For a Council of Reason

The war threat continues, with possible war theaters continuing or opening up in Ukraine / Russia, the Middle East / Iran, and the area around China.... I hope our diplomats and in the USA our Presidential system can figure out how to avoid war and bring back cooperation....

Beyond diplomacy, China has recently announced its intention to develop an industrial prototype fusion reactor by 2035, and the first commercial production of fusion energy by 2050. A Council of Reason can be formed, now, by morally concerned citizens to avert thermonuclear war by creating a new, just security and development architecture. Such an architecture will require the economic development of all nations, with a crash program to bring the miraculous benefits of commercial fusion energy to over 8 billion people. This will be taken up by EIR’s Bill Jones, who will also be joined by LaRouche spokesman Harley Schlanger.

Schumer's Dope-Based Economic Plan: Hyperinflation and No Production

Amazing, will we have a New York and other places in the USA with a productive economy?  Diane Sare knows -- or else only Marijuana.  Harlem Dudes, we like better the China building model of Railroads.

Chinese and African Art in Harlem, Djibril Ngawa

This is from the closing of the art show collaboration between Africa and China.... African Artist Mr. Ba Djibril Ngawa worked with a Chinese scholar to draw paintings around Chinese calligraphy.  Djibril, who is from Mauritania in Northern Africa, perhaps wanted to express his joy that China has been making increasing investments in infrastructure in many parts of the African continent, also known as the One Belt One Road project.

Djibril's bright colors have created a sort of orange and black musical instrument... and perhaps the figure behind it is playing it, around a Chinese letter of calligraphy.  In this very abstract work, you can make your own stories up.  Show just closed at the Dwyer Art center in Harlem, NY, entrance on West 123rd Street, around the corner from St Nicholas and Frederick Douglas Boulevard.

Can Trump Get Chinese Money?

Hey Harlem and Bronx dudes, time to get some Chinese money for Trump's infrastructure plan.... we can do it, they say at CGTN, Chinese TV. China has US Treasury notes, remember dudes??

Opinion: Make America Great Again – with Chinese money!

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Guest commentary by Dr. John Gong

2018-02-14 13:50 GMT+8

Updated 2018-02-14 17:21 GMT+8

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This is not an investment fundraising prospectus. 

But let me be honest with you, I do smell money. A lot of money. I am talking about US President Donald Trump’s upcoming plan to spend 1.5 trillion US dollars on infrastructure, announced in the State of the Union address two weeks ago. With the success of the latest tax cut legislation behind him, Trump is now serious about making America great again, or “gleaming” again to be more precise. 

Trump: Getting 1.5 trillion US dollars in infrastructure spending is "up to Congress" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb 28, 2017 /The Canadian Press

“We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways and waterways all across our land. And we will do it with American heart, American hands and American grit,” he proudly proclaimed in the State of the Union address. 

Thank goodness he did not say with American money!

We all know America is broke. Terribly broke. 

Its total debt level stands at 70 trillion US dollars, averaging 0.83 million US dollars per family. Today’s Republican leadership has entirely trashed the fiscal accountability banner, while the Democrats continue to be perennial spenders. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), which is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public on issues of fiscal policy, the latest budget agreement hatched between the two parties would add 11 trillion US dollars of new debt over the next 10 years. No one on Capitol Hill cares anymore that this debt is going to mount up for future generations.

United States Capital Building /VCG Photo

Nevertheless, Trump is absolutely right that America’s crippled bridges, potholed highways, and crooked railways cannot wait any longer. America needs to be great again. The only question is, where is the money coming from?

Well, being a shrewd real estate mogul, Trump certainly has a few financing tricks in his tool box. The details of the administration’s infrastructure plan can be found in a six-page leaked document recently published by Axios. I have a PDF copy on my desk, and I cannot help marveling at Trump’s genius after going through all its details. 

