EIR Daily Alert Service, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Volume 6, Number 181

EIR Daily Alert Service

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

  • The Age of Reason Is in the Stars: LaRouche Made ‘Four Laws’ To Get There
  • Fox’s Carlson on Potential of Bolton Firing, as President Blasts Bolton
  • Trump Visit Pushed Republican Bishop’s Win as U.S. Representative in North Carolina
  • U.S. Poverty Was Reduced During 2018 by Full-Time Employment
  • India Has Bold Space Plans in the Years That NASA Mobilizes ‘Artemis’
  • Pennacchio Introduces Bills Promoting Fusion Power Into New Jersey State Senate
  • Trump Moots Two Potential Steps To Reverse U.S. Death Rate Crisis
  • ‘Protect Hong Kong’ Bill To Stop U.S. Tear Gas Sales Protects Anti-China Rioters
  • Trump Moots Two Potential Steps To Reverse U.S. Death Rate Crisis
  • ‘Protect Hong Kong’ Bill To Stop U.S. Tear Gas Sales Protects Anti-China Rioters
  • Will Germany and the EU Counter China in Africa?
  • Global Times Editorial Asserts U.S. Should Fight Terror With Development
EDITORIALThe Age of Reason Is in the Stars: LaRouche Made ‘Four Laws’ To Get ThereSept. 11 (EIRNS)—Activists and supporters of the LaRouche movement are visiting colleges and universities all over the world this week—scores of them in the United States alone—to inspire the most thoughtful young people with the happy promise of humanity’s future in space, and to mobilize them to help bring it into being. These are Days of Action, Sept. 10 and Sept. 12, as evoked in Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s global leaflet, “International Call to Youth: The Age of Reason Is in the Stars!” (see EIR Daily Alert #175 for Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019).This mobilization is in symbiosis—driving, and being driven by—the American space agency NASA’s Moon-to-Mars “Artemis Project,” potentially its first true national mission since “Apollo Program” of President John F. Kennedy. And much more: China’s first-ever exploration of the far side of the Moon; India’s ambitious, lately blooming space program launching Moon, Mars, and other planetary missions and collaborating with both Japan and Russia. A true age of space travel by the human race, and age of reason in human affairs, could now be beginning.Fittingly, President Donald Trump dismissed his war-hawk National Security Adviser during these days of action—for as one commentator put it, “This was great news above all for youth” who are the ones sent to fight the endless and fruitless regime-change wars.A crash program, another “Apollo Program” for space exploration can’t be carried out without the four economic laws proposed by Lyndon LaRouche in 2014. They “start” with re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall Act to protect commercial banking and savings from Wall Street speculation; and the creation of national banking institutions on Alexander Hamilton’s model.But LaRouche proved already in 1972 that There Are No Limits to Growth in his book of that title. Mankind in space, above all, is unlimited.First we have to decide to claim this human “extraterrestrial imperative” and become a spacefaring people among spacefaring nations—then we must revolutionize our power sources and industry, LaRouche’s fourth law, and Hamiltonian credit institutions alone can provide the credit for that revolution, his third law.Put differently: If millions of young people convince the nation to undertake new and extraordinary missions in space, at least thousands of their parents and grandparents will figure out the means to send them there. “Hamiltonian” credit policy can do it, and they will want to use it.A national bank for infrastructure and manufacturing will not grant NASA its budget—ending regime-change wars will make that much simpler. But such a bank will participate in private banks’ lending to the literally tens of thousands of contractors pulling their oars, making this productive credit flow far more easily. And in doing so, it will effectively be “lending” NASA part of its future budgets to pay those contractors.The Sept. 12 Day of Action will be more widespread, internationally, than the first. The cooperation of at least four or more spacefaring nations—United States, Russia, India and China foremost—is essential for this great mission. In the midst of it, those nations will have to create a new international credit and monetary system to foster technological progress and development everywhere—a New Bretton Woods system.That’s the mission of the Days of Action. See also the LaRouche PAC petition “We Commit to the Moon-Mars Mission” and the accompanying pamphlet, “We Commit to the Moon-Mars Mission: The True Spark for Changing the Culture,” available at lpac.co/moon.U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMICFox’s Carlson on Potential of Bolton Firing, as President Blasts BoltonSept. 