Fredag, 1. sept., 2017 – Den 25. aug. godkendte Ralph Youri Chevy, borgmester i Haitis hovedstad Port-au-Prince, formelt et forslag fra Kinas Sydvestlige Kommunale Institut for Ingeniørteknisk Design og Forskning til renovering og genopbygning af denne by, inkl. dens havn, hen over de næste tre år, og som vil levere al den infrastruktur, der behøves for at modernisere hovedstaden og løfte dens forarmede befolkning op – som stadig lider af eftervirkningerne af det ødelæggende jordskælv i 2010.

En smuk, optimistisk video af renoveringsprojektet blev udgivet af det haitianske firma Bati Aiyiti, som vil gå i partnerskab med kinesiske firmaer for at fuldføre projektet, for at skabe »en strålende fremtid« for byen, som videoen siger.

Se den her.

Selv om finansieringen af renoveringen endnu ikke er på plads, bemærkede journalist Georgeanne Nienaber i en artikel den 27. aug. i Huffington Post, at »Kina har godtgjort lignende projekter i sit skønsmæssigt billiondollar-Silkevejsinitiativ, for ikke at nævne 30 futuristiske infrastrukturprojekter i sit eget land. Måske er fremtiden endelig kommet til Haiti, og som et resultat vil en caribisk korridor blive transformeret«. Telesur-nyhedsagentur rapporterer i dag, at den oprindelige idé til projektet blev undfanget på Bælte & Vej-topmødet i Beijing, 14.-15. maj, 2017.

Dette forslag står i stærk kontrast til den kriminelle forsømmelse hos Obama-administrationen og allierede »vestlige donorer«, der afviste de nødforslag, som blev foreslået at den amerikanske statsmand Lyndon LaRouche umiddelbart efter jordskælvet i 2010, og som, hvis de var blevet gennemført, kunne have afværget de menneskelige katastrofer, inkl. den forfærdelige koleraepidemi, som har plaget Haitis befolkning i løbet af de seneste syv år.

Renoveringsprojektet, der er en del af en pakke på $30 mia., som Kina har tilbudt Haiti til udvikling, er opdelt i seks separate underprojekter, der involverer vandværker og installationer til vandafledning, forbedringer af veje, miljøbeskyttelse, kloakering og sanitetsinstallationer, et kommunikationsnetværk, transport og genopbygning af Port-au-Princes historiske »gamle bydel«. Ifølge Nienaber vil tekniske installationer til vandafledning blive primære, med kanaler til afværgelse af oversvømmelser og systemer til udledning af regnvands-afstrømning i floder og havet. Et vandrensningsanlæg, der kan håndtere 225.000 m³ vand dagligt, vil blive bygget for at sikre forsyning af sikkert drikkevand. Et nyt spildevandsanlæg vil behandle 180.000 m³ om dagen i en nødvendig standard og blive udledt langs floder og i havet, iflg. projektets ingeniører, der citeres i den ovenfor nævnte video. Et nyt, gasfyret elektricitetsværk er planlagt til at producere 2000 MW. Planerne omfatter installering af 450 offentlige toiletter og gennemførelse af et offentligt system til indsamling af affald, der deponeres på lossepladser; sidstnævnte vil tage 1500 tons husholdningsaffald om dagen.

Nienaber rapporterer, at arbejdet forventes at begynde i december, med diverse arbejder inden for sanitet, elektricitet, kommunikationer og andre projekter i hovedstaden. Hertil vil man få brug for at ansætte 20.000 arbejdere.

Fredag, 1. september, 2017 – Peter Koenig, en økonom, der skriver for diverse aviser og blogs, inklusive flere russiske pressemedier, udlagde torsdag en lang artikel i Information Clearing House med titlen, »Beijings Bælte & Vej Initiativ, mod en økonomi for fred?« (Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, Towards an Economy of Peace?). Han indleder med spørgsmålet, »Hvorfor bryder freden ikke ud, når det overvældende flertal af verdens befolkning ikke ønsker krig?« Idet han påpeger de »12 – 15 mio. mennesker, der er dræbt siden 11. september«, lægger han hele skylden på »den ene slyngelstat, verden er underkastet – USA«. Desværre udelader han briternes rolle og lægger hele skylden på »grådighed« alene, snarere end på ondets rod, Imperium og geopolitik. Men han adresserer den psykologiske faktor og stiller spørgsmålet, »Hvorfor kan vi ikke kaste denne frygt overbord for en lille smule mod – og finde tilbage til menneskelig solidaritet imod dette grusomme overgreb – det værste nogensinde, siden det Romerske Imperium, og sandsynligvis længere tilbage.«

Hans løsning rammer plet: Den Nye Silkevej. »Der er et nyt, økonomisk paradigme, der venter i kulisserne, som tilbydes af Kina og Rusland; en økonomi for fred. En økonomi, der støttes af arbejdsstyrken, af byggeri, af forskning, uddannelse, af kultur og af guld. Ingen vilkårlig økonomi – en økonomi med lige rettigheder og lige fordele for alle deltagere; en økonomi, der ikke er baseret på krig, i total modsætning til den vestlige, ågerkarle-rentesøgende, ødelæggende økonomi. Hvem ville ikke være tiltrukket af denne nye model for Fredsøkonomi?«

Han beskriver Xi Jinpings Bælte & Vej Initiativ som det »muligvis største og mest vidtrækkende, økonomiske ekspansionsinitiativ i moderne historie. Det er (hvad der svarer til) en multibilliondollar bestræbelse, der bogstavelig talt kunne række århundreder frem i tiden og skabe ny infrastruktur, beskæftigelse, handel, indkomst, nye teknologier, uddannelse – paletten er nærmest uendelig – for mange områder, der stadig i vid udstrækning er berøvet menneskelig velfærd«. Han citerer Chas Freeman[1], der kalder projektet for »den potentielt mest transformerende ingeniørmæssige indsats i menneskets historie«.

Han bemærker modstanden i Bruxelles, »som er bange for at miste deres kontrol over Grækenland – et NATO-land«.

Han tilføjer, at AIIB, og BRIKS’ NDB (Nye Udviklingsbank), er integreret i Bælte & Vej. »Disse nye finansinitiativer bliver en alvorlig udfordring for den vestlige, monetære klike og en torn i øjet på Washingtons bestræbelse på at opnå dollarens overherredømme.«

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47725.htm

Foto: Peter Koenig.

[1] Chefoversætter under Nixons besøg i Kina i 1972; tidl. amerikansk ambassadør til Saudi-Arabien 1989-1992.

Med næstformand Michelle Rasmussen:

»Man kan bruge en linje fra Charles Dickens, hvor han skrev om historien om to byer, men her har vi historien om to verdener, to verdenssyn; det ene er et kollapsende paradigme, hvor man simpelthen har forsømt at investere i moderne infrastruktur, i vedligeholdelse og modernisering af infrastrukturen og har udsultet infrastrukturen, med katastrofale konsekvenser, på den ene side; og så et nyt paradigme … jeg vil fortælle historien om Schiller Instituttets årtier lange kamp for at realisere nogle nøgle-udviklingsprojekter, som nu faktisk er ved at blive til noget, fordi en stor nation som Kina har besluttet at være med.

Så først begynder vi i Houston. I har alle sammen set billeder og nyhedsdækningen. I Houston har vi en kombination af naturkræfter, hvor orkanen Harvey i USA faktisk er blevet en storm, der har den største mængde regnfald for en enkelt storm, 52 inches (132 cm) – kombinationen af virkelig stærke naturkræfter plus menneskelige fejl, fordi Houstons vandkontrol-system er fra lige efter Anden Verdenskrig, og så har der været forslag om modernisering; det seneste forslag vil koste $28 mia., men blev ikke til noget. Og nu har de en storm, hvor det mindste beløb, de snakker om, er $100 mia. Deres system til oversvømmelseskontrol blev her for nylig vurderet og fik et C, som virkelig ringe. Nu er der 50 amter i Texas, som er påvirket. 33 af dem er i nødtilstand, og også 5 amter i Louisiana. Der skulle være 1,7 mio. mennesker, der måtte forlade deres hjem; vi har oversvømmede huse, forretninger, landbrug; ingen elektricitet i tusindvis af hjem; vi har en hel del raffinaderi-kapacitet, der er blevet lukket; vi har en meget vigtig både national og international havn, Houston, som virkelig har taget skade; jernbanenettet, man skønner, at 500.000 jernbanevogne er blevet ødelagt. …

Helga [Zepp-LaRouche] holdt en hovedtale, der er tilgængelig på dansk på vores hjemmeside, hvor hun sagde – og det var samtidig med, at orkanen Harvey ramte – hvor hun sagde, at kun ved, at vi gennemfører Lyndon LaRouches Fire Økonomiske Love, plus, at USA tilslutter sig Kinas Bælte & Vej Initiativ, kunne vi virkelig få gang i de nødvendige investeringer og moderniseringer.

Denne tragedie i Texas og Louisiana kan nu blive en opvågnings-alarmklokke til borgerne, til politikerne, om, at, nu skal der virkelig ske noget drastisk, og det kan kun lade sig gøre, hvis vi siger, at, nu skal vi ikke bare tale om LaRouches Fire Love; nu skal vi ikke bare tale om, hvor fremragende, det ville være, hvis USA tilslutter sig Bælte & Vej Initiativet, men nu skal det faktisk gøres.…«

Lyd:

Dias til mødet…

27. aug., 2017 – Kinas finansmyndigheder er tydeligt i færd med at kombinere deres restriktioner af landets indbyggeres udenlandske investeringer i udenlandsk spekulation gennem specifikke kanaler for at dirigere dem til fremskridt inden for fysisk økonomi, gennem Bælte & Vej Initiativet. Denne udvikling er blevet diskuteret af kinesiske økonomer siden lanceringen af AIIB og Bælte & Vej, som værende den nødvendige, ordnede måde til at dirigere nogle af Kinas $9 billioner i opsparing udenlands, under lempelse af kapitalkontrol, uden stor kapitalflugt, der ville have en ødelæggende indflydelse på det internationale finanssystem.

South China Morning Post rapporterede den 16. aug., og Reuters den 22. aug., at de »fire store« officielle kommercielle banker i Kina er begyndt at rejse særlig finansiering fra kinesiske borgere og selskaber til investeringer i Bælte & Vej i udlandet. China Construction Bank er i færd med at rejse $15 mia. i finansiering; Bank of China en fond på $3 mia. Dette er en »del af en mere generel centralbankindsats for at investere yuan i udlandet«. Bag visse falske påstande i denne artikel er realiteten tydeligvis, at People’s Bank of China bremser investeringer i udlandet i gambling, ejendom, sport og underholdningsventures, osv.; og tilskynder til BVI-investeringer i udlandet. De fire store, kommercielle banker er i færd med at skabe midlerne til dette. PBOC skal iflg. rapporter have bedt bankerne om at sætte et mål på 300 mia. yuan (ca. $50 mia.) i BVI-finansiering. Dette vil også øge anvendelsen af yuan i den globale handel.

Thompson Reuters data viste, at Bælte & Vej-investeringer i lande i projekter fra Kina var $33 mia. i 2017 i juli, og med en årlig rate på $60 mia., sammenlignet med $31 mia. generelt i 2016. Dette omfatter ikke forpligtelser, men investerede midler.

Disse nye finansieringsmuligheder er også åbne for amerikanere eller andre udenlandske investorer og selskaber.

Foto: People’s Bank of China, hovedkvarter.  

For at sætte scenen for aftenens diskussion, der vil handle om en ny flanke af kupforsøget mod præsident Trump, vil jeg begynde med meget positive nyheder fra Kina. Her ser vi [Fig. 1] forsiden af en historie, der blev publiceret i China Daily, med titlen, »Identifikation med Kina«. Det er en historie om Helga Zepp-LaRouche og hendes arbejde over mange årtier sammen med sin mand, Lyndon LaRouche, for udvikling, for bedre forståelse og for samarbejde med Kina. Artiklen begynder med Helgas rejse til Kina i 1971 under Kulturrevolutionen, da hun var passager om bord på et svensk fragtskib. Hun så nationer i Afrika, hun så Kina, og hun kom tilbage fra denne rejse med den absolutte overbevisning, at verden måtte ændre sig, at den måtte blive forbedret. 

Vært Jason Ross: Det er 18. august, 2017… Med mig i studiet i dag har jeg Will Wertz fra Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), og remote, Diane Sare, medlem af LaRouche PAC Policy Committee.

For at sætte scenen for aftenens diskussion, der vil handle om en ny flanke af kupforsøget mod præsident Trump, vil jeg begynde med meget positive nyheder fra Kina.

Fig. 1

Her ser vi [Fig. 1] forsiden af en historie, der blev publiceret i China Daily, med titlen, »Identifikation med Kina«. Det er en historie om Helga Zepp-LaRouche og hendes arbejde over mange årtier sammen med sin mand, Lyndon LaRouche, for udvikling, for bedre forståelse og for samarbejde med Kina. Artiklen begynder med Helgas rejse til Kina i 1971 under Kulturrevolutionen, da hun var passager om bord på et svensk fragtskib. Hun så nationer i Afrika, hun så Kina, og hun kom tilbage fra denne rejse med den absolutte overbevisning, at verden måtte ændre sig, at den måtte blive forbedret.

I artiklen opstiller China Daily kontrasten mellem det potentielle samarbejde mellem Kina og USA under henholdsvis Obama-administrationen og Trump-administrationen. Artiklen siger, efter at have citeret Helga for at sige, at »Det kinesiske, økonomiske mirakel er virkelig den mest succesfulde model«, og at »i modsætning til Obama-administrationen, der var mere modvillig over for kinesiske initiativer fra Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB) og [Bælte & Vej Initiativet]; så har den amerikanske præsident Donald Trump sat infrastruktur øverst på sin dagsorden og sendt en mellemorganisatorisk delegation under lederskab af Matthew Pottinger, seniorrådgiver i det Nationale Sikkerhedsråd, til Beijing-forummet.« Helga Zepp-LaRouche refererer her til Bælte & Vej Forum i maj måned, som Helga Zepp-LaRouche også deltog i.

Jeg mener, at artiklen virkeligt beviser, hvor stor betydning, Kina tillægger Helgas rolle, og den slutter med et citat af hende. Hun siger: »Vi er meget glade. Det er én ting, at en lille organisation som vores producerer ideer; en ganske anden ting er, at verdens største land begyndte at udføre dem«, med reference til Kinas vedtagelse af Bælte & Vej Initiativet i kølvandet på Schiller Instituttets mangeårige organisering til fordel for den Nye Silkevej og Verdenslandbroen. Hun afslutter med at sige, at hun håber, Lyndon LaRouche vil kunne besøge Kina, og han helt bestemt har stor kærlighed til landet.

Så det reelle potentiale, der eksisterer for et Nye Paradigme i verden, for USA’s tilslutning til Kinas utrolige succes med at komme fri af finansspekulation, fri af Wall Street, fri af London, og for at gå i retning af udvikling i Franklin Roosevelts stil, er enormt. Det er på grund af dette potentiale, at der er en massiv indsats for at afsætte præsident Trump. Vi har været meget aktive i dette, gennem f.eks. vores reklame for Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity’s (VIPS) Memorandum; VIPS har foreløbig udarbejdet 50 memoranda om USA’s politik. Deres seneste memo om, at hele historien om Russia-gate er et svindelnummer, har virkelig haft enorm trækkraft. Det er blevet taget op af Salon, Bloomberg og især The Nation i en meget stor artikel.

Fig. 2

Dette har i de seneste uger fremkaldt angreb fra f.eks. The Hill, som vi ser her [Fig. 2]; der udgav en artikel, »Why the Latest Theory about the DNC Not Being Hacked Is Probably Wrong« (Hvorfor den seneste teori om, at DNC ikke blev hacket, sandsynligvis er forkert).

