MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2019

Volume 6, Number 213

EIR Daily Alert Service

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

• Trump Builds Ties to Russia and China
• Trump Announces Killing of Baghdadi, Expresses Thanks to Russia, Syria, and Others
• Larry Johnson Writes Attorney General Barr Has ‘Pulled the Trigger’
• Clapper Throws His ‘Commander in Chief’ Obama Under the Bus
• Turkey Defends Its Relationship to Russia
• Biggest March in Chile’s History Against Showcase ‘Model’ of Global Neoliberal System
• London Demands, Let No One Dare Change Our Chile Model!
• ‘WeWork’ Failure Might Unleash Universal Selloff
• Bankers Alarmed Global Protest Wave Could Blow Out Already Failing Financial Markets
• Creditors’ Cartel Prepares for War Against Argentina’s Next Government
• Russian Economist Glazyev Warns Africans About IMF Looting Policies
• Hong Kong Looks to Development of the Greater Bay Region for Its Future
• Lancet Editor Joins Climate Change Madness, Disgraces Medical Profession
• Rosatom’s CEO Addresses How Nuclear Energy Development Can Bridge Skills Gap in Africa
• Bridenstine Urges International Space Cooperation on Artemis Moon Mission

EDITORIAL

Trump Builds Ties to Russia and China

Oct. 27 (EIRNS)—President Donald Trump, living up to his self-description as “an island of one,” is breaking through the British imperial mentality which dominates the U.S. political parties, the media, and Wall Street, and forging friendly ties with Russia and China. In his Sunday announcement that a U.S. Special Forces raid had killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and several other top ISIS terrorists, he explicitly thanked Russia and Syria (as well as Turkey, Iraq and the Kurds) for cooperation in the raid, although it was conducted entirely by U.S. forces and intelligence. He repeatedly told the press that Russia has as much hatred of the ISIS terrorists as does the U.S., and that he is confident that the Russians and the Syrians can contain ISIS while keeping the peace along the border with Turkey.

This comes just days after reaching a partial agreement with China on the trade crisis, and reining in his anti-China Vice President Mike Pence, whose anti-China speech at the Wilson Center this past week, while full of vicious lies about China, was also interspersed with several statements that President Trump wants to build friendly relations with China and does not want to contain China’s rise—statements totally lacking from his speech a year earlier at the Hudson Institute railing against China.

This comes at a moment in history in which massive social upheavals are occurring in every part of the world, mostly protesting the “Washington Consensus” economic austerity policies which have caused economic decay and misery throughout the world. In Chile, in particular, the home of the “Chile Model” so beloved by the City of London and Wall Street, put in place by the fascist Pinochet government in the 1970s, the population has risen up, demanding not just token handouts to pacify them, but for a new system based on development and jobs, to restore dignity to the people. Similar mass mobilizations are occurring in Iraq, Lebanon, and Argentina, where the election today removed the Wall Street puppet Mauricio Macri, whose policies have bankrupted the nation and destroyed the standard of living. Even in Europe, farmers are revolting against the austerity destroying family farms.

Yet, there is reason for hope and optimism that the paradigm of perpetual war and financial looting can finally be replaced with one of global development and cooperation of all nations, based on the common aims of mankind. The “Russiagate” coup attempt against President Trump was not only exposed as a total fraud, but now U.S. Attorney General William Barr has turned the investigation into the roots of that scam into a criminal investigation. The corrupt intelligence operatives in the Bush and Obama Administrations, together with British intelligence—the same institutions which falsified intelligence in order to precipitate the wars in the Middle East, and who ran the Russiagate scam against the President—are now facing criminal prosecutions for their crimes.

Note that these are the same institutions and individuals who ran the illegal prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche in the 1980s, in an effort to prevent the world from knowing the genius of this man, and his programs for the development of the world. Now, President Trump is adopting those programs formulated by LaRouche over the past 50 years—a Moon-Mars mission; ending the regime change wars; joining with Russia and China infighting terrorism and drug trafficking, while cooperating in space and scientific investigations; reviving U.S. industrial and infrastructural development; and exposing the notion of anthropogenic climate change as a British hoax to justify their anti-growth austerity measures. The current fanaticism of the Democratic Party in trying to manufacture an impeachment out of thin air, is not only intended to stop President Trump from implementing these programs, but is also out of the fear that he will also adopt LaRouche’s solution for the collapsing financial order, through Glass-Steagall reorganization of the banking system, which, if adopted internationally through a New Bretton Woods system, would spell the death knell of the British Empire once and for all.

