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Ducking the Issue!
David Walker's Sleight of Hand
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
March 9, 2007
GAO Comptroller General David Walker is a straight shooter when it comes to accounting, but at what is he actually shooting?}
The entire week-to-date, beginning with CBS-TV on Sunday, March 4, and continuing through the featured account in the Washington Post of Friday, March 8, has enjoyed the high-impact appearances of U.S. GAO Comptroller General David Walker's widely circulated sophistry: Walker's presentation of a persuasive, factually precise, but essentially fraudulent representation of the essential economic threat menacing the soon-to-retire U.S. Baby-Boomer generation.

Walker's set-piece, beginning with a March 4 CBS-TV presentation, stated: "What's going on right now is we're spending more money than we can make...we're charging to our credit card...and expecting our grandchildren to pay for it...."
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This Week, You Need To Know

London Spreads Blood and Gore
by an EIR investigative team

On the weekend of Feb. 24-25, 2007, as former Vice President Al Gore was wet-dreaming about his pending Academy Award for his fractured fairy tale "documentary," An Inconvenient Truth, about his battle to save the planet from "global warming," TV financial market analyst Jim Cramer was answering a question about the prospect of a Gore Presidential run in 2008, on MSNBC's Chris Matthews' "Hardball." Never one to mince words, Cramer dismissed the idea that Gore would take another stab at Presidential politics: "No," he said. "He's really a hedge fund manager now. No one leaves that game."

Indeed, Cramer was right—at least on the first count. In November 2004, Al Gore and David Blood launched a London-based investment fund, Generation Investment Management, which insiders affectionately refer to as "Blood and Gore"—and not without reason. Blood, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, brought a small team of former Goldman Sachs personnel with him to the London fund, assuming for himself the job of managing director. Gore took on the Chairmanship of Generation, bringing along his long-time Senate chief of staff, campaign manager, and business crony, Peter S. Knight, as another founding partner....

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Feature

Ducking the Issue!
David Walker's Sleight of Hand
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
U.S. Comptroller General David Walker is presenting 'a persuasive, factually precise, but essentially fraudulent representation of the essential economic threat menacing the soon-to-retire U.S. Baby-Boomer generation.'

London Spreads Blood and Gore
Al Gore and his partner David Blood launched a London-based hedge fund in 2004; two years later, Gore became an advisor to the British government on 'climate change.' And that's just the beginning of the story of treason, intrigue, and corruption.

'An Inconvenient Truth': British Global Psy-Ops

The 'Greening' of Jeb Bush

Implications of the Gore Hoax for International Policy
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. delivered this keynote address to a LaRouche PAC webcast from Washington, D.C. on March 7. We include the discussion period, in which he reminded listeners repeatedly that 'we are running out of time' to cut out the petty politicking and move to reorganize the bankrupt global financial-monetary system.

Science

CO2: The Greatest Scientific Scandal of Our Time
Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., reviews the overwhelming scientific evidence that demolishes the global warming lies.

Economics

Carry Trade, U.S. Mortgages: The Global Financial System Is Burning at Both Ends
The shrinking yen and Swiss franc carry trades, and the imploding markets for U.S. mortgage-backed securities, have become the hammer and anvil of a disintegrating international financial system which has been blown up by larger and larger debt bubbles ever since the October 1987 stock market crash.

International

Copenhagen Riots Open New Phase of 'Strategy of Tension'
The rioting that engulfed Copenhagen on the night of March 1, and continued for several days, was only the opening campaign under the cover of the terrorist 'Anti-G-8 Summit' movement. Its purpose is to create a Europeanwide climate of violence, terror, and political assassination.

Of Locusts and Foot Soldiers
By Helga Zepp-LaRouche,
chairwoman of the Civil Rights Solidarity Movement (Bu¨So) in Germany.

Argentina Keeps on Growing, and Growing, and Growing
President Kirchner opened the new session of Congress with a stirring overview of how far his government has come in restoring the general welfare, since the economic collapse of 2002 under his pro-IMF predecessors. Documentation: Excerpts from the President's speech on March 1.

Brazil Still Carrion for the Carry Trade

National

Overdue Bill of Impeachment Against Cheney May Be Coming
In the wake of the conviction of Vice President Cheney's former Chief of Staff Scooter Libby, there is a promising groundswell toward impeachment.

Murtha Now Rove's Target: How Low Will Karl Go?

Cheney's Iraq War, Privatization, and BRAC Behind Walter Reed Scandal

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