The LaRouche Connection

Program Summaries: 2006
677-690

Updated August 17, 2007

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Program No. 677
"Keep that Fascist Alito off the Supreme Court!"

On January 11, Lyndon LaRouche delivered a major address in Washington, DC, sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), and webcast live internationally via the internet in both English and Spanish. Introducing Mr. LaRouche and moderating the discussion session was Debra Hannania Freeman.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, initially intended as a discussion of rebuilding the looted U.S. economy, but instead focusing on the urgent task of providing the U.S. Senate with the intelligence and guts to defend the nation from takeover by forces espousing NAZI ideology, and with the immediate emergency task therefore, of mobilizing the nation to defeat Samuel Alto’s nomination to a seat on the Supreme Court.

LaRouche: "What I’m thinking today, as I worry about what’s happening in the Senate today and tomorrow, will they capitulate and let this Alito pass? If they do, the existence of this nation is in jeopardy. Everything hangs on it. Often in the course of events, you come to a battlefield where you must win the war on that battlefield. That battlefield will not decide history as such, but the outcome of that battle will determine whether you can decide history or not."

"As a great American patriot once said, "These are times that try men's souls." These are grim times. We have presently going on, in the Senate, a hearing of a man who lies: Sam Alito. The man's a liar. He's a member of the Federalist Society, which is a society assembled around the ideas and influence of a man, Carl Schmitt, who crafted the Adolf Hitler administration. Carl Schmitt, who lived in this country for some time, and influenced the formation of a Federalist Society, which now controls four of the nine Justices of the Supreme Court. And a fifth member of the Federalist Society, who, lying his head off up there on Capitol Hill, is about to be confirmed! And you would have five, out of nine Supreme Court Justices prepared to endorse a fascist government in the United States! And you have Senators who should have more guts, who are waffling, or being weak, in dealing with this fact. There is no honest debate about bringing Adolf Hitler and his tradition into the government of the United States! Most of the Americans are becoming extremely angry about this situation. But some people who at other times are leaders, in the moment of crisis, when men's souls are tried, grim events grip them, and for the sake of learning to get along with the enemy, they compromise. And then, they are compromised. And then, our system of government is compromised. That is grim!"

In the course of his discussion, Mr. LaRouche revealed, in an ironical twist of family history, that he is not only related to the infamous Lizzie Borden, but also Marilyn Monroe, and George W. Bush!

Later, as part of his discussion on the Republican Idea of the Untied States, and its subversion, Mr. LaRouche presented a powerful computer-animated series of charts of a summary of a study conducted by EIR staff, entitled "From Industrial Powerhouse to Death Zones: A Case Study of Post-Industrial Decay," on the City of Baltimore, as a paradigm for the spread of disease, illustrative of what’s happened in many parts of the country.

"We're going to have to change as a nation. We're going to have to change the way we approach things, into looking at things in this way. To look at the changes, county by county, election district by election district, neighborhood by neighborhood, over a period of two generations or so. And try to understand lawfully, what the interactions are, within society, which determine this. We're going to have to take Baltimore, and we're going to have to save it. But Baltimore is only an aspect of a national problem of similar situations: We have to save the United States!

[For an on-line transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, visit www.larouchpub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings." For a complete transcript, including the discussion session, see Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 33, No. 3, Jan. 20, 2006, pp. 4-35.]

Release Date: January 16, 2006

Program No. 679
UAW Local President: "LaRouche’s Solution Will Work!"

On March 21, UAW Local 969 President Mark Sweazy was interviewed in studio for The LaRouche Connection. Mr. Sweazy has worked at the Delphi plant in Columbus, OH for 29 years, chairing for 6 years the sub-council for UAW members at 21 Delphi plants across the country. He’s been a civic leader in Ohio for decades.

Conducting the interview were two LaRouche Youth Movement leaders: Cody Jones from Los Angeles, CA, a member of the Democratic Party Central Committee of L.A. County, and Vice President of the recently-founded Franklin Roosevelt Legacy Democratic Club; and Jennifer Chaine from Washington DC.

The last two minutes of the program consists of a promo for our next edition, entitled "Auto and World Economic Revival," and includes a video clip of Lyndon LaRouche: "What do we have to do to preserve this republic and to further the well-being of humanity as a whole through our existence?"

The following is a slightly abridged and somewhat paraphrased presentation of the interview.

Q: How did you get into the LaRouche Movement?
A: I got a phone call in January 2004 from one of your female organizers in Pennsylvania, telling me that there were some things on the horizon for the auto industry that I ought to be aware of. I traveled to Washington to hear Mr. LaRouche discuss a possible bankruptcy of General Motors--something I was completely unaware of.

Q: What has been the response of fellow union workers since your involvement with LaRouche?
A: They support my efforts. Upon my return from Washington in February 2004, I spoke at a union meeting, telling what I had learned about the possibilities, but no one wanted to believe it. They questioned what I said, but gradually, especially after Delphi filed for bankruptcy, the workforce has begun to believe me. To fix the problem, it won' be through negotiations, or give-backs.

