The New Government War On U.S. Gun Owners

Obama unilaterally signed 23 new executive orders effectively firing the opening salvo of a new federal government war on guns that affects all U.S. citizens.

Here is the Ruger Firearms free online advocacy form that makes it easy to send a letter to your political representatives: http://www.ruger.com/micros/advocacy/takeAction.html

Democrat politicians appear to have learned little from the uber-expensive war on drugs but, at least, that was a relatively moral war in comparison. This war immorally attacks our Bill of Rights only affecting otherwise law abiding citizens.

For actual criminals (not to be confused with good people bad laws have criminalized) will always have access to firearms in a nation and populace the size of ours even if they have to make them. Fully automatic firearms can be made from hardware store items. A shotgun can be made with a construction stapler and pipe. Even minors have made zip guns from old door knobs.

And though prohibition doesn't work on a non-island large land mass with a population the size of the USA (even uber-totalitarian China where statistics are greatly masked to present the PRC in the best possible light, all private ownership of firearms are strictly prohibited, and to commit a crime with a gun usually results in a swift death sentence has a serious rising gun violence problem), if it did, criminals can simply resort to other weapons or make IEDs and bombs instead.

The World Health Organization (WHO) 2012 'Inter-country Comparison of Mortality for Selected Cause of Death' European Detailed Mortality Database (DMDB) statistics show that Norway has a gun ownership rate many times that of the United Kingdom: yet Norway has a much lower gun murder rate than the United Kingdom has.

Many nations with far higher gun ownership rates have lower gun murder rates than the United Kingdom which has about the strictest gun control laws in the world and the United States doesn't list in the top ten countries by firearm-related death rate.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the state with the lowest gun murder rate in the United States is New Hampshire which has virtually no gun laws while states like Illinois have the highest gun murder rate and the toughest gun laws. See FBI Table 20 - '2011 Murder by State and Types of Weapons'

This new war on U.S. gun owners is going to cost American taxpayers plenty in a time of economic crisis. In addition to all of the expensive legal battles about to be waged, the annual cost of enforcement will be material.

Additionally, otherwise law abiding Americans are going to needlessly end up incarcerated in the now sprawling U.S. prison-industrial complex depriving the U.S. treasury of their tax revenue and forcing the remaining taxpayers to pay for their needless incarceration. The cost of this new federal government war on U.S. gun owners will be enormous both monetarily and socially if it successful.

And it will make law abiding citizens less safe. For the reality is that the law abiding citizenry will be ill-armed while criminal perpetrators of crime continue to be well armed.

A much better solution that would cost next to nothing and not violate the U.S. Constitution would be to scale back gun control for law abiding U.S. citizens, strengthen mental health care and improve the quality of data supporting NICs (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) checks, and allow adult U.S. citizens without a criminal record to apply for licensing to carry concealed after completing rigorous training and safety certification replete with on-going continuing education and their state's (not federal) oversight. We would begin to see the number of victims drop dramatically when these tragic situations present themselves.

The author attended gun shows for years in the 1980s and 1990s. Thousands of people walked around with semi-automatic firearms and ammo. Though the author does not drink alcohol, big 32 ounce cups of cold beer were sold at these events and not a single homicide ever occurred. Obviously, a gun show is the last place a perpetrator wants to start trouble... even a deranged or drunken one.

Over 110 million Americans passed through the Boy Scouts of America which offered gun safety and training classes using live ammunition. Millions of young people were mentored and trained in the proper use of firearms with their first firearm often coming from the government M1 carbine program. We were all safer for it.

Liberals who think that strict gun control in the U.S. will end these incidents (a couple of which have the signs of false flag events) are deceiving themselves and indirectly helping to create a situation where more innocents will suffer and have already suffered even as they very un-liberally attack the Bill of Rights and create an environment where people are afraid to disclose potential psychological issues to their doctors lest their 2nd amendment rights be nullified.

A case example of this is occurring in the City of San Bernardino, CA a city of over 213,000 residents. The greed of public employee unions combined with the weakness of elected politicians, who failed to negotiate fiscally conservative contracts for their constituents, has degraded the ability of San Bernardino government to police the city to the point where the city attorney has publicly told the law abiding residents to "lock their doors and load their guns" because violent crime has spiked 50% as illegally armed criminal street gangs roam the unpoliced neighborhoods.

President Obama and anti-gun right politicians are putting the lawful residents of San Bernardino, and many other cities across the nation at greater risk, by degrading their ability to defend themselves against criminals that don't abide the law in cities undergoing serious economic crisis. The primary reason gun free zones currently have the greatest gun violence is simply because law abiding citizens are unarmed in them and the criminals can operate almost at will.

Mexico has very strict gun control laws but Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) and National Public Safety System Executive Secretariat (SESNSP) report that Mexico has an average of 16,867 murders a year right now with 50% of them due to illegally armed criminal groups and that they increased 37% from 2006 to 2012 and continue to rise. Organizations external to the Mexican government claim the actual number may be double that. 

The 90 percent number bandied around by the press was derived from a flawed June 2009 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress on U.S. efforts to combat arms trafficking to Mexico.

There has clearly been a long and well-documented history of arms smuggling from the U.S., Central and South American countries, China which is the 2nd largest manufacturer of firearms in the world, and other countries which include South Korea, Israeli, and Russia and the eastern bloc; however, it is important to recognize that while the U.S. is a significant source for certain classes of weapons and ammunition the U.S. is not the primary source for the military grade weapons used by Mexican cartels and illegally armed crime groups in Mexico which account for 50% of all gun murder in Mexico. In fact, the Mexican government itself is reporting that only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S..

Mexico's population is just over 112 million or around a third of ours and has many more gun murderers per year than the U.S.. The primary reason for this is that citizens are unable to stop it because of Mexico's very strict gun control laws. Law abiding citizens in Mexico are just powerless victims unable to provide the necessary counterweight to stop what's happening in that country. 

