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Eirseptember 4, 2009 Vol Executive Intelligence Review EIRSeptember 4, 2009 Vol. 36 No. 34 www.larouchepub.com $10.00 Blair’s Name Attached to Every Evil Obama Policy Obama Reappoints ‘Bailout Ben’: U.S. Will Pay the Price Will the President Jump on the LaRouche Lifeboat? Mars: The Next Fifty Years Keep Up with 21st CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Featured in the Spring 2009 issue 2009 (#10 out of 130 years) .46 2005 (#4) .62 • The Sun, Not Man, .9 .8 Still Rules Our Climate .7 .6 by Zbigniew Jaworowski .5 A leading scientist dissects the false “fi ngerprint” .4 of man-made warming and the Malthusian hand .3 promoting it. .2 2007 (#1) .74 –4 –2 –1 –.6 –.2 .2 .6 1 2 4 10 Ts Anomaly (˚C) • How Developing Countries Record High Can Produce Emergency Food And Gain Self-Suffi ciency 2009 2005 by Mohd Peter Davis and N. Yogendran 2007 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Month Malaysia’s revolutionary–4.8 –4 Deep–2 –1 Tropical–.6 –.2 .2 agricultural.6 1 2 4 6.6 system is a model for feeding the world—fast— and bringing the developing nations out of feudal poverty. • Stimulate the Economy: Build New Nuclear Plants! by Marsha Freeman Nuclear power is essential for the United States to recover from the ongoing breakdown crisis and become economically productive again. • SPECIAL REPORT: Water to Green Mexico’s Farmland On the PLHINO-PHLIGON, a great infrastructure project to move water from the mountains of the south to nourish the abundant farmland of Mexicos dry north, by Alberto Vizcarra Osuna. • Ancient Discovery: Where Is Punt, The ‘Land of God’? by Rick Sanders On how ancient Egyptians had sea-going vessels and the astrogation skills to make long-distance voyages, including to the Americas. • A letters column in the form of a Subscribe! dialogue, with responses from General Electronic subscriptions are Atomics and the PBMR to questions on the modular reactors, in particular on $25 for 6 issues, recycling, raised by a retired reactor $48 for 12 issues. engineer from Argonne National Laboratory Single electronic copy is $5. Available at • Book reviews of Axis of the World: The Search for the Oldest American Civilization www.21stcenturysciencetech.com by Igor Witkowski and James Lovelock’s or send check/money order to The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning 21st Century P.O. Box 16285, Washington, D.C. 20041 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, EI R William Wertz Editor: Nancy Spannaus Managing Editors: Bonnie James, Susan Welsh Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman From the Managing Editor Book Editor: Katherine Notley Graphics Editor: Alan Yue Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol This past week, many of us were reminded again, with the passing of INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS Sen. Ted Kennedy, of the time, now 40 years ago, that President John F. Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg Kennedy pledged our nation to place a man on the Moon within the Economics: John Hoefle, Marcia Merry Baker, Paul Gallagher decade. And, as everyone knows, despite his tragic death, the United History: Anton Chaitkin States succeeded, in 1969, with Apollo 11, in seeing the first humans Ibero-America: Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus take steps on the lunar surface. Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas United States: Debra Freeman In our cover story, we celebrate that tremendous achievement, by taking a giant step into the future, with Marsha Freeman’s, “Mars: the INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS Bogotá: Javier Almario Next 50 Years” (p. 4). Freeman looks at the space program from the Berlin: Rainer Apel Copenhagen: Tom Gillesberg vantage point of the year 2059, from Kepleropolis, the first manned Houston: Harley Schlanger colony on Mars. As Lyndon LaRouche has emphasized, it is only by Lima: Sara Madueño Melbourne: Robert Barwick approaching the current existential, planet-wide crisis, from the stand- Mexico City: Rubén Cota Meza New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra point of a vision of the future, especially, from the perspective of space Paris: Christine Bierre science, that man can prevent the onset of a terrible new dark age. “You Stockholm: Hussein Askary United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein have to have a mission,” LaRouche declared recently, “a mission to Washington, D.C.: William Jones Wiesbaden: Göran Haglund Mars. A space mission to colonize Mars is the way in which we define ON THE WEB ourselves.” e-mail: [email protected] Continuing on this theme, in her Aug. 21 webcast, German Chan- www.larouchepub.com www.larouchepub.com/eiw cellor candidate Helga Zepp-LaRouche heartily endorses the late space Webmaster: John Sigerson Assistant Webmaster: George Hollis scientist