In the course of the life of a nation or a people, there comes a time when their very existence hangs in the balance, as happened with Athens during the time of the great lawgiver Solon. That nation may then decide to make a profound change for the good, as did Athens under Solon, or, by its action—or its inaction —may bring great suffering, or even doom upon itself. Such are the times in which we now live; times of crisis, in which, as the great poet Shelley wrote, mankind is capable of suddenly developing and comprehending “profound and impassioned conceptions respecting man and nature”.
The coming weeks and months will suddenly thrust upon us the necessity for actions which will decide the fate of Australia for generations to come. Actions which seem almost impossible at the moment, will soon appear as the only ones which can secure the Common Good for ourselves and for our posterity, as well as allow us to take a proud place in a world concert of sovereign nation states. We have no sane choice but to enact the following five measures, all of which are urgent to free us from the City of London-centred British imperial system which has enslaved us, and whose continuance ensures a disaster for our nation.
1. The Homeowners and Bank Protection Bill 2008
Banks worldwide are already crashing, like Britain’s Northern Rock bank, but this crash is much worse than that of the 1930s, which gave us mass misery and financier-sponsored mass fascist movements, like that of Australia’s New Guard under Eric Campbell (here leading a fascist rally at Sydney Town Hall). We must enact legislation to save our homes, farms and banks, like U.S. President Roosevelt did in the US during the Depression, and like every state did likewise here in Australia.
2. The New Bretton Woods International monetary system
At a conference in 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, Roosevelt established an international financial system of fixed exchange rates and tariff protection to foster agro-industrial growth, a system demolished by the now-disintegrating system of globalisation. Thus, we need a return to the principles of the Bretton Woods system, which will foster great infrastructure projects upon which to anchor global economic recovery. These include the Eurasian Land Bridge and the Bering Strait Tunnel between Russia and the U.S., which will link almost the entire world by rail.
3. A National Bank
Following consultation with LaRouche in 1994, the Citizens Electoral Council drafted legislation for a new national bank modeled upon the original Commonwealth Bank established by King O’Malley. That legislation may be found in the CEC’s 2001 book, What Australia Must Do to Survive the Depression. We must take control of credit away from private financiers; only national banking-generated credit will allow us to build our way out of this present financial crash.
4. Great Infrastructure Projects
In a Special Report in its February 2002 New Citizen, the CEC outlined a series of great development projects to unite our continent and provide good jobs for all Australians. The centrepiece of our programme was a series of 18 major water projects, which were already urgent then and which would have put us well on the road to overcoming our present water crisis. The British fi- nancial oligarchy designed the ideology of “environmentalism” to brainwash us (and the world) and to keep us as backward peasants. The founder of the science of biogeochemistry, the great Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945), gave birth to the concept of The Biosphere in his 1926 book of that name. But, he emphasised, a new era, that of the human cognition-centred “Noosphere”, was lawfully superceding the Biosphere, just as the higher “material-energetic” power of the Biosphere came to supercede the previously dominant inorganic domain of the Earth. In other words, environmentalists are insane, and acting against the natural ordering of the Universe.
5. A Great New Republic
The great republicans (l. to r.) John Dunmore Lang, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Franklin Roosevelt, John Curtin, and Ben Chifley, all consciously fought the London-centred financial oligarchy. The Bank of England and British Crown ordered the sacking of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, who threatened to “buy back the farm” from the British raw materials cartel and build great infrastructure projects. The CEC’s 1999 pamphlet (r.) tells the story of our noble, deep-rooted republican tradition, which has been almost entirely written out of standard Australian histories.