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The three day conference on Nuclear Power in the Asia-Pacific Region, sponsored by the IAEA in Manila, concluded Thursday with a rousing call from the Duterte government’s Energy Secretary for reopening the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Plant and proceeding onwards with nuclear power.
Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said that the conference had provided him and others with a “virtual crash course on the entire chain of launching a nuclear program and the importance of public information.” He said that he and others had visited the Bataan plant Thursday morning. “The timing of this summit is perfect,” Cusi said. “As a coincidence we had a hearing also in the Senate. We discussed also nuclear power plants and today we inspected the BNPP and there are a lot of discussions,” he said.
It should be noted that Butch Valdes, the head of the Philippines LaRouche Society, had organized a tour of the Bataan plant for politicians and engineers several years ago, which sparked the growing interest in reversing the disaster of shutting the plant after its completion in 1985, without producing a single watt of electricity. He has since been the leading spokesman for restoring the Bataan plant, and was invited to address the conference on Wednesday
Cusi said that “with intensified electrification programs, increasing population, and strong GDP growth, demand for electricity is expected to grow by an average of 5 percent per year… This is the most pressing concern for the country,” and that “given its known characteristics, nuclear energy can be a viable choice for the country.”
Cusi said one of the things they learned was how other nations launched their own nuclear programs.
The meeting was chaired by the Philippine Ambassador to the UN, Zeneida Angara Collinson, who told the press: “For me the most important thing is the understanding of our people about what nuclear energy, nuclear power is all about. Having understood that, then we can form our own opinion.” She noted that experts who attended the event claimed that the BNPP was sturdier than the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, which was damaged by an earthquake and a tsunami. She said that while a single nuclear reactor will cost billions of pesos, it is cheaper to run because of the relatively cheap cost of fuel, and noted the dozens of nuclear plants being constructed in Asia. “They can no longer get [energy] from biomass, solar,” she said, adding that they were “fluctuating and we cannot use them as baseload.” The ambassador said the Philippines is already lagging behind. “Malaysia already has a nuclear science university,” she said, explaining that knowledge in nuclear science can be applied to agriculture and health.
China’s Party newspaper Global Times editorialized on Wednesday that the US and Japanese efforts to draw China into a geopolitical confrontation will not work, and encouraged the government to not be diverted, but to proceed with win-win policies.
The editorial reviews Abe’s cooperation with Russia, Obama’s “Pivot” and his upcoming trip to the ASEAN Summit in Laos, and the Indian Defense Minister’s current visit to Washington, noting that western pundits describe these moves as efforts to pull countries away from their cooperation with China. “China seems to be positioned in the center of the geopolitical maneuvers by the US and Japan,” the editorial says. “But Beijing should not let its attention be led by the two. Geopolitics in the 21st century is not like the traditional game of ‘Go’ where every piece aims to encircle the others. The outside world has miscalculated geopolitics by interpreting China’s diplomacy.”
It notes that China is not “encircling” the US when they establish ties with Cuba and Mexico and other Latin American nations, nor challenging India by working on development projects in Sri Lanka.
On the other hand, they continue: “The US and Japan have the motivations to initiate a geopolitical competition with China, but China will not be made to give in. Myanmar is a neighbor of China that Washington and Tokyo have been particularly keen to court. Nonetheless, after Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent China visit, the relationship between China and Myanmar is steering in the opposite direction to the wishes of the US and Japan. The arbitration case around the South China Sea, a contention point between China and the US, will eventually prove beneficial for China.”
They conclude: “China has just become a real major power. China needs to develop modern national defense, and at the same time keep long-term economic vitality and expand its vision. The Chinese military should become so strong that we can withstand any external military pressure. The Chinese economy should retain its momentum of long-term prosperity that will surpass that of the US. This is the primary task for China, and we should not let our attention be diverted by the clamorous geopolitical rivalry in the Asia-Pacific.”
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As the globalists begin to realize they are losing control, they become more desperate.
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by Dennis Speed
Mozart’s Requiem is the needed antidote to the inhuman politics of the moment. Mozart, the political enemy of the dying oligarchies of Europe, and an admirer of the American Revolution, immortalized himself against the killers that poisoned him. It is said that Beethoven once referred to the Requiem as “not a mass for the dead, but for the living.” The New York City Schiller Institute Community Chorus has based its advocacy of the Requiem, performed at the Verdi tuning, on precisely this hypothesis.
