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Concerned Aussie from Perth (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. Minatus have you ever heard of him before, or have you just relied on others to feed there Bullsh*t opinions on yourself...gee whiz. ****************************** My email sent to Larouchepub yesterday, they do take note. I guess 1000´s did the same from the world over. [email protected] Subject:Lyndon needs to do a Web-cast NOW on Katrina. 9/2/2005 7:54 PM He is the only sane voice in all this mess. DO IT. Please. Sanity needs to prevail. Aussie. *** Cool to know people read your emails!..thankyou John Sigerson EIR. Reply: This message should answer your message to eirns earlier Friday...( all info is above ) ******************************************* This message is sent to you as someone who has requested, either through personal contact with a representative of Lyndon LaRouche PAC or who requested through e-mail on our website, to receive information by e-mail about our activities and website. It was composed using special e-mail software. If you wish to be removed from our future mailings, please click on the following link to fill out and submit a removal request: [link to www.larouchepac.com] If the link does not work, copy and paste it into the address field in your browser to go to this page, then fill out the form and submit it. Once you have submitted the request, the software will automatically block you from any future mailings. Due to the high volume of e-mail we receive, following the above directions is the only way to ensure prompt removal. ------=_NextPart_000_0012_9C467B4A.64C0DF49 |
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minatus23 (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. hey 428 Do some home work, and I am sorry for calling the pople who follow him "not that smart". Just on day I wish more people would think for themselves. Yes, his messages are usually in the right direction, but there are plenty of others who think the same way without all of the hidden agendas. |
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Concerned Aussie from Perth (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. minatus....your a clear victim of the mainstream press. Your cult claims just prove the point. Do yourself a favour and listen. About 3 years ago i thought the same as you did. Then i woke up.. |
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minatus23 (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. I fell under the spell when I first moved here, and I am far from mainstream. You have your opinions as do I, and I will leave this one alone. Take care and blessed be |
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Concerned Aussie from Perth (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. Democrat in the spirit of FDR Minatus....before it was corrupted by Facist and Synarchist. If you know LL, you should know this. Cool, have a good day, tell us what you think after the event. (-: |
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Concerned Aussie from Perth (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. In time like this, our opinions are secondary. Lets hope he inspire others to solve this mess. More help and wisdom the better i say. NO is just getting more horrible by the day. ** Head-east, here you go. PM link [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] members/sendmail.php?mailto=11292 Cheers. |
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Concerned Aussie from Perth (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. Infectious Disease is now spreading. People must get their heads around the idea that all efforts must be made to combat the spread. Spanish Flu scenario is getting more likely by the day. Minatus, just of note, you were spot on in another thread about infectious disease. BUMP. |
CAFP (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. , with two Sorcha Faal threads pinned FYI Another cast coming up. Save This Date - Lyndon LaRouche to Give Webcast September 16, 1:00 pm Eastern Time Going to be a revealing two weeks ahead, i wonder if the Senate will act??? Just have to wait and see. |
Concerned Aussie from Perth (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. FYI, some news you will know already. ABOUT 310 SITES AROUND THE WORLD TUNED IN FOR THE LAROUCHE WEBCAST SEPT. 3, in addition to 50-100 on the conference call. Participants included Germany, France, Italy, Philippines, Australia, Canada, Mexico City, Monterrey, Lima, Buenos Aires, and Neuquen, among others. In the U.S., major gatherings of participants, particularly youth, included Los Angeles, Seattle, Toledo, Boston, and Chestertown, Maryland. [source:Air Force, Navy, Northern Command press releases, Sept. 2 & 3] SOME NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS HAVE BEGUN TO ARRIVE IN DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS, personnally accompanied by Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the commander of Joint Task Force-Katrina, the command set up to coordinate and execute the Federal military support for rescue and recovery efforts. Other military