The LaRouche Connection

Program Summaries: 2007
691-706

Updated January 25, 2008

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Program No. 691
"Organizing the Recovery from the Great Crash of 2007," Pt. 3

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.

The LaRouche Connection’s coverage of this event is in three parts: Part 1 featured the bulk of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. Part 2 featured the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s opener, plus the first question from the discussion session, moderated by Mr. LaRouche’s National Spokeswoman, Debra Freeman. Part 3 begins with the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s answer that first question plus five additional questions:

From Judge Carlo Palermo (former leading Italian magistrate investigating terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, now working as a criminal lawyer): What was going on during April, 1991, at the tail end of Operation Desert Storm, and the beginning of Operation Provide Comfort, where large amounts of weapons were being covertly shipped into the Balkans and northern Iraq, along with a number of U.S. Special Forces, when two ships collided in the harbor of Livorno, Italy, in which 140 were killed? [This question asked by Jeffrey Steinberg, Counter-Intelligence Director for EIR magazine.]

From a Staffer on the Senate Democratic Policy Committee: Unlike JFK’s mobilization to put a man on the Moon, when we were in much better shape as a nation, if former Treasury Sec. Robert Rubin is correct, we don’t have enough cash to cover even the most basic commitments the government has made to its citizens., So, how can we begin to adequately address the actual needs of an increasingly impoverished population, other than with massively increasing the Federal deficit, which we obviously don’t want to do?"

From a group of fellows at the Hamilton Project: "If a bankrupt government can create credit out of nothing, then why can’t any Third World nation do essentially the same thing, to rebuild or to initiate building of their own national infrastructure?"

From Congressman Roberto Mendoza (Deputy from the PRD for the state of Tabasco, Mexico): "How do you think the Congress of Mexico could participate in the economic change which you are proposing?"

From a senior Senate Staffer: [The November election] was rife with voter suppression, outright vote fraud, and a whole host of other dirty tricks, all perpetrated by the GOP, but because the Democrats won a majority, this has gotten very little public attention. How do you think this should be addressed?"

[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: Jan. 15, 2007

Program No. 692
"Begin the New Economics!"

On January 11, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a Washington, DC audience, on the topic "The Old Economics is Dead; the New Economics Must Begin." The 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.

The program opens with a short clip of the LaRouche Youth Movement Chorus performing a section from Bach’s Jesu meine freude, recorded November 16, 2006, conducted by John Sigerson, and accompanied by Jean-Sebastian Trembley on the ‘cello.

After a short introduction by Debra Freeman, the remainder of the program consists of about the first 50 minutes of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.

LaRouche: "We are entering a period of the greatest financial crisis in all modern history. Because this time, while there are comparable regional cases, such as the 14^th Century New Dark Age, never before has the entire planet been threatened by virtual extinction of its culture and mass depopulation, as now. So therefore, this is unprecedented."

"What we’re going to have to do, is what the Congress, in general presently, hasn’t the slightest intention of doing. But it must be done, if the nation and civilization are to survive. There is no force outside the U.S., which has the intellectual capability and influence to do what must be done, in reorganizing an international monetary-financial system and economic system, which is bankrupt beyond repair."

Mr. LaRouche then discusses the conflict between Oligarchism and Republicanism, as the driving force in our nation’s history, concluding that "we have a government [today] which has not been trained by experience [since the destruction of the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt] to live up the measure of its responsibility on this crisis occasion." Its only under our Constitutional system, however, that we can transition towards a real Presidency, with the cooperation of the Congress, to fix what must be fixed.

LaRouche: "Our problem is to restore the U.S., in particular, to a major agro-industrial power, based on high rates of technological progress, and which will require a very large investment in nuclear fission power. We are going to have to essentially eliminate most of the reliance on other modes of power, and eliminate all these biofuel, and other pieces of nonsense, that will actually destroy the area, the food supply, and the population. We have to go to a high-technology, high-energy-flux-density power system. We have to do this…. Much of the world is living on fossil water. We have to make water." As to the future, we must change our approach from simple raw materials extraction and processing to "raw materials management" for the planet as a whole. "To do that, we have to go into thermonuclear fusion management techniques for our materials, to reprocess, and process materials in a creative way, to ensure that the supply of raw materials, at a reasonable price and cost, is available to every person on the planet. We can do that."

Mr. LaRouche then turns to what went wrong, spiritually, intellectually, and physically, with the generation born after World War II, which is now in charge of policy in government and business--the Baby Boomers--and how they were destroyed by especially the post-war Congress for Cultural Freedom and similar operations. But then, how there is hope in the generation now between 18-25 years old, who have an adult orientation, are looking forward to the next 50 years or so, and who are concerned for their children and the future.

Next, Mr. LaRouche defines a real economy:

"An economy requires the use of money, as a way of coordinating the relations among particular individuals, regions, and so forth, within a national economy as a whole. But a national economy as a whole is a physical economy, not a money economy. This is the difference between the British system or Anglo-Dutch system, which is a monetarist system, and the American System, which is a system of physical economy, not monetary economy. We use a monetary system only to promote the increase of circulation of goods and production. "Money is a mechanism which is realized and regulated, as under what we call the "fair-trade system policy" of the 1950s. There, you had a protectionist system, which recognized that money is an idiot. Money does not know, what is physical value. So therefore, you regulate money by your selective taxations, tariffs, supports, subsidies--all these kinds of things--so that the money system is now trained to try to stay within values which correspond to physical values. And above all, you want to make sure that an industry which is essential, is able to earn enough money through the prices of its goods, and through regulation, to survive. You don’t want the industry to close. If its a useful industry, you don’t want it to shut down because of price competition."

"To prevent a catastrophe, we’re going to have to liquidate the international monetary system, but to prevent asocial and economic catastrophe, we must put the banks into receivership, for reorganization in bankruptcy. We do that in order to maintain the continued function of the banks, in their normal function, in respect to the economy and the population. We have to have things paid; we have to have people employed; we have to keep trade in motion. But we are not going to pay this thing on time as demanded. We’re going to put it into bankruptcy. And the Federal government can do that, very simply, by putting the Federal Reserve System itself into receivership in bankruptcy."

Release Date: Feb. 28, 2007

[For a complete transcript, including the Discussion Session with Mr. LaRouche, see EIR, Vol. 34, No. 3, Jan. 19, 2007; or visit www.larouchepub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings."]

Program No. 693
"International Policy Implications of the Gore Hoax," Pt. 1

On March 7, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a Washington, DC audience, on the topic "The Implications of the Gore Hoax for International Policy." Sponsored by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), the event was webcast live with simultaneous translation into French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

The program opens with a short clip of the LaRouche Youth Movement Chorus performing the trotz section from Bach’s Jesu meine freude, recorded November 16, 2006, conducted by John Sigerson, and accompanied by Jean-Sebastian Trembley on the ‘cello.

Following a short intro by Larry Freeman, the remainder of the program consists of the first 50 minutes of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.

LaRouche: "Gore is wrong! But he’s professional about it." "People who will not stand up for the truth, say you can’t attack Gore, because he’s popular. I attack him, because he’s a liar! If you think he’s popular, that’s your fault, not mine! He’s a liar! Everything he has said on this question of global warming, is a lie."

Al Gore is only a minor player in a much larger issue. The planet is gripped, not by global warming, but by the greatest financial collapse in modern history. Although we cannot predict a date certain of when the depression will enter a rapid acute phase, "because of the many factors of human will which can intervene to change the date, we have entered the time frame, where a general breakdown of the world financial-economic system is now inevitable. The situation is hopeless, unless certain measures are taken to prevent the breakdown from continuing."

