempting to protect themselves by throwing some hedge funds out the window.

But this isn’t the only problem area. General Motors and Ford stock has been downgraded to junk status. A bankruptcy judge has told United Airlines it can dump its pension responsibilities to retirees and current employees. Delta, already in a bankruptcy situation, and American Airlines too are angling to do the same, as is General Motors. While the real estate bubble is about to burst, our idiotic President, working for Wall Street bankers who must grab ever larger revenue streams, states publicly that U.S. Treasury bonds are merely worthless IOUs, in an attempt to privatize (loot) the Social Security Trust Fund. The situation is, that most people now generally realize that the U.S. and the rest of the world is in deep trouble. In fact, we’re about to go under in a chain-reaction collapse. When, no one knows exactly. But we know its oncoming.

We in the United States have the principle responsibility for dealing with this situation. Because the world financial system hangs on the basis of a monetary system which is still a dollar-based monetary system. Mr. LaRouche goes on to propose exactly what we can do by taking actions which will lead to a stabilization of the value of the U.S. dollar as a unit of monetary reserve, worldwide. This means reversing globalization, using the success of President Franklin Roosevelt’s policy as a model, from 1933-1945, to guarantee the stability of U.S. Treasuries, which is the basis for the security of the U.S. dollar, while returning to agreements with Europe and other parts of the world, for a fixed-exchange-rate system--a new Bretton Woods system--the kind Roosevelt created at the end of World War II.

It also means having a conception of man, which is associated with the idea that we’re going to build the future, we’re going to create a new future for humanity out of the dregs of the mistakes we’ve made so far. LaRouche: "The purpose of economy is to realize what man is. Man is not an animal. No animal can discover a physical principle, and apply that to increase its power to exist in the planet in the universe. Only man can do that. This is done through the power of reason. We are not animals, we are creatures of reason."

LaRouche: "The greatest motive in economy, is to use scientific and technological progress to improve, not just the standard of consumption, but the quality of existence. If we can say, that those who were born who come after us--our children, our grandchildren, and those beyond--are going to have a better life, as human beings--not just as consumers, but as human beings--than we have today, then we have discovered the secret of economy."

Mr. LaRouche then discusses our system of government, "The American System" of political economy, as our Founders called it. It is not a capitalist system. It is not a socialist economy. Its a unique form of economy, a unique form of Constitutional system in the world. We became a great power because we had this system.

Concluding his opening remarks, Mr. LaRouche states that no other country has the capacity to make the kind of initial decision to make the proposal and make the decisions to establish the needed new world monetary system, "with the intention to make this planet a place fit to live in; to eliminate globalization; to promote the sovereignty of every people and every nation, but to promote in terms of cooperation, collaboration among sovereign nations, not trying to put us all into one minestrone soup."

LaRouche: "The members of the Senate who blocked the coup d’Etat on the 23^rd of this path month, demonstrated that virtue among our people. I would propose that that same body in the Senate, and others who agree with them, in the Congress and in other institutions, must now begin to cooperate and unite with an understanding of the great peril which threatens us, but also the great opportunity which stands before us."

[For a complete transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, see Executive Intelligence Review magazine, Vol. 32, No. 25, June 24, 2005, pp. 4-17. Or visit www.larouchepub.com, click on "LaRouche’s Writings", and then click on "Webcast: The Urgent Changes Needed in Monetary and Economic Policy," which also includes the discussion session, with links to audio and video archives of the webcast.]

Release Date: June 20, 2005

Program No. 667
"LaRouche’s Historic June 16, 2005 Webcast," Part 2

It is in this conjuncture of events, that on June 16, 2005, American political economist Lyndon LaRouche presented the keynote address to a Washington, DC town meeting, sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC). The meeting was moderated by Debra Freeman. Mr. LaRouche spoke from Germany via video teleconference. The meeting was broadcast live over the internet, in English and Spanish, to an international audience.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. The discussion session was preceded by a series of a graphic animations prepared by EIR magazine's economics staff, narrated by John Hoefle, on the decline and projected revival of the U.S. industrial belt, including rail corridors; and a short promotional video prepared by Germany’s TransRapid company, of the world’s first and only commercial magnetic levitation (maglev) train, which runs from Shanghai to Pudong airport.

From the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate: "How do we approach this very immediate problem that we face, with a White House that seems to have no desire to work out any mutually agreeable solutions to the grave and urgent problems that we face?"

From the U.S. Senate: "Popular wisdom tells us to put the people before the banks, but in order to save the people, we may have to save the banks. How to we approach this? Are there things we should do preemptively?"

From the U.S. Senate: "The population has absolutely no idea as to the severity of the crisis, and they usually don’t, until some particular problem bites them on the leg. One aspect that has to be addressed is the adoption of the policies themselves, and trying to decide on policies that prepare to manage a crisis that could really cause tremendous chaos. But then, another aspect is actually to try to prepare the people themselves. What do you think becomes the priority. What has to be done to prepare the U.S. to manage this crisis, and how do we prepare our people? Do we define an approach first? What’s the order in which we address things?"

From the U.S. Senate: "There’s probably no more compelling issue for most Americans, than that of healthcare. The crisis in Medicare and Medicaid is far more compelling and immediate than any anticipated crisis in the Social Security Trust Fund. How to approach this? Over one million Americans are currently suffering from HIV. Do we address this in the context of overall healthcare, or do we need some special provisions, and if we do, what sort?"

For a complete transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, see Executive Intelligence Review magazine, Vol. 32, No. 25, June 24, 2005, pp. 4-17. Or visit www.larouchepub.com, click on "LaRouche’s Writings", and then click on "Webcast: The Urgent Changes Needed in Monetary and Economic Policy," which also includes the discussion session, with links to audio and video archives of the webcast.]

Release Date: July 17, 2005

Program No. 668
"The Failure of Social Security Privatization"

On March 12, the weekly Internet radio program The LaRouche Show [Saturdays live from 3-4 p.m. at www.larouchepub.com/radio, or www.larouchepub.com/spanish in Spanish] was dedicated to an extraordinary series of interviews with six social security specialists and trade union leaders from four countries of Ibero-America, who reported on the disastrous results of social security privatization in their respective countries, and urged the United States not to make the same mistake, but to reject the Bush Administration’s plan to privatize Social Security along the fascist model of dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973-1990.

The program was hosted by Executive Intelligence Review’s Marcia Merry Baker, with guest moderator Cynthia Rush of EIR’s Ibero-America desk, and included a short interview with in-studio guest, LaRouche Youth Movement activist David Nance, who reported on the recent work the LaRouche Youth Movement has been doing on the ground to mobilize the U.S. Congress, and especially the Democrat Party, against Social Security privatization. Webcast live, with video feeds from Ibero-America, and simultaneous translation by EIR..

The Chile Case: The 1981 privatization, overseen by José Piñera, under the aegis of the University Of Chicago economic team, which planned the policy well before the 1973 Pinochet coup.

Isabel Márquez Lizana, from Santiago. Project chief of the Individual Accounts Division at the Chilean state agency, the Institute for Social Security Normalization; expert in the issue of Social Security privatization; researcher at the University of Chile; and also has written for the United Nations Development Program.

The Mexico Case: Privatization of Mexico’s pension system, its partial privatization, occurred in 1997, under the government of President Ernesto Zedillo of the PRI party.

Prof. José Alfredo Zepeda. Former President of the Autonomous University of Querétaro; activist in the National Workers’ Union of Querétaro.
Prof. Marco Antonio Rubio Abonce. General Secretary of the Union of Academic Personnel of the Autonomous University of Querétaro; co-President of the National Workers’ Union of Querétaro.
Javier Armando Jiménez. Research Director of the Education Workers Union of the state of Querétaro.

The Peru Case: The second country after Chile, to privatize its pension system, partially doing so in 1992. In November, 2004, Law 20530 was pushed through, forcing all retirees to put their funds into a private system, known as the AFP, resulting in an enormous theft of pension funds.

Prof. Alejandro Apaza Retamozo. President of the Service Cooperative of the Education Workers of Peru, and a founding member of the Teachers’ Union of Peru.

The Argentina Case: The privatization of Argentina’s pension system, occurring in 1993 under President Carlos Menem, had more to do with benefiting financial interests and speculators, than the people of Argentina.

Dr. Julio González. Former technical Secretary of the Presidency of the Nation, 1973-1976; Prof. of Economic Structures of Argentina at the Buenos Aires University and the National University of Lomas de Zamora.

[The full 90-minute program is archived in video and audio, in both English and Spanish, at http://www.larouchepub.com/radio/archive_2005.html.]

