- RUSSIA MAKES CRUCIAL DECISON TO BUILD KEY LINK -                   

- IN EURASIAN LAND BRIDGE -           

While Tinny Blair was in Moscow on Oct. 4 peddling his Made-In-London factoids, the Russian Cabinet held a meeting, after which it was announced at a press conference that Russia is determined to build a railway line across the Nevelsky Strait linking the mainland to the Island of Sakhalin. This was announced by the Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, German Oskarovich Gref, who is otherwise a neo-liberal. Gref pointed out that this decision has "geostrategic and geopolitical implications." Gref stressed that the project can only be economically effective, if Sakhalin is subsequently linked to Hokkaido in cooperation with Japan. Gref also emphasized that they would calculate the potential amount of freight and passenger carriage between the island and the mainland from the standpoint of the possibilities of using the Trans-Siberian railway "in the Eurasian transportation corridor."           

When Gref left, the press conference was continued by the Minister of Railroads Nikolai Yemelyanovich Aksyonenko, who was asked if there are any agreements with private investors to fund the project. Aksyonenko responded that, although he did not rule out private participation, the project was not considered for financing by private investors, because it is an infrastructural project. Contrary to Gref, Aksyonenko emphasized that the project would not depend upon private financing from Japan, because the project is in the interest of Russia. "It would simply be unforgivable not to take advantage of Russia's geographical position and to deprive the industry of utilizing its potential and taking advantage of the services of Russian, not foreign, transportation."          

Looking ahead longer than five years, Aksyonenko said, this is a very important strategic project. "It is a transport corridor that will link up with Europe." He continued: "We see the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region, we see the 6 million containers that travel from Europe to Asia and we see that Russia is left out of it, in terms of transportation."           

Aksyonenko noted that he was not the originator of the idea of this project, but rather it was conceived by "some smart people."           

Remember that while Putin was in Berlin, where he addressed the Bundestag in terms which reflected Lyndon LaRouche's policies, a Russian deputy minister of railways was in Vienna to present Russia's vision of Eurasian Transport Corridor development.           

Today's developments continue to reflect the impact of Lyn's ideas on leading Russians. Not only does the Russian decision to proceed with this project reflect Lyn's policies, but the thinking expressed by Aksyonenko, in particular, reflects Lyn's methodological thinking in respect to the importance of and national responsibility for infrastructure development, and the necessity of thinking in terms of long-term cycles of investment in physical economy.           

On the other hand, reflecting a totally different way of thinking, we have received a copy of the document, in which General Lyman Lemnitzer, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962, proposed launching a war of terrorism against the U.S. in order to trick the American public into supporting a war against Cuba. This document, which was released by the National Archives at the direction of the Clinton-appointed Assassination Document Review Board is authentic. What this document indicates is the "way of thinking" or mind-set, of which one should take note, in connection with the September 11 events and the ongoing threat of a coup d'etat in the U.S. today.