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Duck-Billed Platitudes

The mating-cry of a creature which
can grow fur and lay eggs
at the same time.

By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

August 31, 2008

As of now, the roster of Presidential candidacies for the November U.S. general election appears to be virtually settled. Nonetheless, except for some clever campaign tactics from the Republican campaign of Senator John McCain, the stated policies of the Presidential candidates are fairly described as "duck-billed platitudes," cries worthy of strange creatures of the type to be expected from putative Beaverbrook heir Rupert Murdoch, from "way down under."

Karl Rove of debased-faith-initiative notoriety has done some weird things in the past, and, we have strong reason to suspect, still now. Nonetheless, what are to be suspected as being, now, the most important of the initiatives coming from the Republican campaign are not the plausible work-product of Rove himself, but from London, sometimes by way of Australia. The hollow-est of the platitudes are come from the mouth of the Buppies- and-Boomers favorite, Presidential candidate Obama, in the form of grandiose, if empty gestures worthy of a carnival act, but nothing of actually practical relevance to the already desperate economic situation confronting the lower eighty-percentile of our citizens. Senator John McCain is no rival of Obama in the pure "b...s..." department, but John seems to plod along successfully in the shadow of political con-man act played by thuggish George Soros' patsy, four-flushing Senator Obama. To be fair to both, it must be said that neither campaign has been playing with a full deck, so far.

In the present circumstance, while the existing financial-monetary system of the world as a whole is gripped by something far worse than merely an on-rushing world depression, not a single sane move has come, so far, out of the U, S, Federal executive or the "Ding-a-ling, Barney, and Bailout" circus in the U.S. Congress.

Hey, fellows, how do you hope to get us safely out of this mess? How far down are you willing to see our republic sink, before you do something to change this?

It comes down to this. Our so-called "main-stream news media," including the New York Times, of course, has been "out-Goebbelsing Goebbels" like never before. Our elected political officials who should be defending the nation, and honest political representatives, against the effect of these lies from that so-called news media, are either joining the chorus, or cringing under the bed. This, dear citizen, is the time you must show some real guts in the defense of our republic against this pack of political and press swindlers.

There is strength in unity from below. This is the time to show it.

- The Hard Truth -

The danger to our republic, and to you personally, comes from the British Empire whose representatives include George Soros, and, in effect, Felix Rohatyn. Agents of the British Empire's official institutions, such as Soros, are presently in top-down control of the Democratic Party machine. You have seen the near thermonuclear confrontation which the British staged in Georgia, The control from London-centered interests, is virtually treasonous in its effects on our nation, and on you. The Republican side is better only in the degree that it is not the howling Howard Dean's Soros circus.

The world is now gripped, not by a recession, but by what is known in relevant technical terms as an already onrushing "general breakdown-crisis" of the present world financial system, like that which struck Europe during the Fourteenth Century "New Dark Age," when half the parishes of Europe vanished in a relatively global banking panic, and the population of Europe collapsed, during approximately a generation, by one-third. And, with all that, here you are, sitting, holding a certificate of virtual membership in the lower eighty percentile of family- income brackets, not a particular safe place to sit idly.

It is past time to begin fighting back; it is past time to begin acting like a mass of serious patriots.

However, that is not the worst of it. We are also teetering on the edge of a possible general thermonuclear war. Vice-President Dick Cheney, operating, as usual, with guidance and backing from London, is off whipping up wars again, just as he did in cahoots with lying Prime Minister Tony Blair in the fraudulent launching of the still-simmering war in Iraq. Now, he is aiming at an impossible war with Iran, and, at the same time, the Bush Adminsitration has backed the Saudis (who may be supplying another round of financial backing to the Bush family, while throwing nuclear-armed Pakistan into the cauldron of war in that entire region.

The attempt to stage a thermonuclear bluff against the Russia, China, and India, who are willing to cooperate on all legitimate economic issues, and on whose cooperation we of the U.S. now depend for our economic survival, is a demonstration of how evil London can be, and how stupid the present Bush Administration and the leaders of our Conrgess has been of late.

Meanwhile, on all these and related issues, most of you out there, have your heads stuck in the proverbial sand, hoping that what you refuse to see is not happening.

Think about it, while you still can.