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“Over the next four months, there will be a turning-point in our history as profound as the Revolutionary War and adoption of the Constitution, or the Civil War. Now the knowledge and the character of this generation of Americans will once more be tested in the fire, as we were then. Will we pass that test? At stake is the future of the American experiment in freedom, one of the greatest achievements of three thousand years of European civilization. Will it continue,–or come to an end? Today once more, we are face to face with the question posed by President Lincoln at Gettysburg 157 years ago.”
A Note To Readers
The Liberal-era is over. That is, the neo-liberal Wall Street instigated plague that has devastated the real physical economy for the past 50 years, has now given us the economic collapse we are now in the middle of; a pandemic that is killing “liberally,” as it further wrecks the economy after decades of taking down our health care system; unleashed chaos in the country as the murder of George Floyd has been the trigger for riots by young people who see they have no future.
All of this keeps the attempted coup against our elected president rolling along, even as one after another of the “gotcha” actions for four years now fails and is exposed for what it is.
What must be done?
The past weeks I have serialized the pamphlet by the LaRouche PAC which must be the policy of an emergency conference of the heads of state of the U.S., China, Russia and India to make it happen.
The Feature this week has two items that provide the background for more discussion of this introduction.
And here is the link to the LaRouche PAC pamphlet:
“The LaRouche Plan To Reopen the U.S. Economy: The World Needs 1.5 Billion New, Productive Jobs,”
More in this week’s report
We begin with a section on drought and weather which provides a picture of perhaps a very hot summer to be.
Then, from the Congress, the South San Joaquin Valley farmers may have a reason to celebrate this week: Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives appropriated $200 million to fix the Friant-Kern Canal.
Next we return to PG&E, which just exited bankruptcy, maybe. As one item in this section claims, the agreement is just what the hedge funds wanted. And more, for fire season has begun, and whether PG&E equipment will start more fires and whether hundreds of thousands of the company’s customers will have their electricity cut off again is to be seen.
A short item follows on the status of California wild fires so far this year.
California agriculture is being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, which just adds to ags problems with a developing drought, limited deliveries of water from both the Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project.
That is followed by a short report on COVID-19 numbers updated yesterday.
Finally, two items on the space program and China’s maglev train expansion.
The Feature this week is summarized above.
