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Date Posted: 11:09:54 11/09/07 Fri
Author: part 2
Subject: Re: November 9, 2007
In reply to: part 1 's message, "November 9, 2007" on 11:08:42 11/09/07 Fri

SENATE OVERRIDES BUSH'S VETO OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--President Bush suffered the first veto
override of his seven-year presidency today, as the Senate voted
79 to 14 to override his veto of the Water Resources Development
Act (WDRA). This follows an override vote in the House of
Representatives a few days ago.
The $23 billion WDRA authorizes hundreds of Army Corps of
Engineers projects, such as refurbishing the aged dams and locks
on the Upper Mississippi system, and providing flood protection
projects along the Gulf Coast. The Water Resources Development
Act is the first water system restoration and flood-control
authorization passed by the Congress since the year 2000.
However, it fails to address the magnitude of the country's water
infrastructure crisis and the need for the emergency economic
measures detailed by LaRouche. (gbm)

NEW HOUSE BILL AGAINST BLACKWATER FILED: "S.O.S.--STOP
OUT-SOURCING SECURITY ACT."

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--Yesterday, U.S. Representatives Jan
Schakowski (D-IL), Bob Filner (D-CA), Tom Allen (D-ME), Keith
Ellison (D-MN), and Steve Cohen (D-TN) introduced the "Stop
Out-sourcing Security (S.O.S.) Act." The bill would phase out the
use of private military contractors wherever Congress has
authorized the use of force, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Our bill would essentially put private security contractors
out of business in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in war zones around the
world," said Rep. Schakowsky.
The S.O.S. Act calls for a phase-out of diplomatic security
within six months of enactment of the bill and a full phase-out
of all private security contractors by Jan. 1, 2009 everywhere
Congress has authorized the use of force.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has introduced a companion
bill in the Senate. "To my mind," Sanders said, "it is wrong and
unacceptable for companies like Blackwater to operate outside the
chain of command of the United States military and United States
government in Iraq." (gbm)

CONGRESS TOLD: US DIPLOMACY HAS IGNORED MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO
TALK TO IRAN

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--While the Bush Administration has been
ratcheting up the rhetoric against Iran, and maybe even preparing
for war, the Iranians have offered numerous opportunities for
engagement that the Bush Administration has either ignored or
outright rejected. That was the gist of the testimony offered to
the House National Security Subcommittee, yesterday, during a
hearing on "Negotiating with the Iranians: Missed Opportunities
and Paths Forward."
Amb. James Dobbins, who had been the Bush Administration's
first special envoy for Afghanistan after the Taliban were
overthrown, told the panel of an Iranian offer, made through him
in February of 2002, to openly participate in a US-led effort to
build and train a new Afghan army. Dobbins said that while the
Iranian offer was problematic in details, "a joint program of
this sort would be a breath-taking departure after more than 20
years of mutual hostilities." He reported the offer back to
Washington but, "There was no apparent interest in discussing
[it]."
Dobbins was followed by Hillary Mann Leverett and her
husband, Flynt Leverett, both of whom were National Security
Council staffers in the early part of the Bush Administration and
deeply involved in diplomacy concerning Iran. Together, they
described numerous discussions that occurred on tactical issues
between the U.S. and Iran, from the time of the 9/11 attacks
through mid-2003. This included a 17-month-long back-channel
dialogue with Iranian officials at the UN that continued despite
President Bush's infamous "axis of evil" speech.
Mann reported that Iran provided considerable assistance to
the establishment of the Karzai government in Kabul, and deported
hundreds of Al Qaeda suspects fleeing Afghanistan. When the
dialogue came to an impasse in the spring of 2003, in part
because the US would not address their concerns about the MeK
terrorist group, the Iranians made an offer to negotiate a
comprehensive resolution of all the issues between the two
countries, including Iran's support for Hamas and Hezbollah, its
nuclear program and its role in Iraq.
The Bush Administration responded by rejecting the proposal
outright and cutting off the dialogue less than two weeks later.
"I believe this record indicates the Bush Administration
cavalierly rejected multiple and significant opportunities to put
its Iranian relations on a fundamentally more positive and
constructive trajectory," which "continues to impose heavy costs
on American interests and policy efforts in the Middle East,"
Mrs. Leverett said. [cjo]

