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As a career investigative reporter I am alarmed by what has happened, what is happening and what may happen to our country and our democracy. I believe I have a patriotic duty to try to raise awareness and an understanding that we are being undermined by forces in both political parties and by modern day robber barons in industry and finance.
Through six years of intensive investigation and research I am deeply concerned about three broad issues:
1. Globalization and the U.S. dependence upon a "global economy" that is unregulated, unprecedented in world history and unexamined by the American people. It has upended our notion of free trade, private enterprise and capitalism, but our people have failed to ask questions about what globalization means for our well-being; now and in the future. We are engulfed in globalization without any national discussion of whether it is good or bad for our country.
2. The Chinafication of America. The globalists told us that by helping China become a world power we would somehow reform their Communist dictatorship. While they have worked feverishly to develop what some call authoritarian capitalism, they have steadfastly resisted democracy in their politics and private free enterprise in trade. Instead, they are changing us. Aided and abetted by greedy corporate globalists, they have confiscated our industrial base, gutted our factories, taken our jobs and made us economically beholden to their Communist dictatorship.
Recently the Chinese Communist government, through its state-owned corporations and banks, has started buying significant stakes in strategically important segments of the U.S. economy. Specifically, the Party bosses of Beijing have targeted our energy sector, our telecommunications sector and our transportation sector. The American people don't seem to understand there is a vast difference between a local factory being purchased by a foreign private company such as Germany's BMW, versus that factory being purchased by the Communist government of China. We are trying to compete on a free-enterprise basis with government-owned corporations with limitless funding and the ability to absorb losses in order to gain control of entire economic sectors. China's predatory pricing in solar energy is a current example of their plan to achieve world domination of that industry.
Never before has the United States of America allowed a foreign government, particularly an anti-democracy Communist government, to buy a stake, and ultimate control through incremental increases in ownership, of companies and enterprises vital to our national economic security.
3. My third area of concern is mounting evidence that China is emerging as our next great military enemy. Iran is a side show. The real threat is Communist China.
Our military is exhausted and depleted after two lengthy unfunded wars, but meanwhile China is relentlessly building key segments of their armed forces. They cannot match our military, nor do they want to. They intend to "defeat" us by attacking our weaknesses--such as our total reliance on computerized warfare, which is vulnerable to hacking--and by confonting us militarily in ways which will force us to back down and lose respect in the world. They hope to defeat the U.S. military without firing a shot--and they are developing weapons and tactics to achieve that goal.
I have been stymied by a lack of financial and organizational support in trying to inform the American people, but that doesn't change the importance or the urgency of what I am trying to do.
Vince Wade
As a career investigative reporter I am alarmed by what has happened, what is happening and what may happen to our country and our democracy. I believe I have a patriotic duty to try to raise awareness and an understanding that we are being undermined by forces in both political parties and by modern day robber barons in industry and finance.
Through six years of intensive investigation and research I am deeply concerned about three broad issues:
1. Globalization and the U.S. dependence upon a "global economy" that is unregulated, unprecedented in world history and unexamined by the American people. It has upended our notion of free trade, private enterprise and capitalism, but our people have failed to ask questions about what globalization means for our well-being; now and in the future. We are engulfed in globalization without any national discussion of whether it is good or bad for our country.
2. The Chinafication of America. The globalists told us that by helping China become a world power we would somehow reform their Communist dictatorship. While they have worked feverishly to develop what some call authoritarian capitalism, they have steadfastly resisted democracy in their politics and private free enterprise in trade. Instead, they are changing us. Aided and abetted by greedy corporate globalists, they have confiscated our industrial base, gutted our factories, taken our jobs and made us economically beholden to their Communist dictatorship.
Recently the Chinese Communist government, through its state-owned corporations and banks, has started buying significant stakes in strategically important segments of the U.S. economy. Specifically, the Party bosses of Beijing have targeted our energy sector, our telecommunications sector and our transportation sector. The American people don't seem to understand there is a vast difference between a local factory being purchased by a foreign private company such as Germany's BMW, versus that factory being purchased by the Communist government of China. We are trying to compete on a free-enterprise basis with government-owned corporations with limitless funding and the ability to absorb losses in order to gain control of entire economic sectors. China's predatory pricing in solar energy is a current example of their plan to achieve world domination of that industry.
Never before has the United States of America allowed a foreign government, particularly an anti-democracy Communist government, to buy a stake, and ultimate control through incremental increases in ownership, of companies and enterprises vital to our national economic security.
3. My third area of concern is mounting evidence that China is emerging as our next great military enemy. Iran is a side show. The real threat is Communist China.
Our military is exhausted and depleted after two lengthy unfunded wars, but meanwhile China is relentlessly building key segments of their armed forces. They cannot match our military, nor do they want to. They intend to "defeat" us by attacking our weaknesses--such as our total reliance on computerized warfare, which is vulnerable to hacking--and by confonting us militarily in ways which will force us to back down and lose respect in the world. They hope to defeat the U.S. military without firing a shot--and they are developing weapons and tactics to achieve that goal.
I have been stymied by a lack of financial and organizational support in trying to inform the American people, but that doesn't change the importance or the urgency of what I am trying to do.
Vince Wade
