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EIRExecutive Intelligence ReviewJune 10, 2011 Vol. 38, No. 23www.larouchepub.com 10.00LaRouche: The Deadline for Glass-Steagall Is July 4German Nuclear Phase-Out: Deindustrialization, GenocideEconomic Revival Needs Real Science, Not StatisticsWorld Food Supply in Crisis;First Step Is Remove Obama
Founder and Contributing Editor:Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.,Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small,Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, JeffreySteinberg, William WertzEditor: Nancy SpannausManaging Editors: Bonnie James, Susan WelshScience Editor: Marjorie Mazel HechtTechnology Editor: Marsha FreemanBook Editor: Katherine NotleyGraphics Editor: Alan YuePhoto Editor: Stuart LewisCirculation Manager: Stanley EzrolINTELLIGENCE DIRECTORSCounterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, MicheleSteinbergEconomics: John Hoefle, Marcia Merry Baker,Paul GallagherHistory: Anton ChaitkinIbero-America: Dennis SmallLaw: Edward SpannausRussia and Eastern Europe: Rachel DouglasUnited States: Debra FreemanINTERNATIONAL BUREAUSBogotá: Javier AlmarioBerlin: Rainer ApelCopenhagen: Tom GillesbergHouston: Harley SchlangerLima: Sara MadueñoMelbourne: Robert BarwickMexico City: Gerardo Castilleja ChávezNew Delhi: Ramtanu MaitraParis: Christine BierreStockholm: Hussein AskaryUnited Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni RubinsteinWashington, D.C.: William JonesWiesbaden: Göran HaglundON THE WEBe-mail: hepub.com/eiwWebmaster: John SigersonAssistant Webmaster: George HollisEditor, Arabic-language edition: Hussein AskaryEIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50issues), by EIR News Service, Inc., 709-A 8th St. SE,Washington, D.C. 20003.(703) 777-9451European Headquarters: E.I.R. GmbH, Postfach1611, D-65006 Wiesbaden, Germany;Bahnstrasse 9a, D‑65205, Wiesbaden, GermanyTel: 49-611-73650Homepage: http://www.eirna.come-mail: eirna@eirna.comDirector: Georg NeudekkerMontreal, Canada: 514-461-1557Denmark: EIR - Danmark, Sankt Knuds Vej 11,basement left, DK-1903 Frederiksberg, Denmark.Tel.: 45 35 43 60 40, Fax: 45 35 43 87 57. e-mail:eirdk@hotmail.com.Mexico City: EIR, Ave Morelos #60-A, Col Barriode San Andres, Del. Azcapotzalco, CP 02240,Mexico, DF. Tel: 5318-2301, 1163-9734, 1163-9735.Copyright: 2011 EIR News Service. All rightsreserved. Reproduction in whole or in part withoutpermission strictly prohibited.Canada Post Publication Sales Agreement#40683579Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O.Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390.EI RFrom the Managing EditorDid you think Lyndon LaRouche was exaggerating, when he saidthat the intersection of the financial meltdown and the “galactic crisis”of earthquakes, volcanoes, and extreme weather would create a globalcatastrophe of undreamed-of magnitude? For those who remain stubborn advocates of sense-certainty as the criterion for what is real, thephoto on our cover may serve as a wake-up call: That’s America’sfood supply under water! And the flooding of the Mississippi RiverBasin is ongoing. Then, along the Pacific Ring of Fire, on June 3,came an earthquake in northern Peru, and on June 4, the massive eruption of Chile’s Puyehue volcano, for the first time in 50 years.Our Economics section shows what the floods and droughts in theU.S. farmbelt will mean for our food supply, and what should be doneto prevent such disasters in the future. Of particular note is AnthonyDeFranco’s 1994 article on the history of development projects andproposals for the Missouri River, in the context of the AmericanSystem of Physical Economy.As for the global financial crisis, the usual pundits who talk about“the recovery” are getting worried. The Washington Post, house organof Wall Street’s subsidiary in the nation’s capital, headlined the newsthat the Federal Reserve is running out of options to “fix” things; then,it was President Obama’s plummeting support because of—guesswhat?—the economy. Who knew?For the real picture, from those who “told you so,” see International. Spain, Greece, and Portugal are at the edge of the precipice,while Germany is leaping over the edge on its own accord, with Chancellor Merkel’s insane propitiation of what she takes to be politicalexigencies. There is resistance, but not yet enough.So, how did LaRouche know what was going to happen? Severalarticles this week are relevant. First is our Feature, a discussion amonghim and several associates, on the difference between statistics andreal science. Anyone who attempts economic forecasting, or any kindof science, on the basis of statistics, is an absolute fraud! The argumentis summed up in a short piece, “A Timely Note.” Then, see Strategy forLaRouche’s discussion of “A Certain World Map,” in which he slamsthe Schumpeterian ideology of “creative destruction” that is currentlyin vogue among certain insane people.The bottom line? Restore the Glass-Steagall standard now! NancySpannaus reviews the state of the mobilization, in National.