Fig. 3

Vi så et angreb komme ud i Washington Post [Fig. 3], der sagde, de ikke tror på, at The Nation, det magasin, der udgav en historie om VIPS-memoet; at The Nation er i færd med at revidere deres historie, der sår tvivl om russisk hacking af DNC. Washington Post siger, der virkelig håber, The Nation får »rigtigt fat« på denne historie.

Her følger resten af webcastet i engelsk udskrift:

There has been a response that came out from two media
outlets.  One of them, Disobedient Media [Fig. 4], is the
publication that first put out the results from the Forensicator,
who had analyzed meta-data that came from files released by the
Guccifer 2.0 persona; and also from Adam Carter [Fig. 5], who
maintains a website that goes through the Guccifer 2.0 persona.
I just want to review a few highlights of what these articles
have to say, because I think it’s very important.  The VIPS
memorandum is correct; a deliberate attempt was put in place to
create false Russian footprints, false Russian evidence, to make
it appear that the DNC leaks were actually a Russian hack.  The
fact of the matter is that no actual evidence has ever been
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presented showing that Russian actors hacked the DNC and provided
the material that Wikileaks later published, that caused such a
commotion that it forced the resignation of Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz and other top officials in the Democratic
National Committee.
The attacks on the VIPS memo focus on something about data
transfer speeds, which were used to show that the files that
Guccifer 2.0 released, had been copied to a flash drive rather
than being hacked over the internet.  That’s pretty much the only
thing that these articles have to complain about.  They say that
the speed of transfer could have been possible over the internet.
I’ll just review a very few aspects of this, which is that the
information that was processed, the analysis that came from the
Forensicator and from Adam Carter, showed that not only that the
speed was too high for many internet connections but that it very
specifically matched the typical transfer speed of a USB2.0 flash
drive.  They also showed that file manipulation occurred on the
East Coast time zone.  They showed that the files showed evidence
of being used in a FAT file system, which is only used on flash
drives — at least in the past decades; and of course the fact
that there is absolute proof that the Russian fingerprints that
were found and discovered in the documents released by Guccifer
2.0, were put there deliberately so that they could be found.
Those aspects simple are not even touched by the legacy media’s
attacks on the VIPS’ revelations.
So, this whole Russia-gate thing is falling apart.  The
attempts by the {Washington Post}, {New Yorker} magazine to cover
things up, are really a dismal failure if you read the articles.
That brings us to the topic that we’re going to be hearing from
in depth from Will Wertz; which is the latest flank in the
attempt to unseat President Trump — namely, the events and the
reactions to those events in Charlottesville.  So Will, what can
you tell us about this?

WILL WERTZ:  First of all, what I want to point out, is that what
President Trump said in his first press conference following the
Charlottesville event, that there is bigotry and violence on many
sides, is in fact true.  I think that not only applies to the
Charlottesville case per se, where you had Nazis on one side, you
had anti-fa on the other side, which is an anarchist, violent
organization; and it’s most likely that you may have had
provocateurs.  It’s hard to believe that the FBI was not involved
in some way under the guise of monitoring the situation.  But if
you stand back and look at the overall climate in the country,
it’s also the case that there is violence and bigotry on many
sides; and specifically directed at President Trump.  I want to
review some of the highlights of that, which represent an
unprecedented situation in terms of violent threats against a
President of the United States.
First of all, just as he was being inaugurated, the British
publication {The Spectator} wrote “Will Donald Trump Be
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Assassinated?  Ousted in a Coup? Or Just Impeached?”  You had a
number of statements from the would-be Hollywood royalty,
including Madonna; who said, “I thought an awful lot about
blowing up the White House.”  Then you had CNN correspondent —
former correspondent now — Kathy Griffin, who held up a mock
decapitated head of the President of the United States.  You also
had, over the summer, Shakespeare in the Park doing a performance
of {Julius Caesar} in which Julius Caesar was portrayed as Donald
Trump and was viciously assassinated on the stage.  You had
another Hollywood actor — Johnny Depp — who joked, “When was
the last time an actor assassinated a President?  It has been a
while, and maybe it’s time.”  In July of this year, there was a
book released by a {Guardian} reporter by the name of Jonathan
Friedland.  It’s entitled {To Kill a President}.  Just within the
last 48 hours, a Missouri state senator, Maria Chappelle-Nadal,
wrote in her Facebook “I hope Trump is assassinated.”  And we
should not forget that on June 14th of this year in Alexandria,
Republican Congressman Steve Scalise was shot while practicing
with 20-25 other Republican Congressmen for a Congressional
baseball for charity.  If the police present on the scene had not
responded appropriately, you could have had a massacre of
multiple Republican Congressmen or Senators.
So, let’s be honest about the threat of violence.  This is
virtually unprecedentedly directed at a President of the United
States, and we have had Presidents who have been assassinated, as
people know.  So this is the actual reality of the situation.
Now what I want to do, is to look at this situation in
Charlottesville, which is merely the most recent escalation of an
ongoing attempted coup against the President of the United
States.  It’s modelled upon what was done in Ukraine — the
Maidan, or the various color revolutions which preceded the coup
in Ukraine.  On January 17th, just before President Trump’s
inauguration, President Putin of Russia said, “I have an
impression they practiced in Kiev, and are ready to organize a
Maidan in Washington” against President Trump.  On February 21,
2017, {Executive Intelligence Review} released a 17-page dossier,
which was entitled “Obama and Soros Color Revolutions; Nazis in
Ukraine 2014, USA 2017?”  If you look at the situation in
Ukraine, you get a direct parallel to what is being orchestrated
in the United States.  In the dossier what we disclose is that
there were more than 2000 non-governmental organizations — NGOs
— in Ukraine; funded by the US government, the United Kingdom,
the European Union, and George Soros’ Open Society.  In fact,
Victoria Nuland, the State Department representative for Ukraine,
testified on December 13, 2014 as follows:  “We have invested
over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in building democratic skills
and institutions.”
The coup that was carried out in Ukraine was carried out by
an organization called the Right Sector, and various other
organizations associated with it.  The Right Sector is an
organization which traces its origin back to Stepan Bandera and
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his Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, or the OUN.  Which
organization collaborated with Hitler during World War II, and
carried out mass exterminations of Poles and Jews.  The Right
Sector celebrates Bandera and actually carries out marches in
Kiev and elsewhere in Ukraine celebrating him to this day.  After
World War II, Bandera, this Nazi war criminal, was recruited by
Britain’s MI-6; and his top official, Mykola Lebed, who carried
out the Ukrainian exterminations, went onto a CIA payroll as of
1948, thanks to CIA Deputy Director Allen Dulles.  The intention
was to use the OUN, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists,
to carry out uprisings against the Soviet Union in the post-World
War II period.  People will perhaps recall that Allen Dulles and
James Angleton were very much involved in the Nazi ratlines after
World War II; helping Nazi criminals to escape.  Some to South
America; others like Bandera and Lebed to London or to the United
States.
Soros himself, who helped fund the Ukrainian coup, was 14
years old when the Nazis occupied Hungary, and he has publicly
admitted that during that period, his father and he hid their
Jewish background and worked with the Nazi occupation to
confiscate the property of fellow Jews who had been sent to the
concentration camps.  He actually views this experience very
positively, with no regret whatsoever.
Now, let’s turn to Charlottesville with this in mind.  As I
said, the events in Charlottesville last Saturday, I think are
very clearly a pre-staged event with Nazis on the one side,
anti-fa or anti-fascist violent anarchists on the other side.
Remember in thinking about this what happened in Ukraine.  There
were snipers who fired on demonstrators, and this was blamed on
Yanukovych, the President of Ukraine, who says that he never gave
any such orders.  It is believed that the snipers were actually
organized by a third force, or by the Right Sector itself, or a
combination of the two; in order to carry out the coup by blaming
the violence on Yanukovych.  So that should be kept in mind.
There’s also a longstanding methodology of the British.  This was
formulated in a book called {Gang Countergang} by a British
general by the name of Kitson, who used this methodology in Kenya
as part of a counterinsurgency operation against the Mau-Mau.
Please show graphic #11 [Fig. 6].  If we look at
Charlottesville, what stands out?  It’s that all of the key
Democratic Party operatives involved in the Charlottesville event
have direct connections to George Soros, to the Obama-Clinton
State Department, and to John Podesta’s Center for American
Progress; which has become the center for the entire so-called
Resist Movement against President Trump in the United States.
The Center for American Progress was founded in 2003 by John
Podesta. At the time, George Soros promised to donate $3 million
to its foundation.  John Podesta, of course, was the campaign
manager of Hillary Clinton, and had previously been a senior
counselor to President Obama.
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The mayor of Charlottesville, a man by the name of Michael
Signer, gave a speech on January 31, 2017 in Charlottesville in
which he said:  “I am here today to declare that Charlottesville,
the historic home of Thomas Jefferson, is the capital of the
resistance.”  So, this is January 31st; President Trump had only
been in office for about ten days.  It’s obviously several months
before the events which occurred last Saturday.  So, this is what
we’re dealing with in the city of Charlottesville; it is the
capital of the resistance to President Trump.  Mayor Signer had
previously been a senior policy advisor to John Podesta’s Center
for American Progress.  In 2008, he worked with John Podesta on
President-elect Barack Obama’s State Department transition team.
Two years later, he travelled to Panjshir province, Afghanistan
as a member of a USAID-sponsored mission to monitor Afghanistan’s
parliamentary elections.  So what you have is a mayor of
Charlottesville who works closely with John Podesta’s Center for
American Progress, which is the center of the resistance; which
is obviously a Clinton-Obama operation, which is funded by George
Soros.  He’s also someone who has experience with respect to the
State Department.
The individual who took the video of the car driven into the
counter protesters, which resulted in the death of Heather Heyer
and the injury of many others, was an individual by the name of
Brennan Gilmore.  Gilmore is a former State Department employee.
In 2011, Gilmore was deputy chief of mission in the Central
African Republic.  In 2015, he was the top aide to Tom Perriello,
a former Congressman who was appointed by Obama to be Special
Envoy to the Great Lakes Region and the Democratic Republic of
Congo.  In 2016, Tom Perriello ran for the Democratic nomination
for Governor in the state of Virginia; a race which he eventually
lost.  Brennan Gilmore was his campaign chief of staff.  In his
campaign, Perriello received a total of $500,000 from George
Soros personally.  He also received $50,000 from George Soros’
son Gregory.  Two other sons of George Soros, not to be left out,
Alexander and Jonathan, gave a total of $135,470 to Tom
Perriello.  So, Perriello received a grand total of $685,470 from
the Soros family in his campaign.  Perriello also received
$300,000 from Donald Sussman, a hedge fund manager who sits on
the board of directors of Podesta’s Center for American Progress.
Tom Perriello, like Charlottesville mayor Michael Signer, also
worked directly for Podesta’s Center for American Progress.  In
fact, from 2010 to 2014, Tom Perriello was the President and CEO
of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
We know that Brennan Gilmore was present at the scene of the
Charlottesville events, because it was his video which has
circulated very widely.  But Tom Perriello was also present, and
he indicates that with an article which he wrote the day after —
August 13 — for the publication {Slate}.  The article is
entitled “There Is Only One Side to the Story of
Charlottesville”.  Of course, this is also the point made by Joe
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Biden, former Vice President, who tweeted at the time, “There is
only one side to Charlottesville,” in opposition to what
President Trump had said.
Perriello is a native of Charlottesville, and during his
campaign for governor, he tried to position himself as the
candidate of the anti-Trump resistance movement.
Let me just add that there were three other organizations
that were present as part of the counter demonstration, all of
which were funded by George Soros:  Progressive Change Campaign
Committee; Standing Up for Racial Justice; and Refuse Fascism.
But what you have here, in summary, is a US State Department,
George Soros-funded nest of operatives who have worked for John
Podesta’s Center for American Progress, which is the
institutional center of the resistance movement against President
Trump.  This is the operation which went into action immediately
after the events in Charlottesville, to escalate the campaign
against President Trump; which we now see spreading throughout
the country.  I would point out that this, again, as I stressed
at the beginning, these personnel — State Department, Soros —
are the same personnel that were involved in the Maidan coup
d’etat in Ukraine against President Yanukovych.  It should also
be pointed out that the only way you can remove a President in
Ukraine, according to the Constitution, is through impeachment.
He was never impeached; it was a violation of the Constitution of
Ukraine.  What happened was, an agreement was reached which was
signed on to by European countries as guarantors.  When it was
presented to the Maidan, they rejected it, and said that they
were going to storm the Presidential residence if Yanukovych
didn’t reverse his position in respect to the EU association.  He
fled the country for fear of his life.
Now we all know what happened to Allende in Chile, so is
that unreasonable for him to have fled?  And yet, there was an
unconstitutional coup and it was backed by the United States; by
Obama, by Hillary Clinton.  These are the people who back Nazis
who are attacking President Trump because he says there’s
violence on both sides; which there very clearly is.
After the incident in Charlottesville, [former] President
Obama tweeted a quote from Nelson Mandela: “No one is born hating
another person because of the color of his skin or his background
or his religion.”  According to twitter, this is the most popular
tweet that has ever been communicated on twitter in its entire
history.  I think that the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman,
Maria Zakharova, gave a very good response to this.  She quoted
from Mandela as follows:  “No country can claim to be the
policeman of the world, and no state can dictate to another what
it should do.  Those that yesterday were friends of our enemies,
have the gall today to tell me not to visit my brother Qaddafi.
They are advising us to be ungrateful and forget our friend of
the past.”  Then Zakharova addresses Obama directly:  “Mr. Obama,
a person was killed with your direct involvement who Nelson
Mandela called his brother and thanked for help in gaining
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democracy.  True democracy; not one invented in the Oval Office.”
She might also have pointed out, as implied by President Putin’s
statement, that it was Obama who installed Nazis in power in
Ukraine; and forced a duly-elected President to flee the country
for his life.
So, I think what we have here is a very clear case of a
deliberate policy being carried out in the United States to
overthrow through a coup, through impeachment, or through
assassination as {The Spectator} said, a President of the United
States.  This has to be stopped.  We are circulating a petition
on LPAC, which I would certainly encourage everyone not only to
sign, but to circulate to others.  At this moment in history,
it’s absolutely crucial that Americans stand up and insist that
the President move on an investigation of the VIPS’ charges as
critical to undermining the entire Maidan-style color revolution
which is being attempted against the President of the United
States at this moment.  That is crucial because, as the article
in the {China Daily} indicates, Trump — as opposed to Obama —
is someone who could potentially; and he’s given indications that
he would like to do this; would potentially work with China and
Russia on the One Belt, One Road Silk Road.  At the same time,
work with President Putin in a coordinated campaign to defeat
terrorism.  We just had more terrorist attacks in Spain within
the last 24-48 hours; so this is not a fight which has been won.
Yet, it’s absolutely crucial.

ROSS:  I think that’s a very strong case you pulled together
there, Will.  This is very clear; very clear this is a coup.  In
terms of the response that this type of material is getting,
although the people in the media, or the way that the legacy
media report things, you’d think that everybody believes that
Donald Trump was put in office by the Russians, and that that’s
something thinks is a really important issue; that’s not the
response we’ve been getting when we’ve been talking to the
population more generally.  So, I’d like to bring on Diane Sare
at this point, and ask you, Diane, what can you tell us about the
opportunity to organize people around this One Belt, One Road
Initiative and get past this Trump coup operation?