SENATOR MCCASKILL'S OPEN LETTER: NO ATTACKS ON IRAN; NO NEW
"MILITARY QUAGMIRES" FROM BUSH AND CHENEY

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) today sent out
an open letter to supporters, saying, "I have been concerned with
the Bush Administration's provocative rhetoric on Iran, and I am
using my seat in the United States Senate to remind the President
that military action requires the express consent of Congress. I
have resisted efforts to provide what I would call `backdoor'
approval for military action in that country." McCaskill
continues, "Last month, the Senate considered an amendment that
would categorize Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard as a 'foreign
terrorist organization.' To me, adoption of this amendment could
essentially provide approval of military action against Iran,
especially by this Administration."
Senator McCaskill writes, "I voted against the amendment,
and this month joined Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and other Senate
Democrats in a letter to President Bush stating, `we wish to
emphasize that no congressional authority exists for unilaterial
military action against Iran.'"
Sen. McCaskill ends her letter with this statement: "If Iraq
has taught us anything, it is that we must be aggressive and
vigilant in stopping President Bush and Vice President Cheney
from dragging us into new military quagmires." (gbm)

GIULIANI'S ECONOMIST BOSKIN DIRECTS TEEN ZOMBIE "INVESTORS"

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--The economic advisers to the Presidential
candidates will debate Nov. 9 at the National Press Club. Rudy
Giuliani will be represented by Michael Boskin, a fanatical
virtual-economy globalist, senior fellow at George Shultz's
Hoover Institution and Stanford University economics professor.
Boskin is chief economic adviser to "Gaia," a virtual
investment world wherein teenagers learn to be zombie
speculators, while immersed in Anime and video games.
Gaia Interactive announced Sept. 17 that Boskin would chair
the Council of Economic Advisors for Gaia Online, a "virtual
world" with 2.5 million monthly participants engaging in more
than 100,000 daily transactions. Gaia said Boskin's new Council
would provide "ongoing analysis and guidance" of the virtual
economy.
Boskin himself commented that an economy is an economy,
regardless of whether the participants are teens in a virtual
world, or captains of industry in the physical world (paraphrased
by CNET News.com). [ahc]

`BIG BROTHERS' MURDOCH AND GATES TO RELEASE PROFILES OF MILLIONS

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--"Big Brothers" Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch
are distributing the individual profiles of millions of members
of the websites they control, Facebook and MySpace. Yesterday,
Mark Zuckerburg, the 23-year-old CEO of Facebook, announced at a
New York press conference that he is launching "targetted
advertising initiatives with Blockbuster, CBS, Sony Pictures,
Coca-Cola, Fandango, eBay, Verizon, and others." Those users will
now "share information."
This how it works: For example, let's say you rent the video
game "Halo 3" at Blockbuster. Blockbuster will immediately send
out a message to your entire Facebook "family" reporting that you
just rented "Halo 3" -- now they can a rent a copy too.
Zuckerberg also announced that Facebook has reached 50 million
users. Last week Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook,
valuing the company at $15 billion.
On Monday, Facebook's so-called rival, the Murdoch-owned
MyPage, announced a new service of its own called (sic)
"SelfServe" which, according to the {Hollywood Reporter}, "is
designed for small business, [rock] bands and politicians to
purchase ads for MySpace users, based on demographics and
interests." Other services will allow marketers to buy ads
"targeted to specific interest-based segments" of MySpace users.
[ddp]