activities include the following: * On Aug. 30, an Air Force Special operations team flew into the New Orleans airport with portable lighting and communucations gear to reopen the airport for relief and evacuation flights. * The Air Force has set up an aeromedical evacuation hub at Kelly Field, Texas, from where patients flown in from the storm-damaged region will then be taken to hospitals in the San Antonio area. Preparing the patients for transport is a 60 person areomedical evacuation team deployed from Lackland AFB, Texas. * An Air Force heavy civil engineering team, known as RED HORSE, flew into Keesler AFB to reopen its airfield, clean up debris and make the base operational, again. RED HORSE teams are specifically built to recover airfields from heavy damage, such as bomb damage or natural disasters. By Sept. 1, C-17s were flying relief supplies and equipment into Keesler. * Teams to build five 500-person tent cities have been deployed from Holloman AFB, New Mexico, to New Orleans, Keesler, and Eglin AFB in Florida. Eglin will also be a recieving point for evacuees. * There 139 DOD and National Guard helicopters conducting search and rescue operations and delivering relief supplies in the region. * Several military bases are being used as staging and operational areas, including Maxwell AFB, Ala., Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss., and Barksdale AFB and Fort Polk, both in Louisiana. * At least half a dozen Navy ships are on the way or already operating in the region, including the aircraft carrier USS Truman and amphibious assault ships Bataan and Iwo Jima. These ships are carrying helicopters and medical teams and supplies and can serve as command posts for coordinating activities. The hospital ship USNS Comfort left Baltimore on Sept. 2 and is expected to arrive in the region on Sept. 7 [source: Congressional websites] PRELIMINARY ACTIONS BY THE CONGRESS ON GAS PRICES. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) called on President Bush to work with the Congress to implement a temporary price freeze on gas, heating oil, diesel fuel and jet fuel, at the price which existed immediately before Katrina. Rep. John Conyers and 12 other members of the House Judiciary Committee wrote to the Federal Trade Comnmission to "commence an immediate investigation into reports of price gouging in gasoline markets." Conyers also plans to introduce legislation granting federal authority to pursue price gouging. [source: CNN, 2-3.9.05] NEW ORLEANS MAYOR RAY NAGIN BLASTED THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR ITS CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, in an interview with WWL correspondent Garland Robinette on Sept. 1. "They don´t have a clue what´s going on down here," said Nagin. "Excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed.... I will tell you this: You know, God is looking down on all this, and if they are not doing everything in their power to save people, they are going to pay the price. Because every day that we delay, people are dying and they´re dying by the hundreds, I´m willing to bet you.... Now get off your asses and do something, and let´s fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country." CNN transcript and audio of the radio interview. [Source: Financial Times, Sept. 3] FINANCIAL TIMES WRITES THAT BUSH´S POLICIES HAVE CRIPPLED THE UNITED STATES, RECALLS FDR´S NEW DEAL EFFORT. In a rather unusual comment, the Financial Times noted that the Katrina disaster "may mark a turning point in the U.S. debate over the role of government," putting an end to the anti-state paradigm that has been in place, since the 1970s. The ever-deeper tax cuts that were done under this paradigm, especially under George W. Bush, have eliminated the fiscal maneuvering room that "might have prevented the catastrophe and increased capacity to respond." The assessment last year by the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisiana, for $18 billion disaster protection projects, fell on deaf ears, and funding for the Corps of Engineers has dropped by almost a half since 2001. There has also been an erosion of the U.S. military, in spite of nominal increases in defense spending. And, most brutally, the fact of poverty was laid bare, by the hurricane, poverty that has been steadily increasing over the past years, with almost a third of the New Orleans population now being poor. "With the New Deal in the 1930s, helping those who could not help themselves became a mission that spawned a vast expansion of government´s role," the Financial Times concluded. "After a generation of determined effort, the conservative movement has succeeded in squelching that mission. In the aftermath of Katrina, its success appears to have come at high cost." |