According to the plan, he is only going to spend 200 billion US dollars of federal grant money to leverage off the rest of the 1.5 trillion US dollars for investments by states, localities and private firms with public sector sponsors. Grant awards would be capped at 20 percent of a project’s total cost.

Now it is still not clear where that 200 billion US dollars is going to come from. Trump said he is going to squeeze money from budget cuts in other areas. 

US dollars /VCG Photo 

What is more brilliant about the plan is that funding priority is basically based on the ability of the local government to bring money to the table. Take as an example the Infrastructure Incentives Initiative, which is the largest program in the plan, accounting for 50 percent of total appropriations. Let’s look at its criteria of how grants are awarded. 

Fifty percent of the weighted criteria would be based on evidence of how an applicant can provide “new, non-federal revenue to create sustainable, long-term funding.” Another 20 percent would be based on the extent an applicant will be able to secure and commit non-federal revenue for operations, maintenance and rehabilitation. The rest of the weights – accounting for new technology, efficiency in project delivery and operations, and spurring economic and social returns on investment – only add up to 30 percent. 

In other words, in Trump’s world, not surprisingly, money counts. 

Well, if that is the case, I have a great idea. Bank of China and other major banks from China are now flush with dollar cash and other dollar-denominated liquid assets, totaling over $3 trillion US dollars, mostly in the form of holdings in US treasury bills and bonds. This money can be readily used for Chinese investors to participate in America’s infrastructure boom. By that I mean Chinese investors can participate in those infrastructure projects as active equity investors, and maybe contractors or suppliers at the same time. 

A Bank of China employee displays US dollars /VCG Photo

Call it the Belt and Road. Call it America-belt-America-road. I don’t care, as long as China’s current account trade surplus can be somehow transformed into a capital account stock, in the form of money invested in America as permanent equity shareholders, and more importantly permanent stakeholders of a stable and prosperous Sino-US economic relationship. This could be a win-win mode for both countries.

(Dr. John Gong is a professor at the University of International Business and Economics. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.) 

Afraid to Fight for Trump?

I made a few phone calls to Republican party people.... A couple of people agreed we need to stop the phoney Russiagate, Mueller witchhunt... and yes we need a real infrastructure program... but they really don't want to fight... they have excuses... Still it is an interesting situation.

Still it is also nice that we have Kesha Rogers running for Congress in 2018 from the Houston Texas area, as an independent candidate against impeacher idiot Cong. Al Green.... And we are looking for other candidates for Larouchepac to support..... read on....

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Presently, both major political parties are controlled by Wall Street. Both parties adhere to the post–World War II geopolitical system that has produced decades of perpetual war, and now threatens World War III by attacking China and Russia. The Democrats intend to use these elections to impeach the President. The Republicans, while nominally supporting the President, fanatically adhere to Wall Street’s economic ideas which will destroy his Presidency.

The 2018 LaRouche Platform is the solution!

A Future-Oriented Platform

The LaRouche platform has two flanks.

End the coup against the President and prosecute those responsible.

Implement LaRouche’s Four Laws for Economic Recovery of the United States and join China’s great Belt and Road Initiative for economic development.

This will create millions of productive jobs, and ensure the United States joins a new paradigm of global collaboration on great infrastructure projects advancing the common aims of mankind.

LaRouche’s Four Laws for an Economic Recovery of the USA

These are not independent policies, they must be conceptualized and implemented together.

1. Immediately reinstate Franklin Roosevelt’s Glass–Steagall banking separation act, before the imminent collapse of Wall Street’s latest financial bubbles.

2. Return to a national banking system, as originally defined by Alexander Hamilton, and reflected in Abraham Lincoln’s Greenback policy and Franklin Roosevelt’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

3. Direct trillions of dollars of US federal credit towards high technology and high productivity employment, including the rebuilding of US infrastructure.

