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Program No. 730
“President Obama’s Options,”
Part 1
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On January 16, one week before Barak Obama’s inauguration as
the 44th President of the United States, and again two days after
the inauguration, on January 22, Lyndon
LaRouche issued gripping and concisely organized calls, in the form of two
international webcasts, to the incoming President and those in the broader
institution of the Presidency, to immediately put the world financial system
into bankruptcy reorganization. Without
this measure—which so far almost no “experts” have been
wiling to contemplate—no other reforms stand a chance. This edition
of The LaRouche Connection features
Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks and the first question from the discussion
session of the January 16 event, moderated by Debra Freeman.
LaRouche: “The problem here is that, as most of you know, the
President has not spoken on the actual, crucial issues of world economy. Nor
has anyone else, really. Before the public, there has been no competent
discussion of the most crucial issues which threaten and face the world
today.”
A year and a half ago, on July 25, 2007, in an international webcast, Mr. LaRouche had
publicly forecast a breakdown of the international financial derivatives
bubble—a bubble on the order of magnitude of about $1.4 quadrillion
dollars. This bubble is still growing today, until we get rid of it, which we
must do, and soon.
LaRouche: “We are never
going to bail out the $1.4 quadrillion
worth of inflating claims against the world economy. We are going to have to wipe out most of the financial claims from the
books! We’re going to have to put the world, which we have to
save—a physical world—into protection, by eliminating the greatest part of the nominal financial claims,
held by financial institutions of the world today. If you don’t do that, you can not save the world physical
economy from a general breakdown, which would mean the world’s population
would probably sink from about 6.5 billion to about 1 billion, within a
generation or two.”
What Mr. LaRouche had forecast was not a spinoff from a breakdown
of the mortgage sector into the general economy, but a systemic breakdown of the entire
financial-economic system.
LaRouche: “The secondary factor in this, was the fact that
the
LaRouche: “You can get out of this mess, very simply: Go back
to our Constitution, and go back to thinking of Franklin Roosevelt, as of 1944.
Put the world through bankruptcy reorganization, and change away from this
monetary system we have, and go to a credit system, as understood in the early
days by Alexander Hamilton.”
There is another step which must be taken: And that is to confront and
destroy the “
LaRouche: “We’re going to create [a] system of
cooperation among nation-states, of the type envisaged by Franklin Roosevelt in
1944, end all traces of imperialism, end all globalization, and go back to the
sovereign nation-state and its people. And do it on the basis of the famous
principle of 1648, the Westphalian Principle.” With an initial
combination of the four largest powers—the
Mr. LaRouche then discusses the difference between Physical Economy
and Money—a difference most of us have failed to understand. Physical
economy involves matters of square area of territory; energy flux density of
baseline power sources; per-capita and household health, and longevity; technical
methods of production. He provides case examples of
LaRouche: “We’ve got to stop talking about money, as
such, and realize that money is merely a means of exchange. We must regulate
it; we must regulate banking. We must go back to the kind of banking that we
had under Glass-Steagall. We must separate the banking, in which you put your
money, if you have it, for deposit, which the local community depends upon for
its lending practice and so forth. We must put this section of banking back
into business! As chartered banking,
under government protection. We must take the other part of banking, the
high-risk part, separate it, look at the garbage, and put the garbage through
cancellation. Financial derivatives don’t contribute anything to a world
economy. It’s gambling debts, and the policy of the
Having cancelled the bogus claims against the economy, we must then
create a new flow of credit, under our
Constitution, to ensure that the local chartered and local national banks
are able to perform their traditional function, in cooperation with government,
for creating a system of long-term credit, to generate the rebuilding of our
economy: agriculture, industry, infrastructure.
We must also concentrate on increasing the energy flux density of
our baseline source of power. This means going with nuclear fission in a big
way, on the way to deployment of thermonuclear fusion. We must transform our
system of transportation from the current one based largely on individual
automobiles and highways, to one based largely on high-tech mass-transit,
especially magnetically-levitated trains. “We need to go back to more
distribution of production away from a few large centers of mass industry, into
regional development; smaller industries, more emphasis on closely-held corporations.
We need to rebuild the idea of a community, where you can walk to work in a
quarter-hour or half an hour each way, at most.” We have to shift toward
long-term investment in new water systems to prevent flooding and replenish our
fresh water supplies, by especially mass desalination of seawater. These are
25-50-100-year investments, in which we will cooperate with other nations to
mobilize the low-cost credit to bring all this into being.
LaRouche: “We have to enter into cooperation with nations
such as
From the Discussion Session:
Composite Question from many sources: “When you talk about
new international arrangements, and most specifically, your four-nation
agreement…why do you not consider a 1.2 billion population which serves
as the majority population in more than 56 countries and as a minority
population in many others? What I am talking about are the number of people in
the world today, who are followers of the Muslim faith.”
[A complete transcript of the webcast appears in EIR magazine, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jan. 23,
2009), pp. 4-15.]
Release Date: Feb. 2, 2009
Program No. 731
“President Obama’s Options,”
Part 2
Read OR PRINT Transcript of webcast
On January 16, one week before Barak Obama’s inauguration as
the 44th President of the United States, and again two days after
the inauguration, on January 22, Lyndon
LaRouche issued gripping and concisely organized calls, in the form of two
international webcasts, to the incoming President and those in the broader
institution of the Presidency, to immediately put the world financial system
into bankruptcy reorganization. Without
this measure—which so far almost no “experts” have been
wiling to contemplate—no other reforms stand a chance.
