FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019

Volume 6, Number 152

EIR Daily Alert Service

P.O. Box 17390, Washington, DC 20041-0390

• The Democratic Party’s Own Extinction Event
• President Trump Calls Putin To Offer Help With Siberia Wildfires, Better Relations in the Offing
• Trump Told U.S. Officials To Keep Cook on Hong Kong Protests
• Wang Yi and Pompeo Meet on Sidelines of ASEAN Meetings
• Pompeo Hears ASEAN Message, We Secure Our Future Peacefully
• Trump Told U.S. Officials To Keep Cool on Hong Kong Protests
• Wang Yi and Pompeo Meet on Sidelines of ASEAN Meetings
• Pompeo Hears ASEAN Message, We Secure Our Future Peacefully
• Concerning President Trump’s Jamestown Speech and Baltimore
• Some Developments in the British Empire Attempted Coup Against President Trump
• Parker Solar Probe Is Churning Out Copious Data
• Energy Secretary Perry Says U.S. Role in Expansion of Nuclear Energy Is in World’s Best Interests
• Turkey-Iraq Relations Back on Joint Development Track

EDITORIAL

The Democratic Party’s Own Extinction Event

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—The last two days in U.S. news coverage were dominated by CNN’s roadshow known as the Democratic Party Presidential Debates. Other significant events were occurring in the world. The U.S. President, freed from the Russiagate vise, is discussing initiating trade talks with Russia. Britain, which houses the monstrous City of London financial octopus now threatening to implode, has a new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. His assistant, the philosophical bomb thrower Dominic Cummings, whatever his other faults, advocates running government on the basis of NASA’s Apollo program, using the innovative crash-program management policies of NASA’s George Mueller. The United States itself was bathed in scientific and cultural optimism as the Apollo Moon landing was celebrated amidst President Donald Trump’s commitment to return to the Moon, colonize it, and then voyage to Mars. These great events, located in the future, rather than the intellectually constipated mumblings of the Democratic little men and women, the true heirs to Jonathan Swift’s Yahoos, are what U.S. voters should be following and shaping. They are much more inspiring and healthy than throwing shoes at your television set or crashing your computer in disgust.

Each and every Democratic candidate declared their support, in various degrees, for the Green New Deal which would effectively deindustrialize the United States and is now deindustrializing Germany. This is part of the Extinction Rebellion movement being foisted on the world by the British oligarchy.

The London-run “ecology” movement has existed for 50 years, but the whole scheme is suddenly falling together now, with the recent election of Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission, the presence of thousands of crazed youth and even children in the streets across Europe, culminating in a “Global Climate Strike” Sept. 20-27, and the forthcoming UN Climate Summit Sept. 23, followed by yet another in Chile in December. The spear-point of the movement, the “Extinction Rebellion” (XR) which lures children to skip school for the sake of illegal actions in the streets, has said it will occupy the German auto fair in September. XR, founded in Britain in October 2018 by City of London investment bankers with psychiatrists and psychologists, is the latest most extreme tentacle of this synthetic movement, verging into terrorism.

All at once, the long-held goal of this 50-year-old London-spawned pestilence has suddenly become clear. It is to forcibly choke off all investment, worldwide, which is not “green.” There are plans to do this by legislation to come into effect between this fall and January 2020, in Germany and Europe-wide. This will mean a windfall for the “green” bankers of London, pulling in masses of liquidity, amidst the possible collapse of the financial system. At the same time, the investments needed to sustain human life are withdrawn, and the British eugenicists’ dream of a depopulated world becomes reality. If you imagine that this could never happen, think again—it has long been happening already. It is widely and reliably reported that no international financing for coal-fired power plants for energy-starved nations is available apart from China. This includes non-polluting clean coal power.

We should ask the question, “who benefits?” This is a situation where the targeted forces are quite unaware of the reality.

Returning to the “debates”: At the same time, most of the Democrats declared their support for Medicare for all, including anyone crossing into the United States via open borders. This was the major policy focus in both debates. The alternative proposed, by the aging and gaffe-driven Joe Biden, was modified Obamacare, the bailout arranged by Obama and Biden for the insurance companies in the face of the 2008 financial collapse. Throughout, each and every Democrat struggled to outdo themselves by calling the President a racist or, like children in your garden-variety schoolyard, hurling the same epithet at each other.

