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A New Peace of Westphalia: Up from the Ruin Which the Roman Empires Have Made of This World

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We will present only those conceptions which are relevant for

saving humanity, Lyndon LaRouche emphasized a few days ago, in a discussion with colleagues, about the piece which provides the greatest part of this weeks issue, our Feature, A New Peace of Westphalia: Up from the Ruin which the Roman Empires Have Made of This World. You will also find, in an Appendix, two earlier reports on LaRouches key role in the development of the SDI, which, had it been implemented according to this design, would have meant, beginning in the early 1980s, a scientific and cultural revolution, rather than the creative destruction of civilization we have witnessed over the past 30 years. As we noted last week, we are confronted today with a confluence of crises, which call upon us to accomplish what may seem to be superhuman feats. But, as LaRouche has often emphasized, it is precisely mans nature to do just that. That is why our speciesup till nowhas expanded its population to nearly 7 billion individuals, while other species have died out, or reached the limits of their population potential. We have done this by progressing to higher and higher levels of energy-flux-density forms of power, made possible because, although the Universe is itself creative, mankind, uniquely among all known species, is willfully creative. We are the only species that is capable of willfully mobilizing our creative powers to overcome any apparent limits to growth. This power, ironically, not only allows, but requires that we do so. What this meansand this is especially clear in the wake of the Japans 9.0 Tohuko earthquake/tsunamiis that we must now put away childish things, and undertake our next mission: expanding our civilization beyond the bounds of Earth, and into the Solar System and galaxy, as well as into the depths of the oceans and under the Earths crust. This is not only an exhilarating prospect, but an urgent one, if we are to understand the forces that control our climate, including such massive events as great earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, etc. Happily, LaRouche and his Basement Team are already at work exploring these new frontiers, as can be seen in the series of videos that have appeared on the LPAC website (www.larouchepac.com) in recent days. I highly recommend them to you.

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Foreword ................................ 4 Preface ................................... 5 I. HEENdof T MoNETARIsM....................... 6 The Effects of Rejecting the SDI ................................... 7 British Imperialisms Strategy .................................. 9 Britains Seven Years War Policy ................................... 10 But, Mervyn King Misses the Target ............................. 11 Two Immiscible Varieties of Money .............................. 12 The History of This Problem ................................ 13 The Oligarchical Principle .............................. 13 II. HECHAllENgEof T PHysICAlECoNoMy..... 15 The Entry of British Geopolitics ........................... 16 Platforms on Which Society Depends .................. 17 The Evil Which Is Liberalism ............................ 18 Life in Our Galaxy............... 20 Examine Your Own Mind! .. 21 The Role of Bernhard Riemann ............................... 21 Plan of the Investigation ..... 22 Science, Poetry, Music & Politics............................. 24 The Freaks Must Gather!... 24 The Human Minds Mass Effects .................................. 25 Historys Ironic Moments .... 26 When the British Empire Took Over ............................ 28 The Option: Cusas Revolution ............................ 29 On the Subject of Energy-Flux Density ......... 30

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The Four Roman Empires: Rome (The Course of Empire: Destruction, detail); Byzantium (Emperor Constantine); Venice (The Quadriga, St. Marks); BritainThe New Venice (Queen Elizabeth II).
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By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. We are now confronted with a task of reconstruction of the physical economy of every nation on the planet, far more challenging, strategically, than anything in modern history, notably, since the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years War. The destruction wrought by successive Roman empires, down to their present incarnation in the center of monetarist imperial tyranny, London, must now come to an end, one way or another: either by the final collapse of the system under the weight of trillions of dollars in toxic debt; or through its long-overdue overthrow by the current worldwide mass strike. But more than the defeat of the Empire is required if humanity is to survive and prosper. As recent outbursts of our Sun, and their impact around the Pacific Rim of Fire, powerfully indicate, unless mankind learns to understand and tame such cosmic events, our species may, before too long, go the way of the dinosaurs.

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III.THEsysTEMof PHysICAlECoNoMy... 30 Adam Smith Was an Evil Man .............................. 34 The Strategic Significance of Marx ................................ 36 The End of Monetarism ....... 38 IV.WHATHAPPENEdTo THosEdINosAURs?...... 38 Let Satan Be Heard! ............ 39

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A chapter from a March 1982 Memorandum by LaRouche, entitled Only Beam-Weapons Could Bring to an End the Kissingerian Age of Mutual Thermonuclear Terror: A Proposed Modern Military Policy of the United States.

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Jeffrey Steinbergs speech to a conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees and the Schiller Institute on March 21, 1993.

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A NEW PEACE OF WESTPHALIA:

Up from the Ruin Which The Roman Empires Have Made of This World
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
March13,2011 ficial opinion of the trans-Atlantic sector of the world are reversed, very soon. So, all living species, or societies, which fail to progress to higher states of existence, must become extinct, sooner, or later, unless present peoples resume the role by means of which the human species had progressed thus far, despite all else. A mankind which did not progress to higher levels of energy-flux density, as through nuclear fission and still higher forms of power, so far, could not survive in a civilized form, perhaps even not at all. If the worst happened, blame a world which allowed the current, British phase of the Roman Empire to continue this far, that in a fashion in which trends in official opinions have tended, overall, to go from bad to worse, as since the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and, then, his brother Robert. Now, what are actually those galactic influences expressed within our Solar system, which have brought this planet to a new, most profoundly menacing situation. It is within that situation, that the already monstrous economic and related threats to our planet are now situated. We must recognize the dangers, and the needed measures, accordingly.
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Foreword:
In the aftermath of successive waves of world-wide warfare, we are now faced with a task of reconstruction which is, certainly, far more challenging, strategically, than anything known since the moment of the October 24, 1648 settlement of the Peace of Westphalia among the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the Queen of Sweden, and the King of France. Notably, the precedent for todays challenge had been nothing less than that great ecumenical Council of Florence of 1438-1440, the Council whose great achievement had been betrayed by the launching of the 1492-1648 New Dark Age in Europe. Similarly, there has been that destruction of Europe which was brought about by Margaret Thatcher, Franois Mitterrand, and George H.W. Bush, in the establishing of what was to become notorious as the Euro, and, the more recentcatastrophe of the bail-out, the fraud brought on by the U.S. Presidencies of George W. Bush, Jr. and Barack Obama. These latter developments now threaten the permanent end to apparent hope for economy on Earth for the presently foreseeable future: unless the present, dismal trends in the of Feature

Peace of Westphalia which, since168,hadaffordedcivilization some degree of rationalprovisionsforsecurity. Theleadingrolebythatcurrent British empire, had, thus, been the cause of the post-1990 degradation of mostamongtherelevantnations ofwesternandcentral Europe, a degradation into what has been intended to become, and that quickly, a collectionofmereEuropean puppets of their British imperial master. Now, since 1989-90, the rate of degenerationofthatBritishsystem itself, had been accelerated tothedegreethatthatempire itselfispresentlyneartothe Creative Commons/Tambako the Jaguar moment that it, too, is All living species, or societies, which fail to progress to higher states of existence, must doomed,asif,asitissomebecome extinct, sooner, or later, unless present peoples resume the role by means of which the times said, hoisted by its human species had progressed thus far, despite all else. Shown: ruins in Rome. own petard. There are optional, hopeful choices for Preface: England,WalesandScotland,themselves,iftheywere SincetheoriginalRomanEmpirewascraftedonthe tochoosethem;but,thereisnopresentpossibilityfor IsleofCapri,whichwasdonethroughtheplottingbethe continuation of the present form of a captive, tweenthefutureCaesarAugustusandthepriestsofthe Euro-centered,BritishworldempireoverEurope.1 However, I must emphasize that destroying the cultofMithra,thatempirehaspassedthroughfourdistinct phases, through the sequence of disastrous outUnitedKingdomwouldnotbe,initself,asolutionfor comesknownas:1.)theoriginalRomanEmpire;2.)the thepresentworldcrisis.WhethereconomicallyorothsecondsuchEmpire,knownasByzantium;3.)thethird erwise, that is not an acceptable choice of attempted phaseoftheEmpireundertheAristoteleansystemof remedy for this crisis-situation of the planet. The N monetary reign of the old Venice of the Crusaders ietzschean schemes of so-called creative destructimes; and, .) the presently collapsing phase of the tion, such as those of Nietzsche followers Werner BritishEmpireofPaoloSarpisfollowers,thelatteran SombartandJosephSchumpeter,arenotaremedy,but empirewhichhadbeenlaunched,apparently,underthe exactlythecontrary. Rather,justasGlass-SteagallservesasakeystonesuccessionsetintomotionbytheinvasionofEngland andScotlandbythereignoftheNewVenetianPartys remedyforthepresentplightofourUnitedStates,the notionofseparating-outtheBritishbankswhichcould butcher,WilliamofOrange. Thus that Phoenix-like empire is now doomed at begin to qualify as commercial banks according to a U.S. constitutional and Franklin Roosevelt standard, longlast.Thequestionis:Whatnext? The present aspect of the trans-Atlantic phase of thatRomanEmpire,theaspecttypifiedpresentlybythe 1. The PaulVolcker-echoing proposal by Britains Mervyn King, for separatingbanksintotwodepartments,oneinthemodeofcommercial so-calledBritishempire,hasbeendegeneratinglately departments,asecondofmerchantdepartments,isworthconsideratanacceleratingpace,assincethatBritishempires ing,butshouldbedulyconsideredasacompromiseunworthyofactual recent, openly stated intention to destroy that same use.
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would be the keystone-remedy required for assuring thecontinuityoftheessentialphysical-economicfunctionsoftheUnitedKingdomitself:whetheritbethe U.K.asasovereign,or,forexample,anaggregateof two sovereign states, England and Scotland, as partners,or,perhapsrivals. Rather than continuing to shrink the already depleted physical-productive resources of the nations, whatmustbedone,istoreversetherecenttrend,by maintaining the actually useful physical-economic functionsoftheBritishIsles,achangewhichrequires thedumpingofthemonetaristssystemsoftheplanet, for replacement by a credit system of the type at the coreoftheU.S.FederalConstitution. The physical meaning of credit system, both in modeandeffect,isthecruxofthecontentofthispresentreport. Thefollowingreportpresentstheessentialfeatures ofnotonlytheBritishcase,butofthesovereignnations oftheplanetgenerally.

I. The End of Monetarism

Presently,thepresentlynewescalationofhyperinflationdemandedbytheU.S.FederalReserveSystems BenBernanke,isbeingpushed,yetagain,tothepoint that accepting that new round, would accelerate the present, already worsening process of trans-Atlantic hyperinflation.Suchacontinuingtrendnow,wouldbe sufficienttocarrytheentireplanetintoanactual,early breakdown-crisis, even a virtually final one for the setofpresentnationsofhumanityonthisplanetasa whole.Undersuchapolicyofdestructionasthat,the presentlyworseningprocesswouldgointhedirection of an outcome like that which had been intended for WeimarGermanyintheclosingmonthsof1923that, presently,bothsoonandfast.WhatevertheU.S.FederalReserveSystemsBernankedoes,ordoesnotdo,a continuation of the present world monetarist system itself,couldnotescapeanescalationofhyperinflation beingdriventoanearlybreaking-pointforthisplanet generally, even without considering the factor of the presentlymenacingtrendsfortheSolarsystemduring themonthsandyearsimmediatelyahead. Therefore,ouronlychoiceofobjectmustbetoreplace a monetarist system entirely, and suddenly, replacing a destroyed monetarist system, by a system basedonthesamephysicalprincipleofcreditonwhich
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theentiredesignoftheU.S.FederalConstitutionwas originally premised inaccordwithAlexanderHamiltonssolution. Presently,itappearstousthataworldeconomy,includingthatoftheBritishIsles,couldberescuedfrom the presently onrushing global disaster, as I have alreadysaidhere,butthefactremains,thatthedestructionofrealeconomyunderthecurrentreignoftransAtlanticlunacysincethecloseofFebruary1968,has beensoprofoundinitssocial,asmuchasphysical-economiceffects,thatonlyareforminthesamedirection ofphysicalgrowth,globally,asbyextendingPresident FranklinsRooseveltsNewDeal,overmorethana generation,couldbringthetrans-Atlanticsectionofthe worldintoaconditionwhichwouldnotbemuchworse thanthatwhichhadexistedpriortothemonstrousfolly ofU.S.backingofbothMargaretThatchersMalvinas WarandtheU.S.administrationsbackingoftheBritish-ledcrushingofMexicointhedevelopmentsofJulySeptember1982. Duringtheentiretyofthedecadeofthe1980s,only the 1983 adoption of what President Ronald Reagan hadpresentedtotheSovietUnionassupportforaStrategicDefenseInitiative(SDI),couldhaveturnedthe corner, a turn from that continued downslide of the economy which has been characteristic of the post1983trans-Atlanticeconomy,toward,instead,actually physical-economic net growth. Iexplainthatcrucialfactasfollows. Thatistosay,speakingfromthepresentadvantage ofhindsight,thatonlythe1983adoptionoftheStrategic Defense Initiative (SDI) by the Soviet and other governments,couldhavesavedtheUnitedStatesand itsEuropeanpartnersfromthepresentlyundeniableeffectsoffoolishSovietleadersAndropovsandGorbachovsrejectionsoftheSDI.2Theresultofthoserejec2. TheeffortstopeddletheapologyforAndropovsfolly,thathedidnot understand what the SDI implied, does not wash when the history of AndropovscareersincethetimeoftheHungarianrevoltistakenadequatelyintoaccount.TheBritishpenetrationofSovietaffairs,astypified bytheinfluenceofthechannelsofBertrandRussellonSovietaffairs, includingtheAndropovprogramoforientingyoungRussianscientists intotraininginBritisheconomicLiberalism,shouldbetakenintoaccount.BritishintelligencespenetrationofSovietcirclesalone,includingtherelevantaspectsofRussiaspost-Soviet,Caribbeanoperations, paintsarathershockingpicture.ThecaseofA.I.OparinversusAcademicianV.I.Vernadsky,illustratesthestrongBritishideologicalpenetration ofSovietCommunistPartycircles,throughtherelicsofastrongRussellitepenetrationofInternationalInstituteofAppliedSystemsAnalysis (IIASA)andbythecloselyrelatedcaseoftheClubofRomestilltoday.

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Lyndon LaRouche began organizing for what President Reagan would name the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in the late 1970s. Reagan announced it on national television as his policy, on March 23, 1983 (below). The pamphlet was issued by LaRouches 1984 Presidential campaign in April 1983.

comefortheintendedadvantageofthespecial interestsoftheAnglo-AmericanandrelatedfinancierinterestscenteredinLondonandWall Streettakenintoaccount. I have not exaggerated, not in the least degree,inmystatingthatcasehere.Theproof ofthatpointwillbemadesufficientlyclearto the witting in the course of completing this presentreport.

The Effects of Rejecting the SDI

tions,wasthethereforevirtuallyunstoppablecollapse of the region which had composed the Soviet Union and,also,theconsequent,London-directed,chain-reaction wrecking of the economies of all continental Europe.Inretrospect,alloftheotherhypotheticaloptionswereprecluded,inreality,bytherejectionofthe SDI.Hence,today,wehavethesubsequent,post-19891990unfoldingofthedestructionoftheeconomiesof trans-Atlanticsectoroftheworld. TheoppositiontotheSDIcame,principally,from theinfluenceofthosemonetaristcircleswhosawthe wrecking of the worlds economy as the desired outApril1,2011 EIR

Thefundamentalerrorwhichunderlaythe failuretoadoptandimplementtheSDI,wasa reflectionandproductofthedelusionadopted as monetarist-influenced policy-making for scienceduringtheaftermathoftheNapoleonic Warsandthepost-1812,NewVenetianParty policies of both the British empireandtheHabsburginterests during and immediately following that interval. The contrasting, previously longstanding Russian support for the United States against the Britishempire,sincethetimeof Catherine the Great, is to be considered relevant as an included, leading illustration of thepoint. Beginningwiththefraudassociated with the influence of RudolfClausiusandhislikeon the subjects of thermo- and electro-dynamics,thefraudrepresented by the so-called Second Law of Thermodynamics, which typified the leading, pro-British-imperialist ideological trends in the name of both economics and in physical science generally, imposed what Philo ofAlexandria had exposedasthehoaxofthespecificallyAristoteleandoctrine of that opposition to the existence of creativity fromamongcertaindefective,butnonethelessprominentvoiceswithintheranksofmathematicians,stillto the present days leading trends in policy-shaping amongnations.Thiswasknown,then,asnow,asthe oligarchical principle of intended zero growth in bothpopulationandtechnologyofeconomytypifiedby thedoctrineofBritainsPrincePhilipandhisradically
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malthusian,pro-genocidalWorldWildlifeFundstill today. Thatistosay,thatinthehistoryofEuropeancivilization,therootofthatcult-doctrineofClausiusetal.,is found in the doctrine of the oligarchical principle whichAeschylusattackedinhisPrometheus Bound. ThisevilisexpressedasthesameAristoteleanprinciple whichwasintroducedtothepracticeofmodernEurope astheNietzschean,essentiallypro-genocidaldoctrine ofcreativedestructionofsuchasWernerSombart, Joseph Schumpeter, and their followers in planetary economicpolicy-shapingtoday. Thishasbeenthesamepolicy,whichwasexposed byPhiloofAlexandriaastheAristoteleanfraudofzero growth.Thisispreciselywhatisotherwiseknownas theoligarchicalprincipleonwhichtheRomanEmpire hasbeenfoundedthroughtothetimeofitspresentexpressionbytheWorldWildlifeFund,and,thus,asthe leadingedgeoftherabidlyMalthusianstreakinleading circlesoftheBritishempireofsuchasBritainsPrince Philip,today. The physical-scientific fact of the matter at issue here,isthatthesuccessfulcontinuationoftheprinciple oflifedependsuponthemoreorlessconstantprocess ofqualitativeincreasesoftherelativeenergy-fluxdensityoftheprocessesexpressedbysuccessfulprogress intheuniverse,asthisisshownmostclearlyforthearcheologicalhistoryofthereigning,actuallyanti-entropicformsofevolutionarytrendsintheknownpartsof theuniversetoday.WhatIhaveposedasbeinganexpressionofevilintherecordoflifeonEarthingeneral, andmankindmostemphatically,isoppositiontowhat wasdefinedbyV.I.Vernadsky,correctly,incontrastto hisopponents,asthedistinctionoftheprincipleoflife, especiallylifeexpressedinthecreativepowersofthe human mind expressed in the form of progressing modesofexistencebysociety.Thenotionpresentedby suchasClausiusetal.wasnobetterthantheattemptto debasescience,fraudulently,tosubmissiontothepresumption that the existence of the universe itself has beentheexpressionofacrudelymechanisticpractice whoseoriginasanideaistracedtotheavowedlyancientoligarchicalprincipleofcommitmenttosomeexpressionofapolicyofeternalslavery,serfdom,orthe like. Thatscientificrealityiskeyforunderstandingboth the true principles of a physical science of economy, andtheroleofthecreativepowersspecifictothehuman mindspotentialinpromotingthecontinuedexistence
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ofhumanityitself.Thisis,therefore,thetrulyunderlyingprincipleofasuccessfulexpressionofcivilizedsociety,astypified by astubborn impulsefor perpetual qualitativeprogressofsociety,hopefully,wheneverthe oligarchicalprincipledoesnotreign. Thus,theessentialprincipleofevilamongtheinstitutionsofmankind,stilltoday,istypifiedbythefact, that,sincethedeathofU.S.PresidentFranklinRoosevelt, the U.S. TrumanAdministration, which was a virtual puppet of both Wall Street and the British Empire, dumped what had been the U.S.A.s crucial post-warintentionunderPresidentFranklinRoosevelt, whichhadbeentheintentionforapeaceful,cooperative reconstruction of a war-wrecked world economy onananti-imperialist(e.g.,anti-monetarist)basis,and imposedthevirtuallytreasonous,anti-RooseveltpoliciesexpressedbyWinstonChurchill,instead. TheissueseparatingPresidentFranklinRoosevelt from both the stooge-PresidentTruman and Britains WinstonChurchillonthisaccount,hadbeenPresident Roosevelts intended combination of both the United NationsconferenceandhisBigFourarrangementfor aspecialsetofrelations,includingafixed-exchangerate system, among the U.S.A., Russia, China, and India.TheintentionsunderlyingthatRooseveltpolicy, included boxing the British Empire in, that in a way whichwouldensuretheresultwhichPresidentRoosevelthadexplicitlystatedashispost-warintention,a policyintendedtobecomethetake-downofnotonly theBritishempire,butthoseofsundryimperialistsystems such as those of the Netherlands and France as well. Thefeasibilityofsuchapost-imperialist,Franklin Rooseveltsintendeddesign,hadbeenembeddedinthe post-WorldWarIIprospectforavastbuild-upofawartime U.S. physical-economic potential, using what wouldotherwisebetheidledwar-timeportionofthe U.S. physical-productive potential for the urgently neededcapitalimprovementsneededtofreethevictims ofEuropeanimperialismfromtheslaveryoftheEuropeancolonialistsubjugations.PresidentTruman,adupe ofBritishimperialistWinstonChurchill,tooktheworld intoalargelycontrarydirectionthedirectionleading intoavirtualstateofHellwithwhichthisplanetisnow self-threatened. Justasitisclearenoughinretrospecttoday,thatthe assassinationofPresidentKennedy,and,also,later,his brotherRobert,haddestroyedtheleadingedgeofthe hopeforadurablerecoveryoftheU.S.economy,ahope
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iningthoseintentionsforpost-WorldWarII efforts of post-war reconstruction ranging fromfullconversiontothemoremodestexpressionofdesireforapeace-time,post-imperialisteconomicrecoveryoftheplanetexpressed by President Dwight Eisenhowers election. These mutually contradictory impulses set the pattern leading into the Wall StreetLondoncrewspost-Kennedydestructionof theU.S.A.throughthedecade-longU.S.war inIndo-China.ItwaswhentheSovietUnion had developed effective nuclear weapons before the Anglo-American nuclear-war fanaticswerepreparedforthis,thatLondon,as representedbyBertrandRussellsavowedintention to launch preventive nuclear war against the Soviet Union, recognized that Russells 196 intentions for an early preventivenuclearwarwerenowofftheagenda, and a new policy, to become based on the Russell-Khrushchov deal, the policy of mutual and assured destruction, was adEvan Freed The assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, followed by that of his vancedinstead. brother Robert in 1968, destroyed any hope for a durable recovery of the Nonetheless,thelegacyofPresidentKenU.S. economy, and committed the U.S. to a long, losing war in Indochina. nedyslaunchingoftheU.S.spaceprogram, Here, Bobby Kennedy campaigns for President in Los Angeles in 1968. created precisely the kind of science-driver factorneededtoshiftfromaposturesuchas maintained through most of the period of the IndothatoftheBertrandRussell-Khrushchovpreparations Chinawar.3So,earlier,theadoptionofthe196British for bringing the world into a state of thermonuclear policyforlaunchingapreventivenuclearattackon warfare,aneededshifttocollaborativeeffortstoward theSovietUnion,didmuchtowrecktheeconomicreeliminating the plausible temptation for a virtual coveryoftheUnitedStatesfromthevastburdenofits doomsdayscenario.Honeywassweeterthanvinegar.TheKennedyoptionwasultimatelyruinedthrough WorldWarIIwar-debt. hisassassination,anassassinationmotivatedbythedeBritish Imperialisms Strategy terminationofrelevantAnglo-AmericancirclestounThebuild-upforwhatbecameknownastheCold leashthepurelydestructivefollyofanIndo-Chinawar War,wastheresultofapropositionwhichBertrand byeliminatingthePresident(and,later,hisbrother). RussellandChurchillhadlaunchedopenlyin196,as ItwasagainstthepolicyoftheRussell-Khrushchov astatedintentiontostageapre-emptivenuclearwar channel,thatIcametobeenabled,beginningthesecond fordestructionoftheSovietUnion.Thisturnmustbe halfofthe190s,toplaywhatprovedtobeacrucial recognizedstilltodayashavingcombinedotherSchumrolewithinwhatcametobeknownasaU.S.A.Stratepeter-likecut-backsinurgentlyneededformsofecogicDefenseInitiative(SDI).Forjustthatreason,BritnomicprogressofboththeU.S.A.andEurope,thusruishimperialismanditsU.S.A.andotherBritishimperialist running-dogs of war found themselves bent
3. ItwastheSummer-Autumn1968upsurgeofthefollowersofMark Rudd at Columbia University, combined with the assassination of RobertKennedy,whichweretypicallycrucialforthedemoralization associatedwiththeperiodoftheNixonandCarterAdministrations. . See the agreement reached between Khrushchovs representatives and Bertrand Russells World Parliamentarians for World Government.

