Author: liona

By Michael Steger

This article is the first in a series of writings to be presented by the LaRouche PAC National Policy Committee, in direct collaboration with Lyndon LaRouche, as part of his campaign to create a New Presidency over the coming 100 days.

August 2 — Over the last five weeks the world has changed. Events combined with willful interventions, especially those of Vladimir Putin, have created a new global dynamic and transformed the potential for real and total victory in the immediate period ahead. Success now depends first on the adoption of LaRouche’s “Four New Laws,” a policy set forth in June 2014 in his “The Four New Laws to Save the U.S.A. Now!,” but long-term success requires more than simple adoption of necessary policies, even ones as necessary as GlassSteagall and Federal Credit for scientific advancement.

As LaRouche states in “The Four New Laws” (available at lpac.co/four-laws):

“In principle, without a Presidency suited to remove and dump the worst effects felt presently, those created presently by the Bush-Cheney and Obama Presidencies, the United States were soon finished, beginning with the mass-death of the U.S. population under the Obama Administration’s recent and now accelerated policies of practice.”

And then later:

“A chain-reaction collapse, to this effect, is already accelerating with an effect on the money-systems of the nations of that region. The present acceleration of a ‘Bail-in’ policy throughout the trans-Atlantic region, as underway now, means mass-death suddenly hitting the populations of all nations within that trans-Atlantic region: whether directly, or by ‘overflow.’ ”

This systemic crisis requires not just a set of policies, but a New Presidency, one based on a citizenry with a higher devotion, one beyond mere electoral politics, one similar to that of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton. It requires a commitment to the creation of a new nation, of a new United States, and of a world that has never existed before—a world now more possible than ever, and a world that now lies in our hands. Will it come to be, or will we fall short?

The Five Weeks

Now consider the rapid developments of the last five weeks: The British-exit (Brexit) vote from the European Union on June 24, exposed as if suddenly, for all the world to see, the rotting core of the trans-Atlantic system. This rebellion among British voters was the direct prelude to the Helga Zepp-LaRouche–hosted Schiller Institute conference in Berlin that same weekend, an event uniquely focused on the fulfillment of the new world system now coming into being throughout Eurasia and inspired by the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche.

Within days successive upheavals poured forth. The NATO summit in Warsaw, hoping to target Russia for greater war, instead only exposed growing discord among the European nations. Japan rejected any further commitment to British financial insanity, and in fact moved closer to Russia and China, as did the Philippines, ignoring Obama’s command for conflict in the South China Sea. Terrorist attacks, spawned by the ongoing illegal U.S./British wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, have targeted cities in France and Germany weekly, if not daily, with no end in sight under the current policies. Underlying all of this political upheaval, there is the ongoing public panic over the banking collapse in Italy, Germany, and London, threatening that very sudden wipe-out of the nations of the trans-Atlantic that Lyndon LaRouche had warned of in 2014.

In the context of this political and cultural breakdown in the trans-Atlantic region, there has been a surge of the policies and initiatives of the LaRouche organization. The Chilcot Inquiry was finally released in London after seven long years of review, declaring the Queen’s war in Iraq—a war forced through by Tony Blair and George W. Bush—to be illegal and a direct attack on the United Nations and international law, crimes tantamount to those of the Nazis. In the United States, the “28 pages” of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 were released after 14 years, exposing the fraud of both the Bush and Obama administrations for their explicit cover-up of the British-Saudi direction of the 9/11 attacks, as well as their subsequent drive for world war through geopolitical criminal intent.

The Glass-Steagall Act, the very death-knell of Wall Street’s and London’s criminal fraud, then found its way into both the Republican and Democratic Party’s platforms, not because of the clown-shows of the joke-candidates, but because of the deeply held recognition by the broad majority of the American people, that the last fifteen years of mass-death policy in the United States is undeniably tied to the policies of Wall Street.
And now, just five weeks later, resolving as if upwards with much more to come, the near-coup in Turkey and subsequent policy changes threaten to end the last two centuries of geopolitical attempts to control Asia, as Turkey now turns closer to both Putin’s Russia and China’s New Silk Road policy, and away from the trans-Atlantic commitment to world war.

