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Published: Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004
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Volume 3, Issue Number 43
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Here are Lyndon LaRouche's opening remarks, made by teleconference and webcast, to a LaRouche PAC town meeting in Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 21, 2004.
Well, thank you. It's good to get the applause at the beginning; then you don't have to worry about getting it at the end.
The question here, is how are we going to, from the standpoint of Plato, for example, save this nation from the worst depression that we've known. Because, if this thing is not stopped, it will be, indeed comparable to, but worse than, that of the 1930s. The reason, of course, is that in the 1930s, when Roosevelt came into office, in March of 1933, much of the infrastructure, in railroads, in power stations, in water systems and so forth remained, that had existed in the early 1920s, and from the period of the aftermath of World War I.
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Now, 40 years after the beginning of the Vietnam War, we have destroyed most of the infrastructure of the nation. This includes municipal infrastructure, in the cities, education systems, power systems, health-care systems, all these kinds of things, as well as the generation of power, the management of large-scale water systems, and other things which are essential to our national economy. We've destroyed these over 40 years.
Now, large-scale infrastructure, such as a water systemlet's take the dams and locks along the Ohio River or Mississippi Riverthese systems, together with inland systems, that is, ones in from the rivers, like municipal systems, water systems and so forth, have been there for over 40 years, and they have generally a useful life of 40 to 50 years from the time they're built or freshly maintained. Now, it is 40 years since the change in direction of our economy. These things, which have been wasting away from increasing negligence, over the past four decades, are now coming to the point of rot. This is true of our public water systems, like the rivers and their locks and so forth, our public municipal systems, water systems, our health-care systems which are reduced to maybe half what they were back in the beginning of the 1970s; so these things have wasted away.
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'WE'VE GOT TO ELECT THE GUY, FIRSTAND THEN, WE'VE GOT TO TRAIN HIM'
Lyndon LaRouche was interviewed on 1489 Talk WCIN in Cincinnati, by Professor Herb Smith, host of "Pulse of the City," on Oct. 19, 2004. Here are excerpts from that program.
Host: All right. What is your perception of what's going on? I just talked to Congressman Jim Clyburn from South Carolina. He indicates that there are four bellwether states, Ohio, Michigan among them, that will tell the story. What's your perception?
THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE WHETHER THE UNITED STATES WILL BECOME A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP
Lyndon LaRouche was interviewed by Charles Traylor, Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Wendy Huntley, hosts of "Front Street on the News," 1580 WVKO radio in Columbus, Ohio on October 19, 2004.
...Host: Some questions, I think that the callers want to know this close to the election: Your organization has been able to expose stuff that, when it initially came out, people dismissed it. What should we make, in this election, of the rise of the heroin trade in the Golden Crescent? And, does that relate to the failure, or any deliberate policy by the Bush Administration?
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This Week in History
October 25 - 31, 1787
Hamilton Leads Battle To Ratify the Constitution
The fall of 1787 was truly a turning point in history. Over an intense five months, 56 leaders of the American Revolution had met in Philadelphia where they had forged a Constitution for the United States of America. Now, they had to present their work to special legislative assemblies in the 13 states, for ratification. The outcome of their great experiment hung in the balance.
There was little question but that a majority of the states could be expected to ratify the new Constitution, and it was even likely that the required majoritynine states ratifyingcould be reached with little difficulty. But it was by no means clear that those nine would include all of the most populous states, specifically New York and Virginia, without whom the ability of the new nation to prosper would be minimal indeed.
In stepped Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who had played a pivotal role in bringing together the Constitutional Convention to begin with. He determined to lead an aggressive fight to win New York State, through writing a series of articles that would be printed in newspapers, and would systematically put forward the benefits of the Constitution, and answer its critics. Initially, Hamilton won agreement from other members of the Continental Congress, Virginian James Madison and fellow New Yorker John Jay, to help him in this endeavor, but it ultimately turned out that Hamilton himself wrote 51 out of the 85 essays, sometimes turning out one every three to four days. Hamilton also negotiated with the New York newspapers for their publication, and arranged their reprinting in book form.
The first Federalist Paper appeared on Oct. 27, 1787 in the Independent Journal. By agreement among the three authors, the joint pseudonym "Publius" was chosen. In this introductory piece, Hamilton identified what was at stake in the battle for ratification, and demanded a level of deliberation on the matter which was unique in the founding of any Constitution in human history. We would do well to take the same approach in the election we face today.
We quote the first two paragraphs:
"After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the Union the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
"This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men must feel for the event. Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good...."
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Feature:
The World Cannot Afford Re-Election Of Cheney-Bush
by Nancy Spannaus
Speaking on an Ohio radio station on Oct. 19, Democratic political leader Lyndon LaRouche was asked what would happen if President George Bush and Vice- President Dick Cheney were re-elected. He minced no words: 'Well, I'll tell you, the day after Bush were elected, or within a matter of days, you would have a launching of a war against Iran, which would involve the whole area. There would be no limit to this: It would go on indefinitely, until somebody just stopped it.
