FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Volume 6, Number 187

EIR Daily Alert Service

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

• The Other Coalitions Are Blowing Up-Time for the LaRouche Coalition To Take Over!
• First Time Since the Financial Crash 10 Years Ago, Fed Pumps Money Into Markets
• New Spy Story Emerges, Focusing on Trump and a Mystery Nation: Want To Bet It Is Russia?
• Whom Do Bolton and Pompeo Represent?
• U.S.-China Preparatory Trade Talks Underway, as Expert Anticipates Interim Deal Ahead
• China Tells Pelosi and Others in Congress To Stop Interfering in Hong Kong
• Chinese Present Elements of 600 kph Maglev Train
• Trieste Developing Well With Maritime Silk Road
• LaRouche Movement Petititon Proves Idiocy of McCarthyite Attack on Chinese Scientists and Students

EDITORIAL

The Other Coalitions Are Blowing Up—Time for the LaRouche Coalition To Take Over!

Sept. 19 (EIRNS)—After the Federal Reserve injected over $200 billion cash into the Wall Street banks over the past three days, for the first time since 2008-09, yet still failed to push interest rates down into their target range—the City of London and Wall Street are beginning to panic over the near-term stability of their rotten system. As Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche first pointed out, their hope for a last-ditch defense is to use the fraudulent panic over so-called climate change, to forcibly channel investment into the “green” schemes they control through cutouts such as London’s “Green Finance Initiative,” shortly to be exposed in a new Schiller Institute report. It is this sordid motive which is behind the so-called climate initiatives ongoing at the United Nations today, where LaRouche organizers are present; and behind the New York City School System’s blatant pressure on students and their parents to support a “green” strike this Friday.

At the same time, significant, relevant political shifts are ongoing both in Republican and Democratic circles, so-called. The Washington daily Politico, in stories on Sept. 18 and 19 highlights features of President Donald Trump’s firing of John Bolton, whichshed great light on the present political situation in the United States. As opposed to the analysis presented in the press internationally, that Donald Trump is somehow the captive of John Bolton or Mike Pompeo, the implications here are far more pragmatic and optimistic concerning the dynamic of the President and the corrupt Republican apparatus he used to get elected.

Both establishment hawks, Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are representative of substantial Republican Party political factions which helped propel Trump’s insurgent candidacy to victory in 2016. The firing of Bolton, and Pompeo’s likely decision to run for Senate in Kansas, point to Trump finally freeing himself from the establishment Washington, D.C. Republican Party, as their loud complaints to Politico indicate.  They call Trump, now, “a government of one,” something which many Trump voters, who chanted, “Drain the Swamp,” obviously intended.

Similar fissures are occurring in the Democratic Party over impeachment. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is leading farcical House Judiciary hearings, which this week featured Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski reprising portions of the Mueller Report. Nadler’s Democrats, frustrated by Lewandowski’s calmly facing them down over testimony he provided on Trump’s orders to Mueller, resorted to angrily throwing names at him, threatening him with criminal charges, and wildly asserting that his sticking to what he told Robert Mueller signaled “consciousness of guilt.”

Lewandowski told Mueller that the President had asked him to deliver a message to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Sessions should “unrecuse” himself from the Trump/Russia investigation, and should focus that investigation on protecting future elections. This occurred in a context in which the FBI’s James Comey was repeatedly telling Trump that he was not a target of the FBI’s counterintelligence probe, and in which the investigation by the President’s equally diligent lawyers could find no wrongdoing by his campaign.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) openly criticized the Nadler circus to a stunned Democratic caucus behind closed doors last week, according to Politico, noting that the Judiciary Committee was way, way ahead of its skis, and the Democrats in the House did not have the votes to support impeachment. Sticking the shank in, she said, “Go ahead and leak that fact,” concerning the lack of Democratic support for impeachment.

At the same time, this week the Jacobin Democratic presidential candidates launched a new, unhinged impeachment drive against Justice Brett Kavanaugh based on a totally fake New York Times story which had to be substantially retracted by the Times, further compromising their 2020 chances.

