“If it is Actually True… That’s Treason” – President Trump Reacts to Reports Milley Called China Behind His Back

President Trump joined Newsmax via telephone on Tuesday to respond to a report claiming Milley called China behind his back.

According to a new book “Peril” written by Bob Woodward, Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs chairman, told China in a secret phone call that he would give advance warning if the US was ever going to attack.

“In a pair of secret phone calls (Oct. 20 and Jan. 8), Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the PLA, that the U.S. would not strike, according to the new book written by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political editor Robert Costa.

On January 8, 2021, the same day Milley reportedly spoke to China in a secret phone call, CNN ran a story claiming Pelosi had gotten assurances from Milley there are safeguards in place in the event President Trump wants to launch a nuclear weapon.

Trump reacted to this news on Tuesday and said if it’s true, it’s treason.

“So, first of all, if it is actually true, which is hard to believe that he would have called China and done these things and was willing to advise them of an attack or advance of an attack, that’s treason!” Trump said. “Number two, it’s totally ridiculous…for him to say that I would even think about attacking China — I think he’s just trying to get out of his incompetent withdrawal out of Afghanistan…they killed our soldiers and we left $85 billion worth of equipment.”

Trump added, “For him to say that I was going to attack China is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard – and everybody knows it.

Trump wondered if there is a recording of Milley talking to China because he said Woodward is a sleaze.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/actually-true-treason-president-trump-reacts-reports-milley-called-china-behind-back-audio/

Global Debt Hits A Record $300 Trillion, Up $36 Trillion Since COVID

nother quarter, another all time high in global debt (don't expect this to ever again drop under the existing monetary framework).

According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), total global debt - which includes government, household and corporate and bank debt but excludes derivatives and various other exotic products - rose to a new record high of nearly $300 trillion in the second quarter, $296 trillion to be precise, and up $4.8 trillion in the quarter. This means that in the 18 months since covid, total debt has risen a stunning $36 trillion!

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/global-debt-hits-record-300-trillion-36-trillion-covid

https://www.iif.com/

Debt Slave System

Chinese bank executives investigated, arrested amid tightened crackdown on corruption

Several senior executives of Chinese banks were put under investigation or arrested over recent weeks as China tightened the fight against corruption in the financial sector, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the highest internal disciplinary body of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Xie Hongru, former Party chief and former head of the Guangzhou branch of CITIC Bank, was put under investigation on Friday. The same day, Gao Youqing, former Party chief and former head of the Jiangsu branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, was expelled from the Party. On Thursday, He Xingxiang, deputy governor of China Development Bank, was revealed to be under CCDI investigation.

The tightened crackdown followed the 10th meeting of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs held in August, which stressed making financial supervision more digital and intelligent, taking targeted steps to punish financial corruption and to prevent and control financial risks, and accelerating reforms in key areas.

Since the beginning of the year, at least eight high-ranking executives from four large state-owned banks have been investigated, with 10 senior executives from Chinese lenders or institutional banks being investigated and punished.

Charges include abuse of power, violation in granting loans, embezzlement, and illegal investment and operation.

Since the 19th CPC National Congress was held in 2017, the CCDI has filed 93 major financial corruption cases across China's banking and insurance sectors, nearly three times the total number during the five-year period since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, according to Li Xinran, an inspector with the CCDI.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234151.shtml

Tony Blinken Confirms Child Brides Evacuated with Older Men from Afghanistan

Secretary of State Tony Blinken confirmed reports during a Senate hearing on Tuesday that young children were transported from Afghanistan with older men as child brides.

During the hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled Blinken about the numbers, citing data form the World Health Organization that over 50 percent of wives in Afghanistan were married as child brides.

Blinken said he did not know the exact number of underage girls who were evacuated with older men or how many were separated by officials after they landed.

Cruz cited reports of a State Department document seeking “urgent guidance” from other agencies about the issue after child brides were brought to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, noting that tens of thousands of Afghans were evacuated from the Kabul airport.

