TPP:Dog Eat Dog by Erick San Juan

TPP:Dog Eat Dog by Erick San Juan
                                                                                  
Columnist Ben D. Kritz latest article at the front page of Manila Times, "Why You Should Be Worried About 2015?" dated April 30,2013, caught my attention especially now that that the global economy is in turmoil. Mr. Kritz was alarmed with the pulic relations fall out of the latest poverty statistics. Thanks to the NSCB(National Statistics Coordination Board) for telling the truth. He added that the PIDS(Philippine Institute for Development Studies) raised serious concerns about our preparedness for regional economic integration in 2015 as projected by the U.S. He commented that the nation's micro, small and medium enterprise(MSME) sector  is not ready to face the competitive pressure of an ASEAN(Association of South East Asian Nations)  free market because  MSME's account for over 90% of the country's business establishments. He concluded that the effects of AFTA could cause an economic crisis in 3 ways. First, the Philippine export sector will suffer. Second, government revenues will be adversely affected. The third effect on the economy will impact our agricultural sector more than the others. Kritz believe that with our entry with the TPP agreement, the situation will be more worrisome.
                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Even Wayne Allyn Root of Townhall.com (April 18,2013) said,"Here in America, we hear the same lies and distortions about the economy like 'everything is fine', 'it's getting better', 'unemployment is improving', 'the recovery is already underway' but we now know that they are delusional lies. We are nearing complete collapse." Most economic analysts worldwide have painted gloomy scenarios about global current situation.
                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Businessworld columnist Calixto  V. Chikiamco commented  (April 22,2013) that "The situation seems hopeless. Our economic oligarchy is powerful. It controls conglomerates that reach into almost every aspect of Filipino lives, it's unassailable position protected by law or other barriers to entry. It can penetrate , influence and manipulate the weak state and it's institutions almost at will. It can buy off or influence politicians, judges, bureaucrats and media organizations to thwart change, prevent competition and extract more economic favors or rent through the weak state." "The country may be forced to amend the constitution to lift the restrictions on foreign ownership if it's to join the US-sponsored  TPP(Trans Pacific Partnership). TPP is believed to be a counterweight to China." Chikiamco advised that all countries in Asia should get their act together and strengthen their anti-trust law. "If not Philippines will be doomed to a thousand year rule by an irresponsible political and economic oligarchy which will resist any reform of it's privileges and rent-seeking power.", he warned.
                                                                                                                                                                                                    
According to international economic experts, the TPP is one of the most important  components of U.S. strategy in returning to Asia. However, unlike a number of other integrated economic institutions, negotiations between America and TPP participating countries are reportedly conducted in a less transparent form which dissembles the pitfalls of the contract. Pundits believe that out of 26 chapters of the TPP agreement, only two are directly related to the trade. Most of the new agreement allegedly provide the rights and privileges for global corporations. Observers call the TPP agreement a 'corporate coup' or 'NAFTA on steroids'. Thus, U.S. intends to grant a new political power to transnational corporations, which would weaken the ability of national authorities to regulate their economy. It is assumed that foreign corporations operating in the territory of sovereign states will no longer be subjected to the internal laws of a nation-state like environmental protection, financial and labor rights,etc. In addition, transnational corporations are entitled to sue governments directly through the created institutions, international tribunals, requiring to remove barriers to their potential profits.                                                                                                                                                                                                      

In particular, the U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk, in a letter to the U.S. Congress said that the terms of TPP are expected to subject to American standards the issues related to labor, patent and copyright, as well as land use, food, agriculture, product standards, natural resources and policies. TPP will directly affect the financial and energy policy, health care, telecommunications and service sector. Experts note that the TPP goes far beyond the standard trade agreement between two countries.                                                                                                                                                                                                     

TPP will surely have a huge impact on intellectual property right, copyright and patent rights. Pharmaceutical companies are provided with a 'handicap'. Their competitors are prohibited  to enter the market with a similar product for 14 years, until they pass additional tests  for safety and effectiveness. Monopoly gives corporations the right to establish exclusively high price for drugs to the detriment of poor nations like the Philippines. Our nation and the Asean should build their policy based on their own economic interests and study the western corporate proposal which many think is a one sided deal. The west will earn instead of helping us, shortchanging the Asians in the process. Don't let the elites and the 'corporats' of the west manipulate the elites of the east. Wake up!  