Then comes the news of the encirclement of Aleppo, again by Putin’s Russian along with Syrian forces, indicating a possible near-term end, not just to the Syrian conflict which was intended as a pre-emption toward nuclear war against Russia and China by the British-backed Obama regime, but which now, with the crisis nearly resolved, portends the end of the era of British geopolitics itself.

Vladimir Putin and China’s New Silk Road are winning; Obama and the British are losing.

Yet there is more, and perhaps more to come, beginning with the participation by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in the international T20 summit in Beijing at the end of July, a preliminary discussion of leading figures for the upcoming G20 leader’s summit in September. The United Nations General Assembly will also meet in September, merely a year since Vladimir Putin’s call for a new allied force against terrorism, and both events will be key international forums to build upon the LaRouche-inspired new paradigm.

As Helga Zepp-LaRouche said recently, “The Erinyes’ dreadful dance has been unleashed!” and one can almost hear the panicked howling and screaming inside the corridors of power on Wall Street and in London, even from the batty Queen herself.

The Four Laws

On June 8, 2014, Lyndon LaRouche issued a statement, titled “The Four New Laws to Save the U.S.A. Now! Not an Option: an Immediate Necessity.” In this statement, Mr. LaRouche defines a solution to the current global and general breakdown crisis, but he also defines more. He presents an economic and scientific policy which is coherent with the actual creative nature of the human species, and one which, if adopted, will unleash a Renaissance in human advancement for the coming century, and beyond.

There is no substitute for reading, and rereading, the entirety of Mr. LaRouche’s statement, but we will present here a brief truncated synopsis of the immediate steps to be taken to address the ongoing general breakdown crisis of the trans-Atlantic system. This is the starting point for a successful New Presidency:

1. The immediate re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall law instituted by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, without modification, as to principle of action.

2. A return to a system of top-down, and thoroughly so defined, as National Banking. The precedents for this shall be taken from the banking and credit system established by Alexander Hamilton, as well as Abraham Lincoln’s action of creating a national currency (“Greenbacks”), under Presidential authority.

3. The deployment of a new Federal Credit system to generate high-productivity trends in improvements of employment, with the accompanying intention to increase the physical-economic productivity, and the standard of living of the persons and households of the United States. An increase in productive employment, as accomplished under Franklin Roosevelt, must reflect an increase in real productivity, coherent with an increase in energy-flux density in the nation’s economic practice.

4. The adoption of a “Fusion-Driver ‘Crash Program.’” Real economics is grounded in the essential distinction of man from all lower forms of life. A Fusion Crash Program, today subsuming a return to Krafft Ehricke’s vision for the U.S. space program, is a commitment to mankind’s future.

The Deeper Issue

However, only a quality of thinking similar to that of a creative scientist, such as Einstein, or the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, will have the powers necessary to grasp the underlying causal force of the recent international developments, as well as the sufficient quality of response found in the very essence of LaRouche’s Four New Laws. This scientific quality is best expressed as one’s own commitment to the unbounded future of the human species.

Not the future of the reductionist’s space and time, or even space-time, but rather a future governed by musical genius, which looks to engender in the mind of an audience the necessary and sufficient powers of thought which approximate mankind’s unlimited future, thus unfolding a clarity of resolute action as if backwards into the present crisis from the living future. Shakespeare’s case of Hamlet provides a relevant negative proof of such powers of the human mind. Any honest person must ask themselves, not “For whom will I vote?,” but rather, “Will I exist as an efficient actor on the stage of history?” As Lyndon LaRouche stated on July 31, 2016, “I am not running for President, but I am certainly intending to affect the shaping of the government of the United States in the coming period.”

