FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Volume 6, Number 182

EIR Daily Alert Service

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

• The Adversary Is Confused and Vulnerable!
• ECB’s New QE Points Toward Helicopter Money; Trump Buys It
• Mike Flynn Case Heats Up With New Bombshell Motion
• Adrew McCabe Prosecution Likely
• 9/11, the Real Story Obscured
• U.S. To Postpone Its Tariffs on China for Two Weeks
• Trump Seriously Considering Mqcron’s Iran Initiative
• India and China Troops in Face-Off in Ladakh, but Disengage
• China Summons German Ambassador Over Interference in Hong Kong, Support for Rioters
• NASA/JPL Joins ISRO in Trying To Establish Contact With Vikram Lander on Moon’s Surface

EDITORIAL

The Adversary Is Confused and Vulnerable!

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Although it’s mostly out of the public eye, the Constitutional counter-coup in the United States against British Intelligence and its U.S. assets who tried to topple the President, is proceeding relentlessly towards trials of the key perpetrators, which will bring all the facts out in the open. The days of imperial British power over the dumb American giant are numbered—if and only if Americans act, now, while it is uniquely possible, before the adversary gets a chance to regroup.

At the same time, John Bolton’s firing has opened up a big breach in the enemy lines. This is a unique moment to force through American statesman Lyndon LaRouche’s design of an alliance of the U.S., China, Russia and India, for a new world monetary system to foster production and the physical economy instead of speculation.

Not in some vague future time, but here and now.

These are only a few leading aspects.  Turn it all over in your mind.  This is the moment of unforeseen great possibility—but for how long?  Perhaps only days.  Blink and it will be gone. Douglas MacArthur told the story of his World War I service, when he was able by an unexpected sudden advance, to approach a huge center of enemy logistics.  No enemy troops stood between him and the city.  He asked headquarters for permission to proceed—but by the time they got around to answering, enemy troops had moved in and the opportunity was gone forever.  Instead, the war dragged on to the mutual destruction of all the European combatants, and then the peace settlement of World War I led inexorably to World War II.

We are winning these engagements now, today.  But the open question is whether Americans will use these victories to pursue and destroy the adversary forces as General Grant did, rather than going back to camp to prepare for the next set-piece battle, as all his predecessors did—bringing President Lincoln to despair each time.

True, no one knows all the facts, or how everything will develop and how quickly. That’s always the case in war, as von Clausewitz and every competent commander has always known.  The art of war is to seize the unique moment and act on it immediately and decisively despite the uncertainty.  Wait for certainty and you have lost the war. It’s as simple as that.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has called the question on the Democratic presidential campaign and its so-called debates, from which she was excluded by a ruse. “The DNC [Democratic National Committee] is trying to basically send a message to the American people that they are the all-powerful gatekeepers, and that they’re the ones who have the power to decide who should be considered to be our Democratic nominee or not…. Really, all it becomes is an opportunity for the hosting media network to get high ratings or make some money off of it. The whole thing is a charade.  And it doesn’t serve voters. That’s the biggest problem here.”

It’s not just the Democratic Party and its sham debates. It’s everything.  The game is over.  It’s all out in the open. The emperor has no clothes.  What are we waiting for?

COLLAPSING WESTERN FINANCIAL SYSTEM

ECB’s New QE Points Toward Helicopter Money; Trump Buys It

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Lame-duck European Central Bank President Mario Draghi announced a new “quantitative easing” money-printing program today, which President Donald Trump immediately pushed the Federal Reserve to imitate. But the ECB’s Governing Council members were strongly divided, the program has no real chance of stopping Europe’s economic downslide, and it will feed big-bank speculations instead of the productive lending it claims to want.

For Trump the only way possible to stabilize the dollar’s value against hyper-speculation, is to make fixed-exchange rate agreements, with exchange controls. But he tweeted as follows: “European Central Bank, acting quickly, Cuts Rates 10 Basis Points. They are trying, and succeeding, in depreciating the Euro against the VERY strong Dollar, hurting U.S. exports…. And the Fed sits, and sits, and sits. They get paid to borrow money, while we are paying interest!”

A Bloomberg report suggested the ECB Governing Council from the strongest exporting countries—Germany, France, Austria, Netherlands—actually were opposed to Draghi’s plan. And the euro did not fall against the dollar.