Blinken insisted the entire government was following the issue with “extreme vigilance” to uncover and separate child brides of older Afghan men, but he tried to downplay the numbers.

“To my knowledge, a limited number of cases where we have seperated people because we were concerned…” Blinken began.

“How many?” Cruz interrupted.

“The cases I’m aware of? A handful,” Blinken replied.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is also investigating reports of child brides, according to Yahoo News.

“The concern is, we’re seeing a lot of family units with very young girls. These girls are brought into the U.S. as wives,” a government official said to Yahoo News. “It’s not a small number.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/14/tony-blinken-confirms-child-brides-evacuated-with-older-men-from-afghanistan/

Admits to child sex trafficking into the US?!

Fauci: May Take ‘Many, Many’ More Vaccine Mandates to Get Pandemic Under Control

Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s White House medical adviser who said last year that “you cannot force someone to take a vaccine,” reportedly said it may take “many many” more vaccine mandates to get the Chinese coronavirus pandemic under control.

During an interview at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) convention on Sunday, Fauci said “you’ve got to go to the alternatives” if people are not voluntarily getting the jab.

“I believe that’s going to turn this around because I don’t think people are going to want to not go to work or not go to college … They’re going to do it,” Fauci told CNN’s Jen Christensen

“You’d like to have them do it on a totally voluntary basis, but if that doesn’t work, you’ve got to go to the alternatives,” he continued.

This stands as a sharp contrast to Fauci’s beliefs a year ago. In August 2020, he told Healthline, “I don’t think you’ll ever see a mandating of vaccine, particularly for the general public.”

“If someone refuses the vaccine in the general public, then there’s nothing you can do about that,” he said, concluding “you cannot force someone to take a vaccine.”

Yet, last week, President Biden announced sweeping mandates for federal workers, federal contractors, certain healthcare workers, and members of the private sector.

In recent weeks, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director has completely shifted his view. In an August interview, Fauci claimed to “respect” people’s freedom but added: “When you’re talking about a public health crisis, that we’ve been going through now for well over a year and a half, the time is come, enough is enough.”

In another interview, Fauci explicitly said people need to “put aside all of these issues of concern about liberties and personal liberties, and realize we have a common enemy, and that common enemy is the virus.”

More recently, during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Fauci said that the decision to get vaccinated “isn’t all about you.” He went on to say”

If you get infected, even if you don’t have any symptoms, it is likely that you will pass the virus on to someone else who might pass it on to someone else who might have a severe outcome, leading to hospitalization and even death. So you’ve got a look at it that you’re not in a vacuum.

“You’re part of society. And do you want to be part of the component that propagates the virus and propagates the outbreak? Or do you want to be part of the solution?” he asked, adding that people “have some responsibility as a member of society” to get vaccinated.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 53.9 percent of the total U.S. population is considered fully vaccinated. Among those who are eligible to get vaccinated, those 12 and older, the percentage is 63.1 percent. Both figures, however, fall short of the 70 percent vaccination goal the Biden administration hoped to reach by July 4

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/14/fauci-may-take-many-many-more-vaccine-mandates-to-get-pandemic-under-control/

Movie perhaps?

‘Ferris Bueller’ star Alan Ruck, who smashed dad’s Ferrari, drives Biden press van in LA

Please don’t say we’re not going to take the van home.

Reporters in President Biden’s motorcade were driven around the Los Angeles area in a custom van on Tuesday by “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” actor Alan Ruck, who played Cameron, the repressed pal who drove the truant Bueller around Chicago in his dad’s classic Ferrari in the 1986 blockbuster before accidentally destroying the car.

Ruck — whose Cameron initially resisted Bueller’s request for a ride, but later accepted the car’s destruction as a moment of empowerment in his relationship with his authoritarian father — posed for photos with reporters in Long Beach, Calif., ahead of a 17-minute one-way drive to the airport.