Now consider this aspect of his thinking in the concluding section of that June 2014 report:

“For example: ‘time’ and ‘space’ do not actually exist as a set of metrical principles of the Solar system; their only admissible employment for purposes of communication is essentially nominal presumption. Since competent science for today can be expressed only in terms of the unique characteristic of the human species’ role within the known aspects of the universe, the human principle is the only true principle known to us for practice: the notions of space and time are merely useful imageries.”

And then later:

“Man is mankind’s only true measure of the history of our Solar system, and what reposes within it. That is the same thing, as the most honored meaning and endless achievement of the human species, now within nearby Solar space, heading upward to mastery over the Sun and its Solar system, the one discovered (uniquely, as a matter of fact), by Johannes Kepler.”

The danger lies, thus, not in the seeming chaos of world events, as the typical “man on the street” perceives the unfolding crisis, but in the insufficient commitment towards the upward nature of mankind, as presented in LaRouche’s Four New Laws. For at such a moment when LaRouche’s ideas are now more influential within the broader culture of the human species, and while the contrary deceits of Zeusian imperial dictates of population reduction, war, and economic fraud face their perilous collapse, the very nature of the human mind itself is the higher compositional modality by which we act upon the universe at large to revolutionary effect.

What is urgent is the requisite creative pre-emptive action to create an entire dynamic, rather than the repeated failures derived from Newton’s systemic fraud of action-reaction—a fraud that predominates in the neurotic impulses of the political and financial class of the trans-Atlantic today, and a fraud that Einstein so brilliantly exposed. Such preemptive action, as required by LaRouche’s Four New Laws, is the very foundation for the preliminary steps by which we eliminate the unnecessary burdens and debts of this failed system.

But, can one hear the new theme, perhaps as if by the anticipated entrance of a soaring section of woodwinds high above the orchestra in highest register? For such anticipation is as if a gift brought unexpectedly by a long-past dear friend from what is the yet undetermined future, which is then given on behalf of our present’s passing, only to become our future’s most profound present.

Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Brunelleschi’s creation of the Italian Renaissance, were no less.

So must the New Presidency, and its citizenry, become.

In preparation for the April 7th Schiller Institute Conference: Building A World Land-Bridge—Realizing Mankind’s True Humanity, we are posting a must-read article from space pioneer and visionary Krafft Ehricke. In his 1985 paper Lunar Industrialization and Settlement, Ehricke outlined not only the technical outlook, but also the moral one that accompanies the mission to develop the moon and beyond. What might Selenopolis look like? What are the new principles of Seleconomics? From Ehricke,

“Taken together, these factors assure continuing growth-as long as we have an open world, and do not shy away from overcoming our problems by technology and by our own development. I must emphasize that technology is not the solution to our shortcomings. The solution is that we must grow and mature. But technology can make that easier. By contrast, a no-growth philosophy, which asks humans to live with less of everything, can regress us to the Middle Ages because a dog-eat-dog fight is bound to break out under such conditions. We have come too far. We have to go on. Life shows us that technological advancement is the road to take. But based on these technological advances, our species and civilization must advance also. Then we can proceed.”

Read the paper Lunar Industrialization and Settlement

A HAMILTONIAN VISION FOR AN ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE

We must build the future—we must build tens of thousands of miles of high-speed rail corridors; nuclear power development leading into the era of fusion; the construction of hundreds of new Renaissance cities across the country; controlling rainfall based on insights gained from the Galaxy; space exploration and research; and so on. And all of this must be done in tight coordination with the BRICS and allied nations, led by China and Russia, who are already engaged in such a process of building a New Silk Road, and turning it into the World Land-Bridge.

The United States has to join this effort, not only in its international dimension, but also to extend it into the U.S. itself, both economically and culturally. It is the only way to create a future for our youth, to give them back a sense of hope and mission which is their birthright.