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uponmyintendeddestruction. Thus, back during the middle through late 1980s, followingtherepeatedSovietandotherrejectionofthe SDIoption,foolishnationsoftheworldhadassumed that the kind of economic reform which the SDI had representedduringtheearly1980s,wastobeconsideredasamattertobeforgotten,asifpermanently;only recently,whenthenotionofaSovietthreatisnowlong since gone, has the worlds economic crisis reached suchanacutestateofcrisisthatthesameobjectiveimplicitintheSDIbackthen,thatthatchoiceofaworld orderbasedonthecommonaimsofmankindshared amongpartner-nations,thechoicewhichtheSDIhad representedin1983,now,again,confrontsuswiththe needtochoosethesameobjective,thecommonaims ofmankind,withthesame,anti-entropicpolicy-shapingintention,tobepresentedinanewformofchoice availableweremankindtoprefertosurvive.Thatisto say:thereplacementofahopelesslybankruptmonetarist system, by a fixed-exchange-rate credit system amongthesovereignnation-statesoftheworld. StrategicoutlookscontrarytothosewhichIcameto shareonthataccount,mustberegardedasnothingbetter thanchildishandimplicitlymass-suicidalfantasies,as theevidenceoftheentiresweepofthe1983-2011period todateshowsbeyondreasonableobjection.

Britains Seven Years War Policy

Ihavefounditconvenient,inearlierlocations,as ChancellorBismarckhadalsodoneinhistime,tomake freshreferencetothe16-163SevenYearsWar, which,pushedthroughtheAnglo-Dutchcirclesofthe followers of the New Venetian Partys William of Orange, had duped the other nations of continental Europeintoplayingthefoolwhosefollyinfightingthat warcreatedtheimperialpowerassociatedwiththerise oftheBritishEastIndiaCompany.However,theclearer caseisprovidedbythesamepartyofWilliamofOrange,
. TheideaswhichIadoptedandpromulgatedwere,inthemorecrucial parts,myown;however,asIcametorecognizeacertainfact,gradually, asexpressedinthesupportwhichmyinitiativecametoenjoyincertain leadingcircleswithinmyownnationandothers,anindividualmaypropose, and often does, but who disposes, or prevents?The doomsday scenariosofBertrandRussellsoff-again-on-againcrony,H.G.Wells, expressedtheFabianpromotionoftheprospectofsomeArmageddonlikeholocaustasbecomingthepurgativeeventneededtopurifymankindstendencytoprefersomekindofevolutionaryprogresstoward suchasaworld-widerealizationoftheintentionoftheAmericanRevolution.RussellhatedtheUnitedStates,andsaidsoclearlymorethan once.

inorchestratingtheprolongedDutchwarsagainstLouis XIVsFrance,which,asMinisterJean-BaptisteColbert hadunderstood,werethemeansbywhichtheNewVenetianPartyofWilliamofOrangehadwreckedFrance. TounderstandthewayinwhichtheBritishempirehas operated, to the present date, we must put the word Britishtooneside,thatwemightemployascientificallyaccurateterm,NewVenetianPartyofthefollowersofPaoloSarpi.TheBritishuseofTheSeven Years War, was essentially an echo of the Dutch WarsdatedfromthereignofthefoolishLouisXIV. The France of Louis XIV had represented a great powerinEuropeduringmuchofLouisreign,but,as Jean-BaptisteColberthadwarned,LouisXIVsfollies inwarfarehadruinedthatpowertoadegreefromwhich France itself has never fully recovered, never to the presentday. The same New Venetian Party of William of Orange, under the flag of the British monarchy and empire, had launched, already during the Seventeenth Century,thepatternsoforchestratedwarfare-as-a-formof-gambling to which the crowned fools and kindred failuresofEuropesuccumbedrepeatedly,asinthefoundingoftheSarpianmodelofempirewhichsupersededthe doctrineofAristotle,asbeingthenewmethodoforganizationforbuildingupyetanotherRomanEmpire. ThisSarpianmethoddeployedasareplacementfor the preceding forms of theAristotelean system, used the so-called principle of pleasure and pain, under whoseseductionsthemoderndupeofmonetaristimperialismisheldcaptivebyhisown,usually(forme)disgusting,appetitesanddesires,suchasthoseofthevirtuallyself-professedsensualpervertsAdamSmithand hisfollowers. Every truly ruinous spate of warfare, within and beyondtheboundsofmodernwarfaresincethattime, hasservedasthatissueofwarfarebywhichthehighrankingfoolsofmodernnation-statesandtheiradmirershavebeenlately,andrepeatedlycontrolled. Inprinciple,evenpresently,therearepotentialremedieswhichcouldsteerourUnitedStates,andothernations,intoadirectionoppositetothepresentlyongoing, combinedeffectsoffinancialandphysicalcollapseof theworldeconomy.However,thecombinedmentaland physicaldestructionofthepotentialpowersforinvestmentinproductiveformsofemployment,hasbeenso massive, cumulatively, that only a radical, very high energy-flux-densitydriven,formofscience-driverprograms,couldpreventtheratherimmediateplungeofthe
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entiretyoftheplanetintoachainreaction mode of disintegration into a planet-wide new dark agewhether with, or without theeffectsofthepresent,galaxydriven Solar storms being unleashedatourplanetatthepresenttime. Such is a crucial element of background for understanding the case which I present in this report.

But, Mervyn King Misses The Target

Like the former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, PaulVolcker,whoofferedaprecedentwhichhehadrecentlyproCreative Commons/Downing Street posedmightbeasuitablesortof Both Britains Mervyn King (left) and U.S. economist Paul Volcker have offered crucially partial remedy for the present mistaken proposals to remedy the economic crisis. There is no room on this planet, for crisis in the U.S.A. itself, Brit- the attempted miscegenations which were the combining of a credit system with a ains Mervyn King is no mere monetarist system, LaRouche writes. fool;but,nonetheless,hischoice of policy, like Paul Volckers, is crucially mistaken. monetarist system.This is to be recognized as under whatwasthecomparabledesignforthebasingofthe Thereisnoroomonthisplanet,fortheattemptedmiscegenations which were the combining of a credit U.S. Federal Constitution supplied by U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. The presumption is, systemwithamonetaristsystem;allshadesofamonetaristsystemmustgo,perhapstotheHelltheydeserve, thattheusefulnessoftheoutputofproduction,asmeasuredintermsoftheconsumptionwhichistemporarily or,perhaps,thefanciedquiescenceofaPurgatory. ThetypicalmistakerecentlyexpressedbyKing,as withheldinthenameofphysicallyefficientcredit,can by Volcker earlier, is the implicit presumption that a be foreseen with a sufficiently good approximation, creditsystemisnothingmorethanalessun-civilized thatthenetresult,asmeasuredintermsofphysicalusefulness, is greater than the amount of consumption renderingofamonetaristsystem.Infact,creditsystemsandmonetarismhavenothingincommonsystemiwhichispostponedinthenameofcredit. cally,exceptingthefactthattheyemploycountableutTheparadigmforthis,whichwasemployedbyAlterances of what is recognized as currency (whatever exanderHamiltons contribution to definingourFederalConstitution,isthatbyinvestingtheotherwise thatmightprovetobe,infact).Indeed,onlytheeliminationofthefactorofimperialismwhichisaninherently unpayableU.S.Revolutionarywar-debtoftheseparate controllingfeatureinanymonetaristsystem,couldpresstatesoftherepublic,asbeingtransformedbytheuse enttheworldwithacurrenthopeforavoidingapresof Federal credit, the net output of the investment of ently onrushing plunge toward a general breakdownFederalcreditinphysicalimprovements,wouldmore crisisoftheeconomyoftheplanetasawhole. thancovertheforeseeablecostsofthedebtoftheFederalrepublictowhatwerethen,otherwise,therespecIexplain. tivewar-debtsoftheassortedmember-states.ThatesMypointonthataccountisofcrucialpracticalimportance: as follows. The use of the Massachusetts sentialfeatureofthecreationofourFederalConstitution PineTree shilling under the original charter of the remainstheactual,Glass-Steagall-likeessenceofthe MassachusettsBayColony,isexemplaryofthemeanU.S.FederalConstitutiontothepresentday,whatever ingofcreditsystem,ashavingnoconsistencywitha thesillyBarackObama,ortheU.S.A.sBritishstrateApril1,2011 EIR Feature 11

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The massive fraud of the 2008-11 bailout, under Presidents Bush and Obama, has produced a cancerous growth of intrinsically worthless monetarist debt. The two Presidents are pictured here, each with his Wall Street advisors: Bush with Bernanke, Paulson, and Cox; Obama with Summers and Geithner.
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gicadversariesmightsuggesttoday. The principal economic effect of this Federalist mode of uttering public credit, was a policy located undertheheadingofpublicimprovements,suchasthe publicimprovementsofthestatesthroughthebenefits ofbasiceconomicinfrastructureinthematteroftransportationandrelatedphysical-capitalimprovementsin forms of public works inclusive of public education. Theroleofmilitaryengineeringandrelatedformsof publicworks,isnotable. Toexpressthisqualityofneededbenefitinphysical-economic terms, I must interpolate the following considerations as a matter of essential background. Considerthefollowing.

Two Immiscible Varieties of Money

Tomaketherelevantpointclear,itisimportantto emphasizethatmonetarismandmoneyarenotnecessarilythesamematter.Thedifferencebetweentheuse ofmoneybywhatiscalledamonetaristsystem,and theuseofwhatmayappear,superficially,tobethesame notionofmoneyunderacreditsystem,liesin the specifically ontological distinctionofacredit-systemfrom amonetaristsystem.Thedifferenceisnearlythesame asthatbetweenaU.S.dollarinacommercialbanking systemundertheU.S.Constitutionsprovisions,suchas the provisions for a U.S. dollar circulating within a
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credit-system,andacontrarypracticeexpressedbythe morallycorruptmis-useofaU.S.dollarwhencirculating through the intrinsically speculative channels of WallStreetortheLondonfinancialmarkets. Only the kind of fixed-exchange-rate system prescribed by President Franklin Roosevelt, could solve therelevantdifficulties. Intheonecase,theU.S.dollarservingasanintegral featureofaphysicaleconomy,thevalueofthedollaris attributedtoitsphysicalvalueasafactorofnetphysical growth of the physical economy, measured both per capitaandpersquarekilometerofterritory.Thismeans theincreaseofboththeeffectivecapital-intensityand percapitaoutputofthenationaleconomy. Intheothercase,thatofthemonetaristdisorder,the valueofthecurrencyislocatedintheincreaseofthe holding of the currency used as a charge against the actualwealthofthesociety.Themassivefraudofthe 2008-2011bailoutoftheU.S.economy,istoconsidered as merely the natural outcome of a monetarist systemwhichhaspassedoverfromapracticeofordinary outright robbery of the nation by monetarist hoaxes,byusingaformofessentiallymalignantlycancerous(e.g.,hyper-inflationary)growthofintrinsically worthless(physically)monetaristdebt,asunderPresidents George W. Bush, Jr., and Barack Obama since
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thatintervaltodate. Inbothofthecontrastedtypesofcases,theroleof thepoliticalauthorityequivalenttothatoftheequivalentofasovereignstate,orempire,isthecrucialpoint offunctionaldistinctioninfact.

The History of This Problem

Intheparticularcaseofthehistoryoftrans-Atlantic economies,and,earlier,thecaseoftheMediterraneancenteredmaritimeculturesandtheirnear-Asianneighbors,thenotionofmonetarismisintrinsicallyrootedin astillpersistingtraditionofimperialism,chieflyBritish monetarist imperialism. The function of monetarist valuefortheseandcomparablemalefactors,istheuse ofmonetarismasamethodforphysicallootingofthe economyandpopulationofanationoragroupofnations under the reign of an imperial system, or, the equivalent of an imperial system represented by the monetaristfunctionsofthecultofDelphiortheimperialsystemofoligarchicalsupremacysuchasthesubjugationofthenationsofcontinentalEuropetotheEuro controlled by the same Anglo-Dutch interests which occupiedtheBritishIslesunderthepawoftheinvader representingtheSarpianNewVenetianPartyrepresentedbyWilliamofOrange. Thetwomostnotable,respectivelyClassicalprecedentsforamoderncreditsystem,ratherthanamonetaristsystem,aretheMassachusettsBayColonyprior tothelossofitsoriginalcharter,andthatreformofthe U.S. Government effected by Alexander Hamiltons designofthemostcrucialfoundationsoftheU.S.FederalConstitution,asexpressed,mostnotablyandsummarily,inthePreambleofthatConstitutionwhichcontainstheexplicitlystatedmotiveandthegermofthe entiretyofanyandalllegitimatefeaturesofthatConstitutionasawhole. The argument on which that Constitution is premised,iselaboratedasaneconomicargumentinHamiltonsfamous threedoctrinesset forthby him inhis authorityasU.S.TreasurySecretaryunderthefirstadministrationofPresidentGeorgeWashington.6 Thecommonprincipleofthesecrucialdocuments andtheirrelatedprecedents,istheprincipleoftheuse ofthepublicdebtofthepoliticalsystemasameansof launchinganinvestmentinthosequalitiesofphysical improvementswhichrepresentanincreaseofthephys6. Report on Public Credit (190); Report on a National Bank (190);and,Report on Manufactures(191).

ical wealth per capita and per unit of territory of the nation.Inthecontrarycase,thatoftheempire,andof governmentsmodeledonimperialprecedents,itisthe monetaristsmoneywhichconsumesthenationandits people;inthecaseofthetruerepublicansystem,the purposeofthedebtistoincreasethephysicalexpressionofthecapitalintensityofwealthofthepeopleand territoryofthenation,percapita,andpersquarekilometerofterritory. Although money passes into different states of meaningasitflowsfromonestate(acreditsystem)to another (a monetarist system), it is distinguished in functionbythemannerinwhichitpassesfromonestate (e.g., a credit system), to another (a monetarist system). Now,proceedfromtheseexemplarydefinitions,to the special characteristics of the oligarchical systems.

The Oligarchical Principle

ThereferencetoakingdomofevilknownasBabylon,suchasaWhoreofBabylon,wasafairone;one of the ancient names for that form of evil associated withsuchcasesastheAchaemenidempire,andthelater seriesoffourRomanempireswhichweareconsidering here, was the oligarchical principle. That principle itselfhadbeendefinedinthePrometheusTrilogyof thegreatAeschylus,aprincipleofthedistinctionbetweentheOlympiangodsandthoseslaves,orserfs knownasthemeremortals,anotionwhichhasbeen adistinctionknowntomodernliterarytraditionsfrom thetimeofthatgreatfollyportrayedbyHomerscontrastoftheIliadtothealternativetothatintheOdyssey,or,simply,tothefigureofAthena. Themostwidelyknownofthedistinctionsassociated with that Classical tradition, as presented in the Prometheus Trilogys Prometheus Bound, is the denialofthepermissiontothemeremortalstouse fire,asinthekindred,attempted,psychologicallypathetic(andconsequentlyimpassioned)bansontheuse ofnuclearfissionandthermonuclearfusiontoday.The standardargumentassociatedwiththedistinctionofthe Olympianoligarchyandtheslave-likecategoryofthe meremortals,istheoligarchicalassertionthatpermittingthemeremortalstogainfreeaccesstotheuseof fire,wouldleadtothetopplingoftheOlympiantyrannyoftheso-calledimmortals,overthosesuchas thosesometimescalledslavesorserfs.Essentially, the modern hysterics demanding the cessation of nuFeature 13

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clearfission,arenotessentiallydifferentfromthesycophantsofthegangoftheOlympianZeusofyore. The continued tyranny of todays British empire overthepeopleofAfrica,istodaysmostnotoriousexpressionoftheevilofthattyrannicaldenialofthebenefitsofscientificprogresswhichisassociatedwiththe traditionallegacyoftheOlympiantyrantsknownasthe legendaryadversaryoftheapostleofhumanfreedom knownasPrometheusthefire-bringer. Inoppositiontosucholigarchicalevils,wehavethe caseofthedenunciationofAristotleandhislegacyby PhiloJudaeus(ofAlexandria),whoisassociatedwith theChristianApostlePeter.Philowenttothekernelof theactuallyhistoricalconflictbetweentheoligarchical legaciesoftheOlympiansandRomantics,ontheone side,andthecauseofhumanfreedomontheother.PhilosfamousdenunciationofthedoctrineofAristotle, providesthescientificargument,asbyPhiloandothers, againstthebrutishlegacyoftheOlympiantyrannydefendedbythenotoriousenemyofPlato,Aristotle.On thisaccount,itisAristotlewhois,asPhiloemphasized thefact,notoriousastheauthorofwhatmodernhistory identifiesastheNietzscheannotionofGodisdead. Inbrief,PhilosdenunciationofAristotlepointedto the scientific absurdity of asserting that any actually creative action within the universe has ceased either with,orpriortotheexistenceofmankind. As my associates of the basement team have brought into play the relevant evidence from the billions of years of the history of the influence of our galaxyontheroleoflifeonEarthsofar,thehistoryof lifeonplanetEarthhasbeenshapedbythesuperiorrole ofthegreat,reigningcyclesknowntousfromthephysicalevidenceoftheinfluenceofthegalaxyscyclical andrelatedhistoryontheevolutionofourimmediate Solar system, especially respecting the matter of the evolution of living processes on our planet. Broadly speaking,allformsoflifeonourplanetaresubjectto thehazardofcalamitouskindsofdestructionofliving speciesandtypes.Thisisalsothecasefortheknown historyamonglivingspeciesonourplanet. Inthisrespect,humanlifehasmanifestcharacteristictendenciesfordurability,aqualityofdefensewhich isbroadlydeniedtonon-humanspecies.However,this favorable distinction of the human species ability to survive, is conditional upon benefits provided to humanitybythosecreativeformsofwillfulpowerswhich areknowntoustodayasbeinguniquetothehuman species itself. The inclusive name for this quality of
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willfulpowers,isthecreativepowersofhumanreason, aqualityofadvantagewhichisspecifictomodesofincreaseoftherelativeenergy-fluxdensityofthequality of power which mankind deploys, as in the use of fire. Theseformsoffierycreativityonwhichthecontinuedexistenceofthehumanspeciesdepends,areorderedinasequencetypifiedinformandcharacterby thefactthatmankindistheonlyspecieswhichemploys thewillfulpowertomakeandusefireindefenseagainst thefieryforcesofgreatdestructionotherwiseinherent inourSunandthefierylifeofourgalaxy.Humanitys existingdependsontheburningoffuels,atraitlacking in other species.The quality of such power must increase,orhumanexistencecouldnotbesustained;we progress from burning of the simplest fuels, through charcoal,coal,combustiblegas,andsoforth,intothe presentlyindispensabledomainsofcontrolledformsof nuclearfission,thermonuclearfusion,and,theprospect of controllable matter-antimatter reactions.Any generalfailureofmankindtoproceedalongsuchacourse ofourownspeciesfierydevelopment,wouldthreaten thecontinuedexistenceofthehumanspeciesitself,as thepatternofSolar-directedthermonuclearfusionseffectsareexpressedinthecurrentpatternfromChristchurchtoJapan,intothegeneralityofthePacificRim ofFireofvolcanicandrelatedforceswhicharepresentlycenteredin,butnotlimitedtothePacificregion today. Theforcesexpressedinthemostrecentoutbreaksof Solar-directed volcanic and related outbursts now scheduledfortheseveralyearsahead,arevastordersof magnitude beyond anything which we know as expressedbySolarsystemicandcomparableforcestoday, forceswhichresidefarbeyondtheboundsoftheforces knowntoexistwithinEarthitself.Therecentassaults onJapanhavepartakenoftheside-effectsofprecisely suchSolar-systemicforcesbeyondthedomaindefined aswithinEarthitself.Thisdoesnotimplythatoursituationishopeless.Itpointstotheurgencyofacceleratingtherateofmankindsscientificpracticewithinthe nearbyaspectofourSolarsystem,astheNASAprogramwasintendedtodo,untilitwasrecentlyshutdown incrucialaspectsofitsassignedfunctionsbythecurrentlyincumbentU.S.Presidency. Thischallenge,anditslikenesses,mustbeconsideredaswarningusagainstfurthertolerationoftheeffectsofwhatIhaveindicated,abovethusfar,astheeffectsoftheoligarchicalprinciplewhichIhavechosen
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totracehere,thusfar,totheroleof the oligarchical principle in cases suchasthatoftheHomericsagasof theIliadandOdyssey.Thecontinuedexistenceofthehumanspecies dependsabsolutelyonapolicyofan explicitly Promethean quality of anti-oligarchicalprogress,asPhilo ofAlexandriaemphasizedthecontinuing policy of practice of the Creator,thatasinoppositiontosuch franklypro-Satanicforcesofdionysian oligarchism, whose role is merelytypifiedbythecaseofFriedrich Nietzsche and such followers ofthedoctrineofcreativedestructionofNietzscheasWernerSombartandJosephSchumpeterinmattersofeconomicpracticestoday.