DIANE SARE:  What I can report is that the American population is
not having any of this psycho Goebbels-style propaganda against
the President.  It is so over the top that it is impelling and
propelling people who were not even Trump voters or Trump
supporters to stop at our tables.  I will also say, as I told Mr.
LaRouche yesterday, that it’s very important to remember in this
context that Lyndon LaRouche has a history in the United States
as being the spokesman, the leader of something known as the
American intellectual tradition.  That is, there is no person
alive today who has a greater understanding of the work of
Alexander Hamilton, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, the fight
for our republic and its roots in the work of people like
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Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz, and others.  Then Lyndon LaRouche.  As
people know, LaRouche has been organizing this fight to get our
republic to live up the principles in the Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence for at least the last 50-60 years;
his entire adult life since he was in the military in World War
II.  So, over these decades, LaRouche has been the founder and
editor of {Executive Intelligence Review} magazine; we had
various newspapers published — {New Solidarity}, the {New
Federalist}.  We have online news services, a Facebook page.  He
ran for President eight times.  As a result, LaRouche has
actually a very large following in the American population, who
remember his work; who remember his taking a principled stand on
their behalf when others would not.  And who paid the price for
that by undergoing a criminal witch-hunt run by exactly the same
people, down to the individuals like Robert Mueller, who are
going after Trump today.
So that combination — LaRouche’s record, his authority, his
voice; and the fact that the American people have suffered
incredible hardship over these last 16 years in particular of
Bush and Obama, and the bail-outs of Wall Street and a perpetual
war policy since 9/11 — the media simply does not carry the
weight.  So what we are getting in the New York metropolitan
area, for example yesterday, we had three teams out across the
area in Westchester County, Long Island, and New Jersey.
Combined, they signed up 32 new members to the LaRouche Political
Action Committee; which also means a financial contribution, etc.
They got probably 80-100 signatures on the petition; that we’ll
just mention.  The kind of things that are happening is that
people are coming up and identifying themselves.  In one case, a
person came up and said “I’m the chairman of the county
Democratic Party.  I don’t want my party controlled by George
Soros.  I know this Russia-gate crap is a lie.”  Republican Party
members are coming up and saying “We think the Republican Party
should get rid of the elephant, and instead have as its mascot
the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz.  Why won’t they stand up
and defend the President?”  People are really furious with both
parties.  They’re furious with the Republican Party for not
taking a stand; they’re furious with the Democratic Party for
taking a stand in the wrong direction.  And they remember Lyndon
LaRouche very well from these years of fighting.
I would say, I think it’s crucial what Will mentioned
earlier, and what Mrs. LaRouche has been insistent on; that if
President Trump were to bring the United States into
collaboration with the Belt and Road of China, which would
require the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall, a national banking
system to direct credit into fusion research; things that
generate real growth or a real increase in productivity as Mr.
LaRouche outlined in his Four Laws; Trump would go down in
history as one of the great leaders of all time.  Now so far what
we’ve seen is that he has a very productive relationship with
President Vladimir Putin of Russia; they met for two hours at the
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G-20 meeting in Hamburg.  You have a ceasefire in Syria as a
result.  ISIS is getting crushed.  You have his relationship with
Xi Jinping of China, which seems to be productive; it makes it
possible to resolve the North Korea situation without resorting
to war or military action of any kind.  And that’s the potential.
On the other hand, what you have is the death of this
trans-Atlantic system; namely the British Empire, the City of
London, the owners of George Soros — who may think that he owns
the Queen because he handles her offshore accounts, but I would
say it’s the other way around — who are desperate.  If the
United States returns to its American System tradition, which is
what Lyndon LaRouche embodies, then they lose; it’s the end of
the empire.  And it’s an era of a New Paradigm for mankind where
Americans can once again have the dream that our children and our
grandchildren will live longer, be better educated, be geniuses
like Beethoven and Einstein, be free to produce from the
potential of their God-given talents; that’s what the Founding
Fathers intended in our nation.  That’s the potential.
What we’re seeing in the streets — and this is across the
country; you have to think, this is the greater New York
metropolitan area, this is not the part of the country where
President Trump won the election.  We got a report yesterday from
the West Coast; in the San Francisco, a couple set up in front of
a post office.  While the postmaster wasn’t that thrilled, and
had them move their table a little away from the door; they were
with their signs to defend President Trump and got a very
positive response.  Yesterday morning we had organizers up on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan; for people who know what that
means, that’s a liberal Democratic area.  They were getting out
that {Hamiltonian} that Jason, you were holding up earlier with
the big headline “Russia-gate Is a Fraud!”  They said when they
put up the giant sign that said “Defend President Trump”, it got
a little bit testier; but they reported really only 1 out of 15
people getting a look on their face like they just sucked on a
lemon.  Everyone else was either non-responsive or downright
supportive; they got out 400 copies of the newspaper there in
just 2-3 hours’ time.
So, the truth of the matter is, the media has lost its
mandate.  What is published in the {New York Times}, on CNN, the
{Washington Post} is simply no longer credible.  People who took
it upon themselves to watch President Trump’s press conference
with this pack of howling hyenas, saw that he actually did a very
competent job; and therefore the population is prepared for a
fight.  But I would say that it’s very urgent that everyone here
take personal responsibility to not be a coward; to add your name
to the petition; to speak about the coup that is going on against
the President.  There is an attempt by the British to depose
through one means or another, another American President; and
what would be put in place if such a thing were to occur, would
be catastrophic for the United States and mankind.  We cannot
allow this to occur.  I think the American people don’t want it
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to occur; this is what we’ve been seeing.  The LaRouche Political
Action Committee and Lyndon LaRouche personally, are at the
leadership of this fight.

ROSS:  I think that’s right on.  Why don’t we take a look at
some of the responses that we’ve been getting from Facebook and
from twitter from the use of this newspaper in particular; that
“Russia-gate Is a Fraud!”  Here we go; have a look at some people
on Facebook [Fig. 7].  And we’ve got some pictures that were sent
into us from twitter as well [Fig. 8].  If you’re organizing
around this, please tweet things out.  #Russia fraud;
#Russia-gate; #Russia-gate fraud; use those hashtags.  Make sure
that people are able to find this material, and make it very
public.  This is a fight that absolutely has to be won to prevent
a coup that will tie the hands of President Trump and prevent us
from being able to have the kind of future that we could have; of
development and growth and cooperation with China.  I guess you
can see a few more here [Fig. 9].
So, get out there!  Do this kind of activity.  Get people
signing up; sign this petition, share it with everybody.  When
you post your picture on twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, make
sure you’re using the hashtag #Russia Fraud, or #Russia-gate
Fraud, or #Russia-gate, or all three of them.  And include a link
to the petition.  You can contact us for your own personal link;
you can also use the link that we have displayed on the screen
several times during this show — that’s lpac.co/yt17 — to share
that petition with others.  Do outreach.  Do it in this manner,
do it in other ways.  We need to raise this call to President
Trump to take this British apparatus on directly.  Unless it’s
defeated, it’s not just going to give up and go away; it has to
be taken on explicitly and taken down.  That’s the way that we
can insure the opportunity to have a different orientation for
our country.
So, I think that will do it for the show this week.  Very
grateful to have had Will Wertz with us in the studio again for
his very comprehensive look on the theme that Charlottesville was
a very directed operation; staged event.  Also, that we were able
to have Diane Sare with us today, joining us from the Manhattan
area.  Thank you for watching.  Please subscribe to the YouTube
channel; make sure you send out this video as well.  This is a
very comprehensive and excellent statement on the events of a
week ago.  We’ll be seeing more of you here at larouchepac.com.

5. juli, 2017 – Gid andre møder mellem internationale ledere var lige så lovende for deres nationers befolkninger, som det netop afsluttede topmøde mellem Xi Jinping og Putin!

De 40 bilaterale aftaler, der blev underskrevet, drejede sig om alt fra landbrug til samarbejde inden for Bælte & Vejs globale udviklingsinitiativ, med et par private kontrakter, der også blev underskrevet på sidelinjerne af topmødet. For at støtte disse økonomiske udviklingsinitiativer, gav præsidenterne deres støtte til aftalen mellem den Russiske Direkte Investeringsfond og Kinas Udviklingsbank, for at skabe en fælles investeringsfond på næsten $10 mia. (65 mia. yuan). Præsident Putin rapporterede, at de også havde aftalt »at fortsætte med konsultationer om den udvidede anvendelse af vore nationale valutaer i gensidige transaktioner og i investering«, og at de havde »sat sig den opgave mere aktivt at udvikle kreditsfæren og den finansielle sfære, samt samarbejdet i dette felt«.

Højteknologi og videnskabeligt samarbejde stod højt på deres dagsorden. Under deres pressekonference bagefter, nævnte Putin den succesfulde konstruktion af den første enhed af Tianwan-kernekraftværket (den største i drift i Kina, bygget med russisk teknologi) og sagde, at endnu to enheder ville komme i drift i 2018. De to præsidenter instruerede ligeledes det russiske atomenergiagentur Rosatom »om at underskrive en pakke af dokumenter om fire projekter for kernekraftværker i Kina før udgangen af 2017«, rapporterer Sputnik.

»I dag har vi særligt fokuseret på højteknologiske industrier – primært fælles rumforskning. Vi arbejder på det næste rumprogram for 2018-2022«, rapporterede Putin ligeledes.

Idet han nævnte Moskva-Kazan-højhastighedsjernbaneprojektet som blandt de fælles hovedprojekter, sagde Putin ligeledes, at de to havde drøftet »lokaliteten for rullende materielfremstilling i Rusland«.

Han rejse også spørgsmål om voksende videnskabelige og uddannelsesmæssige bånd mellem Rusland og Kina, og der er 17.000 russiske studenter i Kina, som præsidenten ser vokse til 100.000 studenterudvekslinger frem til 2020. For eksempel vil det første russisk-kinesiske universitet begynde at optage sine første studerende i september måned.

Under deres fælles pressebriefing understregede Putin atter engang, at deres fælles, økonomiske projekter udgør en del af deres bestræbelser for at »forbinde aktiviteterne i den Eurasiske Økonomiske Union med det kinesiske initiativ for det Økonomiske Silkevejsbælte«, som de diskuterede »i dybden … i overensstemmelse med vores idé om at danne et bredt, eurasisk partnerskab«.

Putin forklarede:

»Vi se et stort potentiale i den fælles anvendelse af den Nordlige Søfartsrute og den Transsibiriske Jernbane og Baikal-Amur-jernbanen. Dette er i vid udstrækning i overensstemmelse med vore kinesiske partneres initiativer, der blev drøftet under det nylige Bælte & Vej Internationale Forum i Kina. Den kinesiske leders initiativ fortjener omhyggelig opmærksomhed og vil blive støttet af Rusland på enhver måde.

Jeg er overbevist om, at disse storstilede projekter vil resultere i intensiv handel, moderne produktion og jobs og den hastige udvikling af russiske og kinesiske områder.«

Leder fra LaRouche PAC, 26. juni, 2017 – Ud fra rapporter fra det Demokratiske Parti at dømme, er »charmen« ved det britiske spil med at fjerne amerikanske præsidenter, der promoverer det Amerikanske Økonomiske System snarere end imperiets verdensorden, ved at falme. At spille »Russia-gate« mod præsident Donald Trump – McCarthy-isme for æsler – finder ingen støtte hos Demokraternes arbejdervælgere. Og, det udgør en dødbringende trussel, inklusive truslen om verdenskrig, mod USA.

Kina har, i fuldt samarbejde med Rusland, sat Bælte & Vej Initiativet for store infrastrukturprojekter i højeste gear og i realiteten lanceret en ny, økonomisk orden for »win-win«-vækst og udvikling. Skulle USA tilslutte sig Bælte & Vej, ville det ikke kunne standses, og ville også »Gøre Amerika stort igen«.

Præsidenten er blevet udsat for forsøg på afsættelse og endda potentielt mord, fordi han er for netop dette samarbejde og gentagent har udtalt dette.

For at standse dette farlige kupforsøg, bør fokus for indsats ligge på to rækker af møder, der finder sted 10 dage fra i dag, og som vil være med til at afgøre denne nye orden for samarbejde mellem nationer inden for økonomi, videnskab og rumfart.

Alle rapporter går ud på, at præsident Trump ser frem til at holde et fuldt, bilateralt møde – og ikke blot et ’møde på sidelinjen’, men et reelt topmøde – med den russiske præsident Vladimir Putin i forbindelse med G20-topmødet i Hamborg, den 7.-8. juli – og ligeledes holde et tilsvarende møde dér med Kinas præsident Xi Jinping. Medier som Independent og Daily Telegraph er ganske oprørte over disse rapporter (der oprindeligt kommer fra Associated Press) og frygter, at Trump og Putin kunne træffe beslutninger angående samarbejde, som Trump og Xi gjorde på Mar-a-Lago.

Schiller Instituttet og China Energy Fund Committee og Fonden for Genoplivelse af Klassisk Kultur afholder samme dag en stor, »Mad for Fred«-konference i New York, med en fremadrettet tanke på Bælte & Vej Initiativet; denne konference vil have fokus på fremskridt inden for fødevareproduktion. Det bliver et betydningsfuldt samarbejde for at bringe Amerika ind i den Nye Silkevej, genoplive Amerikas egen økonomi, teknologi og eget landbrug; landbrugseksperter fra begge lande vil optræde på denne konference.

Disse begivenheders afgørende betydning er, at præsident Trump ikke kan besejre det britiskansporede fremstød for at tvinge ham ud af embedet alene. Det er op til det amerikanske folk at tilbagevise og besejre »Russia-gate«, standse kupforsøget og støtte præsidenten i hans samarbejde med Rusland og Kina for fred og økonomisk udvikling i USA, og i verden.

En succesrig Schiller Institut-konference er lige så afgørende, som præsident Trumps forventede topmøder. Schiller Instituttets stifter og internationale formand, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, og EIR’s stiftende redaktør, Lyndon LaRouche, var, for mere end 30 år siden, ophavsmændene til konceptet med den »Eurasiske Landbro«, der nu, gennem Kinas Bælte & ej Initiativ, er i færd med at blive til »Verdenslandbroen«. Dette omfatter en genopbygning af en ny, økonomisk infrastruktur for USA; men for at gøre dette, er Lyndon LaRouches »Fire Love til at redde nationen« afgørende. Disse love omfatter en genindførelse af Glass/Steagall-loven, en ny nationalbank og statslig kreditinstitution i Hamiltons tradition og en genoplivelse af at lægge vægt på rumforskning og den fremskudte grænse for fusionskraft.

Dette er det Amerikanske Økonomiske System, og det er vejen til menneskehedens fælles mål.

Foto: Præsident Donald J. Trump, 21. juni, 2017. (Whitehouse photo)

23. juni, 2017 – Den 12. juni meddelte den kinesiske skibstransport- og havnegigant COSCO, at de stod for at købe en majoritetspost på 51 % i Noatum Ports, et spansk selskab, der i øjeblikket driver Valencias havn (den største havn i Middelhavet), dybvandshavnen i Bilbao på Spaniens nordkyst og et halvt dusin øvrige havnefaciliteter i landet. Handlen til €203 million har mange lighedspunkter med COSCO’s tidligere handel til €360 million, der involverede den græske havn i Piræus, derved, at de omfatter førsterangs-omdrejningspunkter for Bæltet og den Maritime Silkevej.

Meddelelsen kom mindre end en måned efter Bælte & Vej Forum for Internationalt Samarbejde i Beijing den 14.-15. maj, hvor den spanske premierminister Mariano Rajoy deltog blandt de 29 statsoverhoveder og 1500 delegerede fra regeringer, erhvervsliv og tænketanke. Ifølge Pedro Nuevo, en spanier, der er leder af Kina-Europa Internationale Erhvervsskole i Shanghai, »fik Rajoy på BRF-topmødet at vide, at det [Bælte & Vej] ikke slutter i Spanien, men går videre til Latinamerika. Det betyder, at kinesiske selskaber skal flytte ud, og yderligere, at Spanien er en bro til Latinamerika og Afrika. Det bør ikke anses for at være et logistisk projekt, men snarere et begrebsmæssigt projekt … Man må forstå, at Vejen går ud over infrastruktur«.