LaRouche on Bush-Cheney Policy: More Could Die of Flu Than From 9/11 Attack
This leaflet was issued by LaRouche PAC on Oct. 18, under the title 'LaRouche: Bush/Cheney Could Cause More Americans To Die of the Flu Than Were Killed in the 9/11 Attack.'
Lawmakers, Experts Demand Federal Action
by Marcia Merry Baker
Within days of the Oct. 6 announcement of cancellation of half the 2004-05 anticipated flu vaccine doses, came the second part of the public-health crisis: inaction by the Federal authorities responsible. State and local governments, hospitals, Veterans Affairs facilities, and many other key institutions have been left to fend for themselves. In response, state, county, and Federal lawmakers, as well as health officials and other experts, are demanding Federal emergency coordination to deal with the 2004-05 influenza season. The following are some of the demands for action, and statements by experts of what ought to be done.
Bush-Cheney Coverup of Iraqi Funds Rip-Off Exposed
by Jeffrey Steinberg
On Oct. 14, the International Advisory and Monitoring Board for Iraq (IAMB), the United Nations auditing agency established to monitor the finances of the Bush Administration's Iraq occupation regime, issued its final report, revealing a widespread pattern of coverup, mismanagement, and possible disappearance of billions of dollars in Iraqi money.
LaRouche Warns of Nazi Reactivation in Europe And the Americas
This press release was issued by EIR on Oct. 18.
Former U.S. Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche, currently head of the LaRouche Political Action Committee, today issued an alert that the world has entered 'a new phase in the mobilization for fascist world government, which amplifies the significance of the already existing Italian, Spanish, and French elements of the Nazi International.'
The Growing Danger of Synarchism in Germany
by Claudio Celani
The electoral successes of extreme right-wing parties in the Sept. 19 state elections in Germany, with the right-wing nationalist German People's Union (Deutsche Volksunion, DVU) getting 6.1% in Brandenburg, and the openly pro-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, NPD) surging to 9.2% in Saxony, should ring an alarm bell. Although it is not the first time that such parties have scored high percentages in local and state electionsthe DVU holds seats in Brandenburg, while this is the first time the NPD has won seats since 1968this occurs in a changed international and national context...
Strategic Studies:
Moths, Mice, and Men
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Oct. 13, 2004
The urgency of the following report is defined by the fact that I amrelatively unique on this planet, currently, in my capacity to provide the following, crucially needed assessment of the most crucially determining features of present world situation. The essential nature of that evidence fully supporting my claims to relatively unique competence on this account, will be made sufficiently, if succinctly clear in the following, compact report.
Documentation NSSM 200: Kissinger's 1974 Plan for Genocide
This article, by Joseph Brewda, is reprinted from EIR, Dec. 8, 1995.
On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, 'National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Over- seas Interests.' The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security.
Economics:
Ohio's Producer Economy Was Killed in 'Consumer America'
by Richard Freeman and Mary Jane Freeman
Today, Ohio is in the forefront of the U.S. Presidential election battleground states, and a primary battleground for the issue: What to do about the collapsed U.S. physical economy? Ohio today is one of America's poorest states, with the gateway city of Cleveland leading the nation with a 31.3% official poverty rate. Since the nation's mid-1960s turning point, identified by Lyndon LaRouche as the shift from the once most productive economy on Earth, to a consumer societyand underscored by the 1971 throwing overboard of the Bretton Woods fixed-exchange-rate system, and the spread of globalization America's economy has spiralled downward into a junk heap.
LaRouche to Argentine Journalist:: Fight the IMF for Americas to Survive
[T]he full text of Lyndon LaRouche's telephone interview on Oct. 12, 2004 with Romina Manguel of Veintitres magazine, of Argentina. Clips from an earlier interview she had done with LaRouche were used in a movie documentary, 'Debt,' directed by the wellknown Argentine television personality and journalist Jorge Lanata. 'Debt' was released on Oct. 7, 2004, generating great interest in LaRouche in Argentina.
Germany's Opel Strike: Jobs Are Top Issue
by Rainer Apel
On Oct. 14, something happened that Germany has not seen in many years: The night shift of auto workers at the GM Opel plant in Bochum entered the plant as usual, but halted work, in protest against management's plans to cut 4,000 jobs there, and another 6,000 at other Opel plants in Germany. This sitin, or 'wild-cat' strike, with no orderly strike vote, was not related to wage-bargaining issues as such, but from the start, addressed the GM management's general investment and production strategy. It thereby hit a broader theme that has been addressed in three months of Monday protest rallies in up to 240 German cities: Jobs and production have to be at the top of the political agenda.
- Zepp-LaRouche: Stop Economic Destruction!