The new ECB scheme, besides lowering the interbank lending rate to −0.5%, features buying €20 billion a month in bonds from dealer banks “indefinitely”; “QEternity” for short. There is a new round of ECB liquidity loans to the big banks. The plan has some strange characteristics which indicate a) the new conditions of deepening European recession, b) ineffectiveness of central banks’ actions in a negative-rate universe, and c) the open discussion of “helicopter money” printing at the Jackson Hole bankers’ meeting in August.

The loans by ECB to the bigger banks will be “two-tier.” Banks which re-lend out a low amount of that money will do so with a negative yield; those which lend out more, can be permitted that old throwback—a positive rate of return! So, the interest rate for lending to the economy is higher in this program than that for holding and speculating with reserves.

Supposedly €5 billion/month of corporate bonds will be bought, and €15 billion of government bonds—limited to those (northern and eastern) European governments whose bonds have good enough ratings to be bought by the ECB. No one government’s bonds can be more than 33% of the total bought by ECB; this means Germany. So, after about one year and €180 billion of government bonds bought from primary dealer banks, the limit on German bunds will have to be raised to at least 50% of the total, or the quantitative easing will sputter to a halt. The German government could be pushed to issue more debt than it thinks it should, just so the ECB can buy it, in turn so that it can feed reserves into megabanks on the edge, like Deutsche Bank.

It’s not surprising that Draghi’s written statement was full of exhortations to “those governments with fiscal space” to fill it—spend. In the name of inflation, borrow, spend! We’ll buy all the bonds you can issue—with no interest! Draghi was getting close to helicopter money, specifically the Standby Emergency Fiscal Facility version of it proposed by BlackRock LLP at Jackson Hole.

U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC

Mike Flynn Case Heats Up with New Bombshell Motion

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Judge Emmett Sullivan has set an Oct. 31st hearing in the Michael Flynn case in order to determine whether Robert Mueller’s prosecution team committed flagrant violations of their duty to produce exculpatory materials, necessitating dismissal of the charges against Gen. Michael Flynn (ret.) and criminal contempt proceedings against Mueller’s prosecutors.

Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell is pursuing a broad “totality of the circumstances” argument: Had the exculpatory evidence she is seeking been revealed, Flynn would not have pled guilty, a guilty plea coerced by hiding evidence of Flynn’s complete innocence, threatening an indictment of Flynn’s son, and nearly bankrupting the former Trump National Security Adviser as the result of multiple investigations and proceedings against him.

On Sept. 11th, Powell filed a redacted version of her motion, formerly filed under seal, listing the specific exculpatory materials she is seeking. The specificity of the documents she seeks indicates that she has very good reason to know they exist and is not shooting in the dark.  Flynn was targetted by British operatives, working in close collaboration with Obama’s intelligence chiefs way back in 2014, when he headed Defense Intelligence Agency, under the phony pretext that he was a Russian agent.

Among the operatives involved were former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, former MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove, former MI5 historian Sir Christopher Andrew, Joseph Mifsud, and Stefan Halper. Halper, Steele, and Dearlove were involved in fabricating an alleged affair between Flynn and Russian Cambridge University historian Svetlana Lokhova, to justify targetting him as a potential Russian asset.  Steele’s bogus dossier claims that all of Flynn’s contacts with the Russians were paid for as part of a directed operation by the Russian intelligence services. This and other defamatory accusations resulted in Flynn being fired as Director of the Obama’s Defense Intelligence Agency.

Powell is seeking numerous documents concerning Flynn’s targeting from the period 2014-2016 involving these British operatives.  Flynn was targeted because of his insistence that the Obama Administration was deliberately supporting Al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorists in its efforts to overthrow the Bashar Assad government in Syria and because he wanted to pursue joint operations with the Russians against Islamic terrorism.

When Flynn began working with the Trump presidential campaign, the charge that he and his son were agents of Turkey was added to the derogatory dossier. Former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, the notorious sponsor of Ahmed Chalabi, whose fake intelligence led to the Iraq War, claimed that Flynn was working to kidnap Turkish President Erdogan’s foe Fethullah Gülen from the United States.  At the same time, Flynn became one of four targets in FBI Director James Comey’s bogus Cross-Fire Hurricane investigation, officially entered into the FBI system in July 2016, concerning alleged Trump campaign ties to Russia.

On his second full day of official duties as President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, Flynn was set up to be fired as the result of a plot hatched at the highest levels of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the intelligence community. The trap was first set on Jan. 12, when someone leaked the contents of a classified conversation between Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, a part of which allegedly concerned Obama’s proposed sanctions against Russia, to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius. Whoever the leaker was committed a felony and Flynn’s lawyer Powell appears to believe that the leak came from CIA Director James Clapper or someone in his shop.

Then, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, acting at the behest of the renegade James Comey called Flynn and said he wanted to send a couple of agents over for a relaxed interview, which would not require Flynn to have a lawyer. The lead agent interviewing Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017, and recording what would later be alleged to be his false statements, was none other than Peter Strzok, who famously plotted with his lover, McCabe’s counsel Lisa Page, to stop Trump’s ascension to the Presidency. It is noteworthy that everyone involved in this chain at the FBI has since been fired for cause because of their overt roles in the attempted coup against Trump.

According to Comey’s subsequent testimony, the FBI did not believe that Flynn had deliberately to them or deceived them in his interview on the Kislyak conversation. But Robert Mueller ran with the White House interview and Flynn’s Turkish lobbying activities in a campaign of harassment aimed to coerce a plea.

Powell’s discovery requests are specifically directed to the players in this sequence of events, some of them previously unpublicized, as well as those involved in the media campaign against General Flynn. Included among her requests, is one for all documents concerning the entire three-year targetting of Flynn by the U.S. and British intelligence communities.

Andrew McCabe Prosecution Likely

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—The Justice Department has rejected the arguments of Andrew McCabe’s attorneys aimed at preventing his indictment, according to Catherine Herridge of Fox News. Herridge said that former FBI Deputy Director McCabe has been issued an official “target” letter.  DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz had referred McCabe for criminal prosecution based on multiple lies he told about leaking to the New York Times about the Clinton Foundation investigation. The length of time between the Horowitz referral and the issuance of the target letter might indicate that the charges being considered against McCabe are broader than the cited leak incident.

9/11, the Real Story Obscured

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Aside from the New York City Schiller Chorus’s wonderful tribute on Sunday, Sept. 8, the remembrances of 9/11 this week in the United States were awash in Romantic walking sympathy cards devoid of real meaning. In Los Angeles, for example, young people were organized to reach out to the poor in an effort to erase “the bad” by “doing good,” and according to reliable reports, similar operations were organized elsewhere. Lacking was the “cause”—the British/Saudi attack on the United States aimed at turning the U.S. into a surveillance police-state, whilst setting Southwest Asia and Afghanistan on fire in endless destructive wars.

The one exception was the appearance of 9/11 family lead counsel Jim Kreindler on Fox’s Tucker Carlson broadcast last night. He said that discovery in the victims and families’ lawsuit against Saudi Arabia has already turned up major evidence showing that the intelligence community was tracking the 9/11 hijackers as of January 2000 but somehow “lost” them. While not naming Robert Mueller specifically in the short segment, it seems clear from Paul Sperry’s Sept. 7 article in the New York Post, that discovery in the families’ lawsuit has also unearthed much more evidence of then-FBI Director Robert Mueller’s obstruction of the investigation of the Saudi role. Sperry references FBI whistleblower affidavits submitted in the litigation documenting Mueller’s coverup.

Kriendler also dropped the bombshell that the reason why the Obama Administration fought to the death to prevent release of the classified 28 pages of the Congressional investigation was a deal they struck with the Saudis: Don’t release the 28 pages in return for Saudi support of the Iran nuclear agreement.

U.S. To Postpone Its Tariffs on China for Two Weeks

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted yesterday that at the request of China, he has agreed to delay for two weeks the further increase in tariffs on Chinese goods worth $250 billion, scheduled for October. “At the request of the Vice Premier of China, Liu He, and due to the fact that the People’s Republic of China will be celebrating their 70th Anniversary on October 1st, we have agreed, as a gesture of good will, to move the increased Tariffs on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods (25% to 30%), from October 1st to October 15th,” the U.S. President wrote.

The Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman welcomed the news as a goodwill gesture preceding negotiations, and hinted that China might resume agricultural imports from the U.S., which it had halted.

STRATEGIC WAR DANGER

Trump Seriously Considering Macron’s Iran Initiative

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—The Daily Beast, among other sources, reports that President Donald Trump is giving serious consideration to French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to resolve the Iran situation and preserve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran, originally signed in 2015 between Iran, and the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany.  President Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA on May 8, 2018.

The French plan calls for the extension of a credit line of $15 billion guaranteed by Iranian oil, if Iran comes back into compliance with the JCPOA. Iran would also have to agree not to “threaten the security of the Persian Gulf or to impede maritime navigation in the area and commit to regional Middle East talks in the future.” And the proposal would require the Trump Administration to issue waivers on Iranian sanctions.