These shifting dynamics here occur as both the Trump Campaign and Democrats see the revolt within the American population, demanding industry, infrastructure, and real jobs, as the Wall Street casino begins to collapse. The Democrats are positioning themselves through the genocidal Green New Deal—which LaRouche organizers are exposing—and through claims about Wall Street reform.

The Trump Campaign is looking for an actual economic policy which can build the modern infrastructure required for economic recovery, while funding basic scientific advances including fusion power and space travel—something readily available in Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Laws for Economic Recovery. The LaRouche “Laws” are the real New Deal, rather than the Green New Deal which will destroy everyone who touches it like Medea’s poisoned gown.

COLLAPSING WESTERN FINANCIAL SYSTEM

First Time Since the Financial Crash 10 Years Ago, Fed Pumps Money into Markets

Sept. 19 (EIRNS)—Since Sept. 17, the Federal Reserve in three tranches within 72 hours has pumped $203 billion into markets in its attempt to keep interest rates from moving higher. The New York Federal Reserve said today it would inject another $75 billion into the market to keep the federal funds rate within its target range. Short-term rates had earlier this week shot up as high as 10%, threatening to disrupt the bond market and the overall lending system.

According to Markets Insider reporter Gina Heeb, there is an ongoing debate about why the amount of cash that banks have on hand for short-term funding needs dried up early this week. But the shortage came after businesses had to pay quarterly tax bills at the same time that the Treasury issued billions in new bonds.

Also, a widening gap between federal revenue and expenditures has exacerbated volatility in the $2 trillion repo market. The national budget deficit jumped past $1 trillion in the first 11 months of the fiscal year, a level it hadn’t reached since 2012, when the U.S. was still climbing out of the Great Recession, Heeb pointed out.

U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC

New Spy Story Emerges, Focussing on Trump and a Mystery Nation: Want To Bet It Is Russia?

Sept. 19 (EIRNS)—Not unrelated to President Donald Trump’s recent drive for independence, a new spy story was occupying Washington today. The claim, coming through the House Intelligence Committee chaired by Adam Schiff (D-CA), is that the President made “improper promises” to a foreign leader in telephone calls. The claim is being made by a whistleblower who is obviously compromising classified information, real or fabricated, for what will be characterized as the “greater good.” The claim itself raises dramatic separation of powers issues under the Constitution. The President is supposed to conduct foreign policy. He need not be “supervised” either by Washington intelligence mandarins or the juveniles in the U.S. Congress. It somehow seems not a stretch to speculate that these phone calls might have involved Russia.

Whom Do Bolton and Pompeo Represent?

Sept. 19 (EIRNS)—Former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s first outing following his firing was a private luncheon this week at the Gatestone Institute, a neo-con hotbed which he formerly led. It is the center of the most anti-Muslim clash-of-civilizations rants in American and British foreign policy circles. Bolton was introduced by Rebekah Mercer, the hedge fund billionaire heiress who has funded all of Bolton’s recent career. Attendees at the dump-on-Trump luncheon included Alan Dershowitz, former Attorney General Mike Mukasey, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, New York Times attorney Floyd Abrams, former Fox personality John Stossel, former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, and New York billionaire John Catsimatidis. Dershowitz, a committed Zionist, declared that Bolton’s firing was a “national disaster” according to Politico’s report.

Gatestone, once a part of the Hudson Institute and funded by Sears Roebuck heiress Nina Rosenwald, has featured such neo-cons as James Woolsey, Elliott Abrams, William Kristol, and other direct authors of the Iraq War, along with British Thatcherite Tories, including Baroness Caroline Cox, Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE, and theViscountess Caroline Bearsted.

Bolton attacked all of Trump’s foreign policy initiatives at the luncheon. He apparently claimed that Trump had stopped a Bolton-orchestrated attack on Iran after the June 20th shoot-down of an American drone, because of last-minute appeals by Tucker Carlson. He claimed that had that attack gone forward, Iran would not have attacked Saudi Arabia’s oil refinery. Particularly rich, was Bolton’s characterization of Trump’s invitation to the Taliban for peace negotiations at Camp David on the eve of 9/11, as an insult to the 9/11 families. Bolton, of course, was an author of the policies which led directly to the death of 3,000 Americans on that day of infamy.