Fear Overload

Fear Overload

By Erick San Juan

 

At the Rapplers.com interview of anti-terror expert Dr. Rohan Gunaratna last week, he said that-" Any successful terrorist attack is an intelligence failure." We've been bombarded by daily doses of fear of war, bombings, pandemics, market crash, epic economic collapse, etc.,etc. The threat of North Korea's leader Kim Jong un was waylaid by an intelligence information that North Korea is ready for the the preemptive  strikes of South Korea and it's allies, possibly North Korea will be using COBALT60 to mutually assure the destruction of  it's enemies, just in case Pyongyang will be attacked by bunker busters.

This was exposed by Gerald Celente at the Brian Wilson show recently (please check file at You Tube). Celente said that many of the world's key players are playing with ultimate destruction. He added that most of these leaders are either sociopaths or psychopaths. Celente commented that most conspiracy theorists blame the Jews in this huge international scheme of blame game and pulling strings. He believes that there are two groups of MAFIA who wanted to control the world, they are the money changers and the military industrial complex. The money changers during the time of Jesus Christ are the same bankers known nowadays as 'banksters'. They control the world's money. They are sick people addicted to raking lots of money. While the arms merchants through deceit, create and instigate wars abroad disguised as giving them democracy. When they get caught and burned, they just apologize. This is allegedly the new normal. Nobody knows what's going on in close doors, board rooms and war rooms.

"The agenda is, again, we're now in recession, so let's start a war. These masterminds are now in a point of no return situation. They tell us to follow the rules if we want freedom.", Celente concluded. Suddenly, the international news network confirmed that poisoned letters containing dangerous substance 'ricin' were sent to US President Barack Obama and to Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, then the Boston Marathon attack and the Waco, Texas fertilizer plant blast. Several American analysts and commentators (can be read through the internet) have almost the same theory and evidences different from the mainstream media. Most of them believe that President Barack Obama's 'lone wolf theory' was a false flag operation.

Local analyst like political activist Ferdie Pasion is wondering how the two Boston bombing suspects are now branded as Chechens from the boundary of Chechnya when they both grew up in the U.S.? He said that the U.S. during the Chechnya rebellion against Russia,called the Chechens as 'freedom fighters'. What about Osama bin Laden and his Mujahideens who were recruited by the US intelligence to fight the Russians in Afghanistan and won, then became the No.1 terrorists in the world? The Reform the Armed Forces of the Philippines were the heroes of Edsa1's US inspired uprising against Ferdinand Marcos are now branded as such.

Kurt Nimmo of PrisonPlanet.com (April 19,2013) interviewed Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev said Friday that her eldest son Tamerlan was under the control of the FBI for almost 5 years. "They(FBI) knew what my son was doing, they knew what actions and what sites on the internet he was going to. They used to come...and talk to me...They were telling me that he(Tamerlan) was really a serious leader and they were afraid of him." "How could this happen? They were controlling every step of him and they are telling today that this is a terrorist attack."., she added. Prison Planet.com said that the FBI(Federal Bureau of Investigation) is notorious for recruiting and framing terrorist patsies. A report compiled by Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley found that 158 prosecution carried out on terrorism charges since 911 terror attack, 49 defendants participated in plots that were arranged by FBI agent provocateurs.

