Feb. 9 —This afternoon, LaRouche Organization representatives Joe Jennings and Joel Dejean presented oral testimony via phone to the public comment virtual forum of the Houston City Council, chaired by Mayor Sylvester Turner. Each was allotted three minutes to comment. Joe spoke first:
“Hello, I am Joe Jennings, resident of Houston, and 44-year associate of physical economist Lyndon LaRouche. This Friday, February 12, the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, is also two years since the death of Mr. LaRouche, at age 96. On that day the LaRouche Organization will release a White Paper entitled ‘The Great Leap Backward: LaRouche Exposes the Green New Deal'. With this paper, we will expose a deadly swindle known as ‘Green Finance', which was the central topic at the January summit of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Put simply, the billionaires, hedge fund operators and titled nobility of Davos intend to used the contrived hysteria about so-called ‘man-made climate change’ to divert trillions of dollars away from the industrial and agricultural activity which sustain human life, into a bonanza of speculation in carbon futures, centered at the City of London financial hub. They would force world carbon dioxide output down to ‘net-zero', the level of the pre-industrial age.
The consequence will be to reduce the human population itself, an end passionately advocated by conference coordinator Prince Charles of the House of Windsor. As stated by Mark Carney, former head of the Bank of England, later special envoy to the United Nations on Climate Change: “Firms that align their business model to a net-zero carbon world will be rewarded handsomely; those that fail to adapt will cease to exist...” This will be a global corporatist dictatorship of private finance, choking off credit to farms and industries, unless they pay tribute, in carbon offsets, to the Lords of London. Consider South Africa, struggling with shortages of food and electricity, and now, new mutant strains of COVID-19. In December this nation was compelled by the BlackRock asset fund to cancel construction of six coal-fired plants.
The lights will turn off, and people will die. Here in Houston, we all remember the financial wizards of Enron, ‘the smartest guys in the room’ — while their bubble was expanding. As their bubble deflated, Enron looted California, almost to death. The Davos boys are a thousand times worse. Their bubble of over a quadrillion dollars in derivatives debt has been kept afloat in recent years with zero-percent interest rates and huge infusions of free money from the Federal Reserve. Their Green Finance gambit will kill our physical economy, to save a grotesque bubble of speculation. We propose another way forward. Houston, the USA, and the world must reject green finance, pull out of the unscientific climate accords, and put the bubbleheads through bankruptcy. We must create a brighter future based on true science and industrial progress, This paper will chart the way to accomplish that end. We urge you to study the White Paper, and act upon it. Thank you.”
There were no questions. After several speakers on local matters, the City Secretary summoned Joel Dejean, as the last speaker on the agenda:
