E.I.R.STRATEGIC ALERT
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
Volume 34, No. 48, November 26, 2020
Call for a Worldwide Resistance to Global Fascism: Stop the Central Bank Takeover! The following call by Helga Zepp-LaRouche was issued as a resolution by the Schiller Institute, on November 19.
Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the world is threatened with a new fascist dictatorship. It comes, this time, in the form of the attempt by the leading central banks, the City of London and Wall Street to consolidate total control over all financial investments for the benefit of the super-rich, at the expense of the middle-classes and the poor worldwide. The “ecological transition” they peddle signifies a destructive financial takeover of economies, with the “green” color being but the banner of their purpose to loot.
They call it the “Great Reset.” Under the pretext of rebuild ing the world economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, the top private bankers and billionaires intend to implement a “regime change,” whereby monetary and fiscal policy is no longer to be decided by elected governments, but by the private central banks and leading financial players directly. In this final phase of the decades-long neo-Malthusian policy in favor of specula tors, they would have ultimate control over all investments and channel them entirely into “green technologies,” thus cut ting off all investment in the productive sectors of high-tech energy, industry, agriculture and infrastructure.
If this scheme, promoted by the World Economic Forum with a series of “Great Reset” conferences, goes through, it will mean the end of the industrialized nations of the so-called advanced sector, and the death of literally millions, and then billions, of people in the developing countries, because there is a direct correlation between the productivity of an economy and the energy flux density used in the productive process and the number of human beings who can be sustained. If the entire world economy is “decarbonized,” in what [Joachim] Schellnhuber and his associates already years ago called the “Great Transformation of the World Economy,” including the exit from nuclear energy and research, then the number of people who can be sustained will scarcely be more than 1 billion. What about the other 7 billion? This approach, if not reversed, can only lead to chaos and a new world war.
An integral part of the “Great Reset” is the plan to intro duce cryptocurrencies and the digitalization of currencies. This would allow the total surveillance of all personal data in any field of economic activity, completing what is already ongoing
with the physical surveillance by the NSA and the GCHQ. If the directionality of society remains for the benefit of a privileged financial elite, this will be used to devalue the accumulated unpayable debt through write-downs and inflation, such as happened in Germany in 1923, and both the people and the productive economy will be looted. The digitalization of cur
rencies can only find useful applications if society is oriented toward the benefit of the common good.
The present effort to establish total control over monetary and fiscal policy, by giving control to the central banks in the framework of the “Great Reset,” and imposing a Green New Deal, is based on the same fascist principles as the policy of Hitler’s President of the Reichsbank Hjalmar Schacht, and must be absolutely rejected.
We demand the following:
* A global Glass-Steagall banking separation, the end of all support for the speculative, investment bank sector and the shutting down of the shadow economy;
* The re-establishment of sovereignty over the national cur rencies;
* The creation of a national bank in every country, and the return of credit creation to sovereign governments; * The creation of a new credit system in the tradition of the original intention of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Bretton Woods system and of the Non-Aligned Movement countries in the 1976 Colombo Conference. The primary aim is to increase the living standards of every human being on the planet as the precondition for peace, and to overcome all current chal lenges, such as the pandemic, world famine and poverty. * A massive increase in productivity by moving to new economic platforms based on the commercial use of thermo nuclear fusion power and international cooperation in space research and travel.
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The fundamental opposition determining our future and that of the generations to come is between a mass surveil lance society under the rule of green fascist finance, and a world of détente, entente and cooperation among all peoples and nations, in the way all humanists have posed and pose the challenge. We are committed to fighting for it.
This text is being circulated internationally, and people are called upon to sign it. In 1945, all those who had just lived
through fascism and world war said clearly: “Never again!” We are now at the hour of decision: Have we learned anything from history, or are we more immoral than our forefathers? Please sign the resolution at:
https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/20201119_stop global-fascism
Trump Moves against the “Great Reset”, Reins in the Federal Reserve
In the weeks since the presidential election, Donald Trump, who remains President at least until Jan. 20, 2021, has taken a few decisions that are directly counter to the policy that Joe Biden has pledged to implement. They concern issues of great international importance, including of a financial, military, and strategic nature.