The Daily Beast claims that four sources in the administration have indicated this and that two of those sources said that Secretary Mike Pompeo is also open to weighing the French proposal.

For his part, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said during his Sept. 11 telephone call with French President Macron that the moves that Iran has made to gradually withdraw from some of the provisions of the nuclear agreement could be reversed.  “Iran’s third step is under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and it is reversible,” said President Rouhani, according to his presidential website. He also said that “if agreements with Europe are finalized, we are ready to return to our JCPOA obligations.” He called the JCPOA “a great opportunity for Europe to invest in the Iranian economy,” and he urged the European Union and France in particular to take steps to preserve it.

Laura Rozen, the top U.S. reporter on Iran who has earned much credibility over the years, also wrote Sept. 5 in Al-Monitor that the French mediation effort is live, and may result in a meeting between Presidents Trump and Rouhani on the sidelines of the United National General Assembly later this month. Rozen did not write that the Trump Administration might embrace the JCPOA, as the Beast did.

India and China Troops in Face-Off in Ladakh, but Disengage

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—The Aug. 5 decision by the Indian government to designate the Ladakh region a separate administrative region under federal administration has caused an increase of tensions between India and China since the 130 km border is disputed between the two countries. On Sept. 11, the armies of New Delhi and Beijing engaged in a face-off near the northern bank of Lake Pangong Tso in the region, but agreed to a disengagement following talks.  “There was a face-off between the two armies, but it ended after the delegation-level talks between the two sides,” the Indian Army said in a statement.

The Indian Army stated there is a mechanism in place to deal with such incidents along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between Indian-controlled territory from Chinese-controlled territory in the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. “There are established mechanisms to resolve such differing perceptions of the LAC and established mechanisms to resolve such differences,” said the statement.

According to Sputnik, this is the same area where a bitter scuffle took place between the two armies in the summer of 2017.

On Sept. 10, the Indian Army denied reports that the Chinese had made incursions into the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi canceled his visit to New Delhi, scheduled for Sept. 9, when he was supposed to hold special representative-level talks on the boundary question.

Meanwhile, the Indian Army and Air Force will launch its biggest joint war games exercise, code named HimVijay, in Arunachal Pradesh starting October.

China Summons German Ambassador over Interference in Hong Kong, Support for Rioters

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—As reported by Deutsche Welle and other media, the Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador in protest against the German Foreign Minister’s meeting with Hong Kong rebellion leader Joshua Wong. At a press conference in Berlin yesterday, the Chinese Ambassador to Germany said Heiko Maas’s meeting with Wong sent “very negative signals.” Ambassador Wu Ken warned, “What happened now, I unfortunately have to say that, will have negative consequences on bilateral relations and the Chinese side has to react.”

Wu charged that “foreign forces” were involved in the Hong Kong protests, and insisted that foreign politicians had better back off: “China’s sovereignty and security must be respected. I therefore advise politicians against covering up violent crimes and meddling with Hong Kong’s and China’s internal affairs.”

Wu also told reporters that Beijing had repeatedly asked Berlin to deny Wong entry to Germany.  “We have expressed our deep discontent,” Wu Ken said. “Do not interfere in the internal affairs of China and Hong Kong.” Denouncing Wong as a “riotmaker” and the protests in Hong Kong as “almost terrorist,” the Chinese ambassador stated that “Wong and his followers sow violence.”

SCIENCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE

NASA/JPL Joins ISRO in Trying To Establish Contact with Vikram Lander on Moon’s Surface

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Not only Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), but also NASA is making attempts to elicit a response from Vikram lander that is lying motionless on the Moon. The connection between the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter and Vikram lander snapped on the early hours of Sept. 7 when the Vikram lander, which houses the six-wheeled lunar rover Pragyan, suddenly went off course around 400 meters above the lunar surface. Subsequently, ISRO located Vikram, sitting on Moon’s surface, tilted but visually undamaged, although ISRO has not succeeded in establishing contact.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has also beamed a radio frequency to the Vikram lander to establish contact. “NASA/JPL is trying to contact Vikram through its deep space network (DSN) as contractually agreed with ISRO,” a source told Times of India. In addition, ISRO today said officials from the California Institute of Technology and the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) visited its headquarters in Bengaluru and met its Chairman K. Sivan.

