Only the very rich had a chance to come out the disintegration like kings. As Steve had pointed out through Nicolai, when he warned of the crisis to come, the rich oligarchic families and their institutions had long ago cashed in their paper assets and had acquired as much as they could of the world's available food producing capabilities, distribution industries, and the world's raw material deposits. If no one intervened the oligarchs would literally end up owning the lives of humanity after the crash. They would have the power to determine who would eat and who wouldn't, and which nation would be allowed to develop and to what degree, and which nation would die.

      Caracas was chosen for the UN conference, because Venezuela had survived the economic crash almost unharmed and had one the few still functioning economies. After a long turbulent period of changing governments, one sane leader had emerged who had courageously dragged the nation to safety, with many people kicking and screaming like a child in a tantrum. Luckily for us all, he prevailed.

      This was the background against which the Caracas Conference was convened, set up by the UN and its masters to protect the property rights of the rich. The stated goal was to recreate the Old World and force the dying nations to globally binding financial and legal policy structures. In this sense the conference was designed to strangle the survivors of the crash even more than the crash itself had. Four weeks were devoted to the goal of hammering out the policies that would assure the fulfillment of the new imperial objective. The objective was a veiled arrogant demand to create a legal framework for protecting the property rights of the rich, versus the human rights of the people of humanity.

      One lone voice stood out in America against this objective of further legalized looting, leading to universal slavery, was the voice of LaRouche, the disgraced and slandered economist whom the oligarchs feared and had tried to silence for most of his life. His ideas had become known over the years to many governments and influential intellectuals around the world. These people now understood that he hadn't just warned about the coming crisis, but had also presented the principles that could have prevented the crisis from erupting, and the principles that were now absolutely necessary for a global recovery.

      His warnings had come woefully true, except one. The nuclear holocaust, which the fondi wanted so badly as a means to keep their rotten system alive a bit longer, did not erupted. LaRouche had warned of the danger and had interposed himself with all that he had to prevent the danger. His daring had paid off. On this count he won. With the help of countless people working with him, both individuals and leaders of institutions, the worst of the horrific madness that the fondi had prepared to unleash against mankind had remained in the 'bottle,' luckily.

      Nobody seemed to understand how LaRouche had kept the fondi at bay on this crucial issue. He had reached back into America's history; to its bright epoch; into mankind's universal history, back to the Renaissance and the Greek classical period; and had drawn from the great geniuses of the past the discoveries of fundamental principles that had supported mankind's civilization and achievements. For twenty-five years had LaRouche pointed to the need for applying these principles to redeveloping his nation that had once been the bastion of freedom, the beacon of hope, and the envy of the world. Sadly, no one had listened to him. As the result, half the population of America had paid the price of their folly with their life.'

      China had been close to LaRouche's heart too. He had proposed that China, Russia, and the USA should unite with one-another and create a new world-financial system in opposition to the London centered feudal speculative system that had been destroying the nations of the world economically. He had also proposed the creation of a New Bretton Woods type monetary system that would reestablish fixed exchange rates for the nations' currencies and re-enable long term business relationships. He had also proposed that the governments of the world must recognize once again the principle of the "general welfare" provision that had been imbedded in the Preamble of the US Constitution. He had called this principle the chief corner stone in the building of a human civilization.

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Stories about  Love from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche