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II. International Economics
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39 M
 oderator’s Introduction, Panel 4
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EDITORIAL
The Art of Optimism:
War and Peace in the Post–Nord
Using the Classical Principle
Stream Era
by Dennis Small
To Change the World
by Jason Ross
I. World War or Peace 40 L
 eibniz and America: The Best of All
Possible Revolutions
  5 OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS by Dennis Speed
State Sen. Richard H. Black (ret.):
Stop the Nuclear Brinkmanship 45 O
 ctober 15, 2022
International Schiller Institute
  7 Who Is Behind the Sabotage of the
Youth Conference: Build the New
Nord Stream Pipelines?
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Paradigm, Defeat Green Fascism!
10 S
 abotage of the Nord Stream Gas
Pipelines: For Once, the Question
‘Cui Bono?’ Is Not Sufficient
by Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Bosshard
15 To Escape the Geopolitical Trap,
Germany Must Enter Talks with
Russia
by Rainer Apel
17 Everyone Except Russia Meddled
in Italy’s General Election
by Claudio Celani
19 
PRESIDENT PUTIN’S ADDRESS
The Old Order Is Over, the Path to
Building a New Order Is Before Us
 EDITORIAL
War and Peace in the
Post–Nord Stream Era
by Dennis Small
Oct. 1— Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a
speech on Sept. 30, four days after the explosions that
crippled the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which bluntly
rejected the entire current paradigm based on a web of
lies; described the extraordinarily dangerous strategic
situation the world faces; and then provided a sugges-
tion of the direction in which a solution is to be found:
The truth has been drowned in an ocean of
myths, illusions and fakes, using extremely ag-
gressive propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The
more unbelievable the lie, the quicker people
will believe it—that is how they operate, accord-
ing to this principle.
But people cannot be fed with printed dollars
and euros. You can’t feed them with those pieces
of paper, and the virtual, inflated capitalization
of Western social media companies can’t heat
their homes…. You can’t feed anyone with
paper—you need food; and you can’t heat any-
one’s home with these inflated capitalizations—
you need energy.
Putin further stated that, “The West is ready to cross
every line to preserve the neo-colonial system which
allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks to
the domination of the dollar and technology, to collect
an actual tribute from humanity.” If Russia is defeated
and dismembered, he added, “I believe next in line are
other countries of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the
Middle East, as well as current U.S. partners and al-
lies.”
Putin was emphatic on this point:
Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the West-
ern elites targets all societies, including the citi-
October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  3
zens of Western countries themselves. This is a
challenge to all. This complete renunciation of
what it means to be human, the overthrow of
faith and traditional values, and the suppression
of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in
reverse”—pure Satanism.
Putin also took note of the growing resistance in the
West itself to these suicidal policies: “As I have already
said, we have many like-minded people in Europe and
the United States, and we feel and see their support.
An essentially emancipatory, anti-colonial movement
against unipolar hegemony is taking shape in the most
diverse countries and societies. Its power will only
grow with time. It is this force that will determine our
future geopolitical reality…. And I repeat: things will
never be the same.”
Now think back to Sept. 26, 2022: the day that the
two Nord Stream gas pipelines were sabotaged in an
act of international terrorism. This day will go down in
history as a decisive turning point in the global strategic
situation. Either that event will be the opening shot in
a rapidly escalating series of U.S.-UK-NATO extreme
provocations against Russia—up to and including ac-
tually launching tactical nuclear weapons on Ukrainian
territory, which would then be blamed on Russia, and
which NATO would then “respond to,” with nuclear
strikes against Russia itself. Or, the stunning implica-
tions of the Nord Stream sabotage, and President Pu-
tin’s bold September 30 speech, will serve to wake up
sufficient forces in the United States and Europe to de-
rail the current drive by the Western Establishment for
end-game confrontation with Russia and China. That,
in turn, would open the door to serious international
deliberation on a new security and development para-
digm to provide for Mankind’s continuing progress.
 One way or the other, the issue will be decided in a
matter of weeks—not years.
The key counter-intelligence question of “cui bono”
regarding the Nord Stream attack—who benefits?—al-
ready points the finger of suspicion at U.S.-UK-NATO
security and intelligence capabilities. If a competent
forensic investigation determines that that is indeed
what happened—that the United States and the UK
intentionally destroyed Europe’s physical economic
lifeline, sinking hundreds of millions of their “allies”
into deindustrialization and penury, not to mention the
prospect of unending war—that will uncork a political
explosion that could well kick over the entire strategic
chessboard.
The thought process will go like this: “If the U.S.-
UK blew up Nord Stream, and then blamed it on the
Russians—which is obviously ridiculous—what’s to
stop them from dropping a tactical nuke and then point-
ing the finger at Russia? After all, they bombed the Za-
porizhzhia nuclear power plant, and blamed Russia for
bombing their own plant! They committed atrocities in
Bucha and Izyum which they tried to ascribe to Russia.
They lied through their teeth about ‘weapons of mass
destruction’ in Iraq, and expected the world to believe
them. They staged the infamous Gulf of Tonkin inci-
dent to justify an illegal war in Southeast Asia. And
their daddies and grand-daddies went along with the
orchestration of the Reichstag Fire to carry out their
intended fascist coup in Germany. Just how stupid do
they think we are?!”
Very.
4  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
British imperial philosopher Bertrand Russell—the
man whom Lyndon LaRouche accurately described as
the most evil person of the 20th century—tried to make
a science of brainwashing entire populations to believe
transparent lies, such as the assertion that “snow is
black.” In his 1951 book, The Impact of Science on So-
ciety, Russell wrote prophetically:
I think the subject which will be of most impor-
tance politically is mass psychology…. Its im-
portance has been enormously increased by the
growth of modern methods of propaganda….
The social psychologists of the future will have
a number of classes of school children on whom
they will try different methods of producing an
unshakable conviction that snow is black…. Not
much can be done unless indoctrination begins
before the age of ten … verses set to music and
repeatedly intoned are very effective.
This is the same Bertrand Russell who fanatically
advocated Malthusian population reduction with the
aid of periodic plagues; the same Russell who also
urged that a preemptive nuclear attack be launched on
the Soviet Union in the immediate aftermath of World
War II.
The full speech by President Putin is available here
and more key excerpts are in this issue of EIR. The
world has changed dramatically, and the question of
leadership voices in every nation for the good of all of
mankind has never been more important.
I.  World War or Peace
OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS

State Sen. Richard Black (ret.):

Stop the Nuclear Brinkmanship
Oct. 1—Former Virginia State Senator Richard H.
Black released the following open letter to all members
of the United States Congress on September 27, 2022,
which was made available to the public the same day by
the Schiller Institute. A facsimile of the original letter is
available here.

Open Letter to Members of the United States Congress

September 27, 2022

Dear Representatives and Senators:

I am troubled by the loose talk about launching a
nuclear attack on Russia. From time to time, senior Re-
publicans and Democrats have suggested employing
such weapons. This appears to be a deliberate effort to
acclimate Americans to the idea of nuclear war.
Now, we have [Ukrainian President] Zelensky’s
office jumping on too. On September 21, 2022, News-
week ran this headline: “U.S. Needs To Threaten Russia
Sen, Richard Black (ret.), and Scott Ritter,
former UN weapons inspector and Marine
intelligence officer joined Diane Sare, candidate
for U.S. Senator from New York, to discuss the
greatest threat of nuclear war since the 1962
Cuban missile crisis on Friday morning September
30, 2022, asking, “Is World War III Inevitable?”
All three of the speakers were put on a blacklist,
considered by many to be a hit list, by Ukraine’s
Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) on
July 14, 2022. EIR’s report on that “Global NATO”
offensive against advocates of peace was
published in the Sept. 2, 2022 issue of EIR. The
full one-hour-plus live dialogue is available here.
Schiller Institute
Col. Richard H. Black
with Nuclear Strike: Ukraine.” The article quotes
Mykhailo Podolyak, Zelensky’s senior aide, as saying,
“The other nuclear states need to say very firmly that as
soon as Russia even thinks of carrying out nuclear
strikes on foreign territory—in this case the territory of
Ukraine—there will be swift retaliatory nuclear strikes
to destroy the nuclear launch sites in Russia.”
Of course, it is impossible to limit retaliatory nu-
clear strikes to destroying only the nuclear launch sites.
Not only would damage be widespread, but Russia
would be forced to respond in kind to threats targeting
its nuclear deterrence capability. Russia would launch
an immediate, massive nuclear response, including air
and ground-based hypersonic missiles and submarine-
launched ballistic missiles. Each Russian submarine
would shower down 100 nuclear warheads, sufficient to
incinerate the entire [U.S.] National Capital Region or
the Western European industrial heartland.
As the Ukrainian War drags on, globalists are

October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  5
marching us relentlessly toward this nuclear Armaged-
don. Why?
There would have been no war had we not over-
thrown the democratically elected government of
Ukraine by violently ousting President Yanukovych in
2014. We promoted war by flooding Ukraine with mas-
sive arms shipments afterwards. (See: the June 4, 2018
article, “How and why the U.S. Government Perpe-
trated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine.”)
The U.S. could have achieved peace by simply
pressing Ukraine to implement the 2014 Minsk Peace
Agreements which it had signed, establishing a clear
framework for settling outstanding issues peacefully.
Ukraine promised to implement the Minsk agreements,
but chose instead to make war on the Donbass for the
next seven years. Ukraine’s attacks killed 14,000 people
before Russia ever entered the war.
Within two months after Russia crossed into
Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine were finalizing a draft
peace agreement. However, [UK] Prime Minister Boris
Johnson suddenly flew to Kiev to block its implementa-
tion, undoubtedly coordinating with the U.S. State De-
partment beforehand. War would continue, regardless
of the parties’ longing for peace.
NATO had ample opportunity for peace but de­
liberately chose war. The U.S. realized that, with Rus-
sia’s back to the wall, it would have no choice to but to
attack. In 2007, U.S. Ambassador to Russia William
Burns pointedly warned that movement toward ab-
sorbing Ukraine into NATO might well trigger war
between Ukraine and Russia. Nonetheless, the Obama
administration overthrew the Ukrainian president
and flooded in weapons, knowing that doing so
would trigger war. (See WikiLeaks for the Burns
memo.)
Today, wealthy globalists have billions at stake, and
they intend to have their war profits even if it means
gambling the lives of hundreds of millions of people
across the globe.
6  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
Few Americans knew anything about Ukraine
before February 24th. Was Ukraine in South America,
Asia, Africa, or Europe? Many Americans couldn’t
have answered that question. But now, in order to ad-
dress a local border dispute on the other side of the
globe, war hawks demand concrete steps toward a nu-
clear war that might exterminate 60% of humanity,
plunging mankind into a primitive state.
Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon,
Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton all approached nu-
clear confrontation with utmost caution. But the Obama
administration changed course when it recklessly over-
threw the Ukrainian government in 2014 and flooded
Ukraine with weapons aimed at Russia. It did so know-
ing that it was threatening Russia’s most vital national
interest: the defense of its territory against nuclear ag-
gression.
Now, the Biden administration threatens to cast cau-
tion to the winds. Many of its allies suggest a game of
one-upmanship where the U.S. and NATO fire nuclear
mis­siles in response to Russia’s use of such weapons to
de­fend its territory. In other words, we would destroy
the entire world as our way of saying, “Oh yeah? Well
take this!”
Would simple revenge justify killing hundreds of
millions of unknowing people? Should we annihilate
the world’s population to intervene in a border war
where the U.S. has no vital national interest?
The U.S. can promptly end this war by making
Ukraine a neutral, non-aligned state, just as we did
during the Cold War with Austria in 1955. Yes, there
would be some territorial adjustments resulting from
the war. But peace would end the ongoing bloodshed,
avert a nuclear conflagration, and assure Ukraine’s
long-term safety and independence.
Nuclear war is unthinkable; peace is the better
course of action. Please consider it.
Sincerely,
Senator Dick Black (ret.)
Who Is Behind the Sabotage of
the Nord Stream Pipelines?
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
This article was written by Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche for
the German weekly, Neue Solidarität, and translated
into English for EIR. She is the founder of the interna-
tional Schiller Institute and the Federal Chair of the
BüSo political party in Germany.
Oct. 1—The sabotage and possible long-term destruc-
tion of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipe-
lines is an attack on Germany’s existential interests, and
means millions of German citizens and many firms will
suffer insolvencies and unaffordable heating costs for
the coming Winter. It also undermines the demands at
recent protest actions in many German cities, of dem-
onstrators who called for an end to the sanctions against
Russia and the opening of both pipelines, in order to
resolve the two most dramatic threats now confronting
Germany: the acute danger of a world war stemming
from the confrontation with Russia; and the danger of
the total economic collapse, due in large part to the ex-
plosion of energy prices.
If there was ever a situation in which the govern-
ment needed to fulfill its oath to protect the German
people from harm, this act of terrorism requires intran-
sigent clarification and consequences for those respon-
sible. The implication of the answer to the question of
who perpetrated it, is enormous, and is likely identical
to the question of war and peace.
Beyond all speculation as to who those responsible
might be, the issue is comparable to the circumstances
surrounding the attack of Sept. 11, 2001. Just as U.S. air
space was completely surveilled by the North Ameri-
can Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the
Baltic Sea is among the most tightly monitored zones in
the world, and, since the time of the Cold War, has been
controlled by NATO, and of course by the neighboring
countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Germany)
with a dense network of sonar and underwater micro-
phones to monitor all movement on sea and in the air.
As in all criminal acts, the questions to be asked are:
Who had the means, who had the technical and person-
nel capabilities to carry out the act, and who was physi-
cally present on site in the relevant period of time? The
October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  7
need to fulfill these three criteria limits the list of possi-
ble perpetrators to a very short one. And given the tre-
mendous technical requirements for damaging steel
pipelines lying on the sea floor at depths of 70–88 meters,
it is generally agreed that such capacities are only at the
disposal of governments—and of them, only three:
Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Unlikeliness of Russian Responsibility
An extraordinarily useful assessment of the sabo-
tage of the Nord Stream pipelines has been published1
by Swiss Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Bosshard, who took part
in the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission in 2014 in
Ukraine as senior planning officer, and was later in the
OSCE High-Level Planning Group as operations offi-
cer. He describes the considerable technical challenges
that must be overcome in such a sabotage act, which
quite clearly limit the possible culprits to military spe-
cial forces. And that increases the chances that conclu-
sive information on the attack will come to light.
The robust construction of the pipelines, which are
made of special steel and enveloped with concrete, then
buried under rubble and covered with other material,
requires complex techniques and the use of high-explo-
sive charges at 80 meters under the sea.
Bosshard points out that if the Russian Navy were
the perpetrator, it would not have had to take the trouble
of destroying the pipelines off the Danish island of
Bornholm in the middle of an area closely monitored by
NATO, but could have carried it off more easily in the
Gulf of Finland. That is, unless the intention was to
demonstrate to NATO the superiority of Russian capa-
bilities in seabed warfare, which is an unlikely explana-
tion that Bosshard also references.
So if the Russians can be more or less ruled out as
the culprit—after all, they could have simply turned off
the tap if Moscow’s aim was to “foment uncertainty”
and drive-up gas prices as some media moot—what
other options remain?
1. In English translation in this issue of EIR, and in the original German
on the Schiller Institute website.
 On the Nachdenkseiten website, Jens Berger notes
that the annual NATO maneuver BALTOPS took place
in the Baltic Sea in mid-June, with 47 warships under
the command of the U.S. 6th Fleet, including the U.S.
task force around the helicopter carrier USS Kearsarge.
Part of this maneuver was an operation by Task Force
68, which was operating off the island of Bornholm
with unmanned underwater vehicles that can deactivate
mines but, of course, theoretically place them as well.
Strangely enough, this very same task force around
the USS Kearsarge was recorded by position signals
last week only 10 nautical miles away from Bornholm.
This does not yet mean, of course, that these ships were
involved, but that they may very well have been.
Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia
added further observations on this at a UN Security
Bundesregierung/Denzel
In a video call with his Western counterparts Oct. 1, Olaf Scholz,
Chancellor of Germany, said Berlin would “support the joint
investigation” with Denmark and Sweden of the Nord Stream pipeline you USA.” That tweet has since been deleted.
sabotage.
Council meeting convened at short notice on Friday. He
noted that the USS Kearsarge had remained in the vi-
cinity of Bornholm since June; that the ship’s helicopter
squad had been patrolling the Bornholm area since
early August; and that the flight line of these aircraft
surprisingly coincided with the pipeline route. Ambas-
sador Nebenzia:
I emphasize that this is open data on geolocation
of sea and air transport, which is collected on the
basis of the transponder’s signal. It means that
the United States did not conceal its presence in
the area and completed its maneuvers in an ex-
hibitory and ostentatious way.
Is it likely that Russia destroyed the pipelines, in
which €20 billion in total had been invested, and from
8  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
which it could have expected considerable revenue
over the long-term? Vladimir Putin had offered as re-
cently as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO) summit in Samarkand, two weeks before the
sabotage, to open Nord Stream 2, delivering 55 billion
cubic meters of natural gas per year, if Germany agreed
to lift sanctions against Russia.
‘Thank You, USA’
In the meantime, a video has gone viral on the Inter-
net showing President Biden at a joint press conference
with German Chancellor Scholz at the White House on
Feb. 7, 2022, where Biden promised that the United
States was in a position to put an end to Nord Stream 2,
in the event Russia invaded Ukraine. Responding to a
reporter who asked how he intended to do it, since Ger-
many was in control of the project, Biden answered:
“I promise you: We will be able to do it.”
Biden was not the only one to issue such threats:
Tucker Carlson showed a video on Fox TV of [Un-
der-Secretary of State for Political Affairs] Victoria
Nuland announcing the same thing at a State Depart-
ment press conference back in January, in the event
of a Russian invasion: “One way or another, Nord
Stream 2 won’t move forward.” After the attack on
the pipelines, former Polish Foreign Minister Rado-
slaw Sikorski—husband of the bellicose Atlanticist
Anne Applebaum—rejoiced, referring in a tweet to
Biden’s Feb. 7 promise. “A small thing, but so much
joy,” Sikorski wrote. And in another tweet: “Thank
Obviously, the facts given here are only leads,
and not yet proof of the perpetrators’ identities. But
the implications of the attack on the Nord Stream pipe-
lines are enormous. They massively increase the imme-
diate prospect of Europe’s deindustrialization, and its
dependence on U.S. liquified natural gas (LNG). The
skyrocketing costs are already causing a massive
exodus of companies from Europe, and especially from
Germany, to the United States. All this means an assault
on the living standards of the population.
The fact that the pipelines have suffered consider-
able damage, and that repairs, according to the opera-
tors, would not be impossible but would take a very long
time, has for now taken the wind out of the sails of the
German protesters who were demanding the opening of
the pipelines and the end of the sanctions against Russia.
The pipelines will be inoperable this Winter and beyond,
and a possible path to a diplomatic solution with Russia,
given the growing threat of war, has been buried.
‘Cold-Blooded Economic Warfare’
However, if it is established that the attack was actu-
ally the execution of what Biden had announced Feb. 7
in the presence of Scholz, then Europe will have to im-
mediately free itself from subjugation to the United
States and the U.K. and mobilize all its efforts to over-
coming the conflict with Russia, and increasingly with
China, by diplomatic means.
In any event, U.S. responsibility would not be en-
tirely new. On Feb. 27, 2004, the Washington Post re-
ported that Ronald Reagan had agreed to a CIA plan [in
January 1982] to sabotage the Soviet economy by co-
vertly feeding it, among other things, contaminated
software that later caused a gigantic explosion of the
Siberian gas pipeline in the summer of 1982. This rev-
elation was taken from the memoirs of former Air Force
Secretary Thomas C. Reed, who reported that this ex-
plosion was just one example of the “cold-blooded eco-
nomic warfare” that the CIA waged against the Soviet
Union in the final years of the Cold War. It was eco-
nomic bankruptcy that led to the end of the Cold War,
not battles or an exchange of nuclear strikes, Reed said.
We will have to make sure that the German politi-
cians who want to “ruin Russia” do not willingly put
themselves at the service of the perpetrators in covering
up the crime. For that, the “harshest consequences,” as
announced by Ursula von der Leyen [President of the
European Commission], will have to be implemented,
if the Germans do not want to give up altogether. It
must be ensured in any case that Russia is included in
the investigations. The fact that Scholz has promised
support to Denmark and Sweden is definitely too little.
Likewise, that Germany intends to strengthen precau-
tions and protection against sabotage for critical infra-
structure together with its partners and allies, as gov-
ernment spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said, sounds
more like a declaration of surrender than an announce-
ment of the government’s intention to stand up for the
existential interests of the German people, as it swore to
do in its oath of office.
It is high time to remind them of that commitment.
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Sabotage of the Nord Stream
Pipelines: For Once, the Question
‘Cui Bono?’ Is Not Sufficient
by Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Bosshard
To counter loose speculation on the sabotage of the
Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph
Bosshard of the Swiss Army has written for EIR an au-
thoritative analysis of the requirements for such a sabo-
tage. An expert on countering cyber war, Colonel Boss-
hard during 2014-2017 served in the peacekeeping
mission of the Organization for Security and Coopera-
tion in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine. In 2014, as Senior
Planning Officer in the Special Monitoring Mission to
Ukraine, he was in Kiev, Mariupol, and Dnipropetro-
vsk. Until 2017 he served as Special Military Adviser to
the Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the
OSCE, and to the Swiss Ambassador to Kiev. From
2017 to 2020, Colonel Bosshard was Operations Offi-
cer in the OSCE High-Level Planning Group, planning
for a military peacekeeping operation in the South
Caucasus. Subheads are the author’s.
Sept. 28—Speculation is currently rife as to who was
responsible for the sabotage attack on the Nord Stream
1 and 2 natural gas pipelines off the Danish island of
Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. While some Western com-
mentators are already asking the question of “cui
bono?” (who benefits?) and are feverishly looking for
hints of a false flag operation by the Russians,1others
are reminding us of those who, months ago, desperately
sought to prevent the Nord Stream 2 from being com-
missioned. So far, only the time and place of the events,
that were unanimously identified as acts of sabotage,
are really clear. This lets some press representatives
imagine such an act of sabotage to be a little easier than
it should be in fact.
On Sept. 26, Nord Stream AG announced on its
website in Zug, Switzerland, that a pressure drop had
1. See, for example, Deutsche Welle’s contribution with experts, and
that of Tucker Carlson on his Sept. 27 Fox News Show, as reported
Sept. 28 by LifeSiteNews.
10  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
occurred in both legs of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural
gas pipelines the night before.2
A second pressure drop occurred on the evening of
Sept. 26. According to Nord Stream AG, these events
can only be explained by the physical destruction of the
lines. Based on the recordings by measuring devices for
detecting earthquakes around the Baltic Sea, Danish
and Swedish seismologists were able to clarify without
a doubt that the seismic waves came from explosions
and not from earthquakes, and they were able to give
the exact times.3 Meanwhile, photos from the Danish
Air Force have confirmed large amounts of gas rising to
the sea surface at these locations (Figure 1).
Reliability of the Information
The identified fields of gas bubbles in the Baltic Sea
certainly correspond exactly to the location of the ex-
plosions on the seabed, because the drift of the rising
gas cannot be large at this shallow water depth. In com-
parison, the seismologists’ information about the epi-
center of the detected explosions is somewhat impre-
cise, which is probably due to the precision limits of the
measuring devices used.
The sites of the explosions are just outside Danish
territorial waters: Apparently, Denmark was to be pre-
vented from interpreting the acts of sabotage as a direct
threat. For the same reason, care was probably taken to
ensure that the acts of sabotage took place outside of a
training area of the Danish Navy. The leak in Nord
Stream 2 southeast of Bornholm is almost 30 km from
the island, and the one in Nord Stream 1 over 50 km
away. Despite the currently mild Autumn weather in the
2. See Nord Stream’s press release of Sept. 26 and its update from
Sept. 27.
3. See map. For the location of the explosions, see this map. Infor-
mation for seafarers from the Danish maritime authorities is available
here. Information from the seismologists is available in an article post-
ed Sept. 26 on the VolcanoDiscovery website.