4. Launch a crash program to develop fusion power and greatly expand NASA’s human space exploration program.

Joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative

China has launched the largest infrastructure development project in human history. Already ten times bigger than the Marshall plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (The New Silk Road) is bringing dozens of nations together in “win-win” economic collaboration around massive infrastructure projects. Much of Asia is already involved, and the program is already expanding into Europe, Africa, and South America.

For many formerly colonized and so-called developing nations, this is their first real opportunity for modern development. For stagnating industrialized nations, this is a critical opportunity for a new era of rebuilding, advancing, and producing.

The United States needs to join this program for win-win global development.  

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Can Trump Abandon the War Fix?

Can Trump abandon the war fixation of the USA.... which is geopolitics. You back one side, say in the Middle East, because they will kill the friends of Russia or of China or Iran.  This insane business has gotta go if we are going to get together USA, Russia, and China around the great New Silk Road Project.  LaRouche Pac is leading the way, time to get aboard.

we better figure this out soon, if we want to avoid more wars or a nuclear war to destroy human civilization.

Montana into the China Beef Market

http://billingsgazette.com/news/government-and-politics/chinese-ecommerce-giant-strikes-million-montana-beef-deal/article_109ddb3c-90c6-562b-8748-71743ea5d561.html it is a really great deal.

Here are some details from the Billings Gazette:

 Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has struck a $300 million beef deal with the Montana Stockgrowers Association, including $100 million for a new packing plant.

JD.com signed the agreement with Montana's largest livestock organization in mid-October, but kept it quiet until President Donald Trump's visit Wednesday to China. JD.com is the world's third largest Internet retailer, behind Amazon and Google. -----

and they got.... the BEEF!!

The Iowa China Mafia

Read about the Iowa China Mafia... very good story.  This is a very positive connection to China typified by former Iowa Governor, and present U.S. Ambassador to China, Terry Branstad. This is part of Trump's window to China and to credit and trade. The article was published in the Iowa Des Moines Register newspaper.

Dudes rap on the hiphop silk road

OK Harlem and Bronx dudes... get into the polit poetry, the rap, the hip hop hop, or whateva...

Time to take a ride on the Silk Road....

For a new economy we gotta be bold

If you wanna win go for the gold...

Where there is a future to be bought and sold.

Yes, folks, with Trump going to Asia and China in November... get your rap togeta, your poetry, whateva...

it's time to get on da road....Last week, the Schiller Institute inaugurated a weekly webcast, to bring to the attention of citizens throughout the world the incredible new dynamic which has been unleashed around China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI is defining a New Paradigm for mankind, which means an end to geopolitics, with its endless wars, its bailouts and bail-ins of bankrupt financial institutions, and its demands for deadly austerity against the vast majority of people. This dynamic, which Mrs. LaRouche characterized as the “Spirit of the Silk Road” represents an opportunity for mankind to achieve a new era of peace, through development.

In less than a month, President Trump will travel to Asia, with visits to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines. His meeting with President Xi Jinping has the potential to be world historic, building on the positive rapport between the two from their initial meeting in April in Mar-e-Lago.

The forces of the neocon transatlantic oligarchy are engaged in a desperate deployment to prevent this relationship from developing into full collaboration. That is what is behind the “Get Trump” operation and why it must not be allowed to succeed.

For the US and European nations to join the New Silk Road is the only way to escape a new financial crash, which even outgoing German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is warning about.

TRANSCRIPT

HARLEY SCHLANGER:  Hello, I'm Harley Schlanger from the Schiller Institute, and I'd like to welcome you to our weekly webcast with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who's the founder and chairwoman of the Schiller Institute.

Helga is known around the world as the "Silk Road Lady," for the work that she's done in presenting the ideas of the Silk Road, and developing it to the reality today of the Global Land-Bridge.

In less than a month, Donald Trump, President of the United States, will be making a trip to Asia, which will include stops in many countries, but none as important as his visit to China. It's hoped that he'll be able to build on the personal rapport he's developed with Xi Jinping over the many months since the first meeting they had in Mar-a-Lago, because there's quite a bit at stake with this.

