There has been a lot of talks about communism in modern America and many people fear it, while others do not understand it and promote the dangerous ideology. Many of the local news airwaves have been overtaken by communist leaders. In fact, people that proport that they are journalists, are actually uneducated activists. Communism is a political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (exempli gratia, mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of socialism—a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. Communism and socialism are basically synonyms. The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. The major problem confronting the people of the United State of America and free peoples everywhere in the first quarter of the 21^st century is the threat to peace and freedom presented by the militant aggressiveness of international communism. We recognize that we must retain our present military and economic advantage over the Communist bloc. Communism is a false idea, and the answer to a false idea is truth, not ignorance. With the triumph of communism, classes will disappear. Communism will supplant and destroy the market economy of capitalism. Communism is the easiest system to sell to the people who are poor, not because poor people are any less worthy than the affluent, but because it sounds so reasonable, fair, and workable. #RandolphHarris 1 of 19

The promises of communism sound sweet, warm, and affectionate—the poor can take in the opulence of the rich without putting in the work. The reality is that the tenets of Communism are, indeed, workable; the only problem is that they produce super inefficient economies, such that, even though people in a communist system fully support its ideals, they soon start conducting themselves in a manner what shows their deep yearning for the freedoms of Capitalism. Communism has always, still does, and always will fail. China is doing so well because it abandoned communism in the 1970s when it introduced capitalism reforms which have led to rapid economic growth. China is now a mixed economy. Socialism, another form of communism, destroyed Venezuela. The worsening humanitarian crisis on corruption, mismanagement, failing oil prices, or U.S.A. sanctions came about because of the rise of socialism. The policies implemented by dictator Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro caused these problems. There are three main policies implemented by Mr. Chavez since 1999 that produced the current crisis: Widespread nationalization of private industry, currency and price controls, and the fiscally irresponsible expansion of welfare programs. One of Mr. Chavez’s first actions was to start nationalizing the agriculture sector, supposedly reducing poverty and inequality by taking from rich landowners to give to poor workers. From 1999 to 2016, his regime robbed more than 6 million hectares of land from its rightful owners. #RandolphHarris 2 of 19

Nationalization destroyed production in affected industries because no government has the capacity to run thousands of businesses or the profit motive to run them efficiently. Instead, government officials face incentives to please voters by selling products at low prices and hiring more employees than necessary, even when that is the wrong industry decision. As economic theory predicted, as state control of the agricultural industry increased, Venezuela’s food production fell 75 percent in two decades while the country’s population increased by 33 percent. This was a recipe for shortages and economic disaster. After agriculture, the regime nationalized electricity, water, oil, banks, supermarkets, construction, and other crucial sectors. And in all these sectors, the government increased payrolls and gave away products at low cost, resulting in days-long countrywide blackouts, frequent water service interruptions, falling oil production, and bankrupt government enterprises. Ye taking over the most important sectors of the economy was not enough for the socialist regime. In 2003, Mr. Chavez implemented a foreign currency control scheme where the government set an overvalued exchange rate between the Venezuelan currency and the U.S.A. dollar. One goal of the scheme was to reduce inflation by overvaluing the currency, subsidizing imported products. However, the currency control meant the regime had to ration available U.S.A. dollars to importers since, at an overvalued (cheap) exchange rate, there was more demand for U.S.A. dollars than supply. #RandolphHarris 3 of 19

Naturally, an illegal market for foreign currency emerged and corrupt regie members and lucky individuals assigned cheap U.S.A. dollars obtained large profits. Even worse, the scheme actually increased inflation since overvaluing the currency reduced government oil revenues in Venezuelan currency, leading the regime to print money to cover the ensuing budget deficit. The socialist regime also implemented price ceilings on hundreds of basic products such as beef, milk, and bathroom hygiene paper. At artificially low prices, more people were willing to buy these products but the few private factories left—not nationalized—could not profit at the government-capped price, so they reduced or halted their production. Instead of benefiting the poor, price ceilings predictably resulted in shortages that forced them to stand in lines for hours, while supermarket employees and the well-connected obtained the products they needed. However, perhaps the most harmful part of the Venezuelan socialist project is the part that the international media and leftist figures used to praise most frequently: welfare programs. The socialist regime created social “missions” aimed at tackling poverty, illiteracy, healthcare, and more. However, despite enjoying higher government oil revenues due to a tenfold rise in oil prices from $10 a barrel in 1999 to more than $100 in 2008, the regie financed a growing deficit by printing more currency. Expansive welfare programs and massive public-works projects provided ever-growing opportunities for still greater corruption. Printing money to pay for endless state programs unsurprisingly led to high rates of inflation. Socialism and communism are sort of alter opportunism. #RandolphHarris 4 of 19