Coordinates of the gas bubble
fields near Bornholm
70 meters and 88 meters deep,
respectively
ESD 138, 139: Area of Danish
Navy exercises
Figure 1. Locations and Times of the Explosions
region and the water temperatures of around 15 degrees
[Centigrade], access to the two natural gas pipelines is
a challenge, because Autumn storms are not uncommon
in the Baltic Sea from September onward.4
Professionals at Work
The pipelines are at a depth of 70 and 88 meters at
these locations. Diving at this depth requires the use of
different mixtures of oxygen with other gases such as
nitrogen and helium, the use of special diving equip-
ment if necessary, compliance with decompression
stops, and the rapid availability of decompression
chambers in the event of an accident.
All this excludes sabotage by recreational divers,
because diving under these conditions requires special
training and equipment. Professionals were probably at
work here. For such professionals, however, diving
depths of 70-90 m do not represent a problem, so there
is a good chance that meaningful information on the
type of demolition can be obtained in the coming weeks.
Whoever destroyed the natural gas pipelines can expect
4. Information on Baltic Sea water temperatures, climate data, and
weather are available here from watertemperature.org. Weather data is
also available here from Meteoblue.com, for the Baltic Sea off Born-
holm.
October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  11
09/26, 07:30 p.m.
09/26, 02:03 a.m.
https://www.koordinaten-umrechner.de, with author’s additions
incriminating evidence literally to come to light.
Specially modified submarines are able to release
and retrieve divers through their torpedo tubes or
through special hatches without them having to make
time-consuming decompression stops when surfacing.
For this purpose, such submarines are equipped with a
decompression chamber in which divers make up for
the decompression stops, so to speak, until they can
move around in the submarine again at normal pres-
sure. Here you can also relax between dives. However,
decompression chambers could also be installed on
smaller ships disguised as sea rescue ships.
Nord Stream 2 was built according to the specifica-
tions of Det Norske Veritas (DNV)5: the pipes of the
5. See “Offshore Standard Det Norske Veritas DNV-OS-F101 Subma-
rine Pipeline Systems January 2000,” available here, especially page
31. [If that website is blocked, then here —ed.] Det Norske Veritas
(DNV) is an autonomous and independent foundation dedicated to pro-
tecting life, property and the environment at sea and on land. DNV
provides classification, certification and verification services related
to the quality of ships, offshore units and facilities, and onshore in-
dustries worldwide and conducts research in these areas. [Translator’s
note: The independent Norwegian foundation, Det Norske Veritas, or
DNV, was established in 1864. At that time, the shipping of goods and
passengers was not very reliable. To reduce the uncertainties, a com-
mittee was formed to evaluate and regulate the classification of ships.
DNV’s goal is therefore to establish criteria that guarantee the safety
Nord Stream 2 are made of special steel L485/X70 with
portions of copper, chromium, molybdenum, manga-
nese and other metals; have an inner diameter of 1,153
mm; and are 26.8 to 41 mm thick.6
They are designed reliably to withstand an internal
pressure of 170-220 PSIG [pounds per square inch,
gauge, or relative to atmospheric pressure—ed.] at a
depth of up to 220 m for years to come. In addition to
their already strong construction, DNV requirements
require the steel pipes to be concrete-coated and buried
in the seabed, covered with sand or rubble, or covered
with a so-called mattress of some other material.
Large Amount of Materials
In order to completely blow up the Nord Stream’s
steel pipe alone, a quantity of at least 20 kg of explo-
sives is required, which must fit snugly against the pipe
so that its effect does not fizzle out. In addition, there
are the explosives that are necessary to destroy the con-
crete casing: in terms of quantity, this could be even
more than that for the steel pipe itself. However, this
means that the perpetrators had to first uncover the
pipeline and clear the pipeline cover to the side, to
ensure that slipping material cannot slip into the leak
created [by the explosion —ed.] and close it.
If the perpetrators did not bother to remove the cov-
ering in front of the pipeline before detonating, then they
would have to use a correspondingly larger explosive
charge. That could soon amount to several hundred kilo-
grams of explosives. These figures refer to very high ex-
plosives from the military sector. Civilian explosives
often deliberately achieve lower explosion speeds and
then require a correspondingly larger quantity.
The pressure of the escaping gas may have contrib-
uted to the seismic fingerprint that the Danish and
Swedish scientists found. If the perpetrators had wanted
to cause a secondary explosion of the natural gas still in
the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, they would have had to
inject even larger amounts of oxygen. At a depth of 80
m, this is a complex project, because a pressure of 8-9
PSIG has to be overcome.
An explosion of 28 tons of conventional explosives
in the Negev Desert in Israel in 2004 caused an earth-
quake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale.7 When the
of ocean-going vessels.]
6. See Nord Stream facts and figures here. and here.
7. See the article, “Powerful Explosion Commissioned by Israeli Seis-
mologists,” in Neue Zürcher Zeitung of June 18, 2004.
12  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
Russian submarine Kursk sank, scientists recorded a
first explosion of 70-100 kg of TNT 4,500 km away,
followed by a second of 3-7 tons.8 One should think of
such magnitudes when talking about blowing up the
two pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
The robust construction and difficult accessibility of
natural gas pipelines in general, even on land, mean that
operators and authorities in the countries concerned
usually do without a complete monitoring of such pipe-
lines. It would be much easier for a saboteur to hit one
of the above-ground gas supply facilities.
Whoever blew up the two gas pipelines had to put in
a lot of technical effort and spend a lot of time on the
object. The extensive work cannot be done with a few
frogmen, and the delivery of explosives, oxygen bottles
and tools required efficient means of transport. This
cannot be done with inflatable boats.
The high expenditure of materials and time, in con-
nection with the difficulty of access to the natural gas
pipelines, suggests that the perpetrators had been work-
ing at the crime scene for a long time and were present
with ships or boats during this time. It’s a wonder they
didn’t arouse suspicion, so close to Danish territorial
waters and a Danish Navy training area. Military per-
sonnel usually react with suspicion to the presence of
strangers near their training areas.
At the same time, the water depth of 70 and 88 m is
a strong argument against the use of submarines to pre-
pare the detonation, because large submarines in par-
ticular prefer to operate in deeper waters, especially
when we are dealing with presumably well-monitored
waters such as the Baltic Sea. However, the deepest
waters of the Baltic Sea are found in the Gotland Basin,
as well as north and west of the island of Åland, several
hundred kilometers from Bornholm. In the search for
the perpetrators, it will probably be necessary to look
for smaller ships rather than submarines.
War on the Seabed
In recent years, the seabed has increasingly become
a battlefield of the great powers. It is known that the
U.S.A., China, Russia and France are running seabed
warfare programs in order to protect their own under-
water infrastructure and to attack that of the enemy.
Small submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles
(drones) play an important role here. These are usually
8. See the corresponding article, “Seismologists Analyze Explosions
on the Kursk,” in Die Welt of Jan. 16, 2001.

Figure 2. A U.S. maritime patrol aircraft (the aircraft symbol in red) on Sept. 25 over the Baltic Sea, its track indicated by the dark
blue line. The light blue symbols are airports.
brought to their place of use by large submarines. The
U.S.A. and Russia converted existing submarines into
such mother boats and also deployed some completely
new crafts for this purpose. But also surface units such
as reconnaissance ships—often referred to as spy
ships—can deploy such unmanned devices at the scene
of action.9
So far, submarine drones in particular have primarily
fulfilled tasks of intelligence gathering and counter-intel-
ligence service, for example by deploying sonar buoys10
and “de-bugging” bug-infested telecommunications
cables. Cutting cables underwater is also part of their
range of skills.11 However, the ability to carry out exten-
9. An overview of Russian submarines for seabed warfare can be found
here on H.I. Sutton’s blogsite. As a surface unit, the Russian recon-
naissance ship Yantar should also have the appropriate means. See H.I.
Sutton’s article from 2017 on the Yantar, “Russian Ship Loitering Near
Undersea Cables.” The U.S. Virginia class Block VI attack submarines
will all be equipped with means of seabed warfare, according to an
article, “Navy New Virginia Block VI Virginia Attack Boat Will Inform
SSN(X), posted Nov. 20, 2020 on USNI News.
10. Following the U.S. Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) system
for monitoring the world’s oceans during the Cold War, Russia has now
also implemented a network of hydro-acoustic sensors in the form of
the “Garmoniya system.” More on hydro-acoustic systems is available
here.
11. These include the Klavesin-1R, the Vityaz-D, and the Poseidon on
October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  13
Map according to Flight Radar 24, see footnote 12 below.
sive work under water has not been under consideration
so far, because the autonomy of unmanned underwater
vehicles has so far been limited. This limitation excludes
long journeys from the base to the site of operation.12
Well-Monitored Baltic Sea
Even today, the Baltic Sea is well monitored. In ad-
dition to hydro-acoustic sensors found on board war-
ships of all kinds, numerous sensors on the coast are
likely to be used to monitor shipping traffic. In addition,
there are surveillance flights by sea reconnaissance air-
craft and anti-submarine warfare aircraft from inter-
ested states. The night before the attack on Nord Stream
2, for example, a U.S. P-8A Poseidon maritime recon-
naissance aircraft was in the region (Figure 2).
And just as the first explosion occurred, sometime
between 01:32 and 02:20 a.m. on Sept. 26, an unidenti-
fied aircraft was being refueled by a U.S. KC-135 tanker
in northeastern Poland. While the tanker came from
Frankfurt, all that is known of the refueled aircraft is
that it was first detected that night off the Faroe Islands
the Russian side; more information is available in an article, “Russian
Autonomous Uninhabited Underwater Vehicles for Military and Civil
Purposes: A Brief Overview,” posted Sept. 9, 2021 on the Integral web-
site.
12. See the Flight Radar 24 home page.

