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Date Posted: 10:54:25 11/25/07 Sun
Author: part 2
Subject: Re: November 25, 2007
In reply to: part 1 's message, "November 25, 2007" on 10:52:25 11/25/07 Sun

UNITED STATES

LaRouche Was Right: "Giuliani Was Set Up"

Nov. 24, 2007 (LPAC)--The facts are confirming that what Lyndon
LaRouche said about Republican Presidential lead contender Rudy
Giuliani, in his Nov. 10 statement, "Giulaini Was Set Up!" In
that statement, LaRouche said, "To make Mayor Michael Bloomberg a
serious contender, Giuliani had to be brought down."
This past week, the political press has been running
articles puffing Bloomberg. Huffington Post columnist Sam Stein,
wrote Nov. 21 that Bloomberg "is the man to beat." His article
reports that Bloomberg is being regularly briefed by Clinton
Administration foreign policy expert Nancy Soderberg, "providing
the strongest indication that he is considering a run for the
White House." The weekly Washington newspaper, Roll Call,
headlined on November 10, "Michael Bloomberg Is Back in the 2008
Presidential Picture."
In his Nov. 10 statement, LaRouche said, "If statistical
analysis means anything, the build-up of former New York Mayor
Giuliani as a `hot prospect' for the man to beat Hillary Clinton
in the coming U.S. Presidential election, was a crafted set-up,
designed to clear the decks for the present New York Mayor to
emerge, as if `miraculously,' as Senator Hillary Clinton's really
intended Republican challenger." [ddp]

Immigration Services Backlog Could Keep New Citizens from Voting
in 2008

November 24, 2007 (LPAC)--Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in
the process of becoming citizens might not be able to vote in the
upcoming Presidential elections due to a bottleneck in processing
applications within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
according to the Nov. 22 {Washington Post}. Applications for
citizenship have shot up in 2007, fueled by the anti-immigration
climate, the looming elections, and by people wishing to beat a
substantial fee increase which came into effect in July. The fee
was raised from $330 to $675 for the naturalization process.
The citizenship process used to take just seven months to
complete. Now, it can take that long just to get an
acknowledgment of receipt of the application. The whole process
could now take up to 18 months for the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) employees to complete. The number of
applications for naturalization jumped from 731,000 last year to
1.4 million this year, with 40% of the applications coming
between July and September of this year alone. This led to a
backlog of unopened applications that now stands at almost a
quarter-million. Voter mobilization groups are estimating that
several hundred thousand of these applicants will not become
citizens in time to register to vote in their first Presidential
election in 2008. (clc)

IBERO-AMERICA

Brazil, Argentina Join on Nuclear Energy and Space Exploration

Nov. 24, 2007 (LPAC)--During their Nov. 19 meeting in Brasilia,
Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Argentina's President-elect
Cristina Kirchner, signed agreements to cooperate in aerospace
and nuclear energy, and created a bilateral commission to
strengthen relations in many other areas.
On Nov. 19, a delegation led by the head of Argentina's
National Space Activities Commission (CONAE), met with a
Brazilian delegation led by interim head of the Brazilian Space
Agency (AEB), where they agreed to propose a joint space project,
including the design, production and launch of an
earth-observation satellite with advanced technologies. This
will be the first satellite the two nations have produced
together.
According to a Nov. 20 release from Brazil's Foreign
Ministry, the mission's goals will be to provide global
information on the optical properties of the oceans, with
applications in oceanography, climatology, and monitoring of
natural resources.
What is exciting about the project--and viewed as a huge
threat by the anti-science Anglo-Dutch financial oligarchy--is
the fact that the satellite's optical sensor is technologically
very innovative. It will have the ability to select between 15
and 25 bands within the visible and infrared spectrum. "Such
technologies will contribute to Argentina's and Brazil's
technological independence in the area of space-quality sensors,
access to which is subject to restrictions on the international
market," said the Foreign Ministry.
Speaking Nov. 21 in Rio de Janeiro, Othon Luiz Pinheiro da
Silva, the president of Brazil's state-run Eletronuclear, pointed
to the benefits for both nations of cooperation in nuclear energy
as well. Reporting that technical cooperation already exists
with Argentina, Pinheiro da Silva said there are plans to upgrade
this cooperation to a full-fledged accord by early next year.
[crr]

