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Executive Intelligence Review EIRSeptember 14, 2007 Vol. 34 No. 36 www.larouchepub.com $10.00 Why Is Congress ‘Surprised’ by Banking, Housing Crash? Only Four-Power Cooperation Can Save Southwest Asia LaRouche on Music & Statecraft: How Space Is Organized We Need a Presidential Candidate in the FDR Mold Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy EI R Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, William Wertz Editor: Nancy Spannaus Managing Editor: Susan Welsh Assistant Managing Editor: Bonnie James Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht From the Assistant Managing Editor Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol ‘I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS exclaimed Captain Renault, the corrupt Vichy official, in the 1942 Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele movie “Casablanca,” as the croupier handed him his winnings of the Steinberg Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Paul Gallagher evening. History: Anton Chaitkin Ibero-America: Dennis Small In the same way, members of Congress, including House Financial Law: Edward Spannaus Services Committee chair Barney Frank, all of whom should know bet- Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas ter, proclaim their “complete surprise” that the so-called subprime United States: Debra Freeman mortgage meltdown had overtaken the wider financial markets, placing INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS the entire global system in the direct path of an oncoming financial/ Bogotá: Javier Almario Berlin: Rainer Apel monetary tsunami (see Economics). After all, Lyndon LaRouche has Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen been warning them, over and over, that exactly this crisis was upon us. Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Madueño The failure of Congress to act, is born of a cowardice, bordering on Melbourne: Robert Barwick Mexico City: Rubén Cota Meza treason: Most Washington lawmakers are more fearful of losing their New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra financial backing from the likes of fascist Felix Rohatyn, than of a new Paris: Christine Bierre United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein dark age that would set human civilization back several millennia. Washington, D.C.: William Jones Wiesbaden: Göran Haglund While LaRouche has been right about the systemic nature of the collapse, all of the Presidential candidates have so far “failed misera- ON THE WEB e-mail: [email protected] bly, to date, to meet the standards required to solve this grave national www.larouchepub.com and global crisis,” LaRouche writes in the statement that leads this is- www.larouchepub.com/eiw Webmaster: John Sigerson sue, “We Need a Candidate in the Mold of FDR.” Assistant Webmaster: George Hollis How then to move them? By organizing at the state and local level, as the LaRouche Youth Movement is doing, to force Congress to adopt EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues), by EIR News Service, Inc., 729 15th St. N.W., LaRouche’s urgently necessary Homeowners and Bank Protection Act. Washington, D.C. 20005. (703) 777-9451 EIR presented testimony to Congress on Sept. 6, on how the Act will stop millions of home foreclosures, while jettisoning the private equity European Headquarters: E.I.R. GmbH, Postfach 2308, D-65013 Wiesbaden, Bahnstrasse 9-A, and hedge funds that played a central role in bringing the system D-65205, Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany down. Tel: 49-611-73650 Homepage: http://www.eirna.com There are those few, outside of the LaRouche movement, who have e-mail: [email protected] Director: Georg Neudekker begun to recognize the perilous state of the world economy. But no one, other than LaRouche, has successfully forecast the precise outlines of Montreal, Canada: 514-855-1699 the catastrophe we face, far in advance of its arrival. How is LaRouche Denmark: EIR I/S, Sankt Knuds Vej 11, basement left, DK-1903 Frederiksberg, Denmark. Tel.: +45 35 able to do this? He answers the question himself, in our Science section, 43 60 40, Fax: +45 35 43 87 57. e-mail: eirdk@ in “Music & Statecraft: How Space Is Organized,” which explores the hotmail.com. harmonic relationship between competent scientific method, like that Mexico: EIR, Manual Ma. Contreras #100, of Kepler, and great Classical musical composition, like that of Bach. Despacho 8, Col. San Rafael, CP 06470, Mexico, DF. Tel.: 2453-2852, 2453-2853. You will find all of this, and more, in the pages ahead. Copyright: ©2007 EIR News Service. All rights 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 34, Number 36, September 14, 2007 Economics 6 Congress ‘Surprised’ by Crash or Cowed by Hedge- Cover Fund Money? This Week Political leaders who know better— because they have been briefed extensively on the financial