Q: How has the response been to getting your fellow workers to see the larger picture?
A: We can’t negotiate a settlement which will address the larger problem.

Q: Most of the UAW workers who came with you to Washington are nearing retirement age. Are there any younger workers being trained?
A: Yes, but will there be enough and trained for the right work? Probably not.

Q: Can you address the fact that workers in China, etc. are working at lower pay levels than U.S. workers?
A: Overseas plants have state-of-the-art equipment, unlike in the U.S., where its 20-30 years old. But foreign quality is lower than ours. Why are we stuck building auto parts, whereas we could be building anything? This all has to do with investment decisions.

Q: How have you been affected by President Franklin Roosevelt’s legacy out there in Ohio?
A: I was never trained or prompted to think about things in this way before Mr. LaRouche pointed all this out. I’m afraid the country is in the hands of those who don’t know about what FDR did to save the nation then. Emigrants from Mexico today just want to work. There are no jobs for highly educated graduating youth in Mexico. Mexico City has 30,000 taxi drivers! Ask any emigrant: "Are you happy being here in the U.S.?" and they will say: "No!" They would prefer to go home, were there opportunities to work in Mexico. Globalization has wrecked both the U.S. and Mexico We hope someone in Congress will act to save the country.

Q: What response are you getting from official Washington?
A: Talented people with their hands on their ears. In denial. Won’t hear us.

Q: The LaRouche Youth Movement is circulating a pamphlet on FDR’s legacy for the purpose of educating Congress and others. What would you go into Congress with to educate them?
A: The LYM within the larger LaRouche movement are showing not only great abilities, but also dedication and sacrifice to better themselves in order to help others to better the country. I’d tell Congress to take a look, to be part of the solution, not the problem. I could only repeat what the LYM has already said first.

Q: What are the prospects of retraining and retooling for maglev and nuclear power facilities?
A: We have the capabilities, the intelligence, and the research facilities. But, we’re losing them, by relying on other countries to do this work. Once lost, these capabilities can never be retained. I’m just a small individual, but I must raise my voice so others can see the solutions, act, guide, and direct.

Q: Would it be a smooth transition from auto production to nuclear plant production?
A: We did it for World War II--from cars to planes. We can produce anything.

Q: What organized efforts are planned?
A: At their National CAP Conference, the UAW called on Congress for a "Marshall Plan" for the auto sector. Senator Hillary Clinton has called for an "Auto Congress". But I don’t yet see sufficient action to prevent GM and Ford from declaring bankruptcy. When you lose your major industry in a community, it is never the same.

Q: Can you speak more on that? What about service jobs replacing producer jobs?
A: With every 100 hundred autos produced, there are 27 directly-related jobs. Then there are indirectly related jobs--small shops, schools, health facilities, etc. When a major industry is lost to a community, everything spirals down. With Katrina, the government has yet to put those affected communities and families back together.

Q: Recently President Bush visited Cleveland, and said that it is the most livable city in the U.S. Is that true?
A: Maybe his remark was intended as a complement, but it shows bad judgment, just as his mother, commenting on the Houston Astrodome, as a hospitable place after Katrina. Bad judgment.

Q: Your plant has gone from 5000 to 700 workers. What do people think is behind the layoffs. Who do they blame?
A: We’ve been told we can’t compete, but we’ve allowed the corporation to exit the work that was traditionally ours. We’ve made concessions year after year, but the answer is always the same from the company: "Not good enough." Then we’re slammed in the media, who’ve never worked in an auto plant. We’re among the highest productive workforce in the world and make the highest quality products, but we can’t survive on the standard of some foreign workforces, and further cuts won’t be accepted by our workers.

Q: What’s your vision for the next 50 years?
A: I can only be hopeful that someone in our government will pick up the baton in this race. The solution will take several generations to resolve. I’m 55, so I won’t be around in 50 years, but if I can’t say there was a solution, then the 200 years of history of this country will all have been in vain.

Q: Sounds like the intention of top management such as Miller at Delphi and Wagner at GM, is to wipe out the entire workforce. It looks like the real solution lies not in reference to particular companies, but in the political arena. How do you address your union leaders about what they need to be doing?
A: We need to cure our economy, by putting our people back to work. I don’t have the solution, but I know what’s worked in the past, and it can work again now.

Release Date: May 1, 2006

Program No. 680
"Automobile & World Economic Revival"

In late April, the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC) released a one hour DVD documentary called "Auto and World Economic Recovery," as a tool to mobilize Congress to save the U.S. automobile industry capacity and workforce, by retooling to help build vitally needed economic infrastructure. This edition of The LaRouche Connection is a slightly shortened version of that documentary, edited for Public Access TV.