Despite the expose', there are still a lot of good law enforcers in the agency. Even Dan Defenbaugh, a former FBI bomb technician who led the investigation of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, cautioned that while Al Qaeda has promoted the use of pressure cookers to build bombs, one shouldn't assume the bomber is necessarily an Al Qaeda follower. (Wall Street Journal April 18,2013 p.12). I've got a clearer picture of what  happened from the balance analysis of former FBI Steve Cutler US Embassy Manila, in his interviews at Net 25 and at  ANC channel far from the myths and half truths of the main stream media. Another revealing evidence were the photos and video shown by Arden Gifford and by R.E. Sutherland. It's about the Craft group- a private military operatives carrying backpacks in the area. It was disclosed by Infowars.com as mind-boggling. Even Mike Adams of Naturalnews.com confirmed that at least five private military contractors were operating on scene at the Boston Marathon and that they all carried black back packs which look very similar to the backpack carrying the pressure cooker bomb.

The mainstream media is reportedly censoring any mention of these Craft operatives, pretending they don't even exist. But the photos and videos will not lie. Only the alternative media is doing parallel investigation to ferret out the truth. Some pundits believe that the brains behind the scene wanted  to spin the attack and blame it to the conservative Americans for something they had no part in. In the shown photos are operatives in the vicinity of the Boston Marathon dressed in tan combat boots, tan military BDU's(pants), black jackets, cap and shirts with the Craft 'skull' logo and using tactical communications gear. One of them was shown with an 'inspector radiation alert' device that can detect the kind of radiation which would be produced in a dirty bomb attack or a nuclear attack. The 'Craft' motto is- "VIOLENCE DOES SOLVE PROBLEMS".

The big question is, who hired these guys? Who paid them to be there? What was their mission?  Why is their existence at the marathon being memory-holed? Why are they not 'persons of interest' in the investigation? What's in their backpacks? Check the 'Craft' website and you will surely know that this group is not a fiction and they exist. As I have written in the past about the 'lone wolf terrorist', the Manchurian candidate', 'wag the dog', etc., it seems that the scenarios' being peddled are "made in Hollywood", What else is new?

Cry Wolf?

Cry Wolf?
By Erick San Juan


The world is in the wait and see mode (again) as the new ‘bully’ in the Asia-Pacific region has announced its string of threats against Washington through its allies in the region. Assessments and analysis of the possible next move of North Korean young leader Kim Jong-un in striking its twin nation-state also varies according to Korean watchers.                                                                                 

According to pundits, signs of a hard-headed bully or a ghoul in the region is what the west need as pretext to justify their presence.

From the point of view of Hannes Hanso (researcher at the International Centre for Defense Studies in Tallinn, Estonia) – “North Korea is in an awkward way a necessary evil that holds regional powers in balance and helps to maintain a functioning status quo. When this delicate balance crumbles, a whole new security structure will need to be found. Nobody appears willing to take the first step into the unknown. North Korea's leaders seem well aware of the situation and are trying to exploit this to their own advantage; that is, trying to ensure regime survival and international acceptance as a nuclear power.” This could also lead to the final unification of the two Koreas.

South Korea seems to under estimate the capability of the North. SK defense minister Kim Kwan-jin said that chances are not high that the situation will lead to a full-scale war. But David Chase Taylor, the editor-in-chief of Truther.org, an American journalist living in Zurich, Switzerland, in his book, The Bio-Terror Bible, explained that various islands may be used as the initial staging ground in the genesis of a global pandemic.  After a short time, the pandemic will "spread" thus giving the impression that the virus was airborne, had mutated and found its way on to the  mainland. Even China  is now accusing the US of spreading H7N9 virus. According to Taylor, there are several bio terror plan and a possible false-flag terror attack on South Korea and the most likely scenario is that Japan, Guam and the Philippines may be 'accidentally' targeted by North Korea. Is this the reason why the joint military exercises between the US and South Korean soldiers wear anti- biological and anti-chemical suits? At the Jeff Rense talk show last April 10,2013. Tim Rifat was Rense's guest and he exposed that the US despite it's policy of preemptive strike wouldn't dare to attack North Korea because of their intelligence info that Kim Jong-un is prepared to use Cobalt60 weaponry, a weapon of mass destruction that can exterminate a lot of people in days. If the US will allegedly use their bunker buster, the hit will surely explode the Cobalt60 then it will sprinkle like ash fall and mutually assured destruction follows. This is possibly the reason why US Secretary of State John Kerry went to Beijing to seek  China's support to neutralize Pyongyang.