11 (EIRNS)—Fox TV’s Tucker Carlson—who may have been an influence on Trump’s firing John Bolton as National Security Adviser—opened his show last night with ebullient coverage of Trump’s dismissal of Bolton.President Donald Trump himself, before press at the White House, said Bolton “made some very big mistakes. When he talked about the ‘Libyan model’ for Kim Jong Un, that was not a good statement to make…. That set us back…. John’s known as a tough guy. He’s so tough he got us into Iraq—and that’s tough.”What follows is a close paraphrase of key Carlson comments.Carlson called it, “Great news for America! Especially for the young who would have been killed in pointless wars!” Oil prices will go down, Carlson forecast, because investors know that Bolton planned another war. Obama’s former Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power found Bolton’s firing “a troubling sign.” Mitt Romney, Tucker said, was “very, very unhappy” to lose “a brilliant man with decades of experience”—with Carlson recounting wars in Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria, accompanied by regime change that Bolton championed. Bolton promoted Obama loyalists, acting as a “Fifth Column” in the White House, Carlson stated. Bolton repeatedly called for toppling Iran’s government, but never talked about what would replace it, Carlson reported. War may be a disaster for Americans, but for John Bolton—it’s always good business.Will John Bolton clone, and be replaced by another John Bolton? Carlson asked, pointing to the State Department’s Brian Hook, U.S. Special Representative for Iran, a neo-con with contempt for Trump and his nationalist foreign policy. Hook thinks Trump is reckless, and doesn’t conduct foreign policy.Two other names being floated for Bolton’s position are Stephen Biegun, the current U.S. Special Representative for North Korea, and U.S. Army Col. Douglas MacGregor, a frequent guest on Tucker Carlson’s show, South China Morning Post reported today.Carlson next interviewed Colonel MacGregor, author of Margin of Victory: Five Battles That Changed the Face of Modern War, whom he asked, what needs to be fixed post-Bolton? MacGregor said, go back to first principles. It’s 75 years since World War II ended; we need to recognize that we no longer see the world as bipolar, but multipolar. End the “forever wars” and global police missions.An article in South China Morning Post published Sept. 10, reports that Carlson had been lobbying President Trump to fire Bolton for months, telling him it was foolish to keep a top adviser on his team opposed to his own national security views, who made his disagreements with the President public, on North Korea, pulling troops out of Syria, or sitting down with Iranian leaders.In the meantime, Charles Kupperman, Deputy National Security Adviser, and a former Reagan official, will be acting National Security Adviser.Trump Visit Pushed Republican Bishop’s Win as U.S. Representative in North CarolinaSept. 11 (EIRNS)—President Donald Trump’s election eve visit to Fayetteville, North Carolina on Monday, Sept. 9, to turn out the vote on Tuesday, Sept. 10 for Republican State Sen. Dan Bishop succeeded in victory for the Republican candidate in the special congressional election in North Carolina’s 9th C.D. Before Trump’s last-minute decision to appear at an election rally Monday night to support Bishop, Democratic candidate Dan McCready held a 4% lead in the Sept. 10 election.Democrat McCready also held a narrow lead over Bishop in an Inside Elections poll less than two weeks before the election. That survey, conducted from Sept. 2-4 by Harper Polling and Clarity Campaign Labs, showed McCready ahead of Bishop, 46% to 42%, with two third-party candidates receiving a combined 3%. Some 8% of voters were “unsure” and the survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.19%.Today, Vox media couldn’t handle the outcome, claiming Trump brazenly rewrites history, by giving himself credit for Dan Bishop’s win. According to Vox, Republicans saw worrying signs in the narrow victory, but Vox’s day-after complaint is that Trump is trying to turn the GOP candidate’s victory into a come-from-behind story. Vox’s headline rants: “Trump Brazenly Rewrites History While Giving Himself Credit for Dan Bishop’s Win.”U.S. Poverty Was Reduced During 2018 by Full-Time EmploymentSept. 