Figure 3. A U.S. tanker and an unknown aircraft on Sept. 26 over the Baltic Sea. The unknown (red) aircraft’s flight is indicated by
the blue line.
and that it “disappeared” off Bornholm at 03:05 a.m.,
probably because it switched off its transponder. At
this time it was flying at an altitude of approx. 7,200
feet (= 2,200 m) at a speed of 825 km/h (446 knots).
This is unusual behavior for an aircraft over the open
sea (Figure 3).13
As things stand, it can almost only have been a U.S.
long-range reconnaissance aircraft. Remarkably, not
even its identity is known; even sea reconnaissance air-
craft use transponder signals to identify themselves in
dense airspace. However, it is questionable whether the
crew of the unknown U.S. plane can do much to clarify
the sabotage attacks, because the explosive charges on
the gas pipelines may have been lying on the bottom of
the Baltic Sea for a long time. But the example shows
that surveillance of the Baltic Sea is tight and that ships
from far outside the region would find it difficult to op-
erate in the region unnoticed for any length of time.
‘Stop, Thief’?
This raises a completely different question than the
question of who is to benefit: Who finds it easier to
carry out such an act of sabotage? If it was the Russian
13. Ibid.
14  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
Map according to Flight Radar 24, see footnote 13 below.
Navy that carried out an extensive sabotage operation
in the middle of a sea area surrounded by NATO coun-
tries or candidate countries, 300 km from the nearest
Russian naval base, then the Russians would have made
NATO look ridiculous. That would have been an im-
pressive demonstration of Russian seabed warfare ca-
pabilities. The Russians could have accomplished the
mere destruction of Nord Stream 1 and 2—without any
demonstration effect—much more easily on their door-
step in the Gulf of Finland.
In contrast, it were much easier for NATO: Only in
June, the U.S. 6th Fleet, together with its NATO part-
ners, carried out exercises just off Bornholm in which
unmanned underwater vehicles were also tested.14 The
“BALTOPS 22” exercise could have been used as a test
run or as a camouflage backdrop for installing explo-
sive devices on the natural gas pipelines. Of course,
there is currently no evidence of authorship by either
side, and a truly independent investigation is unlikely to
ever take place. But the unbiased observer has a ques-
tion: Is a thief shouting “Stop, thief”?
14. See the article, “BALTOPS 22: A Perfect Opportunity for Research
and Testing New Technology,” posted June 12, 2022 on NATO’s Naval
Striking and Support Forces website.
To Escape the Geopolitical Trap,
Germany Must Enter Talks with Russia
by Rainer Apel

Oct. 1—While the discussion goes on about who sabo-
taged the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and who will benefit
from it, one thing is already clear: Germany does not
bene­fit at all; the sabotage is a decisive move on the geo- business daily. This is not a temporary bottleneck situa-
political chessboard that is confronting the Germans with
losing the game. Germany’s economy has been highly
dependent on Russian natural gas supplies for many
years, with the Russians always being reliable suppliers.
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline, construction of
which began in 2018 and was concluded in 2021, was
also meant to make transits of Russian gas available
to several other European countries, but the main be-
nefit would have been on the German side. This
Baltic undersea pipeline, running from St. Pe-
tersburg in Russia to Greifswald in Germany,
was built for about €12 billion, but was never
opened, and after the sabotage incident, it can
not be opened for some time to come.
The pipeline was vehemently opposed by geo-
politicians in the United States, the United King-
dom, Poland, the European Commission, and
Ukraine. Ukraine claimed that Nord Stream 2
would make its own pipeline grid—which, being
outside of any sanctions, pumps 42 million cubic
meters of Russian gas daily on to Europe to this
day—superfluous).
For Germany, the loss of 40% of its national Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, 2005-2021.
energy mix, by the combined effect of anti-Russian
sanctions and now the sabotage of the Nord Stream 2,
has devastating consequences. About 50% of German
households use gas for heating and cooking. About the
same percentage of industry needs gas to generate elec-
tricity and/or for petrochemicals production. There are
daily statements coming from industry associations,
many of them writing open letters to the government
sounding the alarm, but so far to no avail. Instead, the
government keeps talking about “alternatives,” particu-
larly LNG (liquified natural gas), that simply do not exist Angela Merkel, speaking at the opening of the Chancel-
in sufficient volumes to replace the Russian supplies.
This implies that the foreseeable substantial bott-
lenecks this winter will cause rationing of enormous
scope, particularly for energy-intensive industries, and
will force them to reduce production, lay off workers
and staff and, for many of the smaller companies, to
close for good. The term “deindustrialization” has al-
ready entered the headlines of numerous press arti-
cles—notably in Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading
tion, it is an existential threat to Germany and its eco-
nomy. And against the background of all European eco-
nomies being closely interconnected, if Germany, the
biggest national industrial economy in Europe, goes
under, it will pull the rest of Europe down with it. Not
only that: If there is no reversal of the present NATO
confrontation course against Russia, the threat of World
War III becomes acute, with Germany and Europe and
their populations being the sure casualties.
CC/Raimond Spekking
Merkel Breaks Silence:
What Kohl Would Have Done
Instead of playing down the crisis on the one side
while issuing daily calls on the population and industry
to “voluntarily” reduce gas consumption, the govern-
ment finally has to do something that serves the German
national interest—even if that runs into conflict with
what the geopoliticians in Germany and abroad think. It
is interesting to note that former German Chancellor
lor Helmut Kohl Foundation on Sept. 27, criticized
those that dismiss Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
words as something to ignore. Merkel said:
Taking words seriously, not dismissing them out
of hand as just a bluff, but dealing with them seri-

October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  15
 ously, that is by no means a sign of weakness or
appeasement, but a sign of political wisdom—a
wisdom that helps preserve room for maneuver or,
at least as important, even develop new options.
Asked at the same event what she thought former
Chancellor Helmut Kohl would have done in the pre-
sent precarious situation, Merkel responded that she be-
lieved he would “make every effort to protect and re-
store the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine,” but he
would also look to “the day after” and keep an open
mind about something “unimaginable now: how relati-
ons to and with Russia could one day be redeveloped”
after the conflict ends. Two days later, at another event
in Goslar, Merkel called for a “new security architec-
ture in Europe” with Russia included.
This is not “unimaginable”: Previous Chancellors of
Germany, before Kohl, who managed to open the door to
German unification in 1990 against the initial heavy op-
position of the U.S.A., UK, and France, were creative in
developing a constructive dialogue with Soviet Russia in
Cold War times. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer reesta-
blished diplomatic relations with the Kremlin with a
spectacular trip to Moscow in 1955; Chancellor Willy
Brandt insisted that Germany sign the early 1970s gas-
pipeline deal with Soviet Russia, involving the supply of
pipes made in western Germany for the construction of
the pipelines, which, once completed, would pump gas
to Germany; Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (together
with Putin and French President Jacques Chirac) openly
opposed the military intervention against Iraq in 2003;
even Chancellor Merkel, initially opposed, like the we-
stern geopoliticians, to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline,
changed views and finally okayed the project.
The question to be answered by the present govern-
ment of Chancellor Olaf Scholz is: Does Germany have
sovereignty, or doesn’t it? Is it condemned to sit idly by
while its economy is ruined, sacrificed on the altar of
those who push for ultimate confrontation with Russia?
An emergency effort to restore Nord Stream 2 is
certainly feasible, but a political decision to do so has to
be made first. It is worth noting that the same Russian
statement, two weeks ago—that with weapons delive-
ries and a leading role behind sanctions, Germany had
“crossed a red line”—also made the offer to pump gas
through Nord Stream 2 to Germany once it were opened.
That shows there is room for constructive diplomacy;
but time is running out. The German government has to
act now, or it will be too late. Too late for Germany, too
late for Europe, and for the rest of the world as well!

EIR readers knew 27 years ago that the

destruction of Ukraine was in the works.
READ THIS INTERVIEW, published May 5, 1995, with Ukrainian Members of Parliament
Natalya Vitrenko and Vladimir Marchenko:
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1995/eirv22n19-19950505/eirv22n19-19950505_020-natalya_vitrenko_and_vladimir_ma.pdf
These Ukrainian elected officials, leading collaborators with
Lyndon LaRouche and his movement, pointed out with astonishing
clarity what the consequences would be of
Ukraine’s embrace of the International Monetary
Fund. They warned that “Ukraine is being strictly
held in the status of a semi-colonial country”,
with a corresponding suppression of the nation’s
productive potential, and the imposition of the
IMF’s standard brutal austerity upon the nation’s
population. This was a recipe for disaster, and
created the social conditions for the resurgence
of Nazism which we are seeing today in Ukraine.
Oleh Tyahnybok, founder of Ukraine Right Sector Party.

16  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
Everyone Except Russia Meddled
in Italy’s General Election
by Claudio Celani

Sept. 28 (Reprinted by permission from the Eu­ropean
E.I.R. Strategic Alert Weekly Newsletter)—The good
news about the general elections held Sept. 25 in Italy
is that voters have unequivocally punished Mario
Draghi and his legacy; the bad news is that “Draghi-
ism,” while kicked out of the front door, might come
back through the window.
The elections were won by the center-right alliance,
with 43.79% in the Chamber of Deputies and 44.2% in
the Senate. Thanks to the “majority bonus” peculiar to
Italy’s parliamentary election system, the coalition ends
fact that under the ruinous reign of the Draghi
government which the European Commission had
essentially “appointed,” FdI was the only opposition
party. Conversely, the Lega lost 50% of its 2018 votes
because it had joined the Draghi government.
The center-left suffered a historic debacle, mainly
because they were the most enthusiastic supporters of
the Draghi government, but also because Democratic
Party leader Enrico Letta refused to ally with the Five
Star Movement (M5S) and ran in a coalition with minor
groups, such as the Greens and the pro-EU party “Più

CC/Vox España EU/Fred Marvaux

Giorgia Meloni (left), expected to be Italy’s next Prime Minister, represents a new political correlation that could get out from
under the control of the European Union establishment. On the eve of the election, European Commission President Ursula van
der Leyen (right) issued threats against Italy not to deviate from the EU’s “integration” process.

up with a large majority in both houses (235 seats out of
400 in the Chamber and 112 out of 200 in the Senate).
Within the center-right, Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia
(FdI, Brothers of Italy) got the most votes as expected,
with 25.99%, while its allies Lega scored 8.77%, Forza
Italia, 8.11%, and a tiny moderate group 0.95%. In the
Senate, FdI got 26.01%; the Lega, 8.85%; Forza Italia,
8.27%; and the “Moderates,” 0.89%.
The big success of FdI, which increased its votes
sevenfold from the 2018 elections, is due to the simple
Europa,” plus the splinter group around former M5S
leader and Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio. Thus, the
center-left only received 26.13% and 80 seats in the
Chamber, and 25.99% and 51 seats in the Senate.
The M5S, which ran alone under former Prime
Minister Giuseppe Conte, got an unexpected 15.43%
and 41 seats in the Deputies and an equally unexpected
15.55% and 28 seats in the Senate. That result is much
lower than the whopping 32% of 2018, but still better
than forecast, given the incompetence shown by its

