WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Volume 6, Number 190

EIR Daily Alert Service

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

• LaRouche Warned This Was Coming; 130 Criminal Banks Run ‘Climate Emergency’ Scam
• Greta Aftermath: Has the World Gone Utterly Mad? The Dying British Empire Would Have It So
• Free Greta From Paralyzing Fear and ‘”Anti-Human, Western-Centric Crap’ Journalist Urges
• Fed’s Repo Operations Are a Transition to QE-4
• William Weld Threatens Presdent Trump With the Death Penalty
• Crazed Democrats Announce Formal Impeachment Inquiry Against Trump
• Trump in UNGA Speech Attacks Globalists, But Strikes Discordant Note With China
• Pence and Pompeo Rant Against China, Iran at UN Forum on Religious Freedom
• Trump Unhappy With His Own Cabinet’s China Policy
• France, United Kingdom, Germany Denounce Iran for Saudi Attack
• Svenska Dagbladet Proudly Publicizes ‘First Swedish Woman in Space’

EDITORIAL

LaRouche Warned This Was Coming: 130 Criminal Banks Run ‘Climate Emergency’ Scam

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—The three-ring circus which the world has been subjected to over the last few weeks, with the UN Climate Action Summit and related histrionics puffed out of all proportion by the media, is a fraud. It is a scientific fraud—the Earth is not about to boil over in 18 months, and what climate change there is, is not man-made but is due to our planet’s relationship to the Sun and the galaxy, as has been the case for millions of years. But it is also a financial fraud of the first order. It was designed and is being implemented by the world’s 130 largest banks, with total assets of $47 trillion, who are hopelessly bankrupt and would like to distract the population from the fact thattheir entire trans-Atlantic financial system is about to blow sky high—unless they can impose levels of austerity, looting and wars that would make Hitler blush.

Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said as much in his key address to the UN Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23, where he unveiled a “compact” by the 130 top banks to channel all investment into speculative “green” boondoggles, while supporting the Paris Accord demand to shut down three-quarters of the world’s thousands of coal-fired power plants by 2030—a policy which would send infant mortality up and lifespans down in the developing world for lack of electricity.

This compact among bankers has been in the works for at least 18 months, they bragged—way, way before they created the “Greta” phenomenon, Extinction Rebellion, FridaysForFuture and the rest of the “climate emergency” street-action nonsense.

How desperate are the City of London and Wall Street? Desperate enough to launch a violent, eco-fascist movement, as the mailed fist behind their drastic depopulation policy. And desperate enough to threaten President Donald Trump with the death penalty, unless he agrees to go quietly and be impeached, because he is not playing ball with the bankers’ program—as was just stated by top Boston banker and former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts William Weld, who also played an instrumental role in the frame-up and jailing of Lyndon LaRouche 30 years ago.

This blowout crisis is underway in exactly the fashion that the world-renowned economist Lyndon LaRouche warned would happen. And the only solution to the crash—and to the underlying deep, fascist pessimism the bankers would induce in the population—was also provided by LaRouche in his 2014 “Four New Laws To Save the U.S.A. Now!” which he summed up in the following points:

“1) Immediate re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall Law, instituted by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, without modification as to principle of action.”

“2) A return to a system of top-down, thoroughly defined national banking.”

“3) The purpose of the use of a federal credit system, is to generate high productivity trends in improvements in employment, with the accompanying intention to increase the physical economic productivity and standard of living of the persons and households of the United States.”

“4) Adopt a fusion-driver crash program. The essential distinction of man from all lower forms of life, hence, in practice, is that it presents the means for the perfection of the specifically affirmative aims and needs of the human individual and social life.”

This last point, in particular, points to the urgency of international cooperation on fusion-powered space exploration and colonization. This not only will help solve our economic problems, by defining an entirely new platform of technologies and related “natural resources.” It also provides the scientific and moral basis for the kind of optimism our youth so desperately need.

COLLAPSING WESTERN FINANCIAL SYSTEM

Greta Aftermath: Has the World Gone Utterly Mad? The Dying British Empire Would Have It So

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—It’s bad enough that a disturbed 16-year-old says the things she does. What’s worse is that Greta Thunberg has been placed on an international soap box by the City of London, Wall Street et al. to trumpet her lunacy far and wide as the gospel truth. But worse still is that it has now become unacceptable—and perhaps soon a punishable offense—to criticize Thunberg and her ravings and call them what they are. As Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee pronounced ominously: “We are all Greta.”

Fox News guest Michael Knowles referred to Thunberg yesterday as a “mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and by the international left”—which was accurate as far as it went. Yet Fox subsequently had to apologize for Knowles’ remarks. Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn, the brother of British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, hit the nail on the head in Twitter: “Listening to an ignorant brainwashed child is deranged. I am an actual scientist of physics, meteorology, astrophysics, and climate and say @GretaThunberg is wrong and suffers mental abuse by manipulative adults.”