Central Bank policy: On Nov. 19, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin announced that the Treasury would take back a large chunk of the $454 billion in taxpayer funds that had been made available to the Federal Reserve in early March to back the bailout of financial markets and megabanks. And he re
quested that the Fed end a number of the bailout programs. The spokeswoman for Joe Biden, Kate Bedingfield, called the move “deeply irresponsible”, claiming it would deprive small businesses of the financial help they need. But that statement is blatantly deceptive, since the Wall Street banks receiving the funds have not lent it to businesses and house holds (cf. SAS 43/20), contrary to what was stipulated. Note that President Trump is the only major world leader who has challenged the power and “independence” of a central bank, at the time when other largest central banks are moving to take over economic investment and spending from govern ments — under the so-called “Great Reset” and global green new deal (cf. first slug above).
Climate change: One of Trump’s first acts as President was to remove the United States from the Paris Climate Agree ment, and the devastating effects it would have on industrial production. Joe Biden has just named John Kerry as his Presi dential envoy for climate, who will sit on the National Security Council. As Secretary of State of the Obama-Biden presidency, Kerry helped negotiate the Paris accord and promises that Biden will apply it to “every sector of the American economy.” He fully supports both the Green New Deal and the WEF’s “Great Reset” swindle,
Ending permanent wars. On Nov. 17, the newly appoint ed Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller announced the drawdown of U.S. troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan (cf SAS 47/20), a move opposed by his predecessor Mark Esper, whom Trump fired. The man Joe Biden intends to name Sec retary of State, Anthony Blinken, favors sending the troops back to Afghanistan, and has stated that President Obama’s worst mistake was his “failure” to attack Syria completely.
Covid-19. The White House announced last week that 40 million vaccine doses against Covid-19 should be available by the end the year. Distribution plans have been submitted by all relevant jurisdictions, to allow for rapid delivery and use. But the Biden team is demanding the right to change those plans now, apparently to prevent Trump from getting credit for the success. Moreover, on Nov. 20, Trump announced sev
eral steps to lower the prices of prescription drugs, notably for Medicare beneficiaries, despite protests from the pharma ceutical companies.
Space Policy. In 2019, President Trump gave NASA the goal of returning to the Moon by 2024. Joe Biden has in dicated he favors immediately postponing that mission ob jective until at least 2028. In other words, he would likely follow in Obama’s footsteps and basically freeze the Moon Mars missions.
The Fight over Vote Fraud Continues in the United States
The Schiller Institute will convene an “International Investiga tive Commission on Truth in Elections” on Nov. 28 to examine the evidence of voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 election, as well as the cyber capabilities that are known to exist and have been used in various countries around the world in recent years to influence election results. This is not a partisan issue, the Schiller Institute points out, but concerns the need to up hold “truth in elections” as a pillar of the democratic process.
Otherwise, on the ground, attorneys for Donald Trump continue to compile evidence proving that a massive fraud occurred in the counting of the election results, which was presented during a press conference on Nov. 19. Shortly af
terward that, two of the attorneys, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, tweeted that Sydney Powell was not a member of the team, which Powell herself then confirmed, adding that she would, however, continue her investigations. This has been interpreted as a split in the Trump legal team, but it may also reflect a “division of labor”.
Meanwhile, a number of lawsuits filed by the Trump team in various “swing states” have been dismissed. The problem they are facing is the usual one in pursuing such cases: can you prove that the fraud was so great that your client would have won, had there been no fraud? In fact, Trump’s team has 400 sworn affidavits from individuals attesting to seeing, or being involved in some sort of fraud, and more than 1,200 inci
dence reports which claim illegal actions or cite irregularities in the vote counting. But it is difficult to get these to add up statistically to a threshold that would reverse the outcome.
