Seventy years ago today, on Aug. 9, three days after the first use of a nuclear weapon over Hiroshima, U.S. President Harry Truman and his British controllers incinerated another 70,000 civilians or so in Nagasaki, for no military purpose, aiming only at showing the world that the U.S. and the British were insane enough to commit genocide as a policy.

Today, survivors of that atrocity, speaking at the official ceremony, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe present, described the horror of that destruction, and then turned to Abe, demanding that he end his mad push to restore Japan’s militarist past, joining in the U.S. preparations for war against China with the intent to join in such a war of extinction.

The mayor of Nagasaki, like the mayor of Hiroshima three days ago, directly called on Abe to listen to the overwhelming voice of the population against his “collective defense” policy and the dumping of the pacifist constitution.

Then, a survivor of the Nagasaki attack, 86-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi, described the horrible injuries he had suffered, and then turned to face Abe, who was sitting nearby. “Do not meddle with Japan’s pacifist constitution,” he said, evoking an eruption of loud applause in the audience, according to all the press accounts. BBC wrote: “Mr. Abe looked straight ahead, showing no emotion.” 

Sunday’s New York Post reports that two former investigators for the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and the later 9/11 Commission, will likely testify in Federal Court in New York on the evidence that the government of Saudi Arabia was deeply involved in the 9/11 attacks.  According to Post reporter Paul Sperry, at a recent Federal Court hearing, plaintiffs, representing the 9/11 families and survivors, who are suing the Saudi government, reported that FBI agent Michael Jacobson and Justice Department attorney Dana Lesemann were both convinced that they had uncovered evidence of the direct Saudi involvement.  Their investigations centered on two Saudi officials, Omar al-Bayoumi and Fahad al-Themairy.  Al-Thumairy was posted to the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, where he represented the Ministry of Religious Affairs, and al-Bayoumi was an employee of Saudi civil aviation authority through the company Dallah Aviation.

For the first time at the July 30 hearing, plaintiff attorneys also revealed that key sections of the 9/11 Commission findings were removed from the final report by “senior staff.” Not only were the 28 pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry blocked from public disclosure.  Now it turns out that key findings were blocked from even being included in the 9/11 Commission final report in the first place.  Philip Zelikow, the staff director, was widely viewed by investigators as a “mole” for the Bush Administration, who reported everything back to Condoleezza Rice and was a major obstacle throughout the Commission investigation.  Jacobson and Lesemann had both been staff members on the Joint Inquiry.

Attorney Sean Carter, representing the 9/11 families, told the Court that the two staff investigators “felt they had documented a direct link between the Saudi government and the Sept. 11 plot, based on the explosive material they had uncovered concerning the activities of Fahad al-Thumairy and Omar al-Bayoumi.”

The Federal Judge hearing the case now has between 60 and 90 days to rule on a motion by the Saudis to dismiss the case. Another plaintiff attorney, Jerry Goldman, told the Post that he expects a favorable ruling, which would mean the case proceeds to pre-trial discovery.  The Judge “wasn’t buying their spin.  The burden is on the Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] to prove we are wrong, and they didn’t do that.”

Salon Magazine Foreign Affairs columnist Patrick L. Smith wrote Saturday that

 But Smith must know that the latter alternative is merely wishful thinking; there can be no rerun of the Cold War, and to imagine one is to overlook the reasons behind London’s orders to Obama to move into imminent war with Russia.  Short of Moscow’s surrender, which will not happen, or Obama’s removal, the latter will order a thermonuclear launch, probably before Lyndon LaRouche’s 93rd birthday on September 8.

In his August 8 article, Smith equates the current days with the “phony war” from September 1939, when Britain and France declared war on Germany, until May, 1940, when Germany invaded the Low Countries.  Not because there is anything “phony” about this present war,—quite the contrary.  But because, like that earlier period, it is a merely apparent calm, which is ticking down before the fore-ordained outbreak of total war, which today means thermonuclear war.

In an earlier article, Smith had noted that U.S.-Russian relations have plummeted since April.

Secretary Kerry went to Sochi in May for meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and a long meeting with President Putin, but Washington (i.e., Obama) has furiously pumped up tensions with Russia ever since.  The same Obama praised Putin for his cooperation in reaching the Iran agreement when he announced it on July 14, but only two weeks and two days later, the U.S. Treasury added 26 more Russian individuals and companies to its sanctions list.  Pentagon and State have increased their “effort to encourage the Poroshenko government to resolve its crisis with rebellious citizens in the east of Ukraine on the battlefield.”

The mention of Ashton Carter should remind us that Obama is using a changeover to new people, to push through his annihilation war.  Carter is a new Secretary of Defense, and General Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is transitioning out to be replaced on October 1.

The countdown is on.  The only thing which has any degree of certainty of turning it off, is to remove Obama from the Presidency.

As Lyndon LaRouche discussed with a Manhattan meeting yesterday, Section Four of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, was passed in 1967 to involuntarily remove any President who is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office” for psychological or other reasons.  It must now be used to remove Obama.

It is a common misconception that the use of Section Four must be initiated by the Vice President, but this is not the case.  Rather, it only requires that the Vice President join in with a majority of “the principal officers of the executive departments” in concluding that the President is unfit.  Joe Biden will not be the problem, Lyndon LaRouche said today.  He will be faced with the choice of joining in, or committing suicide, since he will be among the first to be killed in the coming thermonuclear war.