Spaniens økonomi- og handelsattaché i Kina, Javier Serra Guevara, understregede sidste år en lignende pointe: Spanien bør ikke se sig selv som blot den vestlige endestation for Bælte & Vej, »men bør foreslå sig selv som et omdrejningspunkt for at forbinde denne korridor med Nordafrika og Latinamerika«.

Dette fokus på Spaniens bredere rolle i BRI er en parallel til det, som EIR foreslog i 2012 i sin Specialrapport, »Et økonomisk mirakel for Sydeuropa, Middelhavsområdet og det afrikanske kontinent«, der omfatter et kapitel om »Spanien: Verdenslandbroens Bro til afrikansk udvikling«.

Foto: Fra havnen i Valencia, Spanien.

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v/ formand Tom Gillesberg.

Video og lydfil.

Velkommen til dette fortsatte drama, som vi forhåbentlig vil se tilbage på om et par år og sige:

»Det var dengang, verden var på kanten af at udrydde og udradere sig selv; men lige pludselig, så lyttede menneskeheden til de fantastiske mennesker, de ikke ville lytte til før; så lyttede man til de vise ord fra Lyndon LaRouche og Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Instituttet og Tom Gillesberg og Jacques Cheminade. Det her er folk, som igennem årtier havde kæmpet for at få vendt udviklingen og få verden sat på ret kurs. Og vi troede aldrig, det ville ske. Og lige pludselig, så begyndte man at lytte; og ikke nok med, at man lyttede til det her, man begyndte faktisk at gøre det.

Det var først kineserne, der for alvor så lyset og begyndte at gøre noget ved det. Men da først Kina satte sig i spidsen for dette udviklingstog, for den Nye Silkevej, så gik der ikke lang tid, så kom resten af menneskeheden med om bord, og så skete der noget. Og selv i de tidligere håbløse områder, som f.eks. New York City, hvor det var et mareridt, hvor man knap nok kunne bevæge sig fra A til B, fordi der var så mange folk, der skulle transporteres, og hele infrastrukturen var 100 år gammel; jamen, så i løbet af bare ganske få år med kinesisk hjælp, så lykkedes det faktisk at bygge en helt ny, fantastisk infrastruktur.

Og Donald Trump, som man forsøgte at gøre grin med, som man forsøgte at få afsat, som man forsøgte at få fjernet med alle midler; jamen, det viste sig, at han faktisk indgik et strategisk partnerskab med Kina, med Rusland og blev til en af USA’s rigtig store præsidenter.«

Og det er det, vi må håbe er fortællingen om ganske kort, for det er det potentiale, der er i tiden. Igen, man forsøger ved hjælp af ’fake news’, dvs., de veletablerede mediekanaler i den vestlige verden, hele tiden at have en pseudodagsorden; hele tiden at få folk fikseret på det ting, der ikke er de store spørgsmål, mens de virkelige, revolutionerende, afgørende begivenheder, der sker i verden rundt omkring, jamen, dem forsøger man ikke at snakke om.

Altså, hvor mange har læst i danske medier, en udførlig rapport fra Bælte & Vej Forummet, 14.-15. maj, (i Beijing); denne verdenshistoriske begivenhed, hvor 130 nationer var til stede, og hvor Bælte & Vej Initiativet så at sige gik ind i næste fase, og hvor sågar USA, som under Obama havde gjort alt for at sabotere dette udviklingsmomentum, faktisk gik med om bord; at man havde Pottinger som Trumps repræsentant; at man nu har etableret en samarbejdsgruppe, USA’s Bælte & Vej Samarbejdsgruppe, som skal få integreret USA i Bælte & Vej politikken.

Tilmed i Danmark; Karen Ellemann blev sendt som Lars Løkkes personlige repræsentant: Hvor mange danskere tror I ved det? At Danmark var med på Bælte & Vej Forummet? 1 procent; 1 promille? 5 Mennesker ud af fem millioner? Det er meget få, for der har ikke været en lyd om det. Intet. Og det er ligesom måden, man forsøger at behandle det her på; man forsøger ligesom fanatisk at sige, i den gamle optik, i den gamle verden, at der ikke er sket noget; verden er, som den altid har været. …

12. juni, 2017 – I en artikel med titlen, »USA’s engagement i Bælte & Vej er et strategisk imperativ«, i juniudgaven af Journal of Commerce, advarer Tony Padilla, en seniorrådgiver for internationale anliggender ved USA’s Transportministerium, om, at det er til USA’s eget fordærv fortsat at ignorere Bælte & Vej. »Alt imens den Amerikanske Kongres kæmper med den bedste måde at genopbygge en aldrende, amerikanske infrastruktur på, til dels gennem, hvad der ville være en $1 billion stor investering over 10 år, så indikerer rapporter, at det Kina-ledede Bælte & Vej Initiativ allerede har forpligtet næsten $2 billion i løbet af de seneste tre år fra forskellige kilder, inklusive Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB), banker til Kinas politik og multilateral og bilateral finansiering«, skriver Padilla.

Og alt imens Kongressen har afholdt høringer om infrastruktur, så bemærker Padilla, at mange af deltagerne i en reception på Capitol Hill under Infrastruktur-ugen aldrig havde hørt om Bælte & Vej. Dernæst går Padilla videre med at citere tidligere amerikanske diplomat Chas Freeman for, at projekterne er »den største og potentielt mest transformerende ingeniørindsats i menneskets historie«.

Padilla knurrer over, hvordan USA vil blive kørt ud på et sidespor af Bælte & Vej, hvis det fortsat ignorerer og klager over Kinas »aggressive merkantilisme« og citerer endda admiral Mahan og en af vore nutidige Cassandra’er, admiral James Stavridis. Men hans respons synes mindre et krigshyl end en opfordring til, at Amerika står ud af sengen og gør noget, går med i Bælte & Vej snarere end at forsøge at underminere initiativet. »At tackle disse spørgsmål kræver en portefølje af løsninger, der kunne omfatte at udføre lobbyvirksomhed for gennemskuelighed i tilbudsgivningen for kontrakter i Bælte & Vej-relaterede markeder samtidig med en fokusering på de formidable problemer mht. at flytte og levere materialer internationalt«, skriver Padilla.

»Som en magt i Stillehavsområdet med enorme økonomiske og strategiske spørgsmål, der står på spil i Bælte & Vej-området«, fortsætter Padilla, »kan USA ikke tillade sig at sidde på sidelinjen og se på, at disse infrastrukturudviklinger i udlandet går fremad. Ved at acceptere Bælte & Vej kunne USA sikre, at selskaber og investorer bliver i stand til at deltage i det, der kunne blive historiens største, økonomiske udviklingsprojekt. Men det må gå frem med forsigtighed og afbalancere fordelene ved større adgang til udviklende markeder samtidig med, at det tager en førende, komplementerende rolle sammen med vore kinesiske modparter for at være med til at udforme et transparent, gnidningsfrit og ligeværdigt handelsnetværk.« Han slutter med endnu en advarsel om, at, hvis USA ikke bliver involveret, vil det »ultimativt gøre det muligt for Kina ensidigt at trække linjerne op for verdens næste, episke kapitel for geopolitik og geoøkonomi«.

Foto: USA negligerede infrastruktur smuldrer. 

Det vigtigste aspekt af ideen om USA’s tilslutning til Bælte & Vej-initiativet vil imidlertid være at inspirere hele befolkningen med håb for fremtiden, en bedre fremtid for de kommende generationer, noget, der er gået tabt i løbet af de seneste fem årtier. Det ville ligeledes demonstrere, at præsident Trumps løfte om atter at gøre Amerika stort ikke står i modsætning til andre landes interesser, men at et sådant win-win-samarbejde tværtimod kan bevæge hele verden ind i en ny æra af menneskelig civilisation. Hvis de to største økonomier i verden ville samarbejde på denne måde, vil der ikke være noget problem på planeten, der ikke kunne løses.

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Matthew Ogden: Jeg vil kort gennemgå, hvad der sker i verden og de udviklinger, der har været i ugens løb. Der foregår virkelig meget i verden; se bare på det tempo, udviklinger finder sted i: fra Kinas Bælte & Vej Forum i midten af maj til Skt. Petersborg Internationale Økonomiske Forum, der fandt sted i sidste uge i Skt. Petersborg, Rusland. Vi er nu midt Shanghai Samarbejdsorganisationens (SCO) møde, der finder sted i Astana, Kasakhstan. Både Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin og Narendra Modi er til stede ved dette SCO-møde, der finder sted netop nu. Der finder bilaterale møder sted på sidelinjen af dette meget vigtige topmøde, mellem præsident Xi og Modi, Xi og præsident Putin, og Xi og præsident Nazarbajev fra Kasakhstan.

Det, vi er vidne til i hele denne række af verdenshistoriske topmøder, er i realiteten en konsolidering af det, som Helga Zepp-LaRouche, under sin deltagelse i Bælte & Vej Forum i Beijing, kaldte »dannelsen af en Ny Økonomisk Verdensorden«. Hun sagde:

»Med Bælte & Vej Forum etablerede vi dannelsen af en Ny Økonomisk Verdensorden. Det var et i sandhed historisk øjeblik; en ny æra for civilisationen. Dette er et faseskifte for menneskeheden.«

Det, vi ser, er en reel konsolidering af dette faseskifte for menneskeheden.

Præsident Xi Jinpings artikel, som han offentliggjorde aftenen før SCO-forummet i Astana, gav genlyd af denne karakteristik. Han erklærede, at den Nye Silkevej var blevet en succes i løbet af de fire år, der var gået, siden han oprindeligt annoncerede dette initiativ på præcis samme sted – Astana, Kasakhstan – i 2013. Han sagde, initiativet i løbet af disse fire år med held var gået fra idé til handling; og at dette initiativ nu fungerer som et »globalt offentligt gode«. Jeg mener, at denne karakteristik understreger det faktum, at denne nye, internationale orden ikke alene omfatter de økonomiske, diplomatiske og sikkerhedsmæssige relationer, der nu bliver konsolideret; men også, grundlæggende set, et fælles forpligtende engagement til fundamentalt fremskridt for den menneskelige art. Det, som Xi Jinping kalder for »menneskehedens fælles skæbne«.

Hvis vi ser på de spændende budskaber, der netop er kommet fra det kinesiske rumprogram, mener jeg, dette er en absolut korrekt karakteristik. Det bekræftes nu, at Kina, med deres Chang’e-mission, følger planen for at sende en mission til Månen for at returnere med prøver, få prøver af månejord og vende hjem til Jorden med dem; dette vil ske i november i år. Chang’e IV-missionen til Månens bagside, som man har store forventninger til, vil finde sted til næste år.

Lad os se på, hvad der finder sted her i USA. I denne uge så vi, at der virkelig blev lagt ved på bålet i kampen for Glass-Steagall. Marcy Kaptur og Walter Jones er begge i offensiven i denne uge i forbindelse med den såkaldte »Financial Choice Act«. De fremlagde begge en fremragende begrundelse for Rules Committee tidligere på ugen, for deres lovtillæg til Financial Choice Act, nemlig Prudent Banking Law (loven om ’klog of forsigtig’ bankpraksis), som ville genindføre Glass-Steagall. Selv om dette desværre blev nedstemt i Rules Committee (dvs. komiteen vil ikke lade dette alternative lovforslag komme til afstemning i salen, -red.), så har begge fået mulighed for at tale i Repræsentanternes Hus’ sal imod Henserling-lovforslaget. Walter Jones var den eneste Republikaner, der stemte imod Financial Choice Act og til støtte for Glass-Steagall, sammen med Tulsi Gabbard, der også er medsponsor af Glass/Steagall-loven.

Jeg vil afspille først Marcy Kapturs tale, efterfulgt af Tulsi Gabbards tale:

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MARCY KAPTUR:  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose the
Financial Choice Act, which abandons the American people, as well
as safety and soundness in favor of Wall Street. Six mega-banks
now control two-thirds of the financial sector in our country,
and reap record profits of over $170 billion in 2016.  That’s too
much power in too few hands.  Current law has made progress in
protecting consumers from predatory practices.  Repeal of these
consumer protections is not what the American want.  This week,
Congressman Jones and I proposed to table the current legislation
and replace it with our bipartisan bill, the Prudent Banking Act;
which reinstates Glass-Steagall protections by separating prudent
banking from risky Wall Street speculation that tanked our
economy in 2008.  The Rules Committee refused to allow our bill a
vote; nevertheless, we remain resolute.  Glass-Steagall is
something President Trump ran on, as did Bernie Sanders.  In
2016, both the Republican and Democratic platforms enshrined
policies to restore Glass-Steagall protections.  Americans should
know there is a growing bipartisan consensus fighting to protect
the progress we have made, rein in Wall Street, and keep the
wolves at bay and out of your pocketbook.  I will be voting “no”
on this bill and urge my colleagues to do the same.  I yield back
my remaining time.

TULSI GABBARD:  Thank you, Mr. Speaker.  Rolling back
financial regulations that are in place to protect the American
people will put them and our country’s economic security at risk.
However, the Financial Choice Act that is being considered by
Congress today does just that.  It erodes protections against
dishonest, big bank practices that rob people of their
hard-earned salaries.  The bill repeals the Volcker Rule, it
dismantles the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, strips
regulations in place to protect the American people’s savings,
and actually lets the big banks maintain even less capital that
they need to absorb catastrophic losses; making it so that
they’re relying once again on the American taxpayer to bail them
out.  We don’t need to remind the families who have suffered so
much about the pain caused by the Great Recession.  In my own
home state of Hawaii, from 2008 to 2010, our unemployment rate
more than doubled; and 11 million people in America lost their
homes.  The big banks of 2008 are even bigger and more powerful
today.  I urge my colleagues to reject this dangerous bill and
instead pass HR790, the Return to Prudent Banking Act, which
would reinstate a 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act.  I yield back.