Lyndon LaRouche said, repeatedly, that healthcare, now in pure inflated dollar numbers representing 20% of the U.S. economy, cannot be rationally discussed without first figuring out how to drastically expand economic productivity. This economic expansion must be accompanied by a cultural paradigm shift in which medicine once again becomes a profession of service rather than a rentier financial entity savaging the population for profit. Without that economic expansion, a return to Hill-Burton standards of access, and that shift in paradigm, the Democrats’ proposals for healthcare will bankrupt Medicare, an already inadequate system in which practitioners can’t even recover their costs. It is painfully obvious that none of the Democrats has a clue about how to expand productivity or run an economy which is capable of reproducing itself at higher levels of wealth. Instead, they are focused on how to redistribute existing wealth, arguing that this will somehow rain dollar bills down on their suffering constituents out of “rich people’s” pockets. Trump’s space program was not mentioned once, nor was the implicitly required crash program to develop fusion power, both of which will radically boost productivity, if accomplished. And, accomplishing that shift requires a paradigm shift into classic American mental toughness and intellectual daring, as most completely embodied in the genius of Lyndon LaRouche and his science of political economy.

Given all of this, it is hardly surprising that Oprah veteran, millionaire self-help guru Marianne Williamson dominated all debate Google searches following her appearances as a candidate in Tuesday’s debate. She claimed that Donald Trump had unloosed “dark psychic forces” upon the land. According to The Hill, Williamson supporters have organized an “occult task force” on her behalf. “A group of 13 chaos magicians, witches and energy workers were doing synchronized ‘gestures’ to help their candidate gain more visibility in the presidential race and more airtime during Tuesday’s Democratic debate,” according to one of her supporters. “The whole orb gang community is tapping into the power of memes to reflect back on, and multiply, the sort of pulsing undercurrents of our collective unconscious,” one person told the Washington Post in an email. Williamson is reportedly seeking to distance herself from such efforts.

ENDING THE STRATEGIC WAR DANGER

President Trump Calls Putin To Offer Help with Siberia Wildfires, Better Relations in the Offing

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin held a late-night telephone discussion on July 31, initiated by Trump.

According to the White House, they discussed the Siberian wild fires and trade. Trump “expressed concern over the vast wildfires afflicting Siberia. The leaders also discussed trade between the two countries,” according to a brief statement from Trump’s press office.

According to the Kremlin release, whereas Trump offered help in extinguishing the wildfires, Putin saw the call as a signal that the two countries will manage to restore full format relations. The full Kremlin statement reads: “The U.S. President offered help in putting out wildfires in Siberia.

“The President of Russia expressed sincere gratitude for the kind attention and the offer of help and assistance. Vladimir Putin said he will accept the offer if it becomes necessary. He also told his American colleague that a powerful group of aircraft had been formed in Siberia to fight the wildfires. According to the Emergencies Ministry, solutions have been found to problems with the refuelling and deployment of airplanes and helicopters.

“The President of Russia regards the U.S. President’s offer as a sign that it is possible that full-scale bilateral relations will be restored in the future.

“The Presidents of Russia and the United States agreed to continue contacts in the form of telephone conversations as well as personal meetings.”

TASS reports that according to the Russian Aerial Forest Protection Service, as of July 31 nearly 2.8 million hectares in the control zone (hard to access zone) are affected by the wildfire with the most severe being in Yakutia (1.1 million hectares), Krasnoyarsk (over 1 million hectares) and Irkutsk (around 700,000 hectares) regions. Over 2,700 people, 390 units of ground equipment and 28 aircraft are involved in extinguishing wildfires.

Trump Told U.S. Officials To Keep Cool on Hong Kong Protests

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, citing unnamed administration officials, that the White House has told U.S. officials to keep a measured stance on the Hong Kong protests. “It was made clear down the chain that we need to be measured on Hong Kong,” in order to not disrupt the China-U.S. trade talks, an administration official told the Journal.

President Donald Trump himself said publicly 10 days ago that President Xi Jinping has been acting “very responsibly” in dealing with those protests. Today, speaking with reporters on the White House lawn, Trump stated flatly that how China deals with the continuing riots is “between Hong Kong and China, because Hong Kong is part of China, and they will have to deal with that themselves. They don’t need advice.”

The Journal cited North Korea and Turkey as other areas in which President Trump “was at odds” with Republican lawmakers pushing for sanctions, because the President is interested “in safeguarding relationships where he sees opportunity for economic or political gain, sometimes going against the will of allies and even lawmakers within his own Republican Party.”