Mario Parker, a White House reporter for Bloomberg News, posted to Twitter a group photo with Ruck, who also played a wealthy family’s aloof older brother, Connor Roy, in HBO’s “Succession,” a TV drama involving an intra-dynastic struggle for corporate control. The show’s third season begins airing next month.

Biden was in California to campaign for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who faces a recall election on Tuesday. He will stop in Colorado during his return trip to Washington. Local volunteer drivers often pitch in with presidential motorcades.

Ruck gained fame for his comedic performance as Bueller’s high school best friend — including impersonating the father of Bueller’s girlfriend to get her out of school for the day, telling principal Ed Rooney over the phone, “Call me sir, God damnit!”

https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/ferris-bueller-star-who-smashed-dads-ferrari-drives-biden-press-van/

Arizona Becomes First State To Sue Biden Over Vaccine Mandates

Arizona sued the Biden administration Tuesday challenging recent rules forcing both private sector and federal employees to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

The state argued that the vaccination requirements are unconstitutional because the federal government hasn’t announced similar requirements for migrants crossing the southern border, according to its complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of Arizona. Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich said the Biden administration’s policies reflected an “unmistakable” favoritism in favor of illegal immigrants over American citizens.

“The federal government cannot force people to get the COVID-1a9 vaccine. The Biden Administration is once again flouting our laws and precedents to push their radical agenda,” Brnovich said in a statement. “There can be no serious or scientific discussion about containing the spread of COVID-19 that doesn’t begin at our southern border.”

“Under our Constitution, the President is not a king who can exercise this sort of unbridled power unilaterally,” the attorney general wrote in the complaint. “And even George III wouldn’t have dreamed that he could enact such sweeping policies by royal decree alone.”

Arizona’s lawsuit is the first of its kind challenging the recently-announced vaccination rules.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden introduced a series of new measures that he said would curb the increasing number of coronavirus cases nationwide. The president notably ordered the Department of Labor to develop a rule mandating “all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis.”

Biden also ordered millions of federal executive branch workers and contractors to receive a vaccination.

Following the president’s announcement, multiple state attorneys general and governors immediately threatened legal action.

“Biden’s historic overreach on vaccine mandates will not stand in Missouri,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt tweeted. “We’re at a crossroads in America — who we are and what we’re going to be. We must fight back.”

https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/14/joe-biden-coronavirus-vaccine-mandate-arizona-mark-brnovich/

Chinese Ambassador Banned From UK Parliament

China’s ambassador to the UK has been barred from Parliament after British lawmakers sanctioned by the regime expressed outrage over his scheduled visit.

Zheng Zeguang was invited to a House of Commons reception on Wednesday, hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on China, The Telegraph reported.

But he has now been banned from setting foot in Parliament after the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament intervened.

The Chinese regime imposed sanctions on nine British individuals—including politicians, lawyers, and an academic—in retaliation for UK sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the alleged abuse of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Among the sanctioned were five Conservative MPs—Tom Tugendhat, Iain Duncan Smith, Neil O’Brien, Tim Loughton, and Nusrat Ghani—and two members of the House of Lords—Lord David Alton, a cross-bencher, and Labour peer Baroness Helena Kennedy.

But the APPG on China still extended an invitation to Zheng, who became Beijing’s ambassador in London in June, to its summer party on the Commons terrace pavilion overlooking the Thames.

They said it would be “unthinkable” that “the prime representative of the Chinese government in the UK is still apparently free to come to Westminster and to use facilities here as a mouthpiece for his regime” even after Parliament itself has been directly targeted by the regime.

In response to the protest, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, said: “I regularly hold meetings with ambassadors from across the world to establish enduring ties between countries and parliamentarians. But I do not feel it’s appropriate for the ambassador for China to meet on the Commons estate and in our place of work when his country has imposed sanctions against some of our members.”

