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Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave the
following keynote address to the March 28 Schiller Institute
conference in Manhattan. The video is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1LHXPSOKGU.
Ladies and gentlemen, dear members of the Schiller Institute—
or those who will be such at the end of this
meeting, I hope—we have truly dramatic developments.
Let me start with something which is just hitting
some of the news, and that is, that Wall Street—which
is not far from here—had a secret meeting. And at that
meeting, the heads of Bank of America, JPMorgan,
Goldman Sachs, and some
more, conspired and decided
that they would make sure
that the issue of Glass-Steagall
would not come up in the
present, beginning presidential
election.
And they then went to
Washington and met with the
head of the DNC—of the
Democratic Party—and all
the Congressional commissions,
and they told them, if
you don’t stop this talk about
Glass-Steagall—the separation
of the banks, which had
been introduced by Franklin
D. Roosevelt in 1933, which
was abolished in 1999, and
wherein you have the reason
for this limitless speculation,
which is ruining the world
right now—if you don’t stop
that, they said, we will withhold
every single penny from
the Democratic Party in the
upcoming election.
Now, there is a word for that, and that is extortion.
So, I’m calling upon you, and all the many people
watching this live broadcast, to really make sure that
that is not the last word. Because Martin O’Malley, the
former governor of Maryland and former mayor of Baltimore,
had, a couple of weeks ago, announced that he
would try to become president of the United States on
entirely one subject, and that is to put the national interest
above the interest of Wall Street, and to re-introduce
Glass-Steagall as the first act, when he could be in the
White House.
Obviously, O’Malley is so far not regarded as the
front-runner, but my husband,
Mr. LaRouche, immediately
said, that puts the cat
among the mice, because
from now on, no other candidate
can really avoid the issue
of Wall Street, and it will set
the tone for all the other candidates.
Now, it is generally
known that Sen. Elizabeth
Warren is so far refusing to
run, but already, 300,000 signatures
were collected for her
to do so. And behind
O’Malley is an entire faction
of the Democratic Party,
which is determined that this
thing has gone too far, and
that the gap between the rich
and the poor has gotten to the
point whereby 80 individuals
in the world own as much material
wealth as 3.5 billion
people (half of humanity).
Obviously, they want to
Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The Mission of Cusa: The BRICS and
A New International Order for Mankind
EIRNS/Stuart Lewis
Helga Zepp-LaRouche addresses the Schiller Institute
conference in New York on March 28: “Doesn’t it make
sense to . . . build an architecture where nations not only
work for their economic interest together, but to establish
a joint security architecture, which takes into the interest
of every single country in this world?”
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reduce that number to 20, or maybe 5
individuals, owning as much as half
of humanity, but that is obviously
perverse, and should stop, because it
means the death of many people.
This policy kills. And the Pope,
Pope Francis, said so recently, that
this policy has to be measured by the
5th Commandment—thou shall not
kill—and that this is exactly what this
policy does.
So, O’Malley is maybe not so
well known, and maybe he is not yet
a charismatic speaker, but I think that
we had enough of these charismatic
speakers, but then when you look at
the content of what they did, it was
not so great.
That is now a gauntlet, which has
been thrown down by Wall Street to
the Amerrican people, and I think we
have to gear up the fight for Glass-
Steagall.
O’Malley Is Right
This is highly urgent, because there are many, many
influential people, including the vice-chairman of the
FDIC, Thomas Hoenig, who are warning that we are
right now in front of an explosion of the financial
system, whereby the collapse around Lehman Brothers
and AIG in 2008, will look like a small hiccup, compared
to what is about to blow. Because the too-big-tofail
banks are now 40% or more bigger than in 2008,
and their derivative exposure has increased by 85%.
The Bank of International Settlements, which is sort of
the central bank of central banks, just issued new figures
that the derivatives exposure of the banks officially,
is $690 trillion, 80% of which is related to interest
rates.
Now, the banks advise the people who have these
derivatives: hedge on them, make another derivative on
the derivative. It is generally estimated, if you have a
blowout, which could happen—for example, [Federal
Reserve chairman] Janet Yellen has announced that she
wants to increase the interest rate by maybe a tiny
amount—they are practically zero right now—and then
you would have a chain reaction whereby this whole
system blows out.
The same thing could happen with the collapse of
the euro, which could also happen if Greece leaves the
euro in a chaotic way, because the Troika is driving
them out—then that could blow out the system.
So, therefore, Glass-Steagall is super-urgent. If you
want to have any savings, any pension, any kind of
safety in your life, then you should help us get a ferment
for Glass-Steagall.
The BRICS New Economic Model
Now, fortunately, we are not alone. You are joined
by more than half of humanity, which you may not
know yet, but there is a tremendous development. As a
matter of fact, we have as much reason to be worried as
we have even more reason to be joyful. Because what
has happened in the last several weeks, is an unprecedent
development.
You remember that we have been campaigning for
the BRICS countries [Brazil, Russia, India, China,
South Africa]—and that the United States should join
the new economic system which is emerging with the
BRICS. Because, if you go back to September 2013,
the Chinese President Xi Jinping had announced that
China is reviving the ancient Silk Road. Now the ancient
Silk Road, as you know, was during the Han Dynasty,
when all the countries of Asia and Europe were
S.D. Mack Pictures/Steve Mack
LaRouchePAC organizers join the Greek Independence Day parade in New York on
March 29, 2015: Greece and the USA must join the BRICS!
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working together, exchanging goods, technology, but
also silk, silk-making, porcelain, porcelain-making,
book printing, and all the countries who participated in
the ancient Silk Road were profiting in terms of their
economies, in terms of their cultures, in terms of their
development.
And Xi Jinping said, we will rebuild the Silk Road,
which will connect not only China, via Central Asia,
with Europe, but in the one and a half years since, this
has taken on a breathtaking development. Because not
only did China put the Maritime Silk Road on the table,
which is the idea to connect all of the countries of the
Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific, on the sea
route through expanded trade, building of ports, expanding
cooperation. But in the meantime, the BRICS
have started a new economic model, together with all
the Latin American states, and many Asian countries
have joined.
Now, they have concluded, since the BRICS summit
last July in Fortaleza in Brazil, an unbelievable number
of economic projects. They are building a new canal in
Nicaragua. They are building a transcontinental railway
from Brazil all the way to Peru. They are building
incredible numbers of water-management projects.
They’re redirecting rivers to fight the desert. They’re
building together nuclear power plants in dozens of
countries. They have joined in space research, and these
countries, despite their problems—which obviously
still exist—have turned into an optimism which you
have no inkling of, because the U.S. mass media is not
reporting one single word about it. And if you read the
Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, or the Washington
Post, you read “Xi Jinping is becoming a new
Mao Tse-tung”; “Putin is a dictator and a demon”; and
that is about all you find out about what these countries
are doing.
But the reality is completely different. What people
cannot imagine is that there are countries which have
drawn the conclusion out of the unipolar mode of the
United States, and they have basically joined hands to
say, the IMF and the World Bank are not providing us
with the opportunity to develop. And therefore, they
have not only decided on all of these massive projects,
but they are building a new banking structure.
They have started the New Development Bank of
the BRICS, which will have an initial capital of $100
billion. They are building the AIIB [Asian Infrastructure
and Investment Bank], also $100 billion; the New
Silk Road Fund, $40 billion; the New Maritime Silk
Road fund, $20 billion; the SAARC [South Asian Association
for Regional Cooperation] development
bank, for the South Asian countries, also in the same
vicinity. And they are also building a Shanghai Cooperation
Bank. So, if you look at this new system of
banks, it is entirely a new financial architecture—not
for casinos, not for derivatives, not for speculation, like
Wall Street and the City of London, but only for infrastructure
funding, only for projects of the common
good, only for development.
Now, the United States, the Obama Administration,
said to all of their allies, and all Asian countries: Do not
join the AIIB. And they put pressure on them. They
really forced, or tried to force them, but this time it did
not work.
So, you have 27 Asian countries who’ve become
founding members of the AIIB. But then something absolutely
unprecedented happened, that the [U.S] allies
also said, well, if we have the choice between joining
the United States in World War III over Ukraine, or if
we have the choice to join with China in the development
of the world, maybe it is a wiser idea to be on the
winning side.
So, in the last two weeks, starting with the ever-soloyal
special U.S. ally Great Britain joining the AIIB.
Then immediately followed Germany, France, Italy, the
great nation of Luxembourg, but also very importantly,
probably the only republic in Europe, Switzerland, and
Austria. So that means practically all of Europe is joining
with the AIIB. And also Turkey, another staunch
NATO ally; South Korea, firmly under control of the
United States; Australia may do it today or tomorrow, at
a big economic conference in China. Canada is about to
join, and even Japan is considering it, and there is a
whole secondary wave of countries which have indicated
that they want to cooperate.
Now, that is really great news. Because that means
that the world quickly could go out of the danger of not
only a pending collapse of the system. It’s like you have
now, about a dozen lifeboats out there, at the moment
the trans-Atlantic Titanic is sinking. So it is very good
to know that such an alternative exists.
Bringing in the United States
Now the only problem is, that the United States is
still opposing it. This Administration has said repeatedly
that they absolutely oppose it; they have not
changed their line, despite the fact that yesterday, the
Chinese state TV CCTV and the official press agency
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Xinhua, again, invited the United States to participate,
as Xi Jinping had done already at the APEC meeting
last October in Beijing.