Chinese-Ecuadorian Cooperation Follows Correa Visit to China

Nov. 24 (LPAC)--President Rafael Correa proposed that China and
Ecuador establish a strategic alliance, centered upon Chinese
investment in Ecuador's oil industry and infrastructure, during a
week-long visit to China which concluded today. Correa proposed
that Ecuador should become China's main entry port for all South
America, using in particular, Manta, the country's largest
fishing port on the Pacific, and the development of the
Manta-Manaus sea/road/river bioceanic corridor which Brazil and
Ecuador agreed to work on as a priority last August.
Ecuador is engaged in reversing the reversion to raw
materials producer status which the long night of neo-liberalism
imposed on the country, Correa told the Economic-Trade
Cooperation Forum in Beijing on Nov. 21. Foreign investment is
needed and welcome to aid our industrialization and scientific
and technology development, and the improvement of our roads,
ports, and airports, as long as that investment follows Ecuador's
laws, pays due taxes, and meets labor, social and environmental
conditions, he said.
"It is time that China and Latin America get closer," he
said, in a meeting with the chairman of the Standing Committee of
the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo. The region looked to
Europe in the 19th century; to the United States in the 20th
century; and in the 21st century, we want to look to our west,
where China lies."
Fourteen agreements and preliminary agreements were signed,
on technical and economic cooperation in areas as hydrocarbons
and other energy sectors, mining, railroads, agriculture,
fishing, tourism, etc. Among the agreements, was the extension of
a $200 million loan from the Chinese Development Bank, with
concessional conditions. [ggs]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Mexico, 1943; Lyndon LaRouche's
Policy Today

Nov. 24, 2007 (LPAC)--We publish below excerpts of the speech
given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 21, 1943,
in Monterrey, Mexico, in the company of then-Mexican President
Manuel Avila Camacho and members of his cabinet. Although given
in the midst of World War II, and in the context of Mexico's
important contribution to the Allied war effort, Roosevelt's
speech defined the principles that characterized the broader U.S.
relationship with Mexico and were the essence of his Good
Neighbor Policy. Today, when Mexico is being victimized by
anti-immigrant hysteria and threatened with economic catastrophe,
it is these principles that must be revived as part of Lyndon
LaRouche's New Bretton Woods proposal, and construction of
large-scale, cross-border infrastructure projects that would be
of benefit both nations.

Your Excellency's friendly and cordial expressions add to
the very great pleasure which I feel at being here on Mexican
soil.
It is an amazing thing to have to realize that nearly 34
years have passed since chief Executives of our two nations have
met face to face. I hope that in the days to come, every Mexican
and every American President will feel at liberty to visit each
other just as neighbors visit each other--just as neighbors talk
things over and get to know each other better.
Our two countries owe their independence to the fact that
your ancestors and mine held the same truths to be worth fighting
for and dying for. Hidalgo and Juarez were men of the same stamp
as Washington and Jefferson. It was, therefore, inevitable that
our two countries should find themselves aligned together in the
great struggle which is being fought today to determine whether
this shall be a free or a slave world.
The attacks of the Axis powers, during the past few years
against our common heritage as free men culminated in the
unspeakable and unprovoked aggressions of December 7, 1941, and
May 14, 1942, and the shedding of blood on those dates of
citizens of the United States and Mexico alike.

- Not Unprepared -

Those attacks did not find the Western Hemisphere
unprepared. The 21 free Republics of the Americas during the
past 10 years have devised a system of international cooperation
which has become a great bulwark in the defense of our heritage
and our future. That system, whose strength is now evident even
to the most skeptical, is based primarily upon a renunciation of
the use of force and the enshrining of international justice and
mutual respect as the governing rule of conduct of all nations.
In the forging of that new international policy the role of
Mexico has been outstanding. Mexican Presidents and Foreign
Ministers have appreciated the nature of the struggle with which
we are now confronted at a time when many nations much closer to
the focus of infection were blind.