“If those sanctions were lifted, then of course this would not be an issue,” he said. “I am not saying the meeting cannot go ahead—I am just saying it cannot take place here while those sanctions remain in place.”

A spokeswoman or Lord McFall, Speaker of the House of Lords, confirmed that the Speakers of both houses “are in agreement that this particular APPG China meeting should take place elsewhere considering the current sanctions against members.”

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the ruling Conservative Party, and a group of his sanctioned colleagues thanked the Speakers for their “strong principled stand,” and said allowing the diplomat onto the estate would have been “an insult to Parliament.”

“We the Sanctioned welcome the strong principled stand made by the Speaker and Lord Speaker in standing up for freedom of speech in the mother of Parliaments by supporting those Parliamentarians who have been sanctioned by China,” they said in a joint statement.

https://www.ntd.com/chinese-ambassador-banned-from-uk-parliament_675698.html

Treason? Resignation Calls Follow Report of General Milley's Secret Calls to China

After the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco, some said General Mark Milley should no longer be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, so Tuesday’s Washington Post blockbuster, excerpted from Robert Costa and Bob Woodward’s new book Peril, only adds fuel to that fire.

Costa and Woodward report, “Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the country’s top military officer was so fearful that the president’s actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed conflict.”

In two secret phone calls, they report, Milley assured Gen. Li Zuocheng of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army that the United States would not attack Beijing. One call allegedly took place four days before the 2020 presidential election; the second was two days after the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.

“Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel. ‘General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise,’” the book says. Milley did not relay the conversation to then-President Donald Trump.

In early January, the general also called on the admiral overseeing the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to postpone military exercises, to which the admiral complied.

Whether or not this violates the infamous Logan Act, there is no circumstance when a military officer should conduct his own covert foreign policy without informing civilian leadership.

These activities strike at the heart of our constitutional system, which places the president and Congress in charge of major foreign-policy decisions that the military then carries out.

As a friend texted me late Tuesday, “In the name of democracy, Milley should be investigated and hopefully removed. Any president who takes his oath seriously would fire him immediately.”

Normally I am not so rash, nor do I toss around words like treason, but as a historian, I realize civilian leadership is paramount.

President Harry Truman famously relieved Douglas MacArthur of his command when the popular general wanted to widen the Korean War into China and began telling this to foreign governments without involving Truman. President Abraham Lincoln removed John C. Fremont from command when the general desired faster movement on freeing slaves than Lincoln could politically manage.

If this report is true, General Milley seized authority, told the Chinese that America was bluffing, and unilaterally canceled military exercises without involving the president, secretary of Defense, or State Department.

Major media outlets, naturally, are lauding the general for undermining civil authority, and Milley doesn’t seem concerned or ashamed, since he’s proud enough of his actions to tell partisan journalists. Expect no resignations.

Late Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) asked President Joe Biden to fire Milley.

A.J. Kaufman

A.J. Kaufman taught school and served as a military historian before beginning his journalism career. His work has appeared in numerous national print and digital outlets. An author of three books, he's also a senior columnist for Alpha News and currently resides in the Midwest.

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WATCH: Lawyer who sued NY state over vaccine mandate speaks out

One day after the lawsuit was filed, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York.

Attorney Christopher Ferrara talked to LifeSite’s Jim Hale about his latest lawsuit, representing 17 doctors and nurses against the state of New York over COVID-19 vaccination mandates while disallowing religious exemptions.

One day after the lawsuit was filed, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York.

By order of federal Judge David Hurd, the state has until September 22, 2021, to respond. If the governor’s legal team opposes a conversion of the temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction, the defense attorneys will need to show cause during an in-person oral argument on September 28.

