Secure Freedom Minute

If you are ever tempted to think that one person can’t make a difference, think again. My colleague Cleo Paskal exemplifies what a single individual can do with determined and sustained effort.

Cleo has long warned that the Chinese Communist Party is using insidious political warfare to undo hard-won and extremely costly World War II victories that liberated strategic Pacific islands west of Hawaii from the control of another totalitarian regime, imperial Japan.

With help from Steve Bannon and other amplifiers, Clare Paskal is now getting high-level and popular attention, particularly with her argument that U.S. territories like Guam and the Northern Marianas constitute America’s western border. Like the other frontiers President Trump has done so much to secure, it too must be protected from our most formidable enemy, ever: the CCP.   

With a Pacific summit looming, it’s time for action, action, action.

This is Frank Gaffney.

HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. announced this week that his department would cut $500 million in research into mRNA vaccines. Big Pharma and its enablers are furious. 

Many of the rest of us, however, are relieved that we may thus be spared FrankenJabs like the COVID-19 vaccine that appears to have been a biological weapon – rather than actual protection from that disease, which surely was one. 

A new movie called “The Unrestricted War” dramatizes the Chinese Communist Party’s role in producing COVID in its biowarfare lab in Wuhan, China. 

An important webinar today will examine the film’s insights with its creators and leading star – and discuss whether China’s biological warfare program has been tasked with depopulating this country and the possibility that mRNA technology Tony Fauci shared with it is making vaccines lethal, too. 

Join us at PresentDangerChina.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The transformative nature of Donald Trump’s second presidency is particularly evident in his efforts to reshape U.S. trade policy. He’s employed tariffs to rebalance commercial relationships that have long benefited other nations to our great detriment.

Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook used a White House appearance to commit to invest $600 billion to manufacture its products in this country. His words evinced a profound, and deeply inspiring, tariff-induced sea-change in corporate attitudes:

“We're going to keep making investments right here in America. And we're going to keep hiring in America. And we're going to keep building technologies at the heart of our products right here in America because we're a proud American company and we believe deeply in the promise of this great nation….Thank you President Trump for…putting American innovation and American jobs front and center.”

Amen.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

The Chinese Communist Party is preparing for the invasion of Taiwan and other violent acts in the Pacific, and possibly here. Incredibly, Wall Street continues enabling such behavior by underwriting the CCP military’s unprecedented build-up.

Simultaneously, our own defense industry and armed forces are insanely reliant on CCP’s sources of rare earth minerals and components. A new Government Accountability Office analysis found that, “These suppliers may cut off U.S. access to critical materials or provide ‘back doors’ in their technology that serve as intelligence pathways.” 

It is unconscionable that such dependencies – and the associated, potentially catastrophic vulnerabilities – have been allowed in the first place. As with Wall Street’s ongoing treachery, the policies and practices that have gotten us into this fix must be formally repudiated and abandoned, and those responsible held accountable. And corrective measures must be made urgent national priorities. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

The wheels of justice appear to be spinning at a higher RPM these days. Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly has ordered a federal prosecutor to submit evidence to a grand jury about what the media is branding as “Russiagate.” 

She’s responding to a criminal referral of what the source of such evidence, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, calls a treasonous coup led by former President Barack Obama. Therefore, a more apt descriptor of the epic scandal would be “Obamagate.”

It remains to be seen whether a recent Supreme Court ruling shielding presidents from prosecution for official acts while in the White House will protect Donald Trump’s predecessor for his alleged involvement in such a conspiracy. Obama’s complicity must, however, be investigated, along with many of his senior subordinates’ – and prosecuted, at a minimum, in the court of public opinion.    

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

President Trump’s mediator Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee made a fact-finding mission to Gaza last week aimed at ascertaining the ground-truth about the effort to feed its people without providing life-support to Hamas. They utterly repudiated the blood libels being told about Israel deliberately, and relentlessly, starving Gazans. 

Mr. Witkoff said flatly “There is hardship and shortage, but no starvation in Gaza.” And Amb. Huckabee blamed “the total obstruction” by Hamas for any privation that is happening. 

Another example of efforts to win in the information warfare battlespace what the jihadists cannot on the battlefield is the claim made recently by Professor John Mearsheimer on Tucker Carlson’s podcast that Israel is engaged in “genocide” against the Palestinians. 

That’s also demonstrably and shamefully untrue and amounts to aiding and abetting not just Israel’s enemies, but ours. 

This is Frank Gaffney

The admonition that “If you are going through hell, keep going” applies to Israel amidst the blood libel that it is starving the people of Gaza and renewed efforts to secure a ceasefire there. 

The Israelis must instead finish the job with Hamas. Only by decisively defeating that terrorist regime is there any prospect of an actual end to the Gaza conflict, as opposed to a hudna – Islam’s cynical use of temporary pauses to regroup, rearm and then reengage under more favorable circumstances. 

Even the Arab League has finally called on Hamas to lay down its arms and release the hostages, albeit in the absurd context of having the hapless Palestinian Authority put in charge of a new state of “Palestine.” 

If Hamas won’t surrender for the good of the people it misrules, Israel must make the jihadists do so now.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

This afternoon, an excellent movie the Chinese Communist Party wants no American to see will be screened on Capitol Hill following a panel discussion in which I am proud to participate. 

The reason the CCP is trying to suppress “The Unrestricted War” quickly emerges: It dramatically depicts the truly horrifying character of that transnational criminal organization, responsible for murdering 100 million of its own citizens – and determined to destroy ours. 

The suspense-filled plot shows how the Chinese regime precipitated, then covered up – and murderously exploited, the COVID-19 virus, a biological weapon it deliberately unleashed on the world. 

Especially galling to the Chinese Communists is the fact that among the film’s heroes are some who have suffered grievously at their hands – namely, followers of Falun Gong. 

Every American should see “The Unrestricted War” – then help our country wage and win it. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

Next year, we’ll celebrate the 250th birthday of a nation founded to ensure there’s “no taxation without representation.” 

Unfortunately, the United Nations is poised to start levying taxes our representatives can’t prevent, putting its pursuit of world government on steroids. 

It begins with the International Maritime Organization imposing costs on shipping producing greenhouse gas emissions. Tens of billions of dollars would thus be generated, redistributing wealth from American and other consumers to feed the UN’s climate change slush fund and agenda.

This initiative would not only fundamentally transform the UN by ending its reliance on member states’ funding, which affords them a measure of control. It will also create a precedent for many more taxes to fund its globalist priorities. 

The Trump administration has opposed this global tax. It must now impose real sanctions to prevent it from being imposed on us. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

The claxons are sounding on Wall Street. Finally, analysts are beginning to take seriously the prospect that the U.S. financial sector’s longstanding practice of underwriting our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, is becoming untenable. Praise the Lord.

For example, one insider newsletter recently put it this way: “We continue to believe the de-listing of Chinese stocks from U.S. exchanges is increasingly likely as we believe both Republicans and Democrats will push for action. This is because there is no political downside to blocking Chinese firms from accessing U.S. capital while there is significant political risk to being branded as supporting the Chinese military and Chinese competition to U.S. companies.”

In fact, for those very reasons, we should see both the relatively small number of Chinese companies listed on our exchanges and the thousands of others being traded there removed forthwith.

This is Frank Gaffney.