NASA’s JPL has DSN ground stations in Goldstone, California; Madrid, Spain, and Canberra, Australia. These stations are located 120 degrees apart and aim to establish contact with any satellite in deep space. DSN supports both NASA and non-NASA missions that seek to explore the farthest points of our solar system. Furthermore, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is scheduled to pass over the part of the Moon where Vikram is on Sept. 17. The orbiter will take images of the area and will share them with the ISRO for analysis, India Today reported.

EDITORIAL

The Adversary Is Confused and Vulnerable!

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Although it’s mostly out of the public eye, the Constitutional counter-coup in the United States against British Intelligence and its U.S. assets who tried to topple the President, is proceeding relentlessly towards trials of the key perpetrators, which will bring all the facts out in the open. The days of imperial British power over the dumb American giant are numbered—if and only if Americans act, now, while it is uniquely possible, before the adversary gets a chance to regroup.

At the same time, John Bolton’s firing has opened up a big breach in the enemy lines. This is a unique moment to force through American statesman Lyndon LaRouche’s design of an alliance of the U.S., China, Russia and India, for a new world monetary system to foster production and the physical economy instead of speculation.

Not in some vague future time, but here and now.

These are only a few leading aspects.  Turn it all over in your mind.  This is the moment of unforeseen great possibility—but for how long?  Perhaps only days.  Blink and it will be gone. Douglas MacArthur told the story of his World War I service, when he was able by an unexpected sudden advance, to approach a huge center of enemy logistics.  No enemy troops stood between him and the city.  He asked headquarters for permission to proceed—but by the time they got around to answering, enemy troops had moved in and the opportunity was gone forever.  Instead, the war dragged on to the mutual destruction of all the European combatants, and then the peace settlement of World War I led inexorably to World War II.

We are winning these engagements now, today.  But the open question is whether Americans will use these victories to pursue and destroy the adversary forces as General Grant did, rather than going back to camp to prepare for the next set-piece battle, as all his predecessors did—bringing President Lincoln to despair each time.

True, no one knows all the facts, or how everything will develop and how quickly. That’s always the case in war, as von Clausewitz and every competent commander has always known.  The art of war is to seize the unique moment and act on it immediately and decisively despite the uncertainty.  Wait for certainty and you have lost the war. It’s as simple as that.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has called the question on the Democratic presidential campaign and its so-called debates, from which she was excluded by a ruse. “The DNC [Democratic National Committee] is trying to basically send a message to the American people that they are the all-powerful gatekeepers, and that they’re the ones who have the power to decide who should be considered to be our Democratic nominee or not…. Really, all it becomes is an opportunity for the hosting media network to get high ratings or make some money off of it. The whole thing is a charade.  And it doesn’t serve voters. That’s the biggest problem here.”

It’s not just the Democratic Party and its sham debates. It’s everything.  The game is over.  It’s all out in the open. The emperor has no clothes.  What are we waiting for?

COLLAPSING WESTERN FINANCIAL SYSTEM

ECB’s New QE Points Toward Helicopter Money; Trump Buys It

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Lame-duck European Central Bank President Mario Draghi announced a new “quantitative easing” money-printing program today, which President Donald Trump immediately pushed the Federal Reserve to imitate. But the ECB’s Governing Council members were strongly divided, the program has no real chance of stopping Europe’s economic downslide, and it will feed big-bank speculations instead of the productive lending it claims to want.

For Trump the only way possible to stabilize the dollar’s value against hyper-speculation, is to make fixed-exchange rate agreements, with exchange controls. But he tweeted as follows: “European Central Bank, acting quickly, Cuts Rates 10 Basis Points. They are trying, and succeeding, in depreciating the Euro against the VERY strong Dollar, hurting U.S. exports…. And the Fed sits, and sits, and sits. They get paid to borrow money, while we are paying interest!”

A Bloomberg report suggested the ECB Governing Council from the strongest exporting countries—Germany, France, Austria, Netherlands—actually were opposed to Draghi’s plan. And the euro did not fall against the dollar.

The new ECB scheme, besides lowering the interbank lending rate to −0.5%, features buying €20 billion a month in bonds from dealer banks “indefinitely”; “QEternity” for short. There is a new round of ECB liquidity loans to the big banks. The plan has some strange characteristics which indicate a) the new conditions of deepening European recession, b) ineffectiveness of central banks’ actions in a negative-rate universe, and c) the open discussion of “helicopter money” printing at the Jackson Hole bankers’ meeting in August.