The solution is to reorganize the planet. "By using the sovereign powers of government, to deal with the problem, the worst effects of a bankruptcy can be averted, and time can be given for reconstruction to build back a self-sufficient economy all over again."

"The Queen of England is controlling the world financial system, because the biggest factor in international affairs involves hedge funds and similar kinds of things which are controlled from the Cayman Islands, which is wholly owned by the Queen of England, and is the world headquarters for the financial speculation going on worldwide. There are a few other islands which also function similarly, including the Isle of Man in England. The key banking institution of record in this is the Bank of Scotland and Halifax, which is the British royal family’s personal, favorite bank. The British monarchy controls the world financial banking system. The U.S. banks, including your major banks in the United States, are now in a subsidiary situation, relative to this crisis. It is the Cayman Islands and similar kinds of institutions associated with hedge funds, which are controlling the international monetary-financial system. There’s no possible way, that you could have a bankruptcy now, without a general collapse of the world economy as well as the U.S. banking system, except that the government intervenes, to make precautionary actions, to put the system into receivership for reorganization. That’s the only way that we can get through this."

"We’re going to have to replace the current President of the United States. We’re going to have to send the Vice President to places where he belongs. We require Presidential action, with the support of the Congress, to take the measures which are protectionist measures to save the American system itself from a disintegration process, which is already under way."

Mr. LaRouche proceeds to provide some background on what has brought us to this point. He begins by attacking former head of the Federal Reserve System, Alan Greenspan for "creating what is really an illegal form of money, through the Fed, through credit, and using things such as Fannie Mae, mortgages and mortgage-based securities, to finance inflation of the U.S. and world economy, followed up by the exploitation of the collapse of the Soviet system, where the British and the U.S. together connived, and looted Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for some years. This helped to stave off the depression."

Then, Al Gore, who continues to perpetrate two swindles on the Congress: First, bio-fuels. "The bio-fuels system produces--in raw, caloric terms--less fuel in terms of power, than it consumes. There’s no net gain from so-called bio-fuels. Its also an idiotic thing to do, because what bio-fuels means, is reducing food!" Second, world war. "In 2001, we began to go into a world war, because the President and the Vice President lied. Now we’re in a maelstrom mess--in southwest Asia, and elsewhere. We’re losing the U.S. military; we have a global breakdown crisis, from which civilization would not spontaneously recover."

The solution? "The solution lies in the use of great political power. That doesn’t mean dictatorship, it means a cooperation of groups of nations which represent great power. There are four such nations on this planet. One is still the Untied States, which is key to orchestrating any remedy for the collapsing financial system, because we have the technology, built into our Constitution, for dealing with a crisis like this." Then we have Russia, China, and India. "If these four nations agree to support, in concert, remedial action for the sake of the world economy, and the sake of world peace, it will happen.

The solution also involves solving the growing raw materials management problem, which requires developing an "isotope economy, " which means moving toward controlled thermonuclear fusion. "We’re at the point where we could synthesize isotopes of a type that otherwise do not exist freely in nature, of the type we require." "We move away from a post-industrial society, back to an agricultural and industrial society. We move into building large-scale infrastructure, to transform the land areas of the world, into fruitful ones."

Mr. LaRouche then goes after the "baby boomer" ideology, and the problem of Sophistry, which prevents an entire generation from seeing and taking hold of this only realistic solution. He discusses the disorientation after the death of President Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, and Bertrand Russell’s success in intimidating the world into accepting world government, and eliminating the nation-state as an institution, by the threat (and use) of nuclear weapons. "The intention was to destroy what the United States represented. To establish a kind of world empire, which in some features resemble what the medieval period was, when you had Venetian bankers and Norman Crusaders, with their little killing operations, running the world. This is explicitly what George Schultz, Felix Rohatyn, and Dick Cheney propose. This is the policy! This is what Al Gore represents."

Mr. LaRouche counters by introducing the subject of what makes us human. "Our character is the power to make discoveries, of principle; the power of creativity, the power to change the conditions of life in the universe. This is what makes us, in a sense, immortal. We can discover a principle, and that principle will live on, once its discovered and circulated, and will affect generations yet to come. No animal can do that."

"What you need, therefore, is an emphasis in society on development of the individual, as a sovereign individual, whose sovereignty is defined by their ability to discover something with their own powers of mind, which is a contribution to human knowledge, either as a principle or an implementation of that principle, and to pass that on to others, and thus shape the future of mankind by one’s own contributions to mankind. And the relationship among human beings who do that, is a loving relationship. Because what somebody else discovers is to your advantage, or its to the advantage of you in the sense of society. And therefore, you’re in a happy society."

Mr. LaRouche next begins a discussion of the real science of climate change, making the simple point that it is the Sun which warms our planet, and that during the recent decade, there has been an increase of the intensity of solar radiation, impinging on the Earth. This has raised the average temperature, not Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

Release Date: March 25, 2007

[For a complete transcript, including the Discussion Session with Mr. LaRouche, see EIR magazine, Vol. 34, No. 11, Mar. 16, 2007; or visit www.larouchepub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings."]

Program No. 694
"International Policy Implications of the Gore Hoax," Pt. 2

LaRouche: "People who will not stand up for the truth, say you can’t attack Gore, because he’s popular. I attack him, because he’s a liar! He’s a liar! Everything he has said on this question of global warming, is a lie."

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the concluding 11 minutes of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, plus six questions from the discussion session, moderated by Debra Freeman.

After touching on some of the real science of climate change, Mr. LaRouche provides some "nasty facts" about the today’s environmentalism, which emerged out of the 1920s eugenics movement. Today, as then, the practice that was the result from it, is genocide used against masses of the human population. "That’s the ugly reality of this."

The good news is, that even at this late date, we can save humanity from the world crisis. "But we need some serious politics in the United States, and get away from the childish games we’ve seen in the Congress lately. Why do you complain about Bush and Cheney, when you don’t complain about Gore?" From the discussion session:

From a Democratic Senate Committee: "Presuming all the scientists who support the global warming thesis are not all completely incompetent or not all people with some political agenda, what could motivate them to lie?

From the Senate Democratic leadership: "I’ve long been an advocate of nuclear power. But I have reservations about it, largely because of concerns about the manner in which public utilities in the U.S. are maintained and operated. What’s you’re view, particularly in light of the overall crisis of energy in the U.S. right now?"

From Sue Daniels (Secretary-treasurer of the Texas Central Labor Council, currently an officer of the Coalition of Labor Union Women): "Who actually makes up this Anglo-Dutch group that you refer to? How does this group intend to control the means of human existence?"

Composite of several questions from the West Coast: "How do we cut out the burning of fossil fuels because of the carbon dioxide emissions without stopping growth and development?"

From two freshman Democrats in the House of Representatives: "The tradition is that the House follows the lead of the Senate in policy issues of long-term implications. But considering a large number of Senators are announced candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination, if this is a problem, how to address it?"

From a Democratic consultant involved in shaping policy for a number of people on Capitol Hill: "What do you see as the next step in the Scooter Libby case?"

[For a complete transcript, including the Discussion Session, see EIR magazine, Vol. 34, No. 11, Mar. 16, 2007; or visit www.larouchepub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings."]

Release Date: April 4, 2007

Program No. 695
"International Policy Implications of the Gore Hoax," Pt. 3

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of the discussion session, moderated by Debra Freeman.

