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Date Posted: 14:34:03 11/04/07 Sun
Author: part 2
Subject: Re: November 4, 2007
In reply to: part 1 's message, "November 4, 2007" on 14:31:17 11/04/07 Sun


- NEWS SUMMARIES -
- LAROUCHE -

LYNDON LAROUCHE'S EIR FEATURE `The Mask of Nancy Pelosi: THE
FORCE OF TRAGEDY' appears at the end of the intelligence slugs.

The Nov. 3rd LaRouche Show Obliterated Virtual Reality and
Sir Rupert Murdoch. (See North American Operations Bulletin)

- ECONOMICS -

The board of "CitiCorpse" is having an emergency meeting on
Sunday to discuss the firing of chief executive Charles Prince,
among other of the bank's problems. (see slug)

Bush vetoes $23 billion water infrastructure bill, angering
Democrats and Republicans alike. The veto almost certain to be
overriden. (see slug)

Ford and the UAW reached a tentative pact on a new four year
contract on Nov. 3, thereby avoiding a strike threat. Details of
the agreement were not revealed but it is thought to be similar
to the UAW agreements with GM and Chrysler.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded the three top U.S.
homebuilders to junk status, according to the New York Times.
They are Lennar, Pulte Homes, and D.R. Horton.

Will Hyperinflation Make Pasta a Luxury Item in France? (see
slug)

New Biofools Lobby Forms To Prop Up the Collapsing Ethanol
Bubble. (see slug)

Heating Oil Hyperinflation Disaster About To Hit New
England. (see slug)

- UNITED STATES -

Cheney again threatened war with Iran in a speech to the
Dallas World Affairs Council Nov. 2, saying "The President has
made it clear that we have taken no options off the table. It's
the only responsible position for him to take. Nobody wants to
resolve this in any means other than peacefully if it's at all
possible -- and that's what we're trying to do. But in the final
analysis, the worst outcome would be a situation in which Iran is
sort of set loose, if you will, in that part of the world with an
inventory of nuclear weapons, prepared to be used against other
nations in the region, or to dominate that part of the globe, and
to threaten not only the United States but many of our friends
and allies out there, as well."

Illinois Senators Durbin and Obama have both introduced
resolutions against any potental war on Iran. (see slug)

Blackwater Enters the Private Spy Business. (see slug)

The judge in the AIPAC spy trial has ruled that subpoenas
could be issued to Condi Rice, Stephen Hadley, Paul Wolfowitz,
Doug Feith, Richard Armitage and others to testify on behalf of
the defendants, to "prove" that high-ranking officials leak
classified information to lobbyists all the time. In the judgment
of this news service, the judge did this in order to get the case
thrown out.

- IBERO AMERICA -

Floods Devastate Mexico's Gulf State of Tabasco. (see slug)

Argentine legislation would declare uranium and thorium as
"strategic resources" solely for the use of the country's nuclear
industry. (see slug)

Chilean Senator Says "We Have A Moral Duty To Consider
Nuclear Power." (see slug)

- SOUTHWEST ASIA -

Iran Puts Forth Plan To Help Stabilize Iraq. (see slug)

U.S. Blames China for Blocking New Sanctions on Iran. (see
slug)

- SOUTH ASIA -

Musharraf Declares State of Emergency in Pakistan. (see
slug)

ECONOMICS

"Citicorpse" Board in Emergency Meeting

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)--The Board of Directors of Citigroup, the
biggest U.S. bank, will hold an emergency meeting at its
headquarters in New York tomorrow, Sunday. One agenda item will
be to accept the resignation of CEO Charles Prince. Other likely
business reported by the Wall Street Journal and other sources
includes:
--Writing off more billions of worthless securities, on top
of the $3.3 billion in writeoffs Citi has just announced.
Deutsche Bank analyst Mike Mayo has said that the big banks will
have to write off another $10 billion immediately, most of it
held by Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.
--The SEC is said to be investigating Citigroup's reporting
of its $80 billion of Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs).
Meanwhile, Citigroup is expected to file another SEC quarterly
report next week.
--Citigroup is in danger of falling below the minimum
capital adequacy allowed for a Federally chartered bank, if it
has not already done so.

