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Lyndon LaRouche made the following remarks on May 31, 2015.

I’ve expressed this several times in public, and I think I should restate the case right now, just to make sure that this thing is solidly understood.

We are on the point that we must urgently have a new President of the United States. That means an interim process where our intention is to get Obama thrown out of the office of President, which means there’ll be some new way of filling in the vacuum created by the absence of Obama. Now that’s absolutely a necessary process, because you have to have a sorting out period for the treatment of the general election. Now, if we’re blanketing something against Obama, that means there has to be an interim change, in which a new, interim President is acting to replace Obama. And that’s very important.

Now the transition has another implication. The Republicans have a claim that they have a marginal advantage in this thing. Now that’s doubtful, when it comes through the Bush family. I don’t think that the Bush candidacy is something that will stand up under these conditions. But something is going to happen.

So we have to talk about a transitional period between the time, we hope very soon, that Obama is thrown out of office. But we have to have that kind of idea. We have to formulate that idea, and express that idea. In other words, get the people out there to see something of a transitional process between this process of throwing Obama out of the Presidency, into bringing in a new Presidency under the order of magnitude here. So that’s what we have to concentrate on.

And we actually have to be a part of that. And all this stuff about the other possibilities of electing, of new elections—forget it! Forget it! What we have to do, is we have to get a landslide effect, in terms of the coming general election, but we have to also have something, an interim program, which leads into the new election. And that’s what we have to do.

It’s going to be a tough fight, but we have to do it, and we have to specify: Look, what’s happening out there, most of the politicians don’t really know what this is all about. They have mouths, they can spew things out, they can copy things, and make quotations and so forth. We are going to accumulate, I think, if we continue in the present direction, we’re going to find that there are more people and more odors and so forth, in the interim process. And I think we can win the general election, under those conditions. But we have to pick this question of the transitional period very seriously; we’ve got to discuss it up. We’ve got to discuss among ourselves what this means; understand we are faced with a transition from Obama being thrown out of office, and a transitional replacement for him, within the existing term of office from which Obama is thrown out.

And we’ve got to think accordingly. In other words, we have to be in the process, not of saying: “Who’s going to win? Who’s going to win? Who’s going to win? Who’s going to popular? Who’s going to do this?”

Forget all that crap! We have to say, we, of the United States: O’Malley is probably the best qualified President, right now; but that’s a process. And we really have to think that way. And don’t get any ideas of being practical. Don’t be practical! Being practical, under these conditions, is like choosing to be buried. You’re not going to accomplish anything; you’re going to be dead; no one will miss you. So this kind of thing we’ve got to deal with right now is crucial.

And the fact that we’ve organized, changed the character of our organization based on the Thursday discussions process [with activists across the country], that is going to be a leading driver for our influence in dealing with what has to be done now. We have to define that as our policy.

O’Malley is the most likely person with the qualifications to become the next President. We say, well that’s not a fact yet; but that’s what’s on the plate. Because the Republican Party in general is a mess, but we think that people that could be suspected of being Republicans who would not be stupid, would make a useful contribution to the process.

This is the kind of thing we have to think about. And don’t think about something else. This is what we have to think about.

First of all, how are we going to do this? Well, first of all we’ve got a basis in Manhattan. We have some people who are attached to Manhattan, even though they are not residents of Manhattan. Also we have the Thursday meeting, which is really our national organizational meeting, is what it is. It’s done by telephone, and it probably will have other offshoots and other reflections. So we are going to be on the march to actually recruit people to join this process. And that’s what we have to do.

Don’t try to worry about coming up with something. You have to have a concept which actually bridges all the essential requirements of the interim period. In other words, you are not going to say: “Well, we’re going to limit ourselves to this one phase, or something.” That’s not acceptable. We have the means right now.

What I’ve experienced with the recent Thursday discussions: we already have the root of a mass organization, which will be a key factor in influencing the shaping of the new Presidency of the United States. That’s our mission. That’s the way we’ve got to think. And by doing that, we are going to create a stir among the larger population around what we are doing on these Thursday events. And that’s what we have to do.

You’ve got the California problem in general. The California problem is now more dangerous, because it involves an attempt to really deal with the water question in a very mass murderous way. So we have to be organized around that factor as well.

These are things that you don’t talk about in the distant future; this is today, this is right now. And that’s the attitude we have to take on, from this point on.

On May 23, President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, speaking at the opening of the 10th Shanghai Forum said: “One of the priorities of Russian-Chinese cooperation is the implementation of a full-scale mechanism for dialogue to unify the Eurasian economic integration process and develop the Silk Road Economic Belt.”