Powell’s approach has been different, but is under attack as a “conspiracy theory.” She has alleged that Dominion Vot ing Systems, which has provided voting machines in many of the contested states, in league with Smartmatic, a company providing vote counting software, altered the totals, through use of algorithms which are difficult to detect. She has of fered proof that these companies are run by individuals, such as British Privy Council member Lord Mark Malloch Brown, the chairman of the Smartmatic holding company, who are part of the apparatus which has been targeting Trump since his election victory in 2016. In fact, the software programs used in many states have been rejected as unsecure and fraud prone in several European countries.
Nonetheless, the mainstream media assert that the charges of fraud are “baseless”, and that no evidence has been pre sented. The contrast could scarcely be greater to the usual media coverage of foreign elections. There the slightest claim by “human rights” groups that fraud has occurred against op position parties is given complete back up, as part of foment ing a Color Revolution, such as in Belarus today. 1This is not surprising, as the same mainstream media rejecting evidence of fraud in the U.S. election spent the last four years running non-stop lies in support of Russiagate, which was a classic at tempt to carry out a regime change coup in the U.S.
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EU Commission Finalizes
Its Green Deal Agenda
In what it terms the “world’s first ever green list”, the Euro pean Commission published on Nov. 20 draft guidelines for determining which economic activities can qualify as envi ronmentally sustainable under its so-called “taxonomy regu lation”. The purpose is to steer private investors towards companies that have “a positive impact on the climate and environment”, by setting out detailed thresholds on carbon emissions. A public consultation on the criteria will run until Dec. 18.
According to Mairead McGuinness, the Commissioner for Financial Services, the EU’s Taxonomy Regulation “is a key piece of legislation that is central to the European Green Deal. It will be instrumental in channelling investment to green and sustainable projects.” Non-sustainable projects will not be pro
moted, with the exception of those that serve as “transitions” to a fully green economy. Basically all productive economic sectors are affected by the guidelines, including agriculture, forestry, manufacturing, plastics, energy, water supply, waste management, transport, construction, energy efficiency, com
munication and research activities.
With that, the EU Commission will officialize what has be come the practice of private banks and funds for some time now. Indeed, the “Network for Greening the Financial Sys tem”, a “climate club of central banks”, including the Euro pean Central Bank, has been working to coerce the financial sector into making what is now the “voluntary” funding of sustainable projects mandatory. (The Federal Reserve, by the way, just joined this Network after the presidential election.)
As a result of pressure from this “sustainability super car tel”, private banks have been cutting off credit lines, in par ticular to traditional productive companies, as Germany’s mid dle-sized industrial companies, among others, has charged.
This forces entrepreneurs to either continue working without external financing, or drop their traditional corporate profile and take up “environmental” projects.
On the eve of the EU Commission’s publishing its draft guidelines, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, urged the bank ing sector to make the criteria of climate-relevance manda tory in considering investments. In other words, replace the so far, “voluntary” character of codes of financial conduct by clear-cut legislative decisions. For the moment, however, the Commission’s own Green Deal, which envisages spending sev eral hundred billion euros on environment-friendly projects between now and the year 2027, is blocked, since the gov ernments of both Poland and Hungary have vetoed the bud get. The original schedule for the green guidelines to go into effect was March/April of next year.
EU Farm to Fork Policy Means a Staggering Increase in Prices and Food Insecurity The European Union’s new “sustainable agriculture” program, announced last May, is an integral part of the suicidal “Green Deal”. It involves drastic reductions in the use of pesticides, fertilizers, and sales of antimicrobials for farm animals and aquaculture, together with an increase to 25% of the total amount of farmlands devoted to “organic farming” – all in the name of saving the planet from a chimeric climate change (cf. SAS 23, 27/20).