France: Hyperinflation Takes Pasta Off Store Shelves

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)-- "Pasta Shortages on the Shelves" is the
headline of a Figaro article on Oct. 31. Days after Jacques
Cheminade's warnings that inventories would run out due to
massive speculation, the paper reports that in certain regions of
France, several large supermarkets--Leclerc, Intermarche and
Casino--no longer offer ordinary pasta to their customers.
"Will pasta become a luxury item?" asks Le Figaro "This food
product, consumed on average of three times a week by the French,
is suffering from the shortage of hard wheat, the essential raw
material that goes into its production."
Inverting cause and effect, the author says, "As a result:
In four months, the price of wheat has nearly tripled, going from
170 euros to close to 500 euros a ton. Enough to provoke a
mini-earthquake in this sector." The paper blames bad harvests in
the wheat-growing countries, and says, "the situation is not
going to get better before the next planned harvest in June."
Examining the commercial shock among distributors, Figaro
notes that Italian pasta makers such as Panzani and Barilla
succeeded in negotiating respectively 21% and 20% price hikes
with distributors, but their losses remain substantial. To such
extent that the Barilla family, according to a source close to
the family, fired its director general, Gian Luca Bolla for
"mismanagement of the problematic primary material." (kav)

Winter Heating Oil Disaster Looms

November 3, 2007 (LPAC)--Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) sees a
disastrous scenario developing in the Northeast this Winter.
Heading into the cold season, heating oil supplies are
dangerously low--down 25% over stocks last Fall, while prices
have risen by 24%, to record levels. Retail prices in
Massachusetts for heating oil are now above $2.90, twice what
they were in 2000, according to Boston.com.
In an attempt to bring down prices and free up supplies,
Markey has called on the Bush Administration to release oil from
two oil reserves,-- the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, and
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR),-- "to address the looming
home heating oil crisis facing American consumers."
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has instead chosen to call on
the OPEC nations to increase production, ignoring the
speculation-driven nature of the price hikes. DOE spokeswoman
Megan Barnett countered demands to dip into the SPR, by calling
on Congress and the Administration to "increase renewable and
alternative fuels and vehicle efficiency standards through the
President's Twenty in Ten Initiative." She sees the
price-gouging as a tool with which to club Americans into
embracing biofuels madness. (clc)

New Biofools Lobby

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)--A new lobbying front for the National Corn
Growers Association and the ethanol industry, called Renewable
Fuels Now (RFN), is setting up a counter-campaign to halt the
erosion of support for ethanol as fuel.
When Jean Ziegler, independent expert on the right to food
for the UN, called the use of food for fuel a "crime against
humanity" on Oct. 26, Renewable Fuels Now struck back with press
releases claiming: "Three Out of Four Americans Want Increased
Renewable Fuel Use," and "New Poll: Americans Blame Higher Oil
Prices for Increased Prices in the Grocery Aisle." The National
Corn Growers Association even demanded Ziegler's resignation,
according to the Nov. 3 Wall Street Journal.
Now RFN is planning to saturate the Washington, D.C. Beltway
with an ad, targetting Congress as it gets set to debate raising
the Renewable Fuels Standard for the coming years. The headline
for the new ad is: "How Much Longer Can We Be Held Hostage to
Foreign Oil?" (clc)

Bush Says "F--- You" to the Nation with Veto of Water Bill

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)--Yesterday, President Bush officially vetoed
the Water Resources Development Act, a bill that would authorize
$23 billion for all kinds of water infrastructure projects, and
is the first bill of its kind since 2000. In his veto message,
Bush complained that the bill "lacks fiscal discipline" and that
American taxpayers "should not be asked to support a pork-barrel
system of Federal authorization and funding where a project's
merit is an afterthought."
Bush's veto, in the face of the bill passing both the House
and the Senate with solid veto-proof majorities, not to mention
the huge unmet needs in maintenance of water infrastructure,
angered members of the Congress on both sides of the aisle. Sen.
David Vitter (R-La.) said the veto "sends the wrong message"
about shoring up vital infrastructure. Rep. Charles Boustany
(R-La.) told the Washington Post, in an interview, "I question
why the President would want to invite an override on this,
because that's what's going to happen." House Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has already set an override vote for this
coming week.
W.F. Marcuson, the president of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, in a press release, called on the Congress to
quickly override the veto to secure the economic and
environmental health of the nation. "The American public has
been waiting for six years for the protection this legislation
will provide. They should not have to wait any longer," he said.
[cjo]