The loans by ECB to the bigger banks will be “two-tier.” Banks which re-lend out a low amount of that money will do so with a negative yield; those which lend out more, can be permitted that old throwback—a positive rate of return! So, the interest rate for lending to the economy is higher in this program than that for holding and speculating with reserves.

Supposedly €5 billion/month of corporate bonds will be bought, and €15 billion of government bonds—limited to those (northern and eastern) European governments whose bonds have good enough ratings to be bought by the ECB. No one government’s bonds can be more than 33% of the total bought by ECB; this means Germany. So, after about one year and €180 billion of government bonds bought from primary dealer banks, the limit on German bunds will have to be raised to at least 50% of the total, or the quantitative easing will sputter to a halt. The German government could be pushed to issue more debt than it thinks it should, just so the ECB can buy it, in turn so that it can feed reserves into megabanks on the edge, like Deutsche Bank.

It’s not surprising that Draghi’s written statement was full of exhortations to “those governments with fiscal space” to fill it—spend. In the name of inflation, borrow, spend! We’ll buy all the bonds you can issue—with no interest! Draghi was getting close to helicopter money, specifically the Standby Emergency Fiscal Facility version of it proposed by BlackRock LLP at Jackson Hole.

U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC

Mike Flynn Case Heats Up with New Bombshell Motion

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Judge Emmett Sullivan has set an Oct. 31st hearing in the Michael Flynn case in order to determine whether Robert Mueller’s prosecution team committed flagrant violations of their duty to produce exculpatory materials, necessitating dismissal of the charges against Gen. Michael Flynn (ret.) and criminal contempt proceedings against Mueller’s prosecutors.

Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell is pursuing a broad “totality of the circumstances” argument: Had the exculpatory evidence she is seeking been revealed, Flynn would not have pled guilty, a guilty plea coerced by hiding evidence of Flynn’s complete innocence, threatening an indictment of Flynn’s son, and nearly bankrupting the former Trump National Security Adviser as the result of multiple investigations and proceedings against him.

On Sept. 11th, Powell filed a redacted version of her motion, formerly filed under seal, listing the specific exculpatory materials she is seeking. The specificity of the documents she seeks indicates that she has very good reason to know they exist and is not shooting in the dark.  Flynn was targetted by British operatives, working in close collaboration with Obama’s intelligence chiefs way back in 2014, when he headed Defense Intelligence Agency, under the phony pretext that he was a Russian agent.

Among the operatives involved were former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, former MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove, former MI5 historian Sir Christopher Andrew, Joseph Mifsud, and Stefan Halper. Halper, Steele, and Dearlove were involved in fabricating an alleged affair between Flynn and Russian Cambridge University historian Svetlana Lokhova, to justify targetting him as a potential Russian asset.  Steele’s bogus dossier claims that all of Flynn’s contacts with the Russians were paid for as part of a directed operation by the Russian intelligence services. This and other defamatory accusations resulted in Flynn being fired as Director of the Obama’s Defense Intelligence Agency.

Powell is seeking numerous documents concerning Flynn’s targeting from the period 2014-2016 involving these British operatives.  Flynn was targeted because of his insistence that the Obama Administration was deliberately supporting Al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorists in its efforts to overthrow the Bashar Assad government in Syria and because he wanted to pursue joint operations with the Russians against Islamic terrorism.

When Flynn began working with the Trump presidential campaign, the charge that he and his son were agents of Turkey was added to the derogatory dossier. Former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, the notorious sponsor of Ahmed Chalabi, whose fake intelligence led to the Iraq War, claimed that Flynn was working to kidnap Turkish President Erdogan’s foe Fethullah Gülen from the United States.  At the same time, Flynn became one of four targets in FBI Director James Comey’s bogus Cross-Fire Hurricane investigation, officially entered into the FBI system in July 2016, concerning alleged Trump campaign ties to Russia.

On his second full day of official duties as President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, Flynn was set up to be fired as the result of a plot hatched at the highest levels of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the intelligence community. The trap was first set on Jan. 12, when someone leaked the contents of a classified conversation between Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, a part of which allegedly concerned Obama’s proposed sanctions against Russia, to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius. Whoever the leaker was committed a felony and Flynn’s lawyer Powell appears to believe that the leak came from CIA Director James Clapper or someone in his shop.

Then, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, acting at the behest of the renegade James Comey called Flynn and said he wanted to send a couple of agents over for a relaxed interview, which would not require Flynn to have a lawyer. The lead agent interviewing Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017, and recording what would later be alleged to be his false statements, was none other than Peter Strzok, who famously plotted with his lover, McCabe’s counsel Lisa Page, to stop Trump’s ascension to the Presidency. It is noteworthy that everyone involved in this chain at the FBI has since been fired for cause because of their overt roles in the attempted coup against Trump.