Although the 28 pages of the 2002 Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 were finally released this past July, the people of New York City and the United States are still traumatized. The Obama Administration’s commitment to war and killing prevents any meaningful solidarity or reconciliation among citizens. “When madness rules the state, murder walks the land.”
In contrast, the modest but successful assembly of numbers of citizens, non-professional singers primarily, through the Schiller Institute New York City Community Chorus, to master the principles of Mozart’s Requiem, including both its study and performance, directly addresses and transcends the deepest emotions and fears that are otherwise prone to erupt in irrational violence, often not even understood by its perpetrators.
By study of Classical principles in this way, the citizen can once again find his voice, not merely as an individual, but as a constituency. Without developing this capability to educate the emotions, the citizen is incapable of self-government, no matter how strongly he or she may feel about issues.
The Manhattan Project of Lyndon LaRouche has emphasized that the return to mass-based choral singing, starting in New York City and eventually spreading nationally, is probably the only efficient way to return the voice of the American people to its citizens. Classical composers Brahms and Dvorak, as well as others earlier, including Beethoven, knew this. They sought to advance the liberating power of Classical music in the lives of recently freed citizens in Europe and the United States through the advanced techniques of Classical composition.
The Requiem of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in 1791, was a great moment in human discovery. During that year, prior to commencing work on the Requiem, Mozart had already written the operas La Clemenza di Tito and The Magic Flute, the String Quintet in E Flat, the Clarinet Concerto in A, two pieces for Ben Franklin’s glass harmonica, and many songs. He had stated to his wife no later than October of that same year that he believed he was being poisoned.
For Mozart, however, death was swallowed up in victory. His student Sussmayer, to whom he had given meticulous instructions, as well as sketches as to how to complete the Requiem, did so. “If Mozart did not write the music, then the man who wrote it was a Mozart,” Beethoven is reported to have said. The Requiem was performed at the funerals of Beethoven, Haydn and Chopin.
For the American people, and New York City in particular, however, the Requiem can today perform a special service. More than 1500 persons are being recruited to the several choruses that the Schiller Institute New York City Community Chorus has pledged itself to found and develop as a living memorial to the immortality of Mozart, as well as to those murdered on September 11, 2001, and those murdered afterwards all over the world – in drone strikes, irregular warfare, sanctions, and retaliation against people and nations that had little or nothing to do with that horrible crime.
LaRouche’s Manhattan Project, which encompasses the choral principle as well as the development of the New Presidency, centers around the true significance of the real Alexander Hamilton–not the Broadway musical Hamilton, but the Washington-Hamilton Presidency. Hamilton’s four great Treasury reports did not define a set of economic measures as such. They proclaimed that the productivity of the nation must be based, not on slavery, usury, or free trade, but on the discoveries and inventions of the individual creative mind as the source of wealth, as the driver, the characteristic of all truly human physical production. A policy equivalent to Mozart’s.
Total rejection of the Broadway musical’s virtual-reality in favor of the classical Hamiltonian placement of the American political voice is necessary to achieve that which is uniquely available through the principle of Mozart’s Requiem, i.e. the creation of a new American chorus upon which our republic depends.
As with Hamilton, Mozart’s triumph over his own mortality sounds the certain trumpet of humanity’s true mission. Mozart’s assassins are dead, but Mozart, like mankind, is immortal.
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“The Moon is the touchstone of the human future.”
—Krafft Ehricke
China is opening up a new frontier in mankind’s exploration of the Galaxy! Earlier this year, China announced that it plans to be the first nation to land on the far side of the Moon, when it launches its Chang’e 4 mission in 2018. This comes in the context of increasing interest, on the part of China and Russia, in returning mankind to the Moon, possibly including permanently manned bases. China is taking global leadership in mankind’s conquest in space.
Lyndon LaRouche responded to these developments by calling for a full mapping of the Moon, especially the far side. While the lunar far side has been imaged and investigated from lunar orbit, mankind is far from uncovering all of the secrets the lunar far side is hiding, and we can only imagine what implications tomorrow’s discoveries will create for transforming mankind’s relation to the Solar system and beyond.