The documentary shows how such a retooling was done on the initiative of the United Auto Workers (UAW) at the outset of World War II, to make auto plants "The Arsenal of Democracy," as Detroit was dubbed; how UAW President Walter Reuther proposed at the end of the war, to convert back again to civilian production to build railroads and housing; and Lyndon LaRouche’s proposal today, to use idle capacity and idle workers to repair and build the high-tech new infrastructure the nation sorely needs: bridges, water and power systems, high-speed rail, schools, hospitals, etc.

The documentary includes archival footage from Franklin Roosevelt’s Presidency. In only a four-month period during the winter of 1933-34, nearly 4 million jobs were created in public works, and millions more throughout the decade. Clips from webcast addresses by Lyndon LaRouche in 2005, calling for action on the same principle, and specifying how this can be done, through Federal "receivership powers," stress that the machine tool capacity embodied in the automobile sector, now threatened with almost total shutdown, must be preserved, or the U.S. will cease to exist as a sovereign industrial nation.

Interviews of a number of Midwest UAW leaders, taken in February, describe the deepening devastation being brought about by the shutdown of the auto industry, but how a "New Marshall Plan" for auto could take shape. Featured are UAW Presidents Oscar Bunch (Local 14, Toledo, OH), Joe Joseph (Local 1970, Dearborn, MI), Marty Green (Skilled Trades Rep., Caledonia, MI), along with Wayne County Commissioner Phil Cavanaugh. Michigan State Rep. LaMar Lemmons, III speaks about the destruction of Detroit, and Ohio Rep. Catherine L. Barrett (Cincinnati) scores job losses.

The documentary also features an extensive set of statistical animations and maps, to make real the nature of the decline of the Upper Midwest over the past 40 years. Not just auto plants, but all industries, agriculture, urban and rural live have deteriorated, as shown, county-by-county, in terms of falling ratios of basics per capita and per unit area, such as electric power provision, rail service, hospital bed availability, water supplies, education, and so on.

The documentary’s concluding section, "A New National Infrastructure," outlines, with color animations, some of the priority projects that must be undertaken today: high-speed rail, including magnetic levitation; advanced flood protection; and most essential, nuclear stations for power and water desalination.

Release Date: May 15, 2006

Program No. 681
"The Philippines: An Indictment of Globalization"

On May 23, Mike Billington of Executive Intelligence Review magazine’s Asia Desk, and Dennis Small, EIR’s Ibero-America Editor interviewed Antonio "Butch" Valdes. Mr. Valdes was Under Secretary of Education under former President Estrade; currently hosts a weekly radio show in Manila; and has headed the LaRouche Society in the Philippines for 20 years.

As the world heads into the worst financial crisis in history, with governments facing a general breakdown crisis, the impact of these events on the Philippines and the unique potential of the Philippines, as a former Spanish colony (very different from other countries in Asia), as a transmission belt into Asia of some of the best--and worst--ideas coming from Western Europe, to help to resolve this crisis, is the subject of the interview.

Discussed is the foreign and local debt service situation, which has led, over the past so many years to a nation of 84 million with about 15 million (18%) going hungry, and over 43% at the official poverty level (earning less than $1 a day). Today, about 8 million Filipinos now work abroad, creating a situation where millions of families have only one parent at home, and in many cases both the mother and father of the children are out of the country trying to earn a living, thus creating a debilitating demographic situation of broken homes, drug problems, juvenile crime, etc.--all in order to gain the resources to pay the debt.

Opposing globalization as such is the Philippine LaRouche Society and its local movement, the Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino (League of Filipino Democrats), countering the "dumbing down process" which everyone has been subjected to, by making sure everyone understands that the real issue has to be the economic one, that the only way out of the poverty is to recover the ability to produce again.

[For a complete transcript of the interview, see EIR magazine, Vol. 33, No. 22. June 2, 2006.]

Release Date: June 15

Program No. 682
"Times That Try Men’s Souls," Pt. 1

On June 9, Lyndon LaRouche addressed the nation and the world from Washington, DC, in a video webcast sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC) on the urgent necessity of moving the Congress to enact a legislative initiative he has put forward entitled the "U.S. Economic Recovery Act of 2006," to save the U.S. economy in general and our vital machine-tool capability in particular. In order to understand the value of this measure, however, trade unionists, politicians, and ordinary citizens must internalize a broader strategic view of history, especially the role of the "Synarchist International" is playing both inside our government, the unions, and inside both major parties.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. Introducing Mr. LaRouche was Debra Freeman. Also addressing this event [but not covered in this program] with a message of hope and encouragement, was Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson, civil rights heroine and vice chairwoman of the Schiller Institute.

Characterizing himself as the "best economist in the world," and a long-term forecaster who has never been wrong, Mr. LaRouche began his remarks by asserting that "there is no hope for the United States, if the Congress walks away from this session and goes out and campaigns to a population that hates it increasingly…." The truth is that "the entire international financial system could collapse by approximately September of this year, or even earlier. It will happen. I don’t make mistakes in these matters." "We’re on the edge of a Dark Age for all humanity, unless we make certain changes."