EI R ContentsFeature30 L PACTV WeeklyReport: An EconomicRevival Needs RealScience, Not StatisticsCoverThis WeekMississippiRiverfloodwaters havepushed into theYazoo River andinto thiscornfield nearYazoo City,Miss., May 26,2011.USDA/Lance Cheun4 M issouri River Flooding: World FoodSupply in Crisis; First Step Is RemoveObamaThe floods add up to a world-scale food supplycrisis, given the impact of extreme weather onother grainbelts around the globe, e.g., the droughtin France, and underscoring the point that there isno bountiful harvest elsewhere to compensate forthe losses in the United States.9 T he LaRouche Show: Farm Leaders SayU.S. Food Crops EndangeredOn The LaRouche Show, farm leaders John R.Anderson of the Texas and Southwest Cattlemen’sAssociation, and Ron Wieczorek of South Dakotareport on the devastation to crops, livestock, andfarm operations.13 N o More Floods! Build the Missouri RiverDevelopment ProjectThis article originally appeared in the NewFederalist on June 27, 1994.27 Drought Destroying French Food Stocks28 S tatement by Jacques Cheminade:Measures To Combat Severe FrenchDroughtTwo members of theLaRouchePAC Basement Team,Oyang Teng and Sky Shields,join Lyndon LaRouche on theline from Germany, and hostJohn Hoefle, for a discussion ofsense-certainty, scientificdiscovery, Classical music, andprojects for an economicrecovery.43 M ore on ‘Crumble’: ATimely NoteBy Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
www.larouchepub.comVolume 38, Number 23, June 10, 2011InternationalNationalStrategy46 T he June Death-Rattleof the British Empire’sEurozone54 L aRouche: The Deadlinefor Glass-Steagall IsJuly 457 C hina, for Example:A Certain World MapThe Inter-Alpha Group bankersare terrified, and demandingfascism. European Central Bankhead Jean-Claude Trichet“suggests” that if countriesrefuse to go along with thebankers’ policies, the EUCouncil should be given “amuch deeper and authoritativesay in the formation of thecountry’s economic policies.”49 G ermany’s NuclearPhase-Out MeansDeindustrialization andGenocideBy Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Likelemmings, the German partyestablishment has plunged intothe government’s nuclearphase-out anddeindustrialization. But if theUnited States decides to returnto the Glass-Steagall standard,the oligarchical control of theworld and the power of the“kleptocratic elites” will cometo an end.51 D ocumentation: Worldopposition to Germany’snuclear exit.On June 1, Lyndon LaRouchelaid out an urgent timetable tosave the world economy fromplunging into a New Dark Age,and for removing PresidentObama from office: rammingthe Glass-Steagall legislationthrough the U.S. Congress byJuly 4. There is no room for“maybe” under the currentcircumstances of increasinglyviolent weather, and financialeconomic breakdown,LaRouche argued. We have toget this done now.By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.“The great, world-wide crashof the present monetaristsystem, is now on. Theimmediate situation forEurope, were virtuallyhopeless, unless what mightseem sudden and radicalchanges were adopted inmuch of the world at large.So, the inherentlyindigestible, monetarist wastemust be neatly cancelled, anda fresh start now promptlylaunched on the basis of moresolid stuff than the presentfinancial fluff.”64 J onathan Swift’sLegacyBy Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.Editorial66 I mpose Food ControlsNow!