Our effort to convince the President to exonerate Lyndon LaRouche, even following his death earlier this year, is precisely aimed at placing these great ideas before the American citizenry, and the citizenry of the world, to launch the new paradigm which is now within our grasp.

U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC

Trump Announces Killing of Baghdadi, Expresses Thanks to Russia, Syria, and Others

Oct. 27 (EIRNS)—President Donald Trump this morning announced that a raid on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Saturday night killed him and several of his team without any American injuries or deaths (other than their “great dog” which was injured but lived). The raid took place after midnight local time in the town of Barisha in Idlib province, the last region of the country still under the control of jihadis.

Most importantly, in his announcement, he specifically thanks both Russia and Syria, and indicated indirectly that he is willing to “make a deal” with Syria over the oil fields. “This raid was impeccable, and could only have taken place with the acknowledgment and help of certain other nations and people,” he said. “I want to thank the nations of Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iraq, and I also want to thank the Syrian Kurds for certain support they were able to give us.” He returned several times during the Q&A with the press to Russia—that Russia was helpful, that the Russians and the other regional nations (he even included Iran in this) hate ISIS as much as America does. He said Russia was informed that the eight-helicopter strike force would be flying over their territory, and Russia had cooperated.

Besides thanking Syria for cooperating in the raid, he twice indicated a willingness to make a deal over the oil fields, although he did not name Syria. He said the U.S. was securing the oil fields to prevent ISIS from again threatening them, but also noted that “somebody else may claim it, but either we’ll negotiate a deal with whoever is claiming it, if we think it’s fair, or we will militarily stop them.” He later returned to that, saying he wanted to bring in Western oil companies to rebuild the facilities, but added: “that doesn’t mean we don’t make a deal at some point.”

The raid was done entirely by U.S. forces and U.S. intelligence, he said. Taking note of the fact that there are elements in the intelligence community that participated in the attempted coup against him, he added: “When we use our intelligence correctly, what we can do is incredible.  When we waste our time with intelligence, that hurts our country, because we had poor leadership at the top. That’s not good.”

Al-Baghdadi tried to escape in a tunnel, but it was a dead end, and when the soldiers were closing in on him, he blew himself up with a suicide vest. Trump emphasized that he was “whimpering and crying and screaming,” and that he had dragged three of his children along “to certain death.” Eleven other children in the house were safely brought out, and there are several other terrorists who gave up and are now captives. DNA tests on the spot confirmed it was Baghdadi, whom Trump said he had been trying to kill since he came into office.

Trump is personally calling the families of the several American civilians beheaded or otherwise killed by ISIS.

Larry Johnson Writes, Attorney General Barr Has ‘Pulled the Trigger’

Oct. 26 (EIRNS)—Writing on the “Sic Semper Tyrannis” website, Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst who helped create the VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity), proclaims that the counterpunch against the attempted coup has been kicked into high gear under the direction Attorney General Bill Barr. Johnson writes:

“I do not believe that it is a mere coincidence that these three events occurred late last night [Thursday night]:

“1. The investigation of the roots of the plot to destroy Donald Trump and his Presidency is now a criminal matter.

“2. A letter from Inspector General Horowitz announcing that his report on the FISA fraud would be out shortly with no major redactions.

“3. The Government caved to Honey Badger Sidney Powell and allowed her to fully expose criminal conduct by Michael Flynn’s prosecutors.

“What is going on? Two words. Bill Barr. The Attorney General has pulled the trigger and altered the landscape in the Russiagate saga. Having been granted full authority by the President to declassify information, including intel from the CIA and the NSA, he has now acted in a powerful, but low key way. The announcement that this is now a criminal investigation means that anyone, including FBI agents and CIA officers, who try to hold back information or hide information will be vulnerable to obstruction of justice charges. Criminal penalties attach….

“Christopher Wray and his sycophants last night folded like a cheap tent in a hurricane in terms of blocking release of the Inspector General report on FISA abuses. They also withdrew the FBI objections to the Exhibits that Sidney Powell had attached to her brief explaining why the FBI had engaged in criminal activity against her client, Gen. Mike Flynn.

“When Durham goes to the CIA, the DIA and the NSA asking questions and demanding documents they must cooperate or face criminal charges. That is the gamechanger.”