Wang Yi and Pompeo Meet on Sidelines of ASEAN Meetings

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—Clearly under the direction of President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo interrupted his usual public China-bashing today to meet with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Bangkok, where ASEAN is holding a Foreign Ministers meeting over July 29-Aug. 3. Pompeo tweeted at the end of the 30-minute meeting with Wang that the two had had “an in-depth exchange of views … on U.S.-China relations and North Korea, among other important topics of mutual concern. When it advances U.S. interests, we are ready to cooperate with China.” Speaking with reporters later in the day, Pompeo called the meeting “professional … aimed at the singular objective of making sure that the relationship between the two countries is successful,” while announcing that he had been “very candid” about areas in which China should change how it is “behaving.”

Xinhua reported that Pompeo had “reaffirmed that U.S. President Donald Trump and the U.S. government have no intention to contain China’s development,” after Wang spoke of how China’s development is “unstoppable,” and that it is “neither fair nor possible to try to obstruct” that development.

Xinhua’s coverage of the official read-out on the meeting made clear that China, like Russia, understands the importance of President Trump’s personal role if decent relations are to be established with the U.S. According to Xinhua, Wang made repeated reference to the consensus reached by Presidents Xi Jinping and Trump at the June 28-29 G20 in Osaka as the framework for progress in their relations. He urged, for example, that full use be made of “the strategic leading role of head-of-state diplomacy” in putting U.S.-Chinese relations on the right track, so as to “translate into reality the vision of the leaders of the two countries that China and the United States can become cooperative partners.”

Pompeo Hears ASEAN Message, We Secure Our Future Peacefully

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—Bangkok is the center of major international diplomacy right now, in and around the July 29-Aug. 3 Foreign Ministers meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ASEAN is comprised of 10 nations, representing 650 million people altogether, and is one of the major areas of growth in world today. The Foreign Ministers of Japan, Russia, China, South Korea, India, Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. were among those present for the myriad of related ASEAN summits and meetings, including the ASEAN Regional Forum and ASEAN Plus Three, with those nations.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo chose to use the first of the meetings he participated in, the Lower Mekong Initiative Ministerial, to try and whip up anti-China sentiment over usage of Mekong River waters. “We see a spree of upstream dam building which concentrates control over downstream flows. The river has been at its lowest levels in a decade—a problem linked to China’s decision to shut off water upstream. China also has plans to blast and dredge riverbeds.  China operates extraterritorial river patrols.  And we see a push to craft new Beijing-directed rules to govern the river, thereby weakening the Mekong River Commission,” he said in his opening statement.

He told reporters after meeting with Thai host Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai that he had also asked Thailand to “speak out against Chinese coercion in the South China Sea,” as he asked all “our Indo-Pacific partners to do.”

Thailand’s Foreign Minister replied, in answering another reporter’s question at their joint press conference, without calling it a reply. Pramudwinai did so by citing four major points from the “ASEAN Outlook on Indo-Pacific,” the document adopted by ASEAN leaders in June, starting from its statement that “the ASEAN goal is the collective gain of all involved, where the whole could be greater than the sum of its parts.”

Second: ASEAN “does not seek to dominate, challenge, or control. It is not based on a zero-sum mindset.  It’s neither offensive nor defensive in nature, nor does it seek to shrink the pie that could be shared by many and all,” he said. Third, the “ASEAN outlook is about sharing and promoting wealth, not tipping the scale in anyone’s favor.  It is non-threatening. It is not about pointing fingers and but holding hands and working together as equals.” And fourth, that “ASEAN now is about sink or swim together, not about trying to throw the opposing party overboard that would invite a fierce pushback that could cause the entire ship to sink.”

Pompeo was not deaf. He concluded his very brief opening remarks to the U.S.-ASEAN Summit a few minutes later, protesting, “Look, we don’t ever ask any Indo-Pacific nation to choose between countries.  Our engagement in this region has not been and will not be a zero-sum exercise.  Our interests simply naturally converge with yours to our mutual benefit.”

U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC

Concerning President Trump’s Jamestown Speech and Baltimore

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)— On June 29th, the President met with Dr. Alveda King, Martin Luther King’s niece, and other African-American pastors at the White House. Dr. King emerged to proclaim that calling Trump a racist was “fake news.” She extolled Trump’s expressed love for Frederick Douglass. Then, on June 30th, Trump traveled to Jamestown, Virginia, to celebrate one of the birthplaces of the American Republic.  Trump recounted the history of the Jamestown settlement which in its first legislative session, where it was so hot that one legislator died, the assembly endorsed building a world-class university in the wilderness.

