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    Dans ce rapport:Le Comit pour la Rpublique du Canada est fier de rditer le document Rpubli-que ou Colonie, qui rassemble les recherches historiques rvolutionnaires qua-vaient menes entre 2006 et 2008 les historiens Pierre Beaudry et Robert D. Ains-worth au sujet de deux priodes de lhistoire canadienne qui taient dfinies, dansun cas, par la tension qui mena la Rvolution amricaine de 1776, et dans lautrepar celle qui mena la seconde Rvolution amricaine de 1861-1865.

    Le Projet dHistoire Canadienne, que fait progresser les contributions contenuesdans ces rapports, vise dnouer le nud gordien des historiens rvisionnistes bri-tanniques qui ont rendu impossible toute analyse honnte de la cration et de lvo-lution du Canada pour quiconque est concern par la recherche de la vrit. Beau-dry et Ainsworth commencent leurs recherches non pas partir de prjugs permet-tant de rapicer les vnements et les dates comme on le voit le plus souvent de nos

    jours pour les projets dhistoire moderne; la mthode adopte par les auteurs de cesrapports se trouve plutt dans ce que Gottfried Leibniz appelle Analysis Situs, oultude des causes ncessaires.

    Cela est seulement possible si on comprend que cest le schisme entre deux concep-tions du monde diamtralement opposes -celle de la tradition imprialiste-oligarchique et celle de la tradition rpublicaine humaniste- qui a faonn le drou-lement de toute lhistoire humaine connue, mergeant certains moments cls dechangements que nous appelons souvent des vnements historiques . On peuttrouver des exemples modernes de ce phnomne dans lclosion dides scientifi-ques et artistiques qui a marqu la Renaissance florentine du 15 ime sicle, la Rvo-lution amricaine de 1776 et la victoire de Lincoln sur linsurrection de 1861 -1865.

    De telles singularits, bien que situes dans lespace et le temps, expriment desfonctions auxquelles les scientifiques ont historiquement rfr comme tant universelles , lesquelles transcendent ces vnements spatiaux-temporels aux-quels leurs existences ont donn naissance. Il est ncessaire davoir une sensibilitvis--vis de la nature de telles singularits pour comprendre la signification appro-

    prie des vnements qui les prcdent et les suivent incluant en dautres points

    spatiaux de la plante mme sils ne leur sont pas connects matriellement. Fautede possder une telle sensibilit, lhistorien se trouve rduit ntre quun chroni-queur peine capable de copier/coller ses propres prjugs subjectifs sur les vne-ments sans aucune relle proccupation pour la vrit. Trop souvent de tels chroni-queurs sont recruts consciemment ou non, pour devenir de simples propagandistes

    pour le programme dobscurcissement de lhistoire conu par des imprialistes .

    La vritable histoire du Canada apparat ainsi comme une consquence dvnements particuliers dfinit par les traditions de la Renaissance europen-ne qui ont reu une nouvelle vie en Amrique et par ces entits qui ont recherchdun point de vue existentiel anantir ces traditions, entits que nous appelonsplus rcemment lEmpire britannique . Nous esprons que la comprhension decette histoire fournira aux gnrations prsentes et futures le pouvoir de reconnatrele prsent comme un moment fcond pour lhistoire du futur.

    Pour plus d'information, visitez:

    www.committeerepubliccanada.ca

    Pour en savoir plus sur nos associs amri-cains du Comit d'Action Politique deLaRouche (LPAC), ainsi que de l'agencede presse Executive Intelligence Review,

    visitez:

    www.larouchepac.com

    www.larouchepub.com

    Pour contacter le Comit pour la Rpubli-que du Canada, crivez

    [email protected] o appelez au(514)-461-7209 Matthew Ehret-Kump

    Comit de rdaction

    Matthew Ehret-Kump

    Jean-Philippe Lebleu

    quipe Avneet Thapar

    Pascal Chevrier

    David Gosselin

    Frederick Joly-Cayla

    Francois Lepine

    Robert Hux, Ph.D.

    Ilko Dimov

    Birgit Henker

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    Table des matires

    Rpublique o Colonie?Rpublique o Colonie?Rpublique o Colonie?

    Les Consquences tragiques de lActe de Qubec de 1774....4

    Cap louest jeune homme!.......................................................................9

    Clmont Gosselin: Patriote canadien et rvolutionnaire amricain....17

    Le Systme amricain au Canada.27

    De la ncessit pour le Canada dun tunnel sous le dtroit de Bring

    Ou la philosophie des chemins de fer pour le XXIe sicle..41

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    While the minesweeping maneuver deliberately isnot entering the Strait, an extremely crowded bo-dy of water where accidental encounter with theIranians could well occur, that is no guaranteeagainst such a conflict. An opinion piece by Was-hington Post senior columnist David Ignatius,"Lessons from an Iranian war game," underscoredthat point. Ignatius was permitted to observe thegame, held in Washington, and including formertop U.S. officials and prominent Iranian-American experts, and his conclusion, undoubte-dly shared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was stark:

    "The game showed how easy it was for each sideto misread the other's signals."

    For one thing, Ignatius puts President Obama,whom he assumes has been re-elected, directly onthe side of war. But he leaves it to the reader tofill in the next step: that a U.S. strike on Iran'snuclear facility, be it conventional or nuclear, willinevitably bring in Iran's ally and northern neigh-bor, Russia.

    U.S. and allied military deployments are not sim-ply occurring around Iran, obviously. The movefor regime change in Syria also represents a flash-point for the Southwest Asia region, as Russiahas repeatedly pointed out, and Col. LawrenceWilkerson (ret.) elaborated in his answer to aquestion on the danger of World War III, in Rep.Walter Jones' press conference on Sept. 21 (seeFeature). Israel itself, which cannot afford to takemilitary action against Iran without Americanguarantees and backup, held surprise maneuverson the border with Syria just last week.

    And then there's the Asia-Pacific region, wherethe recent trip by Secretary of Defense Leon Pa-netta resulted in an escalation of tensions withChina and Russia, over his announcement of an

    agreement with Japan on stationing another mis-sile defense station in that nation. Allegedly, such"defense" stations are aimed at "rogue states," inthis case North Korea, but, as Russian and Chine-se commentaries have pointed out, Japan is in nodanger from North Korea's capability. The onlyconceivable reason for such a deployment is tofurther the encirclement of China, and, as in thecase of the encirclement of Russia, render thatnation's defenses against a first strike impotent. It

    is for that reason that, in an unsigned Global Ti-mes editorial March 29, Beijing warned that "anoverarching missile defense system would forceChina to change its long-held nuclear policy" of no first use of nuclear weapons.

    There are also moves "on the ground" in Asiathat, while they seem to be merely local skirmis-hes, could prove to be provocations for largerconfrontations in the current superheated interna-tional climate, specifically, the conflict betweenJapan and China over the Diaoyu/SenkakuIslands.

    Now, let's look at the Russian military prepara-tions to deal with U.S./NATO moves.

    Russian media coverage described large-scale naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz (shown here), aimed at Iran, as on a scale never before con-ducted there: Muscle -flexing is in full swing, heated up by bellicose rheto-ric, noted Channel One.

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    Russia Practices Response to 'External Attack'

    Addressing Russian troops on Sept. 17, PresidentVladimir Putin spoke as commander-in-chief.

    "You have had excellent training and are literatepeople," he told them. "You see what is going onin the world and how, unfortunately, the use of force in international affairs is increasing. All of this means that we must keep our powder dry. Wemust increase Russia's defense capabilities."

    The occasion was the Kavkaz-2012 (Caucasus-2012) military maneuvers in southern Russia,which Putin had just observed. In addition to suchstatements, the very nature of these and other mi-litary exercises being held this Autumn, as wellas the President's focus on the defense sector du-ring current intense federal budget deliberations,also make clear that the Russian leadership assu-mes that its country is threatened, and could beinvolved in serious combat at any moment.

    Meeting on Sept. 21 with Defense Minister Ana-toli Serdyukov and Chief of the Armed ForcesGeneral Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov, to reviewthe just-concluded Kavkaz-2012 program, Putintermed it "a massive undertaking," which produ-ced good results in testing command and control,as well as weapons systems. Serdyukov detailedthat four different firing ranges in southern Rus-

    sia were used, as well as sea and coastal areas onthe Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Most incisivewas General Makarov's characterization of theexercises as having "two very serious challen-ges," one of them explicitly related to the tensesituation in the region.

    FIGURE 1 U.S./NATO Military Deployments Around Russia and China

    There are indications of Russian attention to the global scope of U.S. BMD planning, that is aimed against both Russiaand China, as can be seen in this map.

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    One part of the scenario involved the potential de-ployment of the Armed Forces in conflicts withinRussia, while the other was "resolving the problemof responding to an external attack."

    Kavkaz-2012 was preceded, earlier in the month,by command-staff exercises of the Strategic Missi-le Forces. Taking place Sept. 4-7, they involved150 command points and 300 individual weaponsand other military equipment. The official newsagency Itar-TASS reported, based on a press an-nouncement made Sept. 4 by Ministry of Defensespokesman Vadim Koval, that the participantswould "hone their nuclear deterrence objectives forthe event of an armed conflict with the participa-tion of Russia." The term "nuclear deterrence ob-

    jectives" refers to the ability of Russia's StrategicMissile Forces to "deter" a possible U.S. nuclearfirst strike against Russia, by their ability to inflicta retaliatory nuclear strike against the United Sta-tes.