October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  17
representatives in the government, and the fact that
they, too, had been part of the Draghi government.
However, Conte had expressed his disagreement with
Draghi on the Ukraine war, and ultimately promised to
maintain his “baby,” the so-called reddito di
cittadinanza, or “citizens’ income,” which all other
parties want to either cancel or reduce.
A fourth group, born out of the merger of former
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s Italia Viva party and
former Minister Carlo Calenda’s new party called
Azione, failed to reach its goal of over 10%, which
would have allowed it to play the kingmaker between
the two blocs, receiving 7.79% in the Deputies and
7.73% in the Senate. This is worth reporting, as Renzi-
Calenda had enjoyed out-of-proportion media coverage
and campaigned on a plan to bring back Mario Draghi
as Prime Minister.
The real winner of the elections, however, are the
non-voters. Abstentionism was at the record-high level
of 36%, with peaks of 50% in some Southern Italian
regions.
The European Commission Threatened
Italy experienced the most ferocious foreign
meddling in elections ever, with the possible exception
of 1948, when her place in the Western camp was at
stake, threatened by a possible victory of the Popular
Front. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli d’Italia
party and most probably the new Prime Minister, had
outdone herself in swearing allegiance to NATO, to the
United States and to Brussels. And yet, the mainstream
media, think tanks and trans-Atlantic political figures
warned and warned of the danger of a center-right
victory and the installation of Mrs. Meloni in Rome’s
Palazzo Chigi.
On the Ukraine conflict, Meloni claimed that she
was more hawkish than Mario Draghi, he himself being
among the most hawkish in the EU. She sent her
emissary, Adolfo Urso, to Kiev to manifest her support
for the Zelensky regime. And on Election Eve, in an
interview with the Taiwan news agency CNA, she
promised that, if elected, she would not renew the 2019
Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and
China, or Italy’s membership in the Belt and Road
Initiative. On economic policy, another of her
emissaries, Guido Crosetto, stated that her government
would not deviate from EU-dictated rigor, but she
would call on Draghi to help draft the next budget plan.
Apparently, this was not enough for the trans-
Atlantic elites. Exemplary is an analysis published
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Sept. 22 by the Atlantic Council, one of the leading
Anglo-American think-tanks, which concluded:
There seems to be little concern about whether
Italy will remain a solid trans-Atlantic partner,
but the big question mark looms over relations
with Europe. Will Italy fight at any cost for a
Europe whole and free, or will it simply squab-
ble with other European countries? As the Ital-
ians say, non si sa—no one knows.
Indeed, Meloni has been a close ally of Hungary’s
Viktor Orbán, with whom she and her party share the
view that national law should have pre-eminence over
European law. The perspective that Italy, the third-
largest EU member state, should join forces with tiny
Hungary and maybe Poland in blocking the EU’s so-
called “integration” process is a nightmare for Brussels,
Paris, and Berlin—so much so that European
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen literally
issued threats on the eve of the vote, in the event of a
center-right victory. Speaking in Princeton, she said:
“We’ll see. If things go in a difficult direction—and I’ve
spoken about Hungary and Poland—we have the tools.”
And a senior White House official had told reporters
three days before, that President Biden would “take
measure of” the new Prime Minister and “make a
determination about what it’s going to mean.” Even
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz broke protocol one
week before the vote, urging Italians not to vote for
“Meloni’s post-fascists who would lead the country in a
wrong direction.”
In the end, the only one who did not interfere in the
Italian elections was Vladimir Putin! All this is
unprecedented, showing the hysterical fear that Giorgia
Meloni might, despite her assurances, be pushed by
events and by her allies to get out of control.
Indeed, both Matteo Salvini (Lega) and Silvio
Berlusconi (Forza Italia), have campaigned for a review
of the sanctions on Russia, which have boomeranged
on Europe and Italy, a major consumer of Russian gas.
A few days before the vote, Berlusconi stated in a
television spot that he is convinced that Putin’s original
intention with the military operation was “to replace
Zelensky with decent people.” With their low election
results, Salvini and Berlusconi’s weight in the coalition
is not what they expected, but they know that the
majority of Italians are against the sanctions according
to several polls, which is something the future Meloni
government cannot simply ignore.
PRESIDENT PUTIN’S ADDRESS
The Old Order Is Over, the Path
To Building a New Order Is Before Us
Oct. 1—These are excerpts from Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s address at the signing ceremony of the
treaties for the accession of the Donetsk People’s
Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, the
Zaporozhye Region, and the Kherson Region to the
Russian Federation, which took place in the Grand
Kremlin Palace’s St. George Hall on Sept. 30.
I have no doubt that the Federal Assembly will sup-
port the constitutional laws on the accession to Russia
and the establishment of four new regions, our new
constituent entities of the Russian Federation, because
this is the will of millions of people.… It is undoubtedly
their right, an inherent right sealed in Article 1 of the
UN Charter, which directly states the principle of equal
rights and self-determination of peoples.…
I want the Kiev authorities and their true handlers in
the West to hear me now, and I want everyone to
remember this: The people living in Lugansk and
Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporozhye, have become our
citizens, forever.
We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease
fire and all hostilities; to end the war it unleashed back
in 2014 and return to the negotiating table. We are ready
for this, as we have said more than once. But the choice
of the people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and
Kherson will not be discussed. The decision has been
made, and Russia will not betray it. Kiev’s current
authorities should respect this free expression of the
people’s will; there is no other way. This is the only way
to peace.
We will defend our land with all the forces and
resources we have, and we will do everything we can to
ensure the safety of our people. This is the great
liberating mission of our nation.
We will definitely rebuild the destroyed cities and
towns, the residential buildings, schools, hospitals,
theatres, and museums. We will restore and develop
industrial enterprises, factories, infrastructure, as well
as the social security, pension, healthcare, and education
systems.…
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Our united people have seen with their own eyes
what the ruling class of the so-called West have prepared
for humanity as a whole. They have dropped their
masks and shown what they are really made of.… In
1991, the West thought that Russia would never rise
after such shocks and would fall to pieces on its own.
This almost happened. We remember the horrible
1990s, hungry, cold, and hopeless. But Russia remained
standing, came alive, grew stronger, and occupied its
rightful place in the world.
Meanwhile, the West continued and continues
looking for another chance to strike a blow at us, to
weaken and break up Russia, which they have always
dreamed about, to divide our state and set our peoples
against each other, and to condemn them to poverty
and extinction. They cannot rest easy knowing that
there is such a great country with this huge territory in
the world, with its natural wealth, resources, and
people who cannot and will not do someone else’s
bidding.
The West is ready to cross every line to preserve the
neo-colonial system which allows it to live off the
world, to plunder it thanks to the domination of the
dollar and technology, to collect an actual tribute from
humanity, to extract its primary source of unearned
prosperity, the rent paid to the hegemon. The
preservation of this annuity is their main, real, and
absolutely self-serving motivation. This is why total
de-sovereignization is in their interest. This explains
their aggression towards independent states, traditional
values, and authentic cultures, their attempts to
undermine international and integration processes, new
global currencies, and technological development
centers they cannot control. It is critically important for
them to force all countries to surrender their sovereignty
to the United States.…
I want to underscore again that their insatiability
and determination to preserve their unfettered
dominance are the real causes of the hybrid war that the
collective West is waging against Russia. They do not
want us to be free; they want us to be a colony. They do
not want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do
not want to see us a free society, but a mass of soulless
slaves.… They do not want or need Russia, but we
do.…
Strategic security agreements have been trashed;
agreements reached at the highest political level have
been declared tall tales; firm promises not to expand
NATO to the east gave way to dirty deception as soon as
our former leaders bought into them; missile defense,
intermediate-range and shorter-range missile treaties
have been unilaterally dismantled under far-fetched
pretexts.
And all we hear is, the West is insisting on a rules-
based order. Where did that come from anyway? Who
has ever seen these rules? Who agreed or approved
them? Listen, this is just a lot of nonsense, utter deceit,
double standards, or even triple standards! They must
think we’re stupid. Russia is a great, thousand-year-old
power, a whole civilization, and it is not going to live by
such makeshift, false rules.…
It is worth reminding the West that it began its
colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, followed by
the worldwide slave trade, the genocide of Indian tribes
in America, the plunder of India and Africa, the wars of
England and France against China, as a result of which
it was forced to open its ports to the opium trade. What
they did was get entire nations hooked on drugs and
purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the
sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people
like animals. This is contrary to human nature, truth,
freedom, and justice.
While we—we are proud that in the 20th century
our country led the anti-colonial movement, which
opened up opportunities for many peoples around the
world to make progress, reduce poverty and inequality,
and defeat hunger and disease.… This was achieved by
creating a strong centralized state in Russia, which
grew and got stronger based on the great moral values
of Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and
Buddhism, as well as Russian culture and the Russian
word that were open to all.
There were numerous plans to invade Russia.… All
of them failed.… We remember. We have not forgotten
anything.…
It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that
have unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants.
Millions of people endure hardships and humiliation
or die by the thousands trying to reach Europe.… In
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effect, the American elite is using the tragedy of these
people to weaken its rivals, to destroy nation states.
This goes for Europe and for the identities of France,
Italy, Spain, and other countries with centuries-long
histories.
Washington demands more and more sanctions
against Russia and the majority of European politicians
obediently go along with it. They clearly understand
that by pressuring the EU to completely give up Russian
energy and other resources, the United States is
practically pushing Europe toward deindustrialization
in a bid to get its hands on the entire European market.
These European elites understand everything—they
do, but they prefer to serve the interests of others. This
is no longer servility but direct betrayal of their own
peoples. God bless, it is up to them.
But the Anglo-Saxons believe sanctions are no
longer enough and now they have turned to subversion.
It seems incredible but it is a fact—by causing
explosions on Nord Stream’s international gas
pipelines passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea,
they have actually embarked on the destruction of
Europe’s entire energy infrastructure. It is clear to
everyone who stands to gain. Those who benefit are
responsible, of course.
The dictates of the U.S. are backed up by crude
force, on the law of the fist.… I believe next in line are
other countries of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the
Middle East, as well as current U.S. partners and
allies.… They have everything in their sights, including
our next-door neighbors—the CIS countries.… Most
states refuse to “snap a salute” and instead choose the
sensible path of cooperation with Russia. The West
clearly did not expect such insubordination.…
The truth has been drowned in an ocean of myths,
illusions, and fakes, using extremely aggressive
propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The more unbeliev­
able the lie, the quicker people will believe it—that is
how they operate, according to this principle.
But people cannot be fed with printed dollars and
euros. You can’t feed them with those pieces of paper,
and the virtual, inflated capitalization of western social
media companies can’t heat their homes. Everything I
am saying is important. And what I just said is no less
so: You can’t feed anyone with paper—you need food;
and you can’t heat anyone’s home with these inflated
capitalizations—you need energy.
That is why politicians in Europe have to convince
their fellow citizens to eat less, take a shower less often,
and dress warmer at home. And those who start asking
fair questions like, “Why is that, in fact?” are
immediately declared enemies, extremists, and radicals.
They point back at Russia and say: that is the source of
all your troubles. More lies.
I want to make special note of the fact that there is
every reason to believe that the Western elites are not
going to look for constructive ways out of the global
food and energy crisis that they and they alone are to
blame for, as a result of their long-term policy, dating
back long before our special military operation in
Ukraine, in Donbass.…
Now, in order to free itself from the latest web of
challenges, they need to dismantle Russia as well as
other states that choose a sovereign path of development,
at all costs, to be able to further plunder other nations’
wealth and use it to patch their own holes. If this does
not happen, I cannot rule out that they will try to trigger
a collapse of the entire system, and blame everything on
that, or, God forbid, decide to use the old formula of
economic growth through war.
Russia is aware of its responsibility to the
international community and will make every effort to
ensure that cooler heads prevail.
The current neocolonial model is ultimately
doomed; this much is obvious. But I repeat that its real
masters will cling to it to the end. They simply have
nothing to offer the world except to maintain the same
system of plundering and racketeering.…
Let’s answer some very simple questions for
ourselves.… Do we want to have here, in our country,
in Russia, “parent number one, parent number two, and
parent number three” (they have completely lost it!)
instead of mother and father? Do we want our schools
to impose on our children, from their earliest days in
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school, perversions that lead to degradation and
extinction? Do we want to drum into their heads the
ideas that certain other genders exist along with women
and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery?
Is that what we want for our country and our children?
This is all unacceptable to us. We have a different future
of our own.
Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western
elites targets all societies, including the citizens of
Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all.
This complete renunciation of what it means to be
human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values,
and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble
a “religion in reverse”—pure Satanism.…
The world has entered a period of a fundamental,
revolutionary transformation. New centers of power
are emerging. They represent the majority—the
majority!—of the international community.…
As I have already said, we have many like-minded
people in Europe and the United States, and we feel
and see their support. An essentially emancipatory,
anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is
taking shape in the most diverse countries and
societies. Its power will only grow with time. It is this
force that will determine our future geopolitical
reality.… The ongoing collapse of Western hegemony
is irreversible. And I repeat: things will never be the
same.…
Today, we are fighting so that it would never occur
to anyone that Russia, our people, our language, or our
culture can be erased from history. Today, we need a
consolidated society, and this consolidation can only
be based on sovereignty, freedom, creation, and
justice. Our values are humanity, mercy, and
compassion.…
The truth is with us, and behind us is Russia!
II.  International Economics
August 31, 2012
IN ONE WAY, OR ANOTHER
The End of the Oligarchical System
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
In Spring 1983, the Soviet leadership under the di-
rection of an hysterical Yuri V. Andropov, had rejected
the proffer of an assured peace agreement from U.S.
President Ronald Reagan. Excepting the President of
the United States himself, most among the leaders from
among the U.S. political class had foolishly comple-
mented Andropov’s hysterics with their own ultimately
deadly nonsense in the same malicious vein at that time.
The U.S.A. has since suffered greatly for its own Con-
gressional leaders’ and others’ part in what history has
proven as having had been its political follies in this
matter. For my own part, I had responded back then, by
stating publicly, that if the Soviet Union were to have
persisted in Andropov’s rejection of this historic oppor-
tunity, it must be expected to disintegrate in about five
years. My forecast was, and remains as having been an
excellent one.
Now, we of the United States are presently con-
fronted with the mass-murderous intention, which U.S.
President Barack Obama put into practice in the mur-
dering of Libya’s President Qaddafi, and which Obama
has attempted to bring about in similar cases including
those of Syria and Iran. These cases are the pre-set det-
onations of a presently lurking general thermonuclear
war, with its effects throughout this planet.
That was only the beginning of what was to become a
prolonged, specific quality of successive crises. Simi-
larly, at the later, present time, those very silly Americans
who have committed themselves to re-electing the
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in EIR Vol.
39, No. 37, Sept. 21, 2012, pp 57-69.
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wretched President Obama, have adopted a prospect of
a rather sudden extinction of the United States—and also
many other nations, whether through participation in
nuclear warfare, or simply decadence per se. This is a
current development which expresses a process of what is
now approaching a state of mass-murderous disintegra-
tion, barring probable thermonuclear war, that chiefly for
simply economically absurd reasons, in both the U.S.A.
and also western and central Europe, in particular.
What is now more immediately certain, on that ac-
count, is that, if the two sets of the leading major, op-
posing powers, remain poised for their mutual, thermo-
nuclear confrontation, as in the present context defined
by the wretched Barack Obama Presidency, a general
extermination of all nations were a likely event, if not
yet an absolutely certain one. Worse, all nations could
be destroyed, whether they sought to keep out of the
currently probable thermonuclear conflict, or not. Sim-
ilarly, any leading nation whose government adopts a
policy of so-called “environmentalism,” as Queen Eliz-
abeth II and Barack Obama are doing, is a nation al-
ready careening in the direction for each of those gov-
ernments’ own share of a general extinction, whether as
a form of national, or multi-national government under
nuclear warfare, or not. Thus, that Queen represents
the principal authorship of current record of the mass-
murderous “population reduction” policies which have
generated that horror-show which she has done so
much to bring upon us all.1
1.  Her Majesty’s radical “population reduction” policies have been the
principal proponent of this current pro-genocidal nightmare. It is most
notable, not only that she commands the resources of foreknowledge of
relevance in this matter, but that she has acknowledged the actuality of
the radical population-reduction policies of herself and her frankly

The founding of the British East India Company in London, 1599. Time for the end of
the oligarchical system! Illustration by Maurice Greifenhagen, 1908.
What was, and remains, for me, the essential, but
widely unknown laws of economy, are of a certain type
of physical laws apparently unknown to that monarchy
presently, laws which are ultimately supreme in their
most notable consequences, not only for us on Earth,
but within the range of our knowledge of what we know
as our Solar system: if and when we may have taken
into account what must be a particular emphasis on ul-
timate consequences and their causes. This matter of
developments falls within the specific reach of my rela-
tively exceptional successes as a forecaster.
As I have repeatedly demonstrated in successful
past experience in forecasting, what have often been
defined as “experts” in statistical, and, or closely re-
lated forms of economic and related forecasting, have
been seriously misguided, often virtually by definition.
The essential failure by such professional mis-leaders,
lies in the fact that their methods are fairly described as
“chronically statistical failures” in matters pertaining
to forecasts of experiences which exist only in systemi-
cally future conditions.
By that choice of language, I have meant that the
principle of foresight into future conditions, rather than
forecasts based on “past statistical experience,” is the
required type of mental skill which has continued to be
stubbornly lacking in most mis-educated persons pres-
mass-homicidal, British protégé, U.S. President Barack Obama.
October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  23
ently. That roster includes, most no-
tably, those economists and others of
the like who prefer the hind-end of
history, to future consequences.2 The
needed principle on that account,
corresponds systemically to depen-
dency on knowledge of the future,
which means: foreknowledge which
is intrinsic to the discovery of previ-
ously overlooked, or simply unknown
principles of physical science. These
are principles such as those ex-
pressed by the methods of such as
Johann Sebastian Bach, Arthur Ni-
kisch, and Wilhelm Furtwängler for
music, and by the general physical
principle of metaphor (e.g., Johannes
Kepler’s “vicarious hypothesis”).
Up to a certain point, my own cur-
rent strategic estimates respecting
“dangers of general war,” converge on those which I
have found to be expressed by such as the U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Nonetheless, whatever the other differ-
ences among us might be, those differences among us
are presently secondary in their significance for the im-
mediate future. I believe, on balance, that what the
Chiefs have expressed on the subject of thermonuclear
adventures this far, does represent an urgently needed,
valid war-avoidance strategy for the presently immedi-
ate situation. That, we must consider as of great value
to mankind as a whole,
In the meantime, the present situation is to be fairly
identified in what shall be the following, perhaps also
rarely known, but clearly knowable, and also indis-
pensable remarks on the essential difference of the
human species from all other known living species. I
shall indicate those facts here.3 I circumscribe my re-
marks on that latter point here, by the following:
Virtually none show that particularly essential com-
petence needed to survive that present thermonuclear
2.  One must make a strict distinction between originating a forecast,
which has occurred only rarely in my practice, and reporting on the cur-
rent implications of a general forecast already made. In my own experi-
ence, reports pertaining directly to my original forecasts are relatively
rare among my forecasts generally; more frequently, I deliver com-
ments on what have been my already outstanding forecasts.
3.  Cf. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The Threat Against Mankind, EIR,
Aug. 31, 2012.
conflict willfully, were it un-
leashed. Perhaps, in some leading
cases, other passions have dis-
turbed their judgments. The essen-
tial fact right now, is the danger
which they promote, for reason of
incompetence, or otherwise, which
is now immediately threatened to
be unleashed with great force.

The Lessons from the Past?

Step by step, since that Febru-
ary 1763 Peace of Paris when the
British maritime empire had first
secured its peculiar, virtual domi-
nation over this planet, as in that
empire’s subsequently experienc-
ing the death of its great adversar-
ies from the most recent several
centuries, the times had already
come when our republic was The British maritime empire secured virtual domination over the planet in the aftermath
struck by the death of an exhausted of the February 1763 Peace of Paris. Shown is a painting of “India offering her pearls
war-time commander, President to Britannia,” by Spiridone Roma.
Franklin Roosevelt, and, later, by
the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his ent date.
brother, Robert. These were events of crucial signifi- The following relevant effects have been most nota-
cance for the reason that they removed those Kennedys ble.
in that fashion, thus creating consequent events which During that interval of what has been termed “post-
continue to show the horrid folly of much of our na- World War II,” the definition of “empire” has under-
tion’s habits of policy-shaping since that time. Consider gone cumulatively awesome, ugly changes, a process of
what have been since demonstrated to have been those change whose current effect has been the emergence,
betrayed heroes’ own, historically crucial roles of lead- since the death of President Franklin Roosevelt, from
ership shown while they had lived. massive pre-nuclear warfare, to presently thermonu-
Those considerations have remained chiefly a clear warfare. Hence, the presently immediate threats
matter of clear fact since that time, as our United States of actually thermonuclear holocaust, a calamity
has continued to slip into a seemingly remorseless pro- launched jointly by President Barack Obama, and by
cess of willful economic decadence, a decline from the current British monarchy’s pro-genocidal, so-called
whose grip our republic had never actually escaped, “environmentalist” policies.
still until the present moment, and probably beyond. Thus the failure both to prevent and to prosecute the
Thus, the result of successive assassinations of those true issue of the assassination of President Kennedy,
two virtually martyred Kennedy brothers, has been that has been proven to have been a crucially historical set-
the U.S.A. has been plunged into a degree of both re- back on precisely that account, even as if retrospec-
lentless moral exhaustion of its leaders under a related, tively, still to the present time of grave world crisis: the
now prolonged, long wave of systemic economic de- folly of a clearly intended act, authored at the highest
cline, a decline measured since the moment of the suc- rank, on this account. Consider the following crucial
cessive deaths of President John F. and Robert Ken- points in fact. The avowed, and contested motives for
nedy, deaths from which our republic has never truly not prosecuting the assassination of that President,
recovered, politically and economically, up to the pres- were the same motives as those for the assassination

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itself.
Take the evidence of the Indo-China
war which had been formally launched in
1946, but then continued as the horror-
show in Viet Nam, which only the assassi-
nation of President Kennedy permitted
Kennedy’s political adversaries to set into
motion. That assassination has had long-
ranging effects expressed in the form of the
continuing, accelerated decline of the U.S.
economy over not only the course of the
approximately ten years of the Indo-China
war, but has charted the whole reach of the
combined decline of the U.S. economy and
those of most of the Americas and Europe
over a period since the times co-incident
with the assassinations of President Ken-
nedy and his brother Robert.
Even later, had U.S. President Ronald
Reagan been able to succeed in the course
of his well-known two attempts at the EIRNS/Sylvia Rosas

launching of a Strategic Defense Initiative The prospect of a re-election of Obama places the continued existence of the
(SDI), the present threat of thermonuclear United States into dire jeopardy. Shown here, LaRouche movement organizing
for impeachment in Mission Viejo, Calif., June 2012.
warfare itself would have been removed,
and, almost certainly, a truly great recovery of the mittedly very important step toward the realization of a
economy launched, instead of the presently careening, much broader, global-imperial, British imperial objec-
global disaster which we have experienced as the dom- tive, the threat to Britain as much as the rest, the threat
inant trend of fluctuating leadership, overall, since that of global thermonuclear war now.
time. Without the assassination of President Kennedy,
the monstrously ruinous war which President Kennedy The European Disaster
and his associates would have prevented, could not In that way, what had been recently the sovereign
have occurred: simply as a matter of crucial evidence states of continental Europe, ceased to be sovereign,
with respect to leading fact. since the implied threats against Germany’s Chancel-
I emphasize, that, it was Yuri Andropov’s summary lor Kohl by France’s President Mitterrand, and by the
rejection of a strategic-defense initiative in which I had support of Mitterrand’s threats by Britain’s Margaret
been engaged during the 1977-1983 interval, which Thatcher and the U.S.A.’s George H.W. Bush. So, with
made the disintegration of the Soviet Union a virtual what had been the earlier retirement of President
certainty within that decade, exactly as I had forecast Reagan from office, I, who had been a crucial factor in
earlier. Therefore, the only thing which would have pre- the original prompting of the SDI, was soon already in
vented such a collapse of the Soviet Union during that the process of being virtually “eliminated” politically.
interval of the 1980s, would have been the Soviet ac- Later, with the aftermath of President “Bill” Clinton’s
ceptance of President Ronald Reagan’s (and also Dr. departure from office, the destruction of the United
Edward Teller’s) proposal. States itself came on like an avalanche, to become “just
However, although what I have just stated is true in a matter of time”—up to this present moment. The se-
principle still today, the breakup of the Soviet Union lection, and appointment of a malignant puppet,
was not the specific motive for the breakup of what had Obama, largely by the British monarchy, was the re-
been the elements which had comprised the Soviet cently most essential motive expressed with the very
economy itself. That original mistake was only one ad- worst effects for the world this far.