Mexican criminal organizations have BIG plans for the U.S. in the coming years. They also have mucho experience in conducting operations amongst the poorly armed population in Mexico.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/02/mexican_drug_cartels_penetration_united_states

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/01/mexican-drug-cartels-reportedly-dispatching-agents-deep-inside-us/

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/09/mexico-el-chapo-guzman-emma-coronel-twins-lancaster-antelope-valley.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mexican-drug-cartels-recruiting-american-children-errands-easy-cash-report-article-1.964218

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-graphic-shows-what-mexican-cartels-and-drugs-come-to-your-town-2012-7

Of course we are all affected by the recent events for when one part of our country suffers, we all suffer. We are one nation. But sweeping federal gun control affecting law abiding citizens in a large nation like ours is going to create many new problems while not solving the ones intended.

It's going to be very expensive to enforce, needlessly turn many otherwise law abiding Americans into criminals (knowingly and unknowingly), divide us further, undermine our Constitutional rights, and not make us safer. But the uber-expensive new federal government war on U.S. gun owners and the Bill of Rights has begun by way of unilateral executive orders.

Read this 2007 study published in the liberal Harvard’s Journal of Public Law and Policy which shows that banning guns doesn't reduce the level of violence or the number of murders and suicides:

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

Here's the narrative of the study if you don't want to read it in it's entirety: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/08/30/harvard-gun-study-no-decrease-in-violence-with-ban/

Here are the FBI 2010 U.S. homicide statistics: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl03.xls

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there were 11,068 firearm homicides in the entire country in 2010 from a population of 308,745,538 people.

Though African-Americans comprise only 13.1% of the U.S. population, the number one demographic in the 11,068 murders were gang affiliated African-American males murdering other gang affiliated African-American males.

It doesn't make sense for the government to launch a costly unpopular unconstitutional needless war affecting more than three hundred million U.S. citizens because of a tiny criminal element in an otherwise law abiding relatively small demographic of a much larger law abiding population.

It doesn't make sense for the government to launch a costly unpopular and unconstitutional needless war putting more than three hundred million U.S. citizens at great risk because they are either completely disarmed when the rare deranged perpetrator or illegally armed criminal presents themselves.

It doesn't make sense for the government to launch a costly unpopular and unconstitutional needless war against U.S. citizens who need to protect themselves in bankrupt cities from criminals that will never follow gun laws.

Furthermore, the 2nd amendment has as much to do with a well armed citizenry as a check against government tyranny as it does self-defense.

Rather, the solution presented in this article should be implemented as it is inexpensive, workable, and Constitutional.

See: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/12/11/gun-crime-soars-in-england-where-guns-are-banned-n1464528

See: http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/2013/12/murder-and-homicide-rates-before-and-after-gun-bans/

Obama to Top Brass: Will you fire on American Citizens?



The looming effect Obama's secret UN treaties will have on Americans including their 2nd amendment by Dick Morris, a former Clinton Administration White House adviser:


Click The Link Below To Sign The Petition To Stop The U.S. From Signing The UN Arms Trade Treaty:

http://dickmorris.rallycongress.com/7175/gun-control/

Political Bullying:



California February 2013 Update: Despite already having some of the nation's strictest gun laws, Democrats in California have just proposed a sweeping list of bills to that include a ban on all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines, require all guns to be registered, forbid any ammunition to be purchased without a special permit in California, require confiscation of all registered assault weapons, require liability insurance, etc...

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22544460/californias-state-senate-democrats-roll-out-big-gun

According to the California Gun Attorney, California laws provide harsh penalties for mere possession of some firearms, accessories and ammunition. You can view the California Gun Attorney's list, as of February 2013, here and please read their disclaimers:

http://www.gunlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17

Since the California state assembly and state senate are controlled by the Democrats, many of these laws are expected to pass and Democrat Governor Jerry Brown to sign them into law.

This will criminalize millions of current law abiding gun owners if they decide their 2nd amendment rights have been violated by the state of California and simply refuse to comply with the new laws.

Actual criminal perpetrators of crime do not follow gun laws so this legislation will only affect the good citizens of the state.

The new laws will be challenged in the courts all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.

In the meantime, it is expected that a great many good citizens of California will likely be imprisoned for long periods of time for, knowingly or unknowingly, failing to comply with Democrat draconian gun control legislation which is already about the strictest in the nation.

Citizens that become aware of the new legislation and comply will see their ability to defend themselves and their families against criminals dramatically reduced.

It should be noted that gun deaths and injuries have sharply dropped in California even as the number of guns sold in the state has risen according to recent state data.

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/12/27/5079151/california-gun-sales-increase.html#storylink=cpy

California prisons are past the point of saturation. The state is pushing tens of thousands of prisoners into the jail systems toward early release. They are currently reviewing 1,000 three-strike life sentences to see how many they can release back into society. The primary reason for this is budgetary.... they simply cannot afford to incarcerate so many people.

With gun crime down, despite gun ownership up, and serious budgetary problems to such an extent the state of California can no longer afford to house large numbers of new prisoners at growth rates they have in the past, one wonders why the Democrat controlled state government is so insistent on criminalizing potentially millions of its state's good citizen taxpayers (the vast majority whom have never been in any trouble with the law) on faulty new unconstitutional gun control laws when they already have some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation and obviously can't afford to expand their sprawling system of incarceration.

The Democrat controlled legislature and Governor are attempting to heap gun control requirements upon the good citizens of California to disarm as many as they can and make paper criminals out of good citizens whom are not in full compliance with the enormous unnecessary bureaucracy the Democratic legislature and Governor are imposing on them.