OGDEN:  So, along with Glass-Steagall, the rest of the
debate around what constitutes the core of Mr. Lyndon LaRouche’s
Four Economic Laws, is also beginning to open up.  While you have
President Trump touring the country as part of his so-called
“National Infrastructure Week”, this has really been put on the
table in a very real way.  The credit for this infrastructure.
How do you increase the productivity of the American workforce?
How do you increase the productivity of the American territory,
and how do you apply the American System — the Hamiltonian
system — to make this happen?
Just to give you flavor of what Mr. Trump has been saying on
the subject over the past week — and we will get into this a lot
more — I’m going to play for you a clip of his speech that he
gave in Cincinnati.  I think you’ll find the setting very
appropriate; right against the backdrop of the Ohio River, with
barge traffic going back and forth behind him as he speaks.  So,
here’s President Trump:

DONALD TRUMP:  [as heard] Thank you all very much.  It is
great to be back in Ohio.  We love Ohio.  You remember Ohio, oh
boy.  It was supposed to be close; it wasn’t close.  So wonderful
to speak on the shores of the very magnificent Ohio River.  We’re
here today to talk about rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure.
Isn’t it about time?  Spending money all over the world, except
here.  We don’t spend our money here, we spend it all over.  And
we’ll do it using American labor, American energy, American iron,
aluminum, and steel.
The American people deserve the best infrastructure anywhere
in the world.  We are a nation that created the Panama Canal, the
Transcontinental Railroad, and if you think about this, the great
highway system — the Interstate highway system.  We don’t do
that anymore, we really don’t.  We don’t even fix the old
highways anymore.  We’ll take even fixing them, but we’re going
to get them going again like they’ve never been before.  These
projects not only open new lanes of commerce, but inspired the
immigration and the dreams of millions and millions of people.
We crafted monuments to the American spirit; it’s time to
recapture our legacy as a nation of builders and to create new
lanes of travel, commerce, and discovery.  We’re going to see all
the way into the future; and the future’s going to be beautiful.
And the future is going to be bright.
In my campaign for President, I travelled all across the
nation.  I saw the crumbling infrastructure.  I met with
communities that were desperate for new roads and new bridges.
The bridges were so dangerous, they couldn’t use them; they were
worried they would fall down.  You’ve seen that happen.  I heard
the pleas from the voters who wanted to know why we could rebuild
foreign countries?  My big thing.  We build in foreign countries,
we spend trillions and trillions of dollars outside of our
nation; but we can’t build a road, a highway, a tunnel, a bridge
in our own nation.  We watch everything falling into disrepair.
It’s time to rebuild {our} country, to bring back {our} jobs, to
restore {our} dreams.  And yes, it’s time — finally — to put
American first; and that’s what I’ve been doing, if you haven’t
noticed.
We’re going to restore America’s industrial might; creating
the jobs and tax base to put new infrastructure all over our
country.  That’s what’s happening.  I’m calling on all Democrats
and Republicans to join together — if that’s possible — in the
great rebuilding of America.  Countless American industries,
businesses, and jobs depend on rivers, runways, roads, and rails
that are in dire and even desperate condition.  Millions of
American families rely on their water and pipes and pumps that
are on the verge of total failure and collapse.
We are pleased to be joined today by representatives from
many, many industries that depend on a truly critical component
of our nation’s infrastructure.  These citizens know firsthand
that the rivers, like the beautiful Ohio River, carry the
lifeblood of our heartland.  Roughly 60% of United States grain
exports travel down these waterways to the Gulf.  More than half
of all the American steel is produced within 250 miles of where
we’re standing right now, and its production depends on the
inland waterway system.  Up to 25% of the nation’s energy cargo
relies on these channels, and the refineries along their shores.
But these critical guarders of commerce depend on a dilapidated
system of locks and dams that is more than half a century old.
And their condition, as you know better than anybody, is in very
bad shape.  It continues to decay.
Capital improvements of this system which is so important,
have been massively underfunded.  There is an $8.7 billion
maintenance backlog that is only getting bigger and getting
worse.  Last December, up the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, one
lock built more than 50 years ago had to be shut down for five
days due to hydraulic failure.  You know what that means.  Five
days means everything comes to a halt.  We simply cannot tolerate
a five-day shutdown on a major thoroughfare for American coal,
American oil, and American steel which is going to get more and
bigger.  America must have the best, fastest, and most reliable
infrastructure anywhere in the world.  We cannot accept these
conditions any longer.
A few years ago, a gate broke from its hinges at the
Markland Locks on the Ohio River in Kentucky.  It took nearly
five months to repair.  Any of you know about that?  Wasn’t a
pretty picture, was it?  I don’t think so.  In 2011, a massive
section of canal wall collapsed near Chicago, delaying
everything; and it seemed like forever.
America built the Golden Gate Bridge in just four years, and
the Hoover Dam in five years.  Think of that.  It shouldn’t take
ten years to get approvals for a very small little piece of
infrastructure; and it won’t.  Because under my administration,
it’s not going to happen like that anymore.
So, I want to thank all of the great workers for being here
today.  I want to thank all of the great business leaders; you
have some business leaders who are legendary people in the
audience.  Running massive, massive companies.  And being slowed
down, but now they’ll be able to speed it up.
Not only are we going to repair much of the depleted
infrastructure, but we’re going to create brand new projects that
excite and inspire.  Because that is what a great country does;
that is what a great country has to do.  America wants to build.
Across the nation, our amazing construction workers, steel
workers, iron workers, fitters, electricians, and so many others
are just waiting to get back to work.  With the talent and skill
they represent — which believe me, I grew up in the building
business.  I know the talent and the skill and the courage and
everything else that they have.  There is no limit to what we can
achieve.  All it takes is a bold and daring vision and the will
to make it happen.
Nearly two centuries ago, one American governor had just
such a vision and a will.  His name was Governor DeWitt Clinton.
As the governor of New York State, he dreamed of a canal
stretching nearly 400 miles to connect the Atlantic Ocean in the
east with the Great Lakes in the west.  He predicted that its
construction would place New York City at the very center of
worldwide commerce.  He took the idea to Washington, but
President Thomas Jefferson — great President — didn’t agree
with him; and he dismissed that concept as total madness.  I’d
like to thank all of the people that helped so much in that
incredible event, and I think that Jefferson simply understood
who he was and who he was dealing with.  If you want a New Yorker
to do something, just tell them — like our great past governor
— that it’s impossible to do.  The governor didn’t give up, and
New York State achieved what they thought was the impossible.
When the Erie Canal opened in 1825, he was on the first boat.  He
personally deposited a bucket of water from the Great Lakes into
the New York Harbor.  The new canal exceeded even the governor’s
bold vision.  It dramatically reduced the time and cost to
transport goods from the heartland.  As a result, new settlers
rushed into the Midwest, including to right smack here.  Probably
some of you indirectly, right?  Definitely some of you.
Just as the daring dreams of our ancestors opened new paths
across our land, today we will build the dreams that open new
paths to a better tomorrow.  We, too, will see jobs and wealth
flood into the heartland, and see new products and new produce
made and grown right here in the U.S.A.  You don’t hear that much
anymore.  We will buy American, and we will hire American.  We
will not — so importantly — be content to let our nation become
a museum of former glories.  We will construct incredible new
monuments to American grit that inspire wonder for generations
and generations to come.  We will build because our people want
to build, and because we need them to build.  We will build
because our prosperity demands it.  And above all, we will build
because that is how we make America great again.
Thank you.  God bless you.  Go out there and work.  You’re
going to see some amazing things happen over the next long period
of time.  Thank you, everyone.  It’s a great honor to be with
you.  Thank you.

OGDEN:  So, to address some of what President Trump covered
in that frankly inspiring speech, I want to hand it over to
Jason.  I know we have some other things to cover, but we’ll get
to those later in the show.  I think this is a good point to let
Jason tell us how we’re going to get to work.

JASON ROSS:  OK, this article that Matt referred to earlier,
that I wrote about New York City’s infrastructure — New York’s a
case-study, but it really says something about the nation as a
whole, namely, that if the biggest, greatest city in the United
States is an infrastructure disaster, what does that say about
our economic thinking, about the way we think about
infrastructure?  How did we let ourselves get into a situation
that’s this bad?
First, from a national perspective, just some of the
numbers, briefly.  The American Society of Civil Engineers every
few years does a report card on American infrastructure.  We got
a D+.  Now, they say that there’s $4.5 trillion of infrastructure
that’s needed and of that, only about half of it actually is
funded.  That over the next decade, there is a little over $2
trillion in infrastructure needs that currently are not provided
for, that won’t happen, that aren’t scheduled to take place:
Things like the locks and dams on our inland waterway system that
President Trump mentioned, which are in terrible shape!  Where
the failure — take one example — the failure of the Soo locks
on the Great Lakes, if that were to go, for the shipping season
during the warmer months, the estimates from the Department of
Homeland Security are that {11 million jobs} would be lost by the
failure of that one piece of infrastructure because it’s so
critical to so much of manufacturing:  Of bringing ore from one
place to another, bringing products from one place to another.
Without it, there’s no alternative way of moving these goods.
You’re not going to ship it by truck.  It won’t happen.  It’s
just going to dramatically collapse our productive abilities.
Now, these estimates are a little low.  The head of China
Investment Corp.  Ding Xuedong estimated U.S. infrastructure
needs at $8 trillion!  What  this really all comes down to,
though is what we consider our needs to be.  Do we think of what
we need to do in the future, in terms of repairing what we’ve
already got, which we certainly should repair locks and dams that
are threatening failure.  But is that what our needs are?
It isn’t.  You’ve got to say what is going to make us proud
a century from now.  What is going to be the groundwork that 100
years from now, we will say, “Oh, this was the basis for the
prosperity that we had over this century; this is what made it
possible.”  And if you look at the past, at things like the canal
that President Trump mentioned, if you look at what Eisenhower
did 51 years ago in setting up the Highway Trust Fund and the
ability to go out and build the Interstate Highway System, which
was a pretty phenomenal thing in its time: 40,000 miles of
expressway were built in a decade and a half.  That’s pretty
fast.  It was a large project.  Every year, 15,000 families were
relocated, 40,000 miles built altogether, at a cost in today’s
terms of about $500 billion —  a big project.  A big project.
Now, for what we need to do today, to make the groundwork
for what we’re going to need over the next century, we’ve got to
think about leapfrogging.  What’s the next level of technology?
Improving Amtrak trains?–ugh.  Instead, think about how are we
going to have a high-speed rail network?  Where will these
high-speed rail stations be?  There’s just no way, for example,
on the route that goes from New York to Boston, it can’t be
upgraded — forget it!  It won’t happen; we’re not going to build
a maglev line that runs along the current Northeast Corridor from
New York to Boston.  Not going to happen.  Too crooked, too
curved, goes through too many downtowns and narrow types of
passageways — not going to happen.  We’re going to build an
entirely new rail network in the United States, new high-speed
rail network.
We should build maglev rail, magnetic levitation is the
leapfrog.  That’s the next level of technology.  It’s more
efficient, it’s safer, it’s quieter, less vibration, less
disruption to people nearby.  Fast, safe, efficient — this is
what would be the next generation of technology, that would be a
basis for a higher potential of our country as a whole.
Think about the history of the United States; think about
the history of any country.  What makes it possible to achieve a
certain level of wealth of economic activity, of development?
Well, there’s a lot of aspects to it, but the primary one that
makes everything else possible, is your infrastructure platform.
Do you have a network of roads?  Do you have availability of
power?  How about water?  Think about where cities are located in
the country, or in other countries — where do cities locate
themselves?  They don’t wind up in the middle of the desert or on
the top of a mountain peak or someplace like that.  It’s based on
the, you might say “natural,” infrastructure.  Is it near a
river?  Why is New York where it is?  The Hudson River isn’t just
an inconvenience to traffic because you have to build bridges and
tunnels above it or below it.  It’s the Hudson River!  This is a
major aspect of shipping that goes into the country.  That’s why
New York is where it is.
Other cities, they are where they are due in large part to
rivers for our older cities; and then when you think about what
the potential is in building rail networks and building road
networks, you create a synthetic environment of infrastructure,
that says, OK, this is a place where we should build a new city;
this is a place where it makes sense to have production.  We can
get materials easily, we can work on them, we can ship them out;
we’ve got water, we’ve got power, we’ve got transportation, that
increases the potential of every bit of land that is developed in
that way.
So when you string electric lines out, as Roosevelt did with
the Rural Electrification Act, with the help from the Federal
government for rural residents to get electricity to their towns,
to their farms, this dramatically increased their productivity.
The building of the Transcontinental Railroad; it didn’t just
mean it as cheaper to ship some thing you ordered from a
manufacturer in New York to San Francisco.  Yes, it was cheaper
and quicker than going by boat, all the way around; but what did
it make possible in the entire rest of the country?  You build a
rail line, all the places along it are now increased in their
potential, increased in their value.
So what we need to do, is take advantage of the incredible
renaissance in infrastructure that’s occurring all around the
world — it’s led by China.  And I’ve got to say, the incredible
success that China’s having with its own domestic infrastructure,
with the building of 22,000 km of high-speed rail over the past
decade.  And let’s think about this:  China is a country, where a
decade ago there was zero high-speed rail in China.  What you see
here [{{Figure 1}}] is a map of a future 8 by 8 grid of
high-speed rail planned by China.  It’s double the length of
current high-speed rail, 45,000 km.  They’re going to have that
in place in 2035.
Where do these lines go?  Does it go to currently existing
cities?  Yes.  It would be silly not to link up currently
existing cities.  Where are the stations? Are they in the
downtowns?  Not necessarily.  Maybe it’s difficult to get there;
there’s already a lot of buildings there.  So new areas are
opening up for development in China, as a result of these
high-speed rail lines.  They’re tremendously successful.  Most of
the trips made along this network, are new trips, ones that would
not have been made if the network did not exist.  So it’s not
just people getting somewhere they were already going more
quickly, it’s actually increasing the transportation throughput
in the country.
That’s what it would be like in the United States as well,
as we develop a national network of high-speed rail [{{Figure
2}}]; this will change the productivity throughout the country.
And another aspect of this, I want to show one more thing we
can learn from China, which is the increase in energy, to take
another metric.  I had mentioned transportation.  Here’s a chart
[{{Figure 3}}]: In blue, you see total per-capita energy use in
China, from 1972-2012, so, 40 years.  Look at that difference:
Total energy use per capita in China is more than four times as
big, almost five times as big.  Now, look especially at the red
line:  That’s the amount of {electricity} used per person in
China.  Now, I know, in this chart the red line goes above the
blue line, because they’re different units, so don’t worry about
that.  The relative change is what’s important:  {Per-capital}
electricity use in China, has gone up {by 25 times}, in past four
decades — 25 times. Think about what that means.  Look at the
percentage of energy use in China, that comes from electricity,
that’s in the form of electricity:  It’s gone from 3% to
15%–that’s a {wonderful} accomplishment!  Because electricity is
a higher form of power than energy in general.  There’s things
that you can do with energy, such as burning fuels for cooking,
let’s say, or heat to power a diesel train engine, or steam
engine or something like this.  Electricity is the next level of
technology.  You can do much more with it:  You can power motors
that are controlled by computer equipment; you can have laser
manufacturing technologies, electric-discharge machining,
electron beam welding.  The next level of productivity is made
possible through the use of electricity as a higher platform.
I think we can definitely learn some lessons from China.
And the speed at which they have been doing this, I think
absolutely — I wouldn’t want to say “vindicates” but it’s a
successful experiment that shows that the method of Lyndon
LaRouche is right!
This proposal that China has made of the Belt and Road
Initiative, whereby China is engaged with multilateral financing
institutions and with its own domestic financial institutions,
like its state banks, its Export-Import Bank, etc., it’s been
involved in {major} infrastructure deals with its neighbors along
the Belt and Road, and even in more distant locations, such as
Africa, where the incredibly new rail opening in Kenya that
reduces travel time from Mombasa to Nairobi from 10 hours down to
4 hours, with the building of the Standard Gauge Railway there,
this is the type of project that is just going to dramatically
improve the productivity of Kenya.  A Chinese-financed project,
by the Chinese Export-Import Bank.
These kinds of deals are wonderful.  It’s a “win-win”
approach where China is able to export its technology, export its
know-how, the train sets that it builds, and the nations in which
the infrastructure is being built, of course, benefit from having
a great new set of infrastructure.  So everybody benefits from
this.  And the speed that this is being done with, the way that
it’s being financed, I think it says, “Hey, we could be doing
this here.”
This isn’t some sort of distant plan.  We should take the
outlook that President Trump expressed in that speech that we
just heard him make and say, we’re going to do this right now.
We can start building these things right now.  The whole
Interstate system was built in 15 years, that’s pretty fast, when
you think about the size of the thing.  What does it look like to
build a high-speed rail network in the United States?  Who’s
going to build the train sets?  Where’s the rail going to come
from? We can gear up to build the rail, but as far as high-speed
trains go, we don’t produce those!  We actually don’t have the
know-how among American domestic manufacturers.  We’re going to
be looking to China, as contractors, to build these kinds of
train sets, and also to assist with the financing.  China has
huge foreign reserves right now, and the head of China Investment
Corp. Ding Xuedong, the guy I had mentioned earlier, he said that
he’d be interested in investing some of the tens of billions of
dollars in U.S. Treasuries that China Investment Corp. holds,
happy to invest that in U.S. infrastructure.
I think from that standpoint, when we look at New York, for
example, and New York is a disaster — it’s on such a thin
thread, the ability for the over 1 million who come into
Manhattan every day for work, the ability for them to get to
work, it is incredibly precarious!  This summer, for two months,
two of the four tunnels heading east from Manhattan are going to
be closed for maintenance.  That’s going to really upset the Long
Island Railroad.  The two tunnels coming into Manhattan from the
west, the rail tunnels going into Penn Station, — which is
operating at over 100% capacity; as many trains as could possibly
fit through that tunnel are already making the trip.  New Jersey
transit commuters going into New York has tripled over the past
couple of decades.  It’s just  — you can’t fit any more people
through that tunnel!  It’s not possible.
These tunnels, the ones that I’d mentioned, these are 100
years old, or older!  {1910}, the Hudson tunnels were opened up!
These are in {desperate} need of repair — but it’s impossible to
close them to do any maintenance, because so many people are
riding on them all the time.
The only way that this can be fixed is to build an entirely
new set of tunnels, to build a new train station — here we go,
[{{Figure 4}}] this is the Gateway Project from Amtrak, where
additional lines would be built so you could have four tracks
going all the way from Penn Station, Newark; there’d be a new
loop built at Secaucus — my apologies if you’re not familiar
with the area, I know this is going fast. You’re going to have
more than double the flow of people and trains that could be
brought into New York.
This is a major and essential project.  Some work was
actually begun on it in 2009, before New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie killed it in 2010.  But, it’s not enough.  Yes, this
should happen, but this isn’t the real outlook we ought to have.
We need to think, how is New York going to fit in a broader,
regional scheme of things?  What’s the high-speed rail going to
look like in the area?  How can we totally transform the region’s
rail stations so that instead of New Jersey Transit trains coming
into Penn Station and then turning around, they keep going to the
east? [{{Figure 5}}] To Sunnyside, Queens, to a new terminal at
Port Morris, the Bronx; this is a proposal by ReThink New York
City, a public advocacy group up there.  We need entirely new
subway lines, and a national high-speed rail network.
I just want to say one more thing about the Interstate
system here [{{Figure 6}}] which you see on the screen.  This is
the original 1955 plan.  And I’d like to talk a little bit about
how Eisenhower made this reality.  First off, in terms of where
the demand for roads came from: The real push for an improvement
in public roads came in 1880 and it was promoted by bicycle
riders, who  thought rail was great for trains, but people wanted
a smooth way to ride a bike without being quite so bumpy. By the
1930s, trucks only hauled about 10% of freight in the United
States; 75% of freight moved by rail in ’20s, with trucking doing
a small amount at that time, and then inland waterways, the
infrastructure that President Trump mentioned in that clip.
By 1958, when the highway system was starting to get built,
rail was 50% of freight, highways 20%, inland waterways 16%,
pipelines 16%; and the ability to build up a broader expressway
system was hampered by the fact of how are you going to pay for
it? So the Bureau of Public Roads had been getting
appropriations: Congress would vote up some appropriations to the
Bureau of Public Roads to give grants to help build up the U.S.
highway system. It was unreliable, you didn’t know how Congress
was going to vote every year; it made it very difficult to do
long-term planning.
What Eisenhower did was he set up the — and this is lessons
for today for national banking for how to finance these projects
— Eisenhower set up the Highway Trust Fund in 1956.  It was a
separate fund, it wasn’t part of the annual budget.  Congress
wasn’t going to vote on it every year, to say, “gee should we
build the highway system or not?” and re-debate it every single
year.  Forget it!  Eisenhower set up this special fund that had a
dedicated tax system where the money would go straight into it,
as a separate capital budget, not part of the annual operating
budget.  A tax on gasoline — by the way the current gas tax
right now, it’s too low.  It hasn’t been increased in a couple of
decades.  It should be higher.  That’s why the Highway Trust Fund
doesn’t have enough money; the gas tax hasn’t been increased to
keep pace.  What else? Tire taxes, for trucks.  Trucks have big
wear on the roads; a tax for the sale of large trucks, and also a
tax for the yearly registration of large trucks.  So these kind
of indirect taxes ended up sending the money into the Highway
Trust Fund, so that it was able to build out this whole road
system and not be repaid directly.  The emphasis was {not} toll
roads! That was actually a condition for some of the turnpikes to
get Interstate Highway System funding, was they had to get rid of
their tolls. So, along Interstate-95, I-95, a lot of these roads
used to be tollways; in Connecticut that used to be a tollway.
In ’80s, after paying off bonds for repair and upgrade of a
bridge, the tolls had to be taken down, that was in keeping with
the interstate system.
That’s the way we’ve got to think about it.  Not a
public-private partnership, where you say, “I’m going to directly
pay for this project and I’ll make the money back through tolls,”
forget it.  That’ll work for an airport upgrade or something like
that.  But for a national high-speed rail network, for these
other things, what we need is national banking, so that we can
have long-term, low-interest loans, and we can get it away from
the annual squabbles about appropriations; have the ability to
have separate capital budgeting to finance this long-term
outlook.  And of course, none of that is going to happen without
Glass-Steagall.

