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Published: Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006
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This Week You Need To Know:
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Vice President Dick Cheney, visibly and increasingly in the target zone in the criminal investigation of the Valerie Plame obstruction-of-justice case, is desperately trying to orchestrate the coverup around the National Security Agency domestic spying scandal. Informed sources indicate that it was Cheney, not President Bush, who was behind the illegal surveillance of Americans, and thus it is Cheney who is also most vulnerable in this case, if and when the true scope of the spying operation becomes known.
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It is openly acknowledged that it was the Vice President and his legal counsel, now chief of staff, David Addington, who ordered that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales refuse to answer any pertinent questions, during his embarrassing appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 6.
Lyndon LaRouche pointed out that Gonzales was, in effect, "taking the Fifth" in refusing to testify. "Gonzales is refusing to honor his Constitutional obligations to report to the Senate," LaRouche said, "and it's particularly dangerous at this time," pointing to the British-orchestrated confrontation brewing between the United States and Iran.
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This Week in History
There were many skilled mechanics and inventors in 18th- and 19th-Century New England, but it was Francis Pratt, born in Woodstock, Vermont on February 15, 1827, who set out to establish a uniform set of measurements and gages in both America and Europe which would firmly establish the machine-tool industry's ability to produce absolutely interchangeable parts. That goal had been laid out in the 1790s by Eli Whitney, backed by President Thomas Jefferson, and partially implemented by several generations of mechanics before the advent of the Civil War.
However, much remained to be accomplished in 1848 when Francis Pratt completed his apprenticeship with a Lowell, Massachusetts machinist. After working for four years at the Gloucester Machine Works in New Jersey, Pratt went to work at the Colt Armory in Hartford, Connecticut, which had been established by Samuel Colt to produce his "six-shooter" pistols with interchangeable parts. Transferring to the Lincoln Iron Works as its foreman two years later, Pratt worked on designing and producing the "Lincoln" miller for the Colt Armory. This all-purpose miller became the leading American machine tool, used for producing a multiplicity of products. More than 150,000 of these machines were eventually produced and sold throughout America and the world.
But Pratt, like many other mechanics, was not satisfied with the rather broad range of measurement tolerances for the machines and their products. He arranged for a fellow worker at the Colt Armory to join him at the iron works, and in 1860, they became partners. This partner was Amos Whitney, born in Maine, and a member of a branch of Eli Whitney's family. Whitney had previously worked for the Essex Machine Company, which built cotton-spinning machinery, locomotives, and machine tools. The two mechanics rented a small room and began working on their own account, while still keeping their jobs at the iron works. With the advent of the Civil War, they moved into gun manufacturing, and had all the work they could handle...
By 1865, they had left their positions at the iron works and were erecting a new building in Hartford for their machine-tool company. This progression, from apprentice, to journeyman, to foreman, to partner in a firm, was a typical experience for many talented mechanics and inventors. What distinguished this company from many others with equally talented employees was its partners' dedication to exploring the basic principles of machine design and measurement.
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January 21, 2006
Both the U.S. economy, and also the world's economy, are now in the grip of the very advanced stage of what is, physically, not a mere economic depression, but a general physical breakdown-crisis of global society. Under any attempted continuation of the current, self-destructive trends in economic and related policies under U.S. President George W. Bush, Jr., the situation of the U.S.A. would become worse than merely precarious, that within a very short time to come. ...more ...full version, PDF
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ECONOMY DESPITE ALAN GREENSPAN
What Connects the Dots?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
January 21, 2006
Both the U.S. economy, and also the world's economy, are now in the grip of the very advanced stage of what is, physically, not a mere economic depression, but a general physical breakdown-crisis of global society. Under any attempted continuation of the current, self-destructive trends in economic and related policies under U.S. President George W. Bush, Jr., the situation of the U.S.A. would become worse than merely precarious, that within a very short time to come.
International:
From Islamophobia to War: The Danish Cartoon Affair
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On the evening of Jan. 31, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw held a ministerial dinner at his official residence in London, where he played the instrumental role of mediating an agreement among his American, French, Russian, and Chinese counterparts that would open the way to bringing the Iranian nuclear issue to the United Nations Security Council. This would be a decisive step in the drive for a near-term U.S. military attack on Iran.
Shultz and Aznar: Nazis Seeking War With Islam
It’s not surprising to find that among the leading promoters of war against “radical Islam,” and Iran, are two men best known for their promotion of Nazi policies over recent decades. Both are also leaders of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), one of the prominent war-mongering institutions on the global scene. On the one hand, we have
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Five months ago,1 we told you how the career of Alexander Helphand 'Parvus' sheds light on what the neo-con war party, grouped around Vice President Dick Cheney, has really been up to. That is because the hereditary roots of the neo-cons' current doctrine and practice of permanent warfare and proliferating regime changes trace back to the Anglo-Venetian operative Parvus's early-20th-Century theory and practice of Permanent War as the pathway to Permanent Revolution. Now the dangerous excitement about a showdown with Iran, on the part of the same war party and the higher-ups providing them guidance—as at British Foreign Minister Jack Straw's dinner party, reported on p. 36—forces us back to the opening years of the last century once more.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, visibly and increasingly in the target zone in the criminal investigation of the Valerie Plame obstruction-of-justice case, is desperately trying to orchestrate the coverup around the National Security Agency domestic spying scandal. Informed sources indicate that it was Cheney, not President Bush, who was behind the illegal surveillance of Americans, and thus it is Cheney who is also most vulnerable in this case, if and when the true scope of the spying operation becomes known.
'Might Makes Right': Gonzales Follows Hitler's Carl Schmitt
by Elisabeth and Anno Hellenbroich
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who was the chief legal advisor to President Bush during the enactment of the 'emergency measures' after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, released a 42-page document on Jan. 19, in which he justified with 'legalistic' arguments the spying on American citizens carried out by the Bush Administration. Gonzales argued that in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief, in times of crisis, the President has 'extraordinary authority which supersedes the influence and regulatory authority of the Congress.' This is the same argument which Nazi 'Crown Jurist' Carl Schmitt used to justify Hitler's grab of absolute power.
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by Denise M. Henderson
Editor's note: To commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, we reprint this article from EIR, Feb. 3, 1995. Frederick Douglas was a source of inspiration for the Kings' work, as well as for that of the author, the late Denise Henderson of the LaRouche movement.
Frederick Douglass was one of the leaders of America's 19thCentury civil rights movement, and one of Abraham Lincoln's chief lieutenants in the fight to save the Union. A former slave and leader in the fight against slavery, Douglass found himself a leader in the fight for the U.S. Constitution itself. His understanding of the anti-slavery struggle as a struggle for the Constitution, arose out of his own intellectual integrity and willingness to think through profound ideas and to think for himself, whether others agreed or not.
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Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
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This reviewer recently attended a conference at the U.S. Senate, which was billed as a symposium of experts on al-Qaeda. I asked a panel of three of the leading 'experts' about the links between al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, and I mentioned that the staff reports of the 9/11 Commission had noted that the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, had been captured, and had boasted that he had been recruited to the Muslim Brotherhood at the age of 16. The question drew blank stares from the self-professed al-Qaeda experts, and none chose to answer.
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On Jan. 30, 2006, the trial of Enron's top corporate officials, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, opened with much fanfare in Houston. For those who have come to see Enron as epitomizing all that is wrong in contemporary America, there is the hope that, at long last, the truth will come out, the bad guys will be punished, and justice will be done.
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