This could also be the reason why Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario was very quick in offering the use of ‘our military bases’ to Uncle Sam if ever NoKor will attack us or the US. But the question is – do we (still) have military bases in Subic and Clark? Or they were conveniently set up for Uncle Sam’s use and in the process our very own people will be used as cannon fodders and the whole country as US military base? We really never learn…

Actually, as the drums of war are getting louder and the Balikatan military exercises will end on Wednesday, we can’t help worrying that any miscalculation or stupid provocations might start a shooting war in our own backyard.
                                             
At the Balitaan sa Hotel Rembrandt last week, as reported by Sammy Martin of PNA, former Foreign Affairs secretary Domingo Siazon warned the public that North Korea's threat to launch ballistic missile is for real. He added that the date that should be watched is April 15, the birthday of the late NK leader Kim il Sung. This could be the day of no return.                                      

Bad memories of the past world wars should be a reminder to world leaders not to repeat these bad parts of the world’s history. This time, it will be costly and precious lives and properties will be easily destroyed as humanity is in the brink of a possible thermonuclear war and fast slipping into a situation where a possible 70 percent (or more) of the world’s population may be affected by such stupidity and careless war.

The predicate has been laid, with the current visit of Washington’s high officials together with NATO’s people in South Korea and then in China, possibilities of conflict is in the offing.

Did we ask ourselves if ever war breaks, are we prepared for its repercussions, the bloody results and the atrocities, etc? Even Jim Walsh, an international security expert and research associate at MIT said that 'the whole system is set up like a deck of cards right now and a accidental war could spiral into an all-out conflict.' (Fox news)
                                            
We have to be wary and let us pray harder as we enter a very troubled times.

Troubled Times by Erick San Juan

 Troubled Times by Erick San Juan

In these troubled times, aside from a possible regional conflict that will probably start in the Korean Peninsula, there is also an impending possibility of people repeating history as in the case of the Nanjing Massacre that happened 75 years ago.

In an article written by Manfred Henningsen (professor of political science at the University of Hawaii) – ‘Opportunity to break the silence’, he wanted the world to know especially in Asia where the Japanese army had savagely terrorized and killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians alike that started in 1937 in Nanking, China. Japan never gave any official apology since then.
“The refusal of the Japanese political class to officially recognize the imperial record of terror in China and other parts of Asia was illustrated in a remarkable way by Shinzo Abe when he was selected to lead the Liberal Democratic Party in October. He immediately visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The shrine has become a permanent monument to the horrors of Japan’s militarism since 1978 when war criminals of World War II were enshrined there.” (Ibid)
Like any traditional politicians, Abe has made a promise that he did not keep. Many pundits believe that it only prove that the Japanese government wanted the world to forget the terrorism they did during the Second World War in countries like China and the Philippines.

“Abe also announced last year that he would, if elected prime minister, revise the so-called Kono Statement, an official apology that Tokyo made in 1993 for the military’s sexual enslavement of women during World War II. And since he became prime minister, he has not said that he accepts the Judgment of Tokyo, which confirmed the historical record of imperial violence, including the figures of the estimated 300,000 dead and 60,000 women raped in Nanjing in December 1937.” (Ibid)

Like Germany, Japan had also the ambition to conquer the world and build their empires by raping city after city of sovereign nations. But after the dust and smoke has subsided, they became oblivious of the reparations that they should grant to countries they ravaged into nothingness.

Although from the article of Prof. Henningsen, he said that “Unlike the Japanese, the Germans have come to terms with their past. They were able to break out of their silence and amnesia they shared with the Japanese and face their record of evil and made peace with their neighbors whom they had invaded, occupied and, in some cases, violently terrorized. Most importantly, they were willing to recognize 60 years ago the claims of the large number of non-state victims and are still accepting compensation claims today, having already paid roughly $89 billion.”

