John Holdren, Obama's science (sic) advisor, testifying Wednesday before the House Appropriations subcommittee that does NASA's budget, assured the Committee Members that the U.S. would not cooperate with China on manned missions for decades; perhaps on a mission to Mars, which the Admistration's space policy has nowhere in sight.

The damage from last week's tornadoes in the Southeast has been enormous, but the newness and the scale itself of the damage means that no full assessment will be available for some days.

While an unprecedented series of tornadoes has hit the Southeast, and the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers are threatened with the worst flooding since 1935, the state of Texas is experiencing the worst drought in more than 40 years, with high winds and heat causing "massive crop losses." A report released Thursday from a consortium of national climate experts, dubbed the Drought Monitor, said drought

A 14-state storm-wave over the last 2 days wreaked terrible damage from dozens of tornadoes, pelting rain and winds, with 194 dead in Alabama alone, out of an incomplete total death toll of 295.

The following statement was issued by the Slate of six LaRouche Democratic candidates for immediate distribution.

The first American manned space flight took place 50 years ago yesterday, when Alan Shepard successfully carried out a suborbital space mission. Shepard sat atop a modified war-time V-2 rocket, which had only been used as a weapon, with the confidence that the care taken by the German rocket team that had designed, developed, and built it gave him a good chance to survive the flight.

California, look at Haiti if you want to know what to expect from Barak Obama, in the event of an earthquake.

There is vast damage to farm operations—land, buildings, livestock, storage, and transportation—now worsening under the extreme storms in the Mississippi/Ohio Basins Corridor, and the 14-state region from Texas to New York. However, under Obama, the relevant institutions, especially the U.S.

True, this Spring's "April Showers" are outstandingly heavier than usual in the central United States. Even so, Monday's levee breaches, forced evacuations, and harm in this region, expected to become worse later in the week, spotlight both the decrepitude of water management and transportation, and also how evil it is for Obama to speak of disaster preparedness.

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Lyndon LaRouche delivered this webcast address from Northern Virginia, on April 19, 2011. Debra Freeman, LaRouche's national spokeswoman, was the moderator. (The webcast is archived at http://larouchepac.com/webcasts/20110419.html)

Debra Freeman: Good afternoon, everyone.