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Published: Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004

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Pinochet and Pinocchio:
President George 'Enron' Bush Lies About 'Enron II'

by Paul Gallagher

The following article is from the upcoming pamphlet put out by LaRouchePAC, entitled "Bush's Social Security Privatiation: A Foot-in-the-Door for Fascism."

RECOGNIZE THE LIES OF WALL STREET AND BUSH ABOUT THE PRIVATIZATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY:

Lie No. 1: "President Bush never said 'privatization.' He just wants to strengthen Social Security. His opponents are using scare tactics."

TRUTH: That was for the suckers during the election campaign, who thought George W. Bush was their personal lord and savior. He lied about it scores of times, then came out in the open demanding privatization after Election Day. Each member of his Commission on Social Security had been hand-picked in 2001 on the condition of being a supporter of privatization of Social Security.

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LAROUCHE ON UNCORKING THE HIDDEN PROMISE IN AUSTRALIA, — BECAUSE 'THE BATTLE FOR CIVILIZATION IS ON NOW'

Here are Lyndon LaRouche's keynote remarks and the subsequent dialogue with the Australian cadre school, Dec. 17, 2004.

LYNDON LAROUCHE: Who's there?

CRAIG ISHERWOOD: Hello Lyn, it's Craig Isherwood down here, and I'm with Doug Mitchell. Doug Mitchell is going to moderate the whole panel with you this morning—or this afternoon or this evening your time. So I'm going to head over to him straightaway.

We'll make sure that everyone who speaks, speaks loudly and clearly. That's the watchword, guys: When you ask questions later.

DOUG MITCHELL: Hello Lyn. It's great to have Australians given the opportunity to enjoy your actual unique insight into the strategic situation. Again, we're here on the beach, to celebrate an Australian Christmas, LaRouche-style.

So, without any further introduction, I'd like to introduce the greatest living human being on the planet, today: Lyndon LaRouche.

LAROUCHE: Okay, I shall go ahead.

Now, there are three topical areas or subject areas I shall cover in the presentation to you now. And I'm doing this in the manner, which is determined by the fact that this is a very important moment in history. And we're not in regular touch, for various reasons, largely my schedule and whatnot. So therefore, I thought I'd give you a summary which might have some durability, and general usefulness for the entire developments of the period. And for reference over the weeks ahead, when I shall be doing various things. And I hope what I say today will help you to understand more readily, in the future, what I mean, when I do certain things.

Now, the three areas I want to take is, first the fact that there is a global phase-shift currently in progress. This means in general, that the rules of behavior and the rules governing what you can expect as responses, now, are different, and are rapidly becoming more and more different, than they were some weeks ago. So therefore, you can not use the rules of interpretation you would use to judge events, say, several weeks ago, say somewhere back around September or the summer, and apply them to the situation which is rapidly changing now.

The second thing, I want to indicate our role as an international organization, especially my role in this particular situation. And that's crucial.

And then, thirdly, what I want to do is, to get to the point, having covered the two previous areas, to point out where, from my knowledge, Australia comes into this picture, in the functional sense.

So, let me start with the question of what this global phase-shift currently in progress, entails. Of the three things to say, about what this Bush's Pinochet Plan is, what that means: The question is, who actually won the U.S. election? Which is not as clear, as the international press might imply. Thirdly, the fact that the system which is now, the collapse in progress is unstoppable. Nothing will prevent the biggest monetary-financial collapse of the world system, currently in progress, from stopping, as long as the system exists.

This is a finished, dead system. The IMF/World Bank system, and so forth, as we know it today, is dead. It's just a matter of when we bury the thing. And the only remedy is a new system. Until a satisfactory, new system comes in, then this collapse now ongoing will become worse and worse at an accelerating rate.

Now, what has happened recently, as you may recall some years ago, when Augusto Pinochet, the former, longstanding dictator from about 1973 to 1990 of Chile, was interrupted in his retirement where he was residing at the moment in the United Kingdom, by a judge from Spain, who raised the question of a war crimes/crimes against humanity charge and trial against Pinochet in Chile. Pinochet went to Chile, but temporarily at least about two years ago, evaded the prosecution, the process of trial on these charges, because he was diagnosed, according to the opinion of a court who dealt with that at that time, as having subcortical mental deficiency: unable to stand that kind of trial.

What has happened recently, and it happened in the same context as a very disorderly visit by U.S. President George Bush to Chile recently, in which, again, the indictment came out freshly. Now, the coincidence here, which is crucial, when I say about "Bush's Pinochet Plan," is that Bush, for some time, and people who advise him for a longer time, have intended to, in a sense, loot and destroy the U.S. Social Security system. And the model which Bush was using for the United States, is the form of social security system, which the Pinochet government installed in Chile about 1980—in connection with people like George Shultz.

This is the big issue.

