{"id":17775,"date":"2018-12-14T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17775"},"modified":"2018-12-19T17:13:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:13:05","slug":"no-longer-doubling-the-square-now-halving-the-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/12\/14\/no-longer-doubling-the-square-now-halving-the-square\/","title":{"rendered":"No longer Doubling the Square, now Halving the Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITEM NUMBER ONE:\u00c2\u00a0 Ron Paul versus Lyndon Larouche, proxy election results<\/p>\n<p>It is, I suppose, apples and oranges &#8212; though apples and oranges are similar enough to compare.\u00c2\u00a0 All of Ron Paul&#8217;s endorsed candidates were statewide and not necessarily running on a program &#8212; frankly, it&#8217;s a little difficult to determine Ron Paul&#8217;s modus operation.\u00c2\u00a0 The Nevada Independent gubernatorial candidate had a right win cause de jour behind him, New Jersey&#8217;s Senate candidate was a long time friend and associate (he ever write in one of Paul&#8217;s newsletters?), and I don&#8217;t know why he thought to endorse the Mississippi Republican Senate candidate and what separate Chris McDaniel from some other insurgent candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The three Ron Paul selections<br \/>\nRyan Bundy\u00c2\u00a0 1.4 percent\u00c2\u00a0 13,803<br \/>\nChis McDaniel\u00c2\u00a0 16.4 percent\u00c2\u00a0 145,329<br \/>\nMurray Sabrin 0.7 percent\u00c2\u00a0 19,077<\/p>\n<p>The three Lyndon Larouche candidates.\u00c2\u00a0 I will note, that numbers aren&#8217;t from the official source &#8212; I see a couple different tabulations out there for slightest of slight shifts.<\/p>\n<p>Al Green\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0DEM\u00c2\u00a0 89.1%\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0135,427<br \/>\nPhil Kurtz\u00c2\u00a0 LIB\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a03.9%\u00c2\u00a0 5,898<br \/>\nBenjamin Hernandez\u00c2\u00a0 IND\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a03.8%\u00c2\u00a0 5,740<br \/>\n<em>Kesha Rogers\u00c2\u00a0 IND\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a03.3%\u00c2\u00a0 5,005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dusty Johnson\u00c2\u00a0 REP\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a060.3%\u00c2\u00a0 202,673<br \/>\nTim Bjorkman\u00c2\u00a0 DEM\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a036%\u00c2\u00a0 121,002<br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0Ron Wieczorek\u00c2\u00a0 IND\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 2.2%\u00c2\u00a0 7,322<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorge Hendrickson\u00c2\u00a0 LIB\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a01.5% 4,912&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Dingell\u00c2\u00a0 DEM\u00c2\u00a0 68.1%\u00c2\u00a0 198,582<br \/>\n<strong>Jeff Jones\u00c2\u00a0 REP\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 28.9%\u00c2\u00a0 84,318<\/strong><br \/>\nGary Walkowicz\u00c2\u00a0 WCP\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a02.3%\u00c2\u00a0 6,684<br \/>\nNiles Niemuth\u00c2\u00a0 NPA\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a00.8%\u00c2\u00a0 2,198<\/p>\n<p>Here there are apples and oranges yet again.\u00c2\u00a0 Not surprisingly, the candidate that did the best &#8212; Jeff Jones &#8212; isn&#8217;t affiliated with the Larouchies, is of a political party in a nation where affiliation with one or the other party almost guarantees you come in first or second, but &#8212; for whatever reason &#8212; signed on with a statement of principles to get an &#8220;in&#8221; with a speaking arrangement before the group in Michigan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"A0auKe\">\n<p>The candidate who was the &#8220;national&#8221; focus for the org, Kesha Rogers, I can only suggest &#8212; what a slide it is for her.\u00c2\u00a0 Once upon a time, her candidacies were nuisances to the Texas Democratic Party &#8212; two congressional nominations and a Senate run-off.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, she&#8217;s totally irrelevant, though perhaps by design.<\/p>\n<p>There is at least one more candidate floating out there &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Jessica_White\">Jessica White of New York<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 For the Reform Party.\u00c2\u00a0 968 votes, or .5 percent.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, if we&#8217;re still comparing how the &#8220;Ron Paul Revolution&#8221; did compared with LarouchePac, Paul surely has inspired candidates throughout the nation who passed that .5 percent threshold.<\/p>\n<p>ITEM NUMBER TWO<br \/>\nThe logistical problem when a history of fingering a figure of the &#8220;Get Larouche Task Force&#8221;, who &#8220;put Larouche in prison&#8221;, runs right up against the political reality of a Republican administration they&#8217;re backing refurbishes him for a new era.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lyndonlaroucheforum.jcink.net\/index.php?showtopic=442&amp;view=findpost&amp;p=8892\">William Barr as Attorney General? Either a Guy To Take Down Mueller, or a Bush Plant? Time Will Tell<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt flutters online, and then&#8230; is removed&#8230; as the Larouchies move on to space wars to figure out what, really, is their line here.