Mr. LaRouche then launched into the history of the U.S.--what we are and why--and why a certain Felix Rohatyn, protégé of pro-Nazi kingpin of the Lazard Freres organization in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s Andre Meyer, and now chief architect of the destruction of Delphi Corporation, among other crimes, is out to destroy our country. This led to a discussion of the destructive cultural influence of Sophistry imposed on ancient Athens, and today, on the so-called Baby Boomer generation--why the Synarchists hate the United States.

Mr. LaRouche then turned to the heart of his presentation: the machine tool principle. "The last bastion for recovery of this economy, depends upon the machine-tool capacity of the nation, largely represented today in science (which is almost non-existent and largely forbidden), but otherwise located in the automobile industry."

"The machine-tool sector has two aspects to it: in design, in which you take the same principle you apply in a laboratory to test and prove a fundamental physical principle of nature, and you design an apparatus to test for the accuracy of your estimate that a certain universal principle is operating out there in the universe; and when you go back into the factory and have the machine tool designer take the lessons of a successful proof of principle experiment and apply it to industry-—to produce better products, new kinds of products, to produce improvements in technology, to increase the productive powers of labor, to raise the standard of living. That’s what Roosevelt did, with his program for rebuilding the nation, in preparation for World War II and beyond."

And that is what we must stop from being destroyed.

"We can do it! but we have to be willing to do it. We have to commit ourselves to the action of doing it! That’s our problem. Its an old problem. Its a problem of civilization in general."

Mr. LaRouche next went after the Baby Boomers, pointing out they never learned the difference between man and monkey, and proceeded to define the difference.

"You have three categories of existence on this planet, and in the universe as we know it. One are things and processes we call "non-living processes." They’re the subjects of ordinary chemistry. Then you have the chemistry of processes, which we call living processes, or products of living processes. How, even though the so-called elements, or chemical elements involved in the two kinds of processes, living and non-living, or formerly living, are the same chemical elements, according to the Mendeleyev Periodic Table, they’re not the same processes. Because living processed deal with the same elements differently, than non-living ones. The planet is becoming increasingly more and more a residue of living processes and less and less a residue of non-living processes. Life is taking over the planet. Then, you have human beings. Human beings do not have a fixed relative population potential. Animals do. Humans are able to change their societies’ relative population potential. Because of discoveries of universal physical principles, made by individual minds, shared with other minds, mankind is able to increase its power in the universe, especially on Earth. In a sense, we never die, because the contributions we make to mankind, while we live, are a permanent asset of mankind, a permanent source of the improvement of mankind, and leads mankind to the kinds of powers he should have, in order to find what man’s role in the universe at large is." This is our morality.

Our agony must be our concern over the lack of development of our fellow human beings, and their lack of access to make a useful contributions to humanity. And that is what is being taken away from us from the likes of Felix Rohatyn.

"Those people who were not brought to account for their role in bringing the Hitler menace into existence, those are the people who are trying to destroy the United States today. And the Rohatyn phenomenon is a symptom. Rohatyn may not wear a swastika, but he should. If you like Rohatyn, you must love treason."

[For a complete transcript, including Mrs. Robinson's remarks, and the Discussion Session, see EIR magazine, Vol. 33, No. 24. June 16, 2006. Pp. 4-35.]

Release Date: July 1, 2006

Program No. 683
"Times That Try Men’s Souls," Part 2

On June 9, Lyndon LaRouche addressed the nation and the world from Washington, DC, in a video webcast sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC) on the urgent necessity of moving the Congress to enact a legislative initiative he has put forward entitled the U.S. Economic Recovery Act of 2006. In order to understand the value of this measure, however, trade unionists, politicians, and ordinary citizens must internalize a broader strategic view of history, especially the havoc the fascist "Synarchist International" is wrecking both inside our government, the unions, and inside both major parties.

Part 1 featured LaRouche’s opening remarks. Part 2 features Mr. LaRouche’s answers to three questions from the discussion session, moderated by Debra Freeman. Preceding this, however, Ms. Amelia Boynton Robinson, civil rights movement heroine and vice chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, gave a short, but uplifting message, peppered with jokes. She reported how happy she was about the activities of some LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) organizers she had invited to organize in Tuskegee, Alabama where she lives, and concluded with the statement that "You can’t go to Heaven, unless you know how to live on this Earth!"

Following Mrs. Robinson, is a 3-minute clip of a choral rehearsal of the East Coast LYM, which took place in Boston on June 15, conducted by John Sigerson. The piece is Trotz dem alten drachen (Despite the Old Dragon) from S. S. Bach’s motet Jesu, Meine Freude.