EIR EconomicsMISSOURI RIVER FLOODINGWorld Food Supply in Crisis;First Step Is Remove Obamaby Marcia Merry BakerJune 4—As of this month, the extensive floodingthroughout the Missouri River Basin has taken a hugetoll on agriculture, and caused destruction across thenine-state region. Losses to crops in this NorthernPlains wheatbelt, and Western cornbelt, are now pilingon top of the already drastic agriculture damage fromflooding in the Lower Mississippi/Ohio Basin, and indrought-stricken Texas and the Southern Plains. Thisall adds up to a world-scale food supply crisis, giventhe impact of extreme weather on other grainbeltsaround the globe, e.g., the drought in France (seebelow), underscoring the point that there is no bountiful harvest potential elsewhere in the world to“compensate” for the sweeping losses in the UnitedStates.In the United States now, because of the extent ofruined fields, delayed planting, and soggy conditions or drought, crop losses are mounting across allthe basic grains—corn, rice, and wheat, and also tohay and fodder for cattle. The prospect of high feedcosts is a disaster for all livestock. This is a meatsupply crisis in the making. Emergency measures areurgent.Where is President Obama in all of this? InLondon, inside his head. Look at the timing of hisSpringtime royalty tour in Britain, which he refusedto alter, no matter what devastation was hitting at Economicshome. Obama left Washington on May 22—the evening of the Joplin tornado, and did not return until lateMay 28. Obama stayed away from a disaster visit toMissouri until May 29, longer than George W. Bush’sinfamous five-day lapse before visiting New Orleansafter Katrina.The day the mega-twister flattened Joplin, the stormwave brought other tornadoes, hail, and torrential rainsacross this farm region of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas,and nearby states. At the same time up north, on May23, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer declared an stateemergency, as flooding was gathering strength from therecord snowmelt and Spring rains; water was high andrising throughout the Missouri Basin.But Obama, when asked repeatedly by Irish andEnglish reporters, why he wasn’t on his way back home,said, “No need.” He kept to all his scheduled dates, including two dinners with the queen and her court, including a 41-gun salute at her palace. He laid it on thick,praising the royals, and discounting the entire anti-British Empire history of the United States, and Irelandtoo.In fact, the Obama Administration is not even acknowledging the food crisis impact of the extremeweather disasters. The media is likewise blacking it out.Thus, the storms, drought, and food shortages all pointup the real disaster: allowing Obama to remain in office,EIRJune 10, 2011
USDA/Lance CheungThe Spring flooding throughout the nine-state Missouri River Basin continues to wipe out huge swaths of farmland, threatening thefood supply. Shown: an aerial view of Mississippi River flood of farms, wilderness, and populated areas, as of May 19, 2011.and allowing the continuation of the dying monetaristsystem of bailouts, speculation, and destruction. Themobilization in the United States to reinstate the GlassSteagall law and its principle of credit for public-goodactivities, is urgent.The scope of the U.S. agriculture crisis is presented below in excerpts from the May 28 LaRoucheShow (www.larouchepub.com/radio) by Texas cattleman Rich Anderson and by Ron Wieczorek, aSouth Dakota farm leader, who is in the midst of theMissouri Basin flooding. Anderson is sounding thealarm about the drought disaster, expressed themood of his countrymen: “I cannot believe thisfellow Obama. He’s gone over there to lick theboots of the British people, and you know, wekicked them out of this country once, and they cameback in 1812, and tried to take us over again, andburned our capital down. . . . And he’s over there licking their boots. . . . He ought to be over here, workingJune 10, 2011EIRwith Congress to do something about these disasters.”The Policy NeededTwo policy responses, in line with the Glass-Steagall mobilization, are critical: First, immediate emergency measures can and must be taken. Lyndon LaRouche addressed this on the LPAC-TV WeeklyReport April 27 (see Feature), issuing a call for maximum effort for replanting, and related measures, as theOhio/Mississippi Basin flooding was ruining newlysown crops. In France this week, a statement outliningemergency measures to deal with the drought wasissued by Jacques Cheminade, an international cothinker of LaRouche, who heads up the Solidarity andProgress party, and is running for President (seebelow).Secondly, there must be a restoration of the scientific outlook of intervening in the natural, that is, manEconomics
made land and water system of our planet. This year’sflooding in the Mississippi Basin—including the Ohioand Missouri systems, makes clear that whereverflood-control and water-management systems are inplace, built mostly by the Army Corps of Engineers,the flooding damage is far, far less. These projectsand outlook must be renewed, especially by launching the long-delayed, continental-scale program, theNorth American Water and Power Alliance(NAWAPA).The plans for the Upper Missouri River improvements—the Pick-Sloan Plan (1944)—for flood control,irrigation and navigation, were never completed. Wenow see the consequences of that in vast flooding anddestruction. Below is a reprint of a history of the PickSloan, and the obstruction of it by neo-British Empirenetworks of monetarism and pseudo-environmentalism.Missouri Basin—Weeks of FloodingThe Missouri River Basin, part of the huge Mississippi drainage area, is now in full flood. The heavysnowmelt in the upper reaches of the Rockies, wherethe Missouri River rises, combined with heavy Springrains in the entire multi-state basin, has producedrecord runoff in the tributaries and mainstem. Thishas created emergency