According to rzd.ru, the website of Russian Railways, Yakunin said that, under the conditions of the continuing economic instability, the primary objectives include the need to promote and maintain regional economic cooperation, the expansion of knowledge, and exchanging experience between East and West. The basis of such cooperation should be the joint implementation of major infrastructure, industrial, and energy projects, he said.

“In this light, we see a unique opportunity to integrate the Russian megaproject of the Trans-Eurasian Belt RAZVITIE (TEBR) and the One Belt, One Road initiative of our Chinese partners,” he said. “It is not just about the integration of transport infrastructure and synchronization projects, but, much more importantly, the complete unification of formats and Eurasian cooperation mechanisms and the general accumulation of resources in order to achieve global goals,” said Yakunin.

On the TEBR project, Yakunin said: “We are making significant efforts to implement the idea of reconstructing the Trans-Korean Railway; in 2014, the universal transshipment terminal at the port of Rajin was launched with a capacity of 5 million tons; at the same time, trial deliveries of Russian coal were sent through South Korea to China. Our cooperation with China and other Asia-Pacific countries has reached unprecedented proportions,” said Yakunin.

He referenced the joint statements by Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping on May 8 this year, on deepening the comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction and promoting mutually beneficial cooperation, as well as on cooperation in the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union and Silk Road Economic Belt.

He spoke of development corridors, calling them “Network multimodal infrastructure: “rail, road, energy, water transport, and information — as the basis of this belt, including the construction of new scientific research, design, and industrial centers and cities with a large number of new jobs, which in turn become a source of advanced industrialization, according to rzd.ru.

“China is rapidly modifying the map of the world economy… and contributing to an unprecedented cycle of growth,” Alicia Barcena, the Executive Director of the U.N. Economic Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) stated excitedly yesterday, as she hosted a conference of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile, with the participation of President Michelle Bachelet and the visiting Premier of China, Li Keqiang. The conference was appropriately titled: “Towards a New Era of Economic Cooperation.”

Chile was the last leg of Li’s four-country tour of South America, and he announced that his government would encourage Chinese companies to participate in the building of a “two-ocean tunnel” under the Andes, connecting Chile and Argentina, which would be the key component of a transcontinental railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Just a few days earlier, China, Peru and Brazil had signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a feasibility study on another, more northern transcontinental railroad to be built across South America.

It should be noted just how far, and how quickly, things have moved in South America in the less-than-a-year since the BRICS-Unasur summit in Brazil in July 2014. As we noted at the time, Argentina had led the way earlier in the Spring in being the first country to break with the sinking trans-Atlantic system and going with the BRICS, and most of South America is now following suit.

The British Empire and their puppet Obama are not amused, but they don’t have a whole lot of cards to play to stop this emerging New Paradigm, other than launching thermonuclear World War III—and of course using the totally discredited so-called “Duggan affair” to try to bad-mouth Lyndon LaRouche, who has been one of the driving intellectual forces behind the World Land-Bridge now under construction by the BRICS and their allies.

Now, leading into this year’s BRICS summit in Ufa, Russia on July 8-9, similar strategic developments are taking shape around Greece and Europe—but this is going to play out differently than the South American situation, Lyndon LaRouche stated today. This one directly involves the United States—and the danger that President Obama will move to launch thermonuclear war in the short term.

Greece’s government continues to make it clear that they have chosen to pay wages and pensions to their impoverished population, rather than continuing to pay the IMF and its other creditors on debt which is largely illegitimate. If Greece does indeed fail to meet its 300 million euro payment to the IMF on June 5, its 30-day grace period—after which an official default could be announced—would come due on July 5… three days before the BRICS summit opens in Ufa!

Will Angela Merkel et al. really be so stupid as to push Greece out of the Eurozone? If so, Lyndon LaRouche has repeatedly warned, it will be the demise, not of Greece, but of the entire trans-Atlantic financial system, which in any event is thoroughly bankrupt.

Today LaRouche underscored that the world is now on a fast-count to potential thermonuclear war, if Obama is not removed from office. When the Eurozone system blows out, this will force the crisis to center stage in the United States. Wall Street and related institutions will be sunk, and if Obama remains in the Presidency the world will be headed toward war.

The upcoming May 30 announcement by Martin O’Malley of his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States, LaRouche emphasized, is going to change everything in this country. Hillary Clinton cannot make it; her candidacy is not going to work. The Republicans have major problems too. So when the breakdown of the European system comes, the issue will be called in the U.S. Which means that the next couple of weeks are decisive.

