Ad-Hoc Committee for a New Bretton Woods agreement
The paradigm shift of the last four decades, a period in which the world economy increasingly abandoned manufacturing and gave itself over untrammelled speculation, now draws to an end. The world financial system is about to implode. Hanging over a gross production worldwide of a mere $40 trillion and the accumulated physical capital, is a gigantic bubble umpteen times that size -$2,000 trillion worth of financial turnover. The impending bankruptcy of General Motors and potentially, of the entire U.S. automobile industry, is but one of many factors that could well lead to the collapse of the U.S. dollar, and thereby, that of the entire financial system. To prevent the world's people from suffering the untold harm that the breakdown of the system would unleash, we the undersigned demand that an emergency conference be convened, to agree upon a new financial architecture along the lines of the Bretton Woods System launched at Franklin D. Roosevelt's initiative in 1944. We stress that Lyndon LaRouche is the economist who has best grasped the causes of the systemic crisis, and who has, moreover, put forward a package of measures that would adequately deal with it: a New Bretton Woods agreement. We the undersigned further stress that the Italian Chamber of Deputies has taken up LaRouche's proposal, and on April 6th 2005, voted up a Resolution calling for "an international conference at Heads of State level, in order to lay the basis for a new and just world monetary and financial system." The following measures must be implemented if we are to alter the mistaken course that we have followed since President Nixon did away with fixed exchange-rates in 1971, a course that has led to the present upsurge of a grotesque and predatory form of capitalism, thanks to unchecked "globalization," after the fall of the U.S.S.R. The new Bretton Woods Conference shall decide as follows. 1. There shall immediately be re-established fixed exchange rates. 2. A treaty shall be enacted between Governments, forbidding speculation in derivative products. 3. The debt shall either be cancelled, or reorganized. 4. Fresh credit lines shall be opened by the State, to create full employment by investing in critical infrastructure and technological innovation. 5. The building of the Eurasian Land-Bridge, as the keystone for rebuilding the world economy, is the vision that will bring about not only a new "Wirtschaftswunder," (economic miracle) but peace in the 21st Century. 6. A new Peace of Westphalia will ensure that for no less than the coming half-century, raw materials shall be extracted and processed for the benefit of every nation on this planet. We the undersigned believe that so-called "globalization," this predatory form of capitalism, has shown itself beyond all doubt to be bankrupt on every front, whether economic, financial, or moral. It is Man who must stand at the center of the economy, and accordingly, the economy must serve the common weal. The purpose of a new world economic order is to guarantee the inalienable rights of Man. Signed [as of September 17, 2006] Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, Chairwoman of Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität Hon. Mario Lettieri, Member of the Italian House of Deputies (opposition party "Margherita"), Secretary of the House Finance Committe, sponsor of the resolution for a "new financial architecture", approved by the Italian parliament accross party lines, April 6; Rome Hon. Alfonso Gianni, Member of the Italian House of Deputies, (opposition party "Rifondazione Comunista"), member of the Committee of Labour Affairs, Rome Hon. Sando Delmastro Delle Vedove, member of the Italian House of Deputies (Alleanza Nationale, one of the parties of the governing coalition), Member of the Committees of Culture, and of Transport in the House of Deputies; Rome Senator Oscar Peterlini, Southtyrolean People's Party (Italy), Member of the Committee of Labour Affairs in the Italian Senate, Initiator of several resolutions for a "New Bretton Woods" in the Italian Senate; Rome Senator Gigi Malabarba, President of the "Rifondazione Comunista" group in the Italian Senate, member of the Senate Intelligence Committee; Rome Senator Tino Bedin, Italian opposition party "La Margherita", Vice President of the Human Rights Committee of the Senate, member of the Defence Committee, Secretary of the Committee of the Policies for the European Union; Rome Senator Prof. Jibril Aminu, (MD/diplomat) former Nigerian Ambassador to the USA; Abuja, Nigeria Senator Jim Nwobodo, Abuja, Nigeria Senator Gbenga D. Aluko, Abuja, Nigeria Eduardo Macaluse, President of the ARI party bloc in the Argentinian congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina Gérard Charasse, Member of French National Parliament (Député de l'Allier), Paris, France Dr. Roman Malinowski, former President of the Polish Parliament, Warsaw, Poland Prof. Dr. Hans Richard Klecatsky, former Justice Minister of Austria, Prof. (em.) for Public Law, University of Innsbruck, Austria Prof. Dr. Imre Pozsgay, former Hungarian Minister, Budapest Senator Gian Guido Folloni, former Italian Minister and Senator; Rome Alhaji Adamu Ciroma, former Nigerian Minister of Finance; Abuja, Nigeria Chief Ayo Ogunlade, former Nigerian Minister of National Planning; Ekiti State, Nigeria Dr. Zbigniew Kwiczak, former Ministerial Ambassador, Warsaw, Poland Prof. Dr. Stanislav Menshikov, economist, Russian Federation Dr. Claus Noé, economist, former German Deputy Finance Minister; Berlin Prof. Aleksander Krzyminski, former Polish Deputy Foreign Minister, Warsaw, Poland Chief Wunmi Adegbonmire, politician/industrialist, former Secretary to Ondo State Government; Akure, Nigeria Antonio Valdes, former Deputy Secretary of Education, Manila, Philippines Mallam Musa Bello, politician/industrialist, former Nigerian Federal Permanent Secretary and former Member of National Economic Intelligence Committee, Kaduna, Nigeria Dr. Nino Galloni, economist, General Director of the Italian Welfare Ministry, official auditor of INPDAP (pension fund of all public employees); Rome Hon. Antonio Parlato, former Undersecretary in the Italian Budget Ministry, former member of the Italian House of Deputies (Alleanza Nationale), Director of the press agency "Iniziativa Meridionale"; Naples Asger Baunsbak-Jensen, former chairman of the Danish Social-Liberal Party (Det Radikale Venstre), former member of Parliament, pastor and writer, Denmark Hon. Alfiero Grandi, opposition party "Democratici di Sinistra", Vice President of the Finance Committee of the Italian House of Representatives; Rome Hon. Giovanni Bianchi, ("La Margherita"), member of the Foreign Affairs Commitee of the Italian House of Representatives; Rome Hon. Alberto Arrighi, member of the Italian House of Representatives (Alleanza Nationale), member of the Commission of Activities and Trade; Rome Anne-Marie Meldgaard, member of Danish Parliament, Social Democratic Party, Copenhagen, Denmark Hoegni Hoydal, President of State Parliament of the Faroe Islands, member of Danish Parliament, Denmark Anna Maria Stame Cervone, President of the Women Centrist Democrat International (IFDC), Representative of the Centrist Democrat International (CDI) [- the umbrella organization of all the Christian Democratic parties worldwide -] at the United Nations; Rome Prof. Sam Aluko, former chief economic advisor to the Nigerian President, Akure, Nigeria Jean Gahururu, advisor on foreign policy for the Ruandan opposition in exile, Germany Dr. Giovannino Santilli, Department Director for the Far East, Italian Ministry of the Productive Activities; Rome Dr. Ryszard Slazak, economist, Advisor to the Polish Government, Warsaw, Poland Wolfgang Hoderlein, member of Bavarian State Parliament, Germany Heidi Lück, member of Bavarian State Parliament, Germany Prof. Dr. med. habil Hans-Herbert Haase, Halle/Saale, Germany Prof. Dr. Ernst Florian Winter, Director (ret.) of the Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, Austria Prof. Mohammad El-Sayed Selim, professor of political sciences, universities of Cairo and Kuwait, Egypt Jürgen Hübschen, Greven, Germany Dr. Erhard Glötzl, Director of Linz AG, Linz, Austria Avv. Giuseppe de Gori, lawyer [who represented the Italian Christian Democratic Party (DC) in court during the historical trials against the terrorists of the Red Brigades for the assassination of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro]; Rome Dr. Jacopo Venier, member of the National Secretariat of the Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, Director of the International Political Department of the PdCI; Rome Prof. Natale Ammaturo, professor of the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Salerno Prof. Aldo Servidio, economist and historian, author of several books on the development of the mezzogiorno; Rome Prof. Giulio Salierno, historian, University of Teramo Pino Vecchio, journalist, anchorman of the regional television network Teleambiente; Rome Giorgio Vitangeli, economist, director of the economic monthly Finanza Italia; Rome Dr. Francesco Gravetti, journalist and communication expert; Salerno Paolo Raimondi, president of the Movimento Internazionale per i Diritti Civili - Solidarietá; Rome Fritz Hermann, president of the Danish United Farm Organization (LFO); Karup (Denmark) Erling Svendsen, president of the Danish Wheat Growers, Hvalsoe (Denmark) Jacques Cheminade, president of Solidarité et Progrès, Paris, France Dr. Tibor Kovats, economist, former president of the Hungarian Association of Political Refugees, Budapest Dr. Szilvia Szegö, economist, Budapest Dr. Pavics Lazar, economist, Budapest Dr. habil Csaba Lentner, economist, Westhungarian University of Sopron Dr. Lorant Kardy, economist, Budapest Dr. Csaba Vass, Budapest Avv. Tommaso Fulfaro, president of the national association Per la sinistra (for the unity of the left), general secretary of the Articolo 21 association in defense of free expression; Rome Dr. Bruno Lisi, journalist, Director of the italian press agency Agenparl; Rome Ole Skjold, entrepreneur, Oelstykke, Denmark Prof. Blagoje Babic, professor for international finances, Belgrade, Serbia Prof. Dragoljub Stojanov, economist, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina Prof. (em.) Dr. Josef Gruber, Honorary President of the German Association for Space Energy (GASE), Hagen, Germany Altay Ünaltay, Yarin magazine, Istanbul, Turkey "Il Raggio", Italian political and cultural association; Rome Saqlain Imam, journalist, Pakistan Dr. Winfried Hellemann, dentist (ret.), Bonn, Germany Thierry Convent, urban architect, Brussels, Belgium Dr. Günter Gorlt, dentist, Binz (Rügen), Germany Ole Valentin-Hjorth, investment consultant, Copenhagen, Denmark Manfred Arnold, head of Kamenz-district of the German Community for Justice (DGG), Saxonia, Germany Dr. Rudolf Turber, journalist, Berlin, Germany Jürgen Knips, entrepreneur, Plettenberg, Germany Öjstein Lorentzen, physical therapist, Norway Dr. Ing. Hans Jürgen Gottwald, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany Dr. Franz Parthe, Bamberg, Germany Herbert Hoen, Head of Factory Council, Johnson Controls Headliner, Saar, Germany Jean-Luc Devaux, former official of the trade union Force Ouvrière, Sèvres, France Dr. Achille Ratti, entrepreneur, San Donato Milanese, Italy Gottfried Lemberg, judge (ret.), Baden-Württemberg, Germany Dipl. Ing. Günther Poppinger, Thalgau, Austria Reinhard Maßberg, entrepreneur, Johanniskirchen (Bavaria), Germany Pierre Nussbaumer, architect, Düdingen, Switzerland Pierre-René Beljean, entrepreneur, Les Geneveys s/Coffrane, Switzerland Reinhard Stetter, Middelburg, Netherlands Curt Wiebel, sen., entrepreneur, Bad Endorf (Bavaria), Germany Hans-Henning Koch, economist, Berlin, Germany Fred-Günter Materna, entrepreneur, Sprockhövel (NRW), Germany Helmut Schlöglhofer, technician, Monk, Austria Jost Unterschemann, entrepreneur, Velbert (NRW), Germany Father Giulio Albanese, missionary