A new study carried out by the Economic Research Ser
vice (ERS) of the United States Department of Agriculture found that the restrictions provided for in the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy could lead to an increase in food prices of up to 89% worldwide, and make some 185 million people “food insecure”, among other negative effects. The report is titled, “Economic and Food Security Impacts of Agricultural Input Reduction under the European Union Green Deal’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies.”
(Economic Brief No. 30, Nov. 2020, at https://www.ers.usda. gov/webdocs/publications/99741/eb-30.pdf?v=2150.3). The ERS ran simulations of the results to be expected if the EU-targeted restrictions on “the use of land, fertilizers, antimicrobials, and pesticides” are effectively implemented. (They did not include the restrictions on animal welfare or “organic” regulation factors, due to a lack of satisfactory data.) They examined the predictable results by 2030 under three separate scenarios: 1) if EU restrictions are applied in the European Union only; 2) if they are adopted elsewhere, by means of trade and related measures; 3) if they are adopted globally. The ERS focused on what would happen to people in 76 specific nations, for which the team has relatively precise information.
(ERS researchers recognized that the green advocates say that new, “alternative” technologies can make up for any gaps in production that might occur, but they set aside this iffy as sertion, as too vacuous.)
The Abstract of the ERS report states: “Under all these sce narios, we found that the proposed input reductions affect EU farmers by reducing their agricultural production by 7 to 12%.... Moreover, we found that adoption of these strate gies would have impacts that stretch beyond the EU, driving up worldwide food prices by 9% (EU only adoption) to 89% (global adoption), negatively affecting consumer budgets, and ultimately reducing worldwide societal welfare by $96 billion to $1.1 trillion, depending on how widely other countries adopt the strategies.
“We estimate that the higher food prices under these sce narios would increase the number of food-insecure people in the world’s most vulnerable regions by 22 million (EU only adoption) to 185 million (global adoption).”
Britain’s “Great Game”
in Nagorno Karabakh Exposed
With the exception of the Strategic Alert Service, there has been a quasi blackout in western media of the British back ing for Turkey in fomenting the crisis in Nagorno Karabakh. Armenians and Russians, on the contrary, have denounced London’s “great game”, i.e., the strategy of using Turkey to weaken Russia in Eurasia. A number of articles on this subject, published in Russia and Armenia, are cited in the French weekly Courrier International, dated Nov. 17. https:// www.courrierinternational.com/revue-de-presse/caucase-du sud-les-services-secrets-britanniques-derriere-la-deuxieme guerre-du-haut
One name that keeps coming up, writes the French weekly, is that of Richard Moore, the current head of the British MI6 since July, 2020 and 30 year friend of Turkish President Er dogan, who is fluent in Turkish and duly anti-Russian. • The Russian website, Fond Strateguitcheskoï Koultoury
(FSK -- Strategic Culture Foundation), headlines a posting from Nov. 15 “Great Britain Resumes the Great Game”.
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Moore is “a very serious” and experienced person, it notes. And, “apparently, London has made Turkey a ‘battering ram’ for advancing its pawns, and Erdogan is quite happy that Britain is supporting his project.” The article quotes former Armenian Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan, who stated outright: “All that is happening now is an operation by the British secret services and personally by Richard Moore, a close friend of Prince Charles.”
• The Armenian newspaper Noev Kovcheg wrote that “sin ister signs of pan-Turkism are re-emerging in the ‘new’ Turkey policy of Erdogan, whose geopolitical ambitions seem to be supported by the followers and heirs of British colonialism.” The article recalls that as soon as Moore was appointed head of MI6, many Russian experts “foreboded a destabilization on the perimeters of Russia’s borders.”
• Russian orientalist Karina Georgyyan writes in the Arme nian paper NovostiNK that the United Kingdom is “among the instigators of the second war in Karabakh.” In her view, the “neo- Ottoman and neo-Pantukist Turkey could well be considered by London as a platform to destabilize the South Caucasus and oust Russia.”