From a fellow of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institute: "Transparency legislation proposed in the Senate would subject hedge funds to the same rules and regulations as those of other financial and trading outlets. Please comment."

From several political figures in Lebanon: "If the U.S. is interested, as it claims, in regional security [in the Middle East], what would be the problem, what are the actual objections that the Administration is making in the endorsement of the [Saudi/Iranian] initiative, and is it an initiative that you see as workable?"

From Prof. Pirouz Moitahed-Zadeh (Iranian scholar and author of many books on political geography): "How does the Bush Administration justify its actions of kidnapping , illegal detention, torture, etc. of innocent citizens and other atrocities, all for the sake of provoking a war against Iran?"

Richard Adams (president of AFGE Local 1168, from the Bronx Veterans Administration hospital): "If we need nuclear power, like you said, how are we supposed to get it?" References the Indian Point plant as a disaster.

From Andrew Langsner (civil engineering student at the University of New Hampshire): "I agree that Al Gore is a liar about CO2 causing global warming, but [I believe] warming is real, at least in certain key parts of the globe. Using clean fuel is not going to stop this warming. We should find out how to deal with certain global effects, like rising sea levels. Would you agree?"

From Italy: "Since the Sun itself cannot be controlled, and is 99% responsible for this phenomenon that is being called global warming, how do you think we should address this, or do you think that its not a problem?"

From an advisor to a member of Argentine Congress: "Do you believe the conflict in Iraq is principally a religious one, or is it something else, and in either case, how is it best addressed?"

From one of the national leaders of MoveOn: "What should groups like ours be doing in the period immediately ahead?"

[For a complete transcript, including the Discussion Session, see EIR magazine, Vol. 34, No. 11, Mar. 16, 2007; or visit www.larouchepub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings."]

Release Date: April 23, 2007

Program No. 696
"Get Up Out of the Mire and Gore!" Pt. 1

On May 1, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a Washington, DC audience, on the hopeless bankruptcy of the present monetary-financial system, and the immediate necessity of entering into an agreement with China, India, Russia, and other key countries, to establish an emergency new international monetary system, based in conception on the precedent of President Franklin Roosevelt’s launching of the Bretton Woods system in the period of 1944-45. Sponsored by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), the event was webcast live with simultaneous translation into French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. The event was moderated by Debra Freeman.

Mr. LaRouche begins his remarks with the October 1987 bankruptcy of the financial system, as equivalent to the Hoover Depression breakdown of 1929. This time, however a fellow by the name of Alan Greenspan, new chairman of the Federal Reserve, launched the wildest fraud imaginable. Instead of facing the reality of gong into a 1929 Depression, he kept things going with a policy of a "wall of money," not in the form of printed paper, but of electronic fantasies--agreements based on nothing, which has only made things worse. This arrangement required the progressive introduction of Nazi-banker dictatorial policies, (Y2K bubble, 9/11) provided by George Schultz, Felix Rohatyn, Al Gore, Dick Cheney.

LaRouche: "The whole world is held together today, by the debt of the United States. If you cannot defend the position of the United States, as a debtor nation, the world as a whole, now, will go under. You can talk about going to other combinations of currencies, blocs of currencies: It won’t work."

"Defending the dollar as a reserve currency, is necessary for every sane nation. What we have to do is declare bankruptcy, and put the international financial system into receivership, where governments hold and decide what to do about the bankrupt monetary-financial system. They take action to ensure what must be paid, what must be active; and what must continue, will continue. Pensions will continue to be paid. Investments in productive enterprise will be made. Payments on whole categories of outstanding obligations will be suspended, or cancelled. For example, all gambling debts should be cancelled, immediately."

We must then "take measures, through the use of power of governments, to come to trading and credit agreements, which not only maintain the level of present physical activity, but actually increase it."

"The first thing we have to do, is stabilize the international monetary system. Get a group of powerful countries (minimally China, India, Russia, and the U.S.) together, to initiate a motion which puts the whole world financial system into receivership, for control by actions by governments, regulate the system, and get some justice back into the system."

"At the same time, recognize what must be done to rebuild the shattered economy of the world: how to get back to becoming a productive society? Based on scientific progress; on industry and agriculture; development of infrastructure; the development of skills; security; the improved standard of a physical standard of living. Nuclear fission power is unstoppable, unless we go back to a dark age." Without going ahead to thermonuclear fusion, many raw materials problems, and problems with chemistry cannot be solved economically.

"We have to reverse the destruction of the economy of the U.S., which has gone on, especially since 1971. Government must take charge, in the same way, under the same constitutional authority that Franklin Roosevelt used during the 1930s. The job is bigger that what Roosevelt faced; but the principles will work. They’re not some wild innovation at law. They’re going back to the principles of the American System.

"We have a wonderful opportunity before us, an opportunity created by necessity. Its the only option that exists: the question is, are we sane enough to take it? Are there enough people in the U.S., who are sane enough to support it? Can we break through the barriers in the institutions at the top today, to unleash the implicit will for deliberation, among the people, particularly those in the lower 80% of family income brackets."

Unfortunately, the Baby-Boomer generation, particularly the white-collar section, has lost the commitment and the dedication to seeing this through. Every important project in the world, tends to be a long-term investment, and long-term investments have lifetimes of 25-50 years. It is the younger generation which has this perspective and the spark to get this done.

But, in order to get anything done, we must get rid of what is jamming up the works, at the top, in Washington. "The impeachment of Vice-President Cheney is one of the most popular projects in the world right now – more popular than ice cream!"

"We have to get a new Washington, before 2009. Get rid of Cheney. Change the government, in a constitutional way; react to the emergency, with emergency measures which are appropriate; and recognize, the crucial thing is the financial system is going bust, right now!"

[For a complete transcript, including the Discussion Session, see EIR magazine, Vol. 34, No. 19-20, May 11, 2007; or visit www.larouchepub.com and click on "LaRouche’s Writings."]

Release Date: May 19, 2007

Program No. 697
"Globalization or Sovereignty: Sudan Under Attack"

On May 29, President George Bush announced a new level of sanctions against the government of Sudan, using the crisis in Darfur as the pretext. The following day, at a National Press Club press conference in Washington, DC, John Ukec Leuth Ukek, Sudan’s Ambassador to the U.S., stated that he considered these sanctions a personal insult, contrary to what he is trying to do to bring Sudan and the United States closer together, and working against resolving this very crisis, by disrupting the Sudanese government’s economic development efforts.

On Saturday, June 2, Ambassador Ukec was the special guest on The LaRouche Show, the weekly internet radio program hosted by Marcia Merry Baker. Participating also in the in-studio discussion was Larry Freeman, from EIR’s Africa desk; and Paul Mourino, with the LaRouche Youth Movement in Washington, DC.

Amb. Ukec: "It is critical for the American people to understand that my country has been at war for a long time, and with the help of our friends, we Sudanese want to bring the best democracy in the world to Sudan. We have started that by ending the war between North and South, ending the war between the government of Sudan and the East, and also signing a peace agreement with the people in the West, which is Darfur."

"What is happening in Darfur, is Darfuris are fighting among themselves. The herders, which are mobile, with their cattle, horses, camels, sheep, and all type of animals; and the farmers living on their land, cultivating grain, sorghum, millet, and those things. If you read the history of the U.S., you would have seen how the cowboys clashed with the farmers. Read your own history, and you’ll find the same thing. Its just coming to us so much later, you can’t believe it, because you are so advanced, but that’s what’s happening in Sudan. These Darfuris are our brothers and sisters. They are the majority of the Sudanese army. 70% of the Sudanese army are Darfuris! So, if the army is killing those, they are killing their own family! Come to us. Well give you more."