UNITED STATES

Sensing Attack is Coming, Durbin and Obama Introduce Anti-Iran
War Resolutions

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)--In the past ten days, two Democratic members
of the Senate have introduced resolutions against Cheney's drive
for war on Iran. On Oct. 25, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)
introduced a Senate resolution that simply declares, "Any
offensive military action taken by the United States against Iran
must be explicitly approved by Congress before such action may be
initiated." In a statement on the resolution's introduction,
Durbin stated that "To do otherwise, is not only reckless but
clearly un-Constitutional." Durbin's resolution, so far, has nine
co-sponsors, Akaka (HI), Byrd (WV), Dodd (CN), Sanders (VT),
Whitehouse (RI), Bingaman (NM), Clinton (NY), Murray (WA) and
Stabenow (MI).
Durbin's junior colleague from Illinois, Sen. Barak Obama,
followed with an even stronger joint resolution on Nov. 2.
Obama's resolution is designed to outflank any argument by the
White House that existing legislation, such as the 2002 Iraq war
authorization, or the more recent Kyl-Lieberman amendment that
declared that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is a supporter of
terrorism, could be used to justify military action against Iran.
It states that neither those two statutes, nor related executive
orders that it specifies "shall be construed to authorize,
encourage, or in any way address the use of Armed Forces of the
United States against Iran." [cjo]

No New Iran Sanctions: Washington Blames China

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)--Yesterday, a London meeting of officials of
the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus
Germany, failed to agree with Washington on a new round of
sanctions against Iran. According to the Financial Times, U.S.
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns came out of the meeting
blaming China.
"We are disappointed by the lack of cooperation by China on
a third Security Council resolution. We don't think that China is
moving with us," Burns said. He said the U.S. believes China has
increased trade with Iran over the last six months, and is
putting economic interests over solving the crisis. He said
China is "sending the wrong signal" to Tehran.
There will be another meeting of the group after Nov. 19,
when IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei and EU foreign policy chief
Javier Solana deliver new reports on the state of Iran's nuclear
program. [cjo]

Blackwater Goes Into the Rent-A-Spy Business

Nov. 3 (LPAC)--Today's Washington POst features a front page
story on Erik Prince's Blackwater's latest business venture:
privatized intelligence services. Earlier this year, Prince added
a new business unit to his empire, Total Intelligence Solutions,
and staffed with with former CIA and military intelligence types,
to go after intelligence about natural disasters,
business-friendly governments, overseas regulations and global
political developments for clients in industry and government,
according to the Post. Cofer Black, the former counter-terrorism
chief at the CIA is chairman of the new unit, and Robert Richer,
a former CIA associate deputy director is its chief executive.
Bothy are quoted hawking their access to just about anyone they
need to see. Richer, for instance, once headed the CIA's Near
East division and is rumored to be close to the King of Jordan.
R.J. Hillhouse, author of a national security blog called "The
Spy Who Billed Me," says that they have the skills to do anything
anybody wants. "There's no oversight. They're an independent
company offering freelance espionage services. They're
rent-a-spies."
The article describes a room in the company's facility in
Arlington, Virginia, called "The Global Fusion Center," where
analysts in their 20s and 30s scan the internet 24 hours a day, 7
days a week, looking for anything that could affect a client's
business, from terrorist plots on radical Islamist websites to
signs of political upheavals in Asia. Not said is whether they
employ data mining, a la Donald Rumsfeld's Total Information
Awareness project of a few years ago. [cjo]

