Secure Freedom Minute
Episodes
Friday May 31, 2013
Llyod's of London on GeoStorms
Friday May 31, 2013
Friday May 31, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
NASA scientists say we could be hit sometime soon by a devastating solar storm. Just how devastating was assessed recently by insurance giant Lloyds of London. The results are truly terrifying.
Lloyds' analysis says between 20-40 million Americans - especially those living in the Northeast corridor between New York and Washington D.C. - could be without electricity for some 16 days to 2 years. It estimates that restoring power in that event and getting society back to normal could cost between $600 billion and $2 trillion.
Even worse could be the loss of life. President Reagan's Science Advisor, Dr. William Graham, calculates we'd die by the millions without electricity for extended periods.
We can and must take steps to protect our electrical grid against such electromagnetic pulse effects. There is no time to waste.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Thursday May 30, 2013
China's Ripoff
Thursday May 30, 2013
Thursday May 30, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
How do you feel knowing that the Chinese have, for two decades, been secretly ripping off the plans for America's most sophisticated weapons?
Maybe concern that we've helped our adversaries become more lethal if we are ever in another shooting war with Communist China?
Perhaps alarm that our own troops' weapons may not perform as they are supposed to - because the Chinese will have learned, thanks to their cyber-espionage, how to counter and perhaps neutralize them?
At least, you should be furious that China has effectively stolen your tax-dollars, skipping - thanks to all its relentless spying - the expensive process involved in experimenting with and then producing, for example, state-of-the-art stealth fighters and tilt-rotors?
Let's face it: China is no friend, and we need to stop pretending otherwise.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Wednesday May 29, 2013
McCain's Folly
Wednesday May 29, 2013
Wednesday May 29, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
If the United States winds up embroiled in a war in Syria, Senator John McCain will deserve much of the blame. He recently visited some of those on whose behalf he insists America must fight.
The senator calls them "rebels" and "the opposition." In fact, they are all now allied with al Qaeda in seeking to overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Most are Islamists who are sworn enemies of infidel nations like ours.
We went down a similar path in Libya - again at Mr. McCain's urging. It has turned into a hotbed of jihad, where erstwhile "rebels" funded and even armed by the United States are now running amok there and elsewhere in the region.
The Senator may give President Obama political cover to make another strategic mistake. Both should be opposed.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Tuesday May 28, 2013
American Betrayal
Tuesday May 28, 2013
Tuesday May 28, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Do you ever wonder if America has been, to coin a phrase, "fundamentally transformed" - from a country that reveres individual liberty to one that promotes the collective? Surely, Barack Obama is encouraging socialism here and empowering those who hate freedom, both at home and abroad.
But Diana West, one of our most brilliant and articulate writers, is publishing today a dynamite new book that documents how this ominous transformation actually began with Franklin Roosevelt, and is simply reaching new and dangerous heights under Team Obama.
Every American patriot should read American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character. As Diana West makes clear, this betrayal of our country and its essential character may have been going on for a while, but it must not be allowed to continue any longer.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Friday May 24, 2013
Obama's Surrender Speech
Friday May 24, 2013
Friday May 24, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
In a speech at the National Defense University yesterday, President Obama encouraged and emboldened America's enemies.
He reiterated his misleading assertion that "core al Qaeda is on the path to defeat." He announced that he would sharply restrict further use of drones, return home Yemenis detained at Guantanamo Bay and pledged anew to close that vital prison facility.
Most troubling, Mr. Obama signaled that he is willing, as with Iraq and Afghanistan, to simply declare the war against jihadists who seek our destruction to be "over." Absent their defeat, such an ending entails our giving up. And our enemies are hardwired to respond to that prospect by redoubling their jihad.
Mr. Obama's speech signals our surrender and submission. If not repudiated, it will bring us more war, not an end to it.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Thursday May 23, 2013
Shariah's Jihad in London
Thursday May 23, 2013
Thursday May 23, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
By now, you have probably seen the video of two jihadists fresh from butchering a British soldier yesterday in south London. Needless to say, the images of this savagery are shocking.
But so are the efforts being made to dissemble about the impetus behind this atrocity in a Western capital. Islamists and their apologists would have us believe it has nothing to do with the tenets of shariah - the supremacist Islamic doctrine that impels jihad.
In fact, the perpetrators shouted "Allahu akbar" - the jihadist's invocation of God's will - as they hacked away at their victim. Then, one cited to bystanders Koranic passages justifying their murderous violence.
Make no mistake: This is the face of shariah and it is past time that we recognize it as such, and take steps to counter it.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.