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Institut Schiller Institut Schiller « la plus parfaite de toutes les oeuvres d'art est l’édification d’une vraie liberté politique » Friedrich Schiller “The “Themost most perfect perfect of all of allworks works of of art art is is the the establishment establishment ofof a a true true political political freedom.” freedom.” REBUILDING THE WORLD IN THE BRICS ERA SCHILLER INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE RebuildingParis, June 13-14, the 2015 World in the BRICS Era International Schiller Institute Conference SATURDAY JUNE 13 June 13-14, 2015, Paris, France 08:30 – 09:00 Registration. Preliminary Invitation 09:15 – 09:30 Musical introduction. 09:30 – 10:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH Schiller Institute. 10:30 – 10:45 Dialogue with the audience (Q&A). here are crucial moments in history when a Renais- fi ght for the common aims of mankind. It will thus mark Tsance is needed to rescue mankind. another decisive step following on the conferences held by the Schiller Institute in Frankfurt on October 18-19, TheToday, speakers, the BRICS who hold countries government (Brazil, Russia, or institutional India, China positions, and some of whom have participated in the 2014 and those held in Manhattan since the beginning negotiationand South Africa), process are leading committed to the to BRICS, launching will one.all speak They in a personal capacity. of the year. It is in fact an international mobilization that have founded the New Development Bank (NDB), an you will be attending, not a one-time gathering of whistle- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and various blowers. 10:45other –funds 12:45 to fi nancePANEL the I economic belt of a “New Silk Road,”, both terrestrialTHE NEW and SILKmaritime, ROAD promoted AND THE by BRICS the : A NEWFirst, PARADIGM we will hear FOR from CIVILIZATION representatives of the BRICS Chinese government. They are setting up a Contingent and their allies, who will present the great projects they Reserve ArrangementModerator (CRA) : toChristine protect Bierre,their currencies Journalist, Paris.plan or are already implementing in their countries. This is and preparing a new,• 10:45 international – 11:00 economic and fi nancial not a sum of different projects, but constitutes a worldview order in which the Leonidyuan will Kadyshev, be a driving Minister force. Finally, Councillor they of thevery Russian different Embassy from that in which France. has dominated in Europe for are organizing a universal rating agency as an alternative over forty years. to the three major Western agencies. • 11:00 – 11:15 Members of Lyndon LaRouche’s science team will pres- Their great projectsProf. are Shi based Ze, Senior on the Research transformation Fellow of andent Director the new of approachInternational needed Strategic to overcome Studies theon droughtEnergy man and nature, onof thean ambitiousChina Institute space of exploration International pol- Studiesdevastating (CIIS), a California,think tank byof themanaging Foreign and Ministry, creating Beijing. water icy, a policy of public health-care for all, and the creation cycles through organizing salt water desalinization, and • 11:15 – 11:30 of smart cities, together with planting “great green walls” working on the promising perspectives offered by atmo- H.E. Ambassador H.H.S. Viswanathan, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation. to green the deserts. Over the last thirty years, China has spheric ionization to create new, more effi cient cycles. Coordinator of all activities connected with BRICS and IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), New Delhi. lifted over 1,35 billion people out of poverty, and India is The Chinese program of mining helium-3 on the Moon now doing the same for 1,25 billion. • 11:30 – 11:45 as fuel for thermonuclear fusion energy production on This is clearly whereH.E. Ali the Ahani, alternative Ambassador lies to aof trans-At- Iran in France.Earth, exemplifi es a new identity for man, extended to the lantic Empire whose fi nancial oligarchy sows the seeds of scale of the solar system, and beyond that, to the scale • 11:45 – 12:45 war, just as storm clouds bring the storm. of the galaxy, in order to understand and to master the Dialogue with the audience, Q&A. effects of cosmic radiation on our climate, as well as the Our conference will be the venue to mobilize forces danger of asteroids for our planet. 12.45for this – 14.15 alternative,Lunch which break. rejects destructive geopo- litical power games and puts us at the forefront of the To those who object that such a way of thinking is “un- SATURDAY JUNE 13 14:15 – 16:30 PANEL II ERADICATING THE GEOPOLITICS OF WAR BY PURSUING THE COMMON AIMS OF MANKIND Moderator : Elke Fimmen, Schiller Institute, Germany. • 14:15 – 14:30 Musical introduction. • 14:30 – 14:45 Denys Pluvinage, Consultant to the French-Russian Dialogue, Paris. • 14:45 – 15:00 Jayshree Sengupta, Economist, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India. • 15:00 – 15:15 Colonel (Ret.) Alain Corvez. International Strategy Consultant. Former International Relations Consultant of the Defense and Interior Ministries, Paris. • 15:15 – 15:30 Stelios Kouloglou, Journalist, Writer, and Member of European Parliament, Syriza, Greece. • 15:30 – 15:45 Jean-François Di Meglio, President ASIA Centre, Paris. • 15:45 – 16:30 Dialogue with the audience, Q&A. 16:30 – 18:30 PANEL III GREAT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS ARE THE ONLY REAL ALTERNATIVE These experts have all been personally involved in the design, feasibility studies and development of international infrastructure programs. Moderator : Rainer Apel, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), Wiesbaden. • 16:30 – 16:45 Christine Bierre, Journalist, Paris. “The Eurasian Land-Bridge of Leibniz.” • 16:45 – 17:00 Jean-Pierre Gérard, Economist, Entrepreneur, Former member of the Economic Council of the Bank of France, Paris. • 17:00 – 17:15 Prof. Safieeldin Mohamed Metwally, The National Center for Desert Research, Cairo, Egypt. • 17:15 – 17:30 Acheikh Ibn-Oumar, former Foreign Minister of Chad, Reims. • 17:30 – 17:45 Hussein Askary, Middle East Director of the Schiller Institute, Stockholm. • 17:45 – 18:30 Dialogue with the audience, Q&A. 18:30 – 19:30 Break. 19:30 – 21:00 MUSICAL EVENING Works of Bach and Beethoven. Choral works of Schubert and Mozart. SUNDAY JUNE 14 08:45 – 09:15 Registration. 09:30 – 09:45 Musical introduction. 09:45 – 10:00 Messages to the conference. 10:00 – 10:45 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Jacques Cheminade, President of Solidarité & Progrès, Paris. 10:45 – 13:00 PANEL IV PUBLIC CREDIT AND DEBT CANCELLATION, THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE FOR EUROPE The speakers are aware that European nations must join the BRICS dynamic, bringing with them the best of their respective cultures and historical achievements to expand the scope. The crucial issue is to put an end to monetarism and establish a public credit system both nationally and internationally to finance great infrastructure projects. Moderator : Karel Vereycken, Journalist, Paris. • 10:45 – 11:00 Prof. Notis Marias, Professor of Law and Political Science in Crete, Member of European Parliament, Greece. • 11:00 – 11:15 Prof. Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, Dean of the Transport and Logistics Institute, Chairman of the Arab League Academy of Science and Technology, Port Said, Egypt. • 11:15 – 11:30 Diogène Senny, Secretary General of the Pan-African League-UMOJA, Toulouse. • 11:30 – 13:00 Dialogue with the audience, Q&A. 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break. 14:30 – 17:00 PANEL V A NEW SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL RENAISSANCE IS THE KEY TO OUR FUTURE Countering the hypocrisy and the unrealistic vision of the Paris World Climate Summit (COP21), the speakers will develop the real reasons for climate change and how human society has to master the dynamics involved for their mutual benefit, starting from an overall solar and galactic perspective. Moderator : Odile Mojon, Schiller Institute, Paris. • 14:30 – 14:45 Musical introduction. • 14:45 – 15:00 Maëlle Mercier, Schiller Institute, Paris. “Jean Jaurès : Nurturing politics with Art and Science” • 15:00 – 15:30 Benjamin Deniston, LPAC Scientific Research Team, Washington. “Water, an unlimited resource provided we understand where it comes from”. • 15:30 – 15:45 Prof. François Gervais, Professor Emeritus of the François Rabelais University, Tours, Critical Rapporteur to the IPCC - ARS5 (International Panel on Climate Change), Tours. • 15:45 – 16:00 Prof. Carl-Otto Weiss, Advisor to the European Institute for Climate and Energy ; Former President of the National Metrology Institute of Germany, Braunschweig. • 16:00 – 17:00 Dialogue with the audience, Q&A. 17:00 – 18:00 CONCLUSION Conclusion by the Schiller Institute on the need for detente, entente and cooperation among peoples, nations and regions of the world to launch a new human adventure beyond “conven- tional wisdom”. .
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