IBERO-AMERICA

Floods Devastate Mexican Gulf State of Tabasco

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)--Torrential rains last week led to severe
flooding of most of the low-lying Gulf Coast Mexican state of
Tabasco, affecting over a million people and leaving some 800,000
homeless. An estimated 300,000 are reported trapped in their
homes, while at least 80% of the capital city of Tabasco is
completely flooded.
The crisis is exacerbated by Mexico's woefully inadequate
infrastructure. Mexican President Felipe Calderon called it "one
of the worst natural disasters in the history of the country,"
according to the Wall Street Journal. He has also issued a
desperate plea to citizens to demonstrate their "patriotism" and
"nationalism" by contributing as much food and money as they can.
Clean water and food supplies have been disrupted, leaving
many at risk of water-borne diseases. In the city of
Villahermosa, potable water is not available. Even as authorities
attempt to reach the victims with supplies, the threat of
diseases such as cholera and hepatitis A is increasing. Already,
the Mexican government has flown in 20,000 doses of hepatitis A
vaccine to prevent an outbreak.
Flooding has also occurred in the northern part of Chiapas
state, where an estimated 70,000 people are affected. (clc/crr)

Chilean Senator: "We have a Moral Duty" To Consider Nuclear
Energy

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)--Having just returned from a tour of France
and Russia, where he visited those nations' nuclear facilities,
Sen. Ricardo Nunez told reporters he is more convinced than ever
that the country must consider nuclear energy as an option.
Speaking as the head of the Mining and Energy Commission,
Nunez told La Segunda that "We are responsible for both the
present and the future. If at some point Chile is plunged into
darkness, its industries shut down, and prices shoot up, we will
have to take responsibility for not having developed energy
sources that allow us to live better."
Chile currently relies on oil, hydroelectric and natural gas
for its energy sources, and is in the midst of a dire energy
crisis. Senator Nunez said that biofuels and other forms of
"renewable energy" are only temporary solutions. Questions still
remain to be answered about nuclear, he said, but "if we make the
decision to build at least one or two reactors in the north,
we'll be thinking also about future generations as well." [crr]

Argentine Legislation Would Declare Uranium and Thorium
"Strategic Resources"

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)--A bill before the Argentine Senate declares
that both uranium and thorium are of a "strategic character,"
given their crucial importance in electricity generation via
nuclear power, as well as their applications "in the fields of
health and industry."
In arguing for the bill, sponsor Sen. Cesar Gioja of San
Juan underscored the strategic importance of the National Nuclear
Reactivation Plan, and the government's intention of completing
construction of the stalled Atucha II nuclear power plant.
The bill calls for the creation of an Argentine Bank for
Storage and Transactions of Nuclear Minerals, whose purpose would
be to ensure the long-term supply of fuel to Argentina's
"currently functioning nuclear reactors and those planned for the
future." This entity would purchase all uranium and thorium
produced in the country, paying international market prices.
[crr]

SOUTHWEST ASIA

Iran Proposes Plan to Stabilize Iraq

Nov. 3 -- A three-day conference of Iraq's neighbors, the five
permanent members of the UN Security Council, the G8 countries
and the European Union ended today with pledges from all
participants to support the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad,
according to numerous press reports. According to AP, the
participants, in a final delcaration adopted by the conference,
also pledged to prevent the passage of illegal arms into Iraq and
ensure tighter border controls.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, in a speech to
the conference, put forward a proposal to help solve the crisis
inside Iraq. Among other things, Mottaki proposed setting a
timetable for withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq. He said
that the Iraqi government should have the power to administer
state affairs, and any military missions inside the country
should require a request from Baghdad. Mottaki also addressed the
problem of terrorist groups inside Iraq, including the Kurdistan
Workers Party, PKK. He noted that the former regime of Saddam
Hussein used such groups as leverage against neighboring states,
but now the Iraqi government is expected to expel such groups. He
also condemned private security companies operating in Iraq for
causing suffering among the Iraqi people, and called for
expelling Blackwater and for the International Criminal Court to
take action against Blackwater for the killings of Iraqi
civilians.
U.S. Ambasasdor to Iraq Ryan Crocker dismissed Mottaki's
proposal for withdrawal of foreign troops as a "fantasy," but
otehrwise said that the U.S.-Iran channel "is not dead."
According to Reuters, he said he expects another meeting with his
Iranian counterparts in the next few weeks, although what
discussions may have taken place between U.S. and Iranian
officials at the Istanbul meeting is not clear from press
reports.
The meeting was otherwise largely dominated by the Kurdish
problem, with Turkey demanding action by both the U.S. and Iraq
against the PKK. Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said that
military action "remains in the table" for Turkey against the
PKK. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and Foreign Minister
Hoshyar Zebari, in their turn, promised that Iraq would take
measures against the PKK, including issuing a watch list for PKK
leaders to be extradited to Turkey, and setting up checkpoints in
the Kurdish region. However, AFP points out that the Baghdad
government has very little authority in northern Iraq and Kurdish
officials there are reluctant to confront the PKK. [cjo]

