I shall speak on 3 subjects today --
speaking from Virginia, in the United States. The first is the danger of war,
of global war. It's been steaming up since about the time that Qaddafi was
murdered, after being taken captive, and in the plans for general warfare,
involving the tragetting in the least part of Syria and Iran. But the major danger lies not there. What the world is facing, as I
know from here and leading circles know from here, and other circles know from
other parts of the world: if the war starts, and it could start soon -- it's
been postponed successfully for some time now, that is for some months, but it
could come on quickly -- it will be a thermonuclear war, not a local war, not
merely a nuclear war. It involves the thermonuclear capabilities of the major
powers of the planet, in which the targets are chiefly Russia, China and other
countries, from one side, and the response that Russia and China would make, if
the launch were actually unleashed against them.
So far, the saner bodies of mind in the
United States have acted, in my view, correctly and courageously, to oppose any
such kind of warfare from occurring.
The other side of the thing, in particular,
is that we're on the verge of a breakdown-crisis of the trans-atlantic economic
system. That does not mean that Russia, China, India and so forth are not
affected by this. It means that the chief immediate threat -- to [the point] of
economic extinction, virtually -- lies in the trans-atlantic region. And it's
concentrated obviously on continental Europe in particular, and it's
concentrated also on the United States. Both are on the verge of a
breakdown-crisis; the present world monetary system of the trans-atlantic
region in particular, is doomed. But it's obvious that, under these
circumstances, no part of the planet would come through alive, in much condition,
anyway, if such a war were to break out.
Now at the same time, as I said, the
economic situation in the trans-atlantic region is presently hopeless. That's
the case, as I think many of you who are well-informed in Europe know, that
we're on the verge of a breakdown-crisis there. We're past the point at which
there are any solutions under the present monetary arrangements! There could be
reforms, which would avert this crisis, in Europe; there are reforms that could
avert this crisis in the United States.
The United States' situation is not only
important for me, of course, but is also important for you! What is required,
is this: We presently have monetarist systems in the trans-atlantic region,
which are in a hopeless breakdown mode -- that is, these systems cannot survive
the present period -- they're doomed. What is possible, is a change -- a rather
radical change from the view of some people -- which must be made and can be
made on short notice, which would get the United States, in particular, and
Europe, out of the danger of a general breakdown-collapse. It would mean that
the present monetarist systems of the trans-atlantic region would have to be
terminated, by a reform.
Take the case of the United States in
particular. What's the possibility of the United States avoiding a general
breakdown-crisis, a physical-economic breakdown-crisis of the United States,
during the coming months ahead? That's on the way now. A similar kind of
process, of course, has hit Europe too. What's the remedy for the United
States? For the United States in particular, there are two actions that have to
be taken as economic reforms. One, is that we have to re-install what was
called the Glass-Steagall System. The banking system of the United States as
such, without essentially dropping the present system, cannot survive.
Glass-Steagall is essential, however Glass-Steagall is not sufficient. Because
if we apply Glass-Steagall to the present banking situation, we will simply
dump all the non-commercial parts of the banking system back unto itself; the
government no longer takes any responsbility, the nation no longer takes any
responsibility for the continuation and support of the current financial
system, in its present form. That would save the United States; save it from a
collapse. And without that the United States probably would desintegrate, as an
economy. A similar threat is hanging over western and central Europe at the
same time.
So, in both cases, the use of a
Glass-Steagall reform, as prescribed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, would stop
the collapse. It would not, by itself, produce a recovery; it would stop the
collapse. In order to stop the collapse, we would have to go back to something
the United States did, in the forming of its constitution, under the influence
of Benjamin Franklin and other people in the period. We would have to go to a
credit system, which is what the United States constitution was. In other
words, we use Federal credit -- not monetary credit -- Federal credit, to fund
what are considered, by reasonable people, to be projects which would lead to a
physical growth, both in the quality and quantity of the conditions of life, in
the economy of the United States. The same thing could be done in Europe. It
would be a more difficult problem in Europe, as the precedents do not exist in
Europe, which exist in the constitutional system in the United States.
So our reforms, here, if adopted, would be
more readily applied, than they would be in a typical European situation. But,
if the United States were to take these economic reform actions, these reforms
would be immediately relevant to Europe. In other words, Europe -- particularly
when one speaks of continental Europe -- if Europe made the same reforms that
the United States would make in that case, Europe would find it capable of
going to a credit system, as opposed to a monetary system, would be a ready
solution, and collaborating with the United States in such a reform, or
combined reform, would lead to a solution -- an economic solution.
It would also lead to a political solution.
For example, in the United States we are producing almost nothing, which is one
of the reasons we have a problem. We shipped all our production out of the
United States to places where labor was cheaper, we said, and so forth. And so
therefore we are not a productive nation anymore. We could go back to that. For
example, there is a rather famous case, known to people of science around the
world: the case of NAWAPA. The NAWAPA Policy. North American [Water And Power
Alliance]. If this were put into action, it would mean essentially we were
going into a period of about 30 years, as it was estimated originally, but it
would be a development of the U.S. economy, which would be a leader of a very
rigorous, accelerating rate of growth. That's what we're looking forward to.