<\/p>\n<p>ITEM NUMBER THREE<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/us\/201811271070176231-uk-meddling-us-elections\/\">So goes Russian tv<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of\u00c2\u00a0the Schiller Institute, headquartered in\u00c2\u00a0Washington, DC, told Sputnik that British intelligence agencies \u00d1\u0081ould have been behind\u00c2\u00a0the alleged meddling in\u00c2\u00a0the 2016 US presidential elections. According to\u00c2\u00a0her, the team of\u00c2\u00a0then President Barack Obama and the UK&#8217;s MI6 could have worked together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Naturally?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urdupoint.com\/en\/world\/uk-integrity-initiative-aimed-at-keeping-uk-i-490040.html\">Evidence that seems to point to Russia conveniently fabricated, as is the way of the British<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>November\u00c2\u00a023, the hacktivist group released documents related to this project and said that the program had been launched in\u00c2\u00a02015\u00c2\u00a0and was funded by the\u00c2\u00a0UK\u00c2\u00a0government. The Integrity Initiative&#8217;s list of participants includes Bill Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, and\u00c2\u00a0Vladimir\u00c2\u00a0Ashurkov, an associate of\u00c2\u00a0Russian\u00c2\u00a0opposition\u00c2\u00a0figure Alexei Navalny, according to Anonymous.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>According to Zepp-LaRouche, some stolen documents\u00c2\u00a0may\u00c2\u00a0be not authentic, however, in general, the description is consistent with the nature of\u00c2\u00a0UK\u00c2\u00a0intelligence&#8217;s methods.<br \/>\n&#8220;It could be that some elements\u00c2\u00a0may\u00c2\u00a0be not authentic. However, the overall story is entirely consistent with the modus operandi of British intelligence operations, and it very well\u00c2\u00a0may\u00c2\u00a0turn out, that it is this network, which is deeply involved with &#8216;Russiagate&#8217; and the entire coup against [US] President [Donald]\u00c2\u00a0Trump,&#8221; the politician said. <\/em><br \/>\nNoted, a shifting of authorities for Russia&#8217;s propaganda purposes: this is not the Lyndon Larouche Movement; it&#8217;s the Helga Zepp Larouche Movement.<br \/>\nMeantime, Kesha Rogers is a what now?<\/p>\n<p><em>In the early morning hours of Dec. 8, China sent a spacecraft into Earth orbit that will make history early next year when it lands on the far side of the Moon. As spaceweather.com aptly acknowledged, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153if the mission succeeds, it will catapult China into the forefront of lunar exploration with a landing that no other nation has even dared to attempt.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If there were ever a reason for the U.S. to change course and re-commit to the exploration of space, this is it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This must be the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153New Sputnik-Chang\u00e2\u20ac\u2122e-4 Shock,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the United States, said LaRouchePAC National Policy Committee leader Kesha Rogers, from Houston where she is <strong>an international spokeswoman for advancing space R&amp;D<\/strong>. Rogers called today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s launch, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A wake-up call for the future &#8230; it is a unifying mission for the nation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/interviews\/201811211070002127-US-security-Schiller-Institute\/\">So says Harley Schlanger to Russia tv<\/a>. Lauding the Chinese Model&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/macauhub.com.mo\/feature\/pt-peninsula-iberica-pode-ser-ponte-da-estrategia-da-faixa-e-rota-para-africa-e-america-latina\/\">see too here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And&#8230; say this?<br \/>\n<em>The Schiller Institute is a political and economic think tank founded in\u00c2\u00a01984 via\u00c2\u00a0the philosophies of\u00c2\u00a0political activist Lyndon LaRouche and German poet Friedrich Schiller<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Was Friedrich Schiller a devotee of the style of cut-up poetry later employed by William Burroughs?