From the Discussion Session:

Former Sen. George McGovern: He sent a message about a bill he had sponsored when he first entered the Senate, called the Economic Conversion Act of 1963, which called for workers in each factory to discuss with Congress how to convert their World War II vintage machine tools into peacetime uses in agriculture, industry, and infrastructure. With the escalation of the Vietnam War, the bill faded away, but were it to have passed, "it would have become a normal precedent for government-labor-industry cooperation, and would have averted the kind of crisis we are faced with now."

Someone at the Brookings Institution, who’s associated with the new Hamilton Project there: "The choice between globalization and strong national economies represents a choice between two diametrically opposed philosophies of political economy…. Why must each nation produce adequate food, energy, and other such necessities within their own borders? Can’t we move to a kind of rationalization of the global economy, and live happily and healthy?"

A Democratic Party strategist in Washington: "In a somewhat informal discussion among leading Democratic strategists, it was proposed that what you’ve laid out in your recent piece on FDR’s Legacy, as well as on the Economic Reconstruction Act, be incorporated into our party platform for the upcoming Congressional elections. I’m less optimistic about the possibility of getting action before the 2006 elections."

The Democratic side of the aisle in the U.S. Senate: "Is it possible to effect positive policy initiatives as long as Bush/Cheney remain in office? We could pass the Economic Recovery Act, and Bush could sign it, and issue a Presidential signing statement, like he does with everything else, and still do absolutely nothing."

[For a complete transcript, including Mrs. Robinson’s remarks, and the Discussion Session, see EIR magazine, Vol. 33, No. 24: June 16, 2006. Pp. 4-35.]

Release Date: July 10, 2006

Program No. 684

"Times That Try Men’s Souls," Part 3

On June 9, Lyndon LaRouche addressed the nation and the world from Washington, DC, in a video webcast sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC) on the urgent necessity of moving the Congress to enact a legislative initiative he has put forward entitled the U.S. Economic Recovery Act of 2006. In order to understand the value of this measure, however, trade unionists, politicians, and ordinary citizens must internalize a broader strategic view of history, especially the havoc the fascist "Synarchist International" is wrecking both inside our government, the unions, and inside both major parties.

Part 1 featured Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. Part 2 featured a portion from the discussion session, moderated by Debra Freeman; a short, but uplifting message by Ms. Amelia Boynton Robinson, civil rights heroine and vice chairwoman of the Schiller Institute; and a 3-minute clip of a LaRouche Youth Movement choral rehearsal of the Trotz section of Bach’s motet Jesu, meine freude. Part 3 continues the discussion session.

From a Senate Democrat: "Although it would be naïve to think that the recent offers made to Iran have erased the danger of an early military assault, they do seem to represent some change in policy direction. Do these offers represent a policy shift, and if so, is there something of substance behind it, or is it simply a tactical retreat by an embattled administration?"

From a House Democrat: "President Bush, Tony Blair, and Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have all hailed the death of al-Sarawak as a critical victory in the war in Iraq. That would seem to be true if our principle enemy in Iraq were indeed al-Qaeda. Many others have pointed out that the nature of the conflict in Iraq has now moved not to a war against terrorism, but a full-fledged civil war. I’d like your overall assessment of that situation. Would you call it a civil war? I know you have proposals of your own in the area, but we are right now looking at Sen. John Kerry’s call for withdrawal by the end of the year. Do you think that there is any viability to his approach?"

Jack Mallory (Organizer, Painters & Allied Trades Dist. Council 15, Henderson, NV): "Many of the Bush Administration’s economic policies resemble what Felix Rohatyn did in New York City in the mid-1970s. Rohatyn and company developed recommendations to the incoming Bush Administration, including the slashing entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. It appears that there is a connection between Rohatyn and the Bush family. Perhaps it comes via their old Skull & Bones buddies Harriman and Rothschild. Please comment."

From a number of House Democrats: "Your supporters have repeatedly ridiculed the various ethanol/alternative fuel proposals. I’m sure you are aware that this is on the way to becoming part of the Democratic Party platform. Would you please explain why you are so opposed to this?"

From someone in the House: "You have long warned about the impending possibility of the bursting of the housing bubble. All information we have received these last few weeks, suggests that process has now begun. Our expectation is that the summer months are likely to bring dramatic events in this area of the economy, that will affect hundreds of thousands of American families. Right now there is nothing on the table to address this, and the Democratic leadership argues that it is an issue more appropriately addressed by the states. Some of us disagree, and believe that a problem of this magnitude requires emergency Congressional action. Do you agree, and, if so, what do you suggest we do right now?"

[For a complete transcript of the webcast, see EIR, Vol. 233, No. 24, June 16, 2006, Pp. 4-35.]

Release Date: Aug. 5

Program No. 685

"LaRouche: July 20, 2006 Washington Webcast"

"The world economic-financial system, and much of the political system at the same time, is presently in the process of collapse. And for that reason, because there’s a correlation between what’s going on in southwest Asia, and what’s going on in India, what was going on in the context of the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg, in Russia, we’re on the verge of a condition tantamount to the Guns of August of 1914 and 1939. Now. We’re not looking at a war of the type we would class as World War I or World War II. We’re talking about something worse, not less dangerous. We’re talking about the danger of a general disintegration of global civilization."

