Schiller Institute Conference in Eltville, Germany: 'The Future

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NEWS Schiller Institute Conference in Eltville, Germany ‘The Future Determines the Present’

early five hundred members and “We Are at the End of an Era.” La- production of physical goods. Nguests of the Schiller Institute Rouche explained the inevitable collapse Real production in the world econ- from over thirty nations attended a of the present economic and financial omy has greatly decreased since the conference in Eltville, Germany Dec. 2- system, which will occur with great 1960’s; the amount of money that has 3, on the theme, “The Future Deter- probability before the end of 1996, if not been put in circulation by govern- mines the Present: 1996, the Year of as early as the coming weeks. ments has increased; the amount of Decision.” The decisive factor is the widening worldwide financial titles is growing, Lyndon LaRouche opened the con- of the “scissors” between financial as a result of speculation, with a daily ference with a speech on the subject, aggregates, monetary aggregates, and turnover of $3 trillion. Since some of the speculative deals have to be financed by withdrawal of money from the physical economy, an end- point will soon be reached. The aban- donment of International Monetary Fund policies of the last twenty-five years, which continue to fuel the crisis, is obligatory for humanity to survive. U.S. Justice Department Corruption Other speakers on the first day of the conference included three extraordinary fighters for justice: former South Caroli- na State Senator Theo Mitchell; Dr. Josef Miklosˇko, who was Vice Please turn to page 69

EIRNS/Maria Schmid Conference panelists: (left to right) Elisabeth Hellenbroich, Jonathan Tennenbaum, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Anno Hellenbroich, Helga Zepp-LaRouche.

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example, launching new joint space projects, as an alternative to the current “brain drain” of scien- d i

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based upon the heritage of I national and world Classical cul- E ture, as an alternative to counter- culture and to “soap opera” mass culture, which promotes im- Top: Panel on judicial morality, irresponsibility, and vio- misconduct: Standing, State lence. Senator Theo Mitchell; s seated, Judge Carlo i w e d

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sake of strengthening human r a Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum h C M / morality, world peace, and devel- / S S

(left), Faris Nanic (right). N N R R I opment; active participation of I E national and religious minorities E in the economic, cultural, and achieve an economic upswing, through political life of nation-states, as an Eltville Conference government investment in infrastruc- alternative to pagan cults, mysti- Continued from page 66 ture, prescribing instead a brutal policy cism, fanatical ethnicism, and sep- Prime Minister in the first post-com- of austerity, which led, in France, to an aratist terrorism run by deployed munist government of Czecho-Slovakia, enormous strike wave. The politicians experts of the financial oligarchy. and is a former resistance fighter; committed to this austerity policy are and Italian “Mafia-hunter” Judge “dinosaurs,” who will be swept away The preconditions for this new Carlo Palermo. Both Mitchell and with the ending of the present financial policy of partnership and mutual Dr. Miklosˇko had been participants in system. respect are democratic parliamentari- the Aug. 31-Sept. 1 Independent Com- The solution, said Zepp-LaRouche, anism, defense of the inalienable mission hearings to investigate gross is cooperation among nations, following rights of man, and the assumption of misconduct by the U.S. Department of the principle of Nicolaus of Cusa: that responsibility by governments to Justice. the best development of the macrocosm strengthen their national economies occurs only if all the included micro- and to guarantee a decent living stan- The End of the ‘Dinosaurs’ cosms—e.g., all nations of the world— dard for their people. A true commu- On the second day of the conference, the are developing to their utmost. This nity of interest should be the basis for founder of the international Schiller contradicts absolutely the principle of the new global cooperation, and for Institutes, and its chairman in Germany, “balance of power,” and the liberal, this community of interest a know- Helga Zepp-LaRouche, addressed the hedonistic concept of the individual able criterion exists: the mutual bene- question of overcoming the present which dominates today. Every person fits and future well-being of all worldwide crisis through a “community must fight to overcome the suffering of mankind that will result from this of nations based on natural law.” other peoples and nations, as he or she new type of cooperation. “While Leibniz speaks about the fights for his own nation. We therefore appeal to all nations best of all possible worlds, the Euro- The conference also heard Faris of the world to unite around these pean governments are pursuing, with Nanic, who heads the Bosnian ruling principles in order to prevent global the Maastricht Treaty, a policy of the party in Croatia, provide an analysis of catastrophe. worst of all possible worlds,” she the prospects for Bosnia in the after- began. The European Union treaty math of the Dayton, Ohio peace agree- prohibits the only possible means to ment.