Clapper Throws His ‘Commander in Chief’ Obama under the Bus

Oct. 26 (EIRNS)—Every operative in the multi-layered Russiagate operation, faced with the announcement that Attorney General William Barr’s investigation is now a criminal investigation, is frantically pointing at everybody else as the actual culprit. James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence under President Barack Obama, who, together with CIA chief John Brennan and others, ran the U.S. side of the British-attempted coup against President Donald Trump, on Oct. 7 saw the handwriting on the wall, and pointed straight at Obama.

Appearing on CNN, Clapper was asked if he thought the investigations by Attorney General Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham were leading to the prosecution of former intelligence officials. Clapper, looking scared and nervous, responded:

“I don’t think there was any wrong doing…. My concern was the Russians, the threat posed by the Russians to our very political fabric. Apparently, what we were supposed to have done was to ignore the Russian interference, and the threat that poses to us, and, oh, by the way, blow off what the Commander in Chief at that time, President Obama, told us to do, which was to assemble all the reporting we could and put it in one report that the President could pass on to the Congress and the next administration, and, while we were at it, to declassify as much as we possibly could and make it public—and that’s what we did. It’s pretty disconcerting now to be investigated for having done our duty, and done what we were told to do by the President.”

STRATEGIC WAR DANGER

Turkey Defends Its Relationship to Russia

Oct. 26 (EIRNS)—Turkey’s relationship with Russia was apparently a very contentious issue at the NATO defense ministers meeting which just concluded in Brussels.  According to a report in Reuters, Spain was even threatening to withdraw the Patriot air defense battery that it has deployed in Turkey, in response to Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria, but ultimately ended up offering to renew the deployment for another six months. “There’s a concerted effort not to make things worse,” one NATO diplomat told Reuters. “Turkey, after Trump, has put a renewed strain on the Alliance. But Turkey is too important to lose.”

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar maintained a defiant tone during the North Atlantic Council dinner on Oct. 24, declaring that Turkey had the same right to strike deals with Russia as it did with the United States. As much anger as there was over the S-400 deal, shaking the rafters at NATO headquarters even more might be the report in Turkey’s pro-government Daily Sabah, yesterday, that Turkey and Russia are in talks for the Russian sale of Su-35 fighter jets to Turkey. Such a possibility was first mooted when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Russian President Vladimir Putin at this past summer’s MAKS airshow outside of Moscow. Putin showed Erdogan both the Su-57 stealth fighter and the Su-35. Daily Sabah cited Turkish sources reporting that Turkey is close to reaching a deal with Moscow over the purchase of 36 Su-35 fighter jets as well as co-manufacturing some components of the Russian-made jets, including its precision weapons and ammunition.

Though there’s no confirmation from the Russian side—TASS reported that the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugayev said on Oct. 24 that Putin and Erdogan did not discuss the deliveries of Su-35 and Su-57 fighter jets to Turkey at their Oct. 22 meeting in Sochi—the Daily Sabah report comes in the aftermath of the U.S. decision to remove Turkey from the F-35 program because of its purchase of the S-400 from Russia. Turkish military contractors were heavily involved in producing parts for the F-35, including major components of its engine and cockpit displays.

Biggest March in Chile’s History against Showcase ‘Model’ of Global Neoliberal System

Oct. 26 (EIRNS)—At least 1.2 million people marched yesterday in Santiago—the capital of Chile whose population falls just shy of 7 million—against the still-reigning “Chicago boys” economic system imposed on the country by the bloody Pinochet dictatorship in 1973.  With smaller marches held simultaneously in most cities, there were easily more than 2 million Chileans on the streets yesterday, out of a total population of some 18 million, demanding systemic economic change.

A million Chileans marched in 1988 against Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s attempt to establish himself as ruler for life. Now, Chileans are demanding the economic model the City of London and Wall Street installed him to enforce be buried as well.  Every banker in the world understands that this is no “Chilean” matter, but a mass rebellion in the country held up around the world as the financiers’ model for “success.”

Lyndon LaRouche’s EIR ran a cover feature in its July 21, 1995 issue headlined “An Obituary for London’s Chilean Economic Model,” which documented that the so-called Chilean “success story” was a genocidal fraud.

