In this issue:

LaRouche's Voice To Be Heard in Nation's Capital

Nevada's Neal Won Primary With Anti-Gaming Campaign

Soros Exposed in New Nevada Dope Legalization Drive

Dick Armey Explains His View on Iraq

Will Blair Reissue 1998 'White-Lie Paper' on Iraq WMD?

Biological Holocaust: U.S. Cuts Help Spread of Disease

Financial Times: U.S. Military Prepared To Launch Iraq War as Early as Next Week

From the Vol.1 No.27 issue of Electronic Intelligence Weekly

United States News Digest

LaRouche's Voice To Be Heard in Nation's Capital

Nancy Spannaus, the Independent Democrat running in Virginia for U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent John Warner, is launching a campaign of radio ads that hit hard on the economic collapse. Spannaus, who works closely with Lyndon LaRouche, is featuring LaRouche in her ads. The following are excerpts from the ads, which will begin running Monday, September 9.

In the first ad, LaRouche says:

"We are now in the greatest depression in more than 200 years.... This means that we either have to make some fundamental changes, away from the policies of the past 35-odd years, back to the policies of Roosevelt and the policies of the post-Roosevelt period, from 1946 through 1964. We have to go back to that kind of economic system, now! Which means a regulated system, end privatization, end deregulation, end the funny monetary policies, all these things— get back to things that worked before, and do it immediately!"

Spannaus: "You've just heard Lyndon LaRouche, telling the truth. He's has been right, while all other economists have been terribly wrong. You have a choice: Either go down with a system that can't be saved, or follow the leadership of LaRouche.

"I'm Nancy Spannaus, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia. Join me in supporting LaRouche's policy for an FDR recovery."

The second ad also features the FDR tradition, leading with a brief statement by Lyndon LaRouche saying,

"The great system of the past 35 years is disintegrating! And some people are still saying we must stay with the system. It's like saying, 'I got to take a ride in the sewer system; still with the system ...

"It's time for a Franklin Roosevelt. And the poor, the disenfranchised, the lost generation, that Franklin Roosevelt referred to as 'the forgotten man,' and our forgotten youth of today, are saying, 'We want a future.' And the job of anyone who's serious about politics is to give the American people, and the nation, a future."

Nevada's Neal Won Primary With Anti-Gaming Campaign

Nevada State Senator Joe Neal won the Democratic primary for Governor of his state, in the primary election held on Sept. 3. Neal, a crusader against the gambling casinos and deregulation, and a close collaborator of the LaRouche movement, won 36% of the vote, with the casino-organized "None of the Above" vote coming in at 24%.

Neal bucked a Democratic Party decision not to challenge incumbent Republican Governor Kenny Guinn, who was endorsed by the AFL-CIO and the teachers' union. Neal filed at the last moment, and spent only $300 on his campaign.

"I'm running against the gaming industry," Neal told AP on Election Day. Neal is proposing tax increases on the gambling interests in order to fund infrastructure projects, in a state which is facing a $275-million budget shortfall over the next two years.

Neal spearheaded a successful effort to block energy deregulation in his state. Dereg had passed the Legislature in 1997, but after a mobilization by Neal, in April 2001, the Governor signed a bill ending sales of generating plants to privateer companies, and retaining state authority to set energy prices. Neal has travelled to California and Mexico with the LaRouche movement, to urge them not to destroy their own energy infrastructure with deregulation. He was interviewed in the July 26 issue of EIR.

Soros Exposed in New Nevada Dope Legalization Drive

Wall Street's leading coup organizer and dope legalizer is financing, through his "philanthropic" fronts, a scheme to legalize marijuana use and cultivation— a would-be model for a full legalization agenda for recreational drugs. A referendum on the November ballot in Nevada would have voters legalize marijuana use, and would mandate that the state begin growing and retail distribution of the drug to anyone over 21 years of age.

This is the most far-reaching legalization scheme attempted in the United States to date, and George Soros has been the primary source of funding for the entire drug legalization drive— in the United States and around the world.

U.S. Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche has posed the question about Soros' initiative: How can the United States expect to press Colombia and Peru to crack down on the drug cartels, when the same cartels are now attempting to establish a major beachhead inside the United States? LaRouche demanded to know. LaRouche also raised the question of Soros' ties to the Democratic Leadership Council of Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, and financial swindler Michael Steinhardt. LaRouche recalled the November 1998 public fit by then-Vice President Gore in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, against that country's Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir. The Gore fit was provoked by Mahathir's public attacks on Soros's speculative financial assault on his country and other Southeast Asian nations.