President Donald Trump is being attacked for not taking Thunberg’s enragé UN performance seriously, in a tweet which read: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”

This British drive for induced mass psychosis—all driven by the patent bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic financial system—is being backed by serious threats of terrorism and other violence.

Free Greta from Paralyzing Fear and ‘ “Anti-Human, Western-Centric Crap’ Journalist Urges

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—Brendan O’Neill, editor of spiked online magazine, rather insightfully argues today that Greta Thunberg should be freed from the process that has turned her into the “chief spokesperson for doom, the mouthpiece of eco-misanthropy, a soothsayer of the horrors humankind will allegedly bring upon itself.”

O’Neill fails to point to the forces behind the Greta-mania (a bankrupt British Empire), but he does assert correctly that it is enormously destructive—“destructive of public debate, destructive of critical discussion and destructive of the kids who are being dragged into this terrifying, miserabilist worldview to play the role of a stage army to adult society’s own loss of faith in mankind and in economic growth.”

Documenting the way that Thunberg and other children have been abused, exploited and manipulated, O’Neill makes this appropriate point. “If you really must have a child speaking at the UN, how about a teenager from Africa or India who believes economic growth is not a fairytale, but absolutely essential to their liberation from poverty? We’ve all heard enough from middle-class Westerners who think economic growth is oh-so-horrible. Let’s hear from someone in the teeming billions around the world who profoundly disagree with this downbeat, anti-human, Western-centric crap.”

Thunberg’s speech at the UN Climate Summit was a “deeply disturbing spectacle,” O’Neill continues, revealing a young girl “who is in the grip of terror, of a morbid debilitating belief that life as we know it is coming to an end.” One “could not have asked for firmer proof that the green ideology is seriously screwing up the next generation by pumping them with fear and panic and a deranged belief that the end of the world is nigh.”

Who did this? “The green-infused educational, political and cultural elites did … their secular Armageddonism, their willful exaggeration of every problem that mankind faces, their marshalling of the politics of fear to try to force people to change their allegedly wicked, eco-harmful behavior—all of this has convinced many young people that the future is dark, mankind is doomed and there is no point even going to school, far less planning one’s life, because we will all be dead soon. They did this to Greta and to others, and it is unforgivable.”

Fed’s Repo Operations Are a Transition to QE4

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—The financial media are noting that the U.S. repo crisis which exploded at the beginning of last week is not a small matter. For example, Fortune wrote: “The repo market is looking a lot like it did on the precipice of the 2007 housing market crash…. The repo market seized up last week…. The Fed is back where it was roughly a decade ago, effectively buying U.S. Treasuries from banks on an indefinite basis.” The Fortune wire then quoted a Bank of America research note: “For all intents and purposes, this will be equivalent to QE, with scheduled purchases of securities.”

Yahoo! noted that the repo market is “the oft-overlooked underpinnings of the U.S. financial system…. The repo market is considered to be the ‘plumbing’ of the financial system since it provides overnight financing for the banks and broker-dealers at the center of the economy.” The article continued: “The Fed is now weighing other tools to ensure that interest rates are under control, such as resuming ‘organic’ balance sheet growth to increase bank reserves in the system. Policymakers are also exploring a ‘standing repo facility’ that would allow banks to convert Treasuries to reserves on demand (instead of at pre-set times each day, as is currently the case). Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Sept. 18 that the central bank is well-equipped to deal with future episodes. ‘If we experience another episode of pressures in money markets, we have the tools to address those pressures,’ Powell said. ‘We will not hesitate to use them’.”

That sounds an awful lot like ECB President Mario Draghi’s infamous promise of unending QE: The ECB will do “whatever it takes.”

U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC

William Weld Threatens President Trump with the Death Penalty

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—William Weld, a former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts who is now a Republican challenger to President Donald Trump, yesterday threatened Trump with the “death penalty” if he didn’t go along with his impeachment, purportedly over the Ukraine affair. Boston banker Weld played an instrumental role in setting up the railroad and jailing of Lyndon LaRouche some 30 years ago. Referring to the hyped-up scandal on Ukraine, Weld stated about Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: “It’s treason pure and simple. And the penalty for treason under the U.S. Code is death. That’s the only penalty…. The penalty under the Constitution is removal from office, and that might look like a pretty good alternative to the President if he could work out a plea deal.”

The White House promptly responded with appropriate irony: “The media’s affliction with Trump Derangement Syndrome has driven them into an actual discussion of the proposed execution of the President of the United States,” communications director Tim Murtaugh told Fox News. “In severe cases of TDS such as this, immediate consultation with a physician is recommended.”

