Hvis vi kan løfte os op på samme tankeniveau som hos genierne Nikolaus af Cusa, Kepler, Leibniz, Bach, Beethoven, Schiller, Einstein og Krafft Ehricke, vil vi kunne vække den ophøjede sindstilstand og den kreative optimisme, som vi har brug for, for at finde løsninger på de højere planer, som disse store ånder tænkte på. Og hvorfor skulle vi ikke være i stand til at virkeliggøre en renæssance af vores humanistiske tradition?

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2016, 1. okt. – Sputnik citerer EIR’s Jeff Steinberg: »Atter viste Obama, at han var uenig med, og endda en fjende af, det amerikanske folks mest basale rettigheder til at få juridisk retfærdighed i en amerikansk domstol.«

Obamas nu annullerede handling »anbragte ham klart i saudiernes lejr og i deres lejr, der er desperate for at opretholde båndene med saudierne – for olie og våben – versus 11/9-familiernes og alle amerikaneres rettighed til at opnå fuld juridisk retfærdighed og sandhed om historiens værste terrorangreb mod USA«, sagde Steinberg.

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 29. sept., 2016 – For fem dage siden udstedte Lyndon LaRouche marchordrer for de presserende opgaver, som nationen umiddelbart står overfor: »Tilsidesæt JASTA-vetoet, Afsæt Obama; Vedtag Glass-Steagall!« På daværende tidspunkt rapporterede vi, at »de næste 72 timer bliver afgørende for JASTA og Obamas skæbne, og dermed for USA’s og planetens skæbne.«

LaRouche havde ret. Med onsdagens ydmygende nederlag til Obama, med Senatets og Repræsentanternes Hus’ vedtagelse af at tilsidesætte hans JASTA-veto, har vi nået vores første mål. »Det her ser godt ud; dette var en særdeles god udvikling!«, kommenterede Lyndon LaRouche i dag og tilføjede: Dette spørgsmål er nu lukket og kan ikke kan omstødes. Det skete rent faktisk; det var det rigtige; og det kommer til at holde.

Vi har opnået en sejr, der allerede er i færd med at skabe et fundamentalt, strategisk skifte, både her i landet og internationalt; et skifte, som den amerikanske befolkning kun lige er begyndt at fornemme, og som ikke vises frem i det aktuelle præsidentvalgcirkus.

I dag fortsætter vi vores pres: Kongressen skal mobiliseres til at vedtage Glass-Steagall straks, som det første skridt hen imod en generel, økonomisk reorganisering, før hele det transatlantiske system falder fra hinanden. Og der er overhovedet ingen tid tilbage til at handle i: Deutsche Bank, Tysklands største bank, er i færd med at synke som en sten og står over for et massivt, spekulativt »shorting«-angreb fra gribbefonde og folk som George Soros, der spiller på, at den tyske regering kan blive tvunget til at redde banken (bailout) – dvs., at spekulanterne er indehavere af ’short’-aktier – til tonerne af et tocifret milliardbeløb i dollars. Og Deutsche Bank er kun toppen af isbjerget af hele det derivat-gennemsyrede, transatlantiske banksystem.

Hvad angår Obama og den skæbne, der venter ham, mindede LaRouche i dag kraftigt folk om aldrig at glemme Obamas ansvar, ikke kun for at mørklægge og forsvare (som Bush før ham) de britisk-saudiske terrorister, der udløste 11. september, men også for alle de amerikanske borgere og andre, som han henrettede i forbindelse med sine tirsdagsdrabsorgier – de hemmelige møder i det Hvide Hus, hvor han personligt besluttede, hvem der skulle dræbes af amerikanske droneangreb. Disse drab er karakteristiske for Obama, erklærede LaRouche; Obama er, i lighed med sin stedfar, en slagter. Obama er en massemorder på alle skalaer; og alligevel underkastede folk sig ham og beundrede ham som en autoritet.

»Obama er virkelig ond«, sagde LaRouche, og han må omgående fjernes fra embedet. Obama repræsenterer et bundløst dyb af ondskab, og han har simpelthen myrdet mange amerikanske borgere og andre. Og der var ingen væsentlig respons, der modsatte sig disse forbrydelser, udtalte LaRouche. Nu kan vi, med det, der er kommet i gang med tilsidesættelsen af JASTA-vetoet, endelig slippe af med denne morder af amerikanske borgere og andre. »Dette er kendsgerningerne,« insisterede LaRouche.

Den politisk set blodbesudlede Obama har på lignende vis besluttet at optrappe sin konfrontation med Rusland og Kina lige til bristepunktet. I går truede talsmand for Udenrigsministeriet John Kirby med at udløse terror inden for Ruslands grænser, hvis ikke Putin underkaster sig Obamas alliance med terrorister i Syrien. Den russiske respons til truslen kom prompte, var urokkelig og præcis: »Vi kan ikke betragte dette som andet end en de facto støtte til terroristerne fra USA’s side«, udtalte viceudenrigsminister Sergej Ryabkov.

Nu, da det amerikanske folk og dets repræsentanter i Washington har fået en forsmag på, hvordan Obamas onde politikker kan stoppes med et øjebliks varsel, så lad os smide ham ud – og omgående vedtage Franklin D. Roosevelts Glass/Steagall-lov.

Foto: LaRouchePAC-aktivister demonstrerer foran Det Hvide Hus for Loven om Retsforfølgelse af Statssponsorer af Terrorisme, JASTA. Obamas veto af JASTA er blevet underkendt af Kongressen, med en hidtil uset tværpolitisk støtte. 20/9, 2016 [Foto/Jason Ross/Alle rettigheder reserveret]

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 28. sept., 2016 – Den amerikanske Kongres leverede i dag en rungende tilsidesættelse af Barack Obamas veto fra 23. september imod S. 2040, JASTA-lovforslaget (Loven om Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme), med et stemmetal i Senatet på 97-mod-1 til fordel for tilsidesættelse; og en stemmeoptælling i Repræsentanternes Hus på 348-mod-77. Tilsidesættelsen krævede et flertal på 2/3 i begge Kongressens kamre, hvilket blev opnået med en bred, tværpolitisk margin. 
Konsekvenserne heraf er massive.

Med JASTA-loven nu som gældende lov i landet, er de smuthuller blevet fjernet, der blokerede for, at familier og overlevende fra angrebet d. 11. september kunne sagsøge Kongeriget Saudi-Arabien ved amerikanske føderale domstole, for deres meddelagtighed i 11. september. En høring er allerede planlagt i den Føderale Domstol for New Yorks Sydlige Distrikt i november, og her vil familier til ofre for 11. september endelig blive i stand til direkte at konfrontere det saudiske monarki og forfølge yderligere beviser på den saudiske regerings støtte til 11. september-flykaprerne, hvoraf 15 var saudiske statsborgere.

 Muligheden for at gøre nye opdagelser vedrørende den saudiske rolle i angrebet d. 11. september 2001 blev for nylig, den 15. juli, 2016, yderligere forstærket med den offentlige frigivelse af det 28 sider lange kapitel fra den oprindelige Fælles Kongresundersøgelsesrapport om 11/9, fra 2002, som afslører tidligere hemmeligholdte beviser for den rolle, som den tidligere saudiske ambassadør til USA, prins Bandar bin-Sultan, spillede i at støtte mindst to af terroristerne fra 11. september, sammen med dokumentation for flykaprernes tilknytning til snesevis af andre saudiske embedsmænd på alle niveauer i regeringen og kongefamilien.

Prins Bandars rolle i angrebene d. 11. september er af særlig betydning på grund af hans nære forbindelser til Bush-familien og endnu tættere bånd til briterne. Bandar var, sammen med den tidligere britiske premierminister Margaret Thatcher, mægleren i Al Yamamah-aftalen, en tuskhandel om britiske våben for saudisk olie. Under Al Yamamah-byttehandlen blev hundreder af milliarder af dollars omdirigeret til hemmelige, fælles anglo-saudiske offshore-konti, med henblik på at finansiere terrorisme, mord og politiske kup i hele verden. Et fremtrædende medlem af det britiske Underhus, og som også er en højtplaceret person i det britiske forsvarsetablissement, advarede i juni ligefremt om, at, hvis JASTA skulle blive vedtaget som amerikansk lov, kunne det britiske monarki og den britiske regering blive sagsøgt, sammen med saudierne.

 »En historisk sejr«

Lyndon LaRouche, hvis Politiske Aktionskomite (LPAC) har mobiliseret intensivt for dagens resultat, beskrev afstemningen som »En historisk sejr. Den er en anledning til glæde; den har vendt et nyt blad i historiebogen. Det verdensomspændende, positive potentiale er enormt.« Men LaRouche advarede imidlertid, »Hvor langt, og hvorhen, det bringer os, er endnu ikke klart. Gør jer klar til at finde ud af det.« Han tilføjede: »Husk, at I har såret Djævelen hårdt. Og Djævelen vil ikke takke jer for det!«

Det overvældende nederlag til præsident Obama og saudierne kom på trods af, at hele Obamaadministrationen var blevet mobiliseret til at lægge pres på Kongressen om at støtte hans veto, og det saudiske monarki har, rapporteres det, hældt $9,4 millioner ind, i en desperat lobbyindsats for at købe medlemmer af Kongressen. I sidste ende afviste en tværpolitisk koalition af førende senatorer og kongresmedlemmer Obamaadministrationens løgne om, at JASTA udgør en trussel mod amerikanske interesser i udlandet, og de leverede det største politiske nederlag til præsident Obama, siden han først tiltrådte embedet.
I dag afholdt begge Kongressens kamre en to timer lang debat forud for den historiske afstemning, og langt de fleste af indlæggene understregede 11. september-familiernes rettigheder til langt om længe at opnå juridisk retfærdighed, og til at konfrontere det saudiske monarki og dets agenter for deres medskyld i det værste terrorangreb nogensinde på amerikansk jord. 

Meget af debatten var optaget af at aflive Obamas påstand om, at JASTA ville åbne op for gengældelse mod amerikanske soldater, virksomheder og diplomater fra udenlandske regeringers side. Førende fortalere for JASTA, herunder senatorerne Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) og Charles Schumer (D-New York), og kongresmedlemmerne Robert Goodlatte (R-Va.) og Jerome Nadler (D-New York) gjorde det gentagne gange klart, at JASTA blot lukker et smuthul i lovgivningen, der har eksisteret siden 1970'erne, og således nu gør det muligt for amerikanske borgere at sagsøge udenlandske regeringer, der beviseligt har ydet støtte til terrorangreb på amerikansk jord. Men dette smuthul har gjort det muligt for Kongeriget Saudi-Arabien at unddrage sig amerikansk, juridisk retfærdighed i de sidste 15 år, og den mulighed er nu bragt til ende.

Bredere strategiske muligheder

Den succesfulde, tværpolitiske indsats, der underkendte præsident Obamas veto imod JASTA, kan og skal nu, med samme intensitet, rettes imod andre vitale spørgsmål, begyndende med behovet for, at Kongressen omgående vedtager de lovforslag om genindførelse af Glass-Steagall, der allerede er fremsat i begge Kongressens kamre; lovforslag, der sigter mod at opdele for-store-til-at-lade-gå-ned-bankerne, som befinder sig på kanten af et sammenbrud, der er langt værre end i 2008. Tysklands Deutsche Bank, den største indehaver af derivater blandt alle banker i verden, står umiddelbart foran sammenbrud, og hele det transatlantiske banksystem står til at krakke, som et direkte resultat heraf

En genindførelse af Glass-Steagall er det første, uomgængelige skridt mod at lancere en reel, økonomisk genrejsning, gennem massive kapitalinvesteringer i presserende tiltrængte infrastrukturprojekter, forskning og udvikling, og især en genoplivning af Amerikas nu kollapsede NASA-rumprogram. En sådan indsats kan, nu og her, skabe millioner af nye produktive arbejdspladser. I Eurasien bliver et massivt program for infrastrukturinvesteringer gennemført under Kinas ledelse, og under banneret af præsident Xi Jinpings initiativ for Ét bælte, Én vej. Den russiske præsident Vladimir Putin har vedtaget dette initiativ og har foreslået, at den Eurasiske Økonomiske Union integreres i indsatsen, som tidligere USA-ambassadør Chas Freeman nyligt beskrev som det største infrastrukturprojekt i menneskets historie. 
I stedet for at arbejde på at sabotere det Ny Silkevejsprojekt, hvilket har været USA’s politik under præsident Obama, bør USA fuldt ud omfavne programmet for Ét bælte, Én vej og således udvide det til at blive en ægte Verdenslandbro. 

USA’s Kongres har for første gang i lange tider handlet med én stemme på vegne af det amerikanske folks vitale interesser. JASTA-loven gavner alle amerikanere og især dem, der mistede deres kære i angrebene d. 11. september, eller selv blev alvorligt såret.
 
Afstemningen frembyder en større håbets bavn for, at den samme ånd af national interesse nu hurtigt kan overføres til de øvrige handlinger, der er afgørende for USA’s og verdens overlevelse og fremgang.  

Foto: USA’s Senat vedtager med stemmerne 97 mod 1 at underkende præsident Obamas veto af Loven om Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme. Få timer senere fulgte Repræsentanternes Hus trop, og JASTA bliver nu landets lov.  

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 27. sept. 2016 – En afgørende kamp mellem to, globale magtstrukturer – Det britiske Imperium og dets internationalt bankerotte finansoligarki på den ene hånd, og det nye paradigme for udvikling, centreret omkring Kina, Rusland og de kræfter, der er knyttet til LaRouche-bevægelsen i USA og Europa, på den anden – afgøres netop nu i USA. Det amerikanske Senat skal efter planen afholde en to timer lang debat onsdag morgen, og derefter stemme, for at tilsidesætte, og dermed ugyldiggøre, den britiske marionet Obamas forræderiske veto af Loven om Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme (JASTA), der ville gøre det muligt for amerikanske ofre for 11. september at anlægge sag imod de saudiske kongelige, der finansierede og dirigerede terrorangrebet mod USA den 11/9. Det er de samme sponsorer af grundlæggende set alle efterfølgende terrorbevægelser i hele verden, inklusive de terroriststyrker, der ødelagde Irak og Libyen, og som forsøger at gøre det samme i Syrien.

De, der forstår, at menneskehedens skæbne, selve civilisationens skæbne, er under trussel fra dette britisk/saudiske udyr, mobiliserer internationalt for at udøve pres og give opmuntring til medlemmer af USA’s Kongres, der tidligere enstemmigt vedtog JASTA-loven, for at de skal gå op imod præsidentens forræderiske veto, der placerer Obama solidt på terroristernes side, og ligeledes på deres Riyadh- og Londonbaserede sponsorers side.

En massiv mobilisering af Imperiets håndhævere er blevet indsat i kampen. Saudierne spenderer mere end $250.000 om måneden i kampen mod JASTA-loven og hyrer magtfulde lobbyister til at intimidere Kongressen. De har også truet store, amerikanske selskaber med at lukke deres enorme aktiver i det saudiske kongedømme og krævet, at de bruger deres indflydelse til at true kongresmedlemmer til at opretholde Obamas veto. Ifølge Politico har GE, Dow Chemical, Boeing og Chevron, og muligvis andre, allerede tilsluttet sig forsvaret af Imperiets terrorstyrker imod amerikanske ofre for denne terror, ved at lægge pres på kongresmedlemmer for at opretholde Obamas veto, med løgne om, at loven vil føre til en masseflugt af internationale virksomheder og til kapitalflugt fra USA, og til den amerikanske økonomis kollaps.

Realiteterne bag denne kamp er den umiddelbart forestående fare for en global krig og økonomisk kaos, hvis USA fortsætter sin geopolitiske konfrontation med Rusland og Kina. USA’s forsvarsminister Ash Carter – der fremover bør kendes som »Atom-Ash« Carter – optrådte i dag på Minot Flyvebase i North Dakota, en strategisk atomvåbenbase. Stående foran et B52-atombombefly erklærede Carter, at USA må udskifte og modernisere hele sit atomvåbenlager for at konfrontere det, han beskrev som en reel trussel om et angreb fra Rusland eller Nordkorea – selv, hvis det skulle være et konventionelt angreb uden atomvåben. Obama har tidligere annonceret et $1 billion stort program til modernisering af nogle af USA’s atomvåben. Nu har »Atom-Ash« udvidet dette yderligere for at imødegå en ikke eksisterende trussel, alt imens Obama og Carter deployerer amerikanske, strategiske styrker langs hele den russiske grænse i Europa og langs den kinesiske grænse i Asien, en trussel, der er uden fortilfælde, mod disse landes sikkerhed.

Det bør heller ikke overraske nogen, at Carter også lagde blæk til et brev til Kongressen med krav om, at de opretholdt Obamas veto af JASTA og hævdede, at loven ville udgøre en fare for vore militære udflugter i hele verden.

Samtidig rapporterer Reuters, at unavngivne embedsfolk fra Obamaadministrationen har informeret dem om, at USA overvejer at levere skulderbårne antiluftskytsmissiler (Manpads) til oppositionen i Syrien, og muligvis endda jord-til-luft-missiler (SAMs). Et sådant træk ville klart bringe verden nærmere til en verdenskrig.

Bag denne krigens og terrorens vanvid står Imperiets bankerotte banksystem. I takt med, at Deutsche Bank smuldrer, ryster truslen om smitte fra kollapset af deres derivatportefølje – den største i nogen bank i verden – allerede fundamentet for hele systemet.

Problemet i dag er, sagde Lyndon LaRouche, at USA som nation for det meste og i vid udstrækning kontrolleres af det britiske imperiesystem; massemordere, som vi hader. Vi er i færd med at mobilisere grupperinger af mennesker i USA, der er passende til at få jobbet gjort: vedtagelsen af den lov, der vil begrave briterne. Hvad er britisk? Obama! Vi må samle de kræfter, der vil få jobbet gjort, med at sikre, at Obama ikke vil stå i spidsen for USA’s politik, og med vedtagelsen af at tilsidesætte JASTA-vetoet, befinder vi os på randen af at opnå den nødvendige margin for en succes, for at få kræfterne til at ødelægge Det britiske Imperium, hvilket vil sige Obama, og, i de kommende dage, tage kontrollen over den politiske beslutningstagning i USA tilbage.

Spørgsmålet er det følgende: Kan vi, imellem os, med Kina og Rusland som allierede, samle de tilstrækkelige styrker til at overvinde dette onde?

Vi er i færd med at orkestrere en afgørelse, der vil bestemme verdens skæbne, sagde LaRouche. Vi må have førende kræfter med tilstrækkelig styrke til at bringe til fald briterne, saudierne: de onde mennesker. Vi er muligvis ikke de bedste mennesker, men vi er menneskelige!

Foto: Obama besøger sin herre umiddelbart efter sin indsættelse i embedet, for at påbegynde sit eftermæle som en britisk agent. (flickr/whitehouse, Pete Souza, 1. april, 2009.)

26. sept., 2016 – I en signal-lederartikel i dag mindede Londonavisen Telegraph krigspartiet i Storbritannien og USA om, at London, så vel som Saudi-Arabien, har terrorister, der nu udsættes for risiko fra JASTA. Telegraph går i kraftigt forsvar for præsident Barack Obamas forræderiske forsvar for sine partnere i krig og terrorisme, imod Loven om Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme, JASTA.

