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“Mankind, unlike all other animal species, is capable of perpetual growth and progress. Realizing this potential, however, requires that we increase our power in and over nature, over time. Such increase does not happen at a steady pace and by continuation of one level of technologies and practices, but by revolutions—leaps upward—in the productive powers of each individual, revolutions which result from the introduction of new creative discoveries into mankind’s applied practice. In this way, man creates his own future and evolves upward through discoveries of higher and more powerful principles.”
A Note To Readers
While the follies of Congress have just gone off the charts to resemble “1984” or the The Reichstag fire that brought Hitler into power, as our commentary on it makes clear, : “Let’s Call It Fascism, Because That’s What It Is.” That can be found on pages 11-12 below.
In this week’s report:
We begin with the expanding drought of California and the entire Southwest. For the first time since 2016, now a portion of California is in “Exceptional Drought.” The forecasts all agree, the winter will do little to slow down the intensifying drought.
More than 200 farm and water organizations from 15 states are urging President-elect Joe Biden and congressional leaders to address aging Western water infrastructure in any economic recovery package.
Next are two short sections entitled, “Nuclear Power and Space,” and “Remember the Delta Smelt– Say Goodbye to the Species.”
And just to be a little provocative I have included here most of an article titled, “The Folly of Renewable Energy.”
That is followed by the article I referenced above, “Regarding Today’s Bogus Impeachment: Let’s Call It Fascism, Because That’s What It Is.”
Finally, this week’s Feature, which is a report I wrote in 2013 on the battle to build the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State, a battle that great men waged based on the principle that the construction of great infrastructure projects not only is the driver for transforming the entire economy to a higher level of productivity, but also provides the foundation, as does the case of the Grand Coulee Dam, in providing the nation with the capability to fight and win World War II.
In addition, the story features how those men, with the impetus and support provided by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, defeated the Wall Street allied power companies that attempted to stop the project. Why, you may ask, did they oppose building what became the largest producer of electrical power in the world? Very simply, by making electricity abundant and cheap, their ability to loot the population and the entire nation was at stake.
To do more of what FDR did in transforming the economy with an infrastructure-led building policy which requires $2 or 3 trillion in government funding each year, a complete reorganization of the financial system is required. That begins with the fight to enact LaRouche’ Four Laws as U.S. Policy:
LAROUCHE’S FOUR LAWS FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY
(1) The immediate re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall law instituted by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, without modification, as to principle of action.
(2) Return to a system of top-down, and thoroughly defined, National Banking.
(3) The purpose of the use of a Federal Credit-system, is to generate high-productivity trends in improvements of employment, with the accompanying intention, to increase the physical-economic productivity and the standard of living of the persons and households of the United States.
(4) A Crash Program for Fusion and an expanded Space program.
Mankind, unlike all other animal species, is capable of perpetual growth and progress. Realizing this potential, however, requires that we increase our power in and over nature, over time. Such increase does not happen at a steady pace and by continuation of one level of technologies and practices, but by revolutions—leaps upward—in the productive powers of each individual, revolutions which result from the introduction of new creative discoveries into mankind’s applied practice. In this way, man creates his own future and evolves upward through discoveries of higher and more powerful principles.