Release Date: August 10, 2005

Program No. 669
"Pulling the Nation Together Now!" Part 1

On Aug. 2, relevant government officials received expert warnings that an extremely large hurricane would hit our Southern coast with a Force 4-to-5 strength--a storm for which the area was not prepared. Anyone on the ball in Washington would have seen this as a major emergency, would have taken immediate emergency action, including mass evacuations, plans for evacuations, mobilizing forces for evacuations, and other kinds of emergency measures. Instead, that same day, Aug. 2, President Bush left for a five-week vacation--his longest--to his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Nothing was done! On Aug. 29, Katrina hit New Orleans, as forecast. Levies and sea-walls were breached, and now, instead of just an admittedly great natural disaster, we have a colossal and growing man-made catastrophe, affecting the entire nation.

On September 3, Lyndon LaRouche conducted an emergency internet-based video webcast from studios in Leesburg, VA to address this issue and provide the leadership to mobilize the nation. Over 310 sites around the world logged in to the live broadcast, in addition to up to 100 on an audio-only conference call.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks (about 30 minutes), and the first 30-minutes of the discussion session which followed.

LaRouche: "What we have to have is a centralized top-down approach. Why? We have to convince the American people themselves, as well as the other nations of the world, that this nation is still a great power, and is capable of responding to its responsibilities. So the confidence in the United States, and its government, is the first point of the human catastrophe, right now. If we cannot convince ourselves that we are going to deal successfully with this, like a superpower--as was not done up to this point--then we’re not going to have a nation. And because we are in a period in which the international monetary-financial system is headed for the worst economic collapse in modern history, a collapse of the Unites States and its credibility would mean a catastrophe for the entire world."

"The reason we have this crisis down there in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, is because we abandoned the policy of the Constitutional commitment to promotion of the General Welfare. And therefore, because we were cutting costs, General Welfare costs, and the way we were trying to loot Social Security, we no longer maintained the standard of living, and support for these areas, which would enable them to deal with many of these problems. We did not deliver what was required in the Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama area, even though we knew it was needed, because we didn’t want to spend the money!"

"The President and Vice President, of course, have failed…. And therefore the other institutions of the United States, [must] to come into the picture, and play a larger role." "We now have, around the Senate, a bipartisan group of Senators, and other people, in and around government, who could volunteer to fill in on many of the jobs that need to be done. We can save this nation!" "The approach we’re going to have to take, though, is to fight this as of we were fighting a war." "And, we’re going to have to go back, to correct our mistake. We’re going to have to go back to the Preamble of the Federal Constitution, and recognize the fundamental law of this nation is the Preamble, not only in national defense, but in the promotion of the General Welfare, for the living and for their posterity."

From the Discussion Session, moderated by Debra Freeman, and Marcia Merry Baker:

From "the Democratic side of the aisle": Given that two major U.S. ports are now severely crippled by hurricane Katrina, and given that we can’t count on Executive action to address this, "please define your view of an order of battle. Should we be moving immediately to freeze prices on fuel and food? What else is it that we need to do, to address this interim emergency period?"

From ?: "How do we prepare in advance for the possibility of both [the potential for 4-6 more storm systems, and a highly unstable global financial system]"?

Erin (LaRouche Youth Movement, Washington, DC): "What are the type of things we need to push on a little bit more, from the standpoint of pedagogy, to really get at [the shocking sense of helplessness, rampant fundamentalism, and anti-intellectualism we encounter in our lobbying] inside the Congress?"

Scot (LaRouche Youth Movement, Oakland, CA): "In order to set prices, how do you measure the dynamically defined potential?"

Miko (LaRouche Youth Movement, Seattle, WA): What is your definition of the "fourth phase-space?" Is it the self-conscious ordering of the Noosphere generally, i.e., the physical economy; or is it a specific aspect of creativity in the human mind?

From ? (LaRouche Youth Movement, Toledo, OH): "What exactly spells victory for us? I understand our overall goal, and mission of our organization, but I’m curious as to what exactly is going to get us out of this moment of crisis on the issue of [Vice-President Dick Cheney’s nuclear threat.] How do we know that we’ve gotten out of this?"