"Big, mighty America told us that when we got a peace agreement, we would be rewarded; that all those things that were put against Sudan would be taken off. It has been two years now. We have made a lot of peace. We have made a lot of progress. We have established a democratic system, and now the government of the United States slaps on our face terrible sanctions."

"Those sanctions affect everything. They actually destroy the peace which was built by the rest of the world, including us. Peace needs constructive development, and if you curtail the economic system of a country, " you destroy the peace. The sanctions are a death sentence to my people, at a time when we really need help so we can build democracy. If we don’t get economic development, we will go back to hatred, fighting, and all the rest, and we will be at square one again: looking for guns, going back to other countries."

"I never expected that the American Administration would do this, especially President Bush." Referring to the Central Peace Agreement (CPA), which was signed in February 2005, ending 20 years of war between the North and the South, Amb. Ukek continued, "He knows better, because he signed the Sudan Peace Act. He signed."

Larry Freeman: "Instead of supporting and nurturing a new, united Sudan, which could have come out of the CPA, we now have a situation in Darfur, where because of the policies we’re conducting there, we are essentially aiding the rebels and opposition forces, essentially encouraging them to attack and overthrow the government of Khartoum. The agreements worked out with the former UN General Sec. Kofi Annan in Nov. last year, was that there would be a 3-phase deployment of UN peace keepers to work with and under the command of the African Union troops in Darfur, of about 7,000. The first phase has been completed. There has been now reconfirmation that the government of Sudan has accepted the second phase, of about 3,000 soldiers, and then the third phase of this hybrid agreement with the UN of an additional 17,000 soldiers."

Amb. Ukek: "We have already accepted the first phase, including military advisors, civilian advisors, and police advisors. We have accepted the second phase about 3 weeks ago. On Nov. 15^th, we will conduct a census, monitored by the UN. And at the end of 2008, we will have our elections, just like you will. By January 2009, when you have a new President, we will also have a fresh democratically elected body to rule my country. So why the sanctions on a country which has been fighting for 50 years, and which has been making progress of doing what was asked of us? I don’t think America really wants democracy. They want a new imperialism."

A question from Mr. Mourino provided Amb. Ukek the opportunity to discuss his colorful personal history and experiences, which qualify him for top leadership of his country.

To an e-mail message received from a LaRouche Youth Movement organizer in Alaska on so-called "left-wing" attackers of Africa, who claim that agro-industrial development there must be barred, because of global warming, Amb. Ukek pointed out the irony of folks having 4-5 cars in developed countries, whereas you may meet 10,000 people in Sudan with not a single car among them. "I don’t really have a tough opinion about global warming. If it is warm, why shouldn’t we be allowed to warm our part also, so that let us see, if we go to Hell, we go together. If not, there is no problem! Let me build my power plants, let me build the nuclear plant to provide me with energy. Let me dig my oil. OK if it is going to pollute. This Earth belongs to us, too! If the West and the development people claim they have the right to pollute, and we should not even make even a little dent of polluting, so that we come up. You know? That is ridiculous."

Amb Ukek: "If the Americans give me a chance, I can develop Sudan in 15 years. With all the technology my friends and I know about, I can catch up. Engineering is our way of life. Engineering changes the life of people. We will provide the rest of the world with food. We have the breadbasket of the world: animal populations, peanuts, soybeans, corn, sorghum--they all thrive in Sudan."

"We are the children born in Sudan. We know what to do with it. We may need help, but not all the time. It doesn’t mean that you should rule us. You should not tell us what to do. You may advise us, and when we say, ‘no,’ don’t make us enemies."

Larry Freeman: "There is an effort to carry out a globalization dictatorship in the world. In Africa, it takes the form of making sure there are no strong, sovereign nation-states, and that the resources can be looted and stolen at the cheapest possible price, if paid at all. Behind the Darfur policy, is a policy to topple or dismember the Sudanese government, which would violate the 1959 water agreement Sudan made with Egypt. And then this would be used to squeeze Egypt, which depends on that water."

Amb Ukek: "There is a ‘hidden agenda.’ Countries where leadership has been strong are the target. Everything is sooner or later discovered. Well discover soon what is behind all these conspiracies, and all these global warming things, and all these funny things, where "bringing democracy" ends up with 600,000 killed."

The interview concludes with Ambassador Ukek's addressing the young people of the U.S. who are being taken in by all the propaganda, on the contrived issue of "saving Darfur." "I wonder why the president of the Save Darfur Coalition is paid half a million dollars a year? Something the President of this great country does not even get. Of $31 million collected by the SDC, only $3 million reached Darfur. Where is the other $28 million? Be careful, Be wise. Analyze and think. As Ambassador of Sudan, I invite you. I will give you a visa, and you will walk, you will put your feet in Darfur, and see for your own eyes, and come to be a witness."

[For an article covering this interview, see EIR magazine, Vol. 34, No. 24, June 17, 2007. pp.___. For a full transcript of the program, visit www.larouchepub.com/tv, scroll to Program Summaries, click on 2007, and scroll to Program No. 697.]

Release Date: June 7, 2007

Program No. 698

“LaRouche Takes on BAE: World’s Biggest Loose End”

With the U.S. Dept. of Justice now confirmed to be investigating money laundering and bribery by the British aerospace giant BAE Systems, Congress and the American people must make certain that the investigation does not turn the “Scandal of the Century” into one more Bush-Cheney-Gonzales cover-up. The issue on the table is far bigger than the alleged $2 billion in bribes that BAE Systems paid out to former Saudi Arabian Ambassador the U.S., Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, through the now-defunct Washington, D.C.-based Riggs Bank. At least $80 billion in unaccounted-for loot has been generated by the Al-Yamamah oil-for-jet fighters barter deal, since it was signed in September 1985. Back in the first week in June, Mr. LaRouche identified Vice President Dick Cheney and the imperial Anglo-Dutch Liberal financial apparatus that stands behind him as implicated. U.S. Intelligence community sources support EIR magazine’s speculation that this giant secret slush fund has been used for various very nasty covert operations during this time.

On June 21, Lyndon LaRouche delivered an international address on this still-unfolding exposé, sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), to an audience of over 200 in Washington, DC, which was broadcast live over the internet. But his purpose was far grander and important that a mere exposé.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. The event, including the discussion session, was moderated by Debra Freeman.

LaRouche: “What I’m going to present to you today, is going to strain some of you a bit, because we’re dealing with areas in which the problems that confront mankind are mankind’s acceptance of certain things as being assumably true, almost self-evident; and confining what they think is possible, to what they consider to be self-evidently true. And, suddenly, what they consider to be self-evidently true, is no longer true! And really never was. But its truth has caught up with them. We’ve come to the end of a period of history. The BAE crisis expresses that, reflects that—does not embody it, but expresses it symptomatically.”

“The great danger of a financial crash today, is that most people, in what they call economics, believe actually not in economics; they believe in gambling. Ever since Galileo came up with this idea about gambling as the basis of discovering how markets would work, everyone has tried to get a better statistical system for gambling.”

Witness the Long Term Capital Management collapse in 1998, or ENRON more recently. “The BAE collapse is not the cause of the problem; it is a symptom of the problem.” Mr. LaRouche then discusses the 9/11 events, as forecast by him, before George Bush was inaugurated in January, 2001. “The only means by which this kind of thing is orchestrated, is found in one location: in a financial complex which is centered in the identity of the BAE. That’s the mystery of 9/11.”