Concerned Aussie from Perth (OP) 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. Snip of the Transcript ********************** [link to www.larouchepac.com] pages/speeches_files/2005/050903_webcast.htm Lyndon LaRouche: Most people don´t understand what the nature of the situation is, because they´re not thinking from the standpoint of what a President of the United States should think at a time like this. We have a crisis now, which is chiefly a man-made catastrophe, added to what had been otherwise a controllable, but severe, natural catastrophe. It is the man-made catastrophe, which is the chief problem we have to face and overcome. If the government had acted properly, as of Aug. 2 or 3, when the certainty of a Force 4 to 5 hurricane hitting the Southern coast was clearly known, a hurricane for which the area is not prepared: The area that was hit by this hurricane, which came in at [Force] 4, and reached close to 5 at a time, that area was not capable of withstanding a Force 3-level hurricane. So, the minute we knew we had a major hurricane, in the Force 4 to 5 range, aimed at the Southern coast of the United States, anyone in Washington who was on the ball, would have known we had a major emergency, and had to take immediate, emergency action on the assumption that we were going to be hit by that kind of hurricane. Which would mean: evacuations, plans for evacuations, mobilizing forces for evacuations, certain kinds of emergency measures taken to moderate the situation—all these things should have been done. Nothing was done. As a result of that, what might have been a few thousand people injured, and a limited number of deaths, is now thousands, and could rise, as a result of complications, if we don´t deal properly with it, to a hundred thousand or more deaths in that area. Because what has happened, because of the negligence, we have an infectious-disease potential, of water-borne and insect-borne diseases, which can become epidemic, including so-called Avian flu. These kinds of things. We have to do something, now, or we´re going to lose a lot of people. Now, compare for example, what happened on Sept. 11, 2001: The impact of that catastrophe, was largely limited at first, to the day of the event. There were aftereffects, but the aftereffects diminished rapidly, and the effects were concentrated mostly in the time period of the attack, and on two areas, Washington, D.C. to a lesser degree; New York, more. This is a different situation: Because of the negligence, lack of preparation and failure to get on the ball, we have a catastrophe, a human catastrophe, which has been increasing at an accelerating rate since the hurricane struck! It´s getting worse, all the time now. So, that´s our first problem. Now, this problem also, internationally, calls into question whether or not the United States is really a nation any more. Whether anybody is running the show any more. Whether we´re going to exist as a nation—the has-been superpower, turning into a disgusting joke. That´s the crisis. It´s not the details—people will be calling in, suggesting this, suggesting that: "We could do this, we could do that." Shut up! We don´t want those suggestions. We already have people who understand the situation. They´re prepared to act. They´re officials, they know what they´re doing. They don´t need your suggestions about what should be done. They need information, indications, that sort of thing. But, what we have to have is a centralized top-down approach. Why? We have to convince the American people themselves, as well as the other nations of the world, that this nation is still a great power, and is capable of responding to its responsibilities. So the confidence in the United States, and its government is the first point of the human catastrophe, right now. If we can not convince ourselves that we are going to deal successfully with this, like a superpower—as was not done up to this point—then we´re not going to have a nation. And because we´re in a period, in which the international monetary-financial system is headed for the worst economic collapse in modern history, a collapse of the United States and its credibility would mean a catastrophe for the entire world. Therefore, we have to assert the responsibilities of the sovereign government of the United States as a virtual superpower, to deal with this problem! We have to get our act together, top-down! If we do, we can handle it. Let me give you some indications. Evacuation: Now, the first thing we´ve got to do, is get all these people in that area out of it! We´ve got to move all those people out. We´ve got to move them out quickly, to safe places. Many of them are already carrying diseases, diseases contracted as a result of the conditions to which they were exposed. Others are in aggravated health conditions, because of the lack of treatment. We´ve got to move them out of the New Orleans area in particular. Because that´s a disease center. Epidemics are about to break out. We´ve got to put them into a safer environment. Now, one of the places we have—not stadiums, not Astrodomes, or that kind of nonsense. That´s children´s games. Let´s get serious. The way we would handle this thing, and the way we should handle it now, is we have some military bases. Now, instead of trying to play games, we´re going to have to move those people quickly into military bases, or improvised arrangements which are equivalent to military bases. We have some large bases in southern Mississippi. They´re in a disease-prone area, but they´re manageable. These are not ideal for the