Release Date: Sept. 13, 2005

Program No. 670
"Pulling the Nation Together Now!" Pt. 2

On Aug. 2, relevant government officials received expert warnings that an extremely large hurricane would hit our Southern coast with a Force 4-to-5 strength--a storm for which the region was not prepared. Anyone on the ball in Washington would have seen this as a major challenge to the welfare of the at-risk population, would have taken immediate emergency action, including mass evacuations, plans for evacuations, mobilizing forces for evacuations, and other kinds of emergency measures. Instead, that same day, Aug. 2, President Bush left for a five-week vacation--his longest--to his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Nothing was done! On Aug. 29, Katrina hit New Orleans, as forecast. Levies and sea-walls were breached, and now, instead of just an admittedly great natural disaster, we have a colossal and growing man-made catastrophe, affecting the entire nation.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features a portion of the discussion session, moderated by Marsha Baker.

Scot (LaRouche Youth Movement, Oakland, CA): "In order to set prices, how do you measure the dynamically defined potential?"
Miko (LaRouche Youth Movement, Seattle, WA): What is your definition of the "fourth phase-space?" Is it the self-conscious ordering of the Noosphere generally, i.e., the physical economy; or is it a specific aspect of creativity in the human mind?
From LaRouche Youth Movement (Toledo, OH): "What exactly spells victory for us? I understand our overall goal, and mission of our organization, but I’m curious as to what is going to get us out of this moment of crisis on the issue of [Vice-President Dick Cheney’s nuclear threat.] How do we know that we’ve gotten out of this?"
Three Questions: From Boston: "Can we use the new production of jobs as a way to invigorate the economy? How else can this disaster be used as a wakeup call, rebuilding our economy and outlook as a whole? And, "What’s the importance of music in all of this?" From Australia: "What about the advanced machine-tool capability in a time of disaster?"
Germain (from Washington, DC): "The U.S. is losing its agricultural and industrial strength. On the other hand, China seems to be growing in those areas. In a sense, the world seems to be establishing some kind of industrial dependency on China, similar to the world’s economic and technological dependency on the U.S. so, I’m assuming China potentially has a great influence on the world economy. If this is true, as an emerging superpower, what is China's stance on the world economy? And what could they do to aid the U.S. in fixing the world economy? And, are they willing? And, is china under the same control of the people that Cheney is controlled by?"
From Los Angeles: "I run the risk of sounding like Clausius--but I still have fears of the entropic inevitable heat-death of the universe. Is there work done to produce food en masse, now, so that there’s an anti-entropic intervention of mankind?"
From Alexander Pusch (Dusseldorf, Germany): "As you know, we of the LaRouche Youth Movement are engaged in the battles at the front in Europe in Helga [Zepp-LaRouche’s] campaign for Chancellor…. Could you situate for all of us here, what the significance of the changed situation is, due to all of this [impeachable, criminal negligence of the U.S. President, and Vice President] for the German election, and for Helga’s role and our role in it?"
Aleshia (Seattle): "How do we marry the people who are actually in a position to do something in re-ordering the economy, with the people who understand the nature of the situation?"

Release Date: September 30, 2005

Program No. 671
"The Great Change of 2005," Part 1

Time is running very short, for leading members of the U.S. Congress, Republicans as well as Democrats, to get their act together, and to proceed decisively to remove the obstacle which Vice President Dick Cheney and President Bush represent to saving the United States. That’s the message statesman Lyndon LaRouche delivered publicly and privately to supporters over the weekend of September 16-18. His message amounted to a personal challenge especially to those in the Senate, but elsewhere, who know that LaRouche has been right in his evaluation of the ongoing breakdown of the bankrupt world financial system, and of the criminal insanity of the Cheney-Bush Administration, but are too cowardly to come forward to support Mr. LaRouche’s proposals, or LaRouche himself.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of Lyndon LaRouche’s address to an international webcast, sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC) from Washington, DC on Sept. 16. In the audience of over 200 were about 100 youth, including 70 members of the LaRouche Youth Movement from Boston, Philadelphia, the Midwest, and Montreal; 35 State Representatives and union leaders from a dozen states; and a handful of diplomats from Asia, Europe and the Americas. Debra Freeman moderated.

LaRouche: "[M]y function here, is to set the pace for where this nation goes; because where this nation goes now, the world goes. There’s no other part of this planet in trouble, which is capable of making certain initiatives, certain decisions, which must be made for the world. Many parts of the world would welcome what I propose the United States must do in providing leadership, but they won’t start it themselves. We in the Untied States must start it."