Here is the massive list of gun control legislation currently before the state legislature, please support and oppose as follows:

California State Legislation:
 Oppose       AB 48                  AMMO SALES RESTRICTIONS
 Support       AB 134                  CCW PRIVACY
 Oppose       AB 169                  LEO EXEMPTION PROHIBITION
 Oppose       AB 170                  ASSAULT WEAPONS 'PERSON' REDEFINITION
 Oppose       AB 174                  REPEAL OF WEAPONS EXEMPTIONS
 Oppose       AB 180                  AMMO SALES TAX
 Oppose       AB 187                  AMMO SALES TAX (duplicate)

 Oppose       AB 231                  GUN-OWNER LIABILITY INSURANCE
 Oppose       AB 232                  TAX CREDIT FOR SURRENDERING FIREARMS
 Oppose       AJR 5                  FED. ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN
 Oppose       SB 47                  ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN
 Oppose       SB 53                  AMMO PURCHASE PERMITS
 Oppose       SB 108                  FIREARMS LENDING/STORAGE RESTRICTIONS


Federal Legislation:
 Oppose       SJR 1                   FED. GUN CONTROL

Keep An Eye On This Legislation:
 Watch       AB 202                  SCHOOL MARSHAL PROGRAM
 Watch       SB 127                  MENTAL HEALTH PROHIBITIONS

Find and contact your state representatives using this form:
http://www.gunownersca.com/legislation/contactelectedofficialsmenu

We're counting on you, the law abiding citizen, to protect your own 2nd amendment right!

January 2014 Sidenote: On a side note, the Journal of Crime & Delinquency just published research results from a study stating that "Almost half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males are arrested in the United States by the time they are 23 years old" for something other than a minor traffic violation.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-49-black-men-38-white-men-arrested-by-age-23/

We live in a nation that warehouses large numbers of Americans in prison industrial complexes and farms out their labor to corporations to make the state money. Many of them are not there for real crime but rather stumbled over some bureaucratic boundary that used to be legal or a relatively minor legal matter just a few decades ago. The over criminalization of everyday Americans not committing crimes of violence or property has resulted in massive waves of arrests across the country.

Here's an example of a semi-retired moral family all-American gardener who sold a harmless orchid and went to federal prison for it while paying most of his retirement money out in legal defense fees:

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/September/Orchid-Kingpin-Mistake-Lands-Elderly-Gardener-in-Prison/

For decades, Washington has been adding to the number of federal laws and regulations that carry criminal penalties. Now the number is so high, no one is actually sure how many there are.

Experts say practically anyone could be convicted of some sort of federal crime. And it’s all too easy for anyone to violate one of these laws and never know it. One congressman stated in the CBN article above that, “We have made it dangerous just to be alive in America.”

Adding complexity, state and localities have followed suit placing their own paper criminal burden on everyday Americans.

And the left has been so busy painting everyone as morally blighted that doesn't endorse the sexually immoral behaviors they choose to engage in that they have both abandoned building moral nuclear families in the U.S. and attacked pro-family organizations which are!

The result has been the erosion and rapid decline of morality and the family which, of course, has greatly exacerbated the problem of gangs, drugs, sexual immorality, youth rebellion, etc... and driven up the incarceration of young people. These are the subjects of the study and if this study is accurate: their rate of arrest is astronomical!

According to the FBI, in 2011 there were 3991.1 arrests for every 100,000 people living in America. That means over the course of a single year, one in 25 Americans was arrested.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/persons-arrested/persons-arrested

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/one-in-25-americans-was-a_n_3720526.html

Congress began an 'Over-criminalization Task Force Hearing' on the problem but nothing seemed to ever come from it so the wave of arrests of moral everyday Americans over issues they shouldn't be arrested for (not to be confused with arresting actual criminals that threaten others and the national interest that should be arrested) continues unhindered and unabated.

http://judiciary.house.gov/news/2013/Statement%2006142013.html

The U.S. Labor Market and Household Income Continue To Worsen

From 2001 to 2010, U.S. median household income fell from $72,956 to $69,487. Now this is nominal dollars which magnifies the fall in household income for $72,956 in 2001 would be worth $89,996 in 2010 after adjusting for inflation as per the consumer price index (CPI).

The U.S. median household net worth, which is the value of assets minus debt, dropped from $129,582 to $93,150 over the same 10-year period. Again, this is in nominal dollars and $129,582 in 2001 would be $159,848 in 2010 after ajusting for inflation as per the consumer price index (CPI) (1).

(1) http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/08/22/the-lost-decade-of-the-middle-class/#chapter-1-overview

The results of the 2011 American Community Survey (ACS), released by the U.S. Census Bureau, show that between 2010 and 2011, inflation-adjusted median household income either fell or stayed the same in every state except Vermont and that the distribution of income became more inequitable (2).

Worse yet, a new 2012 study from Sentier Research shows that U.S. median household income has continued to fall since the "end" of the Great Recession stating, "almost every group is worse off now than it was three years ago" (3).

Also declining were U.S. real wages (4) and the U.S. middle class (5).

(2) http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb12-175.html

(3) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/us-annual-income-recovery-recession_n_1828127.html

(4) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/us-incomes-falling-as-optimism-reaches-10-year-low_n_1022118.html

(5) http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2012/08/pew-social-trends-lost-decade-of-the-middle-class.pdf

One of the social impacts of this has been that the wealthy are increasingly segregating themselves from their less fortunate neighbors as this August, 2012 Pew Reasearch report titled 'The Rise of Residential Segregation by Income' reveals (6).

(6) http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/08/01/the-rise-of-residential-segregation-by-income/

Job growth for U.S. citizens became scarcer too. Domestic job creation is now well below what is needed even to meet new entrants to the labor market with the labor force participation rate at 63.5%, which is the lowest share of Americans over age 16 in the workforce since September 1981. As the Wall Street Journal stated, "That's going way backward!" (7).