Preliminary investigations have confirmed that the Nevada referendum is being run by a Washington, D.C.-based group, the Marijuana Policy Project, which receives direct funding from Soros, through the Drug Policy Foundation, which has received more than $15 million from Soros in recent years. The Drug Policy Foundation recently merged with the Lindesmith Center, a project of Soros' Open Society Institute tax-exempt foundation. The new, unified entity, the Drug Policy Alliance, is run by Soros employee Dr. Ethan Nadelman. Soros has poured at least $25 million into various dope legalization schemes over the past five years, and has vowed to substantially increase his bankrolling of the dope lobby efforts.

The Marijuana Policy Project was launched by a former official of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the oldest of the drug legalization fronts now under the Soros umbrella. Rob Kampia, the ex-NORML staffer, was also the Libertarian Party candidate for the Washington D.C. U.S. Delegate seat held by Eleanor Holmes Norton. The Presidential candidate on that Libertarian Party slate, Harry Browne, travelled the United States, during his 1996 and 2000 campaigns, accompanied by bodyguards from the Las Vegas casinos, according to eyewitness accounts.

MPP created a local front group, Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, headed by MPP official Billy Rogers. The group paid out at least $375,000 to get the pot legalization referendum on the November Nevada ballot. A previous Nevada ballot initiative, legalizing the use of marijuana as a prescription medicine, was financed by Soros, along with Arizona Republican Party moneybags John Sperling and Ohio insurance magnate Peter Lewis. The current Republican Governor of Nevada signed that referendum into law.

Dick Armey Explains His View on Iraq

Top Republican Dick Armey, who made headlines by distancing himself from President Bush on the Iraq issue, was asked if he thought the press reactions had been overblown. He disagreed, saying, he had not been fully understood. "I was trying to talk about who we are as a nation. I think we're somebody special. And we're not an aggressor. When somebody is compromising the freedom of somebody else on the globe— as was the case when Saddam Hussein had Iraq invade Kuwait— we ought to be there. But to attack just when we've got a fruitcake running around using some country as a venue, I don't see a need." Asked whether Bush saw a need, he said, "If he does, nobody has taken the time to show it to me yet."

Armey made a revealing Freudian slip, when asked whether he considered it a weakness of the Bush Administration, that it hadn't consulted sufficiently with Congress. "You have to remember, this whole debate on the question of whether we attack Vietnam did not originate in the Bush White House— ." At that point, he was interrupted and told he had meant Iraq, not Vietnam.

Armey was unequivocal regarding Israel: "An attack on Israel is an attack on America, in my estimation. My No. 1 priority in foreign policy is to protect Israel."

Armey also showed some insight, perhaps unwittingly, into the fraud of diplomacy and the abysmal level of political debate, when asked if he were not fond of U.S. allies, for example, France. He said: "Well, I've never been good at foreign policy.... But I learned real early on that if you're having a discussion about foreign policy, just say something disparaging about the French, and everybody will think you know what you're talking about."

Will Blair Reissue 1998 'White-Lie Paper' on Iraq WMD?

An ever-more hysterical Tony Blair, fresh from his Camp David soireé with George W. Bush on Sept. 7, is threatening that he will release the long-awaited "white paper" on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in the immediate days ahead. Watch out for a piece of consumer fraud!

Back on Feb. 4, 1998, at the point that the Blair government in Britain, in league with the Netanyahu regime in Israel, was trying to induce President Clinton to launch a full-scale war against Iraq, the British Foreign Office under Robin Cook issued a "white paper" on Iraq, which purported to "prove" that Saddam was amassing a vast arsenal of chemical, biological, and (future) nuclear weapons— right under the noses of UN weapons inspectors. The report was personally delivered by Foreign Secretary Cook to every member of the British Parliament. Tony Blair "shared" the document with President Clinton, during his Feb. 5, 1998 meeting in Washington, and afterwards, Blair told reporters that Iraq had to be stopped from using their WMD capability. "I mean," Blair ranted, "the figures are appalling, and this is just the stuff that's been uncovered, let alone what has not been uncovered. And I think there are facts in there which, the more broadly they can be disseminated, the more people will understand why this issue is so serious and so worrying." Is Blair about to re-issue the same piece of psywar again?

Here are a few tell-tale signs: According to the Feb. 5, 1998 Guardian and Daily Telegraph, which received leaks from the report, Cook and the British Foreign Office charged that Iraq had "17 tons of growth media for biological weapons [which] are unaccounted for— enough to produce at least three times the quantity of anthrax Iraq belatedly admitted to having, some of which was already loaded into missile warheads (100 kg of anthrax could annihilate 3 million people if efficiently dispersed)... More than 600 tons of chemical precursors, sufficient to make 200 tons of the persistent VX nerve agent, are also unaccounted for." The report claimed that Iraq could build a nuclear weapon in five years, a long-range missile in a year, and biological and chemical weapons in "just weeks." The Telegraph, in its typical sensationalist style, proclaimed that the Cook dossier said Iraq could produce enough VX nerve gas "to wipe out the world's population."

