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Lyndon LaRouche: Issue is Still The Physical Economy, Stupid!

"The U.S. and the world are facing the greatest financial crash in history," Lyndon LaRouche declared on Nov. 3, in the wake of Democratic Presidential contender John Kerry's concession speech to President George Bush. "By the inauguration date, the economic, financial, and security crises will be hitting this country and the world, full force, and the Bush Administration is thoroughly unprepared to deal with any of it. Had John Kerry been elected President, there would have been a possibility of stopping this onrushing series of crises. Those who voted for Bush and Cheney will now bear the consequences of what they did."

On Nov. 4, Lyndon LaRouche issued the following statement on the 2004 elections for New Federalist newspaper's election coverage:

"By the standards of the present world system, the U.S.A. under the just-reelected President George W. Bush, Jr., is bankrupt. Under his fanatically stubborn policies, it is hopelessly bankrupt, and will be plunged into the relevant deep, global, chain-reaction collapse very soon. There will soon be widespread grave doubts, even among U.S. "fundamentalists," that the voice which that President has said he has been hearing, is that of the Creator.

"However, President George W. Bush might soon have very painful reasons to wish he had not been elected. The next President of the U.S. may absolutely rely on the rapid arrival of a bankrupt economy, a virtually bankrupt U.S. government, and no signs of a let-up in the tidal waves of troubles he never thought were possible, hitting Washington, D.C., from all around the world.

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Lyndon LaRouche gave two lengthy post-election radio interviews, Nov. 4 and 5. Here are the transcripts.

LAROUCHE TAKES A SUBLIME LOOK AT A VERY DANGEROUS WORLD - AFTER THE VOTE ON NOV. 2 -
Lyndon LaRouche was interviewed by Jeff Rense on his nationwide Internet/radio program, late in the evening on Nov. 4, 2004.

LAROUCHE TELLS STOCKWELL SHOW: NOV. 9 WEBCAST WILL START - - WITH YOUTH CHORUS SINGING BACH'S 'JESU MEINE FREUDE'

Lyndon LaRouche was interviewed by Jack Stockwell on KTKK radio in Salt Lake City Utah, on Nov. 5, 2004.

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This Week in History

November 8 - 14, 1794

A Daring Attempt To Rescue Lafayette from Prison

On Nov. 8, 1794, a young German doctor and an American medical student joined forces in an unsuccessful attempt to free the Marquis de Lafayette from an Austrian prison. Lafayette and two fellow prisoners—all three, former members of France's Constituent Assembly—were famous throughout Europe and America as "The Prisoners of Olmutz," unjustly imprisoned by the monarchists of Europe, after they had fled from Robespierre's Reign of Terror in France.

A little more than two years earlier, Lafayette had been in command of the French Army on the northern frontier, poised to repel an invasion by Austria and Prussia. The early phases of the French Revolution, led by Lafayette and Jean Bailly, had established a constitutional monarchy, but the crowned heads of Europe were determined to return France to an absolute monarchy. This was important to accomplish before any such "dangerous" constitutional notions, so recently displayed by the independence of the United States, could spread to the rest of Europe. To this end, they played a double game. While royal armies threatened invasion and the royalist party in France desperately blocked any moderate solution, Great Britain trained, and then backed Marat and Danton, the leadership of the radical Jacobins who would destroy France from within.

The moderates were still in power in France, but the Jacobin Clubs were urging soldiers to murder their officers, and were blocking supplies from being sent to Lafayette's army. Erich Bollmann, the same young doctor who would try to rescue Lafayette, was training at hospitals in Paris at the time, and wrote, "The Jacobins hate LaFayette because he is the only man that can withstand them. They preach his murder in the streets."

On June 16, 1792, Lafayette wrote to the French Assembly, denouncing the Jacobin Clubs and encouraging the Assembly to use its powers under the constitution to prevent the destruction of the nation. He described the Jacobins as "organized like a separate empire, with its headquarters and its branches, blindly directed by ambitious chiefs, which sect forms a separate and distinct corporation in the midst of the French people, and usurps the powers of the people, by subjugating their representatives and their servants." The Jacobins subjugated the representatives in the Assembly through fear—Jacobin control of the Paris mobs was well known, and they could be targetted against anyone who was denounced as being a traitor to the republic.