Over the next three weeks, nations on various continents will be directly presented Lyndon LaRouche’s programmatic alternative to today’s genocidal system: on May 28, at the Lima, Peru conference where Helga Zepp-LaRouche and China’s Dr. Liu Youfa will be featured speakers; on June 6, at our next major conference in New York City; and so on.

So enjoy the British Empire’s discomfiture.

Join Lyndon LaRouche and the rest of the LPAC Policy Committee on Memorial Day, as we discuss the world’s most important topics.

Ten Congressmen have added their names as sponsors of Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s (D-Ohio) bill to restore the core provisions of FDR’s Glass-Steagall Act (H.R. 381) over the last two weeks. Including Kaptur, there are now 54 sponsors of the legislation, which aims “To repeal certain provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and revive the separation between commercial banking and the securities business, in the manner provided in the Banking Act of 1933, the so-called ‘Glass-Steagall Act,’ and for other purposes.”

Kaptur’s bill is identical to the “Return to Prudent Banking Act” she had introduced into the 113th Congress. At the time of the expiration of that session, the bill had 83 cosponsors—but had never been given a hearing by the Republican-controlled leadership of the House Financial Services Committee. That Committee is chaired by Texas Republican Jeb Hensarling, who was also chair in the last Congress.

Four Republicans have joined the Democrats in sponsorship of H.R. 381, including initiating cosponsor Rep. Walter Jones. (R-NC) None of the known Senate supporters of restoring Glass-Steagall, who had introduced legislation to that effect in the 113th Congress, have yet reintroduced their bill.

The upsurge in support coincides not only with the very widespread mootings of an imminent global financial blowout worse than 2008, but with a steady campaign of public support for re-instatement. Leading the charge has been former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, now on the verge of his official announcement of candidacy for the Democratic Party nomination for President, who has repeatedly stated that Glass-Steagall is the essential first step in dealing with the crises in employment, wages, and living standards in the United States.

During the second week of May, the International Association of Machinists made Glass-Steagall’s restoration, and Kaptur’s bill in particular, a major item in their lobbying on Capitol Hill.

See: Machinists Push Congress for Glass-Steagall

In New York, a resolution is currently in the state legislature, with multiple co-signers, calling on Congress to pass legislation to re-instate Glass Steagall.

On May 15, Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary, and keynote speaker at the Iowa statewide “Raising Wages/Working Families Summit” the next day—the first of a national series, listed restoration of Glass-Steagall as a key Presidential candidacy criterion.

The major Wall Street banks have gotten the message. Earlier this month, Wall Street bankers had a war council session at Rockefeller Center. Press leaks have reported on their campaign of threats to cut off campaign funds to Congressmen who join the drive for Glass-Steagall. As the momentum in support for H.R. 381 shows, that pressure could well backfire.

LaRouchePAC’s campaign for reinstating Glass-Steagall, which went into high gear in October 2008, continues to expand as well, including through lobbying at state legislatures, and rallies in Alexander Hamilton’s home town of Manhattan. Lyndon LaRouche stresses that without the re-establishment of Glass-Steagall, the U.S. economy cannot be saved.

It’s Friday—that means it’s webcast time. Tonight, at 8 PM Eastern, we will tell the story of how one man, who by committing himself to the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt at the end of WWII, helped to shape the institution of the U.S. Presidency, with zero backing of monied interests, big corporations or political parties. These are not stories from the past, this how one American can create the future.

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., had arrived in India with a group of U.S. forces, when word arrived in April, 1945, that President Franklin Roosevelt had died. A group of soldiers asked to have an evening meeting with LaRouche. He simply told them: the President is dead, and we have to, ourselves, all the more, assemble ourselves, and devote ourselves to the mission of President Roosevelt.

That was the beginning of Lyndon LaRouche’s mission, now almost exactly seventy years old, which still today is not over,— although it has now come to a critical fork in the road over the past roughly two weeks.

“We were coming towards the end of the actual conflict in Europe, and then beyond,” LaRouche remembered today. “And so, what I was left with, was the Southeast Asia area. I got more or less tied to that region, plus Russia. And what I otherwise had gotten into.”

LaRouche wrote to General Dwight Eisenhower in 1948, asking him to run for President, which would have denied the wretched Harry Truman a second term, and replaced him with someone who aspired to what Franklin Roosevelt had represented. At that time, Eisenhower was being brought in as the new president of Columbia University in New York. “Eisenhower was the one person I had access to,” LaRouche said today. “He was then going into his position at Columbia; that was my access to him.”