• The Russian news site Regnum notes that it is no coinci dence that just two days after the signing of the cease-fire agreement, Richard Moore went to Ankara, in all likelihood to meet Erdogan.
• Coming back to the FSK website, the article shows how the British also had a hand in Armenia, in bringing Prime Minis ter Nikol Pashinian to power two years ago on an anti- Rus sian platform and with financing from George Soros. But he nonetheless signed the Putin-brokered cease-fire, showing he was not “totally controlled by the West.”
While the objective of the Turkish-British alliance was to destabilize the Russian zone of influence in the Caucasus, the author notes that “at the last moment something did not work”, and Russian soldiers entered the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The article therefore concludes that “the success of the British strategy has been limited. “Russian troops are sta tioned in Nagorno-Karabakh, with no Turkish [observers or blue helmets].” Thus, the effectiveness of the ‘Turkish battering ram” is questionable.
Transaqua: Unexpected Support from Italy for EU-China Cooperation to Replenish Lake Chad Amid the dramatic warnings from the World Food Program on the danger of mass starvation in the developing sector, the issue of Transaqua has re-surfaced as the solution to famine, terrorism and emigration in Central Africa, and beyond. On Nov. 13, former EU Commission President Romano Prodi, the former UN special envoy for the Sahel, made a strong ap peal for the EU, the UN, the Organization of African Unity and China to join hands in financing and building this prodigious infrastructure project, which could become the locomotive of agro-industrial development of the entire African continent.
As we have reported, Transaqua was designed by the Italian company Bonifica in the 1970s to transfer water from the Congo basin to Lake Chad, which has dried up to only 10% of its previous size. The Bonifica engineers calculated that, with only 5% of the water from the tributaries of the Congo River, that would otherwise flow unused into the Atlantic Ocean, it
would be possible to transfer via a system of dams and canals up to 100 billion cubic meters water per year into Lake Chad. The infrastructure created to do so would boost trade and provide electricity and irrigation for the entire region.
After decades of oblivion, thanks to efforts by EIR and the Schiller Institute, Transaqua was adopted in Feb. 2018 at the International Conference on Lake Chad in Abuja, and the Ital ian government pledged to fund part of the feasibility study (cf. SAS 10/18, 18/19). In the meantime, however, the mo mentum has slowed down.
Speaking at a seminar in Turin two weeks ago, Romano Prodi said the project cannot wait any longer. “Please, don’t come with environmental objections”, the former EU chief said; “don’t sing the song that human intervention can dam
age the environment: in this case, we help nature regain a state of internal balance, to the advantage of African peoples – an internal balance that has been lost.” Pseudo-environmen tal objections to Transaqua have come mainly from the EU itself as well as from NGOs and institutions sponsored by the
French and Canadian governments (cf. SAS 6/20). Given the many political, financial, technological and securi ty aspects of Transaqua, he went on, it requires strong politi cal leadership and economic power. Thus, EU, UNO and OAU “should try to involve China, because [some] reports connect Lake Chad with the Silk Road.... We must find something to do together with China”.
The video of Prodi’s presentation, in Italian with English subtitles, can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=STQwkHmgwKY&t=1349s.
On Nov. 12, the seminar had featured Engineer Andrea Mangano, a veteran of the Bonifica team that had developed the original Transaqua idea in the 1970s. In an interview for mat entitled “Lake Chad and Infrastructures: Challenges and Ideas,” he presented the updated version of the project, simi lar to what Mangano himself and other Bonifica officials have presented at Schiller Institute and EIR events in recent years.
Save the Dates: December 12-13
The next Schiller Institute international conference via internet will take place on December 12-13 on the theme “The World After the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason.” See our last issue for a summary of the four panels. The two-day event will be conducted mainly in English, with simultaneous interpretation into various languages, including Spanish, French, and German. To participate live and have access to the translations, you need to pre-register at:
https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/conference_20201121.
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