And to get a picture of this unfolding dynamic let me welcome Helga, to speak to you.

HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE:  Hello.  As a matter of fact, this coming trip of President Trump to Asia will be extremely important, because this trip occurs in the context of a very, very dramatic strategic situation.  We have all signs that a new financial crash is in the workings, and we can talk about that in a little while; and there is an alternative already in existence, which is the incredibly dynamic Belt and Road Initiative, which has been initiated by China four years ago.

Silk Road not Bitcoin Poetry

Hey Harlem and Bronx dudes, get the groove.  The latest craze could leave you in a daze.  Better look up to see what President Trump can do on his November trip to China and other Asian countries.

The tulip bubble was once such a craze.
That was destroyed by light from sun rays.
A bitcoin is not the basis of an economy.
But a scam by mad denizens of an oligarchy.

We live on fake news and a fake economy.
But China is near banning the bitcoin factory.
This investment in nothing leads to crashes easily.
With nothing left for those lost in gullibility.

The 39-year old in the Netherlands is not gonna get it on with his bitcoin and a 100 other blockchain currency speculations on the brain...

Trump Ready to Go to China Poetry

Trump is at the crossroads

Trying to peg a ride on the landbridge

Carrying the heavy loads

Of the lies of Muller banker-cop whiz

Trump At A Crossroads With Asia Trip: The Mueller Threat Must Be Destroyed: There is great political tension surrounding the preparations the Trump Administration is now making for the President's Asia trip November 3-14 and, crucially, his meetings with President Xi of China. Confrontations with North Korea and with Iran are intensifying and threaten great, potentially... but in a way the greatest threat is the potential rigged impeachment of Trump through the Muller Russia witchhunt.

Columbus Poetry- defend Statue

Steer on courageous Sailor,
you won't be the failer...
Now Trump can protect the legacy,
Of the one belt and one road economy.


Hey Harlem NY dudes we're on the road.
It's hard to know but we found the code.
For Columbus and his mission of discovery
Defend his statues and his legacy.

There is great political tension surrounding the preparations the Trump Administration is now making for the President's Asia trip November 3-14 and, crucially, his meetings with President Xi of China.

Confrontations with North Korea and with Iran are intensifying and threaten great, potentially immediate dangers.

But the now strengthening national debate over how to get new infrastructure built in America, after the unprotected "natural disasters" of August and September, sets an agenda for Trump with China, which is building major new projects worldwide in its Belt and Road Initiative.

Trump's own public statements and actions in rushing through emergency funds, recommending public funding of infrastructure and writing off Wall Street's unpayable debts in Puerto Rico, have intentionally provoked this debate and built on Americans' desire to unify and rebuild.

China has wanted to participate in this since President Xi invited Barack Obama's administration to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank; Obama fought it instead. It represents the goals of national common interests, productivity, and connectivity for which China's Belt and Road Initiative was founded in 2013, and first suggested by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche in 1989.

Poetry China, Trump and the New Silk Road

Watch the video-- The new silk road is coming on fast... meanwhile President Trump will go to China in November. Harlem NY dudes... get in the grooove...

The silk road is on the move.
time to help Trump get the groove
helga zepp larouche playing it smooth
sometimes to get economics to soothe.

Helga Zepp LaRouche, the Founder and Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, will inaugurate a weekly English-language webcast

Cmon on with the silk road fast...

To spread what she calls the “New Silk Road Spirit” to the world. 
With 60 nations' flags unfurled.

Mrs. LaRouche is one of the most prominent intellectual authors of the concept “The New Silk Road becomes the World Landbridge”. 

Looking out on the high ridge.

Since Chinese President Xi Jinping put the New Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative, as it is now called on the agenda four years ago

A beautiful winter is coming, so let it snow.

....it is lifting tens of millions out of poverty, and puts an alternative to the dangerous idea of geopolitical division of the world. Known internationally as “the Silk Road Lady,” Mrs. LaRouche is often featured in the Chinese press for analysis on the BRI, and the global strategic situation.

