Author: Alicia

An article by Gal Luft Sunday in China’s state-run English-language news daily, Global Times, reports that this week’s COP21 in Paris, will be the largest-ever gathering of heads of state and government,— 147 of them,— outside of UN General Assemblies.  But, why are they coming? “Many of those leaders will not attend the summit out of concern for the world’s changing climate, but rather to ensure that their countries, mostly developing ones, don’t end up sacrificed on the altar of climatism.”

The Indian government used its official twitter handle for the Summit to issue a statement Sunday, prior to Prime Minister Modi’s departure for Paris.  It said, “the outcome of the Summit must support adaptation and development to affordable technologies balancing intermittent supply of solar and wind energy,” ANI reported.

Among those affordable technologies, coal is still today the main one.  The Global Times article points out that “coal fires nearly 80 percent of China’s power sector.  India, where the number of energy-poor is larger than the entire U.S. population, uses coal for 60 percent of its power generation.  The combined 600 million people of the 10 Southeast Asian countries are also heavily dependent on coal.”  The article sums it up saying the workhorse of developing Asia, where most of the world’s poor reside, has always been, and continues to be coal.

The author is right in pointing to the genocidal intent of COP21, although unfortunately only implicitly.  The error is in failing to point to nuclear energy and fusion energy as mankind’s future, and in failing to indict the same British imperialists who organized COP21, for denying access to those higher technologies.

For more on the ‘renewable energy’ fraud, visit our Green Fascism page.

If you didn’t already know that Obama is a serial murderer, and that, for example, he has a “Terror Tuesday” meeting every week in the White House to choose the next round of murder victims from what are called “baseball cards,”— if you’re one of the few who has managed to remain ignorant of this for almost seven years,— then a decision handed down on November 23 from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will remind you of what the rest of us have long known.

That decision, as reported by Marcy Wheeler and also by Cora Currier, makes it clear that Obama’s lawyers are busy cooking up new, secret, “legal” justifications for Presidentially-ordered murders, including murders of U.S. citizens.  Do you still remember the secret legal opinions written by John Yoo and others in the Bush Administration?  Well, Obama is doing the exactly same thing, but he’s doing it wholesale.

The Court had been at the point of releasing a 2002 Bush Justice Department memo on Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12333, which prohibits assassinations by the U.S. government.  (It contains some other provisions as well.)  The Court’s hearing record and its opinion, made that it clear that the issue involved Presidential assassinations.  For one thing, they cite speeches by Obama’s then-State Department lawyer Harold Koh, by his then-Attorney General Eric Holder, and by Obama’s then-Assistant to the President John Brennan,— all of them justifying Obama’s right to murder at will.

Obama officials intervened to insist that this 2002 Bush Administration memo justifying Presidential murders, remain classified.  Why?  Only because lawyers acting under Obama’s orders, are using that memo right now as raw material to cook up new secret “legal” opinions, “legalizing” Obama’s murders.

Another blatant coverup by Obama for his own murders, occurred on Nov 25, when the Army leaked to the press their phony investigative report on Obama’s Oct 3 mass-murders at the Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, when 30 or 31 patients and staff were massacred for an hour by a US warplane, while the doctors frantically telephoned the US Army, which already had the coordinates of the hospital.

The phony investigative report blamed low-ranking US service-members and supposed equipment malfunctions.  But Doctors without Border does not accept it.  That report raises “more questions than answers,” said MSF General Director Christopher Stokes.  What about MSF’s hour-long record of documented telephone calls to the US military to stop the bombing?  And why are these damning reports being released the day before Thanksgiving (when the US press is guaranteed to ignore them)?

Obama is plausibly a Satanic personality, said Lyndon LaRouche.  He has all the characteristics.  Why is he still President?  Isn’t there something wrong with our Constitutional processes?  Aren’t they being violated?  Isn’t this treason against the Constitution?  But cowardice makes traitors of us all.

If you didn’t already know that Obama is a serial murderer, and that, for example, he has a “Terror Tuesday” meeting every week in the White House to choose the next round of murder victims from what are called “baseball cards,”— if you’re one of the few who has managed to remain ignorant of this for almost seven years,— then a decision handed down on November 23 from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will remind you of what the rest of us have long known.

That decision, as reported by Marcy Wheeler and also by Cora Currier, makes it clear that Obama’s lawyers are busy cooking up new, secret, “legal” justifications for Presidentially-ordered murders, including murders of U.S. citizens.  Do you still remember the secret legal opinions written by John Yoo and others in the Bush Administration?  Well, Obama is doing the exactly same thing, but he’s doing it wholesale.