That makes complete sense! Why is the United
States not joining? Why? It would be so easy: All the
problems of the world would vanish, if the United
States can be brought to cooperate with all of these nations
of Asia, Europe, and Africa, to build the world—
and the world needs building. I mean the reason why
China and the BRICS countries went this way, is because
they said the IMF and the World Bank do not provide
for the necessary development credits, and therefore
we need to build an institution which is not a casino
economy, but which is only there to finance development.
So if the United States could be swung around,
then everything would be easy. And I call upon you to
help to make that happen.
Now, fortunately, O’Malley, who as a governor
traveled several times to China, and if you go on his
website, you can see him with Chinese officials; and he
also had a very clear idea of who the enemy is of the
United States, and he doesn’t forget in one single speech
to remind people that the American Revolution was
fought against the British Empire, and that it was the
British who tried to take over Baltimore after they have
burned down Washington in the War of 1812.
So, if the campaign of O’Malley can
gain more momentum than it has right
now, then the United States could be swung
to cooperate with the rest of the world.
However, that creates a problem, because
this wonderful development does
not work, if the United States is under the
control of a phenomenon which we have
seen repeatedly. It started, really with the
Bush family, and unfortunately it’s continued
with the Obama Presidency, and that
is something which is called PNAC, the
Project for a New American Century doctrine.
This was announced by the neo-cons
in ’97, and when the Soviet Union collapsed
between ’89 and ’91, this became
official policy of the United States. And it
basically said there is now only one superpower
left; the Soviet Union collapsed,
and we will make sure that there will be
never, ever, a country or a group of countries,
becoming the rival to the United
States, either economically or politically,
or militarily.
This is a problem, because these countries right
now, are already bigger than the United States. China is
already number two in terms of economic power; the
BRICS, together with these other countries, are already
stronger economically. And therefore, there has to be
change in the United States. Now, my husband is very
committed to initiate that that should happen, and we
are going to prepare a documentary on the characteristics
of the Bush family, and why we cannot have another
Bush running for President and becoming President
of the United States.
And that is not just the recent crops of Bushes, but
you have to go back all the way to Prescott Bush, because
it was that grouping which helped Hitler come to
power. It is a well-documented fact that Averell Harriman,
Prescott Bush, Montagu Norman from the Bank
of England at that time, they financed Hitler to come to
power in 1933, at a point when the Nazis already had
massively lost in the election, because there were some
people who had studied Mein Kampf, and they figured
that if Hitler were to come to power, a war between the
Soviet Union and Germany would be inevitable one
day, and this was the British design: Let the devils kill
each other, and we will be the victorious ones.
So you really have to go back, and we published
http://www.jsfao.gov.cn/
Then-Gov. Martin O’Malley meets with Jiangsu Province leader Luo Zhijun in
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, June 4, 2011.
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this, by the way, in a book which I think you can acquire,
called a book which I think you can acquire,
called George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, in
which we document all of this. And Bush never sued
us, which I think, if there had been a fault in it, they for
sure would have done; and if you look at a two-hour
documentary of Bill Clinton, where—it’s the 1992
Clinton campaign—you find that book, George Bush:
The Unauthorized Biography sitting on the desk and
you can read it very, very clearly. And we take pride in
the fact that that book contributed a very good part in
the [Bush] defeat, and the victory of Bill Clinton at that
time.
We will prepare another documentary, and make
sure there are no more Bushes other than maybe in the
boondocks somewhere, but not in the White House.
The White House should be filled with a President and
not with a Bush. So, then naturally, my husband says,
we have to oust Obama and sink the Bushes. That
should be the battle cry for what we are going to do in
the next period.
Obama should be impeached. There are already
plenty of reasons to do so: For example, the American
Constitution forbids that Americans should
be killed without due process. The drone war
has killed at least four American citizens in
Yemen: al-Awlaki, his son, and two others,
and that single fact alone is sufficient to call
for his impeachment. However, given the fact
that the other people who are not Americans
were also human beings, and the Physicians
for Social Justice just published a report that
between the wars and military operations in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq—I don’t
know if it includes Syria or Libya—more
than 1 million civilians were killed! And we
know that when the whole battle occurred
around the [Senate] torture report of the CIA,
where Senator Feinstein fought a heroic battle
to make that public, because if you have that
going on, then America is not a republic. And
there are some patriots in this country who are
fighting, not strongly enough, but there are
some, who want to return the United States to
being a republic.
There was a worry in certain circles that
following this torture report would come a
commission in the Senate to investigate the
drone killing. Because obviously, to torture
somebody, as painful as it may be for the victim suffering
from that, if you have somebody who sends drones,
disregarding how many civilian casualties occur, this
is obviously much worse. And the fact that so many
civilians have been killed in wars which were entirely
based on lies, like the Iraq war was based on lies, fabricated
by Blair and the MI6. Afghanistan was, because
if the truth comes out about Sept. 11th, then the
whole basis of the Afghanistan war has to be reviewed.
The war against Syria, which was stopped in the last
minute, was based on lies. So was the war against
Libya!
The Threat of World War III
Now, remember, when this [Libya] war occurred in
2011, my husband Mr. LaRouche immediately said,
“this means they are going for World War III.” Now,
there is one thing to be said about Mr. LaRouche, and
that is that he has, unlike anybody else I know, a unique
ability to characterize and recognize historical developments
when they newly occur. Many people, retrospectively
say, “Ja, ja, that was this development,” but he
immediately recognized that this violation in the case
LPAC-TV
Lyndon LaRouche during a webcast, Aug. 8, 2014. “There is one thing to be
said about Mr. LaRouche,” said Zepp-LaRouche, “and that is that he has,
unlike anybody else I know, a unique ability to characterize and recognize
historical developments when they newly occur.”
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of the Libya war meant a sinister
plan to go for potential World War
III.
Now, looking back at it, this
was absolutely prescient and prophetic,
because, remember, that
this war was not declared to be a
war. The Obama Administration
said, this is just a military operation,
no “boots on the ground,” it’s
not a war. And by lyingly mischaracterizing
the Libya campaign,
they got Russia and China to abstain
in the UN Security Council;
whereas, if they had declared it to
be a war, you can be 100% sure,
Russia and China would have said
no. Because these two countries
have the idea that international
law should still be valid and the
UN Charter should still exist.
By doing it this way, by deceiving
China and Russia, they did
something very, very terrible: Not
only did they murder Qaddafi—
and this was murder; I mean, they
had control over the country already,
and then, to have Qaddafi
murdered in this absolutely bestial
way, like Saddam Hussein was
treated before—that just meant
that the United States has really lost its status as legal
country. But more importantly, it destroyed the UN process.
The UN Security Council has not functioned ever
since. And we are as a result of this, really on the verge
of World War III: The war against Syria was stopped in
the very, very last hours, because the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey, went to Obama
and said, you cannot start a war where you don’t know
how it will end. You will be impeached because the
Congress is against it, the American people are against
it. And so this was stopped, literally in the last second.
But then, you had the Ukraine crisis.
Now, let me say a few words about the Ukraine
crisis, because this is right now, bringing the world horribly
close to a war which, if it comes into being, will
annihilate civilization, and I’m not exaggerating. Right
now, you have NATO troops and nuclear capable fighter
jets along the Russian border; the United States has just
positioned 14 F16s which can carry nuclear weapons,
on the Russian border in Estonia. They have moved
heavy equipment into the other Baltic States. They are
already present in various forms there, because they are
only there for maintenance and as security for these
weapons, but you know, they are troops, they are soldiers.
Now, this is now coming to a head, because General
Breedlove, who is the. commander of the U.S.
forces (and the actual head of NATO, as everybody
knows, and not Mr. Stoltenberg), he in a press conference
three days ago, demanded that Ukraine should
join NATO.
I attended a couple of conferences in the last period,
where there were military strategists and analysts from
FIGURE 1
NATO’s Eastward Expansion
Wikimedia Commons/Glentamara; adapted by EIRNS
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the United States, such as [MIT
defense expert] Ted Postol and
others, who made the point very
clearly, that Ukraine and Georgia
cannot be in NATO, because it
violates the security interests of
Russia in such a way that they
become de facto indefensible,
and therefore Russia will never
agree to have Ukraine become
part of NATO.
I recently had a meeting with
a top German military person,
who said: Look, it’s very simple.
You take a piece of paper, build a
circle here, that is the West and
NATO; and build a circle here,
and that is Russia. And it was
always agreed, even in the period
of Cold War, but especially afterwards,
that the area in between
would be a cushion, a buffer, and
that it would never be allowed
that the NATO troops would move all the way to the
Russian border.
Now, that, by the way was the promise which was
given to Gorbachov, to Genscher, to Kohl, and others,
to Yeltsin when the Soviet Union collapsed, and it was
said, “We will not move NATO eastward; Ukraine will
remain relatively neutral, but not join the Western military
alliance.” And because you had this neo-con phenomenon
in the Bush Sr. Administration, they had this
idea, “now that communism is dead, we will make globalization
a world empire.” And globalization is just
another word for an Anglo-American empire based on
the “special relationship” between the United States
and Great Britain.
So then, there was a certain period where, first,
Russia was dismantled in the Yeltsin period, where
from 1991 to 1994, they reduced the industrial capacity
of Russia by 70%, to only 30%: This was called “shock
therapy.” Whereby they privatized everything, sold the
better parts for profit, closed down the not-so-good
parts, and they threw Russia into a terrible catastrophe!