China’s lunar exploration program clearly indicates that China is not just making a new landing site on the Moon’s surface, but opening up to mankind what German-American space pioneer and aeronautical engineer Krafft Ehricke once described as the “seventh continent” of the world. By doing so, China–in collaboration with Russia and other nations–establishes mankind as a truly polyglobal species.
The world is moving forward, and the vision for a new paradigm is already coming-into-being, despite the refusal of the United States to join in the win-win cooperation offered by China for the benefit and progress of all nations.
Instead, President Barack Obama has dismantled and privatized our U.S. manned space program, bailed out the bankrupt speculators of Wall Street as they continue to plunder the physical economy, and launched a series of illegal wars around the world. By aborting the Constellation program–which focussed on the Moon as a critical, permanent destination for the exploration and development of space–Obama eliminated our nation’s ability to lead a manned presence in space for the foreseeable future. Not only has the project to return to, and develop the Moon been scrapped under Obama, but an insane project to capture an asteroid was set up to replace it. Research on thermonuclear fusion power has also been cut.
How long will Americans condone such insanity? We must demand a restoration of a national mission for the development of space outlined by such visionary leaders as President Kennedy and Krafft Ehricke, who saw the Moon not just as a temporary attraction or landing ground, but essential to mankind’s development of the Solar system.
China’s emphasis on lunar development, with its focus on landing on the lunar far side, is a critical phase of a science-driver program essential to international cooperation and economic development around the planet and beyond. Lunar exploration and space development must be defined in terms of a program for economic development of the Moon, needed in conjunction with a crash program for fusion power, as defined by Lyndon LaRouche. This was a shared vision between Mr. LaRouche, his wife Helga, and their close friend Krafft Ehricke, and is now an essential aspect of human development for the coming century.
Ehricke also envisioned and mapped such a program in great detail. In his 1985 article on “Lunar Industrialization and Settlement,” he states:
“The most important aspect of lunar development lies in the human sector. It bears repeating that technological progress and environmental expansion are no substitutes for human growth and maturity, but they can help the human reach higher maturity and wisdom.”
“Human growth is contingent not only on the absence of war, or overcoming hunger, poverty, and social injustice–but the presence of overarching, elevating goals, and their associated perspectives. Expanding into space needs to be understood and approached as world development, as a positive, peaceful, growth-oriented, macrosociological project, whose goal is to ultimately release humanity from its present parasitic, embryonic bondage in the biospheric womb of one planet. This will demand immense human creativity, courage, and maturity.”
It is with these common aims of mankind in mind that nations around the world, led by China and Russia, define a unified mission of unfolding mankind’s truly creative nature, and thus take up the Moon as a stepping stone destination for mankind’s development of space. China’s statement of principle for space exploration declares that, “Outer space is the commonwealth of mankind. Exploration, development, and utilization of outer space are an unremitting pursuit of mankind.”
China’s lunar exploration program is currently leading the way. In December 2013 the world was gripped with excitement when China made the first soft landing on the Moon in 40 years with its Chang’e 3 mission carrying the Yutu rover. Now China has announced that the 2018 Chang’e 4 mission will fulfill mankind’s first ever landing on the far side of the Moon.
Because the Moon makes one rotation on its axis in the same time that it takes to complete one orbital rotation around the Earth, the same side of the Moon is always facing our home planet, leaving the far side shrouded in mystery.
Although the far side was imaged from lunar orbit in 1959 by the Soviet Union–and at higher resolution in 1967-1968 by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter–mankind has barely scratched the surface. In discussions over the past week, Lyndon LaRouche called for a full mapping and investigation of the lunar far side, and everything it may represent for mankind.
For example, the geology on the far side–as we know it so far from photography and radar (microwave) imaging–is anomalous compared to the near side. It provides a relatively undisturbed record of the early history of the Moon, but it also preserves traces that can tell us about the changing and developing Solar system and the Galaxy beyond. The Chinese have wisely chosen to land the Chang’e 4 mission in a particularly interesting location on the far side, the Aitken basin near the south pole. It is possibly the largest, deepest, and oldest impact crater on the Moon.
