Lavrov and Kerry, who held their fourth meeting Thursday on the sidelines of the UN, must keep up the momentum through continuous contact, Lyndon LaRouche said today.  There is a process now underway, and it must be abetted through their continuous dialogue and work.  Opinion-makers must maintain continuing focus on US-Russian cooperation, while Obama must be kept out of the picture as much as possible.  Keep the Russia-US cooperation going, and block Obama from taking indirect actions against it.  Obama is still doing his dirty work, even if he is now forced to do it from behind the scenes; look carefully at what Obama is doing indirectly.  He’s hidden himself from view, but he’s continuing to operate as if under a cloak.  Obama is struck down, but he is not yet finished.  Don’t take the pressure off Obama for one moment. Increase the pressure on Obama.

        While the focus on US-Russian cooperation is important, there must be urgent attention to the vulnerability gap on the economy.  Ever since the death of Franklin Roosevelt, there has been a prohibition against any increase in US productivity.  This is still a deadly threat.  The lid was put on especially after Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981, 69 days into his Presidency. Thereafter, George H.W. Bush as Vice President, and then President, accelerated the slide.  But there was already deep corruption in the early 1970s, as reflected in the reaction to Lyn’s defeat of Abba Lerner in the famous December 1971 Queens College debate.  Afterwards, Sidney Hook delivered the threat against LaRouche.  He not only said that “You won, but we’ll never let you have a public hearing again.”  He said that they would strike back, and they did.  LaRouche was never forgiven for what he’d done.  Everyone must understand the implications of this from 1971 to the present.

        We must launch a general campaign right away, with the highest priority, making the shutting down of Wall Street an integral part of everything we do.  Obama has been struck down,— don’t take the pressure off him.  We have to close down Wall Street, or we’ll have a disaster for the US and other nations. An aggressive approach must be taken.  Wall Street is dead, and it must be buried, because the stench is overpowering.

        FDR had an eye for the problem, but the situation today is far, far beyond anything he faced in the 1930s.  Wall Street must be shut down to launch an effective US physical-economic recovery.

Documents obtained by WikiLeaks reveal that Great Britain and Saudi Arabia made a secret deal in 2013 to vote in support of each other in both countries’ bids to join the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), according to leaked diplomatic cables. There might have been a bribe, small by Saudi standards, of £100,000 to Her Majesty’s Foreign Office.

This is revealed as Saudi Arabia becomes chairman of that council in the midst of an international outcry over the Saudis’ death sentence for Shi’a activist Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, who at the age of 17 was convicted of joining an anti-government demonstration; he is sentenced to die by crucifixion. (Jeremy Corbyn made an issue of the al-Nimr case in his speech at the Labour Party conference Tuesday.) The leaked document reads:

“The [saudi] ministry might find it an opportunity to exchange support with the United Kingdom, where the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would support the candidacy of the United Kingdom to the membership of the council for the period 2014-2015 in exchange for the support of the United Kingdom to the candidacy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”

And another document states that Saudi Arabia transferred £100,000 for “expenditures resulting from the campaign to nominate the Kingdom for membership of the human rights council for the period 2014-2016.” The Guardian comments that is was unclear where or how this money was spent.

The story was revealed in Murdoch’s The Australian daily.

Speaking at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston Sept. 28, Sen. Elizabeth Warren responded to a question about reinstating Glass-Steagall:

Warren named the 1930s to 1980s as the period that the Glass-Steagall wall was solid, and the 1980s-1990s as the period when holes were put in it until it was knocked down.

While claiming that Dodd-Frank has since “done a lot,” Warren said that restoring Glass-Steagall will make regulating big banks