In that same summer, Trump said, “in August of 1619, the first enslaved Africans in the English colonies arrived in Virginia.  Today, in honor, we remember every sacred soul who suffered the horrors of slavery and the anguish of bondage.  More than 150 years later, at America’s founding, our Declaration of Independence recognized the immortal truth that ‘all men are created equal.’ Yet, it would ultimately take a Civil War, 85 years after that document was signed, to abolish the evil of slavery.  It would take more than another century for our nation, in the words of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., to live out ‘the true meaning of its creed’ and extend the blessings of freedom to all Americans. In the face of grave oppression and grave injustice, African Americans have built, strengthened, inspired, uplifted, protected, defended, and sustained our nation from our earliest days….  One fact was quickly established for all time:  In America we are not ruled from afar.  Americans govern ourselves, and so help us God, we always will.”                The only media coverage given Trump’s speech against racism, was Northern Virginia Delegate Ibraheem Samirah’s interruption calling the President a dyed-in-the wool racist.

Similarly, when Trump called out Democratic Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings for his deficient leadership of Baltimore, whose West Side was dubbed a Third World country by none other than Bernie Sanders, the entire Maryland political establishment arose to denounce Trump.

The story of Baltimore is an old story, one stalking formerly industrial cities throughout the United States. The January 6, 2006 issue of Lyndon LaRouche’s EIR magazine detailed the Baltimore story:

“The deindustrialization of Baltimore—which began in the 1960s, with the shrinkage of the steel, shipbuilding, auto, and other industrial producers, whose employment allowed workers to participate in progress and earn a living wage—has turned a center of innovation and industry since the American Revolution, into a decayed shell, whose population is living out a 21st-century death spiral. The City of Baltimore has been taken apart in the last 40 years, and reassembled, with no high-paying manufacturing industry, and minus one-third of its population. Ninety percent of the city workforce works in the service industry, where most jobs pay $10-11/hour in healthcare, and below $8/hour in tourism. As a result, much of Baltimore’s population lives in ‘slave quarters,’ while servicing the entertainment complexes as ticket takers, food service workers, and janitors. A full 25% of the city’s households are headed by single mothers, who live in a city full of boarded-up houses, like a war zone.” Lyndon LaRouche campaigned relentlessly against these policies for years.

Some Developments in the British Empire’s Attempted Coup against President Trump

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—There were three developments in the coup attempt against President Donald Trump worth noting over the past 24 hours. The first is that despite Robert Mueller’s mentally challenged performance in his July 24 testimony to the Congress, the number of Representatives who support starting impeachment proceedings has now risen to 118, more than half the Democratic Representatives in the House.

The second development, widely broadcast today, is that the Department of Justice has declined to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey for leaking classified FBI memos to his friend in order to facilitate the appointment ofRobert Mueller as Special Counsel. The decision not to prosecute on this charge does not mean Comey is now home free, but that the prosecutors understood that this particular case against Comey was weak, when there are stronger potential criminal cases against him. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz had made the criminal referral of Comey some time back, but the fact that the leaked memos were classified by the FBI only after Comey leaked them, made it a weak case.

Finally, Roger Stone has continued to pound on the truth as his defense in his criminal case, filing two new motions on July 26. These motions are significant, regardless of their chances for immediate relief from the openly hostile Judge Amy Berman Jackson. Here we report on the second one, in which Stone has asked to subpoena CrowdStrike, the Democratic Party vendor which investigated the alleged DNC computer intrusion. As has been widely reported, James Comey’s FBI performed no independent forensics on the DNC computers, and instead accepted the word of CrowdStrike’s Dmitri Alperovitch, a wildly anti-Russian propagandist who has done bogus Russian hack attributions in the past.  Discovery by Stone in his criminal case has already unearthed the fact that the FBI did not even have complete reports from CrowdStrike. The company only gave the FBI redacted draft reports of its findings. Stone is seeking the actual unredacted reports for his trial.

SCIENCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Parker Solar Probe Is Churning Out Copious Data

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—According to the latest updates from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHUAPL), the Parker Solar Probe mission scientists are hard at work analyzing the copious amount of data delivered by the spunky probe.