With the world facing an economic and moral breakdown crisis worse than any "ordinary" depression, Mr. LaRouche went after Vice President Dick Cheney, as "far worse and more dangerous than Adolf Hitler. If you don’t stop him now, you may have nothing worth stopping." Mr. LaRouche identifies the Vice President’s controlling doctrine as that of "Permanent War," in the tradition of the Russian Bolshevik Leon Trotsky, who got the idea from Alexander Helphand Parvus, a British agent, of Russian extraction, during the turn of the 20^th Century. Permanent regime change. Permanent revolution. Wars are not to win, but are to be used to destroy nation-states, so that a handful of people control the entire planet as an empire. The so-called neo-cons, or chickenhawks, who represent the financier interests, of the type that are looting our government--like Bechtel and Halliburton, today. This crowd. That’s what we’re up against.

Mr. LaRouche then turned to the disaster area left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, utilizing various animated graphics depicting the 1975-2000 collapse of manufacturing and farm employment nationwide, and the concomitant increase in service workers during the same period, as a means of showing the slow process of economic collapse. Touching on the disappearance of passenger rail mileage and the dangerous commercial banking situation, where off-balance-sheet derivatives, at $96,932 billion dwarfs Equity Capital at $892 billion, and Loan Loss Reserves at $71 billion, "the ratio of financial obligations outstanding is so great, there is no possibility of an ordinary solution in bankruptcy court."

"We have come to a time, a difficult time, a hart time. We don’t have many of the things we need to rebuild this country. We’re going to have to work hard to rebuild it. But, if we have our morality with us, we’re going to think of the future."

[For a full transcript of the webcast, see Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 32, No. 37, Sept. 23, 2005.]

Release Date: October 28, 2005

Program No. 672
"The Great Change of 2005," Part 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Lyndon LaRouche’s Sept. 16 address to an international webcast, sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC) from Washington, DC, and a portion of the discussion session. In the audience of over 200 were about 100 youth, including 70 members of the LaRouche Youth Movement from Boston, Philadelphia, the Midwest, and Montreal; 35 State Representatives and union leaders from a dozen states; and a handful of diplomats from Asia, Europe and the Americas. Debra Freeman moderated the event.

From the discussion session:

From a national political operative: Referring to the $183 billion Operation Pelican legislative proposal written by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), which no Senator would be stupid enough not to attached his name to, the problem is, money and good intentions are simply not going to be enough. How do we take on the monumental task of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, seeing as we are not the nation we were when President Kennedy mobilized us to put a man on the Moon?

From the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate: On the one hand, we’re always told that the price of oil is largely determined by some peculiar combination of the gods of OPEC and the gods of supply and demand. Who or what is actually controlling the price of oil, and how specifically should the Senate respond to it?

From the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate: We’re faced with a number of very large costs: the war in Iraq, Katrina’s aftermath, bankrupt airlines and their workers’ pensions, etc. There is no question about what is the right thing to do, but how the hell are we supposed to do all this. Where’s the money supposed to come from, at a time when the deficit is already way beyond what any of us are comfortable with?

Mark Sweazy (President, United Auto Workers Local 969): "What can we honestly do to wake up a Congress that apparently doesn’t see the same need to save the nation’s machine tool making capability threatened with the potential bankruptcy of General Motors and Ford? What can we do, as sons and daughters of this nation, less than a Boston Tea Party, that will open the eyes of those that control our destiny?"

[For a full transcript of the webcast, see Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 32, No. 37, Sept. 23, 2005.]

Released October 28, 2005

Program No. 673
"LaRouche’s Program for America!" Part 1

On Oct. 12, 1988, at a press conference at then West Berlin’s Kempinski Bristol Hotel, Lyndon LaRouche, then an independent candidate for the Presidency of the United States, announced the impending collapse of the Soviet system, a collapse which he said would begin soon in Poland and would lead to the restoration of Berlin as the future capital of Germany. Not one leading figure of the world agreed with him; but both events happened, just as he had forecast.

Seventeen years later, on Oct. 12, 2005, once again, Mr. LaRouche made history-shaping proposals, this time from Washington, DC, at an international webcast sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC).

This edition of The LaRouche Connection public access cable television program features the first half of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, including video footage from the historic 1988 press conference. The event was moderated by Debra Freeman.