OGDEN:  I think that’s the vision that people are looking
for, and you even heard President Trump say, “this is the kind of
bold vision.” People are ready to work!  People are ready to
build and it is true, that if you look at the history of the
American System, what is it that conquered the West?  It was the
spirit of building; this is a nation of builders.  This is the
kind of spirit that Gov. DeWitt Clinton, a strong advocate of the
American System was a believer in.
This article that you wrote, Jason, it’s available in the
current issue of {Executive Intelligence Review}
[http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/private/2017/2017_20-29/2017-23/
pdf/12-28_4423.pdf]
and we’ll make a link available.  But I want to ask our viewers
at this point, what have you been reading in the press this week?
What have you been seeing on television?  Have you been seeing
coverage of National Infrastructure Week?  Did you see coverage
of this inspiring speech by President Trump in Cincinnati?  Did
you see coverage, unless you’re a C-Span wonk, [laughter] did you
see the speeches that Marcy Kaptur [D-OH] and Tulsi Gabbard
[D-HI] made on the floor of the House for Glass-Steagall?  This
is one of the most historic fights in present history:  Did you
see the coverage of this fight in the Rules Committee, which was
very dramatic, over their proposal to repeal the “Financial
CHOICE Act,” a Dodd-Frank, and replace it immediately with
Glass-Steagall?  That’s a {real} repeal and replace!
Did you hear coverage of this new international order that’s
being consolidated in Eurasia?  These three back-to-back summits
with world leaders: The Belt and Road Forum, the St. Petersburg
International Economic Forum, and the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization summit that’s happening now?  Have you see coverage
of these unprecedented missions that China is sending to the
Moon? The same return mission, lunar sample return? The mission
to the far side of the Moon?
Or even, did you see coverage of this absolutely historic
election, general election that happened just last night in Great
Britain, when Theresa May got completely trounced and Jeremy
Corbyn shocked everybody, and gained unprecedented seats for
Labour Party and consolidated his control over Labour, despite
all of the opposition from within his own party.  Did you see
coverage of that?  No!
What have you been seeing?  Twenty-four hours a day, around
the clock, you’ve been seeing Comey, Comey, Comey, Comey.  This
is the sideshow, — it really reminded me of an episode from the
“People’s Court” or something. [laughter]

ROSS:  Or, “Twilight Zone.”

OGDEN:  Right.  I actually want to point your attention to
an article which is available as the lead of the LaRouche PAC
website today, called “LaRouche: Stop the FBI Fraud, Stop the
Coup against the President — What the Lying Media Is Not Telling
You”
[https://larouchepac.com/20170609/larouche-stop-fbi-fraud-stop-
coup-against-president-what-lying-media-not-telling-you].
And that’s a screenshot there from the LaRouche PAC website; this
is the lead for today. And it begins as follows:  “Lyndon
LaRouche called upon the American people to shut down the coup
underway against President Trump which was fed Thursday by the
lying testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey before the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. LaRouche said that the
coup is an FBI-type operation attempting to destroy the United
States, and if it is not stopped, the world will face general
warfare.”
And then it goes on to say the following: “On June 7, former
Director of National Intelligence Clapper revealed the actual
motivation for the coup against Trump in remarks in Australia. He
said that Trump’s openness to peace with Russia–the platform
upon which Trump was elected by the American people–was itself
wholly against U.S. national security interests, in effect,
equivalent to treason.”  And then the article goes on to say: “It
was already known in official Washington well before the
election, that President Obama, in collusion with the British,
candidate Clinton, DNI head Clapper, CIA head Brennan, and FBI
head Comey, had steered the U.S. on a war course with Russia and
China, which was meant to be fully activated with Clinton’s
election. Trump was elected instead, triggering the coup which
has followed.”  And then it makes the very clear point:
“President Trump has kept his promise and established better
relations with both Russia and China, who are seeking cooperation
with the United States in developing the world based on great
infrastructure projects. That is the only issue here.”
Again, that’s the beginning of the article, “LaRouche: Stop
the FBI Fraud, Stop the Coup against the President — What the
Lying Media Is Not Telling You” which is available on the
LaRouche PAC website.  And then it goes on from there, and goes
through a very detailed examination of what this process really
has been ever since Inauguration Day; so we encourage you to read
that article. And let me put on the screen again, the link to the
petition: http://action.larouchepac.com/lets_rebuild_the_country.
It’s called “Congress, Suck It Up and Move On — It’s Time To
Rebuild the Country.”  And the url is http://lpac.co/rebuild ,
that’s where you can sign this petition online.  And we also have
a mobile phone app that you can text the word REBUILD to
2025248709.
And that petition continues to accumulate signatures, and
it’s your opportunity to get involved.
I just want to let Jason say a little more in terms of the
process that’s ongoing.  The opportunity that we have ahead of
us, — Helga LaRouche’s attendance at the Belt and Road Forum
that occurred in Beijing, the campaign which we’ve been running
for the United States to join this Silk Road — what better
opportunity do we have than now, when you actually have your
President, whatever you want to say about him, is strongly
advocating a modernization of U.S.  infrastructure and an
exciting program to give Americans the opportunity to build a new
era of U.S. infrastructure.

ROSS:  Well, Trump’s initiative is right.  His direction on
this is right.  He likes to build things;  you’ve heard that
speech, this is a good direction for this country.  What is
really not very present is how to finance it.  And that’s the big
weakness and that’s what we are responsible for correcting.
That’s what Lyndon LaRouche has been working on for decades, is a
real science of economics and doing that in opposition to what
has taken over United States policy: monetarism.
The Trump idea is that $200 billion in Federal financing is
going to be leveraged to create a total of $1 trillion over a
decade for U.S. infrastructure. That’s the Trump outlook. That’s
grossly insufficient.  The idea that you’re going to leverage
$200 billion into a total of $1 trillion is a difficult thing if
you don’t have the ability to capture the indirect value of
infrastructure.  Because, look, think about the value of building
up a platform.  The value of building up an infrastructure
platform, isn’t to make money by charging people to use it.  Now
you open up some business where you’re making cookies, well sure,
you sell your cookies; people pay to eat your cookies or
whatever, that’s fine, that’s how a business works.
That’s now how an infrastructure platform works:  The return
is indirect, the return isn’t local to the place where the
infrastructure is built.  It changes the nation as a whole.  And
when we think about linking in to the full World Land-Bridge
proposal, crossing the Bering Straits, not only will we be able
to ship things from the Americas over to Asia more quickly than
you can by ship, but you’re opening up the Arctic.  There’s tons
of resources in the Arctic!  There’s petroleum, we know about
that; but mineral resources, all sorts of potential up there.
It’s not worth anything if you can’t get to it.  So building up
that whole network, as Dr. Hal Cooper has put forward in his
engineering proposals on this, tremendous change.  To the south,
bridging the Darién Gap, connecting North, Central and South
America as one: These are tremendous potentials.
The value of infrastructure, it’s indirect, it’s not local;
{and}, it’s not commensurable.  A dollar into infrastructure,
maybe has, you might calculate $2.5  of benefit or something like
this.  It’s not the same dollars.  That chart I had showed
earlier about China’s use of electricity as a percentage of its
total power, this represents a transformation of the economy.
The fact that total power went up five times, but electrical
power went up 25 times, China’s not doing five times more of what
it used to do, or leaving the lights on longer, or something like
this.  This represents {a change in the structure of the economy
as a whole.}  And it’s made possible by building out a network of
power. China needs {much} more power into the future; China is
building nuclear power plants into the future, and this is really
the next level of platform of energy, just as high-speed and
maglev rail is the future of transportation, nuclear power,
developing fusion power, that’s the next level of electricity.
So we’ve got to think of those leapfrogging type steps.  And
our message to Trump is:  Good direction, we’ve got some very
serious proposals for you about how to make it all possible;
Glass-Steagall is absolutely essential, as you, Mr. President,
promised in your campaign.  And then, we need national banking,
as a way of indirectly financing these projects that just won’t
give money back to a private investor, it’s not how they work.
{And} finance fusion, so we get that next level, the next
platform will be possible

OGDEN:  Yeah, absolutely.  OK.  I think that’s an exciting
and very direct message.  We’ve got a lot going on, clearly.
This has been a very, very eventful week! And I think we can just
expect the pace of the things to continue to increase.
So thank you very much for watching today, and please
encourage other people to watch this broadcast; there is a lot of
material, and it’s a lot to absorb and a lot to teach others
about.
Thank you very much, Jason.  I know you’re going to be up in
New York City next week, and presenting some of this, for our
friends who are up there, I encourage you to directly participate
in that discussion with Jason. And please read Jason’s article,
“Case Study New York City: A Future Platform of U.S.
Infrastructure.”  We’re making that available in the description
for today’s broadcast.
Thank you Jason, and thank you for watching.  Please stay
tuned to larouchepac.com.  Good night.

5. juni, 2017 – Kina udskiber mere end 2.821,75 tons ris til FN’s Verdensfødevareprogram (VFP) i Somalia via den Maritime Silkevej, rapporterede Sixi Qu, Kinas VFP-repræsentant, den 2. juni. Xinhua kalder denne beslutning for »et konkret resultat i kølvandet på Kinas forpligtende engagement over for fødevarehjælp under Bælte & Vej Forum, der afholdtes i maj i år«.

Halvdelen af Somalias befolkning, inklusive 363.000 akut underernærede børn under fem år, har behov for akut fødevarehjælp. Risen vil give fødevarehjælp til 18 regioner i Somalia, der er ramt af tørke. Sammen med Kinas bidrag af ris, durra (sorghum) og Plumpy Sup (en næringsrig puré) er der tilstrækkeligt med mad til at ernære henved 223.500 mennesker i fire måneder, rapporterer Xinhua.

»VFP er meget taknemmelig over for Kinas regering for dens mangeårige engagement over for humanitær nødhjælp, som i betydelig grad vil styrke vores indsats for at levere vital fødevarehjælp til sårbare mennesker på randen af hungersnød. Fødevarer fra Kina vil nu tage rejsen ad den Maritime Silkevej for at støtte somaliere, der er ramt af tørke«, sagde Sixi.

Kina udvider ligeledes sit samarbejde med Etiopien, Somalias nabo på Afrikas Horn, efter Bælte & Vej Forum. Meles Alem, talsperson for Etiopiens Udenrigsministerium, rapporterede den 1, juni, at PM Hailemariam Desalegn i maj måned mødtes med folk fra 17 store, kinesiske selskaber med en anmodning om, at også de investerede i Etiopien. Kinesiske firmaer har investeret $4 mia. i Etiopien i løbet af de seneste to årtier.