Crazed Democrats Announce Formal Impeachment Inquiry Against Trump

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—Washington has been consumed since Wednesday, Sept. 18, with the latest intelligence community generated attack against the President of the United States, in the ongoing unconstitutional and seditious coup, which, ifsuccessful, ends our storied constitutional republic. At 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24 crazed Democrats leaped off the cliff and announced, through Speaker Nancy Pelosi, that they were moving forward with a formal impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives. They were preceded by Lyndon LaRouche’s prosecutor and 2020 Trump primary opponent William Weld calling for the President’s immediate execution for treason.

The latest round of full spectrum information war conducted against Trump and the American public, involves the claim that President Donald Trump, in a conversation with new Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, conditioned lethal aid to Ukraine on Zelensky investigating Hunter Biden’s obviously corrupt relationship with Burisma Holdings, an oil and gas enterprise owned by the oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky. Hunter, a coke addict with no experience in the oil and gas industry, was appointed to Burisma’s board while Papa Joe Biden was serving as Obama’s point man on the 2014 British/American Ukraine coup and its aftermath, pocketing a cool $3 million, according to the President’s attorney Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani has also said that he has asked Ukraine for a full accounting of the Ukrainian state interference in the 2016 U.S. election on behalf of Hillary Clinton.

The whistleblower complaint at the center of this faux controversy is said to involve multiple conversations by the President with foreign leaders about which the whistleblower is “concerned,” although he or she is said to have direct knowledge of absolutely none. The President has adamantly denied any quid pro quo in the specific conversation cited or that he has done anything wrong and has had the transcript of his call with Zelensky declassified and will present it in full publicly on Sept. 25.

Trump in UNGA Speech Attacks Globalists, But Strikes Discordant Note with China

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—In his speech today before the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump unfortunately did not rise to the occasion to present a vision that a world threatened with global economic collapse and geopolitical conflict requires. He made no mention of international cooperation in space or science and technology—themes which he had emphasized over recent days with the heads of government of India and Australia—and he made no reference to the state of the world economy, which is plunging headlong into a breakdown crisis.

Trump stated that the world “doesn’t belong to the globalists; it belongs to the patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors, and honor the differences that make each country special and unique.” As he often does, Trump also presented a glowing picture of the U.S. economy and emphasized the U.S.’s unparalleled military might. And much of his speech was dedicated to attacks on China, Iran, and on several Ibero-American nations—Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.

On China, he said that when China first entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, it was hoped that it would “liberalize its economy” and respect the rule of law and private property. Two decades later, he said, none of the promised reforms have been implemented, and instead China has an economy based on massive market barriers, huge state subsidies, currency manipulation, product dumping, forced technology transfer and intellectual property theft. He stressed that the U.S. had reaped great benefits by imposing huge tariffs on China, and encouraging U.S. companies to leave that nation.

On Hong Kong: Trump said “we’re monitoring Hong Kong carefully. The world fully expects the Chinese to honor its treaty made with the British and registered with the UN in which China promises to protect Hong Kong’s freedom, legal system and democratic way of life. How China chooses to handle the situation will say a great deal about its role in the world in the future. We are all counting on President Xi as a great leader.”

Pence and Pompeo Rant Against China, Iran at UN Forum on Religious Freedom

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used yesterday’s UN forum on Religious Freedom to attack China and Iran, while President Donald Trump made a short presentation citing several well-known cases of religious persecution and violent attacks that have occurred over the past two years, in the U.S. and abroad. He made no specific mention of China or the Uighurs. He left the forum shortly after speaking.

This forum has been Mike Pence’s baby from the get-go. It included appearances by several ostensible eyewitnesses and victims of torture and repression, notably from China’s Xinjiang province, as well as from Iran and Yemen. He raved about “Iran-backed militias” terrorizing Christians and Yazidis; China’s Communist Party arresting Christian pastors, demolishing churches and imprisoning, as the standard line goes, “more than a million Uighurs in the Muslim population” in Xinjiang. He additionally accused Nicaragua and Venezuela of persecuting Christians.

Note also that yesterday Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan co-hosted an invitation-only panel discussion for UN delegations and NGOs specifically on the “Human Rights Crisis in Xinjiang.” A State Department release announced that the event would include “deeply personal stories of China’s brutal campaign of repression against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, ethnic Kyrgyz and other Muslim individuals in Xinjiang,” and references, of course, the “detention of more than 1 million individuals in internment camps since April 2017.”

On Sept. 22, a day before attending the Religious Freedom forum, Pompeo met with foreign ministers of five Central Asian governments—the C5+1—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, to charge that China is not combatting terrorism in Xinjiang, but rather attempting to “erase” minority cultures and religions. He warned these governments to “resist” China’s demands that Uighurs who’ve fled Xinjiang be returned to China. China’s Foreign Ministry responded strongly to Pompeo’s remarks, in its daily press briefing today.