The Court had been at the point of releasing a 2002 Bush Justice Department memo on Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12333, which prohibits assassinations by the U.S. government.  (It contains some other provisions as well.)  The Court’s hearing record and its opinion, made that it clear that the issue involved Presidential assassinations.  For one thing, they cite speeches by Obama’s then-State Department lawyer Harold Koh, by his then-Attorney General Eric Holder, and by Obama’s then-Assistant to the President John Brennan,— all of them justifying Obama’s right to murder at will.

Obama officials intervened to insist that this 2002 Bush Administration memo justifying Presidential murders, remain classified.  Why?  Only because lawyers acting under Obama’s orders, are using that memo right now as raw material to cook up new secret “legal” opinions, “legalizing” Obama’s murders.

Another blatant coverup by Obama for his own murders, occurred on Nov 25, when the Army leaked to the press their phony investigative report on Obama’s Oct 3 mass-murders at the Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, when 30 or 31 patients and staff were massacred for an hour by a US warplane, while the doctors frantically telephoned the US Army, which already had the coordinates of the hospital.

The phony investigative report blamed low-ranking US service-members and supposed equipment malfunctions.  But Doctors without Border does not accept it.  That report raises “more questions than answers,” said MSF General Director Christopher Stokes.  What about MSF’s hour-long record of documented telephone calls to the US military to stop the bombing?  And why are these damning reports being released the day before Thanksgiving (when the US press is guaranteed to ignore them)?

Obama is plausibly a Satanic personality, said Lyndon LaRouche.  He has all the characteristics.  Why is he still President?  Isn’t there something wrong with our Constitutional processes?  Aren’t they being violated?  Isn’t this treason against the Constitution?  But cowardice makes traitors of us all.

Russian President Vladimir Putin aide Yuri Ushakov said Friday that the Russian President will not meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan until there is an apology for Turkey’s shooting down of the Russian Su-24.

“We see Turkey’s unwillingness to simply apologize for the incident with the plane,” Ushakov told reporters when asked why Putin has refused to talk with Erdogan.

While Putin is not likely to meet Erdogan in Paris on the sidelines of the Climate summit, he will be meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the Syrian crisis and Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He will also meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks about Syria and Ukraine, Ushakov said.

Denouncing the shooting down of the Russian Su-24, Putin’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Rossiya 24 television channel, “Now, when there has been no invasion, nobody can treacherously shoot the Russian plane in its tail. The Russian president said yesterday that everything about the Turkish president is a concern of Turkish voters; it is not our business. Our concerns are, of course, bilateral Russian-Turkish relations that have been badly damaged.”

“Russia was unprecedentedly challenged and the response is in line with this threat,” he said.

He also said that the hotline between Moscow and Ankara has been suspended. “The hotline, which was created especially for prevention, was halted,” Peskov said. “From our point of view, the level of predictability of the Turkish leadership is very hard to assess.”

The speaker of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin said Nov. 27 that Russia has the right to militarily retaliate for Turkey’s downing of the Russian Su-24 warplane. Naryshkin told Romanian television station Digi24: “This is intentional murder of our soldiers and this deed must be punished.”

“We know those who did this and they must be judged. At the same time, the response from the Russian side will surely follow, in line with international law. And aside from this, Russia has also the right to military response,” added Naryshkin, who was attending a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) in Bucharest.

“Even yesterday, military resources were allocated, (for) the S400 Triumph, which is the most advanced missile defense system, with the role to maintain flight safety of Russian planes, of our military and air forces whose task is to destroy terrorist infrastructure of the so-called ISIL and other organizations operating in Syria.”

At the Queen Elizabeth-led Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGM) at Malta, convened yesterday, Canada’s new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has been set up as the spokesman to exert pressures to accept climate-change diktats scheduled to be adopted at the Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 UN Climate Change conference in Paris. CHOGM represents the heads of 53 nations formerly under British rule, although very few heads of government of these 53 nations have come to Malta.

Voicing its concerns over CHOGM’s push for a climate- change-related consensus at Malta, Indian officials argued that any ambitious statement emanating from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) here should be tempered with realism, as the discussions in the run up to the COP21 at Paris have been complex and difficult and should not be overloaded at this stage, PTI reported.

Canadian TV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief, Robert Fife, said today, that Trudeau was expressly asked to attend the biennial meeting of the Commonwealth leaders by U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who wanted him to stress the importance of a climate-change agreement at the end of talks in Paris. CTV also reported Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion calling the three-day CHOGM summit a “training camp” for the United Nations climate-change conference.