»Det var korrekt af Barack Obama at nedlægge veto mod loven om 11. september og beskytte USA’s allierede, som Storbritannien«, lyder lederens titel. Den erklærer, at »JASTA-lovens hovedmål var at gøre det muligt for de pårørende til dem, der blev dræbt eller kom til skade i 11/9-angrebene, at lægge sag an mod Saudi-Arabien, hvis borgere var involveret i planlægningen af det værste terrorangreb i USA’s historie.« Behændigt udtrykt, eftersom disse »borgere« er blevet påvist at omfatte Prins Bandar, daværende saudisk ambassadør til USA.

Men, fortsætter Telegraphs leder, »Hr. Obama følte sig nødsaget til at nedlægge veto imod loven pga. den potentiale skade, den kunne påføre nøgleallierede, såsom Storbritannien«; og her har lederen et link til en artikel fra 5. juni, 2016, »Hvorfor en amerikansk lov, der vil gøre det muligt for 11/9-familier at sagsøge Saudi-Arabien, er en trussel mod Storbritannien og dets efterretningstjenester«, af det konservative parlamentsmedlem Tom Tugendhat.

Årsagen er klar: Sponsoreringen af terrorisme, samt den udbredte rekruttering af terrorister, der har fundet sted i det, mange andre lande har kaldt »Londonistan«, uden forstyrrende indgriben fra de britiske myndigheder.

»Storbritanniens efterretnings- og sikkerhedstjenester, MI6 og MI5, er også bekymrede over implikationerne af den foreslåede lov, eftersom den kunne gøre dem sårbare over for fjendtlige sagsanlæg fra amerikanske advokater, der forsøger at bevise, at britiskbaserede jihadister har været involveret i terrorplaner imod amerikanske mål.«

Politikken for at føre krig for »regimeskifte« og med at støtte spredningen af terror imod nationer, er en britisk imperiepolitik, som både George W. Bush og Obama har fulgt. Chilcot-kommissionen, der afslørede Tony Blairs Irakkrig, samt det britiske Underhus’ rapport, der tvang David Cameron ud af politik pga. hans Libyenkrig, beviser dette.

Telegraphs lederartikel minder amerikanere om, hvad der virkelig står på spil, hvis man griber chancen for at underkende Obamas veto af JASTA og gøre en ende på hans forræderi.

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 26. sept. 2016 – Vi er midt i en kamp for den afgørende JASTA-lov, mellem præsident Obama og de overlevende, familierne til ofrene og det første redningsmandskab, der trådte til efter angrebet 11. september. Kampen vil, med det amerikanske folks massive involvering, blive afgjort tirsdag og onsdag, før Senatets debat og afstemning om at underkende Obamas veto af JASTA-loven finder sted.

Disse overlevende og familier har aldrig fået retfærdighed, hverken for domstolene eller på anden vis, mod dem, der var de faktiske sponsorer af 11/9-angrebene, som nu beviseligt inkluderer Saudi-Arabien i særdeleshed. I 15 år har de nu set, hvordan Bush og Obama har forfulgt krige i lande uden nogen tilknytning til 11. september-begivenheden, og har spredt terrorisme i hele Mellemøsten, Nordafrika og Sydasien. Storbritannien og Saudi-Arabien har været partnere til Bush og Obama i disse krige, alt imens rekruttering af terrorister i London fortsatte uden for enhver kontrol og på globalt plan finansieredes af saudierne. Juridisk retfærdighed kræver, at 11. september-familierne og det første redningsmandskab har mulighed for at sagsøge disse sponsorer. Så denne kamp er om Loven om Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme – JASTA. Kongressen vedtog den med et overvældende flertal, og Obama nedlagde veto imod den for, sagde han, at beskytte Saudi-Arabiens »suveræne immunitet«.

I dag tilføjede London Telegraph sin lederartikel. »Barack Obama gjorde ret i at nedlægge veto mod 11/9-loven og beskytte USA’s allierede, som Storbritannien«!

Ethvert medlem af Kongressen skal føle amerikanernes pres for at underkende dette veto, i dag og i morgen, hvor de begynder afstemningen for at underkende det. Dette er en enestående chance for at slå Obama og erklære hans krigspolitik skakmat, for fremtiden.

Men, hvis denne politik ikke overvindes – hvis det lykkes Obama at beskytte sine fæller i krig og i stedet vinde over Kongressens vedtagelse af loven for juridisk retfærdighed over dem – ja, så ligger vejen åben for, at han og Hillary Clinton kan fremprovokere en krigskonfrontation mod Rusland – en atomkrig, vi ikke overlever. 

Obama viste ingen hensyn til »suveræn immunitet«, da denne blev frataget Argentina ved de amerikanske domstole således, at gribbefonde kunne udplyndre landet for milliarder. Der kom ingen støtte fra Obama til lovgivning, der havde til formål at beskytte afrikanske skyldnerlandes suveræne immunitet imod gribbefonde, der opkøbte disse landes statsgæld, og dernæst omgående forlangte hele gældsbeløbet indfriet.

Obama ønsker kun suveræn immunitet for Saudi-Arabien, når det forfølger en invasion, krigsforbrydelser og nær-folkemord i Yemen, støttet af Obamas våbensalg, og når det klart er blevet påvist, at Saudi-Arabien på højt niveau var involveret i angrebene 11. september.

Dette veto var forræderi. Hvis det står ved magt, og han beskytter sine krigsfæller mod Kongressen og det amerikanske folk, har Obama fripas til en optrapning frem til den totale konfrontation med Rusland.

Se blot på CBS-TV’s »60 Minutes«, der valgte søndag aften til at sende et indslag, der hævder, at atomkrig er »nærmere end du tror«, og at det er Ruslands politik! 

Se blot på det interview, som det tyske magasin Focus lavede med en højtplaceret person i al-Nusra (al-Qaeda) i Syrien, hvor han dristigt erklærer, »Amerika står på vores side«.

Men kampen for at underkende vetoet af JASTA-loven udgør et øjeblik, hvor vi har en enorm chance for at gøre en ende på denne evindelige krig og terrorisme. Ingen amerikaner, der har mulighed for at komme igennem til sin repræsentant i Kongressen, bør forpasse denne chance – og den retfærdighed – som dette øjeblik byder.

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Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 25. sept. 2016 – Søndag var Lyndon LaRouche meget ligefrem over for kolleger under en diskussion om præsident Obamas forræderiske veto imod JASTA (Loven om Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme) sidste fredag, og om udsigterne til, at Senatet og Repræsentanternes Hus i begyndelsen af denne uge vil vedtage at tilsidesætte – dvs. ugyldiggøre – dette veto: »Vi vandt, og nu må vi sørge for, at det gennemføres.«

Præsident Obamas JASTA-veto var en forræderisk handling imod USA, og især imod dem, der mistede livet, mistede deres kære og deres helbred i begivenhederne den 11. sept., 2001. Med denne ene handling erklærede præsident Obama sin loyalitet over for de anglo-saudiske kræfter bag angrebene 11. september, og erklærede sig selv for en fjende af USA. Den forestående afstemning i Senatet, og dernæst i Huset, er derfor en prøve for andet og mere end blot en vital lovgivning, der ville gøre det muligt for ofrene for 11/9-angrebene at fremstille deres sag i retten imod det saudiske monarki, vigtigt, som dette i sig selv er. Det er også en prøve for, hvorvidt USA som nation er rede til at rejse sig imod imperiekræfterne og de kræfter, der er for krig, på et tidspunkt, hvor selve menneskehedens overlevelse står på spil.

Hvis det skulle lykkes præsident Obama og hans ejere i London og Riyadh at slippe godt fra at knuse JASTA, efter at begge Kongressens huse, gennem enstemmig konsensus, vedtog at sætte loven i kraft, hvad skulle så stå i vejen for, at han lancerer en krigsprovokation imod Rusland, der kunne føre til menneskelig ødelæggelse i et termonukleart holocaust? Dette er i realiteten, hvad der står på spil i de aktuelle opgør i Syrien og Ukraine.

På lignende måde truer Obama med at optrappe konflikten i det asiatiske Stillehavsområde, imod Nordkorea og Kina, hvor en lignende krigsfare allerede volder dette områdes ledere store bekymringer.

I løbet af weekenden opfordrede LaRouche til en total mobilisering af patriotiske kræfter, med henblik på at oversvømme Kongressen med telefonopringninger, e-mails og andre kommunikationer, med krav om, at JASTA skal træde i kraft gennem en overvældende flertalsafstemning for at tilsidesætte vetoet. JASTA er vejen til langt om længe at komme frem til sandheden om den saudiske og britiske hånd bag 11. september. Det ville genindsætte det saudiske monarki som anklagede i en amerikansk statslig domstol i New Yorks Sydlige Distrikt, og underkaste dem undersøgelse og retssag.

Vedtagelsen af at tilsidesætte Obamas veto af JASTA kan finde sted, hvornår det skal være, når Senatet igen træder sammen mandag. Ethvert individ og enhver institution, der værdsætter dem, der mistede livet i 11. september-angrebene og under den efterfølgende redningsaktion på Ground Zero, må sørge for, at Senatet, og dernæst Huset, leverer et overvældende nederlag til Obama, og til de saudiske og britiske monarkier.

Ifølge de seneste nyhedshistorier i The Hill og i andre medier, har det saudiske monarki hældt $9,4 mio. ind i lobbykampagnen for at bekæmpe JASTA – og samtidig lyver de og hævder, at de intet havde med 11/9 at gøre. Tidligere valgte repræsentanter, inklusive Trent Lott og John Breaux, er kommet med på det saudiske monarkis lønningsliste gennem K Street lobbyfirmaer, og således defineret sig selv som »fremmede agenter«, der arbejder for en fjendtlig magt. Under Anden Verdenskrig blev Prescott Bush, fader til George H.W. Bush og farfar til George W. Bush, retsforfulgt under Loven om at Handle med Fjenden, pga. af sit forretningssamarbejde med Hitlers Tyskland. Vil nutidens forrædere få lov til at slippe godt fra den samme forbrydelse med samarbejde med fjenden?

Nedlæggelsen af veto mod JASTA udgjorde en »stor forbrydelse og misgerning«, som påbyder en omgående rigsretssag imod præsident Obama. Man kan ikke forsøge at mørklægge den værste terrorgrusomhed, der nogen sinde har fundet sted på amerikansk jord, og slippe godt fra det, især ikke, når man er USA’s præsident og har aflagt ed på at overholde Forfatningen. I betragtning af præsident Obamas historie med massedrab, kan ingen sove roligt, før JASTA er blevet sat i kraft gennem et overvældende flertal i begge Huse. De næste 48 timer kunne meget vel afgøre USA’s og menneskehedens skæbne. Tiden er ikke til at undfly sit ansvar.

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Foto: Obama fingerer sympati for de myrdede under 11. september, alt imens han frem til i dag beskytter saudierne. (flickr/whitehouse: Photo by Pete Souza, May 14, 2014)

23. sept. 2016 – Her til eftermiddag sendte præsident Obama et brev til USA’s Senat med en meddelelse om, at han nedlagde veto mod JASTA-loven. Selve brevet var så fuldt af selvpromoverende løgne, at det burde udløse en enstemmig vedtagelse af at tilsidesætte vetoet i begge Huse. Kongresmedlem Walter Jones udsendte omgående en kort erklæring, hvor han udtrykte sin vrede over præsident Obamas handlinger, og 11. september-familierne udstedte ligeledes en omgående fordømmelse af Obama.

Familiernes fordømmelse lyder som følger:

»Vi er oprørte og forfærdede over præsidentens veto af JASTA, og over de ikke overbevisende og ikke holdbare grunde, han angiver som forklaring. Uanset, hvor meget, den saudiske lobby- og propagandamaskine måtte modargumentere, så udgør JASTA en omhyggeligt skitseret statut, der genopretter mangeårige lovprincipper, som har nydt upartisk støtte i årtier. Det vil afskrække terrorisme og stille de nationer, der støtter og finansierer den, til ansvar.

Vi er dybt taknemmelige for den enstemmige, upartiske støtte, som JASTA har i Kongressen, og vi ser frem til, at Senatet og Huset opfylder deres forpligtelser ved hurtigt at tilsidesætte dette veto.

Vi vil komme med yderligere detaljer om de mange urigtigheder i præsidentens ræsonnement i flere efterfølgende erklæringer.«

Underskrevet: Familier og Overlevende efter 11. september Forenet for Lovens Retfærdighed over for Terrorisme.

Brevet, som Obama sendte til Senatet, var afskyeligt og dryppede af forloren sympati for familierne og de overlevende, alt imens det fremførte de mest falske undskyldninger for at forsvare saudierne imod at blive konfronteret ved en amerikansk domstol. Nogle uddrag:

»Jeg har dyb sympati for familierne til ofrene for terrorangrebene den 11. september, 2001, der har lidt smerteligt. Jeg har også en dyb forståelse for disse familiers ønske om at forfølge sagen legalt, og jeg er stærkt forpligtet over for at assistere dem i deres bestræbelser.

I overensstemmelse med denne forpligtelse har jeg, i løbet af de seneste 8 år, instrueret min administration om skånselsløst at forfølge al-Qaeda, den terrorgruppe, der planlagde 11/9-angrebene. Vort militærs og kontraterror-professionelles heroiske indsats har decimeret al-Qaedas lederskab og dræbt Osama bin Laden. Min administration har ligeledes stærkt støttet, og jeg har underskrevet, relevant lovgivning, der sikrer, at de mennesker, der så modigt responderede på denne forfærdelige dag, samt andre overlevende efter angrebene, vil kunne modtage behandling for alle de skader, der er en følge af angrebene. Og min administration har også instrueret Efterretningssamfundet til at udføre en undersøgelse med henblik på frigivelse, af »Fjerde Del af den Fælles Kongresundersøgelsesrapport, om Efterretningssamfundets Aktiviteter Før og Efter Terrorangrebene den 11. september«, således, at familierne til ofrene for 11/9 og et bredere publikum bedre kan forstå den information, som efterforskere har indsamlet efter denne mørke dag i vores historie.

På trods af disse signifikante indsatser erkender jeg, at der ikke findes noget, der nogensinde kan fjerne den sorg, som 11/9-familierne er blevet påført. Min administration forbliver derfor ferm i sin forpligtelse til at assistere disse familier i deres forfølgelse af retfærdighed, og til at gøre alt, vi kan, for at forhindre endnu et angreb i USA. Men at vedtage JASTA som lov ville imidlertid hverken beskytte amerikanere mod terrorangreb, og heller ikke forbedre vores effektive respons til sådanne angreb. Som JASTA er skitseret, ville loven gøre private sagsanlæg mod udenlandske regeringer i amerikanske domstole muligt, baseret på beskyldninger om, at sådanne udenlandske regeringers handlinger i udlandet gør dem ansvarlige for terrorrelaterede skader på amerikansk jord. Denne lovgivning ville tillade legale anklager imod lande, der hverken af den eksekutive gren (dvs. præsidenten, -red.) er blevet udpeget som værende statssponsorer af terrorisme, og heller ikke har udført direkte aktioner i USA, med at udføre et angreb her. JASTA ville være skadelig for USA’s nationale interesser mere generelt, hvilket er grunden til, at jeg returnerer den uden min underskrift.

For det første truer JASTA med, at vores effektive respons til indikationer på, at en udenlandsk regering har taget skridt til, uden for sine egne grænser, at give støtte til terrorisme, vil blive reduceret ved at tage sådanne anliggender ud af hænderne på vores nationale sikkerhed, og 2, professionelle inden for udenrigspolitik, og så placere dem i hænderne på private sagsøgere og domstole.

Enhver indikation af, at en udenlandsk regering skulle have spillet en rolle i et terrorangreb på amerikansk jord, er et særdeles alvorligt anliggende og fortjener en magtfuld respons fra en enig, statslig regering, der tager hele rækkevidden af vigtige og effektive redskaber, der er til rådighed, i betragtning. Ét af disse redskaber er at udpege den pågældende, udenlandske regering som statssponsor af terrorisme, hvilket medfører en hel stribe af følger, inklusive denne udenlandske regerings fratagelse af sin suveræne immunitet ved amerikanske domstole i visse terrorrelaterede sager, samt udsættelse for en række sanktioner. I betragtning af disse alvorlige konsekvenser udpeger man kun en stat som sponsor af terrorisme efter, at professionelle fra national sikkerhed, udenrigspolitik og efterretningsvæsen omhyggeligt har undersøgt al tilgængelig information for at afgøre, hvorvidt et land falder ind under de kriterier, som Kongressen har fastlagt. I modsætning hertil afviger JASTA fra mangeårige standarder og praksisser under vores Lov om Udenlandske Staters Immunitet og truer med at fratage alle udenlandske regeringer deres immunitet over for retsforfølgelse i USA, udelukkende baseret på beskyldninger fra private sagsøgere, gående ud på, at en udenlandsk regerings opførsel i andet land havde en eller anden rolle eller forbindelse til en gruppe eller personer, der har gennemført et terrorangreb i USA. Dette ville indbyde til, at man traf beslutninger i konsekvens heraf, som var baseret på ukomplet information, og til risikoen for, at forskellige domstole nåede frem til forskellige konklusioner om enkelte, udenlandske regeringers skyld, og deres rolle i terroraktiviteter, der er rettet imod USA – hvilket hverken udgør en effektiv eller en koordineret måde for os at respondere på indikationer på, at en udenlandsk regering måske har stået bag et terrorangreb.«

Med andre ord, fordi to successive amerikanske administrationer – Bush og Obama – mørklagde den saudiske rolle i det værste terrorangreb, der nogen sinde er udført på amerikansk jord, og undlod at opføre Saudi-Arabien og Storbritannien på Udenrigsministeriets liste over statssponsorer af terrorisme, fratages familierne deres ’dag i retten’!

Obama fortsætter med åbenlyst at forsvare USA’s relationer med Saudi-Arabien – på trods af det bjerg af beviser imod den saudiske kongefamilie, blandt hvilke beviser vi ikke mindst finder en rapport fra USA’s Kongres med 28 siders bevis:

»For det tredje, så truer JASTA med at skabe komplikationer i vores relationer med selv vore nærmeste partnere. Hvis JASTA blev sat i kraft, kunne domstole potentielt set anse selv minimale anklager, der beskylder USA’s allierede eller partnere for medskyldighed i et bestemt terrorangreb i USA, for at være tilstrækkeligt til at slå døren op for anklager mod og vidtrækkende undersøgelser af et fremmed land – for eksempel det land, hvor en person, der senere begik en terrorhandling, rejste ud fra eller blev radikaliseret. Flere af vore allierede og partnere har allerede kontaktet os med alvorlige bekymringer over loven. Ved at udsætte disse allierede og partnere for denne form for anklager i amerikanske domstole, truer JASTA med at begrænse deres samarbejde i hovedspørgsmål af national sikkerhedsmæssig karakter, inklusive kontraterror-initiativer, på et afgørende tidspunkt, hvor vi forsøger at opbygge koalitioner, og ikke skabe uoverensstemmelser.«

Obama sluttede af med endnu engang at lyve om sin indsats på vegne af 11/9-familierne, og om sine successer i den Globale Krig mod Terror:

»Angrebene den 11. september var den værste terrorhandling på amerikansk jord, og de blev mødt med en respons, der ikke har fortilfælde, fra den amerikanske regering. USA har foretaget robuste og vidtrækkende handlinger for at yde ofrene for 11/9-angrebene retfærdighed og beskytte amerikanernes sikkerhed, lige fra at give finansiel kompensation til ofre og deres familier og til at gennemføre globale kontraterror-programmer, og til at stille skyldige personer for retten for forbrydelser. Jeg har fortsat og udvidet disse indsatser, både for at hjælpe ofre for terrorisme med at opnå retfærdighed for tabet af deres kære og disses lidelser, og for at beskytte USA mod fremtidige angreb. Men JASTA bidrager imidlertid ikke til disse mål, styrker ikke amerikaneres sikkerhed mod terrorangreb, samt underminerer USA’s kerneinteresser. Af disse grunde må jeg nedlægge veto mod loven.«

Sproget i dette brev til Senatet er så frastødende, at det kan bruges som et våben imod Obama, både med henblik på at sikre en overvældende tilsidesættelse af hans veto, og at tage omgående skridt til hans fjernelse. Gå ikke glip af ét eneste trommeslag!