II. The Challenge of Physical Economy

Thetypicalincompetencewhich hadbeenusuallyshownheretofore, DigitalGlobe intheordinarycourseofpresenting LaRouche has introduced the concept of platforms, in place of infrastructure per asubjectcalledeconomics,arises se, to convey the idea of an upshift in the state of the biosphere, produced by investment fromtheattempttolocateeconomy, in transformative projects such as NAWAPA. Shown, the Three Gorges Dam in China, on the one hand, in individual ac- such a project. tionsofwhatareconsideredaslocally isolable acts of production, or services to, or ing the earlier dictatorship of maritime culture over administrationoftheprocessofsuchparticularmodes Europe, to the economic revolution by Charlemagne ofproduction.Ontheotherhand,thereiswhatisoften whichdepended,inacentralway,onthedevelopment ofasystemofinlandwaterwayscreatedthroughlinkmisnamedasinfrastructure. ing the riparian systems of inland Europe through a Tofreesocietyoftheincompetenceofsuchpracticesasthatwhichhadbeenheretoforeoftenconducted systemofcanals.Thatreform,whichwasanintegral inthenameoftheeconomicsofinfrastructure,I aspectofCharlemagnesuniqueoriginalityinfounding haveintroducedtheconceptofplatforms,aconcept theroot-conceptsofanotionofnationaleconomy,isa introducedtothedomainofessentialtechnicaltermsof reformwhichmustbeemphasizedashavingoccurred economy,aconceptwhichIhaveintroducedasanimas a crucial feature of the revolution in economy by provedpracticeofcrucialimportance,apracticewhich Charlemagne,butwhichisalsotoberecognizedinthe Ihaveprescribedasareformwhoseeffectsaretypified history of the economic development within North bytheprecedentofthegreatreforminEuropeannaAmerica,asthelayeredrevolutionineconomicprogtionaleconomyassociatedwiththerevolutioninecoressoftheearlierNorthAmericancolonies,represented nomic practices introduced by and under Charinthesuccessionofintegratedripariansystemsofrivers lemagne. andcanalsafterCharlemagnesmodel,bytheaddition Ihaveillustratedtheargumentrepresentedbythe totheripariansystemsofrailwayswhichtended,initially, during their earlier phases, to be constructed effectsofsuchanurgentlyneededreform,bycontrastApril1,2011 EIR Feature 1

alongroutesassociatedwiththeriparianpassage-ways, laterasregionalrailways,and,stilllater,transcontinentalrailwaysystems.Otherwise,thefoundationsofthe economyofNorthAmericawerethosesuppliedunder theoriginalcharteroftheMassachusettsBayColony,a model which was introduced even to England at the laterpromptingofBenjaminFranklin. The continuation of this direction in reforms of economy, became that founding of the rudiments of modern economy which had actually first occurred undertheadministrationofCharlemagne.Thatreform wasthensetback,temporarily,forasignificantpassage oftimeafterhisdeath,asunderthethirdphaseofthe fourphasesoftheRomanEmpireassociatedwiththe so-calledfeudalsystem,athirdphaseofthesystem ofthefoursuccessivephasesoftheRomanEmpire,a phasewhichhadbeenestablishedunderthecontrolling influenceofVenice,asthesuccessortothedecadent, andultimatelyCrusader-doomed,Byzantineeconomy. Themostcrucialfactorinthatspanoftheglobally extended history of European civilization, had been that civilizations roots in a post-glacial maritime system developed, initially, within the Mediterranean region,and,later,extendedtobecomeaEuropeanmaritimesystem,totheAtlanticOceanandbeyond.Thus, itwasinthiscontext,thatthefourthstageoftheRoman Empire mobilized itself on behalf of the intention to maintaintheimperialformoftheEuropeanmaritime tyrannyagainstthemortaleconomicthreattotheBritishempirerepresentedbytheU.S.initiationoftheexistenceoftranscontinentalrailwaysystems.

whichwasintended,sincetheearly1920s,tofeature systemically extensive destruction of the U.S. naval forces,includingthebaseatPearlHarbor. It was that British imperial policy of geopolitical warfare,aslaunchedbythe1890ousterofBismarck andbythePrinceofWales1890slaunchingoftheimperialwarfareleadingintothatBritishorchestrationof the Balkan wars which was used to divide Russia against Germany, and then virtually, thus, destroyed Germany and Russia as an immediate outcome then, andestablishedtheBritishimperialgeopoliticalprincipleofwhatBritishagentAlexanderHelphand,once a protg of the ageing British Fabian Society asset FrederickEngels,wastochristenasapolicyofpermanentwarfare,permanentrevolution,whichhas been continuedasBritishimperialpolicyofpracticetothe presentday. Hence,wehaveexperiencedthenot-sosecretBritishimperialcampaignforthedestructionofthetranscontinentalrailwaysystemsofEurasiaandtheAmericassince1890,or,similarly,howGeneralMotorsand comparableAmericanenterprisesruinedthemselvesby concentrating on the manufactures over-emphasizing the relatively inefficient overemphasis on highways andshort-haulairandhighwaytraffic.8 Oncetheforegoingconsiderationsaretakenintoaccount,itshouldbecomeobviousthat,inapost-geopolitical Solar system, the follies induced within the UnitedStatesbytheinfluenceofwhatiscalled,most
. Ironically,whenthedefeatoftheBritishempirebytheWehrmachts overrunning France, impelled an astonished British empire to run screamingforhelpforitselffromPresidentFranklinRooseveltsUnited States,theBritish,temporarily,abandonedthealliancewhichBritain hadbuiltupagainsttheUnitedStatessincetheearly1890s.However, theNavalpowerinthePacificandIndianOceanswhichJapansforces showedfromthetimeoftheattackonPearlHarbor,leftnoreasonable doubtofwhathadbeentheintendedBritish-Japandestructionofthe maritimepowerofourUnitedStates. 8. IdonotdenouncewhathasbecomeknownastheEisenhowerNationalDefenseHighwaysystem.UndertheconditionswhichChurchill and Truman launched on the basis of the conditions created by the schemesofChurchillandTruman,theU.S.A.waspushedtocreatesuch an alternative for a transcontinental railway network. Nonetheless, I deeplyregretthecausesforthatessentiallywastefulnecessity,andfor the related economic and cultural follies of the cult of suburbanism. Happily,creatingsuburbanplanetoidsinintra-Solarspaceisnotalikely threatinsightfortheforeseeablepresenttime.Theactualnetdeclineof theU.S.railwaysystembeganduringthemid-1920s,andaccelerated withdisastrousconsequencesfortheU.S.economysincethetragic,late 190s negotiations between the NewYork Central and Pennsylvania railwaysystems.Thelootingofthecapitalwhichhadbeenassociated withtherailwaysystemsisfairlydescribedascatastrophic.

The Entry of British Geopolitics

Asaconsequenceofthathistory,alltheprincipal warfareconductedthroughouttheworldsincetheBritishroyalfamilysousterofChancellorBismarckfrom thegovernmentofGermany,hasbeenmotivatedbythe desperation of that British maritime system of world empirewhichconsidereditsexistenceashavingbeen menaced by the Nineteenth-century development of transcontinentalandrelatedformsofland-basedcontinentalsystemswhichwere,andremainvastlymoreefficientthaneconomiesunderthereignofglobalmaritimepowers. Itwas,forexample,forthatreason,thattheBritish Empire,whichhadjustbeenrescuedbyU.S.A.assistancetotheBritishcauseagainstaNazi-ruledGermany, actedoncemore,asithadsincetheearly1920s,when it had promoted a British naval alliance with Japan
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ironically, our British ally, will,happily,nolongerbepromoted.However,inthemeanwhile,thetrendinU.S.A.,and also European policy, since the 1960s assassinations of U.S. President John F. Kennedy,and hisbrotherRobert, havemarkedapatternofcatastrophic decline which has been imposed, from the top, down, on the U.S.A.s economy,anditsmorals. Thisdeclinehasnotbeena merecoincidenceinanysense of such terminology. The Joint European Torus causeoftheacceleratingrate Todays economy requires the advance from a nuclear-fission technology to a thermonuclearofdeclineofthephysicalpro- fusion platform. Shown: a split image of the Joint European Torus (JET), the worlds ductivity and intellectual de- largest nuclear-fusion research facility, located in the U.K. economyoftheUnitedKingdomitself,sincethemost velopmentofthepopulationsofthetrans-Atlanticregionsoftheplanet,hasbeenafullywittingpolicyof lamentableintervalsofhistenureatNumber10. Sincethattime,assincetheassassinationsofU.S. destructionofthemind,morals,andgeneralconditions, asofbothmindandbody,ofourpopulationsgenerally. President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Thishasnotbeenaccidental,ormerelycoincidentalin duringaperiodoverlappingtheWilsonministries,what anyrespect;themotiveforthishasbeenintentionally wastermedofficiallyasapolicyofactualpro-fascist creativedestruction,hasbeenthedoctrineofpolitical malicious,evenintentionallyinhuman.Thatevilintentionhasaname;thenameis,technically,creative practiceofanincreasingrationoftrans-Atlanticeconodestruction.Thatintentionis,essentially,anechoof mists and our own U.S. governments budgetary oftheBritishimperialdesignforthedestructionofboth fices,astheprecedentforthiswasmadenotablebythe ourUnitedStatesandBritainsEuropeanneighbors,as casesoftheNaziperiodsWernerSombartandthemore thecaseofthepatternssetbyThatcher,Mitterrand,and widelyinfluentialJosephSchumpeter.BritainsPrime BushundertheEurosystem,illustratethatfactwith MinisterHaroldWilsonisfairlyclassedaspartlyareflectionofthatinfluenceofJosephSchumpeterwhich amostviciouslyincreasingsavagery. Creativedestruction,orwhatisfairlyidentifiedas isassociatedotherwisewitharelevantinfluenceatHartheimplicitlypro-NazipoliciesofFriedrichNietzsche vardUniversity,andofkindrednotorieties.AynRandand his acolytes, has been the official policy of the sponsoredAlanGreenspanhasbeen,infact,aparticutrans-Atlantic forces of the British Empire since the larlyrabidcaseofthissameBritish,asmuchassimply 1890sbeginningsoftheBritishempiresgeopolitical brutishtemperament. commitment of about a century-and-a-quarter; it has Platforms on Which Society Depends alsobeenthepolicyoftheBritishempiresinceBritThedetermining,underlyingfoundationofanyecoainsLordShelburnefoundedtheBritishForeignOffice andplacedhiswretchedlackeyJeremyBenthaminthe nomicculture,islocatedintheimplicationsofacertain positionofchiefofintelligenceforthatinstitution.It levelofdevelopmentofwhatcanbetranslatedinto thenotionofacertainlevelofdevelopmentofthemodal iswhatisproperlyrecognizedasthecontemporaryfascismsharedamongmanyofthoseoftenself-described, energy-fluxdensityoftheentirenational,orregional euphemistically, as my critics. Sometime British territorywithinwhichtheequivalentofanationaleconPrimeMinisterHaroldWilsonisnotableforhisrolein omyissituated.So,presently,theadvancefromaprenuclear-fissiontechnologytoafission-levelplatform, theSchumpeteriancreativedestructionwhichunderlies, still today, as much as remained of the tattered toathermonuclear-fusionplatform,andsoon,typiApril1,2011 EIR Feature 1

fiestheconceptionofanunderlyingbasisforanational, or more broadly defined regional economy on which thequalityofbothproductionandstandardlevelofculturedependsinanyparticularcase. Production,likemunicipalandhouseholdexistence, istobemeasuredasafunctionofwhatcorrespondstoa general level of the correlatives of energy-flux densityofthepowerinplaceforthedeterminationofthe mostessentialdistinctionofqualityofchangerequired forthecontinuedexistenceofanynational,orsupranationalsystemofpolitical-economy. Thisroughestimate,basedonenergy-fluxdensity providedtotheeconomysfunctions,findscorrelatives inthedegreeofgeneral,ongoingdevelopmentoflanguagecultureinuse,andinthequalityofsuchformsof Classicalartisticculturewhicharetheessentialplatformonwhichtheintellectualpotentialofthepopulationofacertainculture,orsub-culturedepends.Similarly, it is the effect of the changes within a set of platforms so defined, which actually determines the qualityofeconomicdevelopmentofwhichanational cultureiscurrentlycapable.TheUnitedStates,forexample,isfairlydescribedtodayasworsethanhalf-destroyedbytheculturaldecadencewhichhastakenus over,increasingly,sincethecloseofwarin19. ThemoststubbornlyviciousexpressionofthatBritish(andalsobrutish)hostilitytooursystem,whichI havejustindicatedhere,isacorrelativeoftherottennessexpressedbythepoliciesoftheCongressforCulturalFreedom(CCF).Thisistobecorrelatedwiththe generallossofanyefficientconnectiontotheartistic andrelatedelementsofcultureprevalent,increasingly, amongtheyoungergenerationstoday;but,someofthe moststubbornmoralfailuresandrelatedintellectualineptitudearemetamongtheso-calledBabyBoomer generation,theexistentialistelementoftheinfluenceof therock-drug-sexsub-culturemostemphatically. Forexample,ineconomyassuchwehavethefollowingtoconsider.

The Evil Which Is Liberalism

Althoughtheeffectsofthepracticeofeconomicliberalismareofaqualitycorrespondingtocriminalacts intheireffects,mostoftheunfortunateperpetratorsof thespreadofwhatistermedeitherNietzscheancreativedestructionor,inotherwords,simplytheessentialevilunderlyingliberalism,arenotfairlyidentified asalsowittingofthetrueconsequencesoftheirterrible ideological affliction. Partly, they are shielded from
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knowledgeofthatafflictionbythemechanismsofillusion.Theeffectofwhatappears,tothetruescientist,to becriminality,ineffect,ischieflyareflectionofan induced mental flaw, called Liberalism, which is a syndrometypicalofthevictimsofthedogmaoftheevil PaoloSarpi,aspasseddowntothefoolishlycredulous astheideologyofAdamSmith. Thekernelofthesubject-matterinthispresentchapterofthereport,isidentifiedbywhatshallbeidentified hereastheinfluenceoftheworkofthephysicistBernhardRiemannindefiningthesettingofthoseneeded principlesofphysicalprincipleswhichnotonlyprogressinthephysicalconditionsofhumanliferequires, butevenmereresistancetoharmfulattritionrequires forsociety,especiallysincethecourseoftheNineteenth Century.Ishallnowproceedtowarddirectreferenceto thisaspectofRiemannssingularandsystemicaccomplishments in science, with certain sets of preceding, interpolatedremarkswhichIemployheretohelpinsetting the stage for that subject of Riemannian physics itself. Recallwhatsomeconsidertheinjusticetothem causedbywhatthey,thelattersomeidentifiableasa class of other people, who, in fact, produced the conditionswhichwe,dulyconsideringthematterin retrospect, should never have been allowed to have beenadopted.Similarly,forexample,takethecaseof thepersonwhoneverconsideredtheintrinsicallyunjust consequencestosocietyofthebehaviorofthose,like herself, or himself, who contributed to the margin of votes which brought what has since proven to have beentheawfullybadchoiceofBarackObamaintothe Presidency,orofsomepersonsinsistenceonbringing on,stilltoday,thedisasteroftheclassinwhichtheinnocenthadsufferedasaconsequencecausedbythose somepersonshystericaldevotiontothemanifestevil consequenceofadapting,asPresidentObamahasdone, tocreatingahigh-technology-freeeconomy:what is already proven to have beena truly woeful, and reasonably foreseeable disaster to society! The freedom to vote, is not an actual right to do wrong to the general welfare, even by casual recklessness in the legendary voting booth. You might not be considered punishable for such a decision as that chosen recklessly there, but you are, nonetheless, to be ashamed, that according to the adducible damage your adopted opinion has caused to society in general, or kindred sort of injustice by your errant behavior. Fortheindividual,itisoftenhisorherfailuretorecEIR April1,2011

ognizeandsupportactionwhich, provably, should have been taken,especiallyforthefailuretodevelopwhatI shalldefineinthischapterasneededplatforms.This appliestoachoicewhichwouldbringuponhim,orher, thedisasterforwhicheach,sometimes,heartilyblames theCreator,insteadof,properly,blamingwhateitherof thoseshouldhaveconsideredtheclassofmissionwhich we must have reasonably judged as needed for the publicbenefit. However,suchchoicesofcausesforcomplaintas those,canbefairlystatedonlyundertheconditionthat wetakeintoaccountthefact,thatallofwhatmaybe callednature,istobedefinedbythestandardofthat which is inherently creative and beneficial in effect, that as a matter of universal principle; this includes evenprocesseswhicharenotlivingprocesses. Thekindofwhatarespecificallywrongfulerrors,as ofthetypeperpetratedwithinthepresumedsanctityof thevotingbooth,errorstowardwhichIhavepointedin theseparagraphs,are,today,typicalofthementalaberrations inherent in the current expressions of the socalled Liberal dogma of pleasure and pain, as that wasintroducedtomodernEuropeansocietybysuchas thenotoriousPaoloSarpiandhisattributableScottish mimic, theAdam Smith who licked the spittle of his master, Lord Shelburne. Smith asserted, systemically andviciously,thatthehumanindividualwasincapable ofdiscoveryoftruth,but,rather,waslimitedtoselectionsofchoiceswhichthedupeoftheSarpi-Smithdoctrineregardedastheavailableoptionsofselectionof pleasureorpain. Oneofthemoretypicalcasesofthefollowersofthe Sarpi-Smith hoax, has been the notable hoaxster of modernEuropeanpseudo-science,theCharlesDarwin ofunnaturalselectionnotoriety,or,thekindredcases ofsuchfollowersofDarwinasthenotorioustribeof ThomasHuxleywhichhassuppliedwhatisproperlyto beconsideredasanotablycuriouslynoxiousambiguity tothenotionofthedescentofman.Whathasbeen actuallydescending,theHuxleys,ortheiropponents? Mankindistheuniquepinnacleofverylargearrays ofthebehavioranddescentofformsofwhatappearto thesimple-mindedasequallyanimal-likelife.We,as AcademicianV.I.Vernadsky has clarified this matter, aredistinguishedfromotherformsoflife,bythepower tocreateexperimentallyvalidatablechoicesofbehaviorthroughwhatmaybefairlydescribedasaqualityof creativereasontypifiedasuniquetothehumandiscoveryofavaliduniversalphysicalprinciple,orthelike.
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We,asmankind,arenotatthepinnacleofthetribesof livingcreatures,butareanorderoflifeabsolutelyapart fromandabovetheanimals,inthatrole;itisourspecieswillfulchoicesofcategoriesofinfluence,which determine the destiny, even the fate, of the array of lowerformsoflife,allthewaydowntotherelatively mostobscureone-celledcreatures.Whetherwe,asindividuals,ornations,knowthatconnection,ornot,the functionalrelationshipisareigningone. Therelevantpointtobeemphasizedintheimmediatesettingofthediscussionatthisjuncture,isthatthe idea of a Sarpian pleasure-pain principle degrades mankindsformofbehavioralaptitudestoasimulation of the behavior of the animal herd.As Smith insists inhisprincipalthesis,whichindictshimasanenemyof humanity, his 19 Theory of Moral Sentiments: ...Naturehasdirectedusinthegreaterpart...by original and immediate instincts. Hunger, thirst, the passionwhichunitesthetwosexes,theloveofpleasure,andthedreadofpain,promptustoapplythese meansfortheirownsakes,andwithoutanyconsiderationofthosebeneficentendswhichthegreatDirector ofnatureintendedtoproducebythem.Theresultis AnimalFarm. AgainstSmithandwhatherepresentsstilltoday,the pertinentevidenceis,thattheuniverseitselfisinherentlyanti-entropic,thatnotmerelyasaneffect,butasa universalcauseembeddedintheknowledgeablestandardofthatuniverseasknowntomankindthusfar.In otherwords,theimplicationis,thattheuniverseitselfis inherentlycreative,asPhiloofAlexandriadenounced Aristotleasawickedsortofheathenonthisaccount, andthat,systematically,trulyso.Thesubjectofplatforms,asIshallclarifythatconceptionatanappropriateplacebelow,confrontsus,typically,asthosechanges intheenvironmentofproduction,which,inturn,define therelativepotentialbenefitassociatedwithanymode ofproductionassuch. Sucharetheconclusionswhichmightbebestadduced by aid of reference to the accomplishments of RussiasandUkrainesAcademician,theV.I.Vernadsky whose work, in discovery of the Lithosphere, Biosphere,andNosphere,isattributableinalargedegree totheuseoftheprecedentsprovidedbyBernhardRiemann,precedentstowhichIshallrefer,repeatedly,explicitlyorotherwise,inthecourseoftheremainingsectionsofthispresentreport. Theessentialpointtobeemphasized,istheimportanceofthecultivationofthosecreativepowersassociFeature 19

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The LaRouche Basement Team is currently studying the effects which our galaxy has had on the history of life on Planet Earth. This image, taken by NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope, shows an infrared view of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, complied from many snapshots, and colorized. The center is some 26,000 lightyears away from Earth.

atedwithbothprogressinphysicalscienceandClassical artistic expressions of culture of the population, especially the leaders of the population, but also the population more broadly. No nations leadership is moredeservingofbeingthrownoutofpowerthanone whichiscomplicitinpromotingpopularizedformsof stupidityamongthepopulationatlarge.

Life in Our Galaxy

Turn attention, for the moment, to the evidence whichmyassociatesofthebasementteamhaveheld inviewaspartofthestudiesoftheeffectswhichour galaxyhasinducedrespectingthehistoryoflifeonour planet.Itisnottheindividual species,exceptfor the caseofmankind,whichcreatesthesettingstowhich theevolvingarrayofthesetofspeciesmustadapt.Similarly,thefateofsocietyisgenerallydeterminedbythat whichsomeindividualsdo,who,becauseoftheirpower insociety,ortheirexpressedcreativity,or,inthealternative,theutmostlackofsuchasenseofresponsibility, havethegreatestrelativeeffectonthedestinyofentire nations,orevenourplanetatlarge.Often,thus,individuals,orgroupsofpeople,blamesomeotherperson, orclassofpersons,forthewickedeffectsofwhatthey, themselves,havedone,orfailedtodo:asinthecaseof threerecent,U.S.electionsofsuchwretchedchoicesof PresidentsasGeorgeW.Bush,Jr.,andBarackObama. Clearly,inthosecases,themajorityelectoratehadacted
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asifinsane,eitherbythevotescounted,orthosewhich werenotcast. Mankind is an aggregation of the interactions of whatare,sometimes,somewhatsovereignhumanindividuals;however,itistheactionoftheindividualon whatisdefinedbyaprocessexpressedbyaculture,or, often,merelytheauthoritativevoicesinsocietyingeneral,thosevoiceswhichexerttherelativelygreatestinfluence,asaformofwillfulinfluence,uponsomeoutcomeoftheeffortsandexpressedopinionofthemany. Itisthosesameprocessesofdecision-making,sodefined, which shape society, as if top down, as by the WallStreet-controlledmassmedia,againstwhichthe individualvictimmayprofesstohavebeencausedto haveerred. Itshouldbemadeevident,therefore,thatthejustifiedinstancesofcausesforcomplaintwithinthepopulationandinstitutionsofamisguidedsociety,areusuallyaproductofwhatarelativeauthorityhasdecided, or failed to consider. Similarly, the individual citizen who considers himself, or herself a victim of either willful injustices, or those wrought as negligence in manufactureofinjustices,hasoftenbroughthismisery uponhimself,byfailingtoaccepthis,orherownindividualresponsibility for shapingthe processeswhich shapethedestinyofnations,andoftheplanetingeneral,whiletheywailasifsufferingthemiseriesofJob, for the condition to which they have contributed by
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theirownnegligentdisregardfortheneedtocarefor theshapingofthesocietyasawhole,asiffromthetop down. It is our implied responsibility, as individuals, or groups of individuals, to seek out, select, and apply thosechangestoestablishedpracticeonwhichthecontinuedsurvivalofmankindultimatelydepends.Being inaminorityisnotanexcusefornegligenceinsuch matters. Forexample,thefailuretoinvestinnuclear-fission power, by clinging to sources of significantly lower energy-fluxdensityofdeployedpower,mayhavedisastrouseffectsontherelativeoutcomeofaparticular modeofproduction,and,thus,evenforthemorals-inpracticeofthepopulationingeneral.Anti-nuclearpoliciesarenotamorallyacceptablepremiseforthefailure tosecureafutureofmankindwhichdependsabsolutely onlyonqualitativeincreasesinthelevelofdeployed higher forms of energy-flux density. Sodom and Gomorrahhadnonaturalrighttohaveexisted. All competent practice of a science of politicaleconomytodaynowdepends,andthatabsolutely,on the aforesaid, broadly defined presumptions and preconditions for practice of successive advances in the formsofhigherenergy-fluxdensityasthegeneralmode onwhichthecontinuationofcivilizedformsofhuman existence depend absolutely. The uniquely repeated successesinmyworkasaneconomicforecaster,have been premised entirely on the aforesaid, broadly described kinds of platform-like preconditions. Therefore,forthatreason,I,inmyroleasaforecaster,have chieflysucceeded,usuallyindefianceofmyso-called rivals,anddidsobecauseIconsideredtheeconomic processfromtheissueofwhatIhavecometodefineas the platforms which envelop the preconditions of production,ratherthanproceedingasthepoorstatisticiansdo,fromthescientificallyincompetentnotionsof localtechnologyandprejudices,ondown. Ishallreturntothatsubject-matteratgreaterlength, abitlaterhere.

flectionofthesamecrudemechanismsofpleasureand pain expressed inAdam Smiths wretched doctrine. Thepersistenceofthatrelianceonsense-certainty,even amongthosewiththeadvantagesprovidedbymodern European science, is expressed chiefly, symptomatically,bythedelusionassociatedwiththeinfluenceof PaoloSarpi,thedelusionwhichismorefamiliartoday as the dogma of pleasure-pain associated with the widespreadcredulityshownbythedupesoftheAdam Smithlegacy. Theparticularpracticalsignificanceofthemental disorderidentifiedbythenameofAdamSmith,is, that by degrading the human mind to a self-inflicted beliefinmeresense-certainty,thedupeofsuchinducedbeliefs,thedupeofsuchaswhatistermedempiricism,isconditionedagainstrecognizingtheactuallyefficientexistenceofthosehigherpowersofhuman experiencewhichoughttobeproperlyidentifiedasthe creativepowersofthetypicalhumanmind.