We now know that all four of Franklin Roosevelt’s surviving sons, were themselves also writing just such letters to Eisenhower at the same time. Nevertheless, he waited out Truman’s term before running, and winning, in 1952.

What some regard as LaRouche’s excursion into the socialist movement during the 1950s and early 1960s, was actually much more specific. He supported and then joined the Socialist Workers Party, an American Trotskyist party, because it was fighting McCarthyism (better called Trumanism), as LaRouche was also doing on his own. No other such national organization was doing this, including the Communist Party.

Later, LaRouche intervened into the “New Left,” such as the Students for a Democratic Society, in the interests of bringing forth something productive in the wake of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “My commitment was very, very clear,” he remembered today, “but the times were changing. And therefore, the things that you dealt with at an earlier time, no longer fit the situation.”

His crushing defeat of the leading British Keynesian Abba Lerner, who had been flown direct from London into a Queens College debate with LaRouche in 1971, prevented a British takeover of the US and its economy at that time. “It was the birth of the time when people began to congeal themselves around me,” LaRouche said today. “It was an easy fight for me; Abba Lerner was just a damn fool. A self-important damn fool. But the whole crew of Keynesians was really freaked out at the fact that I had defeated them.”

LaRouche’s Strategic Defense Initiative proposal of 1977 and thereafter, was publicly adopted by President Reagan, and also unofficially supported by the then-existing Russian government, nominally under Leonid Brezhnev. This was the highest point of success ever achieved to that point, of LaRouche’s mission to reshape the U.S. Presidency to that which Alexander Hamilton had originally intended, which included what later President John Quincy Adams had termed a “community of principle” among republican nations girdling the globe. Not only did the SDI include an agreement between the US and the Soviets for development of devices based on “new physical principles” to overcome thermonuclear missiles. It also included the joint US-Soviet use of these technologies for economic development of Africa, Asia, and Ibero-America.

President Reagan suffered an assassination attempt by Bush-linked forces, two months after his inauguration. Although he survived, he was severely wounded, and he loosened or dropped the reins of government, which were taken over by the Bush family, which killed the SDI and railroaded LaRouche to jail.

LaRouche’s arrest (before his frameup trial and five-year incarceration in Federal prison), was actually intended to have been an assassination, which was only prevented by an intervention from the White House. The intention was also to kill LaRouche in prison, but patriotic forces kept him safe there.

The way LaRouche got to Russia, was that he got permission to go into Germany, to be with Helga. And she had already adopted a course of action, which was the same as his.

“I was in Europe,” he said today, “and then, in the process, because of Helga’s Russian connections, I found myself flying into Moscow with Helga. I found myself parked there.

“At the special meeting with the leaders of Russia at that time, they asked me for my decision. What should they do? We agreed on that. Then, Bill Clinton did not oppose it,— in fact, he agreed with it, in principle. But he was not going to act so as to put me, directly, in front of this stuff. But Bill actually did do a lot, in order to coordinate his views with me.

“Also up to that point, we had a friend in the Papacy. That Pope was also wounded in an assassination attempt. What happened is, the other party, shall we say the radical, left-wing party of the clergy, took advantage of the fact that the Pope had an impairment in his functioning, and they came in like gang-busters. Therefore, the whole Catholic operation disintegrated, and, interestingly, the disintegration of the Catholic Church from that point on, meant that the whole church kind of faded because of this kind of disintegration.

“The new Pope Francis is trying to make sure that that’s not going to be repeated.”

Out of the bankruptcy of Russia, which also involved the bankruptcy of the whole world financial system, LaRouche brought back a proposal of his from Russia, which was eventually adopted by President Clinton.

“I came back again,” he said today, “at the same time that Putin was rising in power, and dealing with the Chechens. I was also without any direct connection to Putin at that time. I didn’t really know him much, but I just knew about him. But the Chechen issue was the same issue I was working on. And that’s the whole racket we’re dealing with right now.”

Clinton went with the proposal; then he was sex-gated and impeached in a phony process.

“It was simply an operation done by a bunch of Republican whores on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II herself,” LaRouche said today. “Agents of the Queen [like Ambrose Evans-Pritchard] directed and controlled the Republican Party. It’s probably still true today. What you can say, is what’s the difference between the Republican Party,— well, most of them are queens.”

The hounding of Bill Clinton out of office entailed the loss of Glass-Steagall, followed by two terms of George W. Bush and almost two of Obama. It gave us a world economic catastrophe, and a series of U.S. wars of aggression, leaving us now on the brink of thermonuclear World War III.

Now, we’re come back to where we were, only again it’s different. But Obama can be out at any day of this week or next week; his crimes have been exposed, and he can’t recover.

