“The most obvious place to invest the financing available through this long-term credit mechanism and participating private banks is in building a modern infrastructure platform for the U.S. economy, while also creating crash programs to develop fusion and explore near space and the Moon. Since we have damaged our physical economy, and savaged our labor force in the last decades, a crash effort in this respect is urgent if we are to raise productivity and ensure long term growth.”
A Note To Readers
New Year’s greetings to you all. First, let us think big, and then we can present some current developments in that context.
With the new year and the new decade, I urge you to reflect upon the world we wish to create 50 or 100 years from now. Of course, each nation must find its own self-interest in fighting for the common aims of all mankind. And as Helga Zepp-LaRouche put it in her end of the year webcast a few days ago:
“The aim of civilization is the continued development of our species as the only creative species in the universe. “More people must take that idea of a sublime view of mankind, of a creative identity, which is in correspondence to an anti-entropic, developing universe.”
Lyndon LaRouche always urged his fellow Americans to recognize that “we in the United States are responsible, more than any other country,” to crush that failed elite and their deadly policies. “Not because we committed the crime—the British created the crime,” LaRouche said; “but because we were complicit; but also, because we have in our hands, in the United States, the means to create the possible cure, of the great suffering, which the trans-Atlantic region as a whole is suffering,” as he put in his 2010 Christmas message.
“We have the principle which was contributed to our Constitution, the design of our Constitution, under the influence of Alexander Hamilton, who was then Treasury Secretary for the United States,” to seize control of our economy back from Wall Street and the City of London. “If we apply the Glass-Steagall application, which is the echo of Hamilton’s contribution to the U.S. Constitution, then we have in our hands the means to solve the problem in the United States, and by doing that, we have the means to assist Europe and other countries, from getting out of the mess, too.”
Through LaRouche’s now-famous “Four Laws,” the United States can initiate the greatest recovery programs ever conceived, for itself, and for mankind.
In This Week’s Report
While President Trump has, for three years now, attempted to get the economy really rolling once again with his proposal for building and rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, his presidency has been paralyzed by the ongoing attempted coup of removing him from the White House.
The real state of the economy is represented by a report last week that the United States saw the slowest population growth in a century over the past year. In addition, for the past three years life expectancy in the U.S., for the first time it our history, has declined. Both of these reports signify a nation that is dying. That report will be found in this week’s Feature.
This week’s report begins with the year’s first report on the California snowpack. It has a good start for January.
Contrary to what was expected from the briny discharge from desalination plants, a new study finds that the discharge actually is a boon to fish. The report is from Australia.
Since the U.S. is building little or no infrastructure these days, at least we can report on what others are doing. And a surprise: “Green Publication Carries Surprising Coverage of Nuclear Power as Best Option for Africa.” And even a German TV station has now labeled the policy of Germany to shut down all of its nuclear power plants “the blunder of the decade.”
So, we begin:
