This is the kind of thing you just can't make up. Blogger Woolly Days from downunder found this article from a Chinese news service. To get the full flavor, read Woolly's post on the mad LaRouche, a nutcase who perennially runs for president....These are central themes for the now 85 year old Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche has covered the entire political spectrum in his time. He began his political career on the Marxist left before gravitating to the Democrats. Though never endorsed by the party, he has run in the last four presidential elections (including one he ran from prison). In the 1980s, he was given unfettered access to the NSC and CIA for reasons never divulged but he claimed were related to President Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI).Googling will bring up more on the amazing LaRouche. Meanwhile Chinaview.cn reports on him:
However he is best known for being sentenced to 15 years in jail for fraud related to fundraising for his movement and for his bizarre projects and conspiracy theories. He proposed a Eurasian land bridge to the Americas as “an economic engine of world development”. He also claimed Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip head a "financial oligarchy" that rules the world, that the British monarch is also responsible for most of the world’s drug trafficking, that Zionism is part of this conspiracy and that the Ku Klux Klan is controlled by the FBI.
The United States and China should join hands in an effort to reform the world financial system, which has currently entered the most deadly crisis in recent centuries, a renowned U.S. economist said Saturday.
"The end of the present world monetary-financial system is inevitable, unless the system is replaced by a new world system during a relatively brief, remaining time available," said Lyndon La Rouche at a luncheon at the Forum on U.S.-China Relations and China's Peaceful Reunification.
La Rouche, also a famous political activist, said the present international financial crisis could only be brought under control when major countries like the U.S. and China cooperate.
LOL. I wonder what the Americans at the conference thought:
The forum, jointly organized by several local Chinese-American, gathered nearly 100 government officials, scholars and activists form the U.S. and China, who were expected to discuss issues on U.S.-China relations and their implications on the Taiwan issue during the two-day event.
Too classic for words...
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LaRouche may well be a bit cooky but he also said some things that were ahead of his time. Global control through the moneychangers is a reality that the Chinese are smart enough to avoid. Plenty of evidence to support that is available.
ReplyDeleteJust too classic indeed...shows how desperate Chinese can get to force the issue of reunification.
ReplyDelete...all this from the guy who published "Children of Satan".
I can just imagine the headlines inside China:
ReplyDelete"US presidential candidate supports reunification, cooperation in developing new world financial system"
And that would have to be on the front page, right next to the pic of Hu Jintao or Wen Jiabao meeting Sarkozy, with a smaller story: "French president also supports reunification."
Kind of puts the credibility of some of the administrations at that conference in question, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteClassic, indeed.
LaRouche may well be a bit cooky but he also said some things that were ahead of his time. Global control through the moneychangers is a reality that the Chinese are smart enough to avoid. Plenty of evidence to support that is available.
ReplyDeleteAnon, that's like standard critique from the progressives and Marxists for like, a century. LaRouche has imported parts of that critique into his bizarro-world view.
Michael
Yep, Yalta all over again. Deciding the fate of the world -read: how to mantain our obligations to the shareholders while squeezing disgusting salaries for our CEOs- without the main dish, sorry Taiwan, being present or having a vote.
ReplyDeleteAs typical as that idea that the island suddenly sprung fom the sea in 1949...
LaRouche also had something to say about LTH back in 2000: Puppet Emperor Lee Teng-hui
ReplyDeleteI remember back around that time Lawerence Eyton wrote a good piece on what James Soong was doing in 2000, something about "opening up a can of worms" on the 300 or so political elites that run Taiwan.
In later years, I think it was you posited a theory that the PFP and TSU parties were formed with money from the Layette scandal.
I also remember finding this link several years ago showing that Soong studied under Kissinger at as an Eisehower Fellow. Kissinger is agent of destruction all over the world and it's known he reps for a higher (banking) power. (you have to dig around the site to find he Kiss/JS connection).
So although Larouche is an off-the-wall flake, I think there is something more to "it" than most of us know.
TM:
ReplyDeleteI am sure there is more it than most of us know. And i have no doubt that LaRouche is right on many points, especially where he is borrowing ideas from others.
Michael
BTW, that's a wonderful article about Soong and LTH from LaRouche. I think it shows his fruitcake thinking real well -- a mix of knowledge, weirdness, complete foolery, upside down perceptions....Ray Cline mentioned in the article, BTW, used to be the CIA station chief here. And Lee Harvey Oswald was here at the time. And Ray Cline knows Linda Arrigo, who is a prominent pro-independence activist....my head hurts.
ReplyDeleteMichael
Last year while in San Francisco I ran into a bunch LaRouche supporters outside the Berkeley campus. Their conspiracy of the week was how "global warming is a fraud" and more delightfully how "Al Gore is a mass murderer" due to his decisions in Yugoslavia.
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