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 23. sept. 2016 – Sent i eftermiddag sendte præsident Obama en besked til USA’s Senat om, at han nedlagde veto imod JASTA-loven. Hans detaljerede, løgnagtige forklaring understreger blot pointen: Præsidenten for De forende Stater har begået højforræderi imod 11. september-overlevende og familierne til ofrene, imod det amerikanske folk og imod udraderingen af den terroristsvøbe, der hjemsøger denne planet som helhed. Dette er ikke mindre end et tilfælde af »alvorlig forbrydelse og misgerning« (som der står i USA's Forfatning), der kræver, at han omgående afsættes ved en rigsretssag. Saudierne og deres britiske partnere i grusomhederne den 11. september er De forenede Staters fjender, og præsident Obama har, gennem sine handlinger, gjort det klart, at han er mere loyal over for disse, vor nations fjender, end han er over for USA’s borgere og Forfatning, som han har aflagt ed på at være loyal overfor.

Denne handling kræver omgående modsvar. For det første må USA’s Senat, og dernæst USA’s Repræsentanternes Hus, med et overvældende flertal, omgående vedtage at tilsidesætte (og dermed gøre ugyldigt) Obamas veto. Og for det andet må Huset omgående gå i gang med processen med at indlede en rigsretssag mod præsidenten, for at afsætte ham, en rigsretssag, der for længst burde have fundet sted.

Dette budskab må bringes ud – højt og tydeligt – i hele denne weekend, således, at, når USA’s Senat vender tilbage mandag morgen, ikke ét eneste medlem ville vove at stille sig på præsidentens side. De forbrydelser, for hvilke Richard Nixon blev afsat, var bagateller, sammenlignet med denne ene handling, som præsident Obama begik den 23. sept., 2016.

Obama vetoer JASTA med en stribe løgne

23. sept. 2016 – Her til eftermiddag sendte præsident Obama et brev til USA’s Senat med en meddelelse om, at han nedlagde veto mod JASTA-loven. Selve brevet var så fuldt af selvpromoverende løgne, at det burde udløse en enstemmig vedtagelse af at tilsidesætte vetoet i begge Huse. Kongresmedlem Walter Jones udsendte omgående en kort erklæring, hvor han udtrykte sin vrede over præsident Obamas handlinger, og 11. september-familierne udstedte ligeledes en omgående fordømmelse af Obama.

Familiernes fordømmelse lyder som følger:

»Vi er oprørte og forfærdede over præsidentens veto af JASTA, og over de ikke overbevisende og ikke holdbare grunde, han angiver som forklaring. Uanset, hvor meget, den saudiske lobby- og propagandamaskine måtte modargumentere, så udgør JASTA en omhyggeligt skitseret statut, der genopretter mangeårige lovprincipper, som har nydt upartisk støtte i årtier. Det vil afskrække terrorisme og stille de nationer, der støtter og finansierer den, til ansvar.

Vi er dybt taknemmelige for den enstemmige, upartiske støtte, som JASTA har i Kongressen, og vi ser frem til, at Senatet og Huset opfylder deres forpligtelser ved hurtigt at tilsidesætte dette veto.

Vi vil komme med yderligere detaljer om de mange urigtigheder i præsidentens ræsonnement i flere efterfølgende erklæringer.«

Underskrevet: Familier og Overlevende efter 11. september Forenet for Lovens Retfærdighed over for Terrorisme.

Brevet, som Obama sendte til Senatet, var afskyeligt og dryppede af forloren sympati for familierne og de overlevende, alt imens det fremførte de mest falske undskyldninger for at forsvare saudierne imod at blive konfronteret ved en amerikansk domstol. Nogle uddrag:

»Jeg har dyb sympati for familierne til ofrene for terrorangrebene den 11. september, 2001, der har lidt smerteligt. Jeg har også en dyb forståelse for disse familiers ønske om at forfølge sagen legalt, og jeg er stærkt forpligtet over for at assistere dem i deres bestræbelser.

I overensstemmelse med denne forpligtelse har jeg, i løbet af de seneste 8 år, instrueret min administration om skånselsløst at forfølge al-Qaeda, den terrorgruppe, der planlagde 11/9-angrebene. Vort militærs og kontraterror-professionelles heroiske indsats har decimeret al-Qaedas lederskab og dræbt Osama bin Laden. Min administration har ligeledes stærkt støttet, og jeg har underskrevet, relevant lovgivning, der sikrer, at de mennesker, der så modigt responderede på denne forfærdelige dag, samt andre overlevende efter angrebene, vil kunne modtage behandling for alle de skader, der er en følge af angrebene. Og min administration har også instrueret Efterretningssamfundet til at udføre en undersøgelse med henblik på frigivelse, af »Fjerde Del af den Fælles Kongresundersøgelsesrapport, om Efterretningssamfundets Aktiviteter Før og Efter Terrorangrebene den 11. september«, således, at familierne til ofrene for 11/9 og et bredere publikum bedre kan forstå den information, som efterforskere har indsamlet efter denne mørke dag i vores historie.

På trods af disse signifikante indsatser erkender jeg, at der ikke findes noget, der nogensinde kan fjerne den sorg, som 11/9-familierne er blevet påført. Min administration forbliver derfor ferm i sin forpligtelse til at assistere disse familier i deres forfølgelse af retfærdighed, og til at gøre alt, vi kan, for at forhindre endnu et angreb i USA. Men at vedtage JASTA som lov ville imidlertid hverken beskytte amerikanere mod terrorangreb, og heller ikke forbedre vores effektive respons til sådanne angreb. Som JASTA er skitseret, ville loven gøre private sagsanlæg mod udenlandske regeringer i amerikanske domstole muligt, baseret på beskyldninger om, at sådanne udenlandske regeringers handlinger i udlandet gør dem ansvarlige for terrorrelaterede skader på amerikansk jord. Denne lovgivning ville tillade legale anklager imod lande, der hverken af den eksekutive gren (dvs. præsidenten, -red.) er blevet udpeget som værende statssponsorer af terrorisme, og heller ikke har udført direkte aktioner i USA, med at udføre et angreb her. JASTA ville være skadelig for USA’s nationale interesser mere generelt, hvilket er grunden til, at jeg returnerer den uden min underskrift.

For det første truer JASTA med, at vores effektive respons til indikationer på, at en udenlandsk regering har taget skridt til, uden for sine egne grænser, at give støtte til terrorisme, vil blive reduceret ved at tage sådanne anliggender ud af hænderne på vores nationale sikkerhed, og 2, professionelle inden for udenrigspolitik, og så placere dem i hænderne på private sagsøgere og domstole.

Enhver indikation af, at en udenlandsk regering skulle have spillet en rolle i et terrorangreb på amerikansk jord, er et særdeles alvorligt anliggende og fortjener en magtfuld respons fra en enig, statslig regering, der tager hele rækkevidden af vigtige og effektive redskaber, der er til rådighed, i betragtning. Ét af disse redskaber er at udpege den pågældende, udenlandske regering som statssponsor af terrorisme, hvilket medfører en hel stribe af følger, inklusive denne udenlandske regerings fratagelse af sin suveræne immunitet ved amerikanske domstole i visse terrorrelaterede sager, samt udsættelse for en række sanktioner. I betragtning af disse alvorlige konsekvenser udpeger man kun en stat som sponsor af terrorisme efter, at professionelle fra national sikkerhed, udenrigspolitik og efterretningsvæsen omhyggeligt har undersøgt al tilgængelig information for at afgøre, hvorvidt et land falder ind under de kriterier, som Kongressen har fastlagt. I modsætning hertil afviger JASTA fra mangeårige standarder og praksisser under vores Lov om Udenlandske Staters Immunitet og truer med at fratage alle udenlandske regeringer deres immunitet over for retsforfølgelse i USA, udelukkende baseret på beskyldninger fra private sagsøgere, gående ud på, at en udenlandsk regerings opførsel i andet land havde en eller anden rolle eller forbindelse til en gruppe eller personer, der har gennemført et terrorangreb i USA. Dette ville indbyde til, at man traf beslutninger i konsekvens heraf, som var baseret på ukomplet information, og til risikoen for, at forskellige domstole nåede frem til forskellige konklusioner om enkelte, udenlandske regeringers skyld, og deres rolle i terroraktiviteter, der er rettet imod USA – hvilket hverken udgør en effektiv eller en koordineret måde for os at respondere på indikationer på, at en udenlandsk regering måske har stået bag et terrorangreb.«

Med andre ord, fordi to successive amerikanske administrationer – Bush og Obama – mørklagde den saudiske rolle i det værste terrorangreb, der nogen sinde er udført på amerikansk jord, og undlod at opføre Saudi-Arabien og Storbritannien på Udenrigsministeriets liste over statssponsorer af terrorisme, fratages familierne deres ’dag i retten’!

Obama fortsætter med åbenlyst at forsvare USA’s relationer med Saudi-Arabien – på trods af det bjerg af beviser imod den saudiske kongefamilie, blandt hvilke beviser vi ikke mindst finder en rapport fra USA’s Kongres med 28 siders bevis:

»For det tredje, så truer JASTA med at skabe komplikationer i vores relationer med selv vore nærmeste partnere. Hvis JASTA blev sat i kraft, kunne domstole potentielt set anse selv minimale anklager, der beskylder USA’s allierede eller partnere for medskyldighed i et bestemt terrorangreb i USA, for at være tilstrækkeligt til at slå døren op for anklager mod og vidtrækkende undersøgelser af et fremmed land – for eksempel det land, hvor en person, der senere begik en terrorhandling, rejste ud fra eller blev radikaliseret. Flere af vore allierede og partnere har allerede kontaktet os med alvorlige bekymringer over loven. Ved at udsætte disse allierede og partnere for denne form for anklager i amerikanske domstole, truer JASTA med at begrænse deres samarbejde i hovedspørgsmål af national sikkerhedsmæssig karakter, inklusive kontraterror-initiativer, på et afgørende tidspunkt, hvor vi forsøger at opbygge koalitioner, og ikke skabe uoverensstemmelser.«

Obama sluttede af med endnu engang at lyve om sin indsats på vegne af 11/9-familierne, og om sine successer i den Globale Krig mod Terror:

»Angrebene den 11. september var den værste terrorhandling på amerikansk jord, og de blev mødt med en respons, der ikke har fortilfælde, fra den amerikanske regering. USA har foretaget robuste og vidtrækkende handlinger for at yde ofrene for 11/9-angrebene retfærdighed og beskytte amerikanernes sikkerhed, lige fra at give finansiel kompensation til ofre og deres familier og til at gennemføre globale kontraterror-programmer, og til at stille skyldige personer for retten for forbrydelser. Jeg har fortsat og udvidet disse indsatser, både for at hjælpe ofre for terrorisme med at opnå retfærdighed for tabet af deres kære og disses lidelser, og for at beskytte USA mod fremtidige angreb. Men JASTA bidrager imidlertid ikke til disse mål, styrker ikke amerikaneres sikkerhed mod terrorangreb, samt underminerer USA’s kerneinteresser. Af disse grunde må jeg nedlægge veto mod loven.«

Sproget i dette brev til Senatet er så frastødende, at det kan bruges som et våben imod Obama, både med henblik på at sikre en overvældende tilsidesættelse af hans veto, og at tage omgående skridt til hans fjernelse. Gå ikke glip af ét eneste trommeslag!

… hvis Obama fører sit veto ud i livet, så bør han omgående afsættes ved en rigsretssag. Dette er i den grad en handling med åbenlyst og vidende forræderi imod ikke alene 11. september-familierne, men imod De forenede Stater som helhed.

»Det er forkasteligt, at én mand kan stå imellem retfærdighed for mordet på 3000 mennesker, og så denne lovs ikrafttræden«. Kristen Brightweiser, 11. september-enke.

Matthew Ogden: God eftermiddag! Det er den 23. sept., 2016.

Jeg er Matthew Ogden, og jeg vil gerne byde jer alle velkommen til en særlig udsendelse her fra LaRouchepac.com her fredag eftermiddag. Vi udsender tidligere end vi plejer; kl. er 4:00 Eastern Time (1:00 Pacific Time), fordi vi befinder os midt i et opgør i Washington, D.C., hvor hvert minut tæller.

Med mig i studiet i dag har jeg Jeff Steinberg fra Executive Intelligence Review; og via video har vi med os Elliot Greenspan, koordinator for LaRouchePAC-aktiviteter i New York City.

Som I alle ved, så befinder vi os netop nu i en nedtælling til »sandhedens time«. Fra og med kl. 1:00-2:00 her i eftermiddag, under Det hvide Hus’ pressebriefing, står det klart, at [præsident] Obama vil nedlægge veto mod JASTA-loven (Senatslov 2040). Vi vil straks skrive telefonnummeret på skærmen, så I kan ringe til Kongressen og komme i kontakt med senatorerne og kongresmedlemmerne (i Repræsentanternes Hus, -red.) fra jeres stat, så I kan være mobiliserede under vores udsendelse. I skal slet ikke udsætte det. Ring. Sørg for, at jeres stemme bliver hørt. Sig til hvert enkelt kongresmedlem, at han/hun skal være stærk i sin forpligtelse over for at gøre Obamas veto ugyldigt. [Capitols omstillingsbord: 202-224-3131]

Trods utroligt pres, trusler, løgne, penge, intimidering fra den saudiske lobby-maskine og fra Det hvide Hus direkte, så står Kongressen, under den sidste optælling på Capitol Hill, stadig til at gøre Loven for Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme (den såkaldte JASTA) ugyldig og levere en særdeles historisk første tilsidesættelse af et veto i hele Obamas præsidentskab. Tidligere på dagen havde New York Times en artikel, »Obama er på kanten til at få en skarp irettesættelse, han længe har undgået – en tilsidesættelse af sit veto«.

Det, som dækningen har tydeliggjort, er, at dette har været en total kamp bag scenen. Jeg vil gerne meget, meget hurtigt læse blot lige indledningen til en NYT-artikel, der udkom onsdag den 21. sept., med overskriften, »Kamp mellem saudier og 11. september-familier eskalerer i Washington«. Jeg synes, det giver et dramatisk overblik over nøjagtigt, hvad det er, der er foregået bag scenen, og i offentlighedens lys, i løbet af blot disse par dage i denne uge. Artiklen starter således:

»Mandag indkaldte en samling lobbyister for Saudi-Arabien, der har brugt mere end $5 million i det forgangne år på at købe indflydelse i Washington, til et krisemøde, for at forsøge at standse en lovgivning, der vil gøre det muligt for familierne til ofre for 11. september-angrebene at sagsøge den saudiske regering for enhver rolle, den måtte have spillet i den forbryderiske plan.

Tirsdag demonstrerede 11. september-familierne, hvis sagsanlæg til mange milliarder dollars varetages af advokater inkl. Jack Quinn, en forhenværende rådgiver til Det hvide Hus, for at lægge pres på præsident Obama om ikke at nedlægge veto mod loven, som han har lovet at gøre.

Onsdag kom disse to magtfulde kræfter, den ene, der operer i skyggerne, og den anden mere åbent, sammen på Capitol Hill til kulminationen af en af de største og mest følelsesladede lobby-stridigheder i hele året. Kampen reflekterer 11. september-familiernes vedvarende dominans i Washington, og den skrumpende indflydelse her af Saudi-Arabien, der engang uhindret promoverede sin dagsorden i Vestfløjen og i korridorerne af Kongressen.«

Jeg mener, at det er meget tydeligt, at der er sket det, at 11. september-familierne – men også andre borgere, inklusive de af jer, der ser med i dag på denne udsendelse – har spillet en central rolle i at bære ved til dette opgør. Dette opgør er, trods $5 mio. i saudiske lobby-penge, blevet næret af aktivismen hos borgere som jer selv. Og derfor er det, at vi beder jer om lige nu, hvis I ikke allerede har ringet jeres repræsentant i Kongressen op, at ringe lige med det samme – 202-224-3121 – for at sige: »Tilsidesæt det veto af JASTA-loven, som Obama truer med.«

Dette kunne ikke være tydeligere end under de demonstrationer, der fandt sted foran Det hvide Hus tirsdag morgen, og foran USA’s Senat senere på dagen, med medlemmerne af 11. september-familierne og andre. Vi har nogle videoklip fra pressekonferencen, der fandt sted på Senats-siden af Capitol tirsdag eftermiddag, hvor Terry Strada, Kaitlin Strada og Alison Crowther – alle tre medlemmer af 11. september-familierne – og ligeledes senator [Richard] Blumenthal totalt smadrede og pillede ned de løgne, der kom ud af Obama-administrationen og den saudiske lobby-maskine.

Men, før vi kommer til det, vil jeg bede Jeff Steinberg om, ganske kort, at fortælle os, hvad LaRouches marchordrer for dette øjeblik er, stedt over for Obamas forestående trussel om et veto af JASTA-loven. Dernæst vil vi afspille klippet fra pressekonferencen. Jeg vil give ordet til Jeff til en sammenfatning af hr. LaRouches kommentarer tidligere på dagen:

Jeff Steinberg: Det er temmelig lige ud ad landevejen. Han sagde simpelt hen, at, hvis Obama fører sit veto ud i livet, så bør han omgående afsættes ved en rigsretssag. Dette er i den grad en handling med åbenlyst og vidende forræderi imod ikke alene 11. september-familierne, men imod De forenede Stater som helhed.

En af nyhedshistorierne i dag sagde, at, hvis Obama fører dette veto ud i livet, så tager han, atter engang, terroristernes side imod USA’s interesser.

I Forordet til USA’s Forfatning er ét af præsidentens fremmeste ansvar, at forsvare De forenede Staters nationale sikkerhed: »at sikre det fælles forsvar«, og at »fremme det almene vel«, og hvis præsident Obama ikke kan se, hvorfor det er i alle amerikaneres og alle menneskers overhængende interesse, i hele verden, som rent faktisk ønsker at nedkæmpe denne terroristsvøbe, der udgår fra saudisk wahhabisme og fra den saudiske kongefamilie, ja, så må de hellere tænke over, hvad implikationerne af dette er.

Så hr. LaRouches »marchordrer« er ganske enkle: Få denne tilsidesættelse af Obamas veto i hus. Mobilisér jeres senator; mobilisér jeres repræsentant i Kongressen. Men oven i dette bør enhver, der ikke er sikker på, hvad implikationerne af et Obama-veto er, tænke længe og hårdt, og bør gå med i det kor, der omgående må kræve hans afsættelse fra embedet gennem en rigsretssag. Dette er en dødsens alvorlig sag, og dette er det skridt, der må tages.