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 Now, with the prospect of a re-election of the dis-
gusting and mass-murderously inclined President
Barack Obama, the continued existence of our United
States, were now almost virtually doomed, a doom
brought upon an all-too-credulous citizenry, a doom
brought virtually to the brink of the launch of the accu-
mulated forces of thermonuclear holocaust. About an
hour-and-a-half could be sufficient to bring on the early
death of our human species.
The ugly prospect against which I warned in outline
here, is not yet a certainty; but, the rescue of mankind
from a threat of thermonuclear doomsday, is only what
might seem to be “a miracle” of President Obama’s
being soon lifted out of office. That urgently needed
early improvement of our nation’s destiny, is such that,
therefore, the United States, among other nations,
might not only survive, but will be enabled to free itself
from the evil which currently menaces us all, were Pres-
ident Obama’s threatened triggering of the extinction of
the human species permitted.
Now, let us consider this history more closely.
I. What Is the Human Species’
Fate?4
For the purposes of this present discussion, “your
human species,” may be fairly estimated (if only so es-
timated) as dating from about a few millions years ago.
All of us in modern times should have understood the
4.  The indispensable conception employed in this presently following
chapter, is that of a properly defined notion of the proper significance of
the use of the term “metaphor.” The explanation here is required to deal
with the relative absurdity with which the term “metaphor” has become
profoundly misused, habitually, among the ranks of the allegedly liter-
ate. In effect, the original, “hard” meaning was discarded, and a sloppily
pseudo-scientific sort of “misinterpretation” substituted. The proper, lit-
eral meaning, runs as follows. The model case would be of the quality
of the use of “vicarious hypothesis” by Johannes Kepler, in which the
name of an effect is used as a surrogate for the lack of an elusive “literal”
meaning. It is a device often used by William Shakespeare. For exam-
ple, Macbeth: The case of “Birnam Wood;” or, Shakespeare’s Hamlet:
“. . . thus, conscience doth make cowards of us all; and, thus, the native
hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought; and enter-
prises of great pith and moment, with this regard, their currents turn
awry.” That exact notion is the most essential feature of an ontologically
rigorous practice of physical science; such is the nature of my intention
in this report, as in any rigorous practice of physical-scientific thought.
That is the simple explanation; other implications, especially scientific
implications, go much deeper.
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defining of that essential difference which actually
proves that mankind differs essentially and systemi-
cally from the higher apes, or from any species but our
own.
Therein lies, exactly, the key to identifying the
root-source of the presently lingering threat of virtual,
or actual human extinction—and, in the alternative,
the proper prevention and, therefore, cure of that
effect.
The hope for our human species, should be stated
most precisely, as a reflection of the human species’
specific distinction, as I have just written here, that
from all other species known to us, from the present or
past. That distinction resides in the uniqueness of the
specifically human quality of the use of fire in its vari-
ous, successively upward-reaching, qualitative leaps in
manifestations, including instances such as thermonu-
clear-fusion and matter-antimatter processes. Or, the
same notion might be stated in other terms, such as a
formulation of the willful scientific progress which lifts
mankind toward ever higher qualities of power (i.e.,
“energy-flux density” measured—provisionally—in
units associated with the speed of light).
All this said up to this point, these are only phases
whose true, deeper meanings can be made apparent, but
only by the special model of human learning of the
meanings of our species’ existence which are to be dis-
covered, as life’s history has been teaching us, as if step
by step, as I proceed here, as follows.
The distinctions I make here, had also been ex-
pressed, in significant part, in references to the collabo-
ration between Wolfgang Köhler and Max Planck on
the meaning of the human mind. These distinctions,
must be made to include the specific characteristics of
the implicitly immortal human mind, as distinct from
those of the merely mortal “brain” in and of itself. The
brain dies; the human mind seeks immortality, and, thus
finds its own meaning, as in its existence, in the endless
series of discoveries which we may review in their
present parts, as if as follows.
First of all:
The distinction of human mind from human brain, is
the same distinction which is also expressed in a strictly
“Classical” mode typified, as I have indicated before:
by the composers of the greatest music, such as the spe-
cial case of this, by, once more, Johann Sebastian Bach,
Arthur Nikisch, and Wilhelm Furtwängler. That set of,
unfortunately, rarely understood distinctions, may be il-
lustrated by contrasting the intrinsically incompetent,
statistical methods of forecasting economic develop-
ments, to those forecasting methods which have pro-
vided the crucial, urgently needed distinction from
mere statistical forecasting, a distinction of access to
the future, a subject which is a principal aspect of this
present report as a whole, as also in competent eco-
nomic forecasting.
The naturally denoted, but, so far, rarely under-
stood principle which actually distinguishes man from
ape, as from beasts generally, is the uniqueness of the
human capability of physically efficient insight into
the continued generation of mankind’s future, a capac-
ity which is also the key to the uniqueness of my own
relative success as an economist and forecaster, since
the mid-to-late 1950s. The two latter qualities are in-
separable.
Specifically human knowledge, as distinct from the
relatively brutish arts of pragmatism, is based on intrin-
sically efficient knowledge of a process of the genera-
tion as if of the future-making-itself-in-progress, rather
than mere deductions from the presumed experience of
what had been the already past heretofore.
E.g., the unfortunates called the “environmental-
ists” so-called, may tend to function as killers of man-
kind, not necessarily from the desire to kill, even as if
randomly, but as a consequence of their blindness to the
vacancies in the “eye-sight” of their own effective in-
tentions for the future.
Especially now, in the wake of the great success of
“Curiosity,” human beings, if and when operating suc-
cessfully as a human species, must tend toward the dis-
coveries made, directly, or indirectly, on planets on
which we have not yet dwelt, or, in the alternative,
even the experience of effects originating on a galactic
scale, all in our prospect for exerting control over so-
lar-system or even other processes, all of which we
could not be able to endure, or endure only under great
difficulty, or under exceptional conditions, as this has
been implicitly expressed just recently, by the success-
ful landing of “Curiosity” on Mars. Those alternatives
are typified as the virtually “spiritual” potentials which
impel the alert human mind to gain control over envi-
ronments which the human body could not otherwise
endure.
“ ‘Curiosity?’ Again?” Precisely.
It is essential to now restate that point with the fol-
lowing series of shifts in emphasis.
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On the Subject of That Mars Landing
We might be joined in calling attention to the fact
that man has visited the Moon, and can, by means of
science, be waiting to be unleashed to resume that mis-
sion’s implicitly intended content and justification: that
for excellent and urgent reasons. We might, similarly, if
we were young enough and properly trained, probably
tolerate a bit of some future experience of Mars in
person, especially if we enjoyed the advantage of ap-
propriate uses of thermonuclear fusion as the mode of
propulsion. There would be powerful compulsions for
such ventures, as I shall indicate here, later. However,
despite that pleasing thought, the more crucial point to
stress on this account now, is that we, sitting here on
Earth, can control processes on Mars with man’s efforts
in an increasing degree of emphasis on the efficiency
which is defined by the “speed of light,” rather than
what is merely human sense-certainty. It is also crucial,
for both the already present, and future times, that we
must rely increasingly on the speed of light as a means
for human control over Mars activities exerted from
Earth, or the like, as a matter which essentially tran-
scends human “merely biological” sense-perception as
such.
I am not opposed to the hope of some, that mankind
might soon put foot on Mars; but, I know that it would
be a mistake to argue that that event itself is the proper
choice of absolute standard for the most essential first
step of achievement of our goal. The case of “Curios-
ity” already touches directly on the actual achievement.
The crucial question is: What will be that which is
useful to mankind’s mission wherever we touch on the
work of our mission: what are we going to do if and
when we arrive there? How, and why shall we arrive
at that goal? For example: what will be the essential
role of this measure in advancing mankind’s ability
to defend life on Earth from projectiles swarming
within Solar space, or beyond? How can we best ac-
complish that mission in the most immediately effec-
tive way?
So, in approaching that just-stated fact, we must
take a side-trip of sorts, to explore the fallacies inhering
in statistical methods of treatment of the subject of
human sense-perceptions, specifically the psycho-
pathological aspects of the notions of “sense certainty,”
as contrasted to the intimations of that wonderful prin-
ciple of metaphor as presented to us by Nicholas of
Cusa, by Cusa’s marvelous follower Johannes Kepler,
and as intimated by the apparent
subtleties of the secrets of musical
performance by Bach, Nikisch,
and Furtwängler. It is the unique-
ness of the rarely known, but true
powers of the human mind which
supplies the crucial test. “What is a
useful, even urgent consequence
which can be the outcome of our
control over this process?”
The root of our self-inflicted
problem, which we must now
overcome, so defined, lies in the
fallacy expressed by the naivety of
the wishful tendency to believe in
reliance on “sense certainty.” That
quality of error is lodged within
the presumption that sense-per-
ception defines mankind’s experi-
ence of a domain of inherently ad-
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
ducible, alleged sense-certainties. A scene photographed from Curiosity on Mars: geological layering at the base of Mount
Contrary to that popular, but in- Sharp, the rover’s eventual science destination.
herently misguided presumption,
what is conventionally identified as “sense-certainty” space vehicle “Curiosity” on Mars? The relevant, rhe-
were better identified as Bernhard Riemann did in the torical questions are: “Did any person actually land
concluding section of his habilitation dissertation, or, in then and there?” “What is the relationship, then, which
other words, the principled notion of metaphor (e.g., controlled the choices of the continuing actions of the
vicarious hypothesis). It is the “practical man’s” mis- landed spacecraft?” “How was the control of the landed
guided susceptibility to belief in “sense certainty,” craft managed?” “Was it by merely sense-perception?
which expresses the problem of the widely popular, but What, therefore, was actually accomplished, and how,
pseudo-scientific methods which I am referencing as as a matter of principle of the continuing mission, was
the essential topic for reference here. (Some times the factor of accomplishment effected?”
people confuse their mere habits with the experience of For the proper, full answer to that set of questions,
sense-certainties, and even do so in the abused name of ask: “What will be the specific, and most important ac-
“scientific principles.”)5 complishment made possible through what comes after
the planting of ‘Curiosity’ on Mars?” “What is that con-
“Die Hauptsache Ist der Effekt!” 6
trolling principle of the successful landing of ‘Curios-
What, actually, is the most significant of the pres- ity’ which now operates on Mars?” Human sense-per-
ently foreseeable effects of the successful landing of the ception, perhaps? Or, perhaps not that?” “What is the
presently efficient, continually closing link between us,
5.  Bernhard Riemann: On the Hypotheses Which Underlie the Prin- here on Earth, and the small mass of apparatus which
ciples of Geometry (1854). Note his concluding stroke of delicious has been transported with ‘Curiosity?’ ” “Human sense-
irony: “This leads us into another science, into the domain of physics,
which the nature of today’s proceedings had not permitted us to enter.”
perception?” Do not be ridiculous. It will be the actual
That sentence could be read in two ways; I am confident in my choice, efficiency of those broadcast messages conveyed at the
which should be readily known to those familiar with my seasoned in- speed of light. Why is this so? Some patience will suf-
tentions. fice to present the answer.
6.  A repeated theme, “Die Hauptsache ist der Effekt” (“The main thing
is the effect”) of the celebrated 1960 German featured film: Spuk-
What, then, is the immediate and urgent mission? Is
schloss im Spessart. The principle of the future exists, even for some it not the urgent need for defending human life on Earth
varieties of ghosts and the authors of their imagined existences. from deadly “rocks” plummeting through space toward

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probable destruction of life in part of Earth, or all of it?
When that sense of mission, once that of Dr. Edward
Teller, is presented to us, the efficiency of space-opera-
tions on Mars becomes urgently clear. Then, the ur-
gency of removing President Barack Obama from
office, is also urgently clear.
The paradox which I had set forth in this fashion, is
not exactly novel as a matter of general principle. The
paradox was always there; but, until recently, there was
no particular practical reason to emphasize what have
now become the crucial distinctions. Those implica-
tions should be virtually “self-evident,” as the popular
saying goes; the difference is, that there had been no
efficiently compelling reason, heretofore, that this ar-
gument be stressed in the manner which I do here. Nor
had it been essential to put the heavy emphasis which I
apply with such “heavy-footedness” as I do in this par-
ticular bit of irony, as we must now do in the case of
earlier Mars landings.
The issue which I am about to pose, is now of cru-
cial importance for several, intermeshed, particular rea-
sons, as follows.
That which has happened to change things signifi-
cantly with the “Curiosity” landing, is, that the implica-
tions of “Curiosity” are beginning to reach into some
crucial changes in the way in which we think about re-
lations between man on Earth and mankind operating
continuously at a distance, by means measured in the
speed of light, from origins such as that of Earth, to
Mars, and return. For the relevant questions and an-
swers, as I have written above, look back to certain
leading concerns of the late Dr. Edward Teller: the
threat to all human life on Earth from asteroids and kin-
dred objects ranging from sources within the interval
between somewhere beyond the distance further than
from Mars, to the vicinity of Venus.
This is presently that which must now become a
leading concern for all who inhabit the planet Earth.
“Die Hauptsache ist der Effekt!”
Immediately, the related implications of “Curiosi-
ty’s” arrival on Mars strike home, implicitly, toward
every part of Earth. The immediate issue leans to the
“elementary side.” Since mankind has a very, very
poor access to means to forecast that by which some
part, or the whole of our planet’s living inhabitants
might be obliterated, this means that it is of the rela-
tively greatest importance that we now build up an ad-
equate form of defense of Earth based on the evidence
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that a comparison of the massive accumulation of
threats (especially unknown ones) with the require-
ments of a defense of Earth, indicates that our access to
organize the defense of mankind on Earth, requires
mankind’s gaining mastery over the prevention of the
panoply of mortal threats to the human species from
nearby Solar space, some of which achievements are
already an indispensable defense for people presently
confined to life on Earth.
The subject of such threats is not the full measure of
what we, as mankind on Earth, must do in nearby
(which is to say “nearby Solar”) space, emphatically
the domain between target-areas Mars and Earth, but
also from more distant Solar space into the vicinity of
Venus. If and when we adopt such a mission-orienta-
tion, the concept is a feasible task, but, more signifi-
cantly, an urgently necessary one.
This challenge has certain known dimensions in
nearby space itself, not yet taking into account the more
difficult challenge from comets. This implied package
of “Defense of Earth,” is a feasible concept, even if our
abilities this far are very much delimited; which means
that we must, so to speak, start immediately to “crank
up” the development of the needed future scientific
means of defense now. My associates and their like
among relevant scientists in other nations, have already
gained some highly relevant counsel respecting the
needed development of means of defense. My own task
here, in this report, is of a somewhat different nature,
but, nonetheless, highly relevant to that mission. I leave
the remainder, excepting that mission adopted by me on
this account for the subject of that special mission pre-
sented as follows.
II. Mind or Brain?
The Principle of Metaphor
On the surface of a reading of sense-perceptions as
such, only scientifically illiterate traditions accept
sense-perception as such, as reality (e.g., as “sense cer-
tainty”). The contrary, competent, scientific method, is
premised on the explicitly contrary principle, named
metaphor. Metaphor, when competently understood, is
typified by the general notion of Nicholas of Cusa’s De
Docta Ignorantia, and of Cusa’s followers, such as Jo-
hannes Kepler, as in Kepler’s warning of the need for
attention to a notion of what he termed as vicarious hy-
pothesis. I mean the competent representation of the
concept of metaphor per se, when that conception is
honestly and accurately defined as corresponding to a
uniquely true physical principle.
That systemic distinction which I now introduce
into this report, is to be recognized as showing the fal-
lacy which is inherent in the error of treating sense-per-
ception as if it were to be taken as “reality,” rather than
as, relatively, merely a shadow cast by reality, a mere
sense-perception of reality. A competent scientific prac-
tice, like that of Classical artistic composition, is pre-
mised, fundamentally, on the ontological conception of
an inherent falseness in the practice of belief in mere
sense-certainty as such.
True science is therefore expressed in what is to be
regarded as what is strictly defined as an instrument of
Classical composition which is otherwise known as
metaphor: the virtual footprint of that which can not be
“directly sensed.” All founders of a true modern sci-
ence recognized this, such as Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa
writing in his De Docta Ignorantia, and as echoed in
Cusa’s avowed and faithful student, Johannes Kepler. It
has been Kepler, who defined this as the only reliable
method of practice for a true modern science. That is
the method which is in strict opposition to the fraud in-
herent in those crudely reductionist methods commonly
traced to such wretched hoaxsters as the scheming
scoundrels who concocted the hoax called the follow-
ers of Isaac Newton, or to the a-priorist dogma of Euclid
earlier.
This same problem of “modernist” forms of neo-
Newtonian swindles, especially since the influence of
the explicitly evil Bertrand Russell on, most emphati-
cally, the post-World War I and post-World War II
teaching of physical and political science, has thus
often supplanted the domain which had been originally
that of Classical-artistic subject-matters. This change
has been based, with increasing force of malignant tra-
ditions, upon changes in traditions, changes which may
be defined as common use of what has been, actually, a
crudely illiterate use of language, that notably as a
matter of invasion of such influences into both the prov-
inces of Classical art and physical science.
Matters of Ontology
The root of that mere superstition called “sense-cer-
tainty,” was also turned up as the crucial subject of Wil-
liam Shakespeare’s Hamlet:
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“. . . thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their current turn awry,
And lose the name of action. . .”
Brutishness, otherwise expressed as being mistaken
for the sole principle of action, is the name of the prob-
lem. Take the case of the experience of the discovery of
a valid physical principle, as distinguished from the
brutishnesses which distinguish the fields of gambling
and bodily-contact sports. Use one’s recollection of
such an experience as a measure of the quality of pas-
sion which separates bestiality from creativity, as with
the distinction of love of mankind from the brutish pas-
sions frequently adopted for the lack of love, or which
are not infrequently mistaken for it.
So, it is, in the history of what had been, in principle,
literate forms of modern language up to the late 1800s,
and somewhat beyond, which were what had been all
truly leading forms of both physical science and Classi-
cal forms of literature and music, forms which had been
consistent, as a tendency, with a leading influence ex-
pressed as a post-Fourteenth-century “Classical” sci-
ence and art, which is to be known, then as now, as the
Classical tradition typified in essentials by the work of
such as Brunelleschi, Nicholas of Cusa, Leonardo da
Vinci, and Johannes Kepler. That is to argue that the
tendency of leading literate or comparable practice has
been to rise toward such standards.
The greatest of passions is that of both true scien-
tific and of poetic discovery of principle, and the es-
sential bonds of both to creativity per se. Not only does
scientific or comparably composed discovery engage
such specifically distinct qualities of passion—
“Eureka!” It is the underlying quality of true human
passion, a quality of experience which earns the name
of “metaphor.”
Consider some appropriate illustrations of this
point.
With the British orchestration of the so-called
French Revolution, elements of some continuing prog-
ress have frequently been reversed, as in the form of
what has been defined as worsening trends into Nine-
teenth-century “Romanticism.” With the launching of
two successive phases of “world war,” which were set
into motion by the British success in ousting the German
Chancellor Bismarck, the cultural trends were predom-
inantly degenerate. Since the assassinations of U.S.
 The work of these three musical geniuses,
Nikisch, Furtwängler, and Bach,
embodies the principle of metaphor, as
against statistical methods of treatment of
human sense-perceptions, the notion of
“sense certainty.” “The quality of the
Classical composition,” LaRouche
writes, “is systemically coherent with the
essential principle of scientific
creativity.”

Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922), Johann Sebastian Bach

conductor and mentor of (1685-1750)
Furtwängler
one: the speed of light.
President John F. Kennedy Much in the life’s work of
and his brother, Robert, the Max Planck moved us for-
long-term economic trend ward in that direction of
throughout the trans-Atlan- such accomplishments.
tic region has been increas- Johann Sebastian Bach had
ingly downward, currently introduced a comparable
at accelerating rates. discovery of the difference
The crucial mistake in- between music and popular
hering in what is merely noises.
popular opinion, is the Or, to recapitulate the
childish, but nonetheless point which I am now
prevalent mistake known Wilhelm Furtwängler working to bring into your
as belief in sense-percep- (1886-1954) focus: we must seek out
tion as such. That belief in things which coincide with
sense-perception as such, is the “mother of all essential the notion of the “speed of light,” and, thus, converge
mistakes.” attentions on a single principle which tends to consume
That does not mean, that sense-perception does not all known varieties of the human being’s power to
exist in its own rather effective manner as a mere prac- comprehend the human power of conception. To ac-
tice. It does mean that, simply said, “We make too complish that mission, we must proceed from a stand-
much of sense-perception as such.” Put it, properly, point of exploring the experience of the universe as a
into the class of “until we have access to something sense of mission-orientation. Step-by-step, and piece-
better, rely on what you have actually gained: find by-piece, we must avoid the deception which mere
some way of making the best of what is possible with sense-perception-as-such represents. The process of the
such crutches of the mind as that—until we gain a discovery of truth, proceeds from its birth in the guise
better means.” Sense-perception is not your proper of metaphor, as Johannes Kepler’s discovery of the
God, although many poor fools worship it as a virtual principle of gravitation shows. That means the same
religion. “metaphor” which Johannes Kepler identified under
For example: we have discovered a much better the category of “vicarious hypothesis.”

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 Mankind has no simply direct access to knowledge
of the universe, as if by a mechanical notion of an “ad-
ditive approach” to the rendering of “the facts” of
actual, or fabricated notions of sense-perception. It is
through the uncovering of the proof of the deceits,
deceit by deceit, of blind faith in sense-perception as
such, that a quality attributable to “truth” becomes ac-
cessible: which, by destroying naïve faith in mere
sense-perception, eliminates customary delusions of
the ignorant: all done as if in tracking down lies to the
lairs where they have lurked. Mankind’s original qual-
ity of dependency on sense-perception as Sense-Cer-
tainty, as distinct from sense-impression, is, thus, the
true author of all lies. It is by the recognition of those
lies as being deceptions, by consuming them as if they
were cooked meat, that we conquer and consume the
sources of ignorance, sources of ignorance which exist
chiefly as forms of the ignorance encountered as popu-
lar beliefs.
The greatest, the most pro-Satanic of all beliefs, is
popular opinion. That is the essential root of evil.
For Example:
The trend toward moral degeneration in the used
languages of arts and sciences of the post-Gottfried
Leibniz Eighteenth-century trends continued as a trend
in the practice of literacy into the post-1890 plunge into
what was actually the 1891-1945 ebbs and flows of
what was, in fact, “World War I and II.” The 1950
launch of the obscene “Congress for Cultural Free-
dom,” is a prominent land-mark of the change toward
accelerating rates of moral and intellectual degenera-
tion in European civilization, from the age of Harry S
Truman, to what might be fairly described as the post-
Bill Clinton U.S. Presidencies.
The long span of degeneracy of popular trends in
trans-Atlantic culture has a very specific quality of
changing, specifically anti-Classical cultural trends.
The minds of the new generations of the post-World
War II period to date, have been ruined by this process
over the span of approximately three successive gen-
erations. The distinguishing mark of this moral and in-
tellectual degeneration among recent generations, is
the trend toward a departure from the intellectual
powers of Classical insight into the cultural principle
of irony.
The hallmark of the cultural degeneration of nations
is forms of a-priori worship of “sense certainty.” The
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worst, recent phase of deterioration arrived with the as-
sassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his
brother Robert, and the emergence of the naked truth
known as “the Sixty-Eighters.” Simply described, the
combination of the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy and the launching of the U.S. war in Indo-
China which a still-living President Kennedy had re-
sisted, is to be associated with the intertwining of the
fraud of “The Oswald Myth” and the launching of the
fraud of the war itself. The process of moral degenera-
tion known as “The Sixty-Eighters” was already in
motion before the eruptions on the Columbia Univer-
sity and other campuses.
The actual root of that process of the 1960s, is lo-
cated in the sequel of developments represented by “the
Truman Era” and the “shock and awe” generated by the
thermonuclear horror-shows of the 1950s. During the
course of the 1960s, and slightly beyond, the “greenie”
plague was spread. Science and the productivity associ-
ated with science, did not “dwindle away;” they were
“dwindled away” by the cult of the “greenies.” Under-
neath the surface of matters now, there is the nightmare
of Her Majesty’s direction toward a plunge into a plan-
etary “new dark age,” a lurking “New Thermonuclear
Dark Age.”
The significance of the types of subject-matters
which I have just summarized in this chapter this far, is
to be located in the tendency for bestialization of once
literate populations, a tendency defined by the loss of
efficient connection to a true expression of the principle
of metaphor. That problem is properly defined in the
following terms.
The True Irony of Metaphor
The customarily ignorant view of the name of
Metaphor, presumes that sense-perception is the
essential component of experience, to which “meta­
phor” supplies a slight coloration. The fact of the matter
is directly the contrary. It is the human senses which,
while contributing a needed function, nonetheless fail
to address the underlying realities. The relevant
argument is conveniently presented in the following
terms.
Human sense-perception is a set of shadowy
images, which have their essential relevance of aiding
the human species by presenting some arrays of stan-
dard “colors” which are the immediate subjects of
sense-perception. In effect, it is the sense-perceptions
as such, which are the relatively mere shadows. It is
what the Classical dramatist creates, as in a tragedy, as
in the instance of what I have referenced above as the
most famous of the Hamlet dialogues of Shakespeare,
which typifies the expression of the principle of the
human knowledge of the experience of a social pro-
cess. This is made clearer when the action in a tragedy
is located as action in the mind per se, as in that selec-
tion from Hamlet, so that the narrative approaches the
quality of a specifically human quality of a truthfully
human experience.
On this account, focus on the nature of the action
presented to the mind in the closing scene, of Hamlet
alone, at the close of Act II, and then compare the
nature of the action there with the soliloquy in the
opening of Act III. Where is the action to be described,
except as the action within the mind of the player?
Such are ontological implications of the action in the
mind.
This same principle is to be recognized in the
mental life of a traveller between planets in a space-
craft. The action lies within the mind, where it prop-
erly belongs, on the condition that the motion experi-
enced in space is an expression of those means of the
human will by means of which the truly most signifi-
cant action is induced as if by the mind of a player
speaking in soliloquies. Such is the truly essential
nature of the experience of the human mind acting,
ironically, within and upon the relevant environment.
This is the essential experience of that aspect of meta-
phor, in dealing with such as its green envy and dark
rage, which actually moves the subject-matter of the
human experience.
Compare that with the notion of “senseless rage,” as
in memorable slaughters occurring within high schools
or universities, or on the streets among children today.
It is from this kind of setting of actors in a real-life
situation, that the categories of the meaning of events or
conditions are expressed. It is not the action in the lit-
eral sense, but “the state of action,” which is the para-
mount experience.
Or, take the subject of “fire.” This has been a rela-
tively stubborn case in point. The peculiar fact of ex-
traordinary significance about “fire” is its qualitatively
distinct relationship to mankind’s existence, as distinct
from that of other forms of life. The human use of fire,
is the exemplary experience. Mankind’s active will in
the design of the human use of fire, is the metaphor of
October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  33
the existence of man’s use of fire, as such as Max Planck
and Albert Einstein defined this as a matter of principle,
or as Planck and Wolfgang Köhler came to define a
mutual notion of the human mind. It is in such distinc-
tions as this, that the essentially underlying action is to
be recognized. It is the notional “action” of this quality
which defines the actual notion of a true metaphor. It is
the metaphor which generates the action which is the
true reality.
This coincidence of the discoveries of Planck and
Köhler, has two, mutually reflected aspects of special
relevance to our subject here. That is to say that Köhler’s
specific definition of “mind” and the Planck-Einstein
revolution in the ontological principle of physical dis-
covery, is an excellent example, especially when we
have recognized the distinction of the principle of Clas-
sical musical composition, as typified by Bach through
Furtwängler, from the lusts of a Liszt or Wagner. Both
of the latter pair are known experiences, to one and
other, whereas the power to generate the essential qual-
ity of a Bach or Beethoven, is limited to what are the
equivalent of the effects of the work of truly Classical
composers. The quality of the Classical composition is
systemically coherent with the essential principle of
scientific creativity.
I must admit that there are, not infrequently, cases
where the individual may express both qualities of pas-
sion. Thus, a Shakespeare could have crafted the audi-
ence’s deep insight into the composition of the refer-
enced soliloquy of Hamlet, or I could never be at
peace with my experience of the late, romantic, Sir
Lawrence Olivier.
A Conclusion for Here
The implications of our obligatory consideration of
both the intertwined experience of the Mars landing
known as “Curiosity,” and the need for overcoming
the threats to Earth from roaming satellites, must be
considered as included in the distinction of the poten-
tial of the human mind from the beasts, even beasts for
whom we care as “our necessary friends.” Some
among us project an insight into a human-like quality
of pets, for example. That is, in some respects, more
than merely an acceptable practice. Yet, mankind re-
mains unique in respect to the existence of this noëtic
potential.
We have been made aware, at least categorically, of
the growing danger associated with recent movements
of the Solar system within our galaxy. This highly
emotional experience should not be degraded into
blind fears disguised, pitiably, as wishful denials.
Here, true humanity comes more forcibly into focus.
To wit:
The known history-so-to-speak of mankind’s
evolution as a uniquely creative species, is traced
most conveniently in the history of fire—fire as
defined generically. The history of fire is clear,
especially respecting the fact that mankind’s practice
as a species has entered the domains of those higher
orders of energy-flux-density associated with
thermonuclear fusion and matter-antimatter re­
actions. The higher phase of progress in explora­
tion of Mars, which is typified by the case of the
landing of “Curiosity” on Mars, when compared to the
threats to human existence from within the “nearby”
range of threatening asteroids, and comparable
matters, has two most notable meanings for this
present occasion: we are urged, thus, to master the
domain of asteroids within the ranges of the Mars and
Venus orbits, and, to this specific end, to put the hand
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of human scientific creativity into action on this
account.
As I have emphasized on recent, earlier occasions,
whatever we might wish to discuss respecting the
human role in the oncoming history of Mars and the
relevant masses of asteroids roaming “nearby,” the
landing of “Curiosity” has produced a profound change
in the role of the human species within this Solar
system—and, implicitly, beyond. I think it necessary,
at this point in time, to emphasize man’s indirect pres-
ence on Mars, in particular, as distinct from the other
implications of this development for mankind’s per-
sonal presence as it were as a sometime resident of
Mars.
The issue which had been well posed by the late Dr.
Edward Teller, of defense of Earth from menacing sat-
ellites, should be clearly recognized as the leading issue
of humanity during the generations immediately ahead.
The primary commitment, on this account, must be to
the Earth-based control of dangerous classes of satel-
lites and related other threats, by introducing the effi-
cient hand of mankind within the range of relevant
physical space, most immediately, that of satellites
whose action is located within the indicated range of
physical space-time.
As I have referenced this subject in some earlier
writings, the most essential weapon which we might
possess in respect to these matters, is the placing of the
human individual mind, in effect, into a Mars-based set
of operations. The extended programs which this step
called “Curiosity” expresses as the future of such mat-
ters, mean that man will be acting as if from visits to
laboratories and factories as typifying the work-places
from which agents from Earth will direct the defense
of mankind in space. The concern expressed by Dr.
Teller, on this account, would, therefore, be the new
quality of higher missions which must define the here-
tofore elementary notion of the role of mankind in
space.
The implications of such a view should, and if em-
ployed, will, redefine the human species’ profession.
The Solar system is the prospective immediate domain,
for mankind, now to be placed in view. It is, therefore,
time, for you to begin to find your future place in this
great leap of advancement of mankind within the out-
skirts of this galaxy. When something is present, which
could be efficiently thought for practice, we, mankind,
are already implicitly there.
From China to Afghanistan: A New
Milestone for Belt and Road Progress
by Hussein Askary

Hussein Askary is the Schiller

Institute’s Coordinator for South-
west Asia, and serves as the Arabic
Language Desk Editor for EIR. He
is a Board Member of the Belt and
Road Institute (BRIX) in Sweden.
EIR is reprinting this report from the
BRIX website, with permission of Mr.
Askary.

Sept. 24—The first rail shipment,

consisting of two freight containers,
arrived from China to the border town
of Hairatan in Afghanistan’s northern
Balkh province Sept. 23, marking a
milestone in breaking the isolation of
that land-locked country, which is
currently suffering a massive human-
itarian crisis. The two containers, part
of a larger consignment, are part of ara.gov.af
many shipments planned for a three- The first shipment of Chinese commercial freight containers arrives from Nantong,
month testing period for the China- China by rail at the border town of Hairatan in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province.
Aghanistan Corridor.
The initial shipment traveled along the first stage— China’s Global Times cited Governor Qudratullah
around 500 kilometers from the city of Kashgar in Xin- Abu Hamza of Balkh province as saying that, “It
jiang to Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan—by road, since is a milestone and a positive step towards boosting
there is no rail link, although one is planned eventually. trade and economic relations between Afghanistan
At Osh, the containers were loaded onto trains and the neighboring countries.” The opening of
to link up with Uzbekistan’s rail network across the the new China-Afghanistan Corridor contributes to
border in Andijan. They then crossed eastern Uzbeki- regional development, and Afghanistan is determined
stan and headed south into Afghanistan, as part of a to pursue economic relations with all nations in the
12-container train, to arrive at Hairatan, which links region.
with the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif along Before attending the Sept. 15-16 Summit of the
an Uzbek-built railway line. The first containers, carry- leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
ing mostly vehicle parts, left Kashgar Sept. 13, taking (SCO) in Samarkand, China’s President Xi Jinping
only 10 days to reach Afghanistan. This compares to sent a letter, published in Uzbek media, underlining
one to three months for the current route used to send the importance of Uzbek-China relations and the trans-
cargo from China to Afghanistan through Pakistan via port corridor from China to Central Asia. Xi underlined
the seaport of Karachi and overland. China has also the important developments that had occurred for the
used an air bridge, flying humanitarian aid to Kabul in Uzbek economy since the launch of the Belt and Road
recent months. Initiative. He wrote:

October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  35
 We are good partners pursuing common devel-
opment. China is the biggest trading partner and
a major investor for Uzbekistan. Two-way trade
exceeded US$8 billion in 2021, approached
US$5 billion in the first half of this year, and is
on course to reach the US$10 billion goal set for
2022. Cooperation under the Belt and Road Ini-
tiative has been fruitful, and major projects are
making steady progress.
Regarding the infrastructure projects connecting
China to Central Asia and Afghanistan, Xi wrote:
All four lines of the China-Central Asia natural
gas pipeline run through Uzbekistan. The [Kam-
chiq] tunnel on the Angren-Pap railway line, the
longest tunnel in Central Asia, has been success-
fully completed. More transport potential is
being unleashed from the China-Kyrgyzstan-
Uzbekistan highway and the China-Kazakhstan-
Uzbekistan railway. And preparations for the
China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project
are well under way. Uzbekistan is thus trans-
forming from a land-locked to a land-linked
country.
The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan route is the one
which is most important for Afghanistan. In his speech
at the SCO Summit President Xi emphasized:
We should ensure that the SCO-Afghanistan
contact group and the mechanism of coordina-
tion and cooperation among Afghanistan’s
neighbors continue to play their roles; and we
should encourage Afghan authorities to estab-
lish a broadly-based and inclusive political
structure and remove the ground that breeds ter-
rorism.
As explained in a thorough study by the Belt and
Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX) last year, Afghani-
stan’s economic and security woes can only be reme-
died through a massive economic development process
implying full integration into the Belt and Road cor-
ridors and its natural geographical neighborhood under
the umbrella of the SCO.