Chang’e 4 will also continue China’s investigation into critical questions of the distribution of water, metals, and other potential resources, including the superb fusion fuel helium-3, which is nearly absent on the Earth. Approximately 50 tons of it could power the entire United States for one year. It is thought that the far side, and possibly the Aitken basin specifically, could have higher concentrations of helium-3. Top Chinese officials have made clear their interest in developing the Moon’s helium-3 resources to power the Earth for thousands of years into the future.
The lunar far side can also open up a completely new window for viewing the universe. The Earth is a very noisy place, especially with certain lower frequencies of radio waves, making it impossible to observe the low-frequency radio sky from Earth or near Earth orbit. This is the last major, unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of imaging the universe, and it can uniquely be opened up from the lunar far side, where observation systems would be shielded from the Earth’s radio noise. Again, China is making the first steps towards exploiting this window by including low-frequency radio observation systems on the 2018 Chang’e 4 far side landing mission.
China’s lunar exploration program–which also includes sample returns as part of the Chang’e 5 and Chang’e 6 missions–is laying the groundwork for the fulfillment of Ehricke’s vision for the permanent development of the Moon.
Russia, long having declared its interest in a permanent lunar base, is accelerating its efforts to develop a new “super heavy-lift rocket,” capable of bringing manned missions to the Moon, something which hasn’t existed since Apollo’s Saturn V rocket. Russia’s first systems could be ready as soon as the early 2020s, and China is looking at the early 2030s for the readiness of its own super heavy-lift rocket system.
Chinese scientists are also working on a feasibility study for a manned radar station on the near side of the Moon, capable of generating high-intensity beams that can reach the Earth and be reflected back to the lunar station. This will provide unique data on Earth’s extreme weather conditions, global earthquake activity, the polar ice caps, and more.
Other plans for manned lunar development are either in the works or being discussed, including by the head of the European Space Agency. At last, under the leading efforts of China and Russia, the beginnings of Ehricke’s vision appear to be on the horizon.
As Krafft Ehricke declared, “Our work in space will change Earth’s present closed world environment into an open one with access to vast space resources and other critically needed benefits that will greatly improve the lives of all people, and preserve Earth at its best–as man’s home and garden for the maximum human future.”
These goals, which define a common mission for the progress of all mankind, cannot be accomplished in a paradigm defined by the threat of thermonuclear war, ongoing economic breakdown, and the bestialization of human beings. Only through the forming of a new paradigm and the opening of the age of reason will we come to fully realize our truly human potential.
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by Jeffrey Steinberg
The July 15 release of the 28 page chapter from the original December 2002 Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 has opened a new chapter in the 15-year long battle to get to the bottom of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, when nearly 3,000 innocent citizens were killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and western Pennsylvania, in the worst terrorist incident to ever occur on U.S. soil.
With the 15th anniversary of those attacks just days away, and with the newly revealed evidence of the direct hand of the Saudi Monarchy in those cowardly acts now out in the public view, it is time for a truly thorough and independent investigation to get to the bottom of 9/11.
One immediate step is for the House of Representatives to unanimously pass the Justice Against Supporters of Terrorism Act (JASTA), which would reinstate the Saudi Monarchy as defendants in the long-running legal action brought by survivors and family members of the 9/11 victims. That case, now before a Federal Judge in New York, offers the most immediate opportunity to put top Saudi officials on record on their role in the terrorist attacks.
The 28 page chapter from the original Joint Inquiry made clear that senior Saudi officials, starting with Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, the long-serving Saudi Ambassador to the United States, had a direct hand in supporting the 9/11 terrorists. Bandar and his wife Princess Haifa provided at least $50,000 to the hijackers al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, through two known Saudi intelligence agents, al-Basnan and al-Bayoumi. The paper trail is explicit, and it reaches into the upper echelons of not just the Saudi Monarchy, but the British Monarchy as well.
At the time of the preparations for 9/11, Prince Bandar was receiving regular installments on a $2 billion kickback for his role in creating the Al Yamamah oil-for-arms deal between the British and the Saudis—a deal that also created offshore slush funds for the promoting of Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups. Funds went from the Al Yamamah accounts at the Bank of England to Bandar’s personal accounts at Riggs National Bank in Washington—and on from there to the west coast team of 9/11 terrorists.