With these words, Lyndon LaRouche begins his opening remarks of an international video webcast on July 20, transmitted from Washington, DC worldwide over the internet, with simultaneous translation in Spanish. In the webcast, Mr. LaRouche develops the principle theme that the common objective of the Anglo-Dutch Liberals and French Synarchists in launching both the first and second of the three world wars now being considered, was to eliminate the American System from the equation of global strategy. In both cases, the British regime was forced to accept rescue by U.S. military power, however reluctantly. This time, the purpose of the waves of warfare is the destruction of the essential elements of modern civilization altogether.

Mr. LaRouche shows that, even at this late date, solutions exist to escape such a catastrophe. The facts of impending disaster having been presented to leading circles in the U.S. Congress and elsewhere, the U.S. Senate in particular, "why has the Congress behaved like a bunch of braying asses," asked Mr. LaRouche. And he answers: "Its because they’re Baby-boomers."

Mr. LaRouche then conducts his audience through a history lesson, going back to the World War II period: Roosevelt vs. Churchill; the Truman policy tearing apart what Roosevelt had promised, which was elimination of Imperialism and Colonialism; and how those now at the centers of power have been brainwashed by the sophist influence of the Congress of Cultural Freedom.

Mr. LaRouche believes civilization can be saved, however, and the way to do that, is to re-introduce real economics "as a moral issue, an issue of personal morality, which most people lack." The difference between man and ape. He then speaks about the importance of understanding discoveries of universal physical principles, referencing Keller’s unique discovery of the principle of universal gravitation, and the value of going through the experience of such creative discoveries, habitually, which defines us as human.

The Nazi Felix Rohatyn is evil, therefore, not because of what he has stolen, but because he has made himself immortally, intrinsically evil. Because he has dedicated himself to the destruction of humanity, just exactly like the group behind Hitler. He represents a process, a movement, which has continued to exist in the Venetian tradition, which has determined to create what is called a globalized world order, in which must of society is destroyed, in which the world is run by syndicates of bankers, like himself.

Mr. LaRouche concludes by challenging his audience, and especially the U.S. Senate, to take moral responsibility to do what is essential to save the nation, and deal with the financial crisis, and asks for their permission to lead this effort.

[For a complete transcript of the webcast, including the Discussion Session with Mr. LaRouche, see EIR, Vol. 33, No. 30, July 28, 2006, or visit www.larouchepub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings."]

Release Date: Sept. 15

Program No. 686
"LaRouche: Bring Back the Axioms of FDR!," Part 1

"The cycle of world history which is coming to a close during the current months, began with the April 1945 death of President Franklin Roosevelt." And we will never free ourselves from the disastrous effects of this cycle of history, "unless we can get up on our hind legs, and say, ‘Stop being monkeys; we are going to change the world system now.’"

With these words, Lyndon LaRouche began his opening remarks to a September 6 LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC) sponsored conference from Berlin, Germany, linked by video teleconference to an audience in Washington, DC, and by the Internet to gatherings all around the world.

Mr. LaRouche reports that FDR’s death was a tragedy for the world, as the devolution of American policy in the intervening years has shown, leading to the current global financial-economic breakdown crisis, and the eruption of asymmetric warfare, provoked by the financier oligarchy’s " clash of civilizations" policy.

Mr. LaRouche then offers a perspective for the future, if we, as a civilization, can repudiate the failed axioms of the past 61-year cycle. The prospect of a 50-year effort to develop the infrastructure of Eurasia, drawing on the advanced machine-tool capabilities of Europe and the United States, would wipe out the current disgusting system of "shareholder value" hedonism, and crushing global poverty and disease. In place of a Hobbesian world of perpetual war, we would institute the principles of the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the 30 years War in Europe.

[For a complete transcript of the webcast, including the Discussion Session with Mr. LaRouche, see EIR, Vol. 33, No. 37, Sept. 15, 2006, or visit www.larouchepub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings."]

Release Date: Sept. 27

Program No. 687
"LaRouche: Bring Back the Axioms of FDR!," Part 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the concluding 15 minutes of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, in which he discusses today’s corrupt, practical, and ugly culture, and what would constitute a truly beautiful one; plus the first 45 minutes from the two-hour discussion session.

From the Discussion Session, moderated in Berlin by Jessica Trembley, and in Washington by Debra Freeman. Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum, Senior Advisor to EIR introduced many of the questions.

Prof. S.G. Luzyanin, Institute of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences; specialist on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; expert on security in Central Asia: On Mr. LaRouche’s proposals for large-scale infrastructure project in Eurasia ,"I fully support this approach that Mr. LaRouche takes, and his basic conclusions."

