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Published: Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2003
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On Oct. 22, 2003, Lyndon LaRouche, one of only two candidates for the 2004 Democratic Party Presidential nomination who have been certified by the Federal Elections Commission as qualified for federal matching funds, delivered an address before a live audience of 300 supporters in Washington, D.C. The event was broadcast via the Internet internationally, and an additional 1,000 LaRouche supporters, diplomats, elected officials, and business, labor, and civil rights leaders attended live satellite broadcasts across the United States, in Mexico, Peru, Germany, France, Italy, and Scandinavia. A substantial number of participants in all the events were members of LaRouche's growing international youth movement. LaRouche's opening remarks, which appear immediately below, were followed by more than two hours of questions and answers.
Time grows short. There's just more than a year and three months from now; the next elected President of the United
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States will be walking into his office, in the Executive Mansion, which Teddy Roosevelt christened the White House.
So, on this occasion, in addition to discussing three topics which I shall present here today, I'll preface the discussion of those topics by giving you some indication of what I will be doing in the first hour that I walk from the Inauguration, into the Executive Mansion, and start to do things.
There are two areas I will refer to. One is health care. We have a problem in health care, which is accentuated by the fact that people who were still adolescents at the time that the Cuban missile crisis occurredat the time that Kennedy was assassinated, at the time that the Indo-China war officially openedare now in their fifties or sixties, some coming into that, and they're beginning to experience some of the health-care problems which come about the time you reach 50 or so, at least for many people. They're therefore experiencing some of the health-care problems which many of my generation are also experiencing.
The health-care system is breaking down.
Also at the same time, we havereturning from wars in Afghanistan, and Iraq, or not yet returning, or never to returnmembers of not only the regular military services, but the Reserves and the National Guard, who are coming back, a large number of them, with various injuries, other health problems, some severe trauma cases, being hidden, being deprived of the care they need. So health care is an extremely important problem, on which the next President must act; on those matters which the present incumbent President fails to act upon.
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LaRouche Backs Geneva Peace Moves: 'As President, I Will Stop This War'
This release was issued on Oct. 23 by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee.
Washington, D.C., Oct. 22Asked by an American Muslim newspaper journalist how he, as President, would "right the wrongs" of United States Mideast policy, Democratic candidate Lyndon LaRouche told his live and webcast audience, "As President, I'll have no problem in dealing with this. I will deal with it. I will sit on it, and I will get the support of enough people in the world that we'll stop it."
- Dialogue with LaRouche
Here is a transcript of the 2-1/2 hour discussion which followed Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's historic Oct. 22 international Webcast.
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This week we celebrate the completion of a major infrastructure project, which linked the Eastern and Midwestern United Statesthe Erie Canal. This 364-mile, gigantic engineering project came to completion in October 1825, and on Oct. 26, a ceremony was held to launch the official cavalcade of boats which would travel from the western end, in Buffalo, east to New York City, arriving on Nov. 4.
This project is worthy of our attention today for several reasons. First of all, it was a Great Project, outpacing in scope anything else which had been proposed for the growing nation. As such, it corresponded to the vision of nation-building, which the Founding Fathers such as George Washington, had conceived, as they fought to build a continental republic, based on a productive and progressing citizenry. This kind of vision today, would lead us to build transportation corridors with magnetically-levitated trains, not canals, but at that time, this was at the frontier of technological innovation.
Secondly, we should take note of the means by which the canal was financed. First and foremost, the Erie Canal was a New York State project, funded by action of the state legislature through a vote in 1817. Due to ongoing political battles over the concept of Federal funding of infrastructure projects for the general welfare, no credit came from the Federal government. Today, although the states would collaborate with the Federal government in devising and administering the projects, Federal credit would be absolutely essential to carrying it out.
Eighth Wonder of the World
The concept of linking eastern New York State with the Great Lakes was enunciated by President George Washington himself, who, even before the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, to end the Revolutionary War, was looking for a transportation route to accomplish this aim. New York's Gov. Dewitt Clinton began fighting for a canal's construction, between the Hudson River and Lake Erie, in 1810. Actual survey work began at that time, but it was cut off by the renewed British attack on America in 1812.
After the war, efforts were made to get the U.S. Congress to pass a bill providing Federal funds for a massive national waterways project, but this failed. Governor Clinton then pushed the bill through the New York State legislature on April 25, 1817, motivating it as follows:
"It remains for a free state to create a new era in history, and to erect a work, more stupendous, more magnificent, and more beneficial, than has hitherto been achieved by the human race."
Governor Clinton also reminded the citizens of New York of the recent conspiracy by Aaron Burr to detach some of the Western settlements from the United States, and of the even more recent activities of the secessionist Hartford Convention during the war with Great Britain. Echoing the earlier warnings of President Washington, Mr. Clinton stated that the most imminent danger to the cohesion of the union lies in the poor communications between the Eastern and Western states. The proposed Erie Canal would provide an easy passage for settlers to Western points such as Detroit and Chicago, and would make it possible for those farmers and mechanics to ship their products back for sale in Eastern markets.
Governor Clinton also heralded the commercial benefits which would result from having the canal available to bring food to the great cities on the East Coast, and anticipated the development of manufactures, as well as towns and cities, along its banks.
Once the bill was passed, New York hired the same lawyers who began surveying the route back in 1810, James Geddes and Benjamin Wright.
At the time the project began, the largest canal in America was the Middlesex Canal, which connected the Merrimack River with Boston Harbor. It covered only 27 miles and was build at the cost of $1 million. The longest canals in Britain and France were barely a third of the projected length of the Erie Canal, and had the benefit of more experienced engineers to do the work.
