Lyndon LaRouche's Keynote Address

"Now, to situate the current situation—Gore's only a minor part of it—we're now gripped by the greatest financial collapse globally in modern world history. It's under way. It's like a landslide. It's coming on: It's started; it's not going to stop.

Now, these are not mechanical events. You can not predict a date of a depression generally, and this is worse than a depression; this is a breakdown crisis. Because there are many factors of human will which can intervene to change the date. But the condition under which a breakdown will occur, can be foreseen in a certain approximate time frame. We have now entered the time frame, where a general breakdown of the world financial-economic system is now inevitable."

That does not mean the situation's hopeless. It does mean that the situation's hopeless, unless , certain measures are taken to prevent the breakdown from continuing.

Now, the solution is to reorganize the planet, because we have a situation in which the entire international financial-monetary system is hopelessly bankrupt. There are, really, no independent banks left in the United States, for example, and a similar situation exists in Europe. The banking system of every part of the world, especially Europe and the Americas, is bankrupt.