journalist, Rome, Italy Gabor Csontos, B.A./M.A. political science, correspondent, Budapest, Hungary Hans Nikol, entrepreneur, Gebenstorf, Switzerland Heinz Obermeier, Munich (Bavaria), Germany Kassim Ahmad, writer and Muslim scholar, Penang, Malaysia Adrian Sison, former Senate staffer, Business radio host, Manila, Philippines Dr. Horst Grützke, President of the European Citizens-Network EUROPE NOW!, Potsdam, Germany Paul Gateau, Saint Jean de Boiseau, France Christina Dietel-Fricke, non-medical practitioner, Markranstädt, Germany Jürgen Fricke, non-medical practitioner, Markranstädt, Germany Edgar Walbrandt, entrepreneur, Porta Westfalica, Germany Rolf Keller, trade unionist, Mainz, Germany Dipl.-Ing. Manfred Grötzsch, Radebeul, Germany Iris Gentsch, nurse, Altenburg, Germany Reinhard Gentsch, lawyer, Altenburg, Germany Ulf Sandmark, chairman EAP, Vällingby, Sweden Birger Karlmark, entrepreneur, Huddinge, Sweden Mats Johansson, entrepreneur, Göteborg, Sweden Stefan Jönsson, entrepreneur, Stockholm, Sweden Erol Curmark, entrepreneur (ret.), Stockholm, Sweden Johan Sjöstrand, MD, Tomelilla, Sweden Gabriela Meszáros, Ösmo, Sweden Dr. Jozef Pauer, Csc., Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Dipl.-Ing. Udo Meyer, Baden, Austria Wolfgang Schröter, lawyer, Hildesheim, Germany Dr. Gerhard Burow, Berlin, Germany Ludwig Heid, Zirndorf, Germany Michael Kloppe, Görlitz, Germany Dr. Krzysztof Lachowski, economist, Society for Scientific-Cultural Education, Warsaw, Poland Tadeusz Ruchniewicz, PSL (Peasant Party), Warsaw, Poland Maria Wieladek, PSL (Peasant Party), Warsaw, Poland Zygmunt Kowalczyk, Klub Macieja Rataja, Warsaw, Poland Janusz Gmitruk, Museum of History, Warsaw, Poland Eugeniusz Tomaszewski, Society for Scientific-Cultural Education, Warsaw, Poland Prof. Feliks Ostaszewski, Colonel (ret.) Warsaw, Poland Henryk Barylak, Colonel (ret.), Warsaw, Poland Dr. Ryszard Nosinski, MD (Surgeon) Warsaw, Poland Prof. Janusz Czyz, Mathematician, Warsaw, Poland Stefan Zebrowski, senior advisor, Warsaw, Poland Jolanta Sypien, senior citizen, Warsaw, Poland Serge Berruex, entrepreneur, Gland, Switzerland Eduardo Rios, lawyer and trade unionist, Panama-City, Panama Thomas Bokelmann, publisher, Großostheim, Germany Sergej V. Dyschlewskij, journalist, Russian Federation Dr. Andrej Kobjakow, Russian Federation Elfriede Guarini, Deputy Chairwoman Frankfurt Association of Singers, Frankfurt (Main), Germany Günter Menzel, senior citizen, Kaiserslautern, Germany Walter von Holst, Stuttgart, Germany Hans-Joachim Fornfeist, engineer, Potsdam, Germany Zdenka Gizdic, President, Trade Union Ass. of Public Sector Employees, Zagreb, Croatia Jasminka Petter, President, People's Union of Germans of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia Ivan Maricic, economist, marketing consultant, Zagreb, Croatia Faris Nanic, project manager, Croatian Motorway Company, Zagreb, Croatia Senad Nanic, M.A., Dipl.-Ing. arch., President Croatian-Bosnian Cultural Society "Renaissance", Zagreb, Croatia Dino Mujadzevic, Boardmember, Croation-Bosnian Cultural Society "Renaissance", Zagreb, Croatia Nedeljka Batinovic, General Manager, Croatian chool for Foreign Languages, Zagreb, Coatia Alejandro Lichauco, economist, Manila, Philippines Harry Inhof, entrepreneur, Tägerwilen, Switzerland Walter Joschika, entrepreneur, Götzis, Austria Thomas Reiter, artist, Berlin, Germany Tom Gillesberg, Chairman, Schiller Institute in Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Henry Haufe, Factory Council Chairman and Boardmember of the Trade Union IGBCE Berlin-Mark Brandenburg, Germany Jörg Schönfelder, lawyer, Berlin, Germany Michael Mathias Langer, Bonn, Germany Günter Friesinger, engineer, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Hans Aage Hansen, Vissenbjerg, Denmark Ole Skjerbaek Madsen, Pastor, Protestant Danish State Church, Copenhagen, Denmark Johannes Eichinger-Wimmer, Community Councillor (SPÖ), State-Secretary Ass. of Austrian Senior Citizens, Linz, Austria Christa