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“The individual who contributes to making society Good is worth a thousand times the individual who wanders through life scattering only individual good deeds. For, a bad society will crush the good contributed by its individual members…. Who makes society Good thus preserves the goods contributed by thousands and millions of individuals.”
Lyndon LaRouche, The Science of the Human Mind, 1984
A Note To Readers
The only serious response to “the big one”—the simultaneous disease pandemic, hunger pandemic, mass unemployment pandemic, and financial collapse is presented in this week’s report. It is a policy and program that creates 1.5 billion productive jobs world-wide and 50 million productive jobs in the U.S.
The U.S. economy that “reopens” has to be a new economy retooled and converted to rebuild a shattered world economy, creating a modern healthcare and public health system throughout the underdeveloped nations, and new power, water, and high-speed transportation infrastructure. It must be an opening to the American System of industrialization and scientific progress, on the scale of the world.
As a handful of African heads of state have made the point clear, if we do not defeat COVID-19 in every nation of the world, then, like the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, this virus will revisit every country again and again.
On Saturday, for the first time in nine years, the United States will launch a U.S. built rocket, from the U.S., with two American astronauts to travel to the Space Station. President Trump will be at the launch to commemorate this important achievement. But that is not all. This is the first action of the administration’s now underway “Project Artemis” to return to the Moon with the first woman and the next man in 2024. And more: We are going to the Moon to stay, and to prepare there the capability for going to Mars.
The launching of U.S. astronauts on Saturday on an American rocket for the first time in nine years is an example of how the “reopening of the economy” should proceed, with an emphasis on frontier technologies, in cooperation with other space-faring nations.
In This Week’s Report
As is our usual practice, we begin the report with water and drought news. The focus shall be on Oregon, which is already this year in a drought emergency.
Next some coverage of the Artemis Project and Saturday’s launch to the Space Station. This includes some comments by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and two videos. The two minute video focuses on the proposed “Space CCC” to provide youth with a vision and a mission to inspire a generation to explore the stars.
The Feature this week is, “The LaRouche Plan to Reopen the Economy: The World Needs 1.5 Billion New, Productive Jobs.” This is a new, eight chapter report, which is not just aimed at guiding the so-called reopening of the economy, but makes clear that doing so cannot be a return to what is sometimes called a return to “normal.” For it is what was normal that created the conditions for the pandemic, and the economy had already seen such destruction over the past 50 years that it was on the brink of a collapse even before the pandemic began. The word “productive” is to be emphasized, as the report demonstrates, that most so-called jobs in the country are neither useful or productive. It is this report that seeks to guide you in understanding what must be done and the role you can play in making it happen.
A press release description of the contents of the report is followed by Chapter 8, a message to the U.S. citizens from Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
The Feature concludes with a policy statement from the Schiller Institute on the hunger, food and farm crisis: “Stop the Hunger Pandemic! Save Farmers, Deliver the Food.”