- Wisdom Demonstrated -

...You and I, Mr. President, as commanders in chief of our
respective armed forces, have been able to concert measures for
common defense. The harmony and mutual confidence which has
prevailed between our armies and navies is beyond praise.
Brotherhood in arms has been established.
The determination of the Mexican people and of their leaders
has led to production on an all-out basis of strategic and vital
materials so necessary to the forging of the weapons destined to
compass the final overthrow of our common foe. In this great
city of Monterrey, I have been most impressed with the
single-minded purpose with which all the forces of production are
joined together in the war effort.
And Mexican farm workers, brought to the United States in
accordance with an agreement between our two governments, the
terms of which are fully consonant with the social objectives we
cherish together, are contributing their skill and their toil to
the production of vitally needed food.
Not less important than the military cooperation and the
supplies needed for the maintenance of our respective economies,
has been the exchange of those ideas and of those moral values
which give life and significance to the tremendous effort of the
free peoples of the world. We in the United States have listened
with admiration and profit to your statements and addresses, Mr.
President, and to those of your distinguished Foreign Minister.
We have gained inspiration and strength from your words.
In the shaping of a common victory, our peoples are finding
that they have common aspirations. They can work together for a
common objective. Let us never lose our hold upon that truth. It
contains within it the secret of future happiness and prosperity
for all of us on both sides of our unfortified border. Let us
make sure that when our victory is won, when the forces of evil
surrender--and that surrender shall be unconditional--then we,
with the same spirit and with the same united courage, will face
the task of the building of a better world.
There is much work still to be done by men of good will on
both sides of our border. The great Mexican people have their
feet set upon a path of ever greater progress so that each
citizen may enjoy the greatest possible measure of security and
opportunity. The Government of the United States and my
countrymen are ready to contribute to that progress.
We recognize a mutual interdependence of our joint
resources. We know that Mexico's resources will be developed for
the common good of humanity. We know that the day of the
exploitation of the resources and the people of one country for
the benefit of any group in another country is definitely over.
It is time that every citizen in every one of the American
republics recognizes that the good neighbor policy means that
harm to one republic means harm to every republic. We have all
of us recognized the principle of independence. It is time that
we recognize also the privilege of interdependence--one upon
another.
Mr. President, it is my hope that in the expansion of our
common effort in this war, and in the peace to follow, we will
again have occasion for friendly consultation in order further to
promote the closest understanding and continued unity of purpose
between our two peoples.
We have achieved close understanding and unity of purpose. I
am grateful to you, Mr. President, and to the Mexican people for
this opportunity to meet you on Mexican soil and -- to call you
friends.
You and I are breaking another precedent. Let these
meetings between President of Mexico and the United States recur
again and again and again.

SOUTHWEST ASIA

Will Lebanese Stability Hold?

Nov. 24 (EIRNS)--The last act of outgoing Lebanese President
Emile Lahoud was to turn security responsibility over to the
Lebanese army, but, contrary to what some press reports are
saying, he did not declare a formal state of emergency, while
warning that conditions for one exist. This appears to be a move
whereby the army, the key neutral power in the country, will
ensure security for the next week, while talks continue to select
a new President on the basis of consensus. From statements thus
far made in Beirut, Washington, and various European capitals,
this arrangement appears to be accepted by all sides, including
the U.S. State Department.
The Lebanese and British press are reporting that the
situation has a lot to do with the Nov. 26-27 Annapolis meeting,
and whether Syria decides to attend or not. The handling of the
Lebanon crisis, especially by the Bush Administration, will be a
key litmus test on whether Syria goes to Annapolis, and whether
there will be a shift in U.S. regional policy around the pivot of
a Syrian-Israeli peace initiative, as Lyndon LaRouche has urged.
See his statement of Sept. 26, "I'm Backing Peres Personally."
At midnight on Friday, Nov. 23, Lahoud formally transferred
security responsibilities to the Lebanese Armed Forces. The
formal statement read out by Lahoud spokesman Rafik Shalala, was
reported in the Daily Star: "There are conditions and risks on
the ground that could lead to a state of emergency," and
therefore, the President handed over to the army the
responsibility to maintaining order. The statement then said the
current government led by the March 14 coalition was illegitimate
and unable to assuming the Presidential powers in a "safe and
constitutional manner."
Lahoud himself is quoted on Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., as
saying, "The majority will be the losers in the end if they don't
agree to elect a new President, either by consensus or at least
with a two-thirds" majority in Parliament. "Lebanon is not
America or France," he said. "It is a consensus democracy. No
matter what Bush says, this government is unconstitutional and
illegitimate. And they know it." It is also reported that Lahoud
said that the Army should not recognize the government until a
legitimate one is elected.
Although the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has
repudiated Lahoud's statement, they have in fact accepted that
the Army will assure security. Sports and Youth Minister Ahmad
Fatfat said that there was "complete coordination" between the
government and the military, and the cabinet has "no doubts"
about the commitments of Lebanese Armed Forces commander Gen.
Michel Suleiman."
Although the government held a cabinet meeting over the
situation, the Defense Minister Elias Murr did not attend which
would indicate that he, along with the army will stay neutral.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack
declared in a statement that the Siniora government is assuming
power in Lebanon, "With the expiration of President Lahoud's term
at midnight tonight, the Lebanese cabinet will temporarily assume
executive powers and responsibilities until a new President is
elected by Lebanon's Parliament. This is the procedure
stipulated by the Lebanese constitution and will ensure that the
government is able to continue conducting its business without
interruption." But then adds, "The U.S. government commends
Lebanon's armed forces and security services for their stated
commitment to ensuring law and order during this interim period,
and we urge all Lebanese political groups to do their part to
maintain calm and promote security for Lebanon's citizens."
Meanwhile Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri, head of the
Shi'ite Amal, who postponed the next session where the
Presidential vote could be taken to Nov. 30, after the Annapolis
summit, has been meeting with both the opposition and government
MPs including Saad Hariri and Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. He
has also met with Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir, in a
bid to continue the process of choosing the next President.
Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun has put his
candidacy for President back on the table after his proposal for
compromise candidates for President and Prime Minister were
rejected by Saad Harriri who leads the ruling March 14th
coalition in Parliament.
These statements suggest that there is universal agreement
that the Lebanese Armed Forces will assume security control, so
the process of selecting a President will go forward. [dea]