“We’ve come to the point, that an entire system is collapsing, because of the complicity of the present U.S. government, and the complicity of the leadership of the Democratic as well as Republican parties. Because of this, we are living under a one-world system, called generically “globalization.” It’s a preparation for the new Tower of Babel, under which there are no nations, and which languages begin to become babble. Under this system what controls it?

“As long as people believe that popular opinion, or what passes for popular opinion, among the most recent could of generations, prevails, and is not called into question, mankind will have no future; we’re on the verge of a global dark age.”

One of the signs of this journey into darkness, is what President Dwight Eisenhower identified as the “Military-Industrial Complex.”—the process which killed President John Kennedy, and “the same process we identify in the press today as the BAE phenomenon. It’s a process that actually came into being under Hitler, and Mussolini, which was stopped by the intervention of President Franklin Roosevelt.”

“We’ve come to the point, the system doesn’t work! And the breakdown is now obvious. And the face of the enemy has exposed itself, in the BAE…. The question is, what is human nature? Why should we believe that mankind, which has allowed this swindle to dominate humanity for so many centuries, that there’s something in mankind today, that would enable people who have made the biggest fools of themselves imaginable, would suddenly become brilliant and make the right decision, about the future of mankind? On this question, I’m an optimist. I believe in mankind. Just because he cleverly made himself appear to be so stupid, doesn’t mean he’s quite that stupid. It’s time for the stupidity act to end.”

Mr. LaRouche then launches into a discussion of the difference between Man and Monkey, tracing the birth of European civilization, the rise of modern physical science, beginning with Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), beyond Gauss, to Riemann and Einstein.

“Humanity is, essentially, potentially immortal. Because, that which is part of us, as human beings, is not merely this physical animal part that we inhabit. It’s what we represent through such means as learning to re-experience discoveries of principle, and carrying them on and on to future generations—to building a better world, to building a better universe. To changing the universe, simply in the same way, that the writer of Genesis I depicts man’s function in the universe. Not simply saying he’s got some magical secret here: he’s describing the situation of man in the universe! Man and woman in the universe, exist to do what? They have a mission, they have a responsibility. This is our mission! We have to make the universe better: We are servants of the Creator, in making the universe better.”

“We have allowed our people to become degenerate, as you can see on almost any television program, or the internet, if you want to. We’ve allowed that to happen. We’ve lost a sense of life. We’ve lost a sense of a purpose in life, which is not mortal, but a sense of that which is transcendental. That that good we do, if its’ well-conceived, lives on after us. And the purpose of life, is to ensure that that happens. And to ensure that others have the right to live that kind of life! And that’s what’s denied. It’s denied by an existentialist form of corruption, which has destroyed the Untied States from the inside.”

“Now! Since we are at the point that everything that people thought they had, in this society, is about to be taken away from them, by the circumstances typified by the BAE, you have an existential question: You want to die as a pig? Or live as a man? And that’s what politics must be, today.”

[For a full transcript of the webcast, including the discussion session, see EIR magazine, Vol. 34, No. 26, June 29, 2007. pp. 4-33. Or, visit www.larouchepub.com, scroll to and click on “LaRouche’s Writings.”]

Release Date: July 16, 2007

Program No. 699

“The End of the Post-FDR Era,” Pt. 1

On July 25, Lyndon LaRouche delivered an international address sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), to an audience of about 150 in Washington, DC, which was broadcast live over the internet.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. The event, including the discussion session, was moderated by Debra Freeman.

LaRouche: “The time has come to make some history, to make a turning point in history, because there is no alternative.”

With growing U.S. military forces stationed off the Indian Ocean, ready to launch war against Iran, with both the bloated financial-monetary system and the physical economy crumbling, there has never been greater urgency for action. Mr. LaRouche enumerates three principal tasks to be accomplished with all possible speed:

1) Remove Vice President Dick Cheney from office, in whatever way possible.

“If the Congress goes on recess, and leaves Cheney free, then you might be kissing the United States and much more good-bye by September. You get Cheney out, now, and the situation can be made manageable. Any Congressman who says he’s not going to get Cheney out now, should leave the premises now, as a final act of decency. If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others can’t get Cheney out now, if they’re not determined to do it now, this month, before they leave Washington, they should quit now, and let somebody who’s more competent come in, because Cheney has to go!”

2) Pull back American troops in Southwest Asia from areas of combat.

“You have to pull them back into holding positions, out of the conflict. That, from a military, strategic, and a diplomatic standpoint, will work. It can be done. The algebra is known. It will work. You have to come up with a group of nations, who recognize that the instability of this region is a threat to the continuation of civilization. And therefore, a remedy has to be forced through. And the only way, is that a dominant group of nations says, “We agree. We are going to take the concerted power of our nations and insist that this happens. There will be no resistance. It will happen. We’re going to have a stabilization in this region.””

3) Establish a 4-power alliance of the United States, China, India, and Russia to take the first steps toward reorganizing the global financial system, along the outlines of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Bretton Woods system of 1944, accompanied by cooperation in large-scale projects, such as the Bering Strait Tunnel project.

“We have to put the dollar under a fixed-exchange-rate system again, put the hedge funds out of business, start to rebuild our hi-tech infrastructure capacity, our mass transportation systems, restore the growth of our agriculture. The future of humanity is nuclear power. We’re going back to the American System.”

Mr. LaRouche then develops a conception of what kind of political combination in the United States, after the 2008 election, would make it possible to save the world from catastrophe. One presumes that a Democrat will be elected President. But that President will need to draw upon the support of both parties, and of eminent figures with the expertise required to repair an economy that is in worse shape that the Depression that confronted FDR. He or she will need to pull together a team—starting now—that can govern effectively, while restoring America’s ruptured foreign-policy relations with every other nation on the planet. Lyndon LaRouche’s role in this process will be vital.

[For a full transcript of the webcast, including the discussion session, see EIR magazine, Vol. 34, No. 30, Aug. 3, 2007. pp. 4-29. Or, visit www.larouchepub.com, scroll to and click on “LaRouche’s Writings.”]

Release Date: Aug. 15, 2007

Program No. 700

“The End of the Post-FDR Era,” Pt. 2

“The time has come to make some history, to make a turning point in history, because there is no alternative.” – Lyndon LaRouche.

1. Remove Vice President Dick Cheney from office, in whatever way possible.

2. Pull back American troops in Southwest Asia from areas of combat.

3. Establish a 4-power alliance of the United States, China, India, and Russia to take the first steps toward reorganizing the global financial system, along the outlines of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Bretton Woods system of 1944, accompanied by cooperation in large-scale projects, such as the Bering Strait Tunnel project.

Mr. LaRouche then developed a conception of what kind of political combination in the United States, after the 2008 election, would make it possible to save the world from catastrophe. One presumes that a Democrat will be elected President. But that President will need to draw upon the support of both parties, and of eminent figures with the expertise required to repair an economy that is in worse shape that the Depression that confronted FDR. He or she will need to pull together a team—starting now—that can govern effectively, while restoring America’s ruptured foreign-policy relations with every other nation on the planet. Lyndon LaRouche’s role in this process will be vital.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the last ten minutes of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, and the first 5 questions from the discussion session immediately following. The event, including the discussion session, was moderated by Debra Freeman.

From the Discussion Session:

· From a senior member of the Democratic staff in the U.S. House of Representatives: Beyond what has already been proposed legislatively by the House and Senate committees, what more do you think we should do to rein in the private equity and hedge funds?”