    Koval said that the scenarios involved "nucleardeterrence in the setting of a threatened armedconflict with Russia's participation, or during sucha conflict." The purpose of this training, he added,"is to improve coordination among Strategic Mis-sile Forces command agencies, as well as the prac-tical skills of the command staff and operationalgroups in directing the military command agen-cies, units, and troops subordinate to them, inclu-ding through the use of modern automated com-mand-and-control systems."

    Long-Range Planning

    The Russian decision to upgrade the particulars of these two, related sets of exercises Kavkaz-2012and the Strategic Missile Forces training evidently followed close on the heels on twoevents in late 2011: the murder of Libyan leader

    Qaddafi in October; and then-President DmitriMedvedev's public announcement in December,that diplomatic efforts to halt the U.S./NATO uni-lateral European Ballistic Missile Defense (EuroBMD) system from going ahead had been unsuc-cessful, that the Euro BMD was a strategic threatto Russia, and that it would be countered militari-ly.

    By January 2012, Russian military sources weremaking it known that the September 2012 scheduleof military exercises would feature complete, com-bined-arms integration. In particular, Nezavisi-maya Gazeta's well-informed military analyst re-ported Jan. 17 that the Russian General Staff wasmapping out "large-scale staff exercises based on apossible U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran"; this wouldhappen in September, and would involve the Stra-tegic Missile Forces. Furthermore, it was reportedthen, the script for Kavkaz-2012 would "differfrom last year's exercises in this series, by beinglarger-scale and more closely approximating actualcurrent military and political conditions," inclu-ding a scenario of "a possible war by the U.S.A.and several other countries against Iran, as well asother possible conflicts in the Caspian and Sou-thern Caucasus region."

    Throughout preparations for Kavkaz-2012, Rus-sian defense sources described these exercises as"strategic." Russian and Georgian press reportedthat Russia had shifted the physical location of thetraining out of the Chechen Republic, in order toavoid giving Georgia's President Michael Saakash-vili a pretext for any wild actions. On Sept. 5, RIANovosti reported the announcement by anotherRussian Ministry of Defense spokesman, Alexan-der Kucherenko, that Russian airborne forceswould be involved in 10 different exercises duringthe month, including Kavkaz-2012, and internatio-nal maneuvers with Belarus and with the Collecti-ve Security Treaty Organization.

    Contrary to popular belief, Russian military capabilities are not tobe likened to a rust -bucket

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    In the past, large surface ships have ventured intothis region only if accompanied by an icebreaker,but lower Arctic ice levels have allowed the Nor-thern Sea Route to be used more freely. For deca-des, surface ships of the Northern Fleet have leftMurmansk only to the west, into the Atlantic, neversailing eastward along the Arctic coast. Accordingto an article by Victor Savenkov for Svpressa.ru,the last time a large battleship was in the Kara Searegion was August 1942, when a German heavycruiser sank the Soviet icebreaker Alexander Sibi-ryakov.

    Svpressa.ru interviewed Russian naval experts onwhat the Pyotr Veliky's mission might be in theKara Sea, given that it is not an antisubmarine war-fare platform, and the type of surface ships it wouldpotentially engage do not frequent the Arctic coast.Adm. Valentin Selivanov (ret.), former commanderof Russia's Mediterranean Squadron, said that, besi-des taking advantage of the weather to reach relati-vely nearby training areas that were not previouslyso accessible, a major factor was

    "to demonstrate that we are prepared to defend ourinterests in the Arctic militarily."

    Col. Anatoli Tsyganok, director of the Center forMilitary Forecasting, told Svpressa.ru that another

    reason might be the deployment of U.S. Aegis-equipped ships in the Arctic, which would positionthem within striking distance of "the shortest trajec-tories of our ICBMs to the USA." The Aegis radar/ anti-missile system is the main component of theU.S. Euro BMD program, which Moscow identifiesas a threat to its strategic nuclear deterrent. "It isnot to be excluded," said Tsyganok, that the PyotrVeliky's cruise is related to such concerns.

    FIGURE 2 Ring Around Russia: Threats to a Great Power That Wont Back Down

    President Putin told a conference on Strategic Nuclear that nuclear arms remain a truly important guarantee of Russias sovereignty and territorial integrity, and play a key role in supporting global and regional equilibrium andstability

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    "The Americans are developing their BMD systemin the north, just as in the south. Aegis-equippedships regularly enter the Bering Strait," he asser-ted.

    "This is a threat to our security. Because it's onething if BMD-equipped vessels appear along oursouthern borders and in the Mediterranean, but inthe event of war, Russian missiles will fly to theUSA across the North Pole. So it's another matteraltogether, when such ships show up to the northof our country, and seek the ability to shoot downour missiles in the most vulnerable, boost phrase."

    Prioritizing Military Industry

    In July, Putin held meetings at his Summer resi-

    dence in Sochi, and took tours to key militaryareas, for discussions on putting the Russian mili-tary-industrial complex into shape. On July 26, hemet with officers and officials in charge of Rus-sia's Strategic Nuclear Forces and Aerospace De-fense Troops. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Ro-gozin, Minister of Industry Denis Manturov, Ros-cosmos head Gen. Vladimir Popovkin (ret.), andthe director of the nuclear agency Rosatom, SergeiKiriyenko, were in attendance, along with Minis-try of Defense representatives. The Kremlin's an-nouncement called it a "Meeting on Implementa-tion of the State Armaments Program for NuclearDeterrence," a reference to the thermonuclearweapons that would be fired at the United Statesand its allies in the event of an attack on Russia.

    Earlier, Putin held conferences on implementingthe government's Ground Forces and Air Forceprograms. The session on the Strategic NuclearForces was highlighted on national TV, includingPutin's statement that "nuclear arms ... remain atruly important guarantee of Russia's sovereigntyand territorial integrity, and play a key role in sup-

    porting global and regional equilibrium and stabi-lity." Citing the need for the aerospace defensesystem to be "in a constant state of combat readi-ness, taking into account potential enemies' plansfor developing offensive measures," Putin notedthat "nearly all the nations that possess nuclearweapons and aerospace assault weapons are wor-king to improve and develop them.

    Russia, he said, has no plans to engage in an armsrace, "but there should be no doubt as to the relia-

    bility and efficacy of our nuclear potential, as wellas our aerospace defence system." He said that "asignificant part of financial resources within thestate armament program" will be allocated to up-grading the Strategic Nuclear and Aerospace De-fense Forces.

    "By 2020 the share of modern weapons in ourStrategic Nuclear Forces should be at 75-80%, andfor Aerospace Defence Troops this figure shouldbe no less than 70%."

    On July 30, Putin traveled to the northern city of Severodvinsk in the Arkhangelsk Region, to speak at a ceremony marking the beginning of construc-tion of Russia's fourth Borey-class nuclear ballistic-missile submarine, and to preside over a meetingon the future Navy construction program. In hisremarks, Putin mentioned both the naval compo-nent of Russia's strategic nuclear forces, and therebuilding of other components of the Navy todefend areas such as the Arctic.

    Russian President Putin, addressing troops Sept. 17, on the occa-sion of the Kazkav- 2012 military exercises, noted somberly, Yousee what is going on in the world and how, unfortunately, the useof force in international affairs is increasing. . . . We must increase

    Russias defense capabilities. Putin is shown here (center), ob-serving the exercises.

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    The program calls for investing about 4.5 trillion ru-bles (nearly $150 billion) over the next several years,for the construction of 51 modern surface warships,16 nuclear attack submarines, and 8 nuclear ballisticmissile submarines by 2020 (2 of which are now un-dergoing trials). This will allow the share of modernvessels and equipment in the Navy to be brought to70% by 2020, Putin said. "Resuming the serial cons-truction of new-generation ships," he added, "shouldgo hand-in-hand with modernizing shipbuilding en-terprises and other defense industry companies."

    After these sessions devoted to each of the branchesof the Russian Armed Forces, Putin on Aug. 31 helda pair of conferences on the strategic dimensions of economic policy. With Russian government and StateDuma deliberations set to resume in September onthe 2013 budget, under enormous monetarist pressu-res for budget-cutting because of the world economiccrisis, Putin focused on the absolute priority of resto-ring Russia's military-industrial sector. Thus, thesesessions on military-economic policy also served tounderscore the tense international military-strategicsituation.

    Addressing an expanded session of the Russian Secu-rity Council, Putin presented the military moderniza-tion plans as "ambitious," and cited the "recordamounts of money" to be invested in defense procu-rement and modernization: 23 trillion rubles ($750billion) over ten years. He acknowledged that "manyof our companies are still in the past century, techno-logically speaking," and that in the course of morethan three decades, the defense production plants"have missed out on several modernization cycles."Later in the day, Putin met with Deputy Prime Minis-ter Rogozin and Roscosmos head Popovkin to dis-cuss personnel changes to address the recent rocket-launch failures.