The Role of Bernhard Riemann

Now,havingstatedthatmuch,tointroducethebasis ofreferenceneededfortheoverallpresentationofthe casewhichIhavejustoutlinedintheprecedingparagraphs of this present chapter; I shall quote from the threeopeningparagraphsofBernhardRiemannsrevolutionary 18 habilitation dissertation, On The Hypotheses which Lie at the Foundations of Geometry, theworkbyRiemannonwhichallcompetentscientific practice, subsequently, including that typified by the workofV.I.VernadskyandAlbertEinstein,ispremised today.Forthispurpose,pendingaGermaneditionof thispresentreport,IshallnowcitefromawidelyrecognizedEnglishtranslationofRiemannsdissertation,the opening sectional sub-title and three opening paragraphspresentedbyProfessorHenryS.Whitewithin David E. Smiths 1929 Source Book in Mathematics.9 IshallnowpresentthatexcerptfromRiemannshabilitationdissertation,andreturntofocusoncertainof the crucial features selected for this report at a later point.Theimportanceofthiscitationisthatthosewho havenotassimilatedit,oritsequivalent,are,toalarge degree, illiterate in terms of a valid strain of modern science.
9. InaGermaneditionofthispaper,theRiemannoriginaltextshould, ofcourse,beused.IhaveaddedsomeneededpunctuationtothatEnglishtranslationasadoptedhere.

Examine Your Own Mind!

Thereadermustbeforewarned,atthispointinthe presentation,thatthecommonplaceobstacletorecognitionoftheprinciplewhichIhavejustsosummarized inopeningthischapter,isthewidespread,virtuallyreligiousdevotiontothecommonbeliefformedinprofesseddevotiontowhatisrecognizedasthepractical meaning of sense-certainty, a notion which is a reApril1,2011 EIR

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Plan of the Investigation

Itiswellknownthatgeometry presupposesnotonlytheconceptof space,butalsothefirstfundamental notionsforconstructionsinspaceas given in advance. It [i.e., better: These]give[s]onlynominaldefinitionsforthem,whiletheessential means of determining them appear intheformofaxioms.Therelation That much which I have thus ofthesepresuppositionsisleftinthe quotedfrom,chiefly,thethreeopendark;oneseesneitherwhether,and ingparagraphsofRiemannsdisserinhowfartheirconnectionisnecessary,nor,a priori,whetheritispostation, the consequent, substantive sible. issue posed by the illusory temptaBernhard Riemann (1826-66) From Euclid to Legendre, to tions of a mere mathematics as such,10isthatwhichisonlytypified namethemostrenownedofmodern writersongeometry,thisdarknesshasnotbeenlifted, byanotionofaprimacyoffivesenses.Inowcontrast neitherbythemathematicians,norbythephilosophers the standpoint presented in the preceding three paragraphsfromRiemannsdissertationtotheBritishideowhohavelaboreduponit.Thereasonofthislay,perhaps,inthefact,thatthegeneralconceptofmultiply logicalstandpointofAdamSmithetal.Weshallreturn extendedmagnitudes,inwhichspatialmagnitudesare to the deep implications of Riemanns work as such, comprehended,hasnotbeenelaboratedatall.Accordherelater. ingly,Ihaveproposedtomyself,atfirst,theproblemof AdamSmithscelebratedSarpiandoctrinehasleft constructingtheconceptofamultiplyextendedmagnithecompanyofmankindforacertainadoptedkinship tudeoutofgeneralnotionsofquantity.Fromthis,itwill totheswinewhocomebyhisadoptedcharacterquite resultthatamultiplyextendedmagnitudeissusceptible naturally, as in George Orwells Animal Farm. No ofvariousmetricrelations,andthatspace,accordingly, actual principle of nature is explicitly represented constitutesonlyaparticularcaseofatriplyextended withintheboundsofthea-priori,reductionistpresumptionsinherentintheworkofAristotle,PaoloSarpi,or magnitude.Anecessarysequelofthisis,thatthe propositions of geometry are not derivable from general conSmith.Indeed,insofarastheteachingandpracticeof cepts of quantity; but, that those properties by which physical science is premised upon adaptations to the space is distinguished from other conceivable triply eximplicationsoftheAristotelianorempiricistpresumptended magnitudes can be gathered only from experitions,theexistenceofacompetentpracticeofscience ence.Therearisesfromthis,theproblemofsearching werenotpossible,inasmuchasweattributetheauthoroutthesimplestfactsbywhichthemetricrelationsof ity of science to such fraudulent a-priorist presumpspacecanbedetermined,aproblemwhich,inthenature tions. Thisissue,whichIhavejustsummarized,thus,with ofthings,isnotquitedefinite;for,severalreasonsof thesewords,assumesacruciallydistinctformofexsimplefactscanbestated,whichwouldsufficefordeterminingthemetricrelationsofspace;themostimporpressioninanyaddresstothesubjectofhumannature, tant,forpresentpurposes,isthatlaiddownforthefounas that nature is properly considered as qualitatively dations by Euclid. These facts are, like all facts, not distinctfromthebehavioralaptitudesoftherelatively necessary,butofamerelyempiricalcertainty;theyare lowerformsoflife.Thisfactconfrontsusmostclearly hypotheses;onemay,therefore,inquireintotheirprobandsimply,byreferencetosuchmoderncasesofcreability,whichistrulyverygreatwithintheboundsof ativescientificpersonalitiesasNicholasofCusa,Leonobservation,and,therefore,decideconcerningtheadmissibilityofprotractingthemoutsidethelimitsofob10. Iintendtosayaanti-deductivephysicalmathematics,ratherthan servation, [that] not only toward the immeasurably adeductivemathematicalphysics.Imeanascienceofmetaphor.
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large, but, also, toward the immeasurablysmall. Thus,then,nowskiptotheclosingsentenceofRiemannsdissertation[inmyowntranslation]: Thisleadsusintoadifferentscience, into the domain of physics, whichthenatureofthepresentoccasion[inthedepartmentofmathematics]forbidsustoenter.

ardodaVinci,JohannesKepler,GottfriedLeibniz,Carl F.Gauss,AlexandervonHumboldt,LejeuneDirichlet, andBernhardRiemann,orprominentlyrelevantearlier casessuchasArchytas,Plato,andEratosthenes.What Riemannposesin,notably,hishabilitationdissertation, istheissueofthediscoveryofthoseunderlying,universal,physicallyefficientprincipleswhichlieoutside theboundsofameremathematics,justaswhatIhave alreadyreferenced,above,astheconcludingsentence ofRiemannshabilitationdissertation,hasemphasized thisfact.11Thisisthecrucialissueposedbytheuniquenessofthehumanindividualpowersofcreativitywhich lie only within the domains of truly Classical artistic composition, as typified only by Classical modes in musicalcompositionandperformance,ingreatpaintingandarchitecture,andinaphysicalscienceranking outside and above mere mathematics as a form of humanbehavior. TosumupwhathaveIjuststatedthusfar:thecore ofacompetentmodernscienceis,specifically,theRiemannian approach to the universe expressed to best presenteffectbythatinherentlyRiemannianapproach expressedbyAcademicianV.I.Vernadsky. Sofar,asmyprincipalbasementassociateshave emphasizedbytheirownoriginalworkinthismatter, as those competent figures who have preceded them havedone:mankind is distinguished from, and above all other actually known forms of living beings thus far, such that the essence of truth in science is expressed in the discoveries of universal physical principle which are demonstrably situated outside, and above the domain of mere sense-perceptual practice,asRiemann emphasizespreciselythatissueintheconcluding,third sectionofhishabilitationdissertation. Perhapsthebestchoiceofexampleemployedtoillustratethatjuststatedcase,is,perhaps,thecaseofJohannes Keplers unique discovery of the principle of universal gravitation, as presented when we have includedtheroleofthevicarioushypothesisinhisThe New Astronomy,and,mostemphatically,theechoof thelessonfromThe New Astronomywhichprovides the starting-point of practical reference for Keplers uniquediscoveryoftheprincipleofuniversalgravitation.Thepointtobeemphasizedonthisaccount,isthat twocontrastedsenses,thenotionofsightandthenotion
11. The entirety of Section 3 of Riemanns habilitation dissertation presentstheessentialcase,whichtheconcludingsentenceofthatpiece presentsastheargumentofSection3consideredasaunifiedentirety.

ofharmonics,areemployedinconjunction,withthat donetodefineaprinciplewhichisnotspecifictoeither ofthosetwocategoriesofphenomena,butwhichisexpressedonlyaswhatisproventohavebeenaunique singularityoftheirconjunction. AdeeperunderstandingoftheseindicatedimplicationsofKeplersdiscoveryofuniversalgravitation,is assistedbyre-enactingthecelebratedduplicationofthe cubebyArchytas,andtherelatedsortofknownmethod ofPlatogenerally.However,tolocatetheoriginsofthe revolutionary, modern scientific method actually employed by Kepler, we must look back to a preceding pageofmodernscience,tonotonlyNicholasofCusas De Docta Ignorantia, but to the crucially congruent implicationsofcertaindiscoveriesbyFilippoBrunelleschis recognition of the true nature of the funicular curve,thecatenary,asexpressedintheformofaphysical principle of construction which Brunelleschi employedfortheconstructionoftheFlorencecathedralof Santa Maria del Fiore.12Theseandcomparablediscoveriesofprinciple,asopposedtomerea-prioristdeduction-induction,aretobeexaminedasexpressionsof thediscoveryofwhat are truly universal physical principles, or the like, principles which lie outside the domainofmeresense-perception,butwhich,nonetheless,areefficientlyexpressionsoftheprincipleswhich govern the shadow-like effects which true physical principlescast,castaslikefoot-prints,whereandwhen themerespoorofmankindspassingistobefound. AlbertEinsteinstreatmentoftheuniquenessofJohannesKeplersoriginaldiscoveryofuniversalgravitation,asbeingademonstrationofauniversewhichis always finite, but never bounded, underlies the same notionofthequalificationswhicharerequiredtodefine anactuallyuniversalphysicalprinciple,thenotionofa universewhichisessentiallycreative(e.g.,anti-entropic) throughout, contrary to the essentially arbitrary, absurd,and,indeed,utterlyfraudulentSecondLawof Thermodynamics. Thesamenotionsarecrucialforanycompetentinsightintothetruenatureofhumancreativity,suchas thecreativityonwhichtheessential,functionaldistinction of man from beast actually depends. Hence, we
12. Notably,CusafollowerLeonardodaVinciamplifiedtheconceptof thecatenarytodemonstratetheuniqueprincipleofthecatenaryasexpressedbytheinterdependenceofthecatenaryandtractrix.Theachievements of Gottfried Leibniz in mathematical physics, in concert with JeanBernouilli,duringtheearly1690s,aretobeincludedinthishistory.

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havethefollowingmatterstobeconsiderednow.We mustproceedtore-examinethefunctionofscientific creativity from the indispensable vantage-point of a view of the human mind from the standpoint of the Classicalartisticcreativityofsuchas A Defence of PoetrysPercyByssheShelley.

Science, Poetry, Music & Politics

Ithasbeenmyexperience,thatscientificcreativity, asinitsonlyimplicit,attemptedrepresentationinWilliam Empsons Seven Types of Ambiguity, depends moreemphaticallyoncoherencewithastrictlyClassicalBachtraditionofmodernmusicalcompositionsand relatedexpressionsofpoetry,thanmathematicsassuch. ThecaseofAlbertEinsteinandhisviolin,isonewhich Ihavebeenimpelledtorespondto,forthisreason,on thisaccount,duringthecourseofquiteanumberofdecades. Classical poetry, when keyed to the Classical musical imagination, as in Percy Bysshe Shelleys A Defence of Poetry,isparticularlynotableonthisaccount.Asarelatedmatter,theincreasinglywidespread destructionofcreativity(theNietzscheanmonstrosity sometimescalledcreativedestruction)inthepopulationbornduringtheimmediatepost-WorldWarIIdecades,canbecorrelatedwiththemonstrousdegreeof destruction of the creative imagination to be found, mostnotably,amongwhatoftenappearstobethecertainqualityoftendencyforshowingsofvirtualbraindeadnessspecifictothelargerrationofthe68ers,as shownintherelativepoliticaldeadnessencountered, asavirtualgenerationalflaw,amongthepresentmajorityoftheU.S.Congress,relativetopoliticalleadersof theimmediatelyyoungergeneration. Unfortunately, among a still younger generation which has been affected by those so-called elevated pitcheswhichviolatetheessentialmusicalprinciple ofnaturallydefinedregistershifts,theeffectsareoften morepronounced,inadegreebeyondwhatmustbediscounted for the substitution of horrid percussion and strangevocalperversionsforactualmusic.Therockdrug-sex,existentialistcounter-culture,whichiscorrelated, implicitly, with the European adoption of the 190CongressforCulturalFreedom,istypical. TheconsequentlossoftheconnectiontotheClassicaldomainofthecreativeimagination,eventhesignificantdamageofthepersonsaccesstothatdomain, hasdoneaformofdamagetoapopulation,ormerelya large portion of the population which is affected by suchfactors.Thissourceofdamagetothemindsabil2 Feature

Scientific creativity corresponds to the creativity in Classical music and poetry, as the case of Albert Einsteins devotion to his violin suggests. Einstein, pictured here, in January 1931.

ity to understand, and deal rationally with ordinary sense-perception,isamongthenotableleadingsources oflossofeffectivehumanintelligenceintherecordsof historyandcontemporaryconsiderations.Suchrelevant EnglishpoetsasShelleyandKeats,presentuswiththe intimationsofpowersofthehumanmindassuchwhich liebeyondwhatarethosemerecaricaturesofmoving ideaswhichareknownassense-certainties.13 SuchdamageasthattowhichIhavejustreferred here,typifiedbytherelativelyextremecaseofthe190 launchingoftheCongressforCulturalFreedomwithin Europe,inparticular,whencombinedwiththecarryoveroftheinfluenceofsuchelementsofmoraldepravity as that associated paradigmatically with the ugly legacy of Bertolt Brecht, typifies the crippling of the cognitive sense which became characteristic of what hadbeentherelativelyprivilegedstratumofthewildeyedhumancreatureswhoeruptedontheleadinguniversity campuses during and following the Vietnam War-triggeredoutbreaksof1968.

The Freaks Must Gather!

However, the Vietnam draft-dodger, or would-be draft-dodgersyndrome,onthoserelativelymoreprivilegedcampusesofthelate1960s,wasmoretheexpressionoftheeruptionofanalreadyexistingpotentialfor
13. Therearevalidandinterestingcommentstobemade,onotheroccasions,respectingthebestworkofWilliamWordsworthfromatime whenthebestmindsinBritainwerestillinfluencedbythebestfeatures oftheAmericanRevolution.

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suchanoutcome,thanmightbeimpliedbytheneatly definableblamingoftheVietnamdraftitself.Thetruth ofthismatteristobefoundrootedinthecaseofPresidentHarrySTrumansadministration,as,forexample, asfollows. Themoraldepravityoftheso-calledrightwing turnsoforciblypresentedbytheHarrySTruman198 election-campaign,hasbeenadepravitywhichwasalreadydetectableasaWallStreet-driventurnduringthat U.S.primary-electionperiodofSummer-Autumn19 whichhadfoistedtraditionallyWall-Street-linkedSenatorHarrySTrumanontheDemocraticPartysVicePresidentialnominationforthe19Novemberelection-campaign.TheTrumanelectionhadputapolitical bombintoplaceunderthechairofPresidentFranklin Roosevelt;itwasdeemedlikely,itisoverasbythe head of the O.S.S. at the time shortly preceding the death of President Franklin Roosevelt in office, that Roosevelts death would mean a British-run, right wing takeover of the United States, as by the Wall StreetfactortypifiedbyBrownBrothersHarriman,for aratherlongtimetocome.Forthegreaterpart,itdid. The result of the late 190s developments under Vice-Presidentialcandidate,andlaterPresident,Harry STruman,wasadeepde-moralization(inthemostliteral and deepest sense of demoralization) of what becametheleadingstratumofthepopulation,asmeasuredintermsofinfluenceatthattime.Thereafter,the relative margin of wealth and honors donated to the sectionofthepopulationenjoyingtheadvantagesofa securityclearance,tendedtopromoteadeep-going weakeningofthegeneralmoralandrelatedcharacteristicsofthatportionofthepopulation. Theresultinglackofagenuinelymoraloutlookin thatrelativelyprivilegedsectorfromamongthegenerationofreturningveteransofmilitaryservice,produced thesocialeffectwhichcametobenotoriousasthemore notorious, relatively privileged strata of that generationschildren,TheBabyBoomerGeneration.Itwas thislossofmoralitywhichcamerudelytothesurfacein therelativelymoreprivilegedaspectofthosechildren, suchastherock-drug-sexfreaks,whoweretobemet amongtheuniversitystudent-populationtowhichIreferred here above. Those of the latter social stratum who were not directly corrupted by these conditions, wereaffectedbytheknowledgethattheneo-fascistelementstypifiedbytheWeathermancult,wereapparently the rabidly existentialist wave of the future to whichthesanerstratum,asifofalowersocialstatus,
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mustnowgenuflect. Thelossofaculturalleveltrulyequivalenttowhat should have been expected as a show of common senseamongmanyofthatgeneration,wasshownbya widespreadcollapseinthelevelofactualcreativitymet among those who had been university types of that sort. Onthisaccount,therelativelyhappiersideofthat history,isthatthegenerationwhichhassucceededthe Baby Boomers, meaning those presently found from amongthosebetween2andyearsofage,hasrecentlyshownarelativelysuperiormoralqualityofresponsetothepresentlyonrushingvirtualbreakdowncrisis, where the Boomer generation, as typified by many among the go-along-to-get-along varieties in theU.S.Congress,arefarlessresponsive,or,perhaps, onlymuchslowertoreacttothedeadlyrealityofthe presentlyonrushing,existentialcrisisfacingtheU.S.A. presently.Theappropriatetermforthatphenomenonis probablyinured.Perhapsthisisthecase,atleastin part,becausethestillyoungergeneration,betweenthe agesof1and2,hascometobeseenascontaining some of the elements of a living nightmare, like that recently reported from Tucson, to be brought under control now, as like the terrorist campus killers of a slightlyearliertime,whilethatcorrectionmightstillbe accessible. Thatmuchsaidonthatsubject,themostessential factremains,thatwhilewedependnaturallyonthe roleperformedbythehumansense-organs,thatknowledgedoesnotcomeuptotheleveloftrulyscientific knowledge; Keplers uniquely original discovery of universalgravitation,presentstheevidenceneededfor recognizingsense-perceptionasbeinganecessary,but delimitedcontributiontomankindsabilitytodealwith theuniversewhichsurroundsthatindividual.Thecase oftheconcludingparagraphofPercyByssheShelleys A Defence of Poetry,pointstowardtheevidencefora qualitativelyhigherstandardofscientifictruthtypified byKeplersdiscoveryofuniversalgravitation. Theseconsiderationsreturnourattentiontothesubjectsoftheroleandcharacteristicsofhumancreativity intheproductiveprocess.

The Human Minds Mass Effects

ReturnattentionbrieflytothecaseofPercyBysshe Shelleysabruptlyinterrupted181draftofhisA Defence of Poetry. Thepleaforoptimismwhichwemeetinthemost
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born French economist Jacques Necker, the infamousMadamedeStael. Later,twoworldwars,mostnotably,and thelikehavesinceensued,thatinapattern From the essay by Percy Bysshe whichhadbeencontinuedasatrendtothe Shelley (1792-1822): presentday,andwillcontinuetoitsend,as longastheBritishEmpire,whichisactuallyTheFourthRomanEmpire,remains The most unfailing herald, companion,andfolloweroftheawakas it does, however precariously, still today. ening of a great people to work a Despite those past facts, the principle beneficialchangeinopinionorinstitution,ispoetry.Atsuchperiods, which Shelley sets forth in that most remarkablesingle,concludingparagraphof there is an accumulation of the theuncompletedpiece,remainstotheprespower of communicating and receivingprofoundandimpassioned enttime,asamongthemostimportantof conceptions respecting man and the statements respecting the principled nature. The persons in whom this natureofhumanityknowntousthusfar. powerresides,mayoften,asfaras Unfinished?Yes!But,whatwasgoodand regards many portions of their essentialinthatwritingofhis,hasnotbeen nature, have little apparent correlosttoourpotentialunderstandingtoday; spondencewiththatspiritofgoodofwhichtheyaretheminthatisthegistofmysubjectatthispointinthe isters....Poetsarethehierophantsofanunapprehendedinpresent chapters emphasis on the roles of spiration;themirrorsofthegiganticshadowswhichfuturity suchasRiemannandVernadsky. castsuponthepresent;thewordswhichexpresswhatthey The commonplace, disgusting error understandnot;thetrumpetswhichsingtobattle,andfeelnot among those usually deemed the learned, what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but stilltoday,hasbeenconsistentwiththefrauds moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the andrelatedfolliesofCharlesDarwin,frauds world. which are premised on what has been presentedasanaxiomaticpresumptioninthedomainsofbiologyandpolitics.Theremedyfor crucial,concludingsectionofthatuncompleteddraft, the contemptible hoaxes by the reductionist hoaxster obligesustofocusourattentiononthesubjectofthe Darwinandhisilk,istobefoundinatop,down,view descentofaCurtainofDarknessonEuropewhich oftheexistenceofphysicaleconomies,ratherthanthe haddescendedundertheinfluenceofMetternichand Darwinians bottomed-out, depraved view of both CastlereaghduringtheearlyNineteenthCentury.Shelmankindandlivingprocessesgenerally.The universe, including the forms of life, is not a collection of objects, ley had interrupted his writing of his A Defense of Poetryabruptlyin181,and,tothebestofmyjudgbut represents the subsumed expressions of a coherently unified, universally cosmic process of an unfoldment,hadnotreturnedtothatuncompletedcomposition,forpreciselythatreason,again.Thepoemlodged ing principle of creation. withinthere,remaineduncompleted;thesongrangstill, Historys Ironic Moments unfinished,but,nonetheless,hasremainedcrucial.1 Shelley was not demoralized; but, he did know, ThatfactwhichIhavejuststated,istobelocatedas beyond doubt, what his constituency had been up to alsobeingacentralfeatureofmyheretoforeunrivaled that time,asHeinrichHeinecameto suffera similar successinmyspecificroleasaneconomicforecaster.I experience vis-a-visthe infamousdaughterofSwissrefer,thus,towhatIhaveintroducedasthesubstitution oftheconceptwhichIhavelabeledplatforms,which mustnowsupplantthetired,andmisleadingterm,in1. ItwereprobablysufficienttolocateShelleysabandoningthepiece frastructure.Acosmicqualityoftop-downviewof whenhedid,inthesituationofEuropeanhistorysprospectsatthetime ofthetriumphofMetternichandCastlereagh. theuniverse,andmankind,mustdisplacethebottom-

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up, mechanistically kinetic view illustrated by that dismal practice typified by financial accounting. Whenthenationseconomycollapses,manyformerly grandindustriescollapse,asifinmockeryoftheinsolence of the individual enterprises formerly reported financial-accountingsuccesses.WallStreetstriumphs haveturnedout,eventually,ashavingbeenhumanitys catastrophes,asundertheoutcomeofrabidmonetarist AlanGreenspanstwistedreignatbothJ.P.Morganand theFederalReserveSystem. It is appropriate to note a certain coincidence between Greenspans open launching of his continuing campaign,asaJ.P.Morganhack,todestroytheGlassSteagallAct,withinthe1982-1983settingoftheBritishorchestrationoftheSovietrejectionofU.S.PresidentRonaldReaganstelevisedprofferofwhatIhad craftedastheinitiativeforwhatReagantitledA Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI). Ithadbeenlargelyforgottentoday,asmuchdesired to be forgotten, that during the years following U.S. PresidentRonaldReagans1983televisedaddresson thesubjectofaStrategicDefenseInitiative(SDI),I hadbeentheinitialspokesman,overtheinterval191983andbeyond,forwhatPresidentReaganhadcome to adopt as the name for the SDI. Leading circles fromaroundtheworld,includingrelevantSovietfigures,hadbeenengagedindiscussionsoftheprospectof installationofthisprogramuntilthetimetherecently installed,British-linked,SovietleaderYuriAndropov reacted,suddenly,andwithaparticularpersonalviolence,againstPresidentRonaldReaganspublic,televisedproffer. Asitturnedoutasaclearlylawfulirony,therejectionoftheSDI,firstbyAndropov,andthenbythose circlesofMichaelGorbachovwhichutteredmurderous threatsagainstmepersonallyoverthisissue,wasthe crucialfactorinhistorywhichassuredthedoomofthe Soviet system as such. It was that rejection of SDI whichplayedacrucialrole,asifasadynasticalsortof suicidalimpulse,inbringingdowntheSovietsystem. TheSovietrejectionoftheSDIwasnotmerelya mistake,butatrulytragicpieceofhistoricfollywhich hascontinuedtocursemuchofourplanet,Russiamost notably,tothepresentmoment. Thecrucialpartoftheironyofthatsituation,isthat theissueofthepost-WorldWarIIdecades,wasnever reallytheSovietUnionassuch.Theissuewasthen,as stilltoday,theimportance,soughtonbehalfofthestill verymuchreal,ifbatteredandtatteredBritishempire,
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of the still-in-progress, intended, British-orchestrated eliminationofanysemblanceoftheglobalculturaland strategicallyphysical-economicfactorofRussiafrom theglobalstrategicequation.1 TheprincipaltargetoftheBritishroleinthisaffair, wastheintentofBritainstraditionalpuppets,theWall Streetgang,toplaythesituationbetweentheU.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. asWinston Churchill and Bertrand RussellhaddoneduringtheclosingmonthsofWorld

The universe, including the forms of life, is not a collection of objects, but represents the subsumed expressions of a coherently unified, universally cosmic process of an unfolding principle of creation.