See Video, Evil Steve Bannon

Steve Bannon has caught the evil disease from his Wall Street banker friends.  Harlem NY dudes, we gotta keep fighting, because former good guys can become bad guys. Unfortunately, Steve Bannon has joined with the London Economist crowd, in that now he wants a war on China, and at least a trade war on China.... see www.breitbart.com for more stuff from the Bannon side of things...  Time to axe that, and go with Helga and the new Silk Road.


Bannon is someone who know better, but has joined the anti Larouchepac crowd, probably to suck up more money.....  Another reason why we need Glass Steagall Act now or else we are finished... Stop giving the easy money to Wall Street and the City of London.  China has lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty.  China is organizing e-Commerce... for the poor people.

Can Trump Get Over the Hump?

There are positive features in the Trump administration that are important for people all over the world.  Can he lead a detente with Russia?  Can he get help from China to build US infrastructure again as part of the world Landbridge?  We gotta keep pushing. So watch the video now and sign up.

A Tale of Two Worlds: As Charles Dickens wrote in A Tale of Two Cities: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the...

you get the picture.... lots of opportunity, and lots of danger... like of drowning in Houston Texas, a real danger.

Hack Wack and Riot dont buyit vs Trump

The Russiagate effort to depose President Trump is close to dead. Two leaders of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), Ray McGovern and William Binney, spoke at a LaRouchePAC forum in Manhattan, Saturday,reviewing their forensic proof that there was no hack of the DNC computers, and that corrupt Obama intelligence officials had fabricated evidence to point at Russia, to stop Trump's effort to bring the US and Russia and China together for peace.

But the coup-plotters have not given up — they have moved on to race-bait the President, using provocateurs, on both sides, and using the media, to stir up racial hatred, also on both sides, creating the potential for civil war and an environment conducive to a "lone assassin" hit on the President.

The fact that President Trump was absolutely right in his declaration that there were violent provocateurs on both sides of the Charlottesville disaster, is becoming more and more clear by the day. The attempt to reproduce the Charlottesville chaos in Boston, on Saturday, resulted only in a handful of conservatives marching for free speech, being met by about 10,000 "anti-nazi" and "anti-fascist" counter demonstrators. The police did their job, keeping the two sides separated (not as in Charlottesville), but there were 33 arrests of violent "antifa" and "Black Lives Matter" militants who challenged the police. Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said there were three categories on the street: "Those who came out for the rally, those who came to protest it, and those who wanted to start some trouble."

Former UN Ambassador and civil rights leader Andrew Young cut through the maze of lies in an NBC interview Sunday:"Most of the issues that we're dealing with now are related to poverty. But we still want to put everything in a racial context," Amb. Young said.

"The reason I feel uncomfortable condemning the Klan types is, they are almost the poorest of the poor. They are the forgotten Americans. And, they have been used and abused and neglected. Instead of giving them affordable health care, they give them black lung jobs.... Our job [in the Civil Rights Movement] was not to put down white people. Our job was to lift everybody up together, so that we would learn to live together as brothers and sisters rather than perish together as fools."

Helga Zepp-LaRouche agreed that Amb. Young had identified the problem, but insisted that he, and all well-meaning people, must also identify the solution, to bring about the development and the job creation he calls for in the only way possible — to join with the LaRouche movement effort to get President Trump to proceed with his intention to join in the Belt and Road Initiative created by China, now, and implement LaRouche's Four Laws — Glass Steagall, National Banking, Hamiltonian federal credit creation, and a science policy centered on crash programs for space exploration and fusion power. There are increasing numbers of Democrats who reject Russia-gate, who reject the controlled "gang-counter gang" push for civil war, and who will join with Trump supporters to demand such real development as the only solution. This is the time for action.

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Not Climate Change Harlem, China Development

 Hey Harlem and Bronx NY, we know what time it is.