The New Silk Road, the inland and maritime corridors of infrastructure development being built across Eurasia, offers a reversal of the collapse now underway. The international development banks which have been formed by the BRICS nations are potential new sources of credit for serious, modern infrastructure building in North America, for the first time in half a century. A highspeed rail corridor coming across the Bering Strait by tunnel and down through Alaska and Canada into the Western United States, and beyond into Central and South America, offers America’s first connection to the New Silk Road pioneered by China. A new United States National Bank which Congress can organize for productive projects, will provide America’s connection to the new international credit institutions, which will issue credit for development and banish the hated austerity conditionalities which are the hallmark of the IMF system.

But many Americans are so deeply infected with the bacillus of pessimism and despair, that they will respond to such an optimistic vision of the future with a shrug: “Yeah, yeah. That’s nice. But it’ll never happen. It can’t be done. Get real.”

Very well. Here’s real: China has lifted 600 million people out of poverty over the last 30 years. They have built 11,000 miles of high-speed rail lines in scarcely a decade, and they are planning to have triple that amount by 2020. The U.S., by comparison, has a grand total of 456 miles of high-speed rail lines—and even that’s stretching the definition of high-speed to the limit. Besides its national high-speed rail grid, China is developing an indigenous nuclear power industry, aerospace industry, fusion power research, and it has what is becoming the leading lunar and space exploration program internationally.

China is also the nation whose national banks have provided most of the productive credit to keep the world’s industry going since the 2008 Wall Street crash, while the U.S. Federal Reserve and its international partners in crime have done nothing but provide trillions in quantitative easing to bail out the bankrupt banks, while destroying the physical economy.

Going beyond that, through the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the whole series of New Silk Road development banks and funds, China has begun to build new economic development corridors beyond its borders, across Eurasia by both land and sea, and in areas of Africa. It is ready to participate in building those corridors into North America, and in the United States. At the APEC meeting in Beijing in November 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping, with President Obama standing at his side, formally invited the United States to leave confrontational geopolitics aside, and join the BRICS and allied nations in these endeavors, on a win-win basis.

Don’t expect Obama to take up that offer, however. He won’t. But the United States can and should—starting by removing Barack Obama from the White House
by Constitutional means, and adopting the Hamiltonian development and credit policies which Lyndon LaRouche has championed for decades.

Americans can stop dying and killing themselves with “the disease of hopelessness” which has grown from our country’s collapse as an industrial nation. We must start building again; building our parts of the “world landbridge” of infrastructure development, to replace the onrushing New Dark Age with a new Golden Renaissance.

Wall Street and the entire trans-Atlantic financial system is now doomed, and could vaporize at any point over the coming days and weeks, Lyndon LaRouche warned again today. The danger is that this will lead to a state of panic and accompanying mass deaths, which can only be avoided by {shutting down Wall Street the way U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did}, LaRouche stated. We need an urgent “mobilization of the willing“ among the American people, to get the nation – and the world – back on course.

This is not a matter of negotiating some kind of reform or concessions. “Wall Street has to be shut down with no compensation given to it,“ LaRouche said. “We have to close in, the way Franklin Roosevelt did. And if you don’t shut them down, you’ve lost everything anyway. In other words, you cannot negotiate with the banking system; you have to take the lesson from FDR!“

LaRouche was emphatic: “You don’t have leeway. Every bit of financing that’s out there which is of this speculative nature, has to be wiped out with no compensation given to it. You bankrupt every one of these swindlers, in every category, and you strip them down.“

The size of the global speculative financial bubble now exceeds $2 quadrillion, by conservative estimates, having grown by over one third on President Obama’s watch. This is a direct result of Wall Street’s criminal policies of bail-out (financial quantitative easing) and now bail-in — genocidal austerity and cutbacks designed to sharply increase the death rate, combined with outright theft of people’s savings, as occurred in Cyprus and most recently in Italy. Wall Street’s debts have gotten to the point that they can no longer be paid in dollars; now they are demanding that they be paid in {corpses}.