NUMBER OF HOMELESS VETERANS OF WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ
EXPECTED TO SURGE

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--A dramatic rise is expected in the number of
recent U.S. veterans who will become homeless after discharge
from service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and who are unable to deal
with their psychological, as well as physical problems from the
experience. The Veterans Affairs Department and aid groups are
expecting the numbers of these homeless to grow in the immediate
period ahead. This comes on top of the VA already being unable to
cope with homeless vets dating back to Vietnam service.
Today's {New York Times} reported that "Experts who work
with veterans say it often takes several years after leaving
military service for veterans' accumulating problems to push them
into the streets. But some aid workers say the Iraq and
Afghanistan veterans appear to be turning up sooner than the
Vietnam veterans did." The {Times} quoted the head of a San Diego
residence and counselling center that, "We're beginning to see,
across the country, the first trickle of this generation of
warriors in homeless shelters, but we anticipate that it's going
to be a tsunami." Among the causes of this veterans homelessness,
are high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain
injury leading to unstable behavior and substance abuse, and long
and repeated tours of duty preventing re-integration into work
and family. (grc)

IBERO-AMERICA

LYM INTERJECTS REASON INTO FLOOD CATASTROPHE IN MEXICO

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--When Mexican President Felipe Calderon tried
to dismiss the Katrina-like, catastrophic floods in the southern
states of Tabasco, Chiapas, and Oaxaca as all a result of global
warming, the LaRouche Youth Movement in Mexico went into action,
producing and circulating a leaflet titled "On the Tragedy in
Tabasco: The Solution to Economic Collapse Is Infrastructure."
By claming global warming is "the origin and cause of this
catastrophe ... President Calderon is trying to hide the true
face that is behind the Tabasco catastrophe: the collapse of
infrastructure and physical economy of the country," under two
and a half decades of free trade, the LYM wrote. "It is well
known that the international financial oligarchy is using media
propaganda to stop the development of nations; its free trade
policies have found their best ally in the so-called green policy
of worship of the Mother Earth Gaia.
"What is needed is the re-establishment of the nation's
productive powers and the building of a body of infrastructure
that can integrate our country once again." Such projects must
"be carried out by the State, since no private initative is
capable, nor will be, of resolving problems of this magnitude.
"Jose Lopez Portillo was the last President [1976-1982] to
have this idea, and he did everything in his power to make us an
industrialized country, establishing the foundations for a Mexico
headed toward becoming a self-sufficient industrial power."
The LYM points out that the Grijalva-Usumacinta river
system, whose overflowing from the heavy rains turned the
flooding from bad to catastrophic, is among the seven most
important systems in the world, in terms of volume of water. The
long-planned regional water management project called the
Hydraulic Plan of the Northern Gulf (PLHIGON), could harness the
110.9 million cubic meters currenly simply dumped into the sea
from the system, representing 30% of the surface drainage of
Mexico, so as to double Mexico's agricultural and hydroelectric
potential.
"No aid fund is going to help.... There can be no pretext
for stopping the development of the nation, and we must not
accept no for an answer," the LYM concluded. "We must therefore
change our way of thinking with regard to the economy, and we
must fight for a new international economic order that will
permit the flow of credit necessary to build the many projects
like the PLHINO and PLHIGON, which have become part of the World
Landbridge, proposals that the LaRouche movement is carrying to
every part of the world. Join this effort and get in touch with
us. Lyndon H. LaRouche is right, and it is time to listen to
him." [ggs]

