Let’s begin with the $12 billion in shrink-wrapped $100 bills, Iraqi oil money held in the U.S.  The Bush administration began flying it into Baghdad on C-130s soon after U.S. troops entered that city in April 2003.  Essentially dumped into the void that had once been the Iraqi state, at least $1.2 to $1.6 billion of it was stolen and ended up years later in a mysterious bunker in Lebanon.  And that’s just what happened as the starting gun went off. It’s never ended.  In 2011, the final report of the congressionally mandated Commission on Wartime Contracting estimated that somewhere … Continue reading

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Washington’s capacity to foster crony capitalist larceny and corruption never ceases to amaze. But according to the Bloomberg story below, Wall Street’s shameless thievery from US taxpayers is about to get a whole new definition. To wit, Freddie Mac is handing three private equity billionaires deeply subsidized debt financing in order to undertake $18 billion in rental apartment deals. According to no less an authority than Morgan Stanley, the subsidy embedded in this cheap financing amounts to 150 basis points or roughly $150 million per year on the loan amounts in play. Yet this largesse will serve no discernible public purpose whatsoever. Indeed, over the 10-year term of these loans the bonanza will amount to billions, but it will not … Continue reading

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It’s a classic theme of science fiction: something really, really bad happens, and mankind is knocked back to the Stone Age. Of course, with the dropping of atomic bombs by the U.S. to end World War II, people came to realize that for the first time Man himself possessed the power to bring about a global cataclysm. And science fiction wasted no time in examining the possible effects (there were speculative stories in print well before the Manhattan Project was even conceived). But nuclear holocaust isn’t the only way Man’s thin veneer of civilization can be stripped by catastrophe. It … Continue reading

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That we have a Cop Problem is obvious. How to fix it, not so much. The problem – a chunk of it, at any rate – derives from an overweening postmodern concern for the “safety” of cops to the detriment of those they (ahem) serve.Plus what’s known in the lawyer game as qualified or (worse) sovereign immunity. It means they get away with doing things that would ruin ordinary people who did exactly the same things. It’s a crazy idea. If, that is, you don’t want to end up with a Cop Problem. Take any group of people and make it known that … Continue reading

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Sinusitis vertigo and dizziness are complications of a sinus infection. Sinusitis is inflammation of the sinuses, which can becaused by bacteria, a virus, or fungus.  The sinuses are four hollow cavities in the human skull and are important parts of the immune system as they provide defense against infection. The sinuses are lined with mucous, which expels pollutants and bacteria from the body. It is common for the infection that causes colds to also affect the sinuses and can contribute to dizziness. The dizziness is a result of fluid build-up in the ears that puts pressure on the eardrum and … Continue reading

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One thing that became abundantly clear after Alexis Tsipras sold out the Greek referendum “no” back in the summer after a weekend of “mental waterboarding” in Brussels was that the public’s perception of the once “revolutionary” leader would never be the same. And make no mistake, that’s exactly what Berlin, Brussels, and the IMF wanted. By turning the screws on the Greek banking sector and bringing the country to the brink of ruin, the troika indicated its willingness to “punish” recalcitrant politicians who pursue anti-austerity policies. On the one hand, countries have an obligation to pay back what they owe, … Continue reading

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Hundreds of residents packed a town hall meeting in Idaho yesterday asking tough questions of their county’s sheriff after two deputies fatally shot a local rancher. Over 200 residents from the town of Council voiced concerns over the death of Jack Yantis, the rancher killed by deputies last week, with some leaving the assembly angry over the answers Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman gave. Police had first claimed that Yantis, 62, engaged in a fire fight with Adams County Sheriffs deputies last Monday on US Route 95 after being summoned to deal with his injured and aggravated two-ton Angus bull. But … Continue reading

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‘The United States has flown two B-52 bombers very close to China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea, a move apparently designed to increase tensions with Beijing. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Hill newspaper on Thursday that the bombers made one pass within 12 nautical miles (22.2km, or 13.8 […]

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Lyndon LaRouche’s mere half-hour’s discussion with his Policy Committee on Wednesday, Nov 11, explored some of the most vital implications of his conception of musical voice “placement,” in a manner which was often inspiring.  These notes are only approximate, and probably suffer from imprecision, but they may still be useful.

Kesha Rogers, the leader of the LaRouche organization in Texas, asked LaRouche to amplify the concepts of the state and the nation.  He responded that the nation is a nation; the national factors are predominant, and the location is secondary.  Kesha replied that that would mean that placement is part of the choral principle, which governs nations and states such that they function as a whole.  LaRouche responded again, to say that we are running a national policy with international implications; the choral principle governs the way in which the various nations can function as a unified force.  We want to bring the nations into coherence around a meaningful purpose of human life.

Rather than playing mean tricks on people to shape expressed opinion, we want to get a national organization which works,— not gimmicks.  Lyn said that there is a common language, in effect, which ought to be developed.  People evade it because they fear that they might reveal facts which some don’t want to be pointed out.