long-term. But we must move those people out of the New Orleans area, and similar areas, quickly. We´ve got to move them. All right, the Mississippi bases are there. Move them there. Get whatever is required mobilized, and move them now. Don´t talk about buses, don´t talk about this—move them now! All right, now we have some other bases. There are not enough of them, yet, online, but there are other bases which are in better areas. Now, we´re going to have to take these people and process them. We´re going to keep families together, to the degree we can. But some of these people are going to be very sick and need special treatment. Many will have to be isolated, because they carry infectious diseases, that are dangerous, they´ve contracted under these conditions: cholera, avian flu, all these kinds of things: water-borne disease, insect-borne diseases. That´s a nightmare down there in New Orleans. We´ve got to get them to an area out of that infectious areas. We´re going to have to classify them; we´re going to do triage—good triage, not bad triage. We´re going to have to take families that have a sickness pattern, put them in an area where they´re going to get the adequate medical and other treatment. So, we´re going to have to immediately follow up—the usual social-work things, to make sure that everybody´s—we know we know who they are, where they are, what their families are, who we have to contact; that sort of thing. But the way to do it, is first of all, use our military bases, which are idled, but are still functioning. Keep them. Forget the BRAC—keep the bases. Until we get enough bases with capacity to handle the entire area. We´re going to move people back, but first of all, we´ve got to move them to safety. Now, instead of trying to bring foodstuffs and so forth into the New Orleans area—which we´ll do! But not that much—we intend to move the people to a place where we can safely bring the food to them; bring the care to them. Military camps are the best place for this kind of thing. We can also improvise—and the Corps of Engineers are capable of doing this—we can improvise new camps, which are temporary, but at least they will do the job, before the winter sets in, for the time being. Then we´re going to start rebuilding. Now, this is largely a military job. And what we´re going to have to, is take the Corps of Engineers, and fully activate it, and equip it, including with money. It´s going to cost a lot of money. We´ve now got $10.5 billion allotted by the Congress. That will help; it´s not enough. We´re going to need about up to $100 billion just to deal with the immediate costs of this thing—if we´re going to keep people alive! Don´t talk about the cost! Don´t talk about the $100 billion. Yes, be realistic about it. But realize, that if we don´t do this job, we no longer represent a nation. We lose our ability to function as a nation, at a time that the entire world is on the brink of the greatest financial crisis you ever heard about! We can not let the United States go under! Because other parts of the world can not deal with this global problem without us. We can´t solve the problem entirely by ourselves as a nation, but the rest of the world couldn´t solve this problem without us. Let me give you an example: Many of you believe in a myth. You believe that we are a broken-down nation, and the proof of that is, we are producing things in China and India, instead of the United States. That is a myth. That is a fraud. Why are we producing things in India and China, rather than the United States, and similar kinds of outsourcing and so-called globalization? Why—because they´re better than we are? No! They´re not better than we are! They don´t have a General Welfare policy! See, 700 million people of a billion in India are extremely poor. You have a concentration of poor in China. India and China are very well off, compared to most Asian nations. Seventy percent being extremely poor, is really a luxury state for most of the Asian nations. We have dying nations in Central and South America—dying, partly because of our policies. And partly because of our globalization policies, our free-trade policies. See, what happens is, these nations produce chiefly for us. They use some of their labor to produce for us, instead of we producing for ourselves. Why? Because we have a system of public health. We have a system of health care. We have a General Welfare policy. We support our people, we protect them. We fight for their medical care, we fight for their Social Security, their insurance, their pensions. These countries don´t have it. They don´t have infrastructure. Therefore, they can produce cheaper—but at what cost? By starving 70% or more of their own people. They´re not better than we are—we´re stupid!