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September 16, 2007 (LPAC)—-On Sept. 15 and 16, in the town of Kiedrich, Germany, an extraordinary conference, sponsored by the Schiller Institute commenced, with 350 attendees from 40 different countries, to discuss the urgent measures needed to overcome the global financial crisis and avert a new dark age. In addition to Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the agenda included prominent speakers from around the world, including an impressive delegation of Russian intellectual leaders. Over the coming days, LPAC will be providing reports and transcripts of this conference. To get an overview, here is the agenda that was published for participants as the conference began.

Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007

Music

Introduction
Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Keynote
Lyndon LaRouche: "This Present World Financial Crisis"

Discussion

Panel II: Russia - Eurasia 's Keystone Nation

LaRouche Youth Movement: Johann Sebastian Bach, "Jesu meine Freude"

Prof. Stanislav Menshikov: "Industrial Policy and Political Climate in Russia for the Land Bridge Project"

Victor Razbegin, Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS) of the Russian Federation Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the Russian Academy of Sciences: "The Eurasia - North America Multimodal Intercontinental Connection: Key Link in the World Transport System"

Dr. Sergei Cherkasov and Academician Dmitri Rundqvist, Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences: "Infrastructure Corridors in Russia - Pros and Cons: A Raw Materials Approach"

Svobodny Cosmodrome: "Potential Space Industry Cluster and Development Corridor in Russia's Amur Region" Author: Yuri Krupnov, Director of the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development, Presented by: Ilnur Batyrshin, World Development Network Youth Chapter, Kazan, Russia

Panel III: Projects for the Eurasian Landbridge

Hal Cooper, consulting engineer, Cooper Engineering : "The Worldwide Strategic Importance of the Intercontinental Rail Corridor Connections between the Eurasian and North American Landbridges"

Dr. Markku Heiskanen, Senior Fellow at the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, former Deputy Director of Planning of the Foreign Ministry of Finland: "Scandinavia and the Eurasian Landbridge"

Dr. Nino Galloni: Economist, Italy: "The Sicily-Tunisia Tunnel and the Extension of the Eurasian Landbridge into Africa "

Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007

LaRouche Youth Movement: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Ave verum"

Keynote
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: "The New Cultural Renaissance in the Coming Age of Reason"

Technologies to Reconstruct the World

Prof. Pirouz Moitahed-Zadeh, Dept. of Political Geography, Tehran University, and chairman, Urozevic Foundation, London : "The Iranian Nuclear Program"

Dr. Steven Dean, Fusion Power Associates: "Fusion Power"

Prof. Ahmed Kedidi, Doha University, Qatar : "The Development of the Gulf and Maghreb Countries"

Dr. Holger Beckmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: "Automatischer Güterverkehr im Untergrund, ein verkehrstechnisches Zukunftsszenario"

Pierre Chiquet, founder of the space centers of Betrigny, Toulouse and the rocket launching platform of Kourou: "Great Projects and High Technology: Rediscovering the Voluntarism of the Postwar reconstruction Period"

Rebuilding Civilization

Amelia Boynton Robinson: "Civil Rights for all People of the Planet"

Jacques Cheminade: "Beyond the Eurasian Landbridge: The Cultural Paradigm of the Millenium to Come"

Report on the work of the LaRouche Youth Movement