“On May 6, 2019, just over a month after Parker Solar Probe completed its second solar encounter, the final transmission of 22 gigabytes of planned science data—collected during the first two encounters—was down-linked by the mission team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

“This 22 GB is 50% more data than the team had estimated would be down-linked by this point in the mission—all because the spacecraft’s telecommunications system is performing better than pre-launch estimates. After characterizing the spacecraft’s operations during the commissioning phase, which began soon after its Aug. 12, 2018 launch, the Parker mission team determined that the telecom system could effectively deliver more down-link opportunities, helping the team maximize the download of science data,” reported NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission page.

The Parker Solar Probe is speeding towards its third solar encounter, beginning on Aug. 27, 2019, and its third perihelion will occur on Sept. 1. Scientists, researchers, students and citizen-scientists are eagerly looking forward to what the Probe’s record-breaking exploration of the Sun might reveal.

As we continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the manned Moon landing, it is with profound emotion that we contemplate the reach of mankind’s grasp in this moment; on one hand, we have the Parker Solar Probe, going closest to the Sun of any mission yet, and on the other hand, the continued adventures of the New Horizons vehicle, now approximately 5 billion miles from Earth. With these missions, mankind is now, for the first time in history, spanning the Solar System all at once, and beyond.

Energy Secretary Perry Says U.S. Role in Expansion of Nuclear Energy Is in World’s Best Interests

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—“There’s a lot going on out there in the nuclear realm. I will say with small modular reactors, we have got some great American companies that are leading the charge on that. So, we’re going to see the proliferation of nuclear energy going forward,” and it is in the United States’ and the world’s interest to be involved, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” program on July 31. That includes the potential of fusion energy “further down the road,” Perry stated.

Perry strongly advocated that the U.S. should play a leading role in global nuclear expansion (albeit couched in geopolitical terms), in response to questioning as to why the Department of Energy wants to help Saudi Arabia develop its nuclear energy program.

“Here’s the issue. The Saudis are going to engage in a Civil Nuclear Program for power for their country. Who do you want working with them? Who do you want to be supplying the fuel, the technology? You want the Russians? You want the Chinese that have zero interest in nonproliferation. Or do you want the United States? … I think it’s in the world’s best interest, certainly it’s in America’s best interest that we are engaged and we are partners with these countries as they develop those civil nuclear programs.”

With the interviewers also pounding on “carbon-free” economies and talk of “catastrophic climate change” with only 12 years to go, Perry included fusion energy, which he said two companies on the West Coast are working on, in his list of great emission-reduction projects underway.

As for the 12-years-to-doomsday shrieks, Perry maintained firmly that what is needed are “policies that reduce emissions, that reduce the pollutants that are in the air, that reduce the particles that cause massive health problems around the world,” arguing not for all the talk, but for a little “common sense … bring the cleaner burning fuels, bring the things that bring emissions down.”

Turkey-Iraq Relations Back on Joint Development Track

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—Relations between Turkey and Iraq are once again moving in the direction of better cooperation and economic integration through the development of infrastructure. The Turkish Presidency’s Special Representative to Iraq Veysel Eroglu was in Baghdad on July 31 for talks on economic cooperation with Iraqi Water Resources Minister Jamal Adili.

Speaking at a joint press conference, Eroglu said: “We have prepared a great working and action plan, regarding the water issue. We want friendship between Iraq and Turkey, to grow even stronger. We will establish a center in Baghdad to study and locate water sources.”

Eroglu, who is also Turkey’s water affairs minister, said both countries will expand their area of economic cooperation, which will include the construction of a rail network, starting from northern Iraq to southern Basra province, and also a highway.  “Thus, we will connect Turkey to the Gulf countries through Iraq,” he said, reported Turkey’s official Anadolu Agency on July 31.

Eroglu also met with Iraq’s President Barham Salih and conveyed greetings from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Salih, reported Xinhua.  Salih stressed in a statement that water “has priority in Iraqi-Turkish discussions” and the importance to “find a long-term and mutually satisfactory resolution to outstanding Iraqi-Turkish water issue.”  The two countries share the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, whichflow from Turkey through Iraq, and empty into the Persian Gulf.

Iraqi Water Resources Minister Adili said the meeting on water management went well and that the two countries enjoyed the best bilateral ties in both countries’ history. He also praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “constructive” attitude towards the country’s water issues.

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