In this context, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported Sept. 22 that the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019, which has already been unanimously approved in the Senate, is about to go to the floor of the House where it is expected to pass. The bill calls for imposing sanctions on Chinese officials over the Xinjiang “mass internment” programs. Sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), the bill directs various U.S. government bodies, including the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and U.S. Agency for Global Media (which runs VOA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, etc.) to report on China’s treatment of the Uighurs.

Trump Unhappy with His Own Cabinet’s China Policy

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—At an event yesterday where President Donald Trump was speaking alongside Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the press asked who had “delayed” a Chinese agricultural trade delegation visiting Montana and Nebraska to purchase agro products. Mnuchin stated that it had been done at the administration’s request. Trump then asked Mnuchin in front of everybody: “Why was that our request, just out of curiosity?” Mnuchin responded that the U.S. side “didn’t want confusion around the trade issues.”

To which President Trump responded, “Yeah, but I want them to buy farm products.”

Mnuchin then explained: “There was no confusion. We want them to buy agriculture. They’ve committed to buy agriculture. And they’re doing that.”

The President reiterated his intent: “They’ve committed to buy a lot of agriculture, and they’re going to start, and they’ve started. And we should get them over there as soon as possible so they can start buying.”

STRATEGIC WAR DANGER

France, United Kingdom, Germany Denounce Iran for Saudi Attack

Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—The leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom blamed Iran yesterday for the Sept. 14 attack on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. “We condemn in the strongest terms the attacks on oil facilities on Saudi territory on Sept. 14th, 2019 in Abqaiq and Khurais, and we reaffirm in this context our full solidarity with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its population. It is clear to us that Iran bears responsibility for this attack. There is no other plausible explanation. We support ongoing investigations to establish further details.” French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a joint statement after meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

The three countries in their function as signers to the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement with Iran, conclude:

“These attacks may have been against Saudi Arabia but they concern all countries and increase the risk of a major conflict. They underline the importance of making collective efforts towards regional stability and security, including finding a political solution to the ongoing conflict in Yemen. The attacks also highlight the necessity of de-escalation in the region through sustained diplomatic efforts and engagement with all parties….

“We are committed to continuing our diplomatic efforts to create conditions and facilitate dialogue with all relevant partners interested in de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East, in the interest of preserving international peace and security, building upon our joint declaration on July 14, 2019 and G7 conclusions adopted in Biarritz. We urge Iran to engage in such a dialogue and refrain from further provocation and escalation.”

The full statement in English is posted to the website of the French Embassy in Washington.

SCIENCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Svenska Dagbladet Proudly Publicizes ‘First Swedish Woman in Space’

STOCKHOLM Sept. 24 (EIRNS)—That was the headline of Svenska Dagbladet Sunday, Sept. 22 about NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who on Sept. 25 will go to the International Space Station to spend six months. Jessica Meir, who is both a Swedish and American citizen, as her mother was born in Sweden, was featured with a picture on half the first page and four full pages. In the same issue, Greta Thunberg, the Friday global climate demonstrations and the UN Climate Youth Summit were covered in only a total of one and half pages.

The article about Jessica Meir is inspirational, in the same way as Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her “International Call to Youth: The Age of Reason Is in the Stars!” far above the current climate debate.

In the same Svenska Dagbladet issue, an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg, of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, attempts to find some middle ground for anthropogenic climate change in the wake of the emotional excesses by Thunberg and the associated youth movement. He refutes any danger of an immediate climate crisis. He cites the IPCC that there is no evidence for any increasing flooding, drought, or hurricanes, and writes that “furthermore the scientists mean that anthropogenic global warming cannot likely be connected to any of these extreme weather phenomena.”

Lomborg claims that the reason for the “exaggerations, currently worse than ever” is the failure of the climate treaties over the past 30 years. He asks, “What is behind this blown-up rhetoric?” His answer is that it is the extreme costs of the measures advocated in the Paris Accord: $1-2 trillions per year. The people behind those proposals seem to believe, that the only way to get achieve its goals “is to scare the life out of people.” Lomborg warns, it will “threaten damaging the credibility of science” and is “doomed to fail as a political strategy,” as the cost will lead to street protests like the Yellow Vests in France and protest voting like in Australia, Brazil and the Philippines. He points to a new poll in the U.S. where “seven out ten Americans would vote against climate costs as low as $120 per year.” Lomborg proposes “a more cost-effective and pragmatic middle ground” approach, putting money into more research on green energy to reduce costs, making it cheaper to use than coal or oil. Lomborg’s solution still gives no room for real development.

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