The
Romans used to say, “Si vis pacem, para
bellum,” “if you want peace, prepare for war.” Do we really need a large
army, nuclear warheads, war ships, weapons, drones, tanks, and the latest
technology to fight against foreign and domestic enemies? If you ask a group of
people, you get many different answers.
According
to Kevin D. Freeman, “Events of the past dozen years clearly show that
America’s adversaries have gained ground in non-military ways. Could the 9/11 terror attacks, high gas
prices, market volatility and the U.S. credit rating downgrade all be linked to
the same strategy?”
The
recently published 150-page United Nation’s “World Happiness Report” is attempting
to indoctrinate us into Fabian Socialism as an absolute giver of wellness, which
must be imposed on the entire population of the globe. Happiness no longer
comes from within, it comes from socialism.
Indoctrination
worked well with our children in the last fifty years. We are witnessing the result
of dumbing down of American education and the blatant move toward open
socialist and communist indoctrination in schools and universities. If you tell
a lie often enough to children and ignorant adults, they will eventually
believe it to be the truth.
A
book by two Chinese colonels, Qiao Liang and Wang Wiangsui, “Unrestricted
Warfare,” published by the People’s Liberation Army, listed several variables
of “war by other means:” (The American Legion Magazine, Kevin D. Freeman, April
2012)
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Financial warfare (manipulation
of currencies, banks, and the stock market)
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Technological warfare (having primary
control of technology such as the intact drone we gifted to the Iranians so
they can reverse engineer it or sell it to the Chinese to do so)
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Resources warfare (manipulating
oil reserves, the price of oil, oil supply, oil refining capacity, moratorium
and access to key resources)
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Network warfare (Internet
control, Facebook control, Google control by various governments and entities)
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Economic aid warfare (creating
economic dependencies in a segment of the population such as welfare, earned
income tax credit, EBT, spreading the wealth through schemes, or dependency of an
entire nation, thus controlling them)
Running
out of money and overprinting your nation’s currency to the point that it becomes
worthless is an important reason for a nation’s decline. Since April 2010 until
April 2012, our money supply M1 rose from $17 trillion to $22 trillion,
according to government reports. The Fed has printed $5 trillion worth of
currency without any backing by goods and services, at a time when the average
GDP growth has been 2.4 percent. This devalues our dollar, increases our
national debt, and increases overall prices, including the price of oil, in
addition to the cost born by our disastrous energy policies.
Oil-price
manipulation by speculators on the futures market in 2007 when oil was $50 per
barrel to $150 per barrel in 2008 occurred without a disruption in supply. Supply
actually increased slightly.
“Daily
paper trades at the New York Mercantile Exchange were seven times higher than
the actual oil used.” If you accounted for all other exchanges, Chicago,
London, Dubai, other markets, trades of oil speculators may have been 50 to 100
times that of oil used. Producers and
consumers had no change in production levels or consumption patterns. (Kevin D.
Freeman)
China
has the United States over a barrel with its huge foreign exchange reserves,
$2.8 trillion. We lost our AAA credit rating in late 2011. We are vulnerable to
naked short selling and naked credit default swaps. European Union wisely
banned their use.
Henry
Paulson, Treasury Secretary under President Bush, received warnings from China
that Russia would dump holdings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, forcing a
bailout that would strain the U.S. economy. It happened. (Kevin D. Freeman)
One
of the weapons frequently used to fight an enemy is to counter fit its currency
and drop it by planeloads onto that country in order to destabilize their
economy by creating hyperinflation - too much money chasing too few goods.
Bruce
Thornton believes our nation is in decline because “citizens choose to spend
money on themselves, not on defense.” Lavish early retirements, excessive
vacations, early retirement at 50 in hundreds of professions, two additional
paychecks at the end of the year, and other socialized welfare benefits have
contributed greatly to the economic woes of Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and
Ireland.
Austerity
measures alone (spending less money on social programs and taxing citizens more
who already cheat heavily on their taxes) will not work unless there is
reasonable economic growth. When general
unemployment is almost 24 percent in Spain and 50 percent among the young, it
is hard to fuel economic growth.
Gross
Domestic Product is the monetary sum of all final goods and services produced yearly
in a nation. Italy’s public debt is $2.3 trillion, which is 20 percent larger
than its GDP. Interest alone is five
percent of GDP.
Italy,
like many EU nations, has a worker shortage that interferes with their ability
to grow the economy. Italy’s low fertility rate of 1.4 is partially to blame.