Efter han havde deltaget i og talt på Bælte & Vej Forum for Internationalt Samarbejde i Beijing, besøgte Desalegn flere kinesiske provinser, underskrev en låneaftale til $250 mio. til en industripark og underskrev formelt Etiopiens medlemskab i AIIB med håbet om at fremme lån til diverse planlagte infrastrukturprojekter«, sagde Alem.

Foto: I det tørkeramte Somalia på Afrikas Horn trues millioner af mennesker i hele landet af hungersnød.

3. juni, 2017 – Spanien er rede til at udvide samarbejde med Kina under Bælte & Vej-Initiativet (BVI), især inden for infrastruktur, sagde Spaniens handelsminister Marisa Poncela den 1. juni på forummet i Madrid, »Forretningsmuligheder for spanske selskaber under Bælte & Vej-Initiativet«.

BVI samler tæt på 60 % af verdens befolkning og tilbyder enorme muligheder, sagde Poncela. »Alle Handelsministeriets redskaber er til rådighed for dette initiativ … Spanien har fire handelskontorer i hele Kina, og som analyserer, hvordan projekter udføres, og hvordan, de samarbejder med vore selskaber og institutioner gennem vore redskaber til at hjælpe dem med at fremlæge det bedste tilbud.«

Spanien ønsker ikke blot en landforbindelse gennem jernbaner, men også en maritim forbindelse, sagde handelsministeren: »vi ønsker, at den maritime forbindelse mellem Kina og Europa skal ende i Spanien, i vore havne, Barcelona, Valencia, i alle vore havne ved Middelhavet, eller længere endnu, i vort land.«

Madrid-forummet, der er arrangeret i fællesskab af Det Kinesiske Handels- og Investeringskammer i Spanien (CCINCE) og den Spanske Konføderation af Erhvervsorganisationer (CEOE), tiltrak henved 200 repræsentanter fra betydningsfulde institutioner og foretagender i Kina og Spanien. Vicepræsident for CEOE, Juan Pablo Lazaro, sagde, »Bælte & Vej-Initiativet har vakt stor interesse blandt vore erhvervsorganisationer og vore medlemmer og partnere pga. af dets ambition og store format.«

Han sagde, at dette infrastruktur- og kommunikationsnetværk langs med BVI’s strækning med logistiske og industrielle centre er en stor mulighed for at integrere asiatiske markeder og promovere Eurasiens, Kinas og EU’s økonomiske udvikling. Lazaro sagde, spanske iværksættere »har hilst initiativet velkommen med stor interesse i betragtning af, at vi kan bidrage med vores management-kapacitet og vores viden inden for områderne«. Spanien har en afgørende position inden for logistik i Europa, Latinamerika og Nordafrika, sagde han og fremhævede Madrid som et logistisk omdrejningspunkt.

Foto: Spaniens handelsminister, Marisa Poncela.

23. maj, 2017 – Tehran Times udgav en artikel af Kinas ambassadør til Iran, Pang Sen, i går (»The Silk Road: Glorious Past and Even Brighter Future«) (Silkevejen: Strålende fortid og endnu lysere fremtid), som gennemgår de to nationers samarbejde i fortiden i den antikke Silkevej, og udtrykker smitsom optimisme for kinesisk-iransk samarbejde langs den Nye Silkevej i dag.

»I århundreder har Iran været et af de vigtigste trafikale knudepunkter og handelscentre langs Bælt & Vej«, skrev ambassadør Pang. »Med sin beliggenhed på et mødested for Bælt og Vej, har Iran en fremragende geostrategisk position. Siden gennemførelsen af den Fælles Omfattende Handlingsplan mellem P5+1 og Iran i 2015, er Irans interne og eksterne omstændigheder meget forbedret, hvilket giver bedre betingelser for samarbejdet mellem Kina og Iran.«

Han gennemgik de igangværende projekter, med kinesiske og iranske firmaer, der samarbejder »inden for mange felter såsom energi, transport, maskineri, metallurgi, vandkraft, elektricitet, telekommunikation, byggematerialer og biler. Byggeriet af Teheran-Qom-Isfahan-højhastigheds-jernbanen er i gang; projektet for moderniseringen af Teheran-Mashhad-jernbanestrækningen skal netop til at begynde; Teherans nye metrolinje kører glat; og det direkte godstog fra Yiwu, Kina, og til Teheran, har gennemført sin jomfrufærd. Sent sidste år blev to vigtige olieprojekter færdige, nemlig China National Petroleum Corp.’s (CNPC) Nordlige Azadegan Projekt, og China Petroleum and Chemical Co.’s (SINOPEC) Yadavaran Projekt«, og med CNPC og NIOC, der har »underskrevet en ny hovedaftale for udviklingen af South Pars gasfeltet. Nu for tiden åbner flere og flere kinesiske selskaber foretagender i Iran, og de kinesisk finansierede forsknings- og udviklingsparker og bilindustrizoner er i drift«.

Irans aktive deltagelse i udarbejdelsen af planen for fremtidigt samarbejde under det netop afsluttede »fantastiske« Bælt & Vej Forum i Beijing vil inspirere og fremme større samarbejde, sluttede ambassadøren.

Foto: I februar 2017 ankom det første direkte godstog fra Yiwu, Kina, til Iran. Den 10.400 km lange tur tog 14 dage.

23. maj, 2017 – »Beijings strategi standser ikke ved bæltet og vejen«, sagde professor ved Tsinghua Universitet, Li Xiguang, den 20. maj på et forum i Hongkong, rapporterer South China Morning Post den 21. maj. »Strategiens fulde navn bliver ’Ét Bælt, én Vej, én Cirkel’, og cirklen referer til den Arktiske Cirkel«, sagde Li. Selv om Kina ikke er en kyststat i Arktis, har de i de seneste år optrappet deres engagement i området, siger eksperter. Kina sikrede sig permanent observatørstatus i Arktisk Råd i 2013 og er allerede involveret i arktisk udvikling, med aktier i russiske naturgasprojekter i Arktis gennem Silkevejsfonden. Flere end et halvt dusin forskningsmissioner er også blevet gennemført under regi af den Kinesiske Administration for Arktis og Antarktis. Kina definerer sig selv som en »nær-arktisk stat« og anser sig selv for at holde »hele menneskehedens nedarvede rigdom«.

En omfattende artikel i The Diplomat af Nangye Liu i Australien rapporterer om præsident Xis besøg i Finland i april, og om den kinesiske premierminister Wang Yangs deltagelse i det fjerde Internationale Arktiske Forum i slutningen af marts, som værende vejledende for Kinas interesse i arktisk udvikling. Præsident Xis besøg i Finland i sidste måned var en bestræbelse på at samle støtte til en større kinesisk rolle i Arktis, siger Li. Nangye Liu rapporterer, at Finland og Kina aftalte at samarbejde inden for arktisk marin industri, og selv om de nordiske lande (Danmark, Norge, Finland og Sverige) ikke er på Bælt & Vej, så er de medlemmer af Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB). »Ved at tilslutte sig AIIB bliver de fleste arktiske stater i stand til at samarbejde med Kinas Bælt & Vej-initiativ via denne platform«, siger Liu.

Foto: Kinas præsident Xi Jinping (venstre) sammen med Finlands præsident, Sauli Niinistö, under førstnævntes besøg i Finland, den 5. april, på sin vej til det historiske topmøde med præsident Donald Trump i USA, der fandt sted 6.-7. april.

København, 18. maj, 2017 – Efter seminaret »Kinas Ét Bælt, én Vej-initiativ og mulighederne for Norden«, der var arrangeret i fællesskab af Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier (DIIS) og den Kinesiske Ambassade i Danmark, gennemførte Schiller Instituttets Michelle Rasmussen et interview med Wang Yiwei, professor ved School og International Studies; direktør for Institute of International Affairs, samt direktør for Center for European Studies ved Renmin Universitet i Beijing. Han er forfatter af bogen, »The Belt and Road: What will China offer the World in its Rise?«, fra 2016 (Bælt og Vej: Hvad vil Kina tilbyde den fremvoksende verden?)

Wang Yiwei deltog ved præsentationen af den kinesiske udgave af EIR’s specialrapport, »Den Nye Silkevej bliver til Verdenslandbroen«, som blev præsenteret af Schiller Instituttets stifter og præsident, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, ved et symposium, sponsoreret af Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, der også er medsponsor af den kinesiske udgivelse, den 29. september, 2015, på Renmin Universitet.

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Med formand Tom Gillesberg:

»Det er 4. maj; ti dage, inden det går løs i Beijing med det store Bælt & Vej Forum, som bliver et afgørende punkt i den fortsatte udvikling her på planeten Jorden; det tror jeg allerede nu ligger klart. Det er jo så spændende, at den danske statsminister Lars Løkke Rasmussen ikke kunne vente. Han havde så travlt, at han sagde, ’jamen, jeg vil ikke vente til 14. maj; jeg tager derover allerede 2. maj til Kina og besøger pandaer, men også den kinesiske præsident og statsminister, og det er selvfølgelig en god impuls, at det er det første – ikke statsbesøg – men det første besøg fra dansk side med statsministeren, officielt besøg, siden 2008, da Danmark og Kina indgik et strategisk partnerskab, hvor Danmark ligesom blev det første land i Norden til at indgå et sådant særligt strategisk partnerskab med Kina. Så det er en god impuls at tage derover. Det, der så bare er vigtigt, er, at der er andet på dagsordenen end de pandaer …

Fordi, dét, Danmark SKAL med på, det er det nye paradigme, som Kina er drivkraften i, men hvor det ikke bare drejer sig om Kina, næh, det drejer sig om størstedelen af verden; det er det nye paradigme, som Kina samarbejder tæt om sammen med Rusland, sammen med stadig større dele af Asien, efterhånden det meste af Asien, men hvor Sydamerika, Afrika og andre lande også står i kø for at være med. Til dette Bælt & Vej Forum er der 30 stats- eller regeringschefer, der indtil nu har annonceret deres deltagelse, men der vil være delegationer fra over 100 lande, mange på meget højt niveau, fordi det her er stort; fordi Kina er blevet drivkraften i global udvikling. Den tankegang, man har haft i Kina, er simpelthen, at man har sagt, ’Vi har været i stand til at løfte 6 til 700.000 millioner mennesker, fattige kinesere, ud af fattigdom til et langt bedre liv; man har så en ambition om, at, i 2020 skal der ikke længere findes fattige i Kina; der skal ikke findes folk, der har problemer med, at de ikke får mad, osv. Fattigdommen skal afskaffes; men hvorfor skal det kun gælde Kina? Man har fundet ud af, at, hvis man investerer i infrastruktur, hvis man bruger penge på at investere i infrastruktur, i moderne teknologi, i modernisering af forskellige ting, jamen, så kan man løfte hele samfundet op; og det er ikke en speciel ting, der gælder for kinesere; det gælder for alle mennesker …«     

Lyd:

Folk tager fuldstændig fejl, når de tror, at Det britiske Imperium ikke længere eksisterer. Der skete det, at, efter Sovjetunionens kollaps, gik Storbritannien og de noekonservative i USA i gang med bestræbelser på at etablere en unipolær verden. Man kan også sige, at det er det samme som globalisering: det er et forsøg på at etablere et verdensimperium, baseret på den angloamerikanske relation; for tidligt erklærede Fukuyama historiens slutning, dvs., at hele verden ville blive forvandlet til demokratiske stater, og de opfandt sådanne ting som »retten til at beskytte« (eller ansvaret for at beskytte, R2P, -red.), »humanitær intervention«, »regimeskifte«; ’farvet revolution’ imod enhver regering, der ikke ville underkaste sig. …

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Leder fra LaRouche PAC, 16. april, 2017 – Flertallet af verdens nationer og folk befinder sig i en tilstand af chok, og frygt, over, at præsident Trumps nylige 180 graders kovending – fra hans afvisning af regimeskifte og en forpligtelse til at arbejde sammen med Rusland og Kina for fred og udvikling, og til et kriminelt og uberettiget militærangreb mod Syrien og en trussel om et førsteangreb mod Nordkorea – kunne fremprovokere en global atomkrig praktisk talt hvornår, det skal være. Denne frygt er fuldt ud berettiget, men for at forhindre en sådan eksistentiel katastrofe for menneskeheden, må de langt om længe komme overens med den kendsgerning, som Lyndon LaRouche længe har identificeret, at kilden til denne krise er Det britiske Imperium og Det britiske System.

Ikke alene pralede Londonavisen Guardian den 13. april med, at Storbritanniens GCHQ (UK’s modsvar til NSA) som de første adviserede amerikansk efterretning om de såkaldte mistænkelige kontakter mellem personel fra Trumps kampagne og russere, som dømtes til at være »mistænkte efterretningsagenter« – som om kontakt med russere var noget dårligt. De klagede også åbenlyst over, at USA ved lov var forhindret i at udspionere sine egne borgere – så briterne måtte gøre det for dem.

Via deres indflydelse over politiske netværk og medienetværk i USA, og deres primære aktiv, George Soros, brugte briterne et komplet forfalsket dossier, fabrikeret af »tidligere« MI6-agent, Christopher Steele, til at skabe en bevægelse for en ’farvet revolution’ imod Trump-præsidentskabet, over angivelige bånd til russerne.

Ved dernæst at bruge falske efterretningsrapporter fra deres terroristtilknyttede Hvide Hjelme-aktiver i Syrien, omgav briterne dernæst Trump med den løgn, at den syriske regering havde brugt kemiske våben imod sin egen befolkning – en absurditet, eftersom det ikke tjente noget militært formål, og den syriske regering allerede var i færd med at vinde krigen mod ISIS og al-Qaeda-terrorister, med russisk hjælp. Husk, at det var Tony Blair, der leverede de falske efterretninger om, at Saddam Hussein havde masseødelæggelsesvåben og således trak G.W. Bush ind i krigen med Irak – som udløste det nuværende terrorhelvede og masseflygtninge over Middelhavet.

Denne britiske medskyldighed blev offentliggjort den 12. april i FN’s Sikkerhedsråd, da den russiske viceudsending til Sikkerhedsrådet, Vladimir Safronkov, vendte sig direkte mod den britiske FN-ambassadør, Matthew Rycroft, som netop havde fordømt Rusland for at støtte Bashar al-Assad i Syrien (og som tidligere havde været en af Tony Blairs assistenter, da briterne lancerede den kriminelle krig mod Irak). Safronkov identificerede korrekt det britiske motiv for deres løgne og krigsmageri: »I er bange for, at vi kunne samarbejde med USA. Det er, hvad I ligger søvnløse over om natten.«

Dette er præcist briternes formål. Briterne har brugt USA som deres dumme kæmpe til at udkæmpe deres kolonikrige, lige siden mordet på John F. Kennedy – fra Vietnam til Irak til Libyen og Syrien, og nu, måske Nordkorea, hvilket ville bringe hele Asien, og verden, ind i et atomart holocaust. Briterne er villige til at risikere en global atomkrig for at forhindre USA i at bryde imperieopdelingen af verden i Øst og Vest i gensidig konflikt, i at forene hele verden bag gensidig fred og udvikling, og i at gøre en ende på imperium, én gang for alle.

LaRouche-bevægelsen og Schiller Instituttet demonstrerede vejen ud af denne katastrofe i Manhattan, den 13.-14. april, med en konference, der havde titlen, »Amerikansk-kinesisk samarbejde om Bælt & Vej-initiativet, og overensstemmende ideer i kinesisk og vestlig filosofi«. Førende kinesiske og russiske diplomater og erhvervs- og andre ledere talte på konferencen og fremlagde det presserende nødvendige i, at præsident Trump går sammen med Kina og Rusland i de Nye Silkevejs-projekter, som nu bringer win-win-udvikling, snarere end krig, til alle dele af verden. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Instituttets grundlægger, talte både om, at det hastede med dette samarbejde som den nødvendige politik for at afværge krig, men også om nødvendigheden af at bringe alle storslåede nationers kulturelle traditioner – og især traditionerne i Kinas Konfucius-kultur og Vestens Renæssancekultur – ind i en harmoni, som grundlaget for at imødekomme menneskehedens fælles mål.