NORTH WEST MEXICAN STATES VOTE FOR REGIONAL HYDRAULIC PROJECT

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--The state congress of Sonora, Mexico, this
week unanimously passed a resolution urging the federal Congress
to fund construction of the North West Hydraulic Plan (PLHINO),
the great three-state water management project planned since the
1970s which can restore this region to its historic role as the
granary for the country as a whole.
The president of the coalition of community and producer
groups making up the 21st Century Pro-PLHINO Committee, LaRouche
associate Alberto Vizcarra Ozuna, testified before a
congressional hearing in Sonora on Nov. 1, that the PLHINO is
urgently needed, to counter Mexico's national food crisis, by
opening up 600,000 hectares for farming in Sinoloa and Sonora.
Vizcarra and other members of the Pro-PLHINO Committee also
testified before the water and agricultural committees of the
federal Congress in October, on the urgency of the approving the
funding for a feasibility study to update the PLHINO in next
year's budget. A decision on the budget is coming up fast, and
senators, deputies and producers from the three PLHINO states --
Sonora, Nayarit and Sinoloa -- are fighting to get it approved.
The Nayarit state Congress already passed a similar
resolution to that just approved by Sonora, and when it passed
its resolution, the Sonoran Congress also mandated its Water
Committee to organize the congress of Sinoloa to do the same.
National and state figures are expected to attend a
conference in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora on Nov. 9, on the project.
The conference, titled "Regional Forum: Let Us Build the Bridge
to the Future, the PLHINO of the Twenty-first Century: Water,
Energy and Food for Mexico," will hear from two speakers from the
LaRouche movement, and a Mexican engineer who has studied these
projects for decades. [ggs]

CHENEYACS DRAGGING ARGENTINA INTO WAR PLAN AGAINST IRAN

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--Dick Cheney's plan to drag Argentina into
his war plan against Iran moved forward on Nov. 7 when Interpol's
General Assembly, meeting in Morocco, voted 78 to 14 to grant
"red" status to arrest warrants issued by an Argentine judge in
December of 2006, related to the 1994 bombing of the Jewish
Social Welfare Center (AMIA) in Buenos Aires. There were 26
abstentions.
The warrants are for five Iranians and one Lebanese citizen,
accused of masterminding the bombing, and allegedly deploying
Hezbollah to do it, coordinating from the tri-border region of
Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. But experts who've investigated
this case for years say it is so rife with contradictory
information, that it would be better characterized as "false
flag" terrorism. Some have suggested that Israel's own
intelligence service, the Mossad, was involved.
Iran charged that both the Israeli and U.S. governments had
exerted fierce pressure on Argentina, a statement echoed by U.S.
intelligence and diplomatic sources who told the Washington D.C.
correspondent of the daily {Clarin} that the vote would have gone
quite differently had it not been for the enormous lobbying job
done by the Bush Administration among Interpol's member nations.
Among the abstaining countries was Brazil, whose delegate
said it chose this option in order to keep the issue of the
Tri-border region "off the table." Cheneyac mouthpieces have long
claimed that this region is a breeding-ground for Hezbollah
terrorism and "islamo-fascism," despite the fact that no evidence
has ever been found to support that allegation. Brazil has
responded particularly angrily to such assertions. [crr]