In its coverage of these two
events, moderated by Debra Freeman, The LaRouche Connection Program 730
featured Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks and the first question from the discussion
session from Jan. 16. Program 731 features Questions #2-5.
· From a
section of the Obama Transition group: “When you speak about a New
Bretton Woods, and you talk about a credit system, not a monetary system, is it
necessary to create two completely separate agreements: on the one hand a new
financial architecture, with agreements tied to it as to how each nation will
value its money, and everything that’s attached to that; and then, as
well, an international credit arrangement, that would be directed toward
multinational approaches to great projects, etc.?”
· From a
national official inside the labor movement: “Right now we are a minimum
of 10 million jobs short, just to keep up with our current levels of operation.
If radical action is not taken, 10 million middle-class Americans are going to
be thrust into poverty, and an additional 6 million into ‘deep
poverty.’ Obama’s plan includes only $90 billion for
infrastructure. How do you propose that we address this overall situation. How
can we address it, rapidly enough, to stop the catastrophe that seems to be
looming?”
· From a
prominent international economist involved in the Transition: “Do you
agree with me that we need Federal spending on the order of a minimum of $800
billion a year, simply in job creation, to achieve an economic recovery? Do you
have any concerns regarding the Federal deficit?
· From the
Obama Transition group: “One of the biggest problems you’re going
to face as you try to rescue this economy, will be finding enough job-creation
projects that can be started quickly, say within six months or less.
[A complete transcript of the Jan. 16 webcast appears in EIR magazine, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jan. 23,
2009), pp. 4-15.]
Release Date: Feb. 16, 2009
Program No. 732
“The Issue is Bankruptcy”
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On January 16, one week before Barak Obama’s inauguration as
the 44th President of the United States, and again two days after
the inauguration, on January 22, Lyndon
LaRouche issued gripping and concisely organized calls, in the form of two
international webcasts, to the incoming President and those in the broader
institution of the Presidency, to immediately put the world financial system
into bankruptcy reorganization. Without
this measure—which so far almost no “experts” have been
wiling to contemplate—no other reforms stand a chance.
In its coverage of these two
events, moderated by Debra Freeman, The LaRouche Connection Program 730
featured Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks and the first question from the
discussion session from Jan. 16. Program 731 featured Questions #2-5. Program
732 features the bulk of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks to the Jan. 22
event.
LaRouche: “The most crucial issue facing the
LaRouche: “We’re on the verge, not of a simple
bankruptcy, but of a general chain-reaction collapse, globally, comparable in
form to the breakdown crisis in the middle of the 14th Century, the
so-called New Dark Age. Only this time, the threatened dark age, while
immediate, is not merely in
LaRouche: “Most of the proposals which I hear, from
influential circles around and coming into government, is that, while they
understand many aspects of the problem, they really don’t understand the
problem, and therefore their tendency would be to make a mistake.”
LaRouche: “Now, one of the big mistakes is this: We have
newly-elected President who must act now, because he’s at the high point
of his ability to act. If he postpones these questions, or tries to approach
them gradually, certain evil things can take over ,and remove from his hands
the ability to take the kind of action which he might be able to pull off
now.”
LaRouche: “The policy has to be, put the
Mr. LaRouche reminded his world-side audience, watching and
listening in via the internet, of his forecast of a general collapse of the
system back on July 25, 2007, in a webcast he conducted on that date (See The LaRouche Connection Program Nos.
699, 700, 701) that” at that time we still had room to get out of this
mess, without too much drastic action.” But, “that is no longer
possible.” Due to Congress’s blocking of Mr. LaRouche’s
Homeowners and Bank Protection Act, “what was bad was made worse.”
What’s the alternative to the increasingly more massive,
illegal, unconstitutional—but ineffective—bank bailouts? Stop it
right now!
LaRouche: “What we have to do is protect legitimate claims
and function in the banking system, and forget the illegitimate claims and
functions. No bailouts! Put the Federal Reserve System through bankruptcy,
putting it under bankruptcy protection—not bailout. Conduct an assessment
of the situation of the bank. Those elements which correspond to legitimate
functions of chartered banking, will be protected. Those functions which do
not, will be cancelled.”
We then proceed to rebuild our economy. Mr. LaRouche discusses
Hamiltonian National Banking and what constitutes “physical
economy,” in terms of standards of performance in production, productive
values, per capita and per square kilometer.
LaRouche: “We enact a national banking act, where we put all
the essential functions of banking under protection of a national banking act
system. We use the National Bank as an instrument of credit, which absorbs the
Federal Reserve System.” For State and Federally chartered banks,
“we’ll keep their doors open, maintain their function, and generate
Federal credit, as a source of lending power, to get the economy moving again.
We will build agriculture, and especially infrastructure.”
Mr. LaRouche then discusses the nature of the modern economy, as
necessarily based on scientific progress, constantly upgrading the
population’s productivity per capita and per kilometer, with investments
in increasingly higher energy flux dense technologies. Since this program has
not been carried out since the arrival of the Baby-Boomers in 1967-68,
productivity has dived, and the physical economy has collapsed. We did it to
ourselves. We have to reverse this trend.