Prof. Ma Jaili, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, and expert on India: "How to evaluate the substantive cooperation in the future among China, Russia, and India? Will the development of this cooperation play a positive role in preserving regional and global stability?"

Dr. Philipp Jenninger, president of the German parliament 1984-1988: "Will a deepening cooperation between Europe, Russia, China, and India change the relationship between Europe and the USA?"

From an economic policy taskforce at the Brookings Institution, Washington: "Over the course of the next two weeks, a series of critical economic conferences will be occurring both here and abroad. Our expectation is that those gatherings will either publicly or privately acknowledge the danger of systemic perturbations resulting in seismic changes in global finance and economy. It is also our expectation that U.S. delegates to these gatherings will insist that the remedy lies in the intensification of the policies that brought us to this point…. At the same time, there is a growing recognition in the U.S. that globalization has not only failed to serve the benefit of the developing sector and of emerging economies, but that it has not worked for us, either…. For those of us who are part of the Washington policy framework, but who are not in government, how do we most efficiently shape our activity to address this situation?"

Release Date: Oct. 16

Program No. 688
"LaRouche: Bring Back the Axioms of FDR!," Part 3

Part 1 of our coverage of this historical event featured the first 58 minutes of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. Part 2 featured the concluding 15 minutes of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, plus 45 minutes from the discussion session. Part 3 features another portion of the discussion session.

From the Discussion Session, moderated in Berlin by Jessica Trembley, and in Washington by Debra Freeman. Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum, Senior Advisor to EIR introduced the greetings and messages received from high-level personalities in China, Malaysia, and Russia.

Message from Prof. Dai Lunzhang, former chief economist of the Central Bank of China, and first vice president of the China International Economic Relations Society: "Is it really possible in the present situation to go to a system with fixed-currency parities?" On what new political basis could a New Bretton Woods type [monetary] system play? What role would the United States play?

Message from Prof. Su Jinxiang, director of the Center for Globalization Studies, China Institute for Contemporary International Relations: "If a sudden collapse of the dollar, and of the international financial system, is coming, what can China do?"

E-mail from the [LaRouche Youth Movement] encampment in Mexico City: "Lopez Obrador proposes a revolution of conscience. How can one help that proposal? What can we do? How could Mexico make an economic change, and restructure the institutions in the sense that he is saying, if the global situation doesn’t change? In fact, can it? Back in June, you said that Mexico per se could not generate credit. Could you please develop that idea for us a little more?

E-mail from the Senate Democratic Caucus: "There is a heated debate among those of us who represent the Democratic leadership in Congress, as to what our priorities should be in the immediate aftermath of the November elections, should we gain control of either or both Houses. Some are arguing that we should move immediately to roll back the most damaging legislation enacted by Bush-Cheney and replace it with a positive, innovative agenda designed to begin the necessary process of reconstructing what we’ve allowed to decay, and indeed to proceed to build anew. Others argue that our priority must be to begin an in-depth investigation of the violations of law by Bush-Cheney, with an eye toward impeachment. Please give us your thoughts on this." (more…)

Message from Vladimir Borisovich Isakov, vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, and who works directly under the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Yevgeni Primakov, former Prime Minister of Russia: Submits the text of a statement by Primakov on his new book, Confidential: The Mideast On Stage and Behind the Scenes, on the history of the current problems in Southwest Asia and the international events around it, and asks for LaRouche’s comments.

Lt. Col. Chaman (Ronny) Datta (ret.), member of the Foreign Policy Association, and president of the Indian Veterans Officers Association of America: "In the historical process of the demise of the British colonialism, the end of the Cold War, and grand upsurge of militant Islam, is America the only superpower now turning to be the new colonial power in Asia and the Middle East? Is the abject failure of its foreign policy that though "Islam" means "peace," all the avowed terrorists are all Muslims?"

Message of Greeting from Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Message from Prof. Oleg Kuznetsov, President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and rector of Debna University; and colleague, Prof. Boris Bolshakov: "In our view, a new monetary financial system should include key elements of the original Bretton Woods system, as well as kilowatt-hours as a universal measure of value."

Message from Yuri Kropnov, an expert on education and also nuclear energy: "We believe it is necessary to organize a world coalition for industrial development right away." He is taking the initiative to form a coalition in Russia, and asks what Mr. LaRouche things about creating a world coalition for industrial development.

Message from Prof. Stanislav Subbotin, from the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow: On the issue of the isotope economy--the necessity of high-quality energy on a large scale to solve world political and economic reforms or problems. "Practically all crises are fundamentally intellectual in nature."

Message from Academician Dmitri Rundvist, head of the Vernadsky State Geological Museum in Moscow: A kind of revolution in geology is going on, with the discovery of new qualities of large and super-large deposits. "These discoveries have fundamentally altered our conceptions about the limits of strategic mineral raw materials in the world." The problem to be overcome is to create the adequate international cooperation, the necessary large-scale infrastructure investments, and the cooperation that will overcome the problem of the inhomogeneous distribution of raw materials in the world.