They lost 1 million people demographically per year,
more people dying than being born, and Russian went
into a terrible collapse phase.
In the meantime, you had such wonderful institutions
as the National Endowment for Democracy, the
International Republican Institute, the National Democratic
Institute, and others, and they started with a
policy of planned regime change against the countries
around Russia, of the former Soviet Union and the
former Warsaw Pact, and they built up NGOs.
Victoria Nuland, who is a very special person, and
she will have a special place in American history—if
there is going to be one! She bragged that the State Department
spent $5 billion alone on building NGOs in
Ukraine alone. And that led, in this context, you had
first Poland and Hungary joining NATO; and then in a
second wave, the color revolutions in 2004, whereby
they changed the regime in Ukraine and Georgia, and
batch of six nations joined NATO.
And now, that has been escalated practically to the
point where Russia is encircled. And that is what now is
being escalated with the sanctions policies, which were
designed to increase the instability in Russia in such a
way that Putin would be toppled.
Now, the opposite is happening, obviously. The
Russian people are all backing Putin. The popularity of
Putin has gone up to 90%, so as compared to a couple of
weeks ago, it is increasing.
But we are on the verge of an absolute disaster, because
the change in the military doctrine of NATO,
from Mutual Assured Destruction, to first strike, has
FIGURE 2
Theodore Postol: ‘If a Nuclear Bomb Hits New York’
mwcnews.net
This illustration appeared in an article in MWC News, March 28, 2015.
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happened! Most people do not know that, but at one of
the conferences which I attended, Mr. Postol distributed
graphs which I will pass around, because I didn’t
have time to produce them, and here it shows what will
happen: Because the first strike doctrine of the U.S.
global missile defense system, the Prompt Global
Strike doctrine, and the Air Sea Battle doctrine against
China, all assume that you can knock out the nuclear
capability of Russia, China or any other opponent, and
win a nuclear war. And both Russia and China have
made very clear that they do not buy that, that they
have modernized their capability: Russia has just
moved its nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad,
which is directly opposite from the Baltics;
they have put many of their ICBMs on mobile trains;
they have increased their various defenses, and China
has said the same thing.
So, Mr. Postol had slides which show what happens
if there is a nuclear impact on Washington, and how that
will destroy all life on Earth. You may pass this around,
because I think it is important that Americans really
start to think about it: Because the most shocking thing
about this is, that when you had the Cuban Missile
Crisis, and you had Kennedy in the White House, there
was a big debate: What would be the effect of nuclear
war? And Kennedy said, the people who die in the first
hours will be happy, as compared to those who die a
few hours, a few weeks later, in a nuclear winter, when
all life has been destroyed, all food is gone. And also
when you had the intermediate missile crisis at the beginning
of the ’80s, there were hundreds of thousands
of people in the streets, warning of the Third World
War.
And now, where every military expert who has occupied
himself with this, has come to the conclusion
that we are today, much, much, much closer, to the
danger of nuclear war than at any time in history, and
the horrifying thing is nobody speaks about it. There is
no public outcry, there is no upheaval, people don’t
demand a change of this, and that is also something
which has to be changed.
So this is why we have to really think to get Obama
out of the White House, says my husband, because
without the United States, this war would not function.
The British are the real instigators of the war. But the
British have a pitiful defense system; they just have
more budget cuts every year, so the British alone are
just a tiny little island with really no military capability—
but the United States has to be brought away from
this confrontation against Russia.
As I said, the impeachable crimes are the illegal killing
of American citizens (I personally think the other
citizens are illegally killed as well, but that is not covered
by the American Constitution), and especially the
illegal war against Libya, are enough reasons to start
the impeachment. This is a difficult task, because the
Republicans, being great “patriots,” they say, let’s keep
Obama in the White House as a punching bag for the
2016 election, because with him as an enemy image, we
can win the Presidency. So obviously the Democrats
have the major share of the responsibility. But that is
really what is needed, because the beautiful development
which is happening in the rest of the world may
not function if the United States is on the wrong track,
and that puts a very special responsibility on you, on the
American citizens, because, the change can only come
from within this country.
We Need a Revolution
Fortunately, there is something really revolutionary
going on which you may never read in the Wall Street
Journal or in the New York Post or the New York Times,
because these papers are really not real newspapers.
They are PR firms to sell the interest of Wall Street. So
therefore, you will not read about these beautiful developments,
so please go to our websites instead, or subscribe
to our publications, and you will find out every
day.
But what I mean by this, is this: When we started to
realize in what serious trouble civilization was, already
40 years ago, but then especially after Mr. LaRouche
declared that we are on the way to World War III, we
conducted a couple of conferences such as this, and
even bigger international conferences, with the idea,
that the combination of all the problems in the world:
the danger of nuclear extinction, the danger of a meltdown
of the system, the absolute collapse of our culture,
that we have a demonic culture, a bestial culture;
if you look at some of the pop singers that our young
people are listening to, it is Satanism! Because it is just
a complete perversion of the image of man—it’s ugly,
it’s disgusting, it’s violent, it’s perverse, pornographic,
I could probably go on for an hour like that—and it destroys
especially the creativity of everybody who
watches this or listens to this.
If you look at the total trust of the people in politics!
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Why are there only less than 50% of the people voting
in the United States? That means 50% have already said
it’s hopeless, there’s nothing you can do! If you look at
the complete collapse of common values, of republicanism,
of just ordinary values of families; if you look
at the shootings in the schools, or the shootings in the
malls, or in Washington, two, three people every day
are being killed—if you don’t come to the conclusion
that this society is really sick; if you have an adult population
which agrees, “Yeah, our children and our
grandchildren will be much worse off than we were,”
and they don’t do anything about it, you have a dying
society!
So, I could elaborate this more, but I want to make
a conclusion out of all of this: This is why we in our
conferences, set ourselves the theme: we need a new
paradigm, which breaks completely with all values of
this globalization, of this imperialism, of this oligarchism,
of this monetarism, of this money, money,
money lust, of this perversion of the present
system, and we have to make a break and go
to a new paradigm of the future epoch of civilization.
Now, most people have no idea what that
should look like, because they don’t think
about it, but they should think about it. And
there are actually examples in history, that
you very consciously can initiate such a
change. Well, if you go back to the 14th Century,
where you had a real dark age, you had
witch-burning, you had the Flagellants, you
had the Black Death which killed half of the
population from India to Ireland; you had a
terrible collapse. And you should read the
Decameron of Boccaccio, or look at the pictures
of Bruegel, where you have crazy people
looking insanely, then you get a picture of
what a dark age is. Read the Decameron, because
it is a very good mirror of what we are
looking at.
But then came the Golden Italian Renaissance.
And that was a completely different
age. It broke with all of these horror shows of
the 14th Century. And it was triggered by, on
the one side Jeanne d’Arc, and we will hear
later today about that [from Megan Beets], so
I will not speak about that. But it was especially
caused by the ideas of one man, who is
maybe not so well known in the United States,
but he’s becoming increasingly known internationally.
A Nicholas of Cusa Renaissance
There is a real Nicholas of Cusa Renaissance going
on, where people recognize that they have overlooked
one of the outstanding thinkers of all of human history,
and there is right now a flourishing of writings.
So he is a German, who was born in Bernkastel
Kues—that’s where his name comes from, Nikolaus
von Kues, which is only half an hour from my hometown,
Trier, and that is actually how I came to learn
about him, because he is sort of a neighbor from the
15th Century. And he was very active churchman: He
became a bishop, then he became a cardinal. And he
was sent by several Popes on extremely important
Church missions during his time. He started, at the time
when the Catholic Church really divided—you had
three Popes. You had the Conciliar movement, which
decided that the authority of the Church could only
Pieter Bruegel, “Triumph of Death” (1562), detail.
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come from the Council and not from the Pope, because
you could not give that responsibility to only one
person.
And Nicholas of Cusa, in the beginning, was on the
side of the Conciliar movement, but later he changed
that, because he realized that the unity, the concordance,
can only come from a
One, and that the Church has to
be structured to be in a harmonic
relationship to this One.
He was an absolutely outstanding
person, because he not
only traveled to England, to
Austria, to France, all over continental
Europe on Church missions,
trying to eliminate wrong
ideas of various sects, the Hussites,
various others; so he was
extremely busy. But while he
was traveling, by horse most of
the time, he was at the same
time, thinking the most profound
ideas—how to get unity
in the Church, how to get unity
in the states among the nations,
and his person is the proof that
you don’t have to sit in an ivory
tower to come up with profound
ideas, but that it is the struggle to
bring order into the world when
it is urgent, which is how you do
it.
He was educated by the humanists, both in the
Brothers of the Common Life, but also the people in
Padua, so he had contact with a school of Italian humanists
who had the idea that you have to go back to the
sources of the great thinkers of the past, and not take
some gossip or footnotes, of some scholar afterwards.
So in this capacity, he went to Byzantium and he collected
all the manuscripts from the early Church councils:
The Council of Nicaea, various councils in the first
centuries after Christ, and he made a tremendous discovery:
namely that the reason why the Greek and the
Catholic Church had split, was invalid.