(7) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443819404577637653650025944.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Complicating this dismal domestic labor market are statistics showing that in some areas of the country what domestic job creation there is has been increasingly going to immigrants both legal and illegal. Pew reported that in the second quarter of 2010, American citizens lost more than a million jobs while foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs (11). A Center For Immigration Studies (CIS) report showed that of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal) (8a).

A November, 2012 CIS report titled 'Who Got Jobs During the Obama Presidency? Native and Immigrant Employment Growth, 2009 to 2012' reveals that, "Since President Obama took office, 67 percent of employment growth has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal)" (8b).

(8a) http://cis.org/immigrants-filled-most-new-jobs-in-Texas
(8b) http://cis.org/who-got-jobs-during-obama-presidency

Despite much of the new job growth now bypassing U.S. natural born citizens, the large influx of immigrants is one of the reasons (in addition to high U6 unemployment, a decrease in real wages, the nation's broken trade paradigm, failure to protect intellectual property and trade secrets from foreign nations to wield for an economic domestic competitive advantage, etc...) for the dramatically increased size of the nation’s low-income population, (9) their resulting dependence on welfare, (10) and their growing reliance on unreported untaxed income (11).

(9) http://cis.org/2012-profile-of-americas-foreign-born-population

(10) http://www.cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011

(11) http://cis.org/kammer/informal-economy

In the past, the U.S. simply absorbed the influx of foreign immigrants because U.S. businesses were booming and U.S. businesses used domestic labor almost exclusively. Free trade has changed that and now we simply don't have the jobs anymore. With demand for labor way way down and the supply of labor way way up, compensation for labor has also fallen. So there are fewer jobs and lower compensation and they are increasingly going to immigrants (both legal and illegal) who are creating immigrant networks that almost always hire other immigrants.

Except for the holiday Q4 temporary turn-around that occurs each year, all of these problems are getting worse over time not better.

Charitable donations have been seriously impacted (12), suicide rates are up (13), and the number of people who have fallen at least 12 months behind in student loan payments has risen by about a third over the last five years. Nearly one in every six borrowers with a student loan balance is currently in default (14).

(12) http://www.barna.org/donorscause-articles/571-the-economy-continues-to-squeeze-americans-charitable-giving

(13) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/suicide-rates-rise-in-u-s-as-economy-declines-cdc-study-finds.html

(14) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/business/once-a-student-now-dogged-by-collection-agencies.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Furthermore, the U.S. deficit for 2012 is the highest on record (after the supposed end of the Great Recession) at $1.327 trillion usd (15) and inflation is occurring.

Note that U.S. military spending for 2011 is the highest on record (after the end of the Iraq War) at almost $712 billion usd (16) though the Office of Management and Budget (17) revealed that U.S. military spending for 2012 decreased a few billion dollars to almost $706 billion from its high of almost $712 billion in 2011. It should be noted; however, that the Obama administration has predicted in the 'President's Budget' that U.S. military spending overall will rise again in 2013 and 2014 primarily due to defense-related debt interest. Wikipedia explains 2012 military expenditures in layperson's terms (18).

(15) http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action?packageId=BUDGET-2012-BUD

(16) http://www.sipri.org/databases/milex

(17) http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/

(18) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States#Budget_breakdown_for_2012

Finally, primarily due to the state's enormous population, it's said that "as California goes: there goes the nation."

From the mid-1980s to 2005, California's population grew by 10 million, while Medicaid recipients soared by seven million; tax filers paying income taxes rose by just 150,000; and the prison population swelled by 115,000 (19).

(19) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304537904577277242682364690.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

But it is the next couple of decades that will see the absolute decline of the U.S. economy in the world according to a recent Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report which states:

"On the basis of 2005 purchasing power parities (PPPs), China is projected to surpass the Euro Area in a year or so and the United States in a few more years, to become the largest economy in the world, and India is projected to surpass Japan in the next year or two and the Euro area in about 20 years" (20).

(20) http://www.oecd.org/economy/economicoutlookanalysisandforecasts/lookingto2060.htm

VIEW BONUS VIDEO: THE FLAW:

David Sington's documentary THE FLAW takes an in-depth look at how the credit bubble hastened the economic crash and is a documentary about the causes of the financial crisis, directed by David Sington, which splices the thoughts of economists such as Robert Shiller and Joseph Stiglitz with the testimony of participants in the housing market and some entertaining cartoons and archive clips. It takes its title from the testimony of Alan Greenspan to Congress in which he admitted to a flaw in his reasoning.

Wiki Leaks Details Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations

Thanks to leaked documents, we now know some of the undesirable details of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations being conducted away from the public arena and most don't pertain to trade!



Rather, TPP would impose a system of binding global governance over our federal and state laws and courts. We would be obliged to conform our domestic policies on land use, food safety, financial regulation, foreign ownership, patents and copyright, and more to TPP's terms.

Failure to do so would result in trade sanctions and/or obligations to compensate foreign firms with our tax dollars - penalties imposed by foreign tribunals. We now know the following:

• Offshoring Incentives: TPP has the investor protections also found in NAFTA that help corporations offshore jobs by removing many of the risks associated with relocating to low-wage nations. The U.S. has lost more than 5 million (1 out of 4) of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA and the global WTO went into effect. This will mean a loss of many more American jobs.

• Ban on "Buy American": Any firm operating in a TPP signatory nation would get privileged access to U.S. procurement contracts paid with our tax dollars! TPP would send our taxpayer money offshore, rather than recycling it here to create American jobs. "Buy American" would be penalized if not made outright criminal.

• U.S. Submitted to Jurisdiction of Foreign Tribunals: TPP would expand the notorious "investor-state" system, subjecting the U.S. to the jurisdiction of World Bank and U.N. tribunals. The tribunals would be empowered to order payment of our tax dollars to foreign corporations operating within the U.S. if they object to complying with the same laws that apply to U.S. firms.

• More Financial Instability: TPP would forbid bans on risky financial products or services while making measures to reduce systemic risk, such as capital controls, illegal.

• Higher Medicine Prices: Big PhRMA would get new privileges to raise drug prices.

Etc...

TPP secrets: Obama covertly handing more power to corporations



Interestingly, New Scientist published a study conducted by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich which combined the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world's transnational corporations (TNCs).

What they discovered analyzing the relationships between the 43,000 largest transnational corporations on earth was that 147 organizations, mainly banks, wielded a disproportionate power over the global economy.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html

Forbes explained the size of these 147 companies is simply a reflection of the way most people invest in the public markets; however, allowing the world financial system to be dominated by a relatively few firms is obvious: when they go broke they take everyone else with them, as we have already witnessed.

Another problem is that they wield enormous power over governments and can end up dictating and oppressing the populations and small businesses (e.g. their competitors) of entire nations effectively becoming the "iron hand in the velvet glove" over not only our jobs, income, and property but also our government, rule of law, etc...

It is by leveraging our own government, that they have created a trade and business paradigm by which they displace our U.S. middle class into the ranks of the poor acquiring their income, wealth, and property in the process. The TPP is simply the next logical step for them to take.

It should also be noted that the Commerce Clause of our Constitution is an enumerated power listed in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 which states that the United States Congress shall have power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."

Obama is currently "freelancing" the executive branch to push through a secret treaty to regulate commerce in the United States that allows for foreign corporations operating in the US to appeal regulations to an international tribunal that could over rule American laws. This is a secret backdoor strategy and it's completely out of line.

Also:
1. Visit 'Economy In Crisis' at http://www.economyincrisis.org for more information.

2. Enter your zip code at the Electronic Frontier Foundation to tell your representatives you want "to bring transparency to the TPPs agreement and ensure that the TPP text reflects the interests of all U.S. industries and citizens."

China Stealing USA Technology and Secrets

WASHINGTON – "China has accelerated computer espionage attacks on the U.S. government, defense contractors and American businesses, a congressional advisory panel said Thursday.

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission also said in its annual report to lawmakers that aggressive Chinese space programs are allowing Beijing to more effectively target U.S. military forces.

"China is stealing vast amounts of sensitive information from U.S. computer networks," said Larry Wortzel, chairman of the commission set up by Congress in 2000 to advise, investigate and report on U.S.-China issues.

The commission of six Democrats and six Republicans said in the unanimously approved report that China's massive military modernization and its "impressive but disturbing" space and computer warfare capabilities "suggest China is intent on expanding its sphere of control even at the expense of its Asian neighbors and the United States."

The commission recommended that lawmakers provide money for U.S. government programs that would monitor and protect computer networks.

Messages left with the Chinese Embassy in Washington were not immediately returned.

But officials in Beijing have responded to past reports of this kind by saying that China does not try to undermine other countries' interests and seeks strong ties with the United States.

The report comes two months before President-elect Barack Obama takes office. The Democratic Obama administration probably will continue the Republican Bush administration's efforts to work with and encourage China, a veto-holding member of the U.N. Security Council that the United States needs in nuclear confrontations with Iran and North Korea.

During the campaign for president, then-candidate Obama said that "China is rising, and it's not going away," adding that Beijing is "neither our enemy nor our friend; they're competitors."

In the commission's report, military strategist Wang Huacheng is quoted as calling U.S. dependence on space assets and information technology its "soft ribs."

China's space program is "steadily increasing the vulnerability of U.S. assets," the report said. For instance, improvements in satellite imagery allow China to locate U.S. carrier battle groups more accurately, faster and from farther away.

People's Liberation Army officer and author Cai Fengzhen is quoted as saying that the "area above ground, airspace and outer space are inseparable and integrated. They are the strategic commanding height of modern informationalized warfare."

"If this becomes Chinese policy," the report said, "it could set the stage for conflict with the United States and other nations that expect the right of passage for their spacecraft."

The commission also criticized China for violating commitments to avoid trade-distorting measures, adopting new laws that may restrict foreign access to China's markets and keeping its currency undervalued.

It recommended that Congress enact legislation to respond to China's currency manipulation and create enforceable disclosure requirements on investments in the United States for foreign sovereign wealth funds and other foreign state-controlled companies." - Foster Klug

It is really important for Americans to understand that China is run by seven men via a single political party. They have allowed a degree of openness to accomplish political, economic, and military objectives and this openness is expected to continue into the foreseeable future.

However, they have both stated and shown that they are going to keep things as they are and not transition into a republic, democracy, or any other different form of government. Both the "soothing scenario of gradual change" and the "upheaval scenario of sudden change" are patently false.

Each time the people have dared to agitate for a change of government (the best known example was in Tienanmen Square), the response was to send in the military, law enforcement, and secret police organs and violently put down the challenge with finality (even farmer protests were violently squashed with much loss of life and long prison terms).

This government once democided up to 70 million of their own people (under Mao) and if it ever becomes necessary, the 'Council of 7' that control all of China and ultimately all of China's interests around the world will do so again. They are seeking to transform China into the most powerful country in the world, but under their control and form of government.

Americans shouldn't deceive themselves otherwise.

China has made industrial espionage an integral part of its economic policy, stealing company secrets to help it leapfrog over U.S. and other foreign competitors to further its goal of becoming the world’s largest economy, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a report released last month.

“What has been happening over the course of the last five years is that China has been hacking its way into every corporation it can find listed in Dun & Bradstreet,” said Richard Clarke, former special adviser on cybersecurity to U.S. President George W. Bush, at an October conference on network security. “Every corporation in the U.S., every corporation in Asia, every corporation in Germany. And using a vacuum cleaner to suck data out in terabytes and petabytes. I don’t think you can overstate the damage to this country that has already been done.”

While a precise dollar figure for damage is elusive, the overall magnitude of the attacks is not, Borg said.

“We’re talking about stealing entire industries,” he said. “This may be the biggest transfer of wealth in a short period of time that the world has ever seen.”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-22/china-based-hacking-of-760-companies-shows-cyber-cold-war.html

Chinese `stole all nuclear secrets' - Espionage: Devastating report reveals that for 20 years Peking agents stripped America of weapons technology.

^ Explains how China skipped decades of R&D leaping from AK-47s and WWII Soviet tanks to stealth bombers and plans for a space station. Now that they are up-to-date, China has announced double-digit increases to their military budget to put it into production the technology they "acquired."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/chinese-stole-all-nuclear-secrets-1096016.html

For more than a year, hackers with ties to the Chinese military have been eavesdropping on U.S. Chamber of Commerce officials involved in Asia affairs, authorities say. The hackers had access to everything in Chamber computers, including, potentially, the entire U.S. trade policy playbook.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/chinese-hack-us-chamber-commerce-authorities/story?id=15207642

Death By China



Update: China announces double-digit increase in military spending and has begun buying sensitive U.S. companies and now U.S. banks at a record pace.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/china-announces-double-digit-increase-defense-budget.html

The State Grid Corporation of China and China Southern Power Grid Corporation are state owned and supposedly ran on behalf and for the benefit of the Chinese people, China being a Communist country. But the reality is that massive graft and corruption exists throughout the Chinese bureaucracy, exactly like existed in the Soviet Union and presently exists in every single communist nation in the world.

Disturbingly, the SGCC/SPGC is a for-profit arm of the Chinese state actively buying ownership of Western country's power grids all over the world. Chinese spy organs operate within the SGCC/SPGC. The latter means that Western nations currently allow China to buy ownership of their nation's power companies and control them while spying on them. The ramifications of this should be obvious.

President Obama is now looking to transfer increasing ownership of U.S. natural energy resources to China as payment for the enormous U.S. Treasury debt to China. Obama is exacerbating U.S. debt to China to bring this about as he idolizes Communist China and wants to see the U.S. progress toward Chinese Marxism.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-lets-chinese-own-u-s-energy-resources/
 
Update 2013: Deep and wide massive spying in the U.S. by Chinese spies with American citizenship embedded in our nation. The latest sampling:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/los-alamos-nuclear-weapons-lab-removes-chinese-tech-over-spying/

http://www.bnd.com/2013/01/26/2472543/2-chinese-men-admit-corporate.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/are-chinas-journalists-spying-on-us/267098/

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/010413-could-china-blocking-vpns-lead-265489.html

Officials say Chinese spies have targeted every sector of the U.S. economy:

http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/11/14369266-officials-say-chinese-spies-have-targeted-every-sector-of-the-us-economy?lite

American Universities completely infected by Chinese spies:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-08/american-universities-infected-by-foreign-spies-detected-by-fbi

New report shows China embedding spies into the U.S. as naturalized citizens and they are being charged and convicted of serious national security crimes — including terrorism, espionage, and theft of sensitive information and technology at increasing rates despite lax attention paid to national security suggesting their numbers are growing: http://www.cis.org/Upholding-the-Value-of-Our-Citizenship-Threats-Should-Be-DeNaturalized

Expect Chinese spies who have American citizenship to begin embedding ever more deeply in government and possibly running for political office in the U.S..

A report tying the Chinese military to computer attacks against American interests has sent a chill through cyber-security experts, who worry that the very lifelines of the United States — its energy pipelines, its water supply, its banks — are increasingly at risk: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/19/17019005-successful-hacker-attack-could-cripple-us-infrastructure-experts-say?lite



A new intelligence assessment has concluded that the United States is the target of a massive, sustained cyber-espionage campaign that is threatening the country’s economic competitiveness, according to individuals familiar with the report: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-10/world/37026024_1_cyber-espionage-national-counterintelligence-executive-trade-secrets



April 2014 update:

1. FBI “Game of Pawns” video produced by the FBI to warn students studying abroad against being lured into espionage:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606485/Game-Pawns-FBI-issues-warning-U-S-students-studying-abroad-avoid-targeted-foreign-governments-potential-spies.html

2.  A government handbook on intelligence states that 98 percent of the people that China targets for espionage are Chinese-Americans, and warns that ethnic solidarity is the main recruitment tool: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1130/p01s01-usfp.html

3. US government unclassified Intelligence Threat Handbook asserts that the many recent arrests of Chinese-Americans for spying on behalf of China “are just the tip of the iceberg of an already-large and increasingly capable PRC [Peoples Republic of China] intelligence effort.”

http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/handbook/

China and Democracy?

Since the victory of Mao Ze-dong's communist forces in 1949, the Chinese mainland has been ruled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Although other minor political parties exist, they are authorized by the CCP to operate under their leadership and are effectively powerless. No independently organized and established political organs are tolerated in the People's Republic of China (PRC). In China the CCP runs the PRC.

So who runs the CCP? It is really important for Americans to understand that China is run by twenty-four people who comprise the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Standing Committee (CPCCCPBSC). The CPCCCPBSC is self-perpetuating (e.g. non-democratic) and meet weekly. Decisions are made by consensus not majority vote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China

Your interests and my interests are of no concern to them. Only their own interests are. They have allowed a degree of openness to accomplish political, economic, and military objectives and this openness is expected to continue as long as it enriches and empowers them.

They fully intend to keep things as they are and not transition into a republic, democracy, or any other different form of government. Both the "soothing scenario of gradual change" and the "upheaval scenario of sudden change" preached in the American mainstream media are patently false.

Each time the people have dared to agitate for a change of government (the best known example was in Tiananmen Square), the response was to send in the military, law enforcement, and secret police organs and violently put down the challenge with finality (even farmer protests were violently squashed with much loss of life and long prison terms).