Celebration of Union
Eight years after the New York State legislature set the project in motion, the Canal was complete. The huge task had been accomplished with a largely untrained workforce, which learned from its experience, and was aided by the development of new inventions and methods along the way. Dealing with the rapid downward slope of the land when the canal approached the Hudson, and with the thick rock ledge which guards the passage from Lockport to Lake Erie, were particularly challenging.
After a signal cannon was fired at Buffalo, on Oct. 26, a flotilla of boats took off, led by Gov. DeWitt Clinton aboard the "Seneca Chief." The signal was relayed by the booming of Revolutionary War cannons, or groups of rifles, all along the length of the Canal, and down the Hudson River, to mark the momentous occasion. It took only 90 minutes for this wave of celebration to hit New York City, letting residents there know that the trip had begun.
The flotilla itself arrived in New York City on Nov. 4, to the thunder of the batteries of every fort in New York Harbor, saluting the accomplishment.
Once arrived in New York City, Governor Clinton's flotilla proceeded out into the Atlantic Ocean, where he poured a barrel of Lake Erie water into the ocean, to symbolize the linking of the bodies of water. A special bottle of the same water was saved to send to General Lafayette in France, where he had just returned from his triumphal tour of America.
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by Cynthia R. Rush
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China's Giant Step Into Manned Space Exploration
by Marsha Freeman
For 40 years, although people of many nations have ventured into space, only two have had the ability to take them there. On Oct. 14, China successfully sent its first astronaut, 38- year-old Yang Liwei, into Earth orbit, joining the United States and Russia in manned space exploration. China's Shenzhou V mission had been widely anticipated, following four unmanned tests of similar spacecraft since 1999; but that did not diminish the excitement in China, or the impact the accomplishment will have on space programs around the world. Like Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepherd before him, Yang, when he returned to Earth the following day, after 14 orbits and 21 hours in space, was an instant national hero.
Galileo: Europe Building Global Satellite Navigation Net
by Lothar Komp
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The CDU's Neo-Con Economics: Borrowing from the bankrupt programs of American neo-conservatives.
by Rainer Apel
Coercing the German Chancellor, Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder, into military and financial support for the Bush Administration's war drive, has proven impossible for the Cheney- Rumsfeld group, because the German government has consolidated its anti- war position through consultations with France and Russia.
International:
Iran's Nuclear Agreement: A Victory for World Peace
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The Oct. 21 announcement that Iran, following talks with the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain, and France, had agreed to sign an additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), as demanded by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was greeted almost unanimously as a positive step.
Bush Ducks and Dives Through Asia
by Mike Billington
President George W. Bush survived a whirlwind tour of Asia from Oct. 16-23; U.S. and other nations' security for his trip reflected awareness of the mounting hatred towards America around the world. Huge U.S. security details preceded his visit, and in several locations, practically took over the political buildings, convention halls, and even the streets the President was visiting
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Organization of Islamic Conference: Why They Really Hate Malaysia's Dr. Mahathir
by Mike Billington
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- Documentation
'If We Are To Recover Our Dignity:'Excerpts from Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad's keynote speech to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on Oct. 16.
Blessed Mother Teresa: A Fleeting Glimpse Of the Sublime
by Nina Ogden
A once young and vigorous Pope, now hobbled by age and illness, presided over the Beatification Mass of the woman he called the 'Icon of the Good Samaritan . . . who experienced harsh spiritual suffering [which] led her to identify herself ever more with those she served every day.' Thus, people around the world experienced the beatification of Mother Teresa by Pope John Paul.
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by Dean Andromidas
The best kept secret in Israel is not how many warheads it has in its nuclear arsenal, nor the number and range of its intercontinental ballistic missiles; but how much it spends on the settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories.Astudy just published by the daily Ha'aretz and available on its website suggests two very good reasons.
Who Speaks for My U.S.A.?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
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Myanmar Is on 'Regime Change' List, Charges U.S. Specialist: An interview with Dr. David Steinberg.
by Michael Billington
In September 2003, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) released a study investigating the ongoing crisis in Myanmar (referred to as 'Burma' in the report, as a political statement against the current regime in Yangon, which changed the name to Myanmar in 1989). The title of the CFR report is 'Burma: Time for Change'; a concept which, on one level, everyone could agree with. However, in an era of U.S. political domination by a faction centered around Vice President Dick Cheney, committed to pre-emptive war and 'regime-change' against governments not to its liking, the word 'change' takes on a far more ominous meaning.
National:
LaRouche Webcast: 'Preparing for the Post-Cheney Era'
Noting that 'time is short' before the next President of United States is sworn in in January 2005, Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche outlined in an Oct. 22 speech an international webcast centered in the nation's capital, series of emergency measures he will take in the first hours in that office.
Voices of Rationality From the U.S. Senate: Senators Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy speak out on Iraq & Empire.
by Nancy Spannaus
During the U.S. Senate debate on the Bush Administration's $87 billion budget for Iraq, a pattern of behavior emerged that indicates that senior Congressional leaders are beginning step up to fill the vacuum of leadership shown in the Democratic, and Republican, Party. The fact that the budget authorization passed on Oct. 17, obscures certain significant elements of the debate.
Navy Officers Break Silence on USS Liberty
by Michele Steinberg
The affidavit of Capt. Ward Boston, U.S. Navy, Judge Advocates General Department (ret.), was released to the public for the first time on Oct. 22, in a hearing room of House of Representatives Rayburn Office Building, by Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty.
Congress Probes Coverup Of Iraq Casualties
by Michele Steinberg
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by Michele Steinberg
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