conditions across a huge areaof the High Plains, affecting all or parts of Montana,Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska, the Dakotas,western Iowa, Kansas, southwestern Minnesota,and down through the state of Missouri, where theMissouri River joins the Mississippi. Depending onthe daily rain volume, the situation will go on forweeks.Since the May 23 Montana declaration of emergency, the states along the Missouri River have donelikewise. The capitals of North Dakota (Bismarck) andSouth Dakota (Pierre), are both on the River. Some2,000 residents of Pierre are expected to have to evacuate. Many are warned to be prepared to leave theirhomes for two months. River neighborhoods and businesses—some of them huge agri-processing plants—are rushing to sandbag, if they think this has a chance towork. Prison inmates and volunteers are deployed. Forexample, in Yankton, volunteer teams are workingalongside the 600 National Guardsmen deployed atpresent.The basin-wide flood-control system, although not Economicsfully completed by the Corps, is nevertheless now beingused to the maximum, to try to prevent deaths and tomitigate damage. But the extreme conditions are causing evacuations, heavy flooding, and huge agriculturaldamage.The Corps operates a sequence of dams on themainstem of the Missouri, whose reservoirs are all nowat gigantic volumes. There is a constant monitoring ofthe inflow at points along the river, the height andextent of the impoundment, etc., in order for the Corpsto determine the optimum time to release some flow,and from which dam, to mitigate flood damage. Thenight of May 30, the Corps of Engineers began thefirst of what are now daily telephone briefings withgovernment leaders, emergency response teams, andthe media, to inform people of the latest developments.The Corps’ Missouri River Basin Water Management Division, headquartered in Omaha, is where thedecisions are made on how to best “regulate” the riverflow. For instance, over Memorial Day weekend, theCorps announced that releases at Gavins Points Damwould commence, reaching a volume of 150,000 cubicfeet per second by June 14. This will surpass the previous record high of 70,000 cfs, set in 1997. People cameout to watch the spillway spectacle, surpassing anything ever before seen in the community. The Corps hasposted an inundation map for Gavins Point to SiouxCity, Iowa.Jody Farhat, the chief of division supervising decisions on each dam, said May 30, “The bottom line is,the sooner we can reach maximum release rates, theless risk there is that we will eventually have to gohigher. Once we have evacuated some storage in thereservoir system, we will have more flexibility to respond to these rapidly changing conditions.”Unplanted, Waterlogged CropsLarge areas of wheat, barley, and corn were neverplanted in this flooded basin. Some fields which weresuccessfully sown, are now so waterlogged that thecrop is jeopardized. There is flooding along dozens oftributaries of the Missouri, besides the mainstemitself.The North Dakota State Extension Service is sounding the alarm. Joel Ransom, agronomist for the Service, warns that there is oxygen depletion in fields withwater-saturated soils, and this can affect crop growthEIRJune 10, 2011
USDAWhile President Obama turns a deaf ear to the cries for help from the flood-ravagedPlains, Mrs. Obama, joined here by Ag Secretary Vilsack, promotes “healthierchoices” of foods that will no longer be available. The two are shown here passingout fruit at an elementary school, in November 2009.in the short and longer term. Crops can differ in theirtolerance to waterlogging. The most tolerant, down tothe most susceptible, are rice, soybeans, oats, wheat,corn, barley, canola, peas, dry beans, and lentils. Otherthan rice, many of these crops are produced in the Missouri River Basin. Some farmers cannot reach theirfields, because roads are flooded out. Bridges areunsafe.Along with the flooding, the traditional season oftornadoes is now in play, but with prospects of extremeevents, as are occurring elsewhere on the planet, giventhe heightened solar and galactic activity. The first weekof June, torrents of rain, and high winds blew across theNorthern states, resulting in several confirmed twisters,in a large band from the Dakotas through Michigan andeastward. In southern Michigan, an EF-1 tornado hitShiawassee County on May 29. The storms uprootedtrees, knocked down power lines, destroyed a barn, andtore up fields and roads. Power was cut to at least138,000 residences, farms, homes, and businessesduring the storm wave.Huge Agriculture Losses, DisruptionsNew estimates are coming out daily from stateagriculture extension services and private analysts onJune 10, 2011EIRthe dimensions of damage and lossfor key crops. On May 31, the Department of Agriculture (USDA)also issued its weekly Crop Progressreport from the NASS (National Agricultural Statistics Sevices). Of the325 million acres currently utilized in the U.S. field crop base (forsome 21 major crops), millions ofacres were not planted, are damaged,or otherwise the crop is delayed,because of weather extremes, flooding, and lack of Federal intervention to assist farmers. Ranchers indrought areas are selling off cattle.There are disruptions throughoutthe food chain, and worse tocome.The U.S. corn acreage declinecould easily drop to below 87 millionacres, down from 88 million in 2010,and certainly far below the Marchforecast of the USDA of 92 millionacres.At least 2 million acres of corn have been lost, because of the lower Mississippi River flooding, and thesoggy conditions in the eastern cornbelt in Indiana andOhio. Added to this, are the losses in the flooded Missouri River Basin. Estimates are coming in that up to amillion acres of cor
Jun 10, 2011 · Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele . other grainbelts around the globe, e.g., the drought in France, and underscoring the point that there is . ning of the Joplin