LaRouche: “Battling hedge funds is like proposing to eliminate prostitution in Las Vegas. You’re threatening the income of, shall we say, the procurers. But we are beyond that. We are at the point that we need emergency legislation to prevent home foreclosures.”

· From Richmond (LaRouche Youth Movement, Zimbabwe): “How best can Zimbabwe recover, and in fact, become the bread basket for all of Africa?”

LaRouche: “Zimbabwe is a victim of British imperialism, and it is a victim of the tradition of Cecil Rhodes, in particular. You have to repeal the British United Kingdom.”

· Norton Mezinsky (Professor, Mideast Studies, Central Connecticut University): “You told us there are certain very important things that need to be done—or at least started—in the month of August: Impeach Cheney; pull the troops back; get Russian, India, China together with the U.S.; begin to change the currency policy throughout the world. Do you really think, that with this government, and with these candidates that we have for the Presidency, that anything along these lines can be started in the next 30 days?”

LaRouche: “Absolutely! [laughter, applause] It can be done. I know how to do it. And, we’ve got some politicians in the U.S., who are capable of understanding that and doing it.”

· From Mark Thomas (business agent, Iron Workers Local #3, Pittsburgh, PA): Can you describe what would be a sound immigration policy for the nation?”

LaRouche: “Don’t start with immigration, because that’s not the place to start. Let’s start, by talking about a national minimum wage law. And at the same time, let’s talk about talking to Mexico, about building industries in northern Mexico.”

· From a Congresswoman from a major East Coast city: “I’d like to know what you think it will actually take [to withdraw troops from Iraq], and if you had amended or altered your Southwest Asia Doctrine from the standpoint of an actual withdrawal?”

LaRouche: “I have not really altered that in n principle in any respect.” The issue is real leadership, not ‘group dynamics’.

Release Date: Aug. 28, 2007

Program No. 701

“The End of the Post-FDR Era,” Pt. 3

“The time has come to make some history, to make a turning point in history, because there is no alternative.” – Lyndon LaRouche. On July 25, Lyndon LaRouche delivered an international address sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), to an audience of about 150 in Washington, DC, which was broadcast live over the internet.

1. Remove Vice President Dick Cheney from office, in whatever way possible.

2. Pull back American troops in Southwest Asia from areas of combat.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the last portion of the discussion session which followed Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. The event, including the discussion, was moderated by Debra Freeman.

LaRouche: “Absolutely! [laughter, applause] It can be done. I know how to do it. And, we’ve got some politicians in the U.S., who are capable of understanding that and doing it.”

· From Mark Thomas (business agent, Iron Workers Local #3, Pittsburgh, PA): Can you describe what would be a sound immigration policy for the nation?”

LaRouche: “I have not really altered that in n principle in any respect.” The issue is real leadership, not ‘group dynamics’.

· From a state official: [Concerning the upcoming Presidential elections and the current crop of candidates running], “is there a dark horse potential out there? Or are we in fact doomed to mediocrity?”

LaRouche: “When I say that government must do something, I’m taking personal responsibility for getting it done. If I say that we need a President with certain qualities, I’m prepared to do my part, to ensure that the President has available the qualities they need for that part. I’m not running for office; but if we get a good selection, a workable selection, I’m going to be there. And I’m going to do my job. And it will happen. I know some other people around government, who have similar qualities, and I would ensure, or attempt to ensure, that they are represented.”

· Michelle Rasmussen (LaRouche movement leader, Denmark): “How do you respond to those people who say it costs too much money to build a Bering Strait connection between Russia and the U.S. and for Denmark to lead Europe in building the first commercial maglev line? And, what more can you say about the importance of the Bering Strait Project?”

LaRouche: “The problem with most economists, especially accountants, is they think like monkeys, and therefore don’t’ know how to do these things. Human beings are not monkeys. The difference is, human beings change the productive powers of mankind, through the assimilation and generation of discoveries of principle, and the discoveries of the applications of those principles…. Take a mission-oriented approach....

· From Darrin Gilley (UAW official, St. Louis, MO): “Would it be possible for the Big Three automakers to actually negotiate a fair labor agreement with the UAW under current market conditions? Is it possible for the auto industry to overcome the unfair trade practices that are currently undermining all American industry? What do you recommend for the UAW and other unions, as we approach these current labor negotiations that are now set to begin, given the current economic crisis as you’ve developed it?”

LaRouche: “Let me do it. You’re not going to get it from the union level. You get the result from the participation of the people in the unions on the program, but you have to have a Roosevelt type of approach. You have to have a commitment from the top down, to prevent it from working, it’s probably not going to work.”

· From the Chief of Staff of a Senate office: “Have we lost what was accomplished at the “Lobster Summit? If not, how can we regain the momentum of the Kennebunkport process, and by doing so, avoid what some have referred to as the “Guns of August?”

LaRouche: “We list time; we lost a momentary opportunity. The problem is, we didn’t get rid of Cheney! That’s the problem. Get Cheney out and it’s all solved.

· Alan Egre (LYM): “It’s hard to understand what Johannes Kepler’s going through, without understanding the whole progression [from Archimedes’s attempt at quadrature of the circle, to Nicholas of Cusa’s refuting it, to Kepler’s discovery of gravitation, to infinitesimal calculus, to elliptical functions]. Could you elaborate?”

LaRouche: “Archimedes was wrong, incompetent. He was competent in some things, but o0n this he was incompetent. Society and social relations should be based on that which distinguishes human beings from animals. That’s the issue.”

Program No. 702

“LaRouche Takes on BAE: World’s Biggest Loose End,” Pt. 2

With the U.S. Dept. of Justice now confirmed to be investigating money laundering and bribery by the British aerospace giant BAE Systems, Congress and the American people must make certain that the investigation does not turn the “Scandal of the Century” into one more Bush-Cheney-Gonzales (now resigned) cover-up. The issue on the table is far bigger than the alleged $2 billion in bribes that BAE Systems paid out to former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, through the now-defunct Washington, D.C.-based Riggs Bank (now taken over by PNC). At least $80 billion in unaccounted-for loot has been generated by the Al-Yamamah oil-for-jet fighters barter deal, since it was signed in September 1985. Back in the first week in June, Mr. LaRouche identified Vice President Dick Cheney and the imperial Anglo-Dutch Liberal financial apparatus that stands behind him as implicated. U.S. Intelligence community sources support EIR magazine’s speculation that this giant secret slush fund has been used for various very nasty covert operations during this time.

Part 1 of our coverage featured approximately the first half of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, in which he emphasized that we have come to the end of a period of history; we have entered into a period of generalized warfare in which we are living under a dictatorship with a financial system based on gambling. In Part II, Mr. LaRouche concludes with a sweeping discussion of the birth of European civilization, and the foundations of modern physical science from the ancient Greek Pythagoreans and Solon, to Nicholas of Cusa, Johannes Kepler, Leibniz, Gauss, Riemann, and Einstein; and then back to the Book of Genesis, to answer the question “what are we living for?”

LaRouche: “Since we are at the point that everything that people thought they had, in this society, is about to be taken away from them, by the circumstances typified by the BAE, you have an existential question: You want to die as a pig? Or live as a man? That’s what politics must be, today.”

From the discussion session, moderated by Debra Freeman:

From a New York resident (e-mail): “Please share your view of Russian President Vladimir Putin, especially from the standpoint of your proposal for a four-nation agreement.”

From a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate (e-mail): “What are the sides in the faction fight within British leading circles [concerning the BAE Systems scandal]; why is it not reflected in the press here?”