LaRouche: "My function today [Oct. 12, 2005], is to indicate to you, a forecast in the sense of outlining the conditions and realities which we must take into account, if we are to escape from what is imminently the greatest financial crash in the modern history of Europe…. We know that this economy, if it continues, will crash, and will crash soon. It will not be a depression, if it comes; it will be a disintegration of the entire world economy. Not a depression of the economy, but the end of an economy--an economy going out of existence. The question is: do we as a people still have the moral fitness to survive? Are we capable of correcting our mistakes?"

Mr. LaRouche proceeds to examine the percentile and numbers of manufacturing workers, rail transportation, power plants, and other parameters, showing the disintegration of the physical economy, since especially 1989, utilizing animated graphics. He then deepens the historical view, showing how our nation was developed as a continental power, and then, since the mid 1960s, how we have destroyed it, and, in so doing, have destroyed ourselves--our culture, our sense of humanity!

Mr. LaRouche takes his audience back to ancient Greece, Europe of the 15^th Century Renaissance, and up to the American Revolution, in the long struggle for the nation-state against its enemy Venice and later Anglo-Dutch Liberalism, in which the idea was that "the state had no authority over the people, as such, as an oppressor; but the state had the responsibility and authority, to promote the General Welfare of all of the people, and their posterity."

This part of Mr. LaRouche’s address ends with his discussing the United States as "the only nation, the only national system, which, with the so-called American System of political economy, has ever successfully challenged the British system, still the system of usury."

[For a full transcript of the Webcast, see Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 32, No. 41, Oct. 21, 2005.]

Release Date: November 11, 2005

Program No. 674
"LaRouche’s Program for America!" Part 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection public access cable television program features the second half of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, and the first question from the discussion session. The entire event was moderated by Debra Freeman.

After describing how the United States is "the only nation, the only national system, which, with the so-called American System of political economy, has ever successfully challenged the British System, [which] is still the system of usury," Mr. LaRouche continues in the portion of his opening remarks covered by this edition, by characterizing the way we run our economy today as "a form of idiocy," by measuring the performance of the physical economy by money. Whereas, the performance of money in a republic should be measured by physical economy, by its effect on the standard of living, development of territory, per capita and per square kilometer, the improvement of productivity, the education and culture and improvement of people, through the opportunities for development.

In our present state of economic collapse, if we are to rebuild our industries, we must do as Franklin Roosevelt did, and "use the power of the Federal government to create debt, prudently, to provide capital in the form of means of employment of people who are otherwise not properly employed, to produce things we need, such as hospitals, health care systems, power systems, and so forth. Put people to work, productively in things we need."

"We going to have to put the Unites States economy and the banking system through bankruptcy reorganization," in order to do this. "The Federal government takes over the Federal Reserve System, under the Constitution," and acts to keep the banks open, while they are in receivership, to sort out what will be paid, and what will not be paid. "And what isn’t going to be paid is financial derivatives."

Broadening the discussion, Mr. LaRouche said we’ve entered into a period in which a new conception of culture is needed. "The task of integrating our recovery and that of other countries of European civilization, with the aspirations and needs, of a growing population of Asia [requires] a commonality of understanding between those European countries, and those of Asian culture, which creates a new conception of culture from a European-dominated planet, to a new conception of a Eurasian planet." Only then, "because we are human, as a human race, if we get our act together with a conception of Eurasian development, Eurasian culture as an emergent development," we can deal with the "genocidal policy against humanity," which has been perpetrated against sub-Saharan Africa.

Turning to the work of the great Russian scientist, Vladimir Vernadsky and his conception of the Biosphere and Noosphere, Mr. LaRouche introduces what he calls the Fourth Dimension: the Universal Principle of Human Reason: "In the case of the human being, [as compared with other animals] you find something else: You find a principle which does not exist in any other living creature, which transforms human beings, so the human population, rather than having a fixed population density-potential, has a variable population density-potential, based on creativity, typified by scientific discoveries and things of that sort. This also is a transformation process, which is not found in the animal aspect of the human being. Its not found in animal life. Its a higher form, called human reason, which exists only among people who don’t think like accountants. And this principle does not die, with the death of the human being: its a principle in the universe."

Mr. LaRouche encourages his listeners to "Be immortal!" Chose something to do with your live which has enduring value, that doesn’t die within a lifetime. "Learn to change your way of thinking. Develop the opportunity to do something, which has the quality of immortality in it. Like the great scientists who generate and transmit the ideas; or the great artists, who create the works, transmitted from one generation to another."