According to Comey’s subsequent testimony, the FBI did not believe that Flynn had deliberately to them or deceived them in his interview on the Kislyak conversation. But Robert Mueller ran with the White House interview and Flynn’s Turkish lobbying activities in a campaign of harassment aimed to coerce a plea.

Powell’s discovery requests are specifically directed to the players in this sequence of events, some of them previously unpublicized, as well as those involved in the media campaign against General Flynn. Included among her requests, is one for all documents concerning the entire three-year targetting of Flynn by the U.S. and British intelligence communities.

Andrew McCabe Prosecution Likely

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—The Justice Department has rejected the arguments of Andrew McCabe’s attorneys aimed at preventing his indictment, according to Catherine Herridge of Fox News. Herridge said that former FBI Deputy Director McCabe has been issued an official “target” letter.  DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz had referred McCabe for criminal prosecution based on multiple lies he told about leaking to the New York Times about the Clinton Foundation investigation. The length of time between the Horowitz referral and the issuance of the target letter might indicate that the charges being considered against McCabe are broader than the cited leak incident.

9/11, the Real Story Obscured

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Aside from the New York City Schiller Chorus’s wonderful tribute on Sunday, Sept. 8, the remembrances of 9/11 this week in the United States were awash in Romantic walking sympathy cards devoid of real meaning. In Los Angeles, for example, young people were organized to reach out to the poor in an effort to erase “the bad” by “doing good,” and according to reliable reports, similar operations were organized elsewhere. Lacking was the “cause”—the British/Saudi attack on the United States aimed at turning the U.S. into a surveillance police-state, whilst setting Southwest Asia and Afghanistan on fire in endless destructive wars.

The one exception was the appearance of 9/11 family lead counsel Jim Kreindler on Fox’s Tucker Carlson broadcast last night. He said that discovery in the victims and families’ lawsuit against Saudi Arabia has already turned up major evidence showing that the intelligence community was tracking the 9/11 hijackers as of January 2000 but somehow “lost” them. While not naming Robert Mueller specifically in the short segment, it seems clear from Paul Sperry’s Sept. 7 article in the New York Post, that discovery in the families’ lawsuit has also unearthed much more evidence of then-FBI Director Robert Mueller’s obstruction of the investigation of the Saudi role. Sperry references FBI whistleblower affidavits submitted in the litigation documenting Mueller’s coverup.

Kriendler also dropped the bombshell that the reason why the Obama Administration fought to the death to prevent release of the classified 28 pages of the Congressional investigation was a deal they struck with the Saudis: Don’t release the 28 pages in return for Saudi support of the Iran nuclear agreement.

U.S. To Postpone Its Tariffs on China for Two Weeks

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted yesterday that at the request of China, he has agreed to delay for two weeks the further increase in tariffs on Chinese goods worth $250 billion, scheduled for October. “At the request of the Vice Premier of China, Liu He, and due to the fact that the People’s Republic of China will be celebrating their 70th Anniversary on October 1st, we have agreed, as a gesture of good will, to move the increased Tariffs on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods (25% to 30%), from October 1st to October 15th,” the U.S. President wrote.

The Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman welcomed the news as a goodwill gesture preceding negotiations, and hinted that China might resume agricultural imports from the U.S., which it had halted.

STRATEGIC WAR DANGER

Trump Seriously Considering Macron’s Iran Initiative

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—The Daily Beast, among other sources, reports that President Donald Trump is giving serious consideration to French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to resolve the Iran situation and preserve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran, originally signed in 2015 between Iran, and the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany.  President Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA on May 8, 2018.

The French plan calls for the extension of a credit line of $15 billion guaranteed by Iranian oil, if Iran comes back into compliance with the JCPOA. Iran would also have to agree not to “threaten the security of the Persian Gulf or to impede maritime navigation in the area and commit to regional Middle East talks in the future.” And the proposal would require the Trump Administration to issue waivers on Iranian sanctions.

The Daily Beast claims that four sources in the administration have indicated this and that two of those sources said that Secretary Mike Pompeo is also open to weighing the French proposal.

