As this collapse of the present world monetary-financial system hits, soon, the continuation of a civilized existence of all the nations of this planet, for generations to come, will depend upon the courage and wisdom which must be shown now by the government of our United States, in providing the needed initiative for halting the presently onrushing collapse, and conducting a general economic recovery throughout the planet.

So, this Fourth of July has presented itself as the appropriate occasion on which I should now summarize that needed set of decisions. If we have the wisdom and will to make that timely decision, future generations of humanity, world-wide, will praise us for what we have done. Therefore, I, personally, can assure you now, as I respond to what President Franklin Roosevelt did on an appropriate occasion, that we must be at peace with ourselves as we face this oncoming storm, knowing that we have nothing to fear as much as that fear itself. The solution for this crisis is clear to me; for me, the principal questions which remain unanswered are: whether the U.S. government will adopt that solution, and whether the leading nations of Eurasia will accept that remedy, if or when we introduce it....
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Memo on London Scenario:

THE DIRT-BIKE TERROR INCIDENT
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

July 9, 2005
Certain features of the context of the London terror incidents of this past week are now clear. The following preliminary characterization of the matter to be investigated, which I have slugged as "The Dirt Bike Terror Incident," is now clear. Beyond that characterization much remains muddy, pending further investigation. Despite the unsettled points to be clarified by pending, newly obtained evidence, the characterization of the circumstantial strategic evidence already on hand is clear enough to define the nature of the required investigation to the following effect. I name that investigative hypothesis "The 'Dirt-Bike' Terror Incident."
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Memo on The 25th Amendment:

ON GROUNDS OF INSANITY?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

July 9, 2005
Does the 25th Amendment provide anything more than a procedure for impeachment? Does it cover the case in which either the President is insane and the Vice President is playing the role of an accomplice? Does it cover the situation in which the President's disability is an immediate threat to the continued existence of our constitutional form of republic?
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This Week in History

Victory at Stony Point Forces a Change in British Plans

July 12 - 18, 1779

The Battle of Stony Point, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War fought in the Northern states, was not only a military victory, but a moral one. It was planned and executed in response to a vicious policy by the British Crown which consciously targetted American civilians in order to terrorize them into submission. The American response was purely military, but its sheer audacity and brilliance of execution forced General Sir Henry Clinton to reevaluate his strategy.

This battle's story begins in 1778, when the signing of America's treaty of alliance with France caused Britain to shift the theater of the Revolutionary War to the Southern states. The move was made in order to facilitate a rapid deployment of troops to and from the British islands in the Caribbean, where the French fleet also had bases.

Sir Henry Clinton, commanding the British forces in New York City, was ordered to send 5,000 of his troops to the British island of St. Lucia, and to dispatch another mixed force of British, Hessian, and Tory soldiers to capture Savannah, Ga. Taking stock of what he had left, Clinton matured his plans. The ill-fated British attempt to split the colonies in two had been defeated at Saratoga, but Clinton still dreamed of capturing West Point, which George Washington regarded as the key to the continent.

If Clinton could capture and hold West Point, a projected chain of British posts from there southward to New York City could effectively check the flow of men and supplies from New England to the Continental Army. New England was responsible for providing the core of the American army, as well as important food and materiel for the troops. At this point, an order arrived from King George III and his Minister, Lord George Germain, which ordered the British Army to plunder, burn buildings, and ill-treat civilians in order to awe them into submission.

Clinton saw in this order a way to lure George Washington out of the mountain fastnesses of the Hudson Highlands and engage the Continental Army in a head-on battle. First, he would put the British Army in a position to attack West Point. On May 30, 1779, Clinton personally led an expedition up the Hudson, capturing the two small American posts at Stony Point and Verplanck's Point, only a few miles below the entrance to the Hudson Highlands. Then, he set his men to work building heavy batteries to control both the river and the surrounding land. The British posts were backed up by ships of the British Navy which had sailed up the Hudson.

Now it was time for the second phase of Clinton's plan. Under his command was William Tryon, an experienced army officer who, when he had served as Royal Governor of North Carolina, had been dubbed "The Wolf" by his suffering subjects. Subsequently, Tryon had been appointed Royal Governor of New York, but he had sought safety on a British ship in New York Harbor when the Revolution began. Now he was itching for revenge, and had already vented his spleen against Greenwich, Conn. by leading a force of 1,500 British and Hessian soldiers which plundered the inhabitants of everything valuable.

Leading another such expedition out of New York on July 3, Tryon in the course of just over one week devastated the Connecticut coast. His attack force plundered New Haven on the 5th, burned East Haven on the 6th, destroyed Fairfield on the 8th, and plundered and burned Norwalk on the 12th. While Norwalk was in flames, Tryon consciously imitated the Roman Emperor Nero by sitting on a nearby hill in a rocking chair, rejoicing over the scene of devastation. He later boasted about his gracious clemency in allowing a few houses on the Connecticut coast to remain standing.

The Americans felt bound to answer such lawless behavior by the British Army, but General Washington did not react the way Clinton had hoped. Washington concentrated his forces at strategic positions in the Hudson Valley in case Clinton should try a direct attack on West Point, and moved his headquarters upriver to New Windsor. Then, he began to plan the recapture of Stony Point.

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