<\/p>\n<p>All to be able to put this phrasing&#8230;<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimesslo.com\/sanluisobispo\/we-need-to-address-our-disparities-before-its-too-late\/Content?oid=6753694\">Numerous Russian media published lengthy reports on Helga Zepp-LaRouche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/a> explosive comments to the press in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation last week, in which she emphasized that it was the British that had interfered in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and are engaged in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a planned coup\u00e2\u20ac\u009d against President Donald Trump; that Trump wants to improve relations with Russia, and that the upcoming summit between Putin and Trump could \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bring some amazing results\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; and that cooperation among the leaders of Russia, the U.S., China and India could solve the systemic crisis and open a new era of technological advance for humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/3d3d674d7751444d30457a6333566d54\/share_p.html\">And EIR pleas with Trump<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>President Trump has got to understand the folly of placing any credit in the foolish arguments of the &#8220;China-bashers&#8221; in his administration and face the reality that China, with its capabilities and experience in the field of infrastructure, can become an asset rather than a liability for US economic revival. But then President Trump has to extend the hand of friendship and not the &#8220;cold shoulder&#8221; of new tariffs when he meets the Chinese leader next month.<br \/>\n<\/em>&#8220;Tarriff Man&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 (Odd, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/news\/politics\/2018-12-18\/detail-ifzasznx1607236.shtml\">as they sure love China&#8217;s Dear Leader<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Or are willing to schill for him.)<\/p>\n<p><em>William Jones, Washington bureau chief of the Executive Intelligence Review news magazine, said ending poverty had long been regarded a major task for humanity but until recently, was seen as a Utopian dream.<br \/>\n&#8220;With China, that dream is now becoming a reality,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"IoZT8b\">\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">ITEM NUMBER FOUR<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">The legacy is that their causes bob and weave, cited decades later in the oddball &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.improbable.com\/2018\/11\/30\/dickeys-gander-at-a-quibble-about-pitch-432-hz-for-orchestras\/\">rare species of exotic floral&#8221; studies<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Improbable Research, as it fills a quota of daily material, skips back to the great c256 cause.<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">See too Illinois elections 1986&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/capitolfax.com\/2018\/10\/25\/gonzales-wants-to-inspect-measure-and-photograph-madigans-offices\/#comment-13039527\">and ongoing comparisons<\/a>&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">\n<p><em>You probably also know that in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153LaRouchie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d election droves of people of all races voted for a name they liked more than the other names without knowing a thing about the candidates.\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<br \/>\nHuh. Wonder why that guy with the nice name \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Drury\u00e2\u20ac\u009d didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do better.<br \/>\nMaybe voters weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hazy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as to who he was.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">ITEM NUMBER FIVE<\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityguideny.com\/event\/StBartholomew-s-Church-2018-11-18-2018-11-18\">Beethoven Choral Fantasy &amp; Mass in C Major &#8211; St. Bartholomew&#8217;s Church.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>ITEM NUMBER SIX:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"IoZT8b\">Bill Nye, popular kids science show host of the 90s, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/bill-nye-mars-terraforming-high\">weighs in<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div class=\"IoZT8b\"><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This whole idea of terraforming Mars, as respectful as I can be, are you guys high?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the\u00c2\u00a0science educator asked in an\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/2018\/11\/19\/bill-nye-mars-were-not-going-live-there-make-like-earth\/1905447002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with\u00c2\u00a0USA TODAY.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even take care of this planet where we live, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re perfectly suited for it, let alone another planet.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"IoZT8b\">Will the Larouchies declare Bill Nye a British Agent?\u00c2\u00a0 What say the International Spokeswomen for advancing space R &amp; D Kesha Rogers?\u00c2\u00a0 Is Bill Nye wrong?<\/div>\n<div class=\"IoZT8b\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">ITEM NUMBER SEVEN<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">Craig Unger, author of the &#8220;House of Bush House of Saud&#8221; moves on to a new book &#8220;House of Trump House of Putin&#8221; &#8212; interestingly enough, he probably coulda stayed with the original Bush thesis (<a href=\"https:\/\/alamedasun.com\/letters\/10336\">and see the larouchies move from &#8220;But Obama&#8221; to an odd &#8220;was Khassogi really a WAPO reporter?