Hele webcastet, inkl. engelsk udskrift, kan ses her: http://schillerinstitut.dk/si/?p=14887   

Som I alle ved, så befinder vi os netop nu i en nedtælling til »sandhedens time«. Fra og med kl. 1:00-2:00 her i eftermiddag, under Det hvide Hus’ pressebriefing, står det klart, at [præsident] Obama vil nedlægge veto mod JASTA-loven (Senatslov 2040). Vi vil straks skrive telefonnummeret på skærmen, så I kan ringe til Kongressen og komme i kontakt med senatorerne og kongresmedlemmerne (i Repræsentanternes Hus, -red.) fra jeres stat, så I kan være mobiliserede under vores udsendelse. I skal slet ikke udsætte det. Ring. Sørg for, at jeres stemme bliver hørt. Sig til hvert enkelt kongresmedlem, at han/hun skal være stærk i sin forpligtelse over for at gøre Obamas veto ugyldigt. [Capitols omstillingsbord: 202-224-3131]

 Et længere, dansk uddrag vil blive udlagt på hjemmesiden senere i dag.

Engelsk udskrift:

"IT IS REPREHENSIBLE THAT ONE MAN IS STANDING BETWEEN JUSTICE FOR
THE MURDER OF 3000 PEOPLE AND THIS LEGISLATION BECOMING LAW."  —
Kristen Brightweiser, 9/11 widow

LaRouche PAC International Webcast Sept. 23, 2016

        MATTHEW OGDEN: Good afternoon! It's September 23rd, 2016. My
name is Matthew Ogden, and I would like to welcome all of you to
a special broadcast here from LaRouchepac.com on Friday
{afternoon}. We are broadcasting {early} our regularly scheduled
webcast this week at 4:00 Eastern Time (1:00 pm Pacific Time)
because we are in the midst of a showdown in Washington, D.C.,
where every minute counts.
        I'm joined in the studio by Jeff Steinberg, from {Executive
Intelligence Review}; and we're joined via video by Elliot
Greenspan, coordinator for LaRouche PAC activities in New York
City.
        As all of you know, we're in the countdown to the "moment of
truth" right now. As of 1:00-2:00 this afternoon, during the
White House press briefing, it remains clear that [President]
Obama is committed to vetoing the JASTA Bill (Senate Bill 2040).
We're going to put, right now, the phone number on the screen for
you to call in to Congress in order to contact the Senators and
Representatives from your State, in order for you to be mobilized
{during the show}. Don't even delay. Call in. Make sure that your
voice is heard. Tell every single Member of Congress to remain
strong in their commitment to override Obama's veto. [Capitol
Switchboard: 202-224-3131]
        This Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (or JASTA,
so-called), despite {unbelievable} pressure, threats, lies,
money, intimidation coming from the Saudi lobbying machine and
from the White House directly, at last reading on Capitol Hill,
Congress is still set to override this veto, delivering a very
historic first veto override of Obama's entire Presidency.
There's a {New York Times} article just earlier today, "Obama is
on the cusp of a rebuke he has long avoided — a veto override."
        What's become clear from the coverage, is that this has been
an all-out battle behind the scenes. Very, very quickly I'd like
to read just the beginning of a {New York Times} that came out on
Wednesday, September 21st, which was headlined "Fight Between
Saudis and 9/11 Families Escalates in Washington." I think this
gives a dramatic overview of exactly what has gone down behind
the scenes, and in public view, during the course of just the few
days that have occurred this week. It reads, in the beginning:

        "On Monday, a constellation of lobbyists for Saudi Arabia,
which has spent more than $5 million this past year to buy
influence in Washington, called a crisis meeting to try to stop
legislation allowing the families of victims of the Sept. 11
attacks to sue the Saudi government for any role in the plot.
        "On Tuesday, the 9/11 families, represented in their
multibillion-dollar lawsuits by lawyers including Jack Quinn, a
former White House counsel with deep relationships in Washington,
demonstrated outside the White House to pressure President Obama
not to veto the legislation, as he has vowed to do.
        "On Wednesday, these two powerful forces, one operating in
the shadows and the other more in the open, converged on Capitol
Hill in the culmination of one of the biggest and most emotional
lobbying fights of the year. The battle is a reflection of the
enduring dominance in Washington of the 9/11 families and the
diminishing clout here of Saudi Arabia, which once advanced its
agenda unencumbered in the West Wing and corridors of Congress."
        Now, I think it's very clear that what has happened, is the
central role that the 9/11 families — but also other citizens,
including those of you who are watching this broadcast here today
— have played in fueling this showdown. This showdown has been
fueled, despite $5 million in Saudi lobbying money, by the
activism of citizens like you. And that's why we're asking you,
{right now}, if you haven't called in to your Congressmen, to
call right now — 202-224-3121 — to say "Override Obama's
threatened veto of JASTA."
        This couldn't have been made more clear than during the
rallies that occurred in front of the White House on Tuesday
morning, and later in the day in front of the United States
Senate, by members of the 9/11 families and others. We do have
some clips from the press conference that occurred on the
Senate side of the Capitol on Tuesday afternoon, where Terry
Strada, Kaitlyn Strada, Alison Crowther — all three members of
the 9/11 families — and also Sen. [Richard] Blumenthal
absolutely demolished and debunked the lies that were coming out
of the Obama Administration and the Saudi lobbying machine.
        But before we get to that, I'd like to just very briefly ask
Jeff Steinberg to say, in brief, what Mr. LaRouche's marching
orders for this moment were, in the face of Obama's upcoming
threatened veto of the JASTA Bill. And then we will play this
press conference clip. So, Jeff, I'm going to let you just
summarize what Mr. LaRouche's comments were today.

        JEFF STEINBERG: It's pretty straight forward. He just simply
said that if Obama goes ahead with this veto, then he should be
immediately impeached. This is such an act of overt and witting
treason against not just the 9/11 families, but against the
United States as a whole.
        One of the news accounts today said that if Obama goes ahead
with his veto, then once again he's siding with the terrorists,
against the interests of the United States.
        In the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, one of the first
responsibilities of the President is to defend the national
security of the United States: to "provide for the common
defense, and to "promote the general Welfare," and if President
Obama cannot see why it is in the urgent interests of all
Americans, and of anyone around the world, who wants to actually
fight against this terrorist scourge emanating from Saudi
Wahhabism and from the Saudi Royal Family, then they basically
better think about what the implications of this are.
        So, Mr. LaRouche's "marching orders" are very simple: Get
the veto override. Mobilize your Senator, mobilize your
Representative. But, on top of that, anyone who is unclear about
the strategic implications of an Obama veto, should think long
and hard and should join in the chorus that must immediately
demand his impeachment from office. This is a dead serious
matter, and that's the step that must be taken.

        OGDEN: Great! We're going to elaborate a little bit more on
the context of that a little bit later. Also, with the
developments that are occurring internationally. But right now, I
want to play a very short excerpt from the speeches of Terry
Strada, Kaitlyn Strada, Alison Crowther, and Sen. Blumenthal,
where they debunk every single media propaganda line that you're
going to hear coming from the White House and the Saudi lobbying
machine on the subject of the JASTA Bill. So, here's that
excerpt:

        TERRY STRADA: In our quest for the truth, accountability,
and justice for the murder of my husband and the thousands of
other innocent souls lost and injured, my colleagues and I have
worked tirelessly with Congress for over four years advocating
for the 9/11 families in support of the Justice Against Sponsors
of Terrorism Act (JASTA).
        I am frustrated, angry, and tired of the mis-truths being
carelessly spewed about this legislation, and I am here today to
set the record straight. The President's rationales to veto JASTA
hold no weight. They are 100% wrong. The issues the White House
and [unclear: 0:08:35.4] are raising now, concerns of reciprocal
laws or lawsuits, have all been considered, repeatedly, and
addressed.
        This issue about the possibility of threats of reciprocal
laws and lawsuits is a kneejerk reaction, raised by all novices
looking at the Bill, until they actually read the text and
consider the policies. Then, only those who would favor Saudi
interests seem to cling to the mis-truths. Those who favor sound,
anti-terror-financing policies, support JASTA.
        The most recent statement from the White House Press
Secretary, Josh Earnest, last Monday, when he told the White
House press corps that there were concerns about judges all over
the country designating terror organizations for U.S. sanctions,
is nonsensical. No judge overseeing a civil jury trial for
injuries would ever be imposing U.S. sanctions. That is simply
outlandish.
        To be crystal clear: JASTA does not and cannot have anything
to do with suing our diplomats. That issue is controlled by
something entirely different from JASTA — the Vienna Convention
on Diplomatic Relations. And, if {I} know it, I suspect the White
House knows this, too.
        Very importantly, JASTA has nothing to do with whether a
private citizen, or even a private company, can be sued for
alleged wrong-doing. JASTA deals with immunity of foreign States.
So, the White House's press comments that enacting JASTA will
threaten suits against the U.S. — which Mr. Earnest emphasized
as a risk of JASTA — are categorically untrue. I am sure the
White House knows that, too.
        And most importantly, our military is not at risk for being
sued if JASTA is enacted. The narrow text of JASTA, like our
legal history, specifically distinguishes between acts of war and
acts of terrorism. The text of the Bill, for anyone who cares to
read it — and it is surprisingly short — specifically excludes
acts of war. I'm sure the White House knows that, too.
        No one who seriously opposes terrorism disagrees with a bill
that at its core, accuses no one. All JASTA does, is simply ask
those accused of sponsoring terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, to
answer on the merits and to stand account for those accusations.
        For us, the 9/11 families and survivors, all we're asking
for is an opportunity to have our case heard in a courtroom.
Denying us justice is un-American. In our case, the existing and
still growing mountain of evidence against the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, demands that they address those accusations, if for
nothing else, to normalize our relations with a nation that
claims to be our ally.
        I would suggest, that if the Kingdom had no part in the
horrific attacks of 9/11, they should welcome the opportunity to
address the allegations head-on, and fix our relationship.
Instead, they have hired dozens of highly-paid lobbyists, who
roam the halls of Congress, intimidating our Members of Congress,
and trying to strong-arm our legislative process. This, too, is
un-American.
        We, the 9/11 community, have suffered far too long at the
hands of far too many that would prevent us from seeking
accountability before a jury of our peers. Neither the President,
nor Congress, nor the lobbyists for foreign kingdoms should be
permitted to make us wait another day to pass JASTA.

        SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: The basic objective here is to hold
accountable wrong-doers and law-breakers and evil-doers. Because
that is the rule of law. Behind that over-arching, seemingly
abstract ideal, is a loop-hole in the law. And it's a modest
loop-hole. The loop-hole is that a foreign actor or agent can
commit an atrocity in this country, but be immune from any kind
of legal accountability if the aiding and abetting is done
outside our boundaries. That's basically what may well be shown
in a court of law about the Saudi agents or operatives who aided
and abetted the 9/11 terrorists. There's a basic principle here.
If a foreign agent or actor gives a bag of money or a ton of
explosives to someone who then does harm in our country, and it
happens outside the country, there still should be legal
accountability. That's a loop-hole that Congress never intended.
        Take an analogy: If another country launched a missile from
[within] its borders, from its soil, that blew up an American
citizen, nobody would say, "Well, that's okay, because they did
it within their own borders." And the same principle applies
here. A foreign government that aids and abets an act of terror
that does harm in our country, should be held accountable, even
if those actions occurred outside our borders.
        I want to deal with the reasons given to oppose this
measure. And I want to say, with great respect to the President
of the United States, that he has a different perspective. He
conducts our nation's diplomacy. I respect him and his office and
his reasons for opposing this measure. But I disagree. Strongly,
and powerfully, with those reasons.
        If the Saudi Government is innocent, it has nothing to fear
from a day in court. If it is culpable, it should be held
accountable. And there is mounting evidence, revealed in the 28
pages, kept secret for so long, about potential Saudi complicity.
        So, I'm urging the President, as I did in a letter with my
colleague Sen. [Chuck] Schumer about ten days ago, to sign this
measure, and I believe that there are now, and there will be,
well more than the necessary votes to override this veto. It was
unanimously passed, and I believe it will be overwhelmingly
approved again, if need be.

        KAITLYN STRADA: After hearing our cries for justice, our US
Senate and House of Representatives unanimously passed
legislation called the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act
— JASTA. This bill would give me and thousands of other children
who lost their parents on 9/11, the opportunity to see some
degree of accountability. JASTA does not determine whether the
accused foreign state is actually responsible; the accused just
wouldn't get a free pass on accountability. Under existing law, a
foreign state alleged to be responsible for a car wreck has no
free pass and must face the music; the same should be for
terrorist attacks that kill or cause injury to Americans on US
soil. It is the right thing.
        So, I am imploring Congress to override the President's
impending veto, and help my family and all the 9/11 families and
survivors seek the justice we deserve. Fifteen years is far too
long for us to have to wait already. The veto should be
overridden at [the] first opportunity, and we should not be
forced to wait a day longer. Please show that you, our elected
officials, stand on {our} side; that of the American citizens. Do
not yield to the pressure of powerful foreign influences looking
to escape accountability. It's past time to enact JASTA.

        ALISON CROWTHER: I've come here today along with many other
9/11 families and victims in support of the Justice Against
Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The purpose of this act is to hold
accountable individuals in nations that fund terrorist activities
in our country. JASTA, if passed, will open pathways to choke off
foreign sources of funding and bankrupt terrorism. We first and
foremost exhort President Obama to approve JASTA. We are engaged
in an insidious war of hearts and minds; an epic battle for the
soul of humanity. To quote President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." If we allow
fear of potential consequences to rule over right action, the bad
guys will win. JASTA is a weapon in our nonviolent arsenal to
fight against those who would intentionally target and perpetrate
heinous crimes against innocent men, women, children, and the
unborn. If President Obama decides to veto JASTA, we trust that
the Senate and House, who represent the will of the 9/11 families
and the citizens of our great country, will stand by their
unanimous convictions and override a Presidential veto of JASTA
without delay. Thank you very much.

        OGDEN: Now while you were watching that video, we received a
breaking news announcement; and I'm going to let Jeff announce to
you what has just developed.

        STEINBERG: At 4:27 this afternoon, President Obama signed
the veto of JASTA. Which now means that the onus is on all of you
and on the members of the US Senate and then the US House of
Representatives to deliver a unanimous rebuke to a President who
puts his future business dealings with Saudi Arabia and his
commitment to cover up the crimes of 9/11, ahead of the interests
of the American people. This is a shameful moment for the
institution of the Presidency; and I hope all of you will take
that absolutely seriously and do your part as citizens. As Mr.
LaRouche said, "This is an unconscionable act by President Obama
that deserves his immediate impeachment. But first and foremost,
he's got to be delivered a brutal message by the Congress, by the
Senate; but first by you, the American people that this is
thoroughly unacceptable. He will go down in infamy for this
hideous act on his part."
        I just want to amplify a little bit what the stakes are in
this fight. We all know that 2,997 people perished on 9/11; but
the death and destruction from that event continues to this day.
I want to read you a news item that I wrote earlier this
afternoon, just before coming to the studio; and I think you'll
understand why this is an appropriate thing to be reading to you
right now.
        "On the weekend of the 15th anniversary of the September 11,
2001 attacks earlier this month, {Newsweek} magazine published an
extensive report on the tens of thousands of New Yorkers and
other first responders who are suffering severe medical
conditions as the result of their heroics following the 9/11
attacks. The {Newsweek} story was graphically headlined, '9/11's
Second Wave; Cancer and Other Diseases Linked to the 2001 Attacks
Are Surging'. While much of the article was devoted to
heartbreaking case studies of the first responders who are now
either dead or are suffering serious illnesses as the result of
their efforts, the statistics provided in the article are
harrowing, and reveal the extent to which the consequences of the
9/11 attacks continue to take lives."
        This is a quote from {Newsweek}: "|'Doctors with the World
Trade Center Health Program, which the Federal government created
in the aftermath of the attacks, have linked nearly 70 types of
cancer to Ground Zero. Many people have fallen victim to cancers
their doctors are rare, aggressive, and particularly hard to
treat.' More than 411 emergency rescue workers died in the
immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center;
and that number has reached 1064 as of July 2016, according to
data that {Newsweek} obtained from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and OSHA. But the full account is
staggering: 'As many as 400,000 people are estimated to be
affected by diseases such as cancers and mental illnesses linked
to September 11th.' 400,000. That figure includes those who lived
and worked within a mile and a half of Ground Zero in Manhattan
and Brooklyn. The vast majority of whom still don't know they're
at risk. Mark Farfel, director of the World Trade Center Health
Registry, which tracks the health of more than 71,000 rescue
workers and survivors, says 'Many people don't connect the
symptoms they have today to September 11th.'
        "Dr. Michael Crane, director of a clinic at Mount Sinai
Hospital which treats 22,000 rescue and recovery workers from
9/11, told {Newsweek} that of the 75,000 people enrolled in the
World Trade Center's Health Program, 5,441 have been diagnosed
with 9/11 cancers. {Newsweek} reported that 'Today, 15 years
after the attacks, doctors are starting to understand why people
are still dying. When the towers came down, they say, they
released a massive plume of carcinogens; turning lower Manhattan
into a cesspool of cancer and deadly disease.'
        "A National Resources Defense Council report issued soon
after the 9/11 attacks estimated that the North Tower alone
released 400 tons of asbestos into the atmosphere, along with
lead, mercury, volatile organic compounds, and deadly poisons.
Among New York City firefighters, the cancer rate after 9/11
increased by between 19% and 30% over pre-9/11 rates. The
Environmental Protection Agency, however, issued a report one
week after the 9/11 attacks, declaring that the air within a
16-acre area around Ground Zero was safe to breathe. An EPA
Inspector General's report in 2003 found that there was no basis
for EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman making that
statement. The IG report concluded, 'The White House Council on
Environmental Quality influenced, through the collaborative
process, the information that the EPA communicated to the public
through its early press releases when it convinced the EPA to add
reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones.' So far, at
least 1140 people who lived and worked in the immediate vicinity
of Ground Zero, have died from diseases brought on by the attack;
and that number is incomplete. An unknown number of first
responders and those who were in the immediate area of Ground
Zero, are suffering from mental illnesses similar to the PTSD
suffered by returning Iraq and Afghan war veterans."
        So, the body count is continuing, and therefore, the
magnitude of the President's crime in failing to sign JASTA into
law, is that much greater.

        OGDEN: Now, we had a memorial series of concerts that was
sponsored by the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture,
and members of the Schiller Institute chorus participated in
these two weeks ago. This was the context in which Terry Strada
made some very prescient remarks in the prelude to the Monday
concert that occurred in Morristown, New Jersey; at which she
said Obama is nothing but a spokesman for the Saudi regime. And
despite overwhelming pressure from the entire Congress, from the
American people, Obama and a lot of the other members of the
Saudi lobbying machine have acted on orders from Riyadh and from
London to shut down the JASTA bill. The threats have been
immense. The kinds of blackmail and intimidation — including the
European Union entering this discussion and saying that this
would be a systemic crisis; the European Union said, "harm to the
international order, if the JASTA bill were to take effect."
        So, as you can see, the activities of the LaRouche Movement
in collaboration with the 9/11 Families and other citizen
activists have really, really changed the course of history and
have put the entire Obama-Saudi-London establishment on the
rails.