By profile, Prince Bandar was hardly a Wahhabi fundamentalist or proponent of jihadist terrorism. Yet, his fingerprints are all over the 9/11 attacks. He was acting on behalf of the Saudi Monarchy and the British Monarchy—and, by extension, for the very George W. Bush/Dick Cheney U.S. Administration that used the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks as the rationale for going to war against Iraq, for imposing the Patriots Act, and for launching the biggest illegal spying operation against American citizens in history.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Chief of Staff to George W. Bush’s Secretary of State Colin Powell, recently told reporters that Vice President Cheney suppressed all evidence of the Saudi role in 9/11, because he was committed to blaming the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, to justify the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Had the 28 page chapter of the Joint Inquiry Report been released to the public in Dec. 2002, it would have been impossible for Bush and Cheney to have gotten their dirty war against Iraq. It would have been like going to war against China after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
So Cheney, Bush and others at the top of the Executive Branch suppressed the 28 pages—for 15 years—and got their Iraq war and all of the horrors that followed.
Fifteen years after the fact, it is time for a full and honest reckoning with history. A truly thorough and independent official investigation must be launched into 9/11. It must start from the top down. The British government of Tony Blair shut down the investigation into the Al Yamamah deal at the point that investigators from Britain’s Serious Fraud Office were getting at the secret offshore slush funds that have been the biggest source of money to global jihadist terrorism, dating back to 1985, when Al Qaeda was first being launched out of the Afghanistan War. That investigation must be reopened.
Before their work was shut down, investigators for the Joint Inquiry and the 9/11 Commission established a list of more than 20 Saudi government officials who were directly linked to the two west coast hijackers. Many held important posts in the Saudi Embassy in Washington, others were spread around the United States and Europe.
A Federal Judge in Florida is reviewing more than 80,000 pages of long-suppressed FBI documents, revealing another Saudi link to 9/11, through a wealthy Saudi businessman, employed by leading Saudi princes, whose Sarasota, Fla. home was frequently visited by Mohammed Atta and two other hijackers. The FBI sat on those documents for a decade, and only released them to the Judge when investigative journalists for the Broward Bulldog online publication found out about the Sarasota links.
Senator Bob Graham, the former U.S. Senator from Florida who co-chaired the Joint Inquiry and has been a champion of the fight for full disclosure of the Saudi role in 9/11, has demanded to know: What about the Saudi terror cells in Herndon, Va. and Paterson, NJ? Where else is there evidence of top-down Saudi royal involvement? Nothing short of a de novo complete investigation can be tolerated—even at this late moment.
This time, the investigation must have unlimited resources to do the job. The FBI, which 9/11 Commission investigators accused of running a top-down coverup, must be a subject of the new probe. The role of successive British governments must be included, because without an understanding of the Al Yamamah deal and other relations between the British and Saudi Monarchies, the truth will remain concealed.
Lyndon LaRouche was on hand as the planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers on the morning of 9/11. Seven months prior to those attacks, LaRouche had warned that the incoming Bush-Cheney Administration would look for a “Reichstag Fire” incident to go for dictatorship. On the day of the 9/11 attacks, LaRouche supporters were out on the streets of New York and many other cities around the country, warning about an imminent terrorist attack, based on evidence accumulated over the course of the summer of 2001.
The heroic Members of the U.S. Congress, who joined with Sen. Graham and with LaRouchePAC in fighting for the release of the 28 pages, have all said, in their own words, that the reading of those 28 pages and the evidence they contained of the Saudi complicity in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, changed their view of history. Those 28 pages merely opened the door into a much bigger scandal, which must now be fully unearthed. The families and victims of 9/11—living and dead—have the right to the truth, as do the American people.
The release of the 28 pages was a victory for persistent public action, which forced the Obama Administration to end the nearly eight-year cover-up, which followed the eight year cover-up by Bush and Cheney. On the strength and momentum of that victory, and as we pause to commemorate the 15th anniversary of those heinous crimes, we must assure that the full probe goes forward now.