WarIIandbeyond.Russellsrole,in,first,declaringa preventive nuclear war against the Soviet Union, in September196,and,thereafterplayinganotexactly secret British intelligence penetration of the Soviet leading circles as through the Austria-based IIASA (theClubofRomeandBertrandRussell-linkedInternationalInstituteforAppliedSystemsAnalysis),had, earlier, orchestrated peripheral conflicts such as the U.S.Indo-ChinawarandtheBritishSaudichannels role in the Soviet entrapment in Afghanistan, as a persisting back-and-forth game, which, by sinking the Soviet system, eliminated much of the importanceoftheUnitedStatesintheBritishgreatimperialgame. IwasalreadyintheBritishintelligencecrosshairs onthisaccount,duringthisandlatertimes,targettedon accountofthecontinuingeffectsoftheSDI,duringthe 1980s, until, by 198, when the British interests and theirU.S.assetssimplytiredofplayingthegame,and optedtohavemesummarilyjugged. Thedeeperimplicationsofallthis,runasfollows. Theconsiderationran,asitdoesstilltoday;there
1. ThereweresaneandinfluencialfiguresintheBritishsystemwho didsupporttheSDI.SuchcirclestendedtofitintoacertainEuropean viewtypifiedbytheGaullistsandthecircleswhichhadbeenassociated withKonradAdenauer,whosharedFifthRepublicPresidentCharlesde GaullesexpressionofaEuropefromtheAtlantictotheUrals,asI did.Theruinofapost-SovietRussiawasaccomplishedchieflywithin theembraceofRussiasassetsbytheBritishempire.

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should be no doubt of that fact amongthoseleadingworldcircles whicharepresentlyundertheconditionsofimminentgeneralbreakdown of the so-called Euro system.Thecontinuedexistence ofthatBritishEmpire,stilltoday, dependsupontheabilityofLondon todestroyallpotentialobstaclesto consolidating the present Roman Empires (the British empires) momentarily, still incontestible, butpresentlymostuncertaincontrolovertheplanetasawhole. ForaslongastheUnitedStates andRussiaremainedapairofponderable, still somewhat independentstrategicfactorsinthecompositionofthegovernmentofthe planet as a whole, the British empire was not secured. Without such a degree of qualified indeNational Archives/U.S. Navy pendence of Russia, China and From the British royal familys ouster of Bismarck in 1890, through the BritishIndia, the world would also be orchestrated Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 (shown here), the British Empire has continued to be the New Venetian Party of William of Orange and his greatly vulnerable to being con- successors. trolled by the global embrace of theempireontheplanetatlarge. The destruction of both the U.S.A. and Russia, have baseatPearlHarbor.TheBritishEmpireoftodayhas been the leading objectives of the Fourth Roman continuedtobe,insummation,theBritishNewVenetian Party ofWilliam of Orange and his successors, Empire,thatwhichmustbeidentified,mostemphatically, as nothing but the British empire. The special andthebeareroftheplanetary,imperialstrategicdoctrineoftheTwentiethandnowtheTwenty-FirstCenpassionofthatEmpireonthataccounthasbeenimplicationsofthecombinationoftheU.S.establishmentof tury. Thatimperialstrategicintentionisnotinherentbioitstrans-continentalrailwaysystemascombinedwith theadoptionofthesameeconomicpolicybyBismarcks logicallyintheUnitedKingdomitself,butinthatlegacy whichtheNewVenetianPartysWilliamofOrangecarGermanyandRussia. ried, as Jean-Baptiste Colbert understood, and ChanWhen the British Empire Took Over cellorBismarckdidlater,asthiswastoremainofconTounderstandtheBritishimperialistrolesincethe cernthroughtheso-calledDutchWars,intotheintended closeof theNineteenth Century,turn attentionto the destructionofaFranceunderafoolishLouisXIV,and, Bismarckcase. thence,intothecaptureoftheBritishIsles,byWilliam TheresultofBritishpolicysincethen,featuredthe ofOrange,fortheroleofamaritimebasefortheglobal successionofeventsrepresentedbytheBritishRoyal establishmentoftheFourthstageoftheRomanEmpire, FamilysousterofGermanysChancellorBismarck,as theso-calledworld-wideBritishEmpire. followedbytheallianceofBritainandJapanforwarTheevilinstinctofthatBritishEmpire,isnotanexfareintendedtodestroyChina,Korea,andRussia,and, pressionofthepeopleofthatvirtualimperialbath-tub since the early 1920s, the U.S.A. through aid of the toyknownastheUnitedKingdomitself;itistheexPrince ofWales influence on Japan which prompted pressionofthelustinherentintheNew-Venetianmode the joint intention for the attack on the U.S.A. naval of imperial monetarist, maritime system which pres28 Feature EIR April1,2011

ently dominates the world through, chiefly, that empirescontroloverthecrucialfactorofWallStreet and, incidentally, a virtually drooling (intellectually) British puppet, and plausibly mentally incompetent (underSectionofthe2thAmendmenttotheConstitution) and childish basketball fanatic, known otherwise, for the moment, as U.S. President Barack Obama. Actually, the root of the British Empire must be tracedbyhistorianstoatimenolaterthanthesuccessionofthoseancientfolliesofMediterraneanmaritime cultureknownastheTrojanandPeloponnesianwars. Thekeytothemysterysurroundingthosewarswas,as thegreatAeschylus,and,later,Plato,madesufficiently clear to the actually sentient, the ancient monetarist maritimecultofDelphi. What is most essential to be understood about all this,especiallyfromthestandpointofcurrenthistory,is thattheprincipleofmonetarismis,inandofitself,the principleofimperialism.Asthehistoryoffoursuccessive,principalphasesoftheRomanEmpireshows,asit isnowculminatingintheBritishexpressionoftheNew Venetian Partys flag carried into the British Isles by William of Orange, is that the essential principle of empireisnotcoloniesassuch,butamonetaristsystem towhichnationsandpeoplesremaincaptivesofmonetarismassuch.Britaindoesnotcontroltheempire;the Britishmonarchyitself,sincethefollyofHenryVIII, hasremainedthecaptiveofwhathaslatelybecomethe currentneo-Venetianincarnationofapresentlyreigning,world-wide,monetaristsystemper se.

The Option: Cusas Revolution

AllthatwhichIhavesaidonthesubjectofthesuccessivephasesoftheexistenceoftheRomanempire, requiresustopauseatthispointtotakeintoaccounta crucialphase-changeinthesuccessionofformsofthat empirewhichemergedaroundtheFourteenth-century processleadingintotheA.D.138-0greatecumenicalCouncilofFlorence,andintotheroleoftheCardinalNicholasofCusawhowasaleadingfounderofall competentformsofmodernscienceandtheprompter ofthepolicyoftrans-oceanicsettlementsexpressedby the Cusa-inspired, A.D. 180-192 commitment of ChristopherColumbustocrosstheAtlantictotheland heknewhewouldfind,ashedidinatimelyfashion,on theotherside. Briefly, Cusas expressed intention in proposing suchastrategicaction,wasbaseduponhisjudgment
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thatwhathadbeentheexcellentintentionoftheFlorentineRenaissance,wasnowimperilledbythefactofthat Venetianmaritimepowerthenscramblingtore-establishthatformerimperialmaritimeauthoritywhichthe VenetianmonetaristshadearliergainedovertheByzantineEmpiresinceaboutthesametimeleadinginto theNormanconquestofEngland.Cusasinstructionto hisheirs,wastocrossthegreatoceanstoestablisha basefromwhichtotakeEuropebackfromthefangsof therevivingVenetianmonetaristsystem.Assubsequent history to date has shown, Cusas motive is still the properintentionofasanestateofEuropetoday.16 Unfortunately,suchmattersasthefolliesofFrances LouisXIVinthematterofthesameDutchtrapassociatedwiththefigureofReneDescartes,andtheroleof William of Oranges conquest of the British Isles on behalf of the New Venetian Party, had led into the Anglo-HabsburgallianceforthatdestructionofFrance, a New Venetian Party which consolidated its New- Venetian,monetaristformofimperialpowerthroughout most of Europe up through a crucial point about A.D.181andbeyond. OvertheintervalsincethatViennaCongresswhich was dominated by the arrangement of Britains CastlereaghandPrinceMetternich,untilthedefeatofthat BritishEmpire-controlledslaveryanddrugtrafficking, asbywayoftheQueenofSpain,throughthesetbackto the British Foreign Offices puppet the Confederacy, RussiawasusuallytheprincipalfriendoftheUnited States. This U.S.A. victory over the British puppet knownastheConfederacy,hadledintotheemergence ofaGermanyledbythegeniusofChancellorBismarck as the architect of a Germany whose economy was
16. Itmustbeemphasizedasarelevanthistoricalfact,thatwiththe declineofthefirstRomanEmpirebasedinRomeitself,thewealthyand powerfulfamiliesoftheempiremovedfortheprotectionoftheirremainingill-gottenwealthintotheswamp-likeregionsoftheNorthern Adriatic, where, at a later time, they secured a certain independence fromtheEuropeanimperialsystemofthattime,toemerge,inthecourse oftheapproachtotheNormanConquestofEngland,asthecenterofthe monetarist interest controlling the Crusades and related matters, up throughtheFourteenth-centuryNewDarkAge.TheVenetianinterests takingcontroloverHenryVIII,unleashedthehotphaseofthe192168rampageofreligiouswarfarewhichcontinueduntiltheTreatyof Westphalia.ThecaptureoftheBritishmonarchybytheVenetiancircles associatedwithFrancescoZorziscontroloverthemindandmarriages ofHenryVIII,setintomotiontheugliestphasesofthereligiouswarfare ofthe192-168interval,leadingintotheseizureofthetotalVenetian monetaristcontrolovertheBritishsystembytheNewVenetianPartys roleinboththeDutchwarsagainstFrancesLouisXIVandthetakeover oftheEnglishmonarchybyWilliamofOrange.

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greatly enhanced by Bismarcks explicit adoption of theAmericanSystemofpolitical-economy. The consequent convergence of Germany and Russia on adoption of the American model, from aboutthetimeof186PhiladelphiaCentennial,until the1890ousterofBismarckbytheBritishmonarchy, wasthegreatestthreattotheworldpoweroftheBritish empireuntilthelateraccessionofU.S.PresidentFranklinD.Roosevelt.TheintendeddestructionofbothGermanyandRussia,andcorruption,andultimatedestructionoftheUnitedStates,wasthespecificintentionof theBritishmonarchyanditsempire,aBritishmonarchytobedefinedasdescendedfromCaesarAugustus throughtheRoman,Byzantineempires,andtheCrusades, into the modern British empire defined by the methods and intentions of William of Orange and beyondthereignofPrinceAlbert(EdwardVII),ascontinueduptothepresentdate. The scientifically precise definition of that fourphasedsagaoftheempire,fromRomethroughByzantium,throughtheoldVenetiansystem,and,presently, theNewVenetianPartysAnglo-Dutchsystemknown astheBritishEmpire,isthatofanimperialmonetarist system,asopposedtothecustomary,foolishlynaive referencestoaBritishempireofcoloniesassuch.It isempireinitsbodyincorporatingthesubjectsofthe monetaristsystemasbeingmerelysubordinatedparts oftheimperialformofmonetaristpoweroverinternational finance and trade, nominally centered in the personoftheBritishmonarch,justasQueenElizabeth IIhasemphasizedthatpointinreferencestoaBritish Commonwealth, and as the present Euro system avowssuchaspecificimperialpoweroverthenations ofEuropetoday. Thus,thepresentBritishimperialintentionistoestablishtheexistenceofaneconomicpactrespectinga present world monetarist system in its presently advanced state, as directly absorbing the United States itselfintoavirtualmereWallStreet-centeredsatrapy ofareigningimperialBritishpower.Thatis,essentially, wheremattersstandpresently.

progressively increased levels of what is considered, generically, as qualities of nuclear and thermonuclearpowerorderedaccordingtotherelevant,required qualitativeincreasesinemployedenergy-fluxdensity. Thismeanspowerasdefinedintermsofreferenceto powermeasuredintermsofacceleratingrisesinwhat is termed energy-flux density: this means power measuredroughlyintermsofconcentrationofpower persquarecentimetercross-sectionofflowintoitsapplication. Torestatethepoint,thatmeansthattodaysstandard forcivilizationisthedominationofeconomiesbyincreasingrelianceonthemovementofstandardprimary sources of power associated with the transition from nuclear-fission, through thermonuclear fusion, and beyond. Thepointisillustrated,mostdramatically,andalso mostappropriately,bycomparingthepitiableconcentrations of power represented by nuclear-fission with theburstsofSolarradiationwhichwereresponsiblefor themostrecentcrisisinthePacificbasin.Thesecurity of mankind itself demands nothing less than such an activeintentionasanobjectiveofmankindspolicy,beginningnow.Doesthismeanthatwemustbededicated towieldingsuchpoweraccordingtoourhumanwill? Preciselyso;itwillrequireabitoftimetoreachsucha goal,butwemustbealreadyintheprocessofreaching it.Ifwearetrulysane,wearenotdedicatedtoanything less.

III. The System of Physical Economy

Theattempttoplacetheemphasisofscienceonthe worshipofmathematicswhenaddressingtheprinciples of economy, or any other branch of modern science, presentsuswithamatterwhichiscomparabletothe caseofthepost-holediggerwhobeginsandcloseshis dailyroutinewithaperiodofreligiousworshipofthe imageofhisspade.Itweresufficientfortoday,todemonstratethatthataphorismwhichIhaveusedtobegin thischapter,hasbeensaidbymehereonbehalfofthe intenttodefendthefruitsoftheactuallybeneficialuse of mathematics, but condemn the silliness of a blind worshipofthatsubject.Thatproofofthatdistinction canbeshownwithsufficientrelevancebypointingto themostessentialinterdependenceofthetruthfulness shared among the principal discoveries of Bernhard
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On the Subject of Energy-Flux Density

ThepresentlyurgenttaskbeforeourUnitedStates, isdefinedbytheindispensablemission-orientationof launching a general economic recovery of a largely wreckedandruinedUnitedStates.Sucharecoverycan occur only through a great leap upward, toward the generalapplicationofthemeansofnothinglessthan
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The concepts presented by Riemann in his 1854 habilitation dissertation were not new for modern science, in and of themselves. Brunelleschi (above) had demonstrated this in his treatment of the catenary as a physical principle of his construction of the cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore (right).

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RiemannandV.I.Vernadsky.Thoseconsiderationsare typicaloftheessentialfoundationsofanyactualscienceofphysicaleconomy. TakethecaseofCarlF.Gausssevasionofanyendorsementoftheclaimstoinventionofanon-EuclideangeometrybyhisoldfriendssonJanosBolyai,or GaussrelatedavoidanceofsimilarclaimsbyN.Lobatchevski. Then, turn to the opening paragraphs of Bernhard Riemanns 18 habilitation dissertation, where Gauss rejection of the so-called non-Euclideangeometriesofhistime,wasmadeclear:theerror of a formal mathematics without substance, which is madeclearinRiemanns18dissertation. Forexample,fromthedepartmentofwit: Question:Whyisitdifficulttoorganizethefuneral ofamathematician? Answer:Itisdifficulttofindtheactualbody. Suchquipswouldbeanotherwayofstatingthetruth whichIhaveidentifiedaboveastheargumentwhich BernhardRiemannpresentedintheopeningthreeparaApril1,2011 EIR

graphsofhis18habilitationdissertation.Thenotion ofamathematicswhichprecedesphysics,isanintrinsic folly,preciselyasRiemannstatesintheopening,and restateswithgreatforceinthethirdsectionofthatdissertation. ThosenotionspresentedbyRiemannwerenotactuallynewformodernscienceinandofthemselves. Brunelleschihaddemonstratedthisinhistreatmentof thecatenaryasaphysicalprincipleofhisconstructionofthecupolaofSantaMariadelFiore.Cusahad shownthisfactwithgreatforceinhisDe Docta Ignorantia,ashadCusasavowedfollowerssuchasLeonardo da Vinci and Johannes Kepler. The same was presentedwithgreatforcebyLeibnizincollaboration withJeanBernouilli.TheageofNapoleonandwhat immediatelyfollowedthe181proceedingsofVienna underthedirectionofsuchasPrinceMetternichand his British accomplices, had been a dark age in the history of science and other greatly important matters, despite the witty expression of genius by the
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youngBritishCambridgescholars,CharlesBabbage, JohnHerschel,andGeorgePeacock.1 Considerthefollowingrealities. Europeanculturetodayischieflycrippledinquality,byitspracticedignoranceofthenatureoftheproof ofthepointwhichIhavejustmade,thus,inopening thispresentchapterofthisreport.Themostappropriate whippingboystobeusedforthisoccasion,arethe reprobatesAristotleandPaoloSarpi. AsIhavequoted,above,intheprecedingchapter, fromamongthethreeopeningparagraphsofRiemanns habilitationdissertation: FromEuclidtoLegendre...thisdarknesshas notbeenlifted,neitherbythemathematicians, norbythephilosopherswhohavelaboredupon it.Thereasonsforthislay,perhaps,inthefact, thatthegeneralconceptmultiplyextendedmagnitudes, in which spatial magnitudes are comprehended,hasnotbeenelaboratedatall...by them.18 Thissamedifficultyofthosewhowerestillmerely mathematicianstoday,didnot,ofcourse,existforsuch exemplarsasPlato,norforthosemodernphysicalscientistsinthefootstepsofNicholasofCusa,including thoseamongthecategoryinclusiveofsuchfollowersof Cusa in physical science as Leonardo da Vinci, JohannesKepler,andGottfriedLeibniz. Thereisareason,ifnotanactuallygoodone,forthe persistence of what Riemann references, above, as darkness,stilltoday. Thatmuchsaid,Idevotethepresentchapterofthis report to the subject of that difference. That subject shouldbepresented,underthetitleoftheontological distinction of ideas subsumed by a literal reading of sense-perception as such, as they must be examined
1. Cf.DavidBrewster,onCharlesBabbagesReflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes,1830.Babbage,amonghisotheracclaimasaaleadingfigureinEuropeanscience amongthecirclesofAlexandervonHumboldtduringtheirlife-times, wastheinventoroftheprincipleofmechanicaldesignforthemodelof theDifferenceEnginewhichprovidedthedesignforfirstTwentieth Centurydevelopmentofthemoderndigitalcomputerlater.Thedesign wasfine;themachine-tooltechnologiesoftheperiodwereunableto liveuptothemachine-toolrequirementsneededbytheformaldesign. 18. Byspatialmagnitudes,Iincludewhatsomewouldfailtorecognizeasbeingwithinthedomainofuniversalcosmicradiation.Seethis shortlybelow.Thequotationhereis,again,fromthereferencedEnglish translation.