“Never in the history of New York state, never in the history of the world, has a government sought to forcibly impose mass vaccination on an entire class of people under threat of immediate personal and professional destruction,” Ferrara said when filing the original lawsuit Monday. “This is just another example of how Covid regimes are completely out of control. The federal judiciary has a duty under the Constitution to put a straight jacket on this institutional insanity.”

https://rumble.com/vmiehf-breaking-vaccine-mandate-halted-in-ny-for-religious-exemptions.html

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-lawyer-who-sued-ny-state-over-vaccine-mandate-speaks-out/?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=usa

Former Movie Producer Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Role in Financing Fraud Scheme

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Colombian Narcotrafficker Sentenced to 18 Years’ Imprisonment for Transporting More Than 50,000 Kilograms of Cocaine to the United States

The Defendant Also Ordered to Forfeit $20 Million as Part of His Sentence

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/colombian-narcotrafficker-sentenced-18-years-imprisonment-transporting-more-50000

Louisiana Doctor Indicted for Illegally Dispensing Over One Million Doses of Opioids and for $5.1 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edla/pr/louisiana-doctor-indicted-illegally-dispensing-over-one-million-doses-opioids-and-51

Three Former U.S. Intelligence Community and Military Personnel Agree to Pay More Than $1.68 Million to Resolve Criminal Charges Arising from Their Provision of Hacking-Related Services to a Foreign Government

Services, Including a Sophisticated ‘Zero Click’ Exploit, Violated U.S. Export and Computer Fraud and Abuse Laws Control

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/three-former-us-intelligence-community-and-military-personnel-agree-pay-more-168-million

Boise Man Sentenced to 28 Years in Prison for Producing Child Pornography

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Madison Man Sentenced to 10 Years After Pleading Guilty to Distributing Child Pornography

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Police in Europe Bust International Investment Fraud Network

In the morning of 8 September, coordinated searches and witness hearings in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark took place to halt the activities of a criminal group committing large-scale investment fraud, causing damages amounting to over EUR 55 million to a large number of victims across Europe.

https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/coordinated-action-against-international-investment-fraud-network

The action followed a complex, three-year-long investigation, which was led by the Public Prosecution Office (PPO) of Dresden and the State Office of Criminal Investigations of Saxony in Germany and coordinated through Eurojust.

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Using a series of false websites, the criminal network deceived a large number of victims by selling false financial investment products, shares and bonds while never actually investing the money it received. A complex network of dummy companies and financial agents was set up across Europe to hide the origin of the payments and profits made.

Based on the large amount of documentation found, phones, electronic devices, further documents and money were seized. A number of suspect hearings and investigations will continue, likely resulting in further action by judiciary and police in the near future.

Authorities involved:

Germany: PPO Dresden; State Office of Criminal Investigations of Saxony, Dresden

Spain: Investigative Court no. 2 of Palma de Mallorca; PPO Balearic Islands, International Cooperation Section; Judicial Police (Guardia Civil)

The Netherlands: PPO Office East-Netherlands; National Police (Regional Unit East-Netherlands)

Sweden: National Public Prosecution Department, Unit against Organised Crime; Swedish Police, Centre of Fraud Investigation, Stockholm

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/15162-police-in-europe-bust-international-investment-fraud-network

Contaminated Pfizer Vaccines Reported In Several Japanese Cities

Several cities in Japan have reported 'white-colored floating substances' in Vials of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine, according to Bloomberg.

The vials came from lot FF5357, where white contaminants were first reported by Kamakura City in Kanagawa prefecture. On Tuesday, two more cities - neighboring Sagamihara and Sakai City in Osaka prefecture reported contaminated vials, however there were no reports of adverse reactions. In Sagamihara, white substances were reported at three different vaccination sites on Sept. 11, 12 and 14.

The cities told Bloomberg that they will ask Pfizer for an analysis.

Last month Moderna came under fire after black contaminants were found in multiple vials of their Covid-19 vaccine in Japan, causing the Japanese Ministry of Health to pull 1.6 million doses of the vaccine.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/contaminated-pfizer-vaccines-reported-several-japanese-cities