The official reason for the split of the Church was
that the so-called Filioque, that God emanates not only
from the Father God, from the Logos, but also from the
Son, which was in the early Church councils. And he
could find manuscripts from that period, from these
early councils, brought them back to the Pope, and that
informed, then, the Council of Ferrara, and the Council
of Florence. And in the second mission, Nicholas
brought then a delegation of 700 Orthodox scholars and
Church officials to the Council of Florence, and the
Church reunited.
Now, when this happened,
he already had the idea that he
was thinking something which
had never been thought in mankind
before. And the next major
development, was when Constantinople
was taken over by
the Muslims in 1453, and that
was with blood, and people got
killed, so it was an early “clash
of civilizations.” And the horror
news about this came into
Europe, and people really were
completely freaked out about
this religious war.
But while this was going on,
Nicholas wrote De Docta Ignorantia
and he again said, “I’m
now writing something which
goes beyond the knowledge of
any human being who thought
before.” And he wrote among
other things, De Pace Fidei, the
idea of the peace in religion,
which is a beautiful dialogue
where he establishes that, despite
all differences in religion, there is only one God,
and there is only one Truth, and the differences come
from the different prophets and the different traditions,
but it is possible to find the unity of the one God and the
one Truth.
Cusa’s Method of Thought
But he also developed a method of thinking, which
is the idea that you have to have a higher principle
which you have to get from the order of the universe:
The ontological order of the universe, which is an unfolding
universe, a creation in which there is a higher
principle which unfolds and then emanates as what has
to advise people for how they should conduct their political
life, their church life, and so forth.
So basically, it was this method, which enabled him
to develop a new method of thinking, which was the
Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64).
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foundation of modern science, of modern great Classical
art. So what he did, is, he looked at the axioms of the
intellectual life of his time, sort of as we would go to
Harvard or MIT and would say, “Oh, all of this which is
being taught there is bunk”—he did that with all the
universities of his time, and he came to the conclusion
that scholasticism and Aristotelianism has to be eliminated
by a superior method. And he described the difference
with the Aristotelian method, such as when a
person stands in a high tower and looks down on a
hunter who is hunting the hunted. So the person who is
thinking on the higher level can see the hunter, the
hunted, and the hunting as one process; while an Aristotelian
is either the hunter or the hunted, but he can
never see the process as a whole.
So he developed this methodology, which is really
characterized in the De Docta Ignorantia, that you have
to train your mind not to latch onto concretes in the sensuous
realm. Because this is why he developed, for example,
something which is called “negative theology,”
that for example, you cannot describe God with any
notion which comes from human experience. Because
even if you say, “God is Almighty,” or “God is Eternal,”
these are all projections of your limited mind, where
you try to describe God, Who is obviously outside of all
of human experience, with something that comes from
human experience.
So, in a beautiful treatise which you should read,
called, The Non-Other, he comes to the conclusion that
the non-other is none other than the non-other. So you
may think that that sounds funny, but if you go through
the whole argument, you can see that Nicholas of Cusa
helps you not to get stuck in the mud of sensuous experience,
but brings you to a level which he called the
coincidentia oppositorum; that means in English, the
“coincidence of all opposites,” and what it means is essentially
that there is a higher One, that the One has a
higher order and a higher power than the multiplicity.
And you have to be able to train your reason, not the
intellect, not ratio, not understanding, but reason which
is on a higher level than ratio, to think of that higher
One as a method of solution.
You can also say, it is a method of learning what is
a flank; any military commander knows what that
means, that if you have inferior forces you cannot win
against superior forces in a head-on collision, but
there are many battles in history, where if you had a
wonderful strategic thinker, he was able to outflank a
superior enemy by thinking a flank or even a double
flank, like Friedrich the Great did in the famous Battle
of Leuthen.
You can also say that it’s metaphor thinking: that
you have to train the mind to think something which has
not been thought before. Now, if you want to make a
scientific discovery, or if you want write a beautiful,
musical Classical composition, or write a beautiful
Classical poem, well, you have to have that capability
in your mind, to be truly creative.
Now, Nicholas of Cusa had this very deep understanding
of the ontological order of the universe, about
the macrocosm, which can have concordance if you
have harmony of all microcosms, as a dynamic process.
And he derived his thinking from that ontological
order, culminating in the Wisdom of God, which is the
only One Who is capable of thinking on the level of
the coincidentia oppositorum. And in a kind of pedagogical
way, to train people to think like that, he developed
this idea that in order to come to that level of
thinking, you have to think like you are behind a wall.
Before the wall, people are still thinking in contradictions,
in obstacles, but you have to sort of jump behind
the wall of contradictions to be able to think that higher
unity.
And that is basically what he then applied—for example,
he discovered a problem which Archimedes
was unable to solve, and other mathematicians before,
how to make the quadrature of the circle. Now, he
made that discovery on horseback, when he was riding
from Rome to Brixen, so he was not exactly sitting in
an ivory tower, but he was discussing with certain
other bishops and mathematicians about that, and there
he came to the idea that if you think that the circle has
a higher quality and a higher order than the polygon,
and the more corners you make in the polygon, the less
it becomes like the circle. But he also applied it to
many, many other problems, especially to his De Pace
Fidei.
And I assert, despite the fact that I have not been
able to completely trace it (because the problem was,
many of Cusa’s writings disappeared into monasteries
for centuries, so it’s not so easy), but I’m absolutely
convinced that it was his thinking which laid the basis
for the Peace of Westphalia, which ended 150 years of
religious war in Europe, because the Peace of Westphalia
had this idea that you can only have harmony of all
nations, if you respect the interests of the other, and if
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you take the interest of the other as your own, and
the maximum development of the other as important
as yourself; as vice versa. And that was
indeed, what made the Peace of Westphalia possible
and established international law.
The Laws of the Universe
Now, this is very important, because we are
right now in the process of not only forming a new
alliance of nations, as the BRICS countries and
the other countries joining with the BRICS demonstrate,
but our criticism in the LaRouche movement
has been for a very long time, that as important
as international law is, and especially the UN
Charter, these systems have a big flaw. And that is,
that they don’t have an underpinning of an ontological,
metaphysical explanation.
And we have now reached in history, the point
where we need to have an international law based
on the laws of the universe. And the problem we
have in the world today, is that we have erred, we
have left the right way; in Chinese philosophy you
would say, we have lost the mandate of Heaven,
and in Confucianism, the idea is that every government
must have the mandate of Heaven, that
is, the task to do the common good, to take care
for the people, to provide for their well being
through scientific development, through other
things, and when a government loses that mandate
of Heaven, it is the task of the noble in the
society, called the junzi, who must come to replace
that government, and restore the common
good.
Now, the ideas of Nicholas of Cusa are extremely
close to those of Confucianism, and I
have made the argument many times that, in order
to understand what this new BRICS development is,
and especially what the new Chinese policy of the New
Silk Road is, you have to understand Confucianism,
which, after all, has informed and guided Chinese society,
with almost no interruption for 2,500 years. And
Confucius had the same idea in principle as Nicholas of
Cusa, that harmony is only possible if everybody develops
in the best possible way, and every nation develops
in the best possible way.
So the two important ideas are ren, which is the
same thing as love, that politics must be based on love,
which is the same idea as in Christianity, agape¯ or caritas;
and the second most important principle of Confucianism
is li, which is the idea that every person and
every nation and every thing must fulfill its proper place
and develop in the best possible way, and contribute to
the harmony of the society in the most perfect way he or
she is possible.
Now, that is the idea of the new economic system!
And I tell you, people say, oh, but that cannot be true.
China must have a secret agenda, they must have another
plan, there must be a new imperialism replacing
the American imperialism—but I can assure you, that is
not the case. Because Xi Jinping and other Chinese officials
have made very, very clear, that the new system
of nations working together in the Silk Road Economic
Wikimedia Commons/Miguel A. Monjas
Confucius statue at the Confucius Temple in Beijing. “In
Confucianism,” said Zepp-LaRouche, “the idea is that every
government must have the mandate of Heaven, that is, the task to do
the common good. . . .”
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Belt, which is how they call it in the meantime, which is
really the idea of bringing together all nations on this
planet, from America, to Asia, to Europe, to Africa, and
Australia, in a way where each nation is in a “win-win”
relation with each other. That there is no interference,
that there is respect for the mutual sovereignty, respect
for the other social system of the other country, no interference.
And recently, a couple of days ago in Washington,
there was a conference where the vice-president of the
China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
(CICIR), said, “no, we even want to have a “winwin-
win” relationship,” meaning that the United States
should work together with Latin America, and bring in
China. That China could be the bridge between the
United States and Cuba and Latin America, for a joint
development; and then, he even said, we could have not
only a triangular relation, but we could have a quadrangular
relation, bringing even Russia in!
Now, does that not make sense? Does it not make
sense that all these countries join hands, overcome poverty,
overcome disease, have a joint future, agree on
joint space cooperation—and this Chinese scholar,
whose name is Dr. Yuan Peng, said, “let’s join hands in
this quadrangular relation and together develop Mars.”
Now doesn’t it make sense to defend our humanity
against all dangers and to define the next phase and
epoch of human evolution, in building an architecture
where not only nations work for their economic interest
together, but to establish a joint security architecture,
which takes into the interest of every single country on
this world?
I think we have reached a point where we are called
upon to make that a reality, and that is why we should
really leave this meeting by declaring war against Wall
Street and dump the Bushes, get rid of Obama, and reestablish
the Presidency of the United States, return the
United States back into a republic, and build a future
where mankind finally can become the truly creative,
immortal species in the universe.