withrespecttothedistinctlycontrastingstandpointsof physicalprinciplesandmeresense-perceptions.Iemphasize reliance on the knowledge associated with those underlying functions of the actually creative powersofthehumanmindwhichhavebeen,andremain commontobothgreatartisticcompositionsintheClassical modes, and to the actually underlying subjectmatteroftheimaginationwhichisthelocationofatrue physical science. I include some needed attention to certain mental disorders which are notable for their damagingeffectsonthementalprocesses,asthespecifically relevant subjects of Adam Smith and Karl Marxserveasexamplesofthatproblem. That is the point of the difference between mere senseperception,ontheoneside,and,ontheother, thosepowersoftheactualhumanmindwhoseexpressioncannotbereducedtothebarefunctionsofmere sense-perceptionassuch.Betweenthosetwoopposing opinions,thereisthematteroflocatingadefiningdifferencewhichisrepresentative,infact,ofeverything worthknowing. Toplacethestandpointofreferencefortheimmediately preceding, introductory remarks within this presentchapterofmyreport,Ipointtotherecentemphasis which my collaborators in these matters have placed on denying the existence of an actually open space, that we might acknowledge that, in effect, no knownformofemptyspaceactuallyexists.Wemust insistthat,rather,whatnaivesense-perceptionwould wishtoteaseusintobelievingisspaceassuch,is actuallyfilledupasbeing,actually,richlydensewith what, are more or less, extremely efficient forms of cosmicradiation. Forthoseamongusengagedinthispresentdiscussion,therefore,theactuallyerrantideasoftheexistence ofemptyspace,areproductsofaninherentlydefective,but,unfortunatelyprevalentsetofthenotionsof functionallimitationsofthedomainofideas,erroneous limitationswhicharetypifiedbytheerrant,a-priorist notion of sense-perceptual experience. Thus, an alert scientificworkermustbebroughttotheconclusionthat sense-perception is merely sense-perception, and, therefore,atbest,asomewhatinformativehypothesis, and often undeniably useful shadow of reality, but, nonetheless,verymuchamereshadow,onewhichisto berecognizedbyusasvirtuallyamereshadowwhich therealuniverse(sotospeak)castsuponourpowersof sense-perceptionassuch. Ths consideration signifies, that any more or less
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successfulattempttofindcomparisonsforrealityinthe shadow-worldofsense-perception,presentsuswithan entirely different notion of the ordering of causality thandoesarealuniversewhoseimageisdegradedby mereopinionintosomethingwhichhadbeencastinthe form of a shadow-world experience of sense-perception. That,however,isnotthelimitofthedifferences. Looktothesubject-matterofthefirstsectionofRiemanns 18 habilitation dissertation, where the subjectoftheissuesofthecontrastbetweenmeresenseperception and physically efficient reality, is located. Suddenly,later,intheclosingpagesofRiemannsdissertation, in the third section, the naive notion of a sense-perceptualuniverse,whichRiemannhadimplicitlydeploredintheopeningofhisdissertation,disintegrates. In that dissertations third section, the case is presented, that the introduction of instruments which arecraftedtoshowpatternsofprincipledformsofbehaviorwithintheextremelylargeorextremelysmall, aretransformedintopartsofalargerframeworkthan ourpowerofsense-perceptionprovides,aframework whichincludesthelikenessofentirelydifferentphysically-efficient universes than do the five senses of a mereAristotle.Thegeneralfactofsuchadifference, hasalreadybeensettledinexperimentalfact,through theworkofexperimentalphysicalscience,especially thatofsuchworksincethetimeofRiemannandDirichlet,whichincludesbothwhatis,variously,rightly,or mistakenly,treatedasaviewsponsoredbythesundry notions of the proper actually physical meaning of Abelianfunctions. Numerous among the relevant modern scientists, havemadeessentialcontributionstoageneralconceptionofphysicalfunctionsonthis,orkindredaccount,as opposedtotherelativelycrudeontologicalmisconceptionsofamerelymathematicaldomainsuchasthoseof Aristotle, or of the modern empiricists. The relevant best efforts of modern science on this account, have beeninthedirectiontakensincethecrucialcontributions by Nicholas of Cusa and his followers, and, beyondthat,thecontinuationofthatwhichhasledfrom LeibnizintoRiemann,asfollows. While the general idea of an actually physical domainwasdevelopedbysuchasRiemannandhisimmediatefollowersinthedomainofphysicsassuch,the fact is, as the case of Riemann illustrates this point, thatthereisanadditional,ontologicalchallengeposed mostforcefullyintheconcluding,thirdsectionofRieApril1,2011 EIR

manns habilitation dissertation, a challenge which wasobligedtowaitfortheworkofAcademicianV.I. Vernadskyslaterworksinthefieldofthediscoveryof therespectivelyRiemannianfunctionsofthedomains of the Lithosphere, Biosphere, and Nosphere. It is there,atthelatterpointofdevelopmentsintheprogressofscience,thatthemostcrucialaspectsofatrue physicalscienceofeconomyhavebecomeasystematicalformofprospectivegeneralreplacementforthe formerlyleadingpracticeofsystemicincompetencies inwhatisclassedasthesubjectofeconomicssofar today.19 Oncewehavetakenintoaccountthesystemicerrors generatedbybeliefintheprimacyofthepresumedactuality of sense-perception as such, our notion of the existinguniverseistransformed,andupliftedontologically. That urgently needed transformation occurs throughaidoftheproofsimplicitintherecognitionthat theauthorityofsense-perceptualexperiencesislimited tothedomainofmereshadowscastbyreality,thatof sense-perception,ratherthanrealityitself. At this point, it is more or less urgent, in todays world,thatnocompetentpracticeofsciencecanbedefinedinusebymerelycollatingsense-perceptualexperiences,orthelike.Principlesdonotexistintheformof sense-perceptionsassuch,butintheadducedprinciples whicharenot,ontologically,sense-perceptionsthemselves,butexpresstheexistenceofthatproverbialinvisible foot which had left its prints behind in the courseofitspassing. Thatissuehadbecomemylifesworkinchief,and hasservedasthefoundationofmyownoriginaldiscoveriesofprinciplesinthedomainofascienceofphysical economy.Ididnotbeginthatjourneywithsuchanintention,but,asitwasanotionwhichnaggedmefrom theproverbialbeginningofmyattentiontotheideaof economyandproductionassuch,sincemanydecades ago,and,isnowtheresultfortoday.Asissometimes said,itworkedoutthatway. It is only to the degree that we put these topical issueswhichIhave,thus,justreferenced,intoappropriateperspective,asascienceofphysicaleconomy,that wetouchuponthedeep,prospectiveimplicationsofthe universaldomainofRiemann-Vernadsky. First,wemustputthematterofcustomarypractices ofcontemporaryeconomicdogmatooneside.
19. Itistobeemphasized,thatthebestamongoureconomistsarefar betterthanwhatistobeattributedtomostoftheirprofession.

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Inenteringintothedomainofsundryviewsrespectingtheappropriatedefinitionofthetermeconomy, weareconfronted,widely,aroundtheworldtoday,by what is in fact the delusion of the range of doctrines whichtracethenotionofeconomytoafanciedrootmisconception attributable to the names ofAristotle, Sarpi/AdamSmith,andthelike.Amongthemorenotable features of the history of that fourth Roman EmpireestablishedinGreatBritainundersuchasLord Shelburne, we have, still today, that lingering aftereffectofthelegacyofthewretchedAdamSmithwhich istobeseenbySmithsmostimpassionedadmirerrespectingthefieldofpolitical-economy,KarlMarx. Thereis,asyouwillreadinsomeoftheimmediatelyfollowingpageshere,arequiredconsiderationof thespecialkindofstrategicroleassignedtoKarlMarx bytheBritishEmpirewhich,infact,ownedhim.Withoutthoseconsiderationswhicharenowsummarizedas muchasitisconvenienttodosointheseveralimmediately following pages, the strongest influences which haveshapedtheworldseconomyfromthetimeofaccessionofWilliamofOrangetothepresent,couldnot becompetentlyappreciated. Officially,intheterritoryoftheformerSovietUnion, for which the legacy of Marxs dogma was once the domainforaputativelyreigningauthorityofintellectual life, Marx today has descended to the sorry status of being,largely,anembarrassingrelicoftimespast.The footprintswhichhisnamehasleftbehindtoday,remain asapoorlydisguisedimprintofthatwhichremainsasa kindofnuisanceforsundryvarietiesofcontemporary leadingopinionthroughoutmuchoftheworld. For many among us who have meddled seriously withwhathasbeencalledMarxism,asIhaddone,the contentions among nominally pro-Marxian and antiMarxianprofessions,wereoftenrelevant,evenwhenerroneous;thatwasthecaseoverthedurationofsomethingwhichwas,debatably,morethanaboutacentury. Thisheldupforatime,tothedegreethatthesesundry varietiesofprofessions,nominallypro,ornominally con,werereal-life,virtuallylife-deathissuesinthose times,issueswhoserealityassuch,asissues,cannotbe mockedevenatthedistanceofyesterdays.Thefactthat acertainbeliefpersistsinpersuadingasizablecurrentof opinion,letthefoundationofthatbeliefbediscoveredto havebeeneversofoolishinfact,thebeliefcanneverbe competentlyoverlookedentirelyforaslongitexertsa gripontheminds,andthepastshapingofthepresent
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Adam Smith asserted that the human individual was incapable of discovery of truth, but, rather, was limited to the choice between pleasure or pain. From his 1759 Theoryofthe MoralSentiments:

. . .the love of pleasure and the dread of pain, prompt us to apply those means for their own sakes, and without any consideration of their tendency to those beneficent ends which the great Director of nature intended to produce by them. . . .
behaviorofinfluentialbodiesofbelievers.Afterall,the opponentsofMarxhaveremainedmoreorlessfanatical followersoftheself-sameAdamSmith,too. TheMarxianworld-outlookitselfwasafalseview ofscientificrealities,butitwasahighlyefficientpoliticalandsocialinfluencein,mostemphatically,Twentieth Century political history. It remained, chiefly for reasonofthepromotionofitsusebytheBritishempire, averyrealfactorinthehistoryfromearlyinthe1890s untilthefalloftheSovietUnion,apointofdistinction whichbothmodernMarxistsandthemostimpassioned anti-Marxists never really understood. If you did not understand it, and were not able to identity its argument, you were not competent in the leading world wideissuesassociatedwithpolitical-economyduring the span of more than a century. The fights, for, or againstthenominalMarxistcauses,andamongthem, were,inaverylargedegree,amatterofachoiceofflag adoptedby,ormerelyattributedtoglobalforceswhich had practical influence among variously associated statesofbeliefwithinsocietyduringthattime.20
20. KarlMarxwasrecruitedbyBritishintelligenceintotheBritishintelligenceservicesunderthesupervisionofthevastbureaucracyunder theLordPalmerstonwhowasthechosensuccessortoJeremyBentham inthatBritishForeignOfficewhichhadbeenfoundedin182underthe directionofLordShelburne.MarxsentryintotheBritishForeignOffices intelligence operations, was launched under the supervision of David Urquhart, a senior British foreign intelligence operative then actinginthecapacityofcoordinatorforcorrespondencefortheForeign OfficesMazzinioperations.Duringthattime,Urquhartheadedupthe British Museum for the direction of the correspondence of British

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Itseemstobeonlyadimlyrememberedyesterday, whenthatissueofMarxonceflourishedinmostof theworldatlarge,especiallyinthetrans-Atlanticworld. Yet,evenatagrammariansfuneralforMarxism,the way in which the fourth Roman Empire, remains todayastheBritishempirelaunchedundertheflagof TheNewVenetianPartyofWilliamofOrange,had permittedacrucialroleforMarxismusedbythehands ofthemastersoftheBritishempireitself.There,inthat pasthistory,thepresentlyshadowyremainsoftheremembranceofMarx,togetherwiththemeremythof MarxsallegedhostilitytothecauseofBritishimperialism,andtoRussiaaboveallothers,remainasavery much active influence in the way in which even the presentlycollapsingBritishempireexerts,stillnow,a verylargeideologicalandpracticalpoliticalinfluence overthefateofhumanityasawhole. Marxwas,infact,acreationoftheintelligenceservicesofthatBritishempirewhichhadbeenspawnedby theNewVenetianPartyofWilliamofOrange,thelatter apersonwhoisultimatelyafigureinthelikeness,like manyothersinEnglishhistory,ofthatinfamousVenetianagentinHenryVIIIsretinue,ThomasCromwell. Actually, Marx himself was always, as Marx insistedonthispointinhisownfashion,devotedtothe notionofclassstruggle,anotionwhich,despiteits plausibilityonsundryaccounts,servedtheBritishimintelligencesagentGiuseppeMazzini,aMazziniwho,inturn,continuedtocontrolMarxashisagentforallrelevanttimesduringtheadult politicalcareerofKarlMarxhimself,untilthefiascooftheParisCommune.PalmerstonagentMazziniwasthenthedesignatedheadforBritish intelligence of the Young Europe operation, and, also, of the YoungAmericaoperationwhichservedastheBritishkeystoneorganizationfororganizingthetreasonousoperationknownastheConfederateStatesofAmerica.However,despiteallthat,thecredulouslyimpassioned Marx had rejected the forewarnings to him from Heinrich Heine;thus,MarxbecameadevoteeoftheworkofthatAdamSmithto whoseworkMarxlateravowedhimselftobetotallydevoted.Marx, nonetheless,convincedhimselfthathewastheavowedenemyofhis actualmasterofthattime,thesameLordPalmerstonwhocommanded Britishintelligenceoperationsinthattime,andtheactualownerofwhat wastobecometheslave-holdersConfederacy,andwhoactuallyowned MarxforallofMarxscareeruptothematteroftheParisCommune, afterwhichBritishagent,andformerMarxcontrollerFrederickEngels dumpedMarx(virtually),butlaterassumedtheroleofofficialheirof MarxonbehalfoftheBritishForeignOfficesrashofschemesleading intothepost-1890runuptoWorldWarI.Meanwhile,Marxhimselfwas appointedthechief,forBritishintelligence,ofwhatwouldbecomelater knownasTheFirstInternationalwhichMarxhadbeendesignatedto headduringapublicmeetinginLondon,thenandthereunderthepersonalpatronage,onthescene,ofGiuseppeMazzini.Sucharethehabits ofempires.

perialinterestasacustomarymaskforthefoolishideas ofLordShelburnesverydirtyandferallittlespy,Adam Smith.AstheVenetiansandthemorewittingrepresentatives of the British monarchy have understood, to holdakingdom,orestablishandmaintainanempire,it isessentialtodivideonesownforces,chiefly,among nolessthantwo,ostensiblychronicallywarringparties, thustocatch,andprobablycrushtheunwittingdupes, betweenthefissuresofthearguments.Howcouldan ambitioustyrantcreateanempire,exceptbyinducing hisdupestomakewaramongthemselves? The so-called Marxist movement, as it actually existedasamovementafterMarxsowndeclineinto obscurityandinterment,wasconcoctedbytheBritish agentFrederickEngels,whohaddevotedthelatterdecades of his life to creating a putatively living, posthumousKarlMarxoutofanalreadydeadone.Engels emergedinthelatteryearsofhisownlifeasanemblematicfigureoftheBritishFabianSociety,asinhis actual,personalroleinlaunchingthecareerintheBritish intelligence services of the British weapons-traffickerAlexanderHelphand,whoisotherwiseknownas Parvus.Theoccasionforthesegeopoliticaldevelopmentswhichweremerelybeingbroughttothesurfacealreadyduringtheearly1890s,wassymptomatic of the earlier British intentions for launching what became, among others, more or less notable horrors, suchasthetwoso-calledWorldWarsoftheTwentiethCentury. Itistrue,ofcourse,thatthetroubleswhichtheBritishempirestirreduptoitsownintendedadvantage,and still does today, seldom worked out as originally designed;but,donotallowyourselftooverlookthefact, thattheBritishwillingnesstoexperienceachaoticchallengetoitsownschemes,usuallywonthecauseforthe Empireitself.Makethebestofabaddefeatortwo,as WinstonChurchilldidduringandfollowingWorldWar II,andturnitintotheworstoutcomeforthecredulous intendedvictims.Nietzschesfollowerscallthistactic creativedestruction.Twoso-calledWorldWarsof theTwentiethCentury,areprimeexamplesofthispatternintheimperialisttradition. Suchtricksoftenworkedonsomeselectedvictimof theapplicationofacertainBritishimperialstyle,ina fashionakintothatofthecelebratedcaseoftheMalaysianmonkey. Putatemptingnutwithinajar,suchthatthemonkey couldnotsimultaneouslyretrievethenutwithhispaw, andalsofreehisthus-burdenedhandfromthemouthof
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thejar.TakethecaseoftheBritish useoftheoccasionofthesuccessfulassassinationofU.S.President JohnF.Kennedy,toluretheUnited StatesintotheIndo-Chinawarfare which Kennedy, like General DouglasMacArthur,hadbeenresolutely determined to avoid. The assassination of President Kennedysolvedtheproblem;Kennedy was assassinated, with the result thattheBritishsucceededinluring theU.S.A.intoseizingthefoolish nut,andtheU.S.government,like the virtual Malaysian monkey it turnedouttobe,wouldnotgiveup thenut;theBritishfarmersfamily Although at several points in his later career, Karl Marx (right) showed some atemonkeythatnight.Then,there appreciation for the cause of President Abraham Lincoln, and Henry C. Careys American System economics, Marxs controller, Friedrich Engels, always succeeded in were wars which the British and edging Marx away from such tendencies. theirAmerican stooges fought in Iraq,and,presently,intheBritish opium-farmcalledAfghanistan,allunderthespecific itsallies,chieflyFrance,intheBattleofYorktown. protection of the opium business there by Britains It was the same Lord Shelburne who had created puppet,U.S.PresidentBarackObama. Adam Smith out of some unworthy substance, circa ThecaseofKarlMarxandwhathadbeenBritish 163,whoseuniqueroleinthecreationoftheBritish sundrycaptive,orspeciallycreatedMarxists,asinthe ForeignOffice,setintomotiontheprocessintendedto caseoftheBertrandRussell-linkedsettingofIIASAs bring about the destruction of not only the newborn aping of Russells Cambridge systems-analysis hoax, UnitedStates,butalloftheU.S.A.salliesandthose stilltoday,isanothercaseofthemodeloftheMalayotherwisedeemedaccomplicesintheU.S.victoryover sian monkey-trap into which many former Marxists, Lord Cornwalliss forces. The 182 founding of the with or without former Soviet credentials, were capBritishForeignOffice,andthetypificationofthenottive,andsomestillare. so-secretagentsofthatinstitutionasbythesuccessive rolesofJeremyBenthamandLordPalmerstoninrunThe Strategic Significance of Marx ning the intelligence and related operations of that SincetheroleoftheNewVenetianPartysWilliam Office, became the springboard for the still presently ofOrange,andthelattersroleintheorchestrationof continuedBritishimperialeffortsfordestroyingeach both the so-called Dutch Wars against France under andeverynationwhichhadresistedBritainsroleasa LouisXIV,andthecrushingofthecharterofwhathad new,FourthRomanEmpireprojectedaccordingtothe beentheMassachusettsBayColony,thefutureUnited avowed intention of Lord Shelburnes adoption of Stateshadalreadybeenamongtheforemosttargetsfor EdwardGibbonsrecipegivenin his The Decline and destructionbywhatWilliamofOrangesetintomotion Fall of the Roman Empire. To understand the phenomenon of the British toestablishLondon,although,actually,longafterhis owndeath,byFebruary163,astheworldcapitalof Empire,anempirewhichstillfunctionsasadominant themaritimepowerofanew,actuallythefourth,Roman worldempiretoday,wemustproceedfrominsightinto Empire.Forthatempire,thegreatesttestofitsabilityto theprincipleonwhichtheoriginsandcontinuationof continuetoruleandreignoveranincreasingnumberof that model of empire, including its maritime precedents,havedominatedwhathasbecomeknownasEuthenationsandpeoplesoftheworld,cameinthe163181periodleadingintothevictoryoftheU.S.A.and ropeancivilizationsincebeforeRomeitself,andstill
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today.Theprincipleinvolvedshouldbereadilyunderstood;unfortunately,whatpeopletendtohidethemost fromeventhemselves,isadeep,systemicsortofflaw inthecharacterofthemselvesandtheiradoptedculture.Inshort,peopletend,insuchafashion,toprotect thatwhichimprisonsthem,but,usually,onlyifthey areinducedtobelieve,asdidalargerationamongthe slaves heldbytheConfederacysystem,thattheculturalflawwhichleadsthemtosubmissionisaquality of an expression of their own innate nature which they must defend at all costs. It is not the shackles whichholdtheminbondage,buttheshekelsorkindredpleasureswhichexertakindredeffect,asifthey weretosay:Thesearemyshackles,andyouarenot going to deprive meshekels, or shacklesof my tradition! Thisisalsotrue,toalargedegree,hereinourUnited States; otherwise, neither George W. Bush, Jr., nor ObamacouldeverhavebeenelectedPresidentbythe marginofabefuddledmajority. Consider the crucial evidence to kindred effect, whichisembeddedinthecaseofFriedrichList(189186),aleaderinbringingtheprinciplesoftheAmericanSystemofpolitical-economyofBenjaminFranklin,AlexanderHamilton,andMathewandHenryCarey, intoEurope.KarlMarxhadbeenintroducedtoGermanyspolitical-economiclifeasacontender,underthe Neue Rheinische Zeitungforthepositionearlieroccupiedby(Georg)FriedrichListattheoriginalRheinische Zeitung.UndertheinfluenceoftheBritishagent, Frederick Engels, who controlled Karl Marx at that time and virtually all later times, the policies of List were not merely abandoned, but expunged, as done with the aid of the curious circumstances of Lists death. The significance of that particular set of facts, is foundinthosebearingonthestrugglefortheestablishment,inGermany(andalsoFranceandelsewhere)of the economic features of the system of a republic launchedintheUnitedStates.Atseveralpointsinhis latercareer,KarlMarxshowedafewoccasional,but short-livedindicationsoflikingforthecauseofU.S. PresidentAbrahamLincolnandHenryC.CareyspresentationoftheAmericanSystem,butEngels,Marxs controller,alwayssucceededinedgingMarxawayfrom such tendencies. Facts toward a similar effect correspondtoapatternofBritisheffortstocreaterepublican movementswithinEuropewhichmightbeconsidered,
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appropriately,ornot,tobringtheprocessesinleading partsofEuropeintoconvergenceagainstthepolicies associatedwiththeAmericanRevolutionsvictoryover theBritish,thelatterexpressedatYorktown,and,then, latertimes. It was this and related developments echoing the impact of the American System within the political movements within Europe, which must be taken into accounttorecognizewhyandhowtheBritishEmpire spentsomucheffortincreatingaMarxistcurrentasan intendedbulwarkagainstthespreadoftheinfluenceof the U.S.A.s system within Europe itself, especially continental Europe, as in the case of List. The high pointsoftheactualsuchinfluenceweretobenotedin Russiasleadingcircles,andthosetrendswithinGermany associated with the reforms of Chancellor Bismarck. WithouttheBritishempiresleadingconcernforthe threat to it from even the continued existence of the UnitedStates,KarlMarxwouldneverhavehadmuch notabilityinmodernworldhistory.Marxismwasinintendedeffect,largelytheBritishempireschosenantidote to Americanism, as shown in the case of List; Marxismbecame,especiallysincewhatiscalledWorld WarI,thus,thedividing-lineofconflictbetweenthe twoleadingintellectualpowersintheworldinacertain time,theAmericansystemandtheSovietsystem. Anyonewhoactuallypossessedacompetentview oftheleadingissuesofdiplomacysincetheAmerican Revolution,shouldhaverecognizedthisaspectofhistory.Howmanyactuallydid,isanothermatter. MarxismdiedwiththeSovietUnion,whereitlay destroyedbyhelpofsuchasNikitaKhrushchov,Andropov,Gorbachov,andtheBritishcultknownasthe partnershipoftheAnglo-DutchClubofRomeandthe BertrandRussell-linkedchildofBertrandRussellscirclesintheschoolofCambridgeSystemsAnalysis,the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Oncewehavetakenintoaccountthefashioninwhich suchasAndropovandGorbachovdestroyedtheSoviet Unionbytheirdecisionsatcrucialpoints,wemaynow putawaythematterofanycurrentroleofMarxism;we maynowreturntotheessentialissues,nowfreedfrom theobligationtoconsiderthedeadpastissuesofMarxism,andalsokindredformsofdiversionstobe,hopefully, left behind as a strategic distraction now consigned to a lost past, albeit with relevant tombstone markings.
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statementsjustpresentedhere.Ifwesucceed,theresult Monetarism was never a matter of science, apart forhumanitywillbewonderfulfornotonlytheUnited fromthedomainofthescienceofpsycho-pathology;it Statesweshallhaverescuedfromthelongwaveofdewasalways,asapoliticalmovement,adiseaseakinto clinesincetheassassinationofPresidentJohnF.Kennedy,butasweettimeaheadforhumanitywithinthe the cult of Flagellants from medieval Europes Fourteenth-centuryNewDarkAge.Thatdisease,called SolarSystematlarge. monetarism,ispresentlycarryingtheworld,viatheveIexplainasfollows. hicle of the trans-Atlantic breakdown-crisis, to the threateneddestructionofcivilizationasawhole. Lately,myyoungprofessionalassociateshavemade IV. What Happened to Those cruciallysignificantcontributions,especiallyscientific Dinosaurs? contributions which threaten to change the world for Theviewofsocietyrecentlyfosteredbythemajor mankindforthebetter.Wehavenowenteredaperiod of a fundamental change in the very meaning of the newsmediaofourplanet,isfairlydescribedasaview termeconomy.Henceforth,fromsomepointintime oftheprinciplesoftrafficinreal-estateunderthereign intherelativelyverynearfuture,eithertheveryideaof ofsuchastheobjectionableBritishcharacterspresented monetarism,orcivilizationwillvanishfromthisplanet, toprosebythepenoftheotherwiseamiableEnglish authorCharlesDickens.Thetimehascome,toputalso atleastforaverylongtimetocome. suchchildishrecipesaside. Whatmusttaketheplaceofmonetarism,ifcivilizationistocontinue,willhavetheoutwardformofa Notonlyourworld,norevenonlyourSolarsystem, creditsystem,asAlexanderHamiltoncraftedthatfeabut our galaxy is now gripped by a great existential tureofourFederalConstitution,ratherthanamonetarcrisis,acrisiswhichisthegreatchallengetowhicha istsystem.Onthesurface,itmightappearthatsucha sanehumanityhasnoavailablesanechoicebuttoretransformationwouldbeaslightchange,amerereform spond.Thepointofreferencetobeemphasizedisoutlinedastheawesomelyimmediateoptionssetbefore ofthesortwhichformerU.S.headoftheFederalReserveSystem,PaulVolckerwouldprobablyunderstand. ourspecies,aspresentlycenteredononeparticularstaOnthesurfaceofthings,thatmightbetheappearance tistic:anapproximately62millionsyears,characterisofthings.Thechangewillnotappeartobe,forthose ticcycleofourgalaxywhichpresentstoalllivingspeamonguswhoarestillabletorememberPresidentFranklinRoosevelt, more than a return to the policiesofthe1932-19period, whenthatPresidentwasstillalive; but,forcertaintypesofslightsuch changes,aswasthecasewiththe way in which the revolutionary U.S. Federal Constitution under itsbrilliantlyconceivedPreamble came into being originally, what willbeaslightchangeinstandard procedures, will become a great revolutionforallmankindforlong times to come. No actual change fromtheoriginalintentionofour LPAC-TV Federal Constitution will be inDuring the history presently known to us, many species have actually, or virtually died volved, but the effects will be out, at the same time that mankind has relatively prospered. Without understanding and wonderful. learning to control the cosmic forces at work on our planet, it is likely that mankind I do not exaggerate in the itself, will go the way of the dodo bird. This image is from the LPAC video, Our slightest degree in making the Extraterrestrial Imperiative, Episode 2Cosmic Rays.
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ciesonEarththegreat,recurringexistentialchallenge builtintothecharacteristicsofthegalaxywithinwhich ourSolarsystemissituatedasakindofsuburb. Asamatterofscientificfact,wedoknow,orhave availabletoustoknow,acertainamountofcrucialinformationrespectingthebiochemistryoftheevolutionaryprocessofthehistoryoflivingformsofexistence withinthespanofknownevidencesoflifewithinthe rangeofplanetEarth.Evenduringrecentperiodsduring whichmankindisknowntohaveinhabitedourplanet, there have been great extinctions of living species whoseexterminationswereaproductofthosespecies lackofthespecifickindofcreativecapabilityforsystemicinnovationsoftheirbehavior,whichisunique,to thebestofourpresentknowledge,toourownhuman species.So,duringthehistorypresentlyknowntous, manyspecieshaveactually,orvirtuallydiedout,at thesametimethatmankindhasrelativelyprospered,in even mere numbers, but, more notably, in non-linear rates of expansion of the potential life-span of the humanindividual,andinthequantityofthepopulation ofourspecies. The proverbial sum-upness of mankinds present situationonEarth,isprovidedbymyyoungassociates asfollows: Amongthemostimportantfactsofwhichwehave knowledge,bearingonthatbackground-information,is the knowledge we have accumulated, as scientific knowledgeoftheknownevolutionaryhistoryoflifeon ourplanet,fromthesimplestsortsofone-celledplants and creatures prior to the oxygen revolutions, to higher forms of many-multicelled, and more capable species of vegetable life and living animal forms of creatures. This knowledge clashes fundamentally with the sillyandfraudulentdoctrinesassociatedwithsuchas CharlesDarwinandhisBrutishsuccessors,thatbeing thecaseinnotonlytheBritishimperialtradition,noris itrestrictedtothecurrentsofsocialevolutionleading intotheoriginalRomanempireoritsAsianpredecessors.Theknownexistenceofformsofhumansocietyis dominated,mostregrettably,bytherecurringexpressionofwhataretermedoligarchicalformsofhuman societies,whichmerelyincludethecaseforsuchasthe fourRomanempiresknowntopresentdate,andtheir cousin-like,rivalformsofAsianandotheroligarchical society.TheAsianformshaveoftenbeenmorebrutish thantheBritish,iflessefficientformsofpoliticalsocietyinotherplanetaryrespects.
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Theseconsiderationspresentuswiththeimageofa greatclashbetweentheprincipleoflifeandthoserules ofsocietywhichcoincidewiththeclinicallyinsaneand systemicallymalicious,andimplicitlygenocidalnotion ofwhatiscalledcurrentlyenvironmentalism. Theknownhistoryoflifeonourplanet,thusclashes with the historically destructive patterns associated with oligarchical societies such as the British empire today. Thecrucialfactaboutsucholigarchicalsocieties,is thattheyarenotonlyinherentlyoppositetotheprincipleoflifeingeneral,butarehostiletotheinherently creativeimpulse,otherwiseknownastheanti-entropic principleshownbytheknownfeaturesofourgalaxy, andoftheuniversegenerally.Inotherwords,theplainly, inherentlyunlovableBritishempireis,liketheearlier phasesofthesameRomanEmpire,andlikethefabled WhoreofBabylon,clearlyoutofstepwithGod. Itshouldbe,therefore,clearthattheleadingpoliticalchallengewhichpresentglobalcircumstances,and alsocertaingalacticonesaswell,presenttous,isto understand and remove that social-political factor in thepresentworldsystemwhichisnotonlycontraryto ourFederalConstitutionsnotionofmankind,butalso, moresignificantly,totheCreatoroftheUniverseHimself.MightHe,asBiblicalscholarswouldchoosetoput the point, perhaps be provoked into becoming angry withusforwhatmustbeobviously,ourpresentlyvery poorchoicesofnationalleaders,asinthecasesofapair ofrecentchoicesofU.S.President? Suchquestionswouldwanderwithoutmeaningful consequence,ifwefailedtoadducesomegenuineprincipleoutofreflectiononthoseconsiderationswhichwe havejustsetbeforeushere.Whatisthetrueprincipleat issue for decision-making in respect to the considerationswhichwesetbeforeuswithinthispresentchapter,thusfar?