SOUTH ASIA

Pakistan's Musharraf Defies Washington, Declares Emergency

Nov. 3, 2007 (LPAC)--Despite a last-minute telephone appeal by
U.S. Secretary of State Condi Rice, Pakistan's President Pervez
Musharraf declared a state of emergency on Nov. 3. He thereby
prevented a crucial Supreme Court decision on whether to overturn
his recent Presidential election win, amid rising militant
violence.
"The chief of army staff has proclaimed a state of emergency
and issued a provisional constitutional order," a newscaster said
on the state-run TV channel.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and eight
other judges refused to endorse the provisional constitutional
order issued by the President. Paramilitary troops and police
surrounded the Supreme Court in Islamabad, an AFP reporter said.
A leading Pakistani lawyer and opposition figure, Aitzaz Ahsan,
said he had been detained after President Musharraf invoked
emergency powers.
The government blocked transmissions of private news
channels in the capital Islamabad, and other cities. Shahzad
Iqbal, an official at a cable TV news provider in Islamabad, said
authorities were blocking transmissions of private news channels
in Islamabad and in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. Residents
of Karachi said their cable TV was also off the air.
Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who went to
Dubai on Nov. 1 for personal reasons, boarded a flight back to
Pakistan from Dubai, and is reported to be at Karachi airport.
According to her spokesman, she was already in the plane when the
emergency was declared. There are reports that she will not be
allowed to disembark in Pakistan.
The immediate fallout of the President Musharraf's move is
the cancellation of the planned January general elections. That
would create serious problems with Washington, since it was the
Bush Administration which pushed for the elections, and brought
Benazir Bhutto over to Pakistan to share power with the military.
For Musharraf, it was a calculated risk. But Musharraf
knows that Washington has to depend on the Pakistani army in
order to stay in Afghanistan. Musharraf and the Pakistani army
also believe that they cannot afford to share power with the
politicians, with security situation as dangerous as it is today.
[RMA]

Musharraf Addresses Pakistan on Emergency Rule

Nov. 3--Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who has been
targetted for assassination repeatedly over the past weeks,
announced martial law today. He ordered the chief of the
judiciary to be removed, and escorted away from the court,
ordered some TV stations closed, and also had some telephone
lines cut.
In a TV address to the nation, carried by CNN and BBC (with
lousy translations), Musharraf said he had no choice but to do
this. He said Pakistan was declining, the economy was in crisis,
terrorists were at large and only emergency rule would stop the
process. He blamed the judiciary (which has contested his
dictatorial rule and bid for reelection) and the "negative" press
for the crisis. In a segment of his speech delivered in English,
to his friends in the West--the U.S., Europe and the
Commonwealth--Musharraf said the country was on the verge of
destabilization and that inaction would have been tantamount to
committing national suicide, something he rejected. He claimed he
had just initiated the third stage of democratization (the first
from 1999-2002, then 2002-2007), which would have seen him
elected President as a civilian, and that this phase was being
subverted. This would have led to chaos and confusion, thus the
need for martial law. He begged his international audience to
bear with him, and understand that democracy takes time, etc.
He quoted from a letter by Abraham Lincoln from 1864, in
which he argued that he was saving the nation, and that what he
was doing was constitutional, though Musharraf said, this
violated the constitution.
Musharraf repeated, Pakistan comes first and all other
advice only second. He ended saying he was ready to lay down his
life if necessary.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, from Istanbul,
expressed her disappointment with the developments. Former Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif called on the people to rise up. Former
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned quickly home from Dubai.
(mlm)

