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Over the past 15 years now, I have warned about America becoming too dependent on Communist China. I have warned that one day it would bite us in the ass. Well, I hate to say “I told you so”; but that’s exactly whats happened now.

Before I continue I think a history lesson is in order. In 1911 the Emperor of China was overthrown by a democratic regime. After thousands of years of tyrannical rule by emperors, the people of China finally had a democratic republic. It was known as the “Republic of China” (ROC).

After some years, a group of rag tag communists, led by rebel Mao ZeDong, began to set the stage to overthrow the democratic ROC. To make a long story short, the USA was not in the mood to engage in any more military conflicts after WWII. So it did not intervene to aide the ROC fight off the Communist rebels (we did in Korea, however).

About 1947 the Communist rebels had strengthened in numbers and the tide of the civil war was in their favor. Many of the military and the government of the ROC retreated to an island then named Formosa. From then until 1971, the world recognized Formosa as the seat of government for the ROC and China. Indeed, the ROC was one of the founding members of the United Nations. However, in 1979 the UN voted to recognize The People’s Republic of China (Communist mainland China) as the UN representative of China. Not The ROC. This included the US severing formal diplomatic relations with the ROC in Formosa.

In return for this dirty deed, the US passed a law in Congress known as the Taiwan Relations Act. The act, basically, says that the US will provide Taiwan with weapons and other measures to help defend itself from the mainland, Communist, People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Why do they need to defend themselves from the PRC? Because Communist China has pledged to take Taiwan, against it’s will and by force if necessary. Interestingly enough, the US official policy is that they believe in a “One China”. Presumably, that means a reconciliation of Taiwan and Communist China.

Why on earth would any civilized government want a free and democratic nation to become a part of Communist China? Yet the USA, my government, continues to nudge Taiwan towards that end. Even though our government’s policy is that all people should enjoy a free and democratic government. Their policy certainly smells of hypocrisy. Check out this link which shows more hypocrisy on the part of our government…

China asserts they they own Taiwan. This is as far from the truth as one can get. Taiwan was legally ceded to Japan by the last Emperor of China. When the Japanese surrendered at the end of WWII, the US government appointed the ROC in Taiwan to host the signing of some of the surrender documents and to handle the surrendering Japanese soldiers who occupied Taiwan. Since Taiwan was actually legally owned by the Japanese, there was no disposition of Taiwan then or now. Under international law, the island of Taiwan is actually under the control of the US government. A fact that the US clearly doesn’t advertise nor enforce.

Communist China has over 900 missiles aimed at Taiwan. It has also made it clear that it will take Taiwan by force if necessary. The Taiwan Relations Act does state the following: hat section of the law concludes by saying that the United States will “maintain the capacity … to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security or the social or economic system of the people on Taiwan.” Let’s hope when the day comes that the US will keep that promise in the law.

In my opinion, the real reason that the US dropped recognition of the ROC in favor of the PRC was to satisfy US-based, multinational corporations who want to make a killing in China economically. This all happened shortly before Deng Xiaoping, Communist China’s No. 1 man, declared that capitalism was not bad. He met with then president Jimmy Carter in 1979. From that point to today, US multinational companies have closed their manufacturing plants in America with the loss of thousands of American jobs. They also began selling to China in a greed fest of unimaginable proportions. In my opinion, most multinational companies have no allegiance to their homeland. Only to the almighty buck.

So I leave you with the thought that the US government wants the Taiwan quagmire to just go away so they can continue to borrow Billions of dollars from Communist China. The multinational companies also want the problem to go away. So they just want 32 million free and independent Taiwanese quietly join the dictatorial, Communist mainland of China. If it were a Taiwan citizen, would you want that? I think not!

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Pat Roberts made what is to-date the most outlandish remarks on his television show when he said that Haiti made a pact with the devil.  He said that when the French occupied the country they made a pact with the devil to get the French out.

It seems to me that the United States are now being blackmailed by the large financial institutions.  This is an excerpt from the Financial Times (ft.com) recently:

“With executives such as Goldman Sachs’s Lloyd Blankfein and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon due in Washington on Wednesday to testify before a congressional commission into the crisis amid a storm over bonuses, senior bankers said they felt under siege.

Concept Capital, a Washington-based research group estimates that, if the Obama administration wanted to raise $100bn or more, large dep­osit-taking banks might have to pay about $20bn each although the final amounts could be smaller.

One senior banker said: “The bottom line is that we have a bottom line. If our costs rise, we will charge people more. This levy idea could actually backfire and end up harming the economy and consumers.”

To me, this means that the banks will simply charge more if we dare do anything to control them.

A crazy thought came into my head the other night while I lay sleeping.  What would happen, if in protest of high energy costs, most of the country simply stopped paying their gas and electric bills?  How much of an impact would this have on the energy company’s cash flow?

I was quite surprised to discover that many Chinese immigrants who chose to come to America, presumably, for freedom, actually seem to still support the communist, dictatorship of their former homeland.  When the Dahli Lama was here they actually protested against his being here.  When they took the oath, they pledged their support for the United States and they gave up their former citizenship with communist China.  Please tell me, if these are naturalized American citizens, why do they not support the government which gives them the freedom they can’t get at home?

I say, if your against us, GO HOME!  Otherwise, keep your mouth shout.