FIGURE 3
China’s Plans for The New Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road
Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave the
following keynote address to the March 28 Schiller Institute
conference in Manhattan. The video is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1LHXPSOKGU.
Ladies and gentlemen, dear members of the Schiller Institute—
or those who will be such at the end of this
meeting, I hope—we have truly dramatic developments.
Let me start with something which is just hitting
some of the news, and that is, that Wall Street—which
is not far from here—had a secret meeting. And at that
meeting, the heads of Bank of America, JPMorgan,
Goldman Sachs, and some
more, conspired and decided
that they would make sure
that the issue of Glass-Steagall
would not come up in the
present, beginning presidential
election.
And they then went to
Washington and met with the
head of the DNC—of the
Democratic Party—and all
the Congressional commissions,
and they told them, if
you don’t stop this talk about
Glass-Steagall—the separation
of the banks, which had
been introduced by Franklin
D. Roosevelt in 1933, which
was abolished in 1999, and
wherein you have the reason
for this limitless speculation,
which is ruining the world
right now—if you don’t stop
that, they said, we will withhold
every single penny from
the Democratic Party in the
upcoming election.
Now, there is a word for that, and that is extortion.
So, I’m calling upon you, and all the many people
watching this live broadcast, to really make sure that
that is not the last word. Because Martin O’Malley, the
former governor of Maryland and former mayor of Baltimore,
had, a couple of weeks ago, announced that he
would try to become president of the United States on
entirely one subject, and that is to put the national interest
above the interest of Wall Street, and to re-introduce
Glass-Steagall as the first act, when he could be in the
White House.
Obviously, O’Malley is so far not regarded as the
front-runner, but my husband,
Mr. LaRouche, immediately
said, that puts the cat
among the mice, because
from now on, no other candidate
can really avoid the issue
of Wall Street, and it will set
the tone for all the other candidates.
Now, it is generally
known that Sen. Elizabeth
Warren is so far refusing to
run, but already, 300,000 signatures
were collected for her
to do so. And behind
O’Malley is an entire faction
of the Democratic Party,
which is determined that this
thing has gone too far, and
that the gap between the rich
and the poor has gotten to the
point whereby 80 individuals
in the world own as much material
wealth as 3.5 billion
people (half of humanity).
Obviously, they want to
Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The Mission of Cusa: The BRICS and
A New International Order for Mankind
EIRNS/Stuart Lewis
Helga Zepp-LaRouche addresses the Schiller Institute
conference in New York on March 28: “Doesn’t it make
sense to . . . build an architecture where nations not only
work for their economic interest together, but to establish
a joint security architecture, which takes into the interest
of every single country in this world?”
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reduce that number to 20, or maybe 5
individuals, owning as much as half
of humanity, but that is obviously
perverse, and should stop, because it
means the death of many people.
This policy kills. And the Pope,
Pope Francis, said so recently, that
this policy has to be measured by the
5th Commandment—thou shall not
kill—and that this is exactly what this
policy does.
So, O’Malley is maybe not so
well known, and maybe he is not yet
a charismatic speaker, but I think that
we had enough of these charismatic
speakers, but then when you look at
the content of what they did, it was
not so great.
That is now a gauntlet, which has
been thrown down by Wall Street to
the Amerrican people, and I think we
have to gear up the fight for Glass-
Steagall.
O’Malley Is Right
This is highly urgent, because there are many, many
influential people, including the vice-chairman of the
FDIC, Thomas Hoenig, who are warning that we are
right now in front of an explosion of the financial
system, whereby the collapse around Lehman Brothers
and AIG in 2008, will look like a small hiccup, compared
to what is about to blow. Because the too-big-tofail
banks are now 40% or more bigger than in 2008,
and their derivative exposure has increased by 85%.
The Bank of International Settlements, which is sort of
the central bank of central banks, just issued new figures
that the derivatives exposure of the banks officially,
is $690 trillion, 80% of which is related to interest
rates.
Now, the banks advise the people who have these
derivatives: hedge on them, make another derivative on
the derivative. It is generally estimated, if you have a
blowout, which could happen—for example, [Federal
Reserve chairman] Janet Yellen has announced that she
wants to increase the interest rate by maybe a tiny
amount—they are practically zero right now—and then
you would have a chain reaction whereby this whole
system blows out.
The same thing could happen with the collapse of
the euro, which could also happen if Greece leaves the
euro in a chaotic way, because the Troika is driving
them out—then that could blow out the system.
So, therefore, Glass-Steagall is super-urgent. If you
want to have any savings, any pension, any kind of
safety in your life, then you should help us get a ferment
for Glass-Steagall.
The BRICS New Economic Model
Now, fortunately, we are not alone. You are joined
by more than half of humanity, which you may not
know yet, but there is a tremendous development. As a
matter of fact, we have as much reason to be worried as
we have even more reason to be joyful. Because what
has happened in the last several weeks, is an unprecedent
development.
You remember that we have been campaigning for
the BRICS countries [Brazil, Russia, India, China,
South Africa]—and that the United States should join
the new economic system which is emerging with the
BRICS. Because, if you go back to September 2013,
the Chinese President Xi Jinping had announced that
China is reviving the ancient Silk Road. Now the ancient
Silk Road, as you know, was during the Han Dynasty,
when all the countries of Asia and Europe were
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LaRouchePAC organizers join the Greek Independence Day parade in New York on
March 29, 2015: Greece and the USA must join the BRICS!
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working together, exchanging goods, technology, but
also silk, silk-making, porcelain, porcelain-making,
book printing, and all the countries who participated in
the ancient Silk Road were profiting in terms of their
economies, in terms of their cultures, in terms of their
development.
And Xi Jinping said, we will rebuild the Silk Road,
which will connect not only China, via Central Asia,
with Europe, but in the one and a half years since, this
has taken on a breathtaking development. Because not
only did China put the Maritime Silk Road on the table,
which is the idea to connect all of the countries of the
Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific, on the sea
route through expanded trade, building of ports, expanding
cooperation. But in the meantime, the BRICS
have started a new economic model, together with all
the Latin American states, and many Asian countries
have joined.
Now, they have concluded, since the BRICS summit
last July in Fortaleza in Brazil, an unbelievable number
of economic projects. They are building a new canal in
Nicaragua. They are building a transcontinental railway
from Brazil all the way to Peru. They are building
incredible numbers of water-management projects.
They’re redirecting rivers to fight the desert. They’re
building together nuclear power plants in dozens of
countries. They have joined in space research, and these
countries, despite their problems—which obviously
still exist—have turned into an optimism which you
have no inkling of, because the U.S. mass media is not
reporting one single word about it. And if you read the
Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, or the Washington
Post, you read “Xi Jinping is becoming a new
Mao Tse-tung”; “Putin is a dictator and a demon”; and
that is about all you find out about what these countries
are doing.
But the reality is completely different. What people
cannot imagine is that there are countries which have
drawn the conclusion out of the unipolar mode of the
United States, and they have basically joined hands to
say, the IMF and the World Bank are not providing us
with the opportunity to develop. And therefore, they
have not only decided on all of these massive projects,
but they are building a new banking structure.
They have started the New Development Bank of
the BRICS, which will have an initial capital of $100
billion. They are building the AIIB [Asian Infrastructure
and Investment Bank], also $100 billion; the New
Silk Road Fund, $40 billion; the New Maritime Silk
Road fund, $20 billion; the SAARC [South Asian Association
for Regional Cooperation] development
bank, for the South Asian countries, also in the same
vicinity. And they are also building a Shanghai Cooperation
Bank. So, if you look at this new system of
banks, it is entirely a new financial architecture—not
for casinos, not for derivatives, not for speculation, like
Wall Street and the City of London, but only for infrastructure
funding, only for projects of the common
good, only for development.
Now, the United States, the Obama Administration,
said to all of their allies, and all Asian countries: Do not
join the AIIB. And they put pressure on them. They
really forced, or tried to force them, but this time it did
not work.
So, you have 27 Asian countries who’ve become
founding members of the AIIB. But then something absolutely
unprecedented happened, that the [U.S] allies
also said, well, if we have the choice between joining
the United States in World War III over Ukraine, or if
we have the choice to join with China in the development
of the world, maybe it is a wiser idea to be on the
winning side.
So, in the last two weeks, starting with the ever-soloyal
special U.S. ally Great Britain joining the AIIB.
Then immediately followed Germany, France, Italy, the
great nation of Luxembourg, but also very importantly,
probably the only republic in Europe, Switzerland, and
Austria. So that means practically all of Europe is joining
with the AIIB. And also Turkey, another staunch
NATO ally; South Korea, firmly under control of the
United States; Australia may do it today or tomorrow, at
a big economic conference in China. Canada is about to
join, and even Japan is considering it, and there is a
whole secondary wave of countries which have indicated
that they want to cooperate.
Now, that is really great news. Because that means
that the world quickly could go out of the danger of not
only a pending collapse of the system. It’s like you have
now, about a dozen lifeboats out there, at the moment
the trans-Atlantic Titanic is sinking. So it is very good
to know that such an alternative exists.
Bringing in the United States
Now the only problem is, that the United States is
still opposing it. This Administration has said repeatedly
that they absolutely oppose it; they have not
changed their line, despite the fact that yesterday, the
Chinese state TV CCTV and the official press agency
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Xinhua, again, invited the United States to participate,
as Xi Jinping had done already at the APEC meeting
last October in Beijing.