- EIR #44, NOV. 9, 2007 FEATURE -

`The Mask Of Nancy Pelosi'

- THE FORCE OF TRAGEDY -

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

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{Since the relevant summations by V.I. Vernadsky and Albert
Einstein, combined, we now know of the partition of the known
universe among four rigorously defined} {phase-spaces: the
ordinary (non-biotic), the Biosphere, the Noosphere, and that
still higher order of phase-space, which subsumes the Noosphere.
The greatest among the challenges with which this present
knowledge confronts us, is typified by the subject of Classical
tragedy. Here, at the level of Classical tragedy, physical
science, Classical artistic composition, and the subject of
statecraft, as known to Aeschylus, Plato, Shakespeare, Lessing,
and Schiller, are combined as a single subject-matter: a fourth
general phase-space of reality, the true substance of the subject
of history.}
--------------------------------------

The book {{Roosevelt and Kennedy}} has a number of
interesting passages on Joe Kennedy's fascism. One is from
Harold Ickes diary in 1938, ``Roosevelt related an
astonishing exchange. Kennedy had remonstrated with him for
criticizing fascism in his speeches. It was all right to
attack Nazism--not fascism. Why? Kennedy had said that he
frankly thought we would have to ``come to some form of
fascism here.'' ``Joe Kennedy, if he were in power,'' the
President went on, ``would give us a fascist form of
government. He would organize a small powerful committee
under himself as chairman and this committee would run the
country without much reference to the Congress.''

On the subject of tragedy: since the U.S. general mid-term
election of November 2006, when the U.S. Congress had an
estimated 70% popularity with the U.S. population, until now,
less than a full year later, the estimated popularity of the
Congress has fallen below 11%, a fall largely due to the role of
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. For similar causes, the U.S.
dollar has also fallen, that at a presently accelerating rate.
This threatened ruin of the prospects of the Democratic Party
which Mrs. Pelosi's misconduct has done much to produce, has now
imperilled the continued existence of the original constitutional
form of our republic.
This is, at this present moment, our present national
tragedy, and, perhaps also an actually global tragedy. Shades of
the fable of the horse-shoe nail: if our U.S. does not escape
this self-inflicted tragedy which Pelosi's case expresses, the
U.S. will not be able to play its indispensable part in
contributing to the recovery of the world from the onrushing,
global breakdown-crisis now fully under way. On this account,
civilization world-wide is also imperilled.
The most obvious factor behind the dismal pattern of
policy-shaping in which Speaker Pelosi's decadence has has been a
crucial instrument, can be traced from the beginning of 2006,
but, as has been shown more, and more flagrantly since the
beginning of 2007, has been consistent with the policies of not
only certain Kennedy circles (e.g., Mrs. Maria Kennedy Shriver
Schwarzengger), but also with the convergence of Mrs. Pelosi's
practice with the economic and ``permanent revolution, permanent
war'' policies of British (Fabian Society) spy Alexander
Helphand, his dupe Leon Trotsky, Vice-President Dick Cheney,
Samuel P. Huntington, George Shultz, and Felix Rohatyn. The
clear intention behind this recent and continuing, assigned role
of Mrs. Pelosi's image as, like a Medusan mask of infamy, is to
set up the situation for the election of a Republican candidate
such as an otherwise unelectable, presently leading prospect for
this role, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, by default, in
2008.
To this effect, former Mayor Giuliani has acquired a circle
of special advisors who, when their past performance is
considered, represent, combined, a freakish right-wing political
zoo, the virtual inhabitants of H.G. Wells' ``Island of Dr.
Moreau.''
Such cases are typical of the true processes of tragedies in
real history, as in Classical drama. This point is illustrated by
the ruin of Greece in the Peloponnesian War, as in the account of
tragedy by Aeschylus, or, by Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, and
in relevant works, such as {{The Bravo}}, of high-ranking
American intelligence operative James Fenimore Cooper.
Unfortunately, university education being as decadent as what it
has become, generally speaking, over the course of the past
century or so, our reigning, political class of today has never
really understood the swindle used to dupe them in such a
fashion, again, and again, and again.
The key to understanding how most of our leading
politicians, and others, became dupes for that game in which
Pelosi is being played, can be discovered by studying what must
be fairly described as nothing less bad than the stupidity which
today's relevant university graduates have shown, in practice, as
their certifiable political and scientific ignorance of the
actual subject of real-life Classical tragedy.
Some definitions are essential at this juncture.
Contrary to induced popular belief, Classical tragedy since
Aeschylus, has one clear, unchanging definition in the legacy of
the best among the examples of leading poets, playwrights, and
other relevant composers, such as Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and
Friedrich Schiller. Typically incompetent, current academic views
on this subject, have been sometimes associated with the teaching
of the subjects of Shakespeare by Romantics such as Coleridge and
Bradley. Crude, but relevant, nonetheless, is the witless and
vulgar practice of attaching the rubric ``tragedy'' to almost any
misfortunate occurrence. Contrary to popular illiteracy of today,
the civilized use of the term, tragedy, has a precise, very
important, and scientifically rigorous meaning, especially for
those in the terrible grip of the threat to today's presently
real-life consequences. This notion of tragedy, is the subject of
a strategic-intelligence assessment which must now be considered
by any seriously competent viewer of the present U.S. situation.
For purpose of this needed reflection, begin now with two
excerpts from Act I, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's {{Julius Caesar}}.
Shakespeare does come to the point quickly, in his fashion.