Release Date: Sept. 26, 2007

Program No. 703

“LaRouche Takes on BAE: World’s Biggest Loose End,” Pt. 3

With the U.S. Dept. of Justice now confirmed to be investigating money laundering and bribery by the British aerospace giant BAE Systems, Congress and the American people must make certain that the investigation does not turn the “Scandal of the Century” into one more Bush-Cheney-Gonzales (now resigned) cover-up. The issue on the table is far bigger than the alleged $2 billion in bribes that BAE Systems paid out to former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, through the now-defunct Washington, D.C.-based Riggs Bank (now taken over by PNC). At least $80 billion in unaccounted-for loot has been generated by the Al-Yamamah oil-for-jet fighters barter deal, since it was signed in September 1985. Back in the first week in June, Mr. LaRouche identified Vice President Dick Cheney and the imperial Anglo-Dutch Liberal financial apparatus that stands behind him as implicated. U.S. Intelligence community sources support EIR magazine’s speculation that this giant secret slush fund has been used for various very nasty covert operations during this time.

Part 1 of our coverage featured the first half of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. Part II featured Mr. LaRouche’s conclusion and the first two questions from the Discussion session. Part III continues with more from the Discussion session:

· From a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate (e-mail): “What are the sides in the faction fight within British leading circles [concerning the BAE Systems scandal]; why is it not reflected in the press here?”

Reply by LaRouche: On the BAE scandal cover-up.

· From someone with an interest in employment prospects for former heads of state: “Why is everyone trying to find a job for [former British Prime Minister] Tony Blair?”

Reply by LaRouche: On Tony Blair and Dick Cheney.

· From who sits on the council of the Mexican PRD party, who identifies herself as a LaRouchista: “How does one connect this discussion of the BAE scandal, to the inside of a political party, like mine, which is spending its time occupied with small local problems or with matters which in fact are only effects of a perverse international oligarchical policy. How do we elevate the level of the fight [for these people]?”

Reply by LaRouche: On the global fight: the case of Mexico.

· From Glen Isherwood (LaRouche Youth Movement, Australia): “What is your message to people who say, Think big, but act locally? They want to sprinkle good deeds around, and have people feel like they’re changing the state of the world. How do we get them to think and act bigger?”

· From three members of the Freshman Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives: “We came into Congress with a mandate to end the war in Iraq. Every effort in this direction has been blocked; in some cases, by our own leadership. The result is, that this institution enjoys lower voter approval than the very Administration that we were elected to stop. We have been told that, while our frustration is understandable, that it would in no way justify renegade actions against the leadership, and that, indeed, such actions would only serve to strengthen the other side. Our concern is two-fold. One is the obvious question of how to get a policy implemented. Two, is the fact that, as members of the House, we serve at the pleasure of our constituents, and soon we face an election. We promised to do something that we didn’t do, and as such, voters may very well boot us out, just as they did our predecessors. Any advice?”

Reply by LaRouche: To get results, you have to be willing to make enemies.

· From a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Negotiations Affairs Department: “President Bush has called for a two-state solution in his Road Map proposal, which requires a viable state. And the question of water, which is my area of concern and work, for a nation to be viable, one of the fundamental requirements is water. The lack of water in Gaza and the West Bank, is now at a crisis state. What do the American people understand as the meaning of a viable state? What do you think about a timetable for all of this, since the Road Map called for the final date to be sometime in 2008?”

Reply by LaRouche: On what constitutes a viable state.

· From a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate: New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s exit from the Republican Party clearly positions him for an independent run for national office…. This kind of independent effort could very well bring down the entire two-party system. Talk about this.”

Reply by LaRouche: On the requirements for the Presidency today.

Release Date: Oct. 08, 2007

Program No. 704

“World Financial Crisis: Credit vs. Monetarist Usury”

On Sept. 15-16, 2007, the Schiller Institute held an amazing two-day conference in Kiedrich, Germany. The subject: “The Eurasian Land-Bridge is Becoming a Reality.” Three hundred fifty guests from forty nations gathered amid the most momentous period of change in globally extended modern civilization since the great 1648 Peace of Westphalia.

The outcome of the presently accelerating world-wide crisis is not yet decided; but the alternatives can and must be politically clear. It is certain that the kind of global monetary-economic system which has evolved in the aftermath of the crisis-events of 1968, will not survive the presently onrushing calamities. As the proceedings of this two-day conference show, we have great and hopeful options for change.

In addition to Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the agenda featured prominent speakers from around the world, including Russian scholars and political leaders; an American consulting engineer; an Italian economist; and an American civil rights pioneer. The conference concluded with a report on the work of the LaRouche Youth Movement, with presentations by leading LYM members from around the world.

The LaRouche Connection begins its coverage of this historic conference with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, known internationally as “The Silk Road Lady,” for her tireless organizing on behalf of the Eurasian Land-Bridge idea, beginning the early 1990s. In her welcoming and introduction of her husband Lyndon, she described the purpose of the conference as a very optimistic one, in spite of the danger of war against Iran, and a global financial system in an advanced stage of disintegration and meltdown.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche: “We will hear in many presentations and discussions how easy it would be to reconstruct the world. We have reached an historic moment, where the neo-liberal system of the free-market economy, is coming to an end…. Either we establish a new world economic order based on the Eurasian Land-Bridge, and go for global reconstruction, or we will plunge into a dark age.”

Next we have the keynote by Lyndon LaRouche, entitled “This Present World Financial Crisis: Credit vs. Monetarist Usury.”

Lyndon LaRouche: “We’ve come to the point that civilization as a whole is in danger of collapse. This is an unusual time. We’re looking, not at the threat of a depression: We’re looking at the threat of a global, prolonged, new dark age of humanity. The question before us is, can we overcome this threat at this stage.”

Mr. LaRouche takes his audience back to President Franklin Roosevelt’s commitment to eliminate the British Empire after World War II.

“Roosevelt’s war-time conception and alliance were based on a number of things, for the postwar period: bringing Russia and China into a bloc to create the Untied Nations, which was supposed to be a forum for the liberation of areas which had been victims of colonialism—to build up new nations, and assist them in their development; and to build a community of sovereign nation-states bound together by an understanding of the lessons of the recent war: to live with one another to achieve the common aims of mankind. Under a British policy, dictated to the U.S. by treasonous elements in New York City and elsewhere, we adopted the opposite policy…. And that’s what this crisis is all about.”

Mr. LaRouche then focuses on the methods most frequent by which civilization has been constantly destroyed: the “long war,” giving as an early example, the Peloponnesian War—“a war with no moral purpose, no strategic objective;” today’s “baby boomer” generation, educated in Sophistry as in Periclean Athens, with its Apollo-Dionysian cult-like behavior; the “Revolution in Military Affairs” doctrine; “globalization;” the nonsense of global warming; “Maastricht” crippling of Western and Central Europe. And what you get with all this is a determination to eliminate the sovereign nation-state as an institution.

Mr. LaRouche calls for a sweeping reform of the monetary and banking system, in which the uttering of money becomes a credit system, not a monetary system; and replacing the floating condition of international currencies, by returning to a fixed-exchange-rate system, such as under the 1944 Bretton Woods System.

“The government utters credit, against an issuable amount of currency, which the Congress has allowed it to do: the Congress votes a bill; the government can now utter so much currency, which will be charged to the debt of the U.S. That is the equivalent of money. What do you do with it? Use the credit (money) you’ve created for large-scale infrastructural development, primarily.”