        STEINBERG: I want to say something about this EU issue,
because people may remember that President Obama was in London
prior to the Brexit vote that took place in June, and intervened
into the internal political affairs of Britain; by basically
threatening that if Brexit passed, then Britain's role as a
critical ally of the United States within the European Union
would be diminished. It was considered to be a crass and really
impolitic intervention. The idea that the White House clearly
solicited this comment from the European Union, I hope will have
a backlash effect on legislators and all of you out there, and
that the message will be that this kind of foreign interference
is a slap at the sovereignty of the United States and it should
assure that the overwhelming vote of both Houses of Congress goes
to overriding President Obama's shameful veto.
        Yesterday, at hearings on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary
Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford
lied through their teeth shamelessly; and claimed that the
passage of JASTA would jeopardize the security of American
soldiers overseas. As you heard from Senator Blumenthal, these
arguments are preposterous; they're the height of sophistry, and
they reflect the actual morality of this administration. This is
disgusting.

        OGDEN: I'm going to hand it over to Elliott right now in New
York City. The activity on the ground is intense, both in terms
of forcing an override on this JASTA veto; but also activity on
ushering in a New Paradigm, a new international economic order,
which is now on the table for discussion at the United Nations
General Assembly meeting. So, I'm going to let Elliott say a
little more about the situation there.

        ELLIOTT GREENSPAN: Thank you, Matt. Let me begin by picking
up on what you indicated. Four concerts — this is now two weeks
ago — four concerts; a living memorial to the 3000 who perished
on 9/11, to the first responders, to the survivors, to the
families, to the millions of victims in regime-change wars caused
by the Bush and Obama administrations. A living memorial. We had
upwards of 3000 New Yorkers at these concerts; we had reached at
least 100,000, probably hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in
the run-up to this, for the purpose of focussing the city, the
metropolitan area, the nation, on 9/11; on the implication of the
declassification of the 28 pages, on the potential of a
breakthrough with JASTA. So, this goes back a couple of weeks.
Then, we come to the UN General Assembly.
        Among other events at the General Assembly, is the
intervention by the Saudi government spokesman [inaud; 30:49]
before the General Assembly — that is, before the world —
saying that JASTA was an affront to the sovereignty of Saudi
Arabia. At the same time, you have the {Wall Street Journal} in
New York editorializing against JASTA; you have the {New York
Post} with a Congressional op-ed supporting JASTA; you have two
{New York Times} major articles in the last two days. This is
super-charged. In that context, we released — twice this week —
the {Hamiltonian} editions 5 and 6 of the LaRouche newspaper
{Hamiltonian}; which people can see on this website. Which had
headlines "Traitor Obama Stalls on JASTA; Impeachment Is Nigh",
and "Obama's Doomsday: First JASTA; Next Glass-Steagall". Insofar
as Obama has perpetuated the Bush-Cheney policy, the
British-Saudi policy of regime-change war, of international
terrorism, we took the gloves off in Manhattan over these last
days, targetting Obama. We had banners at our rallies throughout
especially the East Side near the UN, midtown, Upper West Side:
"LaRouche: Cameron Is Out; Make Obama Next!"; "Good-bye Cameron:
Take the Pig with You", which had a picture of a pig with Obama's
face on the pig; "Duterte Was Right! Obama is a Son-of-a-B****";
"Obama's Legacy — 5 Wars, 60 Million Refugees"; "Obama Backs
ISIS in Syria"; and it goes on like this. That is, we hammered
away at this.
        Let me, however, locate this in the broader context of the
UN General Assembly. You have a revolution to finish off the
British Empire on the 4th and 5th of September at the Hangzhou
summit of the Group of 20; led by the Chinese under the direction
of President Xi Jinping. You have the creation of a new financial
architecture, of an international governance agency — the G20 —
which is committed to a new economic order; the New Silk Road, a
World Land-Bridge, which ideas were put forward in 1975 by Lyndon
LaRouche. And brought by LaRouche's allies, in particular
Ambassador Fred Wills, to the United Nations General Assembly for
the first time 40 years ago this week. Without going through this
history, those ideas, which we've organized for day by day over
40 years, have now created such a new economic foundation based
on scientific and technological progress, great projects of
infrastructure. This occurs at a moment when Deutsche Bank, the
Italian banks, the London and Wall Street banks are facing their
demise; far beyond the 2008 explosion.
        In that context, you have the creation of this new system.
The Chinese government, under Premier Li Qeqiang, over the last
several days, has brought the breakthrough, the commitment of the
Group of 20 summit to the United Nations General Assembly. What
he has done, is to address on the sidelines of the General
Assembly, 16 international organizations; and he put forward the
conception of the UN Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda, which
is a commitment adopted a year ago by the UN General Assembly to
eliminate poverty by the year 2030. Except much of the
trans-Atlantic leadership, the Obama leadership, much of the
Western European leadership, the London-Wall Street oligarchy
posed sustainable development in terms of an orientation toward
global genocide. What the Chinese have done, is to emphasize the
development part of sustainable development; and they've enlisted
the United Nations Development Program in a first Memorandum of
Understanding between the UNDP and the Chinese government that
there is a transformation building as a result of the leadership
of President Xi with President Putin, with the BRICS nations as a
unit, which has taken the several summits — the G20 of early
September — into the General Assembly and from here into the
BRICS summit in mid-October in India. You have the unfolding of
this new economic potential for humanity. The Chinese have
standing on the matter. As President Xi put it at Hangzhou, they
have eliminated for 700 million Chinese; they will eliminate
poverty for 57 million more by 2020. They're spreading this
through the New Silk Road already to at least 70 nations, and
soon 100.
        The great question is, what is the United States doing in
response? What is Western Europe doing? In a discussion with Mr.
and Mrs. LaRouche this morning, Mrs. LaRouche emphasized that
China is the stellar nation fighting for this perspective; but
you do not have any such thing coming from the US or from Western
Europe yet, and therefore, the treason of Obama. Obama, who
beyond aiding and abetting ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra,
international terrorism — the irony at the UN this week of Obama
convening a summit on the refugee crisis; well, Obama created the
refugee crisis. What we have created with an international
alliance under President Putin's leadership, and an international
development orientation into Syria and Iraq and the entire
region, is that we've created the solution to the refugee crisis.
        So, finally in this regard, in our work on the streets of
Manhattan this week, you had a super-charged environment. You had
a battleground there. There was, for example, a demonstration
heavily funded by George Soros and the neo-cons attacking the
Presidency of Rouhani of Iran; about 500 demonstrators attacking
Rouhani. Joe Lieberman becomes the spokesman of that
demonstration; and Joe Lieberman announces that it's Iran that is
responsible — he says — for the mass murder of Syrians. Daniel
Burke, LaRouche PAC leading organizer in the city, happens upon
this demonstration; and he yells out, "Lieberman, you're lying!
Obama, the Saudis are responsible for the mass murder in Syria."
And there's a short dialogue and Lieberman at some point seems to
agree with Daniel Burke. Then there was a demonstration organized
by the Syrian-American Forum, large numbers of Syrian-Americans
and others there, and Lynne Speed — leading LaRouche organizer
in New York — takes the microphone and she outlines what we have
done to create the potential for this transformation in Syria.
One of the Syrians there said, "What about Senator Richard
Black?" And Lynne said, "Yes, he just spoke at a Schiller
Institute conference which was addressed by Jeff Steinberg, by
Helga LaRouche, by Ambassador Jafari of Syria." And Lynne
develops the potential to end this regime-change policy by virtue
of the G20 agenda, of the Chinese and Russian agenda. To crush
terrorism militarily, and to develop, to reconstruct that region.
        Daniel was interviewed at the same time by ABC Television in
New York, who said, "Well, President Obama is giving his final UN
address. What do you anticipate?" And Daniel said, "It's going to
be treason; it's going to be a disaster. Obama has created the
refugee crisis," and he spelled out the alternative policy which
is what we now have on the table.
        Let me conclude this way. A few hours ago, in our midtown
New York organizing with the new {Hamiltonian} — and I should
emphasize that the lead report in the {Hamiltonian}, the banner
headline is "Appeal to the UN General Assembly: A New Paradigm
for the Common Aims of Mankind". Helga LaRouche penned this
appeal explicitly to build upon the G20 breakthrough; the G20
revolution. And the challenge that she posed to the governments
of the world, many of whom are receiving this {Hamiltonian};
we've gotten out about 4000 {Hamiltonian}s in several days. We
will intensify this over the weekend and into next week, with
that LaRouche PAC – Schiller Institute appeal. The idea is the
challenge to the governments of the world to join China and
Russia and India and the BRICS; to join LaRouche under LaRouche's
leadership. What happened this morning as we were distributing
this and organizing, a Chinese businessman came to our table, and
he said, "If the US and China work together, we can solve all the
problems of the world. Drugs; terrorism; war. But the US doesn't
want to do it. India and China are doing things; in the US, it's
just talk and fighting. If you want to be rich, build a road. It
makes everyone richer. If more Americans were like you," he said
to our organizers, "we could solve all problems." I think that's
a useful microcosm. The LaRouche Movement, the new Presidency,
which LaRouche is creating, centered in New York with the
{Hamiltonian}; working with China with the BRICS countries.
That's my report.

        OGDEN: Thank you very much Elliott. As can be made no more
clear, the lever of history is in our hands in terms of every
single element. I think if you're inspired by that kind of
intensity of organizing, as many members of the LaRouche PAC New
York City chapter, activists with the New York City were engaged
in on Tuesday; they took the bus down to Washington DC to be
involved in these JASTA rallies. That made a huge difference in
the White House rally and the Senate rally. These are people who
have the physical means to do that. You, right now, can pick up
the telephone and call Congress. We still have a few more minutes
on the East Coast before Congress leaves for the weekend. Call
them now! That's why we're recording at this early time; we're
going to display again the phone number on the screen. This is
the Capitol switchboard; you can call both of your Senators, and
you can call your House of Representatives member, and tell them
now is the time to override Obama's veto.
        Jeff, I know you want to follow up on that report from
Elliott. I think some of these developments over the weekend also
in terms of the situation in Syria on the ground, underscore even
more how critically important it is right now that Obama is
receiving this sort of rebuke from inside Washington DC.

        STEINBERG: I want to say two things. Number one, I think for
those citizens out there who've not engaged in this kind of level
of political mobilization, let me be very clear. If you walk into
any office on Capitol Hill, the first thing you encounter are
several young people, usually they're new employees — fresh out
of college — sometimes they're even interns. They're there
taking phone calls. And they are instructed by every member of
Congress, to take detailed notes on every constituent call that
comes in there. Those members of Congress — and of course, we're
two months away from elections in which every member of the House
and one-third of the Senate are up for re-election. They want to
know what issues are on their constituents' minds. When Congress
was considering whether to give President Obama the authority to
bomb Syria back in September of 2013, the switchboards were
ringing off the hook on Capitol Hill. Every office received
massive numbers of phone calls, emails, letters; and they were
running 100 to 1 against any kind of new wars in the Middle East
involving the United States. So, you do make a difference.
        I think the other thing that needs to be remembered in the
context of what Elliott just reported, is that one of the things
that is going on, on both sides of the Atlantic, is that the
entire financial system is crumbling at an accelerating rate. If
anything, we are also at a moment where not only is it necessary
to pass JASTA and to get this treacherous President out of office
— not wait 'til January, not wait 'til the November elections —
but now! After what he's just done, it should be clear as day.
But the other thing that's got to be done immediately, is
Congress must take up the Glass-Steagall Act. There are bills in
both Houses of Congress to reinstate Glass-Steagall; which means
breaking up the too-big-to-fail banks.
        Now, the FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
which insures your deposits in the Federal commercial banks
across the United States, has issued a report in the last few
days in which they reported in great detail and with great alarm,
that the major banks of Europe and the United States have once
again built up such a mountain of leveraged debt that they could
blow at any moment. The bank that stands out above all others is
Deutsche Bank, which is notionally a German bank but really is
headquartered in London and is the largest bank in the world in
terms of derivatives exposure. But Societe Generale of France,
Credit Suisse, the Union Bank of Switzerland, Goldman-Sachs, and
a number of the other major European banks — Banco Santander of
Spain; the leverage that these banks have built up criminally, is
worse than where things stood at the time that Lehman Brothers
blew out. The leverage of debt to reserves of Deutsche Bank is
over 37 to 1; and all the other banks that we're talking about
here have leverage ratios of 25 to 1, 30 to 1. So, this whole
system is about to blow; and once again, the Obama
administration, in the same way it's opposed to JASTA, is opposed
to reinstating Glass-Steagall. Congress has to really stand up;
and you've got to be the spine that pushes that issue forward. As
well as what we've been talking about in the first part of this
show; about the urgency of a veto override of JASTA and moves to
bring this President down all together.

        OGDEN: I could foresee Glass-Steagall being the second veto
override of Obama's administration.

        STEINBERG: Right; exactly. And it's got to happen in
September; we can't wait 'til after November for this, it's too
risky.

        OGDEN: Absolutely. I want to leave you with a quote from
Kristen Brightweiser, who's one of the widows of 9/11; her
husband was killed in the 9/11 attacks. She said — and I think
this is right to the point: "It is reprehensible that one man is
standing between justice for the murder of 3000 people and this
legislation becoming law. The President and the Congress should
be listening to American citizens, not a bunch of lobbyists who
represent a foreign nation."
        So, I think it couldn't be more clear at this point that
this is the most dramatic development of recent history. The
degree to which the Obama administration has been forced to put
itself out there, to show its true colors in the face of
unanimous opposition from both parties of the United States
Congress; we never could have reached this point without the
concerted action of citizens of the United States under the
leadership of LaRouche PAC and allied forces. It is a testament
to the fact that the kind of focussed deployment of our
operations into New York City and elsewhere across the country,
have had a substantial historical effect. We do have our finger
on the lever of history; not only in terms of what's happening
now at this very moment with JASTA and the showdown there with
the Obama White House. But also what's happening on the world
stage, with what's occurring now in the United Nations General
Assembly; the transition into a completely New Paradigm, a new
international economic world order. Which is what has been on the
table for 40 years plus, coming out of the leadership of Lyndon
and Helga LaRouche, and the development of the entire New Silk
Road, the World Land-Bridge. This is the future of the United
States. If we are able to take our government back, to take our
Constitutional republic back into the hands of the American
citizens and out of the hands of this Obama-London-Riyadh
triangle; and if we are able to force through the Glass-Steagall
Act in a timely and urgent manner, we can immediately become
participants in the New Paradigm, as has been so clearly
illustrated by what is happening in China, what's happening with
China's alliances with the other BRICS nations, and what I'm sure
will be the number one issue on the table this weekend at the
United Nations General Assembly summit.
        So, that appeal that Elliott referenced from Helga
Zepp-LaRouche, which is now going into the hands of UN
ambassadors and others as we speak, this is critical; at the same
time that I know that over the course of this weekend, everything
will be dominated by this fight over the JASTA veto override.
Congress will be in session at the beginning of next week; and as
much pressure as can be brought right now before they leave their
offices for Friday evening, and everything that can be done in
the districts. The district offices, high-profile appearances,
op-eds, call into radio shows; everything that you can do over
the next 24-48 hours, will determine what happens on Monday
morning when Congress comes back into session.
        So again, the number is on the screen — 202 224-3121 — you
can call into your Congressional office; you still have a few
moments left to do so. Circulate this broadcast as widely as you
can. That video excerpt that we showed you with Terry Strada, the
other 9/11 families, and Senator Blumenthal; that's available on
the LaRouche PAC website. You can circulate that, too. That
debunks all of the lies that are coming from the Obama White
House and the Saudi political lobbying machine; you can use that
to inform your own activism over the course of this week.
        So, I'd like to thank Jeff Steinberg for joining us here
today. Elliott, do you have any final words from New York that
you want to tag onto the end of this show here?

        GREENSPAN: Insofar as Lyndon LaRouche's objective with the
creation of the {Hamiltonian} newspaper was to launch a new
Presidency of the United States, a new institution of the
Presidency independent of these hated candidates, independent of
Obama, this is a fascinating and decisive moment; where Obama,
for the first time in his entire Presidency, is about to be
overidden. Where Obama can be brought down. Jeff emphasized
LaRouche's point about impeachment; we will now take the
{Hamiltonian} onto the streets in a heightened way tomorrow
morning and Sunday and into next week, to build both this process
of override, potential impeachment, Glass-Steagall, and the new
Presidency. And you ought to come to the New York town meeting
tomorrow, the dialogue with LaRouche.

        OGDEN: Right; and that will broadcast live also on the
LaRouche PAC website. So, thank you very much. This is a
revolutionary moment; I'm glad that we were able to join you live
today as this news broke. We hope that you will be very active
over the coming 24 hours. Please stay tuned to larouchepac.com;
and good night.

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 22. sept. 2016 – Prøv engang at tage et overblik fra oven over tilstanden i USA. Hvad ser du?

Befolkningen befinder sig i en tilstand af sammenbrud, på randen af borgerkrig. De seneste dages begivenheder i Charlotte demonstrerer endnu engang desperationen hos de fattige, der er sat uden for indflydelse, kombineret med raceskel og racefordomme, der, som et lyn fra en klar himmel, kan blive den gnist, der antænder et kaos. Ikke alene drives ungdommen ud i stofmisbrug; deres afhængighed promoveres af en afsindig præsident. Banksystemet er ved at disintegrere, Wall Streets og Londons kasinomentalitet har ødelagt realøkonomien og skabt en derivatboble, der er mere end dobbelt så stor som den, der i 2008 fremprovokerede finansiel fallit. De seneste 15 års evindelige krige for »regimeskifte«, under Bush og Obama, har forøget terroristernes rækker i enorm grad samtidig med, at det har kostet billioner af dollars og overgivet hele nationer i hænderne på barbariske forbryderbander, samt fremprovokeret en flygtningekrise, der er ved at flå Europa fra hinanden, og som skaber højrefløjsbevægelser, der ikke er set siden fascisternes og nazisternes æra. Politistatsstrukturens overvågning i USA fortsætter hæmningsløst, til trods for, at dette blev afsløret af en modig Edward Snowden for år tilbage.

Og dog ligger sandheden om disse grusomheder udbredt for os alle, i dagens klare lys. For-store-til-at-lade-gå-ned-bankerne, med Deutsche Bank i spidsen, står afsløret som værende uigenkaldeligt bankerotte, alt imens befolkningen i stigende grad forarmes. Narkotikaepidemien har ramt alle lokalsamfund i Amerika, inklusive selv små, landlige områder. Hollywoods perverse, virkeligheds-simulerende vold er nu blevet til virkelighed på de sene nyheder. Den kendsgerning, at vores præsident står på terrorismens side, er blevet afsløret af frigivelsen af de 28 sider (af den Fælles Kongresundersøgelsesrapport, fra 2002, om 11. september-begivenhederne 2001), og af Obamas åbenlyse forsvar for de saudiske sponsorer af terrorisme, gennem hans meddelelse om, at han vil nedlægge veto imod JASTA-loven, til trods for, at denne er blevet enstemmigt vedtaget af Kongressen, der ligeledes har lovet, at den vil gøre Obamas veto ugyldigt. Som begivenhederne i Syrien i denne uge har bevist, så vil Det Hvide Hus og Pentagon, med djævelens vold og magt, starte en krig mod Rusland og Kina selv på et tidspunkt, hvor resten af verden ser hen til Rusland og Kina som den eneste kilde til udvikling og win-win-samarbejde, som det sås på G20-topmødet i Kina tidligere på måneden. I denne uge bragte den kinesiske premierminister Li Keqiang dette »G20/win-win«-perspektiv ind i FN’s institutioner, hvor kineserne var vært for 16 organisationer (FN’s Udviklingsprogram (UNDP), Verdenshandelsorganisationen (WTO), Den internationale Valutafond (IMF), Verdensbanken osv.) på et forum med en dagsorden for den nødvendige udvikling i hele verden.