The giant march was entirely peaceful. The only thing burned was an effigy of the Interior Minister Andres Chadwick (the President’s cousin) to start the march off! Whole families participated, from every walk of life and age, waving Chilean flags and proclaiming that “Chile has woken up!” People carried handmade signs; typical of those signs: “I Fight Today for My Grandchildren and the Children of Chile.”

The spontaneous character of this mass strike was seen in the fact that there was no institutional viewing stand, no final act with speakers. People dispersed before the government’s curfew, and went back out today for “cultural protests” across the country (a popular song, “The Right To Live in Peace,” is being played widely). Planning has begun for another mega-march next week.

President Sebastián Piñera now apparently has decided that his best shot to restore control before international leaders arrive for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) meeting in 16 days, is to make himself out as a protester, too. He tweeted last night that “we have heard the message. All of us have changed,” after “the multitudinous, happy and peaceful march today, in which Chileans have asked for a more just Chile, with more solidarity.” In a short address to the nation this morning, he urged Congress to quickly pass a package of economic concessions (raising workers’ wages, improving healthcare for seniors, lowering electricity rates, raising taxes on the well-to-do, etc.). He announced that all his cabinet ministers had been asked to submit their resignations.

But the country’s constitution is still the one imposed under Pinochet, and its wildly-privatized economy is in the hands of international speculative interests. Notably, Piñera did not immediately lift the state of emergency, under which the carabineros and the military have been deployed in force against protesters. He said that “after talking with the armed forces … if circumstances allow,” it will be lifted after 24 hours on Sunday, Oct. 27.

London Demands, Let No One Dare Change Our Chile Model!

Oct. 27 (EIRNS)—UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres joined nervous leaders around the world warning that attention better be paid to the uprising against the global neoliberal system. “The global wave of demonstrations we are witnessing shows a growing lack of trust between people and political establishments. People are hurting and want to be heard. We must listen to the real problems of real people, and work to restore the social contract,” he tweeted on Oct. 25—the same day at least 2 million Chileans were marching for a new economic model.

With one foot of the imperial system which it has served for centuries already in the grave, The Economist, rushed to warn that governments may “fix” its Chile model, but they dare not try to “overturn” it “The Chilean model can be improved with more social provision and a crackdown on oligopolies. It does not need reinvention,” The Economist pronounced.

ECONOMY

‘WeWork’ Failure Might Unleash Universal Selloff

Oct. 27 (EIRNS)—The collapse of “WeWork,” the startup which had declared its value at $47 billion in anticipation of a public offering, is sending panic waves and could unleash a general selloff on all markets, traders say.

WeWork collapsed once it opened its books in order to make a public offering, and everybody could see that the company was consuming more capital than it earned. WeWork was created in 2008 to offer office space for rent and was considered to be a “unicorn,” i.e., among the luckiest start-ups that grow up to over $1 billion. However, when its actual worth was revealed, it retracted its public offering. It was then bailed out by its main investor, SoftBank, with $9.5 billion on Oct. 22. Ready to bail out WeWork was also JP Morgan, indicating that the Plunge Protection Team had mobilized.

The WeWork case has opened the Pandora’s box of the so-called “unicorns” world, which proves to be a total fraud. The failure of WeWork’s public offer might have blocked many planned IPOs, and scared investors. And the tech sector can be the trigger for a selloff of equities and debt, spreading contagion to other sections of the bubble, starting with the energy sector. An unstoppable meltdown could be the result.

Bankers Alarmed Global Protest Wave Could Blow Out Already Failing Financial Markets

Oct. 25 (EIRNS)—A wave of protest demonstrations is sweeping the planet over the unbearable conditions that the dying trans-Atlantic system is imposing on its victim populations. Although the specifics vary from country to country, the protests are generally being met by violent repression—and by howls of concern from international bankers, lest governments be pressured to let up on the austerity and cutbacks that the dying system is demanding of them.

An Oct. 24 Reuters article reviewed this global panorama of strikes and demonstrations, and wrote: “An alarming spread of street protests and civil unrest across the world in recent weeks looms large on the radar of financial markets, with investors wary the resulting pressures on stretched government finances will be one of many consequences…. If, as many fear, the world is slipping back into its first recession in more than a decade, then the root causes of restive streets will only deepen and force embattled governments to loosen purse strings further to fund better employment, education, healthcare and other services to placate them. Forced fiscal loosening in a world already swamped with debt and heading into another downturn may unnerve creditors and bond holders, especially those holding government debt as an insurance against recession and a haven from volatility.”