11 (EIRNS)—The U.S. Census Bureau, in its annual report on “Poverty and Health Insurance Rates in the United States,” reported that in 2018 the poverty rate fell to 11.7%, half a percent lower than the prior year and the lowest rate since 2001 when the unfortunate Bush-Obama presidencies began. Some 38.1 million Americans were poor (below the equivalent of $25,400/year for a family of four), and this was 1.4 million fewer than in 2017.This reduction of poverty, as Census officials stressed, was dramatically dependent on a rise in full-time, year-round jobs. Full-time employment increased by 2.2 million throughout 2018, at the expense of part-time employment. And the poverty sub-rates tell the story: for full-time employed, the poverty rate is 2.3%; for part-timers, 16.8%; for those who do not work it is 29.8%.One Census official said “We have found quite a big increase in full-time, year-round work that would tend to bring up incomes for working people.”The report found that the average real income of Americans rose. But with income inequality continuing to increase, the median household income of $63,000 was “right where it was in 1999” when adjusted for inflation, which itself is officially understated.This development over the course of late 2017 and 2018 has a continuing political and cultural effect in 2019. But it is a look back, and the direction of the economy—particularly the real industrial and physical economy—has reversed during 2019.SCIENCE AND INFRASTRUCTUREIndia Has Bold Space Plans in the Years That NASA Mobilizes ‘Artemis’Sept. 11 (EIRNS)—Following its continuing experiments with the Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter, India is making bold Moon-Mars plans for the years to 2024 during which NASA will be mobilizing the “Artemis Project.” The two nations and their space agencies could certainly work together, as India now plans do with Japan and Russia, among others.According to Space.com on Sept. 7, in 2020 the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch Aditya-L1, to investigate the Sun’s corona, which is also being investigated by the NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. And in 2023 it is expected to launch Shukrayaan, a mission to study the surface and subsurface of Venus. In 2022, India plans a Mars Orbiter Mission-2 (MOM-2, or Mangalyaan-2). Mars Orbiter Mission-1 was an instrumented orbiter—which was able to insert itself into Mars orbit on the first try—but Mars Orbiter Mission-2 will include a lander and rover in addition to instrumentation aboard the Mangalyaan-2 orbiter.Beginning in 2022, India also plans to send astronauts into low-Earth orbit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in his Independence Day address last month. India’s Gaganyaan mission will comprise three crew members, who will be in space for five to seven days, ISRO Chairman K. Sivan said on Aug. 27, according to Hindustan Times Aug. 28.The third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, will come in 2023, in a partnership with Japan. The mission plans to use the Japanese H3 heavy-lift rocket which is under development; and also, a very long-lived lander (Indian) and rover (Japanese) to explore 500 square meters at the lunar South Pole. Sivan told Asian Age in a June 16 interview: “For our next mission—Chandrayaan-3—which will be accomplished in collaboration with JAXA [Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency], we will invite other countries, too, to participate with their payloads. We are working on the configuration of Chandrayaan-3, and will decide on the launch schedule at a later date.”Ironically, Chandrayaan-1 in (October 2008-August 2009) also had its “failure,” with communication ceasing about halfway through its planned year, but the mission was “wildly successful,” in the words of Space.com, making the historic first confirmation of water ice on the Moon, a source of excitement in space exploration communities since then.Pennacchio Introduces Bills Promoting Fusion Power into New Jersey State SenateSept. 11 (EIRNS)—Six bills were introduced into the New Jersey state legislature Aug. 26 by Sen. Joseph Pennacchio, for the promotion of fusion energy research in New Jersey and as part of a call for a national “crash fusion program.” On Sept. 9, Pennacchio’s office issued a press release entitled “Pennacchio Seeks To Make N.J. a Leader in Fusion Energy.”On May 23 the Senator sponsored a symposium at the State House Annex, moderated by EIR’s Marsha Freeman, on “What Are the Prospects and Requirements for the Early Development of Fusion Energy, and What Are the Implications for the U.S., New Jersey, and the World?” The symposium brought experts in fusion energy research together with state political representatives, students, and interested citizens. Speakers included the science director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, and presidents of several