blowout by LaRouche’s associates—are The LaRouche paralyzed by a combination of Youth Movement political cowardice, and an organizes in San attachment to the hedge fund/ Francisco’s private equity fund gang financial district represented by Felix Rohatyn and George Shultz. on Aug. 14. EIRNS/Jason Ross 8 Monetary, Not Tax Reform, 4 We Need a Candidate in the Mold of FDR Needed Now Lyndon LaRouche has blunt words for the Presidential EIR testimony presented to the U.S. candidates and the Congress: “I have been totally right about House Ways and Means Committee. the systemic nature of this collapse. All of the Presidential candidates have failed miserably, to date, to meet the standards required to solve this grave national and global crisis.” He 12 Saxony Crisis Is Part of the points out that “we are not living under normal conditions,” Global Meltdown and Congress is behaving like fools, worried “that their money By Helga Zepp-LaRouche. After the will be cut off if they act in the genuine interest of the global financial crisis led to the American people.” suspension of the state constitution in the German state of Saxony, to allow the state bank to be sold, the German Federal government must protect the real, productive economy and the public banks throughout the country. 15 Geologist Proposes ‘1,000 Wells’ for Darfur; Use Science To Serve Mankind An interview with Farouk El-Baz. EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 34, Number 36, September 14, 2007 Science World News Interviews 20 Music & Statecraft: How 44 Only Four-Power 15 Farouk El-Baz, Ph.D. Space Is Organized Cooperation Can Save Dr. El-Baz, a space geologist, is By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. What Southwest Asia director of the Boston University is it that most physicists, even A coordinated intervention by the Center for Remote Sensing. He otherwise capable ones, fail to the United States, Russia, China, is also Adjunct Professor of understand about the idea of space- and India is required to avert a Geology at the Faculty of time? Without a Riemannian regional catastrophe, far beyond the Science, Ain Shams University, conception of a non-Euclidean current level of devastation in Iraq in Cairo, Egypt, and president of physical geometry, they fall short, and Palestine. As the threat of a U.S. the Arab Society for Desert as did the otherwise able Hermann war against Iran increases day by Research. Minkowski. To understand why, day, such an alliance becomes Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven prove highly urgent. very helpful! “The crucial central Departments feature of the greatly needed reform 47 Moscow Responds to in the definition of scientific knowledge,” LaRouche writes, British Provocations 14 Banking “must be premised on the actual Time To Pay the Piper. inseparability of competent 49 MIT Scientist Explains physical scientific method from the Why U.S. Missile Defense 53 Report From Germany great musical reform by Johann Threatens Russia Pro-Regulation Campaign Gains Sebastian Bach.” Dr. Ted Postol, former scientific Ground. advisor to the Chief of Naval 22 The Controversy Over Operations, gave a briefing on ‘Angular Force’ Capitol Hill to clarify the strategic impact of the Bush Administration’s Book Reviews policy. 41 Kepler’s Discovery, or the 59 You Won’t Find the Real Hoofprint of 54 LaRouche Youth in FDR in These Books! Incompetence? Zimbabwe Fight for FDR, by Jean Edward Smith; and The Forgotten Man, A New Solutions to the Crisis in History of the Great Depression, Africa by Amity Shlaes. 55 The British in Zimbabwe 57 California’s Future Editorial Democratic Leaders 64 A Beacon of Hope Engage in Dialogue With State Chairman 62 Breaking Stories EIR Strategic Overview We Need a Candidate in The Mold of FDR On Sept. 6, Lyndon LaRouche delivered a harsh assessment of the profound failures of all of the Presidential candidates, and the overwhelming majority of Members of Congress to deal with the already onrushing financial collapse. “In my view,” LaRouche told associates, “none of the present crop of Presiden- tial candidates, including the latest entry in the race, are making any sense, when their words and actions are held up against the greatest onrushing financial crash in modern history. We need a new candidate, one in the mold of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to deal with this grave crisis. The country is in jeopardy, and without an FDR, we shall not survive.” LaRouche added that, at age 85, he is too old to run for President, but the sad fact of the matter is that he is “the only person on the scene qualified to be President in these times of dire crisis.” LaRouche continued, “Maybe some of the present candidates have some good points, and might even do a respectable job as President under normal conditions, but we are not living under normal conditions.

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