LaRouche: "I'm Backing Peres Personally"

September 26, 2007 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche today strongly
reiterated and expanded on his personal support for Israeli
President Shimon Peres' recent call for Israeli-Syrian peace
negotiations. LaRouche said, "I think that the time has come for
Peres to do something like what he has proposed,-- negotiations
with Syria,-- and that Peres is ideal for this purpose. I fully
support Shimon Peres' proposal. I understand that there are a lot
of problems around it, but we've got to get something started
now. We have to start someplace. It's obvious that Syria will be
willing to cooperate, not as a patsy, but in the sense of getting
into discussion. So -- let's do it. The key thing here,-- forget
about making a package deal. You have a package in mind, we'll
get to that, but don't start with the package.
"The key to breaking this thing, otherwise you won't break
it,-- the key is the Israeli-Syria negotiations. No other
condition, that is, no parallel conditions involved in this. The
idea that you get this guy, this guy, this guy together. No! You
want to make this the personal pride of a faction in Israel and a
faction in Syria. Make it their personal baby, and they will make
it work. When you try to get too many people involved in it and
too many conditions,-- `this here deal,'-- no! No `this here
deal.' Just take Peres' thing in my name. I'm backing Peres
personally.
"After this deal is made, it opens up the door for other
things. Trying to get too many things in there, agreement of too
many parties on a big deal, is the mistake. What I did as a
proposal some years ago, was right. But, to get action now, you
have got to have something exceptional. And Syria and Israel are
an exceptional proposition. And Shimon Peres is exactly the guy
to do it, because he's been off and on on these kinds of things
over the years, and therefore he has some standing on this.
"It's necessary not to get everyone in on the act, because
you won't get an agreement. What you want to do is demonstrate
the the basis for agreement exists between Israel and Syria on
the idea of peace between them, which we would hope would be
spread throughout the region. To inspire others. Let's not waste
this opportunity by trying to make it too complicated.
"Peres is reliable for this. He's really the only figure in
Israel who has any credibility for this kind of operation. Others
may come in and become credible, but he's the one who has the
credibility now. I'm confident that he does have the credibility,
and that he has a better understanding than many other people do.
Give the guy a chance to win. Let him go ahead and get something.
We do not have to dictate what he has to accomplish. I understand
that he understands, that something has to be done in this
direction, to get off this damned stalemate. And it's in the
vital interests of both Syria and Israel."