Tucker Carlson has responded to the Bolton-instigated attacks on him by calling the neo-cons “leftists.” Carlson noted that Samantha Power, Barack Obama’s UN Ambassador, blasted Bolton’s firing.  Carlson was alluding to the fact that the first generation of neo-conservatives were followers of Leon Trotsky—card-carrying members of the Fourth International. They changed Trotsky’s core idea of permanent revolution into the neoconservative wet dream of permanent warfare and permanent regime change—facts fully developed in Lyndon LaRouche’s Children of Satan series of pamphlets following the events of 9/11.

President Donald Trump has answered Bolton publicly and succinctly, “Well, I was critical of John getting us involved with a lot of other people in the Middle East…. We’ve spent $7.5 trillion in the Middle East and you ought to ask a lot of people about that…. A lot of people were very critical that I brought him in in the first place because of the fact that he was so in favor of going into the Middle East, and he got stuck in quicksand and we became policemen in the Middle East. It’s ridiculous.”

Bolton, Steve Bannon, Breitbart News, the data firm Cambridge Analytica, and Kellyanne Conway, were all Mercer family properties during 2016, and originally supported the British Tory choice, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Robert Mercer made his billions on Wall Street, manipulating data for currency and other speculation, through computer modeling. Typical of his social skills, was his spending over $2.7 million on a model train set for himself. He conducts his politics through his daughter Rebekah, who is a rabid libertarian, and is a major financial angel in Republican/Tory circles in both the U.S. and Britain. He sponsored Bannon’s creation of the so-called alt-right out of enraged young males primarily addicted to gamer culture. The Mercer group, by all accounts, injected both millions of dollars in cash and structure into Trump’s general election campaign and claimed that this entitled them to a seat at the table.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence represent another key Republican constituency within the George H.W. Bush-built Republican Party—Christian Zionists. A sect created by British intelligence, these alien forces have embedded themselves in the evangelical population in the U.S., and are strident in their support of Israel, but not for any reason which would please the Israeli population. They believe that the ultimate destruction of Israel in Armageddon will bring about the second coming of Christ. Trump was told that he needed this constituency to secure the evangelical vote in 2016, a key to Republican Party success. However, many evangelicals are more than satisfied with the President’s pro-life positions and appointments to the Supreme Court, without the added component about blowing up the world.

U.S.-China Preparatory Trade Talks Underway, as Expert Anticipates Interim Deal Ahead

Sept. 19 (EIRNS)—A Chinese delegation led by Vice Finance Minister Liao Min is in Washington now, to set the agenda for the high-level talks between Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin scheduled to take place in October. As reported by South China Morning Post today, China’s interest in buying U.S. agricultural products will be supported by a personal visit by a member of China’s negotiating team to Midwestern farm states next week. The senior official from China’s Ministry of Agriculture will visit U.S. farmers in Nebraska and Montana, a source with knowledge of the trip told the SCMP, which did not name the official.

Chen Wenling, chief economist for the China Center for International Economic Exchanges and a researcher affiliated with the Chinese government, said China and the U.S. are expected to reach an interim trade deal next month, with Beijing agreeing to buy more American products and the Trump Administration postponing further tariff increases and easing restrictions on Huawei, according to a report by Forexlive.

On Sept. 17, during a discussion with reporters aboard Air Force One en route from New Mexico to California, President Donald Trump said, “I think there’ll be a deal maybe soon, maybe before the election, or one day after the election. And if it’s after the election, it’ll be a deal like you’ve never seen, it’ll be the greatest deal ever and China knows that. … If it’s after the election, it’ll be the toughest deal anybody’s ever had to make from the standpoint of China, and they know that. China knows that….” according to the White House Pool release of the exchange.

