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Das Geheimnis der Wirtschaft
Lösung der globalen Systemkrise:
Trennbankensystem und produktive Kreditschöpfung


Schiller-Institut: Die Weltlandbrücke wird Realität
Jetzt mit Leseprobe: Vorwort: Das Ende der "freien" Marktwirtschaft: Wir brauchen Gesetze zur Rettung des Gemeinwohls!


Lyndon LaRouche: Die kommenden 50 Jahre

Das Prinzip von Entwicklung: Dynamik, nicht Statistik

Von der Ehrlichkeit gegenüber der Natur

Max Planck zum 150. Geburtstag

Überlegungen zur Klimahypothese:
Von der Physik der Atmosphäre aus gesehen, gibt es kein Klima. In der Atmosphäre spielt nur das Wetter eine Rolle.

+++ 7. Juli 2010 +++

U.S. Unemployment Soars,
as Towns, Cities and States Implode

The social significance of the ongoing long-term unemployment in the United States became more clear with the recent release of a May survey of 3,000 American adults by the Pew Research Center. That survey concluded that well over half (55%) of all adults in the labor force say that in the past two years, they have lost their job, taken a cut in pay, taken a reduction in hours, or become involuntary part-time workers. Adding to that their spouses, their parents, or adult children, virtually every American worker has been hit with a job or wage retrenchment during this collapse. This collapse of employment - itself caused by the deliberate deindustrialization of the United States and the replacement of industry by the financial gambling economy, over the past 40 years - lies at the root of the spreading disintegration of social life throughout the United States. In addition to their personal hardships, the unemployed and poor workers do not pay taxes, and the drastic drop of tax revenues has hit localities with hurricane force, causing them to carry out waves of cutbacks in services.

While some of these local cutbacks were temporarily mitigated with Obama's stimulus program, nothing in that program addressed the fundamental problem of the loss of productive employment. But during the same time, the mass of toxic paper dominating the nation's financial system has been protected, and increased. In fact, only a Glass-Steagall reorganization of the U.S. banking system would create the conditions for the massive amount of new investment in infrastructure, which is required to reverse the situation.

As of late June, the disintegration process has become extreme. Municipalities around the country are cutting police departments, fire departments, teaching staffs, libraries, etc. Salary cuts and furloughs are being handed down. Medical services and other social supports are being eliminated for the poor, handicapped, and elderly. Local infrastructure is being sold off to financial sharks, for a minimal amount of money up front, just to pay current bills.

The picture in California is devastating. On July 1, the first day of California's new fiscal year, Governor Arnold the Terminator unilaterally ordered that more than 200,000 of 250,000 state workers will be paid at minimum wage — until a budget is passed to take on the $19 billion budget deficit.



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+++ 2. Februar 2012 +++

Präsidentschaftskampagne in Frankreich: Jacques Cheminade mischt wieder einmal die politische Landschaft auf

Jacques Cheminade eröffnete am 31. Januar eine entscheidende Flanke in der gegenwärtigen strategischen Lage, als er in einem Interview mit Radio Monte Carlo bekannt gab, daß mehr als 500 Bürger... [weiter]

+++ 2. Februar 2012 +++

French Presidential Campaign: Jacques Cheminade Rocks French Political Scene... Again!

Jacques Cheminade opened a crucial flank in the overall strategic situation on Jan. 31, when he announced that over 500 mayors had pledged to "sponsor" his candidacy for President. The news was announ... [weiter]

+++ 2. Februar 2012 +++

Trennbankensystem: Wer flüstert François Hollande diese Dinge ins Ohr?

Am 22.1. eröffnete der sozialistische Präsidentschaftskandidat François Hollande mit einer größeren Rede seine Wahlkampf für das französische Präsidentenamt. Seine teilweise recht blumige Rede enthiel... [weiter]

+++ 2. Februar 2012 +++

Cheminade: Who Is Whispering in François Hollande's Ear?

French Socialist presidential candidate François Hollande kicked off his electoral campaign in major a speech on Jan. 22. Amidst his at-times lyrical presentation, he made some interesting statements ... [weiter]

+++ 2. Februar 2012 +++

Helga Zepp-LaRouche Blasts the EU Fiscal Compact:
"The Worst Idea since Bruening"

In a statement issued on Jan. 28, Schiller Institute chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche blasted the new EU "Fiscal Compact" as "the worst idea since Bruening" (Chancellor of Weimar Germany from 1930-32, w... [weiter]

+++ 2. Februar 2012 +++

Obama, der Kriegspräsident

Für viele Amerikaner ist eine bleibende schlechte Erinnerung an Präsident George W. Bush sein Auftritt an Deck eines US-Flugzeugträgers am 1. Mai 2003, als er für den Irak „Mission erfolgreich beendet... [weiter]

+++ 25. Januar 2012 +++

Etwas ist „faul“ zwischen Washington und Moskau

Während des Kalten Krieges waren die Botschafter der USA in Moskau Karrierediplomaten, deren Aufgabe es war, ihr Land zu repräsentieren. Niemals intervenierten sie in die inneren Angelegenheiten der S... [weiter]

+++ 25. Januar 2012 +++

New U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Goes for Regime Change

Habitually, an ambassador is a career diplomat, assigned to a specific country in order to represent his own country, avoiding interfering in the internal affairs of the host country. Not so with Mich... [weiter]

+++ 25. Januar 2012 +++

U.S.-Russian Cooperation in the Arctic Promoted by Senior Russian Figure

Igor Ivanov, a former Foreign Minister from 1998 to 2004, has proposed that the Obama Administration's new ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, devote his attention to Russian-American cooperation, f... [weiter]

+++ 25. Januar 2012 +++

LaRouche: Katastrophe kann abgewendet werden, aber nur von qualifizierten Personen

„Ich verspreche Ihnen, es wird ein aufregender Abend. Nicht weil ich aufregend wäre, sondern weil das Thema von Natur aus aufregend ist.“ Mit dieser Aussage begann Lyndon LaRouche seine „Rede zur Lage... [weiter]

+++ 25. Januar 2012 +++

Italy: Resistance Forces to "White Fascism" Rally around Movisol

As the puppet regime of Mario Monti carries out the "creative destruction" of the Italian economy as ordered by the European Central Bank, the population and some institutions are increasingly looking... [weiter]

+++ 20. Januar 2012 +++

Österreichs Finanzministerin warnt vor „Schattenbanken“

In einem Interview mit EIR sprach sich die österreichische Finanzministerin Maria Fekter gegen Euro-Bonds aus - aber auch gegen ein Trennbankensystem.
In einem schriftlichen Interv... [weiter]

+++ 19. Januar 2012 +++

Reuters Reports on Cheminade's Campaign in France:
“A World without the City and Wall Street”

In the run-up to the April presidential elections in France, candidate Jacques Cheminade is getting more and straighter media coverage than in the past, including on major television and radio station... [weiter]

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