LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

- The Case of Murawiec and Marc Rich -
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- The Case of Murawiec and Marc Rich -

I'll give you some background on this connection. Back in the early 1980s, I had a man I knew, who was a very frightened man; his name was Laurent Murawiec. He's of French extraction. He was about to go to jail. His problem was that he didn't want to have to do his French {service militaire}, which was still compulsory military service in France at the time. So, in a sense, I kicked his rear end, and bailed him out at the same time, and got him shoved into his French {service militaire} in time to avoid complications. He rose to the high rank of company clerk.

He is now being featured by Richard Perle; by Wolfowitz at the Defense Department; and by the Hudson Institute; as a top international strategic expert! How did this strange transmogrification occur? From trash to general, super-general. He works now, actually, on behalf of Sen. John McCain, at the Hudson Institute, as part of the Bull Moose collection. It's a McCain political-asset organization, whose purpose is to have John McCain run for President of the United States, on a Bull Moose ticket together with Joe Lieberman from the Democratic Party.

But the affinities are rather interesting, which is why I mention this case. The way it happened was that in the late Autumn of 1985--Murawiec was then out of his military service, with his company-clerk certification in his pocket--and he was terrified, absolutely terrified. The man's cowardice is outstanding. It's a military record for cowardice. He was picked up as a member of the Marc Rich gang, and has continued to function as an asset of Marc Rich and that section of international organized crime, to the present day.

Now Marc Rich, of course, his connection into government is through Lewis Libby, who's the manager of the office of Vice President Cheney. Marc Rich is also the guy who did a number of dirty things to Bill Clinton, in 1997 and on. He got Clinton into much of Clinton's trouble. How'd he do it? Well, he brought in Al Gore, and Gore brought Marc Rich in. And that's how the troubles went. Our policy toward Russia was screwed up; other policies, the same thing.

And this is the kind of problem we have: The contamination of our political parties, by people who know better, who know what these guys are, treating them as respectable people when they're racketeers and corrupt! And saying, "We have to make peace with these guys, for the sake of party unity." What is "party unity" if it destroys the United States?

You have to be non-partisan on these things. Let's get those who went from "rackets to riches to respectability," out of the category of respectability, and send them back to--maybe rags.

All right, but these are the problems we face. Now, let me explain what the problems are, here. As Debbie said at the beginning, I've been the most successful long-term forecaster in the past 40 years, essentially; actually, on public record generally--except for those who know some of the things I did earlier, especially about 35 years--I've never been wrong. Of course, I've never made {predictions}. Predictions are made by gypsies, not by economists. I make forecasts of what will happen.

Let me explain what this forecasting business is, because it's extremely important in this context, to understand what {real, competent economics is,} as apart from the "Brand X" varieties, that you're getting from usual sources. Now, to do that, let just take, and present to you, three figures, which I will refer to repeatedly, to summarize some arguments I'll make. Take the first of the Triple Curve figures.

Okay, this is something I first drafted as a pedagogical device, out of a Rome conference I attended in 1995; a Vatican conference, actually, on the question of heath care. Now, what this represents is an idealized expression of what has happened to us--at that time, what {was} happening to us. This goes back to about 1966, when these changes began to kick in, under the 1966-1967 U.S. Federal budget, in which there were deep cuts in the space program, the advanced technologies of the space program, which started the first latch down, in terms of the kind of growth we had from earlier period.

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