CHOGM  has decided to set up a climate-change hub which would facilitate access to funds for small states like Malta. British Prime Minister David Cameron earmarked around £26 million for projects to help 25 small island states. Trudeau said his country will give C$2.65 billion over the next five years to help developing countries combat climate change, Times of Malta.com reported. The contribution is part of an agreement Canada made in 2009 to work with developed countries, to jointly provide $100 billion by 2020 from various sources.

Belgium remains on high-terror alert following the November 13 attacks in Paris, as a number of the perpetrators, including the “mastermind,” Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and current fugitive Salah Abdeslam, were citizens or residents of the country.

Earlier this week, Belgian socialist MP Dirk Van der Maelen, as well as the LaRouche-affiliated movement Agora Erasmus in Belgium, put the government on the spot: either you are against terrorism or you’re in favor of it. If you’re against it, you should review all economic and financial relations with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states which are promoting terrorism and radical forms of Islam such as Salafism and Wahhabism.

That message hit the highest levels of government. On Friday, the Flemish daily De Standaard reported that Belgian Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt suspended tax-convention negotiations between Belgium and Saudi Arabia. “In light of current events it seems appropriate to re-evaluate that convention on its desirability,” the newspaper quoted van Overtveldt’s cabinet as saying. The talks are delayed “till later.”

Sputnik International notes that “the decision comes after the Belgian opposition called on authorities to review the country’s relations with Saudi Arabia in light of Riyadh’s support of an “ultra-conservative” interpretation of Islam.

Friday morning, De Standaard reports the statements of another socialist MP, Yamila Idrissi, who said the government should end Saudi control over the Great Mosque of Brussels, “a propagation center of extremist Islam in Brussels, Belgium, and Europe.”

As underscored by an article on the website of Agora Erasmus posted early this week, already in 2012, under pressure from the Belgian state security, Saudi Arabia was forced to bring back to Saudi Arabia a rector of the Brussels Mosque, due to his inflammatory speeches and preaching. The Mosque is, and has been for decades, a notorious center used by diplomats and imams to spread feudal Wahhabism.

In 1967, King Baudouin of Belgium gave a 99-year contract to the Saudis to own and run the Mosque. That contract should immediately be scrapped, and the Mosque should become a “Modern center for a New Islam,” said MP Idrissi Friday. 

French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Moscow, Friday, following Hollande’s meetings with his German, Italian, and American counterparts in the days before. For Hollande, the contrast is dramatic between his time at the White House on Tuesday, Nov. 24—the day the Turks downed the Russian fighterjet—with Obama, who denounced Russia as an isolated loser, and Hollande’s time with Putin Friday, where the two of them made joint commitments to defeat terrorism.

Recall Obama’s exact, wild-man words on Nov. 24 at the Obama-Hollande press briefing: “Russia right now is a coalition of two—Iran and Russia—supporting Assad…Russia is an outlier…”

In Moscow yesterday, Putin and Hollande, after their meeting, gave statements, then took reporters’ questions.

Putin said that they had “agreed to step up our joint efforts on the anti-terrorist track, to improve the exchange of operational information in the fight against terrorism and establish constructive work between our military experts in order to avoid overlapping incidents and to focus our efforts on ensuring that our work in fighting terror is more effective, avoiding any strikes against territories and armed forces that are themselves fighting terrorists.” He also expressed confidence that a political settlement could be found in Syria after terrorism is eradicated.

Hollande stressed that unity is essential but not enough. There must also be action. Nations must take responsibility, as France is doing with the deployment of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. He also emphasized the importance of a transition process in Syria, the emphasis of which is largely in line with the Vienna document, but he added that “it goes without saying that Assad does not have any role to play in the future of his country.” Despite that, in order for the transiton to succeed, “it is imperative that Russia should play the main, one of the main, roles in this process.” As for the specifics of Franco-Russian cooperation, Hollande said that they had agreed on three points: 1) stepped-up intelligence cooperation; 2) coordinating intensified strikes against ISIS; and, 3) concentrating those strikes on ISIS and terrorist groups.

In response to questions, Putin once again went hard after the matter of oil smuggling from ISIS-controlled territory into Turkey. He pointed out that at the G20 summit in Turkey just a few days before the shoot-down, he had shown to other G20 leaders the photographs taken from Russian aircraft of lines of oil trucks extending as far as the horizon.

