The United Nations on Nov. 17 announced that it will provide $100 million in emergency aid for food and related relief to six countries. It will come out of the UN Central Emergency Response Fund. The largest amount, $30 million, will go to Yemen. The remaining funds will cover food aid to parts of Nigeria, Burkina […]
Helga Zepp-LaRouche was interviewed on Nov. 18th, for the China Radio International podcast, “The World Today.” The moderator asked about comments made by Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee at a Bloomberg event, where he said that the Biden Administration should make efforts to improve the U.S.-China relations. Listen here (Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche starts at minute 25:08.) Q: How do you […]
When Beethoven Becomes Hilarious! Notes by Fred Haight We have had several episodes on Beethoven’s sense of humor. Today, we cross over into utter hilarity. Beethoven composed folk songs in many languages, including English, Italian, Danish, and Russian. The first piece today is not a folk song but a setting of Goethe’s The Flea from […]
Seven African nations have come together to form the Conference of Speakers and Heads of African Parliaments (CoSAP), calling for a complete cancellation of debts on the continent, as a prelude to creating a New Paradigm of global development. Spearheaded by the Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speakers of the respective […]
The Chinese new Five Year Plan and Long-Range Objectives are lining up a set of targets in a very interesting way, indicating that China has adopted a planning system which qualitatively is the most advanced of any nation in the world. It has important elements close to the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche, who always denounced […]
Goethe and Beethoven: “Getting Along with Girls” Notes by Fred Haight The Classics are often associated with imagery of stuffy-old-white-male who have nothing relatable for the contemporary youth generation. We beg to differ. Goethe’s Mit Mädeln sich Vertragen (Getting Along with Girls), written in 1787, is a poem that makes hilarious fun of the “machismo” […]
A team of researchers from the Italian National Tumor Institute in Milan has detected the presence of the SARS-Cov-2 virus in Italy already in September 2019 in a study that “may reshape the history of pandemic”. The team has tested blood samples of individuals enrolled in a lung cancer screening and reported the results in […]
Beethoven’s Sense of Humor Part 2: “To beat, or not to beat.” Notes By Fred Haight In part 1 of Beethoven’s humor, we wrote about “Rage of a Lost Penny”. Today, we talk about the humor in Beethoven’s 8th symphony. Johann Nepomuk Maelzel tried his hand at Artificial Intelligence about two centuries ago. It did […]
Beethoven and Tragedy: The Coriolan Overture Notes By Fred Haight We have already talked about Beethoven’s sense of the heroic; and the power and optimism expressed in his Third Symphony, his only opera Fidelio, and the Egmont Overture. However, an important part of trying to create a positive outcome for society, involves the study of […]
Today’s webcast focuses on three topics. 1. The continuing fight to defeat the vote fraud done on behalf of a Biden presidency; 2. The significance of the Pentagon shake-up undertaken by President Trump, which provides clear evidence that he intends to win the vote fraud fight, and pursue his strategic objectives — especially to end […]