This would mean a change in a lot of
things. First of all, the greatest source of economic danger today, physically,
is the Green movement. Under the Green movement there is no chance that
civilization could survive. In the history of mankind -- even in the history of
[biological] species in general -- the only way that life-forms have been able
to succeed, is through scientific progress, essentially, or what is a form of
scientific progress and its application to the real situation [to reality -
ed.]. Without these of reforms, mankind were doomed.
Now, for a long time, mankind has been
doomed to a kind of imperialist system, for which the Roman empire is typical.
But when the Roman empire collapsed, it was supplanted by the alternative Roman
system, of Byzantium. Then, when Byzantium went down, we had a so-called
Venetian System, which, in turn, collapsed into an absolute desaster. Then
there was a recovery, under the leadership of people like Nicholas of Cusa, for
example, in Europe. It was a very important recovery, in which the foundation
of the elements of modern European civilization was set into motion, then. We
can apply the same approach, today, in terms of designing new economic
relationships for human survival.
Now, what are we facing on the military
side? We're facing, with the immediate threat of an organization of the
principle thermonuclear powers of the planet: on the one side, that is the
European trans-atlantic side, and the thermonuclear power represented by Russia
and China and other nations in Asia[, on the other]. The danger is, that unless
this is prevented -- and I'm proud to say that some people in the United States
are doing their utmost to make sure this does not happen -- would mean a
thermonuclear war, which would break out simultaneously, using things like
thermonuclear weapons systems, based in units such as the submarine fleet of
the United States. That would be hell, beyond anything any ordinary person on
the planet could imagine!
There are people in the United States and
elsewhere, which are determined that this shall not happen. Because what would
happen, if, for example, the U.S. and British fleets were to launch a
simultaneous bombardment with thermonuclear weapons against Asian nations,
certain Asian nations would be forced to respond, immediately on the
announcement of such a launch, with their replies. The result would be very
little on this planet, which could be called "civilized". Even if the
extinction of humanity were not the result of starting such a thing.
So that's where we stand.
Again, the important thing here is to
develop an understanding, especially in the trans-atlantic region, itself, and
understanding, in cooperation with the Asian section of society, especially the
Eurasian section, I would say, of Russia, China, India and other key countries,
like Japan, Korea, and so forth. In cooperation, [these nations] can solve the
problems of this planet, through appropriate economic effort.
That's where we stand.
And there are people in my country, leading
people, who are determined to avoid such a catastrophe as this threatened war,
now. We're talking about something that could happen in the Spring of this
year. Sometime, which even could have been now, but, say, now the estimate is
sometime in late March. It gets more sticky as you go down the line. But the
great danger lies toward the mid-term of this year.
If we can understand that this is the
danger, and we can stop the financial collapse which is now in process --
because the financial collapse and the threat of a global thermonuclear
conflict, are matched together. There are people in my own country, who are
working to prevent that from happening. I think you in Europe have to take this
into account, too. The direction in which Europe has been going, has been
toward catastrophe. The United States under the influence of President Obama
and his two-time predecessor, has also been in the same direction.
If we do not resist overcome these
problems, the threat of thermonuclear war, and the threat of a continuation of
the breakdown-crisis in process, [then take up] the measures for launching a
new type of general recovery, based on high-technology methods, which will be
based largely on the role of the development and exploration of nearby space.
It means the development of the Moon, as a cooperative project, it means the
extension from the Moon, to Mars. How long will this take? It could take to 30
years -- as long as that -- to get the ability, to move a passage from Earth
and Moon to Mars, within a week. And our objective is partly that.
But in the meantime -- as we're on the
road, to what may be the date of starting of the Moon colonization -- in the
meantime we face danger from nearby space. There's a danger from
particles/objects floating around there, which could -- some of these things,
if they were to hit, would probably cause a general extinction of the human
population. We have the technology we could develop, now, to protect Earth, in
particular, from such a crisis. It means a science-driver program. It means an
end to all these things called "environmentalism". Because the
environmentalist program -- and the population-reduction program which is advocated
by the British monarchy, which is to reduce the human population from the
present 7 billion people down to the order of 1 -- such programs as those, if
continued, would mean the extinction of humanity.
And these are the problems we have to face.
That is my view. That's the way it looks from here.
Number one, we need an economic program,
which includes a science-driver program, in the direction of space development,
for the defense of Mankind, on Earth -- otherwise we're at risk. We must
prevent the danger of thermonuclear war, which is sitting on our porch right
now, which some circles in the world are working hard to prevent from
occurring. At the same time, we must correct and redirect the course of trans-Atlantic
economic development, in particular, away from the trend since the killing of
President Kennedy, since which time -- the starting of that [Vietnam] War and
the killing of Kennedy --has marked the United States in particular, on a
downward pathway, all the way through, in terms of economic development. And in
terms of cultural development. We must deal with that.
So, three things: prevent this war, go to
space, and save the world economy.