&#8221;<\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0 but whatever&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">And&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theberkshireedge.com\/book-review-house-of-trump-house-of-putin-the-plot-to-put-a-russian-operative-in-the-white-house\/\">Good lord these cast of characters of &#8220;EIR&#8221;, and Roger Stone<\/a> are just dancing all over the place.<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">\n<p><em>Upon his return from Russia, the cast of Trump characters expanded to include Roger Stone and Paul Manafort: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On July 24, 1987 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 an article appeared in a highly unlikely venue, the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcExecutive Intelligence Review,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that strongly suggested something mysterious was going on between him and the Kremlin. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Soviets are reportedly looking a lot more kindly on a possible presidential bid by Donald Trump, the New York builder who has amassed a fortune through real-estate speculation and owns a controlling interest in the notorious, organized-crime linked Resorts International,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the article said. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTrump took an all-expenses-paid jaunt to the Soviet Union in July to discuss building the Russians some luxury hotels.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ITEM NUMBER EIGHT<br \/>\nBelated review of Operation Chaos&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/11\/11\/the-wild-rise-of-lyndon-larouc\">and, hm<\/a>&#8230;<em>My show went fine, but in July the LaRouchies escalated the attack by publishing a whole dossier on me. &#8220;In the early 1950s,&#8221; it claimed, &#8220;Paul Krassner was recruited to the stable of pornographers and &#8216;social satirists&#8217; created and directed by the British Intelligence&#8217;s chief brainwashing facility, the Tavistock Institute, to deride and destroy laws and institutions of morality and human decency.&#8221; (For the record, I was never in England.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\"><em>Although LaRouche and I both taught at the Free University of New York in 1966, we didn&#8217;t cross paths. Even then, he had his devoted fans: One student there told me that &#8220;LaRouche presented the most credible, most articulate, and best-argued version of Marxist economics that I ever heard.&#8221; My own class was titled &#8220;Journalism and Satire and How to Tell the Difference.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nWith all due respect to Paul Krassner&#8230; Who hasn&#8217;t been fingered into the vast &#8220;Get Larouche&#8221; conspiracy web?<br \/>\n<em>I thought I remembered him passing away a few years ago. Can we work the &#8220;Mandela Effect&#8221; into his conspiracy theories somehow?<br \/>\n<\/em>The Mandela Effect for Lyndon Larouche?\u00c2\u00a0 Just as with Mandela and a false memory of his passing and the hooplah surrounding his death in the early 90s&#8230; for Larouche that would be &#8212; what?\u00c2\u00a0 We falsely remember seeing in a NYT obituary that him dying sometime in the mid-90s, make a crack about the Queen of England, then &#8230; no hooplah whatsoever.<br \/>\n<em> After decades of thinking about it, I realized LaRouche was mostly right about the British.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\"><em>I went to college in the early 80&#8217;s &#8211; a long long way from home. Spent way too much time at O&#8217;Hare Airport remembering the LaRouchies (&#8220;More nukes less kooks&#8221;), the Moonies (&#8220;love bombing&#8221;), and the Hare Krishna all competing to see who could make life more unpleasant for those stuck at the airport waiting for flights out. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/f4CizzE-zZo\" rel=\"nofollow\">Airplane!<\/a> is still the best documentary of that era.<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\"><em>For a while there it wasn&#8217;t safe to walk through an airport. LaRouche fascisti and Hare Krishnas were everywhere hawking magazines and incense. Now that we have the Transport Sozialist Arbeiterpartei gropers instead, there&#8217;s room for a little nostalgia.<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><em>Fucking Boomers. I would rather have the CIA of the 1960s and 1970s than the Deep State that your generation created.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Most of you were never fighting for Liberty or freedom, just your brand of authoritarianism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Just stop with the propaganda.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">ITEM NUMBER NINE<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">Tell me all your thoughts on George Soros, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/31\/us\/politics\/george-soros-bombs-trump.html\">recipient of unwanted terrorist threats<\/a>&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">NYT:\u00c2\u00a0 <em>As his activities grew more prominent in Europe, and he began funding drug reform efforts in the United States, he started being cast in the 1990s as a central figure in a shadowy Jewish cabal by extremist figures such as the fascist presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. and allies of repressive Eastern European leaders who were targeted by groups funded by Mr. Soros.