Many people can see the United State of American heading down this same path with rent control, importing foreign produce and meats, borrowing from China, and student loan forgiveness. Corrupt regimes can certainly cause many problems, but without socialism, hyperinflation and widespread shortages are not usually among them. Venezuelans have learned over the past few decades that there is no such thing as a free lunch. “Free things” come at a high price. Offenses motivated purely by either irresistible opportunities or overwhelming situational inducements are relatively rare. We have been discussing carjacking, another way people use to get something for nothing. Most carjackings occur between these extremes, where situational inducements merge with potential opportunities to create circumstances ripe for offending. What follows are descriptions of offenses spurred by the combination of internal or external situational inducements and acceptable (or near acceptable) levels of risk and reward. The degree which a given situation was compromised of rewards and risk on the one hand ad internal and external pressures on the other varied, but when the combination reached a certain critical level, a carjacking resulted. Offenders often described situation in which inducements were present, but not pressing, where they had some money or some drugs on them, but realized that the supply of either or both was limited and would soon run out. In such cases, the carjackers engaged in a state referred to as alert opportunism. The offenders are not desperate, but they anticipate need in the near term and become increasingly open to opportunities that may present themselves during the course of day-to-day activities. #RandolphHarris 5 of 19

Here, would-be carjacking prowled neighborhoods, monitoring their surroundings for good opportunities, allowing potential victims to present themselves. Corleone, a sixteen year-old with over a dozen carjacking under his belt, had been committing such offenses with his cousin since the age of 13. The two were walking the street of Sacramento one afternoon looking for opportunities for quick cash when they saw a man walking out of a barbershop toward his parked car, keys in hand. Motivated by the obliviousness of their pray and the lightness of their wallets, they decided to take his car. Corleone: “it was down in the city of Downtown Sacramento. We was just walking around, you know. We just look for things to happen you see just to get money. We just walk around and just see something that’s gonna make us money We just happened to be going to the Chinaman [a restaurant] to get something to eat. [We had] about five or six dollars in our pocket which ain’t nothing. It was this man driving a blue BMW. It has some chrome wheels on there. He just drove up and he was going to the Chinaman and…my cousin was like, ‘Look at that car, man, that’s tough [nice]. I’m getting that. I want that.’ [I was] like, ‘Straight up, you want to do it?’ He was like, ‘Yeah.’ He was all G[ood] for it. Then he [the victim] came out the barbershop. It was kind of crowded and we just did what we had to do. There was this little spot where [my cousin] stash[es] his money, drugs and all that type of stuff and then he got the gun [from the stash]. He got around the corner. He say, ‘Hey, hey.’ I asked him for a cigarette so he went to the passenger’s side [of the vehicle to get one]. I ran on the driver’s side with a gun. Put it to his head and told him to get out of the car.’ #RandolphHarris 6 of 19

INT: “Did you know that you were going to do carjacking or…?” Corleone: “No. Not necessarily. But since that was what came up, that’s what we did.” No mater how alert one is, however, good opportunities do not always present themselves. Over the course of time, situational inducements mount (that is, supplies of money and drugs inevitably dry up), and the option of waiting for ideal opportunities correspondingly diminishes. Such conditions cause offenders to move from a “passive” state of alert opportunism to an “active” state of what could be referred to as motivated opportunism (creating opportunities where none previously existed or modifying existing non-optimal opportunities to make them less hazardous or more rewarding). Here, attention and openness to possibilities expands to allow offenders to tolerate more risk. Situations that previously seemed unsuitable start to look better. Binge, a 45 year old veteran offender who had engaged in burglary, robbery, and carjacking for over 20 years, discussed his most recent decision to get a car on a wintry January day. He had been carrying a weapon (a 9mm Glock) since that morning, looking to commit a home invasion. After prowling the streets for hours and encountering few reasonable prospects, he happened on an easy opportunity—a man sitting parked in a car, its engine running, at a Lightrail (trolley) station. #RandolphHarris 7 of 19