"The function of human society, and the quality of change in thinking about man, must be that the understanding, the quality of understanding of what man must be, what society must be, it must be the promotion of the immorality of the human being, as expressed in this way."

From the Discussion Session:

From a Democratic policymaker, who has the task of figuring out strategy for the party as a whole nationally: "In the aftermath of John Kerry's concession to George Bush, we were in a state of what might diplomatically be called 'disarray.' We were fighting over what we'd done wrong, and what we needed to do next. At that time, you defined a clear focus and direction. Your proposal was that we take up two principal issues: One was the question of voter suppression; and the other was the question of stopping the privatization of Social Security. To be honest, I really didn't think it would work. But for lack of any better idea, we went with it. And as the events that followed showed, you were right. Right now, the situation is more complicated, but it is the case that we need an order of battle. Can you define, in the way that you did then, a couple of issues, a couple of principal issues that we should be proceeding on? And let me just ask you, in advance, if you would identify dealing with the Dick Cheney question, as a similar proposal?"

[For a full transcript of the Webcast, visit www.larouchpub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings", or see Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 32, No. 41, Oct. 21, 2005.]

Release Date: Dec. 5, 2005

Program No. 675
"The Tasks Before Us in the Post-Cheney Era," Part 1

On November 16, Lyndon LaRouche delivered a major address in Washington, DC with the purpose of shaping the post (Vice President) Dick Cheney era in American politics. The event was sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), and was webcast live internationally via the internet in both English and Spanish. Introducing Mr. LaRouche and moderating the discussion session was Debra Freeman.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks and Mrs. Freeman's introduction.

Mr. LaRouche began with two announcements: first, a scan of that morning’s press raises a suspicion that "journalist" Bob Woodward, "is actually the Judith Miller of the Washington Post; and second, that he has a suspicion that, "one after another, key members of the Administration are going to be frog-marched to prison." He then launched into what must be done, once Cheney is removed.

With the world in the grips of the greatest financial crisis in modern history, with all the banks hopelessly bankrupt, largely because of financial derivatives speculation, we must find a way to stabilize the economy "by putting the whole shebang into bankruptcy, and into reorganization, to keep the wheels turning. The so-called post-industrial economy or services economy is not really an economy at all.

Mr. LaRouche goes after Monsanto, as an example of the many giant corporations, controlled by international financier interests, who are not actually producers, but slave owners, and who do not belong in the United States. Monsanto pursues the criminal policy of producing genetically modified seeds and then forcing family farmers to buy seeds from them. With the resulting homogenizing of our food supply, simple diseases could balloon into catastrophes, wiping out entire crops. The intention of globalization is a virtual system of world government, under the power of bankrupt financial institutions, which control the world. For food and fiber security, genetic variation was our defense. No longer.

It didn’t used to be this way. Mr. LaRouche discusses the emergence of the United States from the Depression as the most powerful economy in the world, and the efforts by the financiers to eliminate the United States as a sovereign country and abort its historic mission "to bring forth on this planet, a society of sovereign nation-states, which is a durable form of life for humanity, for generations yet to come."

As for Eurasia, Mr. LaRouche states why these countries are incapable of leading the political battle. India and China, although "entering modern conditions," are not going to replace the United States, with 70% of their populations in desperate conditions of poverty.

Turning to the central point of his remarks--the nature of a modern economy--Mr. LaRouche states that "Fifty percent of any modern economy is an investment in infrastructure. These are investments which run with a lifespan of 25-50 years: dams, power systems generally, water management systems, mass transit systems, high-speed mass transit systems." Where does the money come from to build all this? "It comes form the creation of credit by governments! In a regulated system. For the purposes of long-term loans, at fixed prices (1-2% simple interest), for useful industry and agriculture, run through a banking system which is coordinated by the government, as a national banking system--private banks participating."

Once the economy is brought up to operating at breakeven, then "you bring into play technological progress, which will increase the productive powers of labor and the quality of produce. Now you get real growth. And the next generation will be better off than the present one. That’s the American System at its best."

If we want production and progress again, science is not however enough. We must dump the present floating-exchange-rate monetary system, and re-create a stable system of credit, at fixed rates, over long periods, where we can once again make possible the development of national economies. We need a system which can absorb the entrepreneurial spirit, making possible the "greatest freedom for people to use their individual minds in collaboration to make things happen, and to make things better." This is usually science-oriented, or science-application oriented, centered in our educational system.