Now, what we're dealing with, is this: We have, not only the spread of the Chile Pinochet Plan into the United States, or the attempt at insertion of it; we also have an attack on Peru, where a similar raid on the social welfare system is occurring there; we have a similar process in progress in Mexico. We have, in France, under the extremely radical right-wing ministration, under Chirac—that is, this is not Chirac's policy as such, this is the policy of Sarkozy, who is a wild-eyed neo-con, of the type you don't want in your neighborhood. But, he's now the head of the party, the electoral party, of the present government, and he is running wild, and he has ideas, which are very much like those of Pinochet—especially in the economic area. At the same time, we have in Germany, Hartz IV, which is a total, cruel destruction of the German social welfare system, now in progress. We have similar unpleasantries in Italy.

So, this is not simply about the U.S.A. or Chile. This is an international pattern, and it coincides with something else: It coincides with the fact that the Pinochet administration and the coup that brought Pinochet to power, in 1973-75, was part of what was called Operation Condor. Operation Condor was a—well it was really a Gestapo SS-type of murder operation, using people, as a core, who had been exiled from Nazi Germany via Spain, into the Americas. They were part of what was called the "ratline" of Nazis, wanted Nazis (or not-wanted in one sense, but "wanted" in the other) who had successfully found niches for their existence, in Bolivia, such as the case of Della Chiaie from Italy who was a Nazi; in Chile, and in Argentina.

And as you may recall, from the early 1970s, there were thousands of deaths of disappeared people, under a torture and murder operation, run by these Nazis, called Operation Condor.

In Operation Condor, then-dictator of Chile Pinochet was a key figure. Also a key figure was, of course, Henry Kissinger who was then Secretary of State; and also, more significantly than Kissinger, was George Shultz, who is the key figure of what was called the "Chicago Boys" who set up the whole package, including the Pinochet dictatorship and the Pinochet looting of the social security system of Chile.

Now, the social security system installed in Chile is now going under, it is now collapsing. It's finished. It's bankrupt, essentially. And it never really did pay people. It paid only a limited number of people. It was a skim-off. In other words, the government of Chile was bailed out, by looting the previously existing social security system of Chile. And this was used to prop up, during the 1980s, a shaky government of Pinochet, on the verge of collapse.

This plan is what George Bush and Co., with George Shultz and Co. behind them, is trying to push through, in an emergency crash basis in the United States right now. What George is planning to do, knowing that the system is collapsing, that the U.S. is about to go under in bankruptcy, is proposing to loot the Social Security system of the United States, to the tune of trillions, in order to get some apparent capital, financial capital, to stave off what is otherwise the imminent, general collapse of the U.S. financial situation: That is, a deep depression of the United States, which of course would mean a deep depression worldwide.

And that's where we stand.

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Feature:

John Train: Portrait of an 'Economic Hit Man'
by Jeffrey Steinberg
José Piñera, the former Minister of Labor and Mining in the fascist regime of Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, and the architect of that country's wholesale theft of workers' pensions, has friends in high places in the Anglo-American Establishment, despite his role in a regime vilified worldwide for war crimes.


Leading Developments:

Social Security Privatization Is A Foot-in-the-Door for Fascism
by Nancy Spannaus
Dec. 20 (EIRNS)—"If the Bush Administration succeeds in ramming this and related measures through, we no longer have a government that the people of the United States control. We will then be under a fascist-style of dictatorship.

LaRouche Spurs Broad Fight Against Bush's Election Theft
Special to New Federalist
Dec. 22 (EIRNS)—"We've got them dead to rights on violations of Federal law, on Voting Rights Act violations," said Lyndon LaRouche Dec. 16, in discussing, on a Cincinnati, Ohio radio show, how the Republicans stole the Nov. 2 Presidential election, and how the incoming Bush-Cheney Administration can be brought down for it.

Global Financial Firestorm Poses Choice: LaRouche's Plan or Fascism
by L. Wolfe
Dec. 24 (EIRNS)—As President George W. Bush retreats from reality to the safety of his "bunker" in Camp David, the mother of all financial firestorms is about to engulf the world's financial system.

Rebellion against Rumsfeld builds both in and out of the military
by Carl Osgood
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (EIRNS)—The campaign to oust Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has gone into high gear over the past week, as a growing number of members of Congress from both parties are calling on President Bush to fire him.

Dems Use LaRouche War Manual To Stop Bush Fascism
by Michele Steinberg
Dec. 21 (EIRNS)—The Democratic Party in the Senate and the House has thrown down the gauntlet against the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney White House, and the "one-party" dictatorship the Republicans put in place with their use of phony terrorist alerts, scare tactics, and lies to control the population, and lock the country in a nightmare of "perpetual war."

Arrogant Schwarzenegger Preparing Murderous Cuts
by Harley Schlanger
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 (EIRNS)—It did not take long for the wheels to fall off the souped-up Hummer known as the Schwarzenegger Administration in California.