Binge: “Well, I was out hustling trying to get me a little money and I was walking around. I was cold. I was frustrated. I couldn’t get in [any] house[s] or nothing, so I say [to myself], ‘Well I’ll try and get me a little car, and you know, just jam off the heat and sh*t that he [the vehicle’s owner] got,’ you know? I was strapped [carrying a firearm] and all that, you know and I was worried about the police catching me, trying to pull my pistol off, and I see this guy. Well, he was at the Lightrail you know, nodding [falling asleep] in his car. So I went up to the window. I just think that I just peeped it on [happened on the situation]. I was at the Lightrail you know, I was standing at the bus stop trying to keep warm and so I just walked around with no houses to rob, and I seen this dude you know sitting in his car, you know, with the car running. And I said ‘Ah man, if I can get a wag at this [take adventure of this opportunity],’ you know. It wasn’t just an idea to keep warm or nothing like that. I was cold and worried, and it just crossed my mind and I thought I can get away with it, and I just did it. I’d do anything man, I’d do anything. If I want something and I see I can get away with it I’m gonna do it. That’s what I’m saying. That night I saw an opportunity and I took it, you know. It just occurred to me.” Just as compelling were instances where third parties placed demands on offenders. A number of our respondents indicated that they engaged in car jacking to fulfill specific orders or requests from chop shop owners or other individuals interested in a particular make and model of car or certain valuable car part. The desire to fulfill such orders quickly created conditions ripe for motivated opportunism. #RandolphHarris 8 of 19

Goldie, for instance, was experiencing strong internal situational pressures (the need for cash) and external pressures (the demand for a particular vehicle by some of his criminal associates) combined with a moderately favorable opportunity (inside information on the driver of the wanted vehicle and its location): Goldie: “He’s from my neighborhood. He’s called Mucho. He’s from the same neighborhood but like two streets over. Them two streets don’t come over on our street. You know, we not allowed to go over on they street. It was a nice car. The paint, the sound system in it, and the rims. [It] had some beats, rims. Rims costs about $3,000, some chrome Daytons. 100 spokes platinums.” INT: “OK. That’s a lot of money to be putting on a car. What does he do for a living?” Goldie: “I don’t know. I’ don’t ask. What they told me was they wanted this car and they are going to give me a certain amount of money.” INT: “You say they told you they wanted this car. You mean they told you they wanted his car or they wanted a car like that?” Goldie: “His car. His car. They want [Mucho’s] car. They said, ‘I need one of these, can you get it for me?’ And they knew this guy. So now, I need that car. That car.” Low-Down also specialized in taking orders from chop shops. Low-Down: What I do, I basically have me a customer before I even go do it. I ask a few guys that I know that fix up cars, you know what I’m saying. I ask them what they need then I take the car. But see, I basically really got a customer. I’m talking about this guy over in East Sacramento. Me and Bob, we real cool. He buy ‘em cause he break ‘em down, the whole car down and her got an autobody shop. He sell parts. He’ll take the car and strip it down to the nitty gritty and sell the parts. He get more money out of selling it part by part than selling the car. And, before I get it I already set the price.” #RandolphHarris 9 of 19

