On the heels of LaRouche PAC's graphic description of "The British Empire's Concentration Camps" of youth mass unemployment, the May 5 New York Times "Outlook" section carried a report, "The Idled Young American," which confirms: "the United States has quietly surpassed much of Europe in the percentage of young adults without jobs."

On two occasions on Wednesday, in the morning homily and in the Wednesday general audience, Pope Francis denounced slave labor and unemployment as a sin.

The first step to destroying an entire people is to destroy its culture. Now the Troika has shown not only its bestiality but its pathetic ignorance. The Greek daily Kathimerini reported earlier this week the statements of an unnamed Troika official saying that Greece should give up its alphabet in order to save money.

Xi Jinping's first Africa stop was in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he met with Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete, signed 16 economic and trade deals, and made a major speech on African policy.

Chinese President Xi Jinping chose the China Academy of Space Technology as the venue to give a speech on Youth Day. Speaking to a group of young people from all walks of life, including space technology engineers, welders, and agricultural researchers, President Xi urged them to dare to dream, to fulfill their dreams, and to contribute to the revitalization of the nation.

Former Presidential candidate and LaRouche representative in France Jacques Cheminade opened the Sunday morning session of the Schiller Institute conference in Flörsheim, by pointing out to the audience that there is no "third way," that there is either the genocidal intentions of the British Empire, or the re-institution of Glass-Steagall and a credit system.

The Oregon Bach Festival "Digital Bach Project's new St. Matthew initiative" officially launched "on March 21 (Bach's Birthday) incorporates high definition video of conductor Helmuth Rilling's complete St. Matthew lecture-concerts; poetry, artwork, photography, and scholarship; and a line-by-line animation of the libretto available in 15 languages, set to Rilling's 1999 recording."

The all-day Schiller Institute conference in Sterling, Virginia, commemorating the 30th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's speech formally launching the Strategic Defense Initiative, ended with an inspiring evening concert.

In the several concluding pages of my March 11, 2013 “A New System Among Nations,” I had introduced certain essential elements which should now be considered as required reading. They are elements needed for an escape from the heretofore “standard” notion of what had been a widely accepted, but, is nonetheless, systemically wrong. The fault in that notion is, that it is, essentially, a reductionist’s popular misconception of the actually underlying principles of the human mind.