 The issue is not climate change, it is economic development, it is going to space and getting Helium-3 on the moon for fusion power.  Time to impeach Obama and get with the program.  now.



At Joint Press Conference With Obama, Xi Extends Invitation to US to Join New Silk Road | LaRouchePAC



Much hype is being made in the press and by the U.S delegation about the
agreement signed on climate change. In the Climate Change Agreement,
China commits to bring its use of "non-fossil fuels" by 2030 to around
20%. The U.S. promises to reduce CO2 gas emissions by 2028 to below 2005
levels. While the U.S. was pushing such a climate change agreement as
the only real area of cooperation they have had with China for which
they wanted some "deliverable agreement," and China, for its own
reasons, went along with it, it should be noted that "non-fossil fuels,"
in the Chinese view also includes nuclear energy, which, of course, the
U.S. side never mentions. China additionally wants to bring down the
pollution caused by fossil fuels in China, but the agreements reached
with the U.S. are not binding. And, judging from the reaction of a
Republican-dominated U.S. Congress, the indicated cuts may be prove well
beyond the ability of the lame-duck President to deliver. 

Creativity and China

Harlem NY can groove on China and on water.  Before all those Western US people have to migrate here.

China is sparking creativity, with its program to mine the Moon for Helium-3 for fusion power.  We can have a future we can have progress.  We need China to help the United States.  The Western US is doomed to drought and not enough water unless we set up for desalination, for water from Alaska, to create water.  China is the center of the BRICS countries- Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, with new credit, a new financial system for rebuilding the world.

China and Energy from the Moon

China is telling the truth -- we can have energy from the MOON.  And Russia is part of the fun.  And the US?? If we want it:


Kejishun (Science and Technology Report) published a brief report on the lunar program headlined "Helium-3 on the Moon Can Provide Mankind's Energy Needs for the Next 10,000 Years."
Also over the weekend, Izvestia received and published portions of a leaked copy of the draft new ten year plan from the Russia Federal Space Program covering the period from 2016-2025. The document reported that Roscosmos will be developing the key elements of a Moon base and will begin construction of proto-types of all of the modules in Russia in 2018.

Harlem Loves Nukes

Harlem loves nuclear power.  why cant we have some, India has all the fun, and China and Russia too.  The greenies and the Wall St London UK crowd are too disgusting, they have to go.

Jan. 15, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for the country's largest nuclear power plant, at Gorakhpur village in the Fatehabad district of Haryana. The plant's first two units of indigenous nuclear reactors, developed by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), will produce 1400 MW. Two additional reactors of 700 MW capacity each at the same site will receive approval in the 13th plan period (2017-2021), by which time, the first two units will be operational. The actual construction work will begin in June 2015, after which, it may take five and a half years for the first unit to be ready and another six months for the second unit. Both units are likely to produce commercial electricity by 2020-21. The 2800 MW nuclear power plant in Haryana is to be followed by two more 2800 MW nuclear power units, at Bhimpur in Madhya Pradesh and Mahi Banswara in Rajasthan. In addition, a 1400 MW unit will be built at Chutka in Madhya Pradesh.
While laying the foundation stone of the $4 billion project, the Prime Minister said that the people of Haryana have set an example by adopting such an advanced method of power generation. A total of around 1,500 acres of land in the villages of Gorakhpur, Kajalheri, and Badopal, in the district Fatehabad, have been acquired for the project and $120 million has been paid to 847 families of these villages as compensation.
The agreement reached with the people in acquiring the land, is considered a welcome respite amidst recent rounds of opposition, orchestrated by various anti-nuclear forces, that New Delhi faced in obtaining land for installations of nuclear power plants.
During the construction stage, a maximum of 8,000 persons (when construction of Stage-I will be nearing completion and construction of Stage-II will be started) will be deployed; and up to the final stage of the project about, 1,700 workers will be required (covering technical and general administration).