Low-Down also had a drug habit: Low-Down: “The main reason basically why I did it was I be messing with heroin, you know what I’m saying. I be using buttons [heroin housed in pill-form]. I be snorting some, but I be snorting too much, you know? I got a habit for snorting cause I be snorting too much at a time, that’s how I call it a habit. I probably drop about 5 or 6 [buttons] down first [thing in the morning.] [So] I basically really sick and my daughter needed shoes and sh*t like that and my girlfriend was pressuring me about getting her some shoes. She had been pressing me about two or three days. Baby food and stuff like that. But the money I had, I had been trying to satisfy my habit with it. Basically I just thought it was a good thing to do. It was a good opportunity.” (This is essentially why many professionals and affluent people ride in their cars with the windows up, at all times, and the doors always up and never give anyone a cigarette, light, or money. The church in the twenty-first century must recognize the powers of darkness. To this end the Christian Church must recognize that the existence of deceiving, lying spirits is as real in the twenty-first century as in the time of Christ and that their attitude toward the human race is unchanged: that their one ceaseless aim is to deceive every human being. Yes, that they are given up to wickedness all day long, and all night long, and that they are ceaselessly and actively pouring a stream of wickedness into the World and are satisfied only when they succeed in their wicked plans to deceive and ruin men. Yet the servants of God have been concerned only to destroy their works—to deal with sin—not recognizing the need of using the power given by Christ to resist by faith and prayer this ever-flowing flood of satanic power pouring in among men. #RandolphHarris 10 of 19

Hence both men and women, young and old, Christian and non-Christian, become deceived through their guile, because of ignorance about them and their wiles. These supernatural forces of Satan are the true hindrance to revival. The power of God which in 1904 broke forth in Wales, with all the marks of the days of Pentecost, was checked and hindered from going on to its fullest purpose by the same influx of evil spirits as met the Lord Christ on Earth and the apostles of the early Church—with the difference that this inroad of the powers of darkness found the Christians of the twenty-first century, with few exceptions, unable to recognize and deal with them. Evil-spirit possession has followed and checked every similar revival throughout the centuries since Pentecost. If the Church is to advance to maturity, these things must now be understood and dealt with—understood not only with respect to the degrees of possession recorded in the Gospels and Acts, but in light of the social forms of manifestation suited to the close of the age. For now these spirits have appeared under the guise of Holy Spirit, yet having some of the very characteristic marks in bodily symptoms which are seen in the Gospel accounts, when all who observed the manifestations knew that it was the work of the spirits of Satan. It my have been so short a time that one has been able to share with another the coldness, blackness, and emptiness of the void experienced as loneliness and alienation. And, deeply as one loves relationships and encounters, one may also need solitude to grow in another way, to regenerate and reintegrate. #RandolphHarris 11 of 19

How many times the change within one (“insight,” “solution,” or simply new perspective) has come in the solitude after the encounter which made it possible. This may be enough different from those around one to make one feel alien at times. One’s feelings are step children so long, and one’s hear mute. At a point, one may come through a siege of depression and self-doubt during which one may have overlooked one’s dark side and shared fears and despair with another for the first time in one’s life. Some may face life once gain with some joy, some hope. One may feel so much but cannot find any words for these feelings. It is possible to stammer out something about hoping one has not been too much bother, and another individual may communicate one’s love as well as one’s acceptance of one—ALL of one. This individual who has seen your weaknesses and your negative feelings—he or she could care? You feel the most intense pain of your life than and sit for minutes with closed eyes, reeling under it. It hurts like pent-up life rushing into a chilled and starved soul. It may have been such a good hurting. One may not be able to say for sure, but it might be as though only when one is no longer alone and alien one can stand the pain of loneliness and the hunger of one’s heart for understanding, for relationship that does not exclude part of one. Perhaps just being so open to feeling and to immediate experiencing is painful. Only later when the experience has lost a little of its overwhelming intensity does the words of a poem pour out and one can weep with joy. #RandolphHarris 12 of 19