Look at the case of Italy, where a forced bail-in of depositors in four banks earlier in December wiped out many people’s life savings. At least one person is known to have committed suicide as a result, as has happened previously with hundreds of businessmen and workers who were destroyed by the same policies.

Or look across our border to Canada, where the blowout of Wall Street’s oil fracking bubble has decimated entire communities and is killing people. Suicide rates have exploded among laid-off workers in Canadian oil fields in Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces in recent months, increasing by 30 percent in the first six months of 2015, as compared to the first six months of 2014.

Do you want this to happen to you? It will – unless you shut down Wall Street.

Replace British Monetarism with FDR’s Credit System

LaRouche stressed the urgency of acting right away. “This is not down the line; this is now. And as soon as possible we have to shut down the entire monetarist system of the United States, in particular – {before} New Year’s, when this thing is going to go into full flow.“

“What’s needed is more than just a piece of regulation,“ LaRouche continued. “The point is, you’ve got to eliminate the idea of money, of the monetarist system, which is a characteristic of the British system. Our solution is not against the use of money, but it’s against monetarism; so you’ve got to cancel monetarism. You cannot assume that money has an intrinsic value of its own; that’s the problem.“

What President Franklin Roosevelt did was absolutely correct, and serves as a good indicator of the direction we have to take today. After shutting down Wall Street, you have to provide a credit facility of the type FDR did. “You utter credit, and that earns – by using a credit in the proper way – that earns productivity,“ LaRouche stated. “The credit is based on the generous effort on behalf of the government itself, on the U.S. national credit system. What happened under FDR’s policy, is that people were actually covered by the generosity of the Presidential system. You had to make up for the fact that you had a debt to the Federal government, as a power; and you had to earn your way into building up your own economy. And that’s what we did under Franklin Roosevelt.“

LaRouche concluded: “You’re in a point right now, in the coming weeks going into New Year’s, your existence may be doomed, unless you do this, unless you bring this off. That’s reality. That’s where we are.

“The condition of the United States presently is such that the present system cannot function; it’s going to collapse. And we have to prevent a collapse. How do we prevent the collapse? We do what Franklin Roosevelt did to Wall Street. There is no other option; it doesn’t exist. And the time is urgent. As of the first of the year, you may be dead unless this is done.

“Now what does that mean? It means you’ve got to get President Obama kicked out of office; quickly, immediately.“

LaRouche’s Four Cardinal Laws

Lyndon LaRouche, many months ago, spelled out the four cardinal laws for a genuine physical economic recovery:

* Reinstate Glass Steagall, fully separating commercial banking from the gambling activities of investment banks, hedge funds, and other speculators. This will immediately wipe out Wall Street’s debt, which is unpayable and illegitimate in the first place – along with the political power of the Wall Street/London bankers cartel.

* Launch a massive infusion of Federal credits, through that restored commercial banking system, into the real economy. This Hamiltonian approach to national banking and Federal credit is the centerpiece of FDR’s policy as well.

* Concentrate on those areas of investment that most increase the energy flux density of the economy as a whole, including infrastructure, scientific and technological R&D. This means trillions of dollars in capital investment, to build a 21st century infrastructure grid along the lines of the World Land-Bridge.

* Pursue areas of frontier scientific exploration, keying off the work of the great 20th century Russian scientist, V.I. Vernadsky in the field of biogeochemistry and the noösphere. This must include an international crash program to achieve commercial fusion power, an essential feature of the next phase of space exploration, as well as solving the energy and water requirements of a world facing a breakdown crisis of Dark Age proportions.

Get in touch with your local LPAC office now. Join the “mobilization of the willing“ to shut down Wall Street.

Lyndon LaRouche returns to Manhattan! As the epicenter of culture, politics and economics of the nation, LPAC is hosting regular Town Hall events every Saturday in Manhattan featuring a live Q&A session with Mr. LaRouche.