EUROPE/RUSSIA

SUICIDE BOMBERS COME TO THE WEST

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--"I Am Prepared to Fight and Die for My
Cause." Sound like a terrorist suicide bomber from somewhere far
away, like Southwest Asia? Guess again. This is the statement of
the latest teen suicide bomber, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, an
18-year-old Finnish student who, Nov. 7, entered Jokela High
School, shouting, "Revolution! Smash Everything!" and killed
seven students and a principal of the school, before shooting
himself. As Lyndon LaRouche has made the point again and again,
the United States and Western Europe are recruiting {millions} of
potential teenage suicide bombers through the {computer game
industry}, such as Microsoft Games.
Auvinen follows precisely the modus operandi of {all}
previous school suicide bombers, such as Cho Seung-Hui of
Virginia Tech this year, and Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold of
Columbine High School in 1999. The following is some of the
teenager's own "You Tube" profile, posted shortly before his
killing spree:
Hobbies--BDSM, Existentialism, Shooting, Guns, Computer
Games
Favorite Books--{1984} by George Orwell, {Brave New World}
by Alduous Huxley, and all of Nietzsche
Music: Nine Inch Nails (a favorite of previous teen suicide
bombers), Impaled Nazarene, Hatebreed, Godsmack, Alice Cooper
Movies: Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, Dr. Butcher
MD, Lord of War, Saw, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter
Also featured on his You Tube page were videos of himself
playing killer video games! One of these features him as a
British SAS Special Forces Agent in EA Games' "Battlefield 2:
Special Forces," although the boy writes, "Don't blame the movies
I see, the music I hear, the games I play or the books I read."
He says, on why he will commit the massacre, that "the truth is
that I am just an animal."
Are these the "natural" thoughts and interests of an
18-year-old boy? Of course not. But millions of youth today are
being programmed to have these thoughts, by, as the killer's own
"profile" documents and as LaRouchePAC has exposed, a British
imperial psychological warfare operation, to create suicide
bombers and stone-cold killers through the "entertainment" and
computer game industry.
In addition, there was ample warning of this student's
problems, sufficient for authorities to have acted and prevented
this massacre from occurring, similar to the case in previous
"school massacres." Why was nothing done? To answer this
question, you, the reader, might ask yourself, "Am {I} so
committed to being 'entertained', that I have become too stupid,
cowardly, and delusional to join LaRouche in putting an end to
this insanity? (new)

RUSSIA AND CHINA SIGN 15 ECONOMIC DEALS AT MOSCOW FORUM

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--No fewer than 15 agreements on various
aspects of economic and technological cooperation were signed
yesterday, at a Russian-Chinese economic forum in Moscow.
Documents signed include one on the construction of a railroad
between the two countries, another on the creation of a joint
venture to produce high-voltage equipment in China, yet another
on construction of a cement plant in Russia, and agreements on
cooperation in the automotive sphere. The documents were signed
by Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov and China's
Vice Premier of the State Council Wu Yi.
Zhukov called on Russian businesses to step up their
activity on the Chinese market, saying that a number of major
contracts amounting to nearly $3 billion were expected to be
signed during the forum. He pointed out that the agreements
reflected Chinese companies' activity in entering the Russian
market more than vice versa, and that the annaul 40% increase in
trade in recent years, was accounted for primarily by growing
imports from China. Given this, the Deputy PM stressed the need
for Russian companies to adequately boost their presence on the
Chinese market.
Furthermore, it was announced in Moscow yesterday, that
Chinese banks are going to increase credit lines to Russia,
beyond the level of $2 billion that has been reached already.
Viktor Melnikov, Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia, said this
during the opening ceremony of the Industrial and Commercial Bank
of China in Moscow--a subsidiary of China's ICBC. Melnikov
expressed assuredness that the new bank would be successful in
Russia. (rbc, rap)

CHINA AND RUSSIA SIGN 11-YEAR DEAL ON URANIUM PRODUCTS

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC) -- Russia's federal agency for nuclear power
announced yesterday that it would supply uranium products to
China for 11 years starting from 2010, based on a framework
agreement signed the day before by the Russian state-controlled
nuclear fuel and equipment exporting firm, Techsnabexport, and
China's Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation. In particular, the
agreement provides technical assistance by Russia for the fourth
stage of a gas centrifuge plant to enrich uranium for Chinese
nuclear reactors. (RIA, rap)