—when we get into this kind of an arrangement. We delight in getting cheap goods from China, and think nothing about the poor people of China, who are producing in China, at prices which don´t meet the needs of the Chinese people as a whole? We´re doing the same thing in India. The same thing in Third World countries below our borders! Do you know what we´re doing to Mexico? Do you know what we´re doing to Central America? Do you know what we´re doing to South America? In this cheap labor export policy? We are, in the meantime, destroying the United States! We´ve destroyed our industry! You take a map of the United States, and look county-by-county, over the past 30 years: We´ve been destroying the United States! And many of you live in areas which are being destroyed. You remember when there was a factory, when there was a town, when things functioned. Not any more! We are now turning our people into Third World people! With the kind of jobs, and wages, and incomes of a Third World level. The rest of the world is not better than we are. We´re being stupid. We let this happen to us, because we had a bad policy. There´s no reason for it. Now, what we´re going to have to do—and the reason we have this crisis down there in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, is because we abandoned the policy of the Constitutional commitment to promotion of the General Welfare. And therefore, because we were cutting costs, General Welfare costs, and the way we were trying to loot Social Security, we no longer maintained the standard of living, and support for these areas, which would enable them to deal with many of these problems: We did not deliver, what was required in the Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama area, even though we knew it was needed, because we didn´t want to spend the money! Because we were trying to cut our social welfare funds, for conducting, say, the war in Iraq, or for a new war they want in Iran: these kinds of things. So now, we´re in a point, that the issue before us, which is posed to us by this plight of our people, in these three states in particular—but that´s the not the problem. It poses something larger to us: Are we a nation? And what defines us, as a nation? The President and Vice President, of course, have failed, in this respect. We don´t throw them out, we don´t shoot them because of this. But we have to recognize, they failed. The incumbent President of the United States has failed. And therefore, the other institutions of the United States, which are forced to come into the picture, and play a larger role, because the President isn´t up to it, we have, together, to hold our institutions together, and to realize, we are still a superpower. We are the leading nation on this planet. And it´s time, we acted like it. That´s our situation. Now, here, most of you young guys, you´ve got a good two generations, 50 years or so, ahead of you. Your parents don´t. Your parents are entering the last quarter-century of active life, as a generation. And it´s a diminishing life. The future, for better or for worse, belongs to you, the next two generations, the next 50 years—and beyond. If we don´t solve this problem, you have nothing for the rest of your life. Your parents´ generation can die out. And will soon, anyway, within the coming quarter-century. Most of them will begin to die off and disappear. But you are stuck with this for 50 years to come—right now, you have no future, the way things are going. Therefore, you, and your generation has to mobilize to fight for your future. You also are the generation that made up the bulk of the troops that went to war in World War II. We´re now in another war to defend this nation, and what it stands for, to bring back the dignity of this superpower, as a superpower—to convince ourselves we are that power. We´re going to have to fight that war. This war is not with guns, as such. We don´t desire, we don´t need a war of that type. But we have to fight, as if for war. We have to mobilize as if for war. Your generation is going to be the bulk of the butt of this mass mobilization of the citizenry as a whole. Just as my generation was taken to war, drafted into military service in World War II: We were the bulk. We didn´t have much skill. But because of Franklin Roosevelt, we had the best logistics in the world. We had tonnage per man of every soldier put overseas; compared with the relative poverty of every other army in the world, including the opposing army in the Germans. What we had, relative to the Germans—vastly superior! Not because we were better at war—they were better at war than we were, they were better trained. Longer trained. But we had logistics; we had sheer tonnage of power! per capita, that no other part of the world had. We don´t have that, any more. But, you are going to have to help mobilize the population of the United States, you are going to have to be thrust, that pushes what has to be done. We now have, around the Senate, a bipartisan group of Senators, and other people, in and around government. We have retired people, retired generals, retired colonels and so forth, who could volunteer to fill in on many of the jobs that need to be done. We can save this nation! We can bring back its dignity. We can´t bring back the lives that were lost, by the malfeasance, or misfeasance, in this period. But we can save this nation. We can say, we won this war. And it´s up to you. The approach we´re going to have to take, though, is to fight this as if we were fighting a war. Colonels and generals and so forth, retired or otherwise, are going to play a key part, because they know how, quickly, to do the kind of job of mobilization that needs to be done, to fix things that need to be fixed. They´re the ones who know how to build a base, overnight, and we´re going to have to have more bases for people. They´re the ones that know how to organize mass transit—overnight—how to do that. They´re the ones that are simply waiting—they´ll volunteer, too!