Trying to find some way to maintain the constitutional republic, Lafayette rode to Paris and addressed the Assembly, but, terrified by the mobs, it refused to act. When a bill of impeachment against Lafayette was entered on Aug. 8, the moderates were still strong enough to defeat it by a vote of 446-224, but the queen and the nobles opposed any plan he proposed to save the constitutional monarchy. Queen Marie Antoinette said that she and the king did not want to owe their life to Lafayette twice, and the nobles averred that although they knew Lafayette would try to save the king, he would not save the titles of the nobility.

From outside France, the monarchists added to the rage of the Jacobin mobs. The Duke of Brunswick issued an insulting proclamation which stated that if Paris did not submit to Louis XVI, then the monarchist allies would "take exemplary vengeance, memorable forever, delivering up the city of Paris to military execution and total overthrow." On Aug. 10, when Lafayette had returned to the front, the Paris Commune took over the French Government, slaughtered the Swiss Guards who defended the king, and made the royal family their prisoners. Lafayette considered marching to Paris with the loyal part of the army, but other generals refused to go with him, as Jacobin influence in the army was becoming stronger.

On Aug. 17, the French Executive Council decreed that Lafayette should transfer his command to another general and come to Paris to answer charges. On Aug. 19, he was charged with rebellion and treason, a price was put on his head, and pledges were given to bring him to Paris dead or alive. In this impossible situation, Lafayette took some of his officers with him and rode north to the border, intending to sail to America from Holland. His group was intercepted by the Austrians, and Lafayette was imprisoned under Prussian control, first at Wesel on the Rhine, and then at Magdebourg on the Elbe.

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Feature:

Our Economics Policy: Animation and Economics
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
October 14, 2004
Foreword
It was not the 1929 stock-market crash which elected President Franklin Roosevelt. It was the collapse of the U.S. economy by approximately one-half, a collapse caused by the austerity policies of President Herbert Hoover over the October 1919-February 1933 interval, following that crash. Hoover's austerity policies paralleled those of his contemporaries, those Bru¨ning and von Papen governments of Germany which paved the way for Hitler's coup d'e´tat. Roosevelt rejected such austerity measures, and thus saved the U.S. from the fascist dictatorship in the U.S.A. which would have been soon virtually inevitable, had Hoover been re-elected.


Economics:

An Influenza Pandemic Summit Is Called by Alarmed WHO
by Colin Lowry
The current influenza vaccine shortage shows just how unprepared the United States and the world is in dealing with a global flu pandemic. The looming threat of a new and very lethal avian influenza—that has already infected 44 people in Asia— mutating into a form that can spread easily from person to person, prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to call an unprecedented influenza summit meeting of health officials and vaccine companies, announced on Oct. 30, to take place in Geneva, Switzerland on Nov. 11.

Camdessus' Austerity: No Solution for France
From Our French Bureau
As many have feared for years, in the absence of any serious change in French economic policy, the 'shock therapy' of the International Monetary Fund has finally been invited into France, in the form of the report submitted Oct. 19 by Michel Camdessus to Nicolas Sarkozy, the Minister of Economics and Finance. With this, we are offered the spectacle of a France reduced to the status of a developing country and forced, like a developing country, to accept the destruction of its economy and its labor force, for the profit of the financial markets and the banks which determine the economic policy of nations.


International:

German Economist Backs FDR, Calls For New Bretton Woods
An Interview With Prof. Dr. Heiner Flassbeck
The economist Prof. Dr. Heiner Flassbeck was Germany's deputy finance minister in 1998-99, during the early phase of the first Schro¨der government, and is now chief economist of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), based in Geneva. Flassbeck has become known for his strong attacks on the European Union's deflationary Maastricht Treaty, now strangling Europe's economies, and his public calls for a 'New Bretton Woods,' a 'multilateral international monetary system with fixed exchange rates.'