    At the Security Council meeting, Putin also emphasi-zed the idea, often stated by Rogozin, that the milita-ry-industrial sector should function as a locomotiveto pull the whole economy along or, at the veryleast, serve as a safe haven, where engineering andother skilled personnel might be preserved, even asdomestic industry as a whole comes under new pres-sures such as competition from foreign imports, nowthat Russia has joined the WTO, and budget cuts inthe so-called "state order" (government contracts).

    Regarding this potential interface between the defen-

    se industry and the economy as a whole, the problemthat bedeviled Soviet planners throughout the ColdWar, Putin said:

    "Our position is that by creating a modernized andeffective defense industry we can ensure a biggrowth potential for the entire national economy. Thebulk of our advanced technology is in the defenseindustry, and civilian goods account for more than30% of the sector's total output. There is steady de-mand for these goods in the energy, metals, machine-building, communications, and other industries. Thisis not some discovery we have made in this country,but is the way things work all around the world. Thedefense industry has always been an engine pullingthe other manufacturing sectors along behind it. Of course, a stable and effective defense industry is alsocrucial for the prosperity and prospects in life forthousands of skilled workers, engineers, and desi-gners. The defense industry brings together 1,353organizations and companies in 64 regions of thecountry, and employs more than 2 million people.Just think how many that makes if you add their fa-milies and the people working in related sectors andso on."

    Summarizing, Putin made a startling comparisonwith the period of the Soviet Union's first Five-YearPlans: "In short, we will have to modernize the entiredefense industry and the way it works, and carry outthe same kind of comprehensive and powerful mo-dernization drive that was achieved in the 1930s."The implications were not drawn out in this presenta-tion, but such a "mobilization economy" is very dif-ferent from the nostrums about privatization and"improving the investment climate," which are other-wise being repeated constantly by Russian officials,including Putin.

    Putin said Russia should not hesitate to imitate fo-reign defense technologies, but having only assemblyplants using imported components would be a "deadend," so Russia

    "should develop complete production cycles, fromdevelopment through to mass production and spareparts supply, here in Russia. This is the guarantee of our national, technological, and defense security."

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    By Matthew Ehret-Kump

    With the recent announcement by UK and Canadianforeign Ministers that many of the embassies of bothcountries shall be melded into single missions, Ca-nadian based British agent and media mogul ConradBlack, unable to control his enthusiasm, has voiced arevealing op-ed in the right wing mouthpiece The

    National Post . The title of the op-ed reads: " The British Commonwealth Will Rise Again". After re-writing history by making FDR appear to be an im-

    perialist, and asserting that China's new imperial-ism is meeting resistance with all of its neighbors,and predicting the breakup of Europe into two teams(winner and loser countries), Black writes:

    " There will be regional powers like Brazil and Tur-key, but the only other coherent force that could arise and occupy a role somewhat analogous to agreat power of old would be some cohesive bloc of Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, New

    Zealand, Singapore and perhaps a few other Com-monwealth countries. The talented Australian for-eign minister, Bob Carr, is capable of advancingalong these lines, and Stephen Harper and John

    Baird would do well to explore these possibilitiesalso".

    It is worthwhile to note that while born in Montreal,Conrad Black is not a Canadian citizen, but rather100% British. Having received dual citizenship inCanada and UK in 2002 when the Queen of Englandgranted him peerage in the British House of Lords asa reward for his outstanding services to the interestsof the British Empire. Black was confronted with anultimatum by then Prime Minster Jean Chretien whohad intervened with a citation of a 1919 resolutionbarring Canadians from being members of the

    House of Lords. After a short legal battle whichBlack lost, Black renounced his Canadian citizen-ship becoming Lord Black of Crossharbour .

    Since his release from US Federal Prison in May2012 after serving 36 months of a 48 month sen-tence for fraud and obstruction of justice, an unre-pentant Black has found himself re-rising to promi-nence within the Canadian establishment quickerthan one could say "Hail Britannia". Having been

    granted an unprecedented Temporary Resident Per-

    mit from the Minister of Immigration, JasonKenney, who is part of the Harper conservative ap-paratus installed largely through the direction of theCanadian Neo-con Sun Media that had been run byBlack as part of his Hollinger media empire (1).Black has also been granted the use of all of his for-mer Hollinger-Sun-Times media outlets to continueto mould public opinion among Canadas rightwing in line with his masters interests.

    The context of Blacks Fall from power

    It appears that Conrad Blacks fall from power in2006 occurred in the context of a faction fight hadbroken out within the Canadian establishment be-tween the Liberal Party faction on the one side andConservative Party faction on the other.

    Lord Conrad Black Declares:

    The British Common- wealth Will Rise Again

    Lord Black cannot con-tain his exhuberanceupon smelling the re-emergence of the New

    British Empire.

    (1) British Crown Assaults Canadian Wheat Board in Grab for World Grain Control www.larouchepub.com/eiw/ public/2007/eirv34n04-20070126/28-33_704_grain.pdf

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    Where the Liberal establishment was more inter-ested in maintaining its local interests and localcontrol outside of British foreign policy inten-tions, (witnessed by the Chretien Governmentsdecision to not participate in the Iraq war of 2002and Paul Martins 1998 successful blocking of the attempted mergers of four of Canadas fivelargest banks (1)), the Mulroney-Harper anglophileinterests in the Conservative Party had been muchmore intent to do the obedient bidding of the Cityof London and British Foreign office. This fac-tion fight led up to a collapse of the Liberal lead-ership of Paul Martin, and purging of relevantLiberal party controllers from power with theSponsorship scandal of 2005 -06. By 2012, theFederal presence of the Liberal Party has becomealmost non-existent, having been hammered bythe 2011 elections that brought Harpers Conser-vatives their majority.

    The Fall of the Liberals

    The Liberal slaughter continues on the Provinciallevel, witnessed by the loss of one of its lastbeachheads with the Quebec election of Septem-

    ber 2012 that brought Pauline Marois separatistParti Quebecois (PQ) to power. The PQ is infa-mous for their intention to separate from Canada,their anti-nuclear stance, and Cap and Trade pol-icy. Of the two remaining provincial Liberal

    power holds left, British Columbia has found Lib-eral support at an all time low due largely to thefailed HST debacle in 2011. The Liberals undercurrent BC premier Christie Clark are preparingto be swept away in favour of the National De-mocratic Party (NDP) during the upcoming elec-tions in May 2013. The challenging NDP of Brit-ish Columbia, just like the PQ of Quebec are infavour of those resource grabbing policies whichare expedient to the British Empires geopoliticalinterests (echoing the free market logic of the fur trade), yet push the green agenda of renewable

    energies (except nuclear), and cap and trade. It isindicative to note that NDP leader Thomas Mul-cair has just been made a Privy Councillor to theQueen on September 18 2012, possibly in prepa-ration to replace the Harper regime in 2014.

    During this past year Stephen Harper (PrivyCouncillor since 2005) has stepped up the use of the broad power granted to him via his partysmajority government, to push through every Brit-

    ish policy demanded of him in short order, re-branding the Canadian Military with the termroyal, melding many Canadian and British Em-bassies around the world, converting Canada intoan official fist of the Monarchy in the executionof wars with Libya, promoting wars with Iran andSyria, and falsely accusing Russia of trying tosteal Canadas arctic sovereignty.

    Canadas role as a chess piece in this GreatGame involves returning Canada to its roots asan aggressive weapon in the Empires arsenal, notseen since the days of the Boer Wars. This colo-nial function demands Canada act as a subversiveagency to the intentions of nations aspiring sover-eign development. The accomplishment of thistask involves 1) serving as canon fodder for im-perial wars abroad, and 2) trapping unwitting na-

    tions into reliance upon its abundant cheap re-sources via the logic of the fur trade aka freetrade. The question now worth asking is: willChina and India fall prey to the seductive fly trapof Canadas natural gas and resources in the con-text of Lord Blacks nightmarish vision? Or willthey tighten their bonds of survival with Russiaand help usher in a new age of development andpeace?

    A third question arises: In the context of an alli-ance for progress and peace among nations, will

    Canada finally throw off the yoke of our imperialtraditions and become a mature republic once andfor all?

    (1) On December 14, 1998, then Finance Minster Paul Martinrejected the major bank mergers of Royal Bank of Canada

    with the Bank of Montreal, and CIBC with Toronto Domin-ion, citing too much concentration of economic power inCanada in the hands of too few financial institutions. Mar-tins role in Canadian policy, nor the Chretien government hethen operated under should be assumed to be a force forgood. The sense of self-interest, and nationalist tendencywithin the partys elders (while pragmatic more than princi-pled) should not be missed when evaluating the anomalieswhich mark the changes in behaviour of Canadian policy.

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    By Matthew Ehret-Kump

    While Canadian foreign policy has always fol-

    lowed the British lead, there have been brief in-stances of resistance. The cases of the 1970ssanctioning of apartheid South Africa and Can-adas non -participation in the precursor of theBritish Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Iraq Warin 2002 spring immediately to mind. However,under Prime Minister Stephen Harper who took power in 2006 and now leads a majority govern-ment with those near unchallenged powers en-

    joyed with such majorities, the unquestioned obe-dience to British endgame geopolitics has neverbeen so strong.