LaRouche: “What we have to do, is unite the United Stated
with an anti-British empire coalition, consisting of Russian,
LaRouche: “Under our policy, money cannot be uttered in the
Mr. LaRouche explains the intention of President Roosevelt at the
end of World War II: create a system of cooperation under a fixed-exchange-rate
system, under which the U.S. would take the vast productive potential which we
had mobilized in the form of a military, wartime capability, and take that vast
potential, and utilize that to eliminate the British Empire by eliminating
colonialism, especially freeing Africa. President Truman reversed that process,
and it’s up to us to finish the job
LaRouche: “Don’t expect Congress [to deal the
“economic royalists,” as
[A complete transcript of the Jan. 22 webcast appears in EIR magazine, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Jan. 30,
2009), pp. 4-41.]
Release Date: Mar. 2, 2009
Program No. 733
“The Astounding High Cost of
‘Free’ Energy”
The February 28 edition of The LaRouche Show, the weekly Saturday
internet radio program, featured a discussion of the ugly truth that wind and
solar power (so-called ‘clean’ or ‘renewable’ or
‘sustainable’ or even ‘free’ energy sources), as the
answer to our energy needs, would result in mass depopulation of the planet.
Guest Host Nancy Spannaus, Editor of
EIR Magazine, interviewed Laurence Hecht, Editor-in-Chief of 21st Century Science and
Technology magazine, joined by LaRouche Youth Movement members Ben Deniston and Alexandra Perebikovsky. The one-hour program was videotaped for The LaRouche Connection.
Ms. Spannaus began by pointing out the insanity which is governing
energy policy today. “The idea that we have ‘free’ energy out
there in the wind and sun, that can just be captured and ‘free us from
the dictatorship of foreign oil,’ has become a cultural paradigm in the
Mr. Hecht began with the same polemic he used in his article from
the Feb. 13 edition of EIR: “If
you are thinking of going with wind and solar energy, you should envision the
billion children you are condemning to death. To maintain a global population
in a condition resembling a modern 21st Century standard of living,
will require an installed electrical generating capacity of at least 3-5
kilowatts per capita. Today, only the Untied States, Japan, and a few western
European countries even approximate this level of generating capacity.
One-third of humanity today, however, has no
access to electricity. We have an obligation to bring the rest of the world up
to current
After defining watts as measure of power, Mr. Hecht then elaborated
on the basics of power production, including giving a small demonstration with
a magnet and a coil, giving many examples of the absolute absurdity of claims
that wind and solar power could provide the electricity required for the
planet.
Mr. Deniston and Ms. Perebikovsky discussed their approach to
organizing our citizenry against the prevailing culture, with emphasis on the
fact that nuclear power represents not just “electricity,” but a
transformative power of man’s role in the universe.
Ms. P. “We must go to ever higher energy-dense technologies,
such as nuclear and fusion. We need to go to new domains that we haven’t
explored as human beings, such as the sub-atomic and the extremely large.
That’s where we must go so that civilization can live. Otherwise
we’re headed for a dark age.”
Ms. Spannaus: “Every human on the planet has a right to a
power over nature represented by 3-5 kw, but we seem to have a problem getting
people to agree with us. What kind of pedagogy might help us break through on
this?”
Mr. Deniston: “We’ve been dong a lot of work on this
existential crisis on our LaRouche PAC website with our videos. The thinking
that’s gone into so-called green, soft, free technologies has brought us
to the point of economic collapse. We must make that very clear. Since the late
1960s, there has been a shift away from industrial progress, to the point that
today we’re unable to support ourselves. Look at the state of the
nation’s infrastructure: energy, transit, water. With the current rate of
collapse, we need to make some very quick decisions on getting out of this crisis.”
Ms. P.: “With the new [Obama] Administration, we have the
possibility to create some new policy directions for the nation, which we were
unable to do in the past 8 years.” And all of this depends on
electricity, in every area.
Mr. Hecht: The susceptibility to the ‘free energy’
fraud is very similar to the susceptibility to the ‘free money’
fraud, in the last 10 years of Alan Greenspan’s get-rich-quick-mentality
investment schemes. What’s been lost, is the sense of the productive
capability of society. The money system is, in fact, only there to support the
physical economic system.”
It is precisely how a technology contributes to physical
transformations of the economy, which gives it its value, not how much money it
costs. The transformative power of a technology goes back to the use of fire.
Nuclear power is the fire of today.
Mr. Hecht underscored this notion, and how mankind’s enemy
always realized the danger that nuclear power represented to their schemes. He
noted that it has been 100 years since scientists made the relevant
breakthroughs on the nature of the atom, which opened the door to the
development of nuclear power—a fact we should be celebrating. He
referenced a new paper he is working on, called “Is the Fear of Radiation
Constitutional?” Beginning with the Truman Administration, the
“Cold War” was used to prevent the spread of nuclear power to
civilian uses. It is not natural for Americans to be afraid of high technology.
The idea of a challenge comes naturally. There’s an organized force
responsible for the ideology wherein we are now willing to kill our own
country.
Mr. Beniston reminded of 1974 National Security Study Memorandum
200, authored by then Sec. of State Henry Kissinger, which warned against “over-population”
and “limited resources,” and that the underdeveloped countries of
the world were to be kept only as places to be looted of raw materials and not
developed industrially. “Most people are unwilling to recognize the
existence of this outside imperialist force, whose active intention is to keep
the population largely in a feudal bestialized condition, to maintain them in
backwardness.”
There followed a discussion of the World War II era Manhattan
Project, Eisenhower’s post-war Atoms for Peace program, and the promise
of peaceful uses of thermonuclear fusion. Notions of
“sustainability”—that there’s some kind of natural
equilibrium which humans are interfering with and throwing off balance—is
a crazy idea that’s come to dominate today’s culture, which must be
turned around. The history of society has always been continual upshifts in
population density and state of organization.
Ms. Spannaus concluded with the thought that each of us must look
into our own mental state as we make breakthroughs in thinking about things.
“We’ve seen a resurgence of interest in nuclear power all over the
world, but it is still “underground” in the
[An article by Laurence Hecht on the subject of this discussion
appears in EIR magazine, Vol. 36, No.
6 (Feb. 13, 2009), pp. 4-17.]
Release Date: Mar. 9, 2009
Program No. 734
“Britain’s Dope, Inc.: Marker for
Humanity’s New Dark Age”
The March 7 edition of The LaRouche Show, the weekly Saturday
internet radio program, featured an interview with Dennis Small, Ibero-America Editor for EIR magazine, and Ben
Deniston, from the staff of the LaRouche Political Action Committee’s
website editorial department, conducted by Michelle
Steinberg, Counter-Intelligence Co-Editor of EIR. The topic: the release of the most comprehensive look at the
international illegal narcotics and drug-money-laundering business, and the
Anglo-Dutch financial cartel that runs it, since EIR’s groundbreaking
study in 1996. The one-hour program was videotaped for The LaRouche Connection.
Before delving directly into the new study, Ms. Steinberg set the
tone for the program by playing a 2-minute audio clip from a meeting addressed
earlier in the day by Lyndon LaRouche:
“We are presently in a state of war. It’s a war against
the
Mr. Small then provided an overview of the package of articles in
the Feb. 27 issue of EIR.
“We’ve followed, studied, and fought this for 30 years. The British
and their allies have been intent on using the drug trade today exactly as they
used the Opium Wars against
(1)
We’re in the middle of the most enormous collapse of the
world’s financial system, not seen since the 14th Century. One
way the British are attempting to save their role as the dominant political controllers
of the system, is to use the drug trade and its very substantial funds ($800
billion) in liquid cash, to bolster the financial bubble.
(2)
Moving directly to make sure the Obama Administration does nothing
different than during the numerous years we spent “in the Bushes”
on the drug war. The Bushes not only didn’t fight it, but they pushed
drugs. The British don’t want President Obama breaking away from this
approach. Attorney General Eric Holder’s joint operations with
(3) Culture warfare: menticide. The very
heart of what the British believe the world should be, is that human beings are
really not human, not creative,
but are to be treated as cattle. And the best way to get to this
‘happy’ state of affairs, is
to get the population drugged. The
British are the masterminds of this approach.”
Small continued: “The only effective way to fight this, is to
build a new kind of economics, which views the quadrillion dollars of financial
aggregates as a cancer. We need a science of ‘onconomy’ to cut out
this Ponzi scheme. Denying the $1-2 trillion of very liquid drug money and its
multipliers will clearly help. In the recent Bernie Madoff case, it was
discovered he was, lo and behold, laundering drug money from
There followed a discussion of the meat of the new EIR study: the main drugs and where they
produced, with particular emphasis on the widening opium-production in
The phrase “narco-terrorism,” coined by Lyndon
LaRouche, identifies the fact that the illegal drug trade is run centrally,
internationally, by a unified cartel with
Ben Deniston then referenced a pamphlet issued by the LaRouche
Political Action Committee, entitled “Your Enemy: George Soros,”
which identifies Soros’s role in dope trafficking and in pushing drug
legalization all over the world. His handler, British Lord Mark
Ms. Steinberg discussed the cases of three former Ibero-American
Presidents-- César Gaviria – President of Colombia from 1990-1994;
Fernando Henrique Cardoso – President of Brasil from 1995-2002; and
Ernesto Zedillo – President of Mexico from 1994-2000—all of whom
destroyed their countries when they were President, directly opening up their
countries to the drug trade through the policies of free trade and
globalization. They are now serving as frontmen for drug legalization. All
three have been recruited by Soros into his Latin American Commission on Drugs
and Democracy, which is calling for drug legalization. Meanwhile, the illicit
drugs now flow up to the
Published originally in 1978 by associates of Lyndon LaRouche, the
book Dope, Inc. led to the founding
of the National Anti-Drug Coalition and its magazine, War on Drugs. At that time, the pro-drug lobby was financed by the
Playboy Foundation, Richard Dennis (a commodities trader), and, behind the
scenes, by fascist economist Milton Friedman from the
In the Mid-1990s, in state after state, the LaRouche movement
fought decriminalization and free trade. Operating in 30 countries, George
Soros came in with billions, to set up such outfits as the Open Society
Institute (OSI), Human Rights Watch, the Drug Policy Foundation, etc. to push
legalization.
We can defeat the British-imposed cultural pessimism. We must and
can win the war on drugs. We can use high-technology methods to detect and
eradicate 90% of the crops, interdict and seize up to 70% of the remaining 10%.
We can shut down the financial side of things. The millions who are now literal
slaves to the drug system can be productively employed in massive new
infrastructure projects, including new water systems, high-energy-dense nuclear
power systems and advanced magnetically-levitated mass transport.
Ben Deniston rebutted the argument made by the pro-drug lobby that
governments could prosper by legalizing and then taxing the drug trade.
Dennis Small reminded viewers of the “silver or lead”
policy used to corrupt local politicians, in which they are given the
opportunity to accept bribes, or have family members shot. To defeat this, we
need to be sure we know what we’re actually fighting for: what it means
to be human—a creative soul capable of contributing to the advancement of
society. A successful war on drugs must be based on a world system of sovereign
nations, where the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia Principle of the interest of the other
is paramount, where countries cooperate based on their common interest.
The
[See EIR magazine Vol.
36, No. 8 (Feb. 27, 2009), pp. 4-49: “
Release Date: Mar. 30, 2009
Program No. 735
“The
Read OR PRINT Transcript of webcast
On June 27, 2009, Lyndon
LaRouche addressed an international audience via a video webcast from
In his opening remarks, featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection, Mr. LaRouche
made it clear, that the fight against the British Empire, is not against the
people of
LaRouche: “We're in a situation where we're looking at the
collapse of civilization. It's not some event that might happen or might not
happen: The crumbling of global civilization is currently in progress. Behind
the destruction of the
In his health-care and cap-and-trade policies, there is no
difference between Hitler and Obama. In both cases, the intention is to kill people en masse. “If you
tolerate it, if you apologize for it, you say, ‘You can’t call him
a Nazi,’ you’re complicit! You’re part of the problem.”
Even without the Nazi policies of the clinically insane President
and those who support him in these policies, we’re going to Hell anyway.
“We’re on the verge of a great collapse in the economy, and it will
be a world collapse.”
What to do? In a webcast back in July 25, 2007, Mr. LaRouche
proposed some very simple steps to the looming disaster he foresaw: “Put
the financial system through bankruptcy reorganization and protection.
Don’t allow mortgages to be foreclosed. That way you prevent the system
from falling. Then, step by step, take the measures, as Franklin Roosevelt did,
to organize a recovery.” Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), Rep. Barney Frank
(D-MA), and others in the House of Representatives, under President George Bush
and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), at that time, however, acted to block these
measures. The result: a chain-reaction collapse of the physical economy of the
world. “The rate of depression
in the
Under these circumstances, the President acts as a puppet of the
British monarchy. “He’s not really a President of the United
States—a poor little Puppet Nero of the British monarchy,” whose
system has been oriented to create, and now save, an empire run by financial
class of vast wealth, “which demands that the parasites be saved and the
productive people be killed.” Thus the endless clamor: “Bail Out!
Bail Out! Bail out the thieves who have done most of the stealing and most of
the bad policy-making, which has ruined the
It’s worse in Europe, where sovereignty was ceded to the
The answer to this conundrum lies entirely within the historical
tradition of the
“We came here, and founded this nation, to be free of the monetary systems of
We need a President now. LaRouche’s recommendation: put Obama
under “adult supervision.” Tell him what to do.
“We have to decide, as a people: are we going to restore our
commitment, as a nation, to the purpose for which it was created, to bring the
best of European culture, as developed through the Renaissance in particular,
to be a building block around which to organize the world for its own
betterment?” It’s a mission, a devotion, to the assignment of our
nation, on behalf of all mankind, to bring about a system of sovereign peoples
and nation-states all over the planet.
President Franklin Roosevelt had that idea, passion, and
commitment. He intended to destroy the
So, the issue today is, we have to go back to the
And, we don’t let filth such as George Soros into this
country. We don’t let such the big drug dealers in. We create productive power.
“We put back the railroad system, in a new [magnetic levitation] form. We
rebuild the industries we’ve lost, in a new [higher energy-flux-density]
form. We restore our agriculture [with the view to doubling world food
production]. We cancel the piratical Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
system and restore the earlier Hill-Burton law [of 1946]. We will do these
things, and more, as we move to save the planet.”
“The
[For a complete transcript of the webcast, see EIR magazine Vol. 36, No. 26 (July 3, 2009), pp. 4-41.]
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Program No. 736
“Americans No Longer Accept Their President
or Congress”
(“The Fall of the House of
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On August 1, Lyndon LaRouche
gave a video webcast address from
In his opening remarks, featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection, Mr. LaRouche
forecast a grim near future for the nation and the world, unless his policy proposals
are very quickly taken up.
LaRouche: “The crisis point from which to reference the
present
“
Mr. LaRouche repeats his chilling forecast: “As of Oct. 2-10,
approximately, the economic-financial system is finished. The states are
bankrupt. The rate of unemployment is increasing. Catastrophe is increasing.
There will never be a recovery of the present world monetary system. There will
never be a recover of the economy, under the present financial system.
It’s impossible. As of Oct. 2-10, or 12, approximately, the entire system
is coming down.”
He then relates a bit of personal history, beginning with his World
War II military service experience in
Mr. LaRouche brings us up to date, through British-puppet
Truman’s betrayal and police-state conditions to rid the country of
Roosevelt’s influence, including an unnecessary recession, as the nation
became a running dog of the British Empire; the slight change for the better
under Eisenhower; Kennedy’s attempt to restore our economic policy to
Roosevelt standards, and his British-orchestrated assassination for that
effort; Johnson’s terror of getting the same treatment unless he
succumbed to the quagmire of an Indo-China war; the consistent collapse, per
capita and per square kilometer of the physical economy, and of the mean
condition of welfare of the typical citizen since the mid-1960s; the looting
under Nixon, accelerating under Rockefeller sucker Carter; and Reagan’s
stunning announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative—a policy-initiative of LaRouche.
Mr. LaRouche then introduces a new policy initiative: a Mars
colonization program. In moving into space to get beyond the problems of an
unsafe political-social-economic environment on planet Earth, we parallel the
founding of America by people fleeing Europe—all because a certain
Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), “recognized that the degeneration
of Europe meant that European civilization was not a safe place for
civilization, that the old oligarchical relics were still predominant. Cusa
proposed that people in Europe go across the oceans to other continents, and
establish connections on other continents, with which to bring the best of
European culture, (which we later defended against European
occupation)—to these other parts of the planet, and there, to build up,
in concert with people we would find across the waters, to build up a
civilization, which would in turn, contribute to the rescue of a corrupted
Europe from its own sins.” Christopher Columbus ran into the papers of
Cusa, and, off he went.
There was progress in this direction in the Massachusetts Bay and
Mayflower Colonies, suppressed in the struggles of 1688-89, and revived later
by Benjamin Franklin in
Looting and sabotage of these ideas, a takedown of national
banking, until finally the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, where the uttering of
currency is taken away from Congress’s Constitutionally mandated
responsibility (Art. 1, Sec. 8), returned to private and therefore
unresponsible hands control of the nation: a private bankers’ club.
What are we to do? LaRouche: “Go out to our friends in
Using an updated animation of his now-famous “triple
curve,” which pedagogically helps us get at some of the technical
questions of how our economy is functioning, Mr. LaRouche demonstrates that
per-capita rates of employment in productive labor—agriculture,
infrastructure, and basic physical production—has decreased at an increasing
rate; while the monetary and financial aggregates have been increasing at an
increasing rate over the same period. Just recently the financial aggregates
have begun to fall, indicating the onset of the breakdown crisis.
LaRouche next provides a history of monetarism, going way back to
the Peloponnesian Wars (341-404 BC),
whereby European and its extended civilization has been ruled by
monetary systems, based on international systems, not nation-states, where
peoples have been ruled by money, by a succession of powers which are largely
private powers, which control money: Cult of Delphi, Roman Empire, Byzantine
Empire, Venice, British/Dutch Empire. Rather than bail out the Empire again,
let’s ditch it this time.
LaRouche then shifts to a discussion of looking 50 years ahead:
“Develop society by going to a higher platform than we’re standing
on. Go beyond, in the imagination, what you think you should be doing now, and
to a higher level. Progress is building something for the future. To build for the
future, you have to define the future, your destination, which means
you’re talking about at least two generations to come—50 years
ahead.”
LaRouche makes another forecast: “I say, 50 years ahead,
we’re going to be on Mars. And we define where we are today, by defining
the objective we have to fulfill to get to Mars, 50 years from now.” “And so, we have to move ahead, develop
a population that can deal with technologies of the future, and go ahead with
optimism. We have a junk heap. If we don’t do something soon, this
country is going to go to chaos. It may end up in a bloody dictatorship. It may
end up in a planetary dark age. The way we’re going, all those evils are
things we now deserve for our negligence. We have to take this President and
straighten him out. We have to get him to fire everybody associated with his
health-care policies. Dump every policy of that type out of the Administration
now. Purge it of evil! And turn the responsibility for the Administration over
to those institutions of government which include those members of Congress who
have developed a better sense of shame than they have shown so far. And by
those members of government now, who are in power, who will freely and happily
change the policies of this government in the direction needed. And, as long as
I am here, I am going to help them do it.”
[For a complete transcript of the webcast, see EIR magazine Vol. 36, No. 30 (Aug. 7, 2009), pp. 4-45.]
Release Date: Sept. 3, 2009
Program No. 737
“EIR News: September 21, 2009”
Marcia Merry
Baker hosts this first edition of The
LaRouche Connection in its new multi-topic news magazine format.
The program opens with the concluding 12 minutes of the opening
remarks made by Lyndon LaRouche to
an international webcast on Sept. 8, 2009, in which he makes an offer to the
foundering Barak Obama on how the President can stop the madness, save the
nation, and himself. To summarize:
“What’re we supposed to do now? I have a solution for you, Mr.
President. First, you get rid of that bunch of clowns who are associated with
your health-care policy, beginning with the brothers Rahm and Ezekiel Emanuel,
and Peter Orszag. Bring in a new group of qualified advisors who can provide
you with adult supervision. Coming up in October-November, we face an
absolutely desperate situation. We have to increase real, productive employment
by about 20% immediately, especially in large-scale infrastructure programs,
not green employment. We’ll keep you in the White House. You will be
consulted on every question that comes up that you should be consulted on. But
you’re going to listen to your new advisors, who are going to be a lot
more competent than you are. You will walk out of that job, with the pride that
under your Presidency, the nation was saved. And you can take pride in that.
That’s the best I can give you. Junk your present program. It’s
idiotic, it’s completely stupid, and it’s criminal; stop it! Mr.
President! For the first time in your life, be a mensch!”
In “Health Care: Adolf Hitler’s Infamous T-4 Euthanasia
Program,” EIR’s Antony Papert next reports on the political mass strike process now sweeping the
country, and most prominently visible at the August town hall meetings.
“Americans have mobilized themselves to protect their lives from a government
run amok, a government bent on killing them. And they’re right.”
Instead of doing the right thing and enacting LaRouche’s Homeowners and
Bank Protection Act of 1997, which had significant support at the state and
local level, eight months into the Obama administration, we have witnessed a
$24 trillion
What follows is a chilling 20-minute documentary produced by and
provided courtesy of LPAC-TV, on what happened to
Mr. Papert concludes with a characterization of the mass strike as
“neither Democratic nor Republican, neither Liberal nor Conservative, but
rather embodies the fundamental ideas found in our Declaration of Independence
and Constitution. Its basis is the same as that of the East German
demonstrators of 1989, who brought down the Wall, saying ‘We are the
people!’ We’re at a new historic crossroads. Given the right
leadership, the mass strike revolt of the American people can place President
Obama under adult supervision, or if necessary, force him out. We will either
have a new international fixed exchange rate credit system, as designed by
LaRouche, to replace the failed international monetarist system, or we will
have chaos leading to dictatorship and war, as in the French Revolution of
1789, where there will be a most rapid fall of world population from 6-7
billions to two billions or less.”
The final segment is from EIR’s editor-in-chief, Nancy
Spannaus, on the Obama Administration’s economic disaster. Entitled
“Their First 100 Days: Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Barak
Obama,” she begins with a
short video clip of Lyndon LaRouche,
from his prescient July 7, 2007 international webcast, in which he issued a
warning of great urgency: “There is no possibility of a non-collapse of
the present financial system—none! It’s finished, now! The present
financial system can not continue to exist under any circumstances, under any
Presidency, under any leadership, or any leadership of nations. Only a
fundamental and sudden change in the world monetary financial system will
prevent a general, immediate chain-reaction type of collapse. At what speed we
don’t know, but it will go on, and it will be unstoppable! And the longer
it goes on before coming to an end, the worse things will get.”
Spannaus: “Three days later, on July 10, 2007, the first
visible event of the great economic breakdown crisis of the 21st
Century occurred. Although taking the appearance of a ‘mortgage
crisis,’ in fact, the collapse of the housing market was only a symptom
of the death of the global financial system—which became increasingly
hard to hide, as financial markets everywhere froze up, and bankers and
governments went into panic.”
That was two years ago. What has Obama done since to get the nation
out of this mess? Using selected footage from the first inaugurals of
Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Obama, Mrs. Spannaus then matches up their
first 100 days on three main policy-programs—the banking system, jobs,
and housing. Instead of providing relief to individuals and communities, as
Roosevelt did, Obama has bailed out the banks to the tune of tens of trillions
of dollars; instead of putting folks back to work in critical areas, as Roosevelt
did, Obama has presided over the massive closing of factories and farms;
instead of protecting our living standards, as Roosevelt did, Obama’s
policies have increased unemployment, taken away our homes, and now threatens
to kill us!
Spannaus: “The crisis pointed to by Mr. LaRouche in July 2007
has only deepened—putting this nation, as well as the rest of the world,
on the very edge of disintegration. Mr. LaRouche’s estimation is that
unless the bankrupt world monetarist system is rapidly replaced with a new
fixed exchange rate credit system, based on a treaty agreement among the
sovereign nations of
She concludes to pound home Mr. LaRouche’s solutions as the
only ones available today: bankruptcy reorganization; establishment of a credit
system, whereby the unpayable gambling debts are stet aside, and socially
essential costs are met; the establishment of a credit system by federalizing
the Federal Reserve; negotiation of a Four Power agreement; and issuance by a
new National Bank of long-term low-interest credit for infrastructure and
putting people to work, thus generating the tangible wealth for the nation to
care for all its citizens.
Release Date: Sept. 21, 2009
Program No. 738
“Down with the
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Precisely on his 87th birthday, September 8, Lyndon LaRouche conducted an
international video webcast from Northern Virginia to lay out the stark choices
facing the
This edition of The LaRouche
Connection features the first hour of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.
In recent addresses, Mr. LaRouche has warned of the approaching
storm, but now the hour is very late. We must face the fact that President
Obama is moving toward the imposition of a fascist tyranny on the
LaRouche: “I can promise you a lot of bad news. We are now at
the end of things. There’s no competence in [President Barak Obama].
There never has been and there never was intended to be. He has no
comprehension of what he’s talking about.”
We have to face the reality of the economic breakdown crisis, which
calls for immediate action to create useful jobs for the growing number of
unemployed. This kind of shift – what Franklin Roosevelt accomplished in
the early period of his administration – is needed right now,
politically, as well as economically.
The Principle of Empire and Monetarism: “All European
imperialism, including British imperialism today, is not based on landed
territory; it’s based on international concerts of private interests who
create and manage money. Nation-states are subsidiary to this international
control of money. The British Empire, is not an empire of the people of the
The American Exception and Credit: “The one case in which
this was not successful, was the formation of the United States, which started
with a different system of finance, called a credit system, beginning with
scrip in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was later referred to as a
paper-money system by Benjamin Franklin, and is the characteristic of the U.S.
Federal Constitution. The Constitution does not condone a monetary system of
the type we’ve had, particularly under the Federal Reserve system, which
was an act of treason against the
We’ve come to a point that the globalist monetarist system
(“free trade”) must be superseded. The United States must now lead
in carrying out President Franklin Roosevelt’s post World War II
intention to create a world-wide credit system, to free people from colonialism
and subjugation, to reverse the direction taken at Roosevelt’s death by
British Lord Maynard Keynes’ derailing of Roosevelt’s intention for
the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, and by President Truman’s letting Wall
Street back in to play their games.
