Uses more words that create binding, legal obligations, such as ‘shall’ and ‘must’.

Steve Watson | Uses more words that create binding, legal obligations, such as ‘shall’ and ‘must’.

Original meaning of Constitution twisted into a cudgel for state power.

The Oregon “standoff” doesn’t even come close to matching the definition of terrorism.

Several pieces in Xinhua‘s English-language online service today underline the key role that must be played in 2016 by President Xi’s call for building a community of common destiny. One article underlined Xi’s view that China must assume a new role in international diplomacy, telling a conference on foreign affairs that “China must have diplomacy with its own characteristics” which goes “beyond the local neighborhood.”“[xi] then defined the Chinese dream as one of peace, development, cooperation and win-win outcome. By this definition, he linked China’s future with the destiny of the world,”Xinhua writes.

The article notes Xi’s personal diplomacy, traveling on 19 visits abroad, and spending more than 133 days outside the country since his appointment as General Secretary in November 2012. He has also met with 165 state and government leaders in Beijing during that time. “All his effort is not only for the Chinese dream but also for the shared destiny and future of the world as a whole,”Xinhua writes.

The article goes on to underline China’s principle of “peaceful development” based on economic and political cooperation with all countries. The prime examples of this policy are seen, the article continues, in the proposal for the “One Belt, One Road”, the creation of the AIIB, and the call for reforming economic governance which was highlighted at the recent APEC meeting in Beijing.

In a related article, Xinhua points out President Xi’s significant role in reforming the Chinese economy towards a “new normal” with the collapse of the world export market, stressing the increase of domestic consumption as an engine of growth, an emphasis on innovation and creativity, and a shift to meeting global infrastructure needs with the excess industrial capacity in China created by the demise of the consumer export market.

In a lengthy speech to party officials last October, outlining the directions for policy during the next five-year plan, President Xi underlined the fact that, in spite of the major scientific and technological breakthroughs made by China in the last decades, the country still had not come up to the level needed for China to play its rightful role economically in a world in which China was now a key player in setting the rules. There Xi underlined the need for party and government officials and industrial entrepreneurs to push for excellence in order to make the leaps needed by China to reach its full development. And a good deal of that speech focused on the need for the party officials and members to always have foremost in their minds the tens of millions of people still living in impoverished conditions, and who must be brought out of poverty before the “China Dream” can become a reality. 

Steve Watson | Says gun control will backfire and bolster his campaign.

The reputation of America abroad is that of a killer nation and a danger to world society; it has practically no allies, and those countries who claim to be as such take the US side only in an attempt to exercise some sort of control over their homicidal tendencies, according to a former US ambassador to several African countries, Dan Simpson, who was also the Deputy Commandant of the Army War College.

Writing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Dec. 29, Simpson says: “Other countries can only pray to their chosen god or gods that the United States does not decide to work its will on them, whether it be to impose a form of government we think they should adopt or to cite some supposed wrong they have committed as an excuse to pour bombs down upon them or send drones to kill their leaders.”

“Like it or not,” Simpson says, “that is our reputation. Most foreigners I meet think we are crazy. Virtually all think we are a danger to world society. Some of our so-called allies take our side in an attempt to exercise some sort of  control over our homicidal tendencies.”

He reviews the disastrous US military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, as well as our role in the Saudi destruction in Yemen, then adds: “I suppose Mr. Obama’s efforts to finish his term without seeing Afghanistan or Iraq collapse into total chaos can be put down to some sort of obsessive-compulsive disorder or campaign loyalty to his former Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. It is long past time that we should have taken the position that we’d done all we could in Afghanistan and Iraq and brought our troops home.”

Simpson concludes: “We shoould bring our forces home. There will be no peace on Earth until we do. Let us not be killers.”

The descent into barbarism today is not confined to the Middle East nations where ISIS is killing people, often by beheading, for their religious beliefs or for opposing the terrorist overthrow of governments. This satanic, murderous hatred of mankind is increasingly dominating the daily practice of Europe, South America, and the United States as well.

After the terrorists’ assault in San Bernadino, President Obama covered up for the orchestrators of that attack, just as he continues to cover up the Saudi orchestration of the 9/11 assault by refusing to release the 28 pages of the Congressional report which exposes the Saudi role in that act. On Tuesday, Obama shed tears while expanding on that cover-up, by play-acting that his proposed minor restraints on gun sales would somehow affect such terrorist attacks, even while Obama is also arranging the sale of massive lethal armaments to the Saudis to continue the slaughter of the people of Yemen, and to continue their arming of ISIS and the many branches of al Qaeda. Zeus would be proud of the the President’s kill rate.

In Germany on New Years Eve, while the population celebrated in front of the glorious Cologne Cathedral, a gang of approximately 1,000 men, mostly of Arab and African appearance, surrounded at least 90 women, robbing them, sexually molesting or even raping them, for nearly four hours, in plain sight, but apparently unobserved by the police, with the news only reaching the public after five days.

Lyndon LaRouche noted that, just as the British Monarchy control over the Saudi-sponsored terrorist operations world-wide has been clearly documented by EIR over many years, it must be recognized that only this same British Monarchy has the capacity, and the intent, to orchestrate such an atrocity. It is to be expected, as was intended by the Queen, that the atrocity will be blamed on the refugees from the genocidal “regime change” wars in Libya and Syria (wars which themselves were launched by the British and their pawn Obama), thus instigating more ethnic rage and hatred across Europe.

And Satan’s role within the UK itself is increasingly open to anyone who has their eyes, and their minds, open. It was revealed Tuesday that the British mandated their Foreign Office to take measures to condemn the use of the death penalty in those nations where it is still practiced — all such nations, that is, except Saudi Arabia, the barbaric “close ally” of the British and Obama. No matter that the Saudis just executed 47 people, including their country’s leading Shia cleric, for the crime of being Shia, thus perhaps unleashing sectarian war on an unprecedented scale across the region. The Saudi method of beheading their victims is but one of the Wahhabi practices shared by the Saudis and their ISIS creation.

Or, note that British Prime Minister Cameron this week justified the UK deal with the Saudis in 2013 to make the Saudi Kingdom a member of the UN Human Rights Council. Pressed on the deal by an interviewer who detailed the barbaric human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, Cameron blurted out: “We depend on the Saudis for critical intelligence and security information, and that’s the reason.” Again, Zeus is proud of his Satanic Children.

Obama, who is proud to draw up his weekly “kill list” for drone assassinations of Americans and others, must be removed from office immediately if the world is to survive. Once Satanism takes over in this fashion, civilizations can not long survive. Now that the European and American banking systems are unraveling, the death by economic means will expand exponentially, if Obama’s planned global war on Russia and China does not exterminate mankind first.

The solutions are at hand. The US and Europe must end the power of the British Empire once and for all, and, together with Russia and China, launch a new, international Renaissance based on the common aims of mankind. The decision lies with you.

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