    Though Canadas cooperation in the defence andcultivation of the Heroin production of Afghani-stans Helmand province had already been under-way from the beginning of the Afghan war, thisovert military policy became significantly moreaggressive with the Arab Spring in 2011. It was atthis time that Canada committed its military toprovide 10% of the air support and logistics dur-ing the UK-France-USA led Regime Change pro-gram that illegally killed Muamar Qadaffi underthe umbrella of NATO. In hindsight, it was dis-covered that the greatest atrocities of this warwere not to have been committed by the disposedhead of state, but rather, by those moralizingforces who conducted the humanitarian interven-tion, armed radical Islamists and killed 70 000innocent Libyan civilians. The official legalprecedent for this war was the anti-nation statedoctrine of R2P.

    This program was continued with expelling Syr-ian diplomats and shutting down the Syrian em-bassy in March 2012, merely weeks after the An-nan Peace Plan was begun (and later sabotaged),

    to the effect that all illusions of Canadian peace-making and diplomacy was exposed to be an illu-sion. Before Canada, the only nation to shut downSyrian diplomatic missions was the UK. This ag-gressive policy was repeated with Canadas shut-down of the Iranian embassy in early September2012 modelled again after the British precedent.

    Since Canadas actions so obediently followedBritish geopolitical doctrine from 2006-2012, an

    overt branding as British property has been calledfor.

    The Re-Branding of Canada In April 2011, the British makeover officiallybegan with the re-naming of the Canadian mili-tary. This policy saw Harper pass a law which re-inserted the Royal into all branches of the Ca-nadian Military. Controversy briefly erupted asConstitutional Lawyers and Defence Specialistspointed out that Section 15 of the British NorthAmerican Act of 1867 sites that the command of the Canadian military is not vested in Parliament,but rather in the Crown. This mandate was re-

    affirmed with Section 14 of the National DefenceAct of 1985 with the words: The CanadianForces are the armed forces of Her Majestyraised by Canada and consist of one Service called theCanadian Armed Forces. University of Ottawa De-fence specialist Philippe Lagasse argued duringthis time that while the military is answerable tothe Parliament, it is accountable and obedientonly to ministers of the Crown. Any lingeringdenial of this control of the Canadian Military byMinisters of the crown was highly shaken.

    Embassies Unite:

    The British Consolidate their Property

    Up until recently, Harpers rabid anglophilia was consid-ered little more than a bizarre fetish for onlookers, but hasnow blossomed into a global security threat.

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    This was followed immediately by Harpers re-naming the main wall in the Canadian ForeignOffice Head Quarters the Sovereign Wall, deriv-ing its name from the gigantic mural sized portraitof Queen Elisabeth. Not only was this unsightlyportrait forced into public display in one Ottawabuilding, but an accompanying order was passedforcing portraits of the Queen to be mounted uponthe walls of every Canadian embassy in the world.While many onlookers watched in bewilderment,the fanatic anglophile could still be heard shoutingbut the Monarchy is only a symbol! The BritishEmpire carries no real power!

    Embassies Unite

    As of September 23 2012, many Canadian embas-sies the world over will no longer simply have

    Canadian flags hanging from their flag poles, butrather the Canadian ambassadors and their respec-tive staff within and the Canadian Maple leaf flagwithout will now be joined with British ambassa-dors and the Union Jack. Ministers of Foreign Af-fairs of the UK and Canada (John Baird and Wil-liam Hague) have officially announced the meld-ing of the embassies of both nations! Ostensibly,this measure is being undertaken to save money,but the true motive for such overt consolidation of the British Empires possessions can only be ad-dressed if one let go of all popular illusions re-

    garding the true workings of the shadow empiremaintained by the London Centered oligarchy.This process is made the more dangerous as theEmpire is not unawareness of the demise of itsown monetary system.

    During the context of the collapse of the Britishrun world monetary system, these policies are in-tended to do nothing less then set fire to the entireAfrican and Middle Eastern worlds, by fuellingwhat Samuel P Huntington dubbed the Clash of Civilizations doctrine, to the point of risking ther-

    monuclear warfare with Russia and China.

    Stephen Harper and ThomasMulcair: Agents of the BritishEmpire.

    For those who still believe that the Privy Council of Canada is merely a relic of old traditions long dead exer-cising no more control than the Queen, it would do wellto re-consider that view as it is not the people, or parlia-ment who hold the allegiance of those who are intro-duced into its roster, but rather the Queen of England.

    I, [name], do solemnly and sincerely swear that I shall be a true and faithful servant to Her Majesty Queen

    Elizabeth the Second , as a member of Her Majesty'sPrivy Council for Canada. I will in all things to betreated, debated and resolved in Privy Council, faith-

    fully, honestly and truly declare my mind and my opin-ion. I shall keep secret all matters committed and re-vealed to me in this capacity, or that shall be secretlytreated of in Council. Generally, in all things I shall doas a faithful and true servant ought to do for Her Maj-esty .

    That both Stephen Harper, as well as NDP leader Tho-mas Mulcair have taken this oath of allegiance and se-crecy should send alarm bells in the minds of any think-ing citizen. This also means that these illustrious men

    have joined the ranks with such national disasters andforeign agents of influence as Maurice Strong, Paul Des-marais of Powercorp, Lord Conrad Black, Prince Phillipof Edinburg, and the current head of the powerful Cana-dian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) John Manley.

    Being a member of this select group does not immedi-ately prove an individual is engaged in treason anymorethan someones participation in a Bilderberger meetingor freemasonic society. It does however speak volumesif the person in question is actively carrying out the in-

    tentions of a financial oligarchy which has explicitlystated their intention to reduce the world populationfrom the current 7 billion to less than one (seeEnvironmentalism and the General Welfare Make Poor Bedfellows on page 21).

    Baird and Hagueannounce joint em-bassies in Ottawa.

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    In 2007, headlines across Canada echoed the spiritof the Cold war, as Canadian Defense Minister Pe-ter Mackay screamed that Canadas arctic sover-eignty was threatened and that a greedy resourcegrab of valuable Canadian territory had occurred.Stephen Harper immediately announced plans topurchase three arctic patrol ships, (later confirmingthree unmanned drones) to defend Canadas truenorth strong and free. The Russian aggressors

    had to be put in their place. What had provoked thisunbalanced response from a Canada that had dem-onstrated no active interest in the Arctic or its de-velopment for decades? As it turned out, a Russiansubmarine had placed a Russian flag near the NorthPole along a disputed territory known as the Lo-monosov Ridge. As facts would later reveal, theRussian submarine was on nothing more than a sci-entific study.

    While large components of the abrupt militarizationof the Arctic announced by Harper in 2007, were

    put on hold due to the economic crisis that spikedin 2009, it had not at all disappeared, as we nowfind the seeds of this orchestrated tension springingup yet again. This is evidenced by the October 5 th

    announcement of the Canadian Geological Surveyand Natural Resources Canada that 1.75 millionsquare kilometres of seabed in the Arctic and NorthAtlantic oceans are definitively the sole property of Canada. These claims are the substance of a multi-thousand page submission of 25 studies submittedin October to the United Nations Convention on theLaw of the Sea (UNCLOS) which had adopted anew formula for determining national coastalboundaries in 2003. Nations had been given 10years to conduct studies and submit claims for ex-panded territory beyond the current 12 nauticalmiles (22.2 km) off coastal land. If these claims areapproved, then Canadas current area of 9.9 millionsquare kilometres will increase by 20% (or the sizeof Quebec). Two of the most important territorialclaims involve the Alpha Ridge mountain extend-ing past the North Pole, and the other is the Lo-

    monosov Ridge.

    The Seeds of World War Begin toGrow

    Today, as tense hotspots have been built up in Syriaand Iran, which could easily unfold into a nuclearshowdown between Russia and China pitted againstNATO countries, a less understood component tothe orchestration of general war exists in the do-main of territorial conflicts around the Pacific, Arc-tic and Atlantic Oceans.

    This strategy cannot be understood unless thereader comprehend that the only opposition to anew British Empire (one world government) is tobe found in the coalition of Russia, China and Ar-gentina.

    The New Canada Imperial Arctic Makeover:

    Will Increased Canadian Arctic Territory beused to Provoke War with Russia?By Matthew Ehret-Kump

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    These three nations have made their full nationalpolicy commitments center on the right to nationalsovereignty, international cooperation, technologi-cal progress, and have committed to effective waravoidance measures ever since the assassination of Libyas President Gaddafi. Nations of the non -aligned movement representing over two thirdsof the world population have rallied stronglyaround these three pillars.

    In the Pacific Ocean, Japans brash nationalizationof the five uninhabited islets (known by Japan asSenkaku and by China as Diaoyu) has re-sulted in an international crisis pitting Chinaagainst Japan. China faces the danger of anotherterritorial conflict sparked by the the President of the Philippines who decided late in 2011 that theSouth China Sea should be re- named the East

    Philippines Sea. What most media reports leaveout when discussing these hot spots, is that boththe Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, aswell as the Japan President Noda, have bothagreed recently to host U.S. military bases as partof the new Air-Sea battle plan designed around thecontainment of China and documented in La-RouchePACs recent feature film Unsurvivable(1). This military strategy has seen two U.S Ohioclass submarines deployed to the Pacific theatre,each packing Trident nuclear warheads.