Dette kræver, langt om længe, fuldførelsen af den Amerikanske Revolution imod det Britiske Imperiesystem, hvor dette onde system knuses i USA, og i hele verden, nu, før det lykkes dem at lancere en krig, som ville betyde den omgående afslutning af civilisationen, som vi kender den.

Enhver borger, enhver nation, må handle på baggrund af deres sande menneskelighed på dette, civilisationens krisetidspunkt, og gå sammen med LaRouche-bevægelsen og andre ligesindede borgere i verden, for at knuse det britiske system og virkeliggøre et nyt paradigme, der repræsenteres af den Nye Silkevejsproces for fred gennem udvikling.

Foto: MOAB: Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. 

Sekundær leder fra LaRouche PAC, 16. april, 2017 – Igen i dag, som en blasfemisk handling på Påskedag, forsøgte Londons imperiemedier at provokere Trump-administrationen til at gå i krig ved at citere personer fra det britiske establishment, der hævder, at de kender, og endda kontrollerer, amerikanske krigsplaner.

Siden britisk efterretning først forsøgte at lancere »Trump-Rusland«-skandaler i amerikansk politik for næsten to år siden, har dette været britisk imperiestrategi: Forhindr samarbejde mellem et Trump-ledet USA og Kina og Rusland, om et nyt paradigme for økonomisk udvikling og sikkerhed. Kast i stedet Amerika ud i nye krigskatastrofer.

Det amerikanske folk, og andre nationers folk, må afvise og besejre disse britiske ansporinger til krig – med en trussel om termonuklear verdenskrig – og vælge dette nye paradigme.

Dagens Sunday Times hævdede, i en åbenlys opfordring til regulær krig på den Koreanske Halvø, at »man havde fortalt briterne«, at Trump-administrationen stod for at angribe mål over hele Nordkorea for at eliminere Nordkoreas atomvåbenprogram. »Donald Trumps nærmeste militære rådgivere har fortalt Storbritannien, at Amerika har ildkraften til at neutralisere regimets atominfrastruktur – og måske snart ville lancere et førsteangreb for at gøre det. I det, som vil blive set som et forsøg på at lægge pres på Kina – sagde højtplacerede kilder, at USA kunne ’totalt destruere’ hovedmålene ved anvendelse af konventionelle våben.

»’De vil gøre, hvad der skal til’, sagde en højtplaceret, britisk kilde. ’Intet er udelukket. De mener, de har, hvad der skal til, for at udse målene og totalt ødelægge dem. De er overbeviste om, at de ved, hvor alting befinder sig og kan ramme det effektivt.’ En militær kilde, der talte med [nationale sikkerhedsrådgiver general H.R.] McMaster i denne måned, sagde, han var klar over, at ethvert sådant forsøg ville få en meget høj pris, fordi det sandsynligvis ville fremprovokere missilangreb mod Sydkorea.

En højtplaceret [britisk!] regeringskilde sagde: ’De er ved at komme til et punkt, hvor de mener, de må ødelægge faciliteterne forebyggende … De er meget nærmere ved at gribe til militær handling’.«

Idet de gjorde sig alle anstrengelser for at hævde, at et amerikansk angreb mod Nordkorea – og en nordkoreansk krig mod Sydkorea – er umiddelbart forestående, citerede Sunday Times også den tidligere britiske forsvarsminister og udenrigsminister Malcolm Rifkind, der frimodigt, uden nogen beviser, hævdede, at USA udførte et cyberkrigsangreb mod Nordkoreas forsøg på at gennemføre en prøveaffyring af et missil lørdag aften. »Der er en meget stærk overbevisning om, at USA gennem cyber-fremgangsmåder ved flere lejligheder har haft held til at afbryde disse prøveaffyringer og få dem til at mislykkes’, sagde Sir Malcolm Rifkind, den tidligere udenrigs- og forsvarsminister, til BBC.«

Og igen, på Påskedag, hyldede udenrigsminister Boris Johnson på BBC det amerikanske angreb med krydsermissiler mod Syrien og krævede en fælles, amerikansk-britisk militærintervention i Syrien for at fjerne den syriske præsident Bashar al-Assad.

Men, på Twitter sagde præsident Trump den 15. april, »Tingene vil udvikle sig fint mellem USA og Rusland. Der kommer en varig fred.« De britiske, barbariske krigshyl havde ingen relation til Trumps rådgiver McMasters faktiske udtalelser på nationalt Tv søndag.

Alt det, som briterne kræver, er det modsatte af præsident Trumps kampagne for det »Amerikanske Økonomiske System«, som afviste krige for regimeskifte. London er ude på at ødelægge hans præsidentskab gennem »tilbagetræden, rigsretssag eller mord«, som Spectator forudsagde.

»Det, der er galt med Trump-administrationen, er Det britiske Imperium!«, sagde Helga Zepp-LaRouche søndag, samtidig med, at styrker fra LaRouche-bevægelsen nu mobiliserer amerikanere for at besejre dette imperiums provokationer. Hun havde netop holdt hovedtalen på en stor, todages konference i New York City om Kinas Bælt & Vej-initiativ og det nye paradigme for udvikling, som samlede betydningsfulde repræsentanter for Kina og Rusland og ingeniører og videnskabsfolk, for at tale til det amerikanske folk om samarbejde om det nye paradigme.

Foto: House of Parliament, UK.

Ruslands politik var meget klar fra begyndelsen: Vi ønsker ikke at have nogen særstatus på verdensarenaen. Vi ønsker ligeværdig behandling, fair behandling, ikke kun for os, men for alle andre stater. Og hvis vi kan yde denne fair behandling i alle sfærer, ligeværdig sikkerhed, ligeværdigt økonomisk samarbejde, ligeværdige udvekslinger mellem folkeslag, så vil vi alle vinde en masse, i stedet for at forsøge at opbygge nye mure, forsøge at bygge nye skel, forsøge at bygge, genopbygge eller styrke disse militære alliancer, der findes.

Konferencier Dennis Speed: Jeg vil gerne introducere vores sidste taler. Vi er alle klar over en særlig omstændighed, der er brudt ud, og de af os, der er virkelige amerikanske patrioter, indser, at en stor uretfærdighed er blevet begået. Vi er påtvunget denne uretfærdighed, og vi er glade for at have den næste taler her, med os: Her er hr. Petr Iliichev, chargé d’affaires ved den Russiske Føderations permanente mission til FN. [Stående klapsalver].

Petr Iliichev: Mange tak, mange tak kolleger for en meget varm velkomst, og jeg er taknemmelig over for madame LaRouche for at arrangere jeres konference, som er meget relevant for det, vi diskuterer. Jeg undskylder, at jeg kommer for sent, men vi havde to møder i dag i Sikkerhedsrådet, to vigtige spørgsmål, der ligger langt væk, men som beviser, at vi lever i en globaliseret verden, og denne globaliserede verden bevæger sig i to retninger. Undertiden har vi meget anstændige, meget gode konsekvenser af globalisering, og undertiden har vi negative virkninger. I dag diskuterede vi Haiti, det ser mere eller mindre ud til at være i en positiv retning: men igen, det, som præsidenten netop har sagt, at massemigration af mennesker skaber flere problemer, men med en politisk [gave?] eller med en geo-kollektivistisk opmærksomhed kan vi forsøge at vende dette negative fænomen til en fordel, både for værtssamfundene, men også for de mennesker, der rejser.

Det andet spørgsmål, vi diskuterede, var Somalia og Eritrea, og I kan også forestille jer, at dette er et meget vigtigt spørgsmål, ikke kun pga. somaliernes skæbne, hvor de i mere end 25 år er blevet berøvet et statsskab, virkelig at have en nation. Men de har overlevet, og desværre er deres beliggenhed i en sådan strategisk position, som alle udnytter – vestlige magter, forbrydere, al-Shabab-terrorister, men nu er der en klar forbindelse til Islamisk Stat, men der er også pirateri.

Vi ser, at denne globaliserede verden også fordrer en globaliseret reaktion, et globaliseret svar.

Men for at vende tilbage til denne konferences tema, vil jeg gerne sige, at international, økonomisk udvikling og internationalt, økonomisk samarbejde nu om dage i høj grad er en drivkraft i den verden, vi lever i. Det ville være korrekt at sige, at et af målene for hvert land er at udvikle forskellige økonomiske, videnskabelige, teknologiske bånd, ikke kun mellem de individuelle lande, men også mellem grupper af lande, og disse bånd, dette samarbejde, bør baseres på principperne om uafhængighed, ligeværdighed, gensidig respekt for hinandens interesser; hvert land har sit eget strategiske projekt, og vi er stolte af det initiativ, som vore kinesiske kolleger har fremsat. Det er deres politik at genoplive den historiske Silkevej, og etableringen af to korridorer, en over land og en over havet, vil forbinde Asien via Centralasien, via Mellemøsten, og ind i Europa. Dette Ét bælt, én Vej-initiativ er et meget lovende projekt, der vil styrke økonomisk samarbejde, men også få en meget positiv indvirkning på den geostrategiske situation i dette område.

Men herudover har mit land, Rusland, været i gang med at udvikle relationer med lande i det Asiatiske Stillehavsområde. Vores strategiske partner er selvfølgelig Kina: Vi er i færd med at udvikle vore særlige relationer med Folkerepublikken Kina. Kina er vores største, økonomiske handelspartner; det er vores nabo. Vi har fælles interesser, ikke kun inden for økonomisk politik, men også inden for andre, humanitære spørgsmål, såsom sundhed, kulturel udveksling, og vi forsøger at komplementere hinanden, både i politiske og økonomiske dimensioner.

Faktisk er det samarbejde, vi har med Kina, et samarbejde omkring et strategisk partnerskab. Sluttelig nåede vores økonomiske samarbejde et meget højt niveau; vores indbyrdes handel nåede op på $40 mia.; planerne er, at det skal komme op på $0 mia., og vi er godt på vej. Dette strategiske partnerskab mellem Rusland og Kina er ikke kun i den politiske sfære; vi er naturligvis to permanente medlemmer af FN’s Sikkerhedsråd, og vi samarbejder meget tæt i denne ophøjede organisation. Men vi har også andre organisationer, hvor vi forsøger at samarbejde; først og fremmest Shanghai Samarbejdsorganisationen, men også andre, som ASEM, som BRIKS. Rusland forsøger at fremme harmoniseringen af økonomiske arrangementer, som eksisterer, og denne harmonisering bør finde sted på baggrund af principper om gennemskuelighed og respekt for hinandens interesser. Fra vores side forsøger vi at opbygge den Eurasiske Økonomiske Union (EAEU), og vi anvender disse principper på dette økonomiske arrangement. Det, vi forsøger at gøre, er ikke blot at skabe denne nye union, men også at udvide dens bånd, udvide dens samarbejde med andre økonomiske enheder, som eksisterer, og vi mener, at det er en god mulighed, at vi forsøger at sammenflette privilegier, fordele, som den Eurasiske Økonomiske Union giver, med dette initiativ for Ét Bælt, én Vej, som kineserne forsøger at gennemføre. Vi forsøger i realiteten at fremme et udvidet, eurasisk partnerskab, således, at andre omdrejningspunkter, andre centre i det eurasiske integrationsområde, kunne bringes sammen.

Vi er begyndt at gennemføre denne udvidede dagsorden. Vi har indgået en aftale med Vietnam, mellem den Eurasiske Økonomiske Union og Vietnam, i et frihandelsområde. Nu forhandler vi med Kina. Så hvis det er rigtigt at alliere dette initiativ for Ét Bælt, én Vej med den Eurasiske Økonomiske Union, så ville dette være en enorm tilskyndelse til skabelse af, ikke alene eurasisk, økonomisk handel, men et rum, der vil fremme frie relationer for gensidig forståelse inden for dette store, store rum, som vi har. Vi arbejder ikke alene med Kina og med Vietnam, men Indien er imødekommende, Pakistan; alle stater, som er med i Fællesskabet af Uafhængige Stater (SNG; på engelsk CIS).

Præsident Putin har sagt, at han vil deltage i topmødet om Ét Bælt, én Vej, som afholdes i Kina i maj måned. I dag mødtes han med Kinas Statsråds vicepremierminister og lovede, at han ville deltage og lovede at være meget opmærksom på og se meget favorabelt på dette udviklingsperspektiv.

Så vi ser frem til en strålende fremtid med Ét Bælt, én Vej, og vi mener, at jeres initiativ er meget relevant, og vi forsøger med vores diskussion at promovere det.

Mange Tak. [applaus]

Dennis Speed: Eftersom vi indser, at repræsentanten fra Rusland først nu har været i stand til at komme, vil jeg benytte det privilegium at stille ham et spørgsmål, som jeg mener, er vigtigt for hele forsamlingen.

Sir, vi er her mennesker, der mobiliserer for en meget specifik vision af verden, og De har refereret til det. Deres nation har naturligvis ikke været i stand til at tale direkte til det amerikanske folk. De har talt i FN, De taler med diplomater og andre. Men her er der et bredt udvalg af det amerikanske folk, der er folk her fra mange forskellige dele af landet. Og siden De nu har en mulighed, vil jeg gerne spørge Dem, om De kan tale til, De ser her en repræsentation af det amerikanske folk, og give dem et budskab med hensyn til, hvad De mener, de bør vide om Rusland, og hvad De mener, de bør have tillid til, skal vi sige med hensyn til Ruslands hensigt over for det amerikanske folk, hvad ville De sige?

Iliichev: Tak. Tak for dette meget vanskelige spørgsmål [latter], men jeg vil sige, at, vi bør ikke være bange for hinanden. Vi bør tale med hinanden. Det er meget vigtigt, og udenrigsminister Tillersons forhandlinger i går, både med minister Lavrov og præsident Putin, beviste, at to stormagter, to af de mest magtfulde atommagter, vinder mere, når vi taler sammen, men ikke, når vi reagerer og forsøger at opbygge alliancer og mod-alliancer imod hinanden.

Ruslands politik var meget klar fra begyndelsen: Vi ønsker ikke at have nogen særstatus på verdensarenaen. Vi ønsker ligeværdig behandling, fair behandling, ikke kun for os, men for alle andre stater. Og hvis vi kan yde denne fair behandling i alle sfærer, ligeværdig sikkerhed, ligeværdigt økonomisk samarbejde, ligeværdige udvekslinger mellem folkeslag, så vil vi alle vinde en masse, i stedet for at forsøge at opbygge nye mure, forsøge at bygge nye skel, forsøge at bygge, genopbygge eller styrke disse militære alliancer, der findes.

Jeg ved ikke, om jeg har besvaret Deres spørgsmål, men jeg vil være mere end villig til at udvikle dette mere med andre. Tak.

Speed: Tak. [applaus]

Foto: Den russiske chargé d’affaires Petr Iliichev, i FN.         

I disse meget urolige tider er evnen til at koncentrere sig og fokusere på, hvad menneskehedens sande mål er, og hvad menneskehedens fremtid er, af yderste vigtighed. Det er især vigtigt for amerikanere at høre dette perspektiv, set med de amerikaneres øjne, der anser sig selv for at være amerikanere af natur, og i princippet. Det har været Schiller Instituttets tankegang, lige fra dets start; og det har, fra dengang og frem til i dag, altid været mig en stor ære, ved enhver lejlighed, hvor det behøvedes, at introducere grundlæggeren og lederen af Schiller Instituttet, Helga Zepp-LaRouche.

Læs hele Helgas tale på dansk.