The response to attack of pain can lead to growth and resolution into relationship. For one to strike back does not ease one’s pain but often adds more. This is hard enough to understand for many, but when one experiences understanding, another’s caring—this too can be painful—one may experience such disbelief that one falls silent. Often people can enrich an individual’s life and gladdened one’s heart. The power which grasps the individual in the experience of faith is the quality of the “unconditional,” a term often used in describing faith an ultimate concern. Unconditional or ultimate concern, subjectively, is a concern that demands total involvement. However, the unconditional, absolute character of the demand stems from the unconditionality of the object of faith. The power grasping us in the state of faith is not a being beside others, not even the highest; it is not an object among objects, not even the greatest; but it is a quality of all beings and objects, the quality of pointing beyond themselves and their finite existence to the infinite, inexhaustible, and unapproachable depth of their being and meaning. Here, then, we are principally interested in that quality of things which unconditionally grips man’s spirit. A fuller exposition of that toward which this quality points, the “depth of their being and meaning.” We use the term “unconditional” because the German equivalent for unconditional is unbedingt, the connotation being that something is conditioned or limited by being made into a thing (Ding). Thus, the unconditional ( das Unbedingte ) is not “thingish” at all, but rather “a quality which we experience in encountering reality.” #RandolphHarris 13 of 19

The “ultimate concern” also means unconditional. The ultimate concern is was unbedingt angeht (what concerns us unconditionally). Since faith is effective in all of man’s spiritual functions, both theoretical and practical, it cannot be identified with any one of them. Faith comes to expression in these functions, and they, in turn, are rooted in faith. Tendency toward the unconditional must be understood in connection with the concept of Sinn, which is best translated into English by “meaning” and into French by sens. The relation of unconditioned meaning to individual things must be understood as a polarity of form and content. This polarity stands in constant tension, for the unconditional never ceases to demand fulfillment in what would be conditional form. However, unconditioned form is a contradictory notion impossible of realization, for the ground meaning (Sinngrund) is also the abyss of meaning (Sinnabgrund) which transcends every form. The inexhaustibility of meaning (Sinnunerschopflichkeit) would be rendered finite if it could be contained in a form. Nonetheless, each act of meaning must hearken to the demand that is strive to being form and content to unity of filament. Two points are to be underscored in this theory of Sinn: the unconditional is meaning, and in the act of faith one tends toward it, but not as toward an object, since meaning is not an object or thing. One turns to a holy object in which the unconditional is symbolically expressed, but then faith passes beyond this object to the ground and abyss upon which it resist. #RandolphHarris 14 of 19

Abstract and difficult though it be, the analysis of faith in the unconditioned meaning of life makes it a very human issue. For unless some spark of that faith is present, there can be no spirit, for to live spiritually is to live in the presence of meaning, and without an ultimate meaning everything disappears into the abyss of meaninglessness. Faith is unconditional, absolute, and ultimate, because without it man ceases to live as man. One of the greatest power imbalances on Earth today divides the rich countries from the poor. That unequal distribution of power, which affects the lives of billions of us, will soon be transformed as the new system of wealth creation spreads.. Since the end of World War II the World has been split between capitalist and communist, North and South. Today, as these old divisions fade in significance, a new one arises. For from now on the World will be split between the fast and the slow. To be fast or slow is not simply a matter of metaphor. Whole economies are either fast or slow. Primitive organisms have slow neutral systems. The more evolved human nervous systems processes signals faster. The same is true of primitive and advanced economies. Historically, power has shifted from the slow to the fast—whether we speak of species or nations. In fast economies, advanced technology speeds production. However, this is the least of it. Their pace is determined by the speed of transactions, the time needed to take decisions (especially about investment), the speed with which new ideas are created in laboratories, the rate at which they are brought to market, the velocity of capital flows, and above all the speed with which data, information, and knowledge pulse through the economic system. Fast economies generate wealth—and power—faster than slow ones. #RandolphHarris 15 of 19