    Other more official British colonies such as Aus-tralia are being used to contain China within thenew Air -Sea Battle Plan, as Australian PM JuliaGillard has agreed to host two US military baseson its territory which Chinese military officialshave identified as representing direct strategicthreats. Due to the new UNCLOS measures, Aus-tralia has recently expanded its undersea territoryby 2.5 million square kilometres (or 1/3 its totalland area) in 2008.

    As small minded (often unwitting) pawns of theBritish Empire do the Matriarchs dirty work onthe Pacific theatre, the British military has sprunginto aggressive direct action in the Atlantic as aresponse to Argentinas recent re -affirmation thatthe Malvinas Islands are (and have always been) apart of Argentina. Indeed, the Islands were in factstolen by the British Empire during the early 1833war with Argentina, and have been maintained asa British colony ever since. The British responseto Argentinas claim has been to 1) reject all Ar-

    gentine offers of dialogue and 2) deploy a De-stroyer battleship and a one of its four HMS Van-guard nuclear armed submarines to the coast of theMalvinas (which they continue to call theFalklands). The irony in this instance is thatBritains basis for its military deployment is cen-tered on its accusation that Argentina is acting likea colonialist. This absurd accusation persists,despite Argentine President Christina Kirchnersinsistence of the fact that Britains continuedclaim of the Falklands remains illegitimate ac-cording to the UN Special Committee on Decolo-nization.

    The Consequences of IgnoringReality

    One year after Russia was scorned by Peter Mac-kay and Harper for trying to steal Canadas arcticsovereignty, Russia had found itself the subjectof an attack by Soros Georgian puppet presidentMikheil Saakashvili in 2008. Saakashvilis attack on Russias protectorate in South Ossetia resultedin a brief war that ended five days after havingbegun. Saakashvili attempted to illegally claimSouth Ossetia as Georgian territory. At that time,Georgia was not a part of NATO, and had it been,all relevant NATO members would have beendrawn into that conflict in Georgias defence. To-day, Saakashvili has been replaced by yet another

    billionaire puppet that has made Georgias admis-sion to NATO a primary objective.

    With literally dozens of explosive powder kegs placed all around the world which couldnt existas detonators for war were it not for the belief inresource scarcity and monetary rules to whichour behaviour and thoughts must conform, theworld is sitting on the edge of a self-imposed ex-tinction.

    (1) www.larouchepac.com /unsurvivable

    Russian tanks in Georgia dur-ing the five day war in 2008.

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    By Jonathon LudwigAmerican economist Lyndon LaRouches propos-als for a Eurasian Landbridge and Russias currentproposal for the Bering Strait Rail Tunnel connec-tion from Vladivostok through 100 km of water toAlaska and into Canada are not new. These vision-ary proposals are a long time in the making andhave represented a tormenting nightmare to sev-eral generations of imperial geopoliticians.

    By the turn of the 20 th century, Russian Transport

    Minister Count Sergei Witte working in tandemwith American system leaders and engineers inSiberia were completing the final stretch of theTrans-Siberian Railway. This development fol-lowed 1) hot on the heels of Lincolns victorioussuppression, with the help of Russias Czar Alex-ander II, of the British financed Confederate upris-ing in 1865, 2) the 1867 United States purchase of Alaska from Russia, and 3) the near annexation of British Columbia into America in 1870 (1). Thefeasibility studies to connect the two continentswere first presented by the Trans-Siberian Railway

    Company in 1905(2).

    The British Empire at thetime was known as the old man of Europe andin all intents and purposes was on the verge of extinction.

    Mackinders geopolitics demands a closedsystem

    In 1904, as a response to these developments, Brit-ish Fabian Society member and director of theLondon School of Economics Sir Halford Mackin-der, formulated a school of thought known asGeopolitics. This study has influenced all imperialstrategists who emerged from the 20 th centuryfrom Rhodes scholar William Yandell Elliot, hisHarvard students sir Henry Kissinger, ZbigniewBrzezinski, Bernard Lewis as well as Samuel P.Huntington to name a few. It was also the founda-tion for the Heartland theory extolled by Nazi geo-politician Karl Haushofer and adopted by Hitler.

    Mackinders program was little more than a refor-mulated divide to conquer policy already prac-ticed for centuries by the British Empire, andarose entirely as a response which the threat Lin-colns American System program of rail develop-ment posed to the continued existence of the fail-ing British Empire as mentioned above.

    Mackinders Geopolitics versusLaRouches World Landbridge

    (1) Were it not for Britains offer to bribe BC merchants during aheated period of 1867-1870, all onlookers from Canada and theUSA alike believed that this British colony was nearly about toincorporate into America, as this provided the only economically viable options available for the bankrupt colony. The Transcon-tinental railway had just been built into San Francisco and anactive ferry system connected the BC merchants to the USA. TheBritish had to move fast and did so by 1) paying off British Co-lumbias massive debt, and 2) then purchasing the massive terri-tory separating its eastern and western colonies also known asRuperts Land and owned by the Hudsons Bay Company in1868 and 3) finally promising to build a railway connecting BCto Eastern Canada which was accomplished in 1885. The only condition was that British Columbia join the Confederation andnot choose the American option.

    (2) Funds totalling six million dollars were raised privately,concluding the project could be done for $300 million. An edito-rial in the New York Times of October 24th, 1905, observed that the Bering Strait Tunnel is a project which at some time in the future is likely to command a great deal of very purposeful consideration.

    Sir Halford Mackinder summarized

    his theory: Who rules East Europecommands the Heartland; Who rulesthe Heartland commands the World

    Island; Who rules the World Island commands the World."

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    Not only did rail pose a threat to the Empire, but the advent of the new energy dense fuel sourceknown as petroleum which was threatening to re-

    place the largely monopolized (and less energydense) coal for industrial production.

    From Japans Meiji Restoration, to Chancellor von Bismarcks Berlin to Baghdad Rail initia-tive, to Russias Trans -Siberian Railway, inter-continental development driven by American Sys-tem rail programs were initiating new dynamics of cooperation and development amongst all nationsof North America, Europe, Russia and Asia. Most importantly, these pro-development approaches tonational economies were founded on the concerted rejection of all British Free Trade dogma and thevigorous adoption of the protective tariff, produc-tive credit and long term planning, all acting un-

    der the principle of the general welfare. To their horror, the British Empire was witnessing aworldwide emergence of the American System.

    After successful expeditions to the South andNorth Pole had been accomplished by 1909,Mackinder declared, like Malthus before him thatall that could be discovered on the Earth had beendiscovered, and that human society was now offi-cially locked within an absolutely closed system.All that remained was for leading monopolies tomap out finite resources, and get victim nations to

    slaughter each other in territorial disputes thatwould necessarily occur as the outcome of eachstriving to possess as many of these finite re-sources as possible before they ran out. Thiswould be achieved by getting nations to look atthe future not from the American System stand-point of their creative potentials to change thoselimits for the better, but rather from the monetaristfree market filter of pleasure-pain and momentaryprofit. Were bestial dynamic of each against allnot adopted, all hope for world domination wouldbe lost.

    Mackinders theory was expressed most clearly inhis observation: " Who rules East Europe com-mands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; Who rules the World

    Island commands the World."

    Reality is an Open System

    In the logic of empire, nations must be kept fight-

    ing each other in a closed system of absolute scar-city. Rather than creatively moving outside of those limits by discovering new principles of theuniverse, and creating new energy sources such asnuclear fission, thermonuclear fusion power, ordesalinating ocean water to green deserts, nationshave been told, rather arbitrarily, that scarcityhas to be respected and, like beasts, adapted to in asurvival of the fittest paradigm.

    Lincoln admirer von Bismarckwas among the many world statesmen importing the Ameri-can System by the end of the19th century. His ouster would

    lead to the unleashing of World Wars 1 and 2. See the film 1932 for the full story.

    For a full documentation of the American System and the BritishEmpires orchestration of World War one, then check out:

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    This logic has been used to manipulate idiots withpolitical power into initiating almost every singleun-necessary war during this past century, andgoverns the geopolitical thinking that is resultingin potential territorial conflict the world over to-day.

    According the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2011 , this past year has witnessed thegreatest drop of nuclear energy use on record(with a 4.3% fall) while coal has become theworlds fastest growing fuel (totalling 30.3% of global use). While green energies such as windand solar power have risen by 25.8% and 86.6%respectively, their combined total contribution toglobal energy consumption is a measly 2.1%.

    The energy required to produce renewable en-

    ergies far outweigh their output while the wastedland area required to sustain them is not only badeconomics, but it is more importantly, the sicklyeffects of a community of nations turning theirbacks on 600 years of progress and embracing anideology which will permit no more than one bil-lion humans living in political, mental and physi-cal conditions not terribly different from feudal-ism.