That makes complete sense! Why is the United
States not joining? Why? It would be so easy: All the
problems of the world would vanish, if the United
States can be brought to cooperate with all of these nations
of Asia, Europe, and Africa, to build the world—
and the world needs building. I mean the reason why
China and the BRICS countries went this way, is because
they said the IMF and the World Bank do not provide
for the necessary development credits, and therefore
we need to build an institution which is not a casino
economy, but which is only there to finance development.
So if the United States could be swung around,
then everything would be easy. And I call upon you to
help to make that happen.
Now, fortunately, O’Malley, who as a governor
traveled several times to China, and if you go on his
website, you can see him with Chinese officials; and he
also had a very clear idea of who the enemy is of the
United States, and he doesn’t forget in one single speech
to remind people that the American Revolution was
fought against the British Empire, and that it was the
British who tried to take over Baltimore after they have
burned down Washington in the War of 1812.
So, if the campaign of O’Malley can
gain more momentum than it has right
now, then the United States could be swung
to cooperate with the rest of the world.
However, that creates a problem, because
this wonderful development does
not work, if the United States is under the
control of a phenomenon which we have
seen repeatedly. It started, really with the
Bush family, and unfortunately it’s continued
with the Obama Presidency, and that
is something which is called PNAC, the
Project for a New American Century doctrine.
This was announced by the neo-cons
in ’97, and when the Soviet Union collapsed
between ’89 and ’91, this became
official policy of the United States. And it
basically said there is now only one superpower
left; the Soviet Union collapsed,
and we will make sure that there will be
never, ever, a country or a group of countries,
becoming the rival to the United
States, either economically or politically,
or militarily.
This is a problem, because these countries right
now, are already bigger than the United States. China is
already number two in terms of economic power; the
BRICS, together with these other countries, are already
stronger economically. And therefore, there has to be
change in the United States. Now, my husband is very
committed to initiate that that should happen, and we
are going to prepare a documentary on the characteristics
of the Bush family, and why we cannot have another
Bush running for President and becoming President
of the United States.
And that is not just the recent crops of Bushes, but
you have to go back all the way to Prescott Bush, because
it was that grouping which helped Hitler come to
power. It is a well-documented fact that Averell Harriman,
Prescott Bush, Montagu Norman from the Bank
of England at that time, they financed Hitler to come to
power in 1933, at a point when the Nazis already had
massively lost in the election, because there were some
people who had studied Mein Kampf, and they figured
that if Hitler were to come to power, a war between the
Soviet Union and Germany would be inevitable one
day, and this was the British design: Let the devils kill
each other, and we will be the victorious ones.
So you really have to go back, and we published
http://www.jsfao.gov.cn/
Then-Gov. Martin O’Malley meets with Jiangsu Province leader Luo Zhijun in
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, June 4, 2011.
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this, by the way, in a book which I think you can acquire,
called a book which I think you can acquire,
called George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, in
which we document all of this. And Bush never sued
us, which I think, if there had been a fault in it, they for
sure would have done; and if you look at a two-hour
documentary of Bill Clinton, where—it’s the 1992
Clinton campaign—you find that book, George Bush:
The Unauthorized Biography sitting on the desk and
you can read it very, very clearly. And we take pride in
the fact that that book contributed a very good part in
the [Bush] defeat, and the victory of Bill Clinton at that
time.
We will prepare another documentary, and make
sure there are no more Bushes other than maybe in the
boondocks somewhere, but not in the White House.
The White House should be filled with a President and
not with a Bush. So, then naturally, my husband says,
we have to oust Obama and sink the Bushes. That
should be the battle cry for what we are going to do in
the next period.
Obama should be impeached. There are already
plenty of reasons to do so: For example, the American
Constitution forbids that Americans should
be killed without due process. The drone war
has killed at least four American citizens in
Yemen: al-Awlaki, his son, and two others,
and that single fact alone is sufficient to call
for his impeachment. However, given the fact
that the other people who are not Americans
were also human beings, and the Physicians
for Social Justice just published a report that
between the wars and military operations in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq—I don’t
know if it includes Syria or Libya—more
than 1 million civilians were killed! And we
know that when the whole battle occurred
around the [Senate] torture report of the CIA,
where Senator Feinstein fought a heroic battle
to make that public, because if you have that
going on, then America is not a republic. And
there are some patriots in this country who are
fighting, not strongly enough, but there are
some, who want to return the United States to
being a republic.
There was a worry in certain circles that
following this torture report would come a
commission in the Senate to investigate the
drone killing. Because obviously, to torture
somebody, as painful as it may be for the victim suffering
from that, if you have somebody who sends drones,
disregarding how many civilian casualties occur, this
is obviously much worse. And the fact that so many
civilians have been killed in wars which were entirely
based on lies, like the Iraq war was based on lies, fabricated
by Blair and the MI6. Afghanistan was, because
if the truth comes out about Sept. 11th, then the
whole basis of the Afghanistan war has to be reviewed.
The war against Syria, which was stopped in the last
minute, was based on lies. So was the war against
Libya!
The Threat of World War III
Now, remember, when this [Libya] war occurred in
2011, my husband Mr. LaRouche immediately said,
“this means they are going for World War III.” Now,
there is one thing to be said about Mr. LaRouche, and
that is that he has, unlike anybody else I know, a unique
ability to characterize and recognize historical developments
when they newly occur. Many people, retrospectively
say, “Ja, ja, that was this development,” but he
immediately recognized that this violation in the case
LPAC-TV
Lyndon LaRouche during a webcast, Aug. 8, 2014. “There is one thing to be
said about Mr. LaRouche,” said Zepp-LaRouche, “and that is that he has,
unlike anybody else I know, a unique ability to characterize and recognize
historical developments when they newly occur.”
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of the Libya war meant a sinister
plan to go for potential World War
III.
Now, looking back at it, this
was absolutely prescient and prophetic,
because, remember, that
this war was not declared to be a
war. The Obama Administration
said, this is just a military operation,
no “boots on the ground,” it’s
not a war. And by lyingly mischaracterizing
the Libya campaign,
they got Russia and China to abstain
in the UN Security Council;
whereas, if they had declared it to
be a war, you can be 100% sure,
Russia and China would have said
no. Because these two countries
have the idea that international
law should still be valid and the
UN Charter should still exist.
By doing it this way, by deceiving
China and Russia, they did
something very, very terrible: Not
only did they murder Qaddafi—
and this was murder; I mean, they
had control over the country already,
and then, to have Qaddafi
murdered in this absolutely bestial
way, like Saddam Hussein was
treated before—that just meant
that the United States has really lost its status as legal
country. But more importantly, it destroyed the UN process.
The UN Security Council has not functioned ever
since. And we are as a result of this, really on the verge
of World War III: The war against Syria was stopped in
the very, very last hours, because the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey, went to Obama
and said, you cannot start a war where you don’t know
how it will end. You will be impeached because the
Congress is against it, the American people are against
it. And so this was stopped, literally in the last second.
But then, you had the Ukraine crisis.
Now, let me say a few words about the Ukraine
crisis, because this is right now, bringing the world horribly
close to a war which, if it comes into being, will
annihilate civilization, and I’m not exaggerating. Right
now, you have NATO troops and nuclear capable fighter
jets along the Russian border; the United States has just
positioned 14 F16s which can carry nuclear weapons,
on the Russian border in Estonia. They have moved
heavy equipment into the other Baltic States. They are
already present in various forms there, because they are
only there for maintenance and as security for these
weapons, but you know, they are troops, they are soldiers.
Now, this is now coming to a head, because General
Breedlove, who is the. commander of the U.S.
forces (and the actual head of NATO, as everybody
knows, and not Mr. Stoltenberg), he in a press conference
three days ago, demanded that Ukraine should
join NATO.
I attended a couple of conferences in the last period,
where there were military strategists and analysts from
FIGURE 1
NATO’s Eastward Expansion
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the United States, such as [MIT
defense expert] Ted Postol and
others, who made the point very
clearly, that Ukraine and Georgia
cannot be in NATO, because it
violates the security interests of
Russia in such a way that they
become de facto indefensible,
and therefore Russia will never
agree to have Ukraine become
part of NATO.
I recently had a meeting with
a top German military person,
who said: Look, it’s very simple.
You take a piece of paper, build a
circle here, that is the West and
NATO; and build a circle here,
and that is Russia. And it was
always agreed, even in the period
of Cold War, but especially afterwards,
that the area in between
would be a cushion, a buffer, and
that it would never be allowed
that the NATO troops would move all the way to the
Russian border.
Now, that, by the way was the promise which was
given to Gorbachov, to Genscher, to Kohl, and others,
to Yeltsin when the Soviet Union collapsed, and it was
said, “We will not move NATO eastward; Ukraine will
remain relatively neutral, but not join the Western military
alliance.” And because you had this neo-con phenomenon
in the Bush Sr. Administration, they had this
idea, “now that communism is dead, we will make globalization
a world empire.” And globalization is just
another word for an Anglo-American empire based on
the “special relationship” between the United States
and Great Britain.
So then, there was a certain period where, first,
Russia was dismantled in the Yeltsin period, where
from 1991 to 1994, they reduced the industrial capacity
of Russia by 70%, to only 30%: This was called “shock
therapy.” Whereby they privatized everything, sold the
better parts for profit, closed down the not-so-good
parts, and they threw Russia into a terrible catastrophe!