He said that an enormous amount of work is being done in and around Manhattan, to bring things into coherence with the Italian Classical method.  A lot of equipment is being brought together to do that.  How do you treat the singing voice in choral music? What’s needed is a rational form for the voice of Classical choral music.  Keep the idea of performance according to the Italian Classical principle; use it as a common denominator to convey ideas.

He said that we are concentrating so much on Manhattan, as we must, but that it’s useful also to look at different parts of the United States from the standpoint of Manhattan.  We must have coherence in the nation as a whole.  Manhattan is a standard to ensure that there’s a coherent understanding of people more generally.  It’s something where we have to do some explaining; don’t try to double-talk people.

Shortly after this point in the discussion, something eerie occurred which proved how the Policy Committee was indeed “in tune” with LaRouche and each other, as well as with some key strategic realities.  Several of them came, almost independently, to refer to the moment early in Vladimir Putin’s Presidency, when he had to confront the sinking of the submarine Kursk, with the loss of the lives of its entire crew.  Even more so, they had all seen the unspeakably painful video of Putin’s encounter in an auditorium with the families of the dead crew-members, who refused to accept the death of their sons, their husbands, and their fathers.

As Kesha said later, at the end of the discussion, this situated agape at the heart of the inseparable links of musical placement, of human life as human, and therefore of history and statecraft.  You can’t find the placement without agape.  You can’t find it without two working together as a coherent “one,” she said.

The sinking of the Kursk was a formative turning-point moment at the very beginning of Putin’s Presidency.  “It caught him by surprise, and suddenly he saw things in a different way,” LaRouche said. Nothing that has happened since would have been possible without it.  We would not even be here to recollect it today as we are.

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PRESS RELEASE

WHO: LaRouchePAC Activists
WHEN: Friday, November 13TH 11:00AM – 1:00PM
WHERE: In front of New York Times Headquarters

In June of 1971, the New York Times had the courage to initiate the publishing of Daniel Ellsburg’s “Pentagon Papers.” This brave action against the will of a criminal executive branch, combined with the principled decision by then-Senator Mike Gravel (AK) to release 4,100 pages of the Pentagon Papers into the Senate Record, helped spark a fight that led to the end of the criminal presidency of Richard Nixon and was instrumental in bringing the Indochina War to an end. The Papers documented that the war was being lost, not won, and that McNamara’s “body count” metric was fraudulent and criminal.

The LaRouche Political Action Committee, founded by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., calls upon the New York Times to answer the question of the moment: “Is the New York Times more afraid of Barack Obama than it was of Richard Nixon?” Why does the New York Times refuse to provide full coverage of the “Drone Papers” released in Glen Greenwald’s media outlet, The Intercept

According to NYT Public Editor Margaret Sullivan’s column of October 26th, NYT executive editor Dean Baquet and national security editor William Hamilton determined that the “Drone Papers” does not “warrant its own story.” This despite Sullivan’s own admission that the “Drone Papers” expose a “kill chain” of mass-murders leading directly to Barack Obama. Ninety percent of people killed by Obama’s drones in a five month period were simply bystanders! 

Why will the New York Times refuse to admit what cannot now be denied: Barack Obama, just like his step-father Lolo Soetero, is nothing but a stone-cold killer? 

Will they fail to address this reality just when it’s most important to discuss, as that killer, Obama, leads the United States into unprecedented war provocations against Russia and China, which endanger all of mankind?

In public events held at Fordham University and NYU Law School in recent months, LaRouchePAC activists have challenged Scott Shane, the NYT’s “drone reporter,” to have the common decency to admit the truth: our President is a mass murderer who must be thrown out of office immediately! 

Shane famously broke the “Kill List” story in May of 2012 detailing Obama’s weekly “Terror Tuesdays,” during which he uses “baseball cards” to decide who gets murdered next. But on each occasion, when confronted with the obvious moral and constitutional implications of his revelations and those of Glenn Greenwald’s “Intercept,” Shane has apologized for the Murderer-in-Chief, refusing to discuss impeachment of our president for what are justly named Satanic murders.

Since the New York Times appears to fear Obama and his drones so terribly, that they refuse to utter aloud the truth, lest they incur his wrath upon their own heads; since they would risk a thermonuclear war of extinction, in allowing this provocateur of Russia and China to continue his lunatic war policy; therefore LaRouchePAC organizers have decided to bring their own Obama clone, complete with his favorite drone, to the New York Times front door along with two banners: “Obama Leads the US into Hell!” and “Is the NYT More Afraid of Obama than they were of Nixon?”  Perhaps Obama’s face, contorted with psychotic rage, will frighten them into action in defense of the truth, once and for all!

Stay tuned, an on the ground report of this event is coming soon!

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS:
1. The Drone Papers, The Intercept
2. LaRouchePAC webcast of October 16, 2015: “Obama Must Immediately Be Removed from Office and Prosecuted for Murder”

Sign me up, Obama must go!