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Published: Monday, Dec. 30, 2002
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Volume 1, Issue Number 43
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What follows is the translation of a speech given by Helga Zepp LaRouche, chairman of the Solidarity Civil Rights Movement (Buergerrechtsbewegung Solidaritaet), to EIR's Dec. 18 seminar in Berlin. Zepp LaRouche delivered the speech on the eve of a yearend trip to China by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, to participate in the inaugural voyage of the German-built TransRapid magnetic levitation train, connecting Shanghai to its international airport.
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Both Helga Zepp LaRouche and her husband, U.S. Democratic Party Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche, have underscored the importance of the Schroeder China trip, as an opportunity to expand the German-Chinese maglev cooperation. There are hopes that during the Chancellor's visit, an agreement will be reached to build a 2,000-kilometer maglev train, linking Shanghai to Beijing. The LaRouches hailed this opportunity to reverse the otherwise hopeless economic collapse of Germany and the rest of continental Europe, through great projects like the Shanghai-Beijing TransRapid. Lyndon LaRouche likened it to President Franklin Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority, which provided a springboard for reversing the Depression in the United States.
If he is smart, and pursues policies long associated with Helga Zepp LaRouche (who is known internationally as the "Silk Road Lady") Chancellor Schroeder can use his China visit to set in motion a radical policy shift, which poses the only hope for Germany and the rest of Europe to avoid a deeper plunge into a Dark Age. In her Berlin speech, Zepp LaRouche spelled out, in detail, the policy cross-road that Germany is fast approaching.
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January 1, 2003 is the 140th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued in September 1862, and went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863.
Lincoln's freeing of the slaves, taken as a war emergency measure, as none other than Congressman John Quincy Adams had argued might become necessary, flowed from his own conviction that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, and that its abolition was both morally and strategically right. His intention was to free the slaves earlier, but he was forced by his Cabinet to delay the proclamation until after he could announce a victory in the war. As soon as the battle of Antietam, which the Union claimed as a victory, was finished, Lincoln rushed to complete his draft.
The proclamation of Sept. 22, 1862 stated:
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free: and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...."
The Jan. 1, 1863 proclamation repeated the above section, and went on to say:
"... By virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within, said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforth shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, shall recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
"And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases where allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
"And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
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How To Reconstruct A Bankrupt World
Mr. LaRouche delivered the following address to a public event sponsored by Schiller Institute on Dec. 12 in Budapest.
The audience of 120 people remained for three hours of discussion.
LaRouche in the Middle East:
Coverage in Al-Bayan, Al-Watan, Asharq Al-Awsat, Al-Sabah, and Daily Star
In the week of Dec. 12-20, there was an explosion of coverage of Lyndon LaRouche in the leading Arabic press, witnessing an escalated interest in LaRouche's ideas and his campaign to save the U.S. Presidency from the pitfalls of a new Thirty Years' War, and the global financial collapse.
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Feature I:
National Economy:
Germany and the Lautenbach Plan: Can We Learn from History?
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
"What I want to discuss with you today, is the question of what it takes to be a leadership of Europe today. Because it's very clear, that if we just leave it to the 'powers that be,' to the governments in place, then we all are in bad shape, because either these governments created the mess in which we are, or they didn't prevent it.
The Startling American Revolution Of Henry Clay and Mathew Carey
by Anton Chaitkin
Deadly crisis gripped the country—the economy a disaster from cheap imports—terrorist attacks within and outside America's borders. But the political party of the common people, misled and drifting, proposed no remedy, no government action. Their wealthy opponents, the party hostile to popular rights, treasonously adhered to a foreign country (which had occupied and enslaved its neighbor)...
Feature II:
Masaccio's Trinity Ushers in The Golden Renaissance
by Bonnie James
This week we celebrate both Christmas, and the birth of the Renaissance genius Masaccio. Tommaso Cassai, better known as Masaccio (a nickname, meaning roughly, 'big Tom') was born on Dec. 21, 1401, in San Giovanni Valdarno, a small Tuscan town, not far from Florence, at the dawn of the 15th Century Golden Renaissance, in whose birth, he played no small part.
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