The revived SDI, now known as Russia's Strategic Defense of Earth, is a strategic flank to the current threat of world war. But the implications go far beyond nuclear deterrence, and allows us to make positive scientific breakthroughs in cosmic phenomena in the large and in the very small.

In the first installment of the Basement Mail-Bag, host Ed Hamler and Basement member Peter Martinson answer questions that were E-mailed from our international audience. This week features questions on Arctic Development, the necessity to work with Russia on their Strategic Defense of Earth policy, and the role of creative life in the Universe.

On September 20-22, 1995, the Schiller Institute sponsored a series of seminars featuring Lyndon LaRouche's late close friend and collaborator Norbert Brainin, at the Dolná Krupá castle in Slovakia.

With the help of two young string quartets, the Moyzes Quartet from Bratislava and the Auer Quartet from Budapest, Brainin demonstrated the principles of Motivführung (motivic thorough-composition). As he explained in his opening remarks, this principle of Motivführung is "close to my heart; I've carried it around with me for a long time, and it never really resonated with anyone else; and the only person who immediately understood it, was Lyndon LaRouche."

In 1995 the Schiller Institute released video recordings of the entire event in a series of five videotapes. In 2010 John Sigerson, chair of the Schiller Institute in the U.S. re-released these videos, with English subtitles on the Schiller Institute website.

These videos are now re-released to an even broader audience on LaRouchePAC.com, in hopes that Mr. Brainin’s inspiring and passionate message shall reach the hearts and minds of those younger citizens of the world today who find themselves in a desperate crisis. For, as Lyndon LaRouche has said: “Classical music is the language of the human mind through which creativity speaks; physical-mathematical illustrations are a derivative of that power.”

The sessions contain some of the most advanced pedagogical demonstrations of the Beethoven's "Late String Quartets." In this dire time of crisis, and in the midst of the threat of war, LaRouchePAC-TV is re-releasing these videos here, to reach a wider audience and to bring Beethoven and Brainin's voices to the table for the discussion.

This video here is only a shortened montage from the seminar, for the full videos please visit: larouchepac.com/culture.

A performance of excerpts from Handel's "Messiah" presented by a chorus and soloists of LPAC political organizers during a public event in Boston on December 10, 2011 featuring two members of the national federal candidates slate, Rachel Brown and Diane Sare.

Mankind's evolutionary right to move into solar and galactic space is being denied by the Zeus-like policies of the Obama administration and therefore he must be impeached.

Over a planet steeped in the greatest financial collapse in modern history and perhaps even a greater geopolitical crisis, on Monday, October 24th, the continental United States was treated to a beautiful solar show when red auroras lit up the night time sky reaching as far south as the states of Texas and Alabama.