“So, we as an English-speaking nation, by and large, are absolutely
unique on this planet, and we are the greatest danger, because we represent the
alternative to the use of European culture, in
The reorganization of our financial affairs is the necessary
condition for solving our physical economic problems. Contrary to the current
Green revolution nostrum of “reduce, reuse, recycle,” the human
race depends upon the increase of what’s called the “energy
flux-density of power sources.” Over the millennia, we’ve gone from
sunlight, to burning wood; to coal, coke, oil and gas; and now nuclear.
LaRouche discusses mankind’s progress in the use of “fire”
which distinguishes us from the apes. “Without nuclear fission and
thermonuclear fusion we will not be able to sustain a world population of the
present magnitude, let alone an increased magnitude. So we do not lose
productivity in getting at those resources on which we depend, we have to
increase the concentration of power we must apply.”
The reason we can’t feed our population, is the fact that
they aren’t employed! Mr. LaRouche proposes keeping Barak Obama in the
Presidency, with the condition that he get rid of the bum advisors who now
surround him, starting with Ezekiel and Rahm Emanuel, Peter Orszag, and others.
Instead, President Obama must pay attention to what LaRouche can do, and what
others can do to advise his government on an actual road to recovery in the
desperate months ahead. The concentration must be on creating real employment in
productive work, especially large-scale physical infrastructure projects, such
as repairing the nation’s major river systems, thus rebuilding the
confidence of Americans and communities, now in an angry mass-strike mood, that
they can again trust their government.
LaRouche: “Mr. President, junk your present program.
It’s idiotic, it’s completely stupid, and its’ criminal; stop
it, Mr. President. For the first time in your life, be a mensch!”
[For a complete transcript of the webcast, see EIR magazine, Vol. 36, No. 37 (Sept. 25, 2009), pp. 4-41.]
Release Date: Oct. 19, 2009
Program No. 739
“The
Great Change of 2009”
Read OR PRINT Transcript of webcast
On Nov. 11, 2009, Lyndon
LaRouche conducted an international webcast in
Today’s world system, including the
LaRouche: [In a webcast] “on July 25, 2007, [TLC Programs
699, 700, 701: “The End of the Post-FDR Era”], I warned that we
were headed into a general breakdown crisis of the world financial-monetary
system and economic system. Three days later, the beginning of that breakup
occurred, in the form of the dropping out of the home mortgage market in the
“For several thousand years, European civilization has been
determined by a threefold principle of economy. On the top, you have a monetary
(money) system where the price of money is privately or imperially controlled.
Within nations, and in trade among nations, you have financial systems in which
money is used to buy and sell goods and services. The third principle is the
physical economy, which measures both the extent and rate of growth (or
decline) of produced physical consumption, including services. What we are
experiencing is a general breakdown crisis of all three, which is a virtual
copy of what occurred on a national scale in 1923
“There never was and never will be an economic recovery of
the Untied States under the Obama Administration, as long as he remains in his
present policies. The situation in Western and
Mr. LaRouche takes his audience through the long process of
disintegration, since 1964-68 and the assassination of, the economy has been
destroyed with “post-industrial” society. We never improved.”
President Obama is acting as a puppet of foreign interests.
“His Independent Medicare Advisory Council (IMAC) proposal is a
Hitler-like policy, given to him by his protector, Tony Blair, who first
introduced it in
“The solution, and it’s the only shot you’ve got,
is the Four-Power agreement. If an alliance of these four and other countries
occurs, that is sufficient power to bring down the present world system, and at
the same time, institute a new one. The first step in that direction was
implemented in October in negotiations between
“Don’t pay any attention to what Democratic Party
leaders tell you. Don’t pay attention to the press. What we have to do is
go back to Glass-Steagall, in which we put the commercial banks through
bankruptcy protection and reorganization of the type President Franklin
Roosevelt specified back in 1933. Accounts which do not conform to Glass-Steagall
standard are gone.”
“We require large-scale infrastructure, but we don’t
have industry any more.” Therefore
the Treasury Department will issue massive amounts of new low-interest credit
to re-build our industrial capacity to provide it.
Under the heading “Defeat the
Switching to the fraud of British “green environmental
policy,” and the hoax of “global warming,” he counterposes
the way an economy really works, which is by utilizing increasing power
densities of fire, and how that has allowed civilization to overcome exhaustion
of the richest concentrations of raw materials, while at the same time increase
its relative potential population density. “Mankind requires an increase
in the energy-flux density of sources of power available. Which means going
from burning of wood, or charcoal, or waste, up through petroleum and natural
gas. And you find that you have to go a qualitative level beyond that, for
mankind of survive: and that is, nuclear fission, but you have to go three
orders of magnitude or higher than that, which is thermonuclear fusion. Solar
power is idiocy,” and if deployed as a main power source, “will
destroy mankind.”
This leads Mr. LaRouche to discuss the little Chlorophyll molecule,
which is able to convert sunlight into a much higher form of power, and upon
which mankind is able to make the planet habitable.
“We are the target of an intentional destruction of our
nation and of civilization, by a kind of culture which comes out of a kind of a
relatively dark age of imperialism, back in ancient times. We are destroying
ourselves by becoming greenies. That’s how the enemy operates. It’s
sort of like the Satan principle. Satan is out there to induce us to destroy
ourselves, Right? And who is Satan? It’s called Prince Philip.”
Release Date: Jan. 11, 2010
[For a complete transcript of the webcast, see EIR magazine, Vo.
36, No. 45, Nov. 20, 2009, pp. 4-41.]
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