GEORGIA IN TURMOIL

Nov. 8, 2007 (EIRNS)--The regime of Michael Saakashvili in the
Republic of Georgia, which came to power in the so-called Rose
Revolution of 2003, has been shaken by a week of street protests.
On Nov. 2, between 20,000 and 40,000 people turned out against
Saakashvili. Yesterday, he sent Army troops into the streets of
Tbilisi, first to defend the Parliament and government buildings,
but then the troops deployed tear-gas and beat up demonstrators.
Today, Saakashvili agreed to opposition demands to move up the
next Presidential election to January 2008.
The demonstrations were led by the National Council, a
coalition of ten diverse parties, formed in early October. The
pretext for their coalescence was the arrest of former Defense
Minister Irakli Okruashvili, just two days after he accused
Saakashvili of corruption and betrayal of the national interest.
Okruashvili had been fired by Saakashvili at the end of last
year. The Saakashvili-Okruashvili conflict is byzantine,
involving the latter's association with Russian ex-tycoon Boris
Berezovsky's partner Badru Patarkatsishvili, but it has allowed
the underlying popular disgust with Saakashvili to come to the
fore. Supposedly the proponent of democracy, Columbia University
law graduate Saakashvili has done nothing to improve the economic
conditions in Georgia. He has prioritized joining NATO, while
possible Russian support of the breakaway Georgian regions of
Abkhazina and South Ossetia remains a regional crisis detonator.
Like other CIS countries, Georgia is experiencing soaring
inflation of food and energy prices. Small businesses complain of
oppression in Saakashvili's Georgia, while his tough-guy
anti-crime laws have jailed petty offenders for long prison
terms.
Saakashvili, attempting to shift the blame for the crisis to
Russia, has accused Moscow of abetting the opposition, and an
exchange of diplomatic expulsions is now under way. These events
are significant not only for the citizens of Georgia, but for the
region -- Georgia being part of the Transcaucasus zone in the
northeast corner of Southwest Asia. [RBD]

LAROUCHE ON 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

Nov. 8, 2007 (EIRNS)--The Russian monthly {Smysl} ("Sense"), a
publication of RosBalt news service, features Lyndon LaRouche in
its November 2007 four-page spread on the 90th anniversary of the
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which was Nov. 7, 2007. The article
on the Great October Socialist Revolution, as it became known
under the old, Julian calendar dating, was contributed by
Alexander Yeliseyev, a historian and journalist. He explored the
roots of the October 1917 events in Russian history. In his March
2007 article "British World Rule," published in the RPMonitor.ru
online journal, Yeliseyev had noted the importance of LaRouche's
analysis of the way in which "the British elites prioritize their
ability to influence Washington's policy, and not in the best
direction." In that earlier article, he cited LaRouche's "special
attention to the British-American-Commonwealth (BAC) grouping,
which forces British postures on the USA."
Yeliseyev's November 2007 article in {Smysl} is titled
"Rebellion Against Rebellion." He writes, "The October Revolution
of 1917, the culmination point of all Russian rebellions, had a
long pre-history and substantial global consequences. The Russian
people has never lost its `rebellious spirit.' No other country
ever replicated the feat of 1917, to the extent that it emerged
in early 20th-century Russia."
Punctuating Yeliseyev's article are short commentaries from
three experts in the West: Stalin biographer Robert Tucker;
faddish revisionist historian Niall Ferguson; and, Lyndon
LaRouche. The commentaries were limited to 200 words or less.
LaRouche's observations, which were slightly truncated for
reasons of length, read as follows in the original (square
brackets indicate parts that were cut):
"I know the Russian Revolution of 1917 as what must be
viewed as a crucial moment from a great, still continuing,
global, Classical tragedy, [like a crucial event from within the
real-life course of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy.] In
that time, it was a crucial event within the intent which had
been expressed by the British Prince of Wales Edward Albert's
monstrous, geopolitical scheme for putting his two royal nephews,
Germany's Wilhelm II and Russia's Nicholas II, at one another's
throat. That same wicked intent was, and remains today,
maintaining the British financiers' Empire's continuing campaign
for global supremacy through long periods of war, as continuing
still today.
"The events of 1917 Russia began with London's launching
Japan into its long, implicitly global, 1895-1945 war against
China, a tragedy which has been renewed for even our present
times by what I personally know to have been the after-effects of
an absolutely unjustifiable nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, a bombing arranged by what President Franklin Roosevelt
had sometimes referenced as his troublesome temporary ally
against Hitler, by the Anglo-American `Churchill gang.'
"That story of 1917 has not yet ended; we who understand
those events in the light of the situation of the world still
today, are obliged to strive for the long-awaited close of that
continuing tragedy, as we must strive now for the equivalent of a
Peace of Westphalia in our time.
"We must therefore understand the revolutionaries of 1917 as
they did not then fully understand themselves. They were heroes
in an awesome tragedy, who fought because they sensed that they
must fight, without knowing fully how and why that awful,
continuing struggle had come about, or what its outcome would
actually be. [We must see that history in light of, especially,
the awful struggle which Russia knew as its Great Patriotic War.
We must act to ensure today that the fallen in those events did
not suffer and die in vain.
"Real history, as I now know it and have lived, hated,
relived, and loved it, is like that.]"
The omissions will be restored in the Russian version posted
on the LaRouche movement's Russian website. [RBD]

