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Published: Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2003
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Volume 2, Issue Number 39
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This "candidate's editorial comment on the election" was issued on Sept. 28 by Lyndon LaRouche's Presidential campaign committee, LaRouche in 2004.
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Lyndon LaRouche, candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination in 2004, was a featured speaker at a Moscow conference, on "China in the 21st Century: Chances and Challenges of Globalization," held from Sept. 23-25. The conference was organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences, with its Academic Council for Comprehensive Studies of Contemporary China; its Institute of Far Eastern Studies; and the Russian Association of Sinologists. These sessions were
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the 14th International Conference on "China, Chinese Civilization and the World: Past, Present and Future."
At the Sept. 23 opening session of the conference, LaRouche spoke on a "Vision for the 21st Century." He represented the Schiller Institute in the United States and Germany, and was also introduced to the conference as an American Presidential candidate.
The Moscow conference also featured Russian speakers from the Institute of Far Eastern Studies and other institutions, as well as speakers from Jilin Academy of Social Sciences in China. Subsequent panels discussed economic reforms in China; China's history and historiography; policy and social relations in China; and problems and prospects of inter-civilizational liaisons between China and other nations, in the era of globalization.
LaRouche prepared the paper we publish here as a written attachment to the proceedings of the conference. Further coverage of this important international event will appear in a forthcoming issue.
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Leesburg, Sept. 29, 2003—Democratic presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche today issued a statement "to express my concern about the attempt by some people to invoke the name of anti-clericalism, to stir up what would be recognized as a Cristero War atmosphere in Mexico." LaRouche warned in particular that "the targetting of the Cardinal [of Guadalajara, Juan Sandoval Iniguez] is seen by experts in such matters as an attempt to reactivate a religious-warfare-like destabilization of Mexico."
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In light of the urgent need for vast new water and power infrastructure projects in the United States, especially California and the Southwest, it is appropriate today that we look back to September 30, 1935, when the Hoover Dam (then called the Boulder Dam) was opened in a grand ceremony, addressed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was this project which harnessed the Colorado River, and generated the abundant electricity, and supply of fresh water, which "made the desert bloom" in Southern California's Imperial Valley, for decades to come.
This Colorado River dam project was begun under President Herbert Hoover, with the perspective that it could pay for itself eventually, through the sale of electricity from the vast power generators which would be attached to the dam itself. This was a similar concept to that which was eventually put into effect in the TVA project. The control was in the hands of the Federal government, through the Bureau of Reclamation, although most of the work in construction was farmed out to private companies. The first spike was pounded into the rock on September 17, 1930.
Over the next five years, construction proceeded at breakneck speed, with a consortium of six companies running the operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The average number of employees over the entire period was 2500 men, but the spinoff effect in terms of employment and economic growth was enormous, when you consider the fact that a whole new town was built for the workers (Boulder City), and that feeder industries had to gear up enormously to produce the concrete, steel, and other component parts of the diversion tunnels, huge dam, and power plants.
There was nothing idyllic about the working conditions in this pitiless desert area, where temperatures could rise to 130 degrees Fahrenheit. The speed of construction appears to have been related to the drive by the contractors to receive a "bonus" for early completion — and the loss of 112 workers in construction-related accidents.
But the project itself deserves its designation as the Eighth Wonder of the World, or the Seventh Engineering Wonder, in terms of the grandeur of conception, and successful execution of a project that came to provide cheap, reliable power and water for the citizens of the seven state region (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming), and dramatically improve the productivity of the agriculture of Southern California through providing reliable irrigation.
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CALIFORNIA :
'Recall De-Reg, Not Davis': Rebuilding Energy and Economy
by Marcia Merry Baker and Richard Freeman
This is excerpted from the LaRouche in 2004 pamphlet, Return to Sanity: Make California a Pilot Project for the Nation, released on Sept. 22 as an intervention into the battle against the Recall in California.
The Wreck of Cancún and the End of the 'Washington Consensus'
by Lothar Komp
The Finance Ministers and central bank chiefs from the seven 'leading industrial nations' met once again on Sept. 20, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, and consulted on the fate of the world economy. Immediately thereafter, the same characters got together at the semi-annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, and occupied themselves, among other things, with the possible threats to the global financial system. 'Business as usual,' one might say. But that would be quite mistaken.
China Says 'No' To 'Plaza Accord' Pressure
by Mary Burdman
All the continued hullabaloo by the George W. Bush Administration about the fixed exchange rate of the Chinese currency, the renminbi, to the dollar, is getting nowhere. The Chinese remain determined that they are not going to give into the U.S. pressure for the currency to 'float,' by which Washington really means to drastically revalue the renminbi upward against the dollar.
In Ukraine, the Economy Has Reached a 'Zero Point'
by Taras Telyha
The end of uncertainty. The start of revival? Each August's anniversary of Ukraine's independence is followed with a multitude of articles, reviews, analytical materials in mass media, with various views on the period since 1991, and attempts to look into the near or distant future. Such reviews allows us to focus upon major problems of development, to crystalize the major items characterizing the essence of the country's reality.
International:
Annan's Challenge, Not Bush's Speech, Is the Story at UN
by Muriel Mirak-Wiessbach
As the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) annual session opened on Sept. 23 in New York, it was clear that the issue of the future of Iraq would be brought onto center stage, and it was hoped that steps to be taken to reestablish the country's sovereignty and independence would be outlined.
Israeli Pilots Refuse OccupationOrders
by Dean Andromidas
Twenty-seven Israeli pilots have signed a letter refusing to serve combat missions in the Israeli occupied territories. Although over 500 Israeli reserve Army soldiers have signed a similar letter since early 2002, the signatories of this letter are all officers, including a brigadier general and two lieutenant colonels, making it without precedent in Israel's history.
Time and Policy Almost Exhausted in Afghanistan
by Ramtanu Maitra
The Bush Administration, running out of time in Afghanistan, is making yet another half-hearted effort to restore peace and stability in that country. On Sept. 23, President George Bush named his special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to Afghanistan the new Ambassador to that country. Prior to Khalilzad's official appointment, and in the wake of mounting violence and a worsening security situation, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in Kabul on Sept. 7; and on Sept. 18, Treasury Secretary John Snow. What exactly these senior Bush Cabinet members did in Afghanistan, beyond assuring the increasingly jittery interim Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is anybody's guess.
California Recall Showdown On: LaRouche Forces Out To Defeat It
by Harley Schlanger
With the fate of government in California and the nation at stake in the Oct. 7 vote to recall Gov. Gray Davis, the LaRouche in 2004 campaign is intensifying its efforts to deliver a blow to Vice President Dick Cheney, by defeating the Recall put on the ballot by his corrupt friends and associates.
Casino Candidate Bustamante Loses Chips
by Michele Steinberg and Roch Steinbach
The California Recall 'election,' the end result of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy deregulation policy bankrupting the state, has hit some major bumps in the road. Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger, backed by notorious mega-buck looters like Warren Buffett and George Shultz, has become as popular as a low-budget movie.
Mideast Policymakers Tell Bush, Break With Neo-Cons' Debacle in the Region
by Michele Steinberg
President George W. Bush's speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23 dug him deeper into the hole of isolating of the United States—and distancing himself from voters, such that only 26% of Americans support, or believe in, his request for an immediate $87 billion more for the Iraq occupation.
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