Mr. LaRouche concludes by emphasizing that we must change our thinking to deal with principles of physical economy—about the effect of changes in the physical structure of economy (about the way people live physically); how various measures affect the future of humanity, not statistics. It’s a matter of coming up with increasingly better approximations of this principle involved.

“Civilization, as our living generation now knows it, will cease to exist, very, very soon, unless we change our ways. And I can give you some insight at best, on some of the things we have to think about.”

[The two presentations featured in this program have been somewhat abridged in order to comply with Public Access time limitations. For a full transcript of the entire conference, see EIR magazine, Vol. 34, No. 38, Sept. 28, 2007. pp. 4-51; No. 39, Oct. 5, pp. 4-31; No. 40, Oct. 12, pp. 48-71; No. 41, Oct. 19, pp. 58-71. Or, visit www.schillerinstitute.com, and click on “Eurasian Land-Bridge Conference: Transcripts and Audio Files.”]

Release Date: Oct. 29, 2007

Program No. 705

“Save the American Republic from the British Empire!” Pt. 1

Our nation is in the throes of the final stage of a breakdown crisis that has been a long time in coming. No American can escape the immediate effects of this crisis. Those of us who got sucked into various kinds of exotic mortgages, or subprime mortgages, are merely the first being hit in the onrushing general collapse of the global financial-monetary system.

Lyndon LaRouche has warned about this larger crisis for a long time, and has proposed an initiative that would not only protect the American people, but would also provide a measure of protection for the chartered state and Federal banks, to ensure not only that families remain in their homes, but at the same time, that our banking system continues to function. This is the “Homeowners and Bank Protection Act.”

On October 10, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a three-hour international webcast from Washington, DC, sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee, to sharpen and broaden his intervention into this crisis. This issue of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, with three questions from the discussion session. Debra Freeman moderated the entire event,

LaRouche: “In early January of 2001, before the inauguration of George W. Bush as President, I warned that the policies of [the incoming President] Bush would be a total failure: We were headed into a downslide, which in fact has happened, all throughout this period. [I warned then that] the thing we had to fear, from inside the U.S. government, was that someone would set off a form of terrorist incident within the year, which would shock the nation into submission.”

The infamous events of Sept. 11, 2001 met LaRouche’s criteria. “Someone, with the cooperation from inside the highest levels of power in the United States, unleashed an incident which is called the 9/11 incident. That job was done with the complicity of the British Empire; it was done with complicity of elements in Saudi Arabia. The operation was run against the Untied States by the British Empire.

After a discussion of the related “Revolution in Military Affairs,” and the joke nature of both the Democrat and Republican parties and their Presidential pre-candidates in this time of great crisis, and the justified collapse of popular confidence in the Congress, Mr. LaRouche turns to the founding of our unique Republic, contrasting it to the oligarchical systems of Europe.

Under our Constitution, the Federal government can act, to create “firewall of law” which protects what is essential for the functioning of the nation and the security of our people.

“We can use the remains of the machine-tool sector to start a recovery program, starting in the public sector. We will build nuclear power plants, rapidly, many of them. We will rebuild our water systems, rapidly. We will create a national rail system, immediately. We will use these kinds of government-related projects to stimulate employment and production in the private sector. And, we’re going to encourage other nations to join us in doing the same thing.” In this way, “Were going to shut down the British Empire, which gave us 9/11!”

From the Discussion Session:

From Someone in Pennsylvania: “If you stop all foreclosures, how would you prevent some people from simply ceasing to pay their monthly mortgages? Or even just cutting back some months, if their money is tight? If banks can’t foreclose, how does one force people to continue to pay their home mortgages at all? The entire population could just skate home-free on their payments.”

From a Congressional office: “Your bill says banks must be under protection until home prices come down to fair prices. But wouldn’t that leave people with mortgage amounts that are way higher, than the price of the underlying asset, i.e., their home, leaving them with huge negative equity? Or, are you calling for the mortgage amounts, as well, to be somehow slashed, to match home prices? If so, how would this work, and how could it be legally enforced? And, if it were done, wouldn’t it be a kind of expropriation against the banks and other lending companies?”

From the House Banking Committee: “Your proposal would essentially wipe out what could be as much as trillions of dollars of assets of both banks and mortgage-backed securities, and it would seem to me that this would be not only a disaster for the banks themselves, but also for pension funds. Specifically, what form of protection [for the banks] are you talking about? Do you mean that the government would then bail out these banks, if they were in trouble?”

[For a full transcript of the entire webcast, see EIR magazine, Vol. 41, Oct. 19, 2007. pp. 4-27. Or visit www.larouchepub.com, click on “LaRouche’s Writings,” and scroll down to the Oct. 10 Webcast.

[For the text of the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act, and related material, including support for its passage from state legislatures and city councils around the country, visit www.larouchepac.com.]

Release Date: Nov. 3, 2007

Program No. 706

“Save the American Republic from the British Empire!” Pt. 2

On October 10, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a three-hour international webcast from Washington, DC, sponsored by the LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), to sharpen and broaden his intervention into this crisis. Part 1 of our coverage of this event featured Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, with three questions from the discussion session. This edition covers eight more questions. Debra Freeman moderated the entire event,

· From a senior Congressional staffer: “Why do you think that none of the legislative efforts by Congress so far address the home mortgage crisis in any way…but you seem to be saying that these actions are actually making things worse?”

· Joe Elkins (LaRouche Youth Movement): “What do you say to Senate office staff who are asking me ‘Who are you meeting with on the Banking Committee? What are they saying? We aren’t on the Committee; we can’t introduce [HBPA]. Maybe we could do an amendment.’”?

· From a Democratic consultant in Washington: “You say Members of Congress are cowards. Cowards about what? Afraid of what? What they’re doing now virtually guarantees their exit from office.”

· From Yuri Tsarik (World Development Network, Minsk, Belarus): “To what extent do you think [the recent events in Myanmar and Pakistan] is directed against China? Is there, in the White House, any other vision of a U.S. policy toward growing and developing China, outside of the destructive crash course that [Vice-President Dick] Cheney & Co. seem to represent?”

· From the Dept. of Monetary Policy at the University of Würzburg, Germany: “Do you really believe [that the many Goldman Sachs officials who have been appointed to key financial posts in the Western world] are dumb and without any real insight into the current problems in the international financial markets and the banking system, as well as the possible impact of these problems on the whole economic activity? Isn’t it imaginable that these people would like to govern a controlled crash, which might boost their power, in a post-crash world, and that this crash would, in turn, destroy the vestige of the current free world?”

· From Joe Neal (former Nevada State Senator): “What will a postponement or lack of action on the hedge funds during this session of Congress mean, in terms of the impact on our nation?”

· From Missouri State Rep. Juanita Walton (D-St. Louis): “Why is it that average people have gone so crazy as to [enter into mortgages that are going to vastly increase their monthly payments], and why are our leaders nationally, putting their heads in the sand, knowing what is happening?”

· From Michigan State Rep. Lee Gonzales (D-Flint): “Please comment on the implications of the national crisis with regard to the state of Michigan.”

[For a full transcript of the entire webcast, see EIR magazine, Vol. 41, Oct. 19, 2007. pp. 4-27. Or visit www.larouchepub.com, click on “LaRouche’s Writings,” and scroll down to the Oct. 10 Webcast.

[For the text of the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act, and related material, including the latest on the growing support for its passage from state legislatures and city councils around the country, visit www.larouchepac.com.]

Release Date: Nov. 17, 2007

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