Geffe, Berlin, Germany Dr. Haroun Adamu, political scientist/economist, former Special Assistant to Nigeria's President on G-77 Developing Countries; Zaria, Nigeria Prof. Yusufu Bala Usman, Professor of History, Ahmadu Bello University; Zaria, Nigeria Mr. J. Kayode Naiyeju, former Accountant-General of the Federation, Nigerian Ministry of Finance; Abuja, Nigeria Major-General Olufemi Olutoye, Akure, Nigeria Rt. Revd. E.B. Gbonigi, Former Bishop of Akure Diocese; Akure, Nigeria Abassador Bayo Yusuf, former Nigerian Ambassador to Togo; Ibadan, Nigeria Prof. Kayode Familoni, Professor of Economics, University of Lagos; Nigeria Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), lawyer, Pro-Chancellor University of Lagos; Nigeria Prof. Peter O. Adeniyi, Vice-Chancellor Federal University of Technology; Akure, Nigeria Prof. Dupe Olatunbosun, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Chairman of the Committee of the Ogun State Government on Agricultural Processes; Ibadan, Nigeria Mrs. Hajia Indo Tanko Khalil, former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance; Minna, Nigeria Chief Ben A. Olaiya, former Commissioner of Police; Lagos, Nigeria Barrister Eugene Madu, lawyer/economist; Chief of Staff and Advisor to the Nigerian Senate President of the National Assembly; Abuja, Nigeria General (ret.) Garba Mohammed, Kano, Nigeria Prof. J.O. Oluwasanmi, Surgeon and Chairman of Joe-Jane Medical Center; Akure, Nigeria Chief Femi Fanikayode, politician/lawyer, Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Public Affairs; Abuja, Nigeria Barrister Jide Funmilayo, assistant clerk, House of Representatives; Abuja, Nigeria Comrade S.O.Z. Ejiofoh, Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations & Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees; Lagos, Nigeria Mr. Ray Ekpu, journalist, Managing Director of Newswatch weekly magazine; Lagos, Nigeria Prof. Sola Adeyeye, Professor of Political Science and Member of House of Representatives; Abuja, Nigeria Justic J.O. Akonyede, former Judge of the High Court (Ekiti State); Nigeria Engr. Tunde Sodade, engineer, Ontario, Canada Chief Femi Aluko, entrepreneur, former Commissioner for Information, Akure; Nigeria Ambassador M.D. Yusufu, politician, Leader of Nigerian Social Democratic Political Party; Lagos, Nigeria Prof. A.A. Ilemobade, Veterinary Surgeon, former Vice-Chancellor Federal University of Technology; Akure, Nigeria Prof. B.I.C. Ijomah Professor of Sociology, Ambrose Alli University; Edo State, Nigeria Chief Olu Falae, former Presidential Candidate of Alliance for Democracy and All Nigeria People's Party; Lagos, Nigeria Victor Olabintan, Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly; Akure, Nigeria Alhaji Gidado Idris, former Secretary to the Nigerian Government; Abuja, Nigeria Dr. Tunji Otegbeye, Medical Practionier and former Legislator; Lagos, Nigeria Dr. (Mrs.) C.V. Nwokidu, former Nigerian Commissioner of Education and former Consultant to the National Economic Intelligence Committee; Port Harcourt, Nigeria Prof. & Mrs. Akin Ojo, Professor of Physics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Justice S.A. Ajayi, former Judge of Ekiti/Ondo High Courts; Ibadan, Nigeria Mrs. Joyce A. Aluko, Chairperson Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO, Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja, Nigeria Dr. H.M. Kusman Sulaeman, Director Program Magister Management, University of Padjadjaran, Indonesia Ab. Aziz Yusof, Associate Professor, Utara University, Malaysia Dr. Mohamad Khan Jamal Khan, Utara University, Malaysia Roslee Mardan, Malaysian Northern University, Kedah, Malaysia Mustapa Bin Naina Maricar, Juru Audit Sabah, Malaysia Hanorah Suleiman, Malaysia Mustapa Kassim, Utara University, Malaysia Mohamed Hatimi, Wisma Putra, Malaysia Khatia Gudushauri, artist, former political prisoner in Georgia, Germany Iosif Gudushauri, former prefect in Georgia, political emigrant, Helsinki, Finland
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