The number needed to replenish the population is 2.1. Immigrants supplant the
labor force but mostly in the non-skill category. Many become recipients of generous
welfare payments as soon as they are admitted into the union. “Heavy debt and a
shrinking population are a very bad combination.” (The Atlantic)
Any
“baby boom” eventually reaches retirement age, the labor force shrinks, and
older workers receive Social Security, their pensions and benefits, spend their
savings, thus “depleting the nation’s supply of capital.” (The Atlantic)
Megan
McArdle made an excellent point that having such generous pensions and benefits
in Europe, a security net in old age, caused people to stop having babies that
otherwise might have been necessary to care for aging parents in the absence of
retirement income. She concluded, “Europe’s pension system may have set in
motion the very demographic decline that helped make that system – and some
European governments – insolvent.” (The Atlantic)
EU
countries have a declining GDP, however per capita retirement and welfare
disbursements are higher than ever. Europeans have considered themselves
superior to Americans because of their outstanding socialized well-being and
happiness. The hapless Americans were unhappily working to pay for and provide
military protection to the world, subsidies for drugs, grants for economic
development and financial aid, and other forms of disaster relief.
Spain
has about 1.5 million homes unfinished or unsold. These homes were built in the
time “cuando pensabamos que eramos ricos,” “when we thought we were rich,” the
time when easy EU money was pouring in. When citizens default in Spain, banks
sell their property at auction, but the owners are still responsible for the
remainder of the debt, they cannot walk away from their mortgaged property as
we do in the U.S. Spanish private debt is 220 percent of GDP because bankruptcy
laws are quite different. (John Mauldin)
Spain
cannot attract new investors to service its debt unless Madrid pays 3.6 percent
more to issue a bond than Berlin would. European Investment Bank (EIB) is
discussing the possibility of another Marshall Plan for Europe. (Fiscal Times,
Patrick Smith)
Banks
in Portugal are experiencing runs-on-banks because people are moving their money
to safer countries such as Germany. European banks are not insured by FDIC
(depositors’ insurance in the U.S.). EU deposits are guaranteed by the national
central banks and the respective government, not by the European Central Bank.
If a government is in financial trouble, then depositors’ money is not safe.
(David Kotok)
Greece
has been bailed out twice and has become the financial black sheep of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), of the European Central Bank (ECB), and
indirectly, of our Fed who has been pouring money into the IMF.
According
to Rodney Atkinson, as a pre-condition to receiving the second 130 billion Euro
bailout, Greece had to pay out, not roll over, 1.4 billion Euros worth of
bonds. The money was allegedly taken in March 2012 from various Greek
utilities, including hospitals and universities, without prior notification,
causing checks deposited with the Bank of Greece to bounce, and unpleasant
repercussions for those institutions.
Mark
Steyn believes that collapse of our ethnic identity, exacerbated by liberal
brainwashing, economic meltdown caused by excessive government spending, and large
debt will cause our decline. (“After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”)
Cutbacks
in our defense budget due to sequestration are the biggest threat to our
national security, $1 trillion over the next ten years.
If
our military becomes weaker, if our faith is derided and ignored, and if our
education is watered down by political correctness/cultural Marxism, we become
weaker culturally and as a nation, and the end is not far in sight. As Winston
Churchill said, “If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and
govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.”
There
is ample evidence that the majority of Americans allows liberals, a minority,
to malign our ideals, our institutions, our faith, our cherished symbols, as
they admire and praise Europeans for their civilization and superiority, and
apologize for our American exceptionalism.
Our
national unity is in danger if we choose to believe the lies that we are
racist, imperialist, colonialist, sexist, and genocidal. It is not true what
the MSM and universities tell students, that Europe is a model of a just, more
civilized society. It is a dying empire, demographically, socially, and
economically, whose failed socialist and communist policies should not be
emulated unless we desire their fate.
We
are at war, not a conventional one. We are attacked from all sides
simultaneously. We are attacked from within for our conservatism and faith. We
are attacked by race baiters, liberals, environmentalists, and foreign enemies.
We are attacked financially by speculators, foreign and domestic, EPA through
job and wealth killing regulations, TSA through invasion of privacy and
molestations under the guise of “safety,” and by United Nations through UN
Agenda 21.
Hollywood
is destroying our values and culture. Illegal aliens are pouring in from north
and south, stealing our wealth and ability to defend our borders. Our
government is robbing our children and grandchildren’s futures through non-stop
borrowing of money from China and uncontrollable spending.
We
are at war with the blatant communists and socialists among us, some of whom
serve in public office. We are at war with those who want to restrict free
speech, termed as hate speech by those with whom we disagree. We are at war
with the left who uses successful tactics to highjack law and order through a
massive intrusion into our American freedom and way of life. A war by any other
name is still a war.
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