National News:

Bush Economic Summit Targets Social Security
by William Jones
Dec. 20 (EIRNS)—The White House Economic Summit on Dec. 15-16, which had been announced as the President's effort to "get input" into a proposal for eliminating Social Security and introducing drastic austerity cuts, was basically Snake-Oil Salesman Bush's Travelling Road Show. Just like Dr. Feelgood, to convince the public his dope will cure what ails you, Bush had the crowd salted with shills to sing the praises of his snake-oil.

Military medical system also overstretched by the Iraq war
by Carl Osgood

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (EIRNS)—The New England Journal of Medicine, in its Dec. 9 issue, presented still more evidence that the number of American troops killed in Iraq, 1,300 as of Dec. 21, is deceptively small.

Where Will O'Keefe Resignation Leave NASA?
by Marsha Freeman
Dec. 20 (EIRNS)—When NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced on Dec. 13 that after three years he would be leaving the space agency, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said this was "not unexpected." It certainly caught everyone else by surprise.

Is Key Social Security Privatizer Covering Up Huge Time Warner Scandal?
by L. Wolfe
Dec. 23 (EIRNS)—Last week, Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, one of the key people pushing the privatization of Social Security, delivered an important address at the White House Economic Summit. Parsons, as co-chairman of the President's commission on Social Security "reform," will reportedly play a major role in drafting the legislation for the "Enron II" heist of the trillions in the Social Security Trust Fund.

Secrets Buried in Bush Intelligence Reform Bill
by Carl Osgood
Dec. 21 (EIRNS)—There are secrets buried in the intelligence reform bill that President Bush signed into law on Dec. 17—the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, S. 2845. While the new layer of bureaucracy that is created by the bill is the talk of Washington—especially whom Bush will name to become the Director of National Intelligence—very few are talking about some of the most egregious police-state provisions in the bill.


World News:

When will the Administration Admit That the U.S. is Losing Iraq?
Special to New Federalist
Dec. 22 (EIRNS)—The spectacularly bloody assault by Iraqi insurgents at a U.S. Army mess hall in Mosul yesterday, provided ghastly proof that the critics of the illegal U.S. invasion of Iraq were right: The occupation is creating a broader resistance by the day, and ensuring that the occupying army can never pacify that nation. Clearly, if the U.S. cannot provide security for its own troops, it cannot provide it for its Iraqi collaborators.

Swedish Pension Funds Have Already Been Stolen
by Erol Curmak and Ulf Sandmark
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 23 (EIRNS)—While President George W. Bush and his Wall Street friends ready their heist of America's Social Security funds, the Swedes have long since had their once-proud program privatized and its funds stolen. They were suckered into it by a television ad campaign that told them that they would all become millionaires if they went along with the Swedish variant of a privatization scheme.

EIR Exposes Hit-Man Operation Vs. Mexico Development
by L. Wolfe

Dec. 23 (EIRNS)—The devastating poverty of Mexico that continues to drive millions of its citizens across the U.S. border in search of jobs, is directly attributable to efforts led by bankers' thug and former Secretary of State George Shultz, and others, to sabotage economic growth in Mexico.

Peru follows Chilean Model of Looting Through Pension Privatization
by Valerie Rush and Manuel Hidalgo
Dec. 21 (EIRNS)—In obedience to the international financial circles that run the International Monetary Fund and creditor banks which hold Peru's purse strings, the Peruvian Congress last month approved a Chilean-style "reform" of the country's semi-privatized pension system, whereby all retirees from now on will have no choice but to place their social security payments into private pension funds known as AFPs. The already-gutted state-run pension system has now been left to die a quick death.

Taiwan's People Seek 'One China'
Special to New Federalist
Dec. 21 (EIRNS)—The victory of Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party and its allies in the Dec. 11 parliamentary election, in which the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DDP) of President Chen Shui-bian not only failed to win a majority, but lost even more seats to the opposition, provides powerful evidence that the people of Taiwan will not support President Chen's provocative plan to declare independence from China.

European LaRouche Mov"t Leads Fight Vs. Fascism
by Our European Correspondents
WIESBADEN,Dec. 23 (EIRNS)—Just as the LaRouche movement is leading the fight against bankers' fascism in the U.S., Lyndon LaRouche's European co-thinkers have taken on that responsibility on this continent. A series of events in the last three weeks laid out the organizing perspective—the state of the battle and what must be done to win.


Science and Technology:

Huygens Ready to Pierce Titan's Veil
by Marsha Freeman
While many of us are enjoying our family and friends this Christmas Day, a few dozen scientists and engineers around the world will be anxiously awaiting word from a spacecraft more than 800 million miles away. They will hope to hear that a little probe has been sent on its way, toward a close encounter with Saturn's moon, Titan.

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