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I dag bemærkede Helga Zepp-LaRouche, med en vurdering af dette svangre øjeblik i historien, at, hvis de $5 billion, der er blevet brugt på Bush/Obama-krige, samt de $1 billion, som Obama har til hensigt at spendere på at modernisere USA’s lager af atomvåben, i stedet blev brugt på at genopbygge USA, på at restaurere og udbedre manglen på infrastruktur, opføre nye byer langs med nye højhastigheds-jernbanelinjer (som Kina har gjort), genopbygge ’rustbælterne’, hvor den amerikanske industri engang nød fremgang, organisere CCC-korps (Civilian Conservation Corps; opr. statsligt FDR-hjælpeprogram for unge arbejdsløse mænd) med det formål under et genopbygningsprogram at skaffe jobs, uddannelse og rehabilitering for de millioner af glemte og stofafhængige unge; atter finansiere videnskab og klassisk kultur, især i vores degenererede skolesystemer – hvis alt dette, og mere endnu, blev gjort, som det blev gjort af Franklin D. Roosevelt under hans New Deal, så ville der ikke være nogen krig og intet økonomisk kollaps.

Det første skridt – efter i denne uge at gøre Obamas veto mod JASTA ugyldigt – må være det samme som Roosevelts første skridt: at lukke Wall Street ned, implementere Glass-Steagall og udløse en enorm skabelse af kredit, der kanaliseres ind i den fysiske og sociale genopbygningsproces. Dette Nye Paradigme, som Lyndon og Helga LaRouche har kaldt det, er allerede sat i værk af Kina og Rusland og breder sig på daglig basis i hele verden. Spydspidsen, der skal bringe denne proces tilbage til Amerika, er også sat i værk af LaRouche-bevægelsen, centreret omkring Manhattan, og inspirerer befolkningen gennem klassisk musik, videnskab og sandfærdige og optimistiske alternativer til modkulturens hæslighed og forfald, der i dag dominerer livet i Amerika.

Som Thomas Paine[1] engang sagde: »Dette er tider, der prøver menneskers sjæle.« Det var trods alt netop denne inspiration, med at hellige sit liv til skabelsen af en produktiv fremtid for hele menneskeheden i en krisetid, der gjorde Amerika til det, det engang var, og atter må blive. Disse kommende dage og uger vil blive historiske, enten for det gode eller det onde, afhængig af graden af mod og kreativitet hos verdens borgere.

Foto: Da den sorte operasangerinde Marian Anderson (1897-1993) i 1939 blev nægtet at optræde i Washingtons Constitution Hall af gruppen ’Den Amerikanske Revolutions Døtre’, trådte Eleanor Roosevelt i protest ud af gruppen og var med til at arrangere en anden koncert på trapperne foran Lincoln Memorial. Fremme af klassisk kultur i befolkningen var et af Eleanor Roosevelts utallige sociale engagementer. 

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 21. sept., 2016 – I går, sammenfaldende med åbningen af FN’s Generalforsamlings generelle debat mellem verdens ledere, brød helvede løs over Obama og Saudi-Arabien i Washington, D.C. To demonstrationer og en pressekonference fandt sted ved Det Hvide Hus og Senatet under ledelse af æres-familierne til ofrene for 11. september-terroren og bragte aktivister fra østkysten ind til at beordre, at S.2040 JASTA-lovforslaget (Loven om Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme) blev sat i kraft (gennem præsidentens underskrift). Som demonstrationsskiltene sagde: »Stop beskyttelse af Terrorisme-$$!« Til præsident Obama: »Ingen veto mod JASTA!« Til kongressen: »Gør veto ugyldigt!« Loven vil gøre det muligt for amerikanerne at sagsøge Saudi-Arabien.

I løbet af natten har en medieoffensiv gjort budskabet landsdækkende, gennem USA Today, HispanTV, og mange andre. »Hvorfor familier til ofrene for 11. september føler sig forrådt af Obama«, lyder overskriften i McClatchy News D.C. i dag.

I dag fortsætter lederne for JASTA deres tilstedeværelse for fuld styrke på Capitol Hill og insisterer på retfærdighed, for sig selv, for nationen og for verden. JASTA er allerede blevet enstemmigt vedtaget af Repræsentanternes Hus tidligere på måneden, og af Senatet i maj, men Obama har sagt, at han vil nedlægge veto imod den. Men selv, hvis han nøler med at gøre det frem til ugens udgang, har medlemmer af Senatet lovet at forblive i session og underkende vetoet. I går sagde advokater, at de står klar til omgående at anlægge retssager mod Saudi-Arabien, på vegne af ofrene for 11. september.

Sideløbende hermed blev det endnu hedere for saudierne og Obama, i form af en debat i Senatet om vedtagelse af S.J. Res. 39: »Resolution om afvisning af et $1,51 mia. stort våbensalg til Saudi-Arabien«. De fire forslagsstillere – Rand Paul (R-KY), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Al Franken (D-MN) og Mike Lee (R-UT) – kom alle med udtalelser imod de saudiske grusomheder i Yemen og imod kongerigets opbakning af radikal ideologi, der fører til terrorisme. Murphy sagde, at saudiernes handlinger »ikke har andet formål end kaos og forøgelse af områder, der ikke kan regeres …« Selv om lovforslaget ikke blev vedtaget, men blev suspenderet (en måde at blokere det uden direkte at afvise det) med stemmerne 71 mod 25 (aftaler om militæreksport bliver typisk vedtaget), havde Murphy på forhånd udtrykkeligt sagt, at, selv, hvis lovforslaget ikke vedtages, »vil det stadig sende et signal«.

Lyndon LaRouches respons på dette momentum imod Obama lød: »Bliv ved! Stop ikke!« Han understregede, at vi må »udvide rækkevidden af det, som bør optage folk …« Og endvidere: »Få folk til at komme tættere sammen, som et reelt team. Gå ikke i stå i en lukket kreds; kom ud af kredsen.«

Intet er mere presserende nødvendigt end at benytte dette momentum til at få de i begge Kongressens huse fremsatte Glass/Steagall-lovforslag vedtaget. LPAC-aktivister bragte dette frem i forreste linje i går på Capitol Hill, over for de mange individuelle kongresmedlemmer, der var hurtige til at fordømme Wells Fargo-bankens forbrydelser – dagens korrupte nassekarle – men var tavse og dårligt informerede om behovet for en akut indsats for at genindføre Glass-Steagall, og for en akut indsats for at træffe alle nødvendige foranstaltninger til at sætte økonomien i gang og redde nationen, og verden. Men alle i Kongressen ved, at det har været LaRouchePAC’s aktivisme, der har tvunget Glass-Steagall frem til toppen af virkelighedens dagsorden. Og jo mere, fremtrædende borgere og valgte regeringsfolk (dvs. Kongressen) ved om den umiddelbart forestående nedsmeltning af hele det transatlantiske finanssystem, desto større er chancerne for, at man i tide griber til nødforanstaltninger.

På Manhattan bliver Helga Zepp-LaRouches erklæring vedrørende de presserende spørgsmål, der ligger foran verdensledere, som er forsamlet i New York til FN’s Generalforsamling, fortsat bredt cirkuleret, under overskriften »APPEL til FN’s Generalforsamling: Et nyt Paradigme for Menneskehedens Fælles Mål!« 

Her til morgen talte den kinesiske premierminister Li Keqiang med sine egne ord om begrebet om de »fælles mål« folkene imellem, ved at henvise til sin nations forpligtelse til den »win-win«-anskuelse, der er involveret i forpligtelsen til at gøre, hvad der kræves for at skabe økonomisk vækst for alle nationer og folkeslag. Kun økonomisk udvikling kan fremme den menneskelige civilisation og det menneskelige fremskridt, sagde han, og løse vore problemer, selv terrorisme. Verden står i dag over for mange farer, men Li sagde, at »svære øjeblikke kræver stærkere tillid.«

Foto: Aktivister demonstrerer uden for Det Hvide Hus for JASTA-loven. Loven vil gøre det muligt for overlevende af 11. september-angrebene at sagsøge Kongedømmet Saudi-Arabien for dets direkte involvering i angrebene. [foto: Jason Ross/alle rettigheder reserveret]

Se også: Video: Pressekonference afholdt ved Capitol Hill af repræsentanter for familier til ofrene for 11. september, samt senatorer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=bJOQHLLWZAA

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 20. sept., 2016 – På sidelinjen af FN 's Generalforsamling underskrev Kina i dag sin første aftale med en international institution, nemlig FN’s Udviklingsprogram (UNDP), vedrørende samarbejde om at fremme og gennemføre Bælt-og-Vej-initiativet (BRI). Helen Clark, administrator af UNDP, sagde: »Bælt-og-Vej-initiativet repræsenterer en stærk platform for økonomisk vækst og regionalt samarbejde, der involverer mere end 4 milliarder mennesker, hvoraf mange bor i udviklingslandene. Det kan blive en vigtig katalysator og accelerator for målene for bæredygtig udvikling.«  Kinas koncept om »bæredygtig udvikling« er tydeligvis dagens vinder i FN.
Men det har ikke vundet USA for sig, som det ses af præsident Obama, der i sin tale til FN’s Generalforsamling i dag afslørede en rablende psykose. For et tavst publikum, der ikke applauderede, ignorerede Obama det nye paradigme, der under Kinas ledelse er blevet til i de seneste uger, og hævdede i stedet, at hans ledelse, og hans angrebskrige (beskrevet som »beskyttelse af de sårbare«) og hans sponsorering af ’farvede revolutioner’ (beskrevet som forsvar af menneskerettigheder og demokrati, i Ukraine og Mellemøsten), havde skabt en verden, »der er mindre voldelig og mere velstående end nogensinde før«. To gange angreb han Rusland og beskrev det som en imperialistisk magt, der »forsøger at genvinde sin tabte storhed ved brug af magt«. Det er overraskende, at de forsamlede verdensledere ikke gjorde noget for at få ham fjernet, enten til et fængsel eller en sindssygeanstalt.

Obamas formand for generalstabscheferne, general Joe Dunford, er i mellemtiden kommet meget tæt på at indrømme, at USA sidste lørdag med overlæg bombede den syriske hær – og at de måske kunne gøre det igen. »Måske skulle vi – før vi slår ind på vejen med 'hvad gik der galt’ – foretage en undersøgelse og rent faktisk sikre os, at noget gik galt«, sagde han til journalister, der rejser med ham. »Det kunne være … når man undersøger det, at fakta vil fortælle, at vi ville gøre det, vi gjorde, igen.«

Den anden ugerning, der har fundet sted i Syrien i denne uge – ødelæggelsen af en FN/Røde Halvmåne-konvoj med humanitær hjælp – fik Rusland omgående skylden for af embedsmænd fra USA’s Udenrigsministerium, hvis talsmand sagde, at USA ville »revurdere fremtidsudsigterne for samarbejde med Rusland«. Dette er præcis, hvad krigspartiet i Det Hvide Hus og Pentagon har til hensigt – at forhindre ethvert amerikansk-russisk samarbejde.

Men de beviser, der findes ved selve angrebet på hjælpekonvojen, siger noget helt andet. Det russiske Forsvarsministerium erklærede, at der ikke havde været nogen russisk eller syrisk luftdeployering i området, men at al-Nusra havde lanceret en offensiv, der sigtede i den retning. Faktisk blev lastbilerne ødelagt af en brand, udløst af artilleri-beskydning, og ikke bomber, viser en video af scenen.

Vil det lykkes Obama at lancere en krig imod Rusland, og gennem forlængelse mod Kina? Det kan stoppes. I dag fandt en demonstration og en pressekonference ved familierne til ofrene for angrebet d. 11. september sted ved det Hvide Hus, med krav om, at Obama ikke gennemfører sin intention om at nedlægge veto imod JASTA-lovforslaget, som vil gøre det muligt for ofrene at sagsøge saudierne for deres rolle i 11. september-angrebet på Amerika. Og Senatets ledere bekræftede, at de har de nødvendige stemmer samt viljen til at gøre Obamas lovede veto ugyldigt.

I kølvandet på rapporten fra den britiske Chilcot-kommission, der anklagede George Bush og Tony Blair for deres angrebskrig i Irak, som lancerede det nuværende helvede på jorden, og Parlamentets rapport, der anklagede Cameron og Obama for aggressionskrigen mod Libyen, som dermed udvidede dette helvede og skabte den flygtningekatastrofe, der nu er ved at rive Europa fra hinanden; hvorfor har da det amerikanske folk og dets repræsentanter ikke taget skridt til at stille for en rigsret og fængsle, massemorderen i Det Hvide Hus? Hvis Kongressen udviser det samme mod, som de gjorde ved enstemmigt at vedtage JASTA-lovforslaget, til også at afholde høringer om Obamas medskyldighed i, sammen med saudierne og briterne, at støtte terrorister, og hvis Kongressen ville vedtage Glass-Steagall (på trods af Obamas visse veto), så kan den globale, mørke tidsalder, som menneskeheden nu står overfor, erstattes med det nye paradigme for fred gennem udvikling, der nu spreder sig fra Kina og Rusland.

Foto: Et enkelt kort, der viser de nationer, der er med i det landbaserede »Økonomiske Silkevejsbælte« og den søfartsbaserede »Maritime Silkevej«. [image af: Tart/Xxjkingdom/CC BY-SA 3.0]

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 19. september, 2016 – I de femten år, der er gået, siden tusinder af amerikanere mistede livet – eller frivilligt gav deres liv for andre – i terrorangrebet d. 11. september, er deres opofrelse blevet forrådt, igen og igen, med præsidenterne Bush og Obama, der lancerede den ene aggressionskrig efter den anden mod nationer, der var uskyldige i 11. september, alt imens de skjulte og forsvarede sponsorerne af islamisk terrorisme.
Denne Bush’ og Obamas så frygtelige parodi på en »krig mod terror« har bogstavelig talt kostet millioner af uskyldige mennesker livet.

Sidste uges afsløringer i det britiske Underhus om blot én af disse katastrofale krige – den mod Libyen – har tvunget den tidligere britiske premierminister David Cameron til at træde tilbage, og vil sandsynligvis ende den tidligere franske præsident Nicolas Sarkozys karriere. Kun Obama står ustraffet tilbage, og han var ellers den, der insisterede på at ødelægge Libyens regering fuldstændigt – hvilket udløste kaos og terrorisme.

Hvis denne »krig mod terror«-parodi fortsætter, vil alle disse ofre, samt de heroiske første-respondenter på 11. september 2001, være døde forgæves.

Hvis det ikke bliver afsluttet nu, kan det betyde verdenskrig.

Det kan afsluttes nu. Tirsdag vil familierne til ofrene for 11. september demonstrere foran Det Hvide Hus og kræve, at Obama underskriver JASTA (Loven om Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme), som enstemmigt blev vedtaget af både Senatet og Repræsentanternes Hus. Det saudiske monarki er afsløret som sponsor af islamisk ekstremisme og terrorisme i hele verden og kan efter denne lov sagsøges af sine ofre.
Obama erklærede sin hensigt om at nedlægge veto mod denne sidste chance for retfærdighed; men han er isoleret. Hvis Kongressen og borgerne handler i denne uge, kan han blive tvunget til at underskrive JASTA eller også se sit veto omgående blive gjort ugyldigt. Så kan der komme reelle ændringer i politikken.
Vi kan afslutte mareridtet med evindelige krige for »regimeskifte« og konfrontationer med Rusland og Kina, som Obama har overtaget fra Cheney-Bush.

Der findes nu et helt nyt paradigme i udlandet, siden G20-topmødet med Kina som vært. Dette topmøde besluttede sig for Kinas succesrige fremgangsmåde. Det betød, at man ville tackle problemerne med manglende økonomisk vækst og manglende vækst i produktivitet, ikke gennem endeløs pengetrykning og negative rentesatser, men gennem videnskab og økonomiske partnerskaber mellem nationerne om nye infrastrukturprojekter, der strækker sig over flere kontinenter. Og det betød, at man ville stoppe den dødbringende statsstøtte til terrorgrupper, som nogle lande bruger imod andre.

For at tilslutte sig dette paradigme, må den amerikanske Kongres omgående genindføre Glass/Steagall-loven og lukke Wall Streets spekulations-»kasinoer« ned. Og Kongressen må udstede statskredit til produktiv beskæftigelse og produktivitet.
Det hele begynder med at lade retfærdigheden ske fyldest for Obamas vedkommende, Obama, der er på anklagebænken for at beskytte sponsorerne af terrorisme, og for at udkæmpe terror-fremkaldende krige for dem.
Det er ikke for sent for den amerikanske Kongres, under pres fra det amerikanske folk, at handle med lige så megen rygrad som det britiske Underhus, da det bragte David Cameron til fald i sidste uge. Så verden vil holde øje med demonstrationen for retfærdighed i Washington.

Foto: Set her i 2015 med Kongen af Saudi-Arabien, arbejder Obama og hans hustru nu for dem på fuld tid alt imens han siger til amerikanere, at de ikke fortjener sandheden, eller retfærdighed.

Leder fra LaRouchePAC, 18. sept. 2016 – Af Jeff Steinberg: Efter at Repræsentanternes Hus fulgte Senatet med den enstemmige vedtagelse af JASTA (Lov om Retsforfølgelse af Sponsorer af Terrorisme), har præsident Obama meddelt, at han vil nedlægge veto mod lovforslaget – hvorved han går ind i en frontal konfrontation mellem præsidenten på den ene side og den amerikanske Kongres, familierne til ofrene for 11. september-angrebet og det amerikanske folk på den anden. JASTA ville gøre det muligt for de overlevende og familierne til de 2997 dræbte personer i angrebene på Pentagon og World Trade Center endelig at bringe sagen for retten og konfrontere det saudiske monarki for dets rolle i at støtte terroristerne.

Præsident Obama har foreløbig annonceret sine planer om at nedlægge veto mod JASTA-loven, der landede på hans skrivebord mandag, den 12. september, dagen efter 15-års dagen for det værste terrorangreb på amerikansk jord i landets historie. Han har ti arbejdsdage – frem til 23. sept. – til enten at underskrive lovforslaget eller også give Kongressen besked om sit veto. Førende senatorer og kongresmedlemmer fra begge partier har allerede gjort det klart, at de har samlet tilstrækkeligt med stemmer til at opnå et flertal på 2/3 i begge Huse, og således gøre Obamas veto ugyldigt. Det Hvide Hus er i færd med at gå sammen med saudierne og andre stater i Golf-samarbejdsrådet for at vride armen om på medlemmer af Senatet og Huset, for at de skal ændre deres stemmeafgivelse og acceptere præsidentens veto.

Terry Strada, en ledende talskvinde for familierne til ofrene for 11. sept. (hendes ægtemand Tom Strada blev dræbt i World Trade Center den 11. september) har annonceret, at der vil blive en protestaktion uden for det Hvide Hus tirsdag, den 20. sept., med krav om, at Obama enten med sin underskrift sætter loven i kraft, eller også afstår fra sit veto og gør det muligt for Kongressen at gøre sin patriotiske pligt og gøre hans skamfulde handling ugyldig.

