Category: Aggregated

by Dennis Speed

With the German government’s December 5 release of an admission that, in support of the U.S. drone policy, it has allowed the carrying out of illegal acts of killing and murder within its borders—a practice specifically prohibited since immediately following World War II by the German Constitution—Barack Obama has been forced to see, if not to read, the proverbial “handwriting” on the wall. Obama’s recent speeches, and some articles appearing in the trans-Atlantic neoliberal media, have tried to deflect from and cover-up for his murders, perhaps in the hope that he not be subjected to investigation and even impeachment prior to his leaving office. This is ultimately to no avail. The diaphanous, if not outrightly transparently self-serving “legal defenses” recall a school of law descended from a “beast man” conception of humanity, a legal code comparable at best to that of Hitler’s jurists Carl Schmidt, and Nazi Judge Roland Freisler.

Though Angela Merkel’s Germany was finally forced, as a result of a parliamentary inquiry by the Die Linke party, to admit in August that it had in fact engaged in this criminal collusion, they managed to wait until after the American election to publicly state the truth. The American military base in Ramstein, Germany was the scene of the crime. It was the chief relay station of the entire United States drone warfare policy. Die Linke Parliamentarian Andrea Hunko said, “We have been asking about Ramstein’s role in the U.S. drone war for two years. Because of statements from drone pilots the public has known for a long time that Ramstein is a major control center… Now, after many denials, there is finally an admission… Terrorists are targeted on the basis of lists created in the U.S. and released by the American President every Tuesday…”

Ramstein, an American military “city-base” of about 16,000 personnel, is the central relay and switching station for much of the entire global drone program. Routed through Ramstein are many, if not all of the 64 United States–based drone warfare stations, and at least 25 international drone warfare stations. The concern for Germany is that since World War II, Germany, according to precedent from the Nuremburg trials up to today, must not either stray into, or be accomplice to, anything which smacks of mass-murder in the name of war, no matter how persuasive the reason. Angela Merkel, recently called “the last bastion of democratic rule in Europe,” has betrayed that solemn commitment made by the German people, in order to give a green light to “Nobel Peace Prize Winner” Obama’s weekly atrocities. Such collusion is explicitly against the law in Germany, specifically the German Code of Crimes against International Law, which became law in 2002.

Obama’s Administration, and Bush and Cheney before, have re-implicated, and re-involved Germany in international crimes against humanity.

Many dismiss Obama’s sponsorship by Union Bank of Switzerland and its American representative Robert Wolf in the fall of 2006 as unrelated to that bank’s notorious history of safe-housing Nazi gold during the 1940s, as well as the wealth stolen from Holocaust victims. Wolf took over the Obama campaign’s fundraising immediately following a meeting between Obama and George Soros. As reported in a 1998 CBS 60 Minutes interview, Soros’ father “bribed a government official to take 14-year old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phoney godfather on his appointed rounds—confiscating property from Jews.”

Soros was, however, a mere conduit. The UBS connection meant that Obama was also being officially blessed by European “old money” as well as by Wall Street. Obama’s April 1, 2009 obeisance to the Queen and Prince Phillip illustrated that. Obama was never an “American project.” He was understood to be a certifiable property that could be trusted to support “death policies,” whether in health care, or in war, or in his summary execution of the American manned space program. His Wall Street pedigree was especially clear in his firm opposition to any form of Hamiltonian banking measures to restore the United States, especially when it came to his keeping the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall from happening at all costs.

Today, former UBS executive Robert Wolf, who left the Obama Administration in 2012, can be found at a new address: a company he formed called 32 Advisors, whose specialty is the promotion of the private commercial use of drones through Measure, the “drones arm” of his firm. Will Obama, now soon to be out of a job, find employment with Wolf in selling drones to Blackwater and other private security companies, based on his “wealth of experience” honed each Tuesday for the past several years?

The Obama Administration’s “official figures” of civilian dead killed worldwide by drone attacks are by any account absurd. They claim that as few as 64 and at most 116 civilians have been killed in the 473 drone attacks that are admitted to have occurred in the years of his Presidency. Various groups contradict that total, with estimates reaching as high as 1100. In addition, only one of the eight Americans known to have been killed by drones was an actual target. Obama has refused to allow scrutiny of specific drone strikes: “The Obama Administration has released only aggregate numbers, refusing to detail individual strikes. As a result, it’s impossible for the public to assess the morality of the program,” says The Atlantic of August 18 of this year.

That is, of course, absurd. Assessing the morality of the drone program is quite straightforward. It is, as Germany knows, and is now proven, a crime against humanity. It is illegal under the Nuremburg standard established by Chief Justice Robert Jackson. It’s Obama’s true legacy—and that, by itself, means that it’s no damn good.

By Rachel Brinkley

(Rachel Brinkley, née Brown, was the last Democratic challenger to Barney Frank, when she ran against him for Congress in 2010. She literally ended his political career, exposing him as the Wall St. whore he has always been.)