Iran Ambassador Reminds IAEA That U.S./Europe Ignored Iran's
Voluntary Suspension of Enrichment

Nov. 24 (EIRNS)--Two top Iranian officials involved with the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in negotiations over
Iran's nuclear program, this week pointed to Iran's 2-1/2 year
pause in uranium enrichment, and put the onus of reaching an
agreement on the United States and Europe. On Nov. 23, Ali Asghar
Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, told reporters, ``We
could suspend nuclear enrichment. We did it before for 2-1/2
years. But it wasn't enough then and wouldn't be enough now....
We will not suspend enrichment again because there is no end to
what the United States will demand,'' reported the Detroit Free
Press.
The statement was made after a full day of meetings by the
IAEA governors' board on the report submitted by the head of the
IAEA, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei. Ambassador Soltanieh said that
there is a ``serious confidence gap,'' for Iran, because of the
insistence by the U.S. that Iran's program is to build a weapon,
even though the IAEA report clearly says that there is no
diversion of nuclear materials, no proliferation to other
parties, and no evidence of a weapons program in the entire
declared program that the IAEA inspectors have reviewed.
However, ElBaradei is asking Iran to go further--to return to the
entirely {voluntary} "Additional Protocol" that allows wider IAEA
inspections.
Reference to Iran's good-faith suspension of enrichment
activity was also made by the new Secretary of Iran's Supreme
National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, speaking on Nov. 24
before a conference in Tehran on banning nuclear weapons. After
calling for all signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT) to give up nuclear weapons, Jalili said, "Iran
complied with additional protocols for two years voluntarily for
trust-building measures and IAEA had more than 2,300 man-hours of
inspections of our nuclear facilities." In the most recent rounds
of IAEA inspections, Jalili said, "not even a single document"
was found that could prove that Iran's program is not for
peaceful purposes. (mjs)

U.S. Forces Create British-Style ``Counter-gang'' for Killing
Iraqi Insurgents

Nov. 24 (EIRNS)--According to Robert Fisk, the renowned reporter
on Southwest Asia, ``Darkness'' has fallen on the Middle East
again. Writing in the London Independent yesterday, from his home
in Beirut, Fisk says there is fear in Lebanon, following the
failed election. Lebanon reflects what is going on in Iraq
reports Fisk, who quotes a communication from someone who works
at Baghdad University, telling of a new ``hell.''
Fisk's correspondent says, "'A'adhamiya Knights' is a new
force that has started its task with the Americans to lead them
to al-Qa'ida and Tawheed and Jihad militants. This 300-fighter
force started their raids very early at dawn wearing their black
uniform and black masks to hide their faces. Their tours started
three days ago, arresting about 150 citizens from A'adhamiya [a
town near Baghdad]. The 'Knight' leads the Americans to a citizen
who might be one of his colleagues who used to fight the
Americans with him. These acts resulted in violent reactions of
al-Qa'ida. Its militants and the militants of Tawheed and Jihad
distributed banners on mosques' walls, especially on Imam Abu
Hanifa mosque, threatening the Islamic Party, al-Ishreen
revolution groups and Sunni endowment Diwan with death because
these three groups took part in establishing 'A'adhamiya
Knights.'"
These ``Knights'' are like the ``Mau Mau'' countergang
created by the British occupiers in Kenya. In the 1997 EIR
article, ``Britain's Invisible Empire Unleashes the `Dogs of
War'" the British strategy is described: ``using colonial `gang
versus countergang' tactics perfected during the post-World War
II recolonization period by such senior British irregular warfare
specialists as Brig. Gen. Frank Kitson. Kitson's
counterinsurgency textbook, {Gangs and Countergangs}, recounted
his successful efforts in the 1950s in Kenya to create a
synthetic, murderous `countergang,' the Mau Mau, which wiped out
the legitimate nationalists struggling for independence from
British colonial rule....'' (mjs)

Israeli Leader Says Ceasefire with Hamas Is Needed

Nov. 24, 2007 (EIRNS)--Yossi Beilin, the head of Israel's
Meretz-Yachad Party, said in a Washington Post OpEd on Nov. 23
that Israel must start serious negotiations with Hamas. In his
column called, "Needed: A Cease-Fire With Hamas, Now," Beilin
says, "Given that the current policy of containment has not
quelled the violence across its border, Israel should opt for
another way. The only option that I see serving the cause of
peace is to enter into a dialogue with Hamas through a third
party in order to reach a cease-fire. Such an agreement would
include the total cessation of mutual violence; arrangements at
the border to allow goods and services to pass in and out of the
Gaza Strip; the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for
the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier abducted in June
2006; and a commitment by Hamas to prevent all attempts to
undermine next week's meeting in Annapolis and the resulting
process."
In 2006, immediately after the Israeli attack on Lebanon,
which showed the ineffectiveness of Israel against asymmetrical
warfare, Beilin called for a "Madrid II" conference that would
open new avenues for a universal peace agreement. Beilin was
right, and Lyndon LaRouche gave the Beilin call his full support.
On the eve of the Annapolis meeting, which is a far cry from the
comprehensive peace conference that Beilin had hoped for, he
points out that Hamas is the neighbor of Israel--not Washington,
Brussels, or Cairo, therefore Israel should pursue its own
interest in a ceasefire with the Palestinians overall. (mjs)