New Jersey companies working on fusion development and spin-offs. The bills introduced Aug. 26 follow up proposals by participants at the symposium, and reflect the Senator’s support for fusion energy development. EIR gave full coverage of the symposium in its June 7 issue, titled, “ ‘Commercial Fusion Not Soon Enough’ Says N.J. State Sen. Joseph Pennacchio.” A video of the full symposium has been posted to Vimeo by Panoramic Reign Photography.In his introductory remarks Senator Pennacchio said: “It has been estimated that by 2025 we could have a sustainable fusion reaction, and commercial applications somewhere around 2050. That, in my humble opinion, is not soon enough. The problems that we have … for instance in space travel, we have to get a new propulsion system that can overcome those challenges. One of the ways to allow intergalactic and interplanetary travel in the future. Imagine the benefits that men and women can reap from its development, and not only the main energy application of fusion, but the ancillary applications, like we had with the space program. Myself, and the other legislators in this building, we need to know how we can help that; how can we nurture and help this game-changer come into being.“Imagine if this energy—this is special now—imagine if it had bipartisan support; imagine if it had the support of the environmentalists; imagine if countries like the United States, Russia, and China and Europe worked together.”Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed such a cooperative “crash program” for fusion power in his remarks to Second Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit on July 9, available on the Kremlin website.Throughout the Trenton hearing, references to the Apollo Mission were made as a source of inspiration to scientists who have dedicated their lives to developing such breakthroughs as fusion energy. The new commitment to a Moon mission was also mentioned by students who were in attendance, who asked how the optimism in the room could be transferred to today’s young students, who are worried about shootings in their classrooms and other violence.The package of bills establish a New Jersey Fusion Technology Industry Commission; establish a program to promote fusion technology industry and attract fusion technology businesses; provide that fusion energy and fusion technology companies are eligible to receive benefits under certain economic incentive programs; require that fusion be included within the definition of Class I renewable energy as defined in the Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act; and (SR 146) urge Congress to increase funding for fusion energy research. They would also establish a scholarship program for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in fusion science.A follow-up resolution is expected, calling for national support for a fusion crash program, as in the McCormack Fusion Bill, passed and signed—but never funded—in 1980. Other states can mobilize for such an endeavor.COLLAPSING WESTERN FINANCIAL SYSTEMTrump Moots Two Potential Steps To Reverse U.S. Death Rate CrisisSept. 11 (EIRNS)—President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, at a press conference today, announced that e-cigarettes with flavors other than tobacco would be banned from the U.S. market by approximately Nov. 15; and that tobacco-flavored e-cigarette makers would have to re-apply for FDA approval for their products. The President said, “Too many of our youth have been affected…. People are getting sick. People are dying.”Moreover, on Sept. 9-10 several major media sources have reported that the Trump Administration, with active involvement from the President, is considering options to move the homeless in Los Angeles and other cities out of encampments and off the streets, and into some “Federal facilities,” no further defined. The Washington Post reported on this that White House, House and Urban Development (HUD) and HHS officials were in California this week meeting with state officials, with Trump asking for updates.The Post quoted a White House statement: “ ‘Like many Americans, the President has taken notice of the homelessness crisis, particularly in cities and states where the liberal policies are combining to dramatically increase poverty and public health risks,’ said Judd Deere, a White House spokesman. ‘President Trump has directed his team to go further and develop a range of policy options for consideration to deal with this tragedy.’OTHER‘Protect Hong Kong’ Bill To Stop U.S. Tear Gas Sales Protects Anti-China RiotersSept. 