STRATEGIC WAR DANGER

China Tells Pelosi and Others in Congress To Stop Interfering in Hong Kong

Sept. 19 (EIRNS)—On Sept. 18 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was joined by Republican lawmakers at a news conference with Joshua Wong, the Hong Kong color revolution darling, and pop singer Denise Ho, to promote the so-called “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.” She sided with their demand for fully democratic elections and thanked them for “challenging the conscience” of the Chinese government and the world.

At the Chinese Foreign Ministry today, spokesman Geng Shuang was asked about this and replied strongly. “Recently we have repeatedly stated China’s solemn position on U.S. interference in Hong Kong affairs with erroneous words and deeds. Certain politicians like Ms. Pelosi still won’t tell right from wrong. They held the press conference threatening to push the Hong Kong-related act and met with separatist forces for ‘Hong Kong independence.’ With uninvited comments on Hong Kong affairs, they are grossly interfering in China’s domestic affairs. We deplore and strongly oppose that.

“I will reiterate that Hong Kong affairs are purely China’s domestic affairs and no foreign interference shall be allowed. We strongly urge the U.S. to abide by international law and basic norms governing international relations, earnestly respect China’s sovereignty, stop interfering in whatever form in Hong Kong affairs, stop pushing the relevant act on Hong Kong, stop endorsing violent and radical forces in Hong Kong and separatist forces for ‘Hong Kong independence,’ and stop instigating words and deeds undermining the stability and prosperity of the Hong Kong SAR,” he told his ministry’s daily briefing today.

SCIENCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Chinese Present Elements of 600 kph Maglev Train

Sept. 19 (EIRNS)—CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. unveiled the key components of its magnetic-levitation train with a designed speed of 600 kph in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province on Sept. 17, comprising parts of the train’s power system, including a long stator linear motor and two transformers.

He Yunfeng, an official of the company, said that in contrast to traditional electrical motors, the long stator linear motor features a simple structure, strong climbing ability, low noise, low energy consumption, and quick start and stop. The long stator linear motor plays the role of the “heart” of the high-speed train, and the transformers provide a constant and stable direct current power for the linear motor, equivalent to a “blood supply system,” as He put it.

The high-speed maglev train can fill the service gap between current high-speed rail and aviation services and is of great technological and economic significance for improving the country’s high-speed passenger transport network. High-speed trains in China now run at a speed of up to 350 kph. For long distances between cities, the new maglev can cut the current 4.5 hours for air travel, and 5.5 hours high-speed rail travel, between Beijing and Shanghai to 3.5 hours.

A prototype 600 kph magnetic-levitation train rolled off the production line in the eastern city of Qingdao in May.

The high-speed maglev train features speed, safety, reliability, low noise and vibration, large passenger capacity, on-time performance and low maintenance costs. It can be used to connect major cities or city clusters to boost regional integration.

THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORDER

Trieste Developing Well with Maritime Silk Road

Sept. 19 (EIRNS)—Being the only deep-water sea port in the central region of the Mediterranean, Trieste, Italy can handle giant container vessels of the 7th generation. With Chinese investments, the port has turned into Italy’s biggest with an annual growth of 10%. Trieste will be one of the leading gateways for logistics not only in southern Europe, but also, via Austria, in the north. Orienting towards that future, Austria’s Rail Cargo Group reports that it has been able to build a 45% market share in ship-to-rail transfers of goods in Trieste, handling 3,300 freight trains a year now, with new weekly services on the western route between Trieste and Wolfurt, near the Lake Constance Swiss and German border areas; and in the east, the Trieste-Vienna-Linz-Trieste route.

OTHER

LaRouche Movement Petition Proves Idiocy of McCarthyite Attack on Chinese Scientists and Students

Sept. 19 (EIRNS)—The following is the text of a petition, which is being posted to the LaRouche PAC and Schiller Institute websites this week, headlined, “Who Owns the Principle of Gravity?  Deporting and Spying on Chinese Scientists and Students Will Not Make Us Smarter, Healthier or Safer”:

On April 26, 2019, FBI Director Christopher Wray gave an address to the Council on Foreign Relations in which he made the astonishing claim that “no country poses a broader, more severe intelligence collection threat than China.” He explained:

“China has pioneered a societal approach to stealing innovation any way it can, from a wide array of businesses, universities, and organizations. They’re doing thisthrough Chinese intelligence services, through state-owned enterprises, through ostensibly private companies, through graduate students and researchers, and through a variety of actors working on behalf of China.”