This government once democided up to 70 million of their own people (under Mao) and if it ever becomes necessary, the CPCCCPBSC that controls all of China and ultimately all of China's interests around the world will issue the order to do so again. They are seeking to transform China into the most powerful country in the world, but under their control and form of government.

Americans shouldn't deceive themselves otherwise.

What Americans should be considering is that a small committee, which ultimately controls all power in China, killed 70 million of their own people last century (and would do so again if they believed it was necessary for them to retain their power) and working toward global supremacy of their own and China's interests to replace us as the dominant power on earth exercising both legitimate and illegitimate means while U.S. politicians working in partnership with special interests enrich themselves at the American people's and the national interests' expense helping China accomplish it.

Despite continued political repression, the stance of US elitists remain unchanged. They dismiss the reality that China, a growing economic powerhouse and our future rival, appears bent on realizing economic growth while maintaining a one party authoritarian Communist system of government.

As James Mann points out in The China Fantasy:

"For their own different reasons, the U.S. government and American (or multinational) corporations are eager to conduct as much business as possible with China. In order to do this, they have sought to minimize the core issues of repression of dissent and China's one-party political system. Whenever Chinese leadership carries out a new campaign of arresting dissidents or closing down newspapers, both engage in ‘The Soothing Scenario’ either turning a blind eye or seeking to minimize the persecution and government led beatings of political dissenters, journalists, religious adherents, union activists, lawyers, citizen activists, and non-government sanctioned organizations or the Upheaval Scenario that eventually things will reach a breaking point and China will have to adjust."

China is not headed for democracy but will retain their repressive one-party political system. Interestingly, this doesn't seem to bother international business persons or government leaders from the West. In fact, they capitulate to it so they can keep manufacturing there.

The China Fantasy lays out the two scenarios taught to the American public by the elitists today. One asserts that China is headed in the right direction and predict that China will become ever more open politically as well as economically. The other scenario is that China is headed for a period of collapse. Both of these are unlikely; however, and Mann suggests a Third Scenario:

"It is this: What if China manages to continue on its current economic path, yet its political system does not change in any fundamental way? What if, twenty-five or thirty years from now, a wealthier, more powerful China continues to be run by a one-party regime that still represses organized political dissent much as it does today, while at the same time China is also open to the outside world and, indeed, is deeply intertwined with the rest of the world through trade, investment, and other economic ties?"

The truth is that whenever the regime has been even mildly threatened by political unrest, it has responded with force followed by propaganda that political upheaval cannot be allowed to disturb the Chinese economy; "Unity and stability are the overarching themes for the country and the people's wishes . . . ," says the People's Daily. And it is important to understand that China's emerging urban middle class is a minute proportion of the country's overall population: far smaller than in Taiwan or South Korea. It is also important to realize that we sell more US manufactured goods to Belgium, a country of just over 6 million people, than to all of China a country with 1.3 billion people.

As Mann states:

"Because Chinese Communist Party leaders don't like to acknowledge that they intend to maintain their monopoly on power, they sometimes tell visitors they, too, believe in democracy, that this is the ultimate goal China, and that it is all merely a question of timing. The idealistic and hopelessly gullible simply believe what they are told to never seeing the signs that the regime makes clear its tenacious hostility to the idea of political pluralism in China."

China makes it clear that they are expanding economically for profit; however, will remain a one-party authoritarian state that prohibits organized political opposition to the Chinese Communist Party and will continue to implement protectionist measures.

So the current political system will remain intact and there will be no significant political opposition, no freedom of the press, and no elections beyond the local level (which can be dismantled at any time by a single edict from Communist party headquarters). There will; however, continue to be an active security apparatus to forestall organized political dissent. China will grow rich and strong but will not change its political system in any fundamental way.

As Mann points out, "These days, the police don't wait for protests in China's major cities to gather momentum; they stop them much earlier. China remains politically stable in part because the repression is speedier and more thorough now than it was in 1989."

The Leninist system will remain intact: Internet or no Internet. Unlike the Soviets whose economy failed transforming the country: the Chinese will be flush. And who can say what ambitions they will pursue once China is rich and strong.

For now the People's Republic of China (PRC) continues political repression yet avoids any actions leading to military conflict. As Mann points out, "Chinese leaders seem to have learned the lesson from the Soviet Union that they should avoid any direct, prolonged, cold war-style confrontation with the United States."

However, over a billion people continue to be repressed by a Communist Party with a long, unsavory, violence-prone history, a love of its own privileges, and a weakness for corruption. And this political ideology China exports to dictatorships the world over today and launches well funded ideological campaigns in the West and in China causing visitors to China come home with a picture of the country that is skewed. Mann asserts that:

"If, over the next thirty years, China maintains its current political system, then its resolute hostility to democracy will have an impact in places like Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. A permanently authoritarian China could also undermine Russia's already diminishing commitment to democracy."

The China Fantasy lays out a series of assumptions that elitists use to decide what subjects and themes will be emphasized and which will be downplayed or ignored. These assumptions are critical to understanding the relationship between the USA and China and it is highly recommended that readers purchase The China Fantasy by James Mann and study them. And do so before the Olympics this year as Mann wisely predicts how China and the world will approach the games to be hosted in China in 2008.

Mann asks the question "Who is integrating who?". The truth is that America has been operating with the wrong paradigm for China. China's real long-term strategy is to outrace America and the EU countries to world dominance and then exercise that position to spread their political ideology. Day after day, American officials carry out policies based upon premises about China's future that are at best questionable and at worst downright false as China emerges as a model of enduring, prosperous authoritarianism.

Excerpts from Reference:

Mann, J. (2008) The China Fantasy: Why capitalism will not bring democracy to China. New York: Penguin Group.