“Oil is being supplied from territories controlled by terrorists in Syria at an industrial scale. It comes from these territories, not from somewhere else,” Putin said. “We can see from above where these trucks are heading. They are driving towards Turkey, day and night. I can presume that Turkey’s top leaders are unaware of this. This would be hard to believe, but it is possible theoretically. However, this doesn’t mean that the Turkish authorities shouldn’t cut off these illegal transactions.” And if Turkey is destroying all of this oil, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims, “we don’t see any smoke or flames” from it.

Putin also raised the point: what use is the Oct. 20 Memo of Understanding between Russia and the United States, if the U.S. does not preclude such incidents at the Nov. 24 strike on the Russian jet?

“We exchange information with them, but now we’re very worried about the nature of this exchange and the results of this cooperation,” he said. “Look, we informed our American partners in advance when our pilots were going into action and where, in what air corridors. The American side, which leads the coalition, to which Turkey is also a party, knew about the location and time of our operation. And this is precisely where we were hit.” The question that arises, therefore, is “why did we pass this information to the Americans? Either they are not in control of what their allies are doing, or they hand out this information every which way without understanding the implications.”

In a LaRouchePAC national webcast of Nov. 6, EIR‘s Jeffrey Steinberg challenged the U.S. Labor Department’s report, which had just appeared that day, of large job growth in October. The Labor Department, Steinberg charged, constantly and falsely claims creation of employment based on its computer model which merely imputes “new startups” which produce job growth — when in fact, “new closedowns” have been outnumbering “new startups” since 2009 after the financial crash. The CEO of Gallup polling agency, Jim Clifton, has insistently challenged the Labor Department for doing this, since Gallup has data showing that the number of U.S. small businesses has declined, net, over that period.

Subsequently the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published, in a Nov. 18 release, its backup for the computer model, based on what it calls “Business Employment Dynamics (BED)” for the first quarter 2015, as follows:

“From December 2014 to March 2015, gross job gains from opening and expanding private sector establishments were 6.9 million, … gross job losses from closing and contracting private sector establishments were 6.7 million. The difference between the number of gross job gains and the number of gross job losses yielded a net employment gain of 226,000 jobs in the private sector during the first quarter of 2015. (See tables A, 1, and 3.)”

Thus BLS was saying that their year-later surveying and tabulating of actual startups and failures is a real world check — and confirmation, a in first quarter 2015 — of the often-suspect new employment claim projected by their computers.

But then they added this: “Data in this release incorporate annual revisions to the BED series. Annual revisions are published each year with the release of first quarter data. These revisions cover the last four quarters…. Additionally, all historical BED series back to third quarter 1992 have been revised for both seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted series, to incorporate an administrative scope change.”

And the revision was: “These revisions are primarily due to the reclassification of a number of establishments from private households (NAICS 814110) to services for the elderly and persons with disabilities (NAICS 624120). Private households are not within the scope of BED and, as a result, those establishments impacted by this industry reclassification are now within scope.”

I.e., BLS at the start of 2015, converted private households whose members are taking care of someone elderly or disabled, into small business employers, retroactively to its 1992 data!

In the real world, China leads in new business startups, having reached 1.6 million of them in 2014, double the number in 2010, according to a London global consulting firm.

Speaking at a round-table discussion at the World Forum of China Studies, which had gathered 300 of the top China Studies scholars from China, Europe, and North and South America on the theme, “China’s Reform Opportunities for the World,” EIR Washington correspondent Bill Jones underlined the historic importance of the Silk Road Belt proposal for the future of mankind. In his presentation entitled, “Belt and Road —A New Paradigm for Mankind,” Jones pointed to the tremendous devastation that “geopolitics” had brought to the world in the last century with two world wars, and numerous smaller wars continuing to this date.

While Roosevelt attempted with the United Nations to end the era of geopolitics, Jones said, a need made most urgent with the development of the destructive force of atomic bomb, his death prevented his project from coming to full fruition. “And yet we can see with the growing tensions between the United States and Russia, and between the United States and China, that the harbingers of future military conflict between major nations have by no means been eliminated.” The win-win concept of the Belt and Road represents a different trajectory, Jones said, and a new paradigm for mankind.

EIR’s World Land-Bridge proposal.