By contrast, in less affluent societies economic processes move at a glacial pace. Traditional, ritual, and ignorance limit socially acceptable choices. Communications are primitive; transport, restricted. Before the market system arose as an instrument for making investment choices, tradition governed technological decisions. Tradition, in turn, relied on rules or taboos to preserve productive technique that were proven workable over the slow course of biological and cultural evolution. With most people living at the bare edge of subsistence, experiment was dangerous, innovators were suppressed, and advances in the methods of wealth creation came so slowly they were barely perceptible from lifetime to lifetime. Moments of innovation were followed by what seemed like centuries of stagnation. The historical explosion we call the industrial revolution stepped up the economic metabolism. Roads and communications improved. Profit-motivated entrepreneurs actively searched for innovations. Brute force technologies were introduced. Society has a large surplus to fall back on, reducing the social risks of experimentation. With technological experimentation now so much less costly, productive methods [can] change more rapidly. All this, however, merely set the stage for today’s super-fast symbolic economy. The bar code on the pack of Marlboros, the computer in the Federal Express truck, the scanner at the Safeway checkout counter, the bank’s automatic teller, the spread of the extra-intelligent data networks across the planet, remotely operated robots, the informationalization of capital, all are preliminary steps in the formation of a 21-century economy that will operate at nearly real-time speeds. #RandolphHarris 16 of 19

In due course, the entire wealth-creation cycle will be monitored as it happens. Continual feedback will stream in from sensors built into intelligent technology, from optical scanners in stores, and from transmitters in trucks, planes, and ships that send signals to satellites so managers can track the changing location of every vehicle at every moment. This information will be combined with the results of continuous polling of people and information from a thousand other sources. The acceleration effect, by making each unit of saved time more valuable than the last unit, thus creates a beneficial feedback loop that accelerates the acceleration. The consequences of this, in turn, will be not merely evolutionary but revolutionary, because real-time work, management, and finance will be radically different from even today’s most advanced methods. Even now, however, well before real-time operations are achieved, time itself has become an increasingly critical factor of production. As a result, knowledge is used to shrink time intervals. This quickening of economic neural responses in the high-technology nations holds still-unnoticed consequences for low-technology or no-technology economies. For the more valuable time becomes, the less valuable the traditional factors of production, like raw materials and labor. And that, for the most part, is what these countries sell. The acceleration effect will transform all present strategies for economic development. #RandolphHarris 17 of 19

Another solution for the manufacturing crisis America is facing is transferring production to China and other emerging market countries to cut cross and raise price competitiveness. To go multinational. More and more firms, not only large, but also small and medium, are stepping along this road. The number of multinational small and medium-size manufacturers in America, Europe, and Japan is increasing at a remarkable speed—not least because of the Chinese challenge. The emergence of strong micro-multinationals is an important global trends. At the present time, there are some 60,000 multination corporations (MNCs) Worldwide, controlling more than 500,000 subsidiaries. They are responsible for half of international trade, especially due to the scale of inta-company trading (between subsidiaries of the same company). More and more manufacturing micro-multinationals from industrially developed states shift their production to China and other emerging countries, seeking to cut profits. However, for their home countries, without the expansion on a comparable scale of new manufacturing activities, such multinationalization poses a threat of the hollowing-out of domestic industries and significant job losses (even though opening of a factory overseas creates some additional jobs at home, especially office jobs needed to coordinate, support, and monitor its activities). These interests of multinationals and the countries of their origin become less and less identical. In the past it was taken for granted that everything that is good for General Motors is good for America. #RandolphHarris 18 of 19

Nowadays it is still true: American cars keeps manufacturing jobs and money in America. If our manufacturing jobs are being hollowed out, instead of just transferring factories overseas, there should be a clause that these factories are also able to transfer their workers and make sure they can afford the same type of life, if a better quality. Also, those living on government benefits should be allowed to move to other countries because due to inflation and rising costs of rents, many of them can no longer afford to live in America and some income-based housing is just second chance housing for criminals and good people should not be caught up in a hood with criminal thugs. In many of these places, the senior citizens are robbed, physically attacked, threatened by the management, harassed, their apartments are frequently broken into, their keys are floating around and their cars are often broken into and vandalized also. And the thugs are not evicted, taken to jail, nor held responsible for their crimes. The victims are made to suffer and live in fear, and some people involved in management and operations may be criminals, too. Nonetheless, the performance of every country’s manufacturing sector, its national economy as a whole and that well-being of its citizens increasingly depend on its ability to attract manufacturing and other companies from all around the World—China being one of the most vivid examples in this regard. The United States of America needs to attract more planet who want to manufacturing good in America, but with American wages being so high, it is a hard bargain to accomplish. #RandolphHarris 19 of 19

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