Lyndon LaRouche kommenterede den 15. sept., at han forventer, at Obama vil nedlægge veto mod JASTA, »fordi han er en agent for det britiske system«. Han tager mod ordrer fra det britiske monarki, og London, såvel som også deres saudiske undersåtter, har for meget at tabe i en ærlig retssag ved en amerikansk domstol. Et fremtrædende medlem af det britiske Underhus har i Daily Telegraph for nylig skrevet, at, under JASTA, kan det britiske monarki, såvel som saudierne, anklages pga. af Londons mangeårige støtte til de selv samme terrorister, der stod bag 11. september.

Beviset på, at anglo-saudierne stod bag, er overvældende. De 28 sider fra den Fælles Kongresundersøgelse af begivenhederne den 11. september, der som medformand havde senator Bob Graham, afslørede klart, at Prins Bandar bin-Sultan havde en central rolle i angrebene 11. september. Bandar, der var Saudi-Arabiens ambassadør til USA på tidspunktet for angrebet, og som stod præsident George W. Bush så nær, at han fik kælenavnet »Bandar Bush«, finansierede mindst to af flykaprerne via saudiske efterretningsofficerer i San Diego-området, og han har bånd til al-Qaeda-topfolk, som det afsløres i de 28 sider.

Bandar er selv en britisk agent. I 1985 fabrikerede han og Margaret Thatcher al-Yamama olie-for-våben-aftalen, gennem hvilken briterne og saudierne samlede en hemmelig, udenlandsk fond, hvis midler oversteg $100 mia., til finansiering af global terrorisme, regimeskift og politiske mord.

I en tale ved en betydningsfuld konference om angrebene 11. september på Cooper Union universitetsområde i Manhattan den 10. sept., påpegede EIR-seniorredaktør Jeffrey Steinberg, at Bandar ikke var en wahhabi-fundamentalist. »Han havde større tiltrækning mod skotsk whisky og cubanske cigarer end mod islam«, sagde Steinberg til et publikum på 300 11. september-aktivister. »Bandar agerede som en agent for det saudiske monarki med at skaffe den afgørende støtte til flykaprerne, og han gjorde det på vegne af Bush-Cheney-regeringen«, erklærede Steinberg. Han mindede tilhørerne om, at Lyndon LaRouches nationale talskvinde, Debra Freeman, i januar 2001 havde aflagt vidnesbyrd imod nomineringen af John Ashcroft som justitsminister på baggrund af, at den tiltrædende Bush-Cheney-regering var forpligtet over for en gennemtvingelse af et politistatsdiktatur i USA og ville søge den første lejlighed til at iscenesætte en ’Rigsdagsbrand-hændelse’ for at nå dette mål. »Det var en forudsigelse, der desværre blev til sandhed ni måneder senere«, sagde Steinberg. »Bush og Cheney undertrykte kapitlet på de 28 sider, der viste, at det saudiske monarki stod bag 11. september-kaprerne, for at sikre sig, at intet kom i vejen for deres planer om at invadere Irak og vælte Saddam Hussein.«

Udover at vedtage JASTA gennem et flertal, der ikke kan røres af et veto, er der andre presserende handlinger, der må udføres for endelig at komme til den fulde sandhed om 11. september. Der er bogstavelig talt millioner af sider af regeringsdokumenter fra undersøgelsen af 11. september, der forsat er hemmeligstemplet i dag. En dommer i Florida er i færd med at gennemgå 80.000 sider af længe hemmeligholdte FBI-akter om en anden, højtplaceret saudisk forretningsmand, der var vært for tre af 11/9-flykaprerene, inklusive den angivelige leder Mohammed Atta. Endnu i dag er ingen dokumenter blevet frigivet om de 11/9-celler, der opererede i Paterson, NJ, eller Herndon, VA, i det år, der gik forud for angrebene 11. september. Senator Bob Graham, kongresmedlem Walter Jones og andre ledere af kampen for sandheden om 11. sept., har krævet, at regeringen frigiver alle disse hemmelige dokumenter. Som Graham sagde til et publikum på National Press Club i Washington, så »sprang proppen af flasken« med frigivelsen af de 28 sider, »og nu må vi få hele indholdet at se«.

Det amerikanske folk ønsker, at sandheden kommer frem. I løbet af weekenden den 9. – 12. september mødte henved 4000 mennesker frem for at deltage i mindekoncerter i New York City og Morristown, NJ, hvor Schiller Instituttets New York City Borgerkor opførte Mozarts Rekviem, for at mindes og ære dem, der mistede livet den 11. september, samt de mange tusinde mennesker, der som de første responderede, og som siden er døde eller er blevet alvorligt syge som følge af deres heroiske respons til tragedien den 11. september. For disse helte, og for alle mennesker, har sandheden om disse forfærdelige begivenheder ingen forældelsesfrist.

Det amerikanske folks fulde vrede må nu rettes mod præsident Obama for, på trods af, hvor hans virkelige loyalitet ligger, at tvinge ham til at gøre det rigtige og underskrive JASTA, så den træder i kraft. Hvis Obama er så fuld af forræderisk had mod USA, at han udsteder veto, må Kongressen som én stemme rejse sig og vedtage denne lov med et overvældende flertal – og dernæst indlede den korrekte procedure, i overensstemmelse med Forfatningen, mod Obama.

Hvis Barack Obama virkelig gennemfører sit veto mod JASTA, så bør dette føre til en omgående afsættelse gennem en rigsretssag. Enhver præsident, der sætter det britiske og saudiske monarkis interesser over det amerikanske folks interesser, er, prima facie (ved første blik) skyldig i ’høje forbrydelser og misgerninger’, og må omgående fjernes fra embedet. I modsat fald mister selve Forfatningen enhver mening.

Foto: Præsident Barack Obama og førstedame Michelle Obama, sammen med tidligere præsident George W. Bush og tidligere førstedame Laura Bush, holder et øjebliks stilhed ved det Nationale 11. september-mindesmærke i New York, N.Y., den 11. september, 2011. [flickr/whitehouse]

Med indgangen til denne weekend har vi set en dramatisk række udviklinger, inklusive det faktum, at netop på tærsklen til 15-års dagen for 11. september, vedtog Repræsentanternes Hus JASTA-loven, Loven om retsforfølgelse af sponsorer af terrorisme. Dette sker kort tid efter, at Senatet ligeledes vedtog loven for et par måneder siden. Men det blev fra Obamas Hvide Hus gjort meget klart, at han agtede at nedlægge veto imod loven. I sammenhæng med denne dramatiske optrapning af kampen, deltog Schiller Instituttet i en række meget, meget historiske koncerter, sponsoreret af Fonden for Genoplivelse af Klassisk Kultur i New York City-området og New Jersey: Fire koncertopførelser efter hinanden af Mozarts Rekviem – koncerter med stor deltagelse af publikum, inklusive en koncert, der fandt sted i sammenhæng med en messe, som biskop [Nicholas] DiMarzio fra Brooklyn-bispesædet holdt i fælleskatedralen St. Joseph i søndags, den 11. september.

Engelsk udskrift.

Showdown with Obama over JASTA & Glass-Steagall

IS CONGRESS MORE COWARDLY AND GUTLESS THAN
THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS?

LaRouche PAC International Webcast
September 16, 2016

        MATTHEW OGDEN: Hello! Today is September 16th, 2016. My name
is Matthew Ogden, and you're joining us for our weekly broadcast
here on Friday evening with the LaRouche PAC webcast. I'm joined
in the studio today by Jeff Steinberg, from {Executive
Intelligence Review}; and via video, by Diane Sare, member of the
LaRouche PAC Policy Committee, and coordinator of activities up
in New York City.
        We're meeting here in the immediate aftermath — really in
the midst — of the further developments that came out of this
past weekend. Going into this weekend we had a dramatic series of
developments, including the fact that right on the eve of the
15th Anniversary of 9/11, the House of Representatives
unanimously passed the JASTA Bill, the Justice Against Sponsors
of Terrorism Act. This is on the heels of the Senate doing the
same thing a few months ago. But it was made very clear from the
Obama White House that he was going to veto this Bill. In the
context of that dramatic escalation on this battle, the Schiller
Institute participated in a series of very, very historic
concerts sponsored by the Foundation for the Revival for
Classical Culture in the New York City area and in New Jersey:
four concerts in a row of the Mozart Requiem — very, very
well-attended concerts, including one that happened in the
context of a mass celebrated by Bishop [Nicholas] DiMarzio of the
Brooklyn Diocese at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph on Sunday,
September 11th.
        We're going to begin our broadcast tonight with a very short
set of remarks that were delivered Terry Strada, the widow of Tom
Strada, and leader of the 9/11 Families Against State Sponsors of
Terrorism, who attended the concert in Morristown, New Jersey on
Monday, September 12th, at which she endorsed the concert and was
invited to the stage to express her views about the crime of
9/11. You'll see what Terry Strada had to say, which was
delivered before the music began, during that Monday concert. I'd
like to just begin with a quick excerpt of Terry Strada's
remarks.

        LYN YEN (pre-recorded): At this point I would like to
introduce somebody very special to all of you. Many of you
probably know of her. Her name is Terry Strada. She is the
national chairwoman of the 9/11 Families United for Justice
Against Terrorism. She and her organization were instrumental in
the release of the 28 pages of the congressional report on 9/11.
Without further ado, I'm going to turn the mic over to her.
[applause]

        TERRY STRADA (pre-recorded): Thank you! Thank you very much!
My name is Terry Strada, and I lost my husband on September 11th,
2001. Tom was 41 years old when he went to work that day, and
never came home again. We have three children. At the time, they
were 7 years old, 4 years old, and our youngest was only 4 days
old.
        On September 12th, 2001 I woke up — well, I probably didn't
sleep that night — so when the sun came up, the questions were,
"Who did this? Why would they do this?", and "How could they
possibly do this? How could they attack our country like this,
and how could they kill so many innocent people in one day?"
        Because I wanted to know the answers, I started to ask the
questions more and more. And so did more and more 9/11 families.
United to Bankrupt Terrorism was our first title, and now we're
United Together for Justice Against Terrorism. Of course it was
the 28 pages that we focused on in the beginning that needed to
be released. And when they were released, there were two key
things that we learned. One is that Saudi Arabia has never been
fully investigated for the role that they played in 9/11; and
two, that it is indisputable that the Saudis played a very
important role in 9/11.
        The second piece of legislation that I've been working on
for over four years now is called the Justice Against Sponsors
of Terrorism Act. This bill is intended to fix a minor problem in
our current Foreign Sovereignty Immunity Act of 1976. So, it's a
40-year-old law that has stood for 40 years, until we looked
further into the Saudi's role in 9/11, found the evidence, and
tried to hold them accountable.
        What happened next was that the courts decided to
misinterpret the law and dismiss them on sovereign immunity. Make
no mistake. No country, no entity, no individual is entitled to
immunity — sovereign immunity, any type of immunity — in the
case of a terrorist act. This bill is intended to hold {any
nation} accountable for a terrorist attack on U.S. soil that
kills United States citizens.
        We've chosen this path because it's a peaceful way to fight
terrorism. We don't want to see more bloodshed; we don't ever
want to see more people die over 9/11. And we also want to
protect our borders; we want to protect our country; we want to
protect {you}; I want to protect my children. And the way that we
do this, is by holding the nations accountable that fund known
terrorist organizations, like al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram.
        People say, "You can't fight the lone wolf." I say, "Yes, we
can!" If we cut off the funding, and we destroy their
capabilities to recruit and incite, and bring on more terror and
to brainwash people, we can eliminate ISIS. And that is our
long-term goal. The short-term goal, right now, is to get Saudi
Arabia off of this crazy [situation] that they're not held
accountable.
        In May, the Senate passed unanimously this Bill, and on
Friday, September 9th, it went to the U.S. House of
Representatives. I was in the gallery and was honored and proud
to see each and every one of our 435 Members in the House vote
"Yes" for JASTA. [applause] Thank you, thank you. I don't really
know how many times this has ever happened on our history, that
we have both Chambers of Congress voting "Yes" unanimously. What
this means for the President: as of 4:00 today, he was still
threatening to veto the Bill. The Bill will be sent over to his
office for signature later on tonight, at the latest tomorrow.
We're doing everything we can to convince him to not do this.
        You probably hear things in the news — and I'll kind of
wrap this up, because I want to hear the music as badly as you do
— but you may hear in the news, things about the Bill. They're
simply not true, if they're coming from the Administration.
Unfortunately, they are the mouthpiece for the Saudis at this
point. We just need to point out to them how important this is,
to hold them accountable — any nation, going forward — would be
held accountable, and how important it is for our country to have
that type of security net.
        If the President does decide to veto this Bill, it will be
our last hurdle; it may be our biggest. But we plan to overcome
it, and override the veto. Hopefully the Senate and the House
will fall into line and do that for us.
        If there's anything that you'd like to do to help, going
forward, it's passtjasta.org. That's our website. It's updated as
often as I can get to a computer and update it. There are usually
just simple instructions of how you can reach out to the White
House, your Representative, or a co-sponsor of the bill. This is
very important legislation. I thank you very much for taking the
time to listen to me, and now I'm so honored to have these
wonderful musicians. I have heard them practice. You are in for a
treat. This is going to be a very wonderful time now for us to
just transcend ourselves from the evil, to a higher place — to a
place where Good is. I believe Good will win, and I thank you for
coming. [applause]

        OGDEN: So, as you can see, we're right in the midst of a
{very} active battle on the JASTA front, as Terry Strada had to
say, right there. It's all dependent on action that is taken in
the next coming days and hours, in order to create the conditions
where Obama is boxed in, and to create the kind of upsurge that
is necessary around this. I know there are actions being planned
to be taken in Washington, D.C. in the coming days. I'll let Jeff
talk about some of that, and also mention some of the activities
that {you} were involved in, Jeff, up in New York City, at the
same time, this past weekend, as these events were taking place.
So…

JEFFREY STEINBERG: Yes, there will be a series of demonstrations
on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., which is when the House and the
Senate will be back in town. There'll be a demonstration in front
of the White House. And then, also, another demonstration, I
believe, on the Senate side of the Capitol grounds.
        The point is very obvious. I think Mr. LaRouche put it
succinctly: everything that Obama has done as President has been
a reflection of the fact that he's an agent of the British
System, the British Monarchy. Therefore, it should be presumed
that, even though he will make himself an avowed enemy of the
American people — and especially the 9/11 families — if he does
go ahead with this veto, we should assume that that's exactly
what he will do, because that's what the British want him to do.
They don't care about justice for the 2,997 people who perished
on 9/11, or the perhaps-by-now tens of thousands of people —
first responders, others who were at the scene at the World Trade
towers, at the Pentagon, in Pennsylvania — who suffered
tremendously, and have developed diseases, illnesses related to
9/11. There's one estimate that 40,000 people have been afflicted
with serious illnesses because of their heroic actions
immediately following the 9/11 attacks.
        Obama is on the other side. These are impeachable crimes.
Being an agent of a foreign power, while serving in the Executive
Branch of the U.S. government — I mean, that is treachery. The
fact of the matter is that Obama can be forced by an enormous
amount of public mobilization, to go forward and actually sign
the Bill into law, or simply let it pass into law without his
signature. But that's going to be only on the basis that he is
convinced that there will be an overwhelming, bipartisan,
near-unanimous voice vote, if he attempts to veto the Bill.
        This is an existential issue, not just for the Saudis, but
for the British as well. Remember, a month or so back, at the
height of the mobilization after the Senate unanimously passed
JASTA, a British Tory Member of Parliament wrote in the {Daily
Telegraph} that if the Saudis can be sued by the families, then
the British can be sued also. Now, he claimed it was because of
failure to crack down on the jihadist networks that were given
safe haven in Britain, but we know that the reality is, that
Prince Bandar was the central figure organizing the support for
the 9/11 hijackers. We know it through the 28 pages, and that
barely scratches the surface of the evidence. Bandar's another
British agent. Bandar and Margaret Thatcher, in 1985, created the
Al-Yamamah program, and it was funds from that Al-Yamamah program
that were probably going into the hands of the 9/11 hijackers.
        So this is a {very big deal}. And it's going to come down to
a head-to-head political battle. Everyone listening to this
broadcast should contact your senators, contact your
representatives. Deliver a very blunt message to the White House,
that this will be considered an act of treachery, perhaps an act
of treason, on the part of President Obama, if he fails to sign
JASTA into law and allow the 9/11 families, at last, their day in
court. No matter where the evidence goes, no matter what's proven
or not proven, they have every right under our Constitutional
system to take appropriate legal action in a court against the
Saudis, and the JASTA Bill removes what in this case was an
illegitimate sovereign immunity.
        So, I think that's where we stand.
        This past weekend of 9/11 in New York, the Schiller
Institute had an extraordinary event. And the full video of that
is up on this website; and I would urge everybody to watch it.
There was another event that took place at the historic Cooper
Union campus in lower Manhattan; and I was honored to speak on a
panel on the 28 pages at that conference. There were a number of
other speakers: Judge Imposimato from Italy, who was the judge
who went after the Gladio apparatus around the strategy of
tension attempted coups in Italy in the 1970s and '80s, the Moro
assassination. He was one of the keynote speakers. Dan Sheehan,
the lawyer who broke open the Iran/Contra affair spoke. But
everybody was laser focused on the implications of the 28 pages
and JASTA; and the importance now of making sure — as Senator
Bob Graham said at a recent event in Washington, DC, the release
of the 28 pages just simply pops the cork. Now we go after the
full content of the bottle. There are millions of pages of
classified material that are yet to come out that deal with
Sarasota, Florida, San Diego, California, Paterson, New Jersey,
Herndon, Virginia, and other locations unknown. And of course in
Europe, Hamburg, Germany. The point I made both at the Schiller
Institute event and at the Cooper Union event, is that there is
no statute of limitation on the truth; and we've got to drive
that point forward.

        OGDEN: At the Schiller Institute event in New York on
Saturday, September 10th, not only did Jeff speak, not only did
Virginia State Senator Dick Black deliver a very dramatic and
sharp speech. But also, the Ambassador from Syria to the United
Nations was the featured guest, and delivered a very strong
speech in which he denounced the Obama administration and the
Bush administration campaign of regime change that has taken
place in the region over the course of the last 15 years since
9/11. Starting with Saddam Hussein, then with Qaddafi, and then
with the attempted regime change against Assad in Syria. I think
that the developments of this week, with the lower house of the
UK Parliament where they delivered a very strong rebuke to David
Cameron in terms of the grounds on which the Libyan invasion was
launched; which led to Cameron's resignation. This also applies
just as much to the case of Obama; and this is something which
Obama is continuing to push during his time in office. So, I
think all of these are coming together in the context of Obama's
rejection on his trip to Asia, during the ASEAN and G20 summits.
He is being boxed in; and his true colors are very clear as he
sides with the Saudis against the American people. I don't think
it can be taken for granted that the conjunction of all of these
events up in New York City over the weekend has set up the most
dramatic political showdown of Obama's entire career, as we go
into the coming days here in Washington.
        So Diane, you probably want to give a little bit more of a
context to that.