Reuters then quoted a Standard Chartered bank strategist saying that there is “a pattern of rising political risks in almost all geographies.” And if governments make concessions, then all of the QE and other bailouts will have been for naught, because the debt will blow out anyway. “Investors will get more nervous when they see that a country’s IMF package or investment promises are conditioned on fiscal consolidation and that the first austerity measures are followed by massive protests. More broadly popular pushbackagainst debt reduction and austerity raises serious questions about how still-mushrooming debt loads can be sustained, even after the massive central bank intervention to underwrite it in recent years.”

A global strategist at ADM Investor Services, Marc Ostwald, drew a similar conclusion. Reuters wrote that “Ostwald said there was a worry for financial markets who have surfed rising debt piles for years thanks to central bank money printing and bond buying. ‘At some point the smothering impact of QE (quantitative easing) will run its course,’ Ostwald said. ‘And as many of the zombie companies then go to the wall, so governments will face rising unemployment and desperately need to borrow money to prop up their economies—particularly as social unrest rises, as we are witnessing.’ ”

Reuters’ entry on Lebanon was exemplary: “Hundreds of thousands of people have been flooding the streets for nearly two weeks…. Markets are increasingly worried it will all end in default. The government’s bonds are now selling at a 40% discount and credit default swaps, which investors use as insurance against those risks, have soared.”

Creditors’ Cartel Prepares for War against Argentina’s Next Government

Oct. 25 (EIRNS)—The same international vulture funds that Nestor Kirchner and his widow Cristina Fernández de Kirchner defeated in early 2000s, during their consecutive Presidencies of Argentina, and which current President Mauricio Macri welcomed back into the country to resume their predatory activities, are now regrouping in expectation of the victory of Presidential candidate Alberto Fernández and Vice Presidential candidate Cristina Fernández in the Oct. 27 Presidential election.

Reuters reported that “a group of Argentina’s largest bond holders have begun forming a ‘creditor committee’ in preparation for debt negotiations after the country’s elections, sources involved in the plans told Reuters on Thursday [Oct. 24]…. ‘We are all expecting a first-round victory (for Fernández) so there is no time to lose. It is clear a restructuring is required and apparently, they (Fernández’s team), want something sorted quickly, so they will need someone to speak to…. The looming negotiations are set to focus on some $100 billion in sovereign debt that has become painfully expensive after a sharp market crash hit the country’s ability to pay and drained its currency reserves…. Members of the committee are also grouping together, they say, to ensure they cannot be bounced into any painful debt write-downs. Argentina’s aggressive approach during 2001-2005 renegotiations have left painful memories and the majority of its new bonds also now have ‘collective action clauses’ which mean a restructuring goes ahead if it is backed by either two-thirds or three-quarters of debt holders. ‘It is important to have a negotiating group that has a blocking majority,’ one source said.”

Russian Economist Glazyev Warns Africans about IMF Looting Policies

Oct. 25 (EIRNS)—The Russian economist Sergei Glazyev, who was for years an economic adviser to President Putin, and is today minister in charge of integration with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), spoke to the gathered leaders at the Russia-Africa Economic Forum in Sochi, and warned them about the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to Moscow Times, Glazyev reported that IMF policies had led to about $1 trillion in capital flight from Russia, and another $1 trillion or so from the other 14 post-Soviet countries over the last 30 years.

Glazyev told the Forum the IMF has adopted a similar approach in Africa as across the former Soviet Union. “Of course, Africa has been exploited for much longer. We have been living in this financial and economic environment for only 30 years.” Moscow Times also wrote that “Glazyev also advised African countries to keep full control over their natural resources and infrastructure, in line with his advocacy in Moscow for greater economic self-sufficiency.”

Although not mentioned in Moscow Times, Glazyev had documented such looting operations in his book Genocide: Russia and the New World Order, translated into English and published by EIR, in 1999.

THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORDER

Hong Kong Looks to Development of the Greater Bay Region for Its Future

Oct. 27 (EIRNS)—In the midst of the ongoing “color revolution” drive to destroy Hong Kong, officials, scholars and business people from the region attended a forum in Hong Kong three days ago to discuss the economic integration of Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao into a “Greater Bay area” as its “way out,” as Xinhua put it.