SOUTHWEST ASIA

Syrian Ambassador to U.S.: Annapolis Summit a `Waste'

Nov. 6 (LPAC)--Commenting on Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice's Middle East Peace meeting, Syrian Ambassador to the United
States Imad Moustapha said, "We don't seriously believe that this
is a peace conference that will lead to anywhere."
"Forgive us if we deduce that this is only about a photo
opportunity and about people in Washington, D.C., telling their
electorate, `Look, don't accuse us of only starting wars; we're
working for peace in the Middle East,'|" the ambassador said at a
public forum in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Moustapha said the failure to talk about the Golan Heights
at such a meeting was "preposterous, but this is exactly what the
U.S. administration has said.... And we are supposed to just come
attend, be bemused, enjoy our time and leave?" "Personally," he
continued, "if my government will ask my opinion, I will say it
will be a waste of money, buying those expensive airline tickets
and reservations in hotels, just to come attend this event in
Maryland and then go back to Syria."
Moustapha also rejected as "absolutely, absolutely untrue"
allegations that a military installation struck by Israeli
warplanes in September housed a nuclear site. Syria has never
sought nuclear technology, nor does it intend to do so "in the
foreseeable future," he said. [dea]

EAST ASIA

KOREA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RUNS ON NEW SILK ROAD PLATFORM

Nov. 8, 2007 (LPAC)--Korean presidental candidate, Chung
Dong-young of the United New Democratic Party, the government
party, pledged Thursday to construct 1,175 kms of railway lines.
The election is Dec. 19.
Chung, a former unification minister, vowed to make the
southeastern port city of Busan [Pusan] a terminal to link Korea
to Europe by railway.
The project is to build five major railway networks across
the nation for regional unity. The first railway is to extend
existing north-south railroads to North Korea and the Eurasian
Continent, which will reduce logistics costs, Chung said.
A total of 38.7 trillion won (about $42.6 billion) is needed
to build the 1,175 kms of railway lines over 10 years, he said.
His grand plan is apparently aimed at competing with the
canal project proposed by leading candidate Lee Myung-bak of the
Grand National Party (GNP).
"Railways have an advantage over waterways in terms of
economic efficiency, promptness and eco-friendliness," Chung told
reporters in Busan. "We can expect the country to strengthen its
competitiveness as railways would cut logistics costs and boost
economic cooperation between South and North Korea."
Until Wednesday the Korean Presidental contest was basically
bewteen Lee Myung-bak and Chung Dong-young, both pro-development
and in favor of a moderate or friendly posture towards N. Korea.
Then Lee Hui-chang, a neo-con, North Korea basher showed up.
This Lee, a former chairman of the GNP and its twice-failed
failed Presidential candidate, declared he would leave the party
to run in the Dec. 19 presidential election as an independent.
While Lee Hui-chang is not a strong candidate, he does have a
following in the fearful right-wing that is scared of North Korea
and of progress.
Chung Dong-young, by playing the Iron Silk Road development
card, may have trumped this neo-con move. (ron)

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