Accepting ones mistakes and atrocities in the past against people of another country, especially a neighbor, coupled with the granting of reparations due them, are the right thing to do in order to give justice and to restore the dignity of the victims of war: the survivors and their families.

Like what I kept saying in my daily radio program, in times of war and peace, collaborators are made and conspiracies are woven to fool the rest of the world. Just what happened to Japan’s Hirohito, as what Prof. Henningsen wrote – “General Douglas MacArthur (then the US Army chief) kept the imperial system and its head, Hirohito, in place, as the US wanted to retain a semblance of legitimate national authority in order to facilitate the administration of the country. Hirohito had, by US decree, became untouchable, and he presided until his death in 1989 over collective Japanese amnesia. By protecting Hirohito from prosecution as a war criminal, the US laid the foundation for Japan’s refusal to acknowledge its war guilt and war crimes.”

The facts are in the open now, like what I have been saying all these years. With Uncle Sam’s blessings, not all war criminals are prosecuted and worse, war crimes are completely forgotten by diverting historical facts into oblivion that has left the victims including their own citizenry into a terrible case of amnesia.

Now the silence has been broken. Humanity should learn from this and must always on the lookout for a possibility that such incident will happen again.

In these dangerous times when the drums of war are getting louder - will people repeat a bad part of the world’s history?  Or history will repeat itself? The signature of a global conflict is already here. The actual confrontation and shooting war is in the offing that might lead to another world war. If this scenario will happen in the Korean Peninsula, and the possible reunification of the two Koreas will commence, Uncle Sam (and the globalists) will now be free from the burden of supporting North Korea and the heavy task will now be given to the people of South Korea. Remember the chopping of the 'Berlin wall'?

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Modus Vivendi by Erick San Juan

Modus Vivendi by Erick San Juan

I was advised several times by some pundits that we in Asia must strive towards a modus vivendi with Red China. I reiterate this need, which is becoming more urgent each day. Before long, Communist China will have increased its striking power a thousand folds with a sophisticated delivery system for its nuclear weapons.

I was told that we must prepare for that day. We must allegedly prepare to co-exist peaceably with Communist China. For our part, this means relentless work towards full self-development, so that we can live beside our powerful neighbor with confidence and dignity. For her own part, Communist China must accept the fact that superior military strength cannot justify aggression.

Methinks that the faith and goodwill, as well as the competence, for peaceable co-existence exist in the heart and mind of all Asians.

An excerpt from the speech given by the late President Ferdinand Marcos at the Manila Overseas Press Club in November 1968 (taken from his 1969 SONA) - a foresight then, a reality now. If government leaders after him heeded his caution, maybe some of the problems we are facing now with our neighbors are lesser and the country will be far better than today.

It is not mere co-existence, former President Marcos emphasized the need for our country to ‘work relentlessly towards full self-development’ in order to gain dignity and confidence.

Unfortunately, we didn’t gain any confidence because we are still under the wings of the 'big brother' and actually manipulated by our chinese neighbors. And dignity? It goes without saying that the current state of the nation is worse than the previous ones when it comes to corruption. Just because the same people(corruptors) from the previous administrations are still in the present government’s loop.

Our dream for a full self-development will remain a dream if we will not unite and change the system that has enslaved us for so many years now. What we need is an honest to goodness Filipino ideology that will guide us towards self-fulfillment as a sovereign nation- free from the dictates of some perceived master.