    Today, new energy sources await the politicalwill to overcome those boundary limits met byour current addiction to fossil fuels and ineffi-cient green renewables. On top of the prospect of connecting Eurasian countries in a New Silk

    Road known as the World Landbridge and Ber-ing Strail Tunnel, the new frontier defining Mack-inders fraud is located in the prospect of un-bounded space exploration, lunar and Mars in-dustrialization and asteroid defence.

    None of these are utopian fantasies, but rather active policies either already being applied byleading nations such as China and Russia, or be-ing offered by leaders among those nations such

    as Russian Deputy Prime Minister DmitryRogozins offer for Strategic Defense of Earth(SDE) , and Russian Transport Minister YakuninsBering Strait proposal.

    The effect of continuing to tolerate the limits wefind imposed upon ourselves as a species, willentail not only undoing the industrial revolution,but also ushering in new wars with the use of thermonuclear weapons, risking the extermina-

    tion of humanity.

    LaRouches World Landbridge is already becoming a reality in Eastern Russia and Asia. Will the rest of the world wake up in time to get on board?

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    By Matthew Ehret-Kump

    When the consequences of a gambling addictioncatch up to the addict, were his immediate re-sponse not to seek help, but to sell his children, thefuture for that family would become bleak indeed.This response is pitifully tragic when committedby any individual, but criminally insane whencommitted by the leadership of national govern-ments entrusted by the people with the care of thecommon good.

    Although criminally insane, it is specifically thismindset which is the driving force behind FedChairman Ben Bernankes recent unleashing of another (QE3) bailout, Obamas calls for guttingSocial Security and Medicare in order to raise thedebt ceiling, and the similar behavior of bailoutsand fascist cuts being demanded by the IMF andECB in Europe. In the midst of this torrent of in-

    sanity, the voice of the people is increasingly call-ing for the abolishment the speculative monopolymoney and returning to national banking programsunder a global Glass-Steagall reform (1).

    To exacerbate this crisis even more, we find that aglobal policy is being implemented on the behalf of the British empires Inter Alpha group (2)through their control of the Green movement tocrush those last remnants of frontier science whichhumanity still has at its disposal, and which, undera new system could be mobilized to build our way

    out of this multi-generational crisis.It has long been understood by the empire and itsopponents, that it is functionally in the domain of science and technology that mankinds true role asa unique species of unbounded potential expressesitself, and in that fact, so too melts away any so-phistical justification for the existence of the para-sitical system of oligarchy, which rather seeks tokeep humanity enslaved as cattle in fixed systemsof zero growth. This anti -science (and anti-human) intention expressed by controllers of theGreen movement such as Prince Phillip, involve

    bringing humankinds population to levelsacceptable to a governing elite according tomathematical models known as carrying capac-ity.

    As Plato once warned, it is the desire for one`sshackles that maintains a slave more effectivelythan forcing shackles upon him. Hence, it has also

    been that long term intention to bring societys

    behaviour and values into conformity with an oli-garchical model that is the underlying cause of Germanys suicidal decision to exit from Nuclear

    by 2020, Harpers selloff of AECL and Obamasabolishment of the manned space program. Thecausal intention is nothing less than those geno-cidal effects which will result due to such policies.

    The Green-Blue Paradox

    This context must be kept in mind when consider-ing the new phenomenon sweeping the Canadianpolitical landscape between two irreconcilablemovements. That is, the marriage of labour andenvironmentalism which is manifesting itself mostclearly within the National Democratic Party(NDP) and Quebecs Parti Quebecois (PQ) as of this writing. The argument for a green - blue mar-riage is based not on science but rather on the fal-lacious assumption that manmade activities andCO2 emissions are the primary drivers for GlobalWarming and must be halted at all cost. The onlysolution to this non-existent problem proposed bythose powers attempting to orchestrate the mar-riage involve the drastic elimination of thosemeans of sustaining advanced civilization via:

    Environmentalism and the General Welfare Make Poor Bedfellows

    (1) For an overview of the full separation of speculative fromproductive banking activities visit our Glass-Steagall websiteat www.larouchepac.com/glass-steagall

    (2) See the Lpac video: The Inter Alpha Groupwww.larouchepac.com/node/16537

    (3) In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to returnas a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solveoverpopulation. - Prince Philipe, co-founder of World WildlifeFund for Nature, quoted in Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA),August, 1988

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    1) Reduction of high energy density technologiessuch as nuclear power

    2) The elimination of CO2 emissions via newspeculative cap and trade programs and

    3) The advancement of low energy dense powersystems such as wind, solar, geothermal and tidalpower which lack the power density to sustain theindustrial needs of a technologically advanced,population dense mode of society.

    All three factors are designed to have one commonobjective: The reduction of the world populationfrom the current 7 billion to less than 1 billion. Thispolicy was outlined in blood curdling detail in therecent report by the Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Government of Germany on GlobalEnvironmental Changes (WBGU) (4)whose directorHans Joachim Schellnhuber was recently quoted assaying: ``In a cynical way, it's a triumph for sciencebecause at last we have stabilized something--namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people. What atriumph. On the other hand, do we want this alter-native? I think we can do much, much better.'' It isno wonder that Schellnhuber was awared Com-mander of the British Empire by Queen Elisabeth in2004.

    To any humanist, the contradiction in the attemptedmarriage of labour movements which support thegeneral welfare and anti humanist environmental-ism is blatant. The awareness of this contradictionwas made evident in the heated fight during the2011 Vancouver NDP convention, between the truelabour and green factions, who fiercely battled overthe attempted greening of the Party constitution,replacing principles of social justice toconservation. While that amalgamation of green -blue was successfully resisted then, a new wave hasbegun, with the same desired effect.

    The arguments which attempt to justify the un-natural alliance are not merely fallacies, but actu-ally reflect a moral disease festering in the minds of the Canadian people which must be overcomequickly. The reality is that the entire world systemis in the last throws of a general collapse whosecauses are largely to be found in the unwillingnessof the political leadership to confront the Inter-Alpha Group`s immense stranglehold over our na-tional economies.

    As Lyndon Larouche has been saying for decades;nothing within the monetarist logic will solve thistype of physical crisis. Nothing short of a funda-mental abolishment of the artificial rules of mone-tarism in favour of a return to clean Hamiltonianbanking practices on a global level will open anypathway to a future worth living in. That means thatno opinions justifying budget cuts, hyperinflation-ary bailout, or green population reduction assolutions to this crisis shall be respected as legiti-mate.

    A Lesson from Physical Economics

    In the science of physical economics, we learn thatit is mankinds increasing power within and over the universe which is the invariant metric of value.Not money. Interestingly, it is not only a character-

    istic of human life which expresses this potential of creative anti-entropy, but contrary to the popular delusion now taught in schools, the universe as awhole exhibits this same power of constant self de-velopment . Moving from energy sources of lowerflux density to higher flux density as we see withthe leaps of wood to coal, coal to uranium, and be-yond in human society represents the same functionexpressed in lower orders of life developing newtechnologies such as chlorophyll, and permittingfor greater metabolic activity of life on earth (seefigure1 on next page).

    This increase of powers of energy to accomplishincreased work is known as energy flux density inphysical economics. The truth of this power uniqueto the human condition is one which necessitatesour total abolishment of all forms of energy policywhich have the effect of:

    1) Reducing our power to act on the universethrough forcing a decrease of energy flux density

    2) Reducing human population growth

    3) Reducing our intensive expansion of global in-vestments into all anti-inflationary (and anti-entropic) activities of the type outlined on thewww.larouchepac.com/infrastructure page.

    (4) World in Transition : A Social Contract for Sustain-ability . Read the whole misanthropic report on www.wbgu.de

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    In fact, the only power source with the energy fluxdensity adequate to support the perpetual growth of these three factors at once, is to be found in domainof third and fourth generation nuclear energy, ther-monuclear fusion, and eventual Matter-Antimatterprocesses. Each increase of power upward must besubsumed within a higher Moon to Mars (and be-

    yond) colonization outlook. Windmills, and solarpanels offer only self destruction (5).

    It is this optimistic outlook and the associated meansof actualizing its aims, that not only built the bestaspects of our civilization (which are now sufferingfrom neglect, privatization, and cuts), but which willagain be the efficient Power behind our still possiblesurvival. The participation of a reformed Canada inan alliance of sovereign nation states for the passageof a Global Glass-Steagall, followed by a return tofixed exchange rates as described under LaRouchesNew Bretton Woods remains a possible third optionbeyond that of chaos, and despotism now being of-fered to the credulous.

    Market forces be damned, humanitycomes first. The means thus established for a Hamiltonian creditsystem usher in the next question:

    How can labour return to its roots as an uncompro-mising defender of social justice, and scientific andtechnological progress which have defined our na-

    tions best character for generations? How can Cana-dian labour help kick start the re-industrialization of ourselves and our neighbours abroad, using the mostadvanced science and technology for the commoninterests of all?

    This bold change in paradigm could not be done formonetary profit, nor to appease market forces, andnot possibly to make jobs. This change could onlyoccur with the understanding that it is the creativepowers of human cognition which permit for theincrease of humanity`s power over the universe and

    is expressed formally as a measure of our potentialrelative population density.