They lost 1 million people demographically per year,
more people dying than being born, and Russian went
into a terrible collapse phase.
In the meantime, you had such wonderful institutions
as the National Endowment for Democracy, the
International Republican Institute, the National Democratic
Institute, and others, and they started with a
policy of planned regime change against the countries
around Russia, of the former Soviet Union and the
former Warsaw Pact, and they built up NGOs.
Victoria Nuland, who is a very special person, and
she will have a special place in American history—if
there is going to be one! She bragged that the State Department
spent $5 billion alone on building NGOs in
Ukraine alone. And that led, in this context, you had
first Poland and Hungary joining NATO; and then in a
second wave, the color revolutions in 2004, whereby
they changed the regime in Ukraine and Georgia, and
batch of six nations joined NATO.
And now, that has been escalated practically to the
point where Russia is encircled. And that is what now is
being escalated with the sanctions policies, which were
designed to increase the instability in Russia in such a
way that Putin would be toppled.
Now, the opposite is happening, obviously. The
Russian people are all backing Putin. The popularity of
Putin has gone up to 90%, so as compared to a couple of
weeks ago, it is increasing.
But we are on the verge of an absolute disaster, because
the change in the military doctrine of NATO,
from Mutual Assured Destruction, to first strike, has
FIGURE 2
Theodore Postol: ‘If a Nuclear Bomb Hits New York’
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This illustration appeared in an article in MWC News, March 28, 2015.
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happened! Most people do not know that, but at one of
the conferences which I attended, Mr. Postol distributed
graphs which I will pass around, because I didn’t
have time to produce them, and here it shows what will
happen: Because the first strike doctrine of the U.S.
global missile defense system, the Prompt Global
Strike doctrine, and the Air Sea Battle doctrine against
China, all assume that you can knock out the nuclear
capability of Russia, China or any other opponent, and
win a nuclear war. And both Russia and China have
made very clear that they do not buy that, that they
have modernized their capability: Russia has just
moved its nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad,
which is directly opposite from the Baltics;
they have put many of their ICBMs on mobile trains;
they have increased their various defenses, and China
has said the same thing.
So, Mr. Postol had slides which show what happens
if there is a nuclear impact on Washington, and how that
will destroy all life on Earth. You may pass this around,
because I think it is important that Americans really
start to think about it: Because the most shocking thing
about this is, that when you had the Cuban Missile
Crisis, and you had Kennedy in the White House, there
was a big debate: What would be the effect of nuclear
war? And Kennedy said, the people who die in the first
hours will be happy, as compared to those who die a
few hours, a few weeks later, in a nuclear winter, when
all life has been destroyed, all food is gone. And also
when you had the intermediate missile crisis at the beginning
of the ’80s, there were hundreds of thousands
of people in the streets, warning of the Third World
War.
And now, where every military expert who has occupied
himself with this, has come to the conclusion
that we are today, much, much, much closer, to the
danger of nuclear war than at any time in history, and
the horrifying thing is nobody speaks about it. There is
no public outcry, there is no upheaval, people don’t
demand a change of this, and that is also something
which has to be changed.
So this is why we have to really think to get Obama
out of the White House, says my husband, because
without the United States, this war would not function.
The British are the real instigators of the war. But the
British have a pitiful defense system; they just have
more budget cuts every year, so the British alone are
just a tiny little island with really no military capability—
but the United States has to be brought away from
this confrontation against Russia.
As I said, the impeachable crimes are the illegal killing
of American citizens (I personally think the other
citizens are illegally killed as well, but that is not covered
by the American Constitution), and especially the
illegal war against Libya, are enough reasons to start
the impeachment. This is a difficult task, because the
Republicans, being great “patriots,” they say, let’s keep
Obama in the White House as a punching bag for the
2016 election, because with him as an enemy image, we
can win the Presidency. So obviously the Democrats
have the major share of the responsibility. But that is
really what is needed, because the beautiful development
which is happening in the rest of the world may
not function if the United States is on the wrong track,
and that puts a very special responsibility on you, on the
American citizens, because, the change can only come
from within this country.
We Need a Revolution
Fortunately, there is something really revolutionary
going on which you may never read in the Wall Street
Journal or in the New York Post or the New York Times,
because these papers are really not real newspapers.
They are PR firms to sell the interest of Wall Street. So
therefore, you will not read about these beautiful developments,
so please go to our websites instead, or subscribe
to our publications, and you will find out every
day.
But what I mean by this, is this: When we started to
realize in what serious trouble civilization was, already
40 years ago, but then especially after Mr. LaRouche
declared that we are on the way to World War III, we
conducted a couple of conferences such as this, and
even bigger international conferences, with the idea,
that the combination of all the problems in the world:
the danger of nuclear extinction, the danger of a meltdown
of the system, the absolute collapse of our culture,
that we have a demonic culture, a bestial culture;
if you look at some of the pop singers that our young
people are listening to, it is Satanism! Because it is just
a complete perversion of the image of man—it’s ugly,
it’s disgusting, it’s violent, it’s perverse, pornographic,
I could probably go on for an hour like that—and it destroys
especially the creativity of everybody who
watches this or listens to this.
If you look at the total trust of the people in politics!
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Why are there only less than 50% of the people voting
in the United States? That means 50% have already said
it’s hopeless, there’s nothing you can do! If you look at
the complete collapse of common values, of republicanism,
of just ordinary values of families; if you look
at the shootings in the schools, or the shootings in the
malls, or in Washington, two, three people every day
are being killed—if you don’t come to the conclusion
that this society is really sick; if you have an adult population
which agrees, “Yeah, our children and our
grandchildren will be much worse off than we were,”
and they don’t do anything about it, you have a dying
society!
So, I could elaborate this more, but I want to make
a conclusion out of all of this: This is why we in our
conferences, set ourselves the theme: we need a new
paradigm, which breaks completely with all values of
this globalization, of this imperialism, of this oligarchism,
of this monetarism, of this money, money,
money lust, of this perversion of the present
system, and we have to make a break and go
to a new paradigm of the future epoch of civilization.
Now, most people have no idea what that
should look like, because they don’t think
about it, but they should think about it. And
there are actually examples in history, that
you very consciously can initiate such a
change. Well, if you go back to the 14th Century,
where you had a real dark age, you had
witch-burning, you had the Flagellants, you
had the Black Death which killed half of the
population from India to Ireland; you had a
terrible collapse. And you should read the
Decameron of Boccaccio, or look at the pictures
of Bruegel, where you have crazy people
looking insanely, then you get a picture of
what a dark age is. Read the Decameron, because
it is a very good mirror of what we are
looking at.
But then came the Golden Italian Renaissance.
And that was a completely different
age. It broke with all of these horror shows of
the 14th Century. And it was triggered by, on
the one side Jeanne d’Arc, and we will hear
later today about that [from Megan Beets], so
I will not speak about that. But it was especially
caused by the ideas of one man, who is
maybe not so well known in the United States,
but he’s becoming increasingly known internationally.
A Nicholas of Cusa Renaissance
There is a real Nicholas of Cusa Renaissance going
on, where people recognize that they have overlooked
one of the outstanding thinkers of all of human history,
and there is right now a flourishing of writings.
So he is a German, who was born in Bernkastel
Kues—that’s where his name comes from, Nikolaus
von Kues, which is only half an hour from my hometown,
Trier, and that is actually how I came to learn
about him, because he is sort of a neighbor from the
15th Century. And he was very active churchman: He
became a bishop, then he became a cardinal. And he
was sent by several Popes on extremely important
Church missions during his time. He started, at the time
when the Catholic Church really divided—you had
three Popes. You had the Conciliar movement, which
decided that the authority of the Church could only
Pieter Bruegel, “Triumph of Death” (1562), detail.
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come from the Council and not from the Pope, because
you could not give that responsibility to only one
person.
And Nicholas of Cusa, in the beginning, was on the
side of the Conciliar movement, but later he changed
that, because he realized that the unity, the concordance,
can only come from a
One, and that the Church has to
be structured to be in a harmonic
relationship to this One.
He was an absolutely outstanding
person, because he not
only traveled to England, to
Austria, to France, all over continental
Europe on Church missions,
trying to eliminate wrong
ideas of various sects, the Hussites,
various others; so he was
extremely busy. But while he
was traveling, by horse most of
the time, he was at the same
time, thinking the most profound
ideas—how to get unity
in the Church, how to get unity
in the states among the nations,
and his person is the proof that
you don’t have to sit in an ivory
tower to come up with profound
ideas, but that it is the struggle to
bring order into the world when
it is urgent, which is how you do
it.
He was educated by the humanists, both in the
Brothers of the Common Life, but also the people in
Padua, so he had contact with a school of Italian humanists
who had the idea that you have to go back to the
sources of the great thinkers of the past, and not take
some gossip or footnotes, of some scholar afterwards.
So in this capacity, he went to Byzantium and he collected
all the manuscripts from the early Church councils:
The Council of Nicaea, various councils in the first
centuries after Christ, and he made a tremendous discovery:
namely that the reason why the Greek and the
Catholic Church had split, was invalid.
The official reason for the split of the Church was
that the so-called Filioque, that God emanates not only
from the Father God, from the Logos, but also from the
Son, which was in the early Church councils. And he
could find manuscripts from that period, from these
early councils, brought them back to the Pope, and that
informed, then, the Council of Ferrara, and the Council
of Florence. And in the second mission, Nicholas
brought then a delegation of 700 Orthodox scholars and
Church officials to the Council of Florence, and the
Church reunited.
