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Published: Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004
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Volume 3, Issue Number 44
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(*link to October 27, 2004 LaRouche PAC-sponsored event in Cleveland, Ohio)
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Here is Lyndon LaRouche's keynote, via video teleconference, to a LaRouche PAC town meeting in Cleveland, Ohio on Oct. 27, 2004. The event was also broadcast over the Internet, and linked to a satellite event in Washington, D.C.
Just to set the stage, I am asking our people to put on a short video, which I think you will find stimulating, and enlightening. [Video begins with a picture of Bush and Cheney, captioned: "Would You Buy a Used Car from These Men?," and moves through the political and economic failures of their Administration to the overture of Rossini's "Barber of Seville."]
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The subject tonight is to deal with something that most people don't understand, and to begin to let the American population and politicians understand this thing, they must understand now: We are in the worst financial collapse in world history, that is, in modern, known history. Very soon, a matter of weeks or, at most, a couple of months, this entire system will collapse. For example, the U.S. dollar will probably fall to about $1.50 cost per euro.
We're going to the bottom. We're facing a general collapse of the housing market, which means that the so-called nominal value of housing will drop to a fraction of what it is presently. The tendency is to lose jobs more rapidly than ever before. This is happening.
Now, how do we deal with this? In general, the rule is, as Kerry said in a Wilkes-Barre, Penna., address some time ago, we have to go back to Franklin Roosevelt's approach to deal with a depression.
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This Week in History
November 1 - 7, 1932
Roosevelt, Hoover Offer Clear Choice In 1932 Presidential Campaign
On Nov. 5, 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt closed his campaign for President with a speech at Madison Square Garden in New York City. His opponent, the incumbent President Herbert Hoover, had spoken in the same location five days earlier. The difference in philosophical outlook between the two men was striking, and offered a clear choice to the American people.
Hoover had become an American celebrity after World War I, praised as the "Great Engineer," who had overseen relief efforts in war-torn Belgium. Although he was orphaned early in life, he had managed to accumulate a small fortune, by means of what he viewed as hard work and individual responsibility. His perspective on the "American System," which he cited often in his speeches, was that the greatness of America depended on rugged individualism and decentralized government.
Therefore, Hoover did not believe that government action could or should be used to end economic depressions. By "letting nature take its course," he had greatly magnified the effects of the stock-market crash of 1929. This policy was more than agreeable to his murderous Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, who advised Hoover: "Let the slump liquidate itself. Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.... It will purge the rottenness out of the system."
Therefore, in his State of the Union address on Dec. 2, 1930, President Hoover had told the Congress and the country that "Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic bodythe producers and consumers themselves. Recovery can be expedited and its effects mitigated by cooperative action. That cooperation requires that every individual should sustain faith and courage; that each should maintain his self-reliance; that each and every one should search for methods of improving his business or service; that the vast majority whose income is unimpaired should not hoard out of fear but should pursue their normal living and recreations; that each should seek to assist his neighbors who may be less fortunate; that each industry should assist its own employees; that each community and each state should assume its full responsibilities for organization of employment and relief of distress with that sturdiness and independence which built a great Nation." Hoover insisted that relief for the unemployed must be locally and privately financed.
By 1932, local municipalities and states were finding it absolutely impossible to organize enough employment, or to relieve the distress of millions of undernourished and homeless American citizens. Joseph Heffernan, the Mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, wrote a magazine article in May of 1932 which described that city's battle to help its citizens and called for Federal intervention to restore the economy: "Never had Youngstown suffered such a shock to the spirit which had made it one of the great industrial centres of the world.... Another winter was approaching. The numbers of the unemployed had increased and suffering had grown acute. Many heads of families had not earned a penny in two years. Landlords clamored for their rents and sought evictions.... Thousands of the city's water bills were unpaid, and officials were torn between their desire to be charitable, their fear of disease if the water were cut off, and the city's urgent need of money. Property owners could not pay their taxes, and delinquencies became appalling.... As in Cleveland, we adopted the slogan, 'Pay your taxes, so the hungry can be fed,' and the words meant just what they said, for by this time the private charities were swamped, desperate, and bankrupt."
Yet despite the widespread suffering, the President transformed the Constitutional principle of promoting the general welfare into a call for "self-help." In his speech at Madison Square Garden, Hoover claimed that "our opponents ... are proposing changes and so-called new deals which would destroy the very foundations of our American System." Continuing his microscopic view of humanity, he dropped his earlier reference to people as "the cells of the economic body," in favor of talking about a society that was "absolutely fluid in freedom of the movement of its human particles." The President claimed that any expansion of government expenditure to reverse the depression and relieve suffering was nothing but "yielding to sectional and group raids on the Public Treasury," and announced proudly, "This I stopped."
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Feature:
The Coming Indictment Of Dick Cheney And the Neo-Cons
by Jeffrey Steinberg
As we go to press, Americans are preparing to vote in the Nov. 2 elections. Regardless of the outcome of the Presidential race, during the immediate days and weeks ahead, Dick Cheney will finally be facing the music. The Vice President has presided over one of the most corrupt Administrations in American history, and the proximity of the Presidential elections has postponedbut not quasheda string of Federal grand jury and Congressional probes of the Vice President and his neocon allies in the Pentagon and in his own 'shadow national security council,' housed in the Office of the Vice President, and headed by Cheney's chief of staff and alter ego, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby.
Documentation: The Levin Report Cheney, Feith Are Hit On Iraq Exaggerations
A 46-page report issued by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), in his capacity as Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, shows how a small group in the Defense Department (DOD) abused rules concerning Congressional oversight and classified information, to insert 'dubious' intelligence reports about the 'relationship' between Iraq and al-Qaeda, to further the Bush Administration's predisposition for war against Iraq.
Cheney and Addington Are at Front And Center in Torture Scandal
by Edward Spannaus
Whether Dick Cheney is in, or out, of the Office of the Vice President after Nov. 2, the prisoner-torture scandal that emerged around Abu Ghraib, and which now also encompasses Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, is not going to disappear as a national and international issue. To restore America's moral standing in the world, it is urgent that those Administration officials responsible for this infamous policy be prosecuted under the U.S. Federal War Crimes Act and other laws. At the top of the list of those to be indicted, should be the name of Dick Cheney.
Conference Report:
'End the Occupation!' Say Palestinian Christian Bishops
by Edward Spannaus
At an extraordinary gathering in Washingtonwhich presented a dramatic counterpoint to the ravings of the Christian Zionists which dominate the Bush Administrationfour of the leading Christian Bishops in Jerusalem forcefully and repeatedly raised the demand for an end to the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and for justice for all PalestiniansMuslims and Christians alike. Also set forth, was the demand that the United States stop using its veto in the UN Security Council, particularly in regard to the World Court ruling on the illegality of the Separation Wall now being built by the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon.
- Documentation: Occupied Palestine: Slow Genocide Policy
Since 2002, the Ariel Sharon government in Israel has ignored more than six United Nations Security Council resolutions, including the formal adoption of the 'Road Map,' the plan drawn up by the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations Secretary General, and adopted by both the Palestinian National Authority and the Sharon government. These resolutions called on Israel to cease its policy of 'closure' of the Palestinian territories, to withdraw military forces, and to cease civilian casualties.
Economics:
IT'S NOT JUST FLU
Weakening U.S. 'Herd Immunity' Means More Infectious Threat
by Marcia Merry Baker
For several years running, health experts internationally have warned that the world is overdue for another influenza pandemic; that is, we should be expecting a new mutant strain of flu to come along, that will hit on the scale of one of the three 20th-Century global flu pandemics1918, 1957, and 1968. Ignoring these warnings, the U.S. government has not only allowed the takedown of medical care delivery infrastructure as suchhospitals, public health staff, reserves of vaccines, etc.but in the course of that policy, has contributed to the declining 'herd immunity' of the U.S. population at large.
Bush/Cheney Cut Health Budget in Vaccine Crisis
by Paul Gallagher
While deploying Health Secretary Tommy Thompson across the country in the last pre-election week to reassure governors and state health officials that 'there is no flu vaccine crisis,' President George W. Bush was angrily contradicted by a growing chorus of health experts, and by events on the ground.
Germany's Crisis in Employment And Investment Can Be Solved
by Lothar Komp
...I have to tell you the truth: Yes, there is some prosperity left, but all this prosperity was produced by institutions like the industrial Mittelstand [small and medium-sized enterprises], under economic policies which are now being abandoned and destroyed. Exactly that is taking place, because something like the industrial Mittelstand simply cannot work in a world of globalization, in a world of cutting investments in infrastructure and investments in the corporate sector, and also in a world where the living standards of private households are shrinking rapidly...
International:
Peace in Israel-Palestine Depends on U.S. Election
by Dean Andromidas
As this article is being written, Southwest Asia faces three developments that will have radical implications for whether war or peace reigns in the region. First, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, the symbol of the Palestinian nation for over four decades, lies on what is feared to be his deathbed. Second, the Israeli Knesset's approval of the first draft of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan for an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, promises to lead to more bloodshed in the Occupied Territories, while perpetuating the ongoing political crisis within Israel itself. Third, and most important, are the United States Presidential elections.
Neo-Cons Threaten The Philippines
by Michael Billington
Dana Dillon, who covers Southeast Asian military and security issues for the neo-con-friendly Heritage Foundation, was provided space in the Wall Street Journal on Oct. 7 for a commentary which opened a frontal assault on Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. This marks a dramatic shift, since the Arroyo Administration was previously one of the Bush Administration's closest supporters in Asia. In 2002, the Heritage Foundation served as midwife to a deal between Donald Rumsfeld's Department of Defense, and the former Philippine Secretary of Defense, Gen. Angelo Reyes, in forging a U.S./Philippine 'Defense Policy Board,' aimed at legitimizing U.S. military combat operations in the Philippinesdespite explicit restrictions against it in the Philippine Constitution.
Mussolini Rehabilitated By Synarchists in Italy
by Claudio Celani
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National:
LaRouche Organizers in Ohio For FDR-Style Recovery
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The Bush Presidency: An Article of Faith
by Dr. Justin Frank
Dr. Justin Frank, M.D. authored Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, published by HarperCollins. On Oct. 25, he responded to aNewYork Times Magazine feature on President Bush, by Ronald Suskind, with the article we reprint in full below. Suskind's Oct. 17 article, 'Without a Doubt,' was an expose´ of the President's fanatical fundamentalism. Even before 9/11, Suskind says, Bush's inner circle was tightening; he displayed a 'bullying impatience with doubters and even friendly questioners.' By the Summer of 2001, Bush was telling his followers: 'Have faith in me and my decisions, and you'll be rewarded.' After 9/11, it got worse.
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