    Today, no source of energy existent aside from Nu-clear fission and thermonuclear Fusion will ever per-mit for the equitable increase of those material stan-dards of life to levels high enough to supply the dig-nity and freedom so necessary for those creative

    powers of our species to express themselves, andwith them, the necessary a moral precondition forself-governance.

    If we succumb through ignorance, or inaction, to themonetarist and environmentalist propaganda by re-

    jecting those frontiers of nuclear energy and spaceexploration, it is not merely the financial oligarchy,but ourselves that will be judged guilty for the geno-cide that will be unleashed.

    (5) The Fraud of Free Energy: www.larouchepac.com/ node/9296

    For a full dossier of video material and extensive exposes of thefascist roots of the Green movement, visit the following web-

    site: www.larouchepac.com/greenfascism

    it is not only a characteristic of human life which expresses this potential of creative anti -entropy, the universe as a whole exhibits this same power of constant self development.

    Here , the nested conic functions demonstrate the increasing rates of energy flux density

    increases in the abiotic, biotic and noetic (aka: cognitive) aspects of our universe.

    Figure 1

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    By Pascal Chevrier

    The use of nuclear power is neither a political nor an ideological issue; it is the most powerful scien-tific-economic breakthrough that happened duringthe 20 th Century. The scientific and physical eco-

    nomic aspects of nuclear power have not beenacknowledged by any of Qubecs political leader-ship; the political parties have shown no under-standing of these attributes, what so ever. Our concern is that they are not alone; this is why wesubmit the present article to the scrutiny of all our

    fellow citizens.

    As humanity is confronted with the biggest finan-cial-economic crisis it ever lived through and a set-up for potential world war in the Middle-Eastcockpit, we, citizens, must choose to either sink

    with it into a new global dark age or affect an evo-lutionary change that is lawfully crafted on theanti-entropic behaviour of our universe. The latterwould assure our common survival, but mean-while, contradictory decisions are being made byour political leaders

    Shutting down G-2

    The recent statement by Parti Qubcois (PQ)leaders to the effect of closing the Gentilly-2 nu-clear reactor comes as no real surprise as it wasalready a known intention of the party, specified

    in their latest electoral platform. The declarationwas made two weeks after the elections of a PQ-minority government, without reasons to explain itother than the green ideological fad of so-calledrenewable energies and some tax money -savingrhetoric. In fact, the majority (3 out of 5) of Que-

    becs political parties running for the last provin-cial elections had already written nuclear energyout of Quebecs future. The Liberals and CAQwere advocating it for wrong small-minded rea-sons. Obviously, distrust and anger has beengrowing especially from the families of the 800

    specialized employees that will be losing their jobdue to the shutting down of the power plant.

    Helping in alerting public opinion has to why wehad to shut down Gentilly-2 was a showing of adocumentary on Quebec public channel titledGentilly or not to be in the wake of the announce-ment. Nothing grandiose has to be said about thedocumentary, showing nuclear bomb explosionsfrom the start, the intent is clear: who could trust

    an energy source of that type? Then paranoia setsin with reports on radiations and possible catastro-phes that could happen in the future, the wastesdisposal, contamination, stillbirths, etc

    Once upon a time, Qubec could have been aleader in nuclear technology -Hydro- Qubecsplan was, in the 1970s, to build around 30 nuclearreactors along the St Lawrence River- an opportu-nity missed when the PQ government of the timevoted to halt indefinitely any building of new nu-clear plants. To keep popular hysteria about dan-ger of the nuclear technology dams were built inJames Bay and Manicouagan region, and Quebecbecame a world leader in hydro-powered systems.But the nuclear technology is not only about pro-viding electricity. It has many other purposes. Car-bon-14 is used to date archaeological findings;

    medical isotopes are used for either imaging and/ or therapy. Shortages that occurred when theworld found out it our Chalk River reactor pro-duces more then 50% of its needs.

    Is Qubec committing scientific suicide?Or why buying gold wont change a thing

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    The Empire: making a bloodless killing

    Since the end of World War II, institutions havebeen created by those formerly associated with theeugenics societys leadership, most of them crown-bearing. They decided that their Empire wouldprevail through new ways of making populationreduction acceptable to their dumb subjects. Theychose wildlife conservation, or if you prefer, envi-ronmentalism. Making mankind the environmentstop enemy, this is now becoming a new sinisterdont feed the poor Malthusian doctrine of savethe environment mantra! The Club of Rome andother think tanks have published books like ThePopulation Bomb and Limits to Growth towarn of impending doom if the worlds populationwas not culled rapidly. Today, in 2012, PrincePhilip, the Queens consort, and his financiers

    acolytes still promote a maximum Earth carryingcapacity of less then 2 billion people. All to theenvironments profit, of course... The most impor-tant tool this oligarchy has, is our uneducated fearwhich can deny the necessary technologies forthird world countries to develop and now to our-selves since the Western world has lost the idea of producing for the future since the post-industrialshift that followed the counterculture revolt of 1968.

    The insane fear of radiation

    Edward Teller used to joke that a man would getmore radiation from sleeping with two womenthan living next to a nuclear plant. Though youmay or may not find the image offensive, it is stillnonetheless true. Radioactivity is everywhere inour universe. It is in the food we eat, in the soil westep on, it is emitted from the Sun that shines uponus and even originates from the cells in our ownbody! The doses of radiations we receive fromartificial sources -like for nuclear plants- are in-finitesimal. For example: Every year, Canadiansare exposed on average to about 1.8 millisieverts(mSv) from natural background radiation. Thismeans that in one year, residents living in Trois-Rivires and Bcancour get 900 times more radia-tion from natural background than from the man-made radiation from Gentilly- 2. Some might ask the question What is the dose of radiation thatsnormal for a human being? There are no satisfy-ing answers anyone can give except between acertain minimum and maximum bracket. (perhaps

    include a word about the fraud of Low dose radia-tion in 1-2 sentences).

    Dont buy gold Increase energy -flux density!

    What gives value to anything may it be gold,

    wood or, even uranium? Think of our old relative,the caveman, what did he value? Whats useful tohis survival? Some tools, yes, but what is the prin-ciple tool-making? What is behind the bronze andiron ages, what made them possible? It is impor-tant to get it right, since these new tools weremore valuable to him and to human civilization.What is the underlying principle that carried outthese discoveries? Creativity is our human gift,and the concepts applied and enhanced every timea fundamental discovery is made is what we callthe concept of energy flux density , or otherwise

    the principle of fire developed at length by Lyn-don LaRouche in many of his economic papers.

    Energy flux density is the standard by which en-ergy production must be studied and chosen.Physical economics, the modern science foundedby Gottfried Leibniz, was developed around theconcept of steam-powered machines applied toalleviate and enhance the work of mankind. Theper capita per square kilometre output of energy isthe valid measure to understand which energy pro-duction will be able to power cities of 200 or

    200,000 citizens. The readers should look at a verygood study on the subject for more extended data.The before mentioned criteria is the one makingnuclear-fission power an unbeatable option in to-days standards, orders of magnitude higher inoutput then wind, solar and fossil fuels-poweredplants. Modern society necessitates a shift towardsan atom renaissance. But nuclear power is notonly for producing electricity. Hospitals use nu-clear isotopes for detection and treatment of can-cers.

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    The reasons to develop nuclear are multiple. It isnot because it doesnt produce greenhouse gases.The greens will always try to find ways to use the

    periodic table to destroy humanitys progress(clarify this statement as its really not clear). Nu-clear power is not just about electricity production,it is also about medical isotopes, creation of newmaterial

    One pellet of uranium in a fission process producesthe amount of energy 807 kg of coal or 607 litres of oil, or 476 cubic meters of natural gas wind andsolar energy are not calculable. Quebec is poweredby hydro : 94,8 %, fossil fuel : 2,6 %, nuclear :2,1 %, wind : 0,3 %, biomass/wastes : 0,2 %. Thatis to say, that 1 nuclear power plant (Gentilly-2)generates almost ten times more power then 393windmills! How much land is wasted on a technol-

    ogy that will only fuel a new dark age?

    Speeding up the Renaissance

    As we discuss the shutting down of Gentilly-2, Ja-pan is not only reopening closed nuclear plants, butalso launching the building of new ones. The nu-clear renaissance is also on its way in Russia,China and India as their governments have de-clared war on the short-term thinking so deadlypopular on our side of the Pacific. The use of newtechnology on Thorium-based fission reactors,

    fourth generation fission reactors and advances onnuclear fusion are the intentions of those nations toassure stable sources of energy production for thecoming centuries. Every society, to prosper, needto increase its energy input/output to function prop-erly that is not an ideological statement its simplythe science of development as seen in our humanhistory.

    We, in the West, have to decide to partake into thisRenaissance and help it ignite itself faster, alreadysome promising project are underway like Bel-

    giums Myrrha, which could eliminate the termnuclear waste by transmuting the radioactive ele-ments into new non radioactive material (perhapsbring up the CANDU, and what Canadian know-how can contribute for the world and ourselves?).Any questions? Lets do it !