Krafft Ehricke’s “extraterritorial imperative,” as the natural Editor, Arabic-language edition: Hussein Askary destiny of mankind (p. 22). And, despite the determination of the British imperial circles who EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 pull the strings on Team Obama, to ram through their Nazi health-care issues), by EIR News Service, Inc., 729 15th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. policies, their war in Afghanistan, and their drug legalization policies, (703) 777-9451 there continues to be intense and noisy opposition, across the length European Headquarters: E.I.R. GmbH, Postfach 1611, D-65006 Wiesbaden, Germany; and breadth of our land. In his “Is the Democratic Party Already Dead?”, Bahnstrasse 9a, D-65205, Wiesbaden, Germany LaRouche lays out the emergency political and economic measures im- Tel: 49-611-73650 Homepage: http://www.eirna.com mediately required to guarantee a future for Earth’s imperiled billions. e-mail: [email protected] Director: Georg Neudekker These reports, and more, can be found in the National and Interna- tional departments. Montreal, Canada: 514-855-1699 As the young Mexican-American astronaut, José Hernández, who Denmark: EIR - Danmark, Sankt Knuds Vej 11, basement left, DK-1903 Frederiksberg, Denmark. will fly on NASA’s next Space Shuttle mission, put it: “It’s time that we Tel.: +45 35 43 60 40, Fax: +45 35 43 87 57. e-mail: start exploring other worlds. And future generations are going to thank [email protected]. us for it” (see article, p. 47). Mexico: EIR, Manual Ma. Contreras #100, Despacho 8, Col. San Rafael, CP 06470, Mexico, DF. To delve more deeply into all of this, be sure to watch LaRouche’s Tel.: 2453-2852, 2453-2853. Sept. 8 webcast, “The Death of the British Empire,” at 1 p.m. Eastern Copyright: ©2009 EIR News Service. All rights Time, at www.larouchepac.com. reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Canada Post Publication Sales Agreement #40683579 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 36, Number 34, September 4, 2009 National 4 Is the Democratic Party Already Dead? By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. A statement released on Aug. 27 by the LaRouche Political Cover Action Committee. This Week 5 Will Obama Jump On LaRouche Lifeboat? Artist’s The weeks ahead are going to conception of a Ad Astra Rocket Company see a full-blown crisis of the manned VASIMR financial system worldwide, and plasma-rocket- 8 Mars: The Next 50 Years LaRouche has spelled out powered spacecraft Marsha Freeman transports the reader to exactly what needs to be done. If nearing Mars. Kepleropolis, a city on Mars that, on July 20, 2059, the President does not make is celebrating man’s first landing on the Moon 90 such a dramatic policy reversal, years before. Residents are looking forward to the his Presidency is finished. imminent launch of their newest spacecraft, Kepler II, which will be the first to use a revolutionary 7 LaRouche’s Alternative anti-matter propulsion system to travel to neighboring stars. How did we get here, and how was the 2009 crisis on Earth overcome, making Strategic Studies such space travel possible? 22 Helga Zepp-LaRouche Webcast: U.S. Threat of Ungovernability: Will It Spread to Germany? In the second webcast of her campaign for Germany’s Chancellor, Zepp-LaRouche briefs the audience on the mass- strike process erupting in the United States, the battle over health-care “reform,” and the “Extraterrestrial Imperative”— part of the necessary solution to the global crisis. EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 36, Number 34, September 4, 2009 Economics International Editorial 36 Obama Reappoints 40 Tony Blair’s Name 56 The View from the ‘Bailout Ben’: America Attached To Every Evil Heavens Will Pay the Price Obama Policy The naming of Ben Bernanke to Whether it be imperial wars, a second term as chairman of Nazi economic policies, or the Federal Reserve makes clear genocidal environmentalism, the that President Obama is policy finds its spokesman in the determined to continue bailing former British Prime Minister. A out the Anglo-Dutch Liberal profile of this globe-trotter for monetary system, while hire. bankrupting the United States. 43 LaRouche on 39 Business Briefs Afghanistan: ‘No Alternative to Total Victory’—Over the Departments British Empire 38 Herd on the Street 45 Peruvian Congressman Deep in the Hole Turns to EIR To Beat Back Soros Drug Offensive 47 Will the Youth of the Americas Be Spaced Out, or Space Pioneers? 50 Letter to the Editor: Beware of British Historical Minefields Iranian historian Prof. Pirouz Mojtahed-zadeh adds his own insights to EIR’s recent article by Dean Andromidas, “When Americans Fought for Iran’s Sovereignty.” 54 Let’s Have a Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty! By Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
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