11 (EIRNS)—Congressional opponents of China submitted a bill Sept. 10 called the “Protect Hong Kong Act,” banning the sale of tear gas and riot control equipment to Hong Kong. The co-sponsors are Democrat Jim McGovern and Republican Chris Smith, the co-chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. McGovern said the equipment was “being used for immoral and unjust purposes.”China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made fun of the ridiculous bill today, praising the U.S. handling of domestic riots, including the protests in Portland last month, Baltimore in 2015, and Occupy Wall Street in 2011 (in all of which, police used tear gas). She accused America of “hypocrisy and double standards.” “If violent crimes similar to those in Hong Kong take place in the U.S., would those American Congress people maintain the same level of benevolence?” Hua asked. “I wonder if the U.S. congressmen want … the anti-riot equipment inside the U.S. for their own use?”The British Empire is way ahead of the U.S. Congress. As the main supplier of crowd control equipment to Hong Kong, the British government suspended exports in June, “until concerns about human rights and fundamental freedoms in the city” were addressed.Will Germany and the EU Counter China in Africa?Sept. 11 (EIRNS)—Germany’s Development Minister Gerd Müller has created an “Economic Network Africa” which is to pose an ostensible “sustainable” alternative to China’s investment in Africa, which they allege is a resource grab.Müller pushed the lie that China’s investments into African infrastructure may seem positive on the surface, but the Chinese money is not invested into sustainable development. “China is predominantly interested in the resources of Africa, and not in creating fair incomes and value-creation on-site. The Chinese are bringing their own workers along with the construction projects, and there is no job creation for the local population. This situation should be a warning sign for African states,” Müller claimed.At the same time that Müller spread this fake news on China, EU Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen stressed that climate protection ranked first on her agenda for her five-year term which begins on Nov. 1. Europe, she proclaimed, would “irreversibly stick to its values and norms,” which posed the necessity, in her view, that a “more self-assertive relationship with China will be defined.” The EU will also turn Europe into a “reliable partner for regions like Africa,” she said, implying that China was not a reliable partner.In fact, von der Leyen insisted in a letter to Spain’s Foreign Minister Josep Borrell about the EU Defense Union that “The European Union needs to be more strategic, more assertive, and more united in its approach to external relations…. You should seek to strengthen the Union’s capacity to act autonomously” from its nations.Furthermore, in the only three references von der Leyen makes to Africa in “My Agenda for Europe,” two of them relate not to development, but to her plan for the European Defense Union.Global Times Editorial Asserts U.S. Should Fight Terror with DevelopmentSept. 11 (EIRNS)—A lengthy, unsigned editorial in Global Times yesterday (indicating it represents the view of the China’s Central Committee), criticizes the United States for failing to act for the world’s common good, and fight terrorism, through economic development of susceptible nations.Sept. 11, it says, is necessarily a day of reflection on “the advantages and disadvantages” of the United States war on terror. The United States view is that the counter-terror war has been effective, overthrowing or containing the ability of terrorist organizations to launch 9/11-style mass attacks, and America is “relatively safe.” But, Global Times says, “Terrorism has spread across the world, and taken advantageof regional issues for more specific goals…. More importantly, hatred and misunderstanding didn’t shrink in the world, which makes it harder to uproot terrorism.”Despite sums of money the U.S. spent on countering terrorism, the world would have achieved more if these resources had been used to develop economies in underdeveloped countries, Global Times says. Since the United States is the most powerful country in the world, the United States has special responsibilities in making the world more peaceful and orderly, but, regrettably, Washington has failed to do so, and “has set a bad example for the world by being selfish, capricious and even rude.”In fact, with all this money spent, “Looking back at the counter-terrorism war, people will find out that the U.S. didn’t get at the root of eliminating terrorism. In recent years, terrorist activities have more frequently occurred in a larger range of places, involving increasingly diverse radical people.” 
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