European Union:
New Constitution Is 'One Big Time-Bomb'
by Gabriele Liebig
This article was translated from Neue Solidarita¨t, newspaper of the LaRouche movement in Germany.
Prof. Dr. Hans R. Klecatsky teaches constitutional law at the
University of Innsbruck. From 1966-70, he served as Austria's Justice Minister. He is a highly regarded expert in the field of constitutional law, and over many decades has lectured and published books on the subject. He is also an experienced politician, having, among other things, served as Justice Minister of the Republic of Austria. In early October, we at Neue Solidarita¨t asked him for his evaluation of the so- called 'EU Constitutional Treaty,' which virtually all European politicians have been praising in public, while their actual views are in fact quite different.

Interview: Gen. Harold Bedoya (ret.)
'I Had Hoped LaRouche Would Be the U.S. President'
On Oct. 27, Colombia's Gen. Harold Bedoya (ret.) gave the following telephone interview to EIR's Ibero-American Editor Dennis Small. Formerly Commander of the Colombian Army, General Bedoya formed his own political movement, and ran for President, on a program of fighting the narco- guerrillas and developing the country, after narco-owned President Ernesto Samper Pizano forced him to retire in 1997.

Synarchists Regorganize Ground Troops
The merger of two biggest radical right-wing parties in Germany could lead to German-Turkish clashes and other violence.
by Rainer Apel
...In an attempt to keep their public political record clean, the DVU and the NPD have (unlike synarchist-backed right-wingers in Italy and Spain) distanced themselves from Adolf Hitler and the worst crimes of the Nazi period, and try to give the impression that they want to achieve their proclaimed 'national revolution' by peaceful means only.


National:

LaRouche: It's Still The Physical Economy
by Nancy Spannaus
'The U.S. and the world are facing the greatest financial crash in history,' Lyndon LaRouche declared on Nov. 3, in the wake of Democratic Presidential contender John Kerry's concession speech to President George Bush. 'By the inauguration date, the economic, financial, and security crises will be hitting this country and the world, full force, and the Bush Administration is thoroughly unprepared to deal with any of it. Had John Kerry been elected President, there would have been a possibility of stopping this onrushing series of crises. Those who voted for Bush and Cheney will now bear the consequences of what they did.'

Secret Bush Prisoner Transfer a War Crime
by Edward Spannaus
In what many legal experts view as a serious war crime, the United States secretly transferred a number of prisoners out of Iraq over the past 18 months, so that they could be interrogated and tortured, out of the sight of any authority, including the International Red Cross.

Eye on Washington
by William Jones
Boykin Pleads Ignorance on Guantanamo

Known for his crusade against Muslims, the general wants to strengthen the Pentagon's role in intelligence-gathering. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Gen. William G. 'Jerry' Boykin is no stranger to controversy. In fact, controversy has been a constant companion to this Christian fundamentalist warrior in U.S. Army green, presently holding one of the most important posts in the military intelligence community. In one of his rare public appearances on Oct. 26, at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army, Boykin flatly denied that he had any knowledge of what transpired at the incarceration depot at Guantanamo, Cuba. One expected at any moment that his nose, like Pinocchio's, would start growing, but any such movement was not noticed by this observer, who had posed the question to that zealous crusader.


Books:

Reviving Roosevelt's Commitment to Our Constitution's General Welfare
by Nancy Spannaus
The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever
by Cass R. Sunstein
New York: Basic Books, 2004 294 pages, hardcover, $25
There are several reasons for recommending this new book by Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein. The first, and most important, is that it will be the first introduction most Americans will get to a remarkable speech, and conception, by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, called the 'Second Bill of Rights.' The second is the brilliant way in which Sunstein pulls the legal rug out from under the 'don't tax me' zealots of laissez faire. The third is the historical review which Sunstein provides of the influence which FDR's 'second bill' had, especially internationally.

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