[For a complete transcript of the Webcast, including the discussion session, visit www.larouchpub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings", or see Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 32, No. 46, Nov. 25, 2005, pp. 4-35.]

Release Date: Dec. 13, 2005

Program No. 676
"The Tasks Before Us in the Post-Cheney Era," Part 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks and four questions from the discussion session.

Mr. LaRouche concludes his opening remarks with discussions of four areas:

the "Machine Tool Principle," in which "you produce products and systems whereby a large population can work around a few hundred people who are involved with machine tool design. The machine tool designer, by introducing innovation into the productive process and employing thousands using the innovation, increases the productive powers of labor of the entire population." The other necessary component of the productive system is infrastructure--dams, power stations, transportation systems, etc.
the difference between power, a means by which you engage in a transformation of something from a lower state to a higher state; from a lower state of potential to a higher state of potential, and energy, which is only an effect of a process--a stupid idea, invented by some idiots in 19th Century, who didn't like the idea of power. Now, when we develop power sources, and power sources per capita and per square kilometer, we increase the potential to increase wealth per capita, and so forth. We can raise the standard of living!"
the biosphere and the Noosphere. "The world as we know it, is divided into three areas of chemical activity. One is the abiotic system. Second, is living processes and their products. The third, is human intellectual activity and its products, which is a growing percentage of the total fossil accumulation of the planet. Now, our objective is, to increase the ratio of human to Biosphere, to abiotic.

"We're getting to the point that the planet is becoming somewhat depleted, in terms of the rate at which we're consuming known resources of these types--and we have to start thinking about replenishing them! And that's a problem in advanced physics, of high-power physics. So therefore, the economy of the world is going to have to change, and shift from a low-power-density economy, to a high-power-density economy, so that we can manage the planet with new technologies, where we no longer simply go down there and grab raw materials, which are left over from dead living things millions of years ago; but now, we're capable of regenerating something, rather than simply using it up. We're going to that kind of economy. Therefore, we have to go to a high-power economy, a high-technology, high-power economy. We have to go from a cheap-labor economy, to a machine-tool economy. That's the direction we have to take."

Looking to the future, Mr. LaRouche concludes: "We have to think about a world system, which respects the fact of the nation-state, maintains it. Don't try to globalize the world. No more globalization. "We need a system for this planet, that will last for 50 to 100 years to come, in terms of relations among nation-states. We need a system of cooperation. We need a system of vision, of where we are going! We need a system of values, of what we value, as accomplishment. We need an orientation toward our children: Especially our young adult children, who have 50 years of work, and influence before them: They are our future! Without them, we don't have a future! And therefore, their fate, for 50 years to come, is us: We will die, but whether our lives mean anything or not, will depend, 50 years from now, on what happens to those young people, what kind of a world we create for them. That's strategy. Not war. Strategy is strategy for peace, for building a system which is so good, that people don't want to break it, and therefore, you have peace."

From the Discussion Session:

From the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate: "If it comes to the ouster of the Vice President by one means or another, our question to you is this: Will that be enough? Will the structure that he leaves behind pose a continued threat if it is not also dismantled as part and parcel of his ouster?"

From a Democratic political consultant: "I’m concerned with the President’s psychological state. I’d be interested in your opinion on how we can manage"

From two U.S. Senators together: "At a recent Republican Senate Caucus meeting, Vice President Dick Cheney, in an attempt to coerce us to adopt torture as an official policy, argued that these are extraordinary times, and that when we signed the Geneva Convention, 9/11 had not occurred, al-Qaeda was not viewed as a problem, nor was Osama bin Laden. Now putting aside for a moment, the fact that our stand against such policies is embedded in the founding of our nation--it seems [that] Cheney and [Sec. of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld enjoyed an embrace of torture, that goes back to at least 1975." Please comment.

From a Democrat from California: "[Governor] Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to recoup from his loss, by putting forward an infrastructure bond issue. How would this kind of plan for state bonded debt differ from your proposal for a national FDR-style infrastructure program, which might include rebuilding New Orleans?"

From a Democrat from Louisiana: "What do you think we should do [to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina]?"

[For an on-line transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, visit www.larouchpub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings." For a complete transcript, including the discussion session, see Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 32, No. 46, Nov. 25, 2005, pp. 4-35.

Release Date: December 13, 2005

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