United States News Digest
LaRouche: Dump Soros Agent from Transition Team
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)On Nov. 7, Lyndon LaRouche demanded that Soros/Malloch-Brown agent Samantha Power not be allowed any position in the incoming Obama Administration. LaRouche's demand was based on the fact that Power has long been on the payroll of speculator and drug-legalization pusher George Soros, and is a close ally of British Commonwealth Office official Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, who is currently running the British Empire's genocide campaign in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Soon after that demand was issued, Power's name appeared on the list of members of the Obama transition's national security team, as part of a review team for the State Department. According to the transition website, the review teams' duties are to "ensure that senior appointees have the information necessary to complete the confirmation process, lead their departments and begin implementing signature policy initiatives immediately after they are sworn in." Power became infamous during last Spring's Democratic primary battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, for calling Clinton "a monster," and was forced to formally resign as a result.
Now, with Clinton expected to lead the State Department, transition officials told the Washington Post that Power has moved to "bury the hatchet," and that Clinton has agreed. The Post plays down her presence on the transition team, claiming that her name has not surfaced recently for a top post and that she is not a top official on the State Department review team.
Pelosi Piles on Dirty Attack on Rangel
Nov. 27 (EIRNS)Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, in a statement released last night, called for the early completion of a House Ethics Committee report on corruption charges against Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), the senior African American leader of Congress, and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who has been targetted for removal by the dirty-tricks media and politico networks associated with Felix Rohatyn et al., who pull Pelosi's strings.
In her statement, Pelosi resorted to common, false friendly formulations, saying that, "In September, I called on the House Ethics Committee to look into issues raised by news reports on Chairman Rangel. This followed up on the chairman's own request for an investigation by the committee." Pelosi then said that she has been "assured the report will be completed by the end of this session of Congress, which concludes on January 3, 2009." Most such Ethics Committee investigations take far longer.
Today, The Hill, the Capitol Hill journal, wrote about Pelosi's maneuver: "If the ethics committee finishes its investigation into a series of allegations against Rangel by Jan. 3, it would have acted much more swiftly than its usual pace of taking months or years to review charges...."
"The point is, get rid of Pelosi," was Lyndon LaRouche's response, in reply to the recent, renewed attacks on Rangel by the New York Times and New York Post. "Pelosi should be thrown out. Her behavior in the Rangel case is typical of the immorality that she has exhibited as House Speaking."
Guilty Plea Entered in Denver Assassination Plot vs. Obama
Nov. 25 (EIRNS)The three men arrested in Denver, Colo. during the Democratic Convention, under suspicion of planning to kill Barack Obama during his acceptance speech on Aug. 28, face Federal criminal charges, and are in custody of Federal and state authorities. On Nov. 16, the London Independent continued the City of London's pattern of hyping up the threats to Obama by "racists," with a lengthy article entitled, "White Rage: The Rednecks Out to Kill Obama," which profiles the plotters, Tharin Gartrell, 28, Shawn Adolph, 33, and Nathan Johnson, 32. None of the three men in custody have been charged with a plot against Obama.
According to a spokesman for the Colorado U.S. Attorney's office, the three are charged with possession of weapons, body armor, and methamphetamines, and these charges, compounded by their prior felony convictions, actually carry longer sentences than if they had been charged with making threats against the candidate. One person has pleaded guilty, and the other two are expected to plead guilty on Dec. 9. The spokesman said that senior agents from the FBI, ATF, and Secret Service had investigated the three men, and concluded there was not enough evidence of threats against the candidate to bring the charges before a grand jury. But, court and police records confirm that one of the three, Shawn Adolph, had made threatening racial comments against Obama.
Experienced former intelligence professionals told EIR that there is a very high level of concern about the threats to the President-elect, but the concern is about a "Jackal" assassin, i.e., a highly trained professional, not from the proliferation of low-level white-supremicist criminal types.
40,000 Scour Colorado Farm for Harvest Leftovers
Nov. 24 (EIRNS)Some 40,000 people poured over the remnants of the harvest on a 600 acre Colorado farm on Nov. 22, gleaning free potatoes, carrots, and leeks. A Weld County farm couple offered the leftovers to any who wanted to pick the remains after the harvest, before a freeze would destroy the vegetables. The couple said they opened the family farm northeast of Denver to the free harvest, after hearing reports of food being stolen from local churches.
Farm owner Chris Miller said they had expected between 5,000 and 10,000 people to show up. A scheduled second day of the free gleaning was cancelled, because the farm had been picked clean. "People obviously need food," Miller told the Rocky Mountain News.
In Lakewood, west of Denver, the Jeffco Action Center helped 5,141 people who lined up early for a Thanksgiving food box giveaway, the biggest demand in 40 years.
Brits Still in All-Out War Against the Clintons
Nov. 24 (EIRNS)The City of London's Financial Times today issued new instructions to President-elect Barack Obama, in its second editorial: Get rid of Hillary Clinton. After reviewing and praising Obama's selections for top economic posts, the FT comes to the point:
"Economics aside, the biggest surprise among Mr. Obama's rumoured appointments is Hillary Clinton, whose selection as secretary of state is said to be 'on track.' This is a far more questionable choice, since Mrs. Clinton is so lacking in foreign policy experience. The appointment gives rise to unhelpful speculation about the new President's motives. Is he attempting to bind his party's wounds? His victory already did that, and governing well would assure a full recovery. Is he attempting to neutralise her as a rival for the Presidency in 2012? If things go badly for him, it will take more than this to quell another Clinton bid.
"Could Mrs. Clinton subordinate herself to Mr. Obama, and devote herself to making his Presidency a success? That is doubtful and, with many far better qualified candidates available, is a risk there is no need to take."
When such prominent City of London interests, inherently committed to the destruction of the United States, and fairly suspected of planning the assassination of the incoming President to facilitate that aim, weigh in so heavily against a leading personality, the listener would do well to beware.
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