        DIANE SARE: I think what we're talking about is a certain
profound question of justice; not retribution, but the ability
for mankind to actually move forward. What distinguishes Asia and
Russia under Vladimir Putin from the United States and the
trans-Atlantic system is that these nations are actually
committed to a world in which the future is brighter than the
present or the past. That is, the leaders of these nations are
saying, my children, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren are
going to live in a world in which their standard of living is
higher, their educational level is superior, the number of
diseases they're subjected to is fewer; the way that Americans
used to think not so long ago. Part of the significance of the
work of the chorus, which is here directed by John Sigerson and
myself, is to remind the American people what is actually a human
standard; as opposed to a bestial standard. I have to say in that
regard, I found Senator Richard Black's comments and particularly
his passion and his anguish when he was describing what was being
done in Syria by these so-called "moderate" Syrian rebels who the
US is funding; the people we are funding who are beheading
children that they're kidnapping out of hospitals, or the rebels
we are funding who are carting women around in cages. Where our
own State Department spokesman says, "Well, how can we stop
funding them? We're not going to judge what they do on one single
incident of beheading. Other than the fact that they behead
children, they might be wonderful." It is so evil! And the idea
that Americans have lost the capacity to feel outrage when you
are confronted with this kind of evil; where it's all kind of
numb, and people say, "Well, there's nothing you can do."
        I think the process of the election of Hillary Clinton, who
may be suffering some serious illness, we don't know; who was
destroyed by her capitulation to Barack Obama. And Donald Trump,
who's just a pure FBI thug lunatic. What's happening is that the
population is putting up a kind of teflon veneer where they are
trying not to think about anything. Of course, that's death; we
have to think. What you have in the rest of the world is a
break-out of the human spirit, of this quality of creativity.
        So, what happened this weekend, the involvement of our
chorus in this series of concerts sponsored by the Foundation for
the Revival of Classical Culture, is that you got a glimmer of
the power — I think both the fact that JASTA had passed the
Senate and then the House on that Friday going into the weekend;
and then what we were presenting musically from the
African-American spirituals to the Mozart to the Handel, in terms
of what it actually means for us to be human. And a certain
quality of human life which we hold sacred; and which is not in
our physical being. And perhaps this was most powerfully sensed
at the Catholic mass which was dedicated to the firefighters and
those who had died on September 11th. The Bishop made the point
that these are people who are giving their lives not simply for
their brothers or for their friends, but for complete strangers.
At the end of the Mass, it's not typical that people applaud and
give standing ovations; but when the Mass closed, the standing
ovation of the crowd — it was very clear it was not simply for
the musicians; but it really was in deep and profound
appreciation of what these people had done.
        I have a sense that we really are in a moment in the United
States like Germany in 1989. Maybe we're in May of '89 and not
October yet; but there's a kind of awakening of the better spirit
of the American population. People are not prepared to sit back
and tolerate criminal injustice. If we will act with courage,
since about two-thirds of the world is already on the other side
of this; and China, for example, the idea of talking about
legalizing drugs? They would think you are completely insane;
being addicted to drugs, distributing drugs is not tolerated.
There's certainly a harsh crackdown on drug trafficking in the
Philippines which we're seeing now; and I don't think Duterte
appreciates Obama's accusations of human rights violations for
someone who's trying to shut down the drug trade. In other words,
there's a whole different standard in the world which, when we
find our courage and stand up, is going to resonate. There's no
reason for people to believe that what happens in this country is
going to be determined by the fraud of what's call the elections.
I would just say that what Jeff, you were saying earlier about
Obama; we have to really stick to this. There's no point in
talking about the candidates unless Obama, who is the evil who is
occupying the seat of leadership of this country right now, is
removed from office and prosecuted in a criminal court.

STEINBERG: I just wanted to add something; a footnote on what
Matt mentioned earlier, about the actions by the British House of
Commons this week. The Foreign Affairs Committee produced a
report, which was a damning indictment of Cameron, Sarkozy, and
Obama over the disastrous consequences of the overthrow and
assassination of Qaddafi in Libya. On a certain level, the
British House of Commons — with everything that we know; with
all the caveats about the power of the British monarchy and all
of that — the House of Commons puts the US Congress to shame.
They forced Cameron out of office; they forced his resignation
from the House of Commons on the grounds of his role in the Libya
disaster. Above all else, the United States, Britain, and France
lied to the world — they also lied directly to Russia and China
— when they promised at the outset that there would be no regime
change in Libya; but it was strictly a humanitarian intervention.
Well, it turns out that the House of Commons report is, if
anything, an even more stunning indictment of Obama than of
Cameron. The report makes very clear that Cameron and Sarkozy
were the drivers behind the need to intervene to prevent the
humanitarian disaster in Benghazi. In fact, they were protecting
British-created terrorist networks that were back in Libya from
having fought the wars in Afghanistan; the same wars that created
al-Qaeda. But what was made clear is that it was President Obama
who insisted that a no-fly zone was insufficient; a no-fly zone
failed in Iraq, it failed in Bosnia, and it would fail in Libya.
Therefore, the UN resolution had to have much more teeth; it had
to be a "no-drive" zone. It had to give a carte blanche to defend
the so-called victims of Qaddafi forces by all out military
action.
        On the one hand, everybody swore up and down to Russia and
China that it was not about regime change. As a result, Russia
and China abstained from the vote when the Security Council
resolution was passed to create the no-fly zone and the no-drive
zone; and to use all forms of military force that were deemed
necessary to "save" the civilization population of Benghazi.
Well, the report makes clear that after the first 24 hours, they
were safe; there was no threat to them anymore. From that moment
on, the whole exercise was all about regime change. There was one
exchange where one of the ministers in the Cameron government at
the time, Liam Fox, lied and said no, this was never about regime
change; we didn't have any agenda. The questioner pointed out
that on April 14, 2011, the New York Times published a signed
op-ed by Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Sarkozy; in which the
three of them said, "Qaddafi must go, and go for good." So, they
were lying openly; and if anything, Obama did more heavy lifting
to create this disaster than either Sarkozy or Cameron. It
included a conscious decision to assassinate a foreign leader.
        So, the British House of Commons has delivered a new bill of
impeachment against President Obama; and I hope that Congress
will take that seriously. Needless to say, the US media has
blacked out the story totally up to this point.

        OGDEN: In a very real way, this is like a Chilcot Report 2.0
in the case of Libya and Obama's role in that. Honestly, that's
exactly what you called for, Diane, in the petition that you were
circulating about a month or a month and a half ago. Look at
what's developed since the publication of that petition: We've
won the fight on the release of the 28 pages; although there are
tens of thousands of other pages that need to be released. JASTA
has gone through — this was your point, too — JASTA has gone
through both the Senate and the House; and despite the fact that
Obama is still threatening to veto, as it stands, it could be
overridden in the first veto override of the Obama
administration. Although he's trying to delay it, and deploying
Saudi agents crawling Capitol Hill right now. We have reports
that the Saudi Foreign Minister is personally going to Capitol
Hill and meeting with members of the Senate; threatening that you
have to withdraw your support for this JASTA bill. But that is a
fight which is active; this Chilcot Report type of approach, as
you called for in your petition, Diane, this is what we now see
coming out of the UK House of Commons. Also, the overarching
question of cooperation between the United States and Russia to
actually defeat terrorism worldwide.
        I thought it was very important that this was one of the
themes around these concerts with the image of the 9/11 Teardrop
Memorial in Bayonne, New Jersey; which was contributed by Russia
in support of the world's struggle against terrorism after 9/11.
And also, during this Schiller Institute seminar in New York City
on Saturday, Senator Dick Black pointed out that we're right in
the midst of this ceasefire negotiation between Kerry and Lavrov.
And according to reports, Kerry has really isolated himself from
the Obama administration; or at least there's a faction which is
trying to actively undermine these efforts to work with Lavrov.
So, these are ongoing battles; and it's all around the question
of the type of leadership that was exhibited in that petition
that you put out about a month and a half ago, Diane. Obviously,
we're now preparing for the convening of the United Nations
General Assembly this week and next week in New York City. I
think these events that were happening at the Schiller Institute
conference with the Syrian ambassador and so forth, should be
seen as preparing the way for what will be the defining questions
— hopefully — put on the table at the UN General Assembly. Both
that and the question of the new international financial
architecture, coming out of the G20 meetings; we have a big
responsibility on that as it comes to the question of
Glass-Steagall, which is something that I'd like to get to in a
moment.
        But maybe, Diane, you want to say a little bit more about
the events leading up to this UN General Assembly meeting.

        SARE: Sure. Actually, I'm thinking, I don't know what the
conspiracy is this time. Last year, as followers of our website
know, President Putin had gone to China for the V-J Day parade
and then come to the UN and proposed his coalition to wipe out
ISIS; and created that to great effectiveness. Now, the UN
General Assembly comes in the wake of the G20 meeting, the ASEAN
meeting, the Vladivostok conference, where all of these nations
which have been represented, signed more and more agreements with
each other on various economic projects and so on. And, I think
it's significant that, going into the G20, Xinhua ran that
interview with the Russian representative; who said that Beijing
and Moscow must work with Washington. We have to bring Washington
in on this; and Washington is a complex and unpredictable

partner, I think were the words that were used. So, clearly, I'm
sure that they're not coming into this General Assembly with no
plans. I don't know what plans they have; I think it'll be very
interesting as it unfolds. I think it's very important for
Americans to do our part to make the United States less full of
complexes; I'll put it that way, and less unpredictable by
addressing this Obama criminality problem. I think what Jeff said
about Cameron — it really is something. Tony Blair first with
the Chilcot Inquiry; now you have this whole report on Libya. Any
American, any member of Congress can get their hands on this; and
it is absolutely damning in terms of Obama's role. I think that
would be an important contribution for the United States, because
the truth of the matter is, we should be part of the Belt and
Road; we should be part of the New Paradigm. The American people
are suffering horrifically, horrendously with this economic
collapse; and I guess that brings us to the point that you were
talking about, which is the Glass-Steagall moment.

OGDEN: Right; exactly. On that subject, let me just read the text
of the institutional question we got for this week. I know Mr.
LaRouche had a direct response to this. It reads: "Mr. LaRouche,
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is marking the 8th
anniversary of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy with a new push to
investigate and potentially jail more than two dozen individuals
and corporations who were referred to the Justice Department for
criminal prosecution in 2011 by the Financial Crisis Inquiry
Commission, a government-appointed group that investigated the
roots of the 2008 financial crisis. None was ever prosecuted. In
a letter to the Justice Department's Inspector General, Warren
calls the lack of prosecutions 'outrageous and baffling', and
asks the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, to investigate why
no charges were brought. 'The DoJ record of action on these
individuals nearly six years after DoJ received the referrals, is
abysmal,' she writes.
        "In your view, is Senator Elizabeth Warren's new push to
investigate and potentially jail nearly two dozen individuals and
corporations who were referred to the Justice Department for
possible criminal prosecution a step in the right direction; and
will it help the prospects of Glass-Steagall's passage?"
        So, Jeff, maybe you want to say what Mr. LaRouche's response
was on this.

        STEINBERG: I think the point is, again, we're looking at the
irresponsible behavior of leading government elected officials.
The fact is, that in 1933, you had the Pecora Commission, which
was a Senate investigation into the crimes of the too-big-to-fail
banks of the Depression era; and bankers did go to jail. They
were called to testify under oath before Congress; they were
forced to produce their tax records; and there was a climate that
was created through that process that led to the passage of
Glass-Steagall and a number of other critical legislative
initiatives in the first 100 days of the FDR Presidency. Where we
are today is in the midst of a financial crisis that's much
larger, that's much more global in its scope than what we were
dealing with in 1933. Yet, there's been virtually no significant
action by either the Justice Department or by Congress against
these criminal swindlers who are CEOs of major banks. Just an
illustration: The woman who was the head of the division of Wells
Fargo that was caught basically creating phony accounts for their
own customers in order to charge fees so that employees of the
bank could get special bonuses; that person resigned from the
bank, but received a $125 million golden parachute on her way out
the door. It's night and day. So, Mr. LaRouche's comment on
Glass-Steagall was, {"Do it!} It's needed right now; we can't
wait another minute."
        Today, Deutsche Bank was given a $14 billion fine by the
Justice Department for their involvement in mortgage-backed
securities fraud in the run-up to 2008 and beyond. Yet, no
official of Deutsche Bank has gone to jail. In fact, Deutsche
Bank's $14 billion fine virtually bankrupts it; the entire bank
capitalization, market capitalization of the bank is $19 billion.
Were they to pay the fine out of their own deposits, they'd be
out of business tomorrow morning. So, we're at a moment where
this is all deadly serious. Yes, of course, these bankers should
be put in jail; but why is Elizabeth Warren not doing more to
push Glass-Steagall? Why is Elizabeth Warren instead tiptoeing
around the issue because she's basically been anointed by Hillary
Clinton as the attack dog against Donald Trump? Again, hold it up
to the gold standard of Franklin Roosevelt, the Pecora
Commission, and you'll see that once again — as we just
discussed with the British House of Commons actions compared to
the complete inaction on impeaching Obama or taking other
measures to deal with these problems — it's shameful; and it's
all part of a recurring pattern.
        As Diane just said, there may only be four or five months
left in the Obama Presidency, but every day that he remains in
office is a threat to the survival of this country and the
survival of humanity. Libya was all about starting the process of
war provocations against Russia and China. Lyndon LaRouche warned
about that the day that Qaddafi was assassinated back in 2011;
and we're still in that trajectory towards war. So, yes, we
urgently need Glass-Steagall; it should be taken up immediately.
There are bills in both Houses. Yes, the Justice Department
should reverse its policy of no jail time for too-big-to-fail
bankers; throw them all in the slammer — they all deserve it.
All of the top executives of all of the big eight US commercial
banks — they're all involved in multiple crimes, whether it's
mortgage-backed securities fraud, LIBOR fraud; the crimes are
manifest and the actions have been pathetic.

        OGDEN: As you referred to, there is a major problem with the
Democrats right now being compromised because of their defense of
Obama and Hillary; both of whom are avowed — as it stands right
now — opponents of the restoration of Glass-Steagall. As Terry
Strada said, right now the Obama White House is a spokesman for
the Saudi regime; but in the exact same way, it's a spokesman for
Wall Street. You have Glass-Steagall in both party platforms; you
have the biggest mobilization in years from some of the trade
union movements — the AFL-CIO — other activist layers around
Glass-Steagall. Getting this to a vote — preferably {before} the
elections take place, if not sooner — but the problem is, you
have an intention from the top to suppress this from within the
ranks of the Obama faction of the Democratic Party, which Hillary
Clinton finds herself in right now.
        I would say that there is also a broader, a little bit of a
deeper agenda here; and this came up in the discussion we had
yesterday with Lyn and Helga. Helga pointed out that there's a
recent report that has now been put out by the Club of Rome,
which has been around for 40 years now — an avowedly
neo-Malthusian movement to reduce population; that's been their
agenda — and the title of the report in German is "One Percent
Is Enough"; explicitly saying that the kind of dramatic growth
percentages that you see year on year on year, coming out of
China and other countries that are now part of this New Silk Road
dynamic, is somehow dangerous to the planet. And that we must
enforce a zero-growth or at least very low growth agenda; which
is what is coming out of the British monarchy and is coming out
of a lot of these trans-Atlantic circles. That is really the
foundation around which this fight between the new international
economic order, this New Paradigm that you see coming out of
China, the BRICS, and the Silk Road countries, versus the Obama,
trans-Atlantic regime that's taking place. It's a longstanding,
deeply rooted, ideological opposition to the idea of the no
limits to growth, perpetual increases in productivity kind of
idea of mankind; which Mr. LaRouche has made a career out of
defending and deepening with his approach to physical economics.
So, you have this as a deeper agenda which, again, Obama has
found himself as a spokesman for, and has made it very explicit
on multiple occasions. Remember his trip to Africa, where he said
you guys aren't allowed to have access to modern technology such
as electricity; because if you do, the planet will boil over. And
on other occasions, he said, we don't need any fancy stuff like
fusion power or anything like that.
        So again, I think it comes down to this much deeper idea of
what is your conception of man; and what is your scientific idea
of this perpetual progress; or the conception that there is no
limit to creative discovery, there are no limits to growth.
That's the deeper agenda that we now see also bubbling to the
surface.

        STEINBERG: These guys are genocidal lunatics; they've been
that way for 40 years. The LaRouche Movement was in a certain
sense, launched as a war against the Club of Rome when they came
out with their 1972 report, "Limits to Growth". The whole history
has been a battle between those led by Mr. LaRouche and Mrs.
LaRouche, who represent the principle of real human creativity;
versus people who work for an oligarchical system that is
consciously out to suppress it. You've got Prince Philip, the
British royal consort, calling for the population reduction of
this planet by 80%. If the Club of Rome report, 1% cap on growth,
were to be put into effect, this would represent mass genocide on
an unprecedented scale in human history; and it would happen
right away.

OGDEN: Right. As was made very clear in these concerts over the
weekend, there's an element of inspiration which, when it is
unleashed in the American population, it is overwhelming. The
kind of turn-out that we saw at these concerts in New York —
full to capacity audiences in almost every single venue;
including downtown Manhattan, the cathedral in Brooklyn, a
concert that happened in Morristown, one that happened in Lehman
College in the Bronx; there's an undercurrent of desire for this
kind of beautiful celebration of the nature of mankind. I thought
it was really significant to place Mozart's Requiem, which is
an incredibly profound and has a resonance which goes deep in the
American population; including the fact that the last time it was
celebrated as part of a Mass was 50 years ago at the request of
Jackie Kennedy, at a memorial service for the slain President,
John F Kennedy, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston.
That was the last time this was presented in the context of the
mass itself. But the conjunction of that, together with these
four African-American spirituals, which is this call for justice,
for freedom, and for the dignity of the human being; putting
these together in the counterpoint between the two, it really did
awaken something very profound and very deeply rooted in the
people who participated in this community chorus which is growing
in an exponential way, but also in the people who participated as
members of the audience. So Diane was the conductor of the first
part of these concerts, of the African-American spirituals, and I
would personally say, I think you were channeling the spirit of
Sylvia Olden Lee and her collaborators. It was very moving, and I
think it's part of something that we're going to see continue to
grow; in not just the desire for justice, but the desire for
human dignity and creativity among the American people.
        So, maybe you want to say a little bit about what the plans
are for the community chorus in that context, Diane.

        SARE: I hope it's going to grow, and there are a lot of
plans. But my parting words to our audience would be: One, that
people should join the actions in front of the White House on
Tuesday in support of the JASTA bill and against Obama's veto;
and a challenge to the American people and the members of the US
Congress. Which is, are you more cowardly and gutless than the
British House of Commons? If they can throw out Cameron and
expose the crimes against humanity that he has participated in,
and if they are already naming Obama; what is holding you back?

        OGDEN: Good. Well, those events in front of the White House
are scheduled currently for 12:30pm on Tuesday, and apparently
there may be another rally in front of the Senate at 2pm the same
afternoon. So, if you are in the area, or you can make it into
DC, that's something to participate in. There will probably be
more information on the passJASTA.org website that Terry Strada
mentioned at the beginning of this broadcast in her remarks at
that Morristown concert. And please, circulate tonight's webcast
as widely as you can so that Terry Strada's very emphatic
statement that she made at that concert can be heard more widely.
I think this is something that needs to be heard by the American
people; and that's something that you have a responsibility to
assist in.
        So, I'd like to thank both Diane and Jeff for joining me
here today. Please stay tuned to larouchepac.com; we will have
coverage of this rally next Tuesday, and you can join us for our
regularly programming as well. So thank you very much, and good
night.