Let Satan Be Heard!

ThereisnoneedtoaskSatantospeak;thegreatest partoftheleadingworldpressisalreadybusilyinhis service.Rather,lethimbeplacedontrial,wherewecan squeezesomepertinenttruthsoutofhim.Where,perhaps, can we find a relevant StephenVincent Benet? PerhapsanactualDanielWebsterinalikenessofwhat StephenBenetmighthaveintended. The great crime against humanity for which we shouldwishtoholdOldSatan(or,hisfeminineside,the Whore of Babylon) to account, is what is to be preFeature 39

sentedattrialasthecrimeofthe oligarchicalprinciple.Theaccused Old Satan, is to be charged with offendingtheCreatorthroughthe crime represented by the oligarchical principle of zero growth, bothgrowthinpopulation,andin increaseintheproductivepowers of human ingenuity in labor. In other words, that Devil is to be hanged,whoeverhe-sheis,onthe chargeofhavingimposedthezero technologicalgrowthusedtocause themiseryanddepravityofmankind and of certain cases of its systemofgovernance. Considerthenatureoftheevidencetobepresented. When we examine the record ofcreationwhichhasoccurredon Earth during the course of the known, successive ages of forms Mankinds mission is written clearly in the history of the succession of development of oflifeonthisplanet,wearecom- species on Earth itself, as if by a fiery finger on the wall. Shown: Belshazzars Feast, Rembrandt van Rijn (ca. 1635). pelledtotraceasuccessionofprogressivelyhigherformsoforganizationandcapacityofspeciesofbothplantandanimal thosesuccessivelayersofsystemsoflivingprocesses, expressionsoflife.Thepatternsopresentedbytheeviand of the conditions on the planet which those prodenceathand,isthattheprinciplebywhichtheCreator cesses inhabit or otherwise affect, is a warning sign, hasorderedthedevelopmentofourplanetwithinthis thattheCreatordislikesthosemisanthropesknownas galaxyis systemically anti-entropic.So,theCreatorhas thezerogrowthersoftoday.Eitherwecorrectthebeordereditso,andwhoeveropposesthatmustbeplacing haviorofthosemisanthropes,ortheCreatorwilldeal himselforherself,orperhapshe-she,inseriousjeopwiththematterasthepresentlyknownevidencebearardy for crimes against the manifest will of the Creingonthehistoryofthisgalaxysuggests.Inthatcase, ator. therewillbeHellforwhateveritisthatservesasthe Thisfact,juststated,pertainsnotonlytotheordersymbolofSatan. ingofthecontinuallyincreasedpoweroflivingproThesemorallyandotherwiseobligatorymeansincesses,especiallywillfulactionsofmankind,buttothe clude the challenge to the species, mankind, whose effectofthathumancreativitywhichisexpressedin willfulmissioniscoherentwiththenaturewhichthe theconsistentevidenceofanincreaseoftheenergyCreatormanifestlyassignstous,astoHisownworks flux density of all successful expressions of human otherwise.Therighttolifeisassignedtothosedevelopeconomy. That is to emphasize, that the Creator has mentswhichservetheanti-entropicintentionwhichis manifestwiththeknownworkoftheCreator. builtintothesystem,acoincidencebetweentheCreatorsintentionforthedevelopmentoftheregionof Mankindmustbecome,andgotowheretheCreator ourgalaxy,andtheincreaseofthequalityofselection thus implicitly assigns man his or her mission. That of all living processes as expressable in terms of inmission is essentially the expression of the power of creased energy-flux-density of the means of growth anti-entropic development in action. The message is employed. writtenclearlyinthehistoryofthesuccessionofdevelThesuccessionoflayersoflivingspecieswhichare opmentofspeciesonEarthitself,asifbyafieryfinger knowntousinthematerialevidenceoftheevolutionof onthewall.
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Appendix

LaRouches Concept Of the SDI

The following two articles expand on LaRouches assertion that the Strategic Defense Initiative, had it been adopted according to its original design, would have provided the basis for moving the world into a new antiimperial system, free of the fourth Roman Empire (Great Britain) and much more capable of dealing with the galactic threats mankind faces today. The first is a chapter from a March 1982 Memorandum by LaRouche, entitled Only Beam-Weapons Could Bring to an End the Kissingerian Age of Mutual Thermonuclear Terror: A Proposed Modern Military Policy of the United States, in which he details his proposal from a economic-scientific, as well as strategic standpoint. The memorandum was published by the National Democratic Policy Committee (NDPC), the political action committee LaRouche headed at the time. The second is a speech given by EIR Counterintelligence editor Jeffrey Steinberg in March 1993, on what happened to LaRouches proposal, which led to its adoption by President Reagan, and its killing by the British-controlled Soviet leadership. An extensive collection of LaRouches and EIRs further writings about the SDI, both scientific and politic, can be found at www.larouchepub.com

2. A Short History of Beam-Weapons Technology

Public discussion of anti-missile beam-weapons technologybeganduringmid-19,asanoutgrowthof discussions between physics-trained Major-General George Keegan and nuclear physicist Dr. Steven BardwelloftheFusionEnergyFoundation. In his earlier duties as chief ofAir Force Intelligence,GeneralKeeganhaddetectedwhathebelieved tobeSovietdevelopmentofanewkindofweaponscapability. During preceding years, especially since the founding of the Fusion Energy Foundation in 19,
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thoseofusassociatedwiththeFEFhadperformeda publicroleinpromotingRiemannianrelativisticphysics, and had publicized informed estimates of Soviet breakthroughsinrelevantaspectsofrelativisticplasmaphysics.GeneralKeegandiscussedhisproblemofassessment of Soviet capabilities with Dr. Bardwell on thisbasis. Afterwards,alsoduring19,presentNDPCAdvisoryCommitteeChairmanLaRoucheorderedapublic campaignforU.S.developmentofrelativisticplasmabeam anti-missile weapon systems. During the same period,GeneralKeeganmadeaparalleleffortindependentlyoftheFEFandNSIPS[NewSolidarityInternationalPressService]campaigns. Although General Keegans views on this subject arelargelysharedbyBritainsViceAirMarshalStewartMenaul,theLondonInternationalInstituteforStrategicStudies(IISS)immediatelylaunchedaninternationalcampaignofvilificationagainstGeneralKeegan, FEFandLaRoucheonthisissue.SomeWestGerman militarycirclesreportedthemselvesdazedbytheferocityoftheattemptedbrainwashingtowhichtheywere subjectedbyIISSonthisaccount. There were two principal reasons for continued strongoppositiontobeam-weaponsdevelopmentfrom IISSandotherquarterssince19. Primarily,IISSrepresentscirclescommittedpoliticallytoa global post-industrialsocietyperspective andazero-technological-growthperspective.Whatever IISSmighthaveestimatedtobetheobjectivemilitary meritsofbeam-weapons,beam-weaponsimpliedboth anescalationofNASAprogramsandalsoaNASA-like crash-program in areas subsuming fusion-energy researchanddevelopment.Toadoptapolicyofdevelopingbeam-weaponswouldmeananautomaticendtothe driftoftheWesttowardtheutopiangoalsofatechnetronicvarietyofpost-industrialsociety. Secondly, the variety of theoretical physics applicable to beam-weapons development is Riemannian physics,asopposedtotheNewton-Maxwellvarieties andtheiroffshoots.Evenmostprofessionalscientists oftodayareadmittedlyignorantofthecontinuing,embitteredconflictbetweenthetwoschoolsofscienceup throughandimmediatelyfollowingWorldWarII.Most British, American, and, other contemporary generationsofphysicsprofessionals,andmostemphatically, contemporary mathematicians, are simply indoctrinatedintheNewton-Maxwellempiricistschool. Themereexistenceofrelativisticplasma-beamshas
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sertion that Riemannian shock-waves are not generatedinacousticalmedia.Duringthe1890s through the 1920s, Bertrand Russells career withinscienceandphilosophywaspremisedon hisCambridgeUniversityassignmenttoattempt toeradicatetheinfluenceoftheworkofBernhard Riemann and Georg Cantor. Out of this effort, formerly led by Russell, developed the unificationofthesciencesproject,nowsponsored by the Reverend Moons Unification Church, and the influential History of theAppliedSciencesproject,basedpresentlyatHarvardandJohnsHopkinsuniversities. Whetherornottheprofessionalmathematician or physicist is aware of these issues, the hairsriseonthenapeofhisneckofmosttoday wheneverheischallengedtosubordinatehisactivities of research and development to purely Riemannian methods. President Reagans currentscienceadviser,Dr.GeorgeKeyworth,isa professedfanaticontheseissues. Despitethe19IISScampaignofpersonal vilification against such as Keegan, Bardwell, and LaRouche, the practical issue of beamweapons could not be suppressed so easily. Aboveall,therewereincreasingindicationsof Soviet progress toward developing precisely suchcapabilities.TheenergywithwhichtheSovietshavecontinuedtheirspaceprogramsand certainotherindicatorshavebeenmostrelevant onthispoint. EIRNS/Stuart Lewis Ironically,thephysicsofbeam-weaponsdeLyndon LaRouche addresses an April 13, 1983 conference in velopmentwasalreadyinpracticewiththefirst Washington, presenting his concept of a Strategic Defense Initiative to successful production of a deployable thermoan audience of some 600 people. nuclearweapon.Dr.FriedwardtWinterberghas devastatingimplicationsfortheauthorityoftheempiripublishedabook,The Physical Principles of Thermonuclear Explosive Devices(1981),inwhichthebasic cistfactionsschoolasawhole. Thelawfulphenomenamanifestinthegenerationof physicsoftheH-bombareoutlined.Dr.StevenBardwell is compiling for early publication a guide to beamshockeffectsbysuchplasma-beamsareaconfirmationofalawofphysicsprovenbyacrucialexperiment weaponssystemsmeetingthetechnicalneedsofboth designedbyBernhardRiemannin189.Thisexperiintelligentlaymenandprofessionals.Welimitourrement,whichfocusedontheoperationofsuchuniversal marksheretothemostgeneralprinciplesinvolved. laws in the case of generation of acoustical shockThepossibilityofathermonucleardetonationmay waves,wasthetheoreticalbasisforanentireschoolof befairlydescribedasdependinguponreachingcertain fluid dynamics, including aerodynamics, which arose minimumcriticalvaluesoftemperatureandcompression.The problem is that compression-heating of the inGermanyandItalyunderthedirectinfluenceofRiemannswork. chargetendstocausethechargesmaterialtoexpandin Asrecentlyasthe1890s,RayleighstakedthecredsuchafashionastodefeattherequireddegreeofcomibilityoftheentireBritishschoolofphysicsontheaspression.Consequently,workingwithinthelimitsofa
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fissiontrigger,theproblemof eredspace-vehicle.(Powthermonuclear detonation is ered space vehicles are thatknownastheproblemof part of the spectrum of effecting isentroic compresspace-based systems desion; this may be fairly designed to cope with antiscribed as preventing comsatellite weapons-attack.) pressionfrombeingconverted The platform selects its toheatinsuchamannerasto target,typicallyanucleardefeatthecontinuingprocess armed missile entering ofcompression. thestratosphere.Thelaser Thesolutiontothisprobbeamdwellsonthetarget, lem of isentropic comprestracking and following sionisdefinedinprincipleby themovingmissileasthe Riemanns cited 189 paper beamburns(ablates)its outliningthegenerationofan way through protective acoustical shock-wave in an layers,andthenperforms infinitecylinder. itsdestructivefunctionon That 189 paper was the apparatus within the shielding. classified byWestern governmentsaspartofthesecurity-wraps around the H2. The RelativisticBeam System. The beam bombssecretsalthoughthe NDPC significanceofthelong-pub- The LaRouche movements organizing for beam-weapon in this case destroys the lished 189 paper is openly defense included millions of pamphlets, magazines, targetuponimpact.Unlike treatedinpublished Soviet lit- newspapers, and several national TV shows during thelaser,whichmustburn erature!Asimilarlyludicrous sequential Presidential campaigns. itswaythrough,arelativexerciseinthenameofnaistic beam, from suitable tionalsecurityoccurredunderthedirectionofJames formsofx-raylasersonup,transmitsadestructive shock upon contact, and then moves on R.Schlesinger,whoclassifiedSovietsecretsrevealed quicklytothenextassignedtarget. toaCaliforniascientificaudiencebyaprominentSoviet 3. Future Systems.As Bardwell elaborated relativistic-beam specialist! Schlesingers infantile theworkofaspecialtask-forcein19,itisfeaaction,welaterlearned,wastakenattheinsistenceof sible, on principle, to develop a ground-based theBritishgovernment! anti-missilebeam-weaponssystem.Oneofthe ThetranslationoftheseprinciplesofH-bombdetonationintoweapons-systemswhichcankillH-bombs beamsofthissystemboresachannelthroughthe begantobepossiblewiththedevelopmentofthelaser. atmosphere. The killer-beam progresses along As we continue the development of beam-systems this channel to its target. Space-based killerbeyond the ordinary sort of laser into the range of beamsagainstearth-targetsare,onprinciple,a higher-orderenergy-densities,suchasx-raylasersand feasiblesystemforthefuture. soforth,wedevelopthecapabilityofproducingcontrolledbeamswhosephysicalbehaviorisanalogousto It is proposed that the United States immediately the189experimentaldesignofRiemann. launchacrashprogramforearliest-possibledeployThislineofdevelopmentleadsintothreecategories ment of anti-missile beam-weapons systems of the of military beam-weapons capabilities, of which the second category, and undertake longer-term research firsttwoarepresentlypracticableprojectsofrelatively anddevelopmentrespectingsystemsofcategorythree. short-termresearchanddevelopment.

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Wedonotspecifydollar-amountsforsuchdevelopmenthere.Rather,weindicatenowtheconsiderations
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upon which budgetary-requirement estimations must bepremised. Forreasonswhichoughttobeobviousfromstudy ofpreviousinstancesofscience-drivercategoriesof militaryprograms,includingtheNaziPeenemndeexample, effective high-technology military programs dependuponarelativelymuchbroaderbaseincivilian scienceandintheproductivetechnologyofthecivilian economy. Herein lies the principal reason for sometimes almost treasonous opposition to beam-weapon developmentfromamongadvocatesofatechnetronic post-industrialsociety. Theprincipalsupportforthemilitarydevelopment mustcomefromthreebroad-basedresearchanddevelopment efforts in the civilian sector of governmental and private expenditures: 1) expansion of NASA; 2) expandingtherateofexpendituresonfusion-energyresearch slightly beyond those specified in the McCormack Fusion Energy EngineeringAct of 1980, and a newproject-areaofbasicresearch;and3)development inthedomainofapplicationsofrelativisticbeamsin general. The work of NASA defines not only our national capabilitiesfordeployingarangeofvarietiesofspace platformsandvehicles.AsthecaseofVoyagerobservationsofJupiterandSaturnillustratethepoint,weefficiently overcome some among the most destructive featuresoftheNewton-Maxwellprogrambyempirical discoveries which confront us in space-vehicle-based exploratoryobservations.NASAshoulddevelopthose capabilitieswhichhavesubsumedmilitaryapplications undertheauspicesofamandatetoachievesuchtargets as place a habitable human observatory on Mars by suchanapproximatedateas2010A.D.Allthatwerequire for militarypurposesrespectingequipment and logistical systems in nearby space will be mastered more or less automatically as a by-product of such a mandate. The most-crucial major area of fusion-energy researchrespectingapplicationofrelativistic-beamtechnologiesiswhatistermedinertialconfinementfusion, theisentropiccompressionofasmallpelletcontaining athermonuclearchargetoeffectathermonuclearmicroexplosion.Thisspecificpointofmilitaryinterestin promotingcivilianresearchanddevelopmentismerely afacetofrelatedknowledgeandengineeringcapabilities to be acquired through sharing of knowledge by professionalsengagedinallfacetsoffusionandrelated research.
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Relativistic beams represent in and of themselves oneofthemostfruitfulareasofimminentbreakthrough inciviliantechnology.Laserandmoreadvancedmodes ofisotopeseparationcaneffectreductionsincostbyup toanorderofmagnitudeinthefinalphaseofrefinement ofnuclearfuel,andhaverelatedapplicationsforisotope-separationmodesofrefinementofsimilarlymostvaluableelements.Asthesemethodsareperfected,civilizations practice in metallurgy and other affected fieldswillberevolutionized,breakingthroughwhole categoriesofwhatmightotherwiseappeartobelimited resources. Masteryofbeam-technologiesisalsothekeytoimproved breeding of nuclear fuels. Related methods permitustogeneratecontrolledneutron-fluxesofthe varietywhichcandestroytheradioactivityofunwanted by-productsoffissioncombustion.Inrelatedways,as wehavealreadyjustemphasized,thisisthedoorway whichleadsustonew,vastlysuperiorformsofbasic industrialtechnologiesbeyondtheimaginationofmost citizenstoday. Outoftherepertoireofmethodsandhardwareproduced by such civilian research,ourAirForce(forexample) can assemble the off-the-shelf capabilities neededfortheindicatedrangeofmilitarysystems. Ironically,theseindicatedexpenditureswillnotcost theAmericantaxpayeranetpenny.TheNASAresearch anddevelopmenteffortisbestestimatedtohavepaid backtotheU.S.civilianeconomymorethan10dollars foreachdollarspent.Thebreakthroughsintechnology effecteddirectlyorindirectlythroughNASAresearch anddevelopmentgavetheUnitedStatesitshighestrate ofannualincreaseofproductivityduringthepost-war period.EvenafterNASAbegantobetakendownduring 1966-196,thechiefsourceforthediminishingrateof growthofproductivityduringtheyearsthereafterwas technologyproducedbyNASAresearchanddevelopment. Indeed, in our military technology today, what is presentedasanewsystemisusuallysomethingchiefly leftoverfromthedrawing-boardsofaerospaceresearch anddevelopment fromthepre-196 period.We have fallenbehindbyabout1yearsinournationstechnologicalcapability,especiallyinrespecttotechnologies ofmilitaryrelevance. Even were such pay-back not assured, how much would any sane citizen pay to free his or her family fromthecontinuedandpresentlyincreasingthreatof thermonuclearholocaust?
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The Power of Ideas: LaRouches SDI Changed the World

by Jeffrey Steinberg
This speech was given to a conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees and Schiller Institute on March 21, 1993. Ten years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan changedtheworldbydelivering the following brief message at the close of his nationwide televised address:Inrecentmonths,... thePresidentsaid,myadvisors...haveunderscoredthe necessity to break out of a future that relies solely on offensive retaliation for our security. Over the course of these discussions I have become more and more deeply convinced that the humanspiritmustbecapable FEF/Christopher Sloan ofrisingabovedealingwith This artists conception of beam-weapon defense became an emblem of the Fusion Energy other nations and human Foundations campaign for the SDI. beings by threatening their existence....Wouldntitbebettertosavelivesthanto U.S.retaliationtodeteraSovietattack,thatwecould avengethem?Arewenotcapableofdemonstratingour interceptanddestroystrategicballisticmissilesbefore peacefulintentionsbyapplyingallourabilitiesandour theyreachourownsoilorthatofourallies?...Isntit ingenuitytoachievingatrulylastingstability?Ithink worth every investment necessary to free the world fromthethreatofnuclearwar?Weknowitis! weareindeedwemust! I clearly recognize that defensive systems have After careful consultation with my advisors, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I believe there is a limitationsandraisecertainproblemsandambiguities. way.Letmesharewithyouavisionofthefuturewhich Ifpairedwithoffensivesystems,theycanbeviewedas offershope.Itisthatweembarkonaprogramtocounfosteringanaggressivepolicyandnoonewantsthat. ter the awesome Soviet missile threat with measures But with these considerations firmly in mind, I call thataredefensive.Letusturntotheverystrengthsin upon the scientific community in our country, those technology that spawned our great industrial base.... whogaveusnuclearweapons,toturntheirgreattalents Whatiffreepeoplecouldlivesecureintheknowledge nowtothecauseofmankindandworldpeace;togive thattheirsecuritydidnotrestuponthethreatofinstant usthemeansofrenderingthesenuclearweaponsimpoApril1,2011 EIR Feature 

tentandobsolete....Weseekneithermilitarysuperioritynorpoliticaladvantage.Ouronlypurposeoneall peopleshareistosearchforwaystoreducethedanger ofnuclearwar. MyfellowAmericans,tonightwearelaunchingan effortthatholdsthepromiseofchangingthecourseof human history. There will be risks, and results take time,butIbelievewecandoit.Aswecrossthisthreshold,Iaskforyourprayersandyoursupport. The following day, March 2, 1983, in a public statement issued from Wiesbaden, West Germany, LyndonLaRoucheofferedhispersonalcongratulations andsupporttothePresidentwiththefollowingwords: No longer must Democrats go to bed each night fearing that they must live out their lives under the threat of thermonuclear ballistic terror. The coming severalyearswillbeprobablythemostdifficultofthe entirepost-warperiod,but,forthefirsttimesincethe endofthe1962CubanMissileCrisis,thereisatlast hopethatthethermonuclearnightmarewillbeended duringtheremainderofthisdecade....Onlyhigh-level officials of government, or a private citizen as intimately knowledgeable of details of the international politicalandstrategicsituationasIamprivilegedtobe, canevenbegintoforeseetheearth-shakingimpactthe Presidents television address last night will have throughout the world. No one can foresee what the exactconsequencesofthePresidentsactionswillbe; wecannotforeseehowferociousandstubbornresistance to the Presidents policy will be, both from Moscow and from the nuclear freeze advocates in EuropeandtheUnitedStatesitself.Whateverthosereactions and their influence, the words the President spokelastnightcanneverbeputbackintothebottle. Mostoftheworldwillsoonknow,andwillneverforget thatpolicyannouncement.Withthosewords,thePresidenthaschangedthecourseofmodernhistory. TodayIamproudertobeanAmericanthanIhave beensincethefirstmannedlandingontheMoon.For thefirsttimein20years,aPresidentoftheUnitedStates hascontributedapublicactionofgreatleadership,to give a new basis for hope to humanitys future to an agonizedanddemoralizedworld.Truegreatnessinan AmericanPresidenttouchedPresidentRonaldReagan lastnight;itisamomentofgreatnessnevertobeforgotten. LaRouchespropheticcommentsonPresidentReagansMarch23addresswerebasedonhisownintimate involvementintheprocessleadinguptothePresidents
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adoptionofwhathelabeledtheStrategicDefenseInitiative.FromMoscowtoLondontoWashington,among thesmallcircleoftheworldsmostpowerfulpolitical figures,friends,andenemiesalike,therewasabsolutely no doubt that President Reagan had adopted Lyndon LaRouches strategic doctrine. Against all odds, the power of an idea, devised and promulgated by LaRouche, had touched the President of the United Statesandasmallhandfulofhismostloyaladvisors, andhistorywasmade.

Behind the Scenes

ForsomeleadingfiguresinMoscow,oneofthecritical questions left unanswered by the TV address of March23waswhetherPresidentReagansadoptionof the ballistic-missile-defense/Mutually Assured SurvivaldoctrinealsomeantthathehadconsciouslyadoptedLyndonLaRouchesOperation Jurezproposal foranewworldeconomicorder.Butonthequestionof ballistic-missiledefense,therewasnodoubt. EarlierintheafternoonofMarch23,ataNational Security Council background briefing for the White Housepresscorps,detailsofthePresidents8p.m.televisionaddresshadbeenfilledout.Atthatbriefing,it wasmadeclearthatPresidentReaganwouldpropose thattheUnitedStatesandtheSovietUnionworktogethertomakethedoctrineofMutuallyAssuredSurvivalareality.ShortlyafterthePresidentsspeech,Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger more formally conveyedtheoffertoMoscowforthetwosuperpowers toworktogethertodevelopanddeployastrategicballistic-missile-defensesystem. Not only was LaRouche the intellectual author of thepolicyconceptbehindReagansSDI.BetweenDecember1981andthedateofthePresidentsspeech,LaRouche, acting on behalf of and at the behest of the ReaganWhiteHouseandotherU.S.governmentagencies, personally conducted back-channel negotiations with high-level representatives of the Soviet government.Astheresultofthosenegotiations,Moscowwas fullyinformedwelloverayearinadvanceofthePresidentsMarch23speechofthedetailsofthepolicyoffer. AndbecauseofLaRouchespersonalroleinthosediscussions,Moscowhadnojustifiablereasontodoubtthe sincerityofPresidentReagansoffer. HadMoscowdecidedtotakeupPresidentReagans generousoffer,ratherthanadoptthesuicidalalternative, LaRouche would have undoubtedly been called upontocontinueinhisroleasbrokerandguarantorof
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a new era of world peace and prosperity based on a thoroughtransformationofEast-WestandNorth-South relations. Tragically, LaRouche was right when he warned on March 2 about the reactions that would comespillingoutofthecrevicesinMoscow,London, NewYork,andWashington.Buthewasalsorightwhen hesaidthattheactionstakenbyPresidentReagancould neverbeputbackinthebottle.

A Fifteen-Year Fight
PresidentReagansMarch23addresscameasthe resultofyearsofeffort. LyndonLaRoucheandhisassociateshadbeentalking about ballistic-missile defense, employing new physicalprinciples,since19. DuringtheperilousyearsoftheCarterPresidency, Mr.LaRouchehadservedasanunofficialchannelof communication between elements inside the official U.S.intelligenceestablishmentandSovietintelligence counterparts.Thiswaspartofafailsafesystembuilt upbysaneindividualsonbothsidesoftheEast-West divide,tominimizethedangerofamisunderstanding triggeringastrategicconfrontation.LaRouchewassolicitedforthiseffortinpartinresponsetohisElection Eve196nationwideTVaddressinwhichhewarnedof thedangersofthermonuclearwarshouldJimmyCarter andtheTrilateralCommissioncomeintooffice. InearlyMarch1981,aseniorSovietdiplomatposted at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Mr. Kudashev,approachedtheAsianAffairsEditorofExecutive Intelligence Review, Dan Sneider, soliciting LaRouchesviewsonthenewReaganAdministration. OninstructionsfromthesameU.S.intelligencechannelsthroughwhichtheearlierSovietdiscussionshad beenconducted,wordofthatapproachandadetailed summary of the discussion, was forwarded to White HousecounselorEdwinMeese. By the earlyAutumn of that year, LaRouche had spelled out his proposals for a joint or parallel U.S.Soviet strategic ballistic-missile-defense program. During this same period, representatives of EIR held preliminarydiscussionswithaseniordiplomatatthe SovietembassyinWashington,D.C.,named[Yevgeny] Shershnev. Astheresultofthesedevelopments,inDecember 1981,LaRouchewasagainapproachedbyseniorU.S. intelligence officials and formally asked to initiate back-channel discussions with appropriate Soviet representativesonthepossibleadoptionofamodificaApril1,2011 EIR

tion of existing strategic doctrinei.e., LaRouches own Mutually Assured Survival concept. LaRouche wasinformedthattheback-channeldiscussionswere classified as a compartmentalized secret operation known to a select number of senior officials under a code-name. Bythistime,LyndonandHelgaLaRouchehadmet with CIA Deputy Director Bobby Ray Inman at the agencysfacilityadjacenttotheOldExecutiveOffice BuildingandtheWhiteHouse. Insupportofhisback-channeleffortsonbehalfof theballisticmissiledefensepolicy,onFeb.18-19,1982, LaRoucheparticipatedinatwo-dayEIRseminaronthe subjectandrelatedtopicsinWashington,D.C.Ofthe 300orsoattendees,anumberwereSovietandWarsaw Pactdiplomats.AtanEIRreceptionforparticipantsin theconference,LaRouchewasintroducedtoMr.Shershnevandtheyhadthefirstofanumberofdiscussions aboutstrategicpolicyissuesaffectingtheUnitedStates andtheU.S.S.R. Attheirfirstprivatediscussion,whichtookplacein asuiteattheHayAdamsHotelinWashingtonshortly after the February 1982 event, LaRouche informed ShershnevthathehadbeendesignatedbytheReagan Administrationtoconductexploratorydiscussions,and thathewoulddistinguishclearlywhenhewasconveyingofficialmessagesfromU.S.governmentagencies andwhenhewasprovidinghisownpersonalevaluations. In the early Spring of 1982, Admiral Inman announcedhisresignationasdeputydirectoroftheCIA, effective several months later. The channels under whose auspices LaRouche had been carrying out the negotiations with Moscow representatives informed him at that point that the operation was for the time beingaborted.Sensitivetothehighlyrestrictedneed toknowsecuritysurroundingtheback-channelnegotiations,LaRouchepreparedamemotoEdwinMeese seekingsomeguidanceonhowtoproceed.Thatmemo washand-deliveredbyarepresentativeoftheNational SecurityCouncil.WiththeappointmentofJudgeWilliamClarkasSpecialAdvisortothePresidentforNationalSecurityAffairsinJanuary1982,LaRoucherepresentativeshadestablishedongoingdiscussionswitha numberofNSCofficers. AfterMeesefailedtoprovideanyclearresponseto theLaRouchememo,RichardMorris,theexecutiveassistanttoNSCadvisorClark,informedLaRouchethat theCouncilwouldtakechargeoftheoperationandthat
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The LaRouche movement rallies in Washington in support of the SDI, as a science-driver program to restore the economy as well as a defense concept.

thesanctionedback-channelnegotiationsshouldcontinueuninterrupted. By theAutumn of 1982, momentum had built up insidesectionsoftheU.S.militaryandintelligenceestablishmentinsupportofLaRouchesballistic-missiledefenseproposals.Gen.VolneyWarner,aretiredhead oftheU.S.ArmysFORCECOM,toldLaRoucheassociates in October 1982 that the policy was winning strongsupportamongsomeofthePresidentskeyadvisors.AlsoinOctober,Dr.EdwardTeller,aclosepersonalfriendandscienceadvisortoPresidentReagan, threw his support behind ballistic-missile defense, citing recent breakthroughs at Lawrence Livermore LabsonsomeoftheverynewphysicalprincipleapproachesadvocatedbyLaRouche.Significantly,Teller alsoadvocatedsharingthesescientificandtechnologicalbreakthroughswithMoscow. LaRouchepubliclyalludedtohisroleinthebackchannelprocessinaDec.12,1982EIRMemorandum titled The Cultural Determinants of anAnti-Missile Beam-WeaponsPolicy. DuringthemonthssinceIfirstannouncedtheproposedbeam-weaponspolicy,sinceFebruaryofthispast year,Ihavehadanumberofoccasionstodiscussthis policywithSovietandotherEastBlocrepresentatives, bothinpersonandthroughrelayedcommunications,
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LaRouche wrote. In such discussions one must acknowledgethattheSovietrepresentativeinquestionis speakingasarepresentativeofhisgovernmenttomeas apersonwhomthatrepresentativeviewsasconnected to policy-influencing agencies of the United States. Therefore,thekindsofdiscussionswhichoccurhave two functional aspects. In one aspect, each of us is speakingfortherecord.IamcarefultoindicatewhatI believetobemygovernmentspolicy,aswellasIknow thatpolicy,asfortherecord.MySovietdiscussionpartnerineachcasewilldothesame.Then,apartfromsuch statementsofpolicyfortherecord,weareabletoenter intoamoreorlessfrankdiscussionofpossibleother, additionalpolicyoptions. LaRoucheagainaddressedalloftheseissuesinhis Dec. 31, 1982 speech to the International Caucus of LaborCommitteesconferenceinNewYorkCity.Referencing his beam defense program, LaRouche observed:Ifwesucceed,ifPresidentReagandoesthis thing,inthecomingweeks,thenweshallhaveadministeredtothatancientfoeofourpeopleandofthehuman racethe Harrimans, et al., the Malthusiansnot a killerblow,butaverydeadlydefeat:asharpreduction oftheMalthusianpowerinternationally.Weshallhave clearedthedecks,weakenedtheenemiesofhumanity, tothepointthatthosewhoarenottheenemiesofhuEIR April1,2011

manityaregivenagreaterlatitudeformakingdecisions without having to submit to the Harrimans and that crowdintheperiodahead. Itisinthatsense,inthatact,which,Ibelievein thisgreattragedythroughwhichwearenowliving thatchoice,isthepunctum saliensofourage.Eitherwe cangrabit,orIknownotwhatwecando.

Soviets Reject SDI

IntheearlyweeksofFebruary1983,backinWashington, Lyndon LaRouche again conferred with Mr. ShershnevthistimeinasuiteattheSheratonCarlton Hotel.Inthatdiscussion,ShershnevdeliveredathreepartmessagetoLaRoucheand,throughLaRouche,to theReaganWhiteHouse,straightfromMoscow: 1.TheSovietgovernmentwouldrejectSDI. 2. Soviet studies of LaRouches ballistic-missiledefense (BMD) proposal had proven that they were soundandviable.However,underconditionsofcrash development,theSovieteconomywouldbeincapable ofkeepingpacewitharevivedU.S.economy.Therefore, it was principally on economic grounds that Moscowwouldrejectthepackage. 3. Through other channels of discussion with the highest levels of the Democratic Party, Moscow had beeninformedthatLaRouchesBMDproposalwould never reach the desk of President Reagan, and that, therefore,therewasnodangeroftheReaganAdministrationeveractuallyadoptingtheplan.Underthosecircumstances, since Moscow found the back-channel talkswithLaRoucheuseful,theywouldbecontinued. March23,1983hitMoscowlikeatonofbricks.Closer tohome,thecombathadalreadybeguninearnest. Inhisautobiography,PresidentReagangaveahint ofthebattle:March22Anotherdaythatshouldnt happen.OnmydeskwasadraftofthespeechondefensetobedeliveredtomorrownightonTV.Thiswas onehassledoverbyNSC,StateandDefense.FinallyI hadacrackatit.... March23Thebigthingtodaywasthe8p.m.TV speechonallnetworksaboutnationalsecurity.Weve beenworkingonthespeechforabout2hoursandright downtothedeadline....Ididthebulkofthespeechon whyourarmsbuildupwasnecessaryandthenfinished withacalltothesciencecommunitytojoinmeinresearchstartingnowtodevelopdefensiveweaponsthat wouldrendernuclearmissilesobsolete.Imadenooptimisticforecastssaiditmighttake20yearsormore butwehadtodoit.Ifeltgood.
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Yearsafterthathistoricdate,thisauthorreceiveda firsthandaccountfromoneofthekeyfiguresattheNationalSecurityCouncilofwhatactuallyhappenedon March23. JamesBakerIII,astheWhiteHouseChiefofStaff, was officially the last person assigned to review the Presidentsspeechesbeforethefinalversionwaspassed on to Reagan for approval. The SDI portion of the speech had been written under the auspices of Judge ClarkbyaWhiteHousespeechwriter,AramBakshian, whohadbeenincontactwithEIRforsometime,initiallycourtesyofRichardMorris.WhenBakersawthe ballistic-missile-defensesectionofthespeech,hepersonally went ballistic. He removed the entire final section,eliminatinganymentionoftheSDI. Fortunately,JudgeClarkwasalertedtoBakersperfidy,andinatotalviolationofprotocol,bypassedBaker, slippedintoPresidentReagansofficeandalertedhim thattheportionofthespeechhadbeendeleted.Reagan reinsertedtheSDIannouncement.JamesBakerdidnt findoutaboutthisuntilabout8:20thatnight,whenthe President read those fateful words to the American people. Ironically, from Wiesbaden, West Germany, LaRouche had such a pulse-beat sense of the fight surrounding his strategic defense policy that, even after beinginformedofthelateafternoonWhiteHousebackgroundbriefinginwhichtheSDIannouncementwas prominentlyfeatured,hewarnedusbackinNewYork towatchthe8oclocktelecasttobesurethatnothing hadbeendoneatthelastmomenttosabotagethePresidentspublicannouncement. Icanassureyouthatthereareleadingfiguresfrom theReaganAdministration,whostoodwithusinthe SDIfight,whowillprobablyneverforgiveJamesBaker forwhathetriedtodothatday. Inoneofthosefortunatequirksofscheduling,EIR andtheFusionEnergyFoundationhadarrangedaconferenceonthestrategicdefenseplanformid-Aprilin Washington, D.C. at the Vista Hotel. The event had been scheduled prior to the Presidents March 23 speech.Itwasastanding-room-onlycrowdof00or 600people.Mr.Shershnevsatinthefrontrow.Afterwards, in a meeting with EIRs Washington bureau chief,ShershnevconcededthathisandMoscowshardlineattitudetowardLaRouchesstrategicdefenseproposalshadbeenamistake.HeaddedthatwiththePresidentsMarch23announcement,thesituationwasnow toobigforhimtohandle.HereportedthathehadrecFeature 9

ommendedaface-to-facemeetingbetweenLaRouche andGeorgiArbatov,theheadoftheU.S.A.-CanadaInstitute.Thisrecommendationwasatthatverymoment beingreviewedatthehighestlevelsbackinMoscow.

Moscow Closes Back Channel

Twoweekslater,thebackchannelwasabruptlyshut downonordersfromMoscow.Shershnevwasshortly thereaftersummonedbackhome. EvenaftertheSovietgovernmentsrejectionofthe SDI policy, LaRouche never abandoned the idea that thiswasthelast,besthopeformankind.OnSept.2, 1983thedayaftertheKAL00downing[theKorean airliner downed by the Soviet Union]LaRouche wrotetoGeorgiArbatov: Thereisnopossibleroutetowar-avoidance,LaRouche said, except the general strategic doctrine I haveproposed....Sincewemusteitherendupagreeing to what the President has offered on March 23, 1983,ordestroyoneanother,theonlyworthwhilediscussion is a discussion of means to reach such waravoidanceagreement.... IamnotintheleastinsensitivetothedeepimplicationsoftheleadingpointIproposetodiscuss.Iknow

thereareaspectsofthismatterwhicharemostpainful bytheirnaturetotheRussianworld-outlook,theissue of the 139 Council of Florence, the issue of Plato versus Aristotle. Yet, experience shows that, unless Soviet thinkers in responsible positions can fight through precisely these issues with me, avoidance of warmaybeimpossible,sincethephilosophicalbasis for conducting such negotiations may be impossible. Howmuchpsychologicaldiscomfortofthissortwould yourassociatesbewillingtoendureforsounimportant amatterasperhapssavingtheSovietUnionfromthermonuclearholocaust? These blunt but hopeful words, so typical of the visionthatLaRouchebroughtintoallofhisdealings with Moscow, spoke of axiomatics that are as valid todayastheywereadecadeago. Nowmorethanever,theworldneedsLyndonLaRoucheinthefleshandblood,1freetoshakethings upandpulltogetherthekindofinternationalcombinationofpeopleofgoodwillthatpassedtheworldalbeit imperfectlythroughthepunctum saliensof1983.
1. LaRouchewasinFederalprisonatthetime,servingasentenceon trumped-upcharges.HewasreleasedonparoleinJanuary199.

Lyndon LaRouche On Glass-Steagall and NAWAPA

The North American Water and Power Alliance

The greatest project that mankind has ever undertaken on this planet, as an economic project, now stands before us, as the opportunity which can be set into motion by the United States now launching the NAWAPA project, with the preliminary step of reorganizing the banking system through Glass-Steagall, and then moving on from there. Put Glass-Steagall through now, and I know how to deliver a victory to you.
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The German Earthquake

The British Empire, determined at its core to suppress human scientific achievements which threaten its ability to loot and rule, won a dramatic victory in Germany March 27. Aided by a lying press campaign against nuclear power which would make Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels blush, the Green Party won sufficient seats in the Baden-Wrttemberg state elections, to gain its first state minister-president in that country. This poses a real threat to Germany as an industrial nation, charged Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her discussion of the election results. As the only voice of sanity for nuclear science and development, Zepp-LaRouches political party the BSo, is determined to escalate its efforts to fill the leadership vacuum in the country, against this threat. The immediate lessons of the German vote are chilling in their implications. First, there is the shameless campaign of antinuclear hysteria which was waged by the press and the London-funded anti-nuclear movement. More than any other country, Germany was subjected to lies about the damage from the earthquake/tsunami-caused nuclear accident in Japan complete with pictures of rubblefields accompanied by headlines about the crippled nuclear plants. The day before the election, the cynical anti-science mob called demonstrations against nuclear power, which drew upwards of 250,000, the largest ever in Germany on this issue. Not since the Flagellants in the Dark Ages have the streets of Europe been filled with so many fearridden, demented people. And what has been so far successful in Germany, is precisely what the British funders of the anti-nuclear movement want to accomplish worldwide, including in the United States. For the worlds survival, this must be stopped. Secondly, there is the role of the utter lack of leadership in defense of the vital interests of the German nation in the run-up to this election. The Christian-Democrats, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, which had been in power in BadenWrttemberg for 58 years, knew it was in trouble in the state election. Did it fight to defend the precious machine-tool industry in that state, and the principle of economic progress? To the contrary. Merkel herself capitulated to the Green lies by moving against Germanys nuclear industry, thus enraging the CDUs own pro-nuclear base. The election defeat deprives Merkel and her coalition partner, the Free-Democratic Party, of a majority in the upper house of parliament. Germany is headed for ungovernability, or worsea goal the British Empire holds for all sovereign nationsunless Germans turn to principled leadership, like the BSo. The third lesson is more hopeful: There is every indication that the voters who swept the Greens into power, will turn against them just as quickly. The world is in the midst of a mass-strike process, in which the population, including that in Germany, is in a state of revolt against the institutions which are destroying their lives. As we have seen in the developments in Wisconsin and Ohio, an election victory can be followed almost immediately by a popular uprising against those swept into office only a month before. The anti-human Greens, in Germany and elsewhere, will only worsen the financial meltdown and collapse of living standards which is driving that mass-strike process. That means that more people will seek answers to the fundamental questions of value, and science, which the current existential crisis created by the British Empire, in the face of galactic danger, raises. Mankind is at stakeand those who confront that reality with reason, still have time to act.

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