It is no accident that we have just published the most truthful and hard-hitting account of the actual
global dimensions of this looming economic crisis, at the same time our brainwashed politicians and establishment-trained economists are just waking up and looking at the tip of the iceberg in merely "Australian" local terms. The crisis is much bigger than Australia and for the sake of our nation and the world, it is imperative that people find the courage to look at that reality now, and begin to fight for the only possible solution in existence today—Lyndon LaRouche's
New Bretton Woods.
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US dollar crash signals final meltdown;
LaRouche's New Bretton Woods only solution
Panic has broken out among governments around the globe, over the collapsing US dollar. The plunging dollar is temporarily relieving the US current account deficit, which is at a record 5.5 per cent of GDP, by allowing it to import US$5 billion in cash
per day to finance the deficit. Compare this short-term benefit, to the cost, which is the bankruptcy of the entire US dollar-denominated global economy. China, which holds $350 billion in US cash reserves and Russia, which holds $100 billion, are watching their cash savings disappear in front of their eyes. They are threatening to offload their US dollars, in favour of euros—an act of insanity which will collapse the global financial system entirely. But the alternative, to those nations, is national bankruptcy.
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS LAROUCHE'S NEW BRETTON WOODS global bankruptcy reorganisation proposal. This crisis is the culmination of 33 years of unbridled speculation in stocks, bonds, derivatives and currencies unleashed by US President Nixon's 1971 decision to bow to George Shultz's demand to take the US dollar off gold, and end the Bretton Woods system. The recent explosive book by John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, has blown the whistle on how George Schultz, Robert S. McNamara before him, and the current crop of neo-cons in the White House have driven US foreign policy as a tool to facilitate unchecked economic looting of the entire world's resources, to feed the imperial power structure that he identifies as the American Empire. LaRouche has corrected Perkin's assessment, in that it isn't the American Empire, but the modern incarnation of the Venetian oligarchical complex centred in the City of London, and operating as an Anglo-American nexus, but the essential point is correct: the post-Bretton Woods system has allowed unchecked looting, and brought the world to bankruptcy. The only choice nations have if they are to survive, is to adopt LaRouche's New Bretton Woods proposal.
Australia loots, and is looted
Currently Australia is firmly aligned with the Anglo-American imperialists, to the point of actively participating in the acts of military aggression which enforce the looting policies, as in Iraq. Howard's sadistic refusal to sign the non-aggression pact with ASEAN this week, which is basically a commitment not to bomb our northern neighbours, is because he is reserving our national "right" to pre-emptive strikes. The Government's official line is that it doesn't want to undermine Australia's ability to engage in East Timor-style humanitarian interventions in the future, but even that official line gives the game away. Australia is currently blackmailing East Timor to force it to give up its legitimate claims to billions of dollars worth of natural gas, an oil grab which the CEC charged in 1999 was the Australian government's agenda all along—the humanitarian reason was pure propaganda. In other words, Australia's East Timor intervention was an economic
hit-man operation, and we are reserving the right to do it again, and again.
The irony is that the nation of Australia is being looted as much as any of the countries we are helping to loot. Our own natural gas, oil, coal and other resources are all foreign-owned and controlled, and being shipped overseas like there is no tomorrow. Our own current account deficit is now a whopping 6.5 per cent of GDP, much worse than the US!