Now, when this happened,
he already had the idea that he
was thinking something which
had never been thought in mankind
before. And the next major
development, was when Constantinople
was taken over by
the Muslims in 1453, and that
was with blood, and people got
killed, so it was an early “clash
of civilizations.” And the horror
news about this came into
Europe, and people really were
completely freaked out about
this religious war.
But while this was going on,
Nicholas wrote De Docta Ignorantia
and he again said, “I’m
now writing something which
goes beyond the knowledge of
any human being who thought
before.” And he wrote among
other things, De Pace Fidei, the
idea of the peace in religion,
which is a beautiful dialogue
where he establishes that, despite
all differences in religion, there is only one God,
and there is only one Truth, and the differences come
from the different prophets and the different traditions,
but it is possible to find the unity of the one God and the
one Truth.
Cusa’s Method of Thought
But he also developed a method of thinking, which
is the idea that you have to have a higher principle
which you have to get from the order of the universe:
The ontological order of the universe, which is an unfolding
universe, a creation in which there is a higher
principle which unfolds and then emanates as what has
to advise people for how they should conduct their political
life, their church life, and so forth.
So basically, it was this method, which enabled him
to develop a new method of thinking, which was the
Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64).
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foundation of modern science, of modern great Classical
art. So what he did, is, he looked at the axioms of the
intellectual life of his time, sort of as we would go to
Harvard or MIT and would say, “Oh, all of this which is
being taught there is bunk”—he did that with all the
universities of his time, and he came to the conclusion
that scholasticism and Aristotelianism has to be eliminated
by a superior method. And he described the difference
with the Aristotelian method, such as when a
person stands in a high tower and looks down on a
hunter who is hunting the hunted. So the person who is
thinking on the higher level can see the hunter, the
hunted, and the hunting as one process; while an Aristotelian
is either the hunter or the hunted, but he can
never see the process as a whole.
So he developed this methodology, which is really
characterized in the De Docta Ignorantia, that you have
to train your mind not to latch onto concretes in the sensuous
realm. Because this is why he developed, for example,
something which is called “negative theology,”
that for example, you cannot describe God with any
notion which comes from human experience. Because
even if you say, “God is Almighty,” or “God is Eternal,”
these are all projections of your limited mind, where
you try to describe God, Who is obviously outside of all
of human experience, with something that comes from
human experience.
So, in a beautiful treatise which you should read,
called, The Non-Other, he comes to the conclusion that
the non-other is none other than the non-other. So you
may think that that sounds funny, but if you go through
the whole argument, you can see that Nicholas of Cusa
helps you not to get stuck in the mud of sensuous experience,
but brings you to a level which he called the
coincidentia oppositorum; that means in English, the
“coincidence of all opposites,” and what it means is essentially
that there is a higher One, that the One has a
higher order and a higher power than the multiplicity.
And you have to be able to train your reason, not the
intellect, not ratio, not understanding, but reason which
is on a higher level than ratio, to think of that higher
One as a method of solution.
You can also say, it is a method of learning what is
a flank; any military commander knows what that
means, that if you have inferior forces you cannot win
against superior forces in a head-on collision, but
there are many battles in history, where if you had a
wonderful strategic thinker, he was able to outflank a
superior enemy by thinking a flank or even a double
flank, like Friedrich the Great did in the famous Battle
of Leuthen.
You can also say that it’s metaphor thinking: that
you have to train the mind to think something which has
not been thought before. Now, if you want to make a
scientific discovery, or if you want write a beautiful,
musical Classical composition, or write a beautiful
Classical poem, well, you have to have that capability
in your mind, to be truly creative.
Now, Nicholas of Cusa had this very deep understanding
of the ontological order of the universe, about
the macrocosm, which can have concordance if you
have harmony of all microcosms, as a dynamic process.
And he derived his thinking from that ontological
order, culminating in the Wisdom of God, which is the
only One Who is capable of thinking on the level of
the coincidentia oppositorum. And in a kind of pedagogical
way, to train people to think like that, he developed
this idea that in order to come to that level of
thinking, you have to think like you are behind a wall.
Before the wall, people are still thinking in contradictions,
in obstacles, but you have to sort of jump behind
the wall of contradictions to be able to think that higher
unity.
And that is basically what he then applied—for example,
he discovered a problem which Archimedes
was unable to solve, and other mathematicians before,
how to make the quadrature of the circle. Now, he
made that discovery on horseback, when he was riding
from Rome to Brixen, so he was not exactly sitting in
an ivory tower, but he was discussing with certain
other bishops and mathematicians about that, and there
he came to the idea that if you think that the circle has
a higher quality and a higher order than the polygon,
and the more corners you make in the polygon, the less
it becomes like the circle. But he also applied it to
many, many other problems, especially to his De Pace
Fidei.
And I assert, despite the fact that I have not been
able to completely trace it (because the problem was,
many of Cusa’s writings disappeared into monasteries
for centuries, so it’s not so easy), but I’m absolutely
convinced that it was his thinking which laid the basis
for the Peace of Westphalia, which ended 150 years of
religious war in Europe, because the Peace of Westphalia
had this idea that you can only have harmony of all
nations, if you respect the interests of the other, and if
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you take the interest of the other as your own, and
the maximum development of the other as important
as yourself; as vice versa. And that was
indeed, what made the Peace of Westphalia possible
and established international law.
The Laws of the Universe
Now, this is very important, because we are
right now in the process of not only forming a new
alliance of nations, as the BRICS countries and
the other countries joining with the BRICS demonstrate,
but our criticism in the LaRouche movement
has been for a very long time, that as important
as international law is, and especially the UN
Charter, these systems have a big flaw. And that is,
that they don’t have an underpinning of an ontological,
metaphysical explanation.
And we have now reached in history, the point
where we need to have an international law based
on the laws of the universe. And the problem we
have in the world today, is that we have erred, we
have left the right way; in Chinese philosophy you
would say, we have lost the mandate of Heaven,
and in Confucianism, the idea is that every government
must have the mandate of Heaven, that
is, the task to do the common good, to take care
for the people, to provide for their well being
through scientific development, through other
things, and when a government loses that mandate
of Heaven, it is the task of the noble in the
society, called the junzi, who must come to replace
that government, and restore the common
good.
Now, the ideas of Nicholas of Cusa are extremely
close to those of Confucianism, and I
have made the argument many times that, in order
to understand what this new BRICS development is,
and especially what the new Chinese policy of the New
Silk Road is, you have to understand Confucianism,
which, after all, has informed and guided Chinese society,
with almost no interruption for 2,500 years. And
Confucius had the same idea in principle as Nicholas of
Cusa, that harmony is only possible if everybody develops
in the best possible way, and every nation develops
in the best possible way.
So the two important ideas are ren, which is the
same thing as love, that politics must be based on love,
which is the same idea as in Christianity, agape¯ or caritas;
and the second most important principle of Confucianism
is li, which is the idea that every person and
every nation and every thing must fulfill its proper place
and develop in the best possible way, and contribute to
the harmony of the society in the most perfect way he or
she is possible.
Now, that is the idea of the new economic system!
And I tell you, people say, oh, but that cannot be true.
China must have a secret agenda, they must have another
plan, there must be a new imperialism replacing
the American imperialism—but I can assure you, that is
not the case. Because Xi Jinping and other Chinese officials
have made very, very clear, that the new system
of nations working together in the Silk Road Economic
Wikimedia Commons/Miguel A. Monjas
Confucius statue at the Confucius Temple in Beijing. “In
Confucianism,” said Zepp-LaRouche, “the idea is that every
government must have the mandate of Heaven, that is, the task to do
the common good. . . .”
24 The Mission of the Presidency EIR April 3, 2015
Belt, which is how they call it in the meantime, which is
really the idea of bringing together all nations on this
planet, from America, to Asia, to Europe, to Africa, and
Australia, in a way where each nation is in a “win-win”
relation with each other. That there is no interference,
that there is respect for the mutual sovereignty, respect
for the other social system of the other country, no interference.
And recently, a couple of days ago in Washington,
there was a conference where the vice-president of the
China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
(CICIR), said, “no, we even want to have a “winwin-
win” relationship,” meaning that the United States
should work together with Latin America, and bring in
China. That China could be the bridge between the
United States and Cuba and Latin America, for a joint
development; and then, he even said, we could have not
only a triangular relation, but we could have a quadrangular
relation, bringing even Russia in!
Now, does that not make sense? Does it not make
sense that all these countries join hands, overcome poverty,
overcome disease, have a joint future, agree on
joint space cooperation—and this Chinese scholar,
whose name is Dr. Yuan Peng, said, “let’s join hands in
this quadrangular relation and together develop Mars.”
Now doesn’t it make sense to defend our humanity
against all dangers and to define the next phase and
epoch of human evolution, in building an architecture
where not only nations work for their economic interest
together, but to establish a joint security architecture,
which takes into the interest of every single country on
this world?
I think we have reached a point where we are called
upon to make that a reality, and that is why we should
really leave this meeting by declaring war against Wall
Street and dump the Bushes, get rid of Obama, and reestablish
the Presidency of the United States, return the
United States back into a republic, and build a future
where mankind finally can become the truly creative,
immortal species in the universe.
FIGURE 3
China’s Plans for The New Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road
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