Program No. 689
"Organizing the Recovery From the Great Crash of 2007," Pt. 1

"None of the well-meaning, leading financial authorities, and economic authorities, in the United States, or in Western Europe, or in the world at large, have any conception of how to solve the presently onrushing international financial-monetary and physical crisis. None! I do! Now, in this case, therefore, it is my job to state frankly what that solution is, and to identify the nature of the problem to which this remedy, this medicine, is to be applied, in order to cure the sick patient."

On November 16, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a Washington, DC audience of over 220 on the nature and seriousness of the crisis facing the nation and the world, and the solution, which no one other than himself either has or has the courage to put forth. The November 16 event, sponsored by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC) was web cast live over the internet with simultaneous translation into French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Among the various "satellite" showings: a group in Paris, five locations in the Mexican Congress and environs; one university in Mexico; four universities in Bolivia; five universities in Peru; two universities in Argentina; plus one additional site in Cordoba; and in Columbia, the CUT labor federation invited all members to watch and participate in the dialogue.

The proceedings were moderated by Mr. LaRouche’s National Spokeswoman, Debra Freeman.

Coverage begins with a short introduction by Ms. Freeman, followed by another short introduction by Mr. LaRouche, in which he states "Today, at this time, as will become clearer not only from today’s discussion, but from the events which are about to occur on a global scale, you’re living in one of the most terrifying periods of history known to you. Now, right now." Today, Mr. LaRouche continued, we celebrate the great moment which was the liberation in Europe from 30 years of religious warfare through the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), which we are trying to bring forth again on this planet, in this time of great danger. Thus was the stage set for a 24-minute choral presentation of selections from Johann Sebastian Bach’s most famous motet, Jesu, meine Freude, by a 35- person LaRouche Youth Movement chorus, directed by John Sigerson, and accompanied by Jean-Sebastian Trembley on the ‘cello.

The first 24 minutes of Mr. LaRouche’s main presentation conclude this edition of The LaRouche Connection. Topics include: What former Sec. of the Treasury Robert Rubin knows, and doesn’t know; the Iraq war; the need for a double impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney: the roll of the public to push for this, and the role of the Congress to process; what happened to the economy; why the U.S. Dollar must not be allowed to be destroyed; An FDR-type solution: a return to something like the Bretton Woods system shut down by President Nixon on 1971-72; and, ending former Chairman of the Federal Reserve and Ayn Rand follower Alan Greenspan's gigantic financial bubble.

[For a complete transcript, including the Discussion Session with Mr. LaRouche, see EIR, Vol. 33, No. 47, Nov. 24, 2006, or visit www.larouchepub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings."]

Release Date: Dec. 1, 2006

Program No. 690
"Organizing the Recovery From the Great Crash of 2007," Pt. 2

On November 16, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a Washington, DC audience of over 220 on the nature and seriousness of the crisis facing the nation and the world, and the solution, which no one other than himself either has or has the courage to put forth. The November 16 event, sponsored by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC) was webcast live over the internet with simultaneous translation into French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Among the various "satellite" showings: a group in Paris, five locations in the Mexican Congress and environs; one university in Mexico; four universities in Bolivia; five universities in Peru; two universities in Argentina; plus one additional site in Cordoba; and in Columbia, the CUT labor federation invited all members to watch and participate in the dialogue.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, plus the first question from the discussion session. Topics covered by Mr. LaRouche include: the necessity of implementing a financial reorganization (bankruptcy), in which the banks are to be saved in order to preserve the function of the banking system in the circulation of credit, deposits, and the organization of communities and private and family life; the difference in the meaning of value for the oligarchical system (imperialism), in which the property title is paramount, and the idea introduced during the Renaissance that society exists for the benefit of humanity--past, present, and future; the role of a fraternity of nation-states and cultures to provide for the common welfare; the indispensable role of youth in winning the recent election in spite of the "Baby Boomers"; and the true meaning of Economy, "which the Democratic Party leadership has forgotten."

From the discussion session, moderated by Mr. LaRouche’s National Spokeswoman, Debra Freeman.:

From a group of senior, retired military officers: "The Baker-Hamilton Commission report is expected to be released sometime soon. Some of us have expressed concern that domestic political considerations could override the best overall strategic approach to the Iraq crisis, which is rapidly devolving into a sectarian civil war and worse. How would you respond to these concerns, and how would you update or modify your own 2004 doctrine for Southwest Asia?

Mr. LaRouche: "What I’ve not mentioned so far is, who is the enemy?"

[For a complete transcript, including the Discussion Session with Mr. LaRouche, see EIR, Vol. 33, No. 47, Nov. 24, 2006, or visit www.larouchepub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings."]

Release Date: Dec. 30, 2006

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