Boudewijn Wegerif died of cancer a year ago. But the Boudewijn Folder on my hard-drive remains a gold-mine of information from several years of What Matters Newsletters. About six months ago I began sorting my Boudewijn Files into a Boudewijn Dossier for a Five-Years-On fringe meeting at the Radical Consultation on Gold & Derivatives & Nine Eleven. I led with a quote from a US Financial Conspiracies website that went like this.

‘Devvy Kidd says eSpeed provides electronic trading services in derivatives and commodities using TreasuryConnect bought from an Enron subsidiary and licensed on August 1, 2001 to a subsidiary of BNP Paribas…the UN oil-for-food broker. By September 11, 2001 BNP Paribas had a network of 70 global trade centers operating 24/7. Their only real competition was Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed in One World Trade Center. By hitting the 89th floor, al-Qaeda’s first-time pilot hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 managed to miss the Buttonwood Global Custodians’ offices on the 79th floor below while killing all of their Cantor-eSpeed competitors on the 101st floor and above.’

Here are the contents of my Boudewijn Dossier: Good Money; National Economic Stabilization & Recovery Act (NESARA); Norway’s Cheap Gold; 2001 Diary of Dollar & Gold Related Events in Russia; The Derivatives Monster by Adam Hamilton; America’s Missing Gold; Gold & Nine Eleven and Derivatives Electronic Trading…to be posted on the web when I next have good access…my present 5-hours a week is just enough to post blogs and check emails.

One of my worries about Boudewijn was his use of Economic Intelligence Review as a reliable source. Behind EIR is Lyndon LaRouche and his British Royal Family conspiracy theories. Back in my Center for Conspiracy Studies days I had studied LaRouche and his writings. The German economist Friedrich List could do no wrong in LaRouche’s eyes and since China has gone with List’s Theories and ignored the Anglo-Saxons it seems he was on the right track.

But once in the wilder hinterlands of LaRouchian Thought he becomes less convincing. The LaRouche Conspiracy Theories are classics of their genre. Everything connects to everything else. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are behind all the evil in the world while truth and beauty flow from Friedrich Schiller.

Typical of a LaRouche Rant is this on the Goldsmith Dynasty under the headline: Thatcherites Host Leader of Chechnya…in the International Intelligence section of Economic Intelligence Review on 10th April 1998 (Vol 25 No 15). I featured LaRouche’s remarks on the Goldsmiths in Chapter Eight of my unpublished May 1998 draft of The Little Euro Book.

'Between March 9 and 13, the President of the breakaway Russian Republic of Chechnya, Alsam Mashadov, was in London on a visit hosted by friends of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The firm which handled the visit was Robertson & Associates, Thatcher's public relations firm.

The official host was Lord McAlpine of West Green, chairman of the Referendum Movement, created and financed by the late Jimmy Goldsmith. Lord McAlpine was chief fundraiser of the Conservative Party during the Thatcher Years and is a controller of the British-steered Chechen insurgency. Another host was Conservative Member of Parliament Michael Howarth who had been Thatcher's private parliamentary secretary when she was Prime Minister. Howarth has close ties to the British Armaments Industry. Another host was Imran Khan the Pakistani cricketer married to Jimmy Goldsmith's daughter.

During his visit Mashadov had speaking engagements at the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House and the Royal United Services Institute. He also spoke before a group of British Islamic Community Leaders, organized by Imran Khan at the Royal Commonwealth Institute, and toured the British Parliament, Oxford University and the London Stock Exchange.

Mashadov, who doesn't enjoy any official diplomatic status, visited the Imperial War Museum where he was saluted by the officers and men of the Honourable Artillery Company and met the museum's chairman, Field Marshall Lord Bramall, the Lord Lieutenant of London. Last but not least he dined with Margaret Thatcher, whose son is very much involved in oil deals in the Transcaucasus.' Gosh! Wow! ‘n Cripes!

Back in 1980 I drew up two lists from the EIR Hitler Book. LaRouche approved of Plato; Athens; Solon; Socrates; Jesus; St. Augustine; Benjamin Franklin; Hamilton; Carey; Nicloaus of Cusa; Leibnitz; Riemann; Cantor; Klein; The Göttingen School; Stein; Humboldt; Scharhurst; Monge; Carnot; Mozart; Beethoven; Schumann; Schubert; Brahms; The Weimar Classics; The Renaissance; Armin Mohler; Ernst Niekisch; Aksakovs: Niehbuhr; Sorel; Barres; Moeller van den Bricke; Lagarde; Langbetin; Jacques Necker; Canehy; LaPlace; Aud de la Garde and Von Kettler. Not being well-versed in European Cultural History some of these names mean little to me…but others will know them.

Here are his Bad Guys: Sparta; Lycurgus; The Dark Ages; Dionysus; Jesuit Pluralism; Malthus; Tories; Cartesian; East India Company; Robespierre; Danton; Marat; Napoleon; Wolf; Wagner; Rousseau; Hjalmar Schact; IMF; Eastern Establishment; Evola; Pareto; Spengler; Max Weber; Trilateral Commission; Club of Rome; German Greens; Savigny; Hegel; Dostoyevsky; Marilyn Ferguson; Anthroposophy; Nietzsche; Schopenhauer; Lord Carrington; Kissinger; Genscher; Andreotti. Notable by their absence from The Hitler Book were Aristotle; Aquinas; Jefferson; Paine; Kant; Coleridge and Emerson. Aristotle & Aquinas are probably Good Guys…and the others the Baddies.