{First:} Cassius to Brutus: (answering Brutus' question
concerning the influence of Julius Caesar):
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/Like a Colossus:
and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some times are masters of their fates:
The Fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings|...

{Second:} Cassius: Did Cicero say anything?
Casca: Ay, he spoke Greek.
Cassius: To what effect?
Casca: Nay, an I tell you that, I'll ne'er look you i' the
face again: but those that understood him smiled at one another.
and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to
me....

There lies, well expressed, with the great perfection in
economy, the essence of Shakespeare's genius.
This was no mere piece of literary fiction. Shakespeare
captured what we know today as the real-life outcome of precisely
that factor in our presently ongoing national history identified
by that pair of references from Shakespeare's first scene of the
drama.
In all Classical tragedy, some voiceless force of will, such
as the ghost of Hamlet, grips the ensemble of the parts played by
nearly all among the principal players in the drama. Those
characters can not free themselves from the grip of that
encompassing destiny over their will. So, Shakespeare put the
words of wisdom into the mouth of his spokesman from {{Hamlet}},
the character Horatio, speaking as the corpse of fallen Hamlet is
then being carried from the scene:

... let me speak to the yet unknowing world
How these things came about: so shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts;
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;
Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause;
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook.
...
Of that I shall have also cause to speak
And from his mouth whose voice will draw on no more:
But let this same be presently performed,
Even while men's mind are wild: lest more mischance
On plots and errors happen.

With those words from the character Horatio, let the just
concluded, but, thus, self-recurring dramatic tragedy of our own
nation's present time be performed for us assembled here, today,
word for word, action for action, before our assembled audience
which has, once again, heard Horatio's words, this time in search
of reflective understanding. So, Friedrich Schiller referred to
the mind of the common member of the audience for the play, who
leaves the performance of tragedy on stage a better citizen than
he himself had been before he had entered the theater that time.
What is it which had gripped the characters played on stage,
such that each performed as under the grip of an unseen wicked
will, compelled to act as if by the whim of a higher, unseen,
voiceless power? Why, similarly, did so many Democratic members
of the Congress submit to Pelosi's scornful whips and lashes,
when her folly and its consequences were so insistently,
repeatedly transparent? What strange, eerie force of compulsion
impelled them to submit, again, and again, and again? What is
she, the bearer of this mask of anarchy, and in real life this
mere, pathetic creature, that they, seemingly strong-willed men
and women, should degrade themselves, and their nation's fate,
so, again and again, as if by the whips of her errant will?
To illustrate this point, take the doubly ironical case from
Aeschylus' {{Prometheus Bound}}.

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