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    By Jonathon Ludwig

    Many onlookers who understand that the core of theBritish Empires program for depopulation and the sub-version of the nation state leans upon its control of theenvironmentalist movement, have found it somewhatparadoxical that British puppet Stephen Harper of Can-

    ada has made headlines this summer by passing sweep-ing reforms under the C- 38 omnibus bill, which hasoverturned decades of environmentalist legislation de-signed to stop development in the name of wildlifeconservation. This reform has thus opened up new cor-ridors for streamlined resource extraction across theboard. British sponsored environmental groups havebeen abandoned, and have been screaming all acrossCanada, but with very little resistance from the opposi-tion NDP party which has up until now represented thevoice of Green in Canada. In fact, in the weeks beforeand after being sworn in to the Queens Privy Councilon September 18 2012, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair hasuncharacteristically come out defending both the Albertaoil sands, as well as the new Ensbridge pipeline to thepacific.

    Why the anomalies?

    Conservative Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver,speaking to a group of Asian businessmen has promisedthat Canada hopes to build infrastructure to liquefy andexport nine billion cubic feet per day of Liquefied Natu-ral Gas (LNG) to Asia through five proposed coastalplans. With the building of new pipelines from Albertaand BC to the Pacific starting with Ensbridge, andChinas existential need for fossil fuels for its survival,

    the risk of China falling prey to the addiction of Can-adas cheap resources is very real. The British of course,are intent on loosening the bonds of survival which havethus far held Russia and China together against the Brit-ish drive for World War and are deploying every assetavailable to do so. This fact is especially pertinent as theschism deepens between China and Australia due toAustralias hosting two U.S. Military bases antagonisticto China. As China currently imports a vast portion of its natural gas needs from Australia, we must ask: IsCanada being set up to replace Australias role as sup-

    plier of Chinas natural gas needs? Surely, the Chineseambassador to Australias new job as ambassador to

    Canada provides one clue. The additional hype sur-rounding Canadas comparative advantage relative toAustralias in exporting natural gas published in theKPMG 2012 Competitive Alternatives report is an-other.

    The proposal by state owned China National OffshoreOil Co (CNOOC) to purchase Canadas Nexen gas com-pany for $15.1 billion should be viewed within thisgreater context. If this deal, now held up in court due tothe fact that CNOOC is a state owned company, should

    pass, a flurry of other state owned energy companiesprimarily from Asia and the Middle East promise tofollow with similar purchases with Korea, Kuwait, Indiaand Malaysia already topping the list. According to BPsStatistical Review of World Energy Report of June2012, of all remaining private global (not state con-trolled) oil reserves, 62% are found in Canadas oil

    sands. 10.6% of overall world oil reserves are in Can-ada.

    It is appropriate to here point out, that were it not for thedemand from Asias markets, the Plan of the North setin motion by the now fallen Quebec Liberal Party of Jean Charest never would have begun. Quebec is nowengaged in applying the Alberta oil sand model of resource extraction under the $80 billion PPP invest-ment into opening up Quebecs resource rich north. Just like the Alberta oil sand model, the Quebec model en-tails zero nation building, but is based entirely upon thelogic of converting minerals into money as fast as possi-ble within the closed- system logic of market theory.

    Were the Three Power Alliance of Russia, China, andthe USA adopted in the short term however, coincidingwith a Global Glass-Steagall re-organization of the fi-nancial system, would not only stimmy the threat of World War, but usher in a nuclear renaissance as well. If Canadas thorium rich soils were tapped and an ad-vanced liquid salt nuclear crash program followingChinas lead were adopted, Geopolitical manipulationaround humanitys reliance on finite fossil fuels wouldno longer be used to the advantage of the British Empire

    as it is now, but rather an unbounded potential forgrowth would be realized and the creation of new re-sources in the benefit of all would be the result.

    The Paradoxical Case of Britains Attack on its own Green Movement in Canada

    Privy Council memberThomas Mulcair has

    begun his unlikely de- fense of the oil sands and Ensbridge pipeline.

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    By Karel Vereyken, Nouvelle Solidarit, France

    While recent Announcements by French MinistersArnaud Montebourg and Delphine Batho loudly

    proclaimed that nuclear power will remain a sec-tor with a future, President Francois Hollande

    just confirmed that in the name of ecological andenergetic transition, France would be closing theFessenheim nuclear power plant. He also repeatedhis commitment to cutting French generated nu-clear energy from 75 to 50%, following Ger-manys lead to exit the field by 2020. Having pro-duced the likes of Marie Curie, Paul Langevin,Pierre Mends-France and Charles De Gaulle,France has always played a pioneering role in thisdomain. It is therefore ever more tragic that thisgreat world leader in nuclear science has fallen tosuch a low that its politicians are trying to sell theidea that France could become a world nuclearleader in plant dismantling!

    In parallel with the ASTRID demonstrator(Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for In-dustrial Demonstration) steered by the Commis-sary for Atomic Energy (CAE) of France, a teamfrom the National Center for Scientific Researchin Grenoble (NCSR) have reworked the concept of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) associatedwith thorium, one of six research options retainedin the context of the Generation IV forum. Tho-rium 232, a metal three times more abundant innature than uranium, when exposed to a source of neutrons, for example in the core of a EuropeanPressurized Reactor (EPR), can be fertilized. Itis then transformed into uranium 233 and will be-come in turn, a fissile fuel. While India intends onusing it as a solid fuel, MSFRs are based on theuse of a molten salt (lithium or beryllium fluo-rides), serving simultaneously as a coolant, a fueland a first barrier of containment. Molten salts arealso used in solar panels and fuel cells.

    The Ideal Reactor

    But there is more. The MSFR is a real all-in-onekit: a high-temperature reactor whose efficiency issuperior to most of todays reactors and its heatallows for seawater desalination. As a regenerator,it allows for the multiplication of the fuel whilecrushing waste accumulated by the civilian andmilitary nuclear sectors. The reactor is easy to in-

    terrupt, thanks to a passive security system andoperating at ambient pressure, it could never turninto a new Chernobyl. Better yet, with the MSFR,half lives of waste in lesser are scaled down to 300- 500 years, far from the todays waste half livesreaching millions of years.

    This concept, developed and tested in the 1960s inOak Ridge, USA, was abandoned by PresidentRichard Nixon for reasons which we would ironi-cally consider a benefit today. For one, it didntproduce enough military-quality plutonium. Tothis, was added the fact that the U.S. Marines hadchosen water-pressurized reactors for all their nu-clear submarines, an option also taken by West-inghouse for the vast majority of its reactors builtthroughout the world for the civilian sector.

    The Chinese offensive

    While nations of the west spread doubts and fearsof this vital technology while chopping their budg-ets, China is patiently getting ready to move for-ward in giant leaps and bounds. For China, theaim is not simply to have about one hundred clas-sic reactors produced between now and 2030, butto become a the world leader in the cutting edgenuclear of the future, efficient, ecological andmuch safer than anything yet created. To this must

    be added the aim of gaining a large degree of en-ergy independence. It is ironic to note that in2010, 95% of uranium consumed in China camefrom imports, while due to the abundance of rareearths in its soil, the country is blessed with con-siderable reserves of thorium.

    Is China on the road to becoming the worldleader in the nuclear energy of the future?

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    In January 2011, the Chinese Academy of Sci-ences (CAS) had announced that it would launch avast project of R&D for thorium-associatedMSFR. Three months ago, in June 2012, the

    American Department of Energy (DOE) signed anagreement of cooperation on this matter withCAS. It is Chinese academician Jiang Mianheng(son of former Prime Minister Jiang Zhemin) whois co-director of the steering committee. He alsoled the CAS delegation that came to Oak Ridge todiscuss the MSFR with former American research-ers.

    One Billion Invested

    On August 6th, 2012, Ken Chun from CAS, gavea presentation at Berkeley University in Californiaabout the Chinas MSFR program. In short, Mr Chun revealed that China has invested 350 milliondollars (some estimates assert billion) in the con-struction of two experimental reactors. AlthoughCAS has hundreds of research centers, the maincontributor is the Shanghai Institute of appliedPhysics (SIAP). China already built a facility thatcould welcome 500 researchers, engineers andtechnicians, which currently operates molten salts

    loops. The first reactor will be studied in details in2013. Built in 2014, it will reach criticality end of 2015. This first 2 MW reactor which will use tho-rium in a solid fuel form will be cooled by moltensalts. The second reactor, also 2 MW, will reachcriticality in 2017. It will use a molten salt liquidfuel. For now, many details are still to be workedout. In any case, according to the success of thoseprototypes, China will then develop a steering pro-gram with a reactor of approximately 10 MW, fol-lowed by a demonstration program with a reactorof approximately 100 MW.

    Chinas objective is not simply to produce thosereactors, but to guarantee itself the intellectualproperty rights linked to the implementation of this technology. Commercially, China is movingto outpace everyone else. Although in the UnitedStates, Canada, England and France, a modestawareness is gradually taking shape among re-searchers, to this day, the Chinese program is themost important national initiative concerning an

    industry that will permit, not only the creation of medical isotopes but also the production of hy-drogen for fuel cells and the mass desalination of