“He could not have won the so-called election, nor could he have maintained his influence in the United States now, except for the British monarchy,” LaRouche says. “He’s just the Queen’s tool. You need to know what his gender is; because you look at the women that work around him,— you wonder what his gender is.”

Now with O’Malley doing what he’s doing, we’re at the position where we can win the Presidency; the real American Presidency, as Lyndon LaRouche has been fighting for, for all these seventy years.

“There’s a good way of looking at that,” LaRouche said today, “because O’Malley had not, on a formal basis, had not seemed to be, what he has become now. But, really he hasn’t changed. What happened is, is that he, like most politicians,— even good ones,— he will always try to wear the costume which fits the constituency. And that was the case with him, at an earlier stage.

“When he ran up against this Obama problem and what went with it, then, he un-masked himself, and what he did, was not something he had intended to do earlier; even though his actual feelings about the matter, had not been much different from what they are now. But, it didn’t show that way under the earlier conditions. Now, he gets to the point where he’s at the period of his life where he’s saying, ‘Hey, I’ve got to get back into the fight here.’

“And that’s exactly what has happened.”

Speaking on Saturday, May 16, and again on Sunday, May 17, Lyndon LaRouche said that higher courts should prevent the death sentence imposed in Boston on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from being carried out and the population of Boston and Massachusetts will be a crucial factor in achieving that result.

LaRouche said: We don’t want human executions. In the Boston case you have a minor who committed a crime. He could have been sentenced to life in prison instead of being sentenced to death.

The people of the U.S. are not inclined to lynch people. Most people in the U.S. will not want that to happen. Prison for life, yes. But the death penalty for a minor, no. LaRouche identified the opposition in Boston and Massachusetts to the decision to sentence Tsarnaev to death as a crucial factor, which reflects values going all the way back to the founding of New England. A New York Times article, for example, quotes a former Bostonian, who said the death sentence violated the sense of “exceptionalism that has pervaded Boston since 1630, when the Puritan John Winthrop said this spot in the New World would be as a city upon a hill – the eyes of all people are upon us.” The Boston Globe reports that only 15% of Bostonians agree with the death sentence handed down to Tsarnaev and only 19% of the residents of Massachusetts.

LaRouche said, as a result of the fact that the population of Massachusetts does not like the death penalty, this could create an uproar, and produce a revolt. And this revolt has broader implications.

LaRouche pointed to the recent Baltimore riots. Baltimore formerly had a successful economy with shipyards and a steel mill at Sparrows Point. But as a result of the shift in the U.S. economy from production to gambling and drugs, the Baltimore economy has collapsed. Baltimore was turned into a death zone.

Now take the situation in California. In the past, officials in California would never have said, cut the water supply and let the population die, as the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, has now effectively done. That would not have been acceptable. People would have said, instead: Something must be done about it.

Ask yourself how many people have died in this country and around the world as a result of the genocidal austerity policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the speculative policies of Wall Street, especially once Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Glass Steagall Act was repealed in the late 1990s. And yet how many bankers have even gone to jail, let alone been executed?

How many migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the terrorists unleashed in Northern Africa and the Middle East as a result of the illegal wars launched by successive U.S. Presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, in Iraq, Libya and Syria.

How many people have been prosecuted and gone to prison for torture, drone assassinations, and spying on Americans in violation of the U.S. Constitution, let alone been executed?

While these crimes go unpunished and, at best, result in fines which are written off as business expenses by the criminal banks, it is not just Tsarnaev who is being given a death sentence.

As LaRouche stressed today we are facing a situation like the European Dark Ages where mass death reigned. People were just grabbed up and fried! And burned to death. Tortured and then burned to death. And this was happening all throughout parts of Europe. And it persisted for a long period of time.

And we are looking at something like that happening here, now. “Why? Because you’re looking at people saying, ‘Well, look, buddy – we got too many people; you know that, don’t you? We’re overpopulated, we can’t support this population.”

As LaRouche stated: “There’s no reason to kill people. The point is if you’ve got somebody who’s guilty and they’re convicted, and kept under restraint, that’s as far as you want to go.”

LaRouche stressed that once the killing starts, it is a Hitler phenomenon. The danger is that someone will try to push through the execution and use it to get a national push to spread this action against the population as a whole.

Look, for example, at what is being done to the Greek population. If the Greeks want to leave the Eurozone, they should do so. They are not being offered an alternative that is tolerable. They are being told by the banks that money is more important than human life.

Therefore, the fire must be put out before it burns the house down. This death sentence must be reversed!