Executive Intelligence Review EIRFebruary 29, 2008 Vol. 35 No. 9 www.larouchepub.com $10.00 Zepp-LaRouche Demands Referendum on Lisbon Treaty Fascism and the Project for a World Company Global Warming Scare Rests on Hot Air—Literally Defeat Transatlantic Plot For a ‘New Feudalism’ Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy EI R Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, William Wertz Editor: Nancy Spannaus Managing Editor: Susan Welsh Assistant Managing Editor: Bonnie James Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht From the Managing Editor Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol Our Feature develops in sequential articles what it means, that the INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS financier oligarchy wants to install Michael Bloomberg as President of Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele the United States, and the Lisbon Treaty in Europe, in order to impose Steinberg Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Paul Gallagher a “new feudalism” in the 21st Century. Some people may find that idea History: Anton Chaitkin Ibero-America: Dennis Small perplexing. 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EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 35, Number 9, February 29, 2008 Economics 30 Fascism and the Project Cover For a World Company The process by which the carcass of This Week the now dead fraud-based financial system decomposes is far less important than the fight over what type of system will replace it. While Peter Bruegel’s the financiers seek to have the “The Triumph of taxpayers bail them out, the Death” (detail) replacement for the defunct system ca. 1562. that is being put forward by Bloomberg’s backers is a form of Mussolini-style corporatism. 4 Return to the 14th Century: Rohatyn, Bloomberg Peddle ‘Post-Nation-State’ World 32 The Aesthetical Education The leading figures who are working overtime to install of America London’s favorite son, New York City’s billionaire Organizing the population to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as President of the United support the an FDR-style solution to States in January 2009, are determined to return Europe the crisis, faces the challenge of a and the Americas to the 14th-Century nightmare that population whose culture has been degraded since FDR’s death. In they call a “post-Westphalian” order, where nation-states response, the LaRouche Youth no longer exist, and where warring city-states dominate Movement “basement” team has a greatly depopulated world, all in hock to private completed an 80-minute financier cartels. documentary video, entitled “Firewall: In Defense of the Nation- 9 Demand a Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty! State.” Abolishing Democracy by Stealth: Constitution for Feudalism in Europe 35 Business Briefs Helga Zepp-LaRouche shows that the Lisbon Treaty’s deliberately impenetrable text is intended to conceal the fact that this treaty portends a fundamental revision of Germany’s constitutional system: If enacted, only the Council of the European Union can decide on changes in law on virtually all matters; national parliaments will have no say. 14 Italy’s Amato Wants Return to Middle Ages 16 Fascist in an Armani Suit: Bloomberg Channels Mussolini’s Corporatism 22 Britain’s Cooper Promotes Imperial EU 24 Sir Oswald Mosley: The Fascist Roots of the Lisbon Treaty 26 Churchill Boosted Oligarchical ‘Pan-Europe’ 28 How the 14th-Century Lombard Banks Created the Dark Age EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 35, Number 9, February 29, 2008 International National Science & Technology 36 Pakistan’s Elections: 42 Arnie Demands Budget 50 Global Warming Scare Prospects for the Future Blood: ‘This Is Only the Rests on Hot Air— President Musharraf was weakened Beginning’ Literally by the elections, because he stuck California Gov. Arnold The poor location and condition Pakistan’s neck out on behalf of the Schwarzenegger, a favorite of of temperature monitoring foreign occupying troops in fascist Pinochet promoter George stations worldwide make their Afghanistan. It is unlikely that the Shultz, has signed the first of many data unreliable for climate new power centers in Pakistan, budget cuts, that are part of a modeling. Yet, the data are used believe that they will have to make budget-cutting plan he is pursuing, as the basis for the theory of a similar commitment to the U.S. under a declared state of fiscal global warming. and NATO presence there. emergency, that amount to cuts to kill. 39 Shultz’s Boys Are Running Yet Another Coup in the 44 Austerity Threatens Editorial Philippines Veterans, Too 56 The Real Issue Is the 41 International Intelligence 47 The First Inaugural: FDR Peace of Westphalia Addresses ‘A Stricken Nation in the Midst of a Stricken World’ EIR Feature RETURN TO THE 14TH CENTURY Rohatyn, Bloomberg Peddle ‘Post-Nation-State’ World by Jeffrey Steinberg In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978), would establish a dictatorial single European government in historian Barbara Tuchman catalogued the horrors that de- Brussels, perhaps as early as January 2009. stroyed all of Europe, with the bankruptcy collapse of the The scheme for a single European super-state, under pri- Lombard banking system, the outbreak of the Hundred Years’ vate oligarchical rule, was a cornerstone of every 20th Cen- War, and the arrival of the “Black Plague.” Within a few gen- tury European fascist movement, from the original Saint-Yves erations, half of the population of Europe was obliterated, and d’Alveydre scheme for world Synarchy, to Hitler and Musso- it took almost a century for Europe to recover. The Council of lini, to Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Pan-European Florence (138-39), the 15th-Century Golden Renaissance, Union, and Sir Oswald Mosley’s Europe a Nation. In each in- and the creation of the first modern nation-states in France and stance, the corporatist fascist plan involved top-down impe- England, provided the cure for the 1th-Century plunge into rial dictatorship over all of Europe, administered through de- usury and perpetual war, which were the hallmark of the Ve- centralized power structures, operating on metropolitan or netian system of rule by rentier financier oligarchy.