<br \/>\nThe theories were initially confined to the anti-Semitic fringe, though Mr. Soros is not closely associated with Jewish or Israeli causes, and in fact has been accused of being anti-Israel and was criticized by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"IoZT8b\">\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/day6\/episode-414-george-soros-as-the-bogeyman-bohemian-rhapsody-losing-wildlife-salt-fat-acid-heat-and-more-1.4889039\/how-conspiracy-theories-and-anti-semitism-turned-george-soros-into-a-bogeyman-for-the-american-right-1.4889040\">THE CBC<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\nFor what it&#8217;s worth, Soros is funding political causes worldwide.\u00c2\u00a0 Controlling what &#8212; less than the Koch Bros, I suppose.<br \/>\nThe strange thing about the origins of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/10\/14\/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu\">cultural marxism<\/a>&#8221; is&#8230; I&#8217;ve read enough to see the basic idea from <em>that there right<\/em> of the design of degenerating the culture as a Marxist plot precedes the &#8220;Frankfruit School&#8221; and the Larouchian denunciation of said.<br \/>\nSo say Larouche:\u00c2\u00a0<em> The CBC is a Crown Corporation owned by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Sovereign\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Canada, who is Queen Elizabeth, herself.<\/em><br \/>\nThe cause of the focus on the story of &#8220;The Right&#8217;s attack on Soros&#8221; &#8212; not the threats against the man, mind you, but the Russian media appearances of Hegla Zepp alerting the news that it&#8217;s the British that Did It All, not the Russians.<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">ITEM NUMBER TEN<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/newsbreak\/fact-check\/216713-hoax-us-senator-richard-black-calls-duterte-druglord\">Who knew Richard Black was important enough to get saddled with misinformation about what he said or didn&#8217;t say<\/a>?<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">ITEM NUMBER ELEVEN<br \/>\n<em><span class=\"post-normal group4-post-normal\">Oddly the most viewed video out of the last dozen or so? A Jacques Cheminade video they put out a few days ago about a Mass Strike in France. In fact it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been their most viewed video in a month or more.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em>Yellow Vest Protests.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8216;Tis topical.\u00c2\u00a0 Burrow into any civil unrest that&#8217;s out there&#8230; Still, this isn&#8217;t so much the Lyndon Larouche Movement as it is the Jacques Cheminade Movement.<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">Maybe in the US they&#8217;ll get far with this old new line&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\"><em>\u00c2\u00a0when contemplating the new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153politico-duo\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Sen. Bernie Sanders and his sidekick, no-longer resident Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. As they play out their media-promoted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153plot\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to create the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Progressive International\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (PI), one quickly finds out that the real intent behind their play-acting routine is, in fact, not to help the poor and disadvantaged worldwide, as they claim, but rather to revive the pro-Nazi designs of Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pre-eminent economic wizard, Lord John Maynard Keynes. Studying the interactions between the two, one cannot help but wonder: have Abbott and Costello, or perhaps a new version of the Marx Brothers, suddenly reincarnated themselves, this time with the evil intention of using the cloak of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153entirely absurd\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to finally drive you, me and the rest of humanity, quickly, into a terrible New Dark Age?<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"Z7f8K\">Keynes.\u00c2\u00a0 What was his role with the original Bretton Woods?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITEM NUMBER ONE:\u00c2\u00a0 Ron Paul versus Lyndon Larouche, proxy election results It is, I suppose, apples and oranges &#8212; though apples and oranges are similar enough to compare.\u00c2\u00a0 All of Ron Paul&#8217;s endorsed candidates were statewide and not necessarily running on a program &#8212; frankly, it&#8217;s a little difficult to determine Ron Paul&#8217;s modus operation.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17775"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17861,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17775\/revisions\/17861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}