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Economics Briefs
Bank of England Goes
Back to QE, as Bond
Market Breaks Down
Coming amid furious rate-hiking
by the Federal Reserve, the British
Liz Truss government’s announced
“borrow a trillion” budget of Sept. 22
has blown a hole in the global bond
markets. There is the sovereign side:
British 2-year so-called “gilts” sud-
denly on Sept. 27 had an interest rate
above 5%, having recently been 1%.
Much more international in scope is
the corporate bond market’s upward
explosion in rates. Some details on
this below. And the sudden moves in
currencies: Dollar spikes; other major
currencies’ plunge led by sterling; de-
veloping nations’ central banks forced
into big “preemptive” rate hikes which
are ruinous to their economies.
Some current average interest rates
on corporate bonds on Sept. 27:
OECD average of investment-
grade bonds as a whole: 5.75%
Average of high-yield or “junk”
bonds (now a majority): 9%
Average of BBB-rated bonds (just
above junk in investment-grade): 7.25-
7.5%
JPMorgan Chase index of “Emerg-
ing Market” (sovereign) bonds: 8.55%
Index of no-recourse capital-rais-
ing notes issued by Canadian banks:
6.75-7.25%
And to add, the U.S. 30-year mort-
gage rate: 7.1% (was 3% this Spring).
The end of zero or super-low inter-
est rates on nearly all kinds of borrow-
ing for 11 years straight, was only six
months ago. When interest rates spike
in such unprecedented ways, all funds
which hold bonds—pension, mutual,
October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  37
money-market, bank, etc.—have the
value of their holdings suddenly fall
and face margin calls for more col-
lateral for their current investment ac-
tivities. All operations speculating in
currencies get margin calls. This has
already been the case since the Spring
for commodity producing and trading
companies worldwide due to inflation,
war and sanctions.
The Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land, Andrew Bailey, stated on Sept.
26: “This repricing has become more
significant in the past day—and it is
particularly affecting long-dated UK
government debt. Were dysfunction
in this market to continue or worsen,
there would be a material risk to UK
financial stability…. On 28 Septem-
ber, the Bank of England’s Financial
Policy Committee noted the risks to
UK financial stability from dysfunc-
tion in the gilt market. It recommended
that action be taken, and welcomed the
Bank’s plans for temporary and tar-
geted purchases in the gilt market on
financial stability grounds at an urgent
pace…. To achieve this, the Bank will
carry out temporary purchases of long-
dated UK government bonds from 28
September. The purpose of these pur-
chases will be to restore orderly mar-
ket conditions. The purchases will be
carried out on whatever scale is neces-
sary to effect this outcome.”
Europe’s Key Metals
Production Drastically
Cut by Inflation
Eurozone inflation in mid-Septem-
ber was announced Sept. 29 at 10.0%,
above all expectations and a record
high. Energy inflation is far worse,
and those sectors of European Union
industry that have rapidly increasing
costs for intense energy usage are ex-
periencing shutdowns. Most dramati-
cally, by the beginning of September
Europe had already lost about 1 mil-
lion tons of its primary aluminum pro-
duction, many of these cutbacks and
closures having occurred before the
end of 2021, according to Eurometaux,
the European association of non-fer-
rous producers. This is a loss of 50%
of total primary aluminum production
in the EU. Eurometaux has sent a letter
addressing the dramatic perspective to
the European Commission, urging in-
stant action.
Wind Power Suffers
Reality Shock
German-Spanish wind turbine
manufacturer Siemens Gamesa an-
nounced Sept. 29 that it is cutting 2,900
jobs worldwide. Most of the jobs will
be eliminated in Denmark (800), Ger-
many (300) and Spain (475).
“Such a decision is never easy, but
now is the time to take necessary ac-
tions to get the company back on track
for a sustainable future,” Siemens
Gamesa CEO Jochen Eickholt said,
justifying the drastic move. The sav-
ings program is part of the so-called
“Mistral strategy,” which is intended
to revive the crisis-ridden wind group.
Due to the record prices for raw
materials, supply chain chaos and
internal problems, Siemens Game-
sa’s problems are getting worse and
worse. Eickholt had already an-
nounced in a Handelsblatt interview
in June that there would be major job
cuts as a result.
Although Siemens Gamesa is one
of the largest wind companies in the
world, and even the market leader at
sea, business is poor. In the last six
years, there have been several profit
warnings, red figures, and four dif-
ferent bosses. Just at the beginning
of August, the turbine manufacturer
had to lower its profit forecast again.
“The situation remains tense. We see
material costs continuing to go up,
and at the same time we have long-
term contracts that were concluded in
2021 with significantly lower prices,”
Group CEO Eickholt said at that time.
Market leader Vestas and competi-
tors such as Nordex, Enercon, and GE
Renewables have also been posting
losses for months. And not just since
record raw material prices, supply
chain chaos, and the Ukraine war have
been weighing on business. There has
been a fierce price war in the market
for years. Above all, the switch from
fixed state payments to free tender-
ing systems, in which only the cheap-
est bidder is awarded the contract, has
driven turbine manufacturers into ruin-
ous competition.
Germany Follows UK to
the New Frontier: Rate
Hikes, QE, Hyperinflation
The German government on Sept.
29 followed the fiscal-monetary som-
ersault of the UK one week earlier.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a press
conference to announce that “prices
must come down” and that his gov-
ernment would throw out its debt limit
and borrow on a large scale in order
to provide €200 billion in support for
households and companies in paying
their energy bills, as well as cutting
the (natural) gas sales tax and other
taxes.
But as in the UK, whose policy
lurch Germany is copying, this will not
make “prices come down,” but merely
have the government increasingly pay
the prices of energy for companies and
households, thus creating plenty of de-
mand for prices to continue to go up.
38  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
German inflation for the month was
over 10% for the first time in many
years. “Prices have to come down, so
the government will do everything it
can. To this end, we are setting up a
large defensive shield,” said Scholz,
according to Reuters, which reported
him also confirming that two nuclear
reactors planned for shutdown will be
kept online until spring.
Thus the UK government and
Bank of England have engineered—
and that is the right word for this
new inflation product—a bailout for
pension funds, money-market funds,
hedge funds, and, implicitly, banks
down the line a bit; capped house-
hold energy bills for a while; and set
off earthquakes throughout the bond
and currency markets of the world.
And Germany has followed the Brit-
ish lead.
China-EU Trade Grows
China-EU trade has increased by
8.8% year-on-year so far for 2022,
and EU investment in China has in-
creased by 123.7%, reported the Chi-
nese Foreign Ministry Sept. 26. “The
China-Europe Railway Express made
its 10,000th trip of the year ten days
sooner than last year,” said spokesman
Wang Wenbin.
Carney’s ‘Net-Zero’
Alliance of Banks Starts
To Unravel
Both the Financial Times and
Reuters reported Sept. 21 that major
Wall Street banks have threatened
to leave former global central bank
leader Mark Carney’s financial alli-
ance. The Financial Times evidently
had reports from sources involved
in Carney’s Glasgow Financial Alli-
ance for Net Zero (GFANZ). Carney
is the United Nations climate envoy
who was Bank of England Governor
for eight years while also head of the
global Financial Stability Board and
several “net-zero” committees of the
central banks.
Businessgreen.com separately re-
ported on Sept. 26 that Australian and
Austrian pension funds had actually
withdrawn from part of the GFANZ
called the Net Zero Owner Asset Al-
liance. The Financial Times listed
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase,
and Bank of America, as well as other
unnamed banks, as considering get-
ting out of the GFANZ—which in
2021 claimed members’ assets under
management in the range of $200 tril-
lion—because “they fear being sued
over the alliance’s stringent decarboni-
sation commitments.” Other reasons
are also given: the banks “feel blind-
sided by [new and] tougher UN cli-
mate criteria” and are “anxious about
U.S. Securities and Exchange Com-
mission (SEC) rules [on] climate-risk
disclosures.”
But the underlying cause is that
identified in the Reuters coverage:
“The bankers have also complained
that the demands placed on them are
not supported by enough government
action on climate change.” In fact the
demands made by the 2015 Paris Ac-
cord, and more recently the November
2021 Glasgow World Climate Summit
at which Prince (now King) Charles
called for a “military-style mobiliza-
tion” of green finance, have run into
physical economic reality: The Green
New Deal has failed to deliver power
and heat. Nation after nation—and not
just those constantly blamed, China
and India and other Asian economic
powers, but also European countries
and the United States—has “tempo-
rarily” abandoned “green” shutdowns
of fossil fuels. The so-called “re-
newables” have not provided much
power, the materials and commodities
required for green schemes have suf-
fered huge price inflation or become
unavailable, and the sanctioning of
Russian fossil fuels has boomeranged
on the NATO countries.
III.  Schiller Institute Conference
Moderator’s Introduction, Panel 4
The Art of Optimism: Using the
Classical Principle to Change the World
This is the edited transcript of Beethoven’s original German with
Jason Ross’s opening remarks English subtitles.
introducing Panel 4 of the Schiller [musical performance]
Institute’s Sept. 10-11, 2022, Con­ Thank you to soprano Alyson Spina
ference, “Inspiring Humanity To and David Maiullo on piano. Thanks
Survive the Greatest Crisis in World also to Nancy Guice for organizing that
History.” The full video of Panel 4 is performance of Leonore’s aria from
available here. Beethoven’s opera Fidelio.
Now, on that theme and on the role
As the science advisor to the of LaRouche in that theme, LaRouche
Schiller Institute, I’m happy to be addressed the division between science
Schiller Institute
moderating this final panel, entitled, Jason Ross and art, between the German Natur­
“The Art of Optimism: Using the wissenschaft and Geisteswissenschaft,
Classical Principle To Change the World.” between the techie and the fuzzy domains, between the
We open with a musical demonstration of that “two cultures,” as C.P. Snow called it. What is the
Classical principle: Leonore’s gripping aria from Bee­ relationship between science and Classical art? Is science
thoven’s only opera Fidelio. In this story, based on the a realm of cold facts, without human passion, but in
real-life imprisonment of the Marquis de Lafayette, and which truth can be found? While art is a realm of
the heroic actions of his wife [Adrienne] to rescue him emotions, where truth and beauty are purely in the eye of
from prison, we hear Leonore, wife of the political pri­ the beholder? No! said LaRouche, there is a connection,
soner Florestan, who dresses as a man to get a job in the and this connection has a bearing on the creation of the
prison where he is held. Under the assumed name of Fide­l­io, United States itself, and on physical economics.
she gains the trust of the warden and plots
how to use her access to save her husband.
Just before the aria we’re about to hear,
Don Pizarro, the man who had imprisoned
her husband, Florestan, for political rea­
sons, demands that the prison warden kill
a special prisoner, whom Leonore takes to
be her husband. The warden refuses, and
Don Pizarro announces that he will kill the
pri­son­er himself. He commands the
warden and Fidelio (Leonore) to enter the
dungeon to dig the grave.
Hear, now, Beethoven’s aria, in which
Leonore reflects on Pizarro’s evil and on
Schiller Institute NYC Chorus
the hope that sustains her. The aria, “Ab­ Soprano Alyson Spina, accompanied by David Maiullo, performing Leonore’s
scheulicher!... Komm Hoffnung,” (“Abom­ “Abscheulicher!... Komm Hoffnung” (“Abominable One!... Come Hope”) from
in­able One!... Come Hope”) is sung in Beethoven’s opera Fidelio.