For his part, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said during his Sept. 11 telephone call with French President Macron that the moves that Iran has made to gradually withdraw from some of the provisions of the nuclear agreement could be reversed.  “Iran’s third step is under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and it is reversible,” said President Rouhani, according to his presidential website. He also said that “if agreements with Europe are finalized, we are ready to return to our JCPOA obligations.” He called the JCPOA “a great opportunity for Europe to invest in the Iranian economy,” and he urged the European Union and France in particular to take steps to preserve it.

Laura Rozen, the top U.S. reporter on Iran who has earned much credibility over the years, also wrote Sept. 5 in Al-Monitor that the French mediation effort is live, and may result in a meeting between Presidents Trump and Rouhani on the sidelines of the United National General Assembly later this month. Rozen did not write that the Trump Administration might embrace the JCPOA, as the Beast did.

India and China Troops in Face-Off in Ladakh, but Disengage

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—The Aug. 5 decision by the Indian government to designate the Ladakh region a separate administrative region under federal administration has caused an increase of tensions between India and China since the 130 km border is disputed between the two countries. On Sept. 11, the armies of New Delhi and Beijing engaged in a face-off near the northern bank of Lake Pangong Tso in the region, but agreed to a disengagement following talks.  “There was a face-off between the two armies, but it ended after the delegation-level talks between the two sides,” the Indian Army said in a statement.

The Indian Army stated there is a mechanism in place to deal with such incidents along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between Indian-controlled territory from Chinese-controlled territory in the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. “There are established mechanisms to resolve such differing perceptions of the LAC and established mechanisms to resolve such differences,” said the statement.

According to Sputnik, this is the same area where a bitter scuffle took place between the two armies in the summer of 2017.

On Sept. 10, the Indian Army denied reports that the Chinese had made incursions into the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi canceled his visit to New Delhi, scheduled for Sept. 9, when he was supposed to hold special representative-level talks on the boundary question.

Meanwhile, the Indian Army and Air Force will launch its biggest joint war games exercise, code named HimVijay, in Arunachal Pradesh starting October.

China Summons German Ambassador over Interference in Hong Kong, Support for Rioters

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—As reported by Deutsche Welle and other media, the Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador in protest against the German Foreign Minister’s meeting with Hong Kong rebellion leader Joshua Wong. At a press conference in Berlin yesterday, the Chinese Ambassador to Germany said Heiko Maas’s meeting with Wong sent “very negative signals.” Ambassador Wu Ken warned, “What happened now, I unfortunately have to say that, will have negative consequences on bilateral relations and the Chinese side has to react.”

Wu charged that “foreign forces” were involved in the Hong Kong protests, and insisted that foreign politicians had better back off: “China’s sovereignty and security must be respected. I therefore advise politicians against covering up violent crimes and meddling with Hong Kong’s and China’s internal affairs.”

Wu also told reporters that Beijing had repeatedly asked Berlin to deny Wong entry to Germany.  “We have expressed our deep discontent,” Wu Ken said. “Do not interfere in the internal affairs of China and Hong Kong.” Denouncing Wong as a “riotmaker” and the protests in Hong Kong as “almost terrorist,” the Chinese ambassador stated that “Wong and his followers sow violence.”

SCIENCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE

NASA/JPL Joins ISRO in Trying To Establish Contact with Vikram Lander on Moon’s Surface

Sept. 12 (EIRNS)—Not only Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), but also NASA is making attempts to elicit a response from Vikram lander that is lying motionless on the Moon. The connection between the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter and Vikram lander snapped on the early hours of Sept. 7 when the Vikram lander, which houses the six-wheeled lunar rover Pragyan, suddenly went off course around 400 meters above the lunar surface. Subsequently, ISRO located Vikram, sitting on Moon’s surface, tilted but visually undamaged, although ISRO has not succeeded in establishing contact.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has also beamed a radio frequency to the Vikram lander to establish contact. “NASA/JPL is trying to contact Vikram through its deep space network (DSN) as contractually agreed with ISRO,” a source told Times of India. In addition, ISRO today said officials from the California Institute of Technology and the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) visited its headquarters in Bengaluru and met its Chairman K. Sivan.

NASA’s JPL has DSN ground stations in Goldstone, California; Madrid, Spain, and Canberra, Australia. These stations are located 120 degrees apart and aim to establish contact with any satellite in deep space. DSN supports both NASA and non-NASA missions that seek to explore the farthest points of our solar system. Furthermore, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is scheduled to pass over the part of the Moon where Vikram is on Sept. 17. The orbiter will take images of the area and will share them with the ISRO for analysis, India Today reported.

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