Taken as a unit, the Greater Bay has 66 million people, covers 56,000 square km, and a total GDP equivalent of US$1.3 trillion, Xinhua reported. The economic integration of this huge region can now take off, with the completion of that beautiful engineering feat, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge spanning the sea between the three areas.

Speakers at the forum, titled “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay: New Horizon for China’s Reform and Opening Up of One Country, Two Systems,” emphasized the importance of integrating Hong Kong and Macao’s development with national development on the mainland through Guangdong, for Hong Kong to be able to provide jobs, opportunities, and a future for Hong Kong’s young people, in particular. That was the message reported from Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Foreign Affairs Ministry Commissioner for Hong Kong Xie Feng, and Chairman of Hong Kong’s Fung Group private export company, Victor Fung.

They were joined by David Gosset, a French expert and founder of the Europe-China Forum, who argued that “Hong Kong’s future cannot be separated from the Greater Bay Area and the rejuvenation of China,” and former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Joan McEntee, who said she “was amazed by the Greater Bay Area project in which Hong Kong plays a critical role,” according to Xinhua.

Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak reported to the forum that the Greater Bay development region will also be a focus of discussion at next week’s ASEAN Summit, which Thailand is hosting. Thailand wants to strengthen cooperation between its Eastern Economic Corridor and the Greater Bay Area, because the latter is a regional leader in science and innovation, as well as an international logistics and finance hub, he said.

SCIENCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Lancet Editor Joins Climate Change Madness, Disgraces Medical Profession

Oct. 26 (EIRNS)—Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet, the world’s oldest medical journal (founded 1823), has disgraced the medical profession with an insane video calling for physicians and Britain’s General Medical Council to go into the streets against to protest rising CO2. Terming so-called climate change “the most existential crisis facing mankind,” Horton raved that, since physicians are duty bound to protect life, it is therefore “obligatory for doctors to participate in non-violent social protest to address the climate emergency.”

Rosatom’s CEO Addresses How Nuclear Energy Development Can Bridge Skills Gap in Africa

Oct. 25 (EIRNS)—Speaking to African heads of state and representatives from Russian, African, and international business and government agencies, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev yesterday emphasized the benefits of nuclear energy in job creation and regional economic development. At the Russia-Africa Economic Forum and Summit in Sochi, Likhachev said global inequality in technological, industrial and socio-economic development was “acutely felt” in Africa. During a roundtable session on “The Contribution of Nuclear Technologies in the Development of Africa,” he said these challenges “demand immediate solutions,” which nuclear technology “can fully respond to.” “We are talking about solutions related to raising the level of education, energy security, applying nuclear solutions to medicine, agriculture, as well as other scientific research and development. Every dollar invested in our projects in any country, brings two dollars in localization to that country. This significantly increases the country’s GDP,” he said. Rosatom said a job is created for every 0.5 MWe of electricity produced at a nuclear power plant, meaning that a 1000 MWe plant provides employment for more than 2,000 people. Human capital development is both “a condition and a consequence” of nuclear power plant construction, he stated.

Roland Msiska, director general of the Zambia Atomic Energy Agency, said prospective nuclear projects will create “exciting training opportunities” for the country’s young people, both locally and in Russia, and ensure “long-term stable employment and development.” “Most of our plans in Africa are short-term. You cannot do short-term planning in nuclear science. At a minimum, you are looking at a 60-year horizon. Such inter-generational long-term planning is essential for sustainable development,” he said.

Bridenstine Urges International Space Cooperation on Artemis Moon Mission

Oct. 25 (EIRNS)—NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine held a press conference Oct. 24 on the sidelines of the International Astronautical Congress, being hosted in Washington, D.C. this year. There were a number of questions with regard the issue of international cooperation. Bridenstine said that he had just had a meeting with 26 representatives from different countries’ space agencies to determine what they might be able to contribute to Artemis, the U.S. mission to return human astronauts to the Moon by 2024. He also singled out India as being particularly interested in collaborating on Artemis. He was then asked if the U.S. would collaborate with “other nations” that would be landing on the Moon. “We are committed to cooperation,” he said. “The goal is to have many countries living on the Moon in a community. … There are many opportunities and the goal is to be as inclusive as possible.”

He described the space science that could be conducted from the Moon, in astrophysics and in solar exploration, looking far back in time. “The architecture on Gateway can provide access. It can help breaking down the gap between exploration and sciences. We want to make exploration an enabling science and create an architecture that is sustainable for the long term,” Bridenstine said.

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