—they´re waiting for the orders, the authorization to act—and they will act! So, we have to mobilize around this, as if for war, and say, "Look, we´re looking at, right up front, frankly, when you look at this realistically, we´re looking at $100 billion fix-up job, to come out of this thing with our dignity." And giving the American people, first of all, the sense, that we are a nation, we are still a superpower, we still have it in us, despite even the failure of some of our institutions. And reminding the world, that we are still a leading power of this world. We have not gone away. We´re not going to disintegrate. And we´re going to have to go back, to correct our mistake. We´re going to have to have to back to the Preamble of the Federal Constitution of the United States, and recognize, the fundamental law of this nation, is in the Preamble, not only in national defense, but in the promotion of the General Welfare, for the living, and for their posterity. We have violated the principle of defense of the nation! Flagrantly! We have violated, even more flagrantly, the policy of promotion of the General Welfare. We are condemning ourselves to contempt, unless we go back, and make the promotion of the General Welfare of the living and their posterity the foundation of government, now. Thank you. Dialogue Freeman: Lyn, thank you. We do have a couple of questions, that we wanted to ask you. Both of these questions came from—they came as a product of the joint leadership meetings that have taken place in Washington over the last 48 hours, although both of these questions do come, specifically, from the Democratic side of the aisle. The first question is—well, it´s really on the order of battle. It says, "Mr. LaRouche, the issues that we have to address as they relate to the human catastrophe and how to address that, are things that you´ve made clear. What is less clear are questions related to the ongoing functioning of the economy, and the economic dislocation that we´ve suffered as a result of this disaster. "As I think you know, we have, now, two major ports that have been severely crippled as a result of this storm. The Port of New Orleans alone, is responsible for approximately 25% of the nation´s fuel supply. It´s going to take some time for us, even with the best efforts to get these areas up and fully functioning again. Obviously, the most efficient way to address some of these questions, within the framework of our Constitution, is by Executive action. But that does not seem to be forthcoming. "Therefore, we´re posed with the task of intervening Congressional action. Can you please define your view of an order of battle? For instance, should we be moving immediately to freeze prices on fuel and food? What else is it that we need to do, to address this interim emergency period?" LaRouche: You mentioned the question of limits, upper limits on prices of fuel and food: We face not only the price, we face shortages of supply, right now, because we depended too much on petroleum products coming in through the Gulf area. It was a terrible mistake. It was a mistake based on corporate thinking, not on national-interest thinking. And we have to recognize, as we are reminded now, that the policies, the economic policies of the United States have to be based on the interest of the United States as a whole nation, not on the interest of one group within the nation, or some special group with special interest. That was a mistake. Now, we´re going to have to deal with that. One of the first things we´ve got to do to deal with that, we´ve got to clear the Mississippi and the area of waterways around New Orleans. We´ve got similar problems in the southern part of Alabama and Mississippi. We´ve got to clear these. Now, this is a Corps of Engineers job. So we have to augment and give the Corps of Engineers the authority to proceed. They can do the job. Because we´ve got the grain harvest, that´s coming up now! We´ve got to move that grain, along the Mississippi, out into the Gulf and we´ve got to export it. We´ll have a catastrophe if we don´t do that! The only way we´re going to do that, is the Corps of Engineers and related institutions, have to get in there and clean up the Mississippi and get the wreckage out of the way. That must be done, immediately! But somebody has to give the order. Therefore, if the White House is not disposed to give these orders, then the Congress, a bipartisan body in the Congress has to enact legislation which created authorities, staffed by people including people—preferably from the military, in many cases; I mean, there are number of retired generals and colonels and so forth, who can be called into duty to staff these things. Corps of Engineers people understand this: We´ve got to clear this mess out! And these people have to be given the authority, and the backing, and the funding to move!—and to move, now! Not debate until next week. We´ve debated too long. We´ve waited too long, already. We should be moving on it now. We do have to, again—back to the other question—we do have to enforce—. Now, we had a case out nearby here, of $6 a gallon for gasoline. And you have people standing by the side of the road and laughing at Hummers. But that´s not the only part of the story. We can not allow a speculative exploitation, which is now going on in the world market, to drive up the price of petroleum products on which this nation and other nations depend, to floating prices. We´re going to put a lid on it. We´re going to put a lid on it in the United States, and we´re going to go to Europeans and others, and we´re going to put a lid on it. We´re going to talk to people overseas—we´re going to put a lid on the cost of petroleum products. We´re going to stop this inflation: Because this inflation is purely based on speculation. And the speculators are going to have to take bath! We´re going to have a price of energy, which enables this nation to function. We´re now coming into a winter season—months ahead? Yes! But we´re coming into it now! How do you like it, with no heating, in the northern part? How do you like it, the fact that we´re shutting down electrical systems, power systems in entire regions of the country now, for lack of petroleum products, because we made ourselves dependent upon it? No! We organize the flow, of what we need in so-called energy supplies, and we regulate the price, put a cap on it, and we work with other nations to keep that price, a lid on it! Now, we also have a problem of food supplies. Most people don´t realize it, but our food chain is quite vulnerable now. Therefore, we have to mobilize, and ensure that everybody gets a chance to eat. Those two things—at this time, there are a minimal number of things we should try to do, in terms of management, from the Federal government. But these are two things that must be done! Because, if these things are not done, the whole system can blow, the whole effort can fail, as a result of not doing it. That´s the basic thing. Now, we are going to have to have backup anyway. I mean, the Executive branch is not presently staffed to handle it. For example: FEMA was understaffed, and has no clear direction. It was gobbled up and cannibalized to feed the homeland defense. And now see what happened to homeland defense? What happened in 9/11/2001 is peanuts, compared to what´s happening now. You realize, we could lose over 100,000 citizens, or more, right now! And if an epidemic of major proportions breaks out, in the Southern states, because we don´t do something about it now effectively, we could have something that´ll take out millions of Americans. We can have something spreading around this country, like the flu epidemic, the Spanish flu epidemic at the end of the World War I. Problems like that. We can not fool around with this thing. We must get back into action. Therefore: We must create special authorities, using a lot of our retired military who understand exactly how to organize for this kind of situation. Because our military is not a shooting organization, essentially. Our military is essentially a logistic/defense organization. And what we need is logistics. We need generals and colonels who know how to do this, and who can recruit people with experience back into service. So, create authorities; fund these authorities, on mission-orientations to get the job done. The President does not have to be in the act, every time this has to be done. You have to have authorities which are mission-oriented, where there´s a problem, where it´s been authorized by law, by the bipartisan vote of the Senate and the House—it´ll be done! Automatically! By these people who are agents of the U.S. government, in taking care of that problem. And that has to be done now. So, we´re going to have to go to this business of authorities, special authorities, created by the Congress, by law, and authorized and staffed to do these various things that must be done. And special legislation to enable the government, and to compel the government!—to put a cap on the price of fuel, and a cap on the question of food supply. We´re going to have a food supply. We´re going to have necessary energy. And we´re going to fix some of the mistakes, that got us here to this mess in the first place. But right now, we´ve got to fix that, we´ve got to ensure our national economic security. |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Emergency (Katrina) Webcast : Lyndon LaRouche — "Pulling This Nation Together Now!"...archived links. Transcript/ Related updates posted. This nation still has a chance if Lyndon LaRouche becomes president. I can´t see anyone else having the necesary moral fiber, strength of will, and intellect to bring us through this period of history. I´d vote for him right now no matter his political affiliation. Thanks for posting this Aussie. Anybody got a pin for a great excerpt from a great speech? |
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