The New Dark Age is here. LaRouche PAC has been documenting how the budget crises and the bankruptcies of the states are gutting the capacity for emergency responses in firefighting, police protection, and emergency services.

President NerObama used the occasion of his Saturday radio address to practically declare the end of the war in Iraq and to brag about what his administration is doing for U.S. veterans of that war. As with everything else he does, however, Obama's statements are contradicted by reality. In Iraq, 49,000 U.S.

Some of the 26 reactors that Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, plans to build before 2030, will use the Fast Reactor technology, corporation spokesman Sergei Novikov said. According to the corporation's outlook, it will completely phase out the current, third-generation equipment by the start of next century.

All three LaRouche Democrat campaigns have been on a super-high mobilization, and are finding growing anger with Obama, and increasing attention span among at least a portion of the public.

The Rachel Brown for Congress campaign announced today that her opponent in the September 14 Democratic primary, 4th District Representative Barney Frank, has finally agreed to debate her before the primary. The debate is scheduled for September 7, at 7 pm. Further details will be available later on Brown's website, rachelforcongress.com.

Laura Tyson, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Bill Clinton, and a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (Volcker board), has called for a $1 trillion investment by the Federal government in job-creating infrastructure projects, in an op-ed in yesterday's Sunday New York Times.

In a statement issued August 27, Democratic write-in candidate for Congress, Summer Shields, presented his campaign for the policy of the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), in terms of a national mission to bring mankind "outside the womb" in the immediate years ahead.

The destruction of the U.S. labor force, which can only be reversed by the LaRouche NAWAPA program, is ravaging every layer, through both layoffs and slashes in wages. This process, like that of the hyperinflationary financial breakdown which LaRouche has forecast as imminent, can also shortly reach a point of no return.

On Thursday, Federal Judge James Zagel said he would set a retrial date for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich during the first week of January 2011. The trial wouldn't begin any earlier than Jan. 4, Judge Zagel said, but he didn't set a specific date. Prosecutors had asked for an earlier date, but the judge said he wanted to avoid scheduling conflicts over the holidays.

On Tuesday, Shirley Sherrod, who had been sacked by the Obama White House in response to a doctored videotape of a speech she gave as Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development program in Georgia, met with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for 90 minutes, after which she rejected the new job offered to her in compensation for her firing by Obama without due process.