The following leaflet, 'Stop Economic Destruction in Germany! Revive the Stability Law of 1967!' was issued by Helga Zepp-LaRouche on Oct. 18. She is the chairwoman of the Bu¨So (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity).
International:
War-Torn Southwest Asia Needs Kerry-LaRouche
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
As Lyndon LaRouche has warned, if George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were to be re-elected on Nov. 2, that would mean more wars, beginning with a strike against Iran. This perception is now shared through Southwest Asia. In Egypt, for example, literally all press, whether government, opposition, liberal, conservative, Islamist, or whatever, have depicted a possible re-election as a nightmare.
NSSM200 Returns, Targets Africa's Raw Materials
by Dean Andromidas
Pointing to the ongoing mad drive by speculators into raw materials, senior European financial and intelligence sources see the return of the infamous 1974 population-control document, U.S. National Security Study Memorandum 200, as the hegemonic policy of the Anglo-American Synarchist oligarchy. Other players now being drawn into this policy are Western Europe, Russia, and China.
Myanmar Breaks Out of Imposed Containment
by Mike Billington
A series of developments over the past weeks regarding Myanmar's role in Asia, has further confirmed the warning issued by America's leading Myanmar (Burma) scholar. Dr. David Steinberg wrote a commentary in the March 11, 2004 issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review entitled: 'Burma: Who's Isolating Whom?' Steinberg concluded: 'The U.S. is engaged in a policy to isolate Burma. . . . It is in fact the U.S. that has isolated itself from Burma. And this can be counterproductive.'
Toward a True Dialogue of Cultures
by Chandrajit Yadav
Mr. Yadav is a former Union Minister of the government of India under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He is currently chairman of the Centre for Social Justice of India. He gave this speech to the Schiller Institute's conference near Wiesbaden, Germany on Sept. 25. For other conference speeches, see EIR, Oct. 8, 15, and 22.
National:
Republicans, Justice Dept. Gear Up to Steal Votes
by Edward Spannaus
In the wake of an unprecedented voter-registration drive conducted by civil rights organizations, local Democratic Party activists and otherson a scale not seen since the 1960s Republican Party officials, in league with John Ashcroft's Justice Department, are stepping up their counter-campaign to intimidate potential voters and to suppress the vote among minorities on Nov. 2.
Kerry Gets Serious: Evokes FDR vs. Hoover
In a speech on Social Security in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Oct. 19, Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry constantly referred to the differences between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, in laying out the choice between himself and George Bush. Referring to the visit of FDR to Pennsylvania 72 years ago, Kerry said that Roosevelt had come to discuss how we could restore America's prosperity and America's future. At that time, Kerry said, 'America was in the depths of the Great Depression.' Hoover, like Bush, Kerry said, had lost jobs on his watch. 'He failed to restore our economic prosperityand so has George W. Bush.'
In Memoriam: Pierre Salinger and The Institution of the Presidency
by Nina Ogden
Pierre Salinger died in exile in France on Oct. 16 at the age of 79. Salinger, who was best known as President John F. Kennedy's Cabinet-level press secretary, died of a heart attack in Cavaillon Hospital in Provence. His wife, Nicole, said: 'We left the United States several years ago, after the election of George W. Bush. Pierre will be buried in the Arlington military cemetery where John F. Kennedy rests.'
Worldwide Commentary On Bush: 'He's Nuts'
On Sept. 27, the LaRouche PAC issued a mass leaflet, 'LaRouche: 'The Number One Issue in the Presidential Debates Is George W. Bush's Mental Illness.' This theme is now being picked up by analysts around the world. Here are some highlights.
Stolen Health Coverage Reinstated . . . for Now
by Katherine Notley
Effectively stolen health-care coverage for Medicaid enrollees in Mississippi and public sector workers in Kentucky has been reinstatedbut only for now. In Mississippi, some 50,000 enrollees in the state Medicaid program for Poverty Level and Disabled (PLAD) have won their fight against Gov. Haley Barbour (R) not to be moved over to the Federal Medicare program, where their premiums and co-payments would have been prohibitively higher, and coverage for medications hopelessly inadequate. However, what they won essentially constitutes a 'stay of execution,' until the end of January.
Book Review:
Unfortunately, It's Not Just Kansas
by Harley Schlanger
What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2004
306 pages, hardbound, $24.00
My faith plays a big part in my life. . . . I pray a lot. . . . And my faith is a very, it's very personal. . . . I love the fact that people pray for me and my family all around the country. Somebody asked me how I know? I said I just feel it.
George Bush, in the third Bush-Kerry debate, Oct. 13, 2004
The deafness of the conservative rank and file to the patent insincerity of their leaders is one of the true cultural marvels of the Great Backlash.
Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?
A satirist might dismiss the above quote from President George Bush with the quip that, since he took office in January 2001, a growing number of Americans have turned to prayer!...
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