Editor:
Over the past few weeks, I have read a number of articulate letters by apparently well-meaning people on both sides of the Measure Z matter. Yes, there is a woeful shortage of affordable housing in Alameda. On the other hand, repeal of Measure A will mostly encourage construction of “market-rate” condos and raise the skyline. The island’s infrastructure is not prepared to handle the increase in population.

However, my friends on both sides are missing the herd of elephants stampeding down Park Street. Just a hint — did you know that the Federal Reserve has put over $3 trillion into the big Wall St. banks since the COVID crisis began, but virtually none of that has been lent out for small businesses or mortgages?

There’s a humongous bubble of speculative debt driving up real estate prices. But it’s more. The $41 trillion in assets of the largest banks, hedge funds, etc., give this London-centered complex of finance-military-intelligence-surveillance the power to dictate terms to governments around the world, see Peter Phillips’ book, Giants: The Power Elites. Until this is broken, we are playing in the sandbox trying to deal with the housing problem in Alameda.

It’s time to actually solve this problem, not run for a Band-aid that won’t work. How do you break he power of this evil behemoth?

The most efficient way might surprise you: exonerate the statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche, who was targeted for silencing by this “deep state” because he actually had coherent alternative economic policies that were getting such widespread support around the world that Henry Kissinger, Robert Mueller and others were deployed to shut him up.

The exoneration of Lyndon LaRouche today would create a healthy seismic shock to the parasitic monster that is creating wars, starving children in Africa — and skyrocketing rents here in Alameda.