“The issues are still there. If you turn on the TV and watch any campaign ads, with few exceptions, it’s mostly the attack politics, the laundry list of issues. But if this midterm is fought over issues like immigration or health care, I’m not so certain of the outcome. Instead, it has to be transformed, as I think we’re seeing it being transformed. Here especially in the Midwest, this is what we set out to do on Aug. 16, when we issued our national campaign statement on the countdown to the consequential midterm elections. We wanted to make clear to people that the midterm elections were a fight between two paradigms, whether we can go forward, with Trump into a new paradigm of peace and economic cooperation, or whether we’re going to be dragged back into the war and economic disintegration policies.”
A Note To Readers
On November 6, whatever the outcome of the election we do have a future to create. The quotation above, especially the last sentence defines the choices to be made. The quotation is from this article by my associate Susan Kokinda in Detroit, Michigan. The full article, “America’s Soul As of October 18, 2018,” can be found here: https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2018/2018_40-49/2018-43/pdf/02-05_4543.pdf
In This Week’s Report
We begin with the drought and related topics. Surprising to most, I am sure, is the report that the drought in Oregon is much worse than that of California. Though that may change this winter, at least as a potential by some forecasters that the very dry October in California could mean little precipitation this winter.
This week’s Oroville Dam Update begins with a number of videos, followed by the report of the Department of Water Resources announcement that certain milestones in construction have been achieved this past week and the main spillway is ready for a deluge if one comes.
On the suicide front, the City Commissioners of San Francisco appear willing to sacrifice the city’s water supply in backing the state policy of letting the rivers of the Central Valley flow to the ocean in an attempt to save some fish. They are attempting to overrule their own Public Utilities Commission which opposes the policy.
The Colorado River, which provides water for 40 million people in the Southwest, including California, is in crisis. There are proposed plans for the river which are analyzed in an article,”Three Things To Know About Colorado River Plans In The Works.”
The massive fires from last Fall continue to make the news as Southern California Edison is publicly acknowledging that its equipment was responsible for contributing to the start of the massive Thomas Fire.
Under the section title, “The Economy and Infrastructure,” are two article: “Key U.S. Demographic Markers Plunged after 2007 Breakdown of the Wall Street System,” and “Big Texas Coastal Storm Protection Project Has Gotten a Boost.”
Finally, our Feature this week concludes the three-part series of excerpts from the presentation by Will Wertz, “Cuttting the Gordian Knot with the Sword of Damocles.” A rigorous presentation of the necessity of Hamiltonian national banking if a serious infrastructure building program is going to succeed as President Trump has proposed. This week’s installment focuses on how Abraham Lincoln used the Hamiltonian principles in his creation of the “Greenbacks,” which allowed the Union to not only win the Civil War, but also begin to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