Open response to Barney Frank’s recent Boston Globe op-ed: “Trump’s financial plans promise another Great Recession”

Barney Frank has chosen to position himself once again in the defense of untruths designed to mislead the American public.
His claims regarding what would be the effects should his Dodd-Frank bill be repealed, are as full of loopholes as the bill itself. Barney must be assuming that the population is so stupid that they are unable to realize that the economy has continued to collapse for the last 16 years! The living standard has fallen, life expectancy is down, suicides and drug-related deaths have skyrocketed. As an advisor to Hillary’s losing campaign, Barney should realize that sticking so close to Wall Street has failed. We must have a total change in policy, not more of the British-run policies of the recent two decades. There are two major aspects which he leaves out of consideration:

First, is the subject of physical economy; i.e., the increase of real wealth resulting from increased rates of physical productivity. China’s “New Silk Road” policy is positively affecting 70 countries and 4.4 billion people, through focusing on the construction of new transportation routes and energy development, including the building of high-speed rail and more efficient ports, electrifying rural regions, and partnering in advanced scientific cooperation with other countries. This is a current, living demonstration of how to positively affect net rates of physical growth. Monetary processes must always be subordinate to this physical science of increasing economic productivity, as our great Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton detailed in his three most famous reports to Congress.

Second, Barney pretends there is not a mass social movement for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall, as seen by the adoption of Glass-Steagall in both the Democratic and Republican party platforms this summer, and as was called for by President-elect Trump in the latter days of the campaign, in addition to Democratic presidential hopefuls Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders. The adoption of Glass-Steagall would cancel all of Barney’s peculiar arguments, allowing for a complete reorganization of the entire economy—joined with investments into science-driver economic projects like the space program and fusion energy.

Barney’s arguments for Dodd-Frank’s success are simply stupid. Attempting to influence armed robbers by limiting the hours they can be out in public, does not amount to an effective deterrent. Bailout Barney then claims, in regard to the Bush-Obama so-called rules which would supposedly prevent another 2008-style collapse, that “these rules evolved into the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was designed to prohibit abusive practices…,” i.e. that repealing Dodd-Frank would allow abusive practices to come back! But, Barney, when did the abuse stop? Not one single banker has seen jail time for their known frauds affecting the lives of millions of people!

See a Wells Fargo agent for more details.

Only a Glass-Steagall reorganization of the economy with credit for new technological economic platforms will work, as clearly laid out in Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Economic Laws. We need a full FDR-style approach to lift our nation out of collapse and into renewed prosperity. This means we have to take on Wall Street, and reorganize the banking sector to play a legitimately useful role in our national economy.

As Franklin Roosevelt said, “We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob… They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.”

It is time to take FDR’s approach, and welcome their hatred. Barney Frank’s time is up.

In the midst of a major political transition, a battle is taking place as to what the future policy of the U.S. will be. Predictably, those who have benefited from the fascist degeneration over the course of the Bush and Obama regimes are still mobilizing to destroy any contrary direction.

And as the looming spectre of Glass-Steagall increasingly impresses itself upon the U.S. political dialogue—as exemplified by President-elect Trump’s calls for its reinstatement—those fascist networks have deployed their stooge, Barney Frank, to prevent that very reinstatement.

In response to the breakdown of the ideological social-control system that has been dominant since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Barney’s tactic has been to create a false debate on financial policy, i.e. either you support regulating Wall-Street with the Dodd-Frank Act, or you support deregulating Wall-Street by taking away Dodd-Frank.

Barney has participated in a broad range of bald face lying to this effect, and LaRouchePAC had the opportunity to confront such an episode last Monday, 12/05/16 at the City University of New York.

Barney’s coadjutor in this Monday evening ruse was interviewer Paul Krugman. Not once in the course of their interview did either Frank or Krugman mention the fact that the banks today are bigger, more dangerous, and more destructive to the economy than ever before. Not once did these “leading experts” mention that the entire U.S. and European banking system is imploding, the effects of which have been masked by trillions of dollars of cover-up via stock buy-back’s, etc., and a massive influx of cartel drug money.

Four hundred plus audience members, who were attending what was to be a discussion on economic policy, sat listlessly while Barney, a former pimp and alleged Franklin Coverup pedophile, pushed his Dodd-Frank Wall-Street protection fraud as a great success. A LaRouchePAC activist then stood up and called out “What about Glass-Steagall?!,” to which Barney immediately turned and replied: “I see the LaRouche people are here!” (Confirming that LaRouche is synonymous with the most important systemic reform of the banking system today, and hence then literally terrifies the entire oligarchical financial class with the threat of physical bankruptcy.)

Krugman tried to calm down the situation, but Barney had been provoked and started blurting out attacks on Glass-Steagall and Lyndon LaRouche.

Afterwards, we had a chance to say hello to both of the speakers, but unfortunately for them, they have yet to recant their crimes. Thank God we have the chance to change.