And what can the Belt and Road bring to long-suffering humanity? he asked. “First, the emphasis on infrastructural development concentrates the focus of economic activity on the fundamental role of what my mentor and boss, Lyndon LaRouche, calls the physical economy, as counterposed to the money side of the economy. … When people talk about economics, they think first of all of money. But money doesn’t talk. It doesn’t walk. It grows no food, and it produces no goods. Human labor provided with capital does that. Money—or finance—is only useful if it can mediate that process. Otherwise, it is only paper.” He illustrated his comments with photos of the stock market floor, first during a moment of market “irrational exuberance” and second, at the moment of a stock market crash, to make his point. Jones then noted the $2 quadrillion of debt, the payment of which was leading to the death of entire nations. A reform of the international financial system and a major write-off of the greater part of that debt was the only thing that could help revive the world economy, he said.

EIR’s special report “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge” now available for $50

Secondly, the Silk Road Belt could bring together—around their common interest in development, as it had in the ancient Silk Road—the diverse cultures, religions, and ethnic groups of the region. And third, it could become a transmission belt of new discoveries in science and technology. “We should recall that during the period of the early Middle Ages, when Europe was just emerging from the barbarous Dark Ages, there was a flourishing of science and technology in the region which now encompasses the ‘One Belt, One Road.’ The great scientific centers in Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, and India, stimulated no doubt by the work in astronomy and other sciences developed in China, became the centers of world science which would later, during the Great Renaissance of the 15th century, be transmitted to Europe.” The Silk Road Belt could thus provide a fount of creativity where young people would become excited about mankind’s unending journey of exploration beyond our planet into the Solar System, providing hope for the younger generation in Central Asia and the Middle East, where they are now turning in desperation to extremism and terror. The support garnered for the New Silk Road project by the BRICS nations, representing roughly 40% of humanity, must now be embraced by the rest of mankind in a joint effort to realize the common aims of mankind, Jones said.

The conference, held every other year under the auspices of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, received close attention by the government and the party, with a prestigious delegation addressing the plenary session, including one member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party. According to the organizers, the forum attracted 80 different media and there were probably 2,000 people attending the different sessions. While the Silk Road Belt was itself one of the topics, the Belt and Road also intersected many of the other topics, dealing with China reform, presenting China to the world, energy policy, the “China Path,” social structure, governance, and the future of China studies.

In several press interviews, Belgian MP Dirk Van der Maelen (Socialist, opposition) who currently heads the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Belgian House of Representatives and is otherwise known for having sent letters to members of the U.S. Congress to reenact the Glass-Steagall Act, has called on the Belgian government to thoroughly review its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.

“After the bombings in Paris, questions are increasingly raised about the financing of terrorism by Gulf States such as Saudi Arabia,” writes the Flemish daily De Standaard. The paper then quotes Van der Maelen saying:

It should be noted that in the center of Brussels, not far from the EU Commission, Saudi Arabia has been financing since 1967 the Belgian Islamic Center (Centre Islamique de Belgique), a huge center for propagating Wahhabism.

According to diplomatic cables disclosed by WikiLeaks, the Saudi Ambassador in Brussels reported that in 2012, the Belgian Foreign Ministry and Belgian State Security asked him to repatriate Khalid Alabri, radical Imam of the Great Mosque of Brussels, the country’s largest mosque, because of his extremist and potentially dangerous speeches. Under Belgian pressure, Alibri finally was sent back to Riyadh on April 14, 2012.

“Behind this,” says Felice Dassetto, a sociologist at the University of Louvain, “the Muslim World League has a strategic objective developed by the Saudis since the 1960s which is to become the hegemonic pole of the Islamic world.”

Another key factor is that close to half of firearms and munitions exported to the Middle East are produced in Belgium, reported the Flemish weekly Knack on Oct. 13. Belgian firearms exported to Saudi Arabia show up repeatedly in Libya and Syria; some of the weapons used by the terror squad that hit the Charlie Hebdo journalists in Paris on Jan. 7, 2015, were produced by the notorious Belgian firm Fabrique Nationale. 

Gen. Peter B. Zwack, who served as U.S. military attaché in Moscow during part of the Obama presidency, has published a strong call for an immediate resumption of U.S.-Russia bilateral military dialogue, to both advance the war against the Islamic State and re-establish institutional contacts to avoid war.  Gen. Zwack wrote in Defense One that he was present in Jan. 2014 at the very last high-level discussion between American and Russian military commanders. 

  He urged that such lines of regular communication would be

Gen. Zwack called for Obama to give the green light for Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and JCS Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford to meet with their Russian counterparts, Sergey Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov.

Gen. Zwack cited the Paris attacks, the Sinai bombing, and other recent events as obvious reasons for re-establishing the military-to-military institutional dialogue, warning