07/01/2013 Update:

Despite making provision for freedom of religion in the Chinese Constitution (article 36 added in 1978), China has never really honored it.

So it should come as no surprise that in 2012, China's government launched a new three-phase campaign to wipe out unregistered house churches which they view as a hostile group of dissenters and force them to join the official Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) church system controlled by China's government and whose "theology" entails a great deal of actual heresy no genuine Christian could ever adhere to.

In the first phase, from January 2012 to June 2012, the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) sent out a large number of government spies and secretly investigated house churches across the country and created files on them. This was followed by a wave of crackdowns, which is ongoing right now, as part of the second phase.

The vast majority of Christians have resisted and refused to join the government's authorized "Christian" church.

With little exception, the mainstream liberal media is refusing to cover these blatant human rights violations occurring in China.

Phase three is expected to begin from 2015 through to 2025 and the Chinese government intends to put Christians under their boot using government force much like Mao did in 1958.

Persecution has come to China's Christians and severe persecution is coming shortly.

The metaphysical worldview of Marxism is state atheism and every Marxist country without exception has engaged in sweeping persecution of religious people on a regular basis as a result.

It's impossible to have true freedom of religion in a nation built on the principles of state atheism.

The U.S. will see an increase in Christian refugees from China but the vast majority will continue to be non-Christian with most loyal to China.

Chinese persecution, oppression, and suppression of human rights is about to get a lot uglier in the years ahead.

What Drives an Islamic Terrorist?

Given the extreme amount of attention to and the large sums of our tax money which have been spent on Islamic terrorism, the question seems pertinent to us everyday citizens, "What drives an Islamic terrorist? What are the reasons why anyone would engage in that type of behavior?"

Terrorists, in general, seem to have political, economic, social, or psychological motives for what they do just as the state atheists who caused the 20th century democide did; however, Islamic terrorists appear to be primarily religiously motivated.

Some of the reasons I could find for this are as follows:
1. They are taught to. Fundamental Islamic education appears to have an effect on the attitudes of many Muslims toward Christians and nations they perceive as "Christian." They are told that Christians hate them and want to wipe Islam off the face of the earth and that they can never be friends unless they convert to Christianity (Surah 5:51-Ali Translation).

Additionally they are told great stories about heroes of the Islamic faith, like Khalid ibn Walid the "Sword of Allah" and taught an idealized version of early Islam when Muslims read the Quran literally and applied it to their lives. This, despite its bloody history. They learn songs like "I Shall Avenge My God and Belief" which tell of "delivering death and hell to the unbelievers." It's important to note that the modern Great Awakening of Islamic fundamentalism we see today is based primarily on the modern society defined as Jahiliyyah and the "need" for a vanguard to re-Islamize society.

2. Islamic law. One point that separates the radical Muslim from all others is Islamic law. Islamic law is a powerful concept because it is viewed as a direct command from the Quran. Radical scholars attach it inseparably to the worship of Allah. Islamic law is the line that divides the religious terrorist from the secular terrorist. It's rigid logic binds the radical Muslim to Islamic law with resolve.

3. The radical sees themself as surrounded by infidels who are hostile to them and their message of faith. All key radical writers put great energy into arguing that nearly all societies are infidel both those who call themselves Muslim and the others. It goes without saying that Jews and Christians are infidels despite liberal attempts to show they are not because a small level of tolerance was afforded them as "people of the book"; a people to be certain whose numbers have dwindled after centuries of persecution and discrimination of a level few Westerners understand. The radical believes that Islam is not merely belief that should be preached but a way of life that must take shape as a system of authority on earth just as it did during the life of Muhammad. Islam is a theocracy: a religion and a state without borders.

4. Punishment or reward. The Quran condemned Muslims who avoided the duty of jihad (Surah 9:38-39, Shakir Translation) and in this religion that offers little guarantees in the way of eternal security, the Quran teaches that being killed in jihad guarantees one entrance to paradise (Surah 4:74). Moderates argue this is not primarily a physical fight but radicals always push back against those teachings.

These primarily are the reasons I discovered that Islamic terrorists do what they do. And apparently the end justifies the means. Take lying for example. Lying was a widespread practice among Muslims until Muhammad realized that it was turning into a grave danger threatening the growth of his message in Arabia. He rebuked his followers but permitted it under three circumstances: During war; To reconcile between two feuding parties; To a spouse in order to please her.

It is the first one we take note of. Radicals divide Jihad into three phases:

1. Patience: In this phase Muslims are a minority living in a non-Muslim country; therefore, they are not required to fight against the enemies but to be patient as they wait to enter the second phase. Deceit may become a part of daily life for a Muslim in this position as they practice Muhammad's words "All lying is a sin except the one benefiting the Muslim or the one keeping him out of harm's way."

2. Preparation: In this phase, the Muslims are required to gather their resources in order to enter a direct and real war against their enemies.

3. War: In this phase, Muslims convert from sitting patiently into actively moving toward altering the conditions around them and changing the country into a new Islamic country. Lying is completely authorized to the Muslim during war and Muhammad's phrase "war is deception" is widely known and quoted.

While military advantage is critically necessary for our protection, we need to find ways to convince radical Muslims that violent campaigns will never achieve their goals but rather lead to the destruction, are not in the best interest of Muslims, lead to moral degeneration, damages the interests of society, and brings no advantage to the people: ultimately becoming meaningless.

Using ambassadorship to influence when and where it yields desirable results and greatly limiting Muslim immigration can be beneficial to non-Islamic countries as well.

Dr. Jaime Glazov describes the unholy alliance between jihadists and the left: people like Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Ted Turner and Noam Chomsky.

Part 1: http://youtu.be/vP8jNwvvLJo
Part 2: http://youtu.be/4dg51EiQry0
Part 3: http://youtu.be/3uKmDNyKFjw
Part 4: http://youtu.be/U7q13F_enEo