During the 2004 presidential primary, then Democratic candidate Joe Lieberman said:

“And one of the things we will do when we’re one nation is to end the moral outrage of 44 million people without health insurance in the richest country in the world, nine million children whose parents can’t take them to the doctor when they get sick ’cause they can’t pay the bill. I’m gonna do that, and also help the millions who have insurance that can’t pay it, by creating national health insurance pools like the ones members of Congress get our insurance from.

“When you’re born, child in America, you get a membership card, and MediKids covers your insurance. Two, if you lose your job, you will not lose your health insurance. Three, underemployed, self-employed, small business, you can buy into this plan, it’ll cost you a lot less, and incidentally, you’ll get drug benefits with it. That’s the kind of centrist leadership that produces results, and that’s the kind of president America needs and I’ll be.”

Now he is against a public option.  On his official web site he says:

“We can make these important changes and reforms this year if we work together. Unfortunately, rather than focusing on what works and fixing what doesn’t, Congress is getting bogged down in a divisive debate over whether to create a government-run health insurance company — the so-called public option.”

Is it possible that the health insurance lobbyists got to him?  After all, the fact that his wife used to work for one of those lobbying firms probably has nothing to do with his drastic change in policy.

The fact that in his speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention,  he endorsed John McCain for president makes one wonder if Joe Lieberman does what he has to do to better serve himself; not his constituents.

This is the wife of Sen.  Lieberman, a opposer of the public option in the health care bill.   Her title was “senior counselor” in the firm’s “health care and pharmaceuticals practice.”  Do you smell conflict of interest here?  I sure do.

It seems to me that we must have a public optioon in the health care bill. Of course the health insurance companies don’t want this; because they don’t want competition. The republicans, always pandering to big business, doesn’t want a public option either.

I imagine there are plenty of dollars and pressure being force fed down the throats of our elected officials in Congress. After all, they need that money in order to mount a successful political campaign against their opponents.

When will we, the people, become their opponents? It seems to me that we have been classified as such already.

I think we must send a loud and clear message to Congress that we won’t accept any health care bill that has been altered because some lobbying group for the insurance companies want it their way.

Following is a summary of four of the most brutal revolutions and persecutions spanning the 60 years since the Chinese Communist Party seized power.

Great Leap Forward & Great Famine (1958—1962):

DEATH TOLL: 40 million

Millions starved to death during the Great Famine that resulted from the Great Leap Forward. (NTDTV)

The Great Leap Forward was a campaign by the CCP that required everyone in China to become involved in steel-making, forcing farmers to leave their crops. It was a major economic disaster that led to the Great Famine, a nationwide famine that cost more than 40 million lives, and was explained officially as a “Three-Year Natural Disaster.”

Mr. Jiang, from Xie County, Shanxi Province, said: “Many small villages were wiped out where the farmers’ whole family starved to death,” he said. “People ate anything. There were deaths in every family. Dead bodies were everywhere. Finally, people started eating humans, including living ones and relatives.”

When the peasants were so hungry as to snatch cereals from the grain depots, the Communist Party ordered shooting at the crowd to suppress the looting and labeled those killed as “counter-revolutionary elements.”

Cultural Revolution (1966-1976):

DEATH TOLL: 7.73 million

Arbitrary executions were commonplace during the Cultural Revolution. (Boxun.com)

The Cultural Revolution was the most frenzied leftist period in China. Killing became a competitive way to exhibit one’s revolutionary standing, so the slaughter of “class enemies” was extremely cruel and brutal. Mao’s aim was to recapture power after the failure of the “Great Leap Forward.” It was an unprecedented nationwide exercise of eliminating human nature.

Zhang Zhixin was an intellectual who was tortured to death by the CCP during the Great Cultural Revolution for criticizing Mao’s failure in the Great Leap Forward and being outspoken in telling the truth.

Prison guards stripped off her clothes many times, handcuffed her hands to her back and threw her into male prison cells to let male prisoners gang rape her until she became insane. The prison feared she would shout slogans to protest when she was being executed, so they sliced open her throat before her execution.

Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989):

DEATH TOLL: 3,000-plus

Students were massacred around Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, after pro-democracy protets. (Boxun.com)

The CCP fired at students in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 in response to the democratic demands following the Cultural Revolution.

This was the first time that the CCP army killed civilians publicly in order to suppress the people’s protest of embezzlement, corruption and collusion between government officials and businessmen, and their demand for the freedoms of press, speech, and assembly.

During the Tiananmen massacre, in order to instigate hatred between the army and civilians, the CCP even staged scenes of people burning military vehicles and killing soldiers, stage-managing the tragedy of the People’s Army massacring its people.

Persecution of Falun Gong (1999-present):

DEATH TOLL: Unknown

Chinese police and CCP agents have killed thousands of Falun Gong practitioners through beatings and torture since 1999. The response has been peaceful protest. (Minghui.org)

The persecution of Falun Gong, a popular spiritual discipline in China, began in July of 1999 and continues to this day. Jiang Zemin gave three orders to persecute Falun Gong practitioners: “ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially, destroy them physically.” Practitioners have been tortured and beaten to death, put into mental hospitals, and raped. Many have been executed while their organs are seized and sold on the black market. Tens of thousands who refused to give their names are suspected to have been killed this way.

Falun Gong practitioner Gao Rongrong was taken by police and imprisoned in a labor camp. On May 7, 2004, she was tortured with electric batons for seven hours straight. The torture seared the skin off her face, head, and neck, and she sustained severe, disfiguring burns. Her once-radiant face was left scarred with blisters and her hair was matted with pus and blood. She escaped, but was captured and then tortured to death in March 2005, at the age of 37.

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