During his 2018 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Wray put it this way: “One of the things we’re trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat, but a whole-of-society threat on their end…. And I think it’s going to take a whole-of-society response by us.”

The above quotes are not from a paranoid intelligence officer from the movie “Dr. Strangelove,” although they sound like it. Hopefully the removal of John Bolton from his post as National Security Advisor will prove to be a step toward sanity in U.S.-China relations, but the danger to world affairs is too great to merely “hope” for a change. The anti-China fear-mongering must stop now.

After the firing of several top Chinese-American scientists, and the deportation of several Chinese post-doctoral students who were working on curing cancer and Huntington’s disease, as well as the denial of visas to Chinese students trying to return for the new semester at several American universities, the FBI is demanding that university presidents, deans and professors assist in this McCarthyite witch hunt by carefully monitoring—i.e., spying on—the Chinese and Chinese-American students in their institutions, especially if the students are studying science, mathematics, IT or anything else with possible military applications.

Has China actually expressed an intent to destroy the United States? Or is it merely that some consider the development of China to be a threat to the United States? Is the threat actually the development of China, or is it the lack of development of the United States?

If a researcher discovers an effective treatment for a deadly disease, wouldn’t it be important to have a dialogue about how best to make this treatment available to those who are suffering, with appropriate patent laws and regulations, as opposed to taking action to halt the dialogue and shut down the research? Today, scientific research and journals are, by nature, international. Many research projects involve teams working in the West and in China, publishing papers together, on two continents. The actions of the FBI and related branches of government to persecute Chinese scientists in the U.S. is nothing less than an assault on science itself.

What about the discovery of a universal principle, like gravity? If China makes the same discovery as an American researcher, or if a Chinese scientist observes an American experiment and tries to replicate it in China, has the principle been “stolen”? Does it no longer exist here because it also exists there? The great Hungarian-American physicist Dr. Edward Teller warned in a September 1987 interview with The Scientist that “exaggerated secrecy will drive away the best people. It is where secrecy gets married to bureaucracy, to doctrine—that is where secrecy does most of its harm.”

If we in the United States fail to act on a discovery of principle, by neglecting to put it into practice—as was the case with mag-lev rail, which was developed at Brookhaven Lab in New York, but never built in the United States—is that the fault of the Chinese?

It is true that China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty in the last 30 years, while deaths from poverty-related diseases have increased dramatically over the same time period in the United States. It is also true that China has landed on the far side of the Moon and sprouted seeds there. China has doubled its budget for fusion research, while in the United States, fusion research has been starved nearly to death for lack of funding.

These developments are not an attack by China on the United States, nor is it China which has prevented us from making desperately needed repairs to basic infrastructure, or investing needed funds in the space program, medical research or other scientific endeavors. This has been the policy of the elected government of the United States for the past 50 years, which is only now beginning to change with the announcement of the Artemis Project for a manned landing on the Moon in 2024.

The stifling of cooperation and dialogue among scientists trying to solve the same problems, especially from varying perspectives, is akin to putting an iron rod through the spokes of the wheels of human progress.

As demonstrated by Socrates, Plato, and Confucius centuries ago, the pathway to true knowledge is through dialogue and free exchange of ideas. Obviously, there will be specific areas of military application that may need to be classified for a period of time. But exploring our Solar System and galaxy, and curing devastating diseases, such as cancer, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s, are endeavors for the benefit of humankind as a whole. If Americans are not allowed to collaborate with the Chinese in these scientific endeavors, the Chinese will go elsewhere, as they are already doing with their space program.

Open and collaborative international cooperation promotes the self-interest, properly defined, of all people and nations.

We, the undersigned, demand the immediate cessation of the vilification and persecution of Chinese and Chinese-American researchers and students.

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