After the Failed Lebanese Elections

Nov. 24--Several sources in Lebanon today reported that although
there could be no agreement between Parliamentary blocs on the
election, there is an agreement so far to keep the country quiet
until after everyone sees what happens in Annapolis, especially
regarding Syria. This is the reason why for the next date chosen
for the Parliament to meet to try to elect a President is Nov 30;
the Annapolis summit is Nov. 26-27.
Our contacts have been talking up Lyn's backing for the
Peres initiative especially noting that this subsumes any of the
impotent hot button issues which always cause discussions to
break down.
Eveybody has different possible scenarios for what will
happen after Nov 30. A Maronite leader summed it up this way,
after noting the personal weaknesses of various leaders,
especially Siniora, Hariri, and Aoun -- "Each of the so-called
leaders were as pictures on the deck of cards in the Great Game.
They think now, having failed, they can maintain 'organized
chaos.' But there is no such thing. There is only chaos. We look
to your organizing in America to change the rules of the game."
(nco)

**************************************************************
- MEXICO OPERATIONS REPORT -
- NOVEMBER 18, 2007 -
**************************************************************

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gave a surprising speech at the Third
National Democratic Convention in Mexico, held in Mexico City
November 17. The speech, given before several hundred thousand
supporters in the Zocalo Plaza, talked about the possibility of
using Mexico's oil as the centerpiece of a development strategy,
and spoke about rebuilding the whole petrochemical sector of the
country. He said to many "Vivas!": "We will make Mexico into an
energy power."
We arrived after the event had begun, and it was impossible
for us to aproach the platform, and so we made our presence known
with a giant banner of some six meters in length, which read,
"It's the Infrastructure, Stupid!" We positioned ourselves at a
strategic corner, where the symbolic legitimate government of
Mexico saw us as they were leaving. Using our megaphone, we sang
a new song, "The river has already overflowed," a double entredre
referring both to the tragegy of Tabasco, and to the situation in
general.
It was very timely to focus the problem of the world
financial disaster from the standpoint of what is going on in
Tabasco. First, because we addressed the question of global
warming as fraud, a fraud used by politicians like Calderon as
justification for not investing in infrastructure, and also for
leaving those who failed to invest in the past, blameless.
Second, because it allowed us to insist that the only thing that
will work is for the State recover its role as benefactor in
creating the means for development, and this led directly to the
urgent need for nationalist politicians like Lopez Portillo, and
to the LaRouche proposal for cooperations among nations.
We distributed six thousand LYM statements on Tabasco, and
some Prometeos on Lopez Portillo, which we have now run out of.
We got about 900 pesos in contributions. We made contacts, and it
was notable that we were identified as the LaRouche people, and
that many approached us to ask for a leaflet with more interest.
As for how we are known: When a tweener contact who deployed with
us was giving a briefing, someone in the crowd yelled out: "Start
Singing!"
The words of our new song, written by Laura for this
occasion, were as follows:

"The river has already overflowed, the entire city is flooded,
what more do you need to understand that without infrastructure,
we aren't going to make it... No, no, no, no, we're not going to
make it. Look at what Calderon says, that climate change has
arrived, a more idiotic thing has never been heard. Nobody even
remembers the infrastructure, nobody even remembers the
infrastructure."

[Original: "El rio ya se desbordo, la ciudad entera se inundo,
que mas necesitas para comprender sin infraestructura no la vamos
a hacer... No, no, no, no, no la vamos a hacer Ve lo que dice
Calderón, que el cambio climático ya llego, cosa mas idiota jamás
se escucho, de la infraestructura ni quien se acordó... de la
infraestructura ni quien se acordó...]

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