Biological Holocaust: U.S. Cuts Help Spread of Disease

Nationally, through Sept. 6, a total of 854 human cases of severe illness from West Nile virus have been confirmed. During the present week, the first cases of human-to-human transmission were confirmed. In one instance, four persons were infected via organ transplants, and in another instance a blood transfusion recipient became ill with West Nile. As for containment measures and cures: The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee approved $100 million in grants to communities for mosquito control— although it is a budget item in competition with other programs— and the Food and Drug Administration gave approval for a clinical trial use of alpha-interferon to treat people who have contracted the virus. Below is a survey, by state, of the week's developments.

*CONNECTICUT: State health officials have detected four species of mosquitoes as testing positive as carriers of the disease. Two of the four (Ochlerotatus trivittatus, a flood-water insect, and the Culex salinarius) are known to bite humans. Up until now, most mosquitoes that tested positive in the state were of the bird-biting species. Yet, the City of Hartford's health director, Katherine McCormack, said it was too early to consider spraying a park where mosquitoes tested positive. On a hopeful note, a Greenwich man stricken by West Nile was the first patient to get interferon treatments this week, and his condition began to improve.

*VIRGINIA: Two more cases have been confirmed this week, bringing the state's total to five, and state health officials are expecting more cases as mosquito season usually lasts through September. In addition, an extremely rare cluster-occurrence of malaria was reported in Loudoun County, where two people came down with a non-fatal form of the disease— and neither had travelled overseas. Peter Hotez, chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine at George Washington University, said, "The fact of a cluster of two cases among people who have not travelled overseas is impressive, and it suggests ... a small malaria outbreak in Loudoun County."

*NORTH CAROLINA: Officials have no detected cases of West Nile, but do have three confirmed cases of La Crosse encephalitis, with seven more people suspected of being infected.

*LOUISIANA: Officials confirmed 17 new cases this week, bringing the total to 222 victims in the state. One elderly infected woman died this week, raising the death toll to nine.

*ARKANSAS: The state has confirmed two new cases, bringing the total to five. Additionally, blood samples of 14 people suspected of infection have been sent to Atlanta Centers for Disease Control for analysis.

*OKLAHOMA: A third human case of infection was confirmed this week. There have been no deaths as yet, but the bird populations from 26 counties have all tested positive.

*MISSISSIPPI: State health officials are investigating the likelihood that a woman contracted West Nile after a blood transfusion. If that is confirmed, she would be the second case nationally to have gotten the disease via a blood transfusion.

*ARIZONA/NEW MEXICO: An Arabian quarterhorse contracted the disease and was euthanized, once it had been determined it had West Nile virus. State officials are 99% sure the horse became infected when it was in Minnesota, and they argue that a horse is a "dead-end host," so that there is no danger of infection. But officials are worried, because neighboring New Mexico did confirm birds, mosquitoes, and horses with the disease; and Arizona's warm season lasts until November, providing a longer time for the virus to incubate and spread.

Financial Times: U.S. Military Prepared To Launch Iraq War as Early as Next Week

In an Aug. 30 article called, "Long War Build-Up Is More about Politics than Logistics," author Dan Roberts points to the apparent paradox that, while spokesmen for the U.S. government like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are "raising the diplomatic temperature with a series of ever-more hawkish speeches ... defense pundits looking for physical signs of a build-up have little to go on." This is, according to Roberts, "because much of the preparation has already been made." Roberts cites former UN weapons inspector Terrence Taylor, who is now working at Britain's International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in Washington: "The combination of existing bases, increased airlift capacity and pre-prepared sea-lift capacity definitely means that the build-up can be much faster" than for the first Gulf War a decade ago.

Roberts quotes Jonathan Eyal, an analyst with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) based in London, saying: "The Pentagon has spent the last ten years trying to reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy. Unlike the last Gulf War, it can now take weeks rather than months." Writes Roberts: "RUSI believes a substantial force could be assembled in about two weeks because of the amount of equipment already on the ground and the ability to bring in more by air or sea. Ships prepacked with tanks and other heavy equipment could have already left the Diego Garcia naval base in the Indian Ocean. Given that air strikes would probably last at least two weeks before ground troops were sent in, analysts believe the two phases could be carried out simultaneously. 'If they wanted to start a war, they could start it next week,' concludes Mr. Eyal. 'The studied silence is not an indication of timing, and a long build-up would be more for political than logistical reasons.' "

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