China’s present status in world geopolitics did not happen overnight, Marcos felt that this day will come when China will lead the rest of the Asia-Pacific region when it comes to economic and military power. Marcos knew his history. He has chinese blood. In a document written by Julie A. Baeyens entitled "Once Upon a Red Star" which circulated through the Worldwide Filipino Alliance, she cited how the Chinese Secret Service infiltrated the Philippines. To quote-"Through the years, the Chinese Secret Service has constantly kept a keen eye on the Philippines, being strategically located in the South China Sea, long considered by China as a Chinese lake. Control of early Philippine operation was handled directly from Yan'an, Mao Zedong's stronghold. Yan'an was then the seat of the Central Committee of the CPC-Communist Party of China. As early as January 1930, Mao asserted that a spark can set fire to the whole plain. That plain was the whole of Asia including the Philippines. Spearheading the conflagration was the Department of Special Affairs, the TEWU, first led by Zhou EnLai and later by Kang Sheng. The Philippines became a special zone in the red chinese international intelligence and espionage activities. They infiltrated all sectors of Philippine society including the leftist front, PKP-Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas and the AFP- Armed Forces of the Philippines through Pedro de la Pena,an intelligence officer of the Army G2 as army assistant chief of staff for intelligence. In the 1950's, so many were recruited through a CPC's satellite organization named Philippine Committee of Overseas Chinese under the care of TEWU. De la Pena was a good asset due his being a fierce anti-communist. His friend, Antonio Chua Cruz, a millionaire-owner of the anti-Huk and anti-Soviet newspaper, Free Asia, was also employed by TEWU. These two were unmasked in 1952 when Philippine authorities arrested William Pomeroy and Celia Mariano from Rizal. Pomeroy was an ex-US Air Force, a journalist and later a student at UP. In UP, he met and married Celia who was a member of the PKP central committee. Seized from them were documents and detailed notes running of de la Pena and Cruz."
 
 It is now 2013, how many de la Pena's and Cruz's  are now embedded in our society, in the government service, in politics, in our law enforcement and in our military today? And the way some of our politicians saber rattled "na akala mo me ikakaya tayo?" Or is it a deliberate way of provoking, to justify a take over by the awakened dragon?

The world’s perception, especially its neighbors, of the continuous bullying of China does not affect China in the process because it insisted on its historical claim in the contested areas in the SCS and Beijing believe that it can only be settled through bilateral talks between each claimant country and China – no more, no less. A bully? To some but because China has proven its power and cannot be a pushover anymore, even from the mighty Uncle Sam, claimant nations will have to abide by what Beijing wants.

Sadly, our country has no other choice but to run to Uncle Sam, but on second thought, it is Uncle Sam who is perceived  creating the situation that will destabilize this region. And in the process creating proxy wars by dragging its allies in a war only Uncle Sam and possibly China want.

China’s silent army.

In my article dated August 13, 2012 – Fear China From Within, I cited the possibility of the growing presence of China’s citizens in the country through the so-called fifth column. But there is another explanation here cited in the book by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo - China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image, to wit: “The growth of China's global economic influence is the obvious lead story of the 21st century so far. As China's Silent Army convincingly demonstrates, no corner of the world is immune from China's reach, whether as a tireless hawker of goods from baby clothes to hydroelectric dams or as a consumer of natural and human resources, often as both a major buyer and seller in the same market.” (From the review written by Muhammad Cohen - Searching the globe for China Inc)

Several questions were given by Cohen in analyzing China’s ‘silent army’ - to what extent is the Chinese government controlling Chinese commercial initiatives as part of a broader strategic plan? In other words, from the copper fields of Chile and Zambia to the forests of Siberia, are Chinese companies doing Beijing's dirty work? How and how much do Chinese diplomacy and business cooperate to serve Beijing's geopolitical goals? Can nations trust a Chinese provider with its telecommunication network, ports, or other vital infrastructure? Is business with a Chinese company overseas ever strictly business?

I myself been asking some of these questions as I discussed these things in my daily radio program (@DWSS 1494khz 5:30 to 6p.m.) that Chinese companies are running vital and strategic utilities here like in the area of telecommunications, our national electric grid and several mining companies to name a few. I have been warning the present administration to be wary and revisit the contracts made between our government and China from the previous administrations. The utilities I mentioned are vital and can be a security threat in the long run. Like what Cohen asked, can we trust a Chinese company to run our own electric grid – the backbone of our power supply?

There is nothing to fear if we have aspire and done something to acquire the status of a developed nation as how we aspired us to be – a full self-developed sovereign nation with dignity and confidence to live beside our powerful neighbors.

"But the Greeks already delivered the gift." What's next? An ongoing surrender of our beloved nation without firing a single shot!