October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  39
 Dennis Speed
Leibniz and America:
The Best of All Possible Revolutions
This is the edited transcript of the
presentation by Dennis Speed as
part of Panel 4, “The Art of Opti-
mism: Using the Classical Principle
To Change the World,” of the Schil-
ler Institute’s Sept. 10–11 Confer-
ence, “Inspiring Humanity To Sur-
vive the Greatest Crisis in World
History.” The full video of Panel 4 is
available here.
I’m going to start today with a
quote from Cotton Mather, one of
Dennis Speed
the earliest of the Founding Fathers.
He wrote “Things for a Distressed
People To Think Upon,” in 1696, in which he says:
There seems to be a shameful shrink, of all sorts
of men among us, from that greatness, and good­
ness, which adorned our ancestors: we grow
little every way; little in our civil matters, little
in our military matters, little in our ecclesiastical
matters; we dwindle away, to nothing.
That’s what he thought in 1696.
We are in an important revolutionary era. Schiller
Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, many years
ago, wrote a piece called “A Revolution Is a Question
EIRNS/Stuart Lewis
Lyndon LaRouche Queen Elizabeth II
40  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
of Time.” Two recent, intersecting
events—the Sept. 8 death of Queen
Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning
monarch in English and British his­
tory, and the 100th birthday of her
nemesis, physical economist Lyndon
LaRouche—represent a true coinci­
dence of opposites: the close and fall
of one era of history, and the opening
and rise of another. In that coinci­
dence of opposites is conjoined the
true current and future history of the
Schiller Institute
American Revolution.
In the year that Elizabeth became
Queen, 1952, Lord Bertrand Rus­
sell, whom LaRouche once referred to as “the most evil
man of the 20th century,” gave an interview, reflecting
on his 80th birthday.
Bertrand Russell [video]: It’s very difficult for
anybody born since 1914 to realize how profoundly dif­
ferent the world is now from what it was when I was a
child. The change has been almost unbelievable. I try as
best I can, in spite of my years, to get used to living in a
world of atom bombs; a world where ancient empires
vanish like morning mist, where we have to accustom
ourselves to Asiatic self-ascension....
And the world where I was young was a solid world,
a world where all kinds of things that have
now disappeared were thought to be going
to last forever. It didn’t dawn on people
that they would cease. English people cer­
tainly regarded English naval supremacy
as a sort of law of nature. “Britannia ruled
the waves.” It didn’t occur to us that that
might stop.
Interviewer: Even with Bismarck?
Russell: Bismarck was regarded as a
rascal, and we thought of him as a sort of
MoD/Joel Rouse uneducated farmer. But it was assumed
that the influence of Goethe and Schiller
would gradually bring Germany back to a more civi­
lized point of view.... [end video]
Bertrand Russell’s understanding of Friedrich Schil­
ler, and of Germany, and of Bismarck, is not shared by
the Schiller Institute. It should be pointed out that Schil­
ler admired the American Revolution. Bertrand Russell
did not. Today, there exists the peculiar idea that the
American Revolution was a product of bad British
management of disputes with a section of its colonies.
Lyndon LaRouche thought otherwise. In a 1996 essay,
“Leibniz and the List Hypothesis,” regarding the great
German American economist, Friedrich List, LaRouche
wrote:
The death of England’s Queen Anne [in 1714]
marked the victory of a Venice-directed, finan­
cier-oligarchical faction of the Duke of
Marlborough and Hanover’s George
Ludwig, over England’s patriots. In this
circumstance, the defeated patriots
turned their attention to the semi-auton­
omous colonies in North America, view­
ing those colonies as the only hope for a
future return of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, each to its own patriotic cause.
As the records show the historian,
those English, Irish, and Scottish patri­
ots, typified by Jonathan Swift, formed
a joint international network, headed by
Germany’s Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Gottfried Leibniz
The American Revolution was, in fact,
a deliberate attempt to establish the political govern­
mental conditions in which the science of physical
economy, essentially invented by Gottfried Leibniz in
his 1671 essay, “Society and Economy,” would become
the basis of human progress. Wrote Leibniz:
Monopoly is avoided, since this Society always
desires to give commodities at their fair price, or
even more cheaply in many cases, by causing
manufactured goods to be produced locally
rather than having them imported. It will espe­
cially preclude the formation of any monopoly
of merchants or a cartel of artisans, along with
any excessive accumulation of wealth by the
merchants or excessive poverty of the artisans—
which is particularly the case in Holland, where
the majority of merchants are riding high,
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whereas the artisans are kept in continual pov­
erty and toil. This is harmful to the republic,
since even Aristotle maintains that artisanship
ought to be one of the worthiest occupations.
Nam Mercatura transfert tantum, Manufactura
gignit. [For trade can carry only as much as the
factories produce.] And why, indeed, should so
many people be poor and miserable for the ben­
efit of such a small handful? After all, is not the
entire purpose of Society to release the artisan
from his misery?
Releasing the artisan, that is the worker, from his
misery, did not mean that people gave up working.
Leibniz contended that the very opposite would happen.
As labor, through technological progress, elevated
Christoph Bernhard Francke Charles Jervas
Jonathan Swift
work from repetitive, monotonous activity, people
would work more, precisely because they enjoyed
being creative, as well as productive. As for agriculture,
in that same essay, Leibniz wrote,
The farmer is not in need, since he is sure of his
bread, and the merchant has more than enough.
The remaining people are either destitute or gov­
ernment servants. Society can likewise satisfy
all the farmer’s own needs, providing it always
buys from him at a reliably fair price, whether
that be cheap or dear. We can thereby ensure for
all eternity against natural food shortages, since
Society can then have what amounts to a general
grain reserve.
It was neither capitalism, nor socialism, nor any
other “ism” that Leibniz sought to establish. The idea of
advancing labor away from plantation slavery to manu­
factures—what Alexander Hamilton would make, in his
1791 Report on Manufactures, the basis for consolidat­
ing America’s revolution against Britain—was the op-
posite of what John Locke’s Bank of England and Royal
African Company would practice, whatever words
about liberty they preached. Leibniz’s groundbreaking
work on the steam engine and “heat-powered machines”
meant that he and his collaborator, Denis Papin, antici­
pated the work of Robert Fulton and others by 100 years.
It is in part because of the mistaken idea that Locke
inspired the American Constitution, through writings
like the “Second Treatise of Government,” that the
Leibnizian design for “the best of all possible econo­
mies” has not been dominant in the United States. Con­
sider these words from 1671, and how far short we in
the United States fall from this view today. Again, from
Society and Economy:
Through establishment of such a Society, we
eliminate a deep-seated drawback within many
republics, which consists in allowing each and all
to sustain themselves as they please, allowing
one individual to become rich at the expense of a
hundred others, or allowing him to collapse,
dragging down with him the hundreds who have
put themselves under his care. An individual may
or may not ruin his own family, and then may or
may not run through his own and others’ funds.
... Each country shall ... supply itself with
those necessary commodities and manufactured
goods which previously came from abroad, so
that it will not have to procure from others what
it can have for itself; each country shall be
shown how properly to use its own domestic re­
sources. In a country which has sufficient wool,
manufacturing shall be established for the prep­
aration of cloth; a country with an abundance of
flax shall occupy its populace with the produc­
tion of clothing; and so forth. And thus, no
country among those which permit Society the
proper degree of freedom, will be favored over
the other; rather, each shall be made to flourish
in those areas in which God and Nature have al­
lowed it to excel.
Although many know that John Locke’s formula­
tion of “Life, Liberty, and Property” was rejected by
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Franklin, Adams, and even Thomas Jefferson in their
writing of the “Declaration of Independence,” in favor
of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” most
today no longer know why. The Founders explicitly re­
jected the outlook that Adam Smith put forward in his
1759 Theory of Moral Sentiments, and of his later The
Wealth of Nations, precisely because they understood
Leibniz’s opposition to John Locke, who believed that
Happiness was “the utmost pleasure we are capable of.”
Leibniz thought differently. From his New Essays on
Human Understanding:
I do not know whether the greatest pleasure is
possible. I believe rather that it can grow ad infi-
nitum....
I believe then that happiness is a lasting plea­
sure, which could not be so without there being
a continual progress to new pleasures. Happi­
ness is then, so to speak, a road through plea­
sures; and pleasure is merely a step and an ad­
vancement toward happiness, the shortest which
can be made according to the present impres­
sions, but not always the best. The right road
may be missed in the desire to follow the short­
est, as the stone which goes straight may en­
counter obstacles too soon, which prevent it
from advancing quite to the center of the Earth.
This shows that it is the reason and the will
which transport us toward happiness, but that
feeling and desire merely lead us to pleasure....
True happiness ought always to be the object
of our desires, but there is ground for doubting
whether it is. For often we hardly think of it, and
I have remarked here more than once that the
less desire is guided by reason, the more it tends
to present pleasure and not to happiness, that is
to say, to lasting pleasure.
Leibniz was the greatest scientific thinker of his age.
He was the inventor of the calculus, in 1676, at the age
of 30. His work on binary numbers anticipated the
modern computer. We have already mentioned his col­
laboration on advancing the steam engine.
But Leibniz was also a master organizer. He finally
met with Russia’s Peter the Great shortly before his own
death in 1716. But 19 years before that meeting, Leibniz
had expressed his great interest in working with Peter
and Russia to discover whether there was a land-bridge
connecting the American continent to Asia. In her essay,
“Peter the Great’s Intermezzo with G.W. Leibniz and G.
Delisle,” Author Kristina Küntzel-Witt writes:
The 52-year-old German Protestant scientist
was fascinated by the idea of a young tsar travel­
ing incognito through half of Europe. Leibniz
tried hard to establish contact with Peter, but
could only do so through François Lefort, the
tsar’s influential old friend. A fixed point in
Leibniz’s ideas was the question of whether
there was a land-bridge between Asia and Amer­
ica: as early as 1697, he sent a detailed plan
about his ideas to Lefort in order to have them
presented to the tsar.
He wrote: “To make the maps, we must send
engineers, observe the high points, longitudes,
and variations of the compass, and determine the
coasts, especially in the Northeast, as much as
we can, to learn if Asia is joined to America, or if
we can pass between them.”
In their meeting in 1716, Leibniz presented Peter
with a plan for a system of educational institutions de­
voted to teaching the sciences to all people, but he also
proposed how those institutions would help organize
the state. Peter’s Russian Academy of Sciences was
founded in 1724.
Leibniz’s interest in and respect for China has been
well documented. As he wrote in the Preface to his No-
vissima Sinica,
I consider it a singular plan of the fates that
human civilization and refinement should today
be concentrated, as it were, in the two extremes
of our continent, in Europe and in China, which
adorns the Orient as Europe does the opposite
edge of the Earth. Perhaps Supreme Providence
has ordained such an arrangement, so that as the
most cultivated and distant peoples stretch out
their arms to each other, those in between may
gradually be brought to a better way of life.
As for his work in England, which was not exactly
consummated, it is best to read the work by historian
Graham Lowry, How the Nation Was Won. Lowry tells us:
As early as 1670, while serving the Elector of
Mainz, and in touch with the French nation-
building forces associated with Mazarin and
later Colbert, Leibniz proposed a Grand Design
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for an harmonia universalis (universal harmony)
of sovereign republics, which included a crucial
role for America.
Although historians have generally sought to
minimize Leibniz’s significance and virtually
obliterate his importance to America, he was no
stranger to New England’s leaders. Among his
correspondents was John Winthrop Jr. (1606-
1676), the leading American astronomer, physi­
cist, and industrial entrepreneur of his day. As
Governor of Connecticut, he secured for it the vir­
tually sovereign status his father [John Winthrop]
had established for the Massachusetts Bay colony.
I should also add that John Winthrop Jr. was also the
head of Harvard College for 20 years, from 1661 to
1681, I believe.
In England itself, a pro-republican faction had
grouped itself around the then-reigning Queen Anne.
England and France were then involved in a fratricidal
war, draining both nations. Arrayed against those re­
publican forces, such as Robert Harley, Lord High
Treasurer, effectively chief minister to Queen Anne—
were John Locke, Isaac Newton, and the newly-created
Bank of England, a private entity that came into exis­
tence in 1694; and, by the way, remained private until
1946. To counter the Bank of England, Harley’s faction
had proposed legislation to limit interest rates to 4%;
establish a public accounts commission of the House of
Commons to investigate corrupt practices of the City of
London; and the creation of a national land bank in Feb­
ruary 1696, which was to be a source of low-cost credit
for improving farming. They also published Daniel De­
foe’s Essays Upon Several Projects, which proposed
that the bank itself be placed under public authority. All
of those measures were rejected.
Then, the republicans of England looked to Leibniz.
Partially with the assistance of Leibniz, that faction
nearly pulled off a coup which would have meant that
Leibniz would have become a decisive presence in
England, and perhaps prime minister.
Through a change in what was called the Act of Set­
tlement, in 1701, English republicans sought to install
Princess Sophie of Hanover on the throne of England
and were successful in having the Act of Settlement
read such that a Hanover was, in fact, placed on the
throne, but not Sophie. This would have meant that, to­
gether with Leibniz’s own scientific work, it would
have made Leibniz, and his pro-development faction,
hegemonic. But, it did not work. Before she could come
to power, Sophie died in June of 1714. Anne died in
August, and Sophie’s brother Ludwig came to power.
He was a much different entity, effectively ending these
prospects. It would be the supporters of Leibniz in
America, including Philadelphia’s James Logan and
later, Benjamin Franklin, who would carry forward his
Grand Design. That would be in the form of the Ameri­
can Revolution of 1776.
So, Leibniz did not win the
battle for his world of universal
harmony in his lifetime. So why
did Leibniz believe, that “this is the
best of all possible worlds,” an idea
that is often satirized, as it was by
Voltaire, and later, by Leonard Bern­
stein in his opera Candide? Why
did he believe that the universe
itself had a moral arc, and that the
discovery of the universe’s laws by
humanity provided the greatest of
human pleasures?
In the last two months, as a result James Logan
of the imaged transmissions re­
ceived on Earth from the James Webb Space Telescope,
our fundamental ideas about the origin, composition,
and even destiny of the universe have been shaken—
even including the sacred idea of “the Big Bang.” The
image of the universe as a big pot stuck around and far
above one’s head with stars and galaxies gleaming in one
location or another, is shattered. The pot-head’s guide to
the galaxy, Euclidean space time—up/down, right/left,
forward/backward—as well as mere non-Euclidean
space time—can no longer be said to map the real uni­
NASA/ESA/The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/CSA
A portion of the Carina Nebula, imaged by the Hubble Space
Telescope (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope (right).
44  The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War EIR  October 7, 2022
verse in which we actually live.
The very immensity of the universe now known to
exist, just under 100 years after the American astrono­
mer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the Milky Way
was just one of many galaxies, was discussed in a June
22 article, “There are more galaxies in the Universe
than even Carl Sagan ever imagined,” on the website
bigthink.com, which stated:
Our most detailed observations
of the distant universe, from the
Hubble eXtreme Deep Field,
gave us an estimate of 170 bil­
lion galaxies. A theoretical cal­
culation from a few years ago—
the first to account for galaxies
too small, faint, and distant to be
seen—put the estimate far
higher, at 2 trillion. But even
that estimate is too low. There
(unknown artist) ought to be at least 6 trillion, and
perhaps more like 20 trillion
galaxies, if we’re ever able to
count them all.
The immensity of the universe, though, is still
smaller than the size of the human mind. Why? Because
the mind contains the universe itself as an idea, because
the mind has no size-measurement as such. The mind is
not the same as the brain, which is of a definite physical
size, weight, and shape. The mind is metaphysical. It
has no place as such, but has its center everywhere, and
its circumference nowhere. The mind has boundaries,
but is without limit. If, as one thinker has said, “The
universe is a thought of God,” then consider these
words of Albert Einstein:
I want to know how God created this world. I’m
not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the
spectrum of this or that element. I want to know
[God’s] thoughts; the rest are just details.
That was the outlook that Gottfried Leibniz and his
American collaborators and fellow discoverers brought
to lawful political practice in his time, for all people.
His was the best of all possible revolutions and best of
all possible worlds, because of his commitment to per­
manent creativity, which can only become a greater
pleasure because more—and in fact—all of humanity is
called upon to participate in it.
OCTOBER 15, 2022
International Schiller Institute Youth Conference:
Build the New Paradigm, Defeat Green Fascism!
On September 6, the Schiller Institute released the
following invitation to an international youth conference,
open to young and old alike, which will convene with
both an in-person audience in New York City, and a live
online audience from all over the world. The conference
will begin at 10:00 a.m. EDT on October 15, 2022 and
will run through 5 p.m. Those who are not planning to
participate in person, need to register here.
Live in-person tickets are $20 per person and are
available at the “purchase tickets” link at the bottom of the
in-person registration page . For more information, con­tact
Daniel Burke at https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.
com/
The end of the genocidal neoliberal system has
come, accompanied by catastrophic hyperinflation and
the white-hot danger of thermonuclear war.
In response, the members of the BRICS Plus, the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the
Eurasian Economic Union, and associated nations
worldwide are moving toward a new, just international
economic order, one capable of expanding China’s Belt
and Road Initiative into a global mission to eradicate
hunger and poverty. Realizing this potential demands
international cooperation to halt the U.S.-NATO march
toward Armageddon war and to put an orderly end to
the City of London and Wall Street’s global speculative
bubble. It demands mankind finally bury the rotten
doctrine of Thomas Malthus, still today the leading
apologia for colonialism. It demands new, principled
leadership—an international youth movement for
peace through economic development.
Argentina’s annual inflation rate in August was
71%, Haiti’s 25%. Goldman Sachs has predicted 23%
inflation for the UK by early 2023. Seventy-one million
people worldwide fell into extreme poverty in the
period of April through June of 2022. The World Bank
has reported that up to 80 nations require immediate
debt relief, or they will soon find themselves incapable
of importing the food and fuel needed for their
populations to survive.
An average of 25,000 people are dying unnecessarily
of hunger each day, and already in 2021, 2.3 billion
people were living in moderate or extreme food
October 7, 2022  EIR The Energy Sabotage That Could Trigger World War  45
insecurity. 45 million children under the age of five suf­
fer from “wasting,” the most extreme form of mal­
nutrition, which increases a child’s risk of death by
twelve times. Death by hunger is described as the most
torturous way of dying because your body essentially
feeds on itself before finally giving up. That such in­
justice exists is proof of the continuation of colonialism
in new cloth, because it would be so easy to produce
enough food for all human beings living on this planet.
What is the cause? Look to the decisions made at the
September 2019 meeting of the Federal Reserve, with
other Western central banks and financial behemoths
like BlackRock in attendance. There, the former head of
the Bank of England, Mark Carney, announced measures
to enforce global obedience to the elimination of fossil
fuels (“Net Zero”) and the creation of high inflation
through the printing of money directed toward keeping
the more than $1 quadrillion global debt bubble afloat.
In 2020-21 alone, at least $14 trillion was created by the
Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury, and European Central
Bank, with effectively none of it going to the im­prove­
ment of the physical economy. Trillions have flowed
into a new Green finance bubble and its unreliable, low-
energy-density solar and wind projects. Meanwhile,
reliable energy supplies are sanctioned, and the food
supply is destroyed by the imposition of Malthusian
limits on land, fertilizer, pesticides, and energy.
In 1971, the late American economist and statesman
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. uniquely identified President
Richard Nixon’s action to “pull the plug” on the Bretton
Woods international monetary system as the turning
point toward a modern Malthusian policy orientation
that would lead inexorably to famine, pandemics,
fascism, and war, should it be allowed to continue. The
catastrophe we are living through today is the
consequence of that policy orientation—a paradigm
built on the evil belief of the Anglo-American oligarchy,
as expressed by representatives like Lord Bertrand
Russell, that mankind is a cancer on the planet, a beast
whose population need be culled, starting with the
“non-white” peoples of the world.
To defeat this menace to civilization, the modern-
day British Empire, LaRouche built an international
movement devoted to the total physical economic
development of the formerly colonized areas of the
world, and of every nation. Today, that vision is known
internationally as the World Land-Bridge, a global
network of development corridors connecting all
nations with water, power, transportation, and agro-
industrial systems. LaRouche insisted that mankind is
not an animal—that we are the only creative species
known in the universe. Each human child has within it
the potential to become a genius, to make discoveries of
universal principle that contribute something necessary
in science or culture to the species as a whole. By the
development of creative genius, we increase the
potential relative population density of mankind—the
ability of mankind to do good.
To emerge from the present, all-encompassing
strategic crisis with a new, just world economic order
demands new genius. The genius to conceive of the
necessary development of humanity itself—from a
juvenile period of geopolitics and war to a mature
devotion to the common scientific, moral aims of
mankind. This genius was on display at the SCO’s
recent meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where
nations representing over half of the world’s population
gathered in devotion to the principles of international
law and the UN Charter. The West, meanwhile, is
dominated by cynicism and barbarity. But we know
these are the artificial effects of top-down cultural
warfare, and we reject them. We demand that the
goodness within our societies be brought forward, and
we demand that the clouds of fear be dispelled. In
organizing this October 15 international Schiller
Institute conference, we reach out to young people
across the world and invite them to collaborate with us
in this solemn mission to end colonialism in all its forms
and eradicate poverty and hunger from this world.
Speakers
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute
Diane Sare, LaRouche party candidate for U.S. Senate
from New York State
Jackson Hinkle
Haz Al-Din
Daniel Burke, Schiller Institute
Fox